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Cannes: ‘Me Myself and Mum’ tops Directors’ Fortnight
52 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cannes –Gallic actor-director Guillaume Gallienne’s comic confessional “Me Myself and Mum” topped the 45th Directors’ Fortnight, scooping both its Art Cinema Award and the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers’ Sacd Prize.
Announced Friday, the double win, plus a special mention by the Sacd jury for Serge Bozon’s “Tip Top,” vindicates the move by Directors’ Fortnight artistic director Eduardo Waintrop to program no less than five comedies in this year’s edition.
Adapting Gallienne’s own solo stage show, “Me Myself and Mum” turns on his recreation of a childhood overshadowed by his dear maman who assumes, like seemingly everybody else, that he’s gay. Gallienne plays himself as a child and schoolboy as well as limning his mother. Diane Kruger co-stars as a strict health-spa nurse.
Weighing in after its Cannes world preem – where it was received with rapturous applause – as one of France’s big upcoming »
- John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
Somerset House Announce Fantastic Film4 Summer Screen 2013 Line-Up
23 May 2013 8:45 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
One of the staples of the outdoor summer screenings in London is undoubtedly the Film4 Summer Screen season at the glorious Somerset House. Even though you’re in the middle of busy London, you’re very much away in a world of your own, well, with a few hundred other film lovers.
We’re very excited to announce the new line-up of films that’s been announced and – take note – tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10am but be quick, they sell out fast! This year, also sees the World Premiere of Richard Curtis’s About Time and two UK Premieres: The Way Way Back and Prince Avalanche.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 24 May 2013
Tickets from £14.50 available online: www.somersethouse.org.uk/film4summerscreen
There’s an extended run out there this time around, so instead of me waffling on just check out the full »
- Dan Bullock
Cannes 2013: The Golden Cage (La Jaula de Oro) – review
23 May 2013 8:40 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Three Guatemalan teenagers' attempts to cross the murderous Mexico-us border region makes for gripping viewing
Even when Ken Loach doesn't have a film in competition in Cannes, his influence is still keenly felt. Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez was a camera assistant on Loach's Carla's Song, Land and Freedom and Bread and Roses, and there is something very Loachian in this tough, absorbing, suspenseful drama showing in the Un Certain Regard section about three Guatemalan kids trying illegally to cross the Mexican border into the Us.
He has avowedly stuck to Loach's realist directing style: shooting in narrative sequence and using a semi-improvisatory approach on location. It is interesting that while British directors such as Andrea Arnold and Clio Barnard have hyper-evolved the Loach idiom into beautifully realised and photographed dramas of naturalism, Quemada-Diez is arguably closer to the gritty, grainy original.
The title comes from a Mexican ballad, Jaula de Oro, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Cannes 2013: For Those In Peril Initial Reaction
18 May 2013 5:31 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
For Those In Peril, which premiered in Director's Fortnight today, continues a long tradition of a Cannes a berth for lyrical but somewhat fatalistic coming-of-age movies from Britain, this time adding a dash of magic realism. Set in a small Scottish fishing village, the film stars George MacKay – soon to be seen in Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now and Dexter Fletcher's Sunshine On Leith – as Aaron, the sole survivor of an unexplained accident at sea that has killed a number of young men, including his beloved brother. Aaron suffers the inevitable survivor issues: wracked with guilt, he obsessively calls the coast guard and trawls the beach for proof that his brother has survived. But before terrifying his poor mother (Kate Dickie) with his increasingly erratic behaviour, Aaron strikes up a close friendship with his brother's girlfriend (Nichola Burley), which, far from giving him closure, seems actually to make things worse. »
Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review
18 May 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Yet another serial killer? Gillian Anderson can fix it… unless, of course, it's one of Britain's 700 real-life murders
The Fall (BBC2) | iPlayer
The Murder Workers (C4)
Skint (C4) | 4oD
Made in Chelsea (E4) | 4oD
Another week, another serial killer. There's a pattern emerging here, a whole succession of serial killers occupying the centre stage of drama. I'm afraid to say that we're dealing with that television phenomenon known as serial serial killers, an endless continuum of fictional homicidal psychopaths designed, it seems, with the express purpose of generating work for locksmiths and security alarm firms.
The latest example is The Fall's Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), an enigmatic grief counsellor by day who likes to unwind at night by spooking, then torturing and murdering Belfast's attractive brunettes. A handsome father of two small children, Spector does not fit the bill of alienated loser or crass misogynist from whose clammy ranks »
- Andrew Anthony
Selfish Giant director becomes toast of Cannes
18 May 2013 3:52 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Clio Barnard, whose film has been described as 'hauntingly perfect', says Brits should be 'very proud' of their native industry
There may be no British film in the main competition for the Palme D'Or this year, but that has not stopped a Yorkshirewoman from becoming the toast of Cannes. Clio Barnard's film The Selfish Giant has already been described as "hauntingly perfect" and "jaggedly moving" by critics as it premieres in the Director's Fortnight section of the film festival, with the director herself hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema.
And, despite gloominess about the complete absence of a UK presence from the main Cannes competition lineup, Britons should embrace their native film industry, according to Barnard. "We should be very proud of, in the same way that we should be proud of the NHS," she said.
While "the rest of the world responds to it", she said, »
- Charlotte Higgins
Cannes Film Review: ‘The Selfish Giant’
17 May 2013 1:33 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Oscar Wilde is uncharacteristically muffled in “The Selfish Giant,” an abstruse contempo interpretation of Wilde’s Christian fairy tale, but writer-helmer Clio Barnard’s voice comes through loud and clear. A jaggedly moving study of a feral adolescent (astonishing newcomer Conner Chapman) on a rough journey to grace, the pic is ostensibly more conventional than Barnard’s acclaimed hybrid-doc debut, “The Arbor,” but exhibits stunning formal progress nonetheless. Though her tender-tough worldview arguably hews closer to that of Shane Meadows, this demanding but eminently distributable art film should elevate Barnard to the bracket of streetwise femme compatriots Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay.
Fans of the barely classifiable “The Arbor,” a biopic of working-class Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar that inventively fused firsthand testimony with lipsynched performance, may be initially disappointed that Barnard has chosen a more straightforward narrative path for her sophomore effort. However, after a few opening scenes that suggest »
- Guy Lodge
We Are Northern Lights Review
17 May 2013 12:12 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
If you live in Scotland, and have attended a Cineworld over the last several months, there is a strong chance you have seen this trailer for We Are Northern Lights before your chosen feature presentation:
If you have seen this in a Glasgow Cineworld, you may well have heard someone booing loudly during the trailer. That someone was me. I am sorry if I removed any pleasure from your cinematic experience, but I can only plead that I was allergic to the trailer and I would prefer to boo than to vomit.
The trailer made me react this way because it had everything I hate about Scottish cinema in it; the twee, indie soundtrack, endless shots of gray skies, and the bile-swilling obsession with stereotypes of Scotland. For example, a Spiky Haired Girl arrives on screen, declaring “I’ve not got ginger hair, and I’m not wearing a kilt, »
- Callum Mcleod
Cannes 2013: A Story of Children and Film – review
17 May 2013 9:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A nimble and distinctive cine-essay featuring a mosaic of clips, images and moments of children in the movies
This has to be one of the most beguiling events at Cannes, appropriately presented in the Cannes Classics section. Mark Cousins's personal cine-essay about children on film is entirely distinctive, sometimes eccentric, always brilliant: a mosaic of clips, images and moments chosen with flair and grace, both from familiar sources and from the neglected riches of cinema around the world. Without condescension or cynicism, Cousins offers us his own humanist idealism, as refreshing as a glass of iced water.
He presents movie texts which illuminate and challenge what we imagine to be the "performance" presented to the camera by a child, what we take to be the nature of childhood and by implication the unexamined "adultness" of those grownups variously appearing in, making or watching the film. He suggests that as an artform, »
- Peter Bradshaw
5 Underrated British Classics You Need To Watch
9 May 2013 3:41 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
One truly great thing we have here in Britain is our film Industry. We have made some of the greatest films of all time on our Isles, films such as Trainspotting, Withnail & I, The Ladykillers and so on. Conversely, we then have the hidden gems that seem to go unnoticed by the rest of the world.
I know there will be a lot of people reading this article who probably have seen all five of these films and wouldn’t class them as underrated – this is just my personal pick. If it was up to me, everybody would have seen these 5 films at least once in their life.
Here are 5 underrated British classics you need to watch…
My Name Is Joe is one of Ken Loach’s finest achievements. It’s the story of Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan), a reformed alcoholic who can’t forget that he once hit a woman. »
- Andrew Joshua
1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval
6 May 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Introducing our look at the year that defined the modern era, the veteran writer recalls the extraordinary collision of politics, culture and social upheaval that he witnessed as a student
Was it a prefigurative year? I think so. Not that one thought of it as such at the time or even a few years later, when it was totally forgotten in the turbulence that engulfed the world. I am trying to recall that year, to find deep down some memories, even a few impressions on the basis of which I could reconstruct a misted-up past without too many distortions.
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months. The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted »
- Tariq Ali
Is European cinema under threat at trade talks?
6 May 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
With European-us trade talks expected to start in late June or July, a group of directors has come together to protest the removal of the Cultural Exception that protected European cinema. Led by Michael Haneke, the list includes such luminaries as Bela Tarr, Aki Kaurismäki, Catherine Breillat, Bertrand Tavernier, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion and David Lynch. British signatories such as Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Stephen Frears share concerns that, if film is treated like any other commodity, the diversiy of European cinema will be lost, with potentially devastating cultural consequences.
Introduced by the French in 1993, the Cultural Exception was designed to provide special protections for good and services that "encompass values, identity and meanings that go beyond their strictly commercial value." It enables member nations to insist that a certain proportion of films shown in cinemas are native in origin and, in effect, prevents them from being swamped by. »
- Jennie Kermode
The Angel’S Share – The Review
2 May 2013 7:57 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Review by Barbara Snitzer
The Angel’s Share is an unexpectedly delightful movie from English director Ken Loach whose previous films have been characterized as “social-realist” reflecting his left-wing views. This movie deservedly won the Audience Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The movie takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, and some smart studio suit wisely made sure the film was released stateside with subtitles. Yes, they speak English in Scotland, and no, you shouldn’t be offended. Their presence alleviates the strain that comes with trying to understand the thick Glaswegian accent in which the word “kilt” sounds like “cult” to an American ear. They also, perhaps unintentionally, make up for the poor performance of the sound engineers that result in only one side of phone conversations being at all audible. Most importantly, they keep us from questioning our own intelligence as seeing a word spelled out confirms our ignorance of it, »
- Movie Geeks
Up the Junction's Tony Garnett reveals mother's backstreet abortion death
28 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Producer who edited Ken Loach's 1965 TV drama about illegal abortion reveals own mother died two days after operation
The story editor of Up the Junction, the groundbreaking 1960s BBC drama dealing with backstreet abortion, has talked publicly for the first time of the personal tragedy that motivated him to get this and other politically challenging work on screen.
Tony Garnett, 77, the veteran TV and film producer with credits ranging from Kes and Cathy Come Home to This Life, revealed to the Guardian that his mother died of septicaemia, two days after a backstreet abortion during the German bombing of British cities in the second world war.
Garnett, then a child of five, was in bed with his mother the night she died. His father, who worked as a munitions worker, committed suicide less than a month later.
"There was me and my little brother and [my parents] thought another baby in those circumstances too much. »
- Maggie Brown, Jason Deans
Television producer Tony Garnett: 'I'm only interested in love and politics'
28 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play, »
- Maggie Brown
Television producer Tony Garnett: 'I'm only interested in love and politics'
28 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
As the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world
Television has treated Tony Garnett well over the past 50 years. He lives in an apartment close to the Ritz Hotel, where Margaret Thatcher died, a far cry from his working class childhood roots in Erdington, Birmingham. His local cafe is Fortnum & Mason, where he wields a silver teapot with aplomb, but he still declares: "I am a revolutionary socialist. I think our society would benefit from fundamental change."
Charming, kindly, but still angry after all these years, Garnett, 77, was a leader of the generation of radical TV creatives who addressed big social and political issues in their influential BBC dramas of the 1960s and 70s. His work is about to be celebrated in a two-month season, Seeing Red, at London's BFI.
The season opens with his explosive dramas for the BBC's Wednesday Play, »
- Maggie Brown
Film Review: Ken Loach Misfires with Generic ‘The Angels’ Share’
26 April 2013 12:21 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Chicago – “Once you’re involved in the shit, you can’t get out.” Ken Loach, filmmaker of the working class and longtime supporter of people who are just trying to better their lives knows this kind of statement isn’t true. We can all climb out of the shit. And his latest, “The Angels’ Share,” is yet another tale of a young man who has made some mistakes in his life beginning that climb to adulthood and responsibility. While it has some likable characters, particularly its charismatic lead, it’s impossible to shake the feeling that we’ve seen this movie before. To be blunt, I never had a reason to care, which is not something that can be said about most of Loach’s films. This one is just bland.
Loach’s film opens with a montage of Glasgow residents getting their sentences of community service. Clearly, these »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Low-key and enjoyable ‘The Angels’ Share’ falters in the third act
25 April 2013 9:05 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Angels’ Share
Directed by Ken Loach
Written by Paul Laverty
United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Italy, 2012
Every so often, you can almost physically feel the shift a film makes as it attempts to lift the rug from under your feet. Most times, though not all, such shifts being so cognitively visible are a burden, and that’s the case with The Angels’ Share, Ken Loach’s most recent film, the Jury Prize winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Loach and writer Paul Laverty, in the first hour, weave a pleasant, homespun tale of a young Glaswegian man trying to do right after years of being ensconced in bad behavior. And then, randomly, it takes a turn that only modestly pays off.
At its best, The Angels’ Share is nearly absent of ambitions, simply presenting a group of ne’er-do-wells in Glasgow struggling against their inherent nature to be scoundrels, »
- Josh Spiegel
Patrick Garland obituary
23 April 2013 3:10 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Director and writer celebrated for his work at Chichester Festival theatre and the BBC
The career of Patrick Garland, who has died aged 78, was as varied as it was productive. An actor, producer, director, writer and anthologist, he was a leading light of the BBC TV arts department for 12 years, twice artistic director of the Chichester Festival theatre and a close friend and associate of Alan Bennett, Rex Harrison, Eileen Atkins and Simon Callow.
Although he harboured ambitions in feature films, and directed a 1971 television adaptation of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose (starring Richard Harris and an Emmy award-winning Jenny Agutter), as well as a creditable 1973 movie of Ibsen's A Doll's House (with Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins), his life developed in the theatre. Much of his work was informed by his love of literature, and the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin and John Clare. In »
- Michael Coveney
U.S. Fare Looms Large in Directors’ Fortnight
23 April 2013 2:40 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris — This year’s glitzier-than-usual Directors’ Fortnight will have a strong American accent, with two Sundance preems, Jim Mickle’s cannibal thriller “We Are What We Are” and Sebastian Silva’s psychological suspenser “Magic Magic,” plus Jeremy Saulnier’s revenge thriller “Blue Ruin” and Frank Pavich’s documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” all set to compete at the Cannes Film Festival sidebar.
The selection, announced Tuesday morning in Paris, has artistic director Edouard Waintrop’s stamp all over it. When Waintrop took over Directors’ Fortnight in 2012, he spoke to Variety about his desire to raise the sidebar’s profile and cast a wider net, with more genre films, crossover fare and American indies represented.
“In 2012, we ended up with a strong selection of films, but I felt that we needed a larger U.S. presence. This year, we’re right where we need to be,” he said.
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- Elsa Keslassy
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