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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (US, 2005, d. Rob Marshall)
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This is a most beautiful film to watch. The colour photography by Australian Dion Beebe (who also shot director Rob Marshall’s Oscar-winning Chicago) is a continual delight.

 
LITTLE FISH (Australia, 2005, d. Rowan Wood)
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Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving both won best performance awards for their roles in Little Fish at the Australian Film Institute awards in 2005.

 
GRIZZLY MAN (US, 2005, d. Werner Herzog)
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After watching this documentary, I was surprised to see how enthusiastic quotes on the advertising and in the press notes emphasised its impact as a nature documentary.

 
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ (US, 2005, d. Jim Sheridan)
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The title comes from the very successful hip hop album by rapper 50 Cents (aka Curtis Jackson). It has sold 12,000,000 copies.

 
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (US, 2005, d. Dean Parisot)
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Perhaps some readers used the Fun with Dick and Jane books as texts for learning how to read. The credits of this comedy, use the books’ illustrations style to introduce the father, Dick, the mother, Jane, their young son and the family dog.
 
DERAILED (US, 2005, d. Mikael Hafstrom)
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For about twenty minutes, one can’t help thinking that we seen this all before: nice family, tensions, husband with a roving eye, the beginning of an affair.
 
CHICKEN LITTLE
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Definitely one for children to review to tell us whether it is funny, whether they liked the story, whether they liked little Chicken Little, his father and the other characters in the town.

 
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO (Ireland, 2005, d. Neil Jordan)
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This is as unpredictable film as you will find for a long time. It means that you are not quite sure of whether you are enjoying it or not because you don’t recognise too many signposts along the way to indicate what the film is doing or where it is going.
 
BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 2 (US, 2006, d. John Whitesell)
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One is tempted to check whether the director’s name is real or not. After all, this is a Martin Lawrence comedy and, in the US, it has to be a ‘black sell’ rather than a ‘white sell’. Obviously, a lot of people enjoy Martin Lawrence comedies.

 
THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN (New Zealand/US, 2005, d. Roger Donaldson)
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Roger Donaldson left Australia at the time of conscription for the Vietnam War. He moved to New Zealand and made documentaries and the feature films, Sleeping Dogs and Smash Palace.

 
U-CARMEN e-KHAYELITSHA (South Africa, 2005, d. Mark Dornford-May)
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Those who are not aware that this is a South African interpretation of Bizet’s popular opera may be curious to ask what lies behind the title. Who is this Carmen? What is Khayelitsha?
 
13, TZAMETI (France, 2005, d. Gela Babluani)
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A surprising film. The director is from the old Soviet republic of Georgia.

 
SCREAMING MASTERPIECE
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Well, Eduard Munch of Norway, got in first with his painting, The Scream, to provide a screaming masterpiece.

 
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 and so much of it. And the same with the language. How to assess it well as a film and its ethical implications?
 
THE PRODUCERS (US, 2005, d. Susan Stroman)
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In 1968 Mel Brooks won a surprising Oscar for his screenplay, The Producers, a potentially controversial comedy which ran the risk of bad taste (and won) and of upsetting Jewish and other sensibilities about Hitler and World War II.

 
LASSIE (UK, 2005, d. Charles Sturridge)
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The press notes tell us that there have been eleven Lassie films or television series. And none of them filmed in Britain where Eric Knight wrote and set his story, Lassie Come Home.

 
KING KONG (New Zealand/US, 2005, d. Peter Jackson)
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Peter Jackson has done it again. Of course, it is not Lord of the Rings with its extraordinary sweep and vision, but King Kong is a reverent re-make of the 1933 classic – if 188 minutes, colour, continuous excitement, cliffhanger after cliffhanger, spectacular stunts, extraordinary sets, a wonderful use of cinema technology (all done in New Zealand) could be simply called ‘reverent’. It is really a very entertaining homage.
 
JUST LIKE HEAVEN (US, 2005, d. Mark Waters)
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For those who are looking for a nice film, adults who want something more amiable and gentle than the big-budget fantasies, need search no further than Just Like Heaven.

 
JOYEUX NOEL (MERRY CHRISTMAS) (France, 2005, d. Christian Carion)
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What could be more appropriate for a film review on the first day of 2006, in the spirit of Christmas and the celebration of the motherhood of Mary, than Merry Christmas.

 
THE FAMILY STONE (US, 2005, d. Thomas Bezucha)
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What is it about American families? Are they different from families in other cultures? In so many films, we see family reunions at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

 
Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (US, 2005, d. Adam Shankman)
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Family films don’t come bigger than this – well, actually, there is a remake of the 1968 comedy, Yours, Mine and Ours where husband and wife bring 8 plus 9 children from previous marriages!

 
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