Film

Review Perfect Sense

UK 2011. Cert 15. 92 mins. Dir: David Mackenzie. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielson, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson, Stephen Dillane

The director of Hallam Foe and Young Adam explores characteristically dark subject matter in this artistic, slowmotion apocalypse film.

Award-winning Danish writer Kim Fupz Aakeson (responsible for 2010’s excellent A Somewhat Gentle Man) tells her story through the narration of Glasgow-based female lead, Susan. A noncontagious global virus is somehow spreading that seems to be wiping out each human sense in turn and there’s disturbingly little information about its source. Working on this inexplicable phenomenon, epidermiologist Susan tells us there are various theories: an environmental ecological apocalypse caused by genetic modification; God’s punishment for a world of non-believers; a military…

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Preview Re-Live Leeds International Film Fest With Town Hall Screenings

The Big Lebowski and Don't Look Now among classic films being shown at Leeds Town Hall in February

In an effort to keep the spirit of film alive in the city after last year’s superb Leeds International Film Festival, a series of classic must-see films will be shown in the beautiful surroundings of the Victoria Hall in Leeds Town   Hall on 23^rd February.

The first film is something to set your pulse racing: Hitchcock’s 1959 comedy thriller North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant. This will be followed by a later screening of Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 romantic drama The Red Shoes, with a cast led by dashing Austrian actor Anton Walbrook and the graceful Moira Shearer, who…

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Preview Creatures of the Night, Hyde Park Picture House

Cult film classics make a comeback at this gem of a Leeds cinema

This month sees the return of Creatures of the Night at the Hyde Park Picture House. In a series of weekly screenings, audiences will be shown such cult classics as Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show and John Carpenter’s The Thing.

If you are yet to visit the stunning Hyde Park Picture House then you’re in for a treat. The cinema opened in 1914 and still boasts some beautiful original features, making it the perfect place to catch a nostalgic film or two.

Co-programmer Andy Moore said: “What better environment in which to discover such gems or revisit a…

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News Special pre-Oscars Screenings at National Media Museum

Bradford film fans served up some awards season treats

In the run up to the 2012 Oscars, the National Media Museum in Bradford will be screening a number of potential nominees to get you in the mood for the prestigious annual awards ceremony.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s official nominations are due to be announced on 24^th January and to kick things off, this year’s critically acclaimed silent film The Artist was shown on Friday 13^th which, if it wins, could be the first silent film to win the Best Picture Oscar since Wings in 1929. Also, Asphalt, a 1929 silent movie classic, is showing on…

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Interview Antonio Banderas

John Mosby meets the Spanish actor who with his new film Puss In Boots is certainly feline groovy (sorry)

There’s little doubt that Antonio Banderas is one of the members of that elite testosterone-fuelled movie club in which women want to be with him and men want to go out for a drink with him. The Spanish actor made his breakthrough in such international action-outings such as Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Assassins but has branched out into diverse projects such as the Spy Kids franchise and much darker material such as The Skin I Live In.

Puss in Boots sees him planted, once again, in family viewing terrain. Puss in Boots was the scene-stealing character…

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DVD Review The Devil's Double

Belgium/Netherlands 2011. Cert 18. 104 mins. Dir: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawl

Plucked straight from the front lines during the late 1980s, Iraqi Lieutenant Latif Yahia is given the questionable honour of acting as Saddam Hussein’s sadistic son’s body double. Tamahori’s examination of what it means to be a double uses Yahia’s novels I Was Saddam’s Son and The Devil’s Double as loose source material.

Working alongside a writer (Michael Thomas) who is no stranger to fictional accounts of partly-factual events (The Night We Called It A Day, Backbeat), the Die Another Day director uses real footage of live combat and Saddam Hussein to place the film in its time and contrast…

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News Yorkshire Film Company Warp Scoop Prestigious Awards

Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur spearheads impressive night at the British Independent Film Awards for Sheffield's Warp and Warp X

A Yorkshire company has won five awards at the 14th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).

Warp films and Warp X, based in Sheffield, won Best Film and Best Debut Director for Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, which also saw Olivia Colman (Sophie from Peep Show) win Best Actress.

Warp X won Best Screenplay for Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Smiley in Kill List, filmed in 2010 across Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield and North Lincolnshire.

Tyrannosaur tells the story of violent man, Joseph (Peter Mullan). After meeting Christian charity shop worker, Hannah (Olivia Colman), Joseph sees a chance to…

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