The sense of a city as a complex, ailing ecosystem is rendered with unusual vividness in “All That Breathes.” Shaunak Sen’s documentary has no formal interviews, onscreen text or omniscient narrator to provide relevant stats on Delhi, where air pollution is reportedly twelve times worse than in Beijing, which ranks second on the global list. Instead, the environmental impact is felt on the microcosmic level of two resident brothers dedicated to urban bird rescue. Meanwhile, they worry about a different kind of threatened extinction event: anti-Muslim policies that trigger waves of protest and violence.
This snapshot of self-harm both societal and planetary nonetheless manages a gentle, impressionistic lyricism. Like Sen’s prior feature “Cities of Sleep,” which revealed the subterranean networks providing places of rest for Delhi’s homeless, “All That Breathes” — which won the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance’s World Documentary competition — is a portrait more compassionate than bleak,...
This snapshot of self-harm both societal and planetary nonetheless manages a gentle, impressionistic lyricism. Like Sen’s prior feature “Cities of Sleep,” which revealed the subterranean networks providing places of rest for Delhi’s homeless, “All That Breathes” — which won the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance’s World Documentary competition — is a portrait more compassionate than bleak,...
- 1/28/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
“Hitman” is probably the most disproportionately over-represented profession in movies, at least over the medium’s last half-century. “Killers Anonymous” is one of those occasional films that attempt novelty by having a character cast of nothing but hitmen — which isn’t really all that much of a novelty, for the above-noted reason.
This latest entry in the cluttered annals of vaguely Tarantino-esque neo-noir criminal capers doesn’t take itself particularly seriously. But it doesn’t strike an assertively comic tone either, resulting in a superficially colorful but hollow pile of contrivances that are neither clever nor convincing enough to achieve more than time-passing diversion. Lionsgate is opening Martin Owen’s third feature, a U.S.-U.K. co-production, on 13 U.S. screens simultaneous with on-demand launch.
After a brief Los Angeles prelude in which we’re introduced to the notion of the titular 12-step-type group for assassins, we follow Gary Oldman...
This latest entry in the cluttered annals of vaguely Tarantino-esque neo-noir criminal capers doesn’t take itself particularly seriously. But it doesn’t strike an assertively comic tone either, resulting in a superficially colorful but hollow pile of contrivances that are neither clever nor convincing enough to achieve more than time-passing diversion. Lionsgate is opening Martin Owen’s third feature, a U.S.-U.K. co-production, on 13 U.S. screens simultaneous with on-demand launch.
After a brief Los Angeles prelude in which we’re introduced to the notion of the titular 12-step-type group for assassins, we follow Gary Oldman...
- 6/28/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA-winner to adapt short story Dogfight, from cult sci-fi writer; currently in Rotterdam with Brand New-u.
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Directors: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison; Starring: Thomas Rongen, Jaiyah Saelua, Nicky Salapu, Rawlston Masaniai; Running time: 98 mins; Certificate: 15
Right now we're at the business end of the 2013/14 football season - teams are battling it out to secure trophies, scrapping for every point, each margin of victory crucial with millions of pounds on the line. At the highest level where the sport is a cut-throat business, the beautiful game can be ugly.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is the story of the American Samoa national team. In 2001 they were pounded 31-0 by Australia and followed it up with 30 consecutive defeats, during which time even a goal in the 'for' column was a collector's item. They ranked rock bottom of the FIFA rankings going into qualification for the World Cup 2014.
Documentary Next Goal Wins charts American Samoa's qualification campaign from the perspective of the team's more outgoing characters and their Dutch coach,...
Right now we're at the business end of the 2013/14 football season - teams are battling it out to secure trophies, scrapping for every point, each margin of victory crucial with millions of pounds on the line. At the highest level where the sport is a cut-throat business, the beautiful game can be ugly.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is the story of the American Samoa national team. In 2001 they were pounded 31-0 by Australia and followed it up with 30 consecutive defeats, during which time even a goal in the 'for' column was a collector's item. They ranked rock bottom of the FIFA rankings going into qualification for the World Cup 2014.
Documentary Next Goal Wins charts American Samoa's qualification campaign from the perspective of the team's more outgoing characters and their Dutch coach,...
- 5/6/2014
- Digital Spy
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