Film and Issue 559

Echo Park LA - interview

Fairy godmothers

18 Sep 2006

‘Todd [Haynes] really champions touching domestic dramas. It’s something that he did in Far From Heaven and in a different way it’s something that we’re trying to do with this film.’ Wash Westmoreland, Echo Park LA’s English co-director is clearly still…

Keane

(15) 94min

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA ‘Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy,’ according to the great Canadian philosopher and theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan, but it is also a surety of grief. No one thinks he knows this better than William Keane (Damian…

Children of Men

(15) 114min

18 Sep 2006

It’s 2027, and various crises relating to immigration, terrorism and biological insecurities are just the minor symptoms of a larger problem facing mankind; no children have been born worldwide for nearly two decades. When society’s youngest person…

Hoodwinked - profile - Cory Edwards

Profile

18 Sep 2006

Name Cory Edwards Born 21 August 1968, Anderson, Indiana, US. Background Actor/writer and director team Cory and his brother Todd started out making Hoodwinked as an animated short, then decided the material would stretch to feature length.

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

18 Sep 2006

Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (famed for his 24-hour version of Hitchcock’s Psycho) and his French collaborator Philippe Parreno follow in the footsteps of Hellmuth Costard’s 1970 film Football as Never Before - which profiled George Best in a game…

Mountain Patrol (Kekexili)

18 Sep 2006

Unfolding against the stunning mountainous backdrops of the Qingzang Heights in Tibet’s Kekexili region, this epic drama relates real-life events from a decade ago, when an armed team of Tibetan volunteers attempted to protect the indigenous antelope…

World Trade Center

(12A) 129min

18 Sep 2006

REAL LIFE/EPIC Oliver Stone has proved remarkably adept at re-enacting pivotal moments in post-World War II American history, from the death of John F Kennedy to the anti-Vietnam war movement (Born on the Fourth of July) and his intriguing portrayal…

This Film is Not Yet Rated

(18) 97min

18 Sep 2006

DOCUMENTARY Kirby Dick’s hilarious but deeply worrying exposé of the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating board is one of the most thoroughly entertaining documentaries of the year. A clearly partisan Dick (his own films, among them Sick…

In A Man's World - DVD review

In a Man's World

18 Sep 2006

CRIME/DRAMA OK, first things first: In a Man’s World is not a very good film, but it is interesting one for a number of reasons. Aberdonian writer/director Lee Hutcheson’s debut feature is a stilted, ultra low budget cross of Goodfellas, Sleepers and…

Rough Cuts

Film news

18 Sep 2006

Rough Cuts would like to dedicate this issue of The List to the memory of Shirley Gilmour (pictured). Gilmour was one of the cornerstones of the Filmhouse throughout the 1990s where her tireless administration of everything from the day to day running…

Black Sun

18 Sep 2006

French artist, documentary filmmaker and author Hugues de Montalembert describes his life after he was attacked in his apartment in New York and blinded with paint stripper. This is less the story of an artist coming to terms with his blindness (and all…

Echo Park LA

18 Sep 2006

Tony Richardson/Shelagh Delaney’s 1961 drama A Taste of Honey is the direct inspiration for this beautifully composed teenage drama. Young Latina Magdalena (Emily Rios) is blissfully preparing for her Quinceañera (15th birthday celebration) dreaming of…

Clerks II

(15) 97min

18 Sep 2006

COMEDY ‘With no power comes no responsibility,’ declares the tagline on the poster for Clerks II, neatly summarising the minimal progress made by Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) as they leave behind their jobs as time wasting…

Hoodwinked

18 Sep 2006

Like a bedtime story told by an amiable drunk, Hoodwinked is a hackneyed narrative redeemed by great creative embellishment of the telling. Writer/directors Corey and Todd Edwards have come up with a noir setting that’s equal parts Raymond Chandler…

PS - DVD review

PS

18 Sep 2006

ROMANCE Films set in or around art schools are still something of a rarity (although Terry Zwigoff’s Art School Confidential should be touching down sometime in 2007) so it’s something of a shame that Dylan Rodger Dodger Kidd’s second feature never…

Once in a Lifetime - DVD review

Once in a Lifetime

18 Sep 2006

SPORT HISTORY When you think of the US and football, you might conjure up images of Diana Ross inadvertently destroying goalposts during the 1994 World Cup opening ceremony or the US being horsed by Iran four years later, but whatever you think of…

Nina's Heavenly Delights

18 Sep 2006

When Pratibha Parmar, the multi-award winning filmmaker, went to the UK Film Council for funding for Nina’s Heavenly Delights, her debut mainstream lesbian feature, she was told either the lesbian stuff goes or the money does. Considering that…

Night Porter, The - DVD review

The Night Porter

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA This notorious 1974 film about a Holocaust survivor who, years later, becomes infatuated with one of the Nazis who terrorised her in the camps was just one of a number that attempted to deal with the after-effects of fascism at the time.