March and April Cinema

The new season of film here is full of surprises and astonishing performances. John Gore, Film Programmer, tells us more…

Tim Burton’s revisiting of Alice in Wonderland is fresh and unsettling but you would expect that. What you might not expect is Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin redefining the moral compass in a romantic comedy, It’s Complicated. Jeff Bridges presents a portrait that takes country music way beyond its initial emotional black and white into a range of complex shading that allows him to deliver the performance of his life in Crazy Heart. Tilda Swinton is outstanding with another performance of power and subtlety, in Italian, in I Am Love. For all its profanity and testosterone, 44 Inch Chest is a deeply affecting study in forgiveness.

She, a Chinese is a fascinating study of alienation in the New China, which results in its subject arriving in the UK. The Hurt Locker studies courage and bravado under fire from the point of view of those whose role is to prevent damage and killing, the bomb disposal teams. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a murder investigation that works on several different levels and reveals how film and television are converging in the age of High Definition.

What is, perhaps, less surprising, is that Michael Moore has some trenchant observations on the credit crunch in Capitalism: A Love Story and after nearly sixty years, Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell look as wonderful as ever in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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