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Pick of the Indies
THE Curzon Soho is hosting a question and answer session with the two men behind The Last King of Scotland.
Director Kevin Macdonald and writer Giles Foden have combined to tell the fictional story of a rookie medic who becomes embroiled with vicious Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Kevin Macdonald’ s background is in documentary, and his most recent films One Day In September, about the 1972 Munich Olympic crisis, and the mountaineering tragedy Touching The Void, have won plaudits and awards.
Giles Foden, who won the Whitbread First Novel Award 1998 and the Somerset Maugham Award 1999 for his novel on Amin’s regime will be on hand to discuss their switch from factual film making and writing to fiction.
Actor James McAvoy plays Nicholas Garrigan, the doctor who agrees to become Amin’s personal doctor. He is soon used as an adviser to the president and consulted on all manner of policy decisions. But his dream soon turns ugly as the full horror of Amin’s regime becomes clear.
A bold combination of comedy and horror which balances psychological insight and historical facts, the film includes a performance from Forest Whitaker (pictured) which is tipped to win an Oscar nomination.
THE Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue, Friday, January 12 at 6.30pm. £9.50.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
This documentary highlights the workings of one of America’s biggest superstores Wal-Mart – and criticises their business plans that the film makers say are at a high cost to the environment, staff and independent businesses.
The film follows the attempts of one Californian community to fight back against Wal-Mart’s commercial success.
The screening is followed by a discussion led by general union GMB regional secretary Ed Blissett and John Woolf, member of the Hertford and Essex area committee of the Co-operative Group.
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