Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we’ll be plucking the highlights. This is that.
WATCH: STEVE COOGAN IN THE LOOK OF LOVE
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Unlike Woody Allen, Yasujiro Ozu or Mike Leigh, Michael Winterbottom is not a director to repeat himself. Following on from his Thomas Hardy adaptation Trishna and his last drama Everyday, the British filmmaker has stepped up to a comedy with Steve Coogan, about the life of controversial entrepreneur Paul Raymond, who was at one point Britain’s richest man.
A BUNCH OF MEMORABLE BUS SCENES
With the exception of Speed and Michel Gondry’s latest Bronx-set, bus-bound The We and the I, we can’t think of any other films that are set almost entirely on a bus (can you?). So instead, to celebrate the Canadian release of Gondry’s outstanding new film, we’ve come up with a bunch of bus scenes that have been playing on a loop like GIFs in our minds ever since we saw the movie. Let’s start with Dogma. I bet you’ve never witnessed anything like this on a bus before; am I right? Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are just a couple of motor-mouth angels conversing about life and playing games like, for example, guessing whether a passenger on the bus is having an affair or not. And what should an angel do if he is? Blow his brains out, of course.
THE WEEK IN GIFS
While it’s all good and well to try and re-cap the week’s movie news, we realise that since it’s the weekend and the daily grind has probably all but frazzled your brain, to the point where you can’t concentrate on actual words or things that aren’t brightly-coloured. This is where the internet sensation for GIFs come in, because why try and explain things when you can simply capture all your emotions in one constantly looping moving image?
TOP 10: ROBOTS
Into UK cinemas this week comes Robot & Frank, a charming and funny tale about a retired cat burglar (Frank Langella) who has a softly-spoken robot butler foisted upon him by his son. Inspired by this heartwarming film, we’ve picked out a handful of our favourite robots in cinema. Who did we miss? Tell us in the comments section below, and be warned, there are some spoilers around these here parts.
Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.
