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Nile Style
Scrupulous honesty has always been a hallmark of The Blue Nile, so with one of the trio missing from the forthcoming Dublin show, Paul Buchanan and Robert Bell are dropping the name. They'll be playing a few favourites, though, Buchanan tells Brian Boyd.
Out of Steppes
Reviewed - Borat: Cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan: Make good joke, yes? Borat is an uproarious satire of middle American mores and values as seen through the eyes of a dimwitted foreigner, writes Michael Dwyer.
As nature intended
Reviewed - Scenes of a sexual nature: THE tabloid press has feasted on scenes of a sexual nature on Hampstead Heath in London, when they have involved indiscreet actors and singers. "It's Hampstead Heath!" declares one of the characters inScenes of a Sexual Nature. "They think it's weird if you're not having sex."
Prickly Picket Fences
Reviewed - Little Children: THERE was a time when American cinema idealised suburbia as the ultimate goal, an idyllic haven of home comforts and good neighbours. It's a different world in more recent movies, from Blue Velvet to American Beauty to Happiness, where suburban locations signal an exposure of the malaises and anxieties lurking under the landscaped lawns.
Gimme that old time religion
Reviewed - Middletown: BRIAN Kirk's striking first feature film presents an unprepossessing picture of life in a small Northern Ireland town at an unspecified time, although the period trappings suggest the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Gangsters all'Italiana
Reviewed - Romanzo Criminale/Crime Story: SET against turbulent political events in Italy between 1977 and 1992, Michele Placido's vigorous gangster movie inevitably evokes Marco Tullio Giordana's magisterial epic The Best of Youth .
Final Chance
Reviewed - Sixty-Six: HERE we have a gentle coming-of-age drama in which a North London boy struggles with the unhappy news that his Bar Mitzvah is to coincide with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Night Watch
Reviewed - Red Road: ENGLISH writer-director Andrea Arnold, who won the best short film Oscar two years ago for Wasp, makes an astonishing full-scale debut with Red Road, the only feature from a first-time director selected for competition at Cannes this year, where it took a runner-up prize.
Revenge is Suite
Reviewed - The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages): DENIS Dercourt, a classical musician with a sideline in cinema, here delivers a tight, tense little thriller from the cuckoo-in-the-nest school.
UK audiences really swoon over Saw 3
Saw 3 is top of the box office in the UK and the US, but in England, the East Anglian Ambulance Trust has issued a warning that the movie's torture scenes are so gruesome that they have caused viewers to pass out.
Why Bob bombed on Broadway
WHAT has Bob Dylan done to deserve this? First reports reach us from Broadway, where The Times They Are A-Changing (or, to put it in a more stirring way, Dylan - The Musical) opened last week. And first reports are not good.
This Handbag is still swingin' after 12 years
Back in the days when there used to be a nightclub called the Kitchen in the basement of the Clarence Hotel, a peculiar thing happened one Monday night in October 1994.
