Little White Lies recommends...
- Down Terrace (On General Release) Ben Wheatley’s feature debut is a refreshing kitchen sink British dramedy that’s bold and bitterly funny.
- Tibet Film Festival ( July 1-30) With a programme inspired by Tibetan art and culture, this year’s festival will run in various venues across London, bringing new work by young and emerging Tibetan, Indian and women filmmakers to the fore.
- Blue Velvet @ The Troxy (July 31) In tribute to Dennis Hopper, Future Cinema are putting on a screening of David Lynch’s 1986 cult classic this Saturday, where the audience are invited to come dressed as their favourite Hopper character.
- Isolation @ Duke of Yorks (August 1) On Sunday evening Duke of Yorks Picturehouse in Brighton will host a special screening of Luke Seomore’s poignant anti-war doc, which will be accompanied by a live score by the director.
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Abandon Normal Devices 2010 – Preview
Adam Woodward: The UK's hottest young art and film festival will be lighting up the North West once again later this year.
FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – PART II
Georgie Hobbs: Simon Rumley's slacker thriller Red White & Blue was the highlight of a mixed programme in Montreal.
Letting The Right One In
Tom Seymour: Opposing Matt Reeves' remake ignores the realities of the movie industry.
UK Film Council – RIP?
Adam Woodward: Is the proposed plan to axe the organisation in budget cuts the beginning of the end for British film?
FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – Part I
Georgie Hobbs: Ken Russell greeted fans in Montreal last week to celebrate an anniversary screening of his cult film, The Devils.
Reviews
Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque)
Jul 30 2010: Adapting his own graphic novel on the life of legendary chanteur Serge Gainsbourg, Joann Sfar brings a peculiar sensibility to the big screen, writes Matt Bochenski
Frontier Blues
Jul 30 2010: Like Wes Anderson, Babak Jalali is interested in the balance of hope and futility in human ambition, writes Henry Barnes
Down Terrace
Jul 30 2010: In his low-budget feature debut, Ben Wheatley brings a very English working-class brand of domestic banality to his evil, writes Anton Bitel
Separado!
Jul 30 2010: For all its conceptual departures, Separado! is narrated by a man who spent his twenties doing interviews with NME, and it shows in the movie’s intellectual depth, writes Tom Seymour
South Of The Border
Jul 30 2010: Like his mate Michael Moore, Stone is a lopsided attitudinal liberal polemicist who evidently thinks ‘nuance’ is something you eat with chips, writes Tom Seymour
The Karate Kid
Jul 28 2010: Ignore the location change and the hero's reduced age and what remains is a solid and slick and entertaining family film, writes Lewis Bazley
The A-Team
Jul 28 2010: Maddeningly, the filmmakers have approached their movie as a comic-book rather than a piece of cinema, writes Matt Bochenski
Baarìa
Jul 26 2010: It is heartbreaking that such visual mastery and epic ambition should result in a film with so very little emotion in its breast, writes Andrea Hubert
Interviews
Mo Ali
The Saudi-born Londoner talks about taking inspiration from his heroes in order to forge his own path.
Joann Sfar
The acclaimed graphic novelist turned filmmaker talks about his joy in bringing the life story of his idol, Serge Gainsbourg, to the big screen.
Darla Anderson
The Toy Story 3 producer reveals what it feels like being a vital part of the Pixar team.
