Features
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Barbican Film: ‘The Lost World’
Harry O. Hoyt’s The Lost World (1925) screened as part of the Barbican’s ‘Silent Film & Live Music’ series and was presented in partnership with ‘Bristol Silents’. Scissor Sister’s musical director and keyboard player John Garden has composed an original score for this unique presentation of a seemingly lost classic – restored from nine separate…
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BAFTA presents ‘Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman’
Gary Oldman has a secret. He is all set to star with Colin Firth in a remake of critically acclaimed film of the 1960s but he’s not telling anyone what it is. “I can see my agent at the back shaking his head” joked Oldman as BBC Radio 4 film presenter Francine Stock did her…
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Special Feature: ‘Arrested Development’ film announced
Ever since the Fox sitcom Arrested Development was cancelled in February 2006, the show’s fans have clamoured for a revival, encouraged – in no small part – by the cast and crew. Lauded by critics, yet low in the ratings, the series proved a springboard for several of today’s biggest names, including Jason Bateman and…
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Red Carpet: ‘Johnny English Reborn’ UK Premiere
Under the sweltering heat of London’s unexpected Autumn sunshine, the red carpet unrolled in Leicester Square for the premiere of Johnny English Reborn (2011), the second installment of the action comedy that parodies the legendary James Bond and the secret agent genre at large. Played by Mr. Bean and Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson, Johnny English…
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Watch This Space: Treasures from the BFI National Archive
CineVue were honoured guests of American Express this past Thursday for a screening of three extraordinary film treasures from the BFI National Archive, as part of the Watch This Space Festival at London’s National Theatre Flytower. The selected films – Momma Don’t Allow (1956), Lindsay Anderson’s Every Day Except Christmas (1957) and Nice Time (1957)…
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Red Carpet: ‘Real Steel’ UK Premiere
With robot boxing drama Real Steel (2011) released in the UK on 14 October, fans gathered outside the Empire Leicester Square to watch footage from the film and meet its star, Hugh Jackman. Joined by his director, Shawn Levy and producer Don Murphy, Jackman signed autographs and took photos with the crowd on the red…
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Secret Cinema: California Classics presents ‘Top Gun’
Tony Scott’s action classic Top Gun (1986) – starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer – was the centre piece for the second day of Future Cinema’s California Classics double-bill last Sunday (Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987) screened on the Saturday). With the announcement of the venue kept secret until the very last…
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Alibi Film Club: ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’
Screened at last Monday’s Alibi Film Club in Dalston, Jason Eisener’s Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) – starring a grizzled Rutger Hauer – is the second feature-length exploitation feature to have come from one of the fake trailers shown before Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Taratino’s Grindhouse (2007) double-bill.The Alibi Film Club offers a low-key and…
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Prince Charles Cinema: ‘Schwing along with Wayne’s World’
The ‘Schwing Along with Wayne’s World‘ event at London’s Prince Charles Cinema (CineVue’s favourite indie picturehouse) felt like a true old-school ‘night at the movies’, with the audience playing an integral part in giving the evening a stupendously fun and hilariously entertaining atmosphere.In the modern era, seldom is it possible to experience the romanticised cinematic experience…
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Special Feature: ‘Girl in Motion’
★★☆☆☆ Doffing its cap to the contentious mumblecore sub-genre, Girl in Motion (2011), a sweet but slight short film from writer/director/editor Phil Bowman details two weeks in the life of Amy De Bhrún’s twenty-something writer as she struggles with the various pressures of life, love and independence. Girl in Motion (2011)– with a title that could…