http://www.filmdates.co.uk UK Cinema Releases - Next Two Weeks (12th February 2012 to 26th February 2012) en-us rss@filmdates.co.uk phil@filmdates.co.uk http://www.filmdates.co.uk/images/header.png http://www.filmdates.co.uk/ 100 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3732-a-simple-life/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. Critically acclaimed Hong Kong 'New Wave' director Ann Hui tackles the challenge of growing old in a moving and contemplative film. The story follows the relationship between a 40-something man and his family's amah, who has been in their employ for 60 years. After she suffers a stroke, they reverse roles and he looks after her.]]> Movie Thu, 26 January 2012 19:32:51 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/0f0a2bb64fa6be373b9034158af15bc2.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3732-a-simple-life/ 99 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3717-be-omid-e-didar/ Movie Sun, 22 January 2012 19:47:27 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3414-black-gold/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.]]> Movie Mon, 16 January 2012 21:05:06 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/60f80f347b1b03cd097b5d87947ead01.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3414-black-gold/ 199 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3446-blood-car/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. In the near future, gas is an astronomical $40.00 a gallon, and Archie Andrews has definitely had enough. Archie, a nerdy schoolteacher and vegan with a thing for wheatgrass, is determined to find an alternative energy source for his car. While experimenting, Archie cuts himself, and discovers that all his car needs is blood. Human blood.The only one in town who can afford to drive, Archie attracts the attention of sex-crazed Denise. As Archie fulfills Denises need for transportation, he satisfies his ever-expanding libido. Meanwhile, the sweet Wheatgrass Girl, who loves Archie for who he truly is, watches helplessly as Archie is devoured by lust. In order for Archie to continue to attract Denise with his car, he must continue to find a never-ending supply of blood. And unbeknownst to Archie, he is observed by government agents anxious to learn the secret of how his special engine worksagents who will make Archie face the ultimate decision.]]> Movie Fri, 28 October 2011 20:13:39 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/447016915f20e0e1b0699a0036ecca27.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3446-blood-car/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3715-cairo-exit/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. A powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's diverse population. Heralding a bold new shift for contemporary Egyptian cinema, 'Cairo Exit' is a gritty and uncompromising work from a major new cinematic talent, Hesham Issawi.]]> Movie Sun, 22 January 2012 19:41:58 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/b95731289af34ffb4d08d1578a1290bc.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3715-cairo-exit/ 92 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3716-close-up-kurdistan/ Release Date: Thursday 16th February 2012. ]]> Movie Sun, 22 January 2012 19:43:18 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/6b620e9c4f63b1d15d29d2734d84b8bb.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3716-close-up-kurdistan/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3034-cormans-world-exploits-of-a-hollywood-rebel/ Release Date: Tuesday 21st February 2012. ]]> Movie Mon, 30 January 2012 19:28:00 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/23fb3c5d630a8ebeb8cf63f58012763f.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3034-cormans-world-exploits-of-a-hollywood-rebel/ 93 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3664-deviation/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. ]]> Movie Tue, 27 December 2011 00:27:55 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/7c01a6ba862c21ae9ab008e774383b41.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3664-deviation/ 247 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3697-ekk-deewana-tha/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. An aspiring filmmaker from Mumbai falls in love with a woman from a strict orthodox Christian family.]]> Movie Sat, 28 January 2012 19:58:26 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/404d0aae3f10d8de567fdd54ccb99e23.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3697-ekk-deewana-tha/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3076-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father.]]> Movie Tue, 7 February 2012 19:38:51 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/27f1683508068001693c367800f96623.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3076-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3720-futoko/ Movie Sun, 22 January 2012 19:51:53 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1957-ghost-rider-spirit-of-vengeance/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form.]]> Movie Sat, 24 December 2011 19:43:54 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/614695e7e82f1d13f130242f875319ef.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1957-ghost-rider-spirit-of-vengeance/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3566-hadewijch/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. A novice nun, shocks the mother superior of her convent with her ecstatic blind faith, and is kicked out of the order. Hadewijch becomes Celine again, a young Parisian girl and daughter of a diplomat, and is led down dangerous paths in the real world, balancing between grace and madness in her rage and passionate love for God.]]> Movie Sun, 20 November 2011 20:21:50 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/08edd9ba2f43d769b318aad8d5210fb0.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3566-hadewijch/ 104 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3735-i-superbiker-the-showdown/ Release Date: Tuesday 21st February 2012. The stars of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship return to the big screen for two nights only; 21 February and 1 March.]]> Movie Fri, 27 January 2012 20:32:40 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/366ede4355c05d639544803358fa1b84.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3735-i-superbiker-the-showdown/ 215 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3712-ida/ Movie Thu, 19 January 2012 20:24:20 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3644-laura/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.]]> Movie Sat, 17 December 2011 19:56:23 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/a14a98761bb8b9f21b3fa11210253dc4.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3644-laura/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3718-min-dit-the-children-of-diyarbakir/ Release Date: Monday 13th February 2012. Ten-year old Gulistan and her younger brother Firat live happily with their parents in Diyarbakir, the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their mother and father are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their eyes. Traumatised and orphaned, Gulistan, Firat and their infant sister are placed in the care of their young, politically-active aunt Yekbun who soon disappears without a trace. As days turn into weeks, the money that their aunt left them runs out. Eventually, the children have to fend for themselves on the streets, where one day, Gulistan is shocked to come across the murderer of her parents.]]> Movie Sun, 22 January 2012 19:48:27 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/d75ed8022a33977922170b1bcbd9e4cd.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3718-min-dit-the-children-of-diyarbakir/ 92 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3773-nemuriyusurika/ Release Date: Thursday 16th February 2012. This film illustrates sorrow, hope, and human dignity through the life of a family. A girl was raped at 15, and then she was pregnant, giving birth to a daughter. 17 years later mother, daughter, and grandfather live a meager life together from their van. The mother and daughter are in search for the rapist, while the daughter cares for her grandfather who is unable to use his legs. One day, they finally find the rapist, but he is in bedridden with terminal cancer.]]> Movie Mon, 6 February 2012 19:19:56 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e87cf491d41b1214302b239ce45da184.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3773-nemuriyusurika/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1798-one-for-the-money/ Movie Sun, 27 November 2011 20:57:46 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3635-podaa-podi/ Release Date: Tuesday 14th February 2012. Little Superstar Simbu and Varu Sarath Kumar star in this romantic comedy about a couple who find love by surprise.Though uniquely different from one another in terms of their upbringing, dressing and thinking, they both make sacrifices to be and stay together.]]> Movie Mon, 30 January 2012 19:12:58 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/7cdf1f2abebfc1981c9ce4f68abd33a0.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3635-podaa-podi/ 186 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3125-position-among-the-stars/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 - World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.]]> Movie Sat, 24 September 2011 20:43:26 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/93dd30ec295cb1fd91d88c830221027f.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3125-position-among-the-stars/ 97 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3722-rodt-hjerte/ Release Date: Monday 20th February 2012. The teenagers Shirin and Soran are in love, and want to marry, but Shirin's father has arranged her marriage, and forbids them. On her wedding night Soran kidnaps her for them to be together.]]> Movie Sat, 28 January 2012 19:58:26 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/b3ebacc91da535ad17f17b110bb968ff.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3722-rodt-hjerte/ 90 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3527-rampart/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. Nothing fascinates like a dirty cop. In real life they're terrifying, but in the movies their upending of law and order can open deep explorations of psychology, morality and violence.So meet Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), Brown is a cop long ago unleashed from the rules of the Los Angeles Police Department. Roving the streets in his black-and-white cruiser, he governs and punishes at will. His home life is a riddle. Somehow he has fathered children with two sisters (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon). Somehow he still lives casually with them both, slipping in and out of a family life thats as tangled as his long career on the force. His own daughter calls him Date Rape. Thats because, years ago, Brown may have killed a rapist and gotten away with it. The shadow of the incident still haunts him, so when his Rampart division gets caught up in a corruption scandal, Brown makes an easy target. As the controversy seeps through the department and into city hall, this hardened, reckless officer finds himself at the centre of a sordid L.A. story.]]> Movie Sat, 12 November 2011 20:50:18 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/b14047bae2fc9f92d4918dfe36ae31bb.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3527-rampart/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2689-red-dog/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.]]> Movie Thu, 5 May 2011 20:13:47 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/329a4dba8d8953c01410c3fa99d0b6dc.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2689-red-dog/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2152-safe-house/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.]]> Movie Thu, 17 November 2011 21:53:51 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/35d6eea4e6adb4d102f1949c5e155136.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2152-safe-house/ 94 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3731-tere-naal-love-ho-gaya/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. The story of a boy who kidnaps a girl but starts to fall in love with her.]]> Movie Mon, 23 January 2012 21:15:59 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/43663ffa06401dc3088895eaf05a95c4.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3731-tere-naal-love-ho-gaya/ 96 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3641-the-adopted/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. "The Adopted" depicts scenes from a modern-day patchwork family where love throws everything out of balance.]]> Movie Mon, 6 February 2012 19:29:07 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/82cdd36ba48550db197cc13d6ad40ae0.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3641-the-adopted/ 102 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2666-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel/ Release Date: Friday 24th February 2012. Dr Ravi Kapoor has reached the end of his tether. He is over-worked and exhausted; his South London hospital is out of funds; and reporters are hounding him about a pensioner, who for three days lay on a trolley in A and E, untended, the blood stiffening on her clothes. Even home life has become impossible, as his father-in-law, a disgusting and difficult old man, has been kicked out of his nursing home and has moved into Ravi's spare bedroom. But then that 'tip top man', his cousin, Sonny, has his brainwave, his 'great eureka.]]> Movie Tue, 7 February 2012 19:37:09 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/e02bb95215af20ee91b98dcd3d1302f6.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/2666-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel/ 93 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3687-the-matchmaker/ Release Date: Tuesday 14th February 2012. During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.]]> Movie Fri, 13 January 2012 19:37:15 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/a9c0665433e8a922d4cda4eb4f08cb3e.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3687-the-matchmaker/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1377-the-topp-twins-untouchable-girls/ Release Date: Wednesday 15th February 2012. Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand's finest lesbian country and western singers and the country's greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.]]> Movie Sat, 27 February 2010 18:26:37 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/299204c76cc9e740d7721d0aa4bbccdf.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/1377-the-topp-twins-untouchable-girls/ 98 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3748-the-victim/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. Annie's life is in jeopardy after she's witnessed the horrific rape and murder of her closest friend. Fleeing from two attackers she stumbles across kyle, a recluse living in the middle of the woods. Kyle finds the stillness of the woods comforting. The ruggedly handsome loner stays far from civilization - that is - until a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos. Two worlds collide in this psychological thriller that will make you question your trust in mankind.]]> Movie Tue, 31 January 2012 20:28:47 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/a1ddca5ab8e6a248a3de569cb7da675e.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3748-the-victim/ 99 140 http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3607-the-woman-in-the-fifth/ Release Date: Friday 17th February 2012. American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events... as if an obscure power was taking control of his life.]]> Movie Sat, 10 December 2011 20:04:21 MST http://www.filmdates.co.uk/posters/ce4547a56e39b1a89ffe181780026f0e.jpg http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/3607-the-woman-in-the-fifth/ 105 140