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‘You want it? You want it with me?’ A warning to the squeamish – foul language (in context) ahead. It was based on his own childhood, was Gary Oldman’s feature debut – Jesus wept. You’ve never seen anything like Nil by Mouth (1997) – there hasn’t been another film made that deals so unflinchingly with what is [...] Howlingly good So, what is it with all the UK re-releases? Not that anyone’s complaining – cinemagoers in Blighty have been given splendid opportunities to take a trip down cinematic ‘memory lane’ recently, with John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) receiving silver-screen encores. More on Welles’ masterpiece presently (Best Film Ever? We’ll [...] Not bad, young man… Wouldn’t you know it? Colin was recently complaining about the relative dearth of really good films concerning the beautiful game and, while he was coming more from the hooligan-culture side of things, the same could be said of movies about football itself. However, 2009 has thus far proved contradictory as far as that [...] Heart of darkness Can’t you just feel the excitement? Picturenose is approaching its 300th post (this would be number 294), so a good time to talk about Vinyan (2008), the most recent film by Belgian horror master, Fabrice Du Welz. Regular PN readers will be only too aware how well Du Welz’s first film, Calvaire (The [...] To grieve alone? In this affecting, involving and occasionally harrowing examination of how grief can throw the mind off kilter, by renowned Italian director Antonello Grimaldi (Un Delitto impossibile (2001)), widower Pietro Paladini (actor/director Nanni Moretti) is spending his post-bereavement days on a bench in front of his daughter’s primary school. The story recalls Moretti’s own [...] |
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