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Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
Cloud Atlas (15)
(Andy & Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, 2012, Ger/Us/Hk/Sin) Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent. 172 mins
You've got to admire the ambition of trying to tell six stories at once, together spanning the 19th to 24th century. There are connections and parallels, of course, but also wild variations in tone and effectiveness. The experience is a little like channel surfing between Tom Hanks movies, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.
To The Wonder (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2012, Us) Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams. 113 mins
Those entranced (or put off) by The Tree Of Life will get more of the same from...
- 2/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
British actor Edward Hogg has urged film fans who hire out their homes as locations to think twice - the cast and crew on his new film, Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World, wrecked their movie home.
A production assistant agreed to hand over the keys to her home to director Viv Fongenie, and the place became Ollie Kepler's (Hogg) for the duration of the movie.
The actor shudders to think what the poor girl thought of her house once the film was done.
He explains, "I feel bad for her because the house was covered in purple paint and it was hard to get off things.
"We fell through a floorboard. There was a scene in the film where I lift up a floorboard and we had just done one take and my make-up girl's foot went through and she was stuck dangling through the ceiling of the floor below!
"We did lots of things to that apartment. I think the door didn't close properly by the end and there was obviously purple paint everywhere.
"I would never use my own property for a film set; they would have to pay me an awful lot of money."...
A production assistant agreed to hand over the keys to her home to director Viv Fongenie, and the place became Ollie Kepler's (Hogg) for the duration of the movie.
The actor shudders to think what the poor girl thought of her house once the film was done.
He explains, "I feel bad for her because the house was covered in purple paint and it was hard to get off things.
"We fell through a floorboard. There was a scene in the film where I lift up a floorboard and we had just done one take and my make-up girl's foot went through and she was stuck dangling through the ceiling of the floor below!
"We did lots of things to that apartment. I think the door didn't close properly by the end and there was obviously purple paint everywhere.
"I would never use my own property for a film set; they would have to pay me an awful lot of money."...
- 6/27/2010
- WENN
Carl checks out more films from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, this time including Jean Reno in 22 Bullets, and Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World...
Direct from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, here's a round-up of the latest clutch of films that I managed to catch...
Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
In this film, Ollie Kepler is almost an ordinary man. He has a job, a girlfriend and a best friend, but he also has a massive knowledge of physics. It's what makes him who he is. So when his girlfriend dies and his best friend tells him he's moving away, it all gets to him and his world starts to crumble away at the seams.
It's a perfectly acceptable story and the viewer is allowed a great deal to delve into his mind, as we should in this kind of film. In fact, we are so pulled along in his...
Direct from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, here's a round-up of the latest clutch of films that I managed to catch...
Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World
In this film, Ollie Kepler is almost an ordinary man. He has a job, a girlfriend and a best friend, but he also has a massive knowledge of physics. It's what makes him who he is. So when his girlfriend dies and his best friend tells him he's moving away, it all gets to him and his world starts to crumble away at the seams.
It's a perfectly acceptable story and the viewer is allowed a great deal to delve into his mind, as we should in this kind of film. In fact, we are so pulled along in his...
- 6/22/2010
- Den of Geek
London -- Former Bond girl Britt Ekland, director Mike Hodges, New York's Museum of Modern Art's senior film curator Laurence Kardish and Iranian director Rafi Pitts have all been called to jury duty as the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) is due to kick off June 16.
The quartet have signed up for the festival's main draw jury, the Michael Powell jury, and will assemble under the panel's president Patrick Stewart, organizers said.
Named in homage to the U.K. filmmaker and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a prize of £15,000 ($22,000).
The prize aims to reward imagination and creativity in British filmmaking and 2009 saw Duncan Jones walk off with the prize for his debut "Moon," while the jury gave Katie Jarvis last year's best performance in a British film for "Fish Tank."
The winner of 2010's Michael Powell Award will come from Ashey Horner's "brilliantlove,...
The quartet have signed up for the festival's main draw jury, the Michael Powell jury, and will assemble under the panel's president Patrick Stewart, organizers said.
Named in homage to the U.K. filmmaker and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the U.K. Film Council and carries a prize of £15,000 ($22,000).
The prize aims to reward imagination and creativity in British filmmaking and 2009 saw Duncan Jones walk off with the prize for his debut "Moon," while the jury gave Katie Jarvis last year's best performance in a British film for "Fish Tank."
The winner of 2010's Michael Powell Award will come from Ashey Horner's "brilliantlove,...
- 6/15/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will close with the world premiere of "Third Star," a British tragicomedy from newcomer Hattie Dalton starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Burke, Jj Feild and Adam Robertson.
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
- 6/1/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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