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For the love of Neda: Iran angered by new film
A year after footage of Neda Agha-Soltan's death in Tehran shocked the world, her mother tells Emily Dugan why she won't be cowed by threats
On the agenda: Win tickets to 'Icarus at the Edge of Time'; Amnesty photography; 300-dish dessert banquet; Smories; Master Drawings; Bathing Ape t-shirts
We're preparing to fly too close to the Sun and going ape for the latest cult T-shirt
Ajami, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti, 120 mins (15)
Killers, Robert Luketic, 100 mins (12A)
MacGruber, Jorma Taccone, 90 mins (15)
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FIVE BEST FILMS
Bad Lieutenant
(18, Werner Herzog, 122mins)
Werner Herzog’s version of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie stands at an angle, neither sequel nor remake. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, it’s a film of dank, lowering skies and sickly blue dawns, with Nicolas Cage giving it the Full Kinski as a rogue cop descending a spiral of perdition.
Nationwide
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
(NC, Jez Lewis, 90mins)
Intimate, heart-rending, searingly honest but non-judgemental first-person documentary, offering a close-up portrait of the director’s alcoholic and drug-addicted contemporaries and acquaintances, and investigating the damage wreaked upon two generations by addiction, joblessness and despair in the West Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge, where he grew up.
Limited release
Vincere
(15, Marco Bellocchio, 124mins)
Is it possible that Benito Mussolini was even worse than the official history makes him? Marco Bellocchio’s drama believes so, portraying Il Duce not only as the man who led Italy into the abyss but disowned his first wife and separated her from their son. Filippo Timi gives a chilling performance.
Limited release
Please Give
(15, Nicole Holofcener, 90 mins)
In Nicole Holofcener’s latest and best film, Catherine Keener plays Kate, a well-to-do New Yorker who worries herself to distraction about society’s unfortunates and expresses it in compulsive handouts to to street people. Holofcener depends on the lure of character and feeling to keep her audience involved, and her writing is so incisive that it’s no hardship to submit.
Nationwide
Ajami
(15, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, 125 mins)
Set in the titular neighbourhood of Jaffa, in Israel, this riveting drama examines the violence and tension crackling through the city’s uneasy mix of Arabs, Jews and Christians. It’s harrowing at times, yet compassionate and clear-sighted, a double vision that feels even more plausible once you know that its directors are an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian.
Limited release