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"It'll be just like in the movies: We'll pretend to be someone else." So says Betty to Rita in Mulholland Drive, an invitation to an adventure, leading to a dream that morphs into a nightmare.

DIRECTOR Terence Davies's acclaimed Of Time and the City has been named one of Time magazine's top 10 movies of the year.

I try to keep it positive here but we all have transgressions! I also try to rent selectively, avoiding the endless inventory of B-Movies, direct-to-DVDs, third-rate sci-fi and horror and such that come out each month.

Screen 1 West Of Pluto , 10 am A film that follows a group of teenagers on that somewhat tiresome journey of self-discovery. Naya Daur, 12.30 noon It's the story of Shankar, who lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse carriage for a living.

This collectable box set brings together five of Tati's greatest films, from his debut feature, Jour de fete , to his last screen work, Parade .

On the face of it, there's no particular reason why the Tate gallery shouldn't be getting involved in film-making: after all, its own commissions to fill the Turbine Hall have been a consistent success, and fine-art spaces the world over are finding themselves invaded by moving images as much as paintings, sculpture and installations.

Organizers at the Festival du nouveau cinA©ma oversold their press conference yesterday to announce details of the 37th edition, Oct.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Former Daily Post picture editor Stephen Shakeshaft documented the mood, major events, celebrities and politicians of the city for more than 30 years.

Films by and about Iranians have provided some of the highlights of the Toronto International Film Festival in recent years.

Last week the Observer Film Quarterly published our choice of the top 25 British films of the last 25 years .

Terence Davies. Click on image to enlarge. Director Terence Davies is to attend Shetland's third film festival, Screenplay, to discuss his work.

A man has appeared in private at Lerwick Sheriff Court in connection with the seizure of heroin from a house in the town.

Listening to Britten at the Proms sent me back to Davies's film Of Time and the City, via Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise and an intriguing theory about music and sexuality 'Enjoyable and exhilarating' a Jennifer Pike performing at the Family Prom.

From Zidane to Hunger, British arthouse movies are coming thick and fast. Are we on the verge of a new new wave? The British don't do art cinema.

A mid-year roundup of the best films offered so far, plus two movies that imply that cinephilia causes hate: the Saturday Night Feverinspired serial killer of Tony Manero and Michael Mann's Public Enemies By Armond White Tony Manero Directed by Pablo Larran Runtime: 98 min.

Anchoress , Chris Newby's debut feature, is based on a true story, that of the Anchoress of Shere .

When we wrote about a rare showing of Max Orphuls' Lola Montes last year, we didn't think this intimate and epic - and painstakingly restored - 1955 film would be back so soon, but you have three more chances to see it, at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 6:00 and 8:15 p.m., today, Wednesday, June 24th and 6:00 p.m. Thursday the 25th.

One Week: Joshua Jackson dons a motorcycle jacket and a vintage bike to travel across the great Canadian landscape in this sentimental grasp at pathos from Michael McGowan.

If the truth is so elusive no filmmaker ever finds it -- as Canadian filmmaker Allan King once -- then it is the search that makes documentaries powerful.

Of Time and the City Ebert: Users: Be the first to rate this movie Liverpool. Of Time and the City by Roger Ebert The streets of our cities are haunted by the ghosts of those who were young here long ago.