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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... -
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... -
London Film Festival: ‘The Informant!’
13th October 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Dir: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey
‘The Informant!’ is the true(ish) story of Mark Whitacre, the highest ranking whistleblower in corporate history. Mark (Damon) is a biochemist who has been promoted to the heady heights of agricultural giant ADM’s corporate infrastructure. But when his division loses money for a record year, he pretends that a Japanese competitor has infected ADM’s corn stock, and before he... -
London Film Festival: Passenger Side
6th October 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: Matt Bissonnette
In a week filled with documentaries and experimental features, I was glad to find that the Friday afternoon screening at the first LFF press week was a laid-back, quirky, slacker road movie set in East LA with a soundtrack consisting of Dinosaur Jr, Wilco, Leonard Cohen, and a host of other indie rock legends.
Passenger Side is the story of Michael Brown (Adam Scott), who is awoken on the... -
London Film Festival: Trash Humpers
30th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Director: Harmony Korine
A film should, according to Godard, have a beginning, middle, and end (even if they aren’t in that particular order). I am, personally, a huge fan of this ideal. It is the careful structuring of a story that engages the audiences and whisks them away into the world of the characters.
I am willing to make allowances in certain cases: I would argue that many of John Cassavetes’ films... -
An ode to M. dot Strange and Liz Rosenthal: The Bonnie and Clyde of cross-platform marketing
17th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Would it be presumptuous of me to imagine that I have a contingent of enthusiastic readers who have been worried by my recent absence from the hypertext format? I picture vast swathes of cine-literate blog readers staring distractedly out of their office windows wondering what has become of the eponymous Nicholas Deigman. I am, of course, joking; but as there is technically a minute possibility that this is in fact...
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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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