Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
exsouvenir / Oh No They Didn't! ... er previously appeared in Steve McQueen's "Hunger," Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank." He will next be seen in Neil Marshall's Roman actioner "Centurion" and Warner Bros.' "Jonah Hex" opposite Josh Brolin and Megan Fox . Ellen Page was previously attached to star as the eponymous...
The Afro Film Viewer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Year: 2009 Director: Andrea Arnold Screenplay: Andrea Arnold Starring: Katie Jarvis, Micheal Fassbender Synopsis is here When we first meet Mia (Katie Jarvis) she is alone, breathing heavily from practicing her hip-hop dancing in an empty blue room, looking out at the window in front of her. The window is rectangular and the image confirms that the confined Fish Tank that the title speaks of, is of...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Kate Winslet has been nominated for Best Actress title at this year’s European Film Awards (EFA) courtesy her role in ‘The Reader’. British newcomer Katie Jarvis pitted against the beauty for her role in Andrea Arnold’s ‘Fish Tank’, reports the Daily Star. However, Winslet has already won the Oscar for Best Actress, for her performance in ‘The [...]
The Sole Arbiter of Good Taste (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Celebrating its fifteenth year, Bristol's Encounters Short Film Festival runs from 17-21 November, screening the best in short films from around the world. This year's field is as usual a bewilderingly eclectic mixture of local and international talent, featuring more than 150 films in competition from 58 different countries, as well as guest appearances from such luminaries as Andrea Arnold, . Details...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The movies' penchant for wish fulfillment often requires them to make their triumphs monumental, but the new film Fish Tank makes a convincing case for modesty. The story of a teenage girl discovering herself in Great Britain's equivalent of a housing project, its very conception is steeped in understated humanity, but writer-director Andrea Arnold refuses to indulge melodrama at every turn, creating...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
News: Artificial Eye have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Fish Tank on 25th January 2010 priced at £15.99 RRP. Writer-director Andrea Arnold's second feature-length film was shot entirely on location in and around the tower blocks of Essex. Fish T...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Blu-Ray News: Verve Pictures have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Red Road on 25th January 2010 priced at £19.99 RRP. An Academy Award winner for her short film Wasp, writer-director Andrea Arnold's first full-length feature is described as a timely and p...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Film buffs in the soft south know more than they realise about Glasgow North East. Criminologists know more than they would like to. So do poverty analysts and critics of the former Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, whose enforced resignation triggered the contest in this traditional Labour stronghold. Home to Barlinnie, Scotland's largest prison, it remains close to the top of many indices of deprivation,...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The nominees for the 2009 European Film Awards are in! Culling from 48 films released within a window of 1 July 2008 to 15 July 2009 (the specifics are really murky, as a country can decide whether to submit a film based on their festival premiere or their national release), the official nominees have been announced, some of them expected, some surprising and others downright foolish. Apparently, if...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Jacques Audiard's acclaimed prison drama shortlisted for six awards, including best film, best director and best actor for newcomer Tahar Rahim The signs all point to Un Prophète (A Prophet) at next month's European film awards. Jacques Audiard's prison-set crime saga leads the field with six nominations, including best film and director. Newcomer Tahar Rahim was also nominated in the best...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The EFAs are only 20 years old, a novice awards organization really, but their prizes offer up a rich variety of films, languages and genres. It's truly a grab bag and, if you're too Oscar focused, their prizes can be head scratching. Their 2009 Best Picture Nominees encompass three years worth of U.S. release dates: (2008) Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In and The Reader (2009) The White Ribbon...
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The innaugural AFI New Lights competition prize awarded to first and second time filmmakers went to Andrea Arnold’s terrific Fish Tank and Javier Rebello’s strange but fascinating Woman Without a Piano. Arnold’s film which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes is a stark and grim portrait of a 15-year-old girl growing up fatherless in a [...]
infinite thØught (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
[Contains spoilers, probably. I'm never sure what counts and what doesn't.] Finally got round to seeing Fish Tank , which is a brilliant piece of work: as unsentimental as it is moving, with a tweaked realism that makes Mike Leigh look like he has all the observational capacity of an autistic Martian. Fish Tank is all the things Owen says it is and more: Arnold's portrayal of the Essex housing estate...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Come time travelling with Film Weekly as this week's edition ranges over the state of the British film industry in the noughties to the funny side of life under a dictator in Romania in the 80s, also taking in a review of a coming-of-age tale set in 60s London. First up, Jason Solomons goes behind the scenes at the unveiling of the nominees for the British Independent Film awards and discusses the...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Yesterday, innocently walking cross town, I was suddenly struck by a bolt of sympathy for director Mira Nair . It's totally turned into the Year of the Female Director (yay!) but she hasn't been able to join the party that Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), Lone Scherfig ( An Education ), Jane Campion ( Bright Star ), Andrea Arnold ( Fish Tank ) and others are undoubtedly enjoying. Not with the critical...
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