★★★★☆It's over fifty years since the assassination of Us President John F. Kennedy on 22 November and over recent months we have seen articles, documentaries and fictionalised accounts all offering a different take on the events of that fateful day in Dallas. Shane O'Sullivan's Killing Oswald (2013) is unique in that it focuses solely on the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and his movements prior to the shooting. Despite the seemingly endless desire of the traditional media to paint Oswald as the crazed "lone gunman", those who have examined the case in any great depth agree that he was part of a grander conspiracy.
- 12/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
- 11/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Shane O'Sullivan attempt to unravel Lee Harvey Oswald's backstory is an insipid contribution to the JFK pantheon
The week's other item of JFK ephemera is a decidedly special-interest doc that strays into conspiracy theory in trying to unpick Lee Harvey Oswald's backstory: a complex, still-murky tangle of links with the FBI, CIA and Cuban dissident groups. Director Shane O'Sullivan ventures some scholarly digging into the archives, emerging with the striking, tableau-like telecast footage of Oswald's assassination by Jack Ruby, yet his editorial line proves generally prosaic and unimaginative, reliant on authors rehashing arguments already proposed elsewhere and stiff reconstructions that only bury Oswald as an ongoing person of interest.
Rating: 2/5
DocumentaryMike McCahill
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The week's other item of JFK ephemera is a decidedly special-interest doc that strays into conspiracy theory in trying to unpick Lee Harvey Oswald's backstory: a complex, still-murky tangle of links with the FBI, CIA and Cuban dissident groups. Director Shane O'Sullivan ventures some scholarly digging into the archives, emerging with the striking, tableau-like telecast footage of Oswald's assassination by Jack Ruby, yet his editorial line proves generally prosaic and unimaginative, reliant on authors rehashing arguments already proposed elsewhere and stiff reconstructions that only bury Oswald as an ongoing person of interest.
Rating: 2/5
DocumentaryMike McCahill
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- 11/22/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Aug 14: After three years as a blonde, reality TV star Chantelle Houghton has decided to again become a brunette.
The 29-year-old was spotted leaving a salon with hairdresser Shane O'Sullivan Monday after having her hair dyed, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Houghton also had new Easilocks hair extensions added to give her a long glossy mane.
As a single mother to Dolly, from her 17 month romance with ex-fiance Alex Reid, she had gained a few pounds in recent months. But she clearly has retained her body confidence as she stepped out in a floral mini dress.
Meanwhile, Chantelle admitted she needs to 'rein.
The 29-year-old was spotted leaving a salon with hairdresser Shane O'Sullivan Monday after having her hair dyed, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Houghton also had new Easilocks hair extensions added to give her a long glossy mane.
As a single mother to Dolly, from her 17 month romance with ex-fiance Alex Reid, she had gained a few pounds in recent months. But she clearly has retained her body confidence as she stepped out in a floral mini dress.
Meanwhile, Chantelle admitted she needs to 'rein.
- 8/14/2013
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
The Skin I Live In (15)
(Pedro Almodóvar, 2011, Spa) Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes. 120 mins.
Almodóvar's silky skills and supreme confidence tempt respectable audiences into an elegantly twisted tale of surgical obsession that few others could pull off. It's best not to spell things out too much about this; suffice to say Banderas's project to create a new form of skin, with Anaya his captive guinea pig, doesn't go where you'd expect.
As usual, there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
One Day (12A)
(Lone Scherfig, 2011, Us) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Rafe Spall. 108 mins.
Fans might not have had Hathaway's migratory trans-Pennine accent in mind when they fell in love with David Nicholls's calendar-crossing odd-couple romance on paper, and the equally wayward period details detract even further. A pity, given the promising material, but Grazia readers will lap it up just the same.
Conan The Barbarian (15)
(Marcus Nispel,...
(Pedro Almodóvar, 2011, Spa) Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes. 120 mins.
Almodóvar's silky skills and supreme confidence tempt respectable audiences into an elegantly twisted tale of surgical obsession that few others could pull off. It's best not to spell things out too much about this; suffice to say Banderas's project to create a new form of skin, with Anaya his captive guinea pig, doesn't go where you'd expect.
As usual, there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
One Day (12A)
(Lone Scherfig, 2011, Us) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Rafe Spall. 108 mins.
Fans might not have had Hathaway's migratory trans-Pennine accent in mind when they fell in love with David Nicholls's calendar-crossing odd-couple romance on paper, and the equally wayward period details detract even further. A pity, given the promising material, but Grazia readers will lap it up just the same.
Conan The Barbarian (15)
(Marcus Nispel,...
- 8/26/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Shane O'Sullivan's new film revisits the story of Germany's infamous terror group, but brings in the Japanese Red Army to offer a fresh comparison and insight into the terrorist psyche
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
- 8/26/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
By Neil Pedley
Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.
"Dreams With Sharp Teeth"
Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.
Opens in New York.
"The Go-Getter"
On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of...
Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.
"Dreams With Sharp Teeth"
Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.
Opens in New York.
"The Go-Getter"
On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of...
- 6/2/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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