The Arts Desk's film coverage this week is jam-packed with goodies, with interviews with directors Mike Mills and Terence Davies to reviews of 'The Deep Blue Sea' and 'Moneyball'.
The documentary film 'We Were Here' by David Weissman and Bill Weber is the first of this week's film reviews and looks at what it was like in 1970s San Francisco when AIDS first tore through the gay community through five eyewitnesses. Enabling their quiet, unsentimental heroism to overpower the doom and gloom, the people and their extraordinary stories are allowed to speak for themselves.
Unable to escape its theatrical origins and drowning in its own overdone melodrama, 'The Deep Blue Sea' is a story about an illicit love affair in the 1950s. It still remains unconvincing and artificial seeming, despite it being beautiful shot and gorgeously sensual and the fact it stars Rachel Weisz.
The second of this week's movie releases to feature Rachel Weisz is Jim Sheridan's 'Dream House', but it is sadly a rather unoriginal foray into the home-invasion thriller territory. The big twist occurs halfway through after an intriguing beginning, but the rest of the film is left to flounder.
Based on baseball manager Billy Beane's struggle to bring his Oakland team into the Major League in 2002, 'Moneyball' is a true story. It breaks the mould of the typical baseball movie as it avoids artificial game sequences and uses real footage for the most part instead. Even for those not au fait with the rules of baseball, it's still a great movie with plenty of surprises up its sleeve.
Bringing together four of the Greek director's unique films, Kieron Tyler flagged up the release of the 'Theo Angelopoulos Collection'. Meanwhile the DVD release of the assured Oscar-winning thriller 'The Secret in Their Eyes' was praised by Nick Hasted for squaring up to Argentina's dark past.
The documentary film 'We Were Here' by David Weissman and Bill Weber is the first of this week's film reviews and looks at what it was like in 1970s San Francisco when AIDS first tore through the gay community through five eyewitnesses. Enabling their quiet, unsentimental heroism to overpower the doom and gloom, the people and their extraordinary stories are allowed to speak for themselves.
Unable to escape its theatrical origins and drowning in its own overdone melodrama, 'The Deep Blue Sea' is a story about an illicit love affair in the 1950s. It still remains unconvincing and artificial seeming, despite it being beautiful shot and gorgeously sensual and the fact it stars Rachel Weisz.
The second of this week's movie releases to feature Rachel Weisz is Jim Sheridan's 'Dream House', but it is sadly a rather unoriginal foray into the home-invasion thriller territory. The big twist occurs halfway through after an intriguing beginning, but the rest of the film is left to flounder.
Based on baseball manager Billy Beane's struggle to bring his Oakland team into the Major League in 2002, 'Moneyball' is a true story. It breaks the mould of the typical baseball movie as it avoids artificial game sequences and uses real footage for the most part instead. Even for those not au fait with the rules of baseball, it's still a great movie with plenty of surprises up its sleeve.
Bringing together four of the Greek director's unique films, Kieron Tyler flagged up the release of the 'Theo Angelopoulos Collection'. Meanwhile the DVD release of the assured Oscar-winning thriller 'The Secret in Their Eyes' was praised by Nick Hasted for squaring up to Argentina's dark past.
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