The ‘alt-right’ actor turns in a capable performance in this somewhat oddball family reunion drama
There’s no point in a fictional family reunion where long-buried resentments don’t painfully but cathartically resurface – and maybe no point in such a family reunion in real life, either. Dictynna Hood’s flawed, interesting low-budget indie is a vehemently performed, slightly Shakespearean drama, set over a few days in a Dartmoor farmhouse – the title appears to be about the area’s standing stones, though there are reminiscences of a shivery childhood visit to Stonehenge.
Here, ageing matriarch and former hippy Marianne (Anna Calder-Marshall) and her testy husband Richard (Oliver Cotton) have summoned the extended clan for Marianne’s birthday because she is very ill, and possibly even dying. (“Here’s to the remission of sins and cancer!” runs one toast over the fractious dinner.)...
There’s no point in a fictional family reunion where long-buried resentments don’t painfully but cathartically resurface – and maybe no point in such a family reunion in real life, either. Dictynna Hood’s flawed, interesting low-budget indie is a vehemently performed, slightly Shakespearean drama, set over a few days in a Dartmoor farmhouse – the title appears to be about the area’s standing stones, though there are reminiscences of a shivery childhood visit to Stonehenge.
Here, ageing matriarch and former hippy Marianne (Anna Calder-Marshall) and her testy husband Richard (Oliver Cotton) have summoned the extended clan for Marianne’s birthday because she is very ill, and possibly even dying. (“Here’s to the remission of sins and cancer!” runs one toast over the fractious dinner.)...
- 12/8/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Curzon12 will stream recent and classic movies; first lineup revealed.
Curzon is beefing up its online offering with the launch of Curzon12, a monthly VoD service built into its membership packages.
The service will host 12 recent and classic movies which will be available to stream when logging in with a Curzon membership.
Scroll down for first lineup
Each month’s curated lineup, taken exclusively from Curzon’s library, is selected by the company’s programming team and is designed to complement the films playing across Curzon’s cinemas and its day-and-date service on Curzon Home Cinema that month.
The collection will feature the work of directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos, Charlie Chaplin, Andrea Arnold, Satyajit Ray and Agnes Varda as well as lesser known filmmakers.
The offering will be accompanied by a monthly newsletter that will delve deeper into three headline titles for that month.
The subscription is a benefit for existing and future members at no additional...
Curzon is beefing up its online offering with the launch of Curzon12, a monthly VoD service built into its membership packages.
The service will host 12 recent and classic movies which will be available to stream when logging in with a Curzon membership.
Scroll down for first lineup
Each month’s curated lineup, taken exclusively from Curzon’s library, is selected by the company’s programming team and is designed to complement the films playing across Curzon’s cinemas and its day-and-date service on Curzon Home Cinema that month.
The collection will feature the work of directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos, Charlie Chaplin, Andrea Arnold, Satyajit Ray and Agnes Varda as well as lesser known filmmakers.
The offering will be accompanied by a monthly newsletter that will delve deeper into three headline titles for that month.
The subscription is a benefit for existing and future members at no additional...
- 8/21/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Filmmaker also co-producing Dictynna Hood’s upcoming Trojan Women.
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir has revealed details of her next feature Wajib, about an estranged father and son’s attempts to reconnect.
“It’s a dark comedy about the relationship between a father and son, who has returned home after a long absence,” said Jacir. “It will unfold against the course of one day in the city of Nazareth. It’s got dark humour.”
The filmmaker, whose credits include the award-winning When I Saw You and Salt of the Sea, is in Cannes talking to potential co-producing partners and sales companies.
Her long-term collaborator Ossama Bawardi is producing the film, under their joint Jordan-based Philistine Films banner.
Rising Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who starred in Salvo and is soon to be seen in Majid Al Ansari’s Zinzana, has signed to co-star.
It is the first time, Jacir, who hails from the West Bank town of Bethlehem...
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir has revealed details of her next feature Wajib, about an estranged father and son’s attempts to reconnect.
“It’s a dark comedy about the relationship between a father and son, who has returned home after a long absence,” said Jacir. “It will unfold against the course of one day in the city of Nazareth. It’s got dark humour.”
The filmmaker, whose credits include the award-winning When I Saw You and Salt of the Sea, is in Cannes talking to potential co-producing partners and sales companies.
Her long-term collaborator Ossama Bawardi is producing the film, under their joint Jordan-based Philistine Films banner.
Rising Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who starred in Salvo and is soon to be seen in Majid Al Ansari’s Zinzana, has signed to co-star.
It is the first time, Jacir, who hails from the West Bank town of Bethlehem...
- 5/19/2015
- ScreenDaily
Dreams of a Life; Moneyball; Snowtown; Weekend; The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn; Resistance; Wreckers
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Brooding disquiet as tensions bubble up in Dictynna Hood's sure-footed debut, the story of a fraught return to the rural
For her debut feature, British film-maker Dictynna Hood has created a brooding drama of rural disquiet and sexual tension. It's technically accomplished, though perhaps over-determined and self-conscious. Benedict Cumberbatch plays David, a schoolteacher who takes a job in his home village in Kent, moving back there with his young wife, Dawn, played by Claire Foy, also a teacher. They are fixing up a cottage there, and their marriage is happy, although with some tension about trying for a baby. Then David's disturbed younger brother, Nick (Shaun Evans), shows up; he has been away in the army. Nick starts telling the increasingly uncomfortable Claire about all the village's secrets, and his brother's secrets, too. Nick may look like the disturbed one, but David isn't quite the cool customer he pretends to be.
For her debut feature, British film-maker Dictynna Hood has created a brooding drama of rural disquiet and sexual tension. It's technically accomplished, though perhaps over-determined and self-conscious. Benedict Cumberbatch plays David, a schoolteacher who takes a job in his home village in Kent, moving back there with his young wife, Dawn, played by Claire Foy, also a teacher. They are fixing up a cottage there, and their marriage is happy, although with some tension about trying for a baby. Then David's disturbed younger brother, Nick (Shaun Evans), shows up; he has been away in the army. Nick starts telling the increasingly uncomfortable Claire about all the village's secrets, and his brother's secrets, too. Nick may look like the disturbed one, but David isn't quite the cool customer he pretends to be.
- 12/16/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Brooding disquiet as tensions bubble up in Dictynna Hood's sure-footed debut, the story of a fraught return to the rural
For her debut feature, British film-maker Dictynna Hood has created a brooding drama of rural disquiet and sexual tension. It's technically accomplished, though perhaps over-determined and self-conscious. Benedict Cumberbatch plays David, a schoolteacher who takes a job in his home village in Kent, moving back there with his young wife, Dawn, played by Claire Foy, also a teacher. They are fixing up a cottage there, and their marriage is happy, although with some tension about trying for a baby. Then David's disturbed younger brother, Nick (Shaun Evans), shows up; he has been away in the army. Nick starts telling the increasingly uncomfortable Claire about all the village's secrets, and his brother's secrets, too. Nick may look like the disturbed one, but David isn't quite the cool customer he pretends to be.
For her debut feature, British film-maker Dictynna Hood has created a brooding drama of rural disquiet and sexual tension. It's technically accomplished, though perhaps over-determined and self-conscious. Benedict Cumberbatch plays David, a schoolteacher who takes a job in his home village in Kent, moving back there with his young wife, Dawn, played by Claire Foy, also a teacher. They are fixing up a cottage there, and their marriage is happy, although with some tension about trying for a baby. Then David's disturbed younger brother, Nick (Shaun Evans), shows up; he has been away in the army. Nick starts telling the increasingly uncomfortable Claire about all the village's secrets, and his brother's secrets, too. Nick may look like the disturbed one, but David isn't quite the cool customer he pretends to be.
- 12/15/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
English actor Benedict Cumberbatch, after a long list of credits abroad, has finally begun to gain notice Stateside thanks to the tantalizing BBC series Sherlock, where he plays the famous detective in a modern setting with a sociopathic flare. There Cumberbatch displays an offbeat appeal that has inspired a fast-growing fanbase, who eagerly awaits his upcoming turns in such buzzed about big budget affairs as Tomas Alfredson’s thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-sure drama War Horse, and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: There and Back Again. But today, we have a look at less grandiose venture, the tender British drama Wreckers.
[If you haven't yet seen Sherlock, it's Now Streaming.]
The debut feature of director D.R. Hood, Cumberbatch stars opposite Claire Foy (Season of the Witch) playing a married man whose drawn into a cruel conflict when his brother (Shaun Evans) returns home. Wreckers, which drew some praise at BFI London Film Festival, will open...
[If you haven't yet seen Sherlock, it's Now Streaming.]
The debut feature of director D.R. Hood, Cumberbatch stars opposite Claire Foy (Season of the Witch) playing a married man whose drawn into a cruel conflict when his brother (Shaun Evans) returns home. Wreckers, which drew some praise at BFI London Film Festival, will open...
- 11/9/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The BFI London Film Festival is the biggest film festival the UK has to offer, and one of the most prestigious and well-recognised festivals across the globe. This year, the festival is celebrating its 55th run, and it has an absolutely fantastic line-up of films scheduled to play through the festival, from 12th – 27th October.
We’re now able to share with you the shortlists for the festival’s various awards, along with the juries for each of those awards. More excellent news also comes with the announcement that the BFI will be honouring both writer-director David Cronenberg, who is bringing his film A Dangerous Method to the festival this year, and actor-director Ralph Fiennes, who will be bringing his directorial debut Coriolanus to the festival, with its highest honour, in the form of the BFI Fellowship.
On receiving the award, Cronenberg has said,
“This is a monumental, in fact overwhelming,...
We’re now able to share with you the shortlists for the festival’s various awards, along with the juries for each of those awards. More excellent news also comes with the announcement that the BFI will be honouring both writer-director David Cronenberg, who is bringing his film A Dangerous Method to the festival this year, and actor-director Ralph Fiennes, who will be bringing his directorial debut Coriolanus to the festival, with its highest honour, in the form of the BFI Fellowship.
On receiving the award, Cronenberg has said,
“This is a monumental, in fact overwhelming,...
- 10/4/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
- 9/7/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
From the 12th to the 27th of October the 55th BFI London Film Festival brings its annual box of delights to the capital. Earlier today the full programme was announced, and it look like being another fine year.
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
- 9/7/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Artistic director Sandra Hebron has announced the line-up for the 55th BFI London Film Festival this morning where they will screen “a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres” plus “110 live action and animated shorts”.
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
- 9/7/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Wreckers starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and Shaun Evans, sees U.K. release via Artificial Eye. Artificial Eye will distributed D.R. Hood's Wreckers on U.K. soule and Content Film are handling international sales for the film, reports Variety. Hood directed and wrote Wreckers which is a drama following a married couple who move back to the husband's childhood village in order to start their family. When his brother surprises them with a visit, this sparks a sibling rivalry and exposes lies in the relationship of the husband and wife.
- 6/20/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Wreckers starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and Shaun Evans, sees U.K. release via Artificial Eye. Artificial Eye will distributed D.R. Hood's Wreckers on U.K. soule and Content Film are handling international sales for the film, reports Variety. Hood directed and wrote Wreckers which is a drama following a married couple who move back to the husband's childhood village in order to start their family. When his brother surprises them with a visit, this sparks a sibling rivalry and exposes lies in the relationship of the husband and wife.
- 6/20/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Wreckers starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and Shaun Evans, sees U.K. release via Artificial Eye. Artificial Eye will distributed D.R. Hood's Wreckers on U.K. soule and Content Film are handling international sales for the film, reports Variety. Hood directed and wrote Wreckers which is a drama following a married couple who move back to the husband's childhood village in order to start their family. When his brother surprises them with a visit, this sparks a sibling rivalry and exposes lies in the relationship of the husband and wife.
- 6/20/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A new monster film called Bait is in development to start shooting Summer 2010, and will be directed by China Moo-Young from a script written by Lucy Moore. Bait is the only monster film entry featured in the iFeatures Twelve; 12 feature film projects/teams in the initial stage of development, three of which will be chosen as finalists to be filmed in Bristol, U.K. this summer. Moore and Moo-Young's Bait beat out 538 other entrants so far. If they win, their film will be shot in Bristol on a budget of £300,000...
'A teenage boy hunts down an elusive monster that is terrorizing Bristol by night.' Bait will capture the unique essence of Bristol – its people, culture, values and energy – in ways that will resonate with audiences around the world, according to the iFeatures site.
Over and Under, to be directed by D.R. Hood, and Take Me Out, written by Lucy Catherine,...
'A teenage boy hunts down an elusive monster that is terrorizing Bristol by night.' Bait will capture the unique essence of Bristol – its people, culture, values and energy – in ways that will resonate with audiences around the world, according to the iFeatures site.
Over and Under, to be directed by D.R. Hood, and Take Me Out, written by Lucy Catherine,...
- 3/12/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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