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Films I watched while off work with a broken arm (22 titles)

5 weeks off work, unable to do a whole lot so I set about filling in the gaps in my film knowledge. Lots of foreign stuff, sci-fi, drama and the odd comedy when it all got too depressing.

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Control

Amazing film, great music, but don't watch if you're feeling depressed

Control on DVD (2007)
Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
Director: Anton Corbijn
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A profile of Ian Curtis (Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
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Precious

Surprisingly cheery ending

Precious on DVD (2009)
Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
Director: Lee Daniels
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Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and ..read more »
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

I normally hate those Wes Anderson things but this was quite watchable

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on DVD (2004)
Starring: Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett
Director: Wes Anderson
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Comedy adventure starring Bill Murray as internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou. Steve and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their last ..read more »
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The Hurt Locker

I laugh every time I see this title. Full Metal Jacket it is not but it's not bad.

The Hurt Locker on DVD (2008)
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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Battle Royale

very silly but quite fun

Battle Royale on DVD (2000)
Starring: Takayo Mimura, Aki Inoue, Aki Maeda
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have ..read more »
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Battlestar Galactica - The Final Season

The final season does not disappoint! Well worth the wait. But is there a bit missing? I should have watched Razor first.

Battlestar Galactica - The Final Season (4 discs) on DVD (2008)
Starring: Jamie Bamber, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos
Director: Michael Rymer
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Final season of epidoes of Battlestar Galactica.
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Walk On Water

The Germans were a bit hammy, otherwise enjoyable

Walk On Water on DVD (2005)
Starring: Knut Berger, Lior Ashkenazi, Carola Regnier
Director: Eytan Fox
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A hit man, Eyal, is given the mission to track down the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister. He wants to convince her to come back to Germany for their father's ..read more »
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Dogtooth

Probably the weirdest film I've ever seen

Dogtooth on DVD (2009)
Starring: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia
Director: Giorgos Lanthimos
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Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence '..read more »
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Moon

Awesome. Borrows everything from Psolaris/2001/Sunshine but it doesn't matter.

Moon on DVD (2009)
Starring: Malcolm Stewart, Robin Chalk, Dominique McElligott
Director: Duncan Jones
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It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Thankfully, his ..read more »
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Metropolis

can't believe someone dreamt up that robot scene in 1927!

Metropolis (2 discs) (1927)
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
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Directed by Fritz Lang, this acclaimed vision of a 21st century city is widely held to be one of the greatest films of the silent era. In the year 2000, industrialist John Frederson rules over a giant city where the workers exist only as an underclass. They call for rebellion, but their leader ..read more »
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