list.co.uk/fi lm Films screening in the next four weeks are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. See list.co.uk for the most up-to-date screening times. Submit details of special screenings at least 10 days before publication to events@list. co.uk. Film index is compiled by Murray Robertson and Gail Tolley. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry
NEW RELEASES Battle of the Year: The Dream Team (12A) (Benson Lee, US, 2013) Josh Holloway, Chris Brown, Terrence Jenkins. 110min. An American breakdancing team heads to France to compete in the International Championships. Selected release from Fri 15 Nov. Black Nativity (PG) (Kasi Lemmons, US, 2013) Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson. A streetwise teen from Baltimore travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives. Selected release from Fri 6 Dec.
✽Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La vie d’Adèle) (18) ●●●●● (Abdellatif
Kechiche, France, 2013) Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche. 179min. The story of a young lesbian couple’s beginning, middle and possible end. See opinion, page 12, and review, page 59. General release from Fri 22 Nov. Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson (15) (Simon Sprackling, UK, 2013) Michael Beckley, Beth Cordingly, Chris England. Comedy about a community rallying around a rugby club under threat from land developers. Selected release from Fri 22 Nov. The Butler (12A) (Lee Daniels, USA, 2013) Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack. 132min. A presidential butler sees how the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect his life, family, and American society. General release from Fri 15 Nov. Carrie (15) ●●●●● (Kimberly Peirce, US, 2013) Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Celal Taskiran. 100min. Kick-Ass’s Moretz stars as the titular teen harbouring dark powers in this remake of the Brian De Palma classic. See feature, page 57, and review, page 60. General release from Fri 29 Nov. Computer Chess (15) (Andrew Bujalski, USA, 2013) Kriss Schludermann, Tom Fletcher, Wiley Wiggins. 92min. It’s man
v machine in this film set around a 1980s chess tournament. Selected release from Fri 22 Nov. The Counsellor (18) (Ridley Scott, US/UK, 2013) Brad Pitt, Goran Visnjic, Michael Fassbender. 117min. A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. General release from Fri 15 Nov. Day of the Flowers (tbc) ●●●●● (John Roberts, UK, 2012) Eva Birthistle, Carlos Acosta, Charity Wakefield. 100min. Likeable but uneven drama about two Scottish sisters who take their late father’s ashes to Cuba. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov. Dirty Wars (15) (Rick Rowley, US/ Afghanistan/Iraq/Kenya/Somalia/Yemen, 2013) 87min. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill digs deeper into the US’s current and recent wars. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (PG) (Nick Hurran, UK, 2013) Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman. 85min. Fiftieth anniversary screening taking place across the nation in celebration of the good Doctor. See feature, page 32. General release from Sat 23 Nov. Dom Hemingway (tbc) ●●●●● (Richard Shepard, UK, 2013) Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Demian Bichir. 93min. Newly released convict and notorious safe cracker Dom Hemingway hits the streets of London to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut. See review, page 60. General release from Fri 15 Nov. Don Jon (18) ●●●●● (Joseph Gordon- Levitt, US, 2013) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore. 90min. Jon (Gordon-Levitt) is a porn junkie whose shallow attitude to women is challenged when he meets Barbara (Johansson). See review, page 58. General release from Fri 15 Nov. The Family (15) (Luc Besson, US/France, 2013) Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron. 111min. A mobster snitch and his family move to a small town in France. General release from Fri 22 Nov. Fanny (PG) (Daniel Auteuil, France, 2013) Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. 102min. A film adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s play of the same name. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov. The Flu (15) (Sung-su Kim, South Korea, 2013) Soo Ae, Andrew William Brand, In- Pyo Cha. 122min. When a viral epidemic invades a suburb of Seoul, the government orders the entire area and its half a million people quarantined. Selected release from
UTOPIA Award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s new film Utopia gets a handful of select screenings in the next few weeks. The documentary draws attention to Australia’s treatment of its aboriginal population, and asks whether the group has become ostracised by the country’s more affluent citizens. Pilger questions what life is like for the indigenous people of his homeland, and asks whether 21st century Australia has inherited South African apartheid. He will introduce the screening and take part in a live Q&A via satellite from the Ritzy in Brixton, London. (Shelley Queen) ■ GFT, Glasgow, Mon 18 Nov.
Fri 22 Nov. Free Birds (PG) (Jimmy Hayward, US, 2013) Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler. 91min. Two turkeys travel back in time to change the course of history – by getting their kind off the holiday menu. General release from Fri 29 Nov. Frozen (tbc) (Chris Buck, US, 2013) Voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel. Bell stars in this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. General release from Fri 6 Dec. Getaway (12A) (Courtney Solomon, Yaron Levy, US/Bulgaria, 2013) Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight. 90min. Former racecar driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock when his wife is kidnapped by a mysterious villain. General release from Fri 6 Dec. Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (tbc) (Punit Malhotra, India, 2013) Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan, Anupam Kher. Hindi romance about a shallow man. Selected release from Fri 22 Nov. Homefront (15) ●●●●● (Gary Fleder, US, 2013) Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder. 100min. A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. See review, page 59. General release from Fri 6 Dec. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A) (Francis Lawrence, US, 2013) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. 146min. The continuing adventures of Katniss Everdeen as she battles on in the Hunger Games. See review at list.co.uk. General release from Thu 21 Nov. In Fear (15) (Jeremy Lovering, UK, 2013) Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert, Allen Leech. 85min. Creepy Brit horror with a tight cast of three. See review at list.co.uk. General release from Fri 15 Nov. Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful) (18) ●●●●● (François Ozon, France, 2013) Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot. 95min. Portrait of a 17-year-old girl. See review, page 59. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov. Kill Your Darlings ●●●●● (15) (John Krokidas, US, 2013) Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall. 104min. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation. See review, page 60. Selected release from Fri 6 Dec.
✽Leviathan (tbc) ●●●●● (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Verena Paravel,
France/UK/US, 2012) 87min. Sometimes abstract documentary shot in the North Atlantic about the travails of the fishing industry. See review, page 59, and Q&A, page 61. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov. Marius (12A) (Daniel Auteuil, France, 2013) Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. 93min. Counterpart to Auteuil adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s Fanny. Selected release from Fri 29 Nov.
✽Nebraska (15) ●●●●● (Alexander Payne, US, 2013) Bruce Dern, Will
Forte, June Squibb. 115min. A father-and- son road trip from Montana to Nebraska. See review, page 60. Selected release from Fri 6 Dec. Oldboy (tbc) (Spike Lee, US, 2013) Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L Jackson. 104min. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked up in solitary confinement for 20 years. General release from Fri 6 Dec. Pandora’s Promise (12A) (Robert Stone, US, 2013) Stewart Brand, Gwyneth Cravens, Richard Rhodes. 80min. Feature- length documentary about the history and future of nuclear power. Selected release from Fri 15 Nov. Parkland (15) ●●●●● (Peter Landesman, US, 2013) James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley. 93min. A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital on the day JFK was assassinated. General release from Fri 22 Nov. Rambo Rajkumar (tbc) (Prabhudheva, India, 2013) Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood. Bollywood action film. General release from Fri 6 Dec. Saving Mr Banks ●●●●● (PG) (John Lee Hancock, US/UK/Australia, 2013)
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5 MINUTES WITH ... LUCIEN CASTAING- TAYLOR AND VERENA PARAVEL
The filmmakers discuss their Michael Powell award-winning documentary Leviathan, a visceral portrait of a fishing trawler off the New England coast. How did you decide on the title of the film? Leviathan was just our provisional, working title. Somehow it stuck. We’re both wary of over-explaining the film or the title. Both because, as Alain Cavalier once said, ‘It’s next to impossible to make a film that’s equal to the intelligence of its spectators’, and also because it’s precisely the intelligence of its spectators that make a film.
You used innovative methods to capture the images and sound. Was there a lot of risk involved in this approach? The biggest risk is slavishly, formulaically repeating what one has done before. Cinema, like all art, only advances by overthrowing received conventions, in order to reveal the world anew. We tried to do this with both image and sound. In this case, we were after, in the image track, a new coupling of objectivity and subjectivity that had not occurred before in cinema. And we wanted the sound to be as immersive and intense, as acoustically untamed and monstrous, as the image, and as the sea, boat, and elements are themselves in reality.
You both have backgrounds as anthropologists yet people feature only occasionally in Leviathan – was that a deliberate decision? Yes. Anthropologists suffer from various maladies, including an excessive attachment to humanity, and also a terribly debilitating respect for meaningful propositionality.
Do you find contradictions in working in the area where observational documentary and experimental film meet? Plenty, otherwise we wouldn’t be working there. The challenge is not to solve the contradictions, but to create new ones. (Interview by Gail Tolley) ■ Leviathan is screening at the GFT, Glasgow, Fri 29 Nov–Thu 5 Dec. See review, page 59.
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