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Emily Blunt - Young Victoria

Emily Blunt - Yo majesty!

5 Mar 2009

When people got an eyeful of Emily Blunt’s striking good looks and acting ability in My Summer of Love, winner of the Best New British Feature award following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2004, the general consensus…

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick & Rainer Werner Fassbinder

5 Mar 2009

This month two monsters of cinema meet in the central belt. As German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s takes over the Glasgow Film Theatre (courtesy of Goethe Institut) with a small selection of his better known films (Fear Eats the Soul, Effi Brest…

Laurent Cantet

Profile - Laurent Cantet

5 Mar 2009

Name Laurent Cantet Born 5 June, 1961, Melle, France Background A graduate of La Femis film school in Paris, Cantet made his impressive feature debut in 1999 with Human Resources, which used a mainly non-professional cast and married the…

Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria

Young Victoria - Giving us the Viccies

5 Mar 2009

Other screen portrayals of Queen Victoria include Judi Dench, Kathy Bates, Michael Palin, Miriam Margoyles, Patricia Routledge, Pauline Collins and Peter Sellers (pictured).

Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls

(5 stars)5 Mar 2009

HORROR Herk Harvey’s 1962 slice of low-budget horror has become a touchstone of today’s horror cinema, foreshadowing genre classics like George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and M Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense. After surviving a violent…

Bronson

Bronson

(5 stars)5 Mar 2009

The brutal true story of Britain’s most notorious and dangerous prisoner Michael Gordon Petersen aka Charles Bronson is given an expressionistic makeover by gifted Dutch auteur Nicolas Refn Winding (Pusher Trilogy, Fear X, Bleeder).

Turkey Shoot

Interview - Mark Hartley

5 Mar 2009

‘To me they were just like American exploitation films, but they had Australian locations and Australian actors. So I felt a connection to them. After seeing them I wanted to read about them, but I realised they hadn’t been written about at all. ‘In…

Interview - Mark Strong

Interview - Mark Strong

5 Mar 2009

‘You cannot play an “evil” character without finding the humanity in them. That’s what I find very interesting. You’re not asking for sympathy, but you’re not just painting a one-dimensional character,’ says Mark Strong. Having played his fair share of…

The Burning Plain

The Burning Plain

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

DRAMA After a publicised falling-out with the filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, with whom he collaborated on Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga has now made his own directorial debut, the sombre…

Watchmen

Watchmen

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

SCI FI/THRILLER Considering that Alan Moore’s Watchmen was believed unfilmmable. Director Zach Snyder has done a sterling job in bringing Moore’s influential graphic novel to the big screen. Snyder worked with comic book scribe Frank Miller on 300…

Nanette Burstein

Profile - Nanette Burstein

5 Mar 2009

Name Nanette Burstein Born 23 May, 1970, Buffalo, New York Background Burstein’s graduate film from New York University Tisch School of Arts became her debut feature-length documentary. The Oscar nominated On the Ropes portrayed three young…

Marley & Me

Also Released - Film

5 Mar 2009

American Teen (15) 101min •• Nauseating reality TV style documentary about a year in the lives of four teenagers in the senior year of a high school in Indiana. Director Nanette On The Ropes Burstein plays with ideas of truth and representation to such…

The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

ROMANCE/HISTORY Young Queen Victoria (Emily Blunt) kicks against the royal pricks but is tamed by a man whose name has become synonymous with penile piercing. Who would of thought it. Miserable old Queen Victoria was the proto feminist. As a young…

Surveillance

Surveillance

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

THRILLER Director and co-writer Jennifer Chambers Lynch (the 40-year-old daughter of filmmaker David Lynch) has said that Surveillance was originally about witches. That might explain why the finished film, which is a thriller involving serial…

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

(4 stars)5 Mar 2009

DRAMA Twentysomething Wendy (Michelle Williams) and her golden retriever dog Lucy embark on a cross-country road trip from Indiana to find temporary work in a fishing cannery in Ketchikan, Alaska. Their problems begin in Oregon when Wendy’s old Honda…

Flame and Citron

Flame and Citron

(2 stars)5 Mar 2009

THRILLER World War II is so en vogue right now. Sixty years after the end of the war and the movie world has decided it no longer needs to trot out The Dam Busters line that the allies were all heroes and all Germans were Nazis. Recently we’ve had…

Hush

Hush

(2 stars)5 Mar 2009

THRILLER British director Mark Tonderai’s peacefully titled debut feature begins anything but silently. Couple Zakes (William Ash) and Beth (Christine Bottomley) are on a midnight car journey down the M1 and their bickering is gradually turning…

Gazwrx - The Films Of Jeff Keen

Gazwrx - The Films Of Jeff Keen

(4 stars)5 Mar 2009

SHORT FILMS Jeff Keen aka Dr Gaz is Britain's answer to American underground cinema legends Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol. Born in 1923, the Brighton-based Keen started making films in the late 1950s and has to date made upwards of 50…

The Baxter

The Baxter

5 Mar 2009

COMEDY This likeably old fashioned comedy showcasing the talents of comic actors Michael Showalter (who also writes and directs), Paul Judd, Justin Theroux and a pre-Brokeback Mountain Michelle Williams has taken four years to cross the pond. And yet…

The Girl in the Park

The Girl in the Park

(3 stars)5 Mar 2009

DRAMA It’s easy to see why this quiet little film about a missing child was overlooked for glitzy Angelina Jolie weepy The Changeling on its first release. As Julia Sandburg, whose toddler was snatched from a park 16 years earlier, Sigourney Weaver…

DigiCult kicks off in style

DigiCult kicks off in style

5 Mar 2009

DigiCult, the new Scottish company led by local producers, has put together a pool of talent including BAFTA Scotland award winners, film programmers, recent graduates, experimental filmmakers, and television directors to make a selection of films.

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