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They brought the world to its knees, and a nation to its feet.
Last Man Stands and The Bioscope present Fire In Babylon, the breathtaking story of how the West Indies triumphed over its colonial masters through the achievements of one of the most gifted teams in sporting history.
In a turbulent era of apartheid in South Africa; race riots in England and civil unrest in the Caribbean, the West Indian cricketers, led by the enigmatic Viv Richards, struck a defiant blow …

An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche.
BUY TICKETS FOR THE OPENING NIGHT 17th FEB. 7:30pm. R40
Genevieve, a New York intellectual, moves to the country with her self-involved journalist boyfriend, Sebastian, while he works on his latest project about sustainable farming.
Bored and neglected, Genevieve turns to Robin, a working class local, for companionship. When Sebastian forms a bond of his own with Robin, Genevieve finds herself overpowered by jealousy …

Its the North of France, Sainte-Gudule, in 1977. Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and ‘trophy housewife’. When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. To everyone’s surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when Robert returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated…

The Bioscope and One Small Seed. TV present this hyper-stylized TWIN PEAKS for the today’s generation. Featuring a gorgeous, super hot young cast, KABOOM is a wild and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller that tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town…
 
 

 
Newest Miss Representation Trailer (2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection) from Miss Representation on Vimeo.
When the new documentary film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message.
As the most persuasive …

 
RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This …

Unaware of what they might find, a group of international journalists visit a small village in Darfur under the protection of the African Union (AU). They manage to convince their guide to take them to a village in Janjaweed territory.
When they arrive, the journalists see how the Sudanese live daily in fear of rape, torture and murder by the government and the rebel militia. While they are interviewing the Sudanese men and women for accounts to take back home to prove to the UN that genocide has occurred, the Janjaweed …

Gabi On The Roof In July is a portrait of young New York and the misguided hopefuls who can’t afford to live there but do anyway, Gabi on the Roof in July is an ensemble comedy about ex-girlfriends, sibling rivalry and whipped cream in a city that’s constantly in flux. Gabi, a rambunctious Oberlin undergrad, heads to New York City to spend the summer with her older brother, Sam, seeking solidarity in the wake of her parents’ divorce. When she gets there, she finds Sam too busy juggling women and …

White Material: Out of Africa, by Amy Taubin
A nightmare from which no one awakes, Claire Denis’ White Material (2009) takes place in a nameless African country teetering on the brink of all-out civil war. It is the veteran French director’s toughest work, unsparing with its characters and its audience, a horror film ripped, as they say, from the headlines. Yet like everything Denis has created, it is shot through with tenderness, beauty, and an aching sense of loss. READ MORE

See what film critics have said about Francis Ford Coppola’s 2009 film Tetro, screening at The Bioscope in the coming month.
The Telegraph
LoveFilm.com

Read Peter Bradshaw’s review
This man DOESNT give out 5 stars!
Read Vice Magazine’s interview with Gaspar Noe

Outstanding Visual Achievement Award SXSW Festival 2006
Inner Circle Line is an experimental narrative, juxtaposing the stories of two character, one male and one female, who both have the same name, Youngju. Female Youngju is a club DJ who becomes attracted to a mysterious club patron who reminds her of a past love. At the same time, her female roommate Jin has been hiding her feelings for Youngju and grows increasingly jealous of her new attraction.
Male Youngju is a locomotive engineer whose train is involved in the death of a suicidal …

The monthly event Noodle Box Cinema returns with this classic Asian Film by Wong Kar-Wai. Noodle Box is a concept evening where audiences get to watch great Asian and Kung Fu films and eat noodles at the same time!

” . . . a visually exquisite chamber piece . . . an atmosphere of claustrophonic desire”
- Liam Lacy, Toronto Globe & Mail (September 6, 2000)
“If you’re in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you’ll fall for it, too.”
- Katrina Onstad, Stephen Cole, and Scott Feschuk, National Post (Canada) (September 6, 2000)
“a …

Tales From the Golden Age is a fantastic collection of short films that do an amazing job in capturing life in Romania in the last years of its communist era. Some stories make you laugh, some cry, some just bizzare.

So you may or may not know about last month’s secret screening. If you didn’t, turns out we did our job. An almost packed cinema house came in to watch a film without knowing what it was going to be. This friday, we being a little more out in the open about the event, but certainly not the film.
Some might think the date has something to do with the genre. At this point we are not going to admit or deny anything.

In TOKYO!, three visionary directors (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho) come together for an omnibus triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable city as it’s shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and run amok) inside an enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis — the enchanting and inimitable Tokyo.

MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS:

THE GOLDEN DOOR

Slow-moving but ultimately rewarding, Golden Door is a profound drama with scenes of fantastical magical realism, lively humor, and stunning images. (Rotten Tomatoes)

A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only comes out at night and doesn’t seem affected by the freezing temperatures.
Coinciding with Eli’s arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. One man is found tied to a tree, another frozen in the lake, a woman bitten …

The Bioscope will have a once off exclusive screening of this new film from acclaimed Mexican director Fernando Kalife. Do Not Miss This!