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Canadian filmmaker, Guy Maddin presents My Winnipeg, an irreverent, witty, personal and sometimes hilarious homage to the hometown he loves and loathes in equal measure.

Described as a docu-fantasia, My Winnipeg merges re-enactments, archive, still photos and animation to recreate the filmmaker’s early years living with the dominant and fearsome Mrs Maddin , here played by the original femme fatale, Ann Savage, to his later attempts to leave the town that has cast its icy spell over him for his entire life. Commissioned by the Documentary channel in Canada the only stipulation he was given for making the film was that it had to be ‘enchanting’. Taking this as his starting point Guy started out on an odyssey that would lead him to the true meaning of home and locates for the viewer the magic spots that exist in Winnipeg; where pedestrians would rather use back lanes than front streets, where the homeless hide en masse on the rooftops of abandoned skyscrapers and where a strange civic law requires you to offer a room for a bight to any former owner or resident of tour current home.

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In a place almost untouched by time and in an age still blessed by innocence, a father and his two sons struggle to make sense of their changing relationships. The Reverend Maclean is head of his family; a stern man shaped by hard times in a land still largely wilderness.

His sons are Norman, serious and scholarly, and Paul, a hothead with a weakness for pretty girls and gambling. They are different but devoted and on the Big Blackfoot river they are in perfect harmony, bound by a passion for fly-fishing - the gentle, sometimes mystical art that slowly comes to symbolise their hopes and fears.

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I'm A Cyborg, the latest film from the Korean director Park Chan-wook, is a madcap fantasy, screwball romance. Young-goon is admitted to a mental institution, believing herself a cyborg, she charges herself with a transistor radio.

Il-soon a fellow inmate steals the other inmates' personality traits and believes he is fading and will one day turn into a dot. When Young-goon refuses to eat, Il-soon decides it's his job to get her on her feet again. This charming, tender and visually arresting film cements Park Chan-wook's reputation as one of the most gifted and playful filmmakers working today.

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1930s Los Angeles, a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy. L.A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true, bustling with people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune.

So it is for Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when relations between Anglos and people of Mexican descent hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.

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Jaime, Marta and their daughter Isabel, a well-off family, move to a luxurious new house. On the first evening in their new home, a group of three hooded men burst into the house. Their objective: to get as much money as possible out of them in one night.

'Kidnapped' is an intense and uncompromising shocker full of almost unbearable, nail-biting suspense.

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On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel (voice of Frédéric Legros) - a young boy - alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar (voice of Jean Valmont), an adventurer travelling through space.

On board Jaffar's shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton (voice of Yves-Marie Maurin), his fiancee, and Silbad (voice of Michel Elias) who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel...

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster star in the action-packed crime thriller, Inside Man. A tough cop, a clever bank robber and a power broker fuel a dangerous game of cat and mouse full of hidden agendas and explosive surprises.

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Edwin Anthony had a very nasty accident and lost something very vital. So they gave him Percy. Now Edwin wants to know where Percy's been before.

When a nasty accident leaves Edwin (Hywel Bennett) an antiques dealer, missing a particular part of his body, he becomes the first to experience a new groundbreaking transplant procedure carried out by Sir Emmanuel Whitbread (Denholm Elliott)...He awakes to find himself in hospital with a newly fitted part, which the nurses have affectionately named 'Percy', and has gone from nonentity into an instant celebrity overnight!! Edwin Focuses his attention on the more important matter in hand, who did Percy belong to? This quest leads him on a wild journey filled with lots of young beautiful women and his wife of the donor, Moira (Cyd Hayman). Taking refuge in Moira's house from the press and public, Edwin soon realises that Percy has a lot of 'female friends' and attempts to carry on where Percy's owner had left off...

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When petty thief Olivier (played by a youthful Gerard Depardieu) breaks into an unassuming Parisian apartment, he inadvertently enters the world of leather-clad dominatrix Ariane (Bulle Ogier), who entertains clients in her black marble dungeon.

Olivier's fascination with Ariane soon turns to love, forcing him to question his own assumptions about sex, perversion and power.

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Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray Milland) has been planning a vacation for months.

However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), insists he skips his hols, Stroud resigns in disgust before embarking on an impromptu drunken night out with his boss's mistress, Pauline York (Rita Johnson). When Janoth kills Pauline in a fit of rage, Stroud finds himself to have been the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time: his staff have been tasked with finding a suspect with an all too familiar description...Stroud's very own!

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Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the remote forest, an important place from his childhood and, he believes, the possible location of his former existences.

Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and the spirit of his long lost son returns. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.

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Determined to conquer his addiction to the opposite sex, Percy (Leigh Lawson) takes to the high seas in search of a life of celibacy. Meanwhile, a major catastrophe takes place which has rendered the entire male population impotent...

But all is not lost: Percy's self-imposed exile has ensured his bits are still in working order, and on his return he discovers he's now the only male capable of saving the human race!

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When Anastasia (Georgina Haig) can take no more and kills her abusive husband, she is dragged away to face the horror of a Siberian gulag prison camp. Her arrival upsets the balance of power in the freezing cold shack she shares with the other inmates.

They see her as weak and predict she will die within a week. With hostility and brutality all around her, Anastasia must fight to survive...

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The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in 'Nick of Time', a twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham. And indeed it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that onscreen events unfold minute by nail-biting min as they would in real life.

No sooner does accountant Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers (Christopher Walken) separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally...or never again see his beloved child. The clock starts now.

An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal On Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.