Johnny Depp has signed on as a producer for a feature documentary called “Shane” about the lead singer of punk band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan. The news was announced Wednesday by HanWay Films, which acquired the worldwide sales rights.
Julien Temple, director of “Glastonbury,” “The Filth and the Fury” and “London: The Modern Babylon,” is directing the documentary that examines MacGowan and his ability to write lyrics to hits like “Fairytale of New York” that captured Ireland’s spirit while he was on his very own personal voyage into the heart of darkness.
Temple will produce through Nitrate Film together with Depp and Stephen Deuters (“Minamata”) through Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil and Stephen Malit. HanWay Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the upcoming European Film Market, where the company will screen footage for the first time. Altitude Films will distribute the film in the U.
Julien Temple, director of “Glastonbury,” “The Filth and the Fury” and “London: The Modern Babylon,” is directing the documentary that examines MacGowan and his ability to write lyrics to hits like “Fairytale of New York” that captured Ireland’s spirit while he was on his very own personal voyage into the heart of darkness.
Temple will produce through Nitrate Film together with Depp and Stephen Deuters (“Minamata”) through Depp’s production entity Infinitum Nihil and Stephen Malit. HanWay Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the upcoming European Film Market, where the company will screen footage for the first time. Altitude Films will distribute the film in the U.
- 2/5/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The industrial scenes of the ‘city symphony’ heyday are eschewed in Alex Barrett’s distinctly 21st-century revival of the form
It’s a sign of the times that the industrial pistons and grimy stevedores you might have seen in the 1920s heyday of the “city symphony” film are hardly anywhere to be seen in Alex Barrett’s sprightly revival of the form. Instead, for a 21st-century Great Wen rhapsodised in silvery monochrome and set without dialogue to James McWilliam’s score, we have bustling culture vultures, a multicultural clutch of temples and acres of steel and glass. Appropriately crowdfunded, London Symphony harnesses the city’s human element – more so than other globalised-London portraits such as Finisterre or Julien Temple’s documentary London: The Modern Babylon – in service of a cheeky formalism. Organising his shots into thematic blocks – nostalgic byways, religion, bins – Barrett has the knack of drawing out visual details...
It’s a sign of the times that the industrial pistons and grimy stevedores you might have seen in the 1920s heyday of the “city symphony” film are hardly anywhere to be seen in Alex Barrett’s sprightly revival of the form. Instead, for a 21st-century Great Wen rhapsodised in silvery monochrome and set without dialogue to James McWilliam’s score, we have bustling culture vultures, a multicultural clutch of temples and acres of steel and glass. Appropriately crowdfunded, London Symphony harnesses the city’s human element – more so than other globalised-London portraits such as Finisterre or Julien Temple’s documentary London: The Modern Babylon – in service of a cheeky formalism. Organising his shots into thematic blocks – nostalgic byways, religion, bins – Barrett has the knack of drawing out visual details...
- 9/1/2017
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Temple to tackle event-style movie based on singer’s popular stage show.
UK documentary filmmaker Julien Temple is to make a movie about UK singer Graham McPherson, aka Suggs.
UK financiers Goldfinch Entertainment and UK management companies Anglo and Hannah Management are teaming on the film adaptation of My Life Story, the singer’s popular stage show.
Temple (London - The Modern Babylon) will direct the musical based on the Madness singer’s quest to find meaning to his life after his 50th birthday leaves him wondering who is really is.
The film will include narrative drama elements as well as live performance and archive and is ultimately due to screen next year as an event cinema release.
The original show, written by McPherson and Toby Follett and directed for the stage by Owen Lewis, opened at the Edinburgh Festival in 2012 and has now played to more than 250,000 people.
Stephen Malit ([link...
UK documentary filmmaker Julien Temple is to make a movie about UK singer Graham McPherson, aka Suggs.
UK financiers Goldfinch Entertainment and UK management companies Anglo and Hannah Management are teaming on the film adaptation of My Life Story, the singer’s popular stage show.
Temple (London - The Modern Babylon) will direct the musical based on the Madness singer’s quest to find meaning to his life after his 50th birthday leaves him wondering who is really is.
The film will include narrative drama elements as well as live performance and archive and is ultimately due to screen next year as an event cinema release.
The original show, written by McPherson and Toby Follett and directed for the stage by Owen Lewis, opened at the Edinburgh Festival in 2012 and has now played to more than 250,000 people.
Stephen Malit ([link...
- 8/30/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
There’s little love lost for Kim Longinotto’s slapdash documentary montage
Valentine’s Day is upon us, but the release of this film by Kim Longinotto is a disappointing and uninteresting way of marking that fact. It is a miscellaneous montage of film clips from the past century, accompanied by music from Richard Hawley, on the vague subject of … love. There are archive fragments from documentaries, romances, and grisly and puritanical sex-education films (of the kind anthologised by the BFI in its boxset The Joy of Sex Education). There are bits from the 1929 silent movie Piccadilly starring Anna May Wong, and from My Beautiful Laundrette. It seems as if anything and everything could have been included. But the selections and juxtapositions are neither interesting nor insightful – certainly not compared to, say, Julien Temple’s recent essay London: The Modern Babylon or Charlie Lyne’s study of teen movies, Beyond Clueless.
Valentine’s Day is upon us, but the release of this film by Kim Longinotto is a disappointing and uninteresting way of marking that fact. It is a miscellaneous montage of film clips from the past century, accompanied by music from Richard Hawley, on the vague subject of … love. There are archive fragments from documentaries, romances, and grisly and puritanical sex-education films (of the kind anthologised by the BFI in its boxset The Joy of Sex Education). There are bits from the 1929 silent movie Piccadilly starring Anna May Wong, and from My Beautiful Laundrette. It seems as if anything and everything could have been included. But the selections and juxtapositions are neither interesting nor insightful – certainly not compared to, say, Julien Temple’s recent essay London: The Modern Babylon or Charlie Lyne’s study of teen movies, Beyond Clueless.
- 2/12/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Spandau Ballet are in the middle of a renaissance. They recently marked the 35th anniversary with a Prs for Music Heritage Award, they will soon release brand new music, and will have a primetime ITV special later this year.
Kicking off the Spandau revival though, is Soul Boys of the Western World, a brand new documentary about the band from filmmaker George Hencken.
However, it isn't just your average music documentary with talking heads and hindsight views, as it is made almost entirely out of archive material. Spandau Ballet had been planning on making a movie about their time as a band for several years, and began work on such a project after reuniting for comeback shows in 2009.
However, the project stalled until it was offered to Hencken, who had previously worked with Julien Temple on 2012's London - The Modern Babylon.
"I suggested that perhaps it would be a...
Kicking off the Spandau revival though, is Soul Boys of the Western World, a brand new documentary about the band from filmmaker George Hencken.
However, it isn't just your average music documentary with talking heads and hindsight views, as it is made almost entirely out of archive material. Spandau Ballet had been planning on making a movie about their time as a band for several years, and began work on such a project after reuniting for comeback shows in 2009.
However, the project stalled until it was offered to Hencken, who had previously worked with Julien Temple on 2012's London - The Modern Babylon.
"I suggested that perhaps it would be a...
- 9/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Cedomir Kolar, Kees Kasander among PriForum industry guests.
The sixth edition of the Pristina Film Festival (April 25-May 2) - which this year moved from September to April - features an impressive lineup including opening film Philomena, Oscar-winner Dallas Buyers Club and closing film Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier.
The 60-strong lineup includes four world premieres, five international premieres, more than 50 Kosovan premieres and an Indian focus.
This year also sees the festival tie up with the British Council on ‘British Night’, which includes Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, music doc London: The modern Babylon as well as Philomena.
The festival’s Balkan competition includes films from Macedonia, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia and Romania.
Industry sessions include ‘Selling Balkan stories to the West’, pitching sessions, case-studies, a ‘West Side Panel’ featuring established producers Cedomir Kolar and Kees Kassander among others, and an ‘East Side Panel’ featuring local and regional industry.
The growing...
The sixth edition of the Pristina Film Festival (April 25-May 2) - which this year moved from September to April - features an impressive lineup including opening film Philomena, Oscar-winner Dallas Buyers Club and closing film Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier.
The 60-strong lineup includes four world premieres, five international premieres, more than 50 Kosovan premieres and an Indian focus.
This year also sees the festival tie up with the British Council on ‘British Night’, which includes Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant, music doc London: The modern Babylon as well as Philomena.
The festival’s Balkan competition includes films from Macedonia, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia and Romania.
Industry sessions include ‘Selling Balkan stories to the West’, pitching sessions, case-studies, a ‘West Side Panel’ featuring established producers Cedomir Kolar and Kees Kassander among others, and an ‘East Side Panel’ featuring local and regional industry.
The growing...
- 4/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sunshine on Leith star to lead feature from producer Stephen Malit.
Peter Mullan is to star as a homeless man in new drama Victor, which is set to shoot in the UK for five weeks from Feb 3.
Sunshine on Leith and Tyrannosaur star Mullan will play a homeless man who, after living on motorways for years, sets out on a road trip incorporating Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and London.
While he encounters cruelty and indifference, he also finds compassion and generosity, friendship and humour. As his journey nears its end, the past he has been trying to escape finally catches up with him.
Writer-director Jake Gavin makes his feature debut, while My Brother the Devil DoP David Raedeker will light the film.
Victor is produced by Stephen Malit, producer of Julien Temple documentary London - The Modern Babylon, and is set to be the first production backed by Nyman Libson Paul’s Goldfinch Pictures venture. Co-producer is Simon...
Peter Mullan is to star as a homeless man in new drama Victor, which is set to shoot in the UK for five weeks from Feb 3.
Sunshine on Leith and Tyrannosaur star Mullan will play a homeless man who, after living on motorways for years, sets out on a road trip incorporating Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and London.
While he encounters cruelty and indifference, he also finds compassion and generosity, friendship and humour. As his journey nears its end, the past he has been trying to escape finally catches up with him.
Writer-director Jake Gavin makes his feature debut, while My Brother the Devil DoP David Raedeker will light the film.
Victor is produced by Stephen Malit, producer of Julien Temple documentary London - The Modern Babylon, and is set to be the first production backed by Nyman Libson Paul’s Goldfinch Pictures venture. Co-producer is Simon...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sunshine on Leith star to lead feature from producer Stephen Malit.
Peter Mullan is to star as a homeless man in new drama Victor, which is set to shoot in the UK for five weeks from Feb 3.
Sunshine on Leith and Tyrannosaur star Mullan will play a homeless man who, after living on motorways for years, sets out on a road trip incorporating Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and London.
While he encounters cruelty and indifference, he also finds compassion and generosity, friendship and humour. As his journey nears its end, the past he has been trying to escape finally catches up with him.
Writer-director Jake Gavin makes his feature debut, while My Brother the Devil DoP David Raedeker will light the film.
Victor is produced by Stephen Malit, producer of Julien Temple documentary London - The Modern Babylon, and is set to be the first production backed by Nyman Libson Paul’s Goldfinch Pictures venture. Co-producer is Simon...
Peter Mullan is to star as a homeless man in new drama Victor, which is set to shoot in the UK for five weeks from Feb 3.
Sunshine on Leith and Tyrannosaur star Mullan will play a homeless man who, after living on motorways for years, sets out on a road trip incorporating Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and London.
While he encounters cruelty and indifference, he also finds compassion and generosity, friendship and humour. As his journey nears its end, the past he has been trying to escape finally catches up with him.
Writer-director Jake Gavin makes his feature debut, while My Brother the Devil DoP David Raedeker will light the film.
Victor is produced by Stephen Malit, producer of Julien Temple documentary London - The Modern Babylon, and is set to be the first production backed by Nyman Libson Paul’s Goldfinch Pictures venture. Co-producer is Simon...
- 12/18/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Barbican, London
A season of films about London reveals how fog, rain and gloom of all kinds add to the mystique of the capital
I've been told that London's reputation for fog is not only due to the fact that it used to be foggy. It was also because cash-strapped postwar film-makers found it convenient to shroud their scenes in mist because they wouldn't have to build so much of the set – just one or two house fronts instead of a street. If this story is an urban myth, no matter, as it tells a truth about London on film. The city's greatest gift to the movie camera is its atmospherics, its fog, rain and darkness.
In ordinary daylight it is obstinately factual. If cinema likes to make cities into dream versions of themselves, London doesn't join in. The brick terraces, the railings, pavements, bollards and postboxes remain themselves. They...
A season of films about London reveals how fog, rain and gloom of all kinds add to the mystique of the capital
I've been told that London's reputation for fog is not only due to the fact that it used to be foggy. It was also because cash-strapped postwar film-makers found it convenient to shroud their scenes in mist because they wouldn't have to build so much of the set – just one or two house fronts instead of a street. If this story is an urban myth, no matter, as it tells a truth about London on film. The city's greatest gift to the movie camera is its atmospherics, its fog, rain and darkness.
In ordinary daylight it is obstinately factual. If cinema likes to make cities into dream versions of themselves, London doesn't join in. The brick terraces, the railings, pavements, bollards and postboxes remain themselves. They...
- 9/14/2013
- by Rowan Moore
- The Guardian - Film News
The backbone of London - The Modern Babylon is the teaming of a highly imaginative soundtrack and an impressively curated collage of archival footage, fiction films and interviews. Of course since the film covers approximately 100 years of history in just over two hours, Temple eschews any resemblance of starchy academic thoroughness; instead, London - The Modern Babylon is a cursorily composed whirlwind tour of modern London, rarely covering any single event for more than a minute or two. But as Temple would probably be the first to admit, London - The Modern Babylon is not a traditional example of non-fiction filmmaking. This is a purposefully sculpted and manicured piece of cinema that is more akin to experimental and fiction films. Temple has an ever-present agenda and he does a masterful job of choosing the images and sounds that best communicate his cultural philosophy.
- 8/4/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Currently screening at Cinema Village in New York City is London: The Modern Babylon, director Julien Temple’s epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists, to *dangerous* thinkers, political radicals and, above all, everyday people, the feature doc is the story of London’s immigrants and how together they changed the city forever, from the start of the 20th century, to the present day. The story unfolds through film archives and voices of Londoners past and present, powered by the flow of popular music across the century. 2 more screenings remain this week on the following dates: • Thursday, June 6, 2013 at...
- 6/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Bush's lecture on city life the world over (largely its horrors) begins impressively by filling the screen with Bruegel the Elder's painting of the Tower of Babel, its inhabitants semi-animated and shrouded in mist, and then goes on to talk portentously of the simultaneity of life and death, past and future in megalopolises. Two voices – one male, one female – talk flatly, humourlessly of the ever-expanding city, of artificial languages, anomie, entropy, conformity, much of it illustrated with animation derived from scientific research. There are occasional nuggets of useful information and striking insights, but it's mostly predictable pessimistic stuff, lacking anything humane (in the manner of say Julien Temple's recent film London: The Modern Babylon) or informed by Dickensian gusto.
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- 3/10/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Parade's End is the leading nominee for the 2013 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
The BBC One period drama - based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford - is nominated five times, with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam going head-to-head in the same category.
Both Cumberbatch and Allam are actually given the nod for more than one show, bringing their respective performances in Sherlock and The Thick of It into contention.
Elsewhere, The Hour receives three nominations for stars Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Anna Chancellor, while Twenty Twelve, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off also feature in a list which is heavily dominated by BBC output.
ITV's Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, the documentary which first revealed the extent of the TV presenter's sexual abuse and has prompted a number of reports, inquires and a major police investigation, is nominated for 'Best Single Documentary'.
[Left: Clare Balding / Right: Adam Hills]
Clare Balding...
The BBC One period drama - based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford - is nominated five times, with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam going head-to-head in the same category.
Both Cumberbatch and Allam are actually given the nod for more than one show, bringing their respective performances in Sherlock and The Thick of It into contention.
Elsewhere, The Hour receives three nominations for stars Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Anna Chancellor, while Twenty Twelve, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off also feature in a list which is heavily dominated by BBC output.
ITV's Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, the documentary which first revealed the extent of the TV presenter's sexual abuse and has prompted a number of reports, inquires and a major police investigation, is nominated for 'Best Single Documentary'.
[Left: Clare Balding / Right: Adam Hills]
Clare Balding...
- 2/7/2013
- Digital Spy
Sure, the Academy Awards is just a few sleeps away but many award-giving bodies are still handing out trophies. Most recently, the London Critics' Circle gave out their kudos with "Amour," "Rust and Bone," and "The Imposter" taking home the major awards.
In the acting categories, Joaquin Phoenix beat out rival Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln") for his brave performance in "The Master." Philip Seymour Hoffman was also honored from the movie with a Best Supporting Actor win, while Emmanuelle Riva took home the Best Actress award for her memorable performance in "Amour."
The only one constant winner during our trek to the Oscars is Anne Hathaway, also taking home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for "Les Miserables."
Here's the full list of nominees. For winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Film Of The Year
*** Amour (Artificial Eye)
Argo (Warners)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (StudioCanal)
Life of Pi (Fox...
In the acting categories, Joaquin Phoenix beat out rival Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln") for his brave performance in "The Master." Philip Seymour Hoffman was also honored from the movie with a Best Supporting Actor win, while Emmanuelle Riva took home the Best Actress award for her memorable performance in "Amour."
The only one constant winner during our trek to the Oscars is Anne Hathaway, also taking home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for "Les Miserables."
Here's the full list of nominees. For winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Film Of The Year
*** Amour (Artificial Eye)
Argo (Warners)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (StudioCanal)
Life of Pi (Fox...
- 1/20/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The European Film Academy announced nominations in the documentary category for the 25th European Film Awards. The nominations come from a committee that includes Brit producer Nik Powell, deputy chairman of the Efa board, Efa Members Francine Brücher (Switzerland) and Despina Mouzaki (Greece), and the documentary experts Claas Danielsen (Germany), Ally Derks (the Netherlands), and Jacques Laurent (Belgium). The winner will be presented on December 1, 2012 in Malta. List of nominees below: "Hiver Nomade" (Winter Nomads) Switzerland, 90 min Directed By: Manuel von Stürler Written By: Claude Muret & Manuel von Stürler Produced By: Elisabeth Garbar & Heinz Dill "London - The Modern Babylon" UK, 128 min Directed By: Julien Temple Produced By: Amanda Temple & Stephen Malit "Le The Ou L'Electricite" (Tea or Electricity) Belgium /...
- 10/23/2012
- by Maggie Lange
- Thompson on Hollywood
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