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Billy Taylor I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
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YOU AGAIN
Claudia: "I found it depressing, it's so contrived. There are so many awful set pieces, it's just not funny at all. I watched it in a room full of people and we were only laughing AT the film.
Danny: "Watching this film is like being wrestled to the floor and having every body cavity stuffed with pink candy floss. There's so much that's wrong with the movie; it's lazy, it's poorly made and there are aspects of the film which are really objectionable and rank." -
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE
Danny: "It's not a great film, it's a nice showcase for Depardieu. He's better than the material deserves."
Claudia: "I think you liked this film more than me. I like an unlikely friendship, I like the idea that they meet on a park bench but I found the film paper thin. There are scenes in a bar which feel like they were created for a morning movie." -
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
Claudia: "I could not have forseen that my film of the week would be a Mexican movie about people who like eating human flesh, but it is. I really liked this film, it's not really a horror, for me it was about a family who fall apart when the father dies. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would....there are these very claustrophobic long shots, I was completely engrossed."
Danny: " There have been comparisons made with 'Let The Right One In' and you can see why. Here's another intelligent, foreign language horror movie which doubles up as a coming of age tale. Also it's a film set in Mexico City which defines it, it's got a really vibrant political edge which I love." -
ASK DANNY
matt1190 - I wish the Hollywood culture of remaking world cinema for an English audience would stop! @BBCfilm2010 , are we unable to read subtitles?
The Raindance Film Festival
Not unable – but the sorry evidence is that much of the English speaking world isn’t willing to watch films with subtitles. Obviously with Let Me In having just come out, the dread subject of remakes is on a lot of people’s minds (although I’d repeat what I said on the show, that Matt Reeves’ movie does deserve credit for its quality)... but the flipside of the same story is the number of fine (and often highly accessible) foreign-language films that aren’t remade by Hollywood. Because while it’s obviously grating that Let The Right One In never enjoyed the same attention as Let Me In is now getting, the optimistic part of me at least hopes that people might now discover it through the Reeves version – which is at least more than will happen to such dizzyingly brilliant films as A Prophet, or Gomorrah, or Tulpan, or Jar City (and that’s just movies released in the last couple of years). The issue of remakes brings things to a head – but the real problem is our reluctance to watch foreign-language films in the first place.
SnorkyO - Hey Danny. What film festival is most important for an indie film?
Hello hello... I think the answer depends on what kind of indie film. When the movie’s been directed by an established filmmaker, then I think the usual suspects are the key, with Cannes still carrying a huge amount of weight. We’re about to see the UK release of Uncle Boonmee from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, for instance, which won the Palme d’Or earlier this year and is now enjoying a far higher profile than even such an acclaimed filmmaker would have attracted without. But for a director starting out in Britain with a low/no budget film he or she feels deserves an audience, I’d point them towards the Raindance Festival, which takes place in London every autumn just before the London Film Festival. It has its detractors but for anyone looking to get their work seen I think it can be an incredibly useful showcase
Credits
- Series Producer
- Jayne Stanger
- Presenter
- Claudia Winkleman
- Presenter
- Danny Leigh
- Executive Producer
- Basil Comely
