Jan 6th  
Birdman** (15)
Sub-title: Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance 
(Odeon Colchester)

(US 2014)

A washed-up former comic book movie star suffers various personal crises in his efforts to adapt a Raymond Carver story onto the Broadway stage.
Elaborate, foul-mouthed re-working of Fellini's Eight and a Half where fantasy constantly mingles into reality, shot as one continuous story with no deliberate editing. Enjoyable and self-indulgent with variable styles of acting from an all-star cast, although a good deal of the backstage sub-plots get discarded before the end. Any similarity to Keaton's Batman is entirely coincidental.

Written by: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo.
Producers: James Skotchdopole, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Arnon Milchan, John Lesher.
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Lindsay Duncan.
Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki.
Music: Antonio Sanchez, Joan Valent, Victor Hernandez Stumpfhauser.
Visual Effects: Ivy Agregan, and others.