In 1898, Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson was sent to Africa on behalf of the British government to oversee the construction of an important railway bridge. Located in the remote Tsavo region of Kenya, the operation employed thousands of laborers and spanned multiple miles of railway track, making it a considerable undertaking for any one person. But John Patterson was up for the daunting task. However, mere days after his arrival, a vicious pair of male lions began targeting and brutally attacking the workers. For more than nine months, the rogue predators used the work camp as their own personal hunting ground, dragging men from their tents at night and killing them for sport. They became known as “Ghost” and “Darkness” by the frightened workers, who believed them to be vengeful spirits defending their ancestral land from the encroaching British empire. With the attacks only getting worse, it was up to...
- 4/13/2023
- by Brian Accardo
- JoBlo.com
Coming off the heels of the epic masterpiece that was 1999's "Magnolia," Paul Thomas Anderson needed a break. The massive ensemble casts of both that movie and 1997's "Boogie Nights" (which featured many of the same collaborators) as well as their massive respective runtimes had signified Anderson as a director of note. They were loaded with (sometimes literally) explosive scenes, teary confessions, a beautiful eye for San Fernando Valley views, and unforgettable widescreen images. His follow-up, "Punch-Drunk Love," would simultaneously have Anderson refining his established style and also abandoning his comfort zone.
Where Anderson took his talents next was perhaps the most shocking thing a director of his reputation and critical praise could do: make an Adam Sandler romantic comedy. The actor was often accused of polluting the multiplex with lowbrow, dumbed-down slapstick. The idea that a director known for quirky, literate ensemble epics would pair off with Sandler was...
Where Anderson took his talents next was perhaps the most shocking thing a director of his reputation and critical praise could do: make an Adam Sandler romantic comedy. The actor was often accused of polluting the multiplex with lowbrow, dumbed-down slapstick. The idea that a director known for quirky, literate ensemble epics would pair off with Sandler was...
- 1/15/2023
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
The act of watching goes hand in hand with cinema, and one filmmaker who examined the mix of voyeurism and violence that makes cinema so enrapturing was Michael Powell. Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom" focuses on Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Boehm), a documentarian serial killer. Mark films his victims, all young women, at their moment of death to capture primal fear in celluloid.
Powell's film was soundly rejected in its day and ended his sterling reputation in the UK; he only directed five largely forgotten films in the next three decades. But thanks to championing by figures such as Martin Scorsese, "Peeping Tom" found its audience and is now remembered as a classic. Why was the film so panned upon release, and how did its reputation recover? Let's dig in.
Who Was Michael Powell?
Powell rose to fame in the British film industry throughout the 1940s and 50s, but he didn't do it alone.
Powell's film was soundly rejected in its day and ended his sterling reputation in the UK; he only directed five largely forgotten films in the next three decades. But thanks to championing by figures such as Martin Scorsese, "Peeping Tom" found its audience and is now remembered as a classic. Why was the film so panned upon release, and how did its reputation recover? Let's dig in.
Who Was Michael Powell?
Powell rose to fame in the British film industry throughout the 1940s and 50s, but he didn't do it alone.
- 9/11/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
A New York man now faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter after an incident late last month in which, authorities said, he shot and killed a neighbor he mistook for a deer.
On Nov. 22, around 5:20 p.m., 43-year-old Rosemary Billquist was shot once in the hip by Thomas Jadlowski from some 200 yards away as she was out walking her dogs in a field near her home in Sherman, New York, according to officials with the Chautauqua County, New York, Sheriff’s Office and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation.
Jadlowski, 34, remained on the scene after hitting Billquist and...
On Nov. 22, around 5:20 p.m., 43-year-old Rosemary Billquist was shot once in the hip by Thomas Jadlowski from some 200 yards away as she was out walking her dogs in a field near her home in Sherman, New York, according to officials with the Chautauqua County, New York, Sheriff’s Office and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation.
Jadlowski, 34, remained on the scene after hitting Billquist and...
- 12/1/2017
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.—Flannery O’Connor The mist uncovers Japanese soldiers as well as the grim sight of severed heads by the side of the hot springs where Catholic priests are being tortured. A priest kneels down in horror, almost catatonic, unable to bring himself to believe in the evilness of these men, the men of the Inquisitor. Why are these priests, who came to this “swamp of Japan” to spread the Word of the Lord, suffering so immensely on the hands of these soldiers?To the modern, secular audience, the theme of Silence (2016) is of great irony: the all-powerful Catholic Church, the institution that spread terror across Europe for 700 years with her bonfires and witch hunts and enforcing an almost maddening outlook at faith and personal behavior, comes to an unconquerable land where...
- 3/28/2017
- MUBI
Welcome to the final installment of our summer trip through "The Sopranos" season 1. When I revisited early seasons of "The Wire," as well as the whole run of "Deadwood," I did separate versions of each review for newcomers and veterans, but over time realized that the newcomers weren't commenting much, if at all, and that it therefore made sense to simply do one review. Any significant spoilers for episodes beyond the one being reviewed will be contained in a separate section at the end of the review; so long as you avoid that, and the comments, you should be fine. Thoughts on the season finale, “I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano," coming up just as soon as I remind you that I'm not a big Renee Zellweger fan... "Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this!" -Tony David Chase, as many of you know by now, didn't want to make another TV show.
- 9/9/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
As Arnie returns to play everyone’s favourite robot assassin, John Patterson heads to a sweltering New Orleans set to talk to the star and the team behind the fifth Terminator movie
The former governor of the state of California is slumped in a black leather armchair after a hard day terminating in a tropically humid New Orleans. On his face is a layer of putty-like prosthetic makeup, luminous mint in colour and presumably for green-screen masking, a semicircular metallic attachment glued around it, suggesting that the T-800 may have lost another electronic eyeball today.
Long the sanest Republican politician in the country, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in the saddle as America’s action hero. About to turn 67, he is in excellent shape, as you would expect, though he looks knackered after his exertions in the heat. “There are different stages of deterioration for the T-800,” he says, pointing at his face.
The former governor of the state of California is slumped in a black leather armchair after a hard day terminating in a tropically humid New Orleans. On his face is a layer of putty-like prosthetic makeup, luminous mint in colour and presumably for green-screen masking, a semicircular metallic attachment glued around it, suggesting that the T-800 may have lost another electronic eyeball today.
Long the sanest Republican politician in the country, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in the saddle as America’s action hero. About to turn 67, he is in excellent shape, as you would expect, though he looks knackered after his exertions in the heat. “There are different stages of deterioration for the T-800,” he says, pointing at his face.
- 6/11/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Batter, bruised and beaten by film-makers since the 50s, La is the city that directors love to blow up. La-based John Patterson takes a look at the damage
An apocalyptic mindset is somehow endemic to southern California and particularly to Los Angeles. This is where the land runs out and the great historic American progression westwards must perforce come to a halt. It’s the place where “the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black sea” (John Rechy, City of Night). Where history, geography and geology can no longer be outrun. This was deeply impressed into my mind soon after moving to the city in 1992.
Within a month of my arrival, Los Angeles was in flames in the horrifying and bloody aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, and I stood on the roof of my six-storey apartment building in Koreatown that evening and watched the fires jump northwards...
An apocalyptic mindset is somehow endemic to southern California and particularly to Los Angeles. This is where the land runs out and the great historic American progression westwards must perforce come to a halt. It’s the place where “the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black sea” (John Rechy, City of Night). Where history, geography and geology can no longer be outrun. This was deeply impressed into my mind soon after moving to the city in 1992.
Within a month of my arrival, Los Angeles was in flames in the horrifying and bloody aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, and I stood on the roof of my six-storey apartment building in Koreatown that evening and watched the fires jump northwards...
- 1/12/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb” — David Goldenberg at Five Thirty Eight tries to make sense of an average movie that has been absolutely buried by the masses who frequent the Internet Movie Database. Maybe unsurprisingly, it involves a real world coalition spurred on by political sentiment and identity preservation. I wonder how they’ll feel about Goldenberg giving the movie they hate a huge spotlight. “The 11 Defining Features of the Summer Blockbuster” — Also at Five Thirty Eight, Walt Hickey crunches an absurd amount of numbers to figure out whether sword fights or car explosions are more important to crafting a giant, sweaty movie. “The hidden feminism of Audrey Hepburn” — Monika Bartyzel at The Week argues that underneath the pill box and cloche hats, Eliza Doolittle...
- 5/2/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As newly restored versions of James Dean's three films come to BFI Southbank, John Patterson reflects on the star's enduring acting style
What if he'd lived, James Byron Dean? What if he'd never ploughed his Porsche Spyder into that oncoming station wagon, had won his auto race that afternoon in Paso Robles, and gone back to work after the weekend to reshoot his final drunk scene from Giant, the one he'd botched the week before?
Would he have had Paul Newman's career: expertly managed, disciplined, intelligent, building himself year upon year towards the iconic status he finally achieved, and two-page spread obits on his death? It's not implausible to think of Newman as someone who benefited directly from Dean's death he inherited Dean's role in the 1956 boxing picture Somebody Up There Likes Me or as an actor who many times in the late 50s and 60s played characters (Hud,...
What if he'd lived, James Byron Dean? What if he'd never ploughed his Porsche Spyder into that oncoming station wagon, had won his auto race that afternoon in Paso Robles, and gone back to work after the weekend to reshoot his final drunk scene from Giant, the one he'd botched the week before?
Would he have had Paul Newman's career: expertly managed, disciplined, intelligent, building himself year upon year towards the iconic status he finally achieved, and two-page spread obits on his death? It's not implausible to think of Newman as someone who benefited directly from Dean's death he inherited Dean's role in the 1956 boxing picture Somebody Up There Likes Me or as an actor who many times in the late 50s and 60s played characters (Hud,...
- 4/14/2014
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema needs more migrant iconoclasts like Hitchcock, Lang and Murnau
Whenever someone of the Limbaugh tendency berates me about the magnificence of the American Dream in general and the Immigrant Experience in particular, I have a statistic I love to hurl back at them: of all those people who immigrated to the United States between 1780 and 1930, one third of them – one third – returned home.
Hollywood cinema has replenished itself over and again with the talents of immigrants: Chaplin, Von Stroheim, Victor Sjöström, Murnau, Lang, Hitchcock and the Siodmak brothers to name just a few, and all of them made incalculable contributions to the look and feel of Hollywood cinema. And almost all of them went home again, either for good or just for a while. Chaplin was granted a second exile by McCarthyism, Lang returned to Germany in 1960 and made three final features, while Hitchcock came home for Stage Fright...
Whenever someone of the Limbaugh tendency berates me about the magnificence of the American Dream in general and the Immigrant Experience in particular, I have a statistic I love to hurl back at them: of all those people who immigrated to the United States between 1780 and 1930, one third of them – one third – returned home.
Hollywood cinema has replenished itself over and again with the talents of immigrants: Chaplin, Von Stroheim, Victor Sjöström, Murnau, Lang, Hitchcock and the Siodmak brothers to name just a few, and all of them made incalculable contributions to the look and feel of Hollywood cinema. And almost all of them went home again, either for good or just for a while. Chaplin was granted a second exile by McCarthyism, Lang returned to Germany in 1960 and made three final features, while Hitchcock came home for Stage Fright...
- 3/24/2014
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Louis Malle's classic contains many of the innovations that would become associated with the New Wave and demonstrates a kinship with Claude Chabrol
Is there any movie that's more perfectly French, more perfectly Parisian, and more perfectly 1950s than Louis Malle's debut Lift To The Scaffold? Melville's Bob Le Flambeur, perhaps, or Cocteau's Orphée, but there is also in Malle's movie a strong indication of the new directions French cinema would soon take. Although Malle was never officially a part of La Nouvelle Vague, Lift To The Scaffold contains many of the innovations that would later become more closely associated with the Cahiers du Cinéma generation.
This movie made Jeanne Moreau, whose iconic beauty was newly revealed here after Malle got her to ditch the makeup she'd hitherto relied on. She went on to become one of the banner faces of the New Wave, most famously for Truffaut in Jules Et Jim,...
Is there any movie that's more perfectly French, more perfectly Parisian, and more perfectly 1950s than Louis Malle's debut Lift To The Scaffold? Melville's Bob Le Flambeur, perhaps, or Cocteau's Orphée, but there is also in Malle's movie a strong indication of the new directions French cinema would soon take. Although Malle was never officially a part of La Nouvelle Vague, Lift To The Scaffold contains many of the innovations that would later become more closely associated with the Cahiers du Cinéma generation.
This movie made Jeanne Moreau, whose iconic beauty was newly revealed here after Malle got her to ditch the makeup she'd hitherto relied on. She went on to become one of the banner faces of the New Wave, most famously for Truffaut in Jules Et Jim,...
- 2/3/2014
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Hollywood actor has said he is leaving the limelight, following a string of bizarre incidents
• Shia Labeouf: the most messed-up former Disney star de nos jours
Hollywood actor Shia Labeouf has posted on Twitter that he is "retiring from all public life" following "the recent attacks against my artistic integrity". He added "My love goes out to those who have supported me", and finally "#stopcreating".
The decision comes after Labeouf became embroiled in a plagiarism row with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. After his film Howard Cantour.com was found to have lifted dialogue from a Clowes short story, Labeouf admitted "I fucked up" and posted an apology online. However, it emerged that the apology had been lifted from Yahoo! Answers, and Labeouf continued to post apologies taken from others. Kanye West, Gucci Mane, a Texan politician and Lena Dunham all got quoted over the following days; he even sent...
• Shia Labeouf: the most messed-up former Disney star de nos jours
Hollywood actor Shia Labeouf has posted on Twitter that he is "retiring from all public life" following "the recent attacks against my artistic integrity". He added "My love goes out to those who have supported me", and finally "#stopcreating".
The decision comes after Labeouf became embroiled in a plagiarism row with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. After his film Howard Cantour.com was found to have lifted dialogue from a Clowes short story, Labeouf admitted "I fucked up" and posted an apology online. However, it emerged that the apology had been lifted from Yahoo! Answers, and Labeouf continued to post apologies taken from others. Kanye West, Gucci Mane, a Texan politician and Lena Dunham all got quoted over the following days; he even sent...
- 1/10/2014
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
Watch Giuseppe Tornatore's nostalgic film about a small Sicilian village cinema that took the world by storm 25 years ago
• Salvatore Cascio: 'Cinema Paradiso is about the power of dreams'
• Cinema Paradiso: the little movie that could
We've given it the big buildup, and now it's time to actually watch it ... the Guardian Screening Room is proud to present Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 classic Cinema Paradiso for your viewing pleasure.
Despite a slightly rocky reception when it was first released in its home country, Cinema Paradiso went on to become a global arthouse blockbuster, and remains perennially popular to this day. It's been restored for its 25th anniversary, so it's a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in its wonderfully romantic and nostalgic vision of smalltown Italy allied to an unquenchable love of the movies themselves.
As if you needed any more encouragement, the legendary Stuart Heritage will be...
• Salvatore Cascio: 'Cinema Paradiso is about the power of dreams'
• Cinema Paradiso: the little movie that could
We've given it the big buildup, and now it's time to actually watch it ... the Guardian Screening Room is proud to present Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 classic Cinema Paradiso for your viewing pleasure.
Despite a slightly rocky reception when it was first released in its home country, Cinema Paradiso went on to become a global arthouse blockbuster, and remains perennially popular to this day. It's been restored for its 25th anniversary, so it's a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in its wonderfully romantic and nostalgic vision of smalltown Italy allied to an unquenchable love of the movies themselves.
As if you needed any more encouragement, the legendary Stuart Heritage will be...
- 12/13/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• Top 10 sports movies
• Top 10 film noir
• Top 10 musicals
• Top 10 martial arts movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
This is the most radical of all biopics. It does exactly what it promises, breaking the Canadian pianist's intense and troubled life into concentrated fragments. Reassembly is left to the viewer. When he began working on the screenplay with Don McKellar, the writer-director François Girard recognised the pitfalls of the genre. "There are many traps," he said. "The main temptation is to try to cram everything about a life into one film. What you need is a radical idea...
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• Top 10 sports movies
• Top 10 film noir
• Top 10 musicals
• Top 10 martial arts movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
This is the most radical of all biopics. It does exactly what it promises, breaking the Canadian pianist's intense and troubled life into concentrated fragments. Reassembly is left to the viewer. When he began working on the screenplay with Don McKellar, the writer-director François Girard recognised the pitfalls of the genre. "There are many traps," he said. "The main temptation is to try to cram everything about a life into one film. What you need is a radical idea...
- 12/12/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Take your pick of this week's cinema releases. Plus, what's coming up on the site today
What to watch
In the UK? Have a gander at The Guardian Film Show, where we're reviewing Alexander Payne's Nebraska, Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, skateboarding sort-of doc This Ain't California and Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy.
Other films out there include Disney's cool-for-yule animation Frozen, Jason Statham action romper Homefront and Brit-com Powder Room.
In the Us? Have a sing-song with the Coen brothers folk drama Inside Llewyn Davis, on limited release from this week.
In the news today
- Nelson Mandela's death was announced to the guests at the premiere of Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom. Peter Bradshaw reviewed the performances that took the great man's story to the screen.
- Time magazine have named and shamed their worst films of...
What to watch
In the UK? Have a gander at The Guardian Film Show, where we're reviewing Alexander Payne's Nebraska, Daniel Radcliffe's turn as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, skateboarding sort-of doc This Ain't California and Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy.
Other films out there include Disney's cool-for-yule animation Frozen, Jason Statham action romper Homefront and Brit-com Powder Room.
In the Us? Have a sing-song with the Coen brothers folk drama Inside Llewyn Davis, on limited release from this week.
In the news today
- Nelson Mandela's death was announced to the guests at the premiere of Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom. Peter Bradshaw reviewed the performances that took the great man's story to the screen.
- Time magazine have named and shamed their worst films of...
- 12/6/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Musicals have been tap dancing their way into moviegoers' hearts since the invention of cinema sound itself. From Oliver! to Singin' in the Rain, here are the Guardian and Observer critics' picks of the 10 best
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• Top 10 sports movies
• Top 10 film noir
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Oliver!
Historically, the British musical has been intertwined with British music, drawing on music hall in the 1940s and the pop charts in the 50s – low-budget films of provincial interest and nothing to trouble the bosses at MGM. In the late 60s, however, the genre enjoyed a brief, high-profile heyday, and between Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence (1967) and Richard Attenborough's star-studded Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) came the biggest of them all: Oliver! (1968), Carol Reed's adaptation of Lionel Bart's 1960 stage hit and the recipient of six Academy awards.
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• Top 10 sports movies
• Top 10 film noir
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. Oliver!
Historically, the British musical has been intertwined with British music, drawing on music hall in the 1940s and the pop charts in the 50s – low-budget films of provincial interest and nothing to trouble the bosses at MGM. In the late 60s, however, the genre enjoyed a brief, high-profile heyday, and between Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence (1967) and Richard Attenborough's star-studded Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) came the biggest of them all: Oliver! (1968), Carol Reed's adaptation of Lionel Bart's 1960 stage hit and the recipient of six Academy awards.
- 12/3/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
We've got the skinny on the movies released in cinemas today, plus what's coming up on the site today
What to see?
In the UK? Your best bet is swift consulation of this week's Guardian Film Show, which today weighs up Saving Mr Banks, Carrie and Jeune et Jolie.
But other films are available, amongst them fishy documentary Leviathan, cartoon turkey Free Birds and Jeremy Scahill's expose Dirty Wars.
In the Us? Oldboy is the big new release; those in New York and La could head to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - while those in the middle have the chance to catch up with the expanding Philomena.
Coming up today
Did we mention the Guardian Film Show? Did we mention that it also includes an interview with Emma Thompson? Oh, good. Well, other than that, stand by for:
• Spike Lee responds to Oldboy copyright claim
• Top 10 film noirs...
What to see?
In the UK? Your best bet is swift consulation of this week's Guardian Film Show, which today weighs up Saving Mr Banks, Carrie and Jeune et Jolie.
But other films are available, amongst them fishy documentary Leviathan, cartoon turkey Free Birds and Jeremy Scahill's expose Dirty Wars.
In the Us? Oldboy is the big new release; those in New York and La could head to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - while those in the middle have the chance to catch up with the expanding Philomena.
Coming up today
Did we mention the Guardian Film Show? Did we mention that it also includes an interview with Emma Thompson? Oh, good. Well, other than that, stand by for:
• Spike Lee responds to Oldboy copyright claim
• Top 10 film noirs...
- 11/29/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Fighting, dying, hoping, hating … great sports films are about far more than sport itself. Here Guardian and Observer critics pick their 10 best
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson brought to bear on his adaptation of David Storey's first novel, all the poetic-realist instincts he had been honing for the previous decade as a documentarian in the Humphrey Jennings mould. (Anderson had won the 1953 best doc Oscar for Thursday's Children.) Filmed partly in Halifax and Leeds, but mainly in and around Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Club, one of its incidental attractions is its record of a northern, working-class sports culture that would change out of all recognition over the next couple of decades.
The story of Frank Machin, a miner who becomes a star on the rugby field,...
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• Top 10 silent movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson brought to bear on his adaptation of David Storey's first novel, all the poetic-realist instincts he had been honing for the previous decade as a documentarian in the Humphrey Jennings mould. (Anderson had won the 1953 best doc Oscar for Thursday's Children.) Filmed partly in Halifax and Leeds, but mainly in and around Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Club, one of its incidental attractions is its record of a northern, working-class sports culture that would change out of all recognition over the next couple of decades.
The story of Frank Machin, a miner who becomes a star on the rugby field,...
- 11/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
As the Jj Abrams audition juggernaut hits London, we've all the news and more coming up today
Coming up on the site today
• Star Wars auditions held in London
• Rick Santorum's first faith-based movie proves huge Xmas turkey in Us
• Workers to protest Obama Dreamworks visit over "decimated" Californian VFX industry as Pixar to lay off 60 at HQ
• Cary Elwes to write Princess Bride memoir
• First reactions to American Hustle very positive
• Alice in Wonderland 2 signs Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska
• Jeremy Kay tells us how well Hunger Games 2 did in the Us. Spoiler: pretty well.
• We round up the top 10 sports movies
You may have missed
• Alexander Payne on Nebraska, road trips, families and black and white
• Harry Dean Stanton gives a rare interview
• And so does Billy Bob Thornton
• Simon Pegg goes all Slavoj Žižek
• Daniel Radcliffe talks to Simon Hattenstone
• Mark Kermode reviews all the big...
Coming up on the site today
• Star Wars auditions held in London
• Rick Santorum's first faith-based movie proves huge Xmas turkey in Us
• Workers to protest Obama Dreamworks visit over "decimated" Californian VFX industry as Pixar to lay off 60 at HQ
• Cary Elwes to write Princess Bride memoir
• First reactions to American Hustle very positive
• Alice in Wonderland 2 signs Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska
• Jeremy Kay tells us how well Hunger Games 2 did in the Us. Spoiler: pretty well.
• We round up the top 10 sports movies
You may have missed
• Alexander Payne on Nebraska, road trips, families and black and white
• Harry Dean Stanton gives a rare interview
• And so does Billy Bob Thornton
• Simon Pegg goes all Slavoj Žižek
• Daniel Radcliffe talks to Simon Hattenstone
• Mark Kermode reviews all the big...
- 11/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist? The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
• Top 10 teen movies
• Top 10 superhero movies
• Top 10 westerns
• Top 10 documentaries
• Top 10 movie adaptations
• Top 10 animated movies
• More Guardian and Observer critics' top 10s
10. City Lights
City Lights was arguably the biggest risk of Charlie Chaplin's career: The Jazz Singer, released at the end of 1927, had seen sound take cinema by storm, but Chaplin resisted the change-up, preferring to continue in the silent tradition. In retrospect, this isn't so much the precious behaviour of a purist but the smart reaction of an experienced comedian; Chaplin's films rarely used intertitles anyway, and though it is technically "silent", City Lights is very mindful of it own self-composed score and keenly judged sound effects.
At its heart,...
- 11/22/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Why most films of Hollywood's golden age chose to brush race issues under the carpet
I have to wonder what the motivation is for re-releasing Gone With The Wind just a couple months before 12 Years A Slave, its polar opposite among films dealing with the peculiar institution of American slavery. Are they looking to generate coattail ticket receipts from the controversy attending Steve McQueen's harrowing and violent epic? Do they think some retirement-home demographic of faded southern belles and elderly white racists will emerge, stooped and wrinkled, to reclaim it one last time?
Who knows? But it's interesting, now that a movie is on the market that lingers in detail on the pain, violence, sexual abuse, squalor and pure evil of slavery, to remind ourselves how they dealt with it in the Golden Age of Hollywood (also the Golden Age of Jim Crow). Of course, they typically dealt with...
I have to wonder what the motivation is for re-releasing Gone With The Wind just a couple months before 12 Years A Slave, its polar opposite among films dealing with the peculiar institution of American slavery. Are they looking to generate coattail ticket receipts from the controversy attending Steve McQueen's harrowing and violent epic? Do they think some retirement-home demographic of faded southern belles and elderly white racists will emerge, stooped and wrinkled, to reclaim it one last time?
Who knows? But it's interesting, now that a movie is on the market that lingers in detail on the pain, violence, sexual abuse, squalor and pure evil of slavery, to remind ourselves how they dealt with it in the Golden Age of Hollywood (also the Golden Age of Jim Crow). Of course, they typically dealt with...
- 11/18/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Today's film news flies like a fire-breathing dragon, destroying everything in its path
On the site today
• No sequel for Ender's Game (even though its ending sets it up)
• Horror maestro David Cronenberg rubbishes The Shining
• Obama to host a screening of Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom in the White House
• Ben Child reports from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug fan event
• Cinefiles heads over to Dundee Contemporary Arts
• How Clint Eastwood's odd Obama speech turned Republican stomachs
• Grand Budapest Hotel to open Berlin
• Meet Chuckesmee, Twilight's axed animatronic toddler
• The film quiz gets all right-and-wrongy over movie spaceships
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• John Patterson: Gravity might be hi-tech but it's got an old soul
• Our pick of the top 10 superhero movies
• Thor: The Dark World batters its way to huge worldwide tally
• Nymphomaniac clip removed from Youtube for breaching rules on sex and nudity
• David Cox...
On the site today
• No sequel for Ender's Game (even though its ending sets it up)
• Horror maestro David Cronenberg rubbishes The Shining
• Obama to host a screening of Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom in the White House
• Ben Child reports from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug fan event
• Cinefiles heads over to Dundee Contemporary Arts
• How Clint Eastwood's odd Obama speech turned Republican stomachs
• Grand Budapest Hotel to open Berlin
• Meet Chuckesmee, Twilight's axed animatronic toddler
• The film quiz gets all right-and-wrongy over movie spaceships
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• John Patterson: Gravity might be hi-tech but it's got an old soul
• Our pick of the top 10 superhero movies
• Thor: The Dark World batters its way to huge worldwide tally
• Nymphomaniac clip removed from Youtube for breaching rules on sex and nudity
• David Cox...
- 11/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Tell us what you enjoyed (or didn't) at the cinema or on TV, plus what's coming up on the site today
In the headlines
• Thor sequel scores huge $109m global debut
• Shia Labeouf Nymphomaniac sex scene pulled from YouTube
• Joe Cornish tipped for Star Trek 3, while Jj Abrams laments loss of Star Wars "mystery"
• Gravity breaks October release all-time live action record
Elsewhere on the site
• Steve Coogan and Martin Sixsmith talk Philomena
• David Cox on what Philomena really says about Catholicism
• Jeremy Kay has five things to learn from this weekend's Us box office
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• As well as all the new cinematic reviews (Kermode's off so Shoard is in the hot seat), plus Philip French on classic The Night of the Hunter and Guy Lodge on the new home entertainment releases, the Observer had an interview with John Waters
• News on the South Africa premiere...
In the headlines
• Thor sequel scores huge $109m global debut
• Shia Labeouf Nymphomaniac sex scene pulled from YouTube
• Joe Cornish tipped for Star Trek 3, while Jj Abrams laments loss of Star Wars "mystery"
• Gravity breaks October release all-time live action record
Elsewhere on the site
• Steve Coogan and Martin Sixsmith talk Philomena
• David Cox on what Philomena really says about Catholicism
• Jeremy Kay has five things to learn from this weekend's Us box office
You may have missed
• As well as all the new cinematic reviews (Kermode's off so Shoard is in the hot seat), plus Philip French on classic The Night of the Hunter and Guy Lodge on the new home entertainment releases, the Observer had an interview with John Waters
• News on the South Africa premiere...
- 11/4/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
War is hell, for sure, but war can make for undeniably brilliant movie-making. Here, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the ten best
• Top 10 action movies
• Top 10 comedy movies
• Top 10 horror movies
• Top 10 sci-fi movies
• Top 10 crime movies
• Top 10 arthouse movies
• Top 10 family movies
10. Where Eagles Dare
As the second world war thriller became bogged down during the mid-60s in plodding epics like Operation Crossbow and The Heroes of Telemark, someone was needed to reintroduce a little sang-froid, some post-Le Carré espionage, and for heaven's sake, some proper macho thrills into the genre. Alistair Maclean stepped up, writing the screenplay and the novel of Where Eagles Dare simultaneously, and Brian G Hutton summoned up a better than usual cast headed by Richard Burton (Major Jonathan Smith), a still fresh-faced Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Morris Schaffer), and the late Mary Ure (Mary Elison).
Parachuted into the German Alps, they have one...
• Top 10 action movies
• Top 10 comedy movies
• Top 10 horror movies
• Top 10 sci-fi movies
• Top 10 crime movies
• Top 10 arthouse movies
• Top 10 family movies
10. Where Eagles Dare
As the second world war thriller became bogged down during the mid-60s in plodding epics like Operation Crossbow and The Heroes of Telemark, someone was needed to reintroduce a little sang-froid, some post-Le Carré espionage, and for heaven's sake, some proper macho thrills into the genre. Alistair Maclean stepped up, writing the screenplay and the novel of Where Eagles Dare simultaneously, and Brian G Hutton summoned up a better than usual cast headed by Richard Burton (Major Jonathan Smith), a still fresh-faced Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Morris Schaffer), and the late Mary Ure (Mary Elison).
Parachuted into the German Alps, they have one...
- 10/29/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
As Sean Connery named the favourite British star of Us audiences, we've news on what else is coming up today, plus a look back over weekend highlights
On the site today
Jeremy Kay on the Us box office over the weekend, including The Counselor's flop and Jackass's triumph
Judi Dench and Stephen Frears talk Philomena on video
Our top 10 series tackles war movies
Meryl Streep, Milla Jovovich, Cameron Diaz tipped for "female Expendables"
Sean Connery is America's favourite British film star
Ben Affleck was "reluctant" to take Batman role and is planning to direct untitled geopolitical thriller
Andrew Pulver reports on Hitchcock collaborator Edith Head's costume designs getting Google-ised
And this evening Stuart Heritage will be liveblogging Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
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Mark Kermode reviews all the big cinema releases including The Selfish Giant and Ender's Game
Always wondered what kind of art Sly Stallone makes?...
On the site today
Jeremy Kay on the Us box office over the weekend, including The Counselor's flop and Jackass's triumph
Judi Dench and Stephen Frears talk Philomena on video
Our top 10 series tackles war movies
Meryl Streep, Milla Jovovich, Cameron Diaz tipped for "female Expendables"
Sean Connery is America's favourite British film star
Ben Affleck was "reluctant" to take Batman role and is planning to direct untitled geopolitical thriller
Andrew Pulver reports on Hitchcock collaborator Edith Head's costume designs getting Google-ised
And this evening Stuart Heritage will be liveblogging Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
You may have missed
Mark Kermode reviews all the big cinema releases including The Selfish Giant and Ender's Game
Always wondered what kind of art Sly Stallone makes?...
- 10/28/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Today's film news is an 80s revival all by itself
In the news today
• Tim Burton to direct Beetlejuice 2
• China plans animated Mao Zedong propaganda flick
• Homeland's Damian Lewis joins Werner Herzog's Queen of the desert
• Marvel reveals Doctor Strange movie
• Jason Statham to make comedy with Melissa McCarthy
Coming up elsewhere on the site
• Cine-files is wending its way to the Watershed in Bristol
• Film quiz sinks its teeth into vampire movies
• Why I love ... the 'Captain, I cannot concur' scene in Crimson Tide
• A world exclusive trailer for John Pilger's new documentary Utopia
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• Top 10 arthouse movies
• David Cox: 10 reasons today's movies trump TV
• Hollywood report: Gravity still on a high as The Fifth Estate leaks momentum
• Ben Whishaw wanted for Freddie Mercury movie, says Roger Taylor
• Grace of Monaco director calls Harvey Weinstein re-edit a 'pile of shit'
• John Patterson...
In the news today
• Tim Burton to direct Beetlejuice 2
• China plans animated Mao Zedong propaganda flick
• Homeland's Damian Lewis joins Werner Herzog's Queen of the desert
• Marvel reveals Doctor Strange movie
• Jason Statham to make comedy with Melissa McCarthy
Coming up elsewhere on the site
• Cine-files is wending its way to the Watershed in Bristol
• Film quiz sinks its teeth into vampire movies
• Why I love ... the 'Captain, I cannot concur' scene in Crimson Tide
• A world exclusive trailer for John Pilger's new documentary Utopia
You may have missed
• Top 10 arthouse movies
• David Cox: 10 reasons today's movies trump TV
• Hollywood report: Gravity still on a high as The Fifth Estate leaks momentum
• Ben Whishaw wanted for Freddie Mercury movie, says Roger Taylor
• Grace of Monaco director calls Harvey Weinstein re-edit a 'pile of shit'
• John Patterson...
- 10/22/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Elitist and pretentious, or an endangered species? Whatever your feelings, there's no doubt that arthouse movies are among the finest ever made. Here the Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best
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• Top 10 crime movies
Peter Bradshaw on art movies
This is a red rag to a number of different bulls. Lovers of what are called arthouse movies resent the label for being derisive and philistine. And those who detest it bristle at the implication that there is no artistry or intelligence in mainstream entertainment.
For many, the stereotypical arthouse film is Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin was a classic art film from the 1920s and Luis Buñuel investigated cinema's potential for surreality like no one before or since. The Italian neorealists applied the severity of art to a representation...
• Top 10 romantic movies
• Top 10 action movies
• Top 10 comedy movies
• Top 10 horror movies
• Top 10 sci-fi movies
• Top 10 crime movies
Peter Bradshaw on art movies
This is a red rag to a number of different bulls. Lovers of what are called arthouse movies resent the label for being derisive and philistine. And those who detest it bristle at the implication that there is no artistry or intelligence in mainstream entertainment.
For many, the stereotypical arthouse film is Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin was a classic art film from the 1920s and Luis Buñuel investigated cinema's potential for surreality like no one before or since. The Italian neorealists applied the severity of art to a representation...
- 10/21/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Greengrass puts his ship's captain through hell, shows reservations over Us seafaring might, and has empathy with the Somali pirates' plight
At the heart of Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips is the story of two eternal seafaring archetypes. The first is the Master Mariner (Conrad's final rank) plying his cargo through the great nautical arteries of global commerce, and the second, the luckless fisherman turned pirate, picking off the stragglers among the gargantuan cargo ships passing too close to the coast of Somalia, the better to ransom their contents back to their owners.
Asymmetrical warfare structures the movie, as the pirates dog a city-sized cargo ship with only two clapped-out skiffs and a threadbare mother-vessel, boarding with a makeshift iron ladder, subduing the bridge, and issuing their demands. The second half sees the pirates and their captain-hostage trapped in the ship's sealed lifeboat, hemmed in by Us Navy frigates and an aircraft carrier,...
At the heart of Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips is the story of two eternal seafaring archetypes. The first is the Master Mariner (Conrad's final rank) plying his cargo through the great nautical arteries of global commerce, and the second, the luckless fisherman turned pirate, picking off the stragglers among the gargantuan cargo ships passing too close to the coast of Somalia, the better to ransom their contents back to their owners.
Asymmetrical warfare structures the movie, as the pirates dog a city-sized cargo ship with only two clapped-out skiffs and a threadbare mother-vessel, boarding with a makeshift iron ladder, subduing the bridge, and issuing their demands. The second half sees the pirates and their captain-hostage trapped in the ship's sealed lifeboat, hemmed in by Us Navy frigates and an aircraft carrier,...
- 10/14/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Yippee-ki-yay! It's action-movie time! From Die Hard to Deliverance, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics think are the 10 best ever made. Let us know what you think in the comments below
• Top 10 romantic movies
Peter Bradshaw on action movies
In some ways, it should be the quintessential cinema genre. After all, what does the director shout at the beginning of a take? Action – at times a euphemism for violence and machismo – evolved into a recognisable genre in the 80s. Gunplay and athleticism resurfaced in a sweatier and more explicitly violent form, with movies such as Sylvester Stallone's First Blood. The hardware was all-important, and the metallic sheen of the guns was something to be savoured alongside the musculature of the heroes. The genre spawned the action hero. These were not pretty-boys there to melt female hearts: they were there to get a roar of approval from the guys.
• Top 10 romantic movies
Peter Bradshaw on action movies
In some ways, it should be the quintessential cinema genre. After all, what does the director shout at the beginning of a take? Action – at times a euphemism for violence and machismo – evolved into a recognisable genre in the 80s. Gunplay and athleticism resurfaced in a sweatier and more explicitly violent form, with movies such as Sylvester Stallone's First Blood. The hardware was all-important, and the metallic sheen of the guns was something to be savoured alongside the musculature of the heroes. The genre spawned the action hero. These were not pretty-boys there to melt female hearts: they were there to get a roar of approval from the guys.
- 10/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
All the goings-on in the film world on Monday 7 October
In the news today ...
- Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy has cost a most precious $560 million to date.
- Danny Boyle is planning a jewel heist movie based on the documentary Smash and Grab.
- Danny Dyer's film company went bust owing 50 monkies to the tax man.
- No ta: Woody Allen has refused to show Blue Jasmine in India because of the country's legal requirement to run health ads on smoking scenes.
- Oliver Stone has lead a protest against a Us military base in Korea.
- Italian director Carlo Lizzani has died after falling from a balcony. He was 91.
Elsewhere on the site
- Jeremy Kay will be reporting on the out of this world takings for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity as he rounds up the week at the Us box office.
- What?! No Run for Your Wife?...
In the news today ...
- Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy has cost a most precious $560 million to date.
- Danny Boyle is planning a jewel heist movie based on the documentary Smash and Grab.
- Danny Dyer's film company went bust owing 50 monkies to the tax man.
- No ta: Woody Allen has refused to show Blue Jasmine in India because of the country's legal requirement to run health ads on smoking scenes.
- Oliver Stone has lead a protest against a Us military base in Korea.
- Italian director Carlo Lizzani has died after falling from a balcony. He was 91.
Elsewhere on the site
- Jeremy Kay will be reporting on the out of this world takings for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity as he rounds up the week at the Us box office.
- What?! No Run for Your Wife?...
- 10/7/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Christopher MacBride's faux-documentary uses found footage to spin its tale of the shadowy Tarsus Group
Faux-documentary The Conspiracy pulls off two tricks that alone warrant 82 crisply compelling minutes of your time: it makes conspiracy theories fun again (or perhaps it just makes them funny, as well as quite scary); and it finds new life in the increasingly threadbare found-footage genre.
Two small-scale Canadian documentarians named Aaron Poole and Jim Gilbert – the actors' real names – are profiling a conspiracy theorist named Terrance, who bears a žižek-y resemblance to those derelicts you see waving tin cups on freeway off-ramps, but who is building his own unified field theory of every conspiracy ever out of newspaper clippings, push-pins and pieces of string on his apartment wall. When Terrance disappears, the more credulous Aaron develops his theories, while Jim the sceptic holds his tongue. Key recurring elements lead them to the secretive Tarsus Group,...
Faux-documentary The Conspiracy pulls off two tricks that alone warrant 82 crisply compelling minutes of your time: it makes conspiracy theories fun again (or perhaps it just makes them funny, as well as quite scary); and it finds new life in the increasingly threadbare found-footage genre.
Two small-scale Canadian documentarians named Aaron Poole and Jim Gilbert – the actors' real names – are profiling a conspiracy theorist named Terrance, who bears a žižek-y resemblance to those derelicts you see waving tin cups on freeway off-ramps, but who is building his own unified field theory of every conspiracy ever out of newspaper clippings, push-pins and pieces of string on his apartment wall. When Terrance disappears, the more credulous Aaron develops his theories, while Jim the sceptic holds his tongue. Key recurring elements lead them to the secretive Tarsus Group,...
- 10/7/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Your daily movie bulletin bringing you the lowdown on 23 September
Coming up today
This is officially the day in which TV tells the movies where to stick it, for Michael Douglas has won best actor at the Emmys for his blinding portrayal of Liberace in Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra (which got cinematic release in Europe). The film also won best picture at last night's ceremony, and Douglas made a top-notch speech.
Christopher Nolan has released some revealing Batman Begins pitch and audition paraphernalia.
A billionaire in China is to build the world's biggest film studio.
And Colin Farrell is to join Duncan Jones's World of Warcraft movie.
Plus Hollywood report on how Prisoners clawed its way to the top on first week of release.
And our two daily series return: Oscar predictions takes on Philomena, while Why I Love is all about watching movies on planes.
And … you can...
Coming up today
This is officially the day in which TV tells the movies where to stick it, for Michael Douglas has won best actor at the Emmys for his blinding portrayal of Liberace in Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra (which got cinematic release in Europe). The film also won best picture at last night's ceremony, and Douglas made a top-notch speech.
Christopher Nolan has released some revealing Batman Begins pitch and audition paraphernalia.
A billionaire in China is to build the world's biggest film studio.
And Colin Farrell is to join Duncan Jones's World of Warcraft movie.
Plus Hollywood report on how Prisoners clawed its way to the top on first week of release.
And our two daily series return: Oscar predictions takes on Philomena, while Why I Love is all about watching movies on planes.
And … you can...
- 9/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Your daily movie bulletin bringing you the lowdown on 17 September
Coming up today
In G2, there's an interview with Metro Manilla director Sean Ellis, plus Cine-files pays a visit to the Savoy in Heaton Moor.
And in the headlines …
• Shine on: Jack Nicholson denies retiring
• After Hoovering, Leonardo DiCaprio is to play Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skyjogger: Mark Hamill "getting fit" for Star Wars
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• David Cox on 12 Years a Slave: heroic, yes. But necessary? Definitely?
• Colin Firth is to voice Paddington Bear.
• Jeremy Kay told us five things we learned from the Us box office, including the skinny on Insiduous 2.
• Wadjda, Saudi Arabia's first female film, is country's Oscar entry
• Star Wars spinoff films to feature 'origins...
Coming up today
In G2, there's an interview with Metro Manilla director Sean Ellis, plus Cine-files pays a visit to the Savoy in Heaton Moor.
And in the headlines …
• Shine on: Jack Nicholson denies retiring
• After Hoovering, Leonardo DiCaprio is to play Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skyjogger: Mark Hamill "getting fit" for Star Wars
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• Yesterday on the site we had not one but two world exclusive trailers, for Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, and for royal biopic Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman.
• David Cox on 12 Years a Slave: heroic, yes. But necessary? Definitely?
• Colin Firth is to voice Paddington Bear.
• Jeremy Kay told us five things we learned from the Us box office, including the skinny on Insiduous 2.
• Wadjda, Saudi Arabia's first female film, is country's Oscar entry
• Star Wars spinoff films to feature 'origins...
- 9/17/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Your daily movie bulletin bringing you the lowdown on 10 September
If dark has fallen in Toronto, that means it's about to pick itself off the floor in London, which means it's publication time.
Coming up from Toronto
Reviews of Paul Potts biopic One Chance, Devil's Knot about the West Memphis Three, Oscar big shot August: Osage County, Jason Bateman's Bad Words, the other big slavery flick, Belle, Cory Monteith's last film, McCanick, Hateship Loveship, with Kirstin Wiig and Guy Pearce, and stay up late enough and you might just get the verdict on Daniel Radcliffe and Adam Driver in The F Word, Paul Haggis' Third Person, Elizabeth Olsen in Therese and rufty tufty Felony.
Plus news featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Lance Armstrong and Meryl Streep.
Coming up from London
In the headlines today:
• John Leguizamo to play Pablo Escobar
• Martin Amis adaptation London Fields starts shoot in capital...
If dark has fallen in Toronto, that means it's about to pick itself off the floor in London, which means it's publication time.
Coming up from Toronto
Reviews of Paul Potts biopic One Chance, Devil's Knot about the West Memphis Three, Oscar big shot August: Osage County, Jason Bateman's Bad Words, the other big slavery flick, Belle, Cory Monteith's last film, McCanick, Hateship Loveship, with Kirstin Wiig and Guy Pearce, and stay up late enough and you might just get the verdict on Daniel Radcliffe and Adam Driver in The F Word, Paul Haggis' Third Person, Elizabeth Olsen in Therese and rufty tufty Felony.
Plus news featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Lance Armstrong and Meryl Streep.
Coming up from London
In the headlines today:
• John Leguizamo to play Pablo Escobar
• Martin Amis adaptation London Fields starts shoot in capital...
- 9/10/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
This classic film was largely overlooked when released but has finally been handed a re-release
Lino, José, Claude. Meet the three men, all dead now, who together made Classe Tous Risques; for my money, the greatest of all French gangster movies.
José Giovanni was on death row in Paris in the mid-50s, due to be guillotined for abetting a robbery that left three dead. After a failed escape attempt, he turned the experience into his first novel Le Trou (The Hole, 1957), whose literary success secured his pardon and release. It was filmed by Jacques Becker in 1960.
During his incarceration, Giovanni had one conversation – "perhaps thirty sentences" – with Abel Damos, a vicious gangster associated with the collaborationist Bonny-Lafont gang during the occupation. He was awaiting a death sentence passed in absentia during years spent as a fugitive in Italy with his wife and infant sons in tow. The notion of a bad man,...
Lino, José, Claude. Meet the three men, all dead now, who together made Classe Tous Risques; for my money, the greatest of all French gangster movies.
José Giovanni was on death row in Paris in the mid-50s, due to be guillotined for abetting a robbery that left three dead. After a failed escape attempt, he turned the experience into his first novel Le Trou (The Hole, 1957), whose literary success secured his pardon and release. It was filmed by Jacques Becker in 1960.
During his incarceration, Giovanni had one conversation – "perhaps thirty sentences" – with Abel Damos, a vicious gangster associated with the collaborationist Bonny-Lafont gang during the occupation. He was awaiting a death sentence passed in absentia during years spent as a fugitive in Italy with his wife and infant sons in tow. The notion of a bad man,...
- 9/9/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The top-line on the big film news stories for Tuesday 27 August 2013 – plus everything else that we're launching on the film site today
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The headlines today
This morning on the site we'll be launching full stories on the following. But you can get a sneak preview right here, right now.
• Bish-Posh: Tories angry over BFI funding for film about Bullingdon Club members
• Ben Affleck "signed for multiple Batman movies"
• An animated Scooby-Doo movie is in the works.
• The mayor of La has declared a state of emergency as movie production flees the city.
• Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys heading for TV remake
• The Godfather IV: Tate Taylor to direct James Brown biopic
• This film is not yet banned: some in China are calling for the introduction of a film ratings system.
In the paper
• Gloria Steinem and Catherine MacKinnon talk about their part in Lovelace.
• A...
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The headlines today
This morning on the site we'll be launching full stories on the following. But you can get a sneak preview right here, right now.
• Bish-Posh: Tories angry over BFI funding for film about Bullingdon Club members
• Ben Affleck "signed for multiple Batman movies"
• An animated Scooby-Doo movie is in the works.
• The mayor of La has declared a state of emergency as movie production flees the city.
• Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys heading for TV remake
• The Godfather IV: Tate Taylor to direct James Brown biopic
• This film is not yet banned: some in China are calling for the introduction of a film ratings system.
In the paper
• Gloria Steinem and Catherine MacKinnon talk about their part in Lovelace.
• A...
- 8/27/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Otto Preminger's classic ushered in a new wave of vibrant, Technicolour film-making
Renewed acquaintance with Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, after 30 years, compels me now to re-rank it above Anatomy of a Murder as the Austrian exile's supreme masterpiece. Based on Francoise Sagan's scandalous novel about an enfant terrible and her forbidden games on the sun-drenched French Riviera, it offers the most compelling performance the brittle and tragic Jean Seberg ever gave; and it showcases all of Preminger's virtuosity with CinemaScope framing and three-strip Technicolor.
Seberg is Cecile, half jaded sophisticate and seasoned casino denizen, half teenage naif and plotter, the over-indulged daughter of meretricious playboy Raymond (David Niven). Their emotional intimacy borders on the incestuous: they have "the perfect marriage," says Raymond's blowzy mistress Elsa, a remark humming with possibilities. The arrival of Raymond's new lover, Anne (Deborah Kerr), who clearly sees herself as a replacement for Cecile's dead mother,...
Renewed acquaintance with Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, after 30 years, compels me now to re-rank it above Anatomy of a Murder as the Austrian exile's supreme masterpiece. Based on Francoise Sagan's scandalous novel about an enfant terrible and her forbidden games on the sun-drenched French Riviera, it offers the most compelling performance the brittle and tragic Jean Seberg ever gave; and it showcases all of Preminger's virtuosity with CinemaScope framing and three-strip Technicolor.
Seberg is Cecile, half jaded sophisticate and seasoned casino denizen, half teenage naif and plotter, the over-indulged daughter of meretricious playboy Raymond (David Niven). Their emotional intimacy borders on the incestuous: they have "the perfect marriage," says Raymond's blowzy mistress Elsa, a remark humming with possibilities. The arrival of Raymond's new lover, Anne (Deborah Kerr), who clearly sees herself as a replacement for Cecile's dead mother,...
- 8/26/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
We've been here before, kemosabe. John Patterson marvels at the brazenly unoriginal tribute that is Gore Verbinski's new film
The Lone Ranger is so heavily littered with the bleeding scalps of old Hollywood and spaghetti westerns that after about half an hour I started to think I wasn't watching a western at all, but a Frankenstein movie. There is homage, there is the affectionate nod, there is creative artistic theft, and then there is this: knowingly building a genre movie entirely from sequences hijacked from the classic movies of that genre. The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living."
That's not to damn The Lone Ranger entirely; it may have flopped disastrously, but I love a good origin-myth reboot movie, and Gore Verbinski has made a pretty good one. It's full of exciting set pieces and genre staples – runaway trains, bridges blown up,...
The Lone Ranger is so heavily littered with the bleeding scalps of old Hollywood and spaghetti westerns that after about half an hour I started to think I wasn't watching a western at all, but a Frankenstein movie. There is homage, there is the affectionate nod, there is creative artistic theft, and then there is this: knowingly building a genre movie entirely from sequences hijacked from the classic movies of that genre. The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living."
That's not to damn The Lone Ranger entirely; it may have flopped disastrously, but I love a good origin-myth reboot movie, and Gore Verbinski has made a pretty good one. It's full of exciting set pieces and genre staples – runaway trains, bridges blown up,...
- 8/5/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Earth is facing a new threat! It's insidious and its viral power means no one is safe. Yes, beware the online teaser campaign
Gather round, kids, and make sure you're wearing a special ocular truss to guard against eyeball-socket exodus, because here's a startling exclusive: yes, a seven-second "teaser trailer" for Untitled Robot Franchise Part One, coming 2015. These fleeting frames, with state-of-the-art computerised recreations of buildings falling down, have got us so excited we punched a wall, hiccuped and broke wind. The only way we could possibly be more feverish was if we had 20 seconds of footage! Which, by the way, we will have next week.
The month after that, we've got new "character art", showing what all the actors look like if you moodily Photoshop a picture of them looking dead-eyed in an outfit. Then we'll have a "sneak peek" of a chap who is either the hero's best...
Gather round, kids, and make sure you're wearing a special ocular truss to guard against eyeball-socket exodus, because here's a startling exclusive: yes, a seven-second "teaser trailer" for Untitled Robot Franchise Part One, coming 2015. These fleeting frames, with state-of-the-art computerised recreations of buildings falling down, have got us so excited we punched a wall, hiccuped and broke wind. The only way we could possibly be more feverish was if we had 20 seconds of footage! Which, by the way, we will have next week.
The month after that, we've got new "character art", showing what all the actors look like if you moodily Photoshop a picture of them looking dead-eyed in an outfit. Then we'll have a "sneak peek" of a chap who is either the hero's best...
- 7/9/2013
- by Catherine Bray
- The Guardian - Film News
As the third in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy opens this week, John Patterson falls in love with its tale of the heart all over again
When Before Sunset was released in 2004, its co-writer and co-star Julie Delpy mused on the popularity of the two sublimely romantic movies she and Ethan Hawke had made with director Richard Linklater: "It's not like Star Wars, but in that small group of people, it really means something to them." Which is to say that, for that small group of people, among whom I loudly and proudly count myself, awaiting a new instalment of the Before trilogy (as it stands, for now) is in fact exactly like Star Wars, just without the lightsabers.
As one who made sure he knew exactly nothing about Before Midnight until the lights went down, I shall refrain from too much spoilerism. Suffice to say, the title presages...
When Before Sunset was released in 2004, its co-writer and co-star Julie Delpy mused on the popularity of the two sublimely romantic movies she and Ethan Hawke had made with director Richard Linklater: "It's not like Star Wars, but in that small group of people, it really means something to them." Which is to say that, for that small group of people, among whom I loudly and proudly count myself, awaiting a new instalment of the Before trilogy (as it stands, for now) is in fact exactly like Star Wars, just without the lightsabers.
As one who made sure he knew exactly nothing about Before Midnight until the lights went down, I shall refrain from too much spoilerism. Suffice to say, the title presages...
- 6/17/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Austrian director's latest is a tale of an African sex vacation, with at least one scene likely to provoke audience walk-outs
John Waters has said of Paradise: Love's Austrian director, "Fassbinder died, so God gave us Ulrich Seidl," and he's right, up to a point. Like his beady-eyed and bloated Bavarian forebear, the svelte Seidl favours agonising deadpan gazes at ugliness and exploitative behaviour, favours "faces that startle rather than soothe" (Waters again), and concurs with Fassbinder's claim that "love is … the most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression".
Love is certainly strange in Paradise: Love, the tale of Teresa, an overweight Austrian woman who takes an African sex vacation and finds herself chasing one Kenyan beach stud after another in a steady downward spiral of delusion and self-hatred. Relations operate on mutually parasitic terms – exploitation runs both ways – and Teresa finds neither the sex she thought she was after,...
John Waters has said of Paradise: Love's Austrian director, "Fassbinder died, so God gave us Ulrich Seidl," and he's right, up to a point. Like his beady-eyed and bloated Bavarian forebear, the svelte Seidl favours agonising deadpan gazes at ugliness and exploitative behaviour, favours "faces that startle rather than soothe" (Waters again), and concurs with Fassbinder's claim that "love is … the most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression".
Love is certainly strange in Paradise: Love, the tale of Teresa, an overweight Austrian woman who takes an African sex vacation and finds herself chasing one Kenyan beach stud after another in a steady downward spiral of delusion and self-hatred. Relations operate on mutually parasitic terms – exploitation runs both ways – and Teresa finds neither the sex she thought she was after,...
- 6/10/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
From Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy to The Killing, everyone loves Nordic noir, right? Well, trust John Patterson to be the odd man out
Count yourselves lucky, British and European viewers, you're getting your full undiluted ration of subtitled Nordic noir, week in and week out, while we here in the Us must subsist on the thin gruel of remakes, with no real recourse to the originals. You got the original Danish The Killing, we got the drippy AMC remake whose first-season finale prompted a near-mutiny among outraged and cheated viewers. The Danish-Swedish cross-border procedural The Bridge – as mesmerising as Homeland to European viewers – gets a Tex-Mex workover here set on the Juárez-El Paso line, and judging by the grimness of its teaser promos, will not stint on those authentically Mexican sky-high bodycounts. We get the Branagh Wallander, not the Krister Henriksson original. Most notorious of all, perhaps, was the...
Count yourselves lucky, British and European viewers, you're getting your full undiluted ration of subtitled Nordic noir, week in and week out, while we here in the Us must subsist on the thin gruel of remakes, with no real recourse to the originals. You got the original Danish The Killing, we got the drippy AMC remake whose first-season finale prompted a near-mutiny among outraged and cheated viewers. The Danish-Swedish cross-border procedural The Bridge – as mesmerising as Homeland to European viewers – gets a Tex-Mex workover here set on the Juárez-El Paso line, and judging by the grimness of its teaser promos, will not stint on those authentically Mexican sky-high bodycounts. We get the Branagh Wallander, not the Krister Henriksson original. Most notorious of all, perhaps, was the...
- 4/29/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
His films put talk before spectacle and character before bombast. John Patterson pays tribute to an indie traditionalist
Richard Linklater, the Quiet Man of American indie cinema, will soon be releasing Before Midnight, the third panel of his sublime Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy triptych, and the word-of-mouth is good. But British viewers can whet their appetites before that on Bernie released a year ago in the States, but still fondly remembered in the best-films-of-2012 polls.
Bernie embodies the Linklater virtues: he's interested in characters, and he seems to like people, which counts as a gift these days; he loves talk and talkers, and loves to listen and watch. If an actual narrative arc should amble into view, hey, he might let it shape things up too. If not, well, just lighten up and go with it. He's relaxed.
While many of Linklater's movies unfold in a single day, Bernie...
Richard Linklater, the Quiet Man of American indie cinema, will soon be releasing Before Midnight, the third panel of his sublime Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy triptych, and the word-of-mouth is good. But British viewers can whet their appetites before that on Bernie released a year ago in the States, but still fondly remembered in the best-films-of-2012 polls.
Bernie embodies the Linklater virtues: he's interested in characters, and he seems to like people, which counts as a gift these days; he loves talk and talkers, and loves to listen and watch. If an actual narrative arc should amble into view, hey, he might let it shape things up too. If not, well, just lighten up and go with it. He's relaxed.
While many of Linklater's movies unfold in a single day, Bernie...
- 4/22/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
No stereotype or red-alert cliche goes untouched when a loathsome bunch of North Koreans attacks the White House, without a hint of satirical edge
For a moment, I misread the title and thought that one of America's best-loved character actors was in desperate trouble: Olympia Dukakis was lying at the bottom of her stairs, pressing frantically at her personal alarm and the rapid-response operative at the end of the line had wrenched off his headset phone and reduced the call centre to stunned silence by intoning: "Olympia has fallen. And she can't get up."
It's actually worse than that. "Olympus" turns out to be Us secret service code for the White House, and this is a no-stereotypes-barred, red-scare disaster movie of the sort Jerry "Airplane!" Zucker might write after a head injury. You could well wish that the title held out a crumb of hope by being Olympus Is Fallin'.
For a moment, I misread the title and thought that one of America's best-loved character actors was in desperate trouble: Olympia Dukakis was lying at the bottom of her stairs, pressing frantically at her personal alarm and the rapid-response operative at the end of the line had wrenched off his headset phone and reduced the call centre to stunned silence by intoning: "Olympia has fallen. And she can't get up."
It's actually worse than that. "Olympus" turns out to be Us secret service code for the White House, and this is a no-stereotypes-barred, red-scare disaster movie of the sort Jerry "Airplane!" Zucker might write after a head injury. You could well wish that the title held out a crumb of hope by being Olympus Is Fallin'.
- 4/19/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The White House is destroyed, the President is captured, and only one man can save him. That man is John Patterson. Hang on, that's not right …
I was on an Antoine Fuqua set once, The Replacement Killers, to meet Chow Yun-Fat, a delightful man. Even then, in the late 90s, back when it looked as if Hong Kong cinema might yet save the American action movie, I knew in my bones that Antoine Fuqua (whom I didn't meet) surely wasn't the man to import Chow Yun-Fat or the Hong Kong action aesthetic to Hollywood. Well, a lot I know. John Woo has been to Hollywood and done his thing and long since gone home, and Fuqua continues, against logic or reason or merit, to thrive. The man who gave us Bait, Shooter and King Arthur – mongrel dogs one and all – is often associated with the Oscar that Denzel Washington won for Training Day but,...
I was on an Antoine Fuqua set once, The Replacement Killers, to meet Chow Yun-Fat, a delightful man. Even then, in the late 90s, back when it looked as if Hong Kong cinema might yet save the American action movie, I knew in my bones that Antoine Fuqua (whom I didn't meet) surely wasn't the man to import Chow Yun-Fat or the Hong Kong action aesthetic to Hollywood. Well, a lot I know. John Woo has been to Hollywood and done his thing and long since gone home, and Fuqua continues, against logic or reason or merit, to thrive. The man who gave us Bait, Shooter and King Arthur – mongrel dogs one and all – is often associated with the Oscar that Denzel Washington won for Training Day but,...
- 4/15/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
A new retrospective puts the unconventional film-maker back in the spotlight. About time too says John Patterson
Pier Paolo Pasolini's gruesome murder nearly 40 years ago – his own Alfa Romeo was driven over his head after a rent-boy dispute/homophobic ambush/political assassination (the controversy endures) – was followed by the posthumous release of his most notorious succès de scandale, Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom, that poison feast of cruelty and excrement.
A murder you can't bear to think about, topped by a movie you can hardly bear to watch: it's unsurprising, perhaps, that people forgot about Pasolini very quickly indeed, relegating him merely to queer-bashing murder victim or the guy who made that rape, torture and shit-eating movie. It all left a very poor taste in the mouth.
There's another Pasolini, though. In fact there are several: the Marxist, the playwright, the documentarian, the poet who ranks high in the 20th-century Italian canon,...
Pier Paolo Pasolini's gruesome murder nearly 40 years ago – his own Alfa Romeo was driven over his head after a rent-boy dispute/homophobic ambush/political assassination (the controversy endures) – was followed by the posthumous release of his most notorious succès de scandale, Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom, that poison feast of cruelty and excrement.
A murder you can't bear to think about, topped by a movie you can hardly bear to watch: it's unsurprising, perhaps, that people forgot about Pasolini very quickly indeed, relegating him merely to queer-bashing murder victim or the guy who made that rape, torture and shit-eating movie. It all left a very poor taste in the mouth.
There's another Pasolini, though. In fact there are several: the Marxist, the playwright, the documentarian, the poet who ranks high in the 20th-century Italian canon,...
- 4/8/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
It takes itself very seriously and is completely shorn of humour but that doesn't stop A Late Quartet from being a very touching film, says John Patterson
The minute you hear Christopher Walken intoning the opening stanzas of Burnt Norton – one of Ts Eliot's own late quartets – you sense that A Late Quartet plans to mine every last meaning from the words in its title. "Late" like the autumnal, musical Eliot of Four Quartets; like the demanding, crepuscular Beethoven quartet the film's characters rehearse for their silver-anniversary performance (String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor – menacingly referred to as "Op 131"); and "late" in the connected senses of former or dead, which this quarrelsome foursome soon might be if they fail to recover their harmony. The number four gets a fair old workout as well: four players, four solos, four movements, four rehearsals, Four Quartets. All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is...
The minute you hear Christopher Walken intoning the opening stanzas of Burnt Norton – one of Ts Eliot's own late quartets – you sense that A Late Quartet plans to mine every last meaning from the words in its title. "Late" like the autumnal, musical Eliot of Four Quartets; like the demanding, crepuscular Beethoven quartet the film's characters rehearse for their silver-anniversary performance (String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor – menacingly referred to as "Op 131"); and "late" in the connected senses of former or dead, which this quarrelsome foursome soon might be if they fail to recover their harmony. The number four gets a fair old workout as well: four players, four solos, four movements, four rehearsals, Four Quartets. All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is...
- 4/1/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
He was a drunk, on-screen and off, and starred in the most violent films of his age. But, first and foremost, he was a fantastic actor
This week's re-release of John Boorman's magnificent 1967 thriller Point Blank is all the evidence we really need of Lee Marvin's inextinguishable greatness as a movie icon. But since I've written elsewhere about Point Blank this week, let's imagine it never existed, and recall all the other reasons to love Lee.
Because for a couple of decades from the 50s to the 70s, whenever people referred to a movie as the most violent ever made, the chances were pretty good that Lee Marvin would be close to, if not the actual cause of, the very worst of the mayhem. Prime example: throwing a pot of scalding coffee in Gloria Grahame's face in Fritz Lang's potent big city crime thriller The Big Heat.
This week's re-release of John Boorman's magnificent 1967 thriller Point Blank is all the evidence we really need of Lee Marvin's inextinguishable greatness as a movie icon. But since I've written elsewhere about Point Blank this week, let's imagine it never existed, and recall all the other reasons to love Lee.
Because for a couple of decades from the 50s to the 70s, whenever people referred to a movie as the most violent ever made, the chances were pretty good that Lee Marvin would be close to, if not the actual cause of, the very worst of the mayhem. Prime example: throwing a pot of scalding coffee in Gloria Grahame's face in Fritz Lang's potent big city crime thriller The Big Heat.
- 3/25/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
A 1980s piece of anti-communist propaganda has been remade for the modern age. Did they have to?
Say what you will about John Milius's 1980s rightwing cold war flag-waver Red Dawn, at least it had the courage of its convictions. The new remake – released three years after completion, thanks to the MGM bankruptcy restructuring – can't even decide who its real enemies are. When it wrapped, the invading superpower was still Red China; in the interim, some wise suit remembered the billion-plus Chinese moviegoing market and decreed that the enemy should henceforth be North Korea, a black hole for Hollywood releases. Cue some retroactive digital adjustments – commie signage, uniforms, etc – a new opening voiceover, a couple of reshoots and, voila! – a new enemy. The late Kim Jong-il, a budding auteur himself, would have been charmed by the attention.
He might also have wondered, just as I did, what the hell was going on.
Say what you will about John Milius's 1980s rightwing cold war flag-waver Red Dawn, at least it had the courage of its convictions. The new remake – released three years after completion, thanks to the MGM bankruptcy restructuring – can't even decide who its real enemies are. When it wrapped, the invading superpower was still Red China; in the interim, some wise suit remembered the billion-plus Chinese moviegoing market and decreed that the enemy should henceforth be North Korea, a black hole for Hollywood releases. Cue some retroactive digital adjustments – commie signage, uniforms, etc – a new opening voiceover, a couple of reshoots and, voila! – a new enemy. The late Kim Jong-il, a budding auteur himself, would have been charmed by the attention.
He might also have wondered, just as I did, what the hell was going on.
- 3/11/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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