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1. RV (US, 2006, d. Barry Sonnenfield)
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Those of us who are not as young as we used to be may remember having an enjoyable time watching Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz going on a disaster-filled holiday in The Long, Long Trailer.  But, that was fifty years ago and more.
Tuesday, 22 August 2006 | Read more...

2. REEKER (US, 2006, d. Dave Payne)
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The director has humorously pre-empted reviewers making snide reviews by including in the end credits a comment about saying that his film is a ‘stinker’.  Sight and Sound were wittier in a caption for a still, ‘Smellsville&rsq
Tuesday, 22 August 2006 | Read more...

3. RE-CYCLE (Hong Kong, 2006, d. the Pang Brothers)
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The Pang Brothers have shown that they can do tough (Bangkok Dangerous) and they can do spooky (The Eye).  At first it looks as though this time they are doing some genteel drama leading to spooky.
Tuesday, 30 May 2006 | Read more...

4. RUSSIAN DOLLS (France, 2005, d. Cedric Klapisch)
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Some years ago, Cedric Klapisch directed a cheerful film about a group of university students from all over Europe studying in Barcelona, L’Auberge Espagnol.  A mixed bunch, some of them and their problems were interesting...
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 | Read more...

5. RENT (US, 2005, d. Chris Columbus)
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Rent was one of those Broadway musicals, like Hair, that dramatised the social questions and issues of the times.  One of the difficulties with this kind of play is that it can date because it is so anchored in ...
Wednesday, 26 April 2006 | Read more...

6. RYNA (Romania, 2005, d. Ruxandra Zedine)
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Ryna was directed by Ruxandra Zedine who studied in Switzerland, in New York as well as in Prague.  She directed a number of short films and this film, made in her late twenties, is her directorial feature debut.
Friday, 24 March 2006 | Read more...

7. ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES (US, 2005, d. John Turturro)
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In the 1970s, Dennis Potter created a series for British television where the characters used popular songs to express their inner thoughts and feelings: Pennies from Heaven.  He followed it up with the celebrated The Singing Detective. 
Friday, 24 March 2006 | Read more...

8. REQUIEM (Germany, 2006, d. Hans-Christian Schmid)
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During 2005, a surprise box-office success around the world was Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose, around $80,000,000 in the US alone.
Friday, 24 March 2006 | Read more...

9. RUNNING SCARED (US, 2005, d. Wayne Kramer)
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This is the kind of violent film that poses a lot of problems, not in the sense that it is mindless violence but, rather, that it is mindful violence ...
Thursday, 16 March 2006 | Read more...

  
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