Glasgow Film Festival · 2013
9 films · 6 reviews
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Sean Martin, Louise Milne; Stars: Robert Macfarlane, Norman MacLeod, Ian Stephen)
Phillip Noyce directs a tense thriller from the skeleton of old ideas.
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 1989; Director: Phillip Noyce; Writer: Terry Hayes, based on the novel by Charles Williams; Stars: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden, George Shevtsov, Michael Long)
Perhaps not as good as the sum of it’s parts, McGuigan’s second effort is visually impressive, a great comeback for McDowell and a launching pad for Bettany.
(Country: UK, Germany, Ireland; Year: 2000; Director: Paul McGuigan; Writer: Johnny Ferguson; Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan, Andrew Lincoln, Doug Allen, Razaaq Adoti, Cavan Clerkin, David Kennedy, Johnny Harris, Anton Saunders, Alex McSweeney)
Jaws is a well-made, nuanced, gamble of a film that paid off handsomely and assured Spielberg's future.
(Country: USA; Year: 1975; Director: Steven Spielberg; Writer: Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Peter Benchley.; Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb)
(Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson; Writer: Ted Sears, based on the play by JM Barrie.; Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson)
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Andy Mackinnon; Writer: Andy Mackinnon)
While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Harmony Korine; Writer: Harmony Korine; Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Heather Morris, James Franco, Rachel Korine)
Now is the time to rediscover The Warriors and be reintroduced to a cult classic.
(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Walter Hill; Writer: David Shaber, Walter Hill, based on the novel by Sol Yurick; Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, David Harris, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, Terry Michos, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Roger Hill, Lynne Thigpen, Mercedes Ruehl, Thomas Waites, Sonny Landham, Marcelino Sanchez)
Commentators have dismissed Mackendrick's comedy about the islanders of Todday as stereotypical, patronising and tame, but it is outrageously funny and highly subversive.
(Country: UK,; Year: 1949; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Writer: Compton MacKenzie, Angus MacPhail, based on the novel by Compton MacKenzie; Stars: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson, Gabrielle Blunt, Gordon Jackson, Jean Cadell, James Robertson Justice, Morland Graham, John Gregson, James Woodburn, James Anderson, Jameson Clark, Duncan Macrae, Mary MacNeil, Nor)
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