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To-do: Week starting Thursday 27th May: Prince of Persia, Fish Tank, plus Milos Forman, Bong Joon-ho, Humphrey Bogart retros

Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.

THURSDAY 27th May

StreetDance, a 3D film about street dancing featuring noted MILF Charlotte Rampling (?), opens.

Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time, celebrated filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s gripping documentary about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s race to win the annual Iranian Bodybuilding Championship, opens.

Fish Tank, the Cannes prize-winning film from Andrea Arnold about a troubled teenager living in a British council estate, opens.

The Secret in Their Eyes, the Oscar-winning Argentinian crime film from Juan José Campanella, opens.

City Island, a Quirky-American-Indie-Comedy(TM), opens.

FRIDAY 28th May

Goemon, the ninja-romance-fantasy-action-revenge epic from Japan, continues its extended season at ACMI, finishing this Sunday.

SATURDAY 29th May

The Hurt Locker at the Astor. Kathryn Bigelow’s war film about addiction was one of our favourites of 2009. Brad reviewed it here.

SUNDAY 30th May

Dr. Zhivago, David Lean’s 1965 Oscar-winning epic love story set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, can be seen at a matinee screening at Astor.

Over the next three Sundays, Astor is holding a Humphrey Bogart retrospective. Tonight’s double bill is 1936’s The Petrified Forest, about an escaped convict holding an isolated desert cafe hostage, and 1938’s Angels With Dirty Faces, a gangster drama about two friends, one who grew into a ruthless criminal and the other who has devoted his life to keeping children away from a life of crime.

MONDAY 31st May

A art-house sexytimes double bill at Astor: David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989).

WEDNESDAY 2nd June

Cinematheque opens its Milos Forman retrospective with 1965’s Loves of a Blonde, about a small town factory worker who spends the night with a musician, and 1971’s Taking Off, the director’s first American film, a comedy about a group of parents whose children have run away from home and take the opportunity to rediscover their youth.

A Bong Joon-ho double feature at Astor: The darkly comic noir film Mother (one of our favourites of 2009) and the social satire/monster movie The Host (2006)