James Douglas

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Movie reviews – february 2014

For details and showtimes, see the websites above.   ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com     January 30–31, February 3–5 NEBRASKA A tour de force by Bruce Dern in Alexander Payne’s highly acclaimed drama. He is sozzled decrepit

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Movie reviews – Jan 16 to 30

ODEON CINEMA  piazza Strozzi 2 - tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com  For details and show times, see the venue websites listed.   JANUARY 16–19 DISCONNECT   The interwoven stories of three sets of people whose lives are somewhat derailed directly or indirectly through their use of

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Movie reviews – from Dec 12 to 31

ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com For details and show times, see the venue websites listed.     50 Days of Cinema:   Clip December 12, 10.30pm Clip is a portrait of Jasna, a pretty girl in her mid-teens, disillusioned by her unglamorous

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Movie Reviews – from Nov 21 to Dec 12

ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com   November 23, 9pm FIRE A highlight of the River to River Indian Film Festival and banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront lesbianism in a culture adamantly denying such a love could ever exist. Shabana

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Movie reviews – from Nov 7 to 21

ODEON Cinema piazza Strozzi 2, tel. 055/295051 www.odeonfirenze.com   The 50 Days of Cinema festival is currently on in Florence. For full cinema listings and information, visit www.50giornidicinema2013.it     The Florence Queer Festival November 6-12 www.florencequeerfestival.it   THE LEGEND OF LEIGH

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Movie reviews – from Oct 24 to Nov 7

October 24, 9pm WANDA ‘She doesn’t know what she wants—but she knows what she doesn’t want. And she’s trying to get out of this very ugly type of existence. But she doesn’t have the equipment.’ Director, writer and

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Movie reviews – from Oct 10 to 24

October 10, 15 and 16 DIANA The last two years of the Princess of Wales’ life apparently featured an affair with a heart surgeon. Anyone remotely interested in this tiresome and unnecessary premise will likely warm to Naomi Watts’ insipid impersonation of Diana (yet balk at Naveen Andrews&

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Movie reviews – from Sept 26 to Oct 10

September 27–October 2 THE BLING RING If you can’t be famous, be infamous. From a true story, a posse of celebrity-culture-addicted teenagers track their idols to able to rob them and thus own a piece of their ‘bling.’ A commentary on the

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Movie reviews – from Sept 12 to 26

Sept 12–16 THE SPIRIT OF ’45 Ken Loach’s documentary shows how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, was carried through to the post-war period in ...

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Movie reviews – July 2013

July 11–14, 23–26 THE LONE RANGER   Disney, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp are reunited post-Pirates in this reshaping of the stories of the legendary masked hero. Sidekick Tonto tells ...

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Summer screen

Fancy watching some free movies on a balmy summer's evening in one of Florence's most picturesque piazzas? Head over to piazza Santissima Annunziata to see the highlights from the various festivals held this year (including the 50 Days of Cinema festival). Apriti Cinema! centres on a retrospective of

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Movie reviews – from June 20 to July 10

Odeon: June 21, 22, 23, 24 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS In our darkest hour, when our leaders have fallen, a hero will rise. After the crew of the Enterprise finds an unstoppable force of terror from within its own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world

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Movie reviews – from June 6 to 20

Odeon: Until June 8 THE GREAT GATSBY   Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated (and possibly much dreaded) adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘unfilmable’ Jazz Age classic tale of impossible romance and the delusions of the American Dream has had mixed reviews. Luhrmann’s MTV aesthetic

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Movie reviews – May 23 to June 6

THE GREAT GATSBY Odeon: June 2-7 Opening this year’s Cannes Festival Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated (and possibly much dreaded) adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘unfilmable’ Jazz Age classic tale of impossible romance and the delusions of the American Dream has had mixed

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Movie reviews – May 9 to 23

IRON MAN 3 Odeon: May 10–12 Prepare for a heavy metal! Tony Stark is up against an enemy, the Mandarin, whose reach knows no bounds. With his back to the wall Stark embarks on a harrowing quest for retribution. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the

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Movie reviews – from April 24 to May 9

NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON Odeon: April 29–May 5 You can change your life in an instant. Raimund Gregorius, a stuck-in-a rut Latin teacher in Berne changes his life when an ...

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Movie reviews – March 28 to April 11

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK  Odeon: April 9-11 David O. Russell’s wonderfully unconventional ‘bipolar’ romantic comedy has a lot of interesting things to say about this disorder, cleverly wrapping its traumas in a frothy off-beat comedy that is pitch perfect, compassionate and sharp. Jennifer Lawrence&

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Movie reviews – March 14 to 28

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Odeon: March 14 An extraordinary and affecting movie that will stay in the memory for a long time. Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading ...

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Movie reviews – Feb 28 to March 14

SIBERIAN EDUCATION  Odeon: March 1–6   A drama based on the bestselling memoir by the Moldovan Nicolai Lilin, now living in Italy, about growing up as a member of the ...

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Movie reviews – Feb 14 to 28

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Odeon: February 14, 15, 16, 17, 20   An adaptation of the modern classic that explores rather more quirkily than usual the trauma of adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Fifteen-year-old Charlie is a cute, naïve outsider coping with first

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Movie reviews – Jan 31 to Feb 14

LES MISÉRABLES Odeon: February 1 to 3 and 6 to 10   A stirring, ambitious but cinematically uneven adaptation of the world's favourite stage musical from the director of The King's Speech. Set in early nineteenth-century France, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is

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Movie reviews – Jan 17 to 31

THE MASTER ODEON: January 17 P. T. Anderson's masterly movie may or may not be about Scientology, but its vision of a charismatic new post-World War II religion and the allure and then disillusion in the interplay between ambitious leader and vulnerable follower is profound and gripping. ‘

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Movie reviews – Nov 22 to Dec 13

ARGO Astra 2: November 26, 27 Based on real events, the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans that unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, focusing on the little-known role that the CIA and Hollywood played-information that was

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