Shame, Tyrannosaur and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy lead the nominations for the 39th London Evening Standard British Film Awards.
Selected by a host of Britain’s leading film critics, the London Evening Standard British Film Awards recognise the skill and audacity of those involved with the British film industry.
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Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, Steve McQueen’s Shame and Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy lead the nominations for the 14th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards (BIFA’s), which were announced at a ceremony in London earlier today.
Other nominees include Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, Richard Ayoade’s Subarmine, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin and John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard.
The BIFA’s, an awards ceremony aimed squarely at acknowledging the Continue reading “BIFA Awards 2011: Nominations”
X-Men: First Class (Review)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence Continue reading “DVD Releases: October 31, 2011”
Synopsis: Shot by filmmakers all around the world, Life In A Day aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.
Co-directed by Kevin Macdonald, and produced by filmmaker brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, Life In A Day’s concept is a relatively austere one: invite millions of people from around the world to film their lives on July 24, 2010, submitting the results to YouTube with the possibility of being included in a new documentary. The response was overwhelming, with a total of 4,500 hours of footage being collected.
The resulting documentary is a neatly pieced together, surprisingly moving peek into a day into the life of Earth’s inhabitants. Director McDonald begins at midnight, and proceeds to take us through the entire day over the course of a tidy 90 minute running time. Moving from continent to continent, individual to individual, Life In A Day wonderfully documents ordinary people going about their ordinary lives, from the humdrum aspects of human life – such as eating, talking, love and laughter – to the more challenging – death, disease, war, discrimination and brutality.
Profoundly benevolent, marvellously captivating and pleasingly authentic, Life In A Day is a worldly, important documentary that offers a brief yet wholly authentic and revealing glimpse into humanity. A triumphant achievement in contemporary cinema.
Life in a Day is currently playing at DCA Dundee.
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Green Lantern
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard
Bad Teacher
Director: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake
The Beaver
Director: Jodie Foster
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin
Life In A Day
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Cindy Baer, Moica and Caryn Waechter
Potiche
Director: François Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu and Fabrice Luchini
The Messenger
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Samantha Morton
Stake Land
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Connor Paolo, Kerry McGillis and Nick Damici
Swinging With The Finkles
Director: Jonathan Newman
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore and Melissa George
The Round Up
Director: Rose Bosch
Starring: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent and Gad Elmaleh
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