Film Diary 2010
by ianbrd | created - 21 Aug 2011 | updated - 05 Sep 2011 | PublicTOTAL 37
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1. Treeless Mountain (2008)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Chae Gil Byoung, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je, Kim Mi Jung
Votes: 1,916 | Gross: $0.06M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 19 January
2. Up in the Air (I) (2009)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ryan's job is to travel around the country firing off people. When his boss hires Natalie, who proposes firing people via video conference, he tries to convince her that her method is a mistake.
Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
Votes: 349,332 | Gross: $83.82M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 26 January
3. The Road (I) (2009)
R | 111 min | Drama, Thriller
In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall
Votes: 254,129 | Gross: $0.06M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 4
DATE: 2 February
4. A Single Man (2009)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Director: Tom Ford | Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 117,739 | Gross: $9.17M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7
DATE: 16 February
5. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,386,070 | Gross: $760.51M
CINEMA: Odeon 7, Metro Centre
LOCATION: Gateshead
RATING: 7 [IMAX 3D version]
DATE: 2 March
6. Crazy Heart (2009)
R | 112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, James Keane
Votes: 94,647 | Gross: $39.46M
CINEMA: Odeon 4, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6+
DATE: 14 March
7. Alice in Wonderland (I) (2010)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway
Votes: 440,916 | Gross: $334.19M
CINEMA: BFI IMAX, Waterloo
LOCATION: London
RATING: 5 [IMAX 3D version]
DATE: 15 March
8. Shutter Island (2010)
R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 1,455,856 | Gross: $128.01M
CINEMA: Odeon 1, Metro Centre
LOCATION: Gateshead
RATING: 7
DATE: 23 March
9. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer
Votes: 80,889 | Gross: $1.70M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7-
DATE: 26 May
10. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,528 | Gross: $0.62M
CINEMA: Odeon 2, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7
DATE: 20 June
11. Please Give (2010)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Director: Nicole Holofcener | Stars: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Elizabeth Keener
Votes: 11,583 | Gross: $4.03M
CINEMA: Cineworld 6, Shaftesbury Avenue
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7
DATE: 21 June
12. The Concert (2009)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Thirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov, François Berléand
Votes: 18,641 | Gross: $0.66M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6
DATE: 21 July
13. Partir (I) (2009)
Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan
Votes: 4,538 | Gross: $0.17M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 27 July
14. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling, Lena Endre
Votes: 223,316 | Gross: $10.10M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7+
DATE: 24 August
15. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 222,321 | Gross: $6.39M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7
DATE: 6 September
16. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Votes: 98,493 | Gross: $9.08M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 22 September
17. Inception (2010)
PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 2,549,806 | Gross: $292.58M
CINEMA: BFI IMAX, Waterloo
LOCATION: London
RATING: 8 [IMAX version]
DATE: 26 September
18. Winter's Bone (2010)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
Votes: 150,532 | Gross: $6.53M
CINEMA: Odeon 4, Covent Garden
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6+
DATE: 26 September
19. Toy Story 3 (2010)
G | 103 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Director: Lee Unkrich | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty
Votes: 892,223 | Gross: $415.00M
CINEMA: Empire 4, Leicester Square
LOCATION: London
RATING: 7 [3D version]
DATE: 27 September
20. Made in Dagenham (2010)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone
Votes: 16,068 | Gross: $1.09M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6-
DATE: 12 October
21. Submarine (2010)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: to lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
Director: Richard Ayoade | Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor
Votes: 96,508 | Gross: $0.47M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7
DATE: 22 October
22. Route Irish (2010)
109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Geoff Bell
Votes: 4,790
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 6-
DATE: 23 October
23. Sensation (2010)
107 min | Comedy
A naive young Irishman starts a relationship with a sexy call girl; and together they hatch a plan to open a brothel using the proceeds from the farm he recently inherited.
Director: Tom Hall | Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Patrick Ryan, Luanne Gordon, Marie O'Neill
Votes: 395
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7
DATE: 23 October
24. The King's Speech (2010)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 707,817 | Gross: $138.80M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 8
DATE: 23 October
25. Brighton Rock (2010)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Director: Rowan Joffe | Stars: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt
Votes: 6,765
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (Surprise Film)
RATING: 6+
DATE: 24 October
26. Carancho (2010)
Unrated | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ambulance chaser/carancho falls for an ER/ambulance doctor, he meets one night "at work" in Buenos Aires.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Federico Silva, Cristian De Asís, Martina Gusmán
Votes: 8,779 | Gross: $0.09M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7
DATE: 24 October
27. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 824,355 | Gross: $106.95M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 8
DATE: 25 October
28. October (2010)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby... See full summary »
Directors: Daniel Vega Vidal, Diego Vega Vidal | Stars: Bruno Odar, Gabriela Velásquez, Carlos Gassols, María Carbajal
Votes: 560 | Gross: $0.03M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 5
DATE: 25 October
29. Copacabana (2010)
107 min | Comedy
Boldly unconventional and cheerful, that's how one could describe Babou. Never having cared about social conventions, she is suddenly faced with the realization that her own daughter is ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Fitoussi | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah, Jurgen Delnaet
Votes: 1,741
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 6+
DATE: 26 October
30. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska
Votes: 134,427 | Gross: $20.81M
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
RATING: 7+
DATE: 26 October
31. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Votes: 758,398 | Gross: $96.96M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Electra
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 5
DATE: 2 November
32. Another Year (2010)
PG-13 | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Oliver Maltman
Votes: 30,872 | Gross: $3.21M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Classic
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 8
DATE: 9 November
33. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin
Votes: 74,546 | Gross: $5.43M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 5
DATE: 7 December
34. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
As Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy
Votes: 598,936 | Gross: $295.98M
CINEMA: Empire 12
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 6+
DATE: 14 December
35. Catfish (2010)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery
Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | Stars: Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Angela Wesselman-Pierce
Votes: 43,739 | Gross: $3.23M
CINEMA: Curzon 1, Soho
LOCATION: London
RATING: 5-
DATE: 19 December
36. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 97,622 | Gross: $0.24M
CINEMA: Cineworld 3, Shaftesbury Avenue
LOCATION: London
RATING: 6
DATE: 20 December
37. Of Gods and Men (2010)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, History
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 16,094 | Gross: $3.95M
CINEMA: Tyneside - Roxy
LOCATION: Newcastle upon Tyne
RATING: 7
DATE: 30 December
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