This month on Let’s Scare Bryan to Death, we’re navigating a harsh world as depicted by eccentric storyteller Philip Ridley. I’m a huge fan of Ridley’s surreal 1995 fable, The Passion of Darkly Noon, but I hadn’t realized that almost 15 years later he released another film, the 2009 urban fairy tale Heartless. So, I’m very grateful to this month’s guest, Bede Jermyn, for bringing it to my attention. Jermyn is a fantastic horror journalist who’s a member of the Australian Film Critics Association, a critic and podcaster for The Super Network, and host of Bede Vs. The Living Dead, a podcast devoted to exploring “remakes, re-edits, unofficial follow-ups, etc. to George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead.”
Ridley’s Heartless follows Jamie (Jim Sturgess), a lonely photographer who has a heart-shaped birthmark that covers half of his face that makes him very shy.
Ridley’s Heartless follows Jamie (Jim Sturgess), a lonely photographer who has a heart-shaped birthmark that covers half of his face that makes him very shy.
- 2/22/2023
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
Fourteen years passed between the release of Heartless and writer-director Philip Ridley’s last film, 1995’s The Passion of Darkly Noon. Hardcore fans of the intriguing auteur were overjoyed at his return to the big screen; however, those fans are few and far between, more a cult of professional critics than anything else, due to Ridley’s penchant for macabre subject matter, intensely verbose dialogue, and mind game-driven plots. Ridley is in many ways the British David Lynch, though to dismiss him merely as such would be a disservice to his talent. Yet his films, like Lynch’s, while masterfully crafted, are definitely not for everyone, and Heartless is a prime example of this.
The film stars Jim Sturgess as Jamie Morgan, an introverted young photographer who lives in the slums of East London with his widow mother, Marion (Ruth Sheen). Jamie sports a horrifying birthmark in the rough shape of a heart,...
The film stars Jim Sturgess as Jamie Morgan, an introverted young photographer who lives in the slums of East London with his widow mother, Marion (Ruth Sheen). Jamie sports a horrifying birthmark in the rough shape of a heart,...
- 4/30/2011
- by Lee Jutton
- JustPressPlay.net
Title: Heartless Directed By: Philip Ridley Starring: Jim Sturgess, Clemence Poesy, Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger, Ruth Sheen, Nikita Mistry, Joseph Mawle Most would think you could never have too many good ideas, however, when you’re trying to pack all of those concepts into just one film, they’ll inevitably flounder. Luckily, writer-director Philip Ridley manages to keep just enough of his plot afloat to make Heartless a worthwhile film, but had he opted to just keep things simple, not only would Heartless be a far better film, but Ridley would still have some of those brilliant ideas to save for later. Jim Sturgess is Jamie, a seemingly sweet [...]...
- 11/17/2010
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
Down in the Hug-bunker, we’ve been getting quite excited about forthcoming Brit-flick, Heartless. Directed by Philip Ridley, and starring Jim Sturgess, and the lovely Clémence Poésy, the film is set to be one of the first British features to benefit from near-simultaneous multi-platform release, coming out at cinemas on Friday 21st May, and being available to buy the following Monday (24th).
We recently spoke with the film’s producer, Richard Raymond, who provided some insight into just how hard it was to get the film off the ground, and just why he and Ridley decided to cast Sturgess.
Transcription by Ted Leighton.
HeyUGuys: If you could begin by talking about Heartless and how the project came about, and your involvement with it.
Richard Raymond: I’d known Philip Ridley for about ten years. What happened was, when I was about twenty two, I read a short story that...
We recently spoke with the film’s producer, Richard Raymond, who provided some insight into just how hard it was to get the film off the ground, and just why he and Ridley decided to cast Sturgess.
Transcription by Ted Leighton.
HeyUGuys: If you could begin by talking about Heartless and how the project came about, and your involvement with it.
Richard Raymond: I’d known Philip Ridley for about ten years. What happened was, when I was about twenty two, I read a short story that...
- 5/11/2010
- by Ben Mortimer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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