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Film and Issue 626

Larry Charles: Beyond Belief

2 Apr 2009

‘The controversy of people standing in front of a theatre with placards means nothing to me,’ announces Larry Charles. The Borat director and US comedy colossus, famed for his creative input into genre-redefining TV shows Seinfeld and Curb Your…

Gun Crazy - Poverty Row

2 Apr 2009

Since I heard that his ‘lovers on the lam’ film noir Gun Crazy was to be revived I have spent a lot of time trying to get hold of Joseph H Lewis’ other films. If ever there was a wonderful filmmaker who deserves his own DVD box set, it is Lewis. My old…

Let The Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In)

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA/HORROR Let the Right One In is a chilling Swedish coming-of-age story that breathes new life into a tired vampire genre marred by American high school teenagers and Christian lobbyist novelists (Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice). It’s the early…

Interview - Richard Curtis

2 Apr 2009

Richard Curtis’s pirate radio romp The Boat That Rocked could be seen as a step into new territory for the Love Actually director, as it is noticeably free of his two main preoccupations up to this point: romantic love and Hugh Grant. But according to…

The Boat That Rocked

2 Apr 2009

COMEDY/DRAMA Richard Curtis’ return to the big screen after six years back working in television is not as rockin’ as it is rolling, loose, baggy and freewheeling. It feels like a very long musical montage with little structure or direction. Some…

Tony Manero

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA As any self-respecting Saturday Night Fever fan will tell you, Tony Manero is the name of the white suit-wearing dancer who made John Travolta a by-word for cool. The premise of Pablo Larrain’s sophomore movie is like a disco nightmare. It’s…

Religulous

2 Apr 2009

DOCUMENTARY The Richard Dawkins offensive has a powerful new ally in Borat director Larry Charles and comedian Bill Maher’s new film about faith and its associated idiocies. Beginning with the premise that religion is detrimental to the progress…

Female Prisoner Scorpion Trilogy

2 Apr 2009

CRIME/ADVENTURE/BOXSET No one makes films like the Japanese filmmaker Shunya Ito, and his early 1970s exploitation film trilogy about the travails of a sexy young female prisoner Matsu (Meiko Kaji) are very likely to be his abiding legacy, in the…

PlayList

2 Apr 2009

In tune with the arrival of Nicolas Cage’s latest ‘I-can-see-the-future’ drama Knowing at our cinemas, this month’s PlayList offers to take you back to the future, or at least the retro-tinged visions of the future created to exploit the common…

Profile: Pablo Larrain

2 Apr 2009

Name Pablo Larrain Born 19 August 1976, Santiago, Chile Background Pablo Larrain studied film at the UNIACC university in Chile. After working as an assistant director on several films, he started to direct commercials. His debut film Fuga…

Profile - Natalie Press

2 Apr 2009

Name Natalie Press Born 15 August, 1980, London Background Just three years after the elfin actress made her professional debut in television soap Holby City she hit the big time with Pawel Pawlikowski’s rapturously received 2004 film My Summer…

Monsters VS Aliens

2 Apr 2009

ANIMATION/SCI-FI As with the cheerfully vacuous Bolt, Monsters vs Aliens exemplifies the virtues of today’s 3D cinema – eye-popping to watch, leavened with self-referential humour that makes it easy to digest, but also playing things so painstakingly…

Fifty Dead Men Walking

2 Apr 2009

THRILLER A Northern Irish Catholic Del Boy turns undercover informer in this liberal adaptation of Martin McGartland’s autobiography. Besieged by recession, shootings and paranoia (sound familiar?), west Belfast in the 1980s was not a great place…

I Love You, Man

2 Apr 2009

COMEDY The brotherly-love or ‘bro-mance’ genre that Judd Apatow developed and mainstreamed with Knocked Up and Superbad shows no signs of running low on testosterone, with I Love You, Man picking up where last year’s equally acerbic Role Models left…

Cherry Blossoms (Kirschbluten-Hanami)

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA Who would be a parent? Unloved, unthanked and ultimately abandoned. The eternal story of ageist betrayal gets a fresh Germanic twist in this new film. On finding out that her husband is gravely ill, elderly Trudi (Hannalore Eisner) decides…

Race to Witch Mountain

2 Apr 2009

FANTASY/ADVENTURE Director Andy Fickman (She’s the Man, The Game Plan) revives one of Disney’s most venerable properties by pimping out 1975 ‘alien kid’ adventure Escape to Witch Mountain as a high-concept vehicle for the studio’s current star Dwayne…

Driftwood

2 Apr 2009

THRILLER Wrestling man mountain Diamond Dallas Page might not seem like the kind of brute you’d want to mess with, but in films like Driftwood, the big guy always falls that bit harder. And in this movie Goliath is taken on by little David Forrester…

Operation Valkyrie

2 Apr 2009

DOCUMENTARY Just when you thought it was safe to dispel the image of an eye-patched Tom Cruise from your mind; here comes the documentary story of the doomed plot to kill Hitler in 1944. Set to an inappropriately throbbing soundtrack which could best…

Incendiary

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA The tale of a guilt-ridden mother losing her young son and husband to a suicide bomb attack should make for unbearably emotional viewing. Instead, it’s more likely you’ll be watching through your hands on account of the ham-fisted approach and…

First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

2 Apr 2009

DRAMA Produced by Wong Kar-wai, and shot by his cameraman Chris Doyle, this doesn’t even pretend to pay much more than mere homage to the Hong Kong maestro. It’s a self conscious and self-reflexive take on filmmaker Erik Kot’s attempt to make a…

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