Film Diary 2005 November

Friday 4th November

Elizabethtown
Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst star in the latest romantic comedy from Cameron Crowe.
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The Brothers Grimm
Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are two charlatan wizards who find themselves battling Monica Bellucci's real witch in Terry Gilliam's gorgeous-looking fantasy.
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Murderball
Inspiring doc about a group of American quadraplegic atheletes and their bone-crunching sport of full-contact wheelchair rugby.
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Friday 11th November

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Lethal Weapon scribe Shane Black steps behind the camera for a murder mystery involving a private eye, a thief and a struggling actress. Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer head the cast.
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The Constant Gardener
Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz star in an adaptation of John Le Carré's conspiracy novel for City Of God director Fernando Meirelles.
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In Her Shoes
Curtis Hanson directs Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette as two very different sisters.
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Hustle & Flow
A down-and-out Memphis hustler aims for rap stardom in a Southern version of 8 Mile.
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Friday 18th November

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Fourth instalment in the Hogwarts series, this time featuring Ralph Fiennes as the eeevil Lord Voldemort and Brendan Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody.
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Stoned
The life - and death - of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones is given the film treatment in this Brit pic.
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The Libertine
Johnny Depp's pic about the hard-drinking, bed-hopping, poetry-writing 17th-century Earl of Rochester finally comes off the shelf for a cinematic release.
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Factotum
Matt Dillon is a hard-drinking, womanising drifter in the big-screen version of Charles Bukowski's novel.
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Friday 25th November

Flightplan
Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard star in a thriller about the disappearance of a girl on board a plane to Berlin.
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Mrs Henderson Presents
Judi Dench is a naughty theatre impresario who opens a nude review show in pre World War II London.
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Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling book comes to the big screen. Elijah Wood stars as a young man who travels to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during WWII.
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The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Horror starring Laura Linney as a lawyer who defends Tom Wilkinson's priest when an exorcism goes horribly wrong.
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Transporter 2
Jason Statham's delivery boy with guns arrives in America in the sequel to the Luc Besson produced action flick of 2002.
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Mad Hot Ballroom
Spellbound on the dancefloor, this documentary charts a group of New York schoolkids competing in a ballroom dancing tournament.
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All film dates are subject to change       Last updated 22nd November 2005.
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