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No going back Paul Greengrass has proved himself to be a world leader when it comes to the blending of fact and fiction – he is perhaps cinema’s most adept exponent of the ‘docu-drama’ approach, as he went on to prove with United 93 (2006), which was a far superior account of another day on which [...] Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… All this talk on Picturenose (writes Cillian Donnelly) about Ronald Emmerich’s big-budget end-of-the-world thriller 2012 (2009) has prompted me to revisit this 1981 curio – a kitsch docu-drama based on the prophecies of the seer Michel de Nostradame, who is more commonly known as Nostradamus. Suffer the children… Börn (Children) (2006)certainly starts as it means to go on – two young troublemakers break into an older man’s home after he unwittingly answers the door. Laying his DVDs to waste, one of the pair (wonderfully acted by Gísli Örn Gardarsson) shouts: “What’s this? Black and white arty-farty shit?” A referential nod… Children on the inside Gerald Loftus is back with an enlightening look at mothers in prison… [photopress:ucmaymun.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Watch, listen, learn Just like the Chinese/Japanese exhortation to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”, writes Gerald Loftus, Three Monkeys (official site) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan offers no clear explanation of the underlying meaning. Is it just good sense to mind your own business, or is there a danger of ignoring evil and [...] [photopress:frostnixon.jpg,thumb,alignleft]That is the question… He has a very solid behind-the-camera presence, does Ron Howard – whatever you may think of his previous effort, The Da Vinci Code (2006), and I know there were a great many naysayers, there is no doubting the broad, ‘tale-well-told’ quality that he has brought to work such as Apollo 13 (1995) [...] |
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