An animated documentary offers a personal take on the brutal 1982 Lebanon war. JEFF SAWTELL examines this unusual film.
A MAN on a motor scooter rides down a long and winding road accompanied by twittering birds and arrives at the country house of a famous French painter.
WHO would have thought it? Here is a US remake which is as good as the film it's based on.
GIVEN the dodgy dossier that accompanied the illegal war on Iraq, you might expect a film entitled Body Of Lies to be an honest exposé in the mould of Nick Broomfield's Battle Of Haditha.
ANOTHER film where people are suddenly struck down by a mystery illness, in this case instant blindness, and are quarantined.
JEFF SAWTELL is frustrated by a portrayal of the Baader-Meinhof gang that's lacking psychology.
THE 18 certificate and the title ensure that nobody going to see this film can complain that they didn't know what they were letting themselves in for.
IN a world where mass communication seems to be the norm, there's never time to consider all those who can't or won't connect.
TEURO Tokoyama (Yosi Yosi Arakawa) is a manual labourer and a full-time day dreamer who lives with his depressed father above a bookshop. He spends all day there, missing out on life's little pleasures.