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Terror has a new name.
Terror has a new name.
Drama, Mystery, Thriller - 2005
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A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
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The Edge of Love
(2008)
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adorat...
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
(1998)
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
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The Dream Machine
(1983)
A short non-narrative film made to commemorate the visit of Burroughs and Gysin to the UK. The film consists of multiple short vignettes: Witches Song (1979), Broken English (1979), Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (1979), Pirate Tape (Derek Jarman, 1983) and T.G.: Psychic Rally In Heaven (Derek Jarman, 1981).
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The Court of Miracles
(1982)
Through a series of tableaux/still life settings, characters are subjected to experiments dealing with elegance, science, violence, technology, glamour and love, attempting to examine the levels of alienation which the modern world and lifestyles encourage.
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The Union Jacking Up
(1985)
The Union Jacking Up is an ode to friends, including Trojan and Leigh Bowery who feature in the film among others, as well as a collage of news footage of 80s Britain. The film’s haunting soundtrack is composed similarly to the video and 16mm footage that fades and dissolves on screen, often montaging two sources to create abstract co...

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
103 min
Release date:
4 Mar 2005
Country:
DE, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$29,000,000
Revenue:
$21,733,230
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Pic begins as a potentially intriguing study of the depersonalizing effects of warfare, only to end up a pastiche of time-travel and psycho-ward movie cliches.
– Scott Foundas,
Variety,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
Here, Maybury is just arty for art's sake, filming entire scenes in close-ups so big that viewers leave the theater knowing way more than they ever wanted to about the lead actors' bridgework.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
7 Mar 2005
fresh:
The acting is uniformly excellent.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
17 Mar 2005
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