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Great Scott at Venice
The identity of the surprise film at the Venice Film Festival on September 1st is no longer a secret. It will be Ridley Scott's long- anticipated new "final director's cut" of Blade Runner, his stylish 1982 futuristic thriller starring Harrison Ford and based on Philip K Dick's dystopian novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Rooney hits the road again
It's been 24 years since Mickey Rooney was presented with an honorary Oscar, an award generally given towards the end of the recipient's career. Rooney, who turns 87 next month and was last seen on our screens this year in Night at the Museum, hasn't stopped working since he made his film debut at the age of four.
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum is a precision-tooled, lean, mean action machine, writes Michael Dwyer
Flandres/Flanders
NOW 49, Bruno Dumont shot corporate videos by day and taught philosophy by night for the best part of two decades before he directed his debut feature, La Vie de Jesus (1996). Since then his work has become a magnet for festival prizes.
Copying Beethoven
IF YOU'RE searching for a reason to attend this largely risible dramatisation of Ludwig van Beethoven's final days, you should be aware that it features a fascinating collision between two very different - positively complementary - schools of terrible acting.
Bratz
THOSE parents who prefer their children not to dress like crack whores could be forgiven for approaching Bratz: The Movie with some caution.
Eagle vs Shark
IT IS, perhaps, no longer worth complaining that certain independent comedies rely too heavily on our affection for behavioural eccentricities and psychological irregularities. Thirty years before Napoleon Dynamite began sloping about Idaho, films such as Harold and Maude and Pink Flamingos had already flown the flag for promiscuous quirkiness. These pictures now belong to their own indestructible genre.
This means war
Movie-makers may have been slow to put the Vietnam war on film, but are suddenly rushing into the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. Michael Dwyer previews the offensive to come
