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DONOVAN’S ECHO Thriller, fantasy, 95mins. Stealth Media Group. Dir: Jim Cliffe. Key cast: Danny Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Sonja Bennett. Once a brilliant mathematician, Donovan Matheson has been an outcast since an accident that killed his wife and daughter three decades earlier, for which he blames himself. He finally returns home as the tragic event’s 30th anniversary approaches and begins discovering similarities to what had happened to him in the past. Le Merigot 2
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SHAOLIN Martial arts, drama, 130mins. Emperor Motion Pictures. Dir: Benny Chan. Key cast: Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Bingbing Fan. China is plunged into strife as feuding
OVERHEARD 2 Action/adventure, 119mins. Distribution Workshop. Dir: Alan Mak, Felix Chong. Key cast: Louis Koo, Ching Wan Lau, Daniel Wu. AMC Santa Monica 1
THE PRODIGIES Thriller, action/ adventure, 87mins. Kinology. Dir: Antoine Charreyron. Key cast: Mathieu Kassovitz. NYC, Central Park, 2010. Five young teenagers are violently assaulted, but they’re not your average teenagers… they are prodigies. The trauma of the assault incites them to lash out against the world in a cold and calculating way. The five chillingly brilliant minds come together to concoct a perfect revenge. AMC Santa Monica 7
PROMOREEL 90mins. Films Distribution. Le Merigot 1
warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighbouring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin’s masters when he beats one of them in a duel. AMC Santa Monica 6
RONAL THE BARBARIAN Animation, comedy, 88mins. LevelK ApS. Dir: Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Philip Einstein Lipski, Thorbjorn Christoffersen. Key cast: Louis Lombardi, Pierce Cravens, Dee Snider. With a pageboy haircut and twig-like arms, Ronal is not exactly a hit with the Barbarian ladies. When evil Lord Volcazor kidnaps the rest of the Barbarian tribe, Ronal must summon the courage to save them and is soon joined by Alibert the buttery bard, Zandra the gorgeous shield- maiden, and Elric the metrosexual elfin guide. Criterion 4
SHAOLIN See box, above
STARRY STARRY NIGHT Romantic drama, fantasy, 92mins. Huayi Brothers Media Corporation.
n 46 Screen International at the AFM November 3, 2011
Dir: Tom Lin. Key cast: Jiao Xu, Eric Lin. A jigsaw puzzle can come in any number of pieces. Though each piece alone seems insignificant, without any single piece, the picture is incomplete. Mei, a 12-year-old girl who has felt like an outsider all her life, meets Lee, a transfer student who is just as reclusive as she is. Laemmle Monica 2
WAR OF THE DEAD Action/adventure, sci-fi. 90mins. The Little Film Company. Dir: Marko Makilaakso. Key cast: Andrew Tiernan, Samuel Vauramo. Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely trained, elite platoon of American and Finnish soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Quickly beaten back into the forest they
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WESTWIND Romantic drama, 90mins. Beta Cinema. Dir: Robert Thalheim. Key cast: Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer, Franz Dinda. Hungary 1988 — the “Winds of Change” are about to rise when the 17-year-old twins Doreen and Isabel from Eastern Germany arrive at a summer training camp. Laemmle Monica 3
try to regroup. Suddenly they are attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier and realise they have awakened a far deadlier enemy than they could ever have imagined. Ocean Screenings 1
WESTWIND See box, below
YOUMAY NOT KISS THE BRIDE Romantic comedy, 100mins. Showcase Entertainment. Dir: Rob Hedden. Key cast: Katharine McPhee, Dave Annable, Rob Schneider. An unassuming pet photographer is forced to marry a Croatian bride and then must rescue her after she is kidnapped while on their honeymoon at a remote tropical resort. AMC Santa Monica 2
THEMANWITH THE BASSOON Drama, 120mins. SevenOne International. Dir: Miguel Alexandre. Key cast: Christian Berkel, Ulrich Noethen. As the son of a sea captain, the young Heinrich Bockelmann has the world at his feet. He yearns to travel abroad and seek adventure — but where exactly should he go? Strolling through the Christmas market one day, deep in thought, he suddenly hears the sound of a bassoon. Fairmont 1
MY WAY (PROMO) / SOAR INTO THE SUN (PROMO) 24mins. CJ Entertainment. Ocean Screenings 1
PHONE CALL TO THE BAR 125mins. Toei Company. Dir: Hajime Hashimoto.
Key cast: Yo Oizumi, Ryuhei Matsuda. Fairmont 2
TURNME ON, GODDAMMIT Comedy, 76mins. Celsius Entertainment. Dir: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. Key cast: Helene Bersholm, Malin Bjoerhovde, Matias Myren. Alma, a teenage girl from a small town, has an active imagination and an overactive libido. After a titillating but awkward encounter with school heartthrob Artur turns her into a social outcast, her world is turned upside down. She desperately wants to get out of town and on with her life. Fairmont 3
THE WOODSMAN AND THE RAIN Drama, comedy, 129mins. Kadokawa Shoten Co. Dir: Shuichi Okita. Key cast: Shun Oguri, Koji Yakusyo. Katsu, a 60-year-old lumberjack, lives in a small, tranquil village in the mountains. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, Katsu finds himself unwittingly roped into assisting the production and increasingly frustrated by the pushy crew, including the young, seemingly spineless Koichi. As it turns out, Koichi is the movie’s 25-year-old rookie director, struggling to handle the pressures on set and teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Le Merigot 1
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