Dark Horse (15)
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
- 6/29/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
We need not despair entirely that the Glastonbury Festival isn’t taking place this year, for Robin Mahoney’s 1995 landmark documentary Glastonbury The Movie re-releases this week, re-constituted from a stockpile of previously unseen material, aiming to once again capture the spirit of a type of festival that, amid heightened commercial concerns, is fading away.
What Mahoney’s original film did and this one manages even more efficiently is to provide a swift, energetic travelogue of the A-to-z of a music festival. Beginning just as we do, arriving at the campsite and setting down, Mahoney and his crew provide beautifully-shot glimpses of the sun setting as revellers drink, dance, and prepare for the three days of partying to follow.
Initially pitched as a Pagan festival, Glastonbury is perceived by many as the most carefree and hedonistic of the summer’s musical gatherings. The footage here – largely...
We need not despair entirely that the Glastonbury Festival isn’t taking place this year, for Robin Mahoney’s 1995 landmark documentary Glastonbury The Movie re-releases this week, re-constituted from a stockpile of previously unseen material, aiming to once again capture the spirit of a type of festival that, amid heightened commercial concerns, is fading away.
What Mahoney’s original film did and this one manages even more efficiently is to provide a swift, energetic travelogue of the A-to-z of a music festival. Beginning just as we do, arriving at the campsite and setting down, Mahoney and his crew provide beautifully-shot glimpses of the sun setting as revellers drink, dance, and prepare for the three days of partying to follow.
Initially pitched as a Pagan festival, Glastonbury is perceived by many as the most carefree and hedonistic of the summer’s musical gatherings. The footage here – largely...
- 6/27/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Dexter Fletcher tells Jason Solomons about his forthcoming cockney western
Wild Bill team go west
Following the success of his directing debut, Wild Bill, former child actor Dexter Fletcher is making a full-blown western, set in Arizona. However, he tells me, Provenance will still be made up of Londoners, this time seeking their fortune in the frontier towns of the American west. "I've always loved westerns but have never been able to be in one," Dexter says. "I tried to work a lot western ideas into Wild Bill and I feel really lucky to be able to actually get to make one of my own, in real western country." BBC Films is backing the film and Mark Strong is set to star, alongside Sammy Williams, the kid in Wild Bill who also featured in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block. The rest of the cast has yet to be confirmed...
Wild Bill team go west
Following the success of his directing debut, Wild Bill, former child actor Dexter Fletcher is making a full-blown western, set in Arizona. However, he tells me, Provenance will still be made up of Londoners, this time seeking their fortune in the frontier towns of the American west. "I've always loved westerns but have never been able to be in one," Dexter says. "I tried to work a lot western ideas into Wild Bill and I feel really lucky to be able to actually get to make one of my own, in real western country." BBC Films is backing the film and Mark Strong is set to star, alongside Sammy Williams, the kid in Wild Bill who also featured in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block. The rest of the cast has yet to be confirmed...
- 6/23/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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