Classic Screening: The Prisoner (All Nighter)
No Man Is Just A Number.Become a part of world history! To mark the Blu-Ray release of The Prisoner the first 125 Network customers who pre-order the Blu-Ray edition from the Network web site will receive a pair of tickets to “The Prisoner All Nighter”, an all night extravaganza taking place at the Prince Charles Cinema in Central London on Saturday 26th September 2009 starting at 8.30pm, where every episode of The Prisoner will be screened in High Definition for the first time anywhere in the world. Will you still feel like a free man after being subjected to 17 TV hours in the village plus special guests who appeared in the show?
To obtain tickets you simply need to purchase a copy of The Prisoner the Complete Series (RRP £59.99) fromwww.networkdvd.co.uk.
• Tickets to this event for the pre-order DVD will be issued on a first come first serve basis.
• As well as these special tickets each attendee will also receive a 1967 reproduction ITC brochure exclusive to this event.
The Prisoner All Nighter will be opened by Prisoner Loudspeaker Announcer Fenella Fielding and closed by an additional special guest. Attendees will also be entered into a prize draw t win some unique Prisoner merchandise.
Please note the Prince Charles Cineme are NOT taking any bookings for this, to obtain a ticket you MUST go via www.networkdvd.co.uk
Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2
Just north off Leicester Sq & up from Häagen-Dazs
When
8:30pm, Saturday 26 September, 2009
Preview: Fish Tank and Q&A with director Andrea Arnold
Curzon Cinemas is proud to welcome ANDREA ARNOLD in a post screening discussion along with the film on Sunday 13 September 3pm at Curzon Soho.
Justly picking up another Cannes Grand Jury Prize, Andrea Arnold’s follow-up to Red Road is an intense and surprising story of love, lust and family.
Fifteen-year-old Mia (Jarvis) is at war with everything: her family, her school, and the girls on her estate. Her one release is dancing, a passion that she practices in secret. Things change when her mother (Wareing) introduces charismatic new boyfriend Connor (Fassbender, Hunger) – but Arnold’s subtle and unpredictable script keeps us guessing as to just what influence the newcomer will bring to bear. Drawing a fantastically raw and yet immensely accomplished performance from newcomer Katie Jarvis, Arnold, who draws on her own background growing up in London’s East End, has crafted a potent and poetic British film that places her at the vanguard of world cinema.
Where
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5DY
When
3pm, Sunday 13 October, 2009
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival: Wallace & Gromit's 20th Anniversary
Master animator Nick Park discusses his illustrious career and helps us celebrate 20 years since Wallace & Gromit hit our screens.
As a child, Nick Park’s career aspirations included being an artist for the Beano comic and an inventor. By far, his best invention has been Wallace & Gromit, who first appeared on our screens 20 years ago. In 1985, Park became an invaluable addition to Aardman Animations, and A Grand Day Out (which he began as a student at the NFTS) earned him his first of many BAFTA awards. Four Academy Awards followed, not just for his much-loved shorts Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, but also for his feature Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Park’s perfectionist attention to detail and his ability to infuse his plasticine characters with humanity and humour (not to mention giving an immense vocabulary and emotional range to a dog that never speaks a word) is testament to the genius of his imagination and to his unsurpassed talent as an animator. To celebrate Park’s ‘cracking’ achievements we are delighted to be able to screen A Grand Day Out, digitally remastered for the occasion. Nick Park will be interviewed on stage after the screening by journalist David Gritten. Timothy Smith
Where
BFI NFT1
When
15:15 Sat 24 October
Duncan Jones's next film Mute & the fate of Sam Bell
By know you know that Director Duncan Jones’s next film will not be an adaptation of “Escape from the Deep” as anticipated.
It sounds like “Escape from the Deep” the true story of a WW2 submarine crew that go to hell and back will be tackled after another forage into the Sci Fi with “Mute”. More information about the Alex Kershaw book “Escape from the Deep” can be
found here http://www.escapefromthedeep.com/.
Mute
The Mute concept art released via Jone’s Liberty Films website looks pretty damn spiffy and tantalising enough to keep Sci Fi fans wanting more. The artwork is very reminiscent of Syd Mead’s conceptual art for Blade Runner. Interesting to note that the signage in the street scene says Fremde which is German for strange, but could also mean foreign or Alien. Jones has said that Mute is not about Aliens as such. I’m guessing that this scene is some high class clientele leaving a bar/club that caters for strange tastes. This is possibly the club that the lead’s girlfriend works at before disappearing. Then again it could just be a street scene.
Mute is basically the other side of the coin from Moon. Moon is about isolation, loneliness, living on your own and having to find a way to deal with that.
Mute is based in a future Berlin, so it’s a big city film, a thriller in a city that so full and so unfriendly in a way. It’s going to be a very different kind of film – but a good companion piece.
Mute is a much busier, nosier kind of film. It’s a thriller based in a future Berlin…. If Moon is inspired by films like Outland and Silent Running, then Mute, is inspired by Blade Runner.
For twitter updates on everything Duncan Jones’s including Mute follow: @manmademovies
You can follow Duncan Jones here: @manmademoon
You can follow Moon Producer Stuart Fenegan (One of Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch) here: @LibertyStu (Warning! Does not update much – yet)
The most media rich news can be found on the Liberty Films blog here: http://blog.manmademovies.co.uk/
Follow the Moon Facebook Group here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/manmademovies/151750620947
Film Networking : FILM NETWORKING PARTY @ The Kingly Club
You are cordially invited to THE KINGLY CLUB’S FILM NETWORKING PARTY on Tuesaday 15 September, 2009. 9PM till late.
An event exclusiverly for film creatives who want to hobnob & mingle. Come network & make exciting connections in film.
Staged at the chic and illustrious Kingly Club, the event is designed exclusively for film creatives who want to hobnob and mingle. It will be attended by some of the leading aficionados of the movie industry from directors to writers, producers to investors, actors and many others. This will be your chance to come network and make exciting connections that could lead to new and inspiring projects. Or just meet like minded individuals and have a laugh over a cocktail or 2. Or 3.Whilst listening to Fabulous superstar DJ Kris Di Angelis who will be spinning some movie themed tunes.
If you are passionate about the film industry, then this event is not to be missed.
NB: These networking events work via recommendation and word of mouth so do forward this email to anyone else you think might be interested.
Where
The Kingly Club
4 Kingly Court Soho London W1B 5PW
When
Tuesday 15 September from from 9pm
Film Networking : Raindance Boozin' N' Schmoozin" this Monday
Raindance hold an informal networking drinks on the 2nd Monday of each month called Boozin’ n’ Schmoozin’.
Talk is cheap!
As always, our popular and informal networking event featuring film related chit chat, an opportunity to catch up with old buddies from past RD courses and a damn fine way of connecting with like minded filmmakers.
And much beer drinking… (cash bar!)
Who should attend:
Anyone interested in filmmaking!!
Where
Downstairs at the Royal George
Goslett Yard, 133 Charing Cross Rd, London, W2CH 0EA
Nearest tube Tottenham Court Road.
When
Monday 14 September from 6:30pm
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival: Lee Daniels – Script Factory and NFTS Masterclasses
The remarkably gifted producer-turned-director discusses his work, including his powerful new feature Precious.
Few people have the qualities needed to be a successful producer and even fewer have those needed to be a successful director. Lee Daniels’ natural skills as a producer allowed him to make Monster’s Ball (for which Halle Berry won an Oscar) as his first film. He then went on to gain further critical acclaim as a producer with The Woodsman (LFF 2004). Daniels is an extremely creative producer with a strong vision. He is so secure and determined in the way he envisages his films, and so hands-on as a producer that it was natural (and inevitable) that he would try his hand at directing. Daniels believes that he learned a great deal from his debut directorial experience on Shadowboxer, and that this made him an even better producer on his next project, Tennessee. This also started his fruitful collaboration with Mariah Carey, who stars in that film as well as playing a supporting role in his new offering Precious which he has directed and produced. In this deeply moving and powerful film, Daniels expertly balances the absolute horror of the title character’s experience with humour and fantasy, and proves that all of the heart and soul he puts into his films is definitely paying off. Timothy Smith
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Where
BFI NFT1
When
13:00 Sat 24 October
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Screening: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson works with stop-motion animation and an outstanding voice cast to bring Roald Dahl’s much loved story to the screen.
In his first animated feature, Wes Anderson proves the perfect filmmaker to bring Roald Dahl’s much-loved story to the screen.
Mr and Mrs Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristofferson. But, after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief, and in doing so endangers not only his own beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground with not enough food to go round, the animals band together to fight against the evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost. – Sandra Hebron
Where & When
Wed 14 | 19:00 | ODEON LEICESTER SQ.
Thu 15 | 13:15 | Vue Screen 7
Thu 15 | 18:00 | Vue Screen 5
Sat 17 | 13:15 | Vue Screen 7
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Screening: 44 Inch Chest – Film on the Square
Ray Winstone and friends behaving very badly in this powerful drama of a wronged husband trying to regain his self-respect.
Anyone inclined to bemoan the shocking behaviour of young people would be advised to take a look at 44 Inch Chest, which features some spectacularly foul mouthed and habitually violent behaviour from a group of men well beyond any flush of youth. This debut feature by Malcolm Venville from a script by Sexy Beast writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto is a powerful drama of a wronged husband trying to regain his self-respect. Colin (Ray Winstone) is devastated when his wife announces she’s leaving him for a younger man, and when we first meet him he is sprawled drunkenly amidst the wreckage of their final argument, as Nilsson’s ‘Without You’ loops in the background. This virtuoso opening really sets the tone for what follows, aggressive and maudlin by turns. Colin’s motley crew of old friends (John Hurt, Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane) rally to his aid, though their plot to kidnap the lover and push Colin into taking revenge is misguided in conception and inept in execution. A provocative and darkly funny study of masculinity at its most troubling, 44 Inch Chest gives the actors full rein to explore the male ego pushed to its limits, and this wonderful ensemble certainly rise to the task. – Sandra Hebron
Where & When
Sat 17 | 18:00 | Vue Screen 5
Sat 17 | 18:15 | Vue Screen 7
Sun 18 | 16:15 | Vue Screen 9
Mon 19 | 13:00 | Vue Screen 5
Screening of MOON and Q&A with director Duncan Jones this Friday in London
On Friday 11th September The Prince Charles Cinema (Leicester Sq) have a VERY Special Q&A with Duncan Jones, Director of Moon!
Moon is playing upstairs all week on their brand new screen, however grab this chance to talk to the man who made this spectacular film.
MOON
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract’s entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches…
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey (voice), Matt Berry, Robin Chalk
Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2
Just north off Leicester Sq & up from Häagen-Dazs
When
21:00 Fri 11th Sep Moon plus Q&A
Tickets onsale 5pm Today (Tuesday 8 September)
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