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THIS
IS ENGLAND
Based largely on first-hand experiences of director Shane
Meadows (A Room for Romeo Brass, Dead Man’s Shoes) growing
up in the 1980s during the Falklands War and the second-wave
skinhead scene, This Is England feels as raw and authentic
as anything Meadows has done. The story tracks the activities
of a precocious 12-year-old boy (Thomas Turgoose, creating
a noteworthy performance in his first film) after he loses
his father and finds acceptance with a group of neighborhood
skinheads who grow to become his new family. This Is England
covers some dark grounds and raises some difficult issues
about that specific time and place but the heart and honesty
of the film is never sacrificed and for an open-minded viewer,
the journey is quite rewarding.
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MOLIÈRE
This French film by Laurent Tirard follows the life of Molière,
France's Shakespeare, and takes the form of one of Molière’s
plays. Set in 1658, the film opens with a successful Molière
(Romain Duris) making a decision about his next play for the
King of France. Thirteen years earlier: Molière finds
himself imprisoned because of a debt. Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice
Luchini) offers to pay off Molière’s debt in
exchange for his artistic talents. In addition, Jourdain has
a disguised Molière help him seduce a beautiful young
widow, while keeping it a secret from Mme. Jourdain. A delightful
score by Frédéric Talgorn combined with magnificent
costumes and make-up makes for an all around well crafted
comedy about one of France’s most famous playwrights.
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SUMMERCAMP!
Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price's wonderful doc Summercamp!
started a limited run at New York's IFC Center on Wednesday,
after which it moves on to screenings around the country.
The film is a touching portrait of the adventures and dramas
of a two-week period at a kids' nature camp in Wisconsin,
and features exclusive music by The Flaming Lips. Price will
also be in attendance at many of the screenings (check the
IFC Center website for more details), and you are strongly
recommended to catch it while you can. |
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17th
ANNUAL GOTHAM AWARDS ANNOUNCED
IFP announced today that the 17th Annual Gotham Awards will
be held on Tuesday, November 27th in New York and have moved
the location to Steiner Studios. They also announced three
of this year's Gotham Awards Tributes: actor Javier Bardem
(No Country for Old Men, Love in the Time of Cholera, Before
Night Falls), filmmaker Mira Nair (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding,
Salaam Bombay!) and film industry veteran Jonathan Sehring,
President of IFC Entertainment. Returning for a second year
to collaborate with IFP and its publication, Filmmaker magazine,
is The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Film Department
for the presentation of the five nominees for “The Best
Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” Award. The screenings
at MoMA will be held November 16 – 19. The Gotham Awards
will be promoted nationally via a partnership with The New
York Times and locally via broadcast on NYC TV. Nominees for
competitive awards will be announced on Monday, October 22.
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IT ALL COMES DOWN
If you haven't checked out the main page recently, please
click over there and watch Jamie Stuart's new short, 12.5
Seconds Later It's goofy and charming and, to my mind, pretty
much a miracle of no-crew production. Jamie shot and edited
it himself and then, for the post, used new Final Cut Pro
Studio software, including its new compositing program Motion.
Jamie did the short at our request -- we offered him use of
a promo Apple system and in return he wrote a print review
based on his experiences actually using the software to make
a film. Both Jamie and that system are pictured here as he
waits for the shipping guys to show up and take it away.
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THE
DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS - MILOS FORMAN, GOYA'S GHOSTS
It is something of a tragic irony that after escaping the
restrictions of Communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 — where
he had made five films in five years — in the subsequent
40 years Milos Forman has worked in America, he has only made
a further nine features. Taking Off (1971) was a transition
between the looseness of his Czech films, such as the classic
Loves of a Blonde (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967), and
the more conventional Hollywood style he would later adopt,
and was the first of many films in which he captured the essence
of America by taking an outsider's perspective. Forman's greatest
successes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus
(1984), both won him Academy Awards for Best Director and
Best Picture, but even the supposedly less successful films
he made around the same time — Hair (1979), Ragtime
(1981) and Valmont (1989) — are rich, wonderful and
often extremely underrated films. In the 1990s, Forman turned
his attention to American counterculture figures, producing
acclaimed biopics of porn baron Larry Flynt (The People vs.
Larry Flynt) and alternative comedian Andy Kaufman (Man on
the Moon).
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