Kiss Me Deadly Screening + Review Competition

The PCC is screening the noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. Based on a Mickey Spillane pulp fiction. This classic was a source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino. The scenes in Pulp Fiction of the glow of the contents of the never seen briefcase a direct homage to Kiss Me Deadly.

Kiss Me Deadly promises ‘red-blood kisses’ and ‘white-hot thrills’, a noir classic that has lost none of its power to shock and surprise. Private investigator Mike Hammer, a thuggish, macho anti-hero, is drawn into a bottomless pit of conspiracy and corruption after picking up a mysterious and beautiful hitch-hiker. Exposing the black soul of America in the atomic age, this is as hard-boiled as it gets.

Classic screening of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly directted by Robert Aldrich.

Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2

When
8:00, Weds 10 Feb, 2010

For more info head over to the Prince Charles Cinema website.

Film students and aspiring film writers are invited to enter the Electric Sheep Magazine film writing competition: write a 200-word review of Kiss Me Deadly and send it to ladyvengeance@electricsheepmagazine.com, marked 'Film writing competition' in the subject line.

Jason Wood, director of programming at Curzon Cinemas, film journalist and author of 100 American Independent Films and 100 Road Movies among others, will select the best review.

The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website. This is a regular feature of the Electric Sheep Film Club.

Deadline
Thursday 25 February, 2010

3rd Future Film Festival (for the kids, you know)

Want to get into film? If you’re 13–25 then the Future Film Festival is for you. Join the BFI and BBC Blast for an exclusive weekend of free film screenings, workshops and a chance to get up-close to on-screen stars and behind-the-scenes talent.

Free Film Screenings, Free Workshops and Previews

Previews
Sun 7 Feb 18:00
Heartless + Q&A with Philip Ridley and Jim Sturgess

Sat 6 Feb 18:00
The Scouting Book for Boys + Q&A

Free Film Screenings
Sat 6 Feb 11:00
BFI IMAX Screening

Sun 7 Feb 11:00
Screening: Bugs! 3D

Sat 6 Feb 14:00
Sun 7 Feb 17:00
Shorts Programme 3

Fri 5 Feb 14:00
Sat 6 Feb 17:00
Shorts Programme 1

Fri 5 Feb 17:00
Sun 7 Feb 14:00
Shorts Programme 2

Fri 5 Feb 16:00
Screening: Let the Right One In (15)

Sun 7 Feb 16:00
Screening: Looking for Eric

Sat 6 Feb 16:00
Screening: The Class

3rd Future Film Festival (for the kids, you know)
Where
BFI
1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, South Bank, Waterloo, London, SE1 8XR

When
Throughout February

More info at BFI Future Film Awards

SLINGERS

Take a measure of Oceans 11, a dollop of Firefly, a pinch of The A-Team top up with a twizzle of high adventure and you'll get SLINGERS.

Not to be mistaken for the Marvel Comics Super hero team! Slingers actually gets "its name from a group of people thrown together on board an experimental spacecraft that is capable of Slinging itself to any point in space. In theory it’s the only craft capable of getting home. In reality the crew are using it to carry out a series of high tech heists and get even with those who are now exploiting their positions in the post war hierarchy - from the Sleepydog Productions website

Slingers is set in the year 2263 A.D., following mankind’s first interplanetary war. Humanity is now clustered into a finite, but still vast section of the universe known as Enclosed Space. Humanity won the war with an aggressive alien enemy, but at a cost. The way back to Earth is now cut off by an impassable barrier – a side effect of the blast that finally pushed the enemy back.

Slingers is the brainchild of writer Mike Atherton and being produced by London based Sleepydog Productions. A little while back they released the Slingers teaser clip directed by Steve Barron. The clip was made for industry promotion but has subsequently blazed it's way across the Internet.

From what I can make out the clip shows Sean Pertwee (Soldier, Event Horizon, Equilibrium, Dog Soldiers, Mutant Chronicles, Doomsday) as Colonel Hall, who once wronged pursues the crew across the galaxy to retrieve the Slinger ship. Adrian Bower as Dominic ‘DM’ Monroe, a special ops war veteran that is the head of the crew. DM's 2ic is Frank a war buddy played by Tom Mison and he's a little gung ho. Haruka Abe is Marti and possibly the Slingers ship pilot.

Whoa! Scratch that Margo Stilley (9 Songs, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People) is Jeannie the holographic pilot of the ship. Two main 2000AD references I can see in the clip - are the characters Junior the glowing green (Hammerstein'ish) robot and GUN the handheld weapon that has a mind of it's own similar to Gunnar from Rogue Trooper.
Looks like filming is kicking off early this year so a couple of full episodes can be expected soon hopefully.

Fan made poster for Slingers

Mike Atherton writer of Slingers can be found here on Twitter @sizemore and his blog is http://www.sizemore.co.uk !

Toby Moores Producer of Slingers can be found on Twitter here @sleepydog and Sleepy Dog productions can be found here!

On Twitter actors Haruka Abe (http://twitter.com/HarukaAbe) and Tom Mison (http://twitter.com/TomMison).

Iron Man 2 AC/DC Soundtrack and Shoot to Thrill video

AC/DC are doing the soundtrack for Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2. This is excellent news, even though a little Sir Mix-a-Lot would have been awesome.

Even though Black Sabbath own the unforgettable bass thumping Iron Man. However the opening song for Iron man was AC/DC's "Back in Black" played whilst the U.S. Air Force convoy escorting Stark in Afghanistan.


Unfortunately there will be only one new song on the album - the rest of the soundtrack will be made of their greatest hits collection.

'Iron Man 2' he track listing is:

1. 'Shoot to Thrill'
2. 'Rock'N'Roll Damnation'
3. 'Guns for Hire'
4. 'Cold Hearted Man'
5. 'Back in Black'
6. 'Thunderstruck'
7. 'If You Want Blood (You've Got It)'
8. 'Evil Walks'
9. 'T.N.T.'
10. 'Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be'
11. 'Have a Drink on Me'
12. 'The Razor's Edge'
13. 'Let There Be Rock'
14. 'War Machine'
15. 'Highway to Hell'

Track 14 'War Machine' will probably be Don Cheadle/War Machine's anthem.

As a bonus AC/DC have released a new music video for track one - their 1980 song Shoot to Thrill, filled with footage from the movie and a recent concert appearance in Buenos Aires.

The Iron Man 2 soundtrack is out April 19 and the film on May 7 2010. Marvel's Thor is scheduled for a May 6, 2011 release, "The First Avenger: Captain America" July 22, 2011 and "The Avengers" on May 4, 2012.

Banksy's being auctioned by Sothebys

The Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction is being held in London this February.

The February day sale of Contemporary art features a carefully-curated range of exciting works by the leading names in the Contemporary art world. With cutting-edge paintings and sculptures by prominent international young artists, as well as classic pieces by established post-war European and American masters, the sale brings together exciting art works from the past seventy years, illuminating the movements they helped to define.

Highlights of the post-war period include Dubuffet’s magnificent Cafetière, tasse et sucrier III; an extremely rare IKP sponge sculpture from 1958 by Yves Klein; and a sublimely poised stabile by Alexander Calder. Important paintings by Peter Doig, Gerhard Richter and Damien Hirst headline a select group of Contemporary artists, whose work will be offered alongside pieces from the Estate of Angus Fairhurst.

The exhibition in London opens on the 6 February 2010.

Where
London

When
Sat 6 February 2010.

For more info and padding visit the Sotheby's website.

Pieces up for auction include:

Banksy's -

Bomb Hugger - £25,000 - £35,000

Kate Moss - £25,000 - £35,000

Armoured Car - £25,000 - £35,000

TONY Special preview + QA with Director and lead actor

Special preview screening of TONY:London Serial killer, with director and lead actor! At Empire, Leicester Square!


A week in the life of Tony, an alienated psychopath with severe social problems, an obsession for action films and a horrible moustache. Unemployed and unemployable, Tony prowls the streets, his nervous attempts to make human connections invariably rebuffed by laughter or contempt. Occasionally he snaps, and violence is the result…

Gerard Johnson’s dark, brutal, bleakly amusing psychological thriller has already drawn favourable comparisons to John McNaughton’s seminal Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and features a star-making lead performance from Peter Ferdinando as the title character - probably the most alarming cinematic anti-hero since Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle.

Gerard Johnson can be found on Twitter here > @johnsongerard

Special preview screening of TONY: London Serial killer, with director and lead actor

Where
Empire Cinema Leicester Square
5-6 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7NA

When
11:30pm, Fri 29 Jan, 2010

Dante's Inferno Premiere

Sci-Fi-London will be hosting the UK premiere of Dante's Inferno – screening on the Apollo’s new HIGH DEFINITION projectors, this will be the only chance to see the movie on the big screen.

Crusader Dante returns home to discover that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul dragged into Hell. Refusing to give her up, he steals Death's scythe and chases after her… into the Inferno.

These are the 9 Circles of Hell made famous by Dante Alighieri in his famed masterpiece, Dante’s Inferno, his first story of The Divine Comedy. Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic will take you on a harrowing trip through Hell as Dante braves the forces of evil, slaying demons and monsters of extraordinary imagination, all to save his love Beatrice, from the clutches of Hell’s master - Lucifer.

With voice talent that includes Mark Hamill and Victoria Tennant, this is a stunning interpretation of the classic masterpiece that tells of one man's decent into Hell and his battle against the forces of evil.

The movie is an animated version of Dante Alighieri's Commedia Divina. An international co-production by Production IG (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Manglobe (ERGO PROXY) in Japan, JM Animation and Dongwoo Animation in South Korea, and Film Roman in the USA.

Where
Apollo Apollo Piccadilly Circus
19 Regent Street, London, SW1Y 4LR

When
19:30, Tues 2 Feb, 2010

More info at SCI-FI-LONDON or book here!

Wall Street 2 - Money Never Sleeps -Trailer #1

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

Expected release date:

September 2010

LOST REDUCED: World Premiere!

With the hotly anticipated sixth and final season of LOST launching on February 5th, Sky1 HD is proud to announce LOST REDUCED – a specially created ten minute play from the widely acclaimed Reduced Shakespeare Company.

The celebrated comedy theatre troupe have condensed all five seasons into a fast paced flight through the story of the Oceanic plane crash survivors. The world premiere is to be held in London on Thursday 28th January, performed for an intimate audience. The production will also be filmed for internet broadcast as well as on the Sky Platform’s Anytime service.

- LOST REDUCED
- FIVE SEASONS OF LOST IN TEN MINUTES
- Reduced Shakespeare Company
- Perform world premiere
- London, 28th January
- BY INVITATION ONLY


World Premiere of LOST REDUCED

Where
The Hospital Club
24 Endell Street, Covent Garden,WC2H 9HQ

38 Curzon Street W1J 7TY

When
6:30pm, Thurs 28 Jan, 2010

Make an Ad for Best Buy & meet Producer of Avatar

Current and aspiring filmmakers: here's your chance to compare notes with Avatar Producer Jon Landau. Guest-direct for a world-renown brand. Upgrade to the latest filming and editing equipment - and much more. Best Buy has again partnered with MOFILM to offer all of these things to the top 10 winners of our current 90-second film competition.

To get started, review the prizes below, then download the creative brief and assets to the right - and start filming! Be creative, and be sure to follow the brief. This time, the theme is: "Technology, People and the Pursuit of Happiness."

For inspiration, take a look at Best Buy video-ad winners from our Cannes and London Film Festival competitions at the bottom of this page. And, to stay up to date, follow @MOFILMbestbuy. Good luck!

For the brief & info head to MOFILM

Make an Ad for Best Buy & meet Producer of Avatar

Deadline
1 Feb, 2010

Hot Chip's New Album can be heard here!

Hot Chip's fourth and most mature album One Life Stand is to be released next week.

We7.com are offering a preview listen to One Life Stand now! Take a listen below.

One Life Stand Tracklisting:
01 Thieves in the Night
02 Hand Me Down Your Love
03 I Feel Better
04 One Life Stand
05 Brothers
06 Slush
07 Alley Cats
08 We Have Love
09 Keep Quiet
10 Take It In

One Life Stand

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Banksy Film Exit Through the Gift Shop debuted at Sundance

Exit Through the Gift Shop a Banksy film has been hinted at on the net for some time - over here > http://www.banksyfilm.com/ . It seems that the film is real and has just been seen for the first time at the Sundance 2010 Festival.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, narrated by “Notting Hill” actor Rhys Ifans, opens with Banksy himself -- or at least a silhouette of him. Photographed in the dark, wearing a hoodie with his voice digitally disguised, the artist says “Gift Shop” is less about him than a guy who tried to make a movie about street art: Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, since his mother’s death, videotapes everything in his life.

One of Guetta’s cousins is Invader, a French guerrilla artist who designs and furtively places mosaics inspired by the video game Space Invaders. Before long, Guetta is recording Invader’s installations, and is sucked into the riotous underground art world -- “It was not just illegal. It was dangerous,” Guetta says -- as it explodes in the early 2000s with the works of Shepard Fairey, Ron English and Borf, among many others.

More info at Exit Through the Gift Shop

John Carter of Mars needs you! Warriors wanted to fight 12ft barbarians!

After a couple of false starts Disney's John Carter of Mars is set for a 2012 release and urgently looking for extras.

John Carter of Mars is a a stunning adventure epic set on the wounded planet of Mars, a world inhabited by warrior tribes and exotic desert beings. Based on the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Barsoom Series,” the film chronicles the journey of Civil-War veteran John Carter, who finds himself battling a new and mysterious war amidst a host of strange Martian inhabitants. he film is based on the first serial to feature John Carter, 1912's A Princess of Mars. Carter is an American Civil War veteran who is transported to Mars, here called Barsoom. Formerly an Earthlike world, it became less hospitable to life due to its advanced age: as the oceans evaporated, and the atmosphere thinned, the planet devolved into partial barbarism with the inhabitants hardened and warlike, fighting one another to survive. Barsoomians distribute scarce water supplies via a worldwide system of canals, controlled by quarreling city-states. The Martian atmosphere is maintained by a power plant. Carter rescues a humanoid Martian princess Dejah Thoris from the belligerent four-armed Green Martians, whose respect he gains for his superior strength and fighting ability. He enlists the Green Martians' assistance in winning a civil war, and saves Mars from destruction when its atmosphere plant malfunctions.

It's being directed by Andrew Stanton (who can be found on Twitter here> @6mman) and stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins. Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Polly Walker, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West and James Purefoy.
Back in the 1940's, animation director Bob Clampett (director of Bugs Bunny and creator of Beany and Cecil) proposed a series of animated theatrical shorts adapting the John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan). This footage was the test reel for the studios. Apparently one major Hollywood studio was interested in producing these shorts, but changed their mind when they thought the concept might be to weird for some people.

Photography is currently underway in the UK before heading over to the Mojave Desert. This week an urgent casting call went out for muscular extras for scenes to be shot in Surrey.

Casting Collective are looking for:

Men under 45, with muscular gym fit bodies.
Height between 5’8 and 6’3. Chest 38 to 46 Inches, with very good muscle definition.
No tattoos. Skin tone has to be Caucasian, Olive, Asian or Mixed race.

Women under 45, with muscular gym fit bodies.
Height between 5’4 & 5’9. Dress size 10-14
Very good muscle definition.No tattoos.
Skin tone has to be Caucasian, Olive, Asian or Mixed race.

For more info and to apply visit

http://www.castingcollective.co.uk/new-artistes/urgent-castings/

Below is a pic tweeted by Jon Favreau (@jon_Favreau). It is a concept model of Woola from his earlier attempt to get John Carter to the screen. Previously he was lined up to direct John Carter.

For an explanation of what Woola is: Below is an excerpt from an early part of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars

"SOLA: His name is Woola. The men of our tribe use them in hunting and war. He has been told to guard and protect you. He has also been told to prevent your escape. There is no faster creature in our world. And in a fight they can kill very quickly. Do not try to escape, John Carter. Woola will tear you to small pieces.

JOHN CARTER: I continued to watch the creature named Woola. I had already seen how the green Martians treated other animals. They were very cruel.

I thought, perhaps this beast can be taught to be my friend…much like a dog on Earth. I walked close to the creature and began speaking in much the same way I would speak to a dog or other animal on Earth.

I sat down next to him while I talked softly. At first he seemed confused. I believe the creature Woola had never heard a kind word.

For the next several days I gained the trust and friendship of Woola. In a few short days Woola was my friend and fierce protector. He would remain my loyal friend as long as I was on Mars."

Precious Blogger Preview

Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire is a 2009 American drama film directed by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation of the award-winning 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film's mainly female cast features Gabourey Sidibe as the title character, and Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz in supporting roles. The film marked the acting debut of Sidibe.

Blogger Preview of Precious
Where
Odeon Swiss Cottage
96 Finchley Road, London, NW3 5EL.

When
2:00pm, Tues 26 January, 2010

Monkey Shoulder Burns Night

Monkey Shoulder the More Original Whiskey is holding a More Original Burns Night

Monkey Shoulder are hosting a Burns Night with a difference. Think beat poetry, rock and roll bagpipes and salubrious Monkey Shoulder Whiskey drinks to match the bonnie surroundings of Paramount Club in Soho.

The evening's entertainment includes:

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Rock 'n Roll Bagpipes - Guaranteed to blow your mind

Mr. Monkey our Master Mixologist
Jamie Forbes will be shaking his stuff at the bar & unveiling his original Burns night cocktails

Edinburg DJ Group Tokyo Blu
Scotland's hottest DJs will keep the night swinging

AND... introducing Monkey Mars Bar Tempura
Haggis Hors D'oeuvres, Whiskey Trifle and other lip smacking simian snacks

Whatever your view there’s no denying the joy of Burns night, the celebrated Scottish equivalent of St Patrick’s Day, especially in the 250th year since his death. Monkey Shoulder are running a night in his honour at the Paramount. Expect bagpipes, DJs, haggis, whisky cocktails, and a panoramic 360-degree view of London, a whopping 385 feet high up.

The Monkey Shoulder Burns Night
Where
The Paramount Club
101-103 Centrepoint, New Oxford Street, WC1A 1DD

When
7:00pm, Mon 25 Jan, 2010

More info head over to the Monkey Shoulder Whiskey website

Ninja Assasin a review

Ninja Assasin (2010)

Directed... James McTeigue
Rain... Raizo
Shô Kosugi... Ozunu
Naomie Harris... Mika
Ben Miles... Maslow
Rick Yune ... Takeshi

Joel Silver .... producer
Andy Wachowski .... producer
Lana Wachowski .... producer

A Single Man Preview + QA with Tom Ford

Curzon Cinemas are proud to announce that director Tom Ford will be joining them for a Q&A after the screening of A Single Man.


Fashion guru Tom Ford’s debut feature is a sumptuous mix of 'Mad Men' and 'Far From Heaven'. Set in wealthy 1960s California, the film focuses on George (Firth), a gay college professor who learns that his lover Jim (Goode, 'Brideshead Revisited') has died in a car wreck. Grief overwhelms him and suicide seems the best way out, until a mad night with his lovelorn friend Charley (Moore), and the unexpected attentions of an angora-sweater-clad young man (Nicholas Hoult, 'About A Boy') makes George think twice. Firth deservedly won the Best Actor prize at Venice, and Ford proves that he is a filmmaker of genuine distinction.

Where
Curzon Mayfair
38 Curzon Street W1J 7TY

When
6:10pm Thurs 04 Feb, 2010

Sushi Masterclass at The Ship in Wandsworth

In another of their ongoing Masterclasses at The Ship in Wandsworth. Ed Holmes, the Exec Chef and Managing Director of Chop'd, will demonstrate how to make perfect sushi.



Sushi Masterclass at The Ship in Wandsworth
Where
The Ship
41 Jew's Row, Wandsworth, London SW181TB

When
6:10, Tues 26 Jan, 2010

For more info head over to The Ship

Ninja Assassin Preview

Are the Wachowski Brothers going to revitalise the Ninja genre or is Ninja Assassin going to go the way of Speedracer (that is inaccessible to anyone over 15)? Let you know on Thursday because we cracked invites to a special advanced preview screening.


What happens when The Matrix's Wachowski Brothers, Babylon 5 writer J. Michael Strazynski, and martial-arts movie legend Sho Kosugi get together? You get NINJA ASSASSIN!

Raizo (Rain) is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them... and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated.

Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive... and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

Advance Preview of Ninja Assassin.
Where
Cineworld Haymarket
63-65, Haymarket, SW1 Y4RL

When
6:30pm, Thurs 4 Feb, 2010

Workplace Short Film Competition

The workplace can be wonderful. Whether it's your colleagues, your clients, your coffee or your computer, no two workplaces are the same. And we think that's what makes work wonderful.

Whatever your workplace means to you, Reed.co.uk want you to share it. Submit your short film (no more than three minutes) to enter reed.co.uk's video competition and you could win £10,000.

Looking for inspiration? Take a look at the reed.co.uk YouTube channel.

For more information, to submit your entry and tips on making your short film - go here!

Burlesque Undressed UK Premiere + Appearance by Immodesty Blaize

Curzon Cinemas is proud to host the UK premiere of Burlesque Undressed with a special appearance by the film’s star Immodesty Blaize, Europe’s Queen of Burlesque.

A lavish and dazzling journey right into the heart of the art-form, featuring a compelling mix of live performance, interviews from burlesque stars past and present, captivating music and all-round show-stopping entertainment. 'Burlesque Undressed' tells the real story of the genre, charting its rise and fall from early British roots to an American evolution, and finally rejoicing in burlesque's 21st century revival.

Where
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue W1D 5DY

When
6:30pm Wed 20 Jan 2010

World's most expensive ham is being sold by Selfridges this Monday

The world's most expensive ham is being sold by Selfridges on Monday

The leg of Iberico ham, which weighs seven kilos, is on sale at the food hall in Selfridges in London's Oxford Street.

The cost - a juicy £1,800! But comes with it's own with its own DNA certificate of authenticity.

The whole process began with 50 animals being specially selected by pig farmer and ham expert Manuel Maldonado.

The pigs are allowed to roam over fields in Extramadura in western Spain feeding on a diet of acorns and roots that help give the ham its distinctive flavour. After the pigs are slaughtered the ham is salted and cured for three years before going on sale in a hand-made wooden box wrapped in an apron made by one of Spain's most exclusive tailors.

A Prophet Special Preview

Jacques Audiard’s (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) new film A Prophet captivated audiences at Cannes and seized the Grand Prize with both its poetic and raw aesthetic. Ferocious and compassionate, the film follows the descent of a young man into the hierarchies of the criminal underworld. Sentenced to six years in prison, nineteen-year-old French-Arab Malik is approached by the leader of a Corsican gang, who operates their criminal activities from inside his cell. After a violent initiation, Malik is forced to adapt to the rules of the clashing criminal factions within the prison. However, over a period of time, he steadily builds up a power structure of his own.

Where
Curzon Renoir
Brunswick Centre WC1N 1AW

When
2:30pm Sun 17 Jan 2010

Godzilla - Asian Film Season

Starting this January 2010, the Glorious Prince Charles Cinema (PCC) has a brand new Asian Film Season, with a selection of Classic Cult films from the far east. The season starts off on the 18th January with with the original king of the creatures:

Godzilla

The legend begins....
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

The rest of the line up is as follows:

Zatoichi

20:45 - 25th Jan
Save The Green Planet

20:45 - 1st Feb
Hana-Bi

20:45 - 8th Feb
Miyazaki's Spirited Away

20:45 - 15th Feb
In The Mood For Love
20:45 - 22nd Feb

Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2

When
8:45pm 18th Jan, 2010

For more info head over to the Prince Charles Cinema website

44 Inch Chest - A Review

44 Inch Chest - A Review
Director ... Malcolm Venville
Writers ... Louis Mellis& David Scinto
John Hurt ... Old Man Peanut
Ray Winstone ... Colin Diamond
Ian McShane ... Meredith
Tom Wilkinson ... Archie
Joanne Whalley ... Liz
Dave Legeno ... Brighton Billy
Stephen Dillane ... Mal
Melvil Poupaud ... Loverboy
Steven Berkoff ... Tippi

Andy Serkis QA + Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Curzon Cinemas are proud to announce that lead actor Andy Serkis will be joining them for a Q&A after the screening of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

The true story of punk icon Ian Dury, who though stricken with polio at a young age, defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s. Dury (brilliantly played by Serkis, King Kong), also fought a long battle with the after effects of fame and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll pulls no punches in capturing the man with all his complexities and contradictions. Whitecross (co-director of Road to Guantanamo) and writer Paul Viragh have delivered the most impressive look at a particular period and figure in British music history since Anton Corbijn’s Control.

Where
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue W1D 5DY

When
6:10pm Mon 18 Jan 2010

Un Prophète (A Prophet) Review

Un Prophète (A Prophet) 2009 A review
Writer & Director ... Thomas Bidegain
Tahar Rahim ... Malik El Djebena
Niels Arestrup ... César Luciani
Adel Bencherif ... Ryad

Repo Men Trailer

In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called "The Union". The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, "The Union" sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake, to track him down.

Expected release date
23 April 2010

Get Your Short Film Seen - BAFTA + Shooting People

BAFTA, Shooting People present…
Short Sighted! Get Your Short Film Seen by the People who Matter
BAFTA and Shooting People present their flagship day-long Short Sighted!. If you’re a filmmaker, making your short film is only half the battle. Short Sighted! is the essential programme to help you plan an effective distribution and exhibition strategy in the digital age.

Three sessions will cover:
• benefits of a strong festival run and useful online tools for planning festival strategy;
• tips on selecting and making the most of a relationship with a sales agent;
• how and when to put your film online;
• key digital distribution and VOD players;
• revenue streams in online distribution;
• rise of piracy, and the advent of the Free model;
• using the internet to develop and source an audience for your work; and
• future trends in short film distribution including working with brands to produce and exhibit new work.

Previous speakers include reps from British Council, regional screen agencies, MySpace, YouTube, MOFILM, Encounters Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, The Times BFI London Film Festival, Lifesize Pictures, Shorts International, Future Shorts, Babelgum, Current TV and many more.

BAFTA, SHOOTING PEOPLE: Short Sighted!

For more information visit:
http://shootingpeople.org/shortsighted/
When:
9:30 am, Saturday, Feb 6 2010

The Lovely Bones Preview

Detached from the living world she once knew, having been murdered by a neighbour, Susie watches over her family - and her killer. Witness to the impact of her loss on her loved ones while her killer neatly covers his tracks and prepares to murder again, she must balance her desire for vengeance and her need to see her family recover from their grief for her. A darkly humorous and emotionally poignant film based on the bestselling novel by Alice Sebold.

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

When
20:20, Tue 26 Jan, 2010

The A-Team trailer

"Ten years ago / In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune . If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.".

A remake of the popular 80s TV show. A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

LSFF Kicks off today!

The London Short Film Festival, the city’s most expansive and radically explosive film festival, returns to the city for its 7th edition. The festival will take place over ten days throughout the capital at ten major London venues in January 2010.

With over 200 short films, LSFF’s programme is exclusively with the work of Britain’s most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers. For ten days the country’s most fiercely independent and creative will see their work grace the screens of the capital’s most prestigious cinemas, from the festival’s home of the ICA to newcomer Shortwave Cinema. With nights of ‘Lo Budget Mayhem’ and ‘Midnight Movies’, the festival sneaks renegades and eccentrics onto the city’s film scene.

This year the festival will reach from the city’s heart, Curzon Soho, to Rich Mix and Vibe Live in the East End and Cinephilia West and the Lexi on the Western Front. South of the river, Roxy Bar and Screen will be hosting LSFF screenings for the first time while we’re pushing back the Northern borders for a special event at the Roundhouse.
The London Short Film Festival
For more information:
http://www.shortfilms.org.uk

When
8—17 January, 2010