The BAFTAs have a soft spot for home-grown talent. Earlier this year, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” scored four bids at the British Academy Film Awards, including Best Actor (Daryl McCormack) and Best Actress (Emma Thompson). Before that, in 2022, Adeel Akhtar snuck into the Best Actor lineup for “Ali & Ava” and Joanna Scanlan won Best Actress for “After Love.”
This pattern of Brits recognizing Brits could bode well for Daniel Kaluuya this year, who makes his directorial debut with the new Netflix drama “The Kitchen.” The film depicts a dystopian London in which all social housing has been eliminated. The focus in the story are the residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to leave their homes despite their struggles. At the heart of the film is Kane Robinson‘s (also known as Kano) Izi, who takes Jedaiah Bannerman‘s young boy under his wing and tries...
This pattern of Brits recognizing Brits could bode well for Daniel Kaluuya this year, who makes his directorial debut with the new Netflix drama “The Kitchen.” The film depicts a dystopian London in which all social housing has been eliminated. The focus in the story are the residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to leave their homes despite their struggles. At the heart of the film is Kane Robinson‘s (also known as Kano) Izi, who takes Jedaiah Bannerman‘s young boy under his wing and tries...
- 10/25/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Will Sharpe — the actor and filmmaker who was most recently seen in the latest season of The White Lotus — has been tapped to direct the adaptation of the bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart.
In 2021, MGM’s Orion Pictures picked up the rights to Michelle Zauner’s memoir, with Stacey Sher and Jason Kim on board to produce.
Zauner will pen the script adapting her book that tracks her years growing up as one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Oregon and the months spent at her grandmother’s apartment in Seoul, as well as her career in the East Coast indie music scene and meeting her husband. At the center of her story is Zauner’s relationship with her mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, at which point Zauner reckons with her identity both as a daughter and a Korean American.
The author is...
In 2021, MGM’s Orion Pictures picked up the rights to Michelle Zauner’s memoir, with Stacey Sher and Jason Kim on board to produce.
Zauner will pen the script adapting her book that tracks her years growing up as one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Oregon and the months spent at her grandmother’s apartment in Seoul, as well as her career in the East Coast indie music scene and meeting her husband. At the center of her story is Zauner’s relationship with her mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, at which point Zauner reckons with her identity both as a daughter and a Korean American.
The author is...
- 3/20/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Animals’ And ‘Black Pond’ Producer Sarah Brocklehurst Launches UK Studio; Ties With BBC Studios
BAFTA-nominated Black Pond and Animals producer Sarah Brocklehurst has launched a production company and struck a partnership deal with BBC Studios. BBC Studios will help develop, produce and distribute Brock Media’s content, which will include TV and film projects for global audiences. BBC Studios has the option to take an equity stake further down the line, having invested in several drama indies recently such as Brexit: The Uncivil War’s House Productions and The End Of The F***ing World’s Clerkenwell Films. Brocklehurst’s Animals was nominated for two BIFAs and she previously picked up an Outstanding Debut BAFTA nom for 2012’s Black Pond. She has hired former ITV and Big Talk exec Katie Brown as Head of Development, Empress Films’ Rohina Cameron-Perera as Associate Producer and Film4’s Mélys Codo as Development Executive.
BAFTA-nominated Black Pond and Animals producer Sarah Brocklehurst has launched a production company and struck a partnership deal with BBC Studios. BBC Studios will help develop, produce and distribute Brock Media’s content, which will include TV and film projects for global audiences. BBC Studios has the option to take an equity stake further down the line, having invested in several drama indies recently such as Brexit: The Uncivil War’s House Productions and The End Of The F***ing World’s Clerkenwell Films. Brocklehurst’s Animals was nominated for two BIFAs and she previously picked up an Outstanding Debut BAFTA nom for 2012’s Black Pond. She has hired former ITV and Big Talk exec Katie Brown as Head of Development, Empress Films’ Rohina Cameron-Perera as Associate Producer and Film4’s Mélys Codo as Development Executive.
- 1/20/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Deal will encompass development, production and distribution.
BBC Studios has struck a development, production and distribution partnership with UK producer Sarah Brocklehurst for her new company Brock Media.
The company’s ambitions are to “develop and produce television and films for global audiences, working with leading talent from the UK, as well as world-renowned international filmmakers and artists”.
Brocklehurst was nominated for a Bafta for outstanding debut by a British producer for micro-budget feature Black Pond in 2012. She was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2014 and then scored a hit with Sophie Hyde’s 2019 comedy-drama Animals, which debuted at...
BBC Studios has struck a development, production and distribution partnership with UK producer Sarah Brocklehurst for her new company Brock Media.
The company’s ambitions are to “develop and produce television and films for global audiences, working with leading talent from the UK, as well as world-renowned international filmmakers and artists”.
Brocklehurst was nominated for a Bafta for outstanding debut by a British producer for micro-budget feature Black Pond in 2012. She was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2014 and then scored a hit with Sophie Hyde’s 2019 comedy-drama Animals, which debuted at...
- 1/20/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The series Hands-On: Two Films by Jessica Sarah Rinland starts on Mubi on April 5, 2021 in many countries.While making films I occasionally produce books. The first few I printed and handbound myself during a period when I was also manually editing my films on a Steenbeck. Most recently, the books have been sent elsewhere to be printed and bound in larger editions, similar to my films which I now process elsewhere, and edit and show digitally.The films are still shot on 16mm film, a material that includes ground up animal bones. The books continue to be layers of cellulose paper pulp, made from wood and grass. Both my films and books can live together or separately, each offering a different way of seeing and touching, of being and preserving.The Society Opening pages to The Society, made simultaneously with Black Pond (2018).Structured in chronological order, the book documents email...
- 4/8/2021
- MUBI
The series Hands-On: Two Films by Jessica Sarah Rinland starts on Mubi on April 5, 2021 in many countries.In 1900, the tusk of a female elephant poached in Malawi was donated to the Natural History Museum in London. Over 100 years later filmmaker and artist Jessica Sarah Rinland begins to make a copy. With this tusk Rinland opens up a synecdoche of both preservation and the nature of reproduction. Working with Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and having played at Locarno, TIFF, Viennale, True/False (amongst others), Those That, At A Distance, Resemble Another is one third of a larger project, which includes the actual elephant tusk and a book. Split between multiple museums in Brazil and England, Rinland slowly documents her work as a ceramist recreating this tusk, while also filming the work of the other ceramicists and preservationists. Close-ups of Rinland’s remarkably durable pink manicure creating...
- 4/6/2021
- MUBI
Exclusive: Fresh from securing a directing gig on HBO/Sky drama Landscapers, actor and director Will Sharpe has signed with UTA.
Sharpe, who is replacing Alexander Payne in the four-part Sister-produced crime drama, has signed with the agency in all areas.
In addition to directing – he also helmed Channel 4 comedy Flowers that starred Olivia Colman – he is an actor and recently starred in Netflix/BBC drama Giri/Haji, where he played Rodney Yamaguchi, a charismatic half-Japanese, half-British rent boy and drug addict living in London.
On the feature side, he is currently in post-production on Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. His first feature Black Pond, which he also co-wrote, came out in 2011 and he was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer category.
He will continue to represented by the UK’s Sue Latimer at Arg Talent...
Sharpe, who is replacing Alexander Payne in the four-part Sister-produced crime drama, has signed with the agency in all areas.
In addition to directing – he also helmed Channel 4 comedy Flowers that starred Olivia Colman – he is an actor and recently starred in Netflix/BBC drama Giri/Haji, where he played Rodney Yamaguchi, a charismatic half-Japanese, half-British rent boy and drug addict living in London.
On the feature side, he is currently in post-production on Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. His first feature Black Pond, which he also co-wrote, came out in 2011 and he was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer category.
He will continue to represented by the UK’s Sue Latimer at Arg Talent...
- 10/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Founded in 2009 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Big Ears Festival is a renowned event bringing together, music, film, literature, art installations, and more. Year after year, their cinema-related section continues to showcase an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary voices, striving to explore boundary-pushing works in the field. Ahead of next month’s festival, we’re pleased to unveil the 2020 edition of the film lineup.
As part of their Standard Definition program, which explores the transition from celluloid to digital, the festival will present films from Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, and Hal Hartley, along with U.S. theatrical premieres of Dominik Graf’s Friends of Friends and Franco Piavoli Affettuosa presenza and Paesaggi e figure. Also in the lineup is rarely screened works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kevin Jerome Everson, along with Michael Snow’s 2002 film Corpus Callosum and his most recent project, Cityscape.
Argentine-British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland will also get the spotlight,...
As part of their Standard Definition program, which explores the transition from celluloid to digital, the festival will present films from Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, and Hal Hartley, along with U.S. theatrical premieres of Dominik Graf’s Friends of Friends and Franco Piavoli Affettuosa presenza and Paesaggi e figure. Also in the lineup is rarely screened works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kevin Jerome Everson, along with Michael Snow’s 2002 film Corpus Callosum and his most recent project, Cityscape.
Argentine-British artist Jessica Sarah Rinland will also get the spotlight,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac), Sharon Rooney (Dumbo), Hayley Squires and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) have joined the cast of Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy-fronted biopic Louis Wain.
The first look of the feature, which also stars Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones, has also been revealed.
The quartet play Wain’s eccentric sisters, while Adeel Akhtar (The Big Sick), Julian Barratt (Mindhorn) and Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing) round out the cast.
Wain was an English artist who lived between 1860-1939 and is best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although some specialists dispute this claim), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his work.
Directed by BAFTA-nominated UK director Will Sharpe (Flowers) and written by Sharpe and Simon Stephenson, the film is being produced by Guy Heeley...
The first look of the feature, which also stars Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones, has also been revealed.
The quartet play Wain’s eccentric sisters, while Adeel Akhtar (The Big Sick), Julian Barratt (Mindhorn) and Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing) round out the cast.
Wain was an English artist who lived between 1860-1939 and is best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although some specialists dispute this claim), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his work.
Directed by BAFTA-nominated UK director Will Sharpe (Flowers) and written by Sharpe and Simon Stephenson, the film is being produced by Guy Heeley...
- 8/27/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The project is being directed by rising UK filmmaker Will Sharpe.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are set to star in Louis Wain, a drama about the real-life Victorian painter of cats, for rising UK writer-director Will Sharpe.
The project is being produced by UK outfit Shoebox Films with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and is backed by Studiocanal and Film4. Shooting is due to get underway in August at Ealing Studios. Producers are Guy Heeley and Ed Clarke for Shoebox, with Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke for SunnyMarch
Studiocanal controls worldwide rights and will release in its distribution territories - the UK,...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are set to star in Louis Wain, a drama about the real-life Victorian painter of cats, for rising UK writer-director Will Sharpe.
The project is being produced by UK outfit Shoebox Films with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and is backed by Studiocanal and Film4. Shooting is due to get underway in August at Ealing Studios. Producers are Guy Heeley and Ed Clarke for Shoebox, with Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke for SunnyMarch
Studiocanal controls worldwide rights and will release in its distribution territories - the UK,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The project is being directed by rising UK filmmaker Will Sharpe.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are set to star in The Nine Lives Of Louis Wain, a drama about the real-life Victorian painter of cats, for rising UK writer-director Will Sharpe.
The project is being produced by UK outfit Shoebox Films with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and is backed by Studiocanal and Film4. Shooting is due to get underway in August at Ealing Studios.
Studiocanal controls worldwide rights and will release in its distribution territories. Amazon Studios has pre-bought Us rights.
The long-gestating project has been in development with London-based...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are set to star in The Nine Lives Of Louis Wain, a drama about the real-life Victorian painter of cats, for rising UK writer-director Will Sharpe.
The project is being produced by UK outfit Shoebox Films with Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and is backed by Studiocanal and Film4. Shooting is due to get underway in August at Ealing Studios.
Studiocanal controls worldwide rights and will release in its distribution territories. Amazon Studios has pre-bought Us rights.
The long-gestating project has been in development with London-based...
- 7/23/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoot begins 10 August in London on movie biopic Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough and Toby Jones.
Wain was an English artist who lived between 1860-1939 and is best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although some specialists dispute this claim), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his work.
Directed by BAFTA-nominated, rising UK director Will Sharpe (Flowers) and written by Sharpe and Simon Stephenson, the film is being produced by Guy Heeley (Swimming With Men) and Adam Ackland (Patrick Melrose) with Ed Clarke and Leah Clarke. Behind the movie are StudioCanal, SunnyMarch, Shoebox, Film4 and Amazon Studios.
At the age of 23, Wain married his sisters’ governess, Emily Richardson (Foy), who was ten years his senior. The marriage was considered somewhat scandalous at the time due to the age difference.
Wain was an English artist who lived between 1860-1939 and is best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although some specialists dispute this claim), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his work.
Directed by BAFTA-nominated, rising UK director Will Sharpe (Flowers) and written by Sharpe and Simon Stephenson, the film is being produced by Guy Heeley (Swimming With Men) and Adam Ackland (Patrick Melrose) with Ed Clarke and Leah Clarke. Behind the movie are StudioCanal, SunnyMarch, Shoebox, Film4 and Amazon Studios.
At the age of 23, Wain married his sisters’ governess, Emily Richardson (Foy), who was ten years his senior. The marriage was considered somewhat scandalous at the time due to the age difference.
- 7/23/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired U.K. rights to Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde’s “Animals,” which world premiered at Sundance. The feelgood female friendship drama stars Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat.
The film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth, centers on two young Dublin women, Laura and Tyler, whose careers and lives remain on hold while they devote their time to partying hard. As they drift into their thirties, reality begins to bite, but the rebels will not be tamed so easily.
Variety’s review said: “Sophie Hyde’s generous, freewheeling film is a pleasingly disorderly addition to the still-underpopulated ranks of female friendship studies — eschewing both strict moral judgment and greeting-card sentimentality in its portrayal of two women with a firmer idea of what they don’t want in life than what they do.”
Clare Binns, joint M.D. of Picturehouse, said: “[The film] is fresh,...
The film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth, centers on two young Dublin women, Laura and Tyler, whose careers and lives remain on hold while they devote their time to partying hard. As they drift into their thirties, reality begins to bite, but the rebels will not be tamed so easily.
Variety’s review said: “Sophie Hyde’s generous, freewheeling film is a pleasingly disorderly addition to the still-underpopulated ranks of female friendship studies — eschewing both strict moral judgment and greeting-card sentimentality in its portrayal of two women with a firmer idea of what they don’t want in life than what they do.”
Clare Binns, joint M.D. of Picturehouse, said: “[The film] is fresh,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Screen Australia, Ifb backing project which is now filming in Dublin.
Holliday Grainger (My Cousin Rachel) and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) have started filming on Sophie Hyde’s comedy Animals.
Cornerstone Films is handling worldwide sales on the project, which is shooting in Dublin until April 13.
Grainger and Shawkat will star as Laura and Tyler respectively, best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Director Hyde’s debut feature 52 Tuesdays won the directing award in the 2014 Sundance Film...
Holliday Grainger (My Cousin Rachel) and Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) have started filming on Sophie Hyde’s comedy Animals.
Cornerstone Films is handling worldwide sales on the project, which is shooting in Dublin until April 13.
Grainger and Shawkat will star as Laura and Tyler respectively, best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Director Hyde’s debut feature 52 Tuesdays won the directing award in the 2014 Sundance Film...
- 3/22/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Leah Purcell at Sydney's Belvoir Theatre. (Photo credit: Anthony Johnson).
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
Projects from the likes of Jocelyn Moorhouse, Leah Purcell, Vicki Madden, Rachel Perkins, Luke Davies, Sophie Hyde, Nicholas Verso, Abe Forsythe, Craig Silvey and Corrie Chen have received development funding from Screen Australia.
.This round of development funding reflects the vibrancy of the story landscape in Australia with thrillers and romance, crime and comedies, sports dramas and musicals,. said Screen Australia's Senior Development Manager Nerida Moore..
.We have projects from both seasoned storytellers and an exciting group of up-and-coming talents. And we are also seeing a greater mix of platforms from traditional features and high-end television to the ever-growing online drama and narrative Vr spaces..
Among the projects funded, which include 24 features, five online series and two "high-end" television projects, are:
Tasmanian-set gothic crime show The Gloaming, created and written by The Kettering Incident's Vicki Madden, who will produce...
- 2/13/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Stars: Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Joe Thomas, Sophia Di Martino, Raph Shirley, Chris Langham, Sharon D. Clarke, Ewan Bailey, Helen Cripps, Jamie Demetriou, Simon Bird | Written by Tiani Ghosh, Will Sharpe | Directed by Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Talk about a movie where you just don’t know where to start! With The Darkest Universe, co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe have crafted what I can only describe as my favorite, completely surreal, yet right down to earth, drama I have watched in 2016… Wait, no, in years.
As I have said previously, I am on a real Indie “hidden gem” kick right now and I was asked to review this movie suspecting that it would be right up my street. And it is. The Darkest Universe is an absolute gem of a movie for more reasons than I can explain, but I will try.
Co-director and co-writer Will Sharpe plays highly...
Talk about a movie where you just don’t know where to start! With The Darkest Universe, co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe have crafted what I can only describe as my favorite, completely surreal, yet right down to earth, drama I have watched in 2016… Wait, no, in years.
As I have said previously, I am on a real Indie “hidden gem” kick right now and I was asked to review this movie suspecting that it would be right up my street. And it is. The Darkest Universe is an absolute gem of a movie for more reasons than I can explain, but I will try.
Co-director and co-writer Will Sharpe plays highly...
- 12/28/2016
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
A banker searches for his sister in Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe’s hilarious follow-up to Black Pond
The follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut, Black Pond, sees directing duo Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite on another offbeat oddity that combines piercingly funny observation with unashamed weirdness. Sharpe, who also co-wrote the film, stars as Zac, a city banker in the throes of a breakdown as he searches for his missing sister, Alice (Tiani Ghosh). It’s episodic and fractured, but this tale of romance and loss is really rather lovely. It’s also very amusing: Zac’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend is perhaps the most catastrophically awkward moment of botched intimacy I have seen this year. Zac’s website footage is deftly incorporated into a film that reveals its hand satisfyingly slowly.
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The follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut, Black Pond, sees directing duo Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite on another offbeat oddity that combines piercingly funny observation with unashamed weirdness. Sharpe, who also co-wrote the film, stars as Zac, a city banker in the throes of a breakdown as he searches for his missing sister, Alice (Tiani Ghosh). It’s episodic and fractured, but this tale of romance and loss is really rather lovely. It’s also very amusing: Zac’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend is perhaps the most catastrophically awkward moment of botched intimacy I have seen this year. Zac’s website footage is deftly incorporated into a film that reveals its hand satisfyingly slowly.
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- 11/6/2016
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley direct an affecting, intelligent drama about a young guy whose stroppy yet lovable sibling vanishes
With their excellent 2011 comedy Black Pond, British film-makers Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley became two of the youngest Bafta nominees in history. Now they are back with a movie of strangeness and charm, co-written by Sharpe with newcomer Tiani Ghosh: it is tonally elusive, its comedy credentials interestingly ambiguous. The film is disquieting and sad, hitting an eerie elegaic note for a loss that isn’t immediately comprehensible.
Sharpe plays Zac, a young guy whose exasperatingly stroppy yet lovable sister Alice (played by Ghosh) has gone off on a canal trip in the narrowboat where she had been living with her boyfriend Toby (Joe Thomas). Then the couple just vanished. At first Zac is frantic with worry, aggressive with the police officers who aren’t too fussed about yet another missing-person case; finally,...
With their excellent 2011 comedy Black Pond, British film-makers Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley became two of the youngest Bafta nominees in history. Now they are back with a movie of strangeness and charm, co-written by Sharpe with newcomer Tiani Ghosh: it is tonally elusive, its comedy credentials interestingly ambiguous. The film is disquieting and sad, hitting an eerie elegaic note for a loss that isn’t immediately comprehensible.
Sharpe plays Zac, a young guy whose exasperatingly stroppy yet lovable sister Alice (played by Ghosh) has gone off on a canal trip in the narrowboat where she had been living with her boyfriend Toby (Joe Thomas). Then the couple just vanished. At first Zac is frantic with worry, aggressive with the police officers who aren’t too fussed about yet another missing-person case; finally,...
- 11/3/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Great Expectations star to lead Sophie Hyde-Emma Jane Unsworth adaptation.
Great Expectations star Holliday Grainger, recently on screens in Cinderella and The Finest Hours, is attached to star in Animals, which marks Australian director Sophie Hyde’s first film following Sundance and Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays in 2014.
The film is an adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s well-received novel, which was featured by Lena Dunham as one of her favourite books of 2015 on Lenny Letter, and described by Caitlin Moran as “Withnail with girls”. The book also won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.
Emma Jane Unsworth has written the screenplay for the Manchester-set comedy about two female friends whose hedonistic friendship is tested when one gets engaged to an ambitious teetotal pianist.
Producer is Screen Star Of Tomorrow Sarah Brocklehurst, who was BAFTA-nominated for her debut feature Black Pond, through production company Sarah Brocklehurst Productions.
The film has been developed by Creative England through the BFI...
Great Expectations star Holliday Grainger, recently on screens in Cinderella and The Finest Hours, is attached to star in Animals, which marks Australian director Sophie Hyde’s first film following Sundance and Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays in 2014.
The film is an adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s well-received novel, which was featured by Lena Dunham as one of her favourite books of 2015 on Lenny Letter, and described by Caitlin Moran as “Withnail with girls”. The book also won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.
Emma Jane Unsworth has written the screenplay for the Manchester-set comedy about two female friends whose hedonistic friendship is tested when one gets engaged to an ambitious teetotal pianist.
Producer is Screen Star Of Tomorrow Sarah Brocklehurst, who was BAFTA-nominated for her debut feature Black Pond, through production company Sarah Brocklehurst Productions.
The film has been developed by Creative England through the BFI...
- 5/16/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
British directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley reunite after their BAFTA nominated first feature Black Pond with an effortlessly funny, expertly crafted and thought-provoking missing persons tale. Initially set around Regent’s Canal, The Darkest Universe follows controlling young banker Zac (played by co-director Will Sharpe) as he searches for his eccentric sister Alice (Tiani Ghosh)
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- 4/29/2016
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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Sad, strange and very funny comedy drama Flowers, feat. Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt, starts tonight on Channel 4…
Julian Barratt has news for you: “We’re all going to die.”
“Spoiler!” says Will Sharpe.
“We’re all in a bit of a horrifying situation” continues Barratt. “The reality of our predicament on the planet is…” he laughs, “quite bleak.”
We’re discussing death and new six-part comedy drama Flowers, written and directed by Sharpe, starring Barratt and Olivia Colman as Maurice and Deborah, heads of the dysfunctional Flowers family. The subject becomes relevant once you see the opening seconds of episode one.
“I used to really like and still do, The Odd Couple, the film with Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau” says Barratt. “It starts with him wandering about trying to kill himself and he puts his back out. I always find that funny, sort of...
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Sad, strange and very funny comedy drama Flowers, feat. Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt, starts tonight on Channel 4…
Julian Barratt has news for you: “We’re all going to die.”
“Spoiler!” says Will Sharpe.
“We’re all in a bit of a horrifying situation” continues Barratt. “The reality of our predicament on the planet is…” he laughs, “quite bleak.”
We’re discussing death and new six-part comedy drama Flowers, written and directed by Sharpe, starring Barratt and Olivia Colman as Maurice and Deborah, heads of the dysfunctional Flowers family. The subject becomes relevant once you see the opening seconds of episode one.
“I used to really like and still do, The Odd Couple, the film with Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau” says Barratt. “It starts with him wandering about trying to kill himself and he puts his back out. I always find that funny, sort of...
- 4/24/2016
- Den of Geek
Ad-free comedy streaming channel Seeso has slated Wednesday, May 5, for the premiere of its first scripted original series Flowers. Starring Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and written and directed by Will Sharpe (Black Pond), the six-episode half-hour comedy drama centers on an eccentric and dysfunctional family struggling to hold themselves together. Daniel Rigby (Eric and Ernie) and Georgina Campbell (Murdered By My Boyfriend) also…...
- 4/6/2016
- Deadline TV
Is a Sherlock theme park attraction afoot? BBC Worldwide has entered a deal with London Resort Company Holdings to feature the broadcaster’s properties at a new park to be built in north Kent. The park, the London Paramount Entertainment Resort, promises to “combine the glamour of Hollywood with the best of British culture,” The Guardian reported. Since the park will look to attract tourists in the UK, it’s thought the most international of the BBC programs will feature as rides and attractions including Sherlock, Doctor Who and Top Gear. However, the park isn’t expected to open until Easter 2020. “We’re always looking for opportunities to extend fans’ enjoyment of their favorite shows, and the idea behind this resort is a really exciting way of celebrating the very special place the BBC has in British culture,” said Stephen Davies, Director of Live Events at BBC Worldwide. Also featured...
- 12/12/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Screen International is today unveiling its 2014 UK Stars of Tomorrow, profiling rising actors, writers, directors, producers and heads of department.Click here for the digital edition [Subscribers]Gallery: UK Stars of Tomorrow 2014
The 2014 Class of Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow are: (click on each name for individual profile)
The Actors
Jamie Blackley
The South London native will star opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in If I Stay for Warner Bros/MGM.
Olivia Cooke
The 20-year-old Manchester native is already a familiar face in the Us, where she stars in TV series Bates Motel.
Sophie Cookson
The Oxford School of drama graduate landed the female lead in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service.
McKell David
At just 17, this Harrow teenager is a veteran of his own YouTube show and will star in three new features: Don’t Grow Up, Legacy and Montana.
Calvin Demba
The 20-year-old East Ender has just shot an episode of Babylon and will star...
The 2014 Class of Screen International UK Stars of Tomorrow are: (click on each name for individual profile)
The Actors
Jamie Blackley
The South London native will star opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in If I Stay for Warner Bros/MGM.
Olivia Cooke
The 20-year-old Manchester native is already a familiar face in the Us, where she stars in TV series Bates Motel.
Sophie Cookson
The Oxford School of drama graduate landed the female lead in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service.
McKell David
At just 17, this Harrow teenager is a veteran of his own YouTube show and will star in three new features: Don’t Grow Up, Legacy and Montana.
Calvin Demba
The 20-year-old East Ender has just shot an episode of Babylon and will star...
- 6/5/2014
- ScreenDaily
Principal photography has wrapped on Archer’s Mark’s The Darkest Universe, Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley’s follow-up to their BAFTA-nominated Black Pond.
Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners fame stars alongside co-writer Tiani Ghosh.
The supporting cast includes Simon Bird, Chris Langham, Nick Mohammed and Johnny Sweet.
Sharpe and Kingsley say the film is “a romantic comedy set in space, or – to be more specific – on planet Earth.”
Jo-Jo Ellison produces for Archer’s Mark, alongside the company’s executive producers, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Archer’s Mark also produced the forthcoming documentary feature Next Goal Wins and upcoming political thriller War Book, co-produced with Sixteen Films.
Sharpe said: “We’ve been really inspired by Archer’s Mark and their can-do attitude to film-making. They are intelligent, resourceful and creatively ambitious. We haven’t met a more forward thinking company and I’d be very surprised if they don’t play a crucial role in...
Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners fame stars alongside co-writer Tiani Ghosh.
The supporting cast includes Simon Bird, Chris Langham, Nick Mohammed and Johnny Sweet.
Sharpe and Kingsley say the film is “a romantic comedy set in space, or – to be more specific – on planet Earth.”
Jo-Jo Ellison produces for Archer’s Mark, alongside the company’s executive producers, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Archer’s Mark also produced the forthcoming documentary feature Next Goal Wins and upcoming political thriller War Book, co-produced with Sixteen Films.
Sharpe said: “We’ve been really inspired by Archer’s Mark and their can-do attitude to film-making. They are intelligent, resourceful and creatively ambitious. We haven’t met a more forward thinking company and I’d be very surprised if they don’t play a crucial role in...
- 2/27/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The combined mystique of Daniel Day-Lewis and Abraham Lincoln is set to overwhelm more offbeat competition
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln predictably leads the way in this year's Bafta nomination list with 10 nods, with Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo crowding in behind. A surprise awards contender, perhaps, given its cool critical reception, is Joe Wright's version of Anna Karenina with six nominations.
Lincoln is an awards-season movie through and through – that brooding poster image of Daniel Day-Lewis's president in profile, lost in thought, dealing with the burdens of history and command, hammers home the sheer granite importance of what is being dramatised. Academy voters know that this is a film they can support in good faith. In its way, Ben Affleck's suspense thriller Argo, about the 1979 hostage crisis, is every bit as fiercely patriotic and it is now poised to become the wild card success of this year's awards season.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln predictably leads the way in this year's Bafta nomination list with 10 nods, with Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo crowding in behind. A surprise awards contender, perhaps, given its cool critical reception, is Joe Wright's version of Anna Karenina with six nominations.
Lincoln is an awards-season movie through and through – that brooding poster image of Daniel Day-Lewis's president in profile, lost in thought, dealing with the burdens of history and command, hammers home the sheer granite importance of what is being dramatised. Academy voters know that this is a film they can support in good faith. In its way, Ben Affleck's suspense thriller Argo, about the 1979 hostage crisis, is every bit as fiercely patriotic and it is now poised to become the wild card success of this year's awards season.
- 1/10/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Cofilmic festival arrives at Manchester’s Comedy Store on the 29th and 30th October and it promises to be quite the comedy gala. It will feature a whole host of sitcoms, short comedy films and sketches with the final night climaxing with the Cofilmic award ceremony which will offer unique industry driven prizes to the victors.
The festival’s jam packed programme of events has now been finalised and both comedy fans and aspiring writers and directors will find plenty to feast their eyes and ears upon.
Across both days there will be various talks and events involving a range of expert panelists.
These include:
Writing and Selling TV Comedy : An exclusive opportunity to hear Jason Cook, local comedian and writer, talk about his amazing experience in writing and selling his first sitcom, Hebburn – due to be aired on BBC2 in October and starring Vic Reeves. He will...
The festival’s jam packed programme of events has now been finalised and both comedy fans and aspiring writers and directors will find plenty to feast their eyes and ears upon.
Across both days there will be various talks and events involving a range of expert panelists.
These include:
Writing and Selling TV Comedy : An exclusive opportunity to hear Jason Cook, local comedian and writer, talk about his amazing experience in writing and selling his first sitcom, Hebburn – due to be aired on BBC2 in October and starring Vic Reeves. He will...
- 10/12/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The head of the department that turned out Tyrannosaur and The Deep Blue Sea hopes for more success with The Imposter
With her open manner, easy smile and unshowy dark shift, Katherine Butler cuts a welcoming figure – hardly the default image of the hardnosed studio executive. Look closer, though, and you realise the pattern on her dress comprises clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. Butler is a gambler, then. As head of Film4's low-budget feature department, she has to be.
"You're always going to fail," she says matter-of-factly, cradling a paper cup of fizzy water in one of the goldfish-bowl conference rooms at Channel 4's Horseferry Road headquarters. "You're going to win some and lose some. What you have to do is swallow really hard and say: 'With risk comes failure as well as success and if we're doing the films for the right reasons then you can learn from mistakes and move on.
With her open manner, easy smile and unshowy dark shift, Katherine Butler cuts a welcoming figure – hardly the default image of the hardnosed studio executive. Look closer, though, and you realise the pattern on her dress comprises clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. Butler is a gambler, then. As head of Film4's low-budget feature department, she has to be.
"You're always going to fail," she says matter-of-factly, cradling a paper cup of fizzy water in one of the goldfish-bowl conference rooms at Channel 4's Horseferry Road headquarters. "You're going to win some and lose some. What you have to do is swallow really hard and say: 'With risk comes failure as well as success and if we're doing the films for the right reasons then you can learn from mistakes and move on.
- 8/30/2012
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit. Jokes can be extremely situational or rely on dialogue delivered in manners which presume to be subtle but at the same are not really subtle at all. Even the stories which writers and directors have shared in the past few years have experienced with new framing devices. Oftentimes the films and television shows present them in a way so as to replicate the documentary style, hence the stories carry a degree of believability all the while the...
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit. Jokes can be extremely situational or rely on dialogue delivered in manners which presume to be subtle but at the same are not really subtle at all. Even the stories which writers and directors have shared in the past few years have experienced with new framing devices. Oftentimes the films and television shows present them in a way so as to replicate the documentary style, hence the stories carry a degree of believability all the while the...
- 8/3/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
We are now a week into the three week long Fantasia Film Festival, and while we admittedly have been a little behind due to some technical issues with our website, we still managed to get a dozen film reviews published. Keep coming back to our site as we promise twice the amount of articles by the end of week two. In the meantime, here is a round-up of what we’ve seen and written about so far.
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit.
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit.
- 7/28/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit. Jokes can be extremely situational or rely on dialogue delivered in manners which presume to be subtle but at the same are not really subtle at all. Even the stories which writers and directors have shared in the past few years have experienced with new framing devices. Oftentimes the films and television shows present them in a way so as to replicate the documentary style, hence the stories carry a degree of believability all the while the...
Directed by Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe
Written by Will Sharpe
U.K., 2011
Comedy, in its nature and its presentation, has morphed dramatically over the past decade or so, both in North America and in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom. From the more overt, on the nose comedy of yesteryear we have now live in an era in which the comedy is delivered with a completely different version of wit. Jokes can be extremely situational or rely on dialogue delivered in manners which presume to be subtle but at the same are not really subtle at all. Even the stories which writers and directors have shared in the past few years have experienced with new framing devices. Oftentimes the films and television shows present them in a way so as to replicate the documentary style, hence the stories carry a degree of believability all the while the...
- 7/27/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
In the running with Quentin Dupieux's Wrong as the funniest entry in the Fantasia and possibly of this year so far, I am going to give Black Pond the edge because of its Errol Morris "Life is pretty damn strange, would you fancy a cup of tea and a chat about it?" penchant for absurdity in the mundane. While the events depicted in this almost-a-crime documentary are not 'real' as say Tabloid or Gates of Heaven, films are lies that tell the truth either way and funny is and funny does. Black Pond just wants you to have a banana, but not a midnight, bananas are for energy to do do something. Let me start at the ending. (The film itself does so.) The Thompson...
- 7/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
An adolescent’s sixteenth birthday marks a turning point in life when maturation occurs at a much more rapid pace and the teenager begins to be faced with difficult and important decisions that will shape their future. The same can be said of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, set to kick off its sixteenth edition tomorrow: its Super Sweet Sixteen promises to be nothing if not interesting. That’s not to say that the main focus of North America’s largest genre film festival is changing; in fact, between prolific director Takashi Miike’s festival opener For Love’s Sake – fresh from Cannes and having its North American premiere – and the Canadian premiere of animation studio Laika’s Paranorman, which closes the fest three weeks later, filmgoers will have a whopping 160 films from around the world to choose from. Sitges eat your heart out.
Where Fantasia seems to be...
Where Fantasia seems to be...
- 7/18/2012
- by Jason Widgington
- IONCINEMA.com
There is so much to discover at this year's PiFan that the mind boggles. Here are my fifteen picks from the Vision Express section, from a total of 27. A very wide selection of films from an even wider range of countries. Dig in! I know I will.Beauty (Oliver Hermanus - South Africa - 2011)The story of family man who has been able to repress his homosexuality until a young family friend comes into his life and he becomes consumed with desire. Beauty won the Queer Palm at last year's Cannes Film Festival and looks to be a dark exploration of sexuality and repression.Black Pond (Tom Kingsley - Will Sharpe - UK 2011)A family is accused of murder when a stranger, invited over for tea,...
- 7/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Like it or not, filmmaking is undeniably a director's medium. It wasn't always like that, of course: it was only the coming of the auteur theory in the 1950s and 1960s that popularized the idea of the director as the person responsible for all that was great and terrible about a picture. And while anyone who's worked in film knows that it's a collaborative medium, there's still no better way of seeing where the form might be going in the next few years than by looking at the directors who've been making splashes of late.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
So, hot on the heels of our On The Rise pieces focusing on actors, actresses and screenwriters, we've picked out ten directors who've arrived in a big way in the last year or so, and look set for even greater things in the near future. Any tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.
- 5/15/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
★★★★☆ First-time writers and directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe unite to make the bold and darkly funny Black Pond (2011), an inherently British drama about a family who are accused of the murder of a stranger. By mixing elements of comedy, surrealism and, believe it or not, mockumentary, they've created a truly twisted, yet brilliantly unique debut - one that utilises every penny of its meagre £25,000 budget.
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- 5/7/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Dream House; Black Pond; Acts of Godfrey
When Rooney Mara picked up an Oscar nomination for her punchy central performance in David Fincher's American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Sony, 18), one question hung awkwardly in the air: how come Noomi Rapace wasn't similarly honoured for her equally impressive turn as cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in the original Scandinavian movie a couple of years earlier? Adapted from the first of Stieg Larsson's posthumously bestselling Millennium trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev's modestly budgeted thriller made a European star of the mercurial Rapace, who went on to feature in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and is soon to be seen headlining Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated sci-fi epic Prometheus. It's hard not to conclude that, while Rapace delivered her dialogue in Swedish, Mara was feted for performing essentially the same role in...
When Rooney Mara picked up an Oscar nomination for her punchy central performance in David Fincher's American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Sony, 18), one question hung awkwardly in the air: how come Noomi Rapace wasn't similarly honoured for her equally impressive turn as cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in the original Scandinavian movie a couple of years earlier? Adapted from the first of Stieg Larsson's posthumously bestselling Millennium trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev's modestly budgeted thriller made a European star of the mercurial Rapace, who went on to feature in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and is soon to be seen headlining Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated sci-fi epic Prometheus. It's hard not to conclude that, while Rapace delivered her dialogue in Swedish, Mara was feted for performing essentially the same role in...
- 4/14/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Black Pond
When you hear a movie cost only £25,000, as Black Pond is reported to have, it's hard not to be automatically impressed.
However, in most of these cases impressed is all you're likely to be, as these micro-budget affairs often deserve to be patted on the head rather than clutched to your heart. But the co-directors of this, Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley, have worked either side of the camera and have access to better equipment and talent than most, so £25,000 in their hands goes further than it would for many. Cost aside, Black Pond is not just an experiment in pound-stretching ingenuity, it's a film that has plenty of character, something no amount of money can buy. The story concerns the Thompson family, introduced to us by tabloid headlines branding them murderers. With interviews and flashbacks, the lively and witty storytelling reveals more, as the events that transpire...
When you hear a movie cost only £25,000, as Black Pond is reported to have, it's hard not to be automatically impressed.
However, in most of these cases impressed is all you're likely to be, as these micro-budget affairs often deserve to be patted on the head rather than clutched to your heart. But the co-directors of this, Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley, have worked either side of the camera and have access to better equipment and talent than most, so £25,000 in their hands goes further than it would for many. Cost aside, Black Pond is not just an experiment in pound-stretching ingenuity, it's a film that has plenty of character, something no amount of money can buy. The story concerns the Thompson family, introduced to us by tabloid headlines branding them murderers. With interviews and flashbacks, the lively and witty storytelling reveals more, as the events that transpire...
- 4/13/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Why They're On Our Radar: With their first feature, oddball murder mystery "Black Pond," British directing duo Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley are taking the UK by storm. The two (along with producer Sarah Brocklehurst) were nominated for the 2012 Outstanding Debut BAFTA this year for their debut, alongside Ralph Fiennes ("Coriolanus"), Richard Ayoade ("Submarine"), Joe Cornish ("Attack the Block") and Paddy Considine ("Tyrannosaur"). Not bad company. If the stellar reception for "Black Pond" at its North American premiere at SXSW is anything to go by, the film will fare well Stateside (it's still seeking a Us distributor). The drama tells the story of a family accused of murder when a middle-aged stranger dies at their dinner table. Told in flashbacks through a pseudo-documentary framing device, Sharpe's deft screenplay is more interested in the dynamics of the family who take the man in than with the mystery...
- 3/22/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe
Black Pond heralds an incredibly original, startlingly mature, and completely inscrutable new film-making duo. It’s unclear what exactly they have made with Black Pond; suffice it to say it is equal parts profound and hilarious while refusing classification… (read the full review)
Cabin In The Woods
Directed by Drew Goddard
If you’re familiar with the writing style and general playfulness of Joss Whedon, you already know whether you will like this film. Not to discredit the game, fantastic cast, but fans of Whedon and co-writer/director Drew Goddard know who the real stars here are, and this movie is fantastic precisely because of its script.
Cabin In The Woods is a horror movie like Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a horror TV show. It is a horror movie, but that doesn’t even begin to describe it. This film is delightful.
Directed by Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe
Black Pond heralds an incredibly original, startlingly mature, and completely inscrutable new film-making duo. It’s unclear what exactly they have made with Black Pond; suffice it to say it is equal parts profound and hilarious while refusing classification… (read the full review)
Cabin In The Woods
Directed by Drew Goddard
If you’re familiar with the writing style and general playfulness of Joss Whedon, you already know whether you will like this film. Not to discredit the game, fantastic cast, but fans of Whedon and co-writer/director Drew Goddard know who the real stars here are, and this movie is fantastic precisely because of its script.
Cabin In The Woods is a horror movie like Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a horror TV show. It is a horror movie, but that doesn’t even begin to describe it. This film is delightful.
- 3/22/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Austin is emptying out as the best and brightest that the film world has to offer heads home to hit the gym and try to work off all the delicious BBQ. It was a bumper year for SXSW Film coverage here at Twitch and we are very proud to wrap it all up for you with links to our previews, reviews, and features. Take a look below the links as Twitch's SXSW crew reflects on Austin's big cinematic celebration. Previews: Competition & Spotlight Lineups Headliners, Fest Faves, & Special Events Midnight, Emerging Visions, & 24Bps Reviews: 21 Jump Street by Jason Gorber The Aggression Scale by Ryland Aldrich Beast by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg (Reposted) Bernie by Ryland Aldrich (Reposted) Black Pond by Peter Martin...
- 3/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Black Pond
Directed by Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe
Screenplay by Will Sharpe
UK, 2012
Black Pond heralds an incredibly original, startlingly mature, and completely inscrutable new film-making duo. It’s unclear what exactly they have made with Black Pond; suffice it to say it is equal parts profound and hilarious while refusing classification.
Part mockumentary, part family drama, but mostly outrageously surreal British comedy, Black Pond provides the smallest of foundations before ascending into oddball lunacy. The mockumentary aspects here act as a flash-forward in which it is revealed that the Thompson Family has been accused of murder after a stranger dies at their dinner table. From there, directors Kingsley and Sharpe present a richly detailed profile of an upperclass British family. The complexity, and care, of which suggest several more films worth of material buried in this restrained farce.
Tom (Chris Langham) and Sophie (Amanda Hadingue) Thompson are an empty...
Directed by Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe
Screenplay by Will Sharpe
UK, 2012
Black Pond heralds an incredibly original, startlingly mature, and completely inscrutable new film-making duo. It’s unclear what exactly they have made with Black Pond; suffice it to say it is equal parts profound and hilarious while refusing classification.
Part mockumentary, part family drama, but mostly outrageously surreal British comedy, Black Pond provides the smallest of foundations before ascending into oddball lunacy. The mockumentary aspects here act as a flash-forward in which it is revealed that the Thompson Family has been accused of murder after a stranger dies at their dinner table. From there, directors Kingsley and Sharpe present a richly detailed profile of an upperclass British family. The complexity, and care, of which suggest several more films worth of material buried in this restrained farce.
Tom (Chris Langham) and Sophie (Amanda Hadingue) Thompson are an empty...
- 3/16/2012
- by Emmet Duff
- SoundOnSight
"I had a dream about ham sandwiches and broadband." Mixing lovely poetic ramblings with self-consciously quirky comedy sounds like a recipe for disaster, and, truth to tell, there are enough half-baked sequences in Black Pond to keep it from being a complete success. Yet the parts that work outweigh those that don't, and the dry, deadpan presentation -- or, what we unenlightened Americans tend to think of as "typical British humour" -- helps to make the film consistently engaging. Framed by documentary-style interviews with members of the Thompson family, interspersed with brief snippets of tabloid newspapers identifying them as "a family of killers," the film proper commences with Tom Thompson (Chris Langham) meeting Blake (Colin Hurley). Blake is an odd fellow, who tells Tom...
- 3/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
While Sundance still gets the headlines, the last few years have seen the film strand of South By Southwest, the Austin, Texas cultural conference, become just as vital to the movie world as Robert Redford's baby. The past few festivals alone witnessed some of the best movies of their respective years debut, from low-budget indies like "The Puffy Chair," "Beeswax," "Tiny Furniture" and "Cold Weather" to more mainstream fare like "I Love You Man," "Adventureland" and "Bridesmaids," to international genre hits like "Kill List," "Attack The Block" and "Monsters."
It's certainly one of the highlights of our cinematic calendar, and there's no reason to think that the 2012 installment, which kicks off on Friday with the world premiere of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's eagerly anticipated horror-comedy "The Cabin In The Woods," will disappoint. From looking through the program, we could be here all day talking about the films that are piquing our interest,...
It's certainly one of the highlights of our cinematic calendar, and there's no reason to think that the 2012 installment, which kicks off on Friday with the world premiere of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's eagerly anticipated horror-comedy "The Cabin In The Woods," will disappoint. From looking through the program, we could be here all day talking about the films that are piquing our interest,...
- 3/6/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Wme signed Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe, the duo nominated for a Best First Feature BAFTA for the existential comedy Black Pond. The film, about an ordinary English family and a Japanese friend who are accused of murder when a guest drops dead at their dinner table, will premiere in the States at SXSW. Film 4 is developing their next feature, Candide, based on the Voltaire classic. They’re writing and directing. The duo hails from Cambridge, and they were part of the famous Footlights Revue, whose alumni include Sacha Baron Cohen, Richard Ayoade, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Julian Fellowes. Kingsley & Sharpe are repped in the UK by Humphrey Ellis-Hill at Independent.
- 2/17/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
All the coverage of Sunday's Baftas ceremony, plus the rest of this week's goings-on in film
The big story
I don't know about you, but the end of the awards season can't come quick enough. This week saw the last but one of the major gong-bestowing jamborees, and doesn't it make us feel proud to be British that the Baftas are second only to the really big one, the Oscars?
As usual, Xan Brooks' liveblog was the place to be if you weren't actually inside the hall (or maybe even if you were). As we suspected, The Artist turned out to have scooped the lion's share, while the assembled throng did their level best to look nice and act a bit surprised. We even had people on the inside: Black Pond co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe.
After the event, us Guardian types rushed into print (and video):
Peter Bradshaw...
The big story
I don't know about you, but the end of the awards season can't come quick enough. This week saw the last but one of the major gong-bestowing jamborees, and doesn't it make us feel proud to be British that the Baftas are second only to the really big one, the Oscars?
As usual, Xan Brooks' liveblog was the place to be if you weren't actually inside the hall (or maybe even if you were). As we suspected, The Artist turned out to have scooped the lion's share, while the assembled throng did their level best to look nice and act a bit surprised. We even had people on the inside: Black Pond co-directors Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe.
After the event, us Guardian types rushed into print (and video):
Peter Bradshaw...
- 2/16/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
The makers of Black Pond, the youngest-ever nominees for the outstanding debut award, discover that Bafta night isn't as scary as they thought
For each category of the Bafta awards last night, camera teams race round the auditorium and point their equipment in the faces of the hopeful nominees. When it came to "outstanding debut", the camera operator looked at his map, rushed up to us, looked at his assistant and frowned. The camera assistant shook his head. No. Can't be. Don't know who these guys are! It was a perfect, hilarious reminder of just how lucky we were to be there in the first place.
We found ourselves caught between two ways of thinking. The first was this: what the hell are we doing here? When the video tape for Black Pond came on, we felt very proud, but also like we'd somehow snuck a wily, plucky peasant into...
For each category of the Bafta awards last night, camera teams race round the auditorium and point their equipment in the faces of the hopeful nominees. When it came to "outstanding debut", the camera operator looked at his map, rushed up to us, looked at his assistant and frowned. The camera assistant shook his head. No. Can't be. Don't know who these guys are! It was a perfect, hilarious reminder of just how lucky we were to be there in the first place.
We found ourselves caught between two ways of thinking. The first was this: what the hell are we doing here? When the video tape for Black Pond came on, we felt very proud, but also like we'd somehow snuck a wily, plucky peasant into...
- 2/13/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist" dominated the Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) taking home 7 trophies including Best Film, Best Director (Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean Dujardin), Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Music. "The Artist" won 7 out of its 12 nominations.
Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was also a big BAFTA winner taking home the Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay awards.
In the acting categories, Meryl Streep won the Best Actress award for her Margaret Thatcher performance in "The Iron Lady," Christopher Plummer was given the Best Supporting Actor award for "Beginners," and Octavia Spencer won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Help."
Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards (to check out winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, visit our Awards Avenue coverage right here):
Best Film
*** The Artist Thomas Langmann
The Descendants Jim Burke,...
Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" was also a big BAFTA winner taking home the Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay awards.
In the acting categories, Meryl Streep won the Best Actress award for her Margaret Thatcher performance in "The Iron Lady," Christopher Plummer was given the Best Supporting Actor award for "Beginners," and Octavia Spencer won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Help."
Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards (to check out winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, visit our Awards Avenue coverage right here):
Best Film
*** The Artist Thomas Langmann
The Descendants Jim Burke,...
- 2/13/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Here's the full list of award winners for this years British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The Artist ended up taking home seven awards including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music and Best Costume Design. This really isn't that surprising, I have a feeling this movie will end up sweeping the Oscars as well. It's also not surprising that Meryl Streep took home the award for Best Actress. It always seems like she's always surprised when she wins, but the rest of us all know it's coming. Maybe she's just acting surprised. Then of course Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy won a couple of awards, unfortunately Gary Oldman didn't win Best Actor.
Here’s the full list of nominations with the winners bolded.
Best Film
The Artist The Descendants Drive The Help Tinker, Tailor,...
Here’s the full list of nominations with the winners bolded.
Best Film
The Artist The Descendants Drive The Help Tinker, Tailor,...
- 2/13/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) took place on Sunday night, with "The Artist" coming out the big winner by taking awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor and three others. Meryl Streep won best actress for "The Iron Lady." She lost a shoe on the stairs up to the stage, giving presenter Colin Firth the chance to play Prince Charming and kneel before her to replace it. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best British Film, but even though Gary Oldman was nominated for Best Actor, he lost the award to "The Artist" star Jean Dujardin. Check out the full list of nominees and winners (in red) below. Best Film: * The Artist * The Descendants * Drive * The Help * Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Best Actor: * Jean Dujardin . The Artist * George Clooney . The Descendants * Michael Fassbender . Shame * Brad Pitt . Moneyball * Gary Oldman . Tinker, Tailor,...
- 2/13/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
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