Arthouse roundup: Nov 3-9

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Follow the title links for movie details, friendship and maybe more.

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

The Fallen Idol (PG) Despite sounding like the name of your best friend’s mum, Carol Reed is actually the director of this classic British drama. And he’s a man!
Shanghai Dreams (15) Award-winning tale from Xiaoshuai Wang. Let’s hear you pronounce that, Captn!TAVISTOCK WHARF

The Black Dahlia (15) Disturbing stuff from director Brian De Palma – yes, his
cack-handed homages to Hitchcock really do turn the stomach. Bleugh!

DARTINGTON ARTS/THE BARN

Snow Cake (15) Sigourney Weaver pretends to be autistic in this heartwarming drama. Of course, she’s an excellent driver, Charlie Babbitt.
Crossing The Bridge (12A) A look at the music scene in Istanbul. Um, we’ll stick with Girls Aloud, if that’s alright ‘by you’.
A Scanner Darkly (15) An animated Keanu Reeves (hey, there’s a first time for everything) gets, like, totally bummed out in this excellent screen version of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid wheeze. Uh, dude.

EXETER PICTUREHOUSE

Marie Antoinette (12A) Everyone remembers Marie Antoinette’s catchphrase “let them eat cake”, but we prefer her lesser known bon mot “you can shove that guillotine up your ass”.
Transamerica (15) That woman from Desperate Housewives pretends to be a man who’s pretending to be a woman. High concept, or whut!
A Good Year (12A) Probably has a scene where Russell Crowe carries
a baguette.

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