Film
The final week of Festival movies
Jan Dunn\
Nick Love
Filmmaker John Fawcett will forever be known as the man behind the cult horror hit Ginger Snaps, despite the fact that he has been involved with everything from the American version of Queer as Folk to Steven Spielberg’s Taken. Now he’s back with this
weird cross between Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and Jonathan Glazer’s Birth.
In our final Punter’s Choice, Nick Love, the writer/director of The Business, and Jan Dunn, the writer/director of Gypo, discuss a few films that really interest them at this year’s EIFF.
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
NL: This stars one of the main cast members of the Business -— Danny Dyer — but more than anything l'm intrigued by the bu// surrounding it from Cannes.
JD: As a woman, I am very curious about the fuss around this film particularly the apparently horrendous; final rape sequence. I also want to see it and support Thomas Clay as the only other iegional filmmaker at the festival who had support il‘()ll‘. Screen South as we did With Gypo. Cameo, 623 8030, 26Airg. 9.30pm, 5‘r’.f):3 i5‘;’>.:.’0i. Police Beat
JD: We're hoping Gypo Will be selected for Sundance 2006. as our US distributors tell us it's perfect for the US indie festival. I've never had the ability or opportunity to attend Sundance and l am therefore very keen to see Police Beat. selected from Sundance this year. which the festival's programmer referred to as one of those small films that is likely to be lost. So it may be the only chance to see this small independent film that got selected into Sundance.
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‘Movies are a world of fragments’ — Jean-Luc Godard
:I< The Devil and Daniel Johnston Jeff Feuerzeig’s excellent documentary film about the mad. bad and culty times of manic depressive genius singer/songwriter and comic book artist Daniel Johnston. See feature, page 90. Cameo. 623 8030, 26 Aug and 27 Aug, 7pm, £7.95 (£5.20).
>2: Junebug Weird and rather wonderful US indie comedy drama about a neurotic Chicago gallery owner's attempts to bond with the North Carolina backwoods family of her new husband. Stars Amy Adams and Alessandro Nivola. See review, page 94. Cr‘newor/d. 623 8030, 8. 75pm and 27 Aug, 2. 7 5pm. £7.95 (£5.20).
>i= The Wedding Hilarious Polish screwball comedy about the wedding day from hell. This may just be the antidote you need to all those summer weddings. See review. Cameo. 27 Aug. 4.45pm. £7.95 (£5.20). =2: Gypo Jan Dunn's excellent feature debut. starring Paul McGann and Pauline McLynn, is a Kent-set Dogme film examining the effect of insidious racism in working-class communities. Fi/mhouse. 623 8030, 26 Aug. 9.30pm. 53 7.95 (£5.20).
>i= UK Shorts 1 and 2 ‘Shorts'. as the great critic Derek Norman once pointed out, are 'the cradle of civilisation for filmic man'. Some of these are absolute beauts and. what's more. they are British. See feature. page 92. UK Shorts 7, Fi/mhouse, 25 Aug, 72.30pm. UK Shorts 2. Fi/mhouse, 623 8030. 26 Aug, 72.30pm. bot/7 £6.45 (£4.20).
=E= The Sun Alexander Sokurov's brilliant final installment of his Great Leaders trilogy. Film/rouse. 623 8030, 25 Aug. 5.30pm.
£7. 95 (£5.20).
>i< 4 Bonkers Russian drama. See review. Fr/mhouse. 623 8030. 26 Aug, 70pm, £7. 95 (£5.20).
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