In his latest podcast/inteview, host Stuart Wright talks with writer/director Mark Jenkin about 2019′s cinematic masterpiece Bait.
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Tickets for the live score screening on 17th January 2020 at the BFI, South Bank, London are available now: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.…5A-DE95947E259D
Bait will be released on DVD from 20th January 2020 but you can still catch Bait in cinema – see www.bfi.org.uk/whats-on/bfi-film-releases/bait or www.
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Tickets for the live score screening on 17th January 2020 at the BFI, South Bank, London are available now: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.…5A-DE95947E259D
Bait will be released on DVD from 20th January 2020 but you can still catch Bait in cinema – see www.bfi.org.uk/whats-on/bfi-film-releases/bait or www.
- 1/7/2020
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
In his latest podcast/inteview, host Stuart Wright talks with Bait‘s leading man Edward Rowe about working with director Mark Jenkin on 2019′s cinematic masterpiece.
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Tickets go on sale from 10th December for the live score screening on 17th January 2020, BFI, South Bank, London: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.…5A-DE95947E259D
Bait will be released on DVD from 20th January 2020 but you can still catch Bait in cinemas in 2019 – see www.
Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.
Tickets go on sale from 10th December for the live score screening on 17th January 2020, BFI, South Bank, London: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.…5A-DE95947E259D
Bait will be released on DVD from 20th January 2020 but you can still catch Bait in cinemas in 2019 – see www.
- 12/2/2019
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Shot using a 1970s wind-up Bolex camera and on 16mm film, Mark Jenkin’s Bait is somewhat of a glorious visual anomaly in a world dominated by big budget blockbuster action thrillers and endless superhero franchises.
Set within a small community of an undisclosed Cornish fishing village (the shoot itself took place in Charlestown and Penzance), Bait presents an eerily enchanting expressionist aesthetic which owes a lot to the early films of French cinema pioneer Jean Epstein (The Fall of The House of Usher) or even Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc).
Bait tells the story of Martin Ward (played brilliantly by comedian Edward Rowe aka Kernow King), a gruff and taciturn cove fisherman who no longer has a boat at his disposition to fulfil a job he loves. His brother Steven (Giles King) has turned their father’s vessel into a pleasure boat for tourists, and...
Set within a small community of an undisclosed Cornish fishing village (the shoot itself took place in Charlestown and Penzance), Bait presents an eerily enchanting expressionist aesthetic which owes a lot to the early films of French cinema pioneer Jean Epstein (The Fall of The House of Usher) or even Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc).
Bait tells the story of Martin Ward (played brilliantly by comedian Edward Rowe aka Kernow King), a gruff and taciturn cove fisherman who no longer has a boat at his disposition to fulfil a job he loves. His brother Steven (Giles King) has turned their father’s vessel into a pleasure boat for tourists, and...
- 8/30/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cornish tourism is the hook for Mark Jenkin’s hypnotic tale of a villager angling for payback against the owners of his old home
Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin has created an arrestingly strange adventure in zero-budget analogue cinema. It’s black-and-white, shot with a Bolex cine-camera on 16mm film and developed in such a way as to create ghostly glitches and scratches on the print. A bizarre expressionist melodrama, it has the huge closeups and crashingly emphatic narrative grammar of early cinema and, like home movies, it has non-diegetic sound, with dialogue overdubs and ambient noise that could well be taken from a sound-effects LP. But it’s very effective, and the monochrome cinematography desentimentalises the Cornish landscape, turning it into an anti-postcard.
The weirdness of Bait can’t be overestimated; it’s like an episode of EastEnders directed by Fw Murnau. Martin Ward (Edward Rowe) is a fisherman, a...
Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin has created an arrestingly strange adventure in zero-budget analogue cinema. It’s black-and-white, shot with a Bolex cine-camera on 16mm film and developed in such a way as to create ghostly glitches and scratches on the print. A bizarre expressionist melodrama, it has the huge closeups and crashingly emphatic narrative grammar of early cinema and, like home movies, it has non-diegetic sound, with dialogue overdubs and ambient noise that could well be taken from a sound-effects LP. But it’s very effective, and the monochrome cinematography desentimentalises the Cornish landscape, turning it into an anti-postcard.
The weirdness of Bait can’t be overestimated; it’s like an episode of EastEnders directed by Fw Murnau. Martin Ward (Edward Rowe) is a fisherman, a...
- 8/29/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Alright my lovely Jibamericans, step this way now, and feast your eyes on Bon Cop, Bad Cop, the highest grossing Canadian film of all time ... assuming you don't consider all that pesky inflation talk. Isn't that right, James Cameron?
Bon Cop opens up on some poor unfortunate schmuck getting tied up and tattooed in a room that looks suspiciously like a set left-over from one of the Saw movies (Pick any one of them; they're inter-fucking-changeable at this point) while a hockey show plays on in the background. But don't get to used to it because moments later, poor unfortunate schmuck takes the business end of a hockey stick to the head and winds up draped over the border of Ontario and Quebec.
Now our protagonists come into play: From Ontario, we have Martin Ward, our by the book Anglophone cop (Colm Feore, who apparently went to the Keanu Reeves...
Bon Cop opens up on some poor unfortunate schmuck getting tied up and tattooed in a room that looks suspiciously like a set left-over from one of the Saw movies (Pick any one of them; they're inter-fucking-changeable at this point) while a hockey show plays on in the background. But don't get to used to it because moments later, poor unfortunate schmuck takes the business end of a hockey stick to the head and winds up draped over the border of Ontario and Quebec.
Now our protagonists come into play: From Ontario, we have Martin Ward, our by the book Anglophone cop (Colm Feore, who apparently went to the Keanu Reeves...
- 2/18/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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