Other films out this week

GOOD BYE, DRAGON INN

Cert 15, 81 mins

Some films where nothing much happens can still swing it, and Tsai Ming-Liang's extraordinary portrait of the last night of a famous old Taipei cinema certainly does.

A limping usherette cooks a meal for the projectionist she fancies, a gay Japanese client searches the lavatories for a pick-up and two veteran actors watch King Hu's Dragon Inn, the old martial arts movie in which they starred. It's raining outside.

That's more or less all, but what film-making!

Despite holding one particular shot for what seems an eternity, Liang creates an ode to a bygone age of cinema that may be minimalist but seems to contain a positive flood of memories. These are our memories as much as his.

BRIGHT LEAVES

Cert PG, 107 mins

Ross McElwee, one of America's best documentarists, travels home to Carolina where his great-grandfather was done out of a fortune in the tobacco business by the Duke family, celebrated in an old Gary Cooper film.

He's not angry, but with droll persistence he traces the family history and the course of the lawsuit which prevented his ancestor becoming one of the richest men in the United States.

He also ruminates on a lot of other things - tobacco, public health, American history. If you liked My Architect, rush to see Bright Leaves. It makes most fiction movies look like tepid dross.

Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu San)