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2010 movie preview: 15 films you probably didn’t know you should be excited for
29 December 2009 9:37 AM, PST
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A few days back John made the rather excellent list of 15 films that are sure to get audience’s pulses racing with anticipation for next year. Yet away from the marketing hype, pre-release publicity and away from the A-List names there are a slew of movies that, whilst not overly commercially minded, look like they may just be delightful. Some might be sleeper hits, some might not. Either way here is a list of 15 films, five each from the U.S., Asia and Europe, you may not have heard of to look out for next year:
The United States
The Fighter
Perhaps tainted by Christian Bale’s lost lustre or director David O. Russell’s reputation, The Fighter is receiving much less attention than I initially envisioned. Mark Wahlberg is to star in the lead role of professional boxer “Irish” Micky Ward with Bale as his half brother. The Fighter
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2010 movie preview: 15 films you probably didn’t know you should be excited for
29 December 2009 8:46 AM, PST
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A few days back John made the rather excellent list of 15 films that are sure to get audience’s pulses racing with anticipation for next year. Yet away from the marketing hype, pre-release publicity and away from the A-List names there are a slew of movies that, whilst not overly commercially minded, look like they may just be delightful. Some might be sleeper hits, some might not. Either way here is a list of 15 films, five each from the U.S., Asia and Europe, you may not have heard of to look out for next year:
The United States
The Fighter
Perhaps tainted by Christian Bale’s lost lustre or director David O. Russell’s reputation, The Fighter is receiving much less attention than I initially envisioned. Mark Wahlberg is to star in the lead role of professional boxer “Irish” Micky Ward with Bale as his half brother. The Fighter
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- Kieron Casey
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Chris Morris’s Four Lions to Roar at Sundance
3 December 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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Fans of Chris Morris’s TV works will know of his surreal and vicious take on the modern world, popping the moral acne of the world leaving a moonscape of scars in a brilliant and original way.
His work with In The Loop’s Armando Iannucci on the BBC’s The Day Today and Channel 4’s Brass Eye were knowing satires with an evil sting the tail, using the conventions of genre and medium with a capability that greatly enhanced the impact of the absurdities he poked fun at.
Following his dark comic fable My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117, Morris has turned his vision to Four Lions, telling the story of four British Muslim men training at a militant training camp, and according to the BBC the film will compete at Sundance in the world cinema narrative category.
This is great news for Film Four who took a chance in funding the film
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Chris Morris's 'jihadist comedy' to premiere at Sundance
3 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST
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The British satirist's new film joins the lineup of 113 independent films to unspool over the 2010 festival, together with new movies starring Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and James Franco
Satirist Chris Morris looks set to lead the British charge at next year's Sundance film festival – his debut feature has been selected to premiere at the event. Four Lions comes billed as a comedy about a band of wannabe British jihadists. Morris has claimed that the film will do for Islamist extremists what Dad's Army did for Nazis – making them look "scary but also ridiculous".
All the same, Four Lions remains likely to spark controversy. Morris was dubbed the "most hated man in Britain" after a Brass Eye TV special in 2001 which dared to poke fun at the moral panic surrounding paedophilia.
Four Lions takes its place among 113 independent films that are due to be unveiled at Park City. The 16 films selected
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- Xan Brooks
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Eiff 09: Review of Wide Open Spaces
28 June 2009 9:47 PM, PDT
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Year: 2009
Directors: Tom Hall
Writers: Arthur Mathews
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 3 out of 10
I love Ardal O'Hanlon, his performance as Dougal in the sitcom 'Father Ted', is one of the best things about 90's, UK comedy. I love Ewan Bremner, his performance in Trainspotting as the junkie, Spud, is one of the best things about 90's, UK cinema. Why then would both actors agree to star in something that feels like the aborted pilot of the worlds most depressing buddy-comedy?
Myles (O'Hanlon) and Austin (Bremner) are best friends, who agree to work on Ireland's first, and only, famine themed adventure park. It's being run by a crooked businessman, who in turn is being funded by an eccentric, video-art obsessed, middle-aged vamp, who takes every opportunity to flirt with both him, and the two lads. They share a tin hut, in which a lot of the film is set,
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Chris Morris Unleashes Four Lions
20 May 2009 3:10 AM, PDT
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Film4 has gone where many others have feared to tread and funded Four Lions, Chris Morris' satirical and no doubt incendiary take on Islamic terrorism in the UK.Morris, the satirical genius behind Brass Eye and The Day Today and a man who once persuaded Phil Collins to appear on telly in a T-shirt with 'Nonce Sense' emblazoned on the front, is promising to show "the Dad's Army side of terrorism" with a script that follows the path of four teenage Muslims into indoctrinated jihadis.Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan Deirdre Steed, who helped secure funding to cover its £4 million budget, describes Four Lions as "a funny, thrilling fictional story that illuminates modern British jihad with an insight beyond anything else in our culture. As Spinal Tap understood heavy metal and Dr. Strangelove the Cold War, Four Lions understands modern British jihadis."The shoot for Four Lions is scheduled to start this summer,
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Bruno Trailer Launches Online
3 April 2009 2:04 AM, PDT
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The trailer for Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to Borat, has hit the web via MySpace. Be warned, though, it’s a red-band, and is particularly naughty.Like the trailer for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, the Bruno teaser immediately establishes goodwill by reminding you of Borat’s triumph. This, though, is a very different film. Whereas Borat was a documentary-style film, shot on the lam, in which an oblivious Borat travelled across the Us causing chaos and outrage with his shocking and politically incorrect attitudes and observations, Bruno is a documentary-style film, shot on the lam, in which an oblivious Bruno, an Austrian fashion model who, to quote Brass Eye, is gay as a window, travels across the Us causing chaos and outrage with his shocking and politically incorrect attitudes and obs… oh.We won’t mind that this is essentially the same film,
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Chris Morris set to make fun of suicide bombers in Four Lions!
8 January 2009 3:01 AM, PST
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Controversial, misunderstood and elusive, Chris Morris is undoubtedly one of the sharpest satirists working in British TV, so news that funding for his first feature film, Four Lions, has been granted is exciting news indeed. Morris’ past creations are amongst the most vital TV shows of the past 20 years: Brass Eye has yet to be bettered as a current affairs satire and the much underrated Jam must still be one of the most gloriously dark sketch shows ever to grace TV. The former is still astonishingly relevant and, more importantly, funny over a decade on. Sure, the celebrity wind-ups have now been done to death, but rarely have the famous been ridiculed so mercilessly for their ignorance, self-importance and plain stupidity. Brass Eye lampooned the British media’s unqualified hysteria like no other, but since tackling the superb ‘Pedophile Special’ in 2001, Morris hasn’t quite hit the mark with subsequent projects.
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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Clause. Chris Morris’ Terrorism Comedy Moving Ahead!
7 January 2009 8:24 AM, PST
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It’s taken years to get off the ground, has undergone a name change - it is now known as Four Lions - and been largely abandoned as dead by all but its creators but brilliant and brutal British satirist Chris Morris (Brass Eye, Nathan Barley) has done what seemed impossible: he’s got funding for his terrorism comedy and plans to begin shooting this summer.
To put it bluntly, get ready for public protest over this one because Morris pulls no punches whatsoever and given what territory he was willing to step in to with Brass Eye - the pedophilia episode of his mock news show is still notorious - I shudder (in a good way) to think what he’ll attempt given the looser restrictions of feature film. Says Morris, “Most of us would dearly love to laugh in the face of our worst fears. Why aren’t we laughing at terrorists?
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