27 May 12
Mozart and Da Ponte`s third opera, …
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Part of the World Opera and Ballet at Fugard Theatre Bioscope festival
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Mozart and Da Ponte`s third opera, a witty tale of deception and trust tested to the limit is a comedy with distinctly serious elements. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception?Jonathan Miller`s ever-popular production updates the 18th-…
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29 Jun 12 - 03 Jul 12
A home-grown heist movie with a tou…
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Part of the National Arts Festival Grahamstown - 2012 festival
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A home-grown heist movie with a touch of Bollywood. The director of the vastly successful Bunny Chow returns with a wonderful Indo-South African comedy about a corrupt cop, Ronnie, who has pretensions to being above the criminal classes and who desperately wants to clean up his act. Ronnie is given …
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03 Jul 12 - 07 Jul 12
Glimpse into the contemporary cinem…
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Part of the National Arts Festival Grahamstown - 2012 festival
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Glimpse into the contemporary cinema of the country which has given us Polanski, Skolomowski, Borowczyk, Lenica and Zulawski. Czetery noce z Anna.
Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz after a long period of silence, the masterful Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, returns to cinema with this dark but tou…
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01 Jul 12 - 04 Jul 12
The talk of the last Sundance Film …
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Part of the National Arts Festival Grahamstown - 2012 festival
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The talk of the last Sundance Film Festival, Another World is a truly sensational film and certainly one of the best of the year, co-written by director Mike Cahill and actress Brit Marling. On the night of the discovery of a new planet, seeming to be the duplicate of earth, the paths of an ambitiou…
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01 Jul 12 - 08 Jul 12
The selfish Dr Andre Luiz dies and …
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The selfish Dr Andre Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called Umbral. After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to Nosso Lar (meaning Our Home), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace working for the good of humanity, for …
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03 Jul 12 - 06 Jul 12
Afrikaaps breaks ground by boldly a…
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Part of the National Arts Festival Grahamstown - 2012 festival
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Afrikaaps breaks ground by boldly attempting to reclaim Afrikaans as a language of liberation. Hip hop poet and performer Jitsvinger, jazz pianist Kyle Shepherd and singer and poet Blaq Pearl trace the origins of Afrikaans back to the 1600s, and follow it through to the present day in a musical, cap…
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28 Jun 12 - 05 Jul 12
Black Butterflies is interesting pr…
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Black Butterflies is interesting primarily for it being a take on the life of the South African poet, Ingrid Jonker. She was the daughter of a Minister of Censorship, she had highly charged sexual liaisons with Sestiger poets Jack Cope and Andre P Brink, she inspired the high point of Sestiger liter…
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28 Jun 12 - 07 Jul 12
A new film from Roman Polanski is a…
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A new film from Roman Polanski is always an event. Turning his attention to the hypocrisies of the middle-classes, his crisp adaptation of Yasmina Reza`s The God of Carnage satirically skewers two New York couples who come together in a Brooklyn apartment dripping with good taste, to discuss the pro…
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01 Jul 12
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08 Jul 12
Culloden is an extraordinary and in…
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Culloden is an extraordinary and intimate study of the bloody and brutal massacre of the ill-trained Highland conscriptees under Bonnie Prince Charlie by the English on Culloden moor. 5000 were slaughtered on the moor by the English, who only lost 50 troops. The English then went on into the Highlan…
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01 Jul 12
Peter Watkins is one of the great n…
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Peter Watkins is one of the great names of cinema. British by birth, but all but disowned by his native country, he wandered the globe making engaged, angry films, designed not to kowtow to popular conceptions, but, to involve audiences in an intelligent, cognitive process of confronting the control…
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02 Jul 12
Peter Watkins is one of the great n…
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Peter Watkins is one of the great names of cinema. British by birth, but all but disowned by his native country, he wandered the globe making engaged, angry films, designed not to kowtow to popular conceptions, but, to involve audiences in an intelligent, cognitive process of confronting the control…
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04 Jul 12
Peter Watkins is one of the great n…
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Peter Watkins is one of the great names of cinema. British by birth, but all but disowned by his native country, he wandered the globe making engaged, angry films, designed not to kowtow to popular conceptions, but, to involve audiences in an intelligent, cognitive process of confronting the control…
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29 Jun 12 - 06 Jul 12
Four old college friends gather ann…
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Four old college friends gather annually for a week in Big Sur to celebrate their friendship and catch-up on each other`s lives. They are typical middle-class males in their forties-all with careers, families and enormous responsibilities-but. like most people, there is much that boils in the sewers…
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07 Jul 12
Peter Watkins is one of the great n…
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Peter Watkins is one of the great names of cinema. British by birth, but all but disowned by his native country, he wandered the globe making engaged, angry films, designed not to kowtow to popular conceptions, but, to involve audiences in an intelligent, cognitive process of confronting the control…
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02 Jul 12
The experimental film festival, `Le…
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The experimental film festival, `Letters From the Sky, took to the screens as part of the COPART Cultural Action in November 2011. The festival, curated by Cape Town based Kai Lossgott, showcased a series of 17 film messages from artists and filmmakers from all over the world. The artists were brief…
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02 Jul 12 - 04 Jul 12
A film that caused something of a s…
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A film that caused something of a scandal in Poland, this is the story of a group of schoolgirls whose life revolves around going to the mall and picking up older guys, who will buy them accessories in exchange for sexual favours. Sadly touching in its examination of how pointless consumerism turns …
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30 Jun 12 - 05 Jul 12
A cross-hybridisation of police pro…
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A cross-hybridisation of police procedural thriller and Bergmanesque mediation on Intra-African immigration, Man on the Ground boasts some literally fantastic visual flourishes. The tale is essentially a missing person`s story about estranged brothers Ade, a London-based banker and Femi, a political…
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