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Cast & Director Director Derek Cianfrance discuss making The Light Between Oceans

I have as yet unfortunately not had the chance to see Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between Oceans. But jumped at the chance to sit in on a discussion about the making of the film with the Director behind the moving and visionary, or should that be, “retro-visionary”? films like Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines - as, well to steal a sentiment from leading man Michael Fassbender - they don't make them like they used to.

Derek Cianfrance's films are beautifully shot and the humanity portrayed brings gravitas to his tales. They take a long weighty view, looking past the immediate and instant to the longer repercussions and consequences of events and decisions.

I was keen to possibly gain some insight into Derek Cianfrance's vision, his thought processes and decision making when it comes to choosing material and bringing his stories to life, and how those decisions differ from more conventional directors. Especially pertinent as The Light Between Oceans is the first novel that Cianfrance has adapted. I was also hoping to explore common elements from across his work.

     Besides who would not want to hear first hand from engaging top tier talent like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander who is exceeding her Rising Star promise bringing challenging, intense and complex personalities to life on screen - about their experiences and approach to bringing M L Stedman's best selling novel and Derek Cianfrance's vision to life.

     I have to say it was quite an experience sitting in the discussion, particularly listening to Michael Fassbender who seems to be able to communicate complex emotions and scenarios very clearly with an easy charm. It is very clear that this guy could excel at anything he chooses and that the performing arts are a better place with his contribution.

Claire Denis's Bastards (Les salauds) is in UK Cinemas from Friday & it's probably very, very good here is the trailer & poster

Claire Denis Bastards (Les salauds) I am a fan of French Auteur Claire Denis' films. And eagerly await each one with anticipation. Her Bastards or Les Salauds has been on my watchlist for the last year and one of my most anticipated films of 2014. It is finally here.

Bastards "Les salauds" (original title)

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.

Director:
Claire Denis

 Writers:
Jean-Pol Fargeau, Claire Denis

 Stars:
Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille

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But it seems to be sneaking into UK cinemas. I only heard of its release this Friday in passing. Which is a shame as Claire Denis' films although fairly intense (Ok! harrowing) are each minor masterpieces.

Although I haven't watched it in its entirety I'm loving the trailer in no small part due to its electro synth backing track with dulcet vocal overlay ala  Drive - which I hope carries over into the film which seems to be a dark tale of revenge.

Anyway below is the poster and trailer for Claire Denis' Bastards or Les Salauds with a synopsis from Artificial Eye.

Bastards Les salauds film poster
Bastards Les Salauds film poster ZOOM

Compliance - The New American Dream - Gripping & Provocative - A Review

The plot of Compliance is so incredulous that it is hard to swallow, making it all the more tragic as it is based on actual events. After the darkly glib satire Great World of Sound Craig Zobel turns the heat up with Compliance, way up.

In his 2007 Great World of Sound Zobel took a look at those who would attempt to profit from others dreams and blurred the lines between fact and fiction in doing so, whilst there are some similarities with his take on Compliance - this time he goes straight for the jugular. For a film set mainly in the small back office of a fast food outlet it will grip you more than any horror film Hollywood could cook up.

Compliance Film Poster
Compliance Film Poster

The cast of The Servant reunite for its 50th Anniversary Restoration screening & QA with James Fox, Wendy Craig and Sarah Miles hosted by Richard Ayoade

the servant screeningThe Servant is one of my favourite and most memorable films of its time. It is as dark and twisted as it is unique, an upstairs downstairs tale that takes a dark psychological turn in swinging 60s London, as agendas are revealed and the balance of power between two men cruelly shifts.

The Servant is a timeless classic and the first of three films born out of a great cinematic partnership - with Joseph Losey directing and Harold Pinter writing. In terms of talent it rarely gets as great at The Servant -  Losey directing a screenplay written by Pinter adapting a book by Robin Maugham with James Fox, Dirk Bogarde and Sarah Miles in lead roles. After The Servant, Losey and Pinter went on to make Accident and The Go-Between as well as Pinter contributed to Losey's 1966 comedic Modesty Blaise.

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The Servant Film Poster

The Establishing Shot: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Review

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ReviewB efore I get into my thoughts of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. If you are not familiar with John le Carré’s work let’s cover some groundwork early on - despite what the marketing for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy would have you believe - George Smiley codename Beggar-man (an indication of his character status) the lead played by Gary Oldman is not a super star spy. He is an experienced spy but has become a bureaucratic worker, more of a long suffering office worker who has had it rough having lost his job as well as his wife. He is more of a hard pressed upon tragic everyman filling his life with routine.

Update: I have seen Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy again and my thoughts after a second viewing are here!

The Establishing Shot: Leaked Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Documents - Online Guide To The Circus

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy premiered to critical acclaim across the board over the weekend at the Venice Film Festival. With only 10 days left till Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is released in the UK on Friday 16 September.

The Establishing Shot: New Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Images

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyHot on the heels of my breakdown / analysis of the first Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy clips revealed at Empire's Big Screen here are some new moody and stunningly atmospheric pictures that raise the mystery on who the traitor could be from what is possibly going to be this year's top film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Catfish A review (spoiler free)

catfish film"Let me tell you a story of the cod fish. At the turn of the century cod fish were in much demand on the east coast. News of this tasty fish spread across the country all the way to the west coast. There was however a problem. How could they get the fish across the country and still keep it fresh. They tried to freeze the fish and send it by rail, the fastest means at the time.

When it was prepared it turn out to be very mushy and lacked flavor. Then someone decided to ship the fish live turning railroad cars into huge saltwater aquariums. When the cod fish arrived they were still alive but when they were prepared they were still mushy and tasteless. After studying the cod fish someone discovered that their natural enemy was the catfish. This time when the cod fish were but in the tanks they place a few catfish in with them. Those catfish chased the cod fish all the way across the country to the west coast.

This time when they were prepared they were flaky and had the same flavor as they did when they were caught fresh and prepared on the east coast. You see the catfish kept the cod from becoming stale. The catfish kept them fresh.” - From Runrandall’s blog. The context is keeping your motivation high for running. Please note this may or may not be a real blog.




catfish film
The above quote also explains a part of the story of Catfish. At the time it is mentioned in the story, the storyteller either leaves out some bits or certain bits are intelligible. It left me a little confused, as well as some others from what I gather browsing the web. Although to be honest it’s important but it is by no means the crux of the story. I just thought I’d lay it out here so you don’t go through the same confusion I did. Now that that’s out the way:

Like you, I heard the buzz from festival’s like Sundance etc. and wondered if Catfish was any good? Yes it is.

Like you I watched the trailer for Catfish and wondered what was going to happen next and how important was it to the rest of the film? Scammers operating some sort of Catfish export scam, backwater child porn rings, body part trafficking that smuggle the parts out hidden amongst frozen Catfish, deformed Catfish like cannibals that lured snacks in via the Internet, all these insane scenarios went through my mind, but nothing prepared me for the tragic truth.

For the bulk of the film we get up to speed with where the trailer picks up. This is compellingly told through documentary style smart editing, some playful visuals and tools of the Internet age; Facebook, Google, Photoshop, Google Maps, mobile phones and most of all engaging performances from the cast.

Nev Schulman is a New York photographer. He strikes up a slightly odd friendship with an 8 year old child artist Abby Pierce - who found one of his photos in a news paper and would like to paint it. As their relationship and communication increases Nev becomes friendlier with Abby’s mom Angela, her sister Meg and other members of their family.

Nev’s brother Ariel and film making partner Henry decide to make a documentary of Nev’s friendship with the child prodigy Abby. We grow closer to Abby and her “Facebook family” as Nev affectionately names them. And we are swept away, just as Nev is - when he starts developing feelings for Meg and their relationship goes to the next level. Then something strikes an odd chord with Nev and slowly he starts unraveling some untruths resulting in the trio heading to confront his Facebook family.

The journey from meeting Nev through to this point will keep you interested and pleasantly surprised at it’s quirky up beat realness, just after the middle the tension kicks up a notch as it all starts unraveling heading for the climatic finale.

Currently there seems to be a big debates online about how real the events in Catfish are?

Who cares? It’s a damn good film made to entertain - which it does as well as raises an issue of while immersing ours selves in technology we may have gained something but may have also lost something else.

Catfish is not for everyone despite it's marketing it is a small well crafted, touching & bittersweet tale of man kind for the modern age. I can see why some people have felt that the marketing of Catfish is contrary to the film itself and I suspect that long after the haunting images of Catfish are pushed out of our minds eye - we'll remember the marketing.

Outstanding:
I have to say Yaniv Schulman's performance is incredibly believable. Granted this might be because Catfish is a real documentary but his mainly one man show will make the journey an easy ride.

See Catfish before the secret gets out! Catfish is in UK cinemas from this Friday, 17 December, 2010.

Directors: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Starring: Megan Faccio, C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman

The Establishing Shot: Upcoming - QA Mike Leigh & Another Year screening

Although it narrowly missed out on the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh’s ANOTHER YEAR is undoubtedly one of his finest films. It is a typically dry slice of British social-realist cinema with a host of richly formed characters and sharp dialogue from a seasoned cast on top form. - from www.picturehouses.co.uk


Another Year - A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.

Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville

Release Date:
5 November 2010

QA Mike Leigh & Another Year screening

Where:
Clapham Picturehouse, 76 Venn Street, London SW4 0AT

When:
8:00pm, Fri 5 nov, 2010

More info:
Over at the PictureHouse website

Scorsese & Baldwin's Lymelife gets a UK release

Scorsese & Baldwin's Lymelife gets a UK releaseI haven't seen Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin's Lymelife as yet. I am however very aware of it and have been awaiting for it since the 2009 Sundance Festival.

It's has high powered backing, it's from the Sundance stable (the script developed in a Raindance Lab), solid reviews, a top notch cast and great performances, however one of the main reason's I am keen on seeing it - is Alec Baldwin. I'm by no means a huge fan of his work but in the 1999 "Outside Providence" I thought his understated performance as flawed blue collar Old Man Dunphy was pure brilliance and the highlight of the film. In fact off the cuff I can't think of a role of his his that I've enjoyed more. Last year when I saw the trailer for Lymelife immediately thought Baldwin's going to shine again. See further below for an excerpt from an interview with Baldwin about Lymelife.


Lymelife is the semi-autobiographical tale of the American dream gone wrong, it's quirky with a cracking script plus excellent performances from a stellar cast. Lymelife was also produced by Alec Baldwin.

Produced by Derick and Steven Martini and directed by Derick Martini, the film is set in the late 1970s in Long Island, New York, chronicling the disintegration of two families (The Bartletts and Braggs) when tangled relationships, real estate problems and an outbreak of Lyme’s disease hit a small suburban community.

Told from the perspective of Scott Bartlett (Kieran Culkin) a timid boy radically different from his philandering father played by Alec Baldwin, matters really heat up when Jimmy (Rory Culkin) returns home on leave from the army and Scott Bartlett’s affair with Melissa Bragg (Cynthia Nixon) becomes all too obvious to Baldwin’s long suffering wife played by Jill Hennessy. Tension mounts as Scott harbours secret feelings for Melissa’s daughter Adrianna (played by Emma Roberts).

Alec Baldwin on what Lymelife may be about.


Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, Oscar winner Tim Hutton, Cynthia Nixon, Rory and Kieran Culkin, Jill Hennessy and Emma Roberts, the film won the International Critics Awards at the Toronto Film Festival. Lymelife will open at UK cinemas on 2nd July 2010.

Scorsese & Baldwin's Lymelife gets a UK release

When:
Lymelife will be on general release in the UK from 2nd July 2010.

Yes! Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) English trailer here! Now!

From a child in Nazi-occupied Paris to the sultry crooner who bedded Brigitte Bardot and married Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg's is one of France's greatest mavericks. This imaginative and visually flamboyant debut feature from one of France's greatest cartoonists brings back to life one of the world's most influential popular musicians – an artistic icon and a provocateur.




Director:
 Joann Sfar

Starring:
 Laetitia Casta, Eric Elmosnino

France 2010, 135 mins, French with English subtitles

Yes! Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) English trailer here! Now!

QA Catherine Corsini & Kristin Scott Thomas & Leaving Preview

Curzon is proud to be one of the hosts of 2010’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema showcasing a selection of the best new French films yet to be released in the UK. All screenings will be introduced and followed by a post-screening discussion with filmmakers and talent.



Leaving - Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all engulfing passion to the fullest.

As the frustrated wife prepared to risk everything for passion, Scott Thomas gives a rich, captivating performance while Corsini's skilful direction captures the subtleties of emotion and character as the story propels itself toward a shocking end.

Director:
Catherine Corsini

Starring:
Yvan Attal, Sergi Lopez, Kristin Scott Thomas

France 2009, 86 mins, French with English subtitles

QA Catherine Corsini & Kristin Scott Thomas & Leaving Preview

Where:
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue W1D 5DY

When:
9:00pm, Tues 8 Jun, 2010

More info:
Over at the Curzon website

QA Joann Sfar & Laetitia Casta & Preview of Gainsbourg

Curzon is proud to be one of the hosts of 2010’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema showcasing a selection of the best new French films yet to be released in the UK. All screenings will be introduced and followed by a post-screening discussion with filmmakers and talent.



From a child in Nazi-occupied Paris to the sultry crooner who bedded Brigitte Bardot and married Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg's is one of France's greatest mavericks. This imaginative and visually flamboyant debut feature from one of France's greatest cartoonists brings back to life one of the world's most influential popular musicians – an artistic icon and a provocateur.



Director:
 Joann Sfar

Starring:
 Laetitia Casta, Eric Elmosnino

France 2010, 135 mins, French with English subtitles

QA Joann Sfar & Laetitia Casta & Preview of Gainsbourg

Where:
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue W1D 5DY

When:
6:15pm, Tues 8 Jun, 2010

More info:
Over at the Curzon website

Upcoming: The Disappearance Of Alice Creed & QA J. Blakeson

An abduction takes several unexpected turns in this independent British thriller. Hard-edged Vic and weak-willed Danny are a pair of ex-cons who believe they are executing the perfect crime when they kidnap the daughter of a wealthy family (Arterton). But their victim is smarter and more resourceful than they had bargained for, and Danny's allegiances can be manipulated in ways Vic never anticipated.



Director: J. Blakeson
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan

The Disappearance Of Alice Creed & QA J. Blakeson

Where:
Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG

When:
6:00pm, Weds 2 Jun, 2010

More info:Over at the Picturehouse website

Fight Club Soap

"I make and sell soap", this is how I met Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club may be that you do not talk about Fight Club. However the unspoken rule is that before you attempt any deconstruction of society you have to be clean. And Luxury Lane Soap have just the right soap for you.

"A beat, while Jack's expression turns nervous again about what's inside. Tyler swings the lid up, revealing a full bounty of quaintly-wrapped bars of soap.

TYLER
“I make and sell soap.”
He gives Jack one. Jack takes it, looks it over.

TYLER
“If you add nitric acid to the soap-making process, you get nitroglycerin. With enough soap, you could blow up the world.”
Jack now looks at the bar of soap nervously. He looks at Tyler, slowly smiles and shakes his head.

That's right, bars and bars of Fight Club soap to keep you clean while running your underground revolution. Fight Club soap comes in four scents; I Am Jack (Cool Water), Tyler Durden (Patchouli Smoke), Marla Singer (Black Amber) and Robert Paulson (Clean Laundry).

Each bar is blended to have an extra abundant and non-chemical lather, this soap contains soy and wheat proteins to love and baby your skin. Absolutely free of human (and animal) fat. Weighs approximately 99 grams and costs about £2.92.



Fight Club Soap


Fight Club soap is available from The Paper Street Soap Company and Luxury Lane Soap

First Official Trailer for Joel Schumacher's Twelve

Twelve didn't set Sundance on fire when it premiered, but I have to say the trailer is pretty compelling. Joel Schumacher is one of those directors that has such a varied output that his works have to be judged on a one by one basis.

He was placed on a pedestal for The Lost Boys but knocked off it for Batman Forever. I have thoroughly enjoyed some of his films (St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys , Flatliners, Falling Down and Phone Booth), despaired at others (Bad Company, Batman Forever) and felt ambivalent towards others (The Client, The Number 23, Cousins) but I'll always give one of his films ago because it may just be great.

Kiefer Sutherland narrates Twelve the tale of a young drug dealer (Chace Crawford) who watches his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder and his best friend arrested for the crime.

It looks like set in an affluent world mix of Gossip Girl and Bret Easton Ellis's 80s classics (Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho , The Rules of Attraction and The Informers). Twelve also stars Emma Roberts, Ethan Peck, Ellen Barkin, Rory Culkin and 50 Cent



First Official Trailer for Joel Schumacher's Twelve

When
As yet Twelve does not have a UK release date

First Look: Inception viral site

A website has been discovered that has an Instruction manual for the Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous (PASIV) device.

This will only mean something if you know that Inception is about "a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one's mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset".

Basically most of the action will take place in people's dreams and from the LA Times - "Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage -- he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile -- as can DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife." Sounds intriguing. With that in mind the following manual discovered on http://www.pasivdevice.org/ makes more sense:


The manual ends with a flash demo of the machine in operation, the final screen:


When activated it links through to: http://www.mind-crime.com the existing Inception viral site. The second stage of which http://www.mind-crime.com/stage2/ has just been released. Good luck and if you find anything let us know.


First Look: Inception viral site

When
Inception has an expected UK release date of August,2010

More info at http://www.mind-crime.com/

Upcoming: QA Peter Greenaway & Nightwatching Preview

Yes! It's finally here! To describe Peter Greenway as a modern master of cinema is an understatment. After a 3 year wait his latest masterpiece is unveiled - "Nightwatching".

Greenway's style is the antisthesis of MTV style over substance filmmaking. He paints a lush and detailed canvas, each scene a visual delight. Greenaway is in full flow here and Nightwatching takes its place among his most visually captivating and intellectually provocative films.

Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway's lush tale about the painter's great work, The Night Watch. Greenaway creates a drama that is an examination of the form and fabric of the painting, the intrigue behind its subject and the character of Rembrandt himself.



The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age.

Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.


QA Peter Greenaway & Nightwatching Preview

Where
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

When
3:00pm, Sun 28 March, 2010

For more info and tickets visit The ICA

I Know you know looks awesome!

In "I Know you know" Robert Carlyle (SGU Stargate Universe, The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Charlie, a highly charged individual on the edge. He’s an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move.

Jamie (Arron Fuller), his son, is fascinated by his father’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie is unpredictable, explosive yet kind-hearted and fiercely protective of his son Jamie, who hero-worships his father.



Early viewers have agreed with Carlyle's statment, when talking about the two most recent British films (I Know you know, being one of them) that he has made:
“In my opinion, I think they are the best performances I have ever given. I am very, very proud of these films.”
I Know You Know is the second film from director Justin Kerrigan (Human Traffic) who cites his movie influences for this moving feature as The Champ and Kramer Versus Kramer, as well as his own experiences growing up with his father in Bridgend and Port Talbot.

Kerrigan’s follow-up to the cult classic Human Traffic, many will be surprised at how different the film is from his debut. Commented Kerrigan, “Stylistically I wanted to make I KNOW YOU KNOW look and feel like an old fashioned film shot in the 80’s to juxtapose the model for the birth of the satellite TV corporation that plays a threatening undertone to the mission.” Commenting on the ten-year gap between making Human Traffic and I Know You Know Kerrigan added, “After my father’s death I needed to make this film as a testimony of love and to understand the double life he led when I was a child.”



I Know you know will be released 9 April, 2010 byNetwork Releasing

I Know you know looks awesome!

More info at Network Releasing

Upcoming: Tilda Swinton QA & preview of I am love

Channelling the epic power of Tolstoy and Visconti, I AM LOVE sweeps us inside the world of a wealthy Milanese family to deliver a saga of great subtlety and dazzling impact.

The Recchis are Italian aristocracy, ensconced in an opulent mansion under the iron hand of Emma (Swinton) and her father-in-law, patriarch Edoardo Sr.




Here they are gathered to celebrate Edoardo’s birthday, and hear the succession plans that will determine so many destinies. But the party is marked by a series of incremental transgressions. As buried secrets are unearthed and hidden passions are ignited, the family dynamic undergoes a subtle but profound transformation, and the clan is forced to confront the limits of its power and self-control.

Note: Director Luca Guadagnino will also be in attendance

Director: Luca Guadagnino. Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono. Italy 2009. 119 mins. English, and Italian and Russian with English subtitles.


Tilda Swinton QA & preview of I am love
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono.
Italy 2009.
119 mins.
English, and Italian and Russian with English subtitles.

I am love is released by Metrodome on 9 April, 2010

Where
Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill
87 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JZ

When
6.15pm, Friday 19 March, 2010

More info at Gate Picturehouse

Wall Street 2 - Money Never Sleeps -Trailer #1

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.




Expected release date:
September 2010

Precious Blogger Preview

Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire is a 2009 American drama film directed by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation of the award-winning 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film's mainly female cast features Gabourey Sidibe as the title character, and Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz in supporting roles. The film marked the acting debut of Sidibe.




Blogger Preview of Precious
Where
Odeon Swiss Cottage
96 Finchley Road, London, NW3 5EL.

When
2:00pm, Tues 26 January, 2010

A Prophet Special Preview

Jacques Audiard’s (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) new film A Prophet captivated audiences at Cannes and seized the Grand Prize with both its poetic and raw aesthetic. Ferocious and compassionate, the film follows the descent of a young man into the hierarchies of the criminal underworld. Sentenced to six years in prison, nineteen-year-old French-Arab Malik is approached by the leader of a Corsican gang, who operates their criminal activities from inside his cell. After a violent initiation, Malik is forced to adapt to the rules of the clashing criminal factions within the prison. However, over a period of time, he steadily builds up a power structure of his own.





Where
Curzon Renoir
Brunswick Centre WC1N 1AW

When
2:30pm Sun 17 Jan 2010
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