SELECTED NEW RELEASES 2005 FOR 2005/06 SEASON

compiled by Brian Clay, BFFS South West Group
Title Country /Year Director Time
Mins.
Distributors 
35mm   
      
Video/
DVD
Aaltra Belgium 2004 Benoît Delépine +

 93

Gala Gala
Ae Fond Kiss UK/Ger/Italy/Sp/Fr 2004 Ken Loach

104

Icon FB
At Five in the Afternoon Iran/France 2003 Samira Makhmalbaf

105

AE BFI
Bad Education Spain 2004 Pedro Amoldóvar

105

Pathé FB
Being Julia Can/UK/Hun/USA 2004 István Szabó

106

Col FB
Blue Gate Crossing Taiwan/France 2003 Yee ChihYen

 83

Peccad Peccad
Bon Voyage France 2003 Jean Paul Rappenau

114

Optim Optim
Bride & Prejudice UK/Ger 2004 Gurinder Chadha

111

Pathé FB
Bullet Boy UK 2004 Saul Dibb

 89

Verve FB
Bus 174 Brazil 2002 José Padilha

119

Metrod FB
Capturing the Friedmans USA 2003 Andrew Jarecki

108

Tartan Tartan
Carmen Spain/UK/Italy 2003 Vincente Aranda

119

Verve FB
The Cat’s Meow Ger/UK/USA 2001 Peter Bogdanovich

114

Swipe FB
The Chorus Fra/Switz/Ger 2004 Christophe Barratier

 96

Pathé FB
Code 46 UK/USA 2003 Michael Winterbottom

 91

Verve FB
Coffee and Cigarettes USA/Japan/Italy 2003 Jim Jarmusch

 96

Tartan Tartan
The Company Germany/USA/UK Robert Altman

111

Pathé FB
The Consequences of Love Italy 2004 Paolo Sorrentino

100

AE BFI
Collateral USA 2004 Michael Mann

120

UIP FB
Comme Une Image/Look at Me France/Italy 2004 Agnès Jaoui

111

Pathé FB
Confidences Trop Intimes France 2004 Patrice Leconte

104

Pathé FB
The Corporation Canada 2003 Mark Achbar +

144

Metrod FB
Dead Man’s Shoes UK 2004 Shane Meadows

 90

Optim Optim
Downfall Germany 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel

155

Mom NR
The Edukators Ger/Austria 2004 Hans Weingartner

129

UGC FB
Enduring Love UK/USA 2004 Roger Michell

100

Pathé FB
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless USA 2004 Michel Gondry

107

Mom NR
Finding Neverland USA 2004 Marc Forster

101

BV FB
Garden State USA 2003 Zach Braff

102

BV FB
Hotel Rwanda UK/USA/SA/Italy 2004 Terry George

122

Enter FB
Head-On Germany 2003 Fatih Akin

121

Soda Soda
Hero HK/China/USA 2002 Zhang Yimou

 99

BV FB
House of Flying Daggers Hng Kng/China 2004 Zhang Yimou

119

Pathé FB
I’m Not Scared Italy/Spain/UK 2003 Gabriele Salvatores

101

BV FB
Inside I’m Dancing UK/Ire/Ger 2004 Damien O’Donnell

104

Mom NR
In Your Hands (Forbrydelser) Denmark 2003 Annette Nielsen

101

Metrod FB
Japanese Story Australia/UK 2003 Sue Brooks

105

Tartan Tartan
Kinsey Ger/USA/UK 2004 Bill Condon

118

Fox FB
Kontroll Hungary 2003 Nimrod Antal

110

ICA ICA
Ladies in Lavender UK 2004 Charles Dance

104

Enter FB
The Ladykillers USA 2004 Joel & Ethan Coen

103

BV FB
The Miracle of Bern Germany 2003 Sönke Wortmann

111

Soda Soda
Machuca Chile/Sp/UK/Fr 2004 Andrés Wood

121

AE BFI
The Manchurian Candidate USA 2004 Jonathan Demme

130

UIP FB
María Full of Grace USA/Colu/Ecuador 2003 Joshua Marston

101

Icon FB
Mean Creek USA 2004 Jacob Aaron Estes

 90

Tartan Tartan
Melinda and Melinda USA 2004 Woody Allen

 99

Fox FB
Million Dollar Baby USA 2004 Clint Eastwood

132

Ent FB
Monster Germany/USA 2003 Patty Jenkins

109

Metrod FB
The Motorcycle Diaries UK 2003 Roger Michell

112

Mom NR
My Summer of Love UK 2004 Pavel Pawlikowski

 86

Conten Conten
Mysterious Skin USA 2004 Gregg Araki

 99

Tartan Tartan
Old Boy Korea 2003 Park Chanwook

120

Tartan Tartan
One for the Road UK 2003 Chris Cooke

 96

Tartan Tartan
Only Human Spain 2004 Dominic Harari

 89

Verve FB
Pas sur la Bouche France/Switz 2003 Alain Resnais

116

Pathé FB
Palindromes USA 2004 Todd Solondz

100

Tartan Tartan
Performance UK 1970 Nicolas Roeg +

105

BFI BFI
Pieces of April USA 2003 Peter Hedges

 79

Optim FB
Red Lights France 2003 Cédric Kahn

106

AE BFI
The Return Russia 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev

110

UGC FB
The Saddest Music in the World Canada 2003 Guy Maddin

100

Soda Soda
The Sea Inside Spain/Fra/Italy 2004 Alejandro Ameenábar

126

Enter FB
Sideways USA 2004 Alexande Payne

127

Fox FB
Since Otar Left Fra/Bel/Georgia 2003 Julie Bertolucci

102

Optim BFI
The Station Agent USA 2003 Thomas McCarthy

88

BVI FB
Stage Beauty Ger/UK/USA 2004 Richard Eyre

110

Mom NR
Story of the Weeping Camel Ger/Mongolia 2003 Byambasuren Davas

 90

UGC FB
Take My Eyes Spain 2003 Icíar Bollaín

107

Swipe Swipe
Tarnation USA 2003 Jonathan Caouette

 91

Optim Optim
A Thousand Months Fra/Mor/Be/Ger 2003 Faouzi Bensaïdi

125

Optim. BFI
Twin Sisters Nether/Lux 2002 Ben Sornbogaart

135

Optim Optim
Under the Tuscan Sun USA 2003 Audrey Wells

112

BV FB
Uzak Turkey/Nether 2003 Nuri Bilge Ceylan

109

AE BFI
Vera Drake UK/France 2004 Mike Leigh

125

Mom NR
A Very Long Engagement France/USA 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet

133

WB FB
Wild Side Fra/Belg/UK 2004 Sebastien Lifshitz

 94

Peccad Peccad
Zatoichi Japan 2003 Takeshi Kitano

116

AE BFI

35mm Distributors:
AE Artificial Eye BV Buena Vista Conten ContentFilm
Col Columbia TriStar Enter Entertainment Fox 20th Century Fox
ICA ICA Projects Icon Icon Metrod Metrodome
MtroT Metro Tartan Mom Momentum Optim Optimum
Pathé Pathé Peccad Peccadillo Pictures Soda Soda Pictures
Swipe Swipe Verve Verve WB Warner Brothers
UGC


Key to DVD /Video Distributors:
FB Filmbank
BFI BFI Films
NR New Realm Entertainment for Momentum titles (0207 436 7800)
Tartan Tartan Video
Content Content Film

Note: This listing is not comprehensive and is intended as a guide to those new titles and re-issues likely to be of most interest to Film Societies.