Features
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BAFTA: ‘Enslaved: Odyssey to the West’ Showcase
Compared to the age of the film industry – who would by now be knee-deep in birthday cards from Her Majesty – the video games industry has barely made it out of its spotty, gangly teenage phase. This hasn’t, however, stopped a growing confluence between these two powerhouses of visual entertainment over the past several…
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Special Feature: Interactive cinema – the new frontier
Two days after their storming headline set at this year’s Reading Festival, Canadian rock troupe Arcade Fire released a short, interactive online video for their track We Used to Wait, taken from their acclaimed third album, The Suburbs. Directed by Chris Milk, whose previous collaborations have included musical behemoths U2, Kanye West and the late,…
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Special Feature: The Top 10 East Asian films from the last 10 years
From Akira Kurosawa to John Woo, East Asia has always produced some of the most interesting, exciting, and different films in world cinema. Recent years have seen film industries of countries such as Thailand and South Korea start to rival the old guard of China and Japan, making the region more exciting than ever. To…
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Barbican Film: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’
It was only just last year that we saw filmmakers take another crack at this old nut. Cribbing the original title and whisking Hitchcock’s 84-year-old thriller away to the sprawling hills of West Hollywood, we find another ‘Alfred’ – in this case Molina – heading up proceedings.The fact that almost no part of the core…
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Cigarette Burn: The Comic Strip presents…
The movie based on popular comic strip Marmaduke (2010) is out in cinemas now. Marmaduke? Oh, you know Marmaduke, the big dog, created in 1954 and still being made to this day. You must know what I mean!? It’s Marmaduke! Conversations like that are happening up and down the length of the country right now,…
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Special Feature: The fluidity of identity in British cinema
With an industry so frequently considered as ‘lagging behind’ the successes of the mainstream provided by Hollywood, British Cinema seems somewhat subjugated by its dominant overseas counterpart. Furthermore, the artistic ‘otherness’ of a European cinema arguably fills the void in terms of an alternative to the mainstream blockbusters produced by Hollywood and its associates. The…
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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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Cigarette Burns: ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ – the alternate endings
After 37 years, British TV institution Last of The Summer Wine came to a finish last week and, depending on your age, that either meant nothing or a little bit more than nothing. I’m sure more people would care if they knew the truth…Like all good television series finales, the makers filmed a few alternate…
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Cigarette Burns: Owen Wilson: some rules…
Imagine my horror (go on, do it) when I discovered that Owen Wilson was to provide the voice for talking dog Marmaduke in the new live action/CGI film of the same name, directed by Shanghai Noon (2000) director Tom Dey. I haven’t seen, nor will I ever see Marmaduke (2010), so my opinions are based solely on…
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Cigarette Burns: Words can’t hurt you?
I’ve found that as I watch more and more films, I notice the increasing use of lazy cliche comments that act as a shorthand information provider for the viewer. You see, words come loaded with meanings, and through the arrangement and clever use of these words, meaning can be implied, suggested and even explicitly stated.…