So let’s just pick up from where we left off last time… 15. AMOUR – Dir. Michel Haneke – UK RELEASE DATE: 16th November 2012 THE REASONING: Some filmmakers are incapable of making a bad film. Michael Haneke is one of them. Of course his chilly aesthetic, primarily focused on exposing darker human truths through persistent and uncomfortable surveillance, isn’t always everyone’s idea of entertainment. But with Amour, there may… Read More »
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Saving The Best Till Last: What’s Left for 2012 – Part 1
With festival season having begun in earnest and the Awards Season approaching with the velocity of rabbit shit in the Hadron Collider it’s time to look at what films we could be remembering for years to come, and which ones going into the Hole of Forgotten Children with Reservation Road, Amelia and Madeleine McCann. To be fair, after a summer of relatively forgettable entertainment it’s nice to have something to… Read More »
The Need for Speed: Remembering Tony Scott
For reasons surely none of us will ever be able to fully comprehend, Tony Scott is no longer with us. There are many terrible pieces of news you can wake up to, and the death of someone you admire is always up there. Many reports will focus on the ’why’ and the ‘how’. There will always be that morbid curiosity but more important than that is that need to understand; that… Read More »
Review: Magic Mike
No matter how hard you try to describe Magic Mike to someone in any way other than “that male stripper film”, you’ll always find yourself describing it as “that male stripper film”. Occasionally you’ll find yourself talking to someone a bit more knowledgeable and you’ll describe it as “that male stripper film directed by Steven Soderbergh” and those people will go “Steven Soderbergh? Really?” and those people won’t understand. Steven Soderbergh… Read More »
The ESLF Miscellany: Let’s Dance!
Last month saw Rock of Ages land into cinemas nationwide with a very, very damp squib. So what better way to celebrate the failure of a musical than by looking at films in other genres that get the ‘musical’ just right!* So this month the staff here at EatSleepLiveFilm have thoroughly researched musical numbers in films that aren’t musicals. They’ve watched every one of them rigidly, in fact… they’ve been preparing… Read More »
Review: Friends With Kids
Friends With Kids asks you to believe that two very close friends, who individually want a child of their own, would decide to have sex and knock one out which they could then share custody of… without any of the relationship mess. Strangely it’s not the most unappealing idea in the world until you sit back and think that in reality no-one has that kind of clarity and in the movies, relationship… Read More »
Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom was the opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival and aims to appeal to the indie fans who’ve been under-served in recent weeks. Word of a new Wes Anderson film instils fear in as many hearts as it sets aflutter. His affected filmmaking style, the idolisation of ‘twee’ and his familiar company of actors are very much an acquired taste, one very much unsuited to those without… Read More »
The ESLF Miscellany: Look, See…
A picture paints a thousand words. Of course, in film there are 24 pictures to every second, 1,440 a minute, so if each of these tells a thousand words then every film is a series of novels. In just one of these frames and actor can enlighten, educate and entertain, giving us an insight into their character that no amount of dialogue could achieve. For this month’s (belated) Staff Miscellany,… Read More »
Yes ‘Cannes’ Do!
Once again, it’s that time of year. Unofficially considered the start of the awards season (because Berlin is so worthless *cough*A Separation*cough*), The Cannes Film Festival by way of Thierry Fremaux has decided to bestow upon up it’s initial line-up for the 2012 edition. Of course a couple of titles were announced previously: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is the opening film, the late Claude Miller’s Therese D. will close proceedings and… Read More »
Review: Mirror Mirror
Back in the dark ages of Spring 2011 the idea of two Snow White films coming out in the same year seemed both obvious and ludicrous. Of course Hollywood was going to make a Snow White film, Abortion in Wonderland had made over a billion dollars and Snow was a logical successor. Also, Hollywood likes to do everything in pairs so whatever failure or success meets one, the buck can… Read More »
