Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
- 4/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
★★★★☆A photographer for broadsheet paper The Observer since 1949, Jane Bown spent the better part of sixty years visually capturing and chronicling an expansive handful of the world's most distinctive and distinguished icons; a perfectionist whose unassuming approach is synonymous with an unobtrusive but penetrating approach to portraiture. The latest from filmmaker Michael Whyte and visual effects supervisor Luke Dodd - who also worked as Bown's archivist - Soda Pictures' Looking for Light: Jane Bown (2014) is a tender, ostensibly minuscule and yet incredibly illuminating documentary that explores the career of a woman who's lived a remarkable life both in front and behind of the camera.
- 4/25/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Observer photographer Jane Bown is profiled in this intelligent and unfussily traditional documentary
The Guardian's sister paper, the Observer, partly funded this film about one of its greatest staff photographers, the peerless Jane Bown. She's a figure well-loved around the Guardian Media Group's headquarters, a backdrop for many of the interviews shown here. It is an excellent, intelligent and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life, revealing a troubled childhood that may have nourished her ability to connect with subjects. Others pay homage without gushing too much, and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique and the context of Bown's work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's austere film-making eminently suits the material, especially when they eschew all sound and just hold for several seconds on the pictures themselves,...
The Guardian's sister paper, the Observer, partly funded this film about one of its greatest staff photographers, the peerless Jane Bown. She's a figure well-loved around the Guardian Media Group's headquarters, a backdrop for many of the interviews shown here. It is an excellent, intelligent and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life, revealing a troubled childhood that may have nourished her ability to connect with subjects. Others pay homage without gushing too much, and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique and the context of Bown's work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's austere film-making eminently suits the material, especially when they eschew all sound and just hold for several seconds on the pictures themselves,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The Observer photographer Jane Bown is profiled in this intellingent and unfussily traditional documentary
The Guardian's sister paper, the Observer, partly funded this film about one of its greatest staff photographers, the peerless Jane Bown. She's a figure well-loved around the Guardian Media Group's headquarters, a backdrop for many of the interviews shown here. It is an excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life, revealing a troubled childhood that may have nourished her ability to connect with subjects. Others pay homage without gushing too much, and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique, and the context of Bown's work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's austere filmmaking eminently suits the material, especially when they eschew all sound and just hold for several seconds on the pictures themselves,...
The Guardian's sister paper, the Observer, partly funded this film about one of its greatest staff photographers, the peerless Jane Bown. She's a figure well-loved around the Guardian Media Group's headquarters, a backdrop for many of the interviews shown here. It is an excellent, intelligent, and unfussily traditional documentary about a gifted artist who photographed many key 20th-century figures, including Mick Jagger, John Betjeman, Queen Elizabeth and Samuel Beckett. Now 89, a frail and lucid Bown reflects on her life, revealing a troubled childhood that may have nourished her ability to connect with subjects. Others pay homage without gushing too much, and speak insightfully about aesthetics, technique, and the context of Bown's work. Directors Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte's austere filmmaking eminently suits the material, especially when they eschew all sound and just hold for several seconds on the pictures themselves,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Whyte's rare glimpse of life at a Carmelite monastery in London makes an absorbing documentary, writes Philip French
This gently perceptive documentary observes the life of the nuns within the Carmelite monastery of Most Holy Trinity, established in London's Notting Hill in 1878. This likable, unselfish sect (not to be confused with the worldly, self-regarding Notting Hill Set) go about their lives in a prayerful manner, talk modestly and often humorously of their vocation and are extremely moving in their devotion to their perceived saviour and to mankind. A couple of days after seeing it, I read that convicts in Georgia are being offered the opportunity of completing their sentences by joining a Russian orthodox monastery. I felt rather attracted by the idea.
DocumentaryPhilip French
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This gently perceptive documentary observes the life of the nuns within the Carmelite monastery of Most Holy Trinity, established in London's Notting Hill in 1878. This likable, unselfish sect (not to be confused with the worldly, self-regarding Notting Hill Set) go about their lives in a prayerful manner, talk modestly and often humorously of their vocation and are extremely moving in their devotion to their perceived saviour and to mankind. A couple of days after seeing it, I read that convicts in Georgia are being offered the opportunity of completing their sentences by joining a Russian orthodox monastery. I felt rather attracted by the idea.
DocumentaryPhilip French
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- 4/10/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
I Am Love (15)
(Luca Guadagnino, 2009, It) Tilda Swinton, Pippo Delbono, Flavio Parenti. 119 mins
The result of a seven-year collaboration between its star and director, I Am Love is an extraordinary fusion of tradition and modernity that's a good deal more original than it might seem at first glance. Calling to mind (although not exclusively modelled on) Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian classic The Leopard, with a dash of Barbara Stanwyck's immortal Stella Dallas for good measure, this is a powerful and stylish dynastic melodrama that works on many levels. On the surface, Luca Guadagnino's bold, aggressively contemporary direction attacks an age-old story from all angles, zooming, tracking and tilting as John Adams's affecting symphonic score booms. But at the centre of this storm, Swinton gives a superb, sympathetic performance as Emma, the Russian wife of a Milanese textile magnate, whose reckless affair with a working-class chef sends her privileged life into turmoil.
(Luca Guadagnino, 2009, It) Tilda Swinton, Pippo Delbono, Flavio Parenti. 119 mins
The result of a seven-year collaboration between its star and director, I Am Love is an extraordinary fusion of tradition and modernity that's a good deal more original than it might seem at first glance. Calling to mind (although not exclusively modelled on) Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian classic The Leopard, with a dash of Barbara Stanwyck's immortal Stella Dallas for good measure, this is a powerful and stylish dynastic melodrama that works on many levels. On the surface, Luca Guadagnino's bold, aggressively contemporary direction attacks an age-old story from all angles, zooming, tracking and tilting as John Adams's affecting symphonic score booms. But at the centre of this storm, Swinton gives a superb, sympathetic performance as Emma, the Russian wife of a Milanese textile magnate, whose reckless affair with a working-class chef sends her privileged life into turmoil.
- 4/9/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Whyte's labour-of-love documentary about a Carmelite convent in London. By Xan Brooks
Tucked away off Ladbroke Grove in central London sits the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, home since 1878 to an order of Carmelite nuns. Michael Whyte's labour-of-love documentary leads us through the door and down the halls. But there are strict limits to this access, and film's haunting Vermeer visuals conspire to keep the viewer at a respectful arm's length. Whyte is not here to pry or probe too deeply. He simply records the day-to-day routine of these cloistered inhabitants. We see them cook, clean, potter about in the garden and engage in some genteel recreational folk dancing.
Outside the traffic is rumbling, and yet the sisters are all focused elsewhere, pointed towards a higher plane that no camera can reach, assuming it is even there at all. "God remains a mystery," admits the prioress.
Tucked away off Ladbroke Grove in central London sits the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, home since 1878 to an order of Carmelite nuns. Michael Whyte's labour-of-love documentary leads us through the door and down the halls. But there are strict limits to this access, and film's haunting Vermeer visuals conspire to keep the viewer at a respectful arm's length. Whyte is not here to pry or probe too deeply. He simply records the day-to-day routine of these cloistered inhabitants. We see them cook, clean, potter about in the garden and engage in some genteel recreational folk dancing.
Outside the traffic is rumbling, and yet the sisters are all focused elsewhere, pointed towards a higher plane that no camera can reach, assuming it is even there at all. "God remains a mystery," admits the prioress.
- 4/8/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
A stray Chabrol, the next Juno and more Toni Servillo brilliance are among this year's hidden gems on the festival circuit. Hunt them down now before they're buried for ever
Home festivaling is one of the few perks of losing mobility through a back injury. What better way to cover 300+ screen events across the UK for Empire Online's Festivals & Seasons page than letting them come to you? Much festival fare falls squarely into the three-star category. But, every now and then, a disc arrives in the post containing a gem that leaves you wondering how the distributors missed it. So here's a personal selection of the festival favourites that have either failed to secure a UK release in 2009 or are not currently on the schedule for next year.
10) Let's Dance (dir. Noémie Lvovsky, France)
Festivals are invariably stuffed with quirky ensemble pieces, with Laís Bodanzky's superbly choreographed The Ballroom...
Home festivaling is one of the few perks of losing mobility through a back injury. What better way to cover 300+ screen events across the UK for Empire Online's Festivals & Seasons page than letting them come to you? Much festival fare falls squarely into the three-star category. But, every now and then, a disc arrives in the post containing a gem that leaves you wondering how the distributors missed it. So here's a personal selection of the festival favourites that have either failed to secure a UK release in 2009 or are not currently on the schedule for next year.
10) Let's Dance (dir. Noémie Lvovsky, France)
Festivals are invariably stuffed with quirky ensemble pieces, with Laís Bodanzky's superbly choreographed The Ballroom...
- 12/21/2009
- by David Parkinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Stuart Wood kicks off our Edinburgh International Film Festival coverage with a review of No Greater Love. Follow along with all of our Eiff reports, straight from the festival via our dedicated Eiff channel right here. And keep up with which screening Stuart.s headed to next by following him on twitter. Here.s Stuart: It was only recently, despite having lived there for years, that I discovered that there was a convent in my city. Now and again when passing it I have wondered what exactly goes on in that seemingly desolate walled off mansion. Like many people my only real knowledge of nuns is that rather unreliable stereotype portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg and, perhaps more worryingly, 70s nunsploitation movies. So with Michael Whyte's documentary No Greater Love, a fly-on-the-wall look inside a London convent, mine and others curiosity could finally be satisfied. Well it would have been,...
- 6/17/2009
- cinemablend.com
London -- This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will be book-ended by the international premiere of Sam Mendes' "Away We Go" and close with the world debut of Max Meyer's "Adam," organizers said Wednesday.
Festival officials said the Scottish capital-set movie shindig will play host to 23 world premieres including Meyer's film.
The festival, which runs June 17 through 28, will also introduce a competition strand for international best features.
Movies competing include Jonathan Auf Der Heide’s "Van Diemen’s Land," Noah Buschel’s "The Missing Person" and Sarah Watt’s "My Year Without Sex."
A British gala section including Duncan Ward’s "Boogie Woogie," Brian Percival’s "A Boy Called Dad," "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold and Duncan Jones’ "Moon" will compete for the U.K. Film Council-backed Michael Powell Award for best British feature.
The documentary section includes world premieres of "Isolation" by Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull and...
Festival officials said the Scottish capital-set movie shindig will play host to 23 world premieres including Meyer's film.
The festival, which runs June 17 through 28, will also introduce a competition strand for international best features.
Movies competing include Jonathan Auf Der Heide’s "Van Diemen’s Land," Noah Buschel’s "The Missing Person" and Sarah Watt’s "My Year Without Sex."
A British gala section including Duncan Ward’s "Boogie Woogie," Brian Percival’s "A Boy Called Dad," "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold and Duncan Jones’ "Moon" will compete for the U.K. Film Council-backed Michael Powell Award for best British feature.
The documentary section includes world premieres of "Isolation" by Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull and...
- 5/6/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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