Features
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Special Feature: ‘The Keeper’ wins MOFILM Cannes 2011 Video Contest
With The Social Network (2010) and Holy Rollers (2010) star Jesse Eisenberg in attendance as lead judge, filmmakers Chris Bailey and Jake Naishwere’s mockumentary short The Keeper (2010) was announced as the winner of this year’s annual MOFILM Cannes 2011 Video Contest at the 58th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity..The Keeper is a quirky…
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Summer Screen 2011: ‘The Skin I Live In’ review
★★★★☆ Last night, CineVue attended the UK premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s Palme d’Or nominee The Skin I Live In (2011), which also launched this year’s Film4 Summer Screen season at Somerset House. With an introduction from Almodóvar himself and stunning female lead Elena Anaya, and with industry guests including British filmmaker Mike Leigh, the stage…
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‘Scala Forever’ Film Season: Preview
Declarations of Hollywood’s severe decline may be well-founded (according to Nick James at Sight and Sound, the top performing films at the box office over the10-12 June weekend were all sequels), but never fear – the ‘Scala Forever’ film season is nearly here to wash away the mainstream doom and gloom.Beginning on 13 August and…
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Barbican Film: Studio Ghibli’s ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky’
As a 29 year old, who continually attempts to resist the day-to-day reality of having to be mature, Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli animé Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) provides the large dose of whimsical magic I so yearn for in order to stay sane – in fact the older I get the more I…
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London Southbank: Tracey Emin’s ‘Love is What You Want’
Recently, I was invited to view Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition ‘Love is What You Want‘ and write a piece about it. You maybe asking yourself why I am I reporting on an art show seeing as I write for a film blog? Well firstly, Emin’s show is a mixed media exhibition incorporating sculptures, paintings, prints,…
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Film4 Summer Screen 2011: Preview
From 27 July through to 7 August, London’s Somerset House plays host to the Film4 Summer Screen. Events include the UK premiere of Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In (2011) and a series of ‘BEHIND THE SCREEN with BAFTA’ events that include talks with Joe Cornish and Barry Norman. ‘BEHIND THE SCREEN with BAFTA’…
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Special Feature: Risky Business
With world economics in a sorry state and arts funding being cut left right and centre you may think it absurd of me to suggest that any good could come of it all. It is my (perhaps controversial) opinion that in the majority of cases if a film has more money at its disposal the…
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Barbican Film: ‘Watch Me Move’ Season – Jan Švankmajer’s ‘Surviving Life’
If you haven’t heard of Jan Švankmajer before, then your brain is in for an interesting experience. The Czech stop-motion legend seemingly won’t rest until he’s brought pretty much every inanimate object to life, from staplers and books to egg whisks and apples. For his 2010 feature Surviving Life, showing as part of The Barbican’s…
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Special Feature: More4 screens ‘Donor Unknown’
Donor Unknown (2010) charts the seemingly unique story of 20 year old JoEllen Marsh and her burning curiosity to know more about her anonymous donor father. After discovering an online registry which connects donor-conceived children, she manages to track down a half-sister in New York and a further 12 half-siblings from across the United States.Jerry Rothwell’s film is about…
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Special Feature: Ricky Gervais turns 50
This weekend Sky Movies Comedy/HD celebrates the 50th birthday of one of Britain’s best-loved comedians – Ricky Gervais – with a triple bill of his films on Saturday 25th June. Like him or loathe him, he played an important role in bringing about a new era of comedy in the noughties and has since infiltrated…