Dec 28th
A Cock and Bull Story**
GB 2005. BBC Films/EM Media/Revolution Films. 94m.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in a film about the life of Tristram Shandy.
A witty, self-regarding adaptation of an epic unfocused work, containing only fleeting period trappings and concentrating mostly on the trials of film making, in the style of Eight and a Half and Adaptation.

Written by: Martin Hardy (Frank Cottrell Boyce), based on "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Gentleman" by Lawrence Stearne.
Producer: Andrew Eaton.
Director: Michael Winterbottom.
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran, Jeremy Northam, Naomie Harris, Kelly McDonald, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Stephen Fry, Gillian Anderson.
Photography: Marcel Zyskind.
Music: Handel, Nino Rota, Edward Nogria.
Production Design: John Paul Kelly.

Preceded by:
Laid Off*
(GB 2006. 11m.; A dead man wanders the streets like an unemployed worker hoping to be successfully sent upstairs.; w,d: Zam Salim; s: John Paul Hurley.)