The London Film Festival is hotting up as another potential award winner causes a stir. Writer and director Alexander Payne’s latest big screen offering comes in the form of the comedy-drama The Descendants.
DCM were down at the BFI festival today to catch the latest flick from the former Oscar winning director (won for Sideways, best adapted Screenplay). This is Payne’s third adaptation from a novel, telling the story of a middle-aged father (George Clooney) who tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife has a severe boating accident which leaves her in a coma. Despite the serious plotline, it is predominantly a coming-of-age film, even though the film’s central character happens to be over 50, and follows the father’s struggle to patch together his family whilst also facing the decision to sell off one of the last areas of virgin Hawaiian land, passed down to him from his Hawaiian ancestors.
George Clooney is brilliant playing the unassuming and grieving father who tries hard to become a good parent to his daughters and to provide them with sound advice. When questioned at the BFI London Film Festival Press Screening today about what best piece of advice his father gave him in his life, Mr. Clooney answered simply “don’t mix grain and grape”.
As with real-life, the film perfectly blends together comedy with drama and tragedy, and is of a similar tone to Payne’s past productions (Sideways, About Schmidt).
Combined with a well-crafted screenplay and witty dialogue, there is no wonder why this film has already awards buzz surrounding it. Recommended if you also liked Juno or Little Miss Sunshine, the film will play well to an upmarket and mature audience.
Those of you who would like to catch a glimpse of the man himself, George Clooney will be attending the Centrepiece Gala for the BFI London Film Festival tonight in Leicester Square. The Descendants will release UK-wide on 27th January next year.
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DCM’s resident film guru hit the west end today to check out the London Film Festival’s gala screening of Ides Of March. It appears Clooney is quite the chameleon lately, as he not only stars in the movie but also wrote and directed it to boot!
After a question and answer session with the stars of the flick, our guru had the privilege of seeing one of the first UK screenings of the film. He had this to say about it "The Ides of March boasts a stellar cast in this powerful political drama. The IT actor of the moment, Ryan Gosling stars as the fresh-faced and ambitious young presidential campaign staffer who gets his first real taste of the dirtier side of politics. The story is ultimately about compromise and raises the questions of “is it worth it?” and how far would you go to achieve your goals. Read more
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The Co-operative Food launched a cinema advert to run alongside their new TV campaign ‘Passionate Plea’. Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
The Adventures Of Tin Tin: Secret Of The Unicorn now opens 21-October 2011 Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
W.E. now opens 20-January 2012 Read more
DCM are once again proud media partners of the 55th British Film Institute's annual film festival which brings 204 new films to the capital.
Kicking off this month, the festival is set to premiere many award contenders. Opening the event is the UK premiere of Fernando Meirelles’s 360, a modern love story penned by Peter Morgan and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
21 Jump Street now opens 16-March 2012 Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
Take Shelter now opens 25-November2011 Read more
High-street bank Halifax has turned to cinema for its revitalised ad campaign. The ad is the first from new creative agency Adam & Eve and is also the first time that Halifax has used cinema.
With media buying and planning handled by MEC, the creative is an uplifting insight into small moments of kindness in Britain and continues to star Halifax staff. Launching in cinemas tomorrow, the 60-second spot will run with Brit thriller ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest ‘I Don’t Know How She Does it’. Read more
Raindance, the festival for independent film-makers will be sponsored for the first time this year by Digital Cinema Media. As part of the new sponsorship, Raindance has produced a creative ad campaign shot by last year’s winner of the ‘Film of the Festival’ outstanding short film award.
Launching in cinemas tomorrow, Alexandra Lynn from NYC’s 90-second film will run alongside new releases including British spy thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The campaign will draw attention to the wealth of film making talent in the UK today and attract cinemagoers to the film festival which launches on the 28th September this year. Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
The Big Year now opens 23-March 2012 Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
Dream House has now been added to the schedule Read more
