★★★★☆ British social realism gets a welcome shot in the arm this week with the release of Cannes Director's Fortnight hit (and Lff select) The Selfish Giant (2013), the new feature from The Arbor (2010) director Clio Barnard. Known for her poignant installation work that blends documentary with a variety of other modes and forms, Barnard brought the Bradford of the late playwright Andrea Dunbar vividly to life with The Arbor, returning to the area once again for a more straightforward, though no less compelling portrayal of working-class life, with Oscar Wilde's short story of the same name providing the drama's basic framework.
Central to Barnard's latest is the friendship between hyperactive 13-year-old Arbor (a superb debut performance from Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (fellow newcomer Shaun Thomas). After one misdemeanour too many at the local secondary school the two boys beg and plead with Kitten (Shameless' Sean Gilder) -...
Central to Barnard's latest is the friendship between hyperactive 13-year-old Arbor (a superb debut performance from Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (fellow newcomer Shaun Thomas). After one misdemeanour too many at the local secondary school the two boys beg and plead with Kitten (Shameless' Sean Gilder) -...
- 10/23/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Wall Street (1987) star Michael Douglas is taking a stock market beating - after making a series of bad investments. Douglas' charitable foundation has lost nearly $40, 000 through scores of injudicious stock trades, reports thesmokinggun.com. The watchdog web site analysed the DIANDRA AND Michael Douglas FOUNDATION's most recent tax returns and found the charity made 130 stock trades, 72 of which lost money. Barbra Streisand's foundation however, has done well with bank stocks like MBNA and CITIGROUP. Daniel Green co-editor of thesmokinggun.com, says that unlike such celeb foundations as the BALDWIN BROTHERS', which give very little of their assets to charity, both Douglas and Streisand get high marks. He says, "From everything we've seen, Michael Douglas and Barbra Streisand seemed to be doing everything in a proper manner."...
- 5/18/2000
- WENN
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