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.
TWENTY DISASTROUS PARTIES
It’s party time over here, and to get you in the festive mood, we’ve chosen our favourite crazy, bangin’, apocalyptic, traumatic and climactic party scenes in film. The party scene often offers a moment of light-hearted relief, changing the tempo of the film and letting you see the characters let their hair down. But sometimes, the party scene is extended to become the very film itself, as we watch events unfold to a tragic or dramatic climax (Abigail’s Party, Project X). Whether it’s a hopeless dinner party, an embarrassing baby shower, a party that nearly doesn’t happen (Dazed and Confused), or even a wild night during an alien apocalypse (Nowhere) – the festive spirit lives on regardless. Lesson learnt: in any conditions, you must party on, dudes.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH MATTEO GARRONE
Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone is best known for directing 2008’s blistering crime drama Gomorrah, which he follows now, four years later, with the slightly more lighthearted, but nevertheless compelling, comedy-drama Reality. We caught up with the director to chat about reality TV and casting a lead who’s serving a life sentence in prison – seriously, lead actor Aniello Arena is a former mafia hitman who’s behind bars as we speak!
THE WEEK IN GIFS
Tom Hooper is being considered for filming a Freddie Mercury biopic.
This project has been around for what feels like centuries. It was years ago we heard about Sacha Baron Cohen being pitched to play Mercury, and he’s still somehow miracously attached to the project. Hopefully getting a director aboard could actually kickstart this and get this movie made before the apocalypse happens and the earth caves in on itself.
AN INTERVIEW WITH CARLOS REYGADAS
Booed vociferously during its world premiere at Cannes last year, Post Tenebras Lux, the new feature film from Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven, Silent Light), nevertheless went on to win the Best Director Award.
We hung out with the Mexican filmmaker on a snowy February day in central London to discuss his latest, most beguiling film yet and why some critics are nothing short of hooligans.
CLIP OF THE WEEK: HOLLYWOOD HAS TERRIBLE PHONE MANNERS
We’re 100% willing to accept that Hollywood is never going to be an accurate reflection of real life; it’s a place where you can a survive a tornado with perfect hair and crying is never snotty in quality. But is there any reason behind the fact that no one in the movies ever says goodbye when they hang up the phone? Is Hollywood simply an alternate reality where phone manners don’t exist?
Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.
