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Selected feature films, Spring 2010

The reader
Directed by Stephen Daldry, based on a novel by Bernhard Schlink.

The Reader 
Havana Blues.
Directed by Benito Zambrano, with a soundtrack of Cuban music, featuring a Cuban band with a chance of a recording contract in Spain (Spain/Cuba, 2005)
 Havana blues
Ecoute le temps.
Feature film debut by new French director Alanté Kavaité, starring Émilie Dequenne (France, 2006)
 Ecoute le temps
Chronos : a visual and musical journey through time.
DVD release of a film by Ron Fricke, a 'non-verbal, non-fiction large format motion picture filmed in time-lapse photography' (Canada/USA, 1985)
 Chronos
Lemontree.
Directed by Eran Riklis, a film about the Arab-Israeli conflict (Israel, 2008)  
 Lemontree
La Zona.
Directed by Rodrigo Plá, and set in a gated community in Mexico City, the 'Zona' of the title (Mexico, 2007)
 La zona
Adua e le compagne.
DVD release of a 1961 film, winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, directed by Antonio Petrangeli. (Italy, 1961) 
Adua e le compagne 
Slumdog millionaire.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the winner of the Best Picture Oscar 2009. (Great Britain, 2008)
 Slumdog millionaire
The secret of Kells.
Animation feature directed by Tomm Moore, and featuring the voices of Brendan Gleeson and Mick Lally, with an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. (France/Belgium/ Ireland, 2009)
 The secret of Kells
A long weekend in Pest and Buda.
DVD release of a film by Károly Makk, well-known for his films 'Love' and 'Another way'. (Hungary, 2003)
 A long weekend in Pest and Buda
Alice in the cities.
Directed by Wim Wenders, a key figure of the New German Cinema of the 1970s (Germany, 1973)
 Alice in the cities
71 Fragments of a chronology of chance.
DVD release of '71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls' directed by Michael Haneke, the third part of his 'Glaciation Trilogy' (Austria, 1994)
 71 fragments of a chronology of chance
Revolutionary Road.
Directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, based on the novel by Richard Yates (United States, 2008)  
 Revolutionary road
The quare fellow.
DVD release of a film by Arthur Dreifuss, based on Brendan Behan's play, starring Patrick McGoohan and Sylvia Sims (Great Britain, 1962)
 The quare fellow
 State of play. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren (United States, 2009)  State of play
Kontroll.
DVD release of a film by Nimrod Antal, a new cult classic set in Budapest 's subway system (Hungary, 2003) 
 Kontroll
 
  Further suggestions from your local librarian at Adult Lending, Bishopstown, Douglas, Tory-Top, St Mary's Road, Mayfield, and Hollyhill. For additions-to-stock lists in the Rory Gallagher Music Library check here