The Criterion Collection has announced a new treat for cinephiles coming this summer. The Complete Films of Agnès Varda, a 15-disc collector’s set, will feature all 39 of the late French icon’s features, shorts, and documentaries. The set hits shelves on August 11 this year.
Each of the 15 discs presents a curation of films organized by themes that marked Varda’s work, including explorations of Paris in “Cléo From 5 to 7,” studies of married life with “Le Bonheur,” her collaborations with Jane Birkin in “Jane B. par Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!,” and Jacques Demy with “Jacquot d Nantes,” “The Young Girls Turn 25,” and “The World of Jacques Demy,” and much more. She was married to Demy up until his death in 1990.
The full list of included titles is below. The set also features a 200-page book surveying Varda’s career, which launched in 1955 with “La Pointe Courte,” followed...
Each of the 15 discs presents a curation of films organized by themes that marked Varda’s work, including explorations of Paris in “Cléo From 5 to 7,” studies of married life with “Le Bonheur,” her collaborations with Jane Birkin in “Jane B. par Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master!,” and Jacques Demy with “Jacquot d Nantes,” “The Young Girls Turn 25,” and “The World of Jacques Demy,” and much more. She was married to Demy up until his death in 1990.
The full list of included titles is below. The set also features a 200-page book surveying Varda’s career, which launched in 1955 with “La Pointe Courte,” followed...
- 5/11/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
After getting a tease and the announcement of a theatrical touring retrospective, The Criterion Collection have now announced their Agnès Varda boxset, aptly titled The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. A gorgeous, epic undertaking, this treasure trove of cinematic beauty is split into different aspects of the Belgian-born French director’s life and career.
Arriving on a fifteen-disc Blu-ray release on August 11, the set features digital restorations of thirty-nine films, including the first home-video presentations of Les créatures, Jacquot de Nantes, and the television series Agnès de ci de là Varda. There’s also over seven hours of archival programs from Varda, a 200-page book, video introductions by the late filmmaker herself, and much, much more. Check out the details below.
The Films
Agnès Forever – Varda by Agnès (2019), Les 3 boutons (2015)
Early Varda – La Pointe Courte (1955), Ô saisons, ô châteaux (1958), Du côté de la côte (1958)
Around Paris – Cléo from 5 to 7...
Arriving on a fifteen-disc Blu-ray release on August 11, the set features digital restorations of thirty-nine films, including the first home-video presentations of Les créatures, Jacquot de Nantes, and the television series Agnès de ci de là Varda. There’s also over seven hours of archival programs from Varda, a 200-page book, video introductions by the late filmmaker herself, and much, much more. Check out the details below.
The Films
Agnès Forever – Varda by Agnès (2019), Les 3 boutons (2015)
Early Varda – La Pointe Courte (1955), Ô saisons, ô châteaux (1958), Du côté de la côte (1958)
Around Paris – Cléo from 5 to 7...
- 5/11/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, brought her chic white suit and Seventies Nilsson-style piano chords to Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday with a performance of “Everyday.”
“I see you everyday/But that’s not enough,” Mering professes, before singing her signature line: “True love is making a comeback.” She sways back and forth, her backing band supplying groovy instrumentation until the final moments, when the rhythm escalates as Mering hits the high notes to immense applause.
“’Everyday’ is about Tinder and online dating, and the idea of going through people really fast,...
“I see you everyday/But that’s not enough,” Mering professes, before singing her signature line: “True love is making a comeback.” She sways back and forth, her backing band supplying groovy instrumentation until the final moments, when the rhythm escalates as Mering hits the high notes to immense applause.
“’Everyday’ is about Tinder and online dating, and the idea of going through people really fast,...
- 7/17/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Christian worship group, Hillsong United, announced the start of their People tour, a 30-day tour across the U.S. and Canada, which will mark the release of their new album People. Get Deals On Hillsong United Tickets Here! Hillsong United began as a youth ministry band in Sydney, Australia’s Hillsong church. Their debut single, “Everyday,” was a smashing […]
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- 4/23/2019
- by Irvin Vita
- Uinterview
“True love is making a comeback,” Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, announces over jovial piano chords. In “Everyday,” the second single off her new album, Titanic Rising, Mering seesaws between inescapable loneliness and the hazards of falling in love. “Got a lot of things to clear away/Got a lot of years of bad love to make Ok,” she sings optimistically, almost as if a fulfilling romantic relationship is an item to cross off a grocery list.
Mering has described the sound she aimed for on Titanic Rising...
Mering has described the sound she aimed for on Titanic Rising...
- 4/11/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Logic is more than a rapper — at least, that’s how he sees himself. This much became apparent on Tuesday, when he A) released Supermarket, his debut novel, which tells the story of a depressed 24-year-old deadbeat named Flynn who takes a job at a grocery store in his rural Oregon town, and B) released Supermarket (Soundtrack), the novel’s 13-track musical companion, which finds him diving headlong into the world of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock. The album begins inauspiciously, with a seven-minute stoner odyssey titled “Bohemian Trapsody.” [Find the book on co0319272 autoAmazon...
- 3/28/2019
- by Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
A Bollywood movie about a rapper from the slums may sound derivative, but what does that matter when “Gully Boy” revels in high-wattage screen chemistry and an inclusive social message, all served up in a slickly enjoyable production showcasing Ranveer Singh’s many charms? Zoya Akhtar’s most accomplished film to date is a mainstream rap musical about a Muslim guy from working-class Mumbai determined to break free from the strictures of expectation and class, all served up with generous helpings of deftly written hip-hop lyrics and a largely well-woven narrative that’s so likable one can almost forgive how the script barely bothers to resolve an important plot element.
Even though few Bollywood films break through into non-specialized distribution, this one has a better chance than most to become an international crowdpleaser, polishing and semi-pop-ifying the gritty genre for a broader audience as it does. It doesn’t hurt...
Even though few Bollywood films break through into non-specialized distribution, this one has a better chance than most to become an international crowdpleaser, polishing and semi-pop-ifying the gritty genre for a broader audience as it does. It doesn’t hurt...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Logic unleashes a torrent of pop culture references – Dave Chappelle to Michael Jackson to Master P – on the dizzying new single “Everybody Dies.”
“Had a lot of dark nights, but, bitch, I been Bane/ I was born in the darkness like Rick James/ Bitch, sippin’ scotch with Chappelle after the Grammys/ Said them countries wasn’t ‘shit holes’; they prolly wanna ban me,” he rhymes over a jazzy guitar figure and booming beat, veering from a Batman nod to a President Trump diss.
Elsewhere, he raps, “Now my shit a masterpiece,...
“Had a lot of dark nights, but, bitch, I been Bane/ I was born in the darkness like Rick James/ Bitch, sippin’ scotch with Chappelle after the Grammys/ Said them countries wasn’t ‘shit holes’; they prolly wanna ban me,” he rhymes over a jazzy guitar figure and booming beat, veering from a Batman nod to a President Trump diss.
Elsewhere, he raps, “Now my shit a masterpiece,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
After releasing sentimental pop-leaning collaborations with Marshmello and One Republic’s Ryan Tedder, Logic pivots back to spare, smacking hip-hop on his new single “The Return.”
The rapper picks a strong beat here courtesy of longtime collaborator 6ix: “The Return” instrumental loops Nina Simone’s “Wild Is the Wind” to great effect, turning Simone’s inimitable voice into an eerie melody and then doubling it with a horn line.
Seemingly inspired by the imperious beat, Logic raps with speed and intensity, picking fight after fight. He takes aim at the...
The rapper picks a strong beat here courtesy of longtime collaborator 6ix: “The Return” instrumental loops Nina Simone’s “Wild Is the Wind” to great effect, turning Simone’s inimitable voice into an eerie melody and then doubling it with a horn line.
Seemingly inspired by the imperious beat, Logic raps with speed and intensity, picking fight after fight. He takes aim at the...
- 8/24/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
The Obama era may seem long distant in many ways, but it sure seemed like we were still in it this week if you happened to catch the rapper Logic, swinging through the very red state of Idaho halfway into a two-month headlining tour. Watching him genially command a worshipful crowd at Boise’s Idaho Center Amphitheatre, it was easy to be reminded of how he resembles a certain former chief commander, not least of all as the product of African American and Caucasian parents. Logic trades on that mixed identity more than the president ever did — his Twitter handle is Bobby Biracial — but you can see the similarities in less glaring ways, like how that inherent tension informs a vast charm that’s more hard-fought than it looks.
Anyway, that urge for bridge-gapping is going better for him than it often did for Obama. He’s riding high on...
Anyway, that urge for bridge-gapping is going better for him than it often did for Obama. He’s riding high on...
- 7/13/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Actress Angourie Rice sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss her new film, Everyday, based on the novel of the same name by David Levithan, and the pressures that come with starring in a big-screen adaptation.
Rice tells THR that she fell in love with the book two years before she knew about the film and was immediately captivated by the story.
“I just picked it up at the library, thought it looked interesting, and I finished it in three or four days,” she said. “I loved it. I devoured it. I thought it was so great and...
Rice tells THR that she fell in love with the book two years before she knew about the film and was immediately captivated by the story.
“I just picked it up at the library, thought it looked interesting, and I finished it in three or four days,” she said. “I loved it. I devoured it. I thought it was so great and...
- 3/23/2018
- by Ciara McVey
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Can a Song Save Your Life?: Caton-Jones’ Modest Return to Filmmaking
Scottish film director Michael Caton-Jones had a very prolific filmography in the 1990s thanks to films like Memphis Belle (1990), Rob Roy (1995), and The Jackal (1997). It’s been nearly a decade since he’s tackled a feature film, following the dismally received Basic Instinct 2 in 2006. He’s returned to the UK for Urban Hymn, a modest character study set against the 2011 North London riots. Emotionally effective and featuring a trio of genuinely unfussy performances, the familiar trajectory too often settles for superficial examinations of its characters, hobbling them of the necessary interiority to make them more than one-dimensional archetypes. Despite this, those appreciative of feel-good narratives should take note considering the effortless dynamic of its leading actors.
Jamie (Laetitia Wright) and Leanne (Isabelle Laughland) are two disenfranchised young women in their late teens, orphans with violent histories...
Scottish film director Michael Caton-Jones had a very prolific filmography in the 1990s thanks to films like Memphis Belle (1990), Rob Roy (1995), and The Jackal (1997). It’s been nearly a decade since he’s tackled a feature film, following the dismally received Basic Instinct 2 in 2006. He’s returned to the UK for Urban Hymn, a modest character study set against the 2011 North London riots. Emotionally effective and featuring a trio of genuinely unfussy performances, the familiar trajectory too often settles for superficial examinations of its characters, hobbling them of the necessary interiority to make them more than one-dimensional archetypes. Despite this, those appreciative of feel-good narratives should take note considering the effortless dynamic of its leading actors.
Jamie (Laetitia Wright) and Leanne (Isabelle Laughland) are two disenfranchised young women in their late teens, orphans with violent histories...
- 9/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A contemplative film pondering the nature of the difference between reality and fiction, one with resonance beyond the true-crime story it’s kinda sorta about. I’m “biast” (pro): mostly love Michael Winterbottom’s movies
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Let’s be perfectly clear: The Face of an Angel is most definitely not the story of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, or the story of her roommate, American student Amanda Knox, who was tried and convicted of the crime along with her then boyfriend. (And then they were acquitted on appeal.)
Well, it is that story. But it isn’t, either. It’s both and neither at the same time.
Okay, look: British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (The Look of Love, Everyday) is...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Let’s be perfectly clear: The Face of an Angel is most definitely not the story of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was killed in Perugia, Italy, in 2007, or the story of her roommate, American student Amanda Knox, who was tried and convicted of the crime along with her then boyfriend. (And then they were acquitted on appeal.)
Well, it is that story. But it isn’t, either. It’s both and neither at the same time.
Okay, look: British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (The Look of Love, Everyday) is...
- 3/27/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Looking back at 2014, it's been an eventful year in film. Audiences have travelled to the far reaches of the universe in Interstellar and Guardians of the Galaxy, seen Scarlett Johansson shift from AI to Black Widow, visiting alien to arse-kicking superbeing, and even discovered that everything is awesome in a world made of Lego. And yet for all these high concepts and lofty ideas it's a film with a clear, simple idea at its core that sticks out the most.
Of course, calling Richard Linklater's Boyhood "simple" is to do it something of a disservice. This coming-of-age drama follows the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows from youngster to college student, but instead of actor switches and the usual bag of cinematic tricks we get to witness the passage of time thanks to Linklater's bold decision to shoot over the course of 12 years. Under his guidance, it all looks so effortless.
Of course, calling Richard Linklater's Boyhood "simple" is to do it something of a disservice. This coming-of-age drama follows the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows from youngster to college student, but instead of actor switches and the usual bag of cinematic tricks we get to witness the passage of time thanks to Linklater's bold decision to shoot over the course of 12 years. Under his guidance, it all looks so effortless.
- 12/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Director: Richard Linklater; Screenwriter: Richard Linklater; Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater; Running time: 166 mins; Certificate: 15
12 years in the making, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is the coming-of-age movie to end all coming-of-age movies. Shooting with the same core actors - Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Lorelei Linklater - for a few days every year since 2002, writer-director Linklater has crafted a wonderful film that captures the rollercoaster ride that comes with growing up.
The Up documentary series and Michael Winterbottom's Everyday (filmed over a five-year stretch) have tackled the passing of time on screen, but Boyhood is something of a different proposition. It's a film that manages to be both breathtakingly epic and poignantly intimate, dipping into the life of Mason (Coltrane) from ages five to 18.
Linklater never signposts the passing years with filmmaking flourishes, instead immersing the viewer in place and time with brilliant...
12 years in the making, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is the coming-of-age movie to end all coming-of-age movies. Shooting with the same core actors - Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Lorelei Linklater - for a few days every year since 2002, writer-director Linklater has crafted a wonderful film that captures the rollercoaster ride that comes with growing up.
The Up documentary series and Michael Winterbottom's Everyday (filmed over a five-year stretch) have tackled the passing of time on screen, but Boyhood is something of a different proposition. It's a film that manages to be both breathtakingly epic and poignantly intimate, dipping into the life of Mason (Coltrane) from ages five to 18.
Linklater never signposts the passing years with filmmaking flourishes, instead immersing the viewer in place and time with brilliant...
- 7/7/2014
- Digital Spy
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.
new to streaming
The Invisible Woman: the story of Charles Dickens and his secret mistress is no romance, and no modest costume drama, either, but a tale of women being practical because they had to be [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: a cheery, airy fairy tale filled with a very modern ache and buoyed by an infectious joy; I love this movie [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to Prime
The English Patient: haunting and enthralling, a scrapbook of another world of romance and adventure and tragedy; Oscar winner for Best Picture [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Flight of the Phoenix: an inherently absurd survival adventure with an infectiously contradictory attitude: jaded and thrilled, cynical and expansive [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
have some Michael Fassbender
Jane Eyre: a sparse, harsh adaptation, with Fassbender as a grim Rochester to Mia Wasikowska’s Jane...
new to streaming
The Invisible Woman: the story of Charles Dickens and his secret mistress is no romance, and no modest costume drama, either, but a tale of women being practical because they had to be [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: a cheery, airy fairy tale filled with a very modern ache and buoyed by an infectious joy; I love this movie [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
new to Prime
The English Patient: haunting and enthralling, a scrapbook of another world of romance and adventure and tragedy; Oscar winner for Best Picture [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Flight of the Phoenix: an inherently absurd survival adventure with an infectiously contradictory attitude: jaded and thrilled, cynical and expansive [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
have some Michael Fassbender
Jane Eyre: a sparse, harsh adaptation, with Fassbender as a grim Rochester to Mia Wasikowska’s Jane...
- 4/15/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix and Amazon Instant Video.
streaming now, while it’s still in theaters
G.B.F.: sharp satire cutting through the sweet silliness makes this a refreshing change of pace for teen comedies [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
Captain Phillips: hijacking on the high seas is a chance for Tom Hanks to astonish you; gripping suspense from master director Paul Greengrass [at Amazon Instant Video] Rush: a thoroughly magnificent film on every level, with astonishing performances by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl in the leads; one of the very best films of 2013 [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] About Time: it’s accidentally creepy where it wants to be charming and romantic, but the secondary cast is fun to spend time with; Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander steal the film [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Escape Plan: nothing here is as...
streaming now, while it’s still in theaters
G.B.F.: sharp satire cutting through the sweet silliness makes this a refreshing change of pace for teen comedies [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]
streaming now, before it’s on dvd
Captain Phillips: hijacking on the high seas is a chance for Tom Hanks to astonish you; gripping suspense from master director Paul Greengrass [at Amazon Instant Video] Rush: a thoroughly magnificent film on every level, with astonishing performances by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl in the leads; one of the very best films of 2013 [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] About Time: it’s accidentally creepy where it wants to be charming and romantic, but the secondary cast is fun to spend time with; Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander steal the film [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Escape Plan: nothing here is as...
- 1/21/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
New Release
The Short Game
PG, 1 Hr., 39 Mins.
If you’re a fan of exuberant, throat-gripping docs like Spellbound and Brooklyn Castle, let me introduce you to a new must-watch pleasure. In The Short Game, which won the SXSW Audience Award, director Josh Greenbaum follows the lives of the world’s best 7- and 8-year-old golfers as they compete in the annual World Championship of Junior Golf. Worried that you’re not a fan of golf, or of precociously talented kids, for that matter? Don’t be. The eight athletes, including Anna Kournikova’s delightful showman of a little brother,...
The Short Game
PG, 1 Hr., 39 Mins.
If you’re a fan of exuberant, throat-gripping docs like Spellbound and Brooklyn Castle, let me introduce you to a new must-watch pleasure. In The Short Game, which won the SXSW Audience Award, director Josh Greenbaum follows the lives of the world’s best 7- and 8-year-old golfers as they compete in the annual World Championship of Junior Golf. Worried that you’re not a fan of golf, or of precociously talented kids, for that matter? Don’t be. The eight athletes, including Anna Kournikova’s delightful showman of a little brother,...
- 12/4/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
Usually, when a movie takes place over an extended period of time, the dumb logic of economical screenwriting results in scenes where everything that happens to the characters in a period of years has to be suggested in one compressed moment: As a child is born, and gets named for someone who died a couple reels back, a character's phone rings with the news that he or she got that promotion, just before grandma coughs in a delicate, no-big-deal way that confirms that next year's scene will be at a funeral.
Shot in bursts over five years so that its actors age with its characters, Michael Winterbottom's wise and involving Everyday is blessedly scraped free of such silliness. Life for Karen (Shirley Henderson), a mother whose kids ripen before our eyes, and Ian (...
Shot in bursts over five years so that its actors age with its characters, Michael Winterbottom's wise and involving Everyday is blessedly scraped free of such silliness. Life for Karen (Shirley Henderson), a mother whose kids ripen before our eyes, and Ian (...
- 11/19/2013
- Village Voice
If you.ve never heard anything about Michael Winterbottom.s long-gestating drama Everyday, the above trailer will make something abundantly clear to you: the actors playing this family look like they.re actually aging as it goes back and forth in time. And then you.ll probably slap the side of your face and say something exclamatory when I tell you that the conceit behind the film.s production involved Winterbottom filming scenes for the movie a few weeks at a time over the course of five years, from 2007-2012. That.s a level of dedication that's hard to fathom. But there is a good chance you may have heard of the movie, as it premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals over a year ago, and was then released a few places internationally throughout the year. In fact, the trailer above is the same one that was used...
- 11/7/2013
- cinemablend.com
It's been well over a year since Michael Winterbotton's ambitious drama "Everyday" premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, but the gritty drama is now finding its way stateside with a proper release. And with it comes the first trailer for the movie, which makes it look well worth tracking down. So what makes this one a bit more intriguing than all the other, hyper-realistic dramas that come down the pipe? The movie was filmed over the course of five years, with four real-life siblings (Shaun, Katrina, Stephanie and Robert Kirk), playing the children of Karen (Shirley Henderson), who has to raise the four kids on her own, while trying to maintain a relationship with her jailed husband Ian (John Simm). We caught the film at Telluride in 2012, and while we noted the tough material might not make it the most accessible picture, it's "an interesting experiment and an...
- 11/6/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The recently created Saint-Petersburg-based Point Of View (Pov) Development Fund has backed three film projects a total of $86,000 (€65,000).
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
An international expert group of producers that selected the projects included Sergei Selyanov (Ctb Film Company), Artem Vasiliev (Metrafilms), Riina Sildos (Amrion), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Heretic) and Berlin-based sales agent Jean-Christophe Simon of Films Boutique.
The films they selected each have the fate of a woman at their centre:
The Woman From Ingria, to be produced by Pavel Odynin, is based on the biography of a simple woman in the north-western corner of Russia during the 20th century (€25,000);
Svetlana follows the real love story between Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva and the Indian raj Brajesh Singh in the mid-1960s. It will be produced by Anastasia Perova, Olga Kolegaeva and Konstantin Nafikov with Karsten Stöter of Germany’s Rohfilm,which was a co-producer of Ritesh Batra’s Cannes hit The Lunchbox (€25,000);
Manifestation, the feature debut by Georgian-born film-maker Anna Sarukhanova...
- 9/2/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The TV BAFTAs are back this Sunday (May 12) and we're jolly excited. The BAFTAs are the closest that Britain has to its own Emmys, allowing our TV talent to put on their best suits and glad rags and slap each other on the back for a couple of hours.
Graham Norton blends a sharp wit with professionalism as the host, the nominations shortlist pulls off the tricky balance of populist choices with critics' favourites and, most importantly of all, Ant & Dec don't win every single year.
The TV BAFTAs may not always get it right (Towie? Really!), but they take TV seriously and even if they are occasionally a bit stuffy or they get it wrong with a winner, it still gives us a chance to all have a right good row ("So and so was robbed!" "How did that win?!") while sat on our sofas at home.
Who should...
Graham Norton blends a sharp wit with professionalism as the host, the nominations shortlist pulls off the tricky balance of populist choices with critics' favourites and, most importantly of all, Ant & Dec don't win every single year.
The TV BAFTAs may not always get it right (Towie? Really!), but they take TV seriously and even if they are occasionally a bit stuffy or they get it wrong with a winner, it still gives us a chance to all have a right good row ("So and so was robbed!" "How did that win?!") while sat on our sofas at home.
Who should...
- 5/10/2013
- Digital Spy
It’s more than a disappointment -- it’s a puzzlement. How did Michael Winterbottom, who’s made so many intriguing movies that veer well away from the cautious (Everyday, Code 46), make a film so tediously conservative as The Look of Love? Winterbottom’s ability to reject accepted social narratives is so much a part of why I love his work that I never could have imagined that he would make a movie about porn (and real-estate) mogul Paul Raymond -- at one point the richest man in Britain -- that so readily embraced status-quo assumptions about sexuality and conformity, or lack thereof. Raymond “himself” -- in the highly amusing form of Steve Coogan (Ruby Sparks, The Other Guys), who is all sorts of wonderful here, as he always is -- invites us into his “world of erotica”... and Winterbottom doesn’t appear to see anything at all ironic...
- 4/26/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Imagine falling passionately in love with someone unsuitable. He's 20 years younger than you, but you get over that. He's from a completely different culture and speaks another language, but you somehow bridge your differences. Then the authorities come knocking, and tell you he's someone of great interest to them. You don't get over that.
Helen McCrory and Najib Oudghiri co-star in 'Flying Blind'
This is the premise of 'Flying Blind', starring Helen McCrory as Frankie, a woman I think we can safely deem a success. Professionally, she is a scientist, charged with the development of military machines. Academically, she's a well-respected lecturer. Her father (Kenneth Cranham) used to work on Concorde. Her down time is spent, solo, on her running machine. Romantically, she's a sitting duck, which is where one of her students, Kahil (Najib Oudghiri) comes in.
Their connection is magnetic, by turns sweet and challenging,...
Helen McCrory and Najib Oudghiri co-star in 'Flying Blind'
This is the premise of 'Flying Blind', starring Helen McCrory as Frankie, a woman I think we can safely deem a success. Professionally, she is a scientist, charged with the development of military machines. Academically, she's a well-respected lecturer. Her father (Kenneth Cranham) used to work on Concorde. Her down time is spent, solo, on her running machine. Romantically, she's a sitting duck, which is where one of her students, Kahil (Najib Oudghiri) comes in.
Their connection is magnetic, by turns sweet and challenging,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Sightseers; The Hunt; Great Expectations; Everyday; Rise of the Guardians; Here Comes the Boom
After the suffocating horror of Kill List, director Ben Wheatley heads for the great outdoors with a jet-black comedy about the barely repressed psychosis of the great British caravan holiday. Pitched somewhere between Mike Leigh's Nuts in May and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, Sightseers (2012, StudioCanal, 15) follows the increasingly violent misadventures of Tina and Chris (brilliantly played by co-writers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram) as they embark on an "erotic odyssey" into a land of tramways, pencil museums, viaducts and murder.
After consigning an obnoxious litter-dropper to the dustbin of local history, our cagoule-clad anti-heroes develop a taste for the hard stuff which no amount of picturesque National Trust landmarks can assuage. One moment they're racing fellow campers for a prime spot in the Dingly Dell (as opposed to outside the toilet block), the...
After the suffocating horror of Kill List, director Ben Wheatley heads for the great outdoors with a jet-black comedy about the barely repressed psychosis of the great British caravan holiday. Pitched somewhere between Mike Leigh's Nuts in May and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, Sightseers (2012, StudioCanal, 15) follows the increasingly violent misadventures of Tina and Chris (brilliantly played by co-writers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram) as they embark on an "erotic odyssey" into a land of tramways, pencil museums, viaducts and murder.
After consigning an obnoxious litter-dropper to the dustbin of local history, our cagoule-clad anti-heroes develop a taste for the hard stuff which no amount of picturesque National Trust landmarks can assuage. One moment they're racing fellow campers for a prime spot in the Dingly Dell (as opposed to outside the toilet block), the...
- 3/24/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Everyday (2012), the potent latest film from acclaimed British director Michael Winterbottom (of 24 Hour Party People, In This World, A Cock and Bull Story and The Trip fame) is a compelling story of a family apart, as well as the celebration of the small, minute pleasures of everyday life. To celebrate the film's DVD release this coming Monday (25 March), we've been handed Three DVD copies of Winterbottom's touching, moving film to offer our valued readers, courtesy of the team at UK distributors Soda Pictures. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
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- 3/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Future Film Festival | Turkish Film Festival | Deep Desires And Broken Dreams | Keswick Film Festival
Future Film Festival, London
Have you got what it takes to be Britain's next great film-maker? Come along and find out at this talent-nurturing event, where all you need is youth (it's aimed at ages 15-25), curiosity and a little bit of cash (tickets start at a very reasonable £5 per day). The three days deal respectively with fiction, animation and documentary, and on each you get screenings, hands-on workshops, and advice and support from industry bodies and film-makers such Sally El Hosaini (accompanying My Brother The Devil, pictured), Penny Woolcock and the makers of ParaNorman. If you're young and in Wales, alternatively, check out the Ffresh student film festival in Wrexham (Wed to Fri).
BFI, SE1, Sat to Mon
Turkish Film Festival, London
A new slot in the calendar, just after the Berlin film festival (it...
Future Film Festival, London
Have you got what it takes to be Britain's next great film-maker? Come along and find out at this talent-nurturing event, where all you need is youth (it's aimed at ages 15-25), curiosity and a little bit of cash (tickets start at a very reasonable £5 per day). The three days deal respectively with fiction, animation and documentary, and on each you get screenings, hands-on workshops, and advice and support from industry bodies and film-makers such Sally El Hosaini (accompanying My Brother The Devil, pictured), Penny Woolcock and the makers of ParaNorman. If you're young and in Wales, alternatively, check out the Ffresh student film festival in Wrexham (Wed to Fri).
BFI, SE1, Sat to Mon
Turkish Film Festival, London
A new slot in the calendar, just after the Berlin film festival (it...
- 2/16/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
One never knows what to expect from director Michael Winterbottom, which is why it’s always so exciting to hear he has a new film. Will it be science fiction, like the marvelous Code 46? Will it be historical drama, like the magnificent The Claim? Will it be a documentary, like the brutal Road to Guantanamo? Will it transcend genres, like the hilarious The Trip or the mind-rattling A Cock and Bull Story? Will it be the rare crushing disappointment, like The Killer Inside Me? Anticipation goes to a whole new delicious level when it comes to Winterbottom’s work, and I didn’t need to know anything about Everyday to know that I could not miss it at the London Film Festival last autumn. (It didn’t hurt, though, to learn that John Simm and Shirley Henderson were starring in it.) So I had no idea what I was...
- 1/23/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
It didn't take long for Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom's fourth collaboration The Look of Love , based on the life of London club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond, known as "The King of Soho," to get scooped up by IFC Films who bought the North American rights on Sunday night. Previously Coogan starred in Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People about Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, and then teamed with Winterbottom and Rob Brydon for Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and 2011's The Trip . This will be Winterbottom's fourth film in a row to be distributed by IFC Films following The Killer Inside Me , The Trip and last year's Trishna . In between, Winterbottom finished his five-year dramatic project Everyday , which premiered at the Telluride...
- 1/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Madchester inches towards the West End, Ken Loach demonstrates the wonder of socialism, and Kathryn Bigelow can't tell one London bus from another
Rave on stage
Long shot as it may be – and Trash loves a long shot – I hear there are plans to turn Madchester film comedy 24 Hour Party People into a stage musical. The film's director, Michael Winterbottom, told me that he and producer Andrew Eaton have been toying with the idea for several years and that there is even a rough script "floating around". Steve Coogan is apparently interested in reprising his part as the lead. The show would tell the story of Factory Records, its founder, Tony Wilson, and the rise and fall of bands including Joy Division, Buzzcocks, A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays. I'd personally love to see some genteel West End theatre transformed into a hands-in -the-air, tops-off sweatbox for a while, throbbing...
Rave on stage
Long shot as it may be – and Trash loves a long shot – I hear there are plans to turn Madchester film comedy 24 Hour Party People into a stage musical. The film's director, Michael Winterbottom, told me that he and producer Andrew Eaton have been toying with the idea for several years and that there is even a rough script "floating around". Steve Coogan is apparently interested in reprising his part as the lead. The show would tell the story of Factory Records, its founder, Tony Wilson, and the rise and fall of bands including Joy Division, Buzzcocks, A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays. I'd personally love to see some genteel West End theatre transformed into a hands-in -the-air, tops-off sweatbox for a while, throbbing...
- 1/20/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Django Unchained | The Sessions | Everyday | V/H/S | The Wee Man | Ballroom Dancer | Monsters Inc 3D
Django Unchained (18)
(Quentin Tarantino, 2012, Us) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington. 165 mins
Few directors would have the imagination, the guts or the resources to reimagine America's slaving past as a spaghetti western/blaxploitation thriller, but the result is Tarantino's most politically provocative movie, and one of his most entertaining – up to a point. Foxx's odyssey from captive slave to mythical avenger, enabled by Waltz's liberal German "dentist", is often an exhilarating ride, though the action is constantly slowed up by Tarantino's love of his own dialogue – if only he'd kept that chained in.
The Sessions (15)
(Ben Lewin, 2012, Us) John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H Macy. 93 mins
Severely disabled man seeks first–time sexual experience. It doesn't sound too promising but there are plenty of riches in this open–hearted drama: the performances,...
Django Unchained (18)
(Quentin Tarantino, 2012, Us) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington. 165 mins
Few directors would have the imagination, the guts or the resources to reimagine America's slaving past as a spaghetti western/blaxploitation thriller, but the result is Tarantino's most politically provocative movie, and one of his most entertaining – up to a point. Foxx's odyssey from captive slave to mythical avenger, enabled by Waltz's liberal German "dentist", is often an exhilarating ride, though the action is constantly slowed up by Tarantino's love of his own dialogue – if only he'd kept that chained in.
The Sessions (15)
(Ben Lewin, 2012, Us) John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H Macy. 93 mins
Severely disabled man seeks first–time sexual experience. It doesn't sound too promising but there are plenty of riches in this open–hearted drama: the performances,...
- 1/19/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ One thing can be said for sure of prolific British director, Michael Winterbottom: he certainly likes a challenge. His latest is Everyday (2012) which, with its stripped back, grittily realist approach, presents a quietly moving, slow-paced tale of working-class life. Set over the course of five years, we find con Ian (John Simm) jailed for an undisclosed crime, inferring only that it must be reasonably serious for him to serve a five-year sentence. He leaves his family on the outside, including wife Karen (Shirley Henderson) and their four young children, played by the Kirk siblings with a hushed grace as they sing in school and eat cereal.
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- 1/17/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Filmed over five years, prolific director Michael Winterbottom's low-key drama follows a working class mum (Shirley Henderson) as she struggles to bring up her young family while her husband (John Simm) is in jail. With four real-life siblings visibly growing up on screen as the kids, Everyday is an authentic and quietly poignant study of the family bond and the preciousness of time.
- 1/15/2013
- Sky Movies
Les Misérables | Gangster Squad | American Mary | What Richard Did | Midnight Son | Jiro Dreams Of Sushi | The Lookout | May I Kill U? | Underground
Les Misérables (12A)
(Tom Hooper, 2012, UK) Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne. 158 mins
The King's Speech director plus the globally adored musical: it's a match made in commercial heaven, a third-hand version of a 19th-century French saga, and the most epic celebrity karaoke session ever filmed. The fact that it's entirely sung, "live" on set, supposedly communicates more "emotion", but this is already oversaturated with so much melodramatic incident, the effect is numbing.
Gangster Squad (15)
(Ruben Fleischer, 2013, Us) Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin. 113 mins
Brolin's under-the-radar police squad guns for Penn's La mobsters in this exuberantly violent, but disappointingly straightforward 1940s thriller, derived more from modern videogames than vintage film noirs. Action definitely speaks louder than words here.
American Mary (18)
(Jen & Sylvia Soska,...
Les Misérables (12A)
(Tom Hooper, 2012, UK) Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne. 158 mins
The King's Speech director plus the globally adored musical: it's a match made in commercial heaven, a third-hand version of a 19th-century French saga, and the most epic celebrity karaoke session ever filmed. The fact that it's entirely sung, "live" on set, supposedly communicates more "emotion", but this is already oversaturated with so much melodramatic incident, the effect is numbing.
Gangster Squad (15)
(Ruben Fleischer, 2013, Us) Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin. 113 mins
Brolin's under-the-radar police squad guns for Penn's La mobsters in this exuberantly violent, but disappointingly straightforward 1940s thriller, derived more from modern videogames than vintage film noirs. Action definitely speaks louder than words here.
American Mary (18)
(Jen & Sylvia Soska,...
- 1/12/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Look of Love
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer(s): Matt Greenhalgh
Producer(s): Melissa Parmenter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton and Matt Lucas
He just premiered Everyday at Tiff (the film production lasted over five years) and before anyone has the time to notice, Michael Winterbottom is already pitching us a new biopic. The prolific filmmaker works best when he teams with Steve Coogan and when he examines a part of England’s cultural fabric as is the case with The Look of Love.
Gist: Scripted by Matt Greenhalgh, this is the story of the business and personal life of club proprietor and porn publisher Paul Raymond. After starting his showbusiness career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial...
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer(s): Matt Greenhalgh
Producer(s): Melissa Parmenter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton and Matt Lucas
He just premiered Everyday at Tiff (the film production lasted over five years) and before anyone has the time to notice, Michael Winterbottom is already pitching us a new biopic. The prolific filmmaker works best when he teams with Steve Coogan and when he examines a part of England’s cultural fabric as is the case with The Look of Love.
Gist: Scripted by Matt Greenhalgh, this is the story of the business and personal life of club proprietor and porn publisher Paul Raymond. After starting his showbusiness career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial...
- 1/10/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Stellar performances continue to outweigh flimsy storytelling in BBC drama The Hour, while the final series of The Killing looks like a return to form
The Hour (BBC2) | iPlayer
Everyday (C4) | 4oD
The Killing (BBC4) | iPlayer
Falcón (Sky Atlantic)
A BBC current affairs programme is caught up in a crisis. There are internal machinations, a star presenter gone off-message, an editor undermined from above, government pressure and a gathering scandal involving establishment figures and sexual abuse; if it were not for the 1950s costumes, The Hour could almost be mistaken for a behind-the-scenes look at Newsnight in 2012.
With so much of the BBC's news coverage devoted to the meltdown at the BBC, it's a kind of relief to be transported back to a time before Twitter, before Jimmy Savile and before the Beeb became a self‑consuming behemoth.
The problem with The Hour is that, far from being unmanageably large,...
The Hour (BBC2) | iPlayer
Everyday (C4) | 4oD
The Killing (BBC4) | iPlayer
Falcón (Sky Atlantic)
A BBC current affairs programme is caught up in a crisis. There are internal machinations, a star presenter gone off-message, an editor undermined from above, government pressure and a gathering scandal involving establishment figures and sexual abuse; if it were not for the 1950s costumes, The Hour could almost be mistaken for a behind-the-scenes look at Newsnight in 2012.
With so much of the BBC's news coverage devoted to the meltdown at the BBC, it's a kind of relief to be transported back to a time before Twitter, before Jimmy Savile and before the Beeb became a self‑consuming behemoth.
The problem with The Hour is that, far from being unmanageably large,...
- 11/18/2012
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom's Everyday wasn't just the best TV drama of the week, it was one of the strongest pieces of TV this year. Uncompromising, unusual and worthy of every BAFTA that comes its way, the prison drama may not have been the cheeriest two hours of my life, but it had me gripped from beginning to end. John Simm, an actor who I trust as a stamp of approval for pretty much any TV project, played Ian, a father of four and husband to Karen (Shirley Henderson). He was in jail for an unspecified crime and Winterbottom's film avoided prison cliches, centering on the mundanity of life behind bars and the disconnection a prisoner suffers from reality, rather than the stereotypical tales of fist fights in the yard and dodgy prison guards. The film tried to capture the effects of prison isolation on the prisoner and more specifically their...
- 11/17/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Michael Winterbottom drama about a family coping while the husband is in prison pulls in 3.5% share
Michael Winterbottom's Channel 4 drama Everyday, five years in the making and starring John Simm and Shirley Henderson, averaged 749,000 viewers on Thursday night.
An innovative drama about a family coping while the husband is in prison, Everyday had a 3.5% share of the audience between 9pm and 10.50pm.
Everyday was up against Channel 5's Kevin Costner Us drama Hatfields & McCoys, which was watched by 1.06 million viewers (4.3%) between 9pm and 10pm.
Axed after its first series, the penultimate episode of BBC1's glossy drama Hunted had fewer viewers than Michael Portillo travelling from Hungary to Austria in BBC2's Great Continental Railway Journeys.
Hunted, starring Melissa George, had 2.55 million viewers, a 10.4% share, between 9pm and 10pm.
Great Continental Railway Journeys had 2.43 million viewers (9.9%) on BBC2 and another 169,000 on BBC HD, a total of 2.6 million viewers.
Michael Winterbottom's Channel 4 drama Everyday, five years in the making and starring John Simm and Shirley Henderson, averaged 749,000 viewers on Thursday night.
An innovative drama about a family coping while the husband is in prison, Everyday had a 3.5% share of the audience between 9pm and 10.50pm.
Everyday was up against Channel 5's Kevin Costner Us drama Hatfields & McCoys, which was watched by 1.06 million viewers (4.3%) between 9pm and 10pm.
Axed after its first series, the penultimate episode of BBC1's glossy drama Hunted had fewer viewers than Michael Portillo travelling from Hungary to Austria in BBC2's Great Continental Railway Journeys.
Hunted, starring Melissa George, had 2.55 million viewers, a 10.4% share, between 9pm and 10pm.
Great Continental Railway Journeys had 2.43 million viewers (9.9%) on BBC2 and another 169,000 on BBC HD, a total of 2.6 million viewers.
- 11/16/2012
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
Yotam Ottolenghi savours the flavours of Marrakech, 1950s TV newsroom drama The Hour returns and Michael Winterbottom explores the effects of a long stretch in prison
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
MondayCrime Stories
2pm, ITV1
Co-created by the people who brought us The Bill, here's a peculiar and rather worthy hybrid of fact and fiction – a fake fly-on-the-wall police procedural, starring a former real-life detective chief superintendent (Jane Antrobus). It's certainly plodding and humdrum enough to be authentic – though does chuck in the odd Columbo-style red herring to keep us interested. In this series opener, Di Jane and DS Ben Shaw (Hollyoaks' Ben Hull) investigate the case of an care home resident who's had his money stolen. Ali Catterall
The Dark Charisma Of Adolf Hitler
9pm, BBC2
Debut of a three-part series seeking to explain one of history's great inexplicables: how and why did the civilised people of a great European nation,...
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
MondayCrime Stories
2pm, ITV1
Co-created by the people who brought us The Bill, here's a peculiar and rather worthy hybrid of fact and fiction – a fake fly-on-the-wall police procedural, starring a former real-life detective chief superintendent (Jane Antrobus). It's certainly plodding and humdrum enough to be authentic – though does chuck in the odd Columbo-style red herring to keep us interested. In this series opener, Di Jane and DS Ben Shaw (Hollyoaks' Ben Hull) investigate the case of an care home resident who's had his money stolen. Ali Catterall
The Dark Charisma Of Adolf Hitler
9pm, BBC2
Debut of a three-part series seeking to explain one of history's great inexplicables: how and why did the civilised people of a great European nation,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Ali Catterall, Andrew Mueller, Hannah Verdier, David Stubbs, Ben Arnold, Phelim O'Neill, John Robinson, Jonathan Wright, Julia Raeside, Mark Jones, Martin Skegg
- The Guardian - Film News
There are a few filmmakers as prolific and diverse working these days as Michael Winterbottom, and even though he just dropped his latest effort "Everyday" on the festival circuit this fall, he's already getting ready unleash his next film, "The Look Of Love." Formerly titled "The King Of Soho," and changed after a legal tussle with a rival project, the film is now headed to the finish line and a couple of new pics and a poster have arrived. Steve Coogan stars in the true story of Paul Raymond -- a pornographer, strip club owner and impresario who managed to accumulate a fortune of close to £650 million (or just over a billion dollars) after buying up property in the central London area of Soho. Anna Friel and Imogen Poots, also feature, with the former playing will Raymond's wife Jean, and the latter his tragic daughter Debbie, who died of a...
- 11/12/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Michael Winterbottom’s latest film, Everyday, is pure slice-of-life cinema, having the appearance of being shot on the fly and without permits. Production took place over a 5-year period, in which the characters – specifically the four young children at the center – change before our very eyes. The children’s father (John Simm), is in prison, and much of Everyday’s drama consists of the monotony of the children, with their mother (Shirley Henderson) going to see him – both inside the prison and on occasional day visits – over these five years, building up to his eventual release, and the inevitable tensions that come with that. In sharpening his focus on the mother, however, Winterbottom makes it clear that though she is not incarcerated, her predicament is no less monotonous, fleeting between visits to the prison, school and work, without having much time for herself or to enjoy her children.
Michael Winterbottom’s latest film, Everyday, is pure slice-of-life cinema, having the appearance of being shot on the fly and without permits. Production took place over a 5-year period, in which the characters – specifically the four young children at the center – change before our very eyes. The children’s father (John Simm), is in prison, and much of Everyday’s drama consists of the monotony of the children, with their mother (Shirley Henderson) going to see him – both inside the prison and on occasional day visits – over these five years, building up to his eventual release, and the inevitable tensions that come with that. In sharpening his focus on the mother, however, Winterbottom makes it clear that though she is not incarcerated, her predicament is no less monotonous, fleeting between visits to the prison, school and work, without having much time for herself or to enjoy her children.
- 10/25/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
As the 56th London Film Festival neared its close, the awards ceremony kicked off with our man London Film Fanatiq in the house for Blogomatic3000. The red carpet saw many representatives of this year’s nominees greet the crowds and discuss their work with the press. Several jury members, including Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman also came out to pay tribute to the talent behind some of the festival’s finest features.
Check out all the red carpet pictures from the event and a full list of winners below:
Best Film Award
Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, France/Belgium After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico End of Watch, David Ayer, USA Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, UK Fill The Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel Ginger and Rosa, Sally Potter, UK In the House, François Ozon, France It Was The Son, Daniele Ciprì, Italy/France Lore, Cate Shortland, Germany/Australia/UK Midnight’s Children, Deepa Mehta,...
Check out all the red carpet pictures from the event and a full list of winners below:
Best Film Award
Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, France/Belgium After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico End of Watch, David Ayer, USA Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, UK Fill The Void, Rama Burshtein, Israel Ginger and Rosa, Sally Potter, UK In the House, François Ozon, France It Was The Son, Daniele Ciprì, Italy/France Lore, Cate Shortland, Germany/Australia/UK Midnight’s Children, Deepa Mehta,...
- 10/21/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The capital has been the home of some of the biggest names and films in the industry over the past ten days, and with the festival finally coming to a close tomorrow, the results are in for the official competition categories.
Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, Sebastian Faulks, Olivia Colman, Kazuo Ishiguru, and many more prominent names presided over the various Juries, and with so much talent this year, I don’t envy what must have been very difficult decisions.
Also being honoured this year are Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, both of whom have been presented with the BFI Fellowship, the highest honour from the film institute. The former brought his latest feature, Frankenweenie, to the festival for its opening night, whilst the latter stars in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, bookending the festival nicely as the Closing Night Film.
With the festival now coming to an end tomorrow,...
Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, Sebastian Faulks, Olivia Colman, Kazuo Ishiguru, and many more prominent names presided over the various Juries, and with so much talent this year, I don’t envy what must have been very difficult decisions.
Also being honoured this year are Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, both of whom have been presented with the BFI Fellowship, the highest honour from the film institute. The former brought his latest feature, Frankenweenie, to the festival for its opening night, whilst the latter stars in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, bookending the festival nicely as the Closing Night Film.
With the festival now coming to an end tomorrow,...
- 10/20/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Pitt was one of a number of A–listers voicing forthright opinions in the last few days
The big story
"My drug days have long since passed," said Brad Pitt in an interview this week. "But I could probably land in any American city and within 24 hours find whatever you want."
His comments came during a promotional stint for The House I Live In. The Pitt–produced documentary suggests that efforts by the Us government to fight drug trafficking are doomed to failure, and that a new approach should be adopted.
Labeling the Us "war on drugs" as a "charade," he said: "It's a backward strategy. It makes no sense and we keep going on the path like we're winning, when it perpetuates more drugs being used."
The actor has made no secret of his former drug use. Earlier this year he told the Guardian that he made the decision...
The big story
"My drug days have long since passed," said Brad Pitt in an interview this week. "But I could probably land in any American city and within 24 hours find whatever you want."
His comments came during a promotional stint for The House I Live In. The Pitt–produced documentary suggests that efforts by the Us government to fight drug trafficking are doomed to failure, and that a new approach should be adopted.
Labeling the Us "war on drugs" as a "charade," he said: "It's a backward strategy. It makes no sense and we keep going on the path like we're winning, when it perpetuates more drugs being used."
The actor has made no secret of his former drug use. Earlier this year he told the Guardian that he made the decision...
- 10/18/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom spent five years shooting these children for a film about a family with a father in jail. They tell Laura Barton about fake tears, prison visits – and working well past bedtime
It is late afternoon in a red-brick house in north Norfolk, and the four Kirk children are squished on to the sofa, still in their school uniforms, discussing the art of fake fighting. "I fake-punched: I stopped about that far away," explains Shaun, his eyes broad and blue, hands held apart to show the proximity of his punch. "We had to pretend to hit 'em, coz we weren't actually allowed to actual hit 'em, because if we did we'd get into more trouble."
Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk are the four stars of Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, in competition at the London film festival this week. Shot intermittently over five years, it features John Simm and...
It is late afternoon in a red-brick house in north Norfolk, and the four Kirk children are squished on to the sofa, still in their school uniforms, discussing the art of fake fighting. "I fake-punched: I stopped about that far away," explains Shaun, his eyes broad and blue, hands held apart to show the proximity of his punch. "We had to pretend to hit 'em, coz we weren't actually allowed to actual hit 'em, because if we did we'd get into more trouble."
Stephanie, Robert, Shaun and Katrina Kirk are the four stars of Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, in competition at the London film festival this week. Shot intermittently over five years, it features John Simm and...
- 10/15/2012
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
The BFI London Film Festival officially opened last night with the UK premiere of Tim Burton’s latest feature, Frankenweenie, a black and white stop-motion film destined to become something of a cult classic.
With the festival now underway, the juries for the separate categories in competition have been announced, with Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, and Olivia Colman leading an impressive line-up to judge the contenders.
Also celebrated at this year’s festival will be Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, both of whom are being presented with the BFI’s highest honour, the BFI Fellowship.
You can read the full list of jurors in the official announcement below, but here’s a run-down of the main categories and the films in competition.
Sir David Hare leads the jury for the Best Film Award, for which the following are competing:
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico End of Watch,...
With the festival now underway, the juries for the separate categories in competition have been announced, with Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, and Olivia Colman leading an impressive line-up to judge the contenders.
Also celebrated at this year’s festival will be Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, both of whom are being presented with the BFI’s highest honour, the BFI Fellowship.
You can read the full list of jurors in the official announcement below, but here’s a run-down of the main categories and the films in competition.
Sir David Hare leads the jury for the Best Film Award, for which the following are competing:
After Lucia, Michel Franco, Mexico End of Watch,...
- 10/11/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
London Film Festival
It's Britain's biggest film festival, but not as you knew it: new festival director Clare Stewart has rung a few changes. There are all the usual premieres, gala screenings, new British films and special events, but they're arranged in a different way. There are now three sections dealing with the awards contenders: Official Competition, including Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone and Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths; First Feature, including Sundance-winner Beasts Of The Southern Wild and Wadjda, the first movie directed by a Saudi Arabian woman; and Documentary, with subjects including Ginger Baker, Ralph Steadman and Catholic church paedophilia. The broader selection has also been reclassified, according to new themes such as "Love", "Debate", "Cult" and "Sonic". That means you might have to do some cross checking to find films by director or country. But there are new titles to be found by Michael Haneke,...
It's Britain's biggest film festival, but not as you knew it: new festival director Clare Stewart has rung a few changes. There are all the usual premieres, gala screenings, new British films and special events, but they're arranged in a different way. There are now three sections dealing with the awards contenders: Official Competition, including Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone and Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths; First Feature, including Sundance-winner Beasts Of The Southern Wild and Wadjda, the first movie directed by a Saudi Arabian woman; and Documentary, with subjects including Ginger Baker, Ralph Steadman and Catholic church paedophilia. The broader selection has also been reclassified, according to new themes such as "Love", "Debate", "Cult" and "Sonic". That means you might have to do some cross checking to find films by director or country. But there are new titles to be found by Michael Haneke,...
- 10/5/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom is, as was often said during a recent screening at Tiff, a highly prolific filmmaker. He’s made big to small, funny to shocking, and any other adjective you can attach to a film. With Everyday, he looks to tell a story of a family broken apart for five years when the family’s patriarch is locked up in prison. What makes it unlike similar films is that while it’s not narratively strong, it is an amazing emotional piece. Everyday is primarily filled with scenes of Ian (John Simm) in jail on the days that his family visits him or when he is released on a furlough to see them at home. We are there for the moments when Ian gets to be a father, but we’re also there for the moments that he’s noticeably absent as the film spends time with his wife Karen (Shirley Henderson) and her children at home...
- 9/14/2012
- by Andrew Robinson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Michael Winterbottom is as varied a director as he is prolific. In just the last few years, he has directed a sweeping Indian epic (Trishna), a rollicking road trip comedy (The Trip), a globalization documentary (The Shock Doctrine), and a violent Hollywood crime drama (The Killer Inside Me). So it's no surprise that his latest, Everyday, is a divergence from any of these films, as well as different from much of anything that's been done lately at all. Set in rural England, Everyday is the story of the difficulties a family must face when the patriarch is imprisoned, leaving his wife to provide for their four young children. With a short prison term of only a few years, the promise of the father's release...
- 9/13/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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