Terry Hall, lead singer of the English ska band The Specials, has died. He was 63.
In a statement released by The Specials on Monday, the band said Hall died on Sunday, Dec. 18, after a brief illness.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced,” the band wrote on Twitter.
Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love. (2/4)
— The Specials (@thespecials) December 19, 2022
“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life…...
In a statement released by The Specials on Monday, the band said Hall died on Sunday, Dec. 18, after a brief illness.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced,” the band wrote on Twitter.
Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love. (2/4)
— The Specials (@thespecials) December 19, 2022
“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life…...
- 12/20/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Participants revealed for year-long initiative.
Bafta has named the 15 female directors taking part in its inaugural career development programme for under-represented groups in film and TV.
Launched in February, Elevate will initially focus on helping women progress their directing careers in high-end television and film. According to 2016 data from Directors UK, only 13.6% of working directors between 2004 and 2014 were female.
The group of 15 was selected from 250 applicants, and reflect a range of experience levels and backgrounds.
Participants include My Brother the Devil director Sally El Hosaini, who co-directed Channel 4 and Sundance TV’s Babylon; Wolfblood and Dates director Sarah Walker; Tina Gharavi, founder of media production company Bridge + Tunnel; and Vanessa Caswill, a lead director on BBC3’s Thirteen.
Full list of Bafta Elevate directors:Alicia DuffyAmanda BlueCathy BradyChristiana Ebohon-GreenDawn ShadforthDelyth ThomasEmma SullivanKate SaxonLindy HeymannLisa ClarkeRebecca JohnsonSally El HosainiSarah WalkerTina GharaviVanessa Caswill
The year-long initiative will include panel discussions, masterclasses and workshops, These will build...
Bafta has named the 15 female directors taking part in its inaugural career development programme for under-represented groups in film and TV.
Launched in February, Elevate will initially focus on helping women progress their directing careers in high-end television and film. According to 2016 data from Directors UK, only 13.6% of working directors between 2004 and 2014 were female.
The group of 15 was selected from 250 applicants, and reflect a range of experience levels and backgrounds.
Participants include My Brother the Devil director Sally El Hosaini, who co-directed Channel 4 and Sundance TV’s Babylon; Wolfblood and Dates director Sarah Walker; Tina Gharavi, founder of media production company Bridge + Tunnel; and Vanessa Caswill, a lead director on BBC3’s Thirteen.
Full list of Bafta Elevate directors:Alicia DuffyAmanda BlueCathy BradyChristiana Ebohon-GreenDawn ShadforthDelyth ThomasEmma SullivanKate SaxonLindy HeymannLisa ClarkeRebecca JohnsonSally El HosainiSarah WalkerTina GharaviVanessa Caswill
The year-long initiative will include panel discussions, masterclasses and workshops, These will build...
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Comedy-drama scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Bill Nighy, one of Britain’s best loved character actors, is to star in Hurricane Films’ Triple Word Score, a new feature scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary and Jackie, 24 Hour Party People).
The film is in the growing slate of features to be executive produced by Gibson & MacLeod - the outfit behind Hurricane Films’ Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion.
Triple Word Score will mark the directorial debut of Carl Hunter who has collaborated extensively with Cottrell Boyce on various other ventures including an award winning children’s book and an online narrative project.
The supernatural comedy-drama follows the story of a father (Nighy) searching for his missing son, with whom he shared a passion for the board game Scrabble. The film is a journey of mystery, self-discovery and hope.
Shooting will take place this summer in the UK - in Liverpool and West Lancashire.
Liverpool-based [link=co...
Bill Nighy, one of Britain’s best loved character actors, is to star in Hurricane Films’ Triple Word Score, a new feature scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary and Jackie, 24 Hour Party People).
The film is in the growing slate of features to be executive produced by Gibson & MacLeod - the outfit behind Hurricane Films’ Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion.
Triple Word Score will mark the directorial debut of Carl Hunter who has collaborated extensively with Cottrell Boyce on various other ventures including an award winning children’s book and an online narrative project.
The supernatural comedy-drama follows the story of a father (Nighy) searching for his missing son, with whom he shared a passion for the board game Scrabble. The film is a journey of mystery, self-discovery and hope.
Shooting will take place this summer in the UK - in Liverpool and West Lancashire.
Liverpool-based [link=co...
- 5/25/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A Quiet Passion producer is working on an Emily Dickinson documentary.
Hurricane Films, the UK production company behind Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion, which is premiering in Berlin today (Feb 14), has revealed details of its forthcoming slate.
To accompany A Quiet Passion, Hurricane is now preparing Phosphorescence, a documentary about Dickinson to be directed by Solon Papadopoulos, the co-owner and founder of Hurricane Films.
Another Hurricane project is The Route, the first feature project from TV writer Joe Ainsworth, which is in advanced development.
The film is about an elderly man who makes an epic journey from John O’Groats, the most northerly point of mainland Britain, to Land’s End, the most westerly point.
The man travels by public buses all the way, using his old age pensioner pass. “It’s a beautifully observed piece about old age but also about the country,” observed Hurricane’s other co-founder Roy Boulter.
The company...
Hurricane Films, the UK production company behind Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion, which is premiering in Berlin today (Feb 14), has revealed details of its forthcoming slate.
To accompany A Quiet Passion, Hurricane is now preparing Phosphorescence, a documentary about Dickinson to be directed by Solon Papadopoulos, the co-owner and founder of Hurricane Films.
Another Hurricane project is The Route, the first feature project from TV writer Joe Ainsworth, which is in advanced development.
The film is about an elderly man who makes an epic journey from John O’Groats, the most northerly point of mainland Britain, to Land’s End, the most westerly point.
The man travels by public buses all the way, using his old age pensioner pass. “It’s a beautifully observed piece about old age but also about the country,” observed Hurricane’s other co-founder Roy Boulter.
The company...
- 2/14/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Jason Solomons on an outbreak of film-making in the West Country, and Mike Leigh's secret new project
Go west
Film life is stirring in the West Country. Steven Spielberg is shooting War Horse in Castle Combe and three new features are filming in Bristol in the coming months. A micro-budget scheme called iFeatures is about to give the go-ahead to these three films, having originally taken submissions from more than 550 film-makers. Similar to Liverpool's successful Digital Departures programme, which gave us Terence Davies's Of Time and the City and Lindy Heymann's Kicks, I hear iFeatures are backing a debut feature film from talented director Alastair Siddons. I saw his exciting documentary Turn It Loose in Edinburgh last year, about the world breakdancing championships, and I understand his script, The Dark Half, will be first off the blocks in Bristol. Actor Michael Sheen is eyeing a part in...
Go west
Film life is stirring in the West Country. Steven Spielberg is shooting War Horse in Castle Combe and three new features are filming in Bristol in the coming months. A micro-budget scheme called iFeatures is about to give the go-ahead to these three films, having originally taken submissions from more than 550 film-makers. Similar to Liverpool's successful Digital Departures programme, which gave us Terence Davies's Of Time and the City and Lindy Heymann's Kicks, I hear iFeatures are backing a debut feature film from talented director Alastair Siddons. I saw his exciting documentary Turn It Loose in Edinburgh last year, about the world breakdancing championships, and I understand his script, The Dark Half, will be first off the blocks in Bristol. Actor Michael Sheen is eyeing a part in...
- 9/4/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
The Killer Inside Me (18)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2010, Us/UK) Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty. 109 mins
After Bad Lieutenant, meet Worse Lieutenant. Whereas Nic Cage's corrupt cop was operatically depraved, Affleck's 1950s Texan lawman hides his psychosis beneath a veneer of southern gentility, which is much creepier. He takes out his anger on various women in a few horribly violent scenes that have raised accusations of misogyny (blame Jim Thompson's source material), but the real challenge is whether Affleck and the stylish visuals are enough to hold the attention between these moments.
4.3.2.1 (15)
(Noel Clarke, 2010, UK) Tamsin Egerton, Emma Roberts, Ophelia Lovibond. 117 mins
With its zippy, attention-deficit plotting, quartet of men's-mag-friendly female leads, and servings of sex and violence, Clarke's frothy transatlantic heist movie aims for the unthinking end of the "male interest" market – what a waste.
Brothers Bloom (12A)
(Rian Johnson, 2008, Us) Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo.
(Michael Winterbottom, 2010, Us/UK) Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty. 109 mins
After Bad Lieutenant, meet Worse Lieutenant. Whereas Nic Cage's corrupt cop was operatically depraved, Affleck's 1950s Texan lawman hides his psychosis beneath a veneer of southern gentility, which is much creepier. He takes out his anger on various women in a few horribly violent scenes that have raised accusations of misogyny (blame Jim Thompson's source material), but the real challenge is whether Affleck and the stylish visuals are enough to hold the attention between these moments.
4.3.2.1 (15)
(Noel Clarke, 2010, UK) Tamsin Egerton, Emma Roberts, Ophelia Lovibond. 117 mins
With its zippy, attention-deficit plotting, quartet of men's-mag-friendly female leads, and servings of sex and violence, Clarke's frothy transatlantic heist movie aims for the unthinking end of the "male interest" market – what a waste.
Brothers Bloom (12A)
(Rian Johnson, 2008, Us) Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo.
- 6/4/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
The story of two girls who nurse an obsession for a football star is a promising debut, but let down by a melodramatic ending, says Peter Bradshaw
Nice performances here from Kerrie Hayes and Nichola Burley as Nicole and Jasmine, two teenage wannabe-Wags who form a stalker-obsession with a Premier League footballer, which, inevitably, gets out of control – and sadly the film itself fizzles into an implausible melodramatic ending, bearing a slight resemblance to a certain novel by Stephen King. Director Lindy Heymann begins by adroitly, if overemphatically, showing how for both women obsessing over a football star is a symptom of emotional pain caused by the absent men in their lives. Their dads are not really there for their daughters, and Nicole's much-loved brother has gone off to join the army. Discovering each other is a heaven-sent cure for loneliness, and Nicole is fascinated by Jasmine's wealthy background and carefree attitude.
Nice performances here from Kerrie Hayes and Nichola Burley as Nicole and Jasmine, two teenage wannabe-Wags who form a stalker-obsession with a Premier League footballer, which, inevitably, gets out of control – and sadly the film itself fizzles into an implausible melodramatic ending, bearing a slight resemblance to a certain novel by Stephen King. Director Lindy Heymann begins by adroitly, if overemphatically, showing how for both women obsessing over a football star is a symptom of emotional pain caused by the absent men in their lives. Their dads are not really there for their daughters, and Nicole's much-loved brother has gone off to join the army. Discovering each other is a heaven-sent cure for loneliness, and Nicole is fascinated by Jasmine's wealthy background and carefree attitude.
- 6/3/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The story of two girls who nurse an obsession for a football star is a promising debut, but let down by a melodramatic ending, says Peter Bradshaw
Nice performances here from Kerrie Hayes and Nichola Burley as Nicole and Jasmine, two teenage wannabe-Wags who form a stalker-obsession with a Premier League footballer, which, inevitably, gets out of control – and sadly the film itself fizzles into an implausible melodramatic ending, bearing a slight resemblance to a certain novel by Stephen King. Director Lindy Heymann begins by adroitly, if overemphatically, showing how for both women obsessing over a football star is a symptom of emotional pain caused by the absent men in their lives. Their dads are not really there for their daughters, and Nicole's much-loved brother has gone off to join the army. Discovering each other is a heaven-sent cure for loneliness, and Nicole is fascinated by Jasmine's wealthy background and carefree attitude.
Nice performances here from Kerrie Hayes and Nichola Burley as Nicole and Jasmine, two teenage wannabe-Wags who form a stalker-obsession with a Premier League footballer, which, inevitably, gets out of control – and sadly the film itself fizzles into an implausible melodramatic ending, bearing a slight resemblance to a certain novel by Stephen King. Director Lindy Heymann begins by adroitly, if overemphatically, showing how for both women obsessing over a football star is a symptom of emotional pain caused by the absent men in their lives. Their dads are not really there for their daughters, and Nicole's much-loved brother has gone off to join the army. Discovering each other is a heaven-sent cure for loneliness, and Nicole is fascinated by Jasmine's wealthy background and carefree attitude.
- 6/3/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This is a review of Kicks, directed by Lindy Heymann and starring Kerrie Hayes, Nichola Burley (Streetdance 3D) and Jamie Doyle. Shy and awkward 15-year-old Merseyside teenager Nicole (Kerrie Hayes) nurtures a lonely crush on fictional Liverpool Fc footballer Lee Cassidy. Waiting to catch a glimpse of him at the stadium gates, she bonds with fellow fan Jasmine (Nichola Burley), a would-be glamour model and Wag. Jasmine wants a pair of breast implants for her sixteenth birthday as well as a footballer boyfriend – seeing both as a ticket to fame and stardom.
- 6/2/2010
- by David Hudson
- Pure Movies
No woman has ever won an Oscar for directing. Could this be the year that all changes?
For Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue a few years back, photographer Annie Leibovitz created a classic image of a film director at work. Posing beneath a stormy sky, George Clooney stood with his shirt ripped open, trousers tucked rakishly into his boots, arms outstretched – a young Orson Welles meets Michelangelo's vision of God. His crew were a crowd of female models in flesh-coloured lingerie; not the obvious costume for a camera operator, but there you are. This was the auteur as masculine genius, a warrior amid a sea of passive women.
This has long been the archetype of the film director, but over the last few months a host of women have been making waves: Sam Taylor-Wood with Nowhere Boy, Lone Scherfig with An Education, Andrea Arnold with Fish Tank. Then there are Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion,...
For Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue a few years back, photographer Annie Leibovitz created a classic image of a film director at work. Posing beneath a stormy sky, George Clooney stood with his shirt ripped open, trousers tucked rakishly into his boots, arms outstretched – a young Orson Welles meets Michelangelo's vision of God. His crew were a crowd of female models in flesh-coloured lingerie; not the obvious costume for a camera operator, but there you are. This was the auteur as masculine genius, a warrior amid a sea of passive women.
This has long been the archetype of the film director, but over the last few months a host of women have been making waves: Sam Taylor-Wood with Nowhere Boy, Lone Scherfig with An Education, Andrea Arnold with Fish Tank. Then there are Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion,...
- 2/1/2010
- by Sam Taylor, Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
Jamie Doyle arrives for the premiere of Lindy Heymann’s Kicks, in which two women do whatever they can to get near their sports idol, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 22. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Nichola Burley at the premiere of Kicks (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Director Lindy Heymann arrives for the premiere of Kicks (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) A view from the National Gallery during the London Moves Me Outdoor Screening as part of the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival held at Trafalgar Square on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)...
- 10/29/2009
- by Joan Lister
- Alt Film Guide
We're down to the last few days of the festival, but the films and stars are still flowing thick and fast.
Today we have a report on Lindy Heymann's Kicks, an intelligent look at modern celebrity culture and its effects on two very different young women. Plus you can hear from the co-directors of Mugabe And The White African about the perils of filming illegally in a violent and hostile country.
And as if that weren't enough, we also have lovely ladies Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried telling us about their collaboration on Chloe, the story of a woman who hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she supsects is cheating on her.
Get your Monday morning's worth by checking out the video below (or in the big player here) and don't forget to give us your comments.
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Today we have a report on Lindy Heymann's Kicks, an intelligent look at modern celebrity culture and its effects on two very different young women. Plus you can hear from the co-directors of Mugabe And The White African about the perils of filming illegally in a violent and hostile country.
And as if that weren't enough, we also have lovely ladies Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried telling us about their collaboration on Chloe, the story of a woman who hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she supsects is cheating on her.
Get your Monday morning's worth by checking out the video below (or in the big player here) and don't forget to give us your comments.
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>> Real the whole article | on...
- 10/26/2009
- Screenrush
London -- The first best film nod to be presented during this year's The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival will come from a list comprising "Balibo," "Bright Star," "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "Micmacs," "Nowhere Boy," "A Prophet," "The Road," "A Serious Man" and "The White Ribbon."
Organizers, announcing the shortlist Tuesday for the annual event's freshest award categories, also unveiled the names in the running for the second inaugural award, for best British newcomer.
Directors Malcolm Venville, J. Blakeson, Jordan Scott, Lindy Heymann, and Tom Harper are in the running alongside writers Leigh Campbell and Jack Thorne.
Heymann directed Campbell's script for "Kicks," while Thorne's words provided Harper with a directing project with "The Scouting Book for Boys." Venville directed "44 Inch Chest," Blakeson helmed "The Disappearance of Alice Creed" and Scott directed "Cracks." All efforts feature in this year's London Film Festival lineup.
Festival regular accolades The Sutherland Trophy and...
Organizers, announcing the shortlist Tuesday for the annual event's freshest award categories, also unveiled the names in the running for the second inaugural award, for best British newcomer.
Directors Malcolm Venville, J. Blakeson, Jordan Scott, Lindy Heymann, and Tom Harper are in the running alongside writers Leigh Campbell and Jack Thorne.
Heymann directed Campbell's script for "Kicks," while Thorne's words provided Harper with a directing project with "The Scouting Book for Boys." Venville directed "44 Inch Chest," Blakeson helmed "The Disappearance of Alice Creed" and Scott directed "Cracks." All efforts feature in this year's London Film Festival lineup.
Festival regular accolades The Sutherland Trophy and...
- 10/6/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Directed by Lindy Heymann
Written by Leigh Campbell
Featuring Nichola Burley, Jamie Doyle, Kerrie Hayes
Website
Review by projectcyclops
Kicks tells the story of Nicole and Jasmin, two girls from opposite sides of the tracks who bond over their favourite football (soccer) star, Lee, in Liverpool. Meeting for the first time outside the club training grounds to try and get a peek at the guy, they hit it off and go clubbing together, at which point their differences become more apparent. Nicole (or Col) is a shy and intelligent girl who comes from the kind of household where you'd see an asthma inhaler next to a ashtray full of old butts, while Jasmine's family are wealthy nouveau riche, promising her a boob-job for her sweet-sixteenth. Jasmine wants to marry rich and be a pro-party girl, while Col wants a, "Brain-job", rather than chest enhancement, and her love for Lee is more cerebral and obsessive,...
Written by Leigh Campbell
Featuring Nichola Burley, Jamie Doyle, Kerrie Hayes
Website
Review by projectcyclops
Kicks tells the story of Nicole and Jasmin, two girls from opposite sides of the tracks who bond over their favourite football (soccer) star, Lee, in Liverpool. Meeting for the first time outside the club training grounds to try and get a peek at the guy, they hit it off and go clubbing together, at which point their differences become more apparent. Nicole (or Col) is a shy and intelligent girl who comes from the kind of household where you'd see an asthma inhaler next to a ashtray full of old butts, while Jasmine's family are wealthy nouveau riche, promising her a boob-job for her sweet-sixteenth. Jasmine wants to marry rich and be a pro-party girl, while Col wants a, "Brain-job", rather than chest enhancement, and her love for Lee is more cerebral and obsessive,...
- 6/27/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Year: 2009
Directors: Lindy Heymann
Writers: Leigh Campbell
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Kicks tells the story of Nicole and Jasmin, two girls from opposite sides of the tracks who bond over their favourite football (soccer) star, Lee, in Liverpool. Meeting for the first time outside the club training grounds to try and get a peek at the guy, they hit it off and go clubbing together, at which point their differences become more apparent. Nicole (or Col) is a shy and intelligent girl who comes from the kind of household where you'd see an asthma inhaler next to a ashtray full of old butts, while Jasmine's family are wealthy nouveau riche, promising her a boob-job for her sweet-sixteenth. Jasmine wants to marry rich and be a pro-party girl, while Col wants a, "Brain-job", rather than chest enhancement, and her love for Lee is more cerebral and obsessive,...
Directors: Lindy Heymann
Writers: Leigh Campbell
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Kicks tells the story of Nicole and Jasmin, two girls from opposite sides of the tracks who bond over their favourite football (soccer) star, Lee, in Liverpool. Meeting for the first time outside the club training grounds to try and get a peek at the guy, they hit it off and go clubbing together, at which point their differences become more apparent. Nicole (or Col) is a shy and intelligent girl who comes from the kind of household where you'd see an asthma inhaler next to a ashtray full of old butts, while Jasmine's family are wealthy nouveau riche, promising her a boob-job for her sweet-sixteenth. Jasmine wants to marry rich and be a pro-party girl, while Col wants a, "Brain-job", rather than chest enhancement, and her love for Lee is more cerebral and obsessive,...
- 6/21/2009
- QuietEarth.us
London -- Director Joe Wright will preside over this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Michael Powell Jury, organizers said Monday.
Wright will be president of the festival's main jury alongside actor Frank Langella, USA Today film critic Claudia Puig, journalist, broadcaster and author Janet Street-Porter and Australian actor Sacha Horler.
Wright said he was delighted to be returning to the Scottish shindig, describing it as a place "which has always been the greatest melting pot of the British film industry and culture."
Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a purse of £20,000 ($32,700).
The jury will pick a winner from Brian Percival's "A Boy Called Dad," Duncan Ward's "Boogie Woogie," Jan Dunn's "The Calling," Justin Molotnikov's "Crying With Laughter," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" Lindy Heymann's "Kicks,...
Wright will be president of the festival's main jury alongside actor Frank Langella, USA Today film critic Claudia Puig, journalist, broadcaster and author Janet Street-Porter and Australian actor Sacha Horler.
Wright said he was delighted to be returning to the Scottish shindig, describing it as a place "which has always been the greatest melting pot of the British film industry and culture."
Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a purse of £20,000 ($32,700).
The jury will pick a winner from Brian Percival's "A Boy Called Dad," Duncan Ward's "Boogie Woogie," Jan Dunn's "The Calling," Justin Molotnikov's "Crying With Laughter," Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" Lindy Heymann's "Kicks,...
- 6/15/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thanks to QuietEarth, now you can check out the trailer for Lindy Heymann's thriller Kicks, about two young girls in love with a soccer player who will do Anything to keep him from leaving their fave team.
Nicole & Jasmine are two teenagers who bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership footballer, Lee Cassidy. Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they track him down and before they know it their dream has become a nightmare. Watch the trailer!...
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Nicole & Jasmine are two teenagers who bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership footballer, Lee Cassidy. Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they track him down and before they know it their dream has become a nightmare. Watch the trailer!...
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- 6/9/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Take That's music video in support of their single "Said It All" has been made available to watch. Directed by Lindy Heymann, it shows the four members of the boyband dressing as clowns and getting ready for a circus performance.
"Said It All" is the fourth single coming from the band's fifth studio album "The Circus". With Gary Barlow and Mark Owen on the lead vocals, the track is planned to be released across U.K. on June 15.
"The Circus" itself is Take That's fifth studio effort and still stays true to their pop roots. Produced by John Shanks and led by single "Greatest Day", the record landed at the top spot on U.K. Albums chart, selling more than 1,660,000 copies since being dropped in November 2008.
Take That's "Said It All" music video:...
"Said It All" is the fourth single coming from the band's fifth studio album "The Circus". With Gary Barlow and Mark Owen on the lead vocals, the track is planned to be released across U.K. on June 15.
"The Circus" itself is Take That's fifth studio effort and still stays true to their pop roots. Produced by John Shanks and led by single "Greatest Day", the record landed at the top spot on U.K. Albums chart, selling more than 1,660,000 copies since being dropped in November 2008.
Take That's "Said It All" music video:...
- 5/11/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Have you ever wondered what happens when fangirls take their obsession too far? Kicks does. And it's screening at The Edinburgh Film Fest this June.
Lindy Heymann’s gripping and thought-provoking psycho-sexual thriller was written by Leigh Campbell and stars Nichola Burley (Eiff/Skillset Trailblazer 2008) and newcomer Kerrie Hayes as Liverpudlian teenagers devoted to their favorite football player, Lee (Jamie Doyle). When Lee’s move to Spain is announced, the girls resolve to change his mind – by any means necessary - including fear. A tense and frighteing journey that provides sharp and eloquent comment on Wag culture, beautifully shot by Eduardo Grau...
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Lindy Heymann’s gripping and thought-provoking psycho-sexual thriller was written by Leigh Campbell and stars Nichola Burley (Eiff/Skillset Trailblazer 2008) and newcomer Kerrie Hayes as Liverpudlian teenagers devoted to their favorite football player, Lee (Jamie Doyle). When Lee’s move to Spain is announced, the girls resolve to change his mind – by any means necessary - including fear. A tense and frighteing journey that provides sharp and eloquent comment on Wag culture, beautifully shot by Eduardo Grau...
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- 5/8/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
I don't have much info on this film besides a straight synopsis so I'm not sure if this is a psycho-sexual thriller, but regardless the footage looks stunning and director Lindy Heymann says the film is "about society’s obsession with celebrity." It will be having it's world premier at Eiff and we've got the trailer.
Nicole & Jasmine are two teenagers who bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership footballer, Lee Cassidy. Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they track him down and before they know it their dream has become a nightmare.
Trailer link here.
Nicole & Jasmine are two teenagers who bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership footballer, Lee Cassidy. Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they track him down and before they know it their dream has become a nightmare.
Trailer link here.
- 5/6/2009
- QuietEarth.us
NEW YORK -- As if the current onslaught of cheesy "reality" programming on television isn't bad enough, now we must also endure a comparably annoying cinematic trend, of which this mock documentary is but the latest example. Purporting to be a portrait of a television writer's attempts to become a Las Vegas male dancer, "Showboy" is deliberately fake reality, as opposed to the mostly fake reality of its inspirations. But unlike such similar efforts as "A Mighty Wind", this would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us. The film is playing an exclusive engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The subject of the film, and its co-director, is Christian Taylor, a writer for the HBO series "Six Feet Under" who is supposedly being profiled for a documentary by British filmmaker Lindy Heymann. Just as she begins shooting, "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball fires Taylor from the series, though Taylor doesn't realize that Heymann knows it. Telling her that he's taken a leave, he heads to Vegas to do "research" for an upcoming project involving male dancers, in the process attempting to become one himself.
The resulting humiliations -- he's 5-foot-9 and not exactly a prime physical specimen -- form the principal comic elements of the film, which documents his rather ridiculous attempts to whip himself into shape and convince highly skeptical prospective employers that he belongs onstage. Among the real-life show business figures appearing in brief cameos are a seemingly sincere Whoopi Goldberg and Siegfried & Roy; the latter's appearance would have been far more amusing if not for subsequent events.
While the concept of "Showboy" would seemingly lend itself to a diverting portrait of show business delusions and Vegas excessiveness, the treatment here is so lacking in wit that one is left wondering what the intentions of the filmmakers exactly were. The press notes, which label the film "faction" and cite such inspirations as "In Cold Blood" and Dogme 95, are ultimately far more amusing than the product they describe.
The subject of the film, and its co-director, is Christian Taylor, a writer for the HBO series "Six Feet Under" who is supposedly being profiled for a documentary by British filmmaker Lindy Heymann. Just as she begins shooting, "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball fires Taylor from the series, though Taylor doesn't realize that Heymann knows it. Telling her that he's taken a leave, he heads to Vegas to do "research" for an upcoming project involving male dancers, in the process attempting to become one himself.
The resulting humiliations -- he's 5-foot-9 and not exactly a prime physical specimen -- form the principal comic elements of the film, which documents his rather ridiculous attempts to whip himself into shape and convince highly skeptical prospective employers that he belongs onstage. Among the real-life show business figures appearing in brief cameos are a seemingly sincere Whoopi Goldberg and Siegfried & Roy; the latter's appearance would have been far more amusing if not for subsequent events.
While the concept of "Showboy" would seemingly lend itself to a diverting portrait of show business delusions and Vegas excessiveness, the treatment here is so lacking in wit that one is left wondering what the intentions of the filmmakers exactly were. The press notes, which label the film "faction" and cite such inspirations as "In Cold Blood" and Dogme 95, are ultimately far more amusing than the product they describe.
NEW YORK -- As if the current onslaught of cheesy "reality" programming on television isn't bad enough, now we must also endure a comparably annoying cinematic trend, of which this mock documentary is but the latest example. Purporting to be a portrait of a television writer's attempts to become a Las Vegas male dancer, "Showboy" is deliberately fake reality, as opposed to the mostly fake reality of its inspirations. But unlike such similar efforts as "A Mighty Wind", this would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us. The film is playing an exclusive engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The subject of the film, and its co-director, is Christian Taylor, a writer for the HBO series "Six Feet Under" who is supposedly being profiled for a documentary by British filmmaker Lindy Heymann. Just as she begins shooting, "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball fires Taylor from the series, though Taylor doesn't realize that Heymann knows it. Telling her that he's taken a leave, he heads to Vegas to do "research" for an upcoming project involving male dancers, in the process attempting to become one himself.
The resulting humiliations -- he's 5-foot-9 and not exactly a prime physical specimen -- form the principal comic elements of the film, which documents his rather ridiculous attempts to whip himself into shape and convince highly skeptical prospective employers that he belongs onstage. Among the real-life show business figures appearing in brief cameos are a seemingly sincere Whoopi Goldberg and Siegfried & Roy; the latter's appearance would have been far more amusing if not for subsequent events.
While the concept of "Showboy" would seemingly lend itself to a diverting portrait of show business delusions and Vegas excessiveness, the treatment here is so lacking in wit that one is left wondering what the intentions of the filmmakers exactly were. The press notes, which label the film "faction" and cite such inspirations as "In Cold Blood" and Dogme 95, are ultimately far more amusing than the product they describe.
The subject of the film, and its co-director, is Christian Taylor, a writer for the HBO series "Six Feet Under" who is supposedly being profiled for a documentary by British filmmaker Lindy Heymann. Just as she begins shooting, "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball fires Taylor from the series, though Taylor doesn't realize that Heymann knows it. Telling her that he's taken a leave, he heads to Vegas to do "research" for an upcoming project involving male dancers, in the process attempting to become one himself.
The resulting humiliations -- he's 5-foot-9 and not exactly a prime physical specimen -- form the principal comic elements of the film, which documents his rather ridiculous attempts to whip himself into shape and convince highly skeptical prospective employers that he belongs onstage. Among the real-life show business figures appearing in brief cameos are a seemingly sincere Whoopi Goldberg and Siegfried & Roy; the latter's appearance would have been far more amusing if not for subsequent events.
While the concept of "Showboy" would seemingly lend itself to a diverting portrait of show business delusions and Vegas excessiveness, the treatment here is so lacking in wit that one is left wondering what the intentions of the filmmakers exactly were. The press notes, which label the film "faction" and cite such inspirations as "In Cold Blood" and Dogme 95, are ultimately far more amusing than the product they describe.
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