Features
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Jameson Cult Film Club: ‘The Blair Witch Project’
This Halloween, Jamesons Cult Film Club screened the cult 1999 ‘found footage’ horror The Blair Witch Project, one of the most influential films of its sub-genre, if not the decade as a whole. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’ film documents three student filmmakers on a mission to unearth the mystery of Elly Kedward – AKA…
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ICA: ‘Touch of Evil’
This week, the Institute of Contemporary Arts are revisiting the work of a cinematic genius with ‘Orson Welles: Postcards from Xanadu’. The season will feature Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), but began with a screening of the restored 1998 version of the classic crime thriller Touch of Evil (1958), starring Welles, Charlton…
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Special Feature: US TV drama takes on the apocalypse
The world has been ending for some time now, so it’s only right that US TV drama should take note. The ill-fated Jericho didn’t really get going, but now three major series have set out to realise the breakdown of society during the apocalypse/post-apocalypse: The Walking Dead, Falling Skies and Terra Nova. Given the names…
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Moët Bifas 2011: Nominations announced
If there was any ounce of nagging doubt concerning the health of modern British cinema, it was completely irradiated today with the announcement of the Moët British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nominees for 2011. Amongst the names were some of the UK’s finest directorial talent including Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen, mixing it up alongside…
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Special Feature: Shane Meadows and a new Stone Roses film?
Shane Meadows and The Stone Roses are said to be teaming up to produce a film to document their comeback tour later next year. Could it even be among the new film releases at the cinema in time for Christmas 2012? Having announced a trio of sell-out dates in Manchester’s Heaton Park in June next…
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Special Feature: CNN’s ‘Not My Life’
Not My Life (2011) – written, directed and produced by Robert Bilheimer and narrated by Glenn Close – is a documentary focusing on the brutal world of human trafficking and modern slavery. Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life concentrates mainly on the selling of women and children who…
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Barbican Film: Mark Gatiss and Jonathan Rigby ScreenTalk
On 11 October, Halloween began early at the Barbican Centre with a screen talk by Mark Gatiss and film critic Jonathan Rigby, followed by a screening of Harry Kümel’s Belgian vampire film Daughters of Darkness (1971). The hour-long discussion covered much the same ground as Gatiss’ BBC4 series A History of Horror – on which…
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Jameson Cult Film Club: ‘The Usual Suspects’
Last night, CineVue were honoured to be invited along to the latest Jameson Cult Film Club event, with an exclusive themed screening of Bryan Singer’s 1995 cult crime classic The Usual Suspects – starring Kevin Spacey, the superb Gabriel Byrne and Chazz Palminteri – at London’s Trinity Buoy Wharf.As with a few of Jameson Cult…
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Red Carpet: ‘The Three Musketeers 3D’ UK Premiere
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, The Three Musketeers (2011) brings the legendary story by Alexandre Dumas back to the big screen – this time in 3D. The movie was given its spectacular UK premiere in London last night, with Orlando Bloom (Duke of Buckingham), Milla Jovovich (M’lady De Winter), Luke Evans (Aramis), Ray Stevenson (Porthos)…
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Special Feature: Paul Laverty, BAFTA Lecture Series
Running alongside the Ken Loach season at the BFI, Paul Laverty, one of Britain’s most respected screenwriters, looked back on his career transition from human rights lawyer to scripting films, how his political background has influenced his work, and how his collaborations with Loach all boiled down to a cup of tea.A serious tone was…
