For a while, Hollywood flirted with Parkour as a way to spice up action scenes. The most notable example was in 2006's "Casino Royale" when Daniel Craig's Bond pursued freerunner Sébastien Foucan across the Madagascar landscape, up a large crane and down again, and into an embassy which he promptly blew up. It was quite the sequence, and the first to significantly showcase freerunning (Parkour's cousin) in a major Hollywood blockbuster.
Parkour became increasingly popular in North America during the first decade of the 2000s, becoming somewhat of an internet sensation and occasionally cropping up in mainstream culture. By 2009, even the staff over at Dunder Mifflin were getting in on the action. "The Office" started its sixth season with a now fondly-remembered, infinitely-memed cold open that saw Michael, Dwight, and Andy attempting some highly questionable Parkour moves around the office.
But prior to Hollywood's tentative love affair with Parkour,...
Parkour became increasingly popular in North America during the first decade of the 2000s, becoming somewhat of an internet sensation and occasionally cropping up in mainstream culture. By 2009, even the staff over at Dunder Mifflin were getting in on the action. "The Office" started its sixth season with a now fondly-remembered, infinitely-memed cold open that saw Michael, Dwight, and Andy attempting some highly questionable Parkour moves around the office.
But prior to Hollywood's tentative love affair with Parkour,...
- 1/1/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
More than a month has passed since the main theater chains restarted operations in the US, and some have already shut back down. On October 5, Cineworld, the UK-based parent company of Regal Cinemas, the second largest theater chain in the US, announced that it would temporarily close its 663 theaters in both countries. The move followed yet another postponement of the release of No Time to Die, now scheduled for April 2, 2021 (a year after it was originally set to premiere). The latest Bond is one of many blockbusters to be delayed by Covid, and the movie draught raises concerns on the very survival of the theatrical experience. Will moviegoing as we knew it before the pandemic ever come back?Cineworld’s temporary closure is already quite telling. “If the studios continue postponing all their releases, the movie theaters aren’t going to be there for those postponed releases,” John Fithian, chief...
- 11/6/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSIvan Passer by Irfan Khan for the Los Angeles TimesFilmmaker Ivan Passer, a key figure in the Czech New Wave alongside peers like Miloš Forman, has died. For The Guardian, Andrew Pulver writes of Passer's departure from Prague and entry into Hollywood. The latest lineup announcement for this year's Berlinale includes the very exciting world premieres of Charlatan by Agnieszka Holland and Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue by Jia Zhangke. The Cannes Film Festival has announced that Spike Lee will preside over its jury, making him the first Black jury head in the festival's history. In a statement, Lee writes: "You could easily say Cannes changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema.”Amid increasing festival buzz, awards season also continues with the release of the Academy Awards nominations, which can be found here.
- 1/15/2020
- MUBI
In the last of our series, Andrew Pulver salutes Christopher Nolan’s second world war drama, a dazzling blockbuster on an intimate, human scale
It’s fair to say that Dunkirk is not a frontrunner for the best picture Oscar: it contains no showpiece, emotion-arousing acting performances, it eulogises a wartime episode that doesn’t really register on Us consciousnesses as it does in Britain, and – on first sight – it’s a big fat commercial movie of the kind that rarely makes inroads at the top end of the Academy Awards. Its reported budget, $100m, is twice as much as the next highest (The Post, $50m), and it has become clear over time that Oscar voters like a scrappy, up-and-at-’em production rather than one that can spend its way out of trouble.
There may be a whiff of stodginess about its basic subject matter – and indeed, Brexit-endorsing little-Englanderness – that...
It’s fair to say that Dunkirk is not a frontrunner for the best picture Oscar: it contains no showpiece, emotion-arousing acting performances, it eulogises a wartime episode that doesn’t really register on Us consciousnesses as it does in Britain, and – on first sight – it’s a big fat commercial movie of the kind that rarely makes inroads at the top end of the Academy Awards. Its reported budget, $100m, is twice as much as the next highest (The Post, $50m), and it has become clear over time that Oscar voters like a scrappy, up-and-at-’em production rather than one that can spend its way out of trouble.
There may be a whiff of stodginess about its basic subject matter – and indeed, Brexit-endorsing little-Englanderness – that...
- 3/2/2018
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Continuing our series of Guardian writers’ picks of the great Academy Award winners, Andrew Pulver explains why the Paul Newman and Robert Redford caper is the most purely enjoyable film in Oscar history
No one, in all honesty, would go to the best picture Oscar list for a defining rundown of the best American cinema. Too many short-shelf life films get through the voting process and rise to the top: Crash? A Beautiful Mind? Really? Middling-to-decent tends to triumph. Actual dyed-in-the-wool classics are rare: The Deer Hunter and The Godfather, and possibly No Country for Old Men and Birdman, are among the only highlights of the past five decades.
Related: My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven
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No one, in all honesty, would go to the best picture Oscar list for a defining rundown of the best American cinema. Too many short-shelf life films get through the voting process and rise to the top: Crash? A Beautiful Mind? Really? Middling-to-decent tends to triumph. Actual dyed-in-the-wool classics are rare: The Deer Hunter and The Godfather, and possibly No Country for Old Men and Birdman, are among the only highlights of the past five decades.
Related: My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven
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- 2/22/2017
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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It was T.S. Elliot who so famously said that the journey is always more important – more defining, more character-building – than the eventual destination, but it seems some critics have found both problematic when assessing Passengers, Morten Tyldum’s big-budget sci-fi romance headed up by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
Already screening overseas, the movie is now only a few days away from its theatrical release here in North America (December 21), and now that Sony has officially lifted the embargo, the first wave of reviews have found their way online and it’s fair to say that, at least among critics, Passengers has proven more divisive than first anticipated.
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It was T.S. Elliot who so famously said that the journey is always more important – more defining, more character-building – than the eventual destination, but it seems some critics have found both problematic when assessing Passengers, Morten Tyldum’s big-budget sci-fi romance headed up by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.
Already screening overseas, the movie is now only a few days away from its theatrical release here in North America (December 21), and now that Sony has officially lifted the embargo, the first wave of reviews have found their way online and it’s fair to say that, at least among critics, Passengers has proven more divisive than first anticipated.
Featuring a reworked Black List script from Jon Spaihts, the story follows Pratt and Lawrence’s intergalactic voyagers, as they’re crudely awoken ahead of schedule in the midst of their...
- 12/15/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
As our countdown continues to joint second place, Andrew Pulver taps his foot to Damien Chazelle’s magical reprise of the golden age of musicals
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Every so often – against all its better instincts – the film industry turns out a movie that essentially eulogises the act of film-making, and asserting its primacy in the collective imagination and fantasy. Correctly, Hollywood tends to police all this stuff rigorously, and only the high-end examples make it out to the wider world. Though its origins weren’t actual Hollywood, The Artist was the last film to really pull it off, and was rewarded with a bunch of Oscars for its troubles. And it’s looking increasingly likely that La La Land, a devout worshipper at the altar of the Hollywood musical, will go down the same path.
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Every so often – against all its better instincts – the film industry turns out a movie that essentially eulogises the act of film-making, and asserting its primacy in the collective imagination and fantasy. Correctly, Hollywood tends to police all this stuff rigorously, and only the high-end examples make it out to the wider world. Though its origins weren’t actual Hollywood, The Artist was the last film to really pull it off, and was rewarded with a bunch of Oscars for its troubles. And it’s looking increasingly likely that La La Land, a devout worshipper at the altar of the Hollywood musical, will go down the same path.
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- 12/15/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver looks back on a harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director László Nemes
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The Holocaust is a subject so vast, so brutal and so uncompromisingly repulsive that it has defeated almost every director who has dared take it on: even the most confident film-makers seem to quail before the terrifying responsibility of massacre, torture and sadism – and, essentially, pull their punches. This applies as much to the hyperreal dynamism of Schindler’s List to the eyes-averted sentimentality of Life Is Beautiful, to the maudlin strains of The Pianist. Only documentaries – Alain Resnais’ haunting Night and Fog, the epic Shoah, the recently reconstructed German Concentration Camps Factual Survey – have got close to penetrating the mysteries of this most cataclysmic of human horrors.
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The Holocaust is a subject so vast, so brutal and so uncompromisingly repulsive that it has defeated almost every director who has dared take it on: even the most confident film-makers seem to quail before the terrifying responsibility of massacre, torture and sadism – and, essentially, pull their punches. This applies as much to the hyperreal dynamism of Schindler’s List to the eyes-averted sentimentality of Life Is Beautiful, to the maudlin strains of The Pianist. Only documentaries – Alain Resnais’ haunting Night and Fog, the epic Shoah, the recently reconstructed German Concentration Camps Factual Survey – have got close to penetrating the mysteries of this most cataclysmic of human horrors.
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- 12/15/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver admires Luca Guadagnino’s unnerving drama of desire and betrayal that boasts remarkable performances
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David Hockney’s celebrated painting of the title doesn’t actually appear in A Bigger Splash, but the same sense of sunbaked, febrile waterside sexuality permeates this beautifully atmospheric chamber drama from Italian director Luca Guadagnino. It’s actually a remake of a Jacques Deray film from 1969, La Piscine, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin; in Guadagnino’s version, the emphasis is altered to make Schneider’s character Marianne – now reinvented as Tilda Swinton’s near-mute, Bowie-ish rocker – the pivotal figure.
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David Hockney’s celebrated painting of the title doesn’t actually appear in A Bigger Splash, but the same sense of sunbaked, febrile waterside sexuality permeates this beautifully atmospheric chamber drama from Italian director Luca Guadagnino. It’s actually a remake of a Jacques Deray film from 1969, La Piscine, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin; in Guadagnino’s version, the emphasis is altered to make Schneider’s character Marianne – now reinvented as Tilda Swinton’s near-mute, Bowie-ish rocker – the pivotal figure.
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- 12/13/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver admires Luca Guadagnino’s unnerving drama of desire and betrayal that boasts remarkable performances
• More on the best culture of 2016
David Hockney’s celebrated painting of the title doesn’t actually appear in A Bigger Splash, but the same sense of sunbaked, febrile waterside sexuality permeates this beautifully atmospheric chamber drama from Italian director Luca Guadagnino. It’s actually a remake of a Jacques Deray film from 1969, La Piscine, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin; in Guadagnino’s version, the emphasis is altered to make Schneider’s character Marianne – now reinvented as Tilda Swinton’s near-mute, Bowie-ish rocker – the pivotal figure.
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David Hockney’s celebrated painting of the title doesn’t actually appear in A Bigger Splash, but the same sense of sunbaked, febrile waterside sexuality permeates this beautifully atmospheric chamber drama from Italian director Luca Guadagnino. It’s actually a remake of a Jacques Deray film from 1969, La Piscine, with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin; in Guadagnino’s version, the emphasis is altered to make Schneider’s character Marianne – now reinvented as Tilda Swinton’s near-mute, Bowie-ish rocker – the pivotal figure.
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- 12/13/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As our countdown enters its final fortnight, Andrew Pulver goes on the march with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro González Iñárritu for this epic frontier revenge western
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With The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu goes Terrence Malick – not that he needed much encouragement – for an extraordinarily handsome study of a human encounter with nature at its rawest: both gruesomely bloody and crystalline in its beauty. Iñárritu and Malick now share the same cinematographer, the multi-Oscar-winning Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, and no doubt Malick’s influence is being felt in The Revenant’s more rapturous, visionary sequences. But there’s a focus, and narrative ambition, that is thoroughly Iñárritu-esque (if that is a word) and which pitches The Revenant ahead of Malick’s recent experiments in thought-synthesis.
Related: Extreme weight loss and tooth extraction: when method acting goes too far
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With The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu goes Terrence Malick – not that he needed much encouragement – for an extraordinarily handsome study of a human encounter with nature at its rawest: both gruesomely bloody and crystalline in its beauty. Iñárritu and Malick now share the same cinematographer, the multi-Oscar-winning Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, and no doubt Malick’s influence is being felt in The Revenant’s more rapturous, visionary sequences. But there’s a focus, and narrative ambition, that is thoroughly Iñárritu-esque (if that is a word) and which pitches The Revenant ahead of Malick’s recent experiments in thought-synthesis.
Related: Extreme weight loss and tooth extraction: when method acting goes too far
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- 12/7/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As our countdown enters the final fortnight, Andrew Pulver hails Sausage Party, the foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed talking-food animation that hits heights of surreal brilliance
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Say what you like about Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg: they dance with the ones that brung them. And since the ones that brung them are foul-mouthed, filth-obsessed dopeheads, Sausage Party is well up to standard. It’s an insanely surreal animated comedy about talking supermarket food (who said they’ve been smoking too much?), which is finished with all the polish of a Pixar or Blue Sky production. But it ventures (or should that be staggers woozily) into territory no one else would dare to. The final consumables-orgy scene is the one that got censors in a twist across the globe; and, while the spectacle of food items going at each other every which way is, to put it mildly,...
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Say what you like about Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg: they dance with the ones that brung them. And since the ones that brung them are foul-mouthed, filth-obsessed dopeheads, Sausage Party is well up to standard. It’s an insanely surreal animated comedy about talking supermarket food (who said they’ve been smoking too much?), which is finished with all the polish of a Pixar or Blue Sky production. But it ventures (or should that be staggers woozily) into territory no one else would dare to. The final consumables-orgy scene is the one that got censors in a twist across the globe; and, while the spectacle of food items going at each other every which way is, to put it mildly,...
- 12/5/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Oops — Shia Labeouf’s new movie, “Man Down,” literally cannot fall any lower with critics — three days ahead of its release, the film currently has a score of 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. While critics are praising Labeouf’s performance, they are describing the film as a “clumsy experiment” directed by Dito Montiel. “‘Man Down ‘turns out to be – by turns – uninteresting, treacly and chock full of war-movie cliches,” wrote The Guardian’s Andrew Pulver, while New York Daily News writer Allen Salkin says that “walking out of the theater comes as an unbridled relief.” See Video: Shia Labeouf Adds Freestyle Rapping.
- 11/30/2016
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
To celebrate the release of Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex – on DVD 3rd October – we are giving away a copy courtesy of Studiocanal!
From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been as popular as they are today! Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself…
From early experiments with apes and dinosaurs to the birth of special make-up effects, from the pinnacle of animatronics to the digital revolution, Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex explores a century of human imagination, cinematic thrills and wonders.
Based on interviews of all the greatest artists in the genre and hours of exclusive footage from classics like Gremlins, The Abyss, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, Spider-Man 2…, the documentary focuses on the stunning relationship between the creatures and their makers: like modern Frankensteins, special effects wizards create life out of raw material,...
From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been as popular as they are today! Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself…
From early experiments with apes and dinosaurs to the birth of special make-up effects, from the pinnacle of animatronics to the digital revolution, Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex explores a century of human imagination, cinematic thrills and wonders.
Based on interviews of all the greatest artists in the genre and hours of exclusive footage from classics like Gremlins, The Abyss, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, Spider-Man 2…, the documentary focuses on the stunning relationship between the creatures and their makers: like modern Frankensteins, special effects wizards create life out of raw material,...
- 10/3/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” was a surprise addition to this year’s Venice Film Festival, instantly provoking curiosity as to how his first directorial effort since 2006’s “Apocalypto” would be received amid so many other autumnal prestige pictures. The answer, at least so far, is pretty well — early reviews from Venice tend toward the favorable.
Read More: Mel Gibson’s ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Emerges as Surprise Awards Contender
Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman draws attention to Gibson’s battle scenes:
“It immerses you in the violent madness of war — and, at the same time, it roots its drama in the impeccable valor of a man who, by his own grace, refuses to have anything to do with war.”
Alonso Duralde of TheWrap is similarly positive, crediting Gibson’s controlled chaos — while also pointing out a certain irony:
“Gibson has created some of the most breathtakingly exciting wartime footage in recent memory.
Read More: Mel Gibson’s ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Emerges as Surprise Awards Contender
Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman draws attention to Gibson’s battle scenes:
“It immerses you in the violent madness of war — and, at the same time, it roots its drama in the impeccable valor of a man who, by his own grace, refuses to have anything to do with war.”
Alonso Duralde of TheWrap is similarly positive, crediting Gibson’s controlled chaos — while also pointing out a certain irony:
“Gibson has created some of the most breathtakingly exciting wartime footage in recent memory.
- 9/4/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Russell Crowe, the star of The Nice Guys – Shane Black’s action comedy about a pair of misfit guns for hire who are trying to track down a missing porn star – talks to Andrew Pulver about how it takes a lot of effort to make effortlessly funny comedy, and the lengths he and his his co-star Ryan Gosling went to to make a scene in which Gosling is sat on the toilet realistic
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- 6/1/2016
- by Andrew Pulver and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
The director of Our Little Sister, a family drama about three sisters who decide to take in a fourth sibling they’ve never met, tells Andrew Pulver why he’s attracted to low-key stories with no ‘major incidents’ and how broken family ties can easily be repaired given time. Our Little Sister is in UK cinemas from Friday
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- 4/14/2016
- by Andrew Pulver, Mashaal Mir, Federico Ercoli
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards tells Andrew Pulver about his ‘plummet to success’. Largely self-funded and at times self-trained, Eddie the Eagle nevertheless made it to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgery. Here Eddie and director Dexter Fletcher explain how they adapted his story for the big screen. Eddie the Eagle, which stars Taron Egerton as the ski-jumper, is in cinemas now
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- 3/30/2016
- by Andrew Pulver and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
The stars of Zack Snyder’s superhero grudge match, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, talk to Andrew Pulver about reinventing superhero mythology, exploring a hero’s dark side and fiddling with fan favourites while the internet’s watching. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is released on Friday
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- 3/24/2016
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Each day before the Academy Awards ceremony on 28 February, one of our critics cheerleads for one of the best picture Oscar nominees. Here, Andrew Pulver makes the case for Spotlight, the true story of the Boston Globe’s investigation that exposed cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests
Read Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review of SpotlightMore in our series of Oscar hustings videos
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Read Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review of SpotlightMore in our series of Oscar hustings videos
Come to a Guardian film show Oscars special - live! Continue reading...
- 2/18/2016
- by Andrew Pulver and Tom Silverstone
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team set off to best Everest, a thriller about a tragic mountain expedition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley; go for A Walk in the Woods with Robert Redford as travel writer and humorist Bill Bryson; greet A Girl at My Door, a South Korean drama about a police officer who takes in an abused young woman, and take The D Train, a Jack Black comedy about a farcical school reunion
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- 9/17/2015
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver and Dan Susman
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2003 the England won the Rugby Union World Cup, capping years of development that transformed the sport from amateur pursuit to a game dominated by honed professionals. Director James Erskine talked to the team’s stars, including Jonny Wilkinson, captain Martin Johnson and coach Clive Woodward, to find out how they came to rule rugby. Andrew Pulver explains why you should put Erskine’s documentary into touch
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- 9/1/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Armie Hammer, who stars in Guy Ritchie's revamp of classic 1960s TV show The Man from Uncle, tells Andrew Pulver he's hoping to take Bond back from the Brits. The Man from Uncle, in which Hammer's Kgb operative is forced to work with CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) to save the world, is released in the UK on Friday 14 August Continue reading...
- 8/11/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Richard Sprenger
- The Guardian - Film News
Marshland, directed by Alberto Rodríguez Librero, sends a pair of mismatched Spanish cops on the trail of a serial killer in the aftermath of the fall of Franco. One’s an old ally of the former fascist regime, the other an ambitious, young advocate of democracy. Librero’s sidesteps the odd couple cliche to make this an impressive, grim watch, says Andrew Pulver. Marshland is out now. Clips courtesy of Altitude Film Distribution
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- 8/7/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
In the 70s Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus's reign at Cannon Films produced some of the shlockiest B-movies to (dis)grace the screen. Andrew Pulver remembers some old favourites (Enter the Ninja, Invasion USA, The Last American Virgin) and explains why Mark Hartley's documentary about the studio that gave early breaks to Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson is worth your time this week. Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is out in the UK now Continue reading...
- 6/5/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
All the awards announced at the 68th Cannes film festival, where the French director of A Prophet and Rust and Bone won the Cannes film festival’s biggest prize for a drama about a group of former Tamil Tigers pretending to be a family in order to gain French asylum
Dheepan: Andrew Pulver’s reviewPeter Bradshaw’s Cannes awards predictionsThe Guardian film show: What will win the Palme d’Or? Continue reading...
Dheepan: Andrew Pulver’s reviewPeter Bradshaw’s Cannes awards predictionsThe Guardian film show: What will win the Palme d’Or? Continue reading...
- 5/24/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
"Jacques Audiard has made his name, in films such as A Prophet, Rust and Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for a kind of ecstatic violence of the soul," begins the Guardian's Andrew Pulver. "Dheepan, his new film about a former Tamil Tiger fighter looking for a new life in France, certainly has some of the director’s trademark ferocity, especially in its final minutes, but it displays what I can only describe as dialed-down Audiard. Indeed, much of the time it even ambles, peacefully, with nothing much happening." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 5/21/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Jacques Audiard has made his name, in films such as A Prophet, Rust and Bone and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for a kind of ecstatic violence of the soul," begins the Guardian's Andrew Pulver. "Dheepan, his new film about a former Tamil Tiger fighter looking for a new life in France, certainly has some of the director’s trademark ferocity, especially in its final minutes, but it displays what I can only describe as dialed-down Audiard. Indeed, much of the time it even ambles, peacefully, with nothing much happening." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 5/21/2015
- Keyframe
Swedish director Roy Andersson tells Andrew Pulver how the interruption of a bout of writers' block by a feathered friend inspired his new film, the third in a trilogy of movies about death, loneliness and the funny-odd extremes of human behaviour. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is released in the UK today
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- 4/24/2015
- by Andrew Pulver, Tom Silverstone and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
In this excerpt from the Guardian Film Show Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver review director
Daniel Wolfe's thriller about a young Pakistani woman being chased by her father after running off with her boyfriend. The film, which stars Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, sees a family feud play out across the stark and beautiful Yorkshire moors. Catch Me Daddy is in UK cinemas now Continue reading...
Daniel Wolfe's thriller about a young Pakistani woman being chased by her father after running off with her boyfriend. The film, which stars Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, sees a family feud play out across the stark and beautiful Yorkshire moors. Catch Me Daddy is in UK cinemas now Continue reading...
- 2/27/2015
- by Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Tom Silverstone, Mona Mahmood and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
In this excerpt from the Guardian Film Show Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver review It Follows, in which a deadly curse is transmitted through sex. David Robert Mitchell's film stars Maika Monroe as the latest teen forced to choose between running from the horror or passing it on. It Follows is in UK cinemas now Continue reading...
- 2/27/2015
- by Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Mona Mahmood and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver join Henry Barnes for our round-up of the week's cinema releases. Coming up on this week's show ... a pack of randy retirees head back to India to visit The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; a family feud plays out across the Yorkshire moors in Brit thriller Catch Me Daddy; and horror is sexually transmitted in the terrifying It Follows. Plus, interviews with Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel stars Dev Patel and Bill Nighy Continue reading...
- 2/27/2015
- by Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Tom Silverstone, Mona Mahmood and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
Bill Nighy and Dev Patel, stars of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tell Andrew Pulver how the continuation of the franchise deepens and extends the story. Nighy suggests that it 'unlocks something in the audience which allows you to briefly properly join the human race' and sings the praises of his co-stars, many of whom he has known for four decades Continue reading...
- 2/25/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
Continuing our series of videos in which Guardian critics make the case for films shortlisted for the best picture Academy Award, noted orator Caspar Llewellyn Smith takes to the podium to argue that Selma – the first ever mainstream Martin Luther King biopic – deserves to win best picture at this year's Oscars
• Catherine Shoard pitches for The Grand Budapest Hotel
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• Catherine Shoard pitches for The Grand Budapest Hotel
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- 2/16/2015
- by Caspar Llewellyn Smith and Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
Love – or at least sweat-soaked Bdsm – is in the air this week on the Guardian film show. Guest host Simon Hattenstone indulges in bondage and badinage with critics Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver as they discuss Sam Taylor-Johnson's adaptation of El James's Fifty Shades of Grey; Alfred Molina and John Lithgow as a long-term couple beset by catastrophe in Love is Strange; Kim Longinotto's petting documentary Love is All; and London-set gangster yarn Snow in Paradise
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• Why you should watch The Philadelphia Story this week Continue reading...
• Turn on the audio version
• Join our film team, live, for an Oscars special on 19 February at the Brixton Ritzy
• Why you should watch The Philadelphia Story this week Continue reading...
- 2/13/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Simon Hattenstone, Paul Frankl and Ben Kape
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Beaumont-Thomas gets in a flap cheerleading for Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu's movie starring Michael Keaton as the washed-up star of a superhero franchise, which is one of the frontrunners at this year's Oscars. It's the latest in our series of videos in which a Guardian critic makes the case for a best picture nominee at the 2015 Oscars
• Tshepo Mokoena decodes The Imitation Game's chances
• Andrew Pulver sums up The Theory of Everything
• Peter Bradshaw travels back to Boyhood Continue reading...
• Tshepo Mokoena decodes The Imitation Game's chances
• Andrew Pulver sums up The Theory of Everything
• Peter Bradshaw travels back to Boyhood Continue reading...
- 2/12/2015
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
Why is the British biopic The Imitation Game better than The Theory of Everything – and this year's other six best picture nominees? Tshepo Mokoena makes the case for the Alan Turing-themed wartime thriller in the latest instalment of the Oscar hustings series in which a Guardian staffer cheerleads for their favourite movie
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• Competitor Andrew Pulver does his sums for The Theory of Everything, while Peter Bradshaw lies back and thinks of Boyhood Continue reading...
• Special thanks to Caravan Kings Cross for the use of location
• Competitor Andrew Pulver does his sums for The Theory of Everything, while Peter Bradshaw lies back and thinks of Boyhood Continue reading...
- 2/11/2015
- by Tshepo Mokoena, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
In our Best picture Oscar hustings video series, Guardian critics make the case for one of the best picture nominees at this year's Academy awards. Here, Andrew Pulver proves beyond doubt that Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything is the perfect result for the 2015 Oscars
• We'll be launching a video for each movie over the next fortnight before the Oscars ceremony on 22 February. Watch the full series series here.
• Fancy hearing the Guardian Film team discuss all of this year's contenders, live, and then watching 1961 best picture winner The Apartment? You can! Continue reading...
• We'll be launching a video for each movie over the next fortnight before the Oscars ceremony on 22 February. Watch the full series series here.
• Fancy hearing the Guardian Film team discuss all of this year's contenders, live, and then watching 1961 best picture winner The Apartment? You can! Continue reading...
- 2/10/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor Jessica Chastain discusses Jc Chandor's new gangster film A Most Violent Year, in which she plays the wife of a businessman trying to hustle his way up the food chain of New York City. She tells Andrew Pulver why it's the inverse of a traditional mobster movie
• Xan Brooks' first look review of A Most Violent Year
• A Most Violent Year is released in the UK on 23 January Continue reading...
• Xan Brooks' first look review of A Most Violent Year
• A Most Violent Year is released in the UK on 23 January Continue reading...
- 1/21/2015
- by Andrew Pulver and Paul Frankl
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Pulver sits down with Tim Burton and Christoph Waltz, director and star of Big Eyes, to discuss suburban art and why it's hard to judge characters based on real people. Big Eyes stars Waltz as Walter Keane, who took credit for paintings depicting unnaturally big-eyed children that were actually the work of his wife Margaret, played by Amy Adams Continue reading...
- 12/19/2014
- by Andrew Pulver and Richard Sprenger
- The Guardian - Film News
Jack O'Connell and Japanese rock musician Myavi, the stars of Unbroken – Angelina Jolie's biopic of Olympic long distance runner and second world war hero Louis Zamperini – talk to Andrew Pulver about working with a Hollywood superstar and why the film is meant to help heal relations between warring nations
• Jack O'Connell interview: 'My world just got much bigger'
• First look review of Unbroken Continue reading...
• Jack O'Connell interview: 'My world just got much bigger'
• First look review of Unbroken Continue reading...
- 12/17/2014
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Angelina Jolie.s Unbroken tells an extraordinary survival story in a mostly uninspiring way- but it.s likely to make a lot of money worldwide. That.s the consensus among the first batch of Us reviews which have appeared online following previews in Los Angeles and New York.
The critics are divided over the Universal production's Oscar prospects but some rate Jack O.Connell as Louis Zamperini, the former Us Olympic athlete who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 after his plane crashed into the Pacific, as a good bet for best actor. Filmed in Australia and based on Laura Hillenbrand.s book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, the drama opens in the Us on Boxing Day and in Oz on January 15. Variety.s Justin Chang seemed to sum up the ambivalent mood among critics when he wrote, .In re-creating the nightmarish...
The critics are divided over the Universal production's Oscar prospects but some rate Jack O.Connell as Louis Zamperini, the former Us Olympic athlete who was captured by the Japanese in WW2 after his plane crashed into the Pacific, as a good bet for best actor. Filmed in Australia and based on Laura Hillenbrand.s book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, the drama opens in the Us on Boxing Day and in Oz on January 15. Variety.s Justin Chang seemed to sum up the ambivalent mood among critics when he wrote, .In re-creating the nightmarish...
- 12/1/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
"For her second film as a director," begins the Guardian's Andrew Pulver, "Angelina Jolie has elected to go down the old-school Hollywood route: an inspirational war picture about athlete-turned-soldier Louis Zamperini, who survived weeks adrift in an open boat after his plane was shot down over the Pacific during the second world war, then endured a horrific period in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Though high-minded and well-intentioned—as well as being conceived on an epic scale—there’s something faintly stodgy and safety-first about the endeavor." We've got more reviews and the trailer for Unbroken starring Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson and Garrett Hedlund. » - David Hudson...
- 12/1/2014
- Keyframe
"For her second film as a director," begins the Guardian's Andrew Pulver, "Angelina Jolie has elected to go down the old-school Hollywood route: an inspirational war picture about athlete-turned-soldier Louis Zamperini, who survived weeks adrift in an open boat after his plane was shot down over the Pacific during the second world war, then endured a horrific period in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Though high-minded and well-intentioned—as well as being conceived on an epic scale—there’s something faintly stodgy and safety-first about the endeavor." We've got more reviews and the trailer for Unbroken starring Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson and Garrett Hedlund. » - David Hudson...
- 12/1/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver join Xan Brooks to debate the week's new film releases, including Paddington, an adaptation of Michael Bond's children's book, Concerning Violence, a Lauryn Hill-narrated documentary on freeing Africa from its colonial past, Horrible Bosses 2, featuring the return of Jennifer Aniston's man-eating manager, and a chance to see sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen Continue reading...
- 11/28/2014
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver, Richard Sprenger, Mona Mahmood and Joan Portillo
- The Guardian - Film News
Jennifer Aniston played a sex-obsessed dentist in the first Horrible Bosses movie. Now she's back in the sequel, along with her three male co-stars, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis. All four explain to Andrew Pulver the pleasures of working as a comedy group. Horrible Bosses 2 is released in the Us on 26 November, the UK on 28 November, and Australia on 11 December Continue reading...
- 11/26/2014
- by Andrew Pulver and Jonross Swaby
- The Guardian - Film News
The stars of The Imitation Game, a biopic about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, talk to Andrew Pulver about how Turing's sexuality forced his isolation, while writer Graham Moore and director Morten Tyldum argue that his genius deserves widespread recognition. The Imitation Game is released in the UK on Friday, in the Us on 28 November and in Australia on 1 January Continue reading...
- 11/13/2014
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Pulver recommends German director Fritz Lang's newly restored 1931 psychological thriller M. Made two years before Adolf Hitler came to power, this film about a child murderer still retains its power to disturb. It is also a trenchant treatise on crime and justice and a vivid portrait of the rapidly disintegrating Weimar republic
M opens in selected cinemas around the UK on Friday 5 September Continue reading...
M opens in selected cinemas around the UK on Friday 5 September Continue reading...
- 9/4/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Expendables 3 is an action hero bouillabaisse that mixes Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Statham together as a ragtag band of mercenaries sent to take down a baddie played by Mel Gibson. Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas, two of the film's sluggers, tell Andrew Pulver about working in a group of mega-stars and how working with Sly compares to being directed by Almodóvar. The Expendables 3 is out in the UK today Continue reading...
- 8/14/2014
- by Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Pulver and our special guest, Hollywood Reporter writer Leslie Felperin, join Henry Barnes for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week our team are peering through their fingers at a naked Gérard Depardieu in Abel Ferrera's 'Dsk-inspired' drama Welcome to New York; digging in the lint with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in bleak blue collar comedy God's Pocket; mooning over lost love with Ben Whishaw in Lilting; and watching director Eddie Martin pull a sweet narrative flip with his skateboarding documentary / murder mystery All This Mayhem
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Want to take the pictures off? Listen to the audio-only version of this week's show Continue reading...
- 8/8/2014
- by Henry Barnes, Leslie Felperin, Andrew Pulver, Richard Sprenger, Tom Silverstone, Phil Maynard and Leah Green
- The Guardian - Film News
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