With Dallas Buyers Club and Inside Llewyn Davis out today, Film of the Week is a coin toss. Which would you choose?
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Opening today:
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DALLAS BUYERS CLUB……FILM OF THE WEEK
USA | 117 minutes | Drama, True Story
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée (Café de Flore, C.R.A.Z.Y.)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn, Dallas Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Denis O’Hare, Jane McNeill, Griffin Dunne, James DuMont, Bradford Cox
A womanising hustler bucks the system to help HIV patients get the medication they require after he too is diagnosed with the disease.
Saw this tonight and I can see why it has so many Oscar noms. The performances alone make this a ‘must see’.
Distributor: Pinnacle
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ALL IS LOST
USA | 106 minutes | Drama
Director: J.C. Chandor (Margin Call)
Cast: Robert Redford
A sailor stares his own mortality in the face after a collision with a shipping container leaves him adrift.
Apparently a one-man masterclass from Redford. Would have been FOTW any week, other than this one.
Distributor: Universal
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
USA | 104 minutes | Drama, Music
Directors: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo)
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Adam Driver
A rather tough ‘week in the life of’ a folk singer in 1960’s New York.
Looks stunning. And that’s before you know the Coen brothers are behind the wheel.
Distributor: Roadshow
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NT LIVE: CORIOLANUS
UK | 180 minutes | Drama, Live Performance, War
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss
Marvel fan favourite Hiddleston gets his Shakespeare on in the UK Nation Theatre’s production of Coriolanus.
So it’s four films this weekend then? How could you say no to this one too.
Distributor: Rialto
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Will you be seeing all of these?
