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The Adjustment Bureau
The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
Claudia: It’s not bad, if someone wanted to go out Friday night have a pizza, watch a bit of Matt Damon who is, as always, fabulously watchable then of course they should go. Here’s the problem - on the poster in big letters it says ‘Bourne meets Inception’ – when I saw that I did a little dance, I thought this is going to be the best film I’ve ever seen. It’s not nearly as good as either of those films and it’s not as clever as it thinks it is. But it’s still perfectly enjoyable and the casting of Matt Damon is perfect.
Danny: It’s more like the Twilight Zone meets A Matter of Life and Death, it’s very pop and playful. There’s not a huge amount of chewy sci-fi that we associate with Philip K. Dick but there’s enough there to support quite an unusual and charming love story – it’s as a romance that the movie really works. You know how much I love Matt Damon but I do think on this occasion that it’s Emily Blunt’s movie. Since My Summer of Love, we’ve been waiting for her breakout performance and I think this could be it. -
The Tempest
In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera.
Danny: This is an unfathomably misguided honker of a movie. They decide to make Prospero into a woman, which actually works but it gets lost in this migraine inducing chaos swirling around the movie; there’s animated sprites, visual jiggery-pokery, characters burst into terrible, terrible songs. It reminded me, in its better moments, of a Ken Russell rock-opera but a lot of those were fun which is the last thing I’d describe this as.
Claudia: I didn’t dislike it as much as that. The play is beautiful but it’s a difficult one to put on screen because it’s so wistful. I love Alfred Molina and Russell Brand in it - they added a real spark. Nobody was bad in it, the pacing was just a bit wrong. -
Ironclad - Claudia's film of the week
In 13th century a determined group of Knights Templar defends Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.
Claudia: This is a 13th century, very bloody, over 2 hour long film just with boys and I really, really enjoyed it! It’s exactly what I wanted Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood to be. They play it completely straight.
Danny: They’ve set out to make an adrenaline-fuelled, action packed medieval seige movie full of boiling oil being poured on people’s heads and it’s fantastic. It has such sincerity and gusto I don’t know how you could help but be won over by it. -
Archipelago - Danny's film of the week
Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.
Danny: With films like Archipelago it’s all in the eye of the beholder and I saw an incredibly well observed movie with an eye for detail about a family disintegrating and about how even a very well-off family can be incredibly uncomfortable in their own skins and unhappy around each other. It was bold and unusual and at it’s best it reminded me of the work of Michael Haneke and Mike Leigh. Though it is very slow and I do think some people might feel differently about it....
Claudia: I think I saw a different film. Lots of people seem to think this is a good film and it’s getting amazing reviews but I found it unbelievably slow. Some scenes are amazing and Lydia Leonard who plays the sister, Cynthia, is phenomenal, she deserves a medal. There’s a scene in a restaurant which makes you want to scratch your skin off. But my problem is I’ve never met a family like this – people are saying it’s so realistic – what realism is there here? People just don’t behave like that. -
Archipelago - screenings
Here is a list of cinemas where Archipelago will be showing:
More screening information
Curzon Mayfair
Curzon Renoir
Curzon Richmond
HMV Curzon Wimbledon
Everyman Belsize
Notting Hill Gate
Greenwich Picturehouse
Clapham Picturehouse
Cambridge Arts
Plaza Truro
Irish Film Institute
Newcastle Tyneside
Oxford Phoenix
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Bristol Watershed
Sheffield Showroom
Glasgow Film Theatre
Lighthouse Dublin -
Archipelago - screenings
Here is a list of cinemas where Archipelago will be showing:
More screening information
Curzon Mayfair
Curzon Renoir
Curzon Richmond
HMV Curzon Wimbledon
Everyman Belsize
Notting Hill Gate
Greenwich Picturehouse
Clapham Picturehouse
Cambridge Arts
Plaza Truro
Irish Film Institute
Newcastle Tyneside
Oxford Phoenix
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Bristol Watershed
Sheffield Showroom
Glasgow Film Theatre
Lighthouse Dublin
Credits
- Series Producer
- Jayne Stanger
- Presenter
- Claudia Winkleman
- Presenter
- Danny Leigh
- Executive Producer
- Basil Comely
