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21 February 2011
Anticipated Arthouses'
After all the recent Bafta excitement and the Oscars still to come this Sunday, I think we’ve all congregated in the realisation that recent box office successes; The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, Inception and 127 Hours are very much deserving of their many nominations and awards. However I’m not sure about you, but I’m slightly bored of these blockbuster ‘hypes’ and am ready for some good old indies..here’s a few I reckon we should look out for..
Submarine is an original comedy which follows a 15-year-old boy who is desperate to lose his virginity before he hits 16, and is equally as desperate to save his parents on-the-verge-of-splitting-up relationship. The film is interestingly directed by none other than the IT Crowd star/comedian, Richard Ayoade, which I’m sure has helped to set the underestimated offbeat tone of the movie.
Submarine, starring Sally Hawkins (Never Let Me Go, Happy Go Lucky), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), and Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky) looks like an adorable, refreshing comedy that’ll be a laugh for all audiences.
Out on the 18th March
Little White Lies [Les Petits Mouchoirs] stars the incredibly beautiful Marion Cotillard (Inception, La Vie En Rose) and is directed by Guillaume Canet, the director of award winning Tell No One, who is also Cotillard’s boyfriend! It’s a sexy, funny relationship drama about a group of friends who go on holiday and ‘little white lies’ are unveiled. If the film is anything like the trailer depicts, Little White Lies will be a romantic, moving, and highly amusing arthouse film that we all must see – girls should drag along their boyfriends.
Little White Lies is out on the 15th April
After opening this year’s Sundance Film festival and being chosen as the official selection of the Berlin Film Festival 2010, Howl would be my third and final suggestion as ‘restrained indie film making at its best’ to you. Starring the incredible James Franco (127 Hours) and directed by academy award winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Howl see’s Franco as the celebrated American poet, Alan Ginsberg. The film see’s Franco adopt Ginsberg’s legendary charisma as he talks about his life. His most famous poem (you guessed it; Howl) is innovatively illustrated in animation on screen. Howl looks like a must see, if not for its genius cinematography (take a look at the trailer) or it’s upbeat, 60s jazz inflicted soundtrack, then simply for James Franco…no?
Howl is out in cinemas on the 25th February
Submarine is an original comedy which follows a 15-year-old boy who is desperate to lose his virginity before he hits 16, and is equally as desperate to save his parents on-the-verge-of-splitting-up relationship. The film is interestingly directed by none other than the IT Crowd star/comedian, Richard Ayoade, which I’m sure has helped to set the underestimated offbeat tone of the movie.
Submarine, starring Sally Hawkins (Never Let Me Go, Happy Go Lucky), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), and Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky) looks like an adorable, refreshing comedy that’ll be a laugh for all audiences.
Out on the 18th March
Little White Lies [Les Petits Mouchoirs] stars the incredibly beautiful Marion Cotillard (Inception, La Vie En Rose) and is directed by Guillaume Canet, the director of award winning Tell No One, who is also Cotillard’s boyfriend! It’s a sexy, funny relationship drama about a group of friends who go on holiday and ‘little white lies’ are unveiled. If the film is anything like the trailer depicts, Little White Lies will be a romantic, moving, and highly amusing arthouse film that we all must see – girls should drag along their boyfriends.
Little White Lies is out on the 15th April
After opening this year’s Sundance Film festival and being chosen as the official selection of the Berlin Film Festival 2010, Howl would be my third and final suggestion as ‘restrained indie film making at its best’ to you. Starring the incredible James Franco (127 Hours) and directed by academy award winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Howl see’s Franco as the celebrated American poet, Alan Ginsberg. The film see’s Franco adopt Ginsberg’s legendary charisma as he talks about his life. His most famous poem (you guessed it; Howl) is innovatively illustrated in animation on screen. Howl looks like a must see, if not for its genius cinematography (take a look at the trailer) or it’s upbeat, 60s jazz inflicted soundtrack, then simply for James Franco…no?
Howl is out in cinemas on the 25th February
6 February 2011
Inbetweeners Is Movie-fied
Yes that’s right, after it’s exceptional success (winning two BAFTAs, Best Sitcom at the British Comedy Awards, a Rose d'Or) The Inbetweeners, it has been confirmed, is hitting the big screen!
We’ll see the four foul-mouthed geeks return to us in their very own movie about..let’s have a guess; 4 teenage, sex-obsessed boys with more than 30 minutes screen time-has to be a lads holiday to Malia right? Correct! Unfortunately that’s all that has been revealed so far, but I’m pretty excited nevertheless.
Let’s expect increasingly extravagant lies, disgusting imagery, and new words for sex – bring on August 19th when the film is scheduled for release!
9 January 2011
Boyle does it again
After multi award winning Slumdog Millionaire, expectations for his next film are undoubtedly sky high, but Danny Boyle is on a rocket mission with his latest film. 127 Hours, releasing on the 7th January, is a biographical thriller starring James Franco as experienced mountaineer, Aron Ralston. Ralston undergoes a climbing adventure in the Utah canyons but suddenly finds himself wedged between rocks and unable to extricate himself. Days later, with no food or water and no prospect of help, he’s forced to ask himself the toughest question – what price is life?
A film based on the incredible true story of Aron Ralston, 127 Hours could, quite easily, fall into the documentary or re-construction type genre, which, don’t get me wrong, would still be fascinating, however Boyle, without ‘glamorizing’ or ‘dramatising’ (an infamous Hollywood tendancy) opens the door and invites you into the very mind of the mountaineer, presenting us with one of the most inspirational films of all time.
Chico & Rita
A feature film in 2D animation might not sound hugely appealing, but Spanish film, Chico and Rita, is an inspiringly creative, gorgeous and desperately romantic animated CG film set in 1948. It follows the journey of a musical-talented Cuban couple. Young pianist Chico (Xor Oña) and soul singer Rita (Meneses) who’s character, along with her beautiful voice and curvaceous figure reminds us of an animated Rihanna, fall in love over a shared passion of the Latin ballad, embarking on a journey that brings both happiness and heartache.
Chico and Rita opens with an overwhelming hand drawn landscape of Cuba and is accompanied with a fiery Jazz soundtrack. Latin and Jazz plays a central role in Chico and Rita, capturing the true elegance and Latin feel and with such detailed animation, the film has a strong sense of authenticity which is beautiful to watch.
The film’s narrative is at times wearisome, as from the moment they meet, Chico and Rita are constantly on and off, exploring the cliché of not knowing what one has until it’s gone – frustrating for some, exciting for others. Nevertheless, their hopeless romance is enough to make you fall in love with the film yourself.
Touching on themes of racism, betrayal and sex (featuring animated nudity), Chico and Rita offers a lot more than your everyday Disney. Unsurprisingly praised by critics nation-wide, the film is a stylized animated musical that I would most definitely recommend, especially for all of the hopeless romantics out there.
The film’s narrative is at times wearisome, as from the moment they meet, Chico and Rita are constantly on and off, exploring the cliché of not knowing what one has until it’s gone – frustrating for some, exciting for others. Nevertheless, their hopeless romance is enough to make you fall in love with the film yourself.
Touching on themes of racism, betrayal and sex (featuring animated nudity), Chico and Rita offers a lot more than your everyday Disney. Unsurprisingly praised by critics nation-wide, the film is a stylized animated musical that I would most definitely recommend, especially for all of the hopeless romantics out there.
For Colored Girls
Already released over in the US, For Colored Girls is a film written and directed by Tyler Perry, adapted from the astounding award-winning play ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Isn’t Enuf’. The 36 year old play, written back in 1974 by Ntozake Shang, is about exploring life through the eyes of black women. It enjoyed highly acclaimed critical success and ‘excited, inspired and transformed’ audiences all over, evoking the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America.
I’m excited and intrigued to see how Perry has adapted this complex yet inspirational play for the big screen, but mostly due to it’s phenomenal casting. We’ll see Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine (Crash, Death at a Funeral), Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton (The Pursuit to Happiness, RockNRolla), Kerry Washington (Ray, Save The Last Dance), Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Macy Gray and that’s not even the whole cast! Each of these incredible actresses play women who are somehow all connected, yet each go through tough individual life struggles, revealing the different issues that impact women of ‘color.’
My worry is that these issues surrounding women and race are so vast and intricate that it may be difficult to illustrate on screen, but with such an epic cast and a soundtrack featuring the likes of Nina Simone, Leona Lewis, Estelle, Gladys Knight and more, it’s definitely more than enough to get my cinema ticket bought, I’ll just need to remember to bring a box of tissues…
For Colored Girls is releasing in the UK on the 10th December, take a look at the US trailer;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA
My worry is that these issues surrounding women and race are so vast and intricate that it may be difficult to illustrate on screen, but with such an epic cast and a soundtrack featuring the likes of Nina Simone, Leona Lewis, Estelle, Gladys Knight and more, it’s definitely more than enough to get my cinema ticket bought, I’ll just need to remember to bring a box of tissues…
For Colored Girls is releasing in the UK on the 10th December, take a look at the US trailer;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWU_cFU9ZA
Anuvahood
I was recently on set with Adam Deacon, known best for his roles in Kidulthood and Adulthood, for his directorial debut, Anuvahood! It’s the UK’s first urban comedy about ‘wasteman’, Kay (played by Deacon) who begins to realise he’s just another wannabe bad boy… even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury’s (!), Kay vows to become a respected gangster… or cry trying.
Anuvahood is a pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless “shotter”, who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity. What’s more, it was all filmed in our very own Grove, West London.
Adam Deacon has done a great job in capturing the conventional cliché of ‘urbanised youth’ films like Kidulthood, Adulthood and Shank in both his directing and acting. It’s a hilarious take on the genre and therefore incredibly refreshing.
Starring the likes of Jaime Winstone (Made In Dagenham, Dead Set), Richard Blackwood, comedian, Miss Jocelyn, Ollie Barbieri (Skins), Linda Robson (Birds Of A Feather) and many more, make sure you watch out for this one releasing in spring next year!
Have a sneaky peak with Radio 1 Newsbeat who went on the Anuvahood set…blad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP9d0OSUBBo
Adam Deacon has done a great job in capturing the conventional cliché of ‘urbanised youth’ films like Kidulthood, Adulthood and Shank in both his directing and acting. It’s a hilarious take on the genre and therefore incredibly refreshing.
Starring the likes of Jaime Winstone (Made In Dagenham, Dead Set), Richard Blackwood, comedian, Miss Jocelyn, Ollie Barbieri (Skins), Linda Robson (Birds Of A Feather) and many more, make sure you watch out for this one releasing in spring next year!
Have a sneaky peak with Radio 1 Newsbeat who went on the Anuvahood set…blad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP9d0OSUBBo
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