Daniel Green
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Secret Cinema: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
On Saturday, CineVue was honoured to be invited along to the latest event from Secret Cinema, “The Pioneer of Live Cinema”. For those uninitiated in the Secret Cinema experience, every few months the 60,000 strong (and rapidly growing) army of Secret Cinema devotees are invited to watch an unnamed film, at an undisclosed – yet…
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DVD Review: ‘Four Lions’
★★★★★ It was almost inevitable that the cinematic debut from actor, writer and director Chris Morris would attract an inordinate amount of controversy and media attention. For those uninitiated in the work of British comedy’s enfant terrible, Morris kick-started his career on Armando Iannucci’s BBC Radio 4 news-spoof On the Hour as a veracious, ‘Paxman-esque’…
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Secret Cinema: Seeing Films Differently
According to many of the most successful film producers and studios worldwide, the future of cinema lies in the ‘game-changing’, ‘immersive’ quality of 3D film, satisfying a natural desire within cinema-going audiences to feel evermore part of the visual world portrayed on screen. However, for those yet to be convinced of both the validity and…
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DVD Review: ‘Centurion’
★★★☆☆ In the aftermath of the announced abolition of the UK Film Council by the UK Coalition government, much has been made on how this will directly affect the country’s ability to firstly support its home ground talent, and secondly, the UK film industry’s capacity for competing with its European neighbours and Hollywood.Whilst many notable…
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DVD Review: ‘The Perfect Sleep’
★★☆☆☆ “Sorry if it seems kind of cliché, but the French dig this kind of visual…and I dig the French”. These are the telling, if bizarre, words from The Perfect Sleep’s (2009) unnamed protagonist, moments after narrating a somewhat baffling prologue to the film’s events. Orchestrated by first-time director Jeremy Alter, the film can almost…
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DVD Review: ‘The Dinner Party’
★☆☆☆☆ TV soap operas have often proved to be the perfect platform for young acting talent to cut their thespian teeth. Australia’s hugely successful soap export Neighbours helped to launch the acting careers of Alan Dale (Entourage, Lost) and Guy Pearce (LA Confidential [1997], Memento [2000]), whilst its main antipodean ratings rival Home and Away…
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DVD Review: ‘Resurrecting the Street Walker’
★★☆☆☆ Much like his debut film’s aspiring intern protagonist James Parker (James Powell), British director Ozgur Uyanik struggles to reign in his ambitious, yet ultimately flawed first feature, Resurrecting the Street Walker (2009), which wears its influences very visibly on its sleeve.Utilizing the tried and tested ‘mockumentary’ format, echoing recent horror mock-docs such as The Last…
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DVD Review: ‘Precious’
★★★☆☆ “Not since The Birth of a Nation has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as Precious.” This was the view of New York Press columnist Armond White upon viewing Precious (2009), the second film by director Lee Daniels. Despite picking up two Academy Awards earlier this year, White’s was not…
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Film Review: ‘Four Lions’
★★★★★ It was almost inevitable that the cinematic debut from actor, writer and director Chris Morris would attract an inordinate amount of controversy and media attention. For those uninitiated in the work of British comedy’s enfant terrible, Morris kick-started his career on Armando Iannucci’s BBC Radio 4 news-spoof On the Hour as a veracious, ‘Paxman-esque’…