We’re back with the next installment of Stellar goes to the movies. Each week we’ll give you a quick run down of what’s hitting the big screen across the UK, and recommend our pick of the week. Where possible we’ll also track down interviews and clips and the best of the critical debate on the film to help educate your cinema going. Enjoy!
PICK OF THE WEEK:
The Multiplex – Honestly? Go see Dark Knight, WALL-E, Mama Mia or Wanted. This week is slim pickings.
The Independent – A tough watch, Elite Squad, is the latest attempt to capture the violence of the Brazilian Favellas. José Padilha won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival this year. You can read about the trials of making the film in an article from The Telegraph.
Get a grip of the debate around the film by watching the below coverage of Tribecca from the Independent Film Channel in the States.
Friday 8th August 2008
Blindsight Spark Entertainment ICA London & selected Key Cities
Directed by Lucy Walker. Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers
on their journey to climb a mountain in the shadow of Everest.
Death Defying Acts (PG) Lionsgate UK London & Key Cities
Director by Gillian Armstrong, During Harry Houdini’s tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years.
Elegy (15) Entertainment London & Key Cities
Directed by Isabel Copixet. Driven by Isabel Coixets visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms themmore than either could imaginea charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform.
Elite Squad (18) Optimum Releasing Curzon Soho & Key Cities
Directed by José Padilha. During a brutal campaign to secure the Pope’s 1997 visit to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento struggles to find a suitable replacement who will continue the BOPE’s merciless efforts to infiltrate the favelas and wage war against their dominant drug underworld.
Fox And The Child, The (U) Pathe London & Nationwide
Directed by Luke Jacquet. It has been described as both a nature doc and “fairy tale” look at the story of young girl and her friendship with a fox.
Make It Happen (PG) Optimum Releasing London & Nationwide
Directed by Darren Grant. Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
