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  • The 10 Best Movies About Genius

    The 10 Best Movies About Genius

    Here’s one…

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Most movies about genius share the struggles and triumphs of a single gifted individual, but this movie goes beyond the singular, exploring what an entire family of eccentric child prodigies might be like. And not just as children, but in their adult lives as their fame and genius have faded after their father leaves the family. The family members, who have been living separate lives, all come together when the parents are challenged with divorce and an imagined terminal illness. What follows is a highly emotional and absurd look into their love affairs and secrets. This movie explores what it’s like to be extremely gifted and talented, only to let it slip away, but does point out how very possible it is to get right back to it with the right motivation and the support of a great family.

    The rest are here.

  • North Sea, Texas Trailer

    North Sea, Texas Trailer

    Bavo Defurne’s debut feature is a beautifully measured coming-of-age drama based on André Sollie’s novel, This Is Everlasting.  He built up an international reputation with his highly stylised shorts such as Campfire and Particularly Now, In Spring.

    Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast, together with his single mother Yvette, a local accordion starlet. It’s an ordinary existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of princesses, beauty queens and handsome Gino, the boy next door.  But when hunky traveller Zoltan blows through town, Pim’s life takes an exciting and unexpected turn.

    Influenced by filmmakers such as Carl Dreyer and Eisenstein as well as photographers such as Herbert List and Pierre et Gilles, North Sea Texas celebrates the heartache of first love.

  • Marley

    Marley

    Directed by Academy Award® and BAFTA® winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, the film is scheduled for theatrical release in North America and the UK on April 20th 2012, then will release worldwide throughout the summer to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of Jamaican Independence. The film, which received its World Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12th to great acclaim, will be released by Universal Pictures International Entertainment in the UK and Scandinavia

    Shangri-La Entertainment and Tuff Gong Pictures have produced, in association with Cowboy Films, this definitive film about one of the most loved international icons of the 20th Century. His music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world and his story has finally been brought to life in this definitive work by the acclaimed talent of Kevin Macdonald. Filming took place as far afield as Ghana, Japan and the UK, in addition to Bob’s beloved Jamaica and the States – the film marks the first time his family has authorized the use of their own private archives.

    Here is the trailer to Marley.

  • Remember Fukushima Charity Event

    Remember Fukushima Charity Event

    On March 11th, 2011 the largest earthquake in recorded history struck off the coast of Japan, sending shockwaves across the nation and a tsunami which engulfed much of the eastern seaboard of Japan. The earthquake triggered an explosion at Fukushima’s Nuclear Power Plant which caused a plume of nuclear dust to be spread across the surrounding area, breaking apart families and daily life, but with an aftermath whose true effect may take years to fully comprehend.

    A year on and Japan still lies in a state of destruction and confusion. In Fukushima, with the ‘unseen’ damage of the nuclear situation, the emotional scars of the people still living there are unimaginable. There is a certain stigma arising about both Fukushima and its people with the topic itself becoming ‘off-limits’. People are feeling isolated and this can’t be made to happen. Japan is one nation and to recover from this awful tragedy we need to help give voice to the people of Fukushima and keep them strong.

    At the tail end of 2011, Third Window Films, alongside Pictures Dept., Bitters End, Dongyu, Rapid Eye Films and Joint Entertainment came together to produce Sion Sono’s Land of Hope, a film modelled on the situation in Fukushima. We hope that it will further help open the eyes of many to what is going on in Fukushima.

    On March 11th, 2012, exactly a year after the earthquake which caused so much damage to Japan, Third Window Films will be hosting a charity screening of Mitsuko Delivers at the ICA to raise awareness for the people of Fukushima.

    100% of Third Window Films’ profits of the screening of Mitsuko Delivers will go to a Fukushima-based charity. Third Window Films will also be selling DVDs at the event, with 100% of their sales also going to charity

    Alongside the Fukushima charity, Third Window Films are also giving away 100% of ticket sales of all Japanese films playing in their ‘East Winds Film Festival’ (http://www.eastwindsfilm.com) to the Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund (http://www.japansociety.org.uk/earthquake/)

  • New Wild Bill Poster

    New Wild Bill Poster

    Here is the new poster for Dexter Fletcher’s Wild Bill.