FILM | Index
Films screening in the next four weeks are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. See list.co.uk. for the most up-to-date screening times. Submit details of special screenings at least 10 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Film index is compiled by Murray Robertson. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry NEW RELEASES
Advanced Style (tbc) (Lina Plioplyte, US, 2014) 65min. Documentary examining the lives of seven New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to ageing. Selected release from Fri 9 May. After the Night (Até Ver a Luz) (15) (Basil da Cunha, Switzerland, 2013) Ana Clara Baptista de Melo Soares Barros, Susana Maria Mendes da Costa, José Zeferino da Cruz. 99min. Action drama about a drug dealer, let out of prison, who returns to the slums of Lisbon. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr.
✽The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (12A) ●●●●● (Marc Webb, US,
2014) Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx. 142min. See review, page 57. General release. American Interior (tbc) (Gruff Rhys, UK, 2014) Experimental documentary from Super Furry Animals’ Rhys. Selected release from Fri 9 May. Bad Neighbours (15) (Nicholas Stoller, US, 2014) Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron. 96min. A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house. See profile, right. General release from Fri 9 May. Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) (15) ●●●●● (Philippe Claudel, France/Luxembourg, 2013) Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leïla Bekhti. 103min. See review, page 59. Selected release from Fri 9 May. Blue Ruin (15) ●●●●● (Jeremy Saulnier, US, 2013) Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves. 92min. See review, page 58. Selected release from Fri 2 May. Brick Mansions (tbc) (Camille Delamarre, France/Canada, 2014) Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA. An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighbourhood that’s surrounded by a containment wall. The late Paul Walker’s final film. General release from Fri 2 May. The Canyons (tbc) (Paul Schrader, USA, 2013) Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk. 99min. An LA trust-fund kid flips when he finds out the lead of his film project is having an affair, and commits an act of violence. Selected release from Fri 9 May. Cupcakes (tbc) (Eytan Fox, Israel/ France, 2013) Dana Ivgy, Efrat Dor, Keren Berger. 90min. Israeli comedy. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr. An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (tbc) (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia & Herzegovina/France/Slovenia/Italy , 2013) Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic. 75min. Bosnian drama. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr. Exhibition (15) ●●●●● (Joanna Hogg, UK, 2013) Tom Hiddleston, Viviane Albertine, Liam Gillick. 103min. D (Albertine) appears to be a melancholic, housebound woman with an unfulfilled marriage to H (Gillick), but the reality is more nuanced. See review at list.co.uk Selected release from Fri 25 Apr.
✽Frank (15) ●●●●● (Lenny Abrahamson, UK/Ireland, 2014)
Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal. 95min. See review, page 59. General release from Fri 9 May. Godzilla (tbc) (Gareth Edwards, US, 2014) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan
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Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen. Another big screen outing for the scaly one, this time with Monsters’ acclaimed British director Gareth Edwards in charge. General release from Thu 15 May. I Declare War (15) (Jason Lapeyre/ Robert Wilson, Canada, 2012) Siam Yu, Kolton Stewart, Gage Munroe. 94min. Summer war games between neighbourhood kids turn deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix. Selected release from Fri 9 May. Identity Card (Ek Lifeline) (tbc) (Rahat Kazmi, India, 2013) Saurabh Shukla, Vipin Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav. 92min. Hindi drama about a Delhi journalist put in a police cell. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr. Ilo Ilo (tbc) (Anthony Chen, Singapore, 2013) Koh Jia Ler, Angeli Bayani, Tian Wen Chen. 99min. The friendship between a maid and a young boy ignites the mother’s jealousy with the backdrop of the Asian recession. Selected release from Fri 2 May. In Bloom (15) (Chris Michael Birkmeier, USA, 2013) Kyle Wigent, Tanner Rittenhouse, Adam Fane. 87min. A young couple’s relationship falters when an alluring newcomer comes to Chicago. Selected release from Fri 2 May. The Informant (Gibraltar) (15) (Julien Leclercq, France/Canada, 2014) Gilles Lellouche, Tahar Rahim, Riccardo Scamarcio. 110min. A Frenchman living in Gibraltar becomes a spy for French customs and becomes tempted by the life of crime he becomes submersed in. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr. Locke (15) ●●●●● (Steven Knight, US/UK, 2013) Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson (voice), Andrew Scott (voice). 85min. See review, page 57. General release from Fri 18 Apr. Looking for Light: Jane Brown (tbc) (Luke Dodd/Michael Whyte, UK, 2014) 90min. Documentary about photographer Jane Brown who has snapped everyone from Bertrand Russell to Margaret Thatcher. Selected release from Fri 25 Apr. The Love Punch (tbc) (Joel Hopkins, France, 2013) Emma Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, Tuppence Middleton. 94min. A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them. General release from Fri 18 Apr.
✽Magic Magic (R) ●●●●● (Sebastián Silva, Chile/US, 2013)
Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning. 97min. See interview, page 59 and review, page 58. General release from Fri 18 Apr, incl Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow. Next Goal Wins (tbc) (Mike Brett/ Steve Jamison, UK, 2014) 90min. Documentary on the American Samoan football team, once dubbed the worst team on the planet. Selected release from Fri 2 May. The Other Woman (12A) (Nick Cassavetes, US, 2014) Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton. 109min. When a girl realises she is not her boyfriend’s only lover, she teams up with his wife to get revenge. General release from Wed 23 Apr. Patema Inverted (Sakasama no Patema) (PG) (Yasuhiro Yoshiura, Japan, 2013) Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shinya Fukumatsu, Masayuki Katô. 99min. A girl survives in a tunnel network below ground until one day her world is literally turned upside down. Selected release from Fri 2 May. Plastic (15) (Julian Gilbey, UK, 2014) Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen. 98min. Credit card fraudsters run afoul of a sadistic gangster and become forced into a diamond heist to pay off their debts. General release from Wed 30 Apr. Pompeii (tbc) ●●●●● (Paul WS Anderson, Canada/Germany, 2014) Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland. 105min. See review, page 57. General release from Fri 2 May.
CINEFILES
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT . . . SETH ROGEN
Hannah McGill gives us the lowdown on the Canadian funnyman, whose next film, Bad Neighbours, hits screens in May
Rogen is from Vancouver, the offspring of ‘radical Jewish socialists’ who met on an Israeli kibbutz. He began doing stand-up comedy in his early teens, when, he says, ‘there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor’.
An open casting call won him a role in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow’s short- lived millennial high school comedy show Freaks and Geeks. Rogen dropped out of school to join the cast, which also included James Franco, Jason Segel and – you can’t win them all – Shia LaBeouf. Apatow has said that he had to continue casting Rogen after Freaks and Geeks was cancelled because he felt responsible for the cessation of his education. Rogen went on to star in and write for Apatow’s next TV venture, Undeclared. It too died a swift death, but like Freaks and Geeks, sustains a cult reputation. Its lead, Jay Baruchel, a fellow Canadian and long-standing friend, has gone on to star alongside Rogen in Knocked Up and This Is The End. Sensitivities about Canadian identity form a running joke in the latter film. The creative, commercial and critical failure of 2011’s superhero spectacular The Green Hornet, which Rogen co-wrote with childhood friend Evan Goldberg as well as playing the lead, convinced him that the big-budget mainstream film world was not where the pair belonged. ‘We can’t make a really edgy fun movie for our types of people for that amount of money,’ he later said. ‘We shouldn’t make expensive movies where we can’t make a million dick jokes.’ The 2013 This Is the End – a relatively cheap movie, replete with dick jokes, about actor friends facing the end of the world – got its title by default, after Rogen and Goldberg found that every other apocalypse-related title they could think of was already legally earmarked by a studio for an unrealised project. ‘Someone called us one day and said, “Your movie is called This Is The End,” and we said, “Okay.”’ This is the End’s apocalyptic imagery is closely based on scripture, and reflects Rogen and Goldberg’s shared childhood fears of the Christian vision of hell. The original script bore the tagline ‘based on the book by God’.
On a rare serious note, Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller set up the organisation Hilarity for Charity to aid Alzheimer’s research and care, after her mother was diagnosed with the disease in her early 50s. ‘The situation is so dire that it caused me, a lazy, self-involved, generally self-medicated man- child, to start an entire charity organisation,’ Rogen told a Senate committee hearing earlier this year. A well-liked figure on the whole, Rogen did alienate a few million Justin Bieber fans when he called their idol ‘obnoxious and ungrateful and insincere’. ‘Your just a heater like eveybody eles’ (sic) was one of the impassioned online responses. Another teen idol, Zac Efron, with whom Rogen co-stars in this month’s Bad Neighbours, meets with more approval: ‘He’s the sexiest motherf***er alive,’ sighs Rogen. ■ Bad Neighbours is on general release from Sat 3 May.