Edited by Adam Cook
Above: a new digital anthology on Hong Kong Cinema is available online from Film Comment. The Summer issue of the magazine is out now too. Also relevant: Tony Leung is set to star in Wong Kar-Wai's next film. "Gas food lodging: The best job in the world has its downside": in an unusual blog entry, David Bordwell expounds on "the indignities of film festivals." It's still months away from release, but we're dying of anticipation for Michael Mann's Cyber. The La Times has a brief report from Bejiing, featuring some words from the director himself.
Above: speaking of films we can't wait to see, here's the new trailer for David Fincher's Gone Girl. One from last week that slipped through its Noteworthy is Laura Legge's magnificent ode to subtitles for 3:am Magazine, "long Pause, romantic music, silence".
Our pal Girish Shambu has...
Above: a new digital anthology on Hong Kong Cinema is available online from Film Comment. The Summer issue of the magazine is out now too. Also relevant: Tony Leung is set to star in Wong Kar-Wai's next film. "Gas food lodging: The best job in the world has its downside": in an unusual blog entry, David Bordwell expounds on "the indignities of film festivals." It's still months away from release, but we're dying of anticipation for Michael Mann's Cyber. The La Times has a brief report from Bejiing, featuring some words from the director himself.
Above: speaking of films we can't wait to see, here's the new trailer for David Fincher's Gone Girl. One from last week that slipped through its Noteworthy is Laura Legge's magnificent ode to subtitles for 3:am Magazine, "long Pause, romantic music, silence".
Our pal Girish Shambu has...
- 7/14/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of a retrospective on writer John McGrath, Jack Gold’s first two features, The Bofors Gun (1968) and The Reckoning (1969), made for punchy, exciting viewing.
Both films were made fairly fast and cheap—Gold, experienced in TV, keeps them moving with stabs of the zoom lens, an active camera and choppy, rough-hewn cutting. They’re not things of beauty, visually, but take their energy and spleen from Nicol Williamson’s manic performances.
The Bofors Gun takes place at a British army base in Germany, where David Warner has to command the night’s guard of the titular cannon without incident in order to get returned to Blighty the following day. His reluctance to discipline his men leads to horrific consequences, mostly caused by a drunken Irishman played by drunken Scottish actor Williamson (Merlin in Excalibur). Williamson’s capacity for loquacious, frenzied and diabolic grandstanding is exercised thoroughly.
Both films were made fairly fast and cheap—Gold, experienced in TV, keeps them moving with stabs of the zoom lens, an active camera and choppy, rough-hewn cutting. They’re not things of beauty, visually, but take their energy and spleen from Nicol Williamson’s manic performances.
The Bofors Gun takes place at a British army base in Germany, where David Warner has to command the night’s guard of the titular cannon without incident in order to get returned to Blighty the following day. His reluctance to discipline his men leads to horrific consequences, mostly caused by a drunken Irishman played by drunken Scottish actor Williamson (Merlin in Excalibur). Williamson’s capacity for loquacious, frenzied and diabolic grandstanding is exercised thoroughly.
- 7/11/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Hyena
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
- 5/28/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Acp Magazines has announced a magazine based on Nine’s series The Block. The Block Magazine will be on sale from Monday 25 June. Brands Suzuki, McCafe, Ikea, Winning Appliances, Caesarstone, Black & Decker, Westinghouse and Stegbar are already advertising.
The announcement:
Acp Magazines today answers the call of ‘Blockaholics’ across the country with The Block Magazine 2012.
The definitive companion to the hit Nine Network TV series, The Block Magazine 2012 follows the success of last year’s special issue.
On sale next Monday (25 June) – a week before The Block 2012 auction airs – The Block Magazine is edited by Belle Editor-in-Chief and The Block Judge, Neale Whitaker.
Inside the 148-page magazine Blockaholics will find all the information they need about their favourite show, including:
48 pages of The Block 2012 houses – room by room – with all product and furniture details, styling tips and hints as well as judges’ comments ‘Omg’ moments: The Block couples...
The announcement:
Acp Magazines today answers the call of ‘Blockaholics’ across the country with The Block Magazine 2012.
The definitive companion to the hit Nine Network TV series, The Block Magazine 2012 follows the success of last year’s special issue.
On sale next Monday (25 June) – a week before The Block 2012 auction airs – The Block Magazine is edited by Belle Editor-in-Chief and The Block Judge, Neale Whitaker.
Inside the 148-page magazine Blockaholics will find all the information they need about their favourite show, including:
48 pages of The Block 2012 houses – room by room – with all product and furniture details, styling tips and hints as well as judges’ comments ‘Omg’ moments: The Block couples...
- 6/21/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Actor and lead singer with the Flying Pickets during the early 1980s, he went on to take roles in several popular TV series, including Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale
Brian Hibbard, who has died of prostate cancer aged 65, first found fame as a member of the Flying Pickets, a group of actors who left the socialist playwright John McGrath's 7:84 theatre group to woo audiences through their a cappella singing. They topped the pop charts in 1983 with a cover version of Only You, trumping Yazoo, the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, who had reached No 2 with their original recording. This Christmas No 1 single and the group's flamboyant look – gaudy suits, large hats and Hibbard's massive sideburns – led to brief stardom for the Flying Pickets, a name coined because some of them had supported the miners during their strikes of 1972 and 1974. They hit the Top 10 again with another cover,...
Brian Hibbard, who has died of prostate cancer aged 65, first found fame as a member of the Flying Pickets, a group of actors who left the socialist playwright John McGrath's 7:84 theatre group to woo audiences through their a cappella singing. They topped the pop charts in 1983 with a cover version of Only You, trumping Yazoo, the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, who had reached No 2 with their original recording. This Christmas No 1 single and the group's flamboyant look – gaudy suits, large hats and Hibbard's massive sideburns – led to brief stardom for the Flying Pickets, a name coined because some of them had supported the miners during their strikes of 1972 and 1974. They hit the Top 10 again with another cover,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- To some he's a traitor to his country, to others he's a free-speech hero.
But before Bradley Manning was a public enemy or a cause celebre, the U.S. soldier and alleged WikiLeaks source was a high-school student in west Wales – a pivotal period that is the subject of a new British play.
Manning, the 24-year-old U.S. Army private accused of leaking troves of secret documents to the anti-secrecy website, has a Welsh mother and spent four teenage years living in Haverfordwest, a town of 15,000 people near Britain's western tip.
It is a long way from Haverfordwest to Iraq, where Manning was stationed, or to the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he now resides. That journey is the subject of "The Radicalization of Bradley Manning," a play running this month at three Welsh high schools, including the one Manning attended.
Welsh playwright Tim Price...
But before Bradley Manning was a public enemy or a cause celebre, the U.S. soldier and alleged WikiLeaks source was a high-school student in west Wales – a pivotal period that is the subject of a new British play.
Manning, the 24-year-old U.S. Army private accused of leaking troves of secret documents to the anti-secrecy website, has a Welsh mother and spent four teenage years living in Haverfordwest, a town of 15,000 people near Britain's western tip.
It is a long way from Haverfordwest to Iraq, where Manning was stationed, or to the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he now resides. That journey is the subject of "The Radicalization of Bradley Manning," a play running this month at three Welsh high schools, including the one Manning attended.
Welsh playwright Tim Price...
- 4/20/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talent
Nicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most electrifying actor of his generation, but one whose career flickered and faded like a faulty light fitting. Tall and wiry, with a rasping scowl of a voice, a battered baby face and a mop of unruly curls, he was the best modern Hamlet since John Gielgud, and certainly the angriest, though he scuppered his own performance at the Round House, north London, in 1969, by apologising to the audience and walking off the stage. The experience was recycled in a 1991 Broadway comedy called I Hate Hamlet, in which he proved his point and fell out badly with his co-star.
Williamson's greatest performance was as the dissolute and disintegrating lawyer Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court theatre in 1964. It was...
Nicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most electrifying actor of his generation, but one whose career flickered and faded like a faulty light fitting. Tall and wiry, with a rasping scowl of a voice, a battered baby face and a mop of unruly curls, he was the best modern Hamlet since John Gielgud, and certainly the angriest, though he scuppered his own performance at the Round House, north London, in 1969, by apologising to the audience and walking off the stage. The experience was recycled in a 1991 Broadway comedy called I Hate Hamlet, in which he proved his point and fell out badly with his co-star.
Williamson's greatest performance was as the dissolute and disintegrating lawyer Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court theatre in 1964. It was...
- 1/27/2012
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor Michael Sheen dragged a giant wooden cross through his hometown before acting out a "crucifixion" scene in the grand finale of a 72-hour retelling of the passion play. The star returned to his native Port Talbot, Wales to lead a marathon production which reinterpreted the Passion of Jesus Christ to mark Easter weekend, April 22-24.
Sheen remained in character as he was "baptized" in icy waves at the local beach and slept rough on a mountain on Friday, April 22. The following day, April 23, he dined on a "last supper" of beer and sandwiches at a local club, where rock band Manic Street Preachers played, before Sheen was "arrested" and hauled to a police cell.
On Easter Sunday, the actor wore a crown of thorns and was covered in fake blood as he hauled a crucifix to a traffic roundabout by the seafront for the dramatic climax. He was then resurrected,...
Sheen remained in character as he was "baptized" in icy waves at the local beach and slept rough on a mountain on Friday, April 22. The following day, April 23, he dined on a "last supper" of beer and sandwiches at a local club, where rock band Manic Street Preachers played, before Sheen was "arrested" and hauled to a police cell.
On Easter Sunday, the actor wore a crown of thorns and was covered in fake blood as he hauled a crucifix to a traffic roundabout by the seafront for the dramatic climax. He was then resurrected,...
- 4/25/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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