QA Duncan Jones & Moon Screening

The BFI are delighted to welcome Duncan Jones to the BFI Southbank stage to take part in a Q&A session after a screening of Moon.


Inspired by the epic, philosophical science fiction classics of the 70s and early 80s, such as Silent Running, Blade Runner, Alien and Outland, Moon is an assured debut feature from Jones, who has previously made an impact with work for advertising and music promo. In the near future, Sam Bell (Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three year contract and counting the days until his return to Earth. The lone occupant of a lunar mining base, Bell monitors the tractors that harvest the moon's surface for helium energy, but he is beginning to unravel mentally. Moon is a refreshingly philosophical and ultimately touching film in which Jones and writer Nathan Parker create an insightful character piece about memory and identity.

Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
UK, 2009, 97 mins,

QA Duncan Jones & Moon Screening

Where:
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XT

When:
6:20pm, Tues 31 Aug, 2010

More info:
Over at the BFI website

Duncan Jones's next film Mute & the fate of Sam Bell

By know you know that Director Duncan Jones's next film will not be an adaptation of "Escape from the Deep" as anticipated.

It sounds like "Escape from the Deep" the true story of a WW2 submarine crew that go to hell and back will be tackled after another forage into the Sci Fi with "Mute". More information about the Alex Kershaw book "Escape from the Deep" can be
found here http://www.escapefromthedeep.com/.

Mute
The Mute concept art released via Jone's Liberty Films website looks pretty damn spiffy and tantalising enough to keep Sci Fi fans wanting more. The artwork is very reminiscent of Syd Mead's conceptual art for Blade Runner. Interesting to note that the signage in the street scene says Fremde which is German for strange, but could also mean foreign or Alien. Jones has said that Mute is not about Aliens as such. I'm guessing that this scene is some high class clientele leaving a bar/club that caters for strange tastes. This is possibly the club that the lead's girlfriend works at before disappearing. Then again it could just be a street scene.

Mute is basically the other side of the coin from Moon. Moon is about isolation, loneliness, living on your own and having to find a way to deal with that.

Mute is based in a future Berlin, so it's a big city film, a thriller in a city that so full and so unfriendly in a way. It's going to be a very different kind of film - but a good companion piece.

Mute is a much busier, nosier kind of film. It’s a thriller based in a future Berlin…. If Moon is inspired by films like Outland and Silent Running, then Mute, is inspired by Blade Runner.

For twitter updates on everything Duncan Jones's including Mute follow: @manmademovies

You can follow Duncan Jones here: @manmademoon

You can follow Moon Producer Stuart Fenegan (One of Variety's 10 Producers to Watch) here: @LibertyStu (Warning! Does not update much - yet)

The most media rich news can be found on the Liberty Films blog here: http://blog.manmademovies.co.uk/

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Screening of MOON and Q&A with director Duncan Jones this Friday in London

On Friday 11th September The Prince Charles Cinema (Leicester Sq) have a VERY Special Q&A with Duncan Jones, Director of Moon!

Moon is playing upstairs all week on their brand new screen, however grab this chance to talk to the man who made this spectacular film.


MOON
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract's entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches...

Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey (voice), Matt Berry, Robin Chalk

Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2
Just north off Leicester Sq & up from Häagen-Dazs

When
21:00 Fri 11th Sep Moon plus Q&A
Tickets onsale 5pm Today (Tuesday 8 September)

Preview of Moon & QA with Duncan Jones

It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3.

An intelligent and visually accomplished synthesis of DARK STAR, SILENT RUNNING and 2001, this is a fascinating study in loneliness and isolation that features a compelling performance from Rockwell at its core.

We are delighted to welcome director Duncan Jones to The Ritzy to attend a Live Q&A after the show.

Moon & QA with Duncan Jones
Saturday July 18, 2009 at 6:00pm
Ritzy Picture house Cinema
Cold Habour Lane, Brixton
London, England SW2 1JG