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[03] Wish You Were Here

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Jan 122012


TITLE	Wish You Were Here [Twitter]
SYNOPSIS	Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy’s mysterious disappearance. When Alice’s sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
PROGRAMMER QUOTES	”Polished, fast moving, thriller-esque”
GARDNER SAYS	Lots of flash forwards and backwards, loved the trailer.
DIRECTOR	Kieran Darcy-Smith
SCREENWRITERS	Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price
PRODUCERS	Angie Fielder
CAST	Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr
IMDB	Wish You Were Here (2012) Cast: Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith Genre: mystery, drama by CinemaRx

8 – The Guard

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Dec 302010

The Guard

The Guard (2011)

Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham

Director: John M. McDonagh

Genre: thriller, comedy

Trailer The Guard

Title	The Guard
Logline	An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
Director	John Michael McDonagh
Screenwriters	John Michael McDonagh
Cast	Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Dominique McElligot
Country	UK
Quotes	“Broad comedy” “FUNNY!”
Gardner says:	I will always go see any unlikely-pairing-black-American-and-white-Irishman-buddy-cop broad comedy film!

13 – Happy Happy

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Dec 292010

Title	HAPPY, HAPPY
Logline	Kaja is an optimistic and easygoing housewife—despite her loneliness and the fact that her husband won’t have sex with her. An indiscreet moment between Kaja and Sigve ignites a full-on affair, but just as her sexual liberation comes within reach, the inevitable truths and secrets tumble out—perhaps for the best.
Director	Anne Sewitsky
Screenwriter	Ragnhild Tronvoll
Cast	Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Joachim Rafaelsen
Country	Norway
Quotes	“A dysfunctional marriage, wife-swapping comedy”
Gardner says:	^^^ See above. ^^^

14 – All Your Dead Ones

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Dec 292010

Title	ALL YOUR DEAD ONES
Logline	Columbian farmer finds corpses in his field and the local authorities want to cover it up. And it’s a comedy.
Director	Carlos Moreno
Screenwriter	Alonso Torres, Carlos Moreno
Cast	Alvaro Rodríguez, Jorge Herrera, Martha Márquez, Harold De Vssten, John Alex Castillo
Country	Columbia
Quotes	“It’s a musical comedy” – Now I admit, I had been drinking when I wrote down this note, so maybe it’s not really a musical, but rather it is musical and and a comedy.
Gardner says:	Yes, it has subtitles, but I definitely want to see this one. PS – No luck on IMDB, all that turned up was a Gallagher TV show from the 70′s with rainbows.

22 – TYRANNOSAUR

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Dec 272010

Tyrannosaur

Tyrannosaur (2011)

Cast: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan

Director: Paddy Considine

Genre: drama

Title	Tyrannosaur \| IMDB
Logline	A woman looks for a way out of her abusive relationship
Director	Paddy Considine
Screenwriter	Paddy Considine
Cast	Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan
Country	UK
Quotes	Great performance by Eddie Marsan “Brutally hard to watch, but not mired in depression”
Gardner says:	This film would have ranked a LOT higher for me if I was in the mood for a “man plagued by self-destructive violence and rage.”

25 – Vampire

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Dec 262010

Vampire

Vampire (2011)

Cast: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Amanda Plummer

Director: Shunji Iwai

Genre: horror, drama

Title	VAMPIRE ( IMDB \| TWITTER )
Logline	“Simon seems like a fairly normal, average young man who’s devoted to his teaching job and ailing mother. Underneath the surface, however, things are not what they seem. Simon hunts through online chat rooms and message boards, searching for the perfect girl: beautiful, shy, and suicidal. Simon has a particular condition: he is compelled to drink blood.”
Director	Iwai Shunji
Screenwriter	Iwai Shunji
Cast	Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rachel Leigh Cook, Kristin Kreuk, Aoi Yu, Adelaide Clemens, Amanda Plummer
Country	Canada, USA
Quotes	“An artistic interpretations on the definition of vampire.”
Gardner says:	I used to love vampires, but now they are all younger and better looking than me.

29 – RESTORATION

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Dec 262010

Title	RESTORATION
Logline	An antique furniture restorer struggles to keep his failing store alive against the wishes of his estranged son.
Director	Yossi Madmony
Screenwriter	Erez Kav-El
Country	Israel
Cast	Sasson Gabay, Henry David, Nevo Kimchi, Sarah Adler, Ruth Borenstein
Quotes
Gardner says:	Ah, more subtitles, but if you speak Hebrew this one’s for you.

31 – LOST KISSES

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Dec 252010

Title	LOST KISSES
Logline	A Sicilian girl is told the location of a the local Virgin Mary Statue by the virgin herself. Her mom realizes their is money in miracles.
Director	Roberta Torre
Screenwriters	Roberta Torre, Laura Nuccilli
Country	Italy
Cast	Donattella Finocchiaro, PIno Micol, Giuseppe Fiorello, Piera Degli Esposti, Carla Marchese, Martina Galletta
Quotes
Gardner says:	Sounds like fun

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