Fast becoming one of the UK’s leading film festivals, Glasgow Film Festival’s eighth year has proven to be one of its best yet.
Selling over 30,000 tickets and attracting some top name guests, there was no better place to be this February than flitting between the marvellous Glasgow Film Theatre and the tallest cinema in Europe, Cineworld Renfrew Street.
Small on scale, yet big on ideas, co-directors Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner Continue reading “8th Annual Glasgow Film Festival Round-Up”
Peccadillo Pictures, the leading distributor of art house, gay and lesbian, independent and world cinema, have acquired the U.K. rights to five new films: Leave It On The Floor, Riot Girls, Kuma, The Arrival Of Wang and The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mum.
Tom Abell, head of acquisitions, said of the films, “these titles display a diverse range of film-making which signifies yet another direction for Peccadillo Pictures in 2012. We’re proud to be adding these films to our slate and feel they represent Continue reading “Peccadillo Pictures Acquires The Arrival Of Wang, Leave It On The Floor & More For U.K. Distribution”
Earlier this week, DCA revealed their February/March programme and it’s another packed month at your local independent cinema.
Notable highlights include from this month’s programme include: David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which looks into the turbulent relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung (Feb 24 – Mar 1); Oren Moverman’s Rampart, about a renegade cop battling for his own survival (Mar 2 – Mar 8); and Trishna, Michael Winterbottom’s modern-day take on Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of Continue reading “What’s On At DCA: February – March, 2012”
As a huge fan of Peccadillo Pictures (the studio responsible for releasing Tomboy and Weekend in the U.K.), it was only natural for me to preview their latest film, North Sea Texas, on Centrefolds & Empty Screens.
Marking the directorial debut of Belgian filmmaker Bavo Defurne, North Sea Texas, co-written by Derfune and producer Yves Verbraeken, centers on a teenage boy’s (Jelle Florizoone) search for his identity and sexuality as he becomes obsessed with the boy next door (Mathias Vergels).
It may sound like a plot that’s been attempted over and over again, but Continue reading “North Sea Texas Promises A Sweet Coming-Of-Age Comedy Drama”
Anna (Noomi Rapace) and her eight year old son, Anders (Velte Qvenild Werring), are moved to a modest apartment block on the outskirts of Oslo as part of the witness protection program. Scared to death by the violent past she’s escaped, Anna takes no risks with Anders, protecting him from all elements, even the draft.
As she starts to warm to her surroundings, she purchases a baby monitor from a friendly salesman, Helge (Kristoffer Joner), as a way of allowing Anders Continue reading “Review: Babycall (2011)”
The folks over at the British Film Institute have released the official programme for the 26th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. As you can see upon exploring the online programme, the festival offers a wide variety of films, special events, shorts, archive classics, experimental and erotic works.
Kicking the proceedings off on Friday, March 23 is Cloudburst, a touching comedy drama starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald, Cloudburst centers on a lesbian couple who escape their nursing Continue reading “26th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Programme Announced”
Since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival late last month, it’s been hard to avoid chatter about Film4’s controversial, perceptive and terrifyingly honest new documentary The Imposter.
Saluted by critics as one of the bravest documentaries in years, The Imposter – from the producers behind The September Issue and Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer – centers on a teenager who convinces a Texas family that he is their son who went missing three years ago.
From here, questions are raised, motives are put under scrutiny and the cracks Continue reading “Film4’s The Imposter Arrives Amidst A Cloak Of Mystery”
Update: This competition is now closed. The winners have now been notified.
We’ve teamed up with the lovely people at Spirit Level Film to award one lucky winner with a pair of tickets to the very first UK screening of The Price Of Kings: Yasser Arafat – the first film in a unique series of documentaries about some of the most influential, controversial and powerful leaders of our time.
For those unfamiliar with Yasser Arafat, he was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. Revered by many Arabs, yet feared by Israelis, Arafat had a turbulent life, culminated by his death in 2004 which, to this day, is Continue reading “Win A Pair Of Tickets To See The Price Of Kings: Yasser Arafat”
Produced on a shoestring budget of £100,000, Once is the definition of an intimate and naturalistic film. Tracking the burgeoning relationship between an Irish busker, Glen Hansard, and a Czech immigrant, Markéta Irglová, filmmaker John Carney’s musical romance is a sweet tale of how the beauty of music has the ability to draw these two unnamed people from dissimilar backgrounds together.
Finding truth in the authentic chemistry shared between Hansard, Irglová and the real-world presence of modern-day Dublin, Carney’s tale is a simple one, but Continue reading “Blast From The Past #3 – Once (2006)”
New Wave Films have acquired the U.K. distribution rights to Berlinale award-winners and critical hits Tabu and Caesar Must Die, reports CineUropa.
Written and directed by Miguel Gomes, Tabu, an enshrouded examination of a self-centred woman named Aurora, became the talk of the festival for its new-fangled narrative, sublime use of cinematography and terrific performances.
Tabu stars Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espirito Santo and Carloto Cotta. It’s Gomes’ third feature film, and has been adorned by Continue reading “New Wave Films Acquires Tabu & Caesar Must Die For U.K. Distribution”
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