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Mondays in the Sun (2002
Edit Storyline 2001: men without jobs, in the port city of Vigo. Six men worked in a shipyard, now shuttered. They pass the time at La Naval, a bar opened by one of them after the yard closed.
Deeply considered ... I Wish. One of the year's best films has arrived quietly, unnoticed by the awards-season cheerleaders, but with its delicacy and complexity, it puts the Oscar-bait to shame. Hirokazu Koreeda's I Wish has taken two years to come to the UK. It has been more than worth the wait. Like his earlier movie Still Walking , this is a deeply considered Japanese family drama in the tradition of Ozu, with echoes of Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-liang – moving, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, often mysterious.
I Wish – review | Film
Goodbye Lenin! (2003
Edit Storyline East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime.
Crystal the Monkey arrives at the premiere of The Hangover Part II, produced by Legendary Entertainment, in Hollywood. Legendary is now entering a $220m partnership targeting the Chinese market. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/WireImage The Hollywood producer behind the Hangover movies and Inception has joined forces with a Chinese studio to create a $220.5m (£134m) venture aimed at China 's increasingly lucrative film market. The partnership between Legendary Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Media Corp plans to make one or two "major, event-style films" a year for worldwide audiences starting in 2013. The two companies said they were selling a 50% stake in the venture, Legendary East, to Hong Kong construction company Paul Y Engineering.
Hollywood targets Chollywood as LA studio enters $220m joint venture | Business
Breathless Godard's dazzling debut set up the stall for the French new wave. Breathless is a footloose, free-wheeling dash through the doomed romance between Jean Seberg's newspaper vendor and Jean-Paul Belmondo's hoodlum, hot-wired with jump-cuts and homages and shot on the run, without a permit, on the sunny streets of Paris. Bande à Part Described by the director as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka", this picaresque about three wannabe crooks remains the lightest, most purely playful of Godard's early films. Two set-pieces stand out: the record-breaking dash through the Louvre, and this classic dance sequence, replete with hand-claps, foot stamps and wry off-camera commentary.
Jean-Luc Godard: his best films | Film
Edit Storyline Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs.
5 Centimetres Per Second (2007