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W. (2008)
In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of the 43rd President to the big screen as only he can. W. takes viewers through Bush's eventful life – his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
WAH WAH (2006)
Directorial debut from
Richard E. Grant,
WAH-WAH is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.
WAITING (2005)
Film director Ahmad has sold his parents' home to leave what he calls "this hell hole" the Palestinian territories. Before he goes he is persuaded by a friend to accept one last job: to find Palestinian actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre his friend is in the process of building.
WALK ON WATER (2004)
The latest feature by US-born Israeli director Eytan Fox casts a hard look at some deep-seated prejudices within his society, perhaps covering too much territory for the film's own good.
WALK THE LINE (2005)
2005 Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon and Oscar nominee Joaquin Pheonix star in James Mangold's sturdy drama, which concentrates on the key early periods in Johnny Cash's career.
WALKING TALL (2004)
This is the story of an ex-US Special Forces soldier who returns to his town to find that baddies are feeding the kids drugs and have opened a strip-joint/casino/den-of-iniquity in place of the defunct, salt-of-the-earth symbol of god-honest American goodness that was the town's lumber mill.
WALL (MUR) (2005)
A meditative and poignant film,
Wall documents the construction of the security fence built to separate Israel from Palestine. An unusual audio-visual experience, director Simone Bitton overlays the voices of those living behind the fence with moving images of a land bitterly divided.
WALLACE AND GROMMIT (2005)
With all this digital technology you'd think nowadays a movie would be a doddle to make. The dedicated team of Aardman animation however like to do things the old-fashioned way and continue their tradition of painstaking stop-motion claymation that began life way back in 1989's
Creature Comforts.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008)
Memories, dreams and nightmares collide in Ari Folman's deeply evocative and visually stunning feature, which set Cannes 2008 abuzz when it premiered in Competition this May.
WANTED (2008)
Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series and helmed by stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov,
Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice.
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
In his biggest box office opening ever, Tom Cruise leads an all-star cast on an emotionally riveting and unrelenting thrill ride as a father who fights to save his family from a deadly alien invasion.
WARRIOR KING (2005)
Warrior King is the return to the big screen of
Ong-Bak's Tony Jaa as Khan, a young fighter who must retrieve his stolen elephant.
WATCHMEN (2009)
The eagerly-awaited film adaptation of the most celebrated graphic novel of our time opens at the
BFI IMAX. From the director of the wildly successful
300,
Watchmen has been digitally re-mastered into the IMAX DMR technology.
WATER (2005)
Seven year old Chuya is a widow in 1930 India. Despite her age, her parents send her to live in the House of Widows in a Holy City where her presence galvanizes the other inhabitants. Shakuntala, thirty, devout and intelligent, has a crisis of faith that drives her into the world of radical politics.
WE ARE TOGETHER (2007)
Paul Taylor spent three years altogether in the Agape orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa.
We are Together is the story of the lives of a collection of the young people from the orphanage, many of whom are AIDS orphans.
WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (2005)
Based on two works by Andre Dubus,
We Don't Live Here Anymore is a provocative drama about married life and its discontents, telling the story of two couples wrestling with infidelity.
WE OWN THE NIGHT (2007)
We Own the Night is director James Gray’s third film and his second alongside
Joaquin Phoenix and
Mark Wahlberg. Set in late 80’s New York, the NYPD are caught in a dangerous battle against increasingly high levels of organised crime.
WEATHER MAN, THE (2005)
The Weather Man is a subtle comedy centred around a family drama plot. What could have been a rather plain story of mundane family life is lifted by interesting turns from Nicholas Cage, Michael Caine and Hope Davis.
WEDDING CRASHERS, THE (2005)
John Beckwith (Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vaughn) have been friends since childhood, and they now run a successful divorce mediation practice in Washington D.C. They also share a rather unusual pastime. For the past 12 years, John and Jeremy have been turning up uninvited to strangers' weddings.
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD (2005)
Bungling criminals are perennial comic fare in Hollywood. Taking influence
from Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks among others, Welcome to Collinwood breaks no new ground, but thanks to an impressive cast it is genuinely funny.
WEST SIDE STORY (2005)
In 1949,
On the Town depicted New York as a vibrant, trouble-free fairytale setting for a light-hearted musical. Flash-forward to 1961 and we have
West Side Story, which shows us an altogether different New York.
WHALE RIDER (2005)
A huge native success,
Whale Rider is New Zealand's second highest grossing film after
Once Were Warriors. And, boasting powerful performances, it's impossible not to be drawn into this stirring and universal story.
WHAT A GIRL WANTS (2005)
What a Girl Wants is a film that wears its heart on its sleeve, its inherent message being 'be true to yourself, never give up on love, don't change to please others' and other chocolate box moral sentiments that somehow manages to bring a tiny sniffle and tear to the eye.
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS (2008)
A cocktail of booze, bitching and back-stabbing;
What Happens in Vegas is released to buy as a single disc DVD and as a Special 2 disc ‘Jackpot Edition’ on DVD plus Blu-ray from Monday 8 September.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED (2008)
What Just Happened is a satirical comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the life of Ben (Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro) a middle aged Hollywood producer trying to juggle his work and private life in tinsel town.
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!? (2005)
What the Bleep Do We Know!? has the power to make you think about reality and the world around you in new and unexpected ways. It can also teach you how to exert more control over your life and the way you respond to your circumstances. Now who can say no to that?
WHERE THE TRUTH LIES (2005)
Atom Egoyan's film is an exciting and glamorous affair; a Hollywood thriller in which nothing is as it seems, where the star-making industry comes under close scrutiny and the illusory nature of both dreams and ideals is explored and exposed.
WHISKY (2005)
Whisky, Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's second feature is a subtle and bone dry tragicomedy that is beautifully droll in its execution. Made on a shoestring budget, it's a wonderfully absurd peek into all-too conventional lives suddenly made unconventional.
WHITE COUNTESS, THE (2005)
A mix of social history and fairytale,
The White Countess marks the end of the Merchant Ivory partnership since the death of Ismail Merchant in 2005. Arguably, it also ends the cinematic Midas touch that the 'Lennon and McCartney' of the movie world the partnership once shared.
WHO KILLED BAMBI? (2005)
Isabelle is working as a student nurse in the surgical unit of a large hospital when she starts experiencing recurring blackouts - always in the presence of the disturbing Dr Philipp. As she starts to scrutinise this fascinating stranger, she's led deeper into a frightening, dream-like world of sexual and power abuse.
WHOLE TEN YARDS, THE (2005)
A sequel to Jonathan Lynn's
The Whole Nine Yards, here director Howard Dutch pulls an extra yard out of the bag to re-visit the comic partnership of mild-mannered dentist Nick Olansky (Matthew Perry) and infamous mob hit-man Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski (Bruce Willis).
WICKER PARK (2005)
Wicker Park, a remake of Gilles Mimouni's stylish 1996 thriller
L'Appartement, tells the story of Matthew (Hartnett) and Lisa (Kruger), a couple broken up under unexplained circumstances which Matthew, after two years building another life in another city, still hasn't come to terms with.
WIERDSVILLE (2007)
From the disturbed minds of cult director Allan Moyle and writer Willem Wennekers comes
Weirdsville, a seriously stoned journey through a crazy Canadian night in the company of two amiable losers caught up in a sequence of increasingly absurd and hilarious circumstances.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF (2005)
Following on from the international success of
Italian For Beginners, Danish director Lone Scherfig has made her first English language film with the bittersweet
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. And a charming, understated and intelligent affair it turns out to be, too.
WILD HOGS (2007)
John Travolta, Tim Allen, Ray Liotta, Martin Lawrence and
William H. Macy hit the road in this rollicking comedy-adventure about a group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip.
WILD, THE (2006)
An odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo, including a lion, a giraffe, an anaconda, a koala, and a squirrel, discover what a jungle the city can be when they set off on a daring mission to rescue one of their own in this outrageous computer-animated comedy-adventure.
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL FOR GIRLS (2005)
When a movie begins with three 17-year old girls arriving alone on a remote mountaintop in the Colorado Rockies, you just know they're asking for trouble. What kind of trouble though is a different matter:
Wilderness Survival For Girls, is thankfully, not just another teen slasher/horror movie.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON: IN THE REAL WORLD (2005)
American photographer William Eggleston has been renownedsince the late 1960s. Over a period of several years Michael Almereyda has filmed Eggleston as he stalks his inanimate prey, uttering the minimum possible number of words and producing some of the most vivid images of decaying middle America.
WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, THE (2006)
Veteran British director Ken Loach won the Palme D'Or Cannes this year for his brilliant unflinching examination of the 1920 struggle for Irish independence,
The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy.
WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP (2005)
Wisconsin Death Trip, James Marsh's haunting, shocking and strangely beautiful docu-drama, takes as its inspiration the cult 1973 book of the same name, one which catalogued an incredible epidemic of madness, suicide, murder, violence and drug abuse.
WITHOUT A PADDLE (2005)
Dan, Tom and Jerry, childhood friends reunited after the death of their friend Billy, venture into the wilderness in search of long-lost loot, finding along the way a wealth of toilet humour, farts, drugs and hairy women. If that's what rocks your boat, look no further.
WOLFCREEK (2005)
A cinematic hand grenade,
Wolf Creek unites all the elements of classic horror movies to create a uniquely Australian ‘Boogieman' in Mick Taylor. It's guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat.
WOMAN IN WINTER, A (2005)
A Woman in Winter is a 'near-future sci-fi' film, made creatively on a very small budget. From a director more often connected to violent films, this mix of cosmology and romance is an unusual mix of art-house and observatory.
WONDERLAND (2005)
Wonderland is a fast-paced thriller, heightening tension with good uses of flash-back to complete narrative holes and create a kind of old-fashioned murder mystery, complete with high body count, street justice and wise-cracking cops.
WONDROUS OBLIVION (2005)
Eleven-year-old David is mad about cricket - has has all the kit, but none of the skill. When a cricket-mad Jamaican family move in next door - and hoist a cricket net in the garden -things start looking up. But this is 60s England still coming to terms with multiculturalism, and this particular rite-of-passage is no easy ride.
WOODSMAN, THE (2005)
Kevin Bacon makes a fresh stab at our cynical movie-going hearts with a powerful and intense portrayal of a man on the brink of breakdown, in a film that tackles a distasteful subject - paedophilia - with thought and sensitivity.
WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, THE (2006)
The World Is Not Enough is an exhilarating but sophisticated action-packed adventure. With insight and intelligence, the producers, writers, director Michael Apted and Pierce Brosnan reveal a new and exciting dimension to a character that has been in the public consciousness for almost 40 years.
WORLD TRADE CENTRE (2006)
Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Feature interview with Stone and Jimeno now online.
WORLDS FASTEST INDIAN, THE (2005)
The World's Fastest Indian is the latest film directed by Roger Donaldson, and his second collaboration with Anthony Hopkins. This film tells the story of Burt Munro, a New Zealand man who maintains and races his Indian Twin Scout motorbike.
WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY (2006)
Wristcutters, is set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide, is based on the short story "Kneller's Happy Campers" by Etgar Keret and was nominated for the Sundance grand Jury Prize in 2006.
WRONG MAN, THE (2005)
Hitchcock's
The Wrong Man isn't the usual grim and shocking thriller. Not only because this is this the only film by the director in which you won't find the feted Hitchock cameo;
The Wrong Man is a more rare study in murder, mystery and utter suspense.
WRONG TURN (2005)
Speeding along the highway to make a job interview, Chris (Desmond Harrington) is forced to detour via the backwoods. Not such a bad thing given he meets a lively bunch of teens on the way - and a cannibalistic mutant family on the hunt for fresh meet...
WE JAM ECONO - THE STORY OF THE MINUTEMEN (2006)
