Mary Shelley's iconic creation turns 200 in 2018, and to celebrate two centuries of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, author Christopher Frayling has written a new book (coming out this Halloween from Reel Art Press) exploring the rich history of Shelley's now legendary novel and the influences it has had on pop culture—on the screen, stage, and page. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have a look at Nerdist's short film The Mystic Museum, and details on the HelLA Horror Night charity event at the Los Angeles Theatre, Blackshaw's Scare Slam at the London Horror Festival, the Filipino folklore animated series Umbra, and the video game Guts.
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years Book: Press Release: "It all began with a ghost-story contest, a parlour-game, a serious young woman of eighteen years old who had run away with her boyfriend, and some very stimulating company—and a thunderstorm which...
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years Book: Press Release: "It all began with a ghost-story contest, a parlour-game, a serious young woman of eighteen years old who had run away with her boyfriend, and some very stimulating company—and a thunderstorm which...
- 10/20/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Author: Stefan Pape
Though the whole of his latest endeavour Life may be set in outer space, it’s not a place that Swedish filmmaker Daniel Espinosa has any ambitions of going to himself one day, as we sit down with the director ahead of the movie’s UK release.
“I would never go to space, it’s an atrocious place,” he said. “Those astronauts are slowly dying, they go up there and their bodies start to decay. Space and the jungle are two things you should just avoid. The mosquitos are like the size of fists, why would you ever want to be there? This notion of space being glorious… I admire astronauts, they are truly heroes, but for me I would rather go down the street and have a coffee and a cigarette”.
We also discussed with Espinosa how vital the realism is the narrative at hand, and...
Though the whole of his latest endeavour Life may be set in outer space, it’s not a place that Swedish filmmaker Daniel Espinosa has any ambitions of going to himself one day, as we sit down with the director ahead of the movie’s UK release.
“I would never go to space, it’s an atrocious place,” he said. “Those astronauts are slowly dying, they go up there and their bodies start to decay. Space and the jungle are two things you should just avoid. The mosquitos are like the size of fists, why would you ever want to be there? This notion of space being glorious… I admire astronauts, they are truly heroes, but for me I would rather go down the street and have a coffee and a cigarette”.
We also discussed with Espinosa how vital the realism is the narrative at hand, and...
- 3/22/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ryan Lambie Mar 22, 2017
Mission: Impossible and Life star Rebecca Ferguson talks to us about her favourite sci-fi film and lots more...
"It's a good word, isn't it? Chaise Longues." Rebecca Ferguson's on top form when we meet her in a London hotel one March morning - upbeat, funny, and far from the terrified quarantine officer she plays in her latest film, the sci-fi thriller, Life.
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Having stolen every scene in which she appeared from under Tom Cruise's nose as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Life sees her in another bruising role. Life may be more about suspense than full-on action - it sees an alien life form grow in a petri dish on the International...
Mission: Impossible and Life star Rebecca Ferguson talks to us about her favourite sci-fi film and lots more...
"It's a good word, isn't it? Chaise Longues." Rebecca Ferguson's on top form when we meet her in a London hotel one March morning - upbeat, funny, and far from the terrified quarantine officer she plays in her latest film, the sci-fi thriller, Life.
See related The Last Kingdom series 2 episode 1 review The Last Kingdom series 2: politics, battles and arselings What can we expect from new BBC drama, The Last Kingdom?
Having stolen every scene in which she appeared from under Tom Cruise's nose as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Life sees her in another bruising role. Life may be more about suspense than full-on action - it sees an alien life form grow in a petri dish on the International...
- 3/21/2017
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Hybrid work stars singer Neneh Cherry in debut acting role.
The BFI has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to Mark Cousins’ Stockholm My Love which world premieres at the BFI London Film Festival today (Oct 11).
The work marks a first fiction feature for experimental documentary-maker Cousins whose recent titles include Life May Be and 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence And Sardinia.
Swedish-born Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry makes her acting debut as Alva, a Swedish architect suffering from debilitating depression following a traumatic traffic accident.
As the first anniversary of the incident approaches, Alva abandons her work to walk the streets of her beloved home city of Stockholm, exploring her past and the event that triggered her depression.
Cherry provides a poetic voiceover and sings five songs for the eclectic soundtrack, which also includes music by Abba co-founder Benny Anderson and 19th-century composer Franz Berwald.
The film sees Cousins collaborate for a second time with legendary cinematographer...
The BFI has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to Mark Cousins’ Stockholm My Love which world premieres at the BFI London Film Festival today (Oct 11).
The work marks a first fiction feature for experimental documentary-maker Cousins whose recent titles include Life May Be and 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence And Sardinia.
Swedish-born Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry makes her acting debut as Alva, a Swedish architect suffering from debilitating depression following a traumatic traffic accident.
As the first anniversary of the incident approaches, Alva abandons her work to walk the streets of her beloved home city of Stockholm, exploring her past and the event that triggered her depression.
Cherry provides a poetic voiceover and sings five songs for the eclectic soundtrack, which also includes music by Abba co-founder Benny Anderson and 19th-century composer Franz Berwald.
The film sees Cousins collaborate for a second time with legendary cinematographer...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Hybrid work stars singer Neneh Cherry in debut acting role.
The BFI has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to Mark Cousins’ Stockholm My Love which world premieres at the BFI London Film Festival today (Oct 11).
The work marks a first fiction feature for experimental documentary-maker Cousins whose recent titles include Life May Be and 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence And Sardinia.
Swedish-born Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry makes her acting debut as Alva, a Swedish architect suffering from debilitating depression following a traumatic traffic accident.
As the first anniversary of the incident approaches, Alva abandons her work to walk the streets of her beloved home city of Stockholm, exploring her past and the event that triggered her depression.
Cherry provides a poetic voiceover and sings five songs for the eclectic soundtrack, which also includes music by Abba co-founder Benny Anderson and 19th-century composer Franz Berwald.
The film sees Cousins collaborate for a second time with legendary cinematographer...
The BFI has acquired UK and Ireland distribution rights to Mark Cousins’ Stockholm My Love which world premieres at the BFI London Film Festival today (Oct 11).
The work marks a first fiction feature for experimental documentary-maker Cousins whose recent titles include Life May Be and 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence And Sardinia.
Swedish-born Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry makes her acting debut as Alva, a Swedish architect suffering from debilitating depression following a traumatic traffic accident.
As the first anniversary of the incident approaches, Alva abandons her work to walk the streets of her beloved home city of Stockholm, exploring her past and the event that triggered her depression.
Cherry provides a poetic voiceover and sings five songs for the eclectic soundtrack, which also includes music by Abba co-founder Benny Anderson and 19th-century composer Franz Berwald.
The film sees Cousins collaborate for a second time with legendary cinematographer...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Life may be imitating art in tonight's episode of Made in Chelsea: La, if Jamie Laing's date is anything to go by.
Jamie will take his 1,348th love interest Naz out for a date, heading to the cinema and pondering when two people should share their first kiss. Classic move, boi.
Jamie is clearly not taking his time in moving on after his failed relationship with Jess, swooping in with La resident Naz, and she seems equally smitten with him.
In case you were wondering, the obvious product placement for Cara Delevingne's new film Paper Towns was deliberate, too.
Channel 4 has announced a partnership with Fox, meaning they can show Jamie and Naz's exclusive private screening of the romantic drama during the episode.
Meanwhile, Ollie Locke has confirmed that he will return to Made in Chelsea during the La spinoff series.
Made in Chelsea: La airs...
Jamie will take his 1,348th love interest Naz out for a date, heading to the cinema and pondering when two people should share their first kiss. Classic move, boi.
Jamie is clearly not taking his time in moving on after his failed relationship with Jess, swooping in with La resident Naz, and she seems equally smitten with him.
In case you were wondering, the obvious product placement for Cara Delevingne's new film Paper Towns was deliberate, too.
Channel 4 has announced a partnership with Fox, meaning they can show Jamie and Naz's exclusive private screening of the romantic drama during the episode.
Meanwhile, Ollie Locke has confirmed that he will return to Made in Chelsea during the La spinoff series.
Made in Chelsea: La airs...
- 8/17/2015
- Digital Spy
August 6th of this year marks the 70th anniversary of the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and the dawn of the atomic age. The BBC is marking the occasion with a week long series of programming beginning Sunday called BBC Four Goes Nuclear. Kicking off the program on Sunday is a new documentary by Mark Cousins, “Storyville: Atomic – Living In Dread And Promise.” Cousins, of course, is the man behind the unprecedented “The Story Of Film: An Odyssey,” the 15-hour doc that redefined the history of cinema. Read More: Review: Mark Cousins’ ‘Life May Be’ ‘Storyville: Atomic’ explores life in the atomic age, from the death and destruction of the bombs, to the improvements in quality of life provided by X-Rays and MRIs, all done featuring only archive film and a brand new score by Scottish rockers Mogwai. The band has done soundtrack work in the past...
- 8/5/2015
- by Gary Garrison
- The Playlist
★★★★☆ Two Edinburgh regulars, Mark Cousins and Mania Akbari, have collaborated to produce an insightful film-essay exchange, their differing filmmaking styles bursting with ideas and inspiring new thought in each other in Life May Be (2014). The project was conceived when the distributor, Second Run asked Cousins to write something in response to Akbari's One. Two. One (2011) for their release last year. Rather than the usual essay, Cousins instead wrote a letter that begins, "Dear Mania Akbari, I'm sitting in a pub in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's a cold May day..." and goes on to imagine a journey taken by the two filmmakers from Sweden to London, via Rome, Tehran, and Hungary.
- 6/27/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Films will launch at European festivals and on VOD platforms.
The Tide Experiment, the European distribution scheme backed by the European Commission, has teamed with the Festival Agency to launch a “Festival-To-Date” initiative.
Films will launch at select European festivals and simultaneously on VOD platforms across several European countries.
The scheme launches this week at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with Mark Cousins’ 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia, the Sundance title which retraces Dh Lawrence’s 1921 trip to Sardinia.
6 Desires had a special screening at Edinburgh on Monday and will also launch online as part of the Mark Cousins Hibrow Trilogy, which also includes his earlier films Here Be Dragons and Life May Be.
Tide organisers said: “With the Festival-to-Date releases we empower some films that otherwise would have only a few lucky viewers attending the festivals.”
The Cousins trilogy launched online with support from Under The Milky Way, which secured deals on platforms including iTunes and Google...
The Tide Experiment, the European distribution scheme backed by the European Commission, has teamed with the Festival Agency to launch a “Festival-To-Date” initiative.
Films will launch at select European festivals and simultaneously on VOD platforms across several European countries.
The scheme launches this week at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with Mark Cousins’ 6 Desires: Dh Lawrence and Sardinia, the Sundance title which retraces Dh Lawrence’s 1921 trip to Sardinia.
6 Desires had a special screening at Edinburgh on Monday and will also launch online as part of the Mark Cousins Hibrow Trilogy, which also includes his earlier films Here Be Dragons and Life May Be.
Tide organisers said: “With the Festival-to-Date releases we empower some films that otherwise would have only a few lucky viewers attending the festivals.”
The Cousins trilogy launched online with support from Under The Milky Way, which secured deals on platforms including iTunes and Google...
- 6/25/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Life may be full of ups and downs, but Jimmy Fallon and James Taylor want you to know everything will all be alright. The “Tonight Show” host invited the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer onto his show Wednesday night, where the two performed a heartwarming duet called “Two James Taylors on a Seesaw.” With both of them decked out in Taylor’s signature look from the 1970’s, the two serenaded the crowd with lyrics like, “I’m so high I touch the clouds/ You’re so low you touch the ground/From up here the world seems small/We...
- 6/18/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society.
The Postman’s White Nights
Written by Elena Kiseleva and Andrey Konchalovskiy
Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy
Russia, 2014
Set on the beautiful, densely wooded shores of Lake Kenozero in northern Russia, Andrey Konchalovskiy’s The Postman’s White Nights, winner of the Silver Lion at last year’s Venice International Film Festival, is an offbeat exploration of small town life through the eyes of the titular postman Lyokha (Aleksey Tyrapitsyn), whose job creates the sole tenuous link between the insular village and the outside world. Relying on a cast comprising non-actors, the fictional narrative is a triumph of verisimilitude that spins a delicate web of intimacy and levity by capturing fleeting moments and small gestures.
In his habitual uniform of camo, black galoshes and large satchel, Lyokha crosses the lake each day by boat, picking up mail and other necessities to deliver to his neighbors.
The Postman’s White Nights
Written by Elena Kiseleva and Andrey Konchalovskiy
Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy
Russia, 2014
Set on the beautiful, densely wooded shores of Lake Kenozero in northern Russia, Andrey Konchalovskiy’s The Postman’s White Nights, winner of the Silver Lion at last year’s Venice International Film Festival, is an offbeat exploration of small town life through the eyes of the titular postman Lyokha (Aleksey Tyrapitsyn), whose job creates the sole tenuous link between the insular village and the outside world. Relying on a cast comprising non-actors, the fictional narrative is a triumph of verisimilitude that spins a delicate web of intimacy and levity by capturing fleeting moments and small gestures.
In his habitual uniform of camo, black galoshes and large satchel, Lyokha crosses the lake each day by boat, picking up mail and other necessities to deliver to his neighbors.
- 4/29/2015
- by Misa Shikuma
- SoundOnSight
The real magic of the I for Iran series in Toronto lies in curation: the talent they have recruited to present and contextualize the various films screened is a testament to their commitment to offering the best possible cinematic experience. More so than not, each film is accompanied by a presenter – a variety of filmmakers, writers and scholars – who offer invaluable insight and context. While this has always been the case, the I for Iran series has been particularly rich.
Presenting the opening screening was Roya Akbari, who participated with Abbas Kiarostami on the film Ten and is a filmmaker in her own right. Her poetic short Only Image Remains was the opening film of the series, and featured her own reminiscence as well as interviews with many top Iranian filmmakers. This set the tone for presenters like Shahram Tabe, Hamid Naficy, Amir Soltani and, perhaps most notably, acclaimed Iranian...
Presenting the opening screening was Roya Akbari, who participated with Abbas Kiarostami on the film Ten and is a filmmaker in her own right. Her poetic short Only Image Remains was the opening film of the series, and featured her own reminiscence as well as interviews with many top Iranian filmmakers. This set the tone for presenters like Shahram Tabe, Hamid Naficy, Amir Soltani and, perhaps most notably, acclaimed Iranian...
- 3/27/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
A couple of years ago, at a different film festival in a different country, I had a terrific time with Mark Cousins' engagingly/exhaustingly self-indulgent doodle, "What Is This Film Called Love?" and a tough time trying to marshall my scattered and immensely, consciously subjective impressions into the semblance of a coherent review. So at the Göteborg International Film Festival, I was looking forward to "Life May Be," a similarly personal, intimate, lo-fi filmic essay that Cousins co-directed with Iranian director Mania Akbari, perhaps hoping it would have the same pleasantly discombobulating effect. But "Life May Be," here benefitting from the added interest of a new point of view from Akbari, while just as erudite and idiosyncratic as we might expect from Cousins (seriously, if you are not already a fan, this will not be the film to convince you), felt cooler, less generous with its sensation of wrapping the audience up in.
- 2/2/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
It started with an infographic. Then more infographics. And some think pieces. And some brief TwitterRage. Over the last year and a half, women’s role in cinema, specifically Hollywood cinema, has become a lightning rod for discussion and debate, and more so than any time in the past, people are approaching film a little more critically in regards to how women are portrayed. The statistics are mind-numbingly bleak, with women representing a fraction of the work force behind the camera, from director to CEO to the best boy. Women in front of the camera rarely fair much better, with roles such as “beautiful and always understanding girlfriend/wife to the hilarious schlub” and “girl with cleavage that shoots guns in tight clothes”.
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
- 12/11/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
Well, it’s Christmas time at Jfc, and that can mean only one thing: murder! No, we’re not talking about exploding turkeys or accidental candy cane impalement. It’s time to watch some ho-ho-horror movies! All this month, Cargill and I will be traversing the calendar and celebrating those horror flicks that seek to sever all joy from their designated season. These won’t always be Christmas horror, but they will always be sinfully delectable. First up, we park the car on February 14th and spend some quality time with My Bloody Valentine. This Canadian gem gave us a plethora of major miner frights and taught us that an engine block can double as an oven. Life may be like a box of chocolates, but Mbv proves that box also contains plenty of death. Enjoy, and mark your calendars for the next bloody installment of this latest series! You should follow Brian (@Briguysalisbury), Cargill (@Massawyrm), and...
- 12/9/2014
- by Brian Salisbury
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Turkey or no turkey, these next couple of days lucky filmmakers who’ve been selected to screen as part of the Sundance Film Festival will get the invitation notice straight from John Cooper and the Park City programming team, and thus, those that we’re betting have made the cut have also inched up the list a bit. One of those that seem an obvious choice to premiere at the fest is director Steve Hoover and producer Danny Yourd’s Crocodile Gennadiy. Following up their Grand Jury Prize winning Blood Brother with incredible turnaround time, our new most anticipated film tracks the delicate operations of Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Ukrainian activist, orphanage manager and savior of countless children whose addict parents favor injected cold medicine and alcohol over them. Part heartwrenching domestic drama, part sleuth thriller, the film looks to use the Ukrainian uprising as a backdrop to highlight its protagonist...
- 11/27/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Hyena
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
The full line-up has been announced for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from Wednesday 18th to Sunday 29th June. In total, 156 features from 47 countries will be screened, with 11 world premieres, 7 European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
The festival opens with the world premiere of British drug trafficking thriller Hyena from writer-director Gerard Johnson, starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, and MyAnna Buring. The closing night gala is the international premiere of romantic comedy We’ll Never Have Paris, directed by husband and wife team Jocelyn Towne and Simon Helberg (best known for The Big Bang Theory). Written by and also starring Helberg, it features Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, and Alfred Molina in its cast.
We’ll Never Have Paris
The American Dreams strand highlights cutting-edge new works from American independent cinema. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring featured last year, and now Gia Coppola...
- 5/28/2014
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
Highlights include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature Welcome To New York.
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.
New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.
Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.
Other new titles added to the line-up include [link=nm...
- 5/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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