Film Blogs - UK Top 10. Last updated: 15/10/2014. 1. Live for Films 2. Flickering Myth 3. Flicks and Bits 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The fundamentals of working with bloggers are the same as with traditional journalists at traditional media outlets: respect their schedules; take time to read their material to learn their interests; and only contact them if/when they want to be contacted. Cision’s blog ranking methodology takes into consideration social sharing, topic-related content and post frequency. Photo Courtesy of ScypaxPictures on Flickr. London 2014: 'Hard to Be a God' review. Engaging with a near-three-hour sci-fi set entirely within the bedraggled medieval milieu of a distant planet is a daunting proposition, especially one forged under the singular direction of renowned Russian filmmaker Aleksey German. Hard to Be a God (2013) is a cinematic behemoth, an unshakable monochrome nightmare of squelching bodily discharges that inhabits a world so noxious you can almost smell the pungent deterioration of humanity as it spews forth from the screen.
German died of heart failure whilst Hard to be a God was still in post-production and it's with thanks to his wife Svetlana Karmalita and son Aleksey Jr. that we're able to appreciate German's work posthumously. Adapted from the novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (authors of Roadside Picnic, the inspiration for Tarkovsky's Stalker), German's final film is a visceral voyage through the annals of human depravity. CineVue | Award-winning UK film site: London 2014. Photo by brnicholson. Upstream Colour. If 2004’s lo-fi time travel yarn, Primer, indicated the potential of filmmaking polymath Shane Carruth, then with his much anticipated follow-up, Upstream Colour, he has well and truly arrived. His debut earned him high praise for challenging its audience to follow a plot so labyrinthine as to almost be incomprehensible. Enormously rewarding on repeat viewings, it eschewed typical exposition and was shot through with Carruth’s self-taught rational hew.
Upstream Colour sees his style evolved to fuse the pre-existing scientific to a more profound emotional and philosophical exploration. This is an independent American production, intellectually blending high-concept science fiction with metaphysical ruminations and emotionally involved swine. It is a film in which a second-time director attempts to create his own narrative language to relay a drama intertwining nematodes, people, orchids and pigs. It sounds like a film that shouldn’t rightly exist, but thankfully it does. Related Articles. Upstream Colour. Net Flicks – The Oscars… Head Over Heels - Flicks and the City | film blog. Net Flicks – The Oscars… Head Over Heels Jan Gilbert Feb 11, 2013 Features Net Flicks Net Flicks trawls the weird and wonderful world of the web for the best movie-related videos, photos, and links.
With the BAFTAs over for another year, it’s time to get ready for the Oscars on 24 February! We all know the big names nominated for the 2013 Academy Awards, but what about the Short Film nominees? In the animation category, there’s a beautiful stop-motion short called Head Over Heels, written and directed by Timothy Reckart and produced by Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly. It was actually Timothy’s graduation film at the National Film and Television School and follows a married couple whose life together hangs in the balance: Like this?
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Before the film even ends, the central character has become a legend, someone who can be held up by others; admired, revered, remembered and whose will and courage can be an example to all those who lack their own. As the credits rolled during my most recent viewing of Stuart Rosenberg’s classic film Cool Hand Luke, it struck me for the first time how littered with religious symbology and metaphor the film is. Whether or not this is due to a very specific desire on the part of the writers or the director, or whether it’s just the fact that the story of Jesus is a compelling yarn, it’s interesting to consider what these parallels end up meaning for an audience. The General (Movie, 1927) THE GENERAL (MOVIE) Buster Keaton Productions Original release: January 17th, 1927 Running time: 107 minutes Writers and directors: Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack My introduction to the world of silent-era movies came through the debut of Charlie Chaplin’s tramp character in Kid Auto Races at Venice and my initial foray into silent features was Chaplin too in City Lights.
After that I saw Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill Jr but it wasn’t until a pretty stunning silent double-bill that my love of the genre really took hold. First up was Fritz Lang’s glorious sc-fi, Metropolis, and that was followed by Keaton’s civil war comedy, The General. The General sees Buster Keaton playing Johnny Gray, the driver of the train The General, in love with a girl, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack).
There are many things to love about The General; first and foremost for myself is just how funny it is. . (5) Cousins, Mark (2004) p.77. The Essence Of Film. In The Mood For Love (Movie, 2000. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (MOVIE) Block 2 Pictures/Jet Tone Production/Paradis Films Original release: October 27th, 2000 Certificate (UK): PG Running time: 98 Mins Country of origin: Hong Kong Original language: Cantonese with English subtitles Writer and director: Wong Kar Wai Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung In The Mood For Love is, for my money, the second best film ever made. It is absolutely perfect cinema. It is this film however, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung and forming the middle of an informal trilogy (preceded by Days of Being Wild in 1991, and followed by 2046 in 2004), that he hits his absolute heights.
Inspired, at least partly, by Mu Fei’s 1948 melodrama Springtime in a Small Town, the plot of the film is a relatively simple one. Even when they are home, we tend to see only our two protagonists, the spouses out of frame or seen only briefly from behind. This obviously has a cruel irony to it as we realise that her husband is doing just the same. Ben Nicholson.
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