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- Match Point
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Dir - Woody AllenJonathon Rhys Meyer
Scarlett Johansson
Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode - Capote
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Dir - Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Casanova
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Dir - Lasse Hallestrom
Heath Ledger
Siena Miller - Brokeback Mountain
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Dir - Ang Lee
Heath Ledger
Jake Gyllenhaal - Good night & Good luck
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Dir George Clooney
David Strathairn
Robert Downey Jnr - Walk the Line
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Dir James Mangold
Reece Witherspoon
Joaquin Phoenix - Zug um Zug Budapest 1944
- Hungarian Jewish leader Kastner, smuggled 1600 Jews from Nazis - accused after was of collaboration, aquitted at trial in Israel and then murdered.
- Fateless
- Hungary - autobiographical - Imre Kertesz at 14 sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Survives thro'help of many people. Returns to Budapest after the war.
- Live & Become
- A young African boy joins thousands of Falashas (Ethiopian Jews) leaving for Israel. Not Jewish but dying mother entrusts him to a young female Falasha. Brought up by young liberal French Sephardi family in Israel. Lives with the terrible secret of not truly being Jewish.
- Radical Zionists in the Holy Land
- Doc. about extremish W Bank Jews and follows investigations and surveillance of activities particularly of a clandestine cell apprehended about to bomb an Arab school.
- Metallic Blues
- Israeli pair go to Germany to sell a classic Mercedes Benz second hand. Terrific actors.
- The Man who Loved Haugesund
- Doco about a Polish Jew, Rabinowitz - 1911 moves to small town of H in Norway. Built largest department store in Scandanavian pre-war history. Prescient and articulate activist vs Nasizm, he was top of the Nazi hitlist when they invaded Norway in 1940.
- Another Road Home
- Danae Alon tracks down the family of Musa Obeidallah in NY. Musa was her babysitter in Israel when she was growing up.
- Everything is Illuminated
- Jonathon,introverted young NY Jewish writer travels to Ukraine to locate Trochimbad, his grand father's shtetl and the woman who saved him from the Nazis. Enlists help of Alex a punkish youth and his anti-semitic grandfather. Very funny with some tragic, tense and exciting moments.
- Whisky
- Uruguay. Jacobo Koller runs a small factory, with a female supervisor, Martha, and 2 workers. He is a bachelor and gets Martha to act as his wife during the visit of his estranged, rich brother for their father's consecration.
- How much do you love me?
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Bernard Campan, Gerard Depardieu & Monica Bellucci
Fr comedy - Monica, a prostitute, agrees to live with a man(BC)who says he has won the lottery - Inside Man
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Dir Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Clive owen, Jodie Foster.
Bank robbery - The Squid & the Whale
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Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Anna Paquin
Breakdown of a marraige and effect on 2 sons. (AP plays the elder son's girlfriend) - March of the Penguins
- Narrated by Morgan Freeman
- The World's Fastest Indian
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Anthony Hopkins
NZ, Burt Munro's record setting race in Salt Lake, Utah & efforts to get there. - Alain de Botton
- How Proust can change your life
- Lynn Freed
- Reading, Writing and Leaving Home. Life on the page