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Where The Wild Things Are: a testament to the power of childhood
9th December 2009 | 1 comments | 4 people like this
Dir: Spike Jonze Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, Forest Whitaker
Maurice Sendak’s 1965 children’s classic ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is one of those primal, infallible texts that have been around for long enough to inform the world-view of parents and children alike. Like Lewis Carroll’s poems and Aesop’s fables, it is a brutally simple tale reminding us of the Dionysian chaos and... -
Who’s got short shorts? I’ve got short shorts
4th December 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Disclaimer: please forgive my deplorable, albeit thoroughly intended, misquotation from The Royal Teens seminal 1958 release, 'Short Shorts'.
A while back I promised you another special selection from the mystical and capricious world of short films. I'm quite sure you have all been logging in every evening, with twitching fingers, in the hope that I have finally provided another volume of filmic vignettes and music videos; and crashing backwards with a... -
Up In The Air: the American Comedy of the Year?
3rd December 2009 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Jason Reitman Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a suave and sophisticated nomad. He lives 10,000 feet ‘up in the air’ and he is as uncomfortable on the ground, staying in one place, as most other people are during take-off. Ryan’s job (he fires people for a living) means that he is travels for around 362 days every year. He has a lavish... -
A Single Man: An extraordinary debut feature
23rd November 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Tom Ford Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode
Los Angeles, 1962. George (Firth)– a gay English university professor living in Santa Monica – has just been informed that his lover of 16 years, Jim (Goode), has been killed in a car accident. George is not allowed to attend the funeral because Jim’s family disapproves of their “abominable” relationship. What follows is a fascinating and melancholy character study of a... -
London Film Festival Closing Gala: Nowhere Boy
6th November 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Sam Taylor Wood Cast: Aaron Johnson, Kristen Scott Thomas, Anne Marie Duff, David Morrisey, David Threlfall, Thomas Brodie Sangster
It must be said that British cinema did not promote itself especially well at this year’s London Film Festival. ‘Don’t Worry About Me’ and ‘Kicks’ failed to make any positive mark on the critics and audiences that turned out to see them; and while ’44 Inch Chest’ and ‘The Disappearance of... -
A Christmas Carol: 3D motion-capture has arrived in time for Christmas
5th November 2009 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins
Last night saw the breaking of a few festive world records in a decidedly Dickensian Leicester Square. Firstly, opera singer Andrea Bocelli lead the largest Christmas Carol ‘sing-along’ from the Square, as revellers across London joined in after the official ‘turning on’ of the Christmas lights. Then Disney, in collaboration with Sky Movies HD, hosted the largest ever ‘3D... -
The Girlfriend Experience
29th October 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Stephen Soderbergh Cast: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Mark Jacobson, Glenn Kenny
Chelsea (Grey) is a ‘smoky-eyed’, high-class escort in New York City. She charges rich businessmen thousands of dollars, by the hour, for her company; but it isn’t the sex that they are paying for – they could go to any old hooker for that – it is ‘the girlfriend experience’. Chelsea lives in a sumptuous, open-plan apartment with her... -
Paper Heart: a beautiful and seminal ‘docu-rom-com’
22nd October 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Charlyne Yi, Nick Jasenovec Cast: Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera, Jake Johnson
People are calling ‘Paper Heart’ a mockumentary; but that word doesn’t seem to do the film justice because it bears no resemblance or heritage whatsoever to Spinal Tap. ‘Paper Heart’ is really an honest study on the nature of ‘love’; it is a quirky docu-drama that blends narrative sequences with documentary footage, and weaves the two together so that... -
London Film Festival: The Men Who Stare At Goats
15th October 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Grant Heslov Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges
After yesterday’s spectacular opening gala film, Wes Anderson’s ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, the London Film Festival came crashing back down to earth today with a screening of the distinctly average ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’. There is nothing really wrong with the film (Ewan McGregor’s unfailingly awful American accent aside), but it lacks depth, beauty, or any of the... -
London Film Festival: Fantastic Mr. Fox does Dahl proud
15th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Dir: Wes Anderson Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Adapting a Roald Dahl story is not an easy task. Born in a rural Welsh village to Norwegian parents in 1916, Dahl struggled through the strict British boarding school system during the inter-war years before joining the RAF for World War 2. It was only after this action-packed and dynamic life, when he had settled in a rural village...
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Nicholas Deigman
Nicholas graduated in 2008 after three carefree years reading Film Studies. He has since been eking out a living as a script reader, runner, and intern around various production companies and film magazines in London. He will be tapping into the film industry that he has attached himself to like an aphid in order to bring you up-to-date news on interesting film projects.
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