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Apocalypse archives: Lynn Shelton
12 Jun 2012
The Director of Your Sister's Sister shares her five films to save in an apocalypse
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928) ‘It’s completely exhilarating to watch how Dreyer experiments with the still nascent cinematic art form in this film. Canted camera angles, abstract imagery, and graphic lighting, combine with mesmerising…
The Giants
12 Jun 2012
A meandering and melancholic story of two boys and one not-so-idyllic summer
From the moment The Giants sparks up with Joy Division’s No Love Lost, Belgium-born Bouli Lanners’ story of two teenage brothers and their friend has a rebellious streak to it. Set across one not-so-idyllic summer, Zak (Zacharie Chasseriaud) and Seth…
Detachment
12 Jun 2012
An impressive cast fails to save Tony Kaye’s film which teeters on parody
Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) is a substitute teacher, making his living the hard way in the tougher public schools of New York City. Moving from school to school, he’s less interested in curriculum issues than in the temporary relationships he finds…
The Five Year Engagement
12 Jun 2012
A lack of comedy lets down an unexpectedly truthful treatment of romance
Following in the footsteps of last year’s excellent Bridesmaids, The Five Year Engagement is the latest romantic comedy from the seemingly endless Judd Apatow production line. Reuniting the Forgetting Sarah Marshall team of writer/director Nicolas…
The Hunter
12 Jun 2012
Willem Dafoe heads to Tasmania in this enjoyable if not entirely effective drama
A classical music-loving mercenary (Willem Dafoe) is hired by a shady biotech company to carry out a hit in Australia. His target is to secure the DNA of the presumed extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Posing as an academic researcher, he lodges at the ramshackle…
Killer Joe
12 Jun 2012
Excellent tense and trashy paranoid thriller from the director of The Exorcist
Following his 2006 paranoid thriller Bug, William Friedkin swaps its motel room setting for an only slightly less claustrophobic trailer park in this second consecutive adaptation of a Tracy Letts play. Killer Joe may not have the grandiose vision of…
Chernobyl Diaries
12 Jun 2012
Hostel-style tourist trip horror that’s lacking in suspense
From Oren Peli, producer of the Paranormal Activity series, comes yet another entry in the tourist trap cycle spawned by Eli Roth’s considerably superior Hostel. In Chernobyl Diaries, a group of US tourists find themselves engaged in bloody conflict on…
Top 5 actors playing against type
12 Jun 2012
5 roles that challenged expectations, in honour of Matthew McConaughey's menacing turn in Killer Joe
This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival sees Killer Joe come to our screens. Matthew McConaughey stars in the titular role, playing a hitman with a twisted moral code. For an actor whose most difficult challenge to date has arguably been…
