Arrow Films and Hot Property Films have kindly provided us with 2 ace DVD's to give away of their upcoming release of sic-fi thriller 'Identicals', which is available on DVD and Video on Demand from August 15.
Identicals, created by the BAFTA winning team Writer / Director Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul, The Temptation of Sainthood) and Producer Janine Marmot (Kelly +Victor and Bodysong, Shock Head Soul).
Starring Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage), in Identicals. the organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals– people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But...
Identicals, created by the BAFTA winning team Writer / Director Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul, The Temptation of Sainthood) and Producer Janine Marmot (Kelly +Victor and Bodysong, Shock Head Soul).
Starring Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage), in Identicals. the organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals– people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But...
- 8/9/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Writer-director Simon Pummell goes for both thrills and emotional complexities in the tale of a sinister corporation that replaces humans with ‘identicals’
Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality. It is as accessible as The Double, and even Total Recall, but has a texture and atmosphere that are very much its own.
Pummell is perhaps best known for his animated collage piece Bodysong, and subsequently straddled drama and nonfiction with Shock Head Soul, a highly stylised study of mentally ill judge Daniel Paul Schreber. With Brand New-u, Pummell has gone the whole hog and and come up with a film that bears some resemblance to an orthodox tech thriller, though with a Kafkaesque sense of bafflement and disjointedness.
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Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality. It is as accessible as The Double, and even Total Recall, but has a texture and atmosphere that are very much its own.
Pummell is perhaps best known for his animated collage piece Bodysong, and subsequently straddled drama and nonfiction with Shock Head Soul, a highly stylised study of mentally ill judge Daniel Paul Schreber. With Brand New-u, Pummell has gone the whole hog and and come up with a film that bears some resemblance to an orthodox tech thriller, though with a Kafkaesque sense of bafflement and disjointedness.
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- 6/20/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Those of you who remember the excellent Rock Hudson flick Seconds will notice some striking similarities with this storyline. For the uninitiated, I'd highly recommend Seconds as it's about a man who gets a new face and a new identity. Brand New-u is directed by Simon Pummell who did the excellently weird biopic Shock Head Soul. Brand New-u premiers at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Synopsis:
The film follows the 33-year-old Slater (Nieboer), who obsessively chases Nadia (Noone), the love of his life. When she suddenly disappears Slater wants to report her missing, but realizes he knows nothing about her. The only clue he has is Brand New-u [Continued ...]...
Synopsis:
The film follows the 33-year-old Slater (Nieboer), who obsessively chases Nadia (Noone), the love of his life. When she suddenly disappears Slater wants to report her missing, but realizes he knows nothing about her. The only clue he has is Brand New-u [Continued ...]...
- 5/28/2015
- QuietEarth.us
BAFTA-winner to adapt short story Dogfight, from cult sci-fi writer; currently in Rotterdam with Brand New-u.
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
One of the great joys of festivals is stumbling across a film that confounds your expectations or defies simple categorisation. I'm pleased to report Simon Pummell's docudrama Shock Head Soul is one such discovery at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival. A complex and visually arresting work about one of the most famous cases of mental illness, Shock Head Soul never shies away from the intellectually challenging aspects of its subject but still manages to provide moments of powerful emotion. [Continued ...]...
- 8/12/2012
- QuietEarth.us
Australia’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival will be holding it’s explosive 15th annual edition on July 5-15 with one of it’s most jam-packed lineups yet.
One of the most special events that Revelation will be holding is July 14‘s retrospective of the films of Jeff Keen, the pioneering British underground filmmaker who very sadly just passed away on June 21. Keen’s work has been having a major resurgence lately and Revelation is the latest organization to so boldly feature his breathtaking experimental film work, from classics like 1967′s Marvo Movie to modern films like Artwar (1993) and Joy Thru Film (2000). This is absolutely an event not to be missed.
Another staggering event this year is a very special live presentation of Crispin Hellion Glover‘s notorious underground films What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (Click film titles for Bad Lit reviews!) These very...
One of the most special events that Revelation will be holding is July 14‘s retrospective of the films of Jeff Keen, the pioneering British underground filmmaker who very sadly just passed away on June 21. Keen’s work has been having a major resurgence lately and Revelation is the latest organization to so boldly feature his breathtaking experimental film work, from classics like 1967′s Marvo Movie to modern films like Artwar (1993) and Joy Thru Film (2000). This is absolutely an event not to be missed.
Another staggering event this year is a very special live presentation of Crispin Hellion Glover‘s notorious underground films What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (Click film titles for Bad Lit reviews!) These very...
- 6/26/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Taped Trailer I, like many other boys, went through a Patrick Dempsey phase when I was younger. It all started with Can't Buy Me Love...
- 1/28/2012
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
I’ll just fess up: Despite the fact that it’s in its 41st year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is something I’ve kind of never heard about until today. (Let’s blame it on a slip in my geography skills.) This ignorance on my part notwithstanding, taking a look at their initial lineup for this year — when the event runs from January 25th to February 5th — has left me mightily impressed.
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
- 1/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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