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Amateur DVD Review

13 May 2013 1:05 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Director: Hal Hartley

Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn, Damian Young

Running Time: 104 Minutes

Certificate: 18

Amateur is a 1994 crime thriller by writer/director Hal Hartley. The mid-90s were a time when cinema was oozing cool crime flicks thanks to filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and crime writers such as Elmore Leonard therefore it would be easy for a film to simply fall between the cracks and become just another forgotten genre entry. There’s no such concern for Amateur, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing.

The main thrust of the plot sees a man (Donovan) awaken on a city street with no memory of who he is. He is soon taken in by an ex-nun (Huppert) who now writes erotica for magazines. Right away this story seems to be quirky and familiar enough to take us on an enjoyable and unexpected journey. Unfortunately Hartley has other ideas. »

- Luke Ryan Baldock

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Competition: Win Hartley's 'Amateur' on Blu-ray

12 May 2013 8:39 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »

Sharp and witty but shot throughout with resonant tragedy, celebrated American indie auteur Hal Hartley's Amateur (1994) is a twisted metaphysical thriller that has been hailed as one of his greatest works. To celebrate the long-awaited 13 May DVD and Blu-ray rerelease of Hartley's classic, starring French actress Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Löwensohn, we've kindly been provided with Three Blu-ray copies of Amateur to give away, courtesy of our friends at distributor Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

An ex-nun (Huppert), trying to turn her hand to writing pornography, meets Thomas (Donovan), a recovering amnesiac in search of his estranged wife. The two set out in search of Thomas' past but soon discover a trail of secrets leading to the dark, violent »

- CineVue UK

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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #32. Guy Maddin’s Spiritismes

14 January 2013 11:15 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

Spiritismes

Director: Guy Maddin

Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk

Producer(s): Phyllis Laing

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira Casar, Adèle Haenel, Ariane Labed, Elina Löwensohn, Mathieu Demy, Jean-François Stévenin, André Wilms, Grégory Gadebois, Jacques Nolot

High set of profile actors join one crazy project which is best described by the avant-gardist himself – “Over eighty percent of silent films are lost. I’ve always considered a lost film as a narrative with no known final resting place — doomed to wander the landscape of film history, sad, miserable and unable to project itself to the people who might love it.”

Gist: Every day, Guy Maddin invites visitors of the Centre Pompidou to witness the making of a new film inspired by a long-lost movie. Summoning these wandering spirits of cinema in theatrical “séances”, Maddin and his actors inhabit their ghostly scenarios. »

- Eric Lavallee

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