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The Missing Picture

Director Rithy Pahn was just a young boy when in 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia. In their effort to transform Cambodia into a radical form of agrarian communism, the Khmer Rouge emptied out their cit...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine has been heralded as Woody Allen‘s return to form after a string of stinkers. Owen Wilson and the Academy Award that Allen won for 2011’s Midnight in Paris might protest, but there’s no doubt that...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine has been heralded as Woody Allen‘s return to form after a string of stinkers. Owen Wilson and the Academy Award that Allen won for 2011’s Midnight in Paris might protest, but there’s no doubt that...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I Wish

Children, until a certain age, believe that anything is possible. So when Koichi (Koki Maeda), struggling to come to terms with his parents separation, hears a rumour that if you stand at the exact point where two bullet trains...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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The Alexander Sokurov Collection

Regarded as one of Russia’s most important contemporary directors, Alexander Sokurov is probably best known in the West for Mother and Son (1997), his first internationally-acclaimed feature film.
 
 
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Usain Bolt: The Movie

By the time this film is released on August 6, Usain Bolt’s drive to retain the 100m title – and claim to being the world’s fastest man – will be over.
 

 
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Endurance

This summer’s Olympic Games in London will be missing Haile Gebrselassie’s familiar face, after he failed to make both the Marathon and 10,000m teams for his native Ethiopia.
 
 
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Surviving Life

Anything can happen in dreams, but regardless of how bizarre, surreal or unlikely the occurences are, they usually seem to make total sense.
 

 
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War Of The Arrows

It’s the mid-seventeenth century, and Korea is in trouble. Rocked by internal disturbances and then overrun by Manchurian invaders, the country’s future looks bleak.
 
 
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Outcast Of The Island

Re-released to mark its 50th anniversary, Carol Reeds’ adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel, Outcast of the Islands, raises the question whether films about empire, made during the period of empire, can last through time. On t...