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Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
- 2/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Viv Fongenie's second feature, about an astronomy buff who becomes schizophrenic, is a textured and engaging look at mental illness
The desolate expanses of the universe are telescoped into one man's head in British director Viv Fongenie's second feature, as web designer and astronomy buff Ollie Kepler (the clue's in the name) slips into paranoid schizophrenia after the death of his girlfriend. Edward Hogg – skullcap hair and furious eyes, obsessing over heat death and cramming imaginary microchips into blocks of mature Scottish cheddar – is good as Kepler. But praise is also due to straight man Andrew Knott, selfless in the (in both senses) support role: Kepler's bewildered best friend, a window on the other side of the mental-illness experience. A textured and engaging look at a subject that often doesn't want to be looked at.
Rating: 3/5
DramaPhil Hoad
guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
The desolate expanses of the universe are telescoped into one man's head in British director Viv Fongenie's second feature, as web designer and astronomy buff Ollie Kepler (the clue's in the name) slips into paranoid schizophrenia after the death of his girlfriend. Edward Hogg – skullcap hair and furious eyes, obsessing over heat death and cramming imaginary microchips into blocks of mature Scottish cheddar – is good as Kepler. But praise is also due to straight man Andrew Knott, selfless in the (in both senses) support role: Kepler's bewildered best friend, a window on the other side of the mental-illness experience. A textured and engaging look at a subject that often doesn't want to be looked at.
Rating: 3/5
DramaPhil Hoad
guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
- 2/15/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The line-up for the 18th Raindance Film Festival was announced today at a press launch held at the May Fair Hotel in London. This years line-up includes 77 feature films, 69 UK premieres and 133 short films, special live events, exclusive Q&As and masterclasses.
The festival will run from September 29 – October 10.
Opening the festival on Wednesday 29th September is Jackboots On Whitehall – a satirical animation about an alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion. Star voiceover cast includes: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike,Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Merchant and Richard O’Brien. It will be followed by an after-party with live set from rising Us indie band stars Airborne Toxic Event and DJ set from one of the most influential DJs in the UK – Andrew Weatherall. The following day will...
The festival will run from September 29 – October 10.
Opening the festival on Wednesday 29th September is Jackboots On Whitehall – a satirical animation about an alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion. Star voiceover cast includes: Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike,Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Merchant and Richard O’Brien. It will be followed by an after-party with live set from rising Us indie band stars Airborne Toxic Event and DJ set from one of the most influential DJs in the UK – Andrew Weatherall. The following day will...
- 9/7/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hogg Regrets Wrecking Assistant's Home
British actor Edward Hogg has urged film fans who hire out their homes as locations to think twice - the cast and crew on his new film, Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World, wrecked their movie home.
A production assistant agreed to hand over the keys to her home to director Viv Fongenie, and the place became Ollie Kepler's (Hogg) for the duration of the movie.
The actor shudders to think what the poor girl thought of her house once the film was done.
He explains, "I feel bad for her because the house was covered in purple paint and it was hard to get off things.
"We fell through a floorboard. There was a scene in the film where I lift up a floorboard and we had just done one take and my make-up girl's foot went through and she was stuck dangling through the ceiling of the floor below!
"We did lots of things to that apartment. I think the door didn't close properly by the end and there was obviously purple paint everywhere.
"I would never use my own property for a film set; they would have to pay me an awful lot of money."...
A production assistant agreed to hand over the keys to her home to director Viv Fongenie, and the place became Ollie Kepler's (Hogg) for the duration of the movie.
The actor shudders to think what the poor girl thought of her house once the film was done.
He explains, "I feel bad for her because the house was covered in purple paint and it was hard to get off things.
"We fell through a floorboard. There was a scene in the film where I lift up a floorboard and we had just done one take and my make-up girl's foot went through and she was stuck dangling through the ceiling of the floor below!
"We did lots of things to that apartment. I think the door didn't close properly by the end and there was obviously purple paint everywhere.
"I would never use my own property for a film set; they would have to pay me an awful lot of money."...
- 6/27/2010
- WENN
Year: 2010
Directors: Viv Fongenie
Writers: Viv Fongenie
IMDb: link
Trailer: Not available
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 5 out of 10
The name alone had me excited, and with comparisons to Donnie Darko in the Eiff catalogue, and a theme surrounding particle physics, madness, death and grief; how could I resist? Once again I eagerly sat at the back of the cinema, notebook in hand, and anticipated something special. Special it most certainly isn’t. Maybe it’s ‘competent’, but I’ve been there, done that and seen it done better before.
The films begins with Ollie marching down the street, wearing a bathrobe, fez and scarf and talking dementedly to his smiley face kettle. “Don’t complain to me!” he spits, “At least you get to see the world!” We’re then treated to a cosmic opening credits sequence, and to whoever designed it, it’s the best part of the film,...
Directors: Viv Fongenie
Writers: Viv Fongenie
IMDb: link
Trailer: Not available
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 5 out of 10
The name alone had me excited, and with comparisons to Donnie Darko in the Eiff catalogue, and a theme surrounding particle physics, madness, death and grief; how could I resist? Once again I eagerly sat at the back of the cinema, notebook in hand, and anticipated something special. Special it most certainly isn’t. Maybe it’s ‘competent’, but I’ve been there, done that and seen it done better before.
The films begins with Ollie marching down the street, wearing a bathrobe, fez and scarf and talking dementedly to his smiley face kettle. “Don’t complain to me!” he spits, “At least you get to see the world!” We’re then treated to a cosmic opening credits sequence, and to whoever designed it, it’s the best part of the film,...
- 6/25/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Carl checks out more films from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, this time including Jean Reno in 22 Bullets, and Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World...
Direct from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, here's a round-up of the latest clutch of films that I managed to catch...
Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
In this film, Ollie Kepler is almost an ordinary man. He has a job, a girlfriend and a best friend, but he also has a massive knowledge of physics. It's what makes him who he is. So when his girlfriend dies and his best friend tells him he's moving away, it all gets to him and his world starts to crumble away at the seams.
It's a perfectly acceptable story and the viewer is allowed a great deal to delve into his mind, as we should in this kind of film. In fact, we are so pulled along in his...
Direct from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, here's a round-up of the latest clutch of films that I managed to catch...
Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
In this film, Ollie Kepler is almost an ordinary man. He has a job, a girlfriend and a best friend, but he also has a massive knowledge of physics. It's what makes him who he is. So when his girlfriend dies and his best friend tells him he's moving away, it all gets to him and his world starts to crumble away at the seams.
It's a perfectly acceptable story and the viewer is allowed a great deal to delve into his mind, as we should in this kind of film. In fact, we are so pulled along in his...
- 6/22/2010
- Den of Geek
London -- Former Bond girl Britt Ekland, director Mike Hodges, New York's Museum of Modern Art's senior film curator Laurence Kardish and Iranian director Rafi Pitts have all been called to jury duty as the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is due to kick off June 16.
The quartet have signed up for the festival's main draw jury, the Michael Powell jury, and will assemble under the panel's president Patrick Stewart, organizers said.
Named in homage to the U.K. filmmaker and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a prize of £15,000 ($22,000).
The prize aims to reward imagination and creativity in British filmmaking and 2009 saw Duncan Jones walk off with the prize for his debut "Moon," while the jury gave Katie Jarvis last year's best performance in a British film for "Fish Tank."
The winner of 2010's Michael Powell Award will come from Ashey Horner's "brilliantlove,...
The quartet have signed up for the festival's main draw jury, the Michael Powell jury, and will assemble under the panel's president Patrick Stewart, organizers said.
Named in homage to the U.K. filmmaker and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a prize of £15,000 ($22,000).
The prize aims to reward imagination and creativity in British filmmaking and 2009 saw Duncan Jones walk off with the prize for his debut "Moon," while the jury gave Katie Jarvis last year's best performance in a British film for "Fish Tank."
The winner of 2010's Michael Powell Award will come from Ashey Horner's "brilliantlove,...
- 6/15/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
London -- This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will close with the world premiere of "Third Star," a British tragicomedy from newcomer Hattie Dalton starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Burke, Jj Feild and Adam Robertson.
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
- 6/1/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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