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The inside track on all the films screening in and out of competition at Berlin. Profiles by Martin Blaney, Patricia Dobson, Jason Gray, Udita Jhunjhunwala, Jeremy Kay, Theodore Schwinke and Nancy TartaglioneAbout Her Brother Jap Closing film, out of competitionDirector Yoji YamadaThe story About Her Brother depicts the close bond between a s stanley cup trait-laced widow and her wayward but cheerful younger brother.The cast The film reunites 2008 Berlin competition entry Kabei 鈥?Our Mother director Yamada with cast members Sayuri Yoshinaga and Tsurube Shofukutei, feted for his performance in 2009s Dear Doctor.The buzz Yamada has strong ties with Berlin 鈥?Love And Honour opened the Panorama in 2007 and the second film in his samurai trilogy, The HiddenB stanley uk lade, competed in 2005. About Her Brother will be closing the festival as an international premiere.Intl sales Shochiku CoTel: 81 3 5550 1623E-mail: [email protected] Together Chi Opening film, world premiereDirector Wang QuananThe story More than 50 years after the end of the Chinese Civil War, an ageing veteran returns to Shanghai to find stanley cup his long-lost wife, causing problems for her new family.The cast Golden Horse winner Lisa Lu Yan and Taiwanese singer and TV host Ling Feng join Chinese TV actors Xu Caigen, Monica Mo and Ma Xiaoqing.The buzz Wangs fifth film, and his first dealing with relations between mainland China and Taiwan. He focuses on the ageing soldier and his long-separated wife, believing these to be the kind of Nfhr Looking beyond London: is the UK film industry s regional push working
Dir/sc: James Gray. US, 2016. 140 mins.Its unsurprising that The Lost City Of Z was chosen to close the New York Film Festival. James Grays specta stanley cup cular adventure biopic about British explorer Percy Fawcetts Charlie Hunnam obsessive search for the site of an ancient civilization in Amazonia is a richly atmospheric true-life Boys Own tale. Exuding an incongruously modern disgust with racism, classism, sexism, jingoism, and authoritarianism, as well as an implicit environmentalist vibe, Lost City is the acme of a 21st century prestige picture.Angus Macfadyens greedy, self-pitying Murray injects stanley cup a welcome dose of vice into the filmSadly, however, it is one that is also deeply flawed. Grays most ambitious movie yet is marred by a story arc that fails to rise or reach a climax, unnatural-sounding expository dialogue, and an unforgivable lack of thrills. Theres a real danger that the movie may underachieve commercially when it opens in April next year through the Amazon Studios/Bleeker Street partnership.A startling foray from the stifling urban jungle of Grays previous six features, Lost City was adapted by him from David Granns 2009 non-fiction book about Fawcetts nearly 20-year quest which apparently ended with the disappearance in 1925 of the 58-year-old explorer, h stanley cup is 21-year-old son Jack, and Jacks best friend Raleigh Rimell in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil.The film focuses on three of Fawcetts seven expeditions to the South American rainforest untertaken between 1906 and