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The Pizza Miracle: A short film by Tony Grisoni
14th July 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Dir: Tony Grisoni Cast: Stanley Townsend, Josef Altin, Matt Berry, Anamaria Marinca
Tony Grisoni, the acclaimed screenwriter behind Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the acclaimed Red Riding trilogy, made his move into direction with his 1999 short film Vanished! A Video Séance. The Pizza Miracle is his third, and most recent, short; and it is a delightfully melancholy and warming tale about the unspoken, and often unrequited, sacrifices that... -
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
7th June 2010 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Director: Joann Sfar Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta,
The name Serge Gainsbourg brings to mind that peculiarly French brand of charming and sexually liberated arrogance. His music was playful and rude, his showmanship delightfully droll. Cigarette in hand, with croaking wisps of biting sarcasm, he encapsulated perfectly the laconic but immense passion of the French spirit. But behind this illuminated public persona lay an introverted and stubborn individual.... -
Robin Hood
17th May 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max Von Sydow, Mark Strong, William Hurt
When Richard the Lionheart is killed in battle, Robin Longstride and his band of weary men break away from the army and head straight for the coast. On route they witness the King’s second-in-command, Robert Loxley, being ambushed by a gang of French troops lead by a treacherous British courtier, Godfrey. After rescuing the crown and... -
American: The Bill Hicks Story
18th March 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
This fine documentary opens with a simple but salient point: who do we pay to talk to us? Politicians? Perhaps. Pastors? Maybe sometimes… The answer is comics. Comedians are the only people to whom we offer our money and say, “please talk to me… make me laugh at myself and the things around me.” In an age of global hostility, fear, and repression of thought and individuality, the voice of... -
A Prophet: The shining star of a dying constellation
25th January 2010 | 0 comments | 3 people like this
Dir: Jacques Audiard Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Jacques Audiard is perhaps the only filmmaker working today whose cannon of films can be uttered in the same breath as those of Melville and Chabrol. Like those giants of the Nouvelle Vague, Audiard is a master of the thriller/ crime genre and has spent the best part of his career unpicking its tightly knit conventions and tropes to create some... -
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... -
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...
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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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