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Santa Barbara’s Film Festival winners announced
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the winners of its 2010 festival competition with the UK's Exam taking the independent cinema award and Finland's Letters to Father Jaakob winning the top honor for international films.
Norman Foster: A reputation built to last
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Greenberg, Film Festival, Berlin (Rated 2/ 5 )
Greenberg is a delicately observed, very well acted character study that is undermined by the utter obnoxiousness of its main character. It is very hard indeed to care about Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), the dysfunctional anti-hero of the film: a man on the cusp of middle-age, bitterly disappointed by the way his life has turned out.
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FIVE BEST FILMS
The Princess and the Frog, U
A jolly take on the Brothers Grimm fairytale, hand-drawn in glorious 2D, about a hard-working waitress who dreams of opening a restaurant in olden-days New Orleans.
Nationwide
A Single Man, 12a
Colin Firth gives a moving central performance in Tom Ford’s directorial debut, as an English professor domiciled in Los Angeles in 1962 who is mourning the recent death of his lover in a car accident.
Nationwide
A Prophet, 18
A thrilling, visceral and intense prison-gangster drama, charting the rise to criminal prominence of a French-Arab man while he serves a six-year sentence.
Nationwide
Anonyma: a Woman in Berlin, NC
The harrowing story of the rape of German women by Red Army officers after the Battle for Berlin. It’s a horrifying chapter of history, made bearable by the director’s visual restraint.
Limited release
Letter from an Unknown Woman, U
A BFI re-release of the classic 1948 melodrama. It’s a lush, elegantly told but very sad tale of a one-sided romantic obsession in 1900s Vienna.
Limited release