‘Una Noche’: Lucy Mulloy debut feature presented with ‘urgent, rough-hewn simplicity’ (photo: Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre, Javier Núñez Florián, Dariel Arrechaga in the movie ‘Una Noche’) The story of three Havana teenagers attempting to escape Cuba for a better life in America is conveyed with urgent, rough-hewn simplicity in director Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche. Making very effective use of Cuban non-pro actors, Mulloy takes us around the mean streets of Havana, where the shops are empty, but private homes stock everything from jewelry to motors to HIV meds. What the British-born, first-time feature director might lack in narrative polish, she makes up for with a genuine sense of empathy for her yearning, troubled characters and an artist’s eye for the beauty of decay. Mulloy even went to great trouble to shoot in 35mm instead of digital, a testament to her production moxie and desire for visual authenticity,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
TLC is renewing freshman reality series Welcome to Myrtle Manor for a second season, EW can exclusively report. But after three members were arrested during the past week, it’s unclear if the whole crew will return.
Welcome to Myrtle Manor follows the adventures of a group of South Carolina trailer park residents and has averaged 1.1 million viewers this season. TLC has picked up 10 more episodes from producers The Weinstein Company and Jupiter Entertainment.
Yet over a three-day period last week, a trio of cast members were locked up, and each for separate incidents. Amanda Lee Adams was arrested early...
Welcome to Myrtle Manor follows the adventures of a group of South Carolina trailer park residents and has averaged 1.1 million viewers this season. TLC has picked up 10 more episodes from producers The Weinstein Company and Jupiter Entertainment.
Yet over a three-day period last week, a trio of cast members were locked up, and each for separate incidents. Amanda Lee Adams was arrested early...
- 5/3/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
A host of young British talent is included in the international cast of 400 Boys, an action fantasy feature film from British director Alastair Paton, which is set to shoot for eight weeks from late October in Hong Kong, Macau and Ace Studios in Guangzhou, China.
Jodelle Ferland, the 17-year-old Canadian starlet, who currently lends her voice to a central character in ParaNorman, heads the young cast as Friday, alongside "Resident Evil: Retribution" star Bingbing Li, and Spanish actress Maria Valverde as Paiva.
The young Brits include 16 year Charlie Rowe (represented by Arg), recently seen as Peter Pan in Sky's Neverland, as Phat Frank and 18 year old Lucy Boynton (represented by United Agents), star of Ballet Shoes, who also recently filmed the lead role of Esther in the feature Copperhead directed by Ron Maxwell, as Heidi.
Also in the cast are Sky1's Sinbad, 21 year old Elliot Knight (represented by Payne...
Jodelle Ferland, the 17-year-old Canadian starlet, who currently lends her voice to a central character in ParaNorman, heads the young cast as Friday, alongside "Resident Evil: Retribution" star Bingbing Li, and Spanish actress Maria Valverde as Paiva.
The young Brits include 16 year Charlie Rowe (represented by Arg), recently seen as Peter Pan in Sky's Neverland, as Phat Frank and 18 year old Lucy Boynton (represented by United Agents), star of Ballet Shoes, who also recently filmed the lead role of Esther in the feature Copperhead directed by Ron Maxwell, as Heidi.
Also in the cast are Sky1's Sinbad, 21 year old Elliot Knight (represented by Payne...
- 9/30/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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