(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Submarine"
Where You Can Stream It: Tubi TV
The Pitch: Based on Joe Dunthorne's novel of the same name and set in the mid-1980s, "Submarine" follows Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a Welsh teen determined to lose his virginity before his upcoming 16th birthday. He sets his sights on the fierce and feisty Jordana (Yasmin Paige), assured that she will be his perfect first time. While sex is a major priority for Oliver, it certainly isn't the only thing on his mind. He's also desperate to keep his parents' relationship strong, as his depressed marine-biologist father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) fears he will lose his wife Jill (Sally Hawkins) to her recently returned spiritual guru ex-lover Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine...
The Movie: "Submarine"
Where You Can Stream It: Tubi TV
The Pitch: Based on Joe Dunthorne's novel of the same name and set in the mid-1980s, "Submarine" follows Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a Welsh teen determined to lose his virginity before his upcoming 16th birthday. He sets his sights on the fierce and feisty Jordana (Yasmin Paige), assured that she will be his perfect first time. While sex is a major priority for Oliver, it certainly isn't the only thing on his mind. He's also desperate to keep his parents' relationship strong, as his depressed marine-biologist father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) fears he will lose his wife Jill (Sally Hawkins) to her recently returned spiritual guru ex-lover Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine...
- 10/13/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
After rightly drawing critical approval for his debut feature - an invigorating adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine, British comic-cum-filmmaker Richard Ayoade returns with second feature The Double (2013), taking as its source Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dark, pre-Kafka novella but repositioning its nineteenth-century action to a more updated, if not wholly identifiable, moment and place in time. In it Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon James, a withdrawn office cog whose incessant self-doubt dictates a life spent at the mercy of his oppressive surroundings - a faceless, disregarding work environment matched by a suicide-heavy apartment complex - and renders him incapable of vocalising his affection for copygirl Hannah (Mia Wasikowska).
- 8/3/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Feature Sarah Dobbs 3 Apr 2014 - 07:00
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
- 4/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Richard Ayoade shot to fame as Moss in The It Crowd but it was Submarine, his debut behind the camera, that won him critical acclaim. As his new film, The Double, is released, he talks about pride, performing and giving up his pop dreams
The premise of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1846 novella The Double is simple but ingenious: a man lives an entirely unremarkable existence until one day his exact doppelganger shows up. This incongruous situation fast becomes insufferable for two reasons: first, the new guy is slick where he is stammering, popular where he's forgettable, Day-Glo to his beige; and, second, because no one else notices any likeness at all between the pair of them.
The Double, it's said, is meant as an allegory: the straight man is Dostoevsky in real life, shy and often awkward; the arriviste is the author 2.0, the person he sometimes wished he was, who is quick-witted and irresistible to women.
The premise of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1846 novella The Double is simple but ingenious: a man lives an entirely unremarkable existence until one day his exact doppelganger shows up. This incongruous situation fast becomes insufferable for two reasons: first, the new guy is slick where he is stammering, popular where he's forgettable, Day-Glo to his beige; and, second, because no one else notices any likeness at all between the pair of them.
The Double, it's said, is meant as an allegory: the straight man is Dostoevsky in real life, shy and often awkward; the arriviste is the author 2.0, the person he sometimes wished he was, who is quick-witted and irresistible to women.
- 3/23/2014
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 27 Feb 2014 - 05:54
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
Our series of lists devoted to underappreciated films brings us to the year 2010, and another 25 overlooked gems...
By 2010, Hollywood’s obsession with 3D movies was in full swing. James Cameron’s Avatar may have given audiences a taste of what the cutting edge of stereoscope could look like, but it has to be said that the movies ushered into cinemas in its wake were a decidedly mixed bunch. Toy Story 3's 3D was extraordinarily effective, yet Clash Of The Titans looked like a blurry mess. How To Train Your Dragon came to life in its flying sequences, but the less said about the horribly murky Last Airbender, the better.
Unless we’re mistaken, none of the movies on this list were shot or released in 3D, and few of them did particularly stellar business. A few got a certain amount of critical acclaim,...
- 2/26/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Millions know him as part of C4's It Crowd or as the charming cop in Hollywood hit Bridesmaids. Now the versatile Irish actor is making his mark on the stage in Of Mice and Men
On the Cannes Croisette, in the foyer of the postmodern Jw Marriott hotel, a bundle of brightly polished people from the film industry are standing together in a roped-off area, enjoying a free drink and the illusion of celebrity. Slinking by unnoticed, trundling a small case towards the lifts, is a tall man in a hoodie, with messy hair and stubble.
Is he a TV cameraman or a seedy showbiz journalist? No, it is Chris O'Dowd, one of the most bankable stars to attend the film festival that year, 2012.
No matter how famous the Irish actor gets, following lead roles in Bridesmaids and The Sapphires (along with a disturbing television cameo in the acclaimed HBO series Girls), his ambling,...
On the Cannes Croisette, in the foyer of the postmodern Jw Marriott hotel, a bundle of brightly polished people from the film industry are standing together in a roped-off area, enjoying a free drink and the illusion of celebrity. Slinking by unnoticed, trundling a small case towards the lifts, is a tall man in a hoodie, with messy hair and stubble.
Is he a TV cameraman or a seedy showbiz journalist? No, it is Chris O'Dowd, one of the most bankable stars to attend the film festival that year, 2012.
No matter how famous the Irish actor gets, following lead roles in Bridesmaids and The Sapphires (along with a disturbing television cameo in the acclaimed HBO series Girls), his ambling,...
- 1/19/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Past the Bonfire of the Exes and Mount Amazon, take a shortcut through The Atwoods, avoiding the Reef of Pretension and the Twitter whirlpool – the picture above is a map of the modern writer’s mind. It was drawn by Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, who is one of 16 high-profile contributors to Where You Are. A box-set of “personal maps” by Alain de Botton, Tao Lin, Adam Thirlwell and Olafur Eliasson among others, it will be published by Visual Editions in December; an interactive website is live now at www.where-you-are.com.
- 11/14/2013
- The Independent - Film
★★★☆☆ British comic actor Richard Ayoade grabbed the attention of the UK industry back in 2010 with feature debut Submarine, a sharp, cineliterate adaptation of the Joe Dunthorne novel of the same name. His follow-up, The Double (2013), is once again based upon a literary source, this time taking its inspiration from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dystopian doppelgänger novella. With Craig Roberts relegated to a cameo appearance this time around - along with a veritable host of Ayoade's contemporaries - The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg takes the role of weedy office clerk Simon and his double, James.
Transporting the 19th century Russian narrative of Dostoyevsky's text to a warped, alternative version of post-war America, we follow Eisenberg's Simon as he struggles daily to establish himself as more than just a faceless cog in the administrative machine. Forced to sign in each and every day at work due to the...
Transporting the 19th century Russian narrative of Dostoyevsky's text to a warped, alternative version of post-war America, we follow Eisenberg's Simon as he struggles daily to establish himself as more than just a faceless cog in the administrative machine. Forced to sign in each and every day at work due to the...
- 10/15/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Hollywood has always played fast and loose with books – risking the author's wrath by changing plot and characters wholesale. Joe Dunthorne looks back on some memorable film cheats
At book readings, Stephen King sometimes tells a story about his "only preproduction discussion" for the 1980 film adaptation of The Shining. At seven in the morning, King was shaving in the bathroom when his wife ran in to tell him there was a call from London, it was Stanley Kubrick. Just the mention of the director's name was shock enough that when King went to the phone, he had a line of blood running down one cheek and the other was still white with foam. The first thing Kubrick said – and it's worth noting that King's growly impersonation makes him sound like a swamp creature – was: "I think stories of the supernatural are fundamentally optimistic, don't you? If there are ghosts then that means we survive death.
At book readings, Stephen King sometimes tells a story about his "only preproduction discussion" for the 1980 film adaptation of The Shining. At seven in the morning, King was shaving in the bathroom when his wife ran in to tell him there was a call from London, it was Stanley Kubrick. Just the mention of the director's name was shock enough that when King went to the phone, he had a line of blood running down one cheek and the other was still white with foam. The first thing Kubrick said – and it's worth noting that King's growly impersonation makes him sound like a swamp creature – was: "I think stories of the supernatural are fundamentally optimistic, don't you? If there are ghosts then that means we survive death.
- 4/6/2013
- by Joe Dunthorne
- The Guardian - Film News
From Page To Screen | Bradford International Film Festival | Belfast International Film Festival | Italian Film Festival
From Page To Screen, Bridport
Curated by novelist Joe Dunthorne, this festival of literary adaptations takes in everything from Patricia Highsmith thrillers (Plein Soleil, Strangers On A Train) to comic-book films American Splendor and Ghost World, and films based on plays, like new vampire flick Byzantium, which comes with a masterclass from producer Stephen Woolley. Dunthorne introduces Richard Ayoade's adaptation of his own Submarine, and its key influence The Graduate, and there's a special screening of Kubrick's The Shining at the precarious, disused Burton Cliff Hotel.
Various venues, Wed to 14 Apr
Bradford International Film Festival
Bradford is rarely the first city that springs to mind when you think of British cinema, but it's home to our National Media Museum and is a Unesco City of Film, no less. And its festival is an embarrassment...
From Page To Screen, Bridport
Curated by novelist Joe Dunthorne, this festival of literary adaptations takes in everything from Patricia Highsmith thrillers (Plein Soleil, Strangers On A Train) to comic-book films American Splendor and Ghost World, and films based on plays, like new vampire flick Byzantium, which comes with a masterclass from producer Stephen Woolley. Dunthorne introduces Richard Ayoade's adaptation of his own Submarine, and its key influence The Graduate, and there's a special screening of Kubrick's The Shining at the precarious, disused Burton Cliff Hotel.
Various venues, Wed to 14 Apr
Bradford International Film Festival
Bradford is rarely the first city that springs to mind when you think of British cinema, but it's home to our National Media Museum and is a Unesco City of Film, no less. And its festival is an embarrassment...
- 4/6/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Odd List Louisa Mellor Dec 17, 2012
We've plucked 13 potential little beauties out of the 2013 UK film line-up, feat. sci-fi, comic-book, horror, comedy, thriller & more...
Look ahead to the UK films coming out in 2013 and you’ll see a diverse landscape of filmmakers, genres, actors, budgets and ideas. Next year brings us something new from Joanna Hogg, and something else from Danny Dyer. Irvine Welsh’s Filth will almost certainly live up to its title, but the Absolutely Fabulous film? We’ll see.
Al Pacino’s playing King Lear, and Stephen Mangan’s playing Postman Pat. Shane Meadows is making a film about the Tour de France, and Nigel Cole is making a film about an otter. Steve Coogan will be a porn baron, Bridget Jones will have a baby, Nick Frost will dance the salsa, Martin Freeman will save Santa, and Sean Bean, bless the man, will probably die.
None of...
We've plucked 13 potential little beauties out of the 2013 UK film line-up, feat. sci-fi, comic-book, horror, comedy, thriller & more...
Look ahead to the UK films coming out in 2013 and you’ll see a diverse landscape of filmmakers, genres, actors, budgets and ideas. Next year brings us something new from Joanna Hogg, and something else from Danny Dyer. Irvine Welsh’s Filth will almost certainly live up to its title, but the Absolutely Fabulous film? We’ll see.
Al Pacino’s playing King Lear, and Stephen Mangan’s playing Postman Pat. Shane Meadows is making a film about the Tour de France, and Nigel Cole is making a film about an otter. Steve Coogan will be a porn baron, Bridget Jones will have a baby, Nick Frost will dance the salsa, Martin Freeman will save Santa, and Sean Bean, bless the man, will probably die.
None of...
- 12/16/2012
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Ahead of the BFI's Hitchcock season, we'd like to know what you think is the greatest film ever made by the master of suspense
A major celebration of the work of Alfred Hitchcock kicks off at the end of this month at BFI Southbank in London – in part to mark the restoration of the director's nine surviving silent films.
Last week, Bee Wilson wrote about Hitchcock's mastery of imagery and how it could be traced back to his work in silent movies, while in Sunday's Observer, seven writers discussed their favourite Hitchcock films:
Jonathan Coe on The Lady Vanishes
'Hitchcock never made anything warmer or more lovable than this. I must have seen it 20 or 30 times and can't imagine ever growing tired of it.'
Al Kennedy on The 39 Steps
'[It's a] joyful confection of subversive humour, intelligent twists and wild sexual tension. The movie has all the elements I love in film – it likes people,...
A major celebration of the work of Alfred Hitchcock kicks off at the end of this month at BFI Southbank in London – in part to mark the restoration of the director's nine surviving silent films.
Last week, Bee Wilson wrote about Hitchcock's mastery of imagery and how it could be traced back to his work in silent movies, while in Sunday's Observer, seven writers discussed their favourite Hitchcock films:
Jonathan Coe on The Lady Vanishes
'Hitchcock never made anything warmer or more lovable than this. I must have seen it 20 or 30 times and can't imagine ever growing tired of it.'
Al Kennedy on The 39 Steps
'[It's a] joyful confection of subversive humour, intelligent twists and wild sexual tension. The movie has all the elements I love in film – it likes people,...
- 6/18/2012
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
The horror film that breaks many of the conventions of the genre still retains the power to shock
My mother was inflating an airbed in the next room. The foot pump's high-pitched wheezing sounded exactly like the violin stabs in the shower scene from Psycho. Even though I understood that real murders did not generally have soundtracks, my first instinct was there's a killer in the house.
Even before I had seen Psycho, I felt like I'd seen it. But when I first watched it, I was surprised by how much was unfamiliar. There are all these scenes that aren't the shower scene. Almost all of the film, in fact. It's also strange it should be considered one of the archetypal horror films because, in a genre obsessed with fulfilling conventions, Psycho doesn't. Hitchcock kills off Marion, the protagonist, before the halfway mark. When we meet the villain, he's bumbling and likable.
My mother was inflating an airbed in the next room. The foot pump's high-pitched wheezing sounded exactly like the violin stabs in the shower scene from Psycho. Even though I understood that real murders did not generally have soundtracks, my first instinct was there's a killer in the house.
Even before I had seen Psycho, I felt like I'd seen it. But when I first watched it, I was surprised by how much was unfamiliar. There are all these scenes that aren't the shower scene. Almost all of the film, in fact. It's also strange it should be considered one of the archetypal horror films because, in a genre obsessed with fulfilling conventions, Psycho doesn't. Hitchcock kills off Marion, the protagonist, before the halfway mark. When we meet the villain, he's bumbling and likable.
- 6/16/2012
- by Joe Dunthorne
- The Guardian - Film News
We salute 50 of the finest contemporary films with budgets of less than $10million. Did your favourite make the list…?
In this age of multi-million dollar blockbusters and eye-watering fees paid to some actors, you may forget we’re in an age of austerity. However, for the vast majority of the film industry, there is no huge vat of money, nor has there ever been. But this hasn’t stopped some of the finest films of recent years being made on a relative shoe-string, and in some cases, quite literally with a shoe-string.
I reckon filmmaking thrives at the sharp end, and low budgets mean more creative ideas, and as a result, more engaging films. To prove this, here is a list of what I consider to be the finest 50 contemporary films made for under $10 million. There is a breathtaking array of recognisable genre pictures in here, too, with budgets rangin...
In this age of multi-million dollar blockbusters and eye-watering fees paid to some actors, you may forget we’re in an age of austerity. However, for the vast majority of the film industry, there is no huge vat of money, nor has there ever been. But this hasn’t stopped some of the finest films of recent years being made on a relative shoe-string, and in some cases, quite literally with a shoe-string.
I reckon filmmaking thrives at the sharp end, and low budgets mean more creative ideas, and as a result, more engaging films. To prove this, here is a list of what I consider to be the finest 50 contemporary films made for under $10 million. There is a breathtaking array of recognisable genre pictures in here, too, with budgets rangin...
- 2/2/2012
- Den of Geek
We reveal the 10 debut films jostling for the big prize, ranging from a thriller about aliens in London to a documentary about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan
On Friday, we announced the shortlist for the Guardian first album award; today it's the turn of the first film. Previous winners have included The Arbor, Unrelated and Sleep Furiously; this year, after exhaustive polling of the Guardian's film writing team, the 10 debut films jostling for the big one take in everything from an alien-attack thriller set in London to a Danish Afghan-war documentary. We will lock the judges – who include Guardian film team Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard – in a room next week, and hammer out a result. The winner will receive a handsome piece of glass and plastic purchased, as Michael Hann revealed on Friday, from the trophy shop round the corner. Nevertheless, bragging rights will be awesome.
So here's...
On Friday, we announced the shortlist for the Guardian first album award; today it's the turn of the first film. Previous winners have included The Arbor, Unrelated and Sleep Furiously; this year, after exhaustive polling of the Guardian's film writing team, the 10 debut films jostling for the big one take in everything from an alien-attack thriller set in London to a Danish Afghan-war documentary. We will lock the judges – who include Guardian film team Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard – in a room next week, and hammer out a result. The winner will receive a handsome piece of glass and plastic purchased, as Michael Hann revealed on Friday, from the trophy shop round the corner. Nevertheless, bragging rights will be awesome.
So here's...
- 1/10/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As the world puts together its ‘best of 2011’ round-ups, we salute the films that deserve just a bit more love than they’re getting...
Next week, we’ll be bringing you our film of the year round-up, as voted by the many people who contribute to Den Of Geek. Of course, democracy has its problems, in that it means that some lesser-seen films don’t tend to gravitate up such lists, and with that in mind, we wanted to take some time to salute the many cinematic treats that many not be winning all the awards and the plaudits come end of year round-ups, but really deserve seeking out.
In alphabetical order, then...
Another Earth
Intelligent, atmospheric and thought-provoking: it’s remarkable just how much director Mike Cahill managed to achieve in this low-budget debut feature. Brit Marling delivers a vulnerable and honest performance as Rhoda, a young girl whose...
Next week, we’ll be bringing you our film of the year round-up, as voted by the many people who contribute to Den Of Geek. Of course, democracy has its problems, in that it means that some lesser-seen films don’t tend to gravitate up such lists, and with that in mind, we wanted to take some time to salute the many cinematic treats that many not be winning all the awards and the plaudits come end of year round-ups, but really deserve seeking out.
In alphabetical order, then...
Another Earth
Intelligent, atmospheric and thought-provoking: it’s remarkable just how much director Mike Cahill managed to achieve in this low-budget debut feature. Brit Marling delivers a vulnerable and honest performance as Rhoda, a young girl whose...
- 12/15/2011
- Den of Geek
Ten of the brightest and best tell their stories – from the first novel optioned at 26 to being head-hunted by Donatella Versace at 24
Lucy Prebble, playwright, 30
Prebble is the creator of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Her latest play, Enron, transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2010.
When we were auditioning actors for Enron, they'd talk to the director, not to me, and it occurred to me they thought I was a secretary taking notes. Then one said, "Who's the writer?" and the director said, "She is." This guy just looked at me and went, "You wrote this? Ok..." and nodded. It was beautiful because I felt like he was giving me a lot of respect.
I've always written – diaries, terrible poetry when I was younger, that sort of thing – but I didn't think about showing anyone until I was at university. I fell in with a group of...
Lucy Prebble, playwright, 30
Prebble is the creator of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Her latest play, Enron, transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2010.
When we were auditioning actors for Enron, they'd talk to the director, not to me, and it occurred to me they thought I was a secretary taking notes. Then one said, "Who's the writer?" and the director said, "She is." This guy just looked at me and went, "You wrote this? Ok..." and nodded. It was beautiful because I felt like he was giving me a lot of respect.
I've always written – diaries, terrible poetry when I was younger, that sort of thing – but I didn't think about showing anyone until I was at university. I fell in with a group of...
- 12/10/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Too many critics have casually dismissed Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut, “Submarine,” as a mere Wes Anderson imitation. Yes, the picture is chockfull of arty hipster posturing: chapter breaks, deadpan cutaway gags and hapless adults viewed by a sullen 15-year-old protagonist forever cloaked in a large black toggle coat. He’s like Bud Cort fused with the hyper-articulate eccentricity of Max Fischer.
Okay, so perhaps “Submarine” is a touch too precious for its own good. Yet for all of its self-conscious pretensions, there’s a tangible and poignant depth to this color-coded coming-of-age tale. Like Max Winkler’s marvelous Anderson-inspired comedy, “Ceremony,” Ayoade’s film employs familiar motifs to construct an overarching vision that is entirely its own. The picture’s cool surface is reflective of the characters themselves, who are adept at keeping their emotions comfortably submerged.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Craig Roberts has the sort of blank yet oddly...
Okay, so perhaps “Submarine” is a touch too precious for its own good. Yet for all of its self-conscious pretensions, there’s a tangible and poignant depth to this color-coded coming-of-age tale. Like Max Winkler’s marvelous Anderson-inspired comedy, “Ceremony,” Ayoade’s film employs familiar motifs to construct an overarching vision that is entirely its own. The picture’s cool surface is reflective of the characters themselves, who are adept at keeping their emotions comfortably submerged.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Craig Roberts has the sort of blank yet oddly...
- 10/19/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
American audiences probably don't get much out of knowing that Submarine is written and directed by Richard Ayoade, and that's a shame in itself. The best chance is via BBC America and/or Netflix streams of The Mighty Boosh, or the brilliant The It Crowd, but odds are that you haven't heard of him. The real shame of this is that you have no chance of being truly astounded by the depth and pointed genius you'll find here, and there's really nothing like a dumbfounded, "Moss directed this!"
Submarine is a sort of coming-of-age story, but it focuses on Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a young man who came of age long ago and is rather trying to find his way back at this point. His parents are an odd mix of liberal thinking and catatonia, and Oliver has run through a wide spectrum of "trying to figure out who he is,...
Submarine is a sort of coming-of-age story, but it focuses on Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a young man who came of age long ago and is rather trying to find his way back at this point. His parents are an odd mix of liberal thinking and catatonia, and Oliver has run through a wide spectrum of "trying to figure out who he is,...
- 10/18/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Submarine Directed by: Richard Ayoade Written by: Richard Ayoade (screenplay), Joe Dunthorne (novel) Starring: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Submarine is not Rushmore. After all the comparisons I've heard drawn between these two films, I can certainly see some superficial similarities, and yet I'm happy to report that director Richard Ayoade's voice is distinctly his own. Both films are tales of teenage love involving boarding school misfits who are sometimes comically wise beyond their years. And yes, Ayoade also has an affinity for Futura and the French New Wave. Ultimately, however, this is a much darker film, one that eventually sheds its quirkiness for raw emotion. While it may be too angsty for some, it does ring true on a certain level and reminds us of the sting of youthful regret. Craig Roberts plays Oliver Tate,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
With the romantic comedy One Day out now in cinemas, we chat to novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls about the film, Hollywood rom-coms and more…
If you’ve spotted people reading in public over the last couple of years, chances are the book in their hands had an orange and white cover and bore the words One Day and David Nicholls. You could say the success of Nicholls’ third novel has been incredible, but if you’ve read it, you’ll know just how credible its popularity is.
One Day is about friendship, anxieties, love and growing up, run though with a sense of humour and a thread of social satire. Set over a period of twenty years, the novel drops into its characters’ lives for one day a year between the late-80s and mid-noughties, charting a relationship against a backdrop of wry, whip-smart observations.
This week sees the...
If you’ve spotted people reading in public over the last couple of years, chances are the book in their hands had an orange and white cover and bore the words One Day and David Nicholls. You could say the success of Nicholls’ third novel has been incredible, but if you’ve read it, you’ll know just how credible its popularity is.
One Day is about friendship, anxieties, love and growing up, run though with a sense of humour and a thread of social satire. Set over a period of twenty years, the novel drops into its characters’ lives for one day a year between the late-80s and mid-noughties, charting a relationship against a backdrop of wry, whip-smart observations.
This week sees the...
- 8/25/2011
- Den of Geek
Jesse Eisenberg has landed the (dual) lead role in Richard Ayoade's indie take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Double. Ayoade was probably best known as an actor in The It Crowd (and as a Total Film columnist, of course) before his astonishing directorial debut Submarine, which arrived earlier this year. His adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's novel was heartfelt, stylish and immensely cool, and it's fascinating that he's now turning his attention to one of the great novellas of Russian literature. The Double concerns a man whose life begins to fall...
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- 8/6/2011
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
This is the Pure Movies review of Submarine, directed and written by Richard Ayoade, based on a novel by Joe Dunthorne, and starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Paddy Condisine and Sally Hawkins. Written by Richard Parkin for Pure Movies. “We’re all travelling under the radar”, claims Oliver Tate in Submarine. If Richard Ayoade has been travelling under the radar thus far in his career, or perhaps, more precisely, blipping at the edges of our sonar screens with his work in the It Crowd, Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace and the Mighty Boosh, it is with Submarine that he has made a burst towards our vessel on a certain collision course.
- 7/31/2011
- by Richard Parkin
- Pure Movies
Submarine; Limitless; Super; Hobo with a Shotgun; The Silent House
Having achieved cult status via such TV shows as Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, writer/director Richard Ayoade scores a deadpan hit with his feature debut, Submarine (2010, Optimum, 15), an awkward black comedy about the traumas of coming of age that feels like Gregory's Girl's twisted sister.
Craig Roberts stars as Oliver Tate, the nasally narrating self-absorbed teenager who imagines his life as a movie packed with tracking zooms, helicopter shots and elaborately choreographed slo-mo, but also featuring the kind of "transcendent moments" that warrant the use of critical phrases such as "a monumental achievement" – apparently.
Having met his match in Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), whose dark countenance is offset by the red coat she wears like the diminutive murderer of Don't Look Now, Oliver embarks on a relationship based on existential nihilism and casual pyromania. Yet his...
Having achieved cult status via such TV shows as Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, writer/director Richard Ayoade scores a deadpan hit with his feature debut, Submarine (2010, Optimum, 15), an awkward black comedy about the traumas of coming of age that feels like Gregory's Girl's twisted sister.
Craig Roberts stars as Oliver Tate, the nasally narrating self-absorbed teenager who imagines his life as a movie packed with tracking zooms, helicopter shots and elaborately choreographed slo-mo, but also featuring the kind of "transcendent moments" that warrant the use of critical phrases such as "a monumental achievement" – apparently.
Having met his match in Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), whose dark countenance is offset by the red coat she wears like the diminutive murderer of Don't Look Now, Oliver embarks on a relationship based on existential nihilism and casual pyromania. Yet his...
- 7/30/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Submarine
Stars: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine | Written by Richard Ayoade (based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne) | Directed by Richard Ayoade
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is 15. He’s also a virgin, and is not too happy about it. Oliver has two major goals: To pop his cherry before he turns 16 – mostly by attempting to woo aloof smoker Jordana (Yasmin Paige) – and to stop his mother (Sally Hawkins) from leaving his father (Noah Taylor) for new age smoothie Graham (Paddy Considine).
Submarine may sound like your average coming-of-age comedy, but in execution it’s anything but average. Oliver’s seaside Welsh town may be drab and depressing, but his colourful and overly verbose use of language gives the film a fresh and hilarious identity all its own. Oliver takes himself and his problems with utter seriousness, and his endeavours to find an identity and fix...
Stars: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine | Written by Richard Ayoade (based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne) | Directed by Richard Ayoade
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is 15. He’s also a virgin, and is not too happy about it. Oliver has two major goals: To pop his cherry before he turns 16 – mostly by attempting to woo aloof smoker Jordana (Yasmin Paige) – and to stop his mother (Sally Hawkins) from leaving his father (Noah Taylor) for new age smoothie Graham (Paddy Considine).
Submarine may sound like your average coming-of-age comedy, but in execution it’s anything but average. Oliver’s seaside Welsh town may be drab and depressing, but his colourful and overly verbose use of language gives the film a fresh and hilarious identity all its own. Oliver takes himself and his problems with utter seriousness, and his endeavours to find an identity and fix...
- 7/30/2011
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
Submarine is an easy film to love and the 1st of August sees the film’s release on DVD and Blu-ray so what better time to sit down with its director Richard Ayoade, eh?
Ayoade’s debut feature is a confident and beautiful film which brings Joe Dunthorne’s novel to the big screen in great style. Craig Roberts, in particular, stands out as he embodies our lovestruck narrator Oliver Tate as he navigates and exaggerates his first love affair.
Ayoade was a genial and gracious man to speak with, keen to shine a light on those around him and champion the collaborative process of film making; it will be extremely interesting to see what he turns his hand to next.
HeyUGuys: Firstly congratulations on the film, I’ve not heard a negative word about it. How is it for you as a first time director coping with the attention and the positive reception?...
Ayoade’s debut feature is a confident and beautiful film which brings Joe Dunthorne’s novel to the big screen in great style. Craig Roberts, in particular, stands out as he embodies our lovestruck narrator Oliver Tate as he navigates and exaggerates his first love affair.
Ayoade was a genial and gracious man to speak with, keen to shine a light on those around him and champion the collaborative process of film making; it will be extremely interesting to see what he turns his hand to next.
HeyUGuys: Firstly congratulations on the film, I’ve not heard a negative word about it. How is it for you as a first time director coping with the attention and the positive reception?...
- 7/28/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This is a film (based on the novel of the same name) about a teenager called Oliver, awash on a sea of hormones and confusion. This is not, it’s fair to say, unexplored territory. From Catcher in the Rye via The Breakfast Club to Juno, you will find many brilliantly observed and painfully true depictions of the terrible teens.
There are so many rites of passage films depicting the shedding of childish things that you’d be forgiven for thinking there was nothing new to say about it but, as with silly love songs, we don’t seem to have had enough. And I am grateful for that because Submarine, released on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 1st, is wonderful!
The movie that I was mostly put in mind of is Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl (1981). And that’s about as fine a complement as I can pay a British teen movie.
There are so many rites of passage films depicting the shedding of childish things that you’d be forgiven for thinking there was nothing new to say about it but, as with silly love songs, we don’t seem to have had enough. And I am grateful for that because Submarine, released on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 1st, is wonderful!
The movie that I was mostly put in mind of is Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl (1981). And that’s about as fine a complement as I can pay a British teen movie.
- 7/24/2011
- by John Ashbrook
- Obsessed with Film
Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are all about young love in Submarine.
Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company will release the 2010 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film Submarine on Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 4, for the list prices of $39.99 and $29.98, respectively.
Set in Wales, the movie tells the story of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre), a 15-year-old boy who is prone to daydreaming, listening to French crooners and concocting various self-absorbed fantasies. Reality sets in when Oliver finds himself submerged in a handful of serious challenges: Plotting to lose his virginity with a quirky new girlfriend (Yasmin Paige, I Could Never Be Your Woman), struggling to salvage his parents’ (Made in Dagenham’s Sally Hawkins and Vanilla Sky‘s Noah Taylor) marriage and keeping his mom from taking up with the self-help guru next door (Paddy Considine, Red Riding).
Written and directed by Richard Ayoade (TV’s The Mighty Boosh...
Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company will release the 2010 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film Submarine on Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 4, for the list prices of $39.99 and $29.98, respectively.
Set in Wales, the movie tells the story of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre), a 15-year-old boy who is prone to daydreaming, listening to French crooners and concocting various self-absorbed fantasies. Reality sets in when Oliver finds himself submerged in a handful of serious challenges: Plotting to lose his virginity with a quirky new girlfriend (Yasmin Paige, I Could Never Be Your Woman), struggling to salvage his parents’ (Made in Dagenham’s Sally Hawkins and Vanilla Sky‘s Noah Taylor) marriage and keeping his mom from taking up with the self-help guru next door (Paddy Considine, Red Riding).
Written and directed by Richard Ayoade (TV’s The Mighty Boosh...
- 7/13/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
After his involvement with the likes of The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and Smack The Pony, Richard Ayoade turns his very capable hands to directing for the big screen. His first feature length coming-of-age flick, Submarine, is based on Joe Dunthorne’s novel and follows Oliver’s journey of self-discovery, desperate attempt to fix his parents ailing marriage and quest for love.
The film is broken up into four parts of significant days and dates with Oliver’s (Craig Roberts) quirkily written voice-over guiding us through his daily life. Carrying a brief-case, he amusingly slips into school like a “torpedo” and through his constant commentary exposes his eccentricities. His mother, Jill (Sally Hawkins), once dreamt of being an actress and is described as “naturally neurotic”. By contrast, his father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) is a marine biologist who works for the University and is notable as being the first...
The film is broken up into four parts of significant days and dates with Oliver’s (Craig Roberts) quirkily written voice-over guiding us through his daily life. Carrying a brief-case, he amusingly slips into school like a “torpedo” and through his constant commentary exposes his eccentricities. His mother, Jill (Sally Hawkins), once dreamt of being an actress and is described as “naturally neurotic”. By contrast, his father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) is a marine biologist who works for the University and is notable as being the first...
- 7/13/2011
- Shadowlocked
This is how I see it. If we are happy (and we are) to devote a whole post to the big new box of Blu-ray for Jurassic Park (a film which we’ve probably all got on one format or another) then it is our duty to do the same for a film that will have only a fraction of the budget, particularly if it’s a film we like a lot. In fact it’s one of our favourites of the year, and will probably remain so until it finds its place on our top ten of 2011.
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut Submarine is a beautiful film and deserves to be seen by everyone. Jamie’s review of the film pretty much sums up why we loved it so much and on the 1st of August the Blu-ray and DVD will be on sale, and today we have our...
Richard Ayoade’s feature debut Submarine is a beautiful film and deserves to be seen by everyone. Jamie’s review of the film pretty much sums up why we loved it so much and on the 1st of August the Blu-ray and DVD will be on sale, and today we have our...
- 6/29/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The story of a quirky loner coming of age and experiencing first love has been a staple of independent films for quite some time. The new film Submarine directed by Richard Ayoade from the novel by Joe Dunthorne looks at this a new way by setting the story in Wales ( in what appears to be the 1980′s ) and has it’s hero dividing his attention between the pursuit of his new love and concern over his parent’s marriage. This gives a fresh spin to some well trodden cinema territory.
Oliver Tate ( Craig Roberts ) doesn’t seem to fit in at school. His supposed best pal delights in taunting him. He pines for the very cool Jordana Bevan ( Yasmin Paige ). He belongs to none of the popular groups, but daydreams that the entire school would be devastated by his death. Things are tense at home. He believes that his mother...
Oliver Tate ( Craig Roberts ) doesn’t seem to fit in at school. His supposed best pal delights in taunting him. He pines for the very cool Jordana Bevan ( Yasmin Paige ). He belongs to none of the popular groups, but daydreams that the entire school would be devastated by his death. Things are tense at home. He believes that his mother...
- 6/17/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’d watched and enjoyed the British comedy The It Crowd quite a bit and when I heard that it’s star, Richard Ayoade was making his directorial debut with the film, Submarine, I thought that at the very least it would be interesting.
I was right and then some. Submarine is the coming of age story of 15-year old Oliver Tate (played by the wonderful Craig Roberts), a pretentious teen – think Holden Caufield – who is attempting to hook up with the equally odd Jordana (Yasmin Paige) while attempting to save his parents’ marriage. Ayoade brings a completely fresh look to the film and before it ends, you are so enjoying the world he created you’re wishing there were more of it.
I had a chance to talk to Richard in a conference call where he talked about casting the young actors, writing the script and directing his first feature.
I was right and then some. Submarine is the coming of age story of 15-year old Oliver Tate (played by the wonderful Craig Roberts), a pretentious teen – think Holden Caufield – who is attempting to hook up with the equally odd Jordana (Yasmin Paige) while attempting to save his parents’ marriage. Ayoade brings a completely fresh look to the film and before it ends, you are so enjoying the world he created you’re wishing there were more of it.
I had a chance to talk to Richard in a conference call where he talked about casting the young actors, writing the script and directing his first feature.
- 6/11/2011
- by Lance@dailyactor.com (Lance Carter)
- DailyActorMedia
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Chicago – Richard Ayoade’s debut comedy “Submarine” has such an incredibly strong first half that it almost makes the relative disappointment of the second half even more disappointing by comparison. A super-smart ending saves the piece from going out on the wrong note completely and the overall piece bodes well for whatever this talented director does next. Whatever flaws the film may have, it’s certainly unlike anything else in theaters right now and yet will likely remind certain viewers of beloved films like “The Graduate,” “Harold and Maude,” and “Rushmore.”
Based on the coming-of-age novel by Joe Dunthorne, “Submarine” centers on the crisis of cynicism vs. sentimentality that often faces us at a formative age. One minute it’s not “cool” to be in love, the next you’re writing poetry. One minute, you’re aware that being a bully is a bad thing, the next minute you...
Chicago – Richard Ayoade’s debut comedy “Submarine” has such an incredibly strong first half that it almost makes the relative disappointment of the second half even more disappointing by comparison. A super-smart ending saves the piece from going out on the wrong note completely and the overall piece bodes well for whatever this talented director does next. Whatever flaws the film may have, it’s certainly unlike anything else in theaters right now and yet will likely remind certain viewers of beloved films like “The Graduate,” “Harold and Maude,” and “Rushmore.”
Based on the coming-of-age novel by Joe Dunthorne, “Submarine” centers on the crisis of cynicism vs. sentimentality that often faces us at a formative age. One minute it’s not “cool” to be in love, the next you’re writing poetry. One minute, you’re aware that being a bully is a bad thing, the next minute you...
- 6/10/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Young Oliver Tate, the lead of Submarine as played by Craig Roberts, is terrified that his parents are going to break up. Try as he might, he just can't quite get to the root of their mutual dissatisfaction, and takes to spying on them and contriving circumstances to get his mother and father back together. I suspect that having a son like Oliver might create frissures in even the strongest marriage.Writer-director Richard Ayoade's (The It Crowd, Man to Man With Dean Lerner) filmmaking debut is an assured, funny, and occasionally brilliant study of a beautiful loser in 1980s England. Based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne, Submarine is a story about a boy trying to make and understand connections between his parents, between his friends...
- 6/10/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – Writer/director Richard Ayoade is one of the most unassuming, soft-spoken subjects with which I have ever spoken. He is modest beyond measure and seems completely unaware that he has made a film, the coming-of-age comedy “Submarine,” that has already started the kind of buzz that turns an indie film into a cult hit. People will love this movie. And Ayoade may not be quiet for much longer.
Based on the coming-of-age novel by Joe Dunthorne, “Submarine” tells the story of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a quirky young man who seems concerned about everything but is at that age where concern isn’t cool. He’s noticed that his parents (Sally Hawkins & Noah Taylor) haven’t had sex in some time (through detective work involving the dimmer switch in their bedroom) and isn’t quite sure about the New Age douche (Paddy Considine) who just moved in down the street.
Based on the coming-of-age novel by Joe Dunthorne, “Submarine” tells the story of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a quirky young man who seems concerned about everything but is at that age where concern isn’t cool. He’s noticed that his parents (Sally Hawkins & Noah Taylor) haven’t had sex in some time (through detective work involving the dimmer switch in their bedroom) and isn’t quite sure about the New Age douche (Paddy Considine) who just moved in down the street.
- 6/9/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There are few genres that reveal quite as much about the filmmaker as the coming of age story. "Submarine" may be based on a novel by Joe Dunthorne, but there is such a personal quality to the film that a few days after I saw it at Sundance, I happened to spot director Richard Ayoade in the lobby of the Yarrow Hotel, and the urge to walk over and give him a hug ran through me. I resisted, but that's the way "Submarine" affected me. It is a wonderful film, smart and funny and beautifully performed, and it speaks well of...
- 6/7/2011
- Hitfix
Everett Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige in “Submarine”
“Submarine” has been drawing rave reviews for its potent mix of family politics and teenage angst. Director Richard Ayoade’s debut film is being called quirky and darkly funny.
Starring Craig Robers as awkward Oliver Tate, the 97-minute British comedy has big name U.S. producers in Ben Stiller and the Weinstein Company.
It’s currently the highest-rated opening film on Rotten Tomatoes. Read some of the best reviews here.
What makes...
“Submarine” has been drawing rave reviews for its potent mix of family politics and teenage angst. Director Richard Ayoade’s debut film is being called quirky and darkly funny.
Starring Craig Robers as awkward Oliver Tate, the 97-minute British comedy has big name U.S. producers in Ben Stiller and the Weinstein Company.
It’s currently the highest-rated opening film on Rotten Tomatoes. Read some of the best reviews here.
What makes...
- 6/4/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Director: Richard Ayoade Writers: Richard Ayoade, Joe Dunthorne Starring: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Paddy Considine, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Lily McCann Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is the cinematic sibling of Harold Chasen and Max Fischer, the young male protagonists from Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude and Wes Anderson’s Rushmore respectively. A 15-year-old Welsh boy with a geeky penchant for reading the dictionary, Oliver dourly trudges around Swansea outfitted in a black duffel coat with leather briefcase in hand. Solipsistically fancying himself as a fully-formed gentleman with superior tastes and sensibilities, Oliver is the cinematic reincarnation of The Catcher in the Rye’s (Oliver’s favorite modern American novel) protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Oliver pines over a blissful obsession, despite her eczema, with an iconic first-love character, Jordana (Yasmin Paige), a classmate who bears a remarkable resemblance to Chantal Goya circa Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin (one of many film's...
- 6/3/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
"With his Bud Cort haircut and morbid sensibility, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is too smart for Swansea, Wales, an industrial city mired in some seriously mid-80s Thatcherite doldrums," begins Vadim Rizov at GreenCine Daily. "The trouble with Oliver is that he knows he's clever, which could justify anything: surreptitiously monitoring his parents' sex life, taunting an overweight girl to make local cutie Jordana (Yasmin Paige) notice him as a real livewire, or trying to trash the house of downhill neighbor Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine) who may be having an affair with mom (Sally Hawkins). Fortunately, Submarine, Richard Ayoade's feature debut, is aware of Oliver's self-justifying nature and the ways it could warp him…. Acutely aware of the long tradition of films about disaffected young men coming to terms with themselves, Ayoade doesn't duck the precedent: instead, like Oliver…, he nods to seemingly every single precursor. There's a 400 Blows-quoting dash across the beach,...
- 6/3/2011
- MUBI
We’ve all seen coming-of-age stories—plenty of them—so when a new one comes along that seems fresh and novel, that’s reason to cheer. The new British import Submarine is just such a film, based on a prize-winning novel by Joe Dunthorne about a precocious boy growing up in Wales. The two young leads are new to us in the States, but they’re joined by top-tier talent from the adult ranks. The result is a disarming comic tale about growing pains. Craig Roberts plays Oliver Tate, a smart, self-aware 15 year old boy who conscientiously documents his life and narrates the story.…...
- 6/3/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
One of the best films at this year's Sundance Film Festival was one that actually had its debut at last year’s Tiff. Richard Ayoade’s “Submarine” is a remarkably assured debut filled with dry humor, inventive visual wit and great performances. Adapted by Ayoade from a 2008 coming-of-age novel by Joe Dunthorne, the film follows 15 year old Oliver Tate (a perfectly cast Craig Roberts), a somewhat delusional teenager who believes himself to be a literary genius, (he reads Nietzsche and searches the dictionary for new words), but in actuality is a social outcast who gets bullied at school and doesn’t…...
- 6/2/2011
- The Playlist
The precocious lead in Submarine, adapted by actor-writer-director Richard Ayoade from Joe Dunthorne’s 2008 coming-of-age novel, sees the high-wire drama and dark comedy of his adolescence in largely cinematic terms. As played by Craig Roberts, his Technicolor imagination transforms the dingy raw material of his tumultuous teen years into dazzling French New Wave fantasies in which he plays the romantic hero. He’s a man out of time, a moon-faced, hyper-verbal dreamer in the finest Rushmore tradition. Submarine traces Roberts’ rocky evolution from innocence and naïveté to hard-won wisdom as he romances Yasmin Paige, a tough, troubled, attractive ...
- 6/2/2011
- avclub.com
The story of a guy or gal trying to get the old v-card punched is nothing we haven't seen before, but "Submarine" is smarter, cooler, and funnier than what 99 percent of teen comedies have to offer.
You won't find any ravaged baked goods or hard-up goobers peeking at girls in the locker room in this delicious import from Wales, just a moody teen who stares out at the sea in Swansea.
Instead, our hero and narrator Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a serious young man who has important questions about life: Who is he? Where does he fit in? Should he smoke a pipe? How can he get Jordana (Yasmin Paige) to be his girlfriend and sleep with him? Is his mom going to leave his dad for a terribly batty ex-boyfriend who has a mullet and runs self-help workshops?
Jordana's mischievous and seductive and vehemently against anything slightly romantic...
You won't find any ravaged baked goods or hard-up goobers peeking at girls in the locker room in this delicious import from Wales, just a moody teen who stares out at the sea in Swansea.
Instead, our hero and narrator Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a serious young man who has important questions about life: Who is he? Where does he fit in? Should he smoke a pipe? How can he get Jordana (Yasmin Paige) to be his girlfriend and sleep with him? Is his mom going to leave his dad for a terribly batty ex-boyfriend who has a mullet and runs self-help workshops?
Jordana's mischievous and seductive and vehemently against anything slightly romantic...
- 6/1/2011
- by Jenni Miller
- NextMovie
For many years, filmmaker Richard Ayoade was best known, mostly in Britain, for his work with the comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh and the television series "The It Crowd" as well as his video work with the Arctic Monkeys, but his debut feature Submarine , based on a book by Joe Dunthorne, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last September to rave reviews before being picked up by The Weinstein Company. It's a coming-of-age tale that fits so well into the nature of other films at Sundance that they wisely decided to continue its festival run before releasing it. The movie stars newcomer Craig Roberts as Oliver Tate, a 15-year-old lad from Wales who is dealing with two very different problems, his first unbridled first love for his classmate Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige),...
- 6/1/2011
- Comingsoon.net
This interview was originally published during the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
"I have a very sarcastic sounding, insincere voice," joked Richard Ayoade during his introduction to "Submarine," an adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's coming-of-age novel about Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a 15-year-old consumed with looking up words like "atavistic" in the dictionary, saving his parents (Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor) from being split up by a mulleted motivational speaker (Paddy Considine), and romancing his humble classmate Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige).
Certainly, Ayoade can be self-effacing, as one might know from his turn as a regular on Britcoms auch as "The It Crowd," but as a first-time director, he is never anything less than genuine, even while wringing laughs from the most embarrassing of experiences from growing up. His directorial debut will surely draw comparisons to Wes Anderson and Hal Ashby for its bittersweet take on adolescence told with style to spare,...
"I have a very sarcastic sounding, insincere voice," joked Richard Ayoade during his introduction to "Submarine," an adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's coming-of-age novel about Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a 15-year-old consumed with looking up words like "atavistic" in the dictionary, saving his parents (Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor) from being split up by a mulleted motivational speaker (Paddy Considine), and romancing his humble classmate Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige).
Certainly, Ayoade can be self-effacing, as one might know from his turn as a regular on Britcoms auch as "The It Crowd," but as a first-time director, he is never anything less than genuine, even while wringing laughs from the most embarrassing of experiences from growing up. His directorial debut will surely draw comparisons to Wes Anderson and Hal Ashby for its bittersweet take on adolescence told with style to spare,...
- 5/30/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
While one might be pleased with the comedic stylings of Richard Ayoade on the British comedy series "The It Crowd," his work behind the camera for his feature directorial debut with Submarine is also a treasure to behold. An adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's novel, this coming-of-age story follows Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) as he struggles to be the best boyfriend to his new girlfriend Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige) and also keep his parents' marriage from crumbling before his very eyes. And while the story feels familiar, it's Oliver's storytelling style and Ayoade's presentation of it that makes this film truly engaging. Separated into three chapters, complete with a prologue and epilogue, the story is presented subjectively through the eyes of Oliver. Guiding us through his life by way of narration and a French New Wave style of storytelling (there's even a poster for Le Samourai on his wall...
- 5/24/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
There is a smashing movie coming your way soon, and it has been getting a lot of attention for quite some time now. Unfortunately, it's that quiet attention reserved for indie films, and tremendously clever people, which means you probably haven't heard of it, and despite the June 3rd release date, it might not be coming to a theater near you.
It's received some very strong reactions from critics, and did quite well at festivals, but there is hardly a review out there that doesn't include the word "quirky," so there is naturally much hesitation insofar as what the public reaction might be.
Submarine, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne (also the recipient of much praise), is written and directed by Richard Ayoade, best known for The I.T. Crowd.
I haven't seen it yet, but this offbeat exploration of adolescence has me pretty solidly convinced already,...
It's received some very strong reactions from critics, and did quite well at festivals, but there is hardly a review out there that doesn't include the word "quirky," so there is naturally much hesitation insofar as what the public reaction might be.
Submarine, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne (also the recipient of much praise), is written and directed by Richard Ayoade, best known for The I.T. Crowd.
I haven't seen it yet, but this offbeat exploration of adolescence has me pretty solidly convinced already,...
- 5/20/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
See clips and interviews from Submarine, starring Paddy Considine, Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor! The Weinstein Co comedy drama opens June 3rd and is helmed and scripted by Richard Ayoade, adapted from the novel by Joe Dunthorne. Submarine tells of Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried that his mom is having an affair with New Age weirdo Graham, Oliver monitors his parents' sex life by charting the dimmer switch in their bedroom. He also forges suggestive love letters from his mom to dad.
- 5/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See clips and interviews from Submarine, starring Paddy Considine, Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor! The Weinstein Co comedy drama opens June 3rd and is helmed and scripted by Richard Ayoade, adapted from the novel by Joe Dunthorne. Submarine tells of Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried that his mom is having an affair with New Age weirdo Graham, Oliver monitors his parents' sex life by charting the dimmer switch in their bedroom. He also forges suggestive love letters from his mom to dad.
- 5/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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