What is it with the dearth of films set in Cromwellian England? There are any number of Medieval epics out there. but from those we generally skip straight to the heritage film. A year after Thomas Clay ventured into this territory with his excellent Fanny Lye Deliver’d comes the latest work from Neil Marshall, aiming to capture the energy of earlier-set feudal films and transfer it to a period when everything was in flux. This is the time of the Great Plague and the great witch panic in England; a time when faith in monarchs had faded but democracy as we know it today was yet to be born. With panic and suspicion everywhere, it has never been more dangerous to be a single, attractive woman.
Grace (Charlotte Kirk) isn't single to begin with, but when her landlord takes a fancy to her, her beloved husband doesn't last long.
Grace (Charlotte Kirk) isn't single to begin with, but when her landlord takes a fancy to her, her beloved husband doesn't last long.
- 4/15/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Crafting an equally distinctive visual and emotional story that intricately interweaves a settled family’s conservative moral beliefs with a younger couple’s radical actions can create a tense atmosphere that’s sure to enthrall audiences. The new historical thriller, ‘The Delivered,’ is one such fictional film that tells a uniquely relatable story that accurately chronicles the struggles […]
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- 2/15/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
On a remote 17th century farm, the arrival of two mysterious strangers transform the life of Puritan housewife Fanny Lye in The Delivered. The movie will see its US premiere on January 15th on VOD and we have the exclusive premiere of the US trailer for Daily Dead readers!
"Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The Delivered tells the story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need, a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy."
Directed and written by Thomas Clay, The Delivered stars Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald,...
"Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The Delivered tells the story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need, a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy."
Directed and written by Thomas Clay, The Delivered stars Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Forced to revamp in the wake of Germany’s second coronavirus lockdown in November, the International Filmfest Mannheim-Heidelberg is taking place online this year as Iffmh Expanded with two-thirds of its original lineup accessible to virtual festgoers.
The 69th edition of the festival, which marks the debut of a new team headed by director Sascha Keilholz, includes new and revised sections, among them On the Rise, the international competition that showcases first to third works by outstanding directors.
Curated by head of program Frédéric Jaeger, this year’s On the Rise competition includes such pics as “Una Promessa,” Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio’s tale of nightmarish exploitation in southern Italy (pictured); Saskia Walker and Ralf Walker’s German free love drama “Come Closer,” in which the directing duo co-star with Devid Striesow (“I’m Off Then”); Igor Polevichko’s Russian thriller “Get it Right”; Sabrina Doyle’s U.S. relationship drama “Lorelei,...
The 69th edition of the festival, which marks the debut of a new team headed by director Sascha Keilholz, includes new and revised sections, among them On the Rise, the international competition that showcases first to third works by outstanding directors.
Curated by head of program Frédéric Jaeger, this year’s On the Rise competition includes such pics as “Una Promessa,” Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio’s tale of nightmarish exploitation in southern Italy (pictured); Saskia Walker and Ralf Walker’s German free love drama “Come Closer,” in which the directing duo co-star with Devid Striesow (“I’m Off Then”); Igor Polevichko’s Russian thriller “Get it Right”; Sabrina Doyle’s U.S. relationship drama “Lorelei,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
It's the 16th century, after the English Civil War, and Fanny Lye lives a relatively bleak existence, married to a much older man, John, who basically bought her, on a remote farm, with their son. One day they discover a couple stashed away in their barn, Thomas and Rebecca (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds). After at first welcoming them, Thomas turns the tables, to avoid being captured by the authorities. It's then that the family is subjected to some cruetly, while Fanny is also 'seduced' by the couple's new ideas on freedom of thought and being. What sounds like an interesting premise for Fanny Lye Deliver'd, written and directed by Thomas Clay, sadly becomes a rather predictable...
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- 9/9/2020
- Screen Anarchy
The world is upside down. War has ravaged England and the King - a man once thought to be appointed by God - has been killed. To see the little farm where Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake) lives, however, one wouldn't know it. There she stays with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams), engaged in patient drudgery, expecting little better from life but broadly satisfied that things are not worse - until the day when the three of them return home from church to see smoke rising from their chimney.
Director Thomas Clay's previous work has shown that he's a filmmaker of singular vision, ready to devote himself to a subject and spend years getting to know it before his work comes to fruition. This film is no exception. It's a fascinating take on a period rarely addressed in cinema (Michael Reeves' Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General being.
Director Thomas Clay's previous work has shown that he's a filmmaker of singular vision, ready to devote himself to a subject and spend years getting to know it before his work comes to fruition. This film is no exception. It's a fascinating take on a period rarely addressed in cinema (Michael Reeves' Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General being.
- 6/24/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
1657. Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake) is living a downtrodden life on an isolated Shropshire farm with her devout and strict husband John (Charles Dance) and their son Arthur (Zak Adams). When they discover Thomas and Rebecca (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds) have broken into their barn while on the run from bandits, the young couple’s very different philosophy opens up new possibilities for Fanny.
The home invasion film is a well established form in horror cinema. Fanny Lye Deliver’d may not exactly be a horror film, but it shares more than a few traits of the genre, and the film’s structure follows almost to the letter that of a home invasion film. The status quo of the characters lives is set up; an incoming force disrupts it, and is revealed to be to some degree malevolent; one character is either seduced or pretends to be in order to...
The home invasion film is a well established form in horror cinema. Fanny Lye Deliver’d may not exactly be a horror film, but it shares more than a few traits of the genre, and the film’s structure follows almost to the letter that of a home invasion film. The status quo of the characters lives is set up; an incoming force disrupts it, and is revealed to be to some degree malevolent; one character is either seduced or pretends to be in order to...
- 6/24/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fanny Lye Deliver’d Photo: Edinburgh International Film Festival
The latest film from Brighton-born director Thomas Clay, and part of this year’s Edinburgh international Film Festival selection (screening online in partnership with Curzon), Fanny Lye Deliver’d is unlike anything else you’ll see this year. A powerful drama set in the aftermath of the English Civil War, it focuses on Fanny (Maxine Peake), a modest housewife living on a farm with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams) whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of two strangers. Thomas (Freddie Fox) and Rebecca (Tanya Reynolds) are members of a recently formed religious sect with very different attitudes to faith and sexuality, and they bring trouble in their wake – but Fanny is made of steelier stuff than anyone suspects.
The director has spoken at length about his passion for this period in history,...
The latest film from Brighton-born director Thomas Clay, and part of this year’s Edinburgh international Film Festival selection (screening online in partnership with Curzon), Fanny Lye Deliver’d is unlike anything else you’ll see this year. A powerful drama set in the aftermath of the English Civil War, it focuses on Fanny (Maxine Peake), a modest housewife living on a farm with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams) whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of two strangers. Thomas (Freddie Fox) and Rebecca (Tanya Reynolds) are members of a recently formed religious sect with very different attitudes to faith and sexuality, and they bring trouble in their wake – but Fanny is made of steelier stuff than anyone suspects.
The director has spoken at length about his passion for this period in history,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Most of us would barely be able to think about an idea that could become a screenplay, never mind go ahead and write one. Not to mention the challenges in directing, or composing a score or editing a movie. Thomas Clay, on the other hand, did all of the above, as he presents Fanny Lye Deliver’d – and we had the chance to speak to the man himself.
Clay discusses collaborating with Maxine Peake and Charles Dance on the movie and what it was about this particular era in British history that appealed to him as a storyteller. We also discuss his many talents, and get behind the ideas that helped to put together this brilliant soundtrack.
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility.
Clay discusses collaborating with Maxine Peake and Charles Dance on the movie and what it was about this particular era in British history that appealed to him as a storyteller. We also discuss his many talents, and get behind the ideas that helped to put together this brilliant soundtrack.
Watch the full interview below:
Synopsis
Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility.
- 6/23/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Staged, the lockdown comedy series written and directed by Simon Evans which debuts on BBC One on Wednesday, has been boarded by the newly-launched Rainmaker Content for international distribution. David Tennant and Michael Sheen lead the cast of the six-episode show, which chronicles the cast of a play as they try to keep rehearsals on track after being furloughed. The project is produced by Infinity Hill and Gcb Films.
VFX and animation studio Cinesite has made two new hires and a key promotion to its offices in London and Montreal. Melissa Taylor joins from Framestore as General Manager in London, Siobhan Bentley joins from Mpc as Head of Production VFX in London, and Tamara Boutcher is bumped up to Global Head of Production for feature animation from the company’s Montreal HQ. Recent credits for Cinesite include No Time To Die and Netflix series The Witcher.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival,...
VFX and animation studio Cinesite has made two new hires and a key promotion to its offices in London and Montreal. Melissa Taylor joins from Framestore as General Manager in London, Siobhan Bentley joins from Mpc as Head of Production VFX in London, and Tamara Boutcher is bumped up to Global Head of Production for feature animation from the company’s Montreal HQ. Recent credits for Cinesite include No Time To Die and Netflix series The Witcher.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has unveiled its line up of features for this year’s edition, which is taking place online due to the coronavirus crisis.
The festival, which was due to take place in Scotland this month, has partnered with Curzon Home Cinema to present an online festival instead.
The line up includes the U.K. premieres of Ron Howard’s documentary “Rebuilding Paradise,” Susanne Regina Meures’s doc “Saudi Runaway,” Alex Thomson directed U.S. comedy drama “Saint Frances,” Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Last and First Men,” narrated by Tilda Swinton, Sebastian Lifshitz’s “Little Girl,” and “Perfumes,” by Grégory Magne.
A film will be presented each day of the 12 day festival, with films playing for between two and 12 days, each priced at £9.99 ($12.80). Alongside the films there will be live Q&As with special guests.
Rod White, Eiff director of drogramming said: “We want to give our...
The festival, which was due to take place in Scotland this month, has partnered with Curzon Home Cinema to present an online festival instead.
The line up includes the U.K. premieres of Ron Howard’s documentary “Rebuilding Paradise,” Susanne Regina Meures’s doc “Saudi Runaway,” Alex Thomson directed U.S. comedy drama “Saint Frances,” Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Last and First Men,” narrated by Tilda Swinton, Sebastian Lifshitz’s “Little Girl,” and “Perfumes,” by Grégory Magne.
A film will be presented each day of the 12 day festival, with films playing for between two and 12 days, each priced at £9.99 ($12.80). Alongside the films there will be live Q&As with special guests.
Rod White, Eiff director of drogramming said: “We want to give our...
- 6/10/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
A pair of druggy, licentious agitators invade a 17th-century Shropshire homestead in this eerie period melodrama from Brit indie director Thomas Clay
Thomas Clay is a British film-making talent who has been off the radar for a while, and cinema has been the duller for it. There had been nothing since his troubling and shocking debut The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael in 2005 and the Bangkok-set followup Soi Cowboy in 2008. Now Clay has returned with a stark, bleak horror-melodrama of the English Revolution: a 17th-century period piece with eerie echoes of other genres: home invasion thriller, spaghetti western, folk horror, post-apocalyptic survivalist drama. It is a tough, disturbing watch about an ecstatic awakening through violence and – with a twinge – I wondered if Clay had returned to the shock rhetoric of his debut about a rape. As it happens there is emphasis placed here on consent.
Like Peter Strickland, Clay is...
Thomas Clay is a British film-making talent who has been off the radar for a while, and cinema has been the duller for it. There had been nothing since his troubling and shocking debut The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael in 2005 and the Bangkok-set followup Soi Cowboy in 2008. Now Clay has returned with a stark, bleak horror-melodrama of the English Revolution: a 17th-century period piece with eerie echoes of other genres: home invasion thriller, spaghetti western, folk horror, post-apocalyptic survivalist drama. It is a tough, disturbing watch about an ecstatic awakening through violence and – with a twinge – I wondered if Clay had returned to the shock rhetoric of his debut about a rape. As it happens there is emphasis placed here on consent.
Like Peter Strickland, Clay is...
- 10/10/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Long-awaited UK movie Fanny Lye Deliver’d, a regular fixture on Cannes prediction lists, has finally been delivered.
Thomas Clay’s third feature, shot in 35mm, bows this week at the BFI London Film Festival after more than three years in post-production, a delay that prompted speculation over the movie’s health and whereabouts. Ahead of the film’s premiere, Deadline had the first opportunity to sit down with multi-hyphenate Clay and get the inside track on his passion project’s winding road to screen.
“It’s going to be strange putting the film in front of an audience, it has been so long,” the 40 year-old director tells us. Clay, whose previous two feature-length films played at Cannes (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael in 2005 and Soi Cowboy in 2008), has spent the best part of a decade working on this feature.
Styled as a “Puritan Western,” Fanny Lye stars Maxine Peake...
Thomas Clay’s third feature, shot in 35mm, bows this week at the BFI London Film Festival after more than three years in post-production, a delay that prompted speculation over the movie’s health and whereabouts. Ahead of the film’s premiere, Deadline had the first opportunity to sit down with multi-hyphenate Clay and get the inside track on his passion project’s winding road to screen.
“It’s going to be strange putting the film in front of an audience, it has been so long,” the 40 year-old director tells us. Clay, whose previous two feature-length films played at Cannes (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael in 2005 and Soi Cowboy in 2008), has spent the best part of a decade working on this feature.
Styled as a “Puritan Western,” Fanny Lye stars Maxine Peake...
- 10/8/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s edition of the BFI London Film Festival, which starts today, marks Tricia Tuttle’s first in an official capacity as artistic director after she stood in last year while her predecessor was on sabbatical. So what does she have planned?
Tuttle looks back at last year’s performance with satisfaction when, with a total audience of more than 200,000, per screen attendance rose by 12% to an average paid occupancy of 72%, and overall capacity of 84%. This she ascribes to “a strong year for films driving audience interest,” which she believes she’s matched this year with, among 229 feature films, “The Personal History of David Copperfield” opening the festival, and “The Irishman” closing it, and gala screenings including “Knives Out,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “The King” and “Jojo Rabbit.”
Among the festival’s world premieres are Wash Westmoreland’s “Earthquake Bird,” starring Alicia Vikander, Gerard Johnson’s “Muscle,” Michael Caton-Jones’ “Our Ladies,...
Tuttle looks back at last year’s performance with satisfaction when, with a total audience of more than 200,000, per screen attendance rose by 12% to an average paid occupancy of 72%, and overall capacity of 84%. This she ascribes to “a strong year for films driving audience interest,” which she believes she’s matched this year with, among 229 feature films, “The Personal History of David Copperfield” opening the festival, and “The Irishman” closing it, and gala screenings including “Knives Out,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “The King” and “Jojo Rabbit.”
Among the festival’s world premieres are Wash Westmoreland’s “Earthquake Bird,” starring Alicia Vikander, Gerard Johnson’s “Muscle,” Michael Caton-Jones’ “Our Ladies,...
- 10/2/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
This morning, the BFI London Film Festival announced its full line-up for this years programme including 229 feature films from some of the world’s greatest filmmakers and emerging talent.
Running between the 2nd until the 13th of October 2019, Odeon’s iconic flagship cinema will once again open it’s redesigned Odeon Luxe Leicester Square to participant as the main venue. The festival will open with Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (which will also serve as it’s European Premiere) and close with Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishmen’ which, alone, should get fans of the festival salivating.
Headline Gala’s
The American Express Gala is the European Premiere of Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ which features a stellar cast of Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Colette, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer.
The Mayor of London’s Gala is Tom Harper’s...
Running between the 2nd until the 13th of October 2019, Odeon’s iconic flagship cinema will once again open it’s redesigned Odeon Luxe Leicester Square to participant as the main venue. The festival will open with Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (which will also serve as it’s European Premiere) and close with Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishmen’ which, alone, should get fans of the festival salivating.
Headline Gala’s
The American Express Gala is the European Premiere of Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ which features a stellar cast of Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Colette, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer.
The Mayor of London’s Gala is Tom Harper’s...
- 8/29/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Screen investigates which films from around the world could launch on the Croisette, including on opening night.
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
With just over a month to go before the line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival is unveiled in Paris, Croisette predictions and wish lists are hitting the web thick and fast.
Screen’s network of correspondents and contributors around the world have been putting out feelers to get a sense of what might or might not make it to the Palais du Cinéma or one of the parallel sections.
Just like the Oscars, this year’s festival is likely to unfold amid a politically-charged atmosphere. Beyond Trump and the rise of populism across the globe, France will be digesting the result of its own presidential election on May 7. Against this background, the festival will be feting its 70th edition.
Below, Screen reveals which titles might - and might not - be in the running for a place at the...
- 3/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Period drama from director Thomas Clay and the producer of the well-received Couple In A Hole.
Shooting has wrapped on Fanny Lye Deliver’d, a period drama starring Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (The Riot Club). The cast also includes Tanya Reynolds in her first feature film role and Peter McDonald (The Stag).
Shot over ten weeks on location in Shropshire, England, the film is written and directed by Thomas Clay and produced by Zorana Piggott (Couple In A Hole), Rob Cannan (The Lovers and the Despot) and Philippe Bober. The late Joseph Lang, Clay’s long-time producer, receives a posthumous producing credit.
Set in 1657 on an isolated farm in Shropshire, the story follows Fanny Lye (Peake) as she learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discovers a new world of possibility.
Living a life of puritan stricture with husband John Lye (Dance) and young son Arthur...
Shooting has wrapped on Fanny Lye Deliver’d, a period drama starring Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (The Riot Club). The cast also includes Tanya Reynolds in her first feature film role and Peter McDonald (The Stag).
Shot over ten weeks on location in Shropshire, England, the film is written and directed by Thomas Clay and produced by Zorana Piggott (Couple In A Hole), Rob Cannan (The Lovers and the Despot) and Philippe Bober. The late Joseph Lang, Clay’s long-time producer, receives a posthumous producing credit.
Set in 1657 on an isolated farm in Shropshire, the story follows Fanny Lye (Peake) as she learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discovers a new world of possibility.
Living a life of puritan stricture with husband John Lye (Dance) and young son Arthur...
- 5/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Euro sales outfit inks additional deals after Amazon Studios took Us rights.
Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has announced a raft of sales on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control.
Ahead of its market premiere this week at the Efm, Coproduction Office has confirmed sales in Canada (Mongrel), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Poland (Against Gravity) and Turkey (Kurmaca Film).
Amazon Studios acquired the Us rights and Magnolia Pictures will distribute the film in theatres before it plays on Amazon. Theatrical release date is set for March 11 to be followed by DVD and VOD windows.
Coproduction Office’s slate for Berlin also includes intriguing new projects by Swedish auteurs Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat On A Branch) and Thomas Clay (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael), all in pre-production.
Creative Control is set in New York, five minutes in the future. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising...
Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has announced a raft of sales on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control.
Ahead of its market premiere this week at the Efm, Coproduction Office has confirmed sales in Canada (Mongrel), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Poland (Against Gravity) and Turkey (Kurmaca Film).
Amazon Studios acquired the Us rights and Magnolia Pictures will distribute the film in theatres before it plays on Amazon. Theatrical release date is set for March 11 to be followed by DVD and VOD windows.
Coproduction Office’s slate for Berlin also includes intriguing new projects by Swedish auteurs Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat On A Branch) and Thomas Clay (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael), all in pre-production.
Creative Control is set in New York, five minutes in the future. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising...
- 2/11/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Amazon Studio has taken the title’s Us right ahead of its Efm market premiere.
Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has announced a raft of sales on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control.
Ahead of its market premiere this week at the Efm, Coproduction Office has confirmed sales in Canada (Mongrel), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Poland (Against Gravity) and Turkey (Kurmaca Film).
Amazon Studios acquired the Us rights and Magnolia Pictures will distribute the film in theatres before it plays on Amazon. Theatrical release date is set for March 11 to be followed by DVD and VOD windows.
Coproduction Office’s slate for Berlin also includes intriguing new projects by Swedish auteurs Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat On A Branch) and Thomas Clay (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael), all in pre-production.
Creative Control is set in New York, five minutes in the future. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked...
Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office has announced a raft of sales on Benjamin Dickinson’s SXSW award winner Creative Control.
Ahead of its market premiere this week at the Efm, Coproduction Office has confirmed sales in Canada (Mongrel), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Poland (Against Gravity) and Turkey (Kurmaca Film).
Amazon Studios acquired the Us rights and Magnolia Pictures will distribute the film in theatres before it plays on Amazon. Theatrical release date is set for March 11 to be followed by DVD and VOD windows.
Coproduction Office’s slate for Berlin also includes intriguing new projects by Swedish auteurs Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat On A Branch) and Thomas Clay (The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael), all in pre-production.
Creative Control is set in New York, five minutes in the future. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked...
- 2/11/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Drive director Nicolas Refn takes Ryan Gosling on a gripping journey through the Bangkok underworld. Ultraviolence ensues – but not quite how you'd expect
Like a thwacked piñata, critical opinion for something provocative at a film festival can swing off in any direction. But it was, for me, surprising to find that one of the very best movies at Cannes this year had such a shrill and hostile reception. Nicolas Winding Refn's brilliant, macabre and ultraviolent anti-revenge movie Only God Forgives – his most interesting work since the Pusher trilogy in the Mads Mikkelsen era – was deafeningly denounced at its first screening. Some booed from their seats, cupping their hands around their mouths so that the sound carried that vital few yards further. Then came the nervy, brushfire social-media consensus – a new feature of criticism at festivals – as insecure pundits checked their Twitter feeds and committed themselves to derision, evidently taking...
Like a thwacked piñata, critical opinion for something provocative at a film festival can swing off in any direction. But it was, for me, surprising to find that one of the very best movies at Cannes this year had such a shrill and hostile reception. Nicolas Winding Refn's brilliant, macabre and ultraviolent anti-revenge movie Only God Forgives – his most interesting work since the Pusher trilogy in the Mads Mikkelsen era – was deafeningly denounced at its first screening. Some booed from their seats, cupping their hands around their mouths so that the sound carried that vital few yards further. Then came the nervy, brushfire social-media consensus – a new feature of criticism at festivals – as insecure pundits checked their Twitter feeds and committed themselves to derision, evidently taking...
- 8/1/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Thomas Clay, director of 2008 film Soi Cowboy, pays tribute to 33-year-old as 'my closest colleague and best friend'
Members of the British film industry have paid tribute to Joseph Lang, who has died in Vietnam at the age of 33. The writer and producer was found dead on Monday outside a medical centre in Ho Chi Minh City. The cause of death is not yet known and Lang's Sussex-based family are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.
Lang's credits include the 2008 film Soi Cowboy, directed by Thomas Clay, described by the Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw as "a thoughtful and disquieting poetic meditation on the Thai experience of globalisation and its complex relationship with foreigners".
He also co-wrote and produced Clay's controversial 2005 feature The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, which starred Danny Dyer and Lesley Manville. The film, about three teenagers' drug-fuelled descent into violence in the seaside town of Newhaven,...
Members of the British film industry have paid tribute to Joseph Lang, who has died in Vietnam at the age of 33. The writer and producer was found dead on Monday outside a medical centre in Ho Chi Minh City. The cause of death is not yet known and Lang's Sussex-based family are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.
Lang's credits include the 2008 film Soi Cowboy, directed by Thomas Clay, described by the Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw as "a thoughtful and disquieting poetic meditation on the Thai experience of globalisation and its complex relationship with foreigners".
He also co-wrote and produced Clay's controversial 2005 feature The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, which starred Danny Dyer and Lesley Manville. The film, about three teenagers' drug-fuelled descent into violence in the seaside town of Newhaven,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Toby Chasseaud
- The Guardian - Film News
A British take on the vampire romp naturally features a centuries-old prostitute in a rundown seaside town – with some 80s surrealism thrown in
The English seaside town is the end of the line – and the end of the world. That has been the prevailing mood in recent British movies like Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort, Thomas Clay's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, and indeed Rowan Joffé's underrated new version of Brighton Rock, which, like this film, features Sam Riley.
And it is by a typically bleak British beach that Neil Jordan has created this florid, preposterous but watchable soap opera of the undead; it's a dark fantasy that contains a trace of his slight weakness for whimsy, but in some ways it's his most effective film for some time, adapted for the screen by Moira Buffini from her stage play A Vampire Story. The seaside town is unnamed, but...
The English seaside town is the end of the line – and the end of the world. That has been the prevailing mood in recent British movies like Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort, Thomas Clay's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, and indeed Rowan Joffé's underrated new version of Brighton Rock, which, like this film, features Sam Riley.
And it is by a typically bleak British beach that Neil Jordan has created this florid, preposterous but watchable soap opera of the undead; it's a dark fantasy that contains a trace of his slight weakness for whimsy, but in some ways it's his most effective film for some time, adapted for the screen by Moira Buffini from her stage play A Vampire Story. The seaside town is unnamed, but...
- 5/31/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn re-team for an emotionally breathtaking, aesthetically brilliant and immensely violent thriller set amongst Us expatriates in Bangkok
It may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok.
It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen. The first scenes made me think that Wong Kar-wai had made a new film called In the Mood for Fear or In the Mood for Hate.
Ryan Gosling plays Julian, the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check,...
It may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok.
It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen. The first scenes made me think that Wong Kar-wai had made a new film called In the Mood for Fear or In the Mood for Hate.
Ryan Gosling plays Julian, the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check,...
- 5/22/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"Ben Wheatley's debut Down Terrace, about a Brighton crime family whose bickering resembles Abigail's Party, then Macbeth, had almost no budget and was literally home-made," begins Nick Hasted at the Arts Desk. "Many critics still realized that it was one of the best and most original films of 2010. With its cult success repeated in the Us, Wheatley has quickly followed it with the most assured and troubling British horror film in many years. Kill List confirms his promise while pinning you to your seat with scenes of cold nightmare."
"I'm unsure how or whether to describe it generically," admits the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "It's partly an occult chiller with shades of Wicker Man and Blair Witch – and be warned right now: there are some ultra-violent and infra-retch scenes that have had people making for the exits…. It often looks like a film by Lynne Ramsay or even Lucrecia Martel,...
"I'm unsure how or whether to describe it generically," admits the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. "It's partly an occult chiller with shades of Wicker Man and Blair Witch – and be warned right now: there are some ultra-violent and infra-retch scenes that have had people making for the exits…. It often looks like a film by Lynne Ramsay or even Lucrecia Martel,...
- 9/2/2011
- MUBI
If Ricky Gervais or Mike Leigh made a horror film, it might look something like this unsettlingly strange offering from British director Ben Wheatley
The title, and the fact that this was popularly acclaimed at London's recent FrightFest event, will tip you off about what kind of film it is. Or will it? Even now, I'm unsure how or whether to describe it generically. It's partly an occult chiller with shades of Wicker Man and Blair Witch – and be warned right now: there are some ultra-violent and infra-retch scenes that have had people making for the exits. I wondered if director Ben Wheatley considered putting a death metal version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer over the closing credits.
Yet Kill List is also something else entirely. It often looks like a film by Lynne Ramsay or even Lucrecia Martel, composed in a dreamily unhurried arthouse-realist style that is concerned to capture texture,...
The title, and the fact that this was popularly acclaimed at London's recent FrightFest event, will tip you off about what kind of film it is. Or will it? Even now, I'm unsure how or whether to describe it generically. It's partly an occult chiller with shades of Wicker Man and Blair Witch – and be warned right now: there are some ultra-violent and infra-retch scenes that have had people making for the exits. I wondered if director Ben Wheatley considered putting a death metal version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer over the closing credits.
Yet Kill List is also something else entirely. It often looks like a film by Lynne Ramsay or even Lucrecia Martel, composed in a dreamily unhurried arthouse-realist style that is concerned to capture texture,...
- 9/1/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In my review of Simon Rumley’s latest film, Red White & Blue, I described it as “phenomenal and a must see film of 2010.” It really is that good and it has been garnering critical praise as it sweeps film festivals around the world.
Last night the film received its UK premiere at FrightFest in London and will hopefully be receiving a UK release soon.
We were lucky enough to speak to Simon Rumley and you can read our exclusive interview below.
HeyUGuys
What was the starting point for the script? Did you have the whole film mapped out when you began or was it something that grew as you wrote it?
Simon Rumley
With my last film The Living And The Dead I travelled to a lot of festivals in a lot of different countries, spoke to a lot of people and read a lot of articles about the film...
Last night the film received its UK premiere at FrightFest in London and will hopefully be receiving a UK release soon.
We were lucky enough to speak to Simon Rumley and you can read our exclusive interview below.
HeyUGuys
What was the starting point for the script? Did you have the whole film mapped out when you began or was it something that grew as you wrote it?
Simon Rumley
With my last film The Living And The Dead I travelled to a lot of festivals in a lot of different countries, spoke to a lot of people and read a lot of articles about the film...
- 8/31/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sci-fi gives birth to its very own Smurfs in James Cameron's ponderous epic
What is there left to be said about Avatar? Its record-breaking box-office success has surely vindicated writer-director James Cameron's creative arrogance, making him the auteur of not one but two of the most financially successful movies of all time. As a piece of spectacular cinema entertainment, it undeniably has the "wow" factor, with interludes of impressively verdant digital landscaping giving way to moments of genuinely jaw-dropping sci-fi action. There's plenty here that you simply won't have seen before – most notably an impressively fluid interaction between the real and virtual worlds that rivals Peter Jackson's work in Middle-earth. Nor is the film lacking in bald subtextual substance, with its tail of thuggish humans merrily ploughing down interstellar tree-huggers in the pursuit of "Unobtanium" being variously read as a parable of American imperialism, European colonialism, or...
What is there left to be said about Avatar? Its record-breaking box-office success has surely vindicated writer-director James Cameron's creative arrogance, making him the auteur of not one but two of the most financially successful movies of all time. As a piece of spectacular cinema entertainment, it undeniably has the "wow" factor, with interludes of impressively verdant digital landscaping giving way to moments of genuinely jaw-dropping sci-fi action. There's plenty here that you simply won't have seen before – most notably an impressively fluid interaction between the real and virtual worlds that rivals Peter Jackson's work in Middle-earth. Nor is the film lacking in bald subtextual substance, with its tail of thuggish humans merrily ploughing down interstellar tree-huggers in the pursuit of "Unobtanium" being variously read as a parable of American imperialism, European colonialism, or...
- 4/24/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A rich fat Danish ex-pat pumped with Viagra and a young pregnant petite Thai girl live together in near silence in a house full of soft toys, meanwhile a teenage mafia enforcer must deliver his own brother’s severed head. Sound intriguing? Well, it’s not.
Writer and Director, Thomas Clay’s third feature, Soi Cowboy, is billed as an “indie thriller” but can be more aptly described as a momentous bore and anticlimax after the reception of 2005's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. A promising black and white grainy opening, with the kind of picture-postcard cinematography you’d find in the Tate gallery's shop, sets viewers up for immense disappointment.
Depicting the monotony of daily chores in the mundane existence of the protagonists, Clay chooses to avoid dialogue and occasionally subtitles too, favouring lengthy static shots of a wordless breakfast scene and full camera pans – its over ten...
Writer and Director, Thomas Clay’s third feature, Soi Cowboy, is billed as an “indie thriller” but can be more aptly described as a momentous bore and anticlimax after the reception of 2005's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. A promising black and white grainy opening, with the kind of picture-postcard cinematography you’d find in the Tate gallery's shop, sets viewers up for immense disappointment.
Depicting the monotony of daily chores in the mundane existence of the protagonists, Clay chooses to avoid dialogue and occasionally subtitles too, favouring lengthy static shots of a wordless breakfast scene and full camera pans – its over ten...
- 4/21/2010
- by admin@shadowlocked.com (Leo Owen)
- Shadowlocked
Bangkok -- The Bangkok International Film Festival's sixth edition kicked off Friday with some officials seeing red, and it had nothing to do with the carpet.
An organizer who asked to remain anonymous expressed annoyance that one of the festival's international judges, Singapore director Eric Khoo, had bolted already, choosing to watch the competition films on DVD instead.
It wasn't readily apparent why Khoo, helmer of Singapore's foreign-language Oscar entry "My Magic," left just as the festival was officially getting under way.
Despite Khoo's absence, the jury snafu failed to dampen opening-night ceremonies, which featured a screening of Thai action-fantasy "Queens of Langkasuka" from director Nonzee Nimibutr.
Industry notables walking the red carpet included veteran director-producer Roger Corman, Hong Kong helmer Andrew Lau ("Infernal Affairs"), U.K. film producer Iain Smith ("Wanted"), the Weinstein Co.'s vp Asian acquisitions Bey Logan and Jean Claude Van Damme, whose latest film, self-parody "Jcvd,...
An organizer who asked to remain anonymous expressed annoyance that one of the festival's international judges, Singapore director Eric Khoo, had bolted already, choosing to watch the competition films on DVD instead.
It wasn't readily apparent why Khoo, helmer of Singapore's foreign-language Oscar entry "My Magic," left just as the festival was officially getting under way.
Despite Khoo's absence, the jury snafu failed to dampen opening-night ceremonies, which featured a screening of Thai action-fantasy "Queens of Langkasuka" from director Nonzee Nimibutr.
Industry notables walking the red carpet included veteran director-producer Roger Corman, Hong Kong helmer Andrew Lau ("Infernal Affairs"), U.K. film producer Iain Smith ("Wanted"), the Weinstein Co.'s vp Asian acquisitions Bey Logan and Jean Claude Van Damme, whose latest film, self-parody "Jcvd,...
- 9/26/2008
- by By Joel Gershon
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I had this nagging problem that only got worse twenty minutes before I landed from my plane ride. Left ear popped and I've been walking around for the past three days with what felt like sea water stuck in there. The best time to take care of something like this is earlier than later, and the best time to do so is on a crappy weather day filling the streets with poke your eye out umbrellas. A quick trip to the drugstore and then a quick trip upstairs to the doctor and I have a remedy in hand - it only drives home Michael Moore's Sicko message. The photo above - is the ocean front which now looks like a filled parking space compared to what we had (count them on one hand) a couple of days. I imagine that the private yacht parties have started - and
- 5/16/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- I’m guessing that with one third of the films representing first time efforts, this year’s Un Certain Regard section will be a crapshoot for buyers and critics alike. Those that stick out among the pack come from promising directors with sophomore features such as…: Milh Hadha Al-Bahr (Salt of this Sea) (Annemarie Jacir)We often see stories about the immigrant struggle in a country that is not theirs…this is the flipside Pov a former Palestinian finding it difficult to find her footing in her native land. Jacir’s debut looks like a sure bet for a healthy film festival circuit. Los Bastardos (Amat Esclante)Crossing the line for a pair of Mexican immigrants appears to take on a whole new meaning with Amat Esclante’s 2nd feature. His debut, Sangre belongs to the contemporary, art-house bunch of films that portrays a dismal life. Los Bastardos
- 5/14/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Here is the complete 2008 Cannes Line Up. Main Competition: Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy) Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna (France-Belgium)Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story (France) Clint Eastwood - Changeling (Us)Atom Egoyan - Adoration (Canada) Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir (Israel) Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube (France) Matteo Garrone - Gomorra (Italy)Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York (Us) Eric Khoo - My Magic (Singapore) Lucretia Martel - La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina-Spain) Brillante Mendoza - Serbis (The Philippines) Kornel Mondruczo - Delta (Hungary-Germany) Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas - Linha de Passe (Brazil) Paolo Sorrentino - Il Divo (Italy) Pablo Trapero - Lion's Den (Argentina-South Korea) Wim Wenders - The Palermo Shooting (Germany) Jia Zhangke - 24 City (China)Steven Soderbergh - Che (Us-Spain-France) -- one four-hour competion title comprised of The Argentine and Guerrilla Out of competitionSteven Spielberg -
- 5/14/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
The U.K. Film Council has warned British movie fans not to be upset after the country was snubbed at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The 61st festival line-up includes films from Belgium, Turkey, France, Argentina, Brazil and Italy - but not one from Britain.
However, the U.K. Film Council says "people shouldn't get too hung up" about the selection.
A spokesman says, "Ultimately it comes down to what films are ready in time - plus different trends and tastes for what is essentially an amateur film festival."
It is believed a selection of British films will be seen in other sections of the festival, including Thomas Clay's Soi Cowboy and Terence Davies' Of Time And The City.
The film festival will take place in the French resort from 14 to 25 May.
The 61st festival line-up includes films from Belgium, Turkey, France, Argentina, Brazil and Italy - but not one from Britain.
However, the U.K. Film Council says "people shouldn't get too hung up" about the selection.
A spokesman says, "Ultimately it comes down to what films are ready in time - plus different trends and tastes for what is essentially an amateur film festival."
It is believed a selection of British films will be seen in other sections of the festival, including Thomas Clay's Soi Cowboy and Terence Davies' Of Time And The City.
The film festival will take place in the French resort from 14 to 25 May.
- 4/24/2008
- WENN
- Apart from film examples such as The Band's Visit, Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) and Terror's Advocate, last year’s Un Certain Regard Section had its share of misfires – films that took the experimental route but felt more like - old bath tub water. This year’s batch of twenty titles includes another mix of veteran and first time filmmakers with perhaps the James Toback's bio-docu on friend (Iron Mike) Tyson, Abel Ferrara’s latest work Chelsea On The Rocks and finally Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry collab Tokyo! to garner the most attention from buyers and critic crowds. The five films I’m most looking forward to are Germany’s Wolke 9 by Andreas Dresen, Los Bastardos by Amat Escalante (he is the was the Dop for Carlos Reygadas’ first two films and a couple of years back he released another dismal portrait of Mexico with Sangre.
- 4/23/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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