THREE films with very different agendas will be screened at the Dukes next week.
From Monday to Thursday, 'Auto Focus' (18) tells the story of Californian DJ Bob Crane, who becomes a star off the back of US sitcom Hogan's Heroes. He hooks up with techno wizard John Carpenter and embarks on a downward spiral of seedy sex, wrecked marriages and gruesome death.
With a true US media story at its core Auto Focus - with Willem Dafoe and Greg Kinnear - emerges as a funny, imaginative and bizarrely touching portrait of a deeply shallow man.
'The Good Thief' (15) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, who's on a serious downward spiral and decides to pull off one last casino heist. The target isn't money, however, but a collection of priceless paintings kept in a vault. On screen from Tuesday to Thursday, this is another in Neil Jordan's tales of redemption.
The feature next Friday only is Lynne Ramsay's acclaimed debut 'Ratcatcher' (15), set in and around a Glasgow tenement block during the bin men's strike of 1979. It centres on a 12-year-old boy (William Eadie, pictured) who, haunted by the role he played in a young friend's accidental death by drowning, gradually retreats into a fantasy world of solitude, dreams and obsession.
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