film-visti's - Rented List
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Faces Places (2017)Visages, Villages
Iconic film maker Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a passion for images and how they're created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema. JR through his emotionally arrested outdoor installations. Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR's photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents - all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations. What follows is a heart-warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda's typically playful and tender manner. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Oscar nominee, 'Faces Places' is a deeply charming and life-affirming look at not only the subtle power of community, but the inspiration that comes from the most cross-generational of friendships. - Director:
- Jr.
- Cast:
- Agnès Varda, Jr., Jeannine Carpentier
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The Villainess (2017)Ak-Nyeo
Exploding onto the screen in a kinetic flurry of hyper-stylised action, The Villainess is a stunning vengeance film that draws its inspiration from western classics including Nikita and Kill Bill. Sook-hee (Kim Ok-vin, Thirst) is a trained assassin who takes revenge on the men who murdered her father in a breath-taking opening sequence. After losing consciousness she awakes at the National Intelligence Service who recruit her as an agent to undertake confidential missions. Initially refusing, Sook-hee soon realises it is her only method of escape, until she is assigned a new assignment that changes everything... - Director:
- Byung-gil Jung
- Cast:
- Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Sung-Jun
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Parallel Mothers (2021)Madres Paralelas
Two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit), meet in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared and repentant. Janis tries to encourage her as they move like sleepwalkers through the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between them, which by chance will develop and complicate, changing their lives in a decisive way. - Director:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast:
- Pedro Casablanc, Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit
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In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960's, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy). But the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker. - Director:
- Edgar Wright
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith
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You can outnumber him. But you can't outfight him. Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage stars in his first ever Western as 'Colten Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned family man. He and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge. - Director:
- Brett Donowho
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Dean Armstrong, Ryan Kiera Armstrong
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In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III (Harry Lloyd) were discovered beneatn a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. 'The Lost King' is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's history. - Director:
- Stephen Frears
- Cast:
- Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba
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Wolfwalkers (2020)WolfWalkers
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn (voice of Honor Kneafsey), comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when Robyn saves a wild native girl, Mebh (voice of Eva Whittaker), their friendship leads her to discover the world of the 'Wolfwalkers'. - Director:
- Tomm Moore
- Cast:
- Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean
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With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early-1970's Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuaron, 'Roma' is a labor of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black-and-white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author's memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him. - Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast:
- Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
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From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. 'Where the Crawdads Sing' tells the story of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh. - Director:
- Olivia Newman
- Cast:
- Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson
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Amsterdam (2022)Untitled David O. Russell / Canterbury Glass
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker David 0. Russell comes an original crime epic about three close friends who find themselves at the centre of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history. Based on facts that meet fiction, the film stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, with Rami Malek and Robert De Niro. - Director:
- David O. Russell
- Cast:
- Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington
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Belle (2021)Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess / Ryû to sobakasu no hime
Suzu (voice of Kaho Nakamura) is a 17-year-old high school student living in a rural village with her father. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. One day, she enters "U", a virtual world of 5 billion members on the internet. There, she is not Suzu anymore but Belle, a world-famous singer. She soon meets with a mysterious creature. Together, they embark on a journey of adventures, challenges, and love, in their quest of becoming who they truly are. - Director:
- Mamoru Hosoda
- Cast:
- Kaho Nakamura, Ryô Narita, Shôta Sometani
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Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both. - Director:
- George Miller
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Erdil Yasaroglu
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On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During that idyllic sun-drenched afternoon some of the party left the rest of the group and having climbed higher, stopped to rest and fell asleep. They awoke as though still in a dream and silently ventured further through a passage in the imposing rock face. Some of the girls were never seen again. - Director:
- Peter Weir
- Cast:
- Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
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Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)Minions 2
Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru (voice of Steve Carell) is just a 12-year-old boy in 1970s suburbia, plotting to take over the world from his basement. When the infamous supervillain group, the Vicious 6, ousts their leader, Gru attempts to join their ranks but soon finds himself the mortal enemy of the apex of evil. With Gru on the run, the Minions attempt to learn martial arts to help save him, and Gru discovers that even bad guys need a little help from their friends. - Director:
- Kyle Balda
- Cast:
- Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin
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Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960's. Buddy's family lives in a largely Protestant district with a few Catholic families, but one day his community and everything he thought he understood about life is suddenly turned upside down. Buddy's family gets caught in the mayhem and must decide to stay or leave the only place they have ever called home. Through it all, his passionate parents (Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan) and quick-witted grandparents (Academy Award winner Judy Dench and Ciaran Hinds) keep the joy alive through music and the magic of movies in this feel-good story that reminds us that no matter how far you go, you never forget where you came from. - Director:
- Kenneth Branagh
- Cast:
- Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitriona Balfe
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