Films
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
The Lives of Others is set in communist East Germany, where the state’s spies, the Stasi, police the lives of their socialist comrades.
This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
Set in mad Maggie’s free market eighties, This Is England follows 12-year-old Shaun Field, a ballsy kid plagued by schoolyard bullies and memories of a father killed in the Falklands War.
Ils (Them) (David Moreau, Xavier Palud, 2006)
No story, no character, just one vision – create the scariest film ever.
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)
Alongside regular collaborator Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro González Iñárritu is no stranger to fractured stories and broken lives.
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
The combustible Carice van Houten excels in Paul Verhoeven’s brilliantly bombastic Black Book.
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (David Leaf, John Scheinfeld, 2006)
With a panoply of interviews, news footage and music video bites, The US vs John Lennon is a hyperkinetic composition of assorted media, which journeys choppily through ten years of political unrest.
Deep Water (Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell, 2005)
This story of Donald Crowhurst, and the darkness that consumes him in the 1968 round-the-world yacht race, sails clean over a mental precipice.
