The 55th BFI London Film Festival Programme has been revealed see below for the full details of the gala screenings
GALAS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston. Key talent will be in attendance for both films.
George Clooney features in two Gala presentations - the political thriller THE IDES OF MARCH which he directs and stars in alongside Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, and THE DESCENDANTS, Alexander Payne’s latest feature.
Among several literary adaptations are Lynne Ramsay’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN with Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller;
TRISHNA, Michael Winterbottom’s reworking of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, with Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed; and CORIOLANUS with Ralph Fiennes directing as well as taking the lead role alongside Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave.
Redgrave is also cast in Roland Emmerich’s ANONYMOUS with Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson and David Thewlis. Madonna directs romantic drama W.E. which stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D’Arcy whilst Steve McQueen’s second feature SHAME has a cast that includes Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender.
Fassbender can also be seen alongside Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley in David Cronenberg’s A DANGEROUS METHOD.
Foreign language cinema is represented by THE KID WITH A BIKE, the Cannes Grand Prix winner from the Dardenne brothers; Nanni Moretti’s WE HAVE A POPE; and Michel Ocelot’s enchanting animation TALES OF THE NIGHT. Hollywood’s silent era is celebrated in Michel Hazanavicius’ THE ARTIST whilst this year’s Archive Gala is the BFI National Archive’s restoration of Miles Mander’s THE FIRST BORN with a new score by Stephen Horne.
Watching Bwana Devil in 3D at the Paramount Theater, Hollywood, 1952, JR Eyerman
JR Eyerman famously captured this photo of a formally-attired audience sporting 3D glasses during the opening night screening of the movie -Bwana Devil- (the first full length colour 3D motion picture) at Paramount Theatre, Hollywood. The film is set in British East Africa during the early 20th century. It is based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters, a pair of lions which were responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway, from March to December 1898. Although panned by the critics, the movie started a temporary 3D boom in the US film industry from 1952 to 1954. The advance of television halved the movie attendance from 90 million in 1948 to 46 million in 1951 and the movie studios tried desperately to lure the audience back into the theatres with many innovative techniques, among which were National Vision, Cinerama and other unsuccessful 3D ventures.
This is my Georges Méliès tattoo. Méliès was a French filmmaker from 1896 to 1913. He was ahead of his time and revolutionized filmmaking. He created editing techniques such as stop action, dissolve, and multiple exposure. This moon is from one of his greatest films Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) released in 1902 (his 400th film). This film was one of the first to be distributed worldwide and was also one of the first to be duplicated (especially by Edison Films). Because of this Méliès was never really made money off of this film and died broke and forgotten. He is and always will be my favorite filmmaker of the silent era.
Work done by Sir Wook. http://SirWook.tumblr.com/
Presenting Horrible Movie Clichés, an illustrated guide, brought to you by the New York International Latino Film Festival.
I wanna attend the NYILFF now.
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I don’t believe actors are cattle and I don’t believe Hitchcock said that. He said they should be treated as cattle”. And in some cases I think that’s true. You know, look: there are a lot of people who choose that line of work because they simply like the attention and it’s your civic duty to make sure they’re punished for that.David Fincher on acting, “In conversation with David Fincher”, Empire (via paul-stine)
(via toosexyformybowtie)
dementia-and-confession:thatbloodyrobot:dontcallmeashley:asinglemanlytear:shesarejector:
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
I’m guessing because I was born on Saturday the 14th.
Beverly Hills Cop.
I missed The Terminator by a week. Shoot.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, VIETNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
(This may explain why I’m hairy and love bad jokes)
Three Men and a Baby.
Tom Selleck.
Which explains why I love facial hair and New York? (I’ve never seen the movie..)
PULP FICTION, win.
(via lost-into-samsara)
- Salt
- 127 Hours
- Apocalypse Now
- Precious
- Buried
- Reservoir Dogs
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Touching the Void
All I want to do is rewatch 127 Hours and maybe Reservoir Dogs, but I’m trying to convince myself to watch a new movie (in bold). Maybe.
Don’t Talk - Angry Voicemail (Uncensored) (by AlamoDrafthouse)
This is amazing. The Alamo Drafthouse kicked someone out of their theater for txting on their phone. She left them a voicemail. They turned it into a PSA. Brilliant.
