‘The Descent’ and ‘Harry Brown’ producer Keith Bell also readies a slate including ‘Advice For Cab Drivers,’ ‘Switch’ and ‘You’re The Reason I’m Here’.
The Yellow Affair has boarded “black metal horror” Nothing Holy, which UK-based Pinball Films’ Ashley Horner will direct, Stuart Wright will write, and Keith Bell will produce. Co-producers are Truls Kontny at Norway’s Evil DogHouse and Ari Matikainen of Finland’s Kinocompany.
The fictional story is about a missing documentary film unearthed in the present day looking at a legendary album made by a renowned and mysterious Norwegian death metal band.
The film...
The Yellow Affair has boarded “black metal horror” Nothing Holy, which UK-based Pinball Films’ Ashley Horner will direct, Stuart Wright will write, and Keith Bell will produce. Co-producers are Truls Kontny at Norway’s Evil DogHouse and Ari Matikainen of Finland’s Kinocompany.
The fictional story is about a missing documentary film unearthed in the present day looking at a legendary album made by a renowned and mysterious Norwegian death metal band.
The film...
- 5/11/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Initiative highlights 25 established feature film and TV producers from Europe, Canada, the USA and India.
Film and TV drama co-production training and networking programme Trans-Atlantic Partners (Tap) has revealed its 2018 line-up of 25 producers from across Europe, Canada, the USA and India.
Tap, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, provides case studies of trans-Atlantic projects, market intelligence, legal advice and information on sales and distribution. The programme is directed at producers at career mid-level who have produced at least one feature film or TV series.
It includes two training modules in Berlin (June 16 – 21) and Halifax, Canada (September 10– 16), where Tap producers...
Film and TV drama co-production training and networking programme Trans-Atlantic Partners (Tap) has revealed its 2018 line-up of 25 producers from across Europe, Canada, the USA and India.
Tap, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, provides case studies of trans-Atlantic projects, market intelligence, legal advice and information on sales and distribution. The programme is directed at producers at career mid-level who have produced at least one feature film or TV series.
It includes two training modules in Berlin (June 16 – 21) and Halifax, Canada (September 10– 16), where Tap producers...
- 6/13/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Maverick, lo-fi, outsider producers Pinball Films and director Ashley Horner (pictured above) have been nominated as one of Creative England’s 50 most exciting creative companies in the country right now.
CE50, a showcase of the best up and coming, innovative and disruptive companies across film, games and digital tech sees Industry leaders come together on Thursday 24th May at Facebook HQ, London to drive a creative revolution and shape the future.
From the punk-fuelled hybrid documentary The Hippies: Punk rocked my Cradle currently shooting, to the gorgeously erotic feature BrilliantLove, Pinball Films have forged a reputation as the bravest and most daring makers of British cinema for a decade, colluding with the twisted talents of Matt Hulse, Sean Conway, Martin Radich and NY’s finest Rona Mark.
Next up for Horner is Bear, a supernatural Nordic horror that’s written by BNerdly’s very own Stuart Wright and is to...
CE50, a showcase of the best up and coming, innovative and disruptive companies across film, games and digital tech sees Industry leaders come together on Thursday 24th May at Facebook HQ, London to drive a creative revolution and shape the future.
From the punk-fuelled hybrid documentary The Hippies: Punk rocked my Cradle currently shooting, to the gorgeously erotic feature BrilliantLove, Pinball Films have forged a reputation as the bravest and most daring makers of British cinema for a decade, colluding with the twisted talents of Matt Hulse, Sean Conway, Martin Radich and NY’s finest Rona Mark.
Next up for Horner is Bear, a supernatural Nordic horror that’s written by BNerdly’s very own Stuart Wright and is to...
- 5/24/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
If your summer plans include long bouts of travel — whether you’re planning a cross-country road trip or intercontinental flight — try these workouts you can do to keep active while in transit.
“With summer upon us, the traveling rate for the next few months will continue to climb,” says Reebok trainer Ashley Horner, who created an exclusive travel workout for People. “Wherever your travels will take you this summer, you can take your fitness with you — just because you’re traveling doesn’t mean you have to leave your fitness behind.”
Horner recommends fitting in time to be active as...
“With summer upon us, the traveling rate for the next few months will continue to climb,” says Reebok trainer Ashley Horner, who created an exclusive travel workout for People. “Wherever your travels will take you this summer, you can take your fitness with you — just because you’re traveling doesn’t mean you have to leave your fitness behind.”
Horner recommends fitting in time to be active as...
- 6/15/2017
- by Gabrielle Olya
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Matt Hulse directing project with Pinball Films and Aconite Productions.
Production is underway on The Hippies: Punk Rocked My Cradle, a feature documentary from director Matt Hulse.
Hulse’s previous credits include Dummy Jim, the 2013 feature doc that premiered in official selection at Rotterdam International Film Festival and was nominated for the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival before being released by Jukebox Kino in the UK.
The Hippies is being produced by Ashley Horner for Newcastle outfit Pinball Films and Aimara Reques for Glasgow outfit Aconite Productions and is being co-financed by Creative England and Creative Scotland.
The project was pitched at Cph:dox and at the Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket in 2014. It was further developed by Andy Jones’s UK doc outfit Radio Film.
The film will be a hybrid documentary focusing on ‘Britain’s youngest punk band’, The Hippies, who were formed in 1979. Comprised of Toby (aged 12), Matt (10) and Polly (7), and under the...
Production is underway on The Hippies: Punk Rocked My Cradle, a feature documentary from director Matt Hulse.
Hulse’s previous credits include Dummy Jim, the 2013 feature doc that premiered in official selection at Rotterdam International Film Festival and was nominated for the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival before being released by Jukebox Kino in the UK.
The Hippies is being produced by Ashley Horner for Newcastle outfit Pinball Films and Aimara Reques for Glasgow outfit Aconite Productions and is being co-financed by Creative England and Creative Scotland.
The project was pitched at Cph:dox and at the Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket in 2014. It was further developed by Andy Jones’s UK doc outfit Radio Film.
The film will be a hybrid documentary focusing on ‘Britain’s youngest punk band’, The Hippies, who were formed in 1979. Comprised of Toby (aged 12), Matt (10) and Polly (7), and under the...
- 6/12/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The winners have been announced at the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival’s top prizes were awarded to Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero (UK-Spain), which took the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s Suntan (Greece) which won Best International Feature Film, and Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World (Us), which won Best Documentary Feature Film.
The Michael Powell jury, which included actress Kim Cattrall, Spanish filmmaker Iciar Bollain and actor Clancy Brown, also gave a special mention to Mercedes Grower’s Brakes.
On their selection of Scottish film-maker Sharrock’s Basque-language debut about a young Spanish couple’s attempt to navigate their country’s economic crisis, the Michael Powell jury said: “We wanted to recognise the very personal and individual voice on director Ben Sharrock for his film Pikadero. In a year when the jury viewed a selection of very distinctive and different films, his film really stood out.”
On handing...
The festival’s top prizes were awarded to Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero (UK-Spain), which took the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s Suntan (Greece) which won Best International Feature Film, and Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World (Us), which won Best Documentary Feature Film.
The Michael Powell jury, which included actress Kim Cattrall, Spanish filmmaker Iciar Bollain and actor Clancy Brown, also gave a special mention to Mercedes Grower’s Brakes.
On their selection of Scottish film-maker Sharrock’s Basque-language debut about a young Spanish couple’s attempt to navigate their country’s economic crisis, the Michael Powell jury said: “We wanted to recognise the very personal and individual voice on director Ben Sharrock for his film Pikadero. In a year when the jury viewed a selection of very distinctive and different films, his film really stood out.”
On handing...
- 6/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
Nearly 60 international and Canadian producers will head to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s (Omdc) annual International Financing Forum in Toronto.
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
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The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
Scroll down for more projects
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
- 9/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kevorkian, Shoval, Haq, Fiennes, Sigurðsson, Nikonova and Runarsson heading to Les Arcs European Film Festival with upcoming projects.Scroll down for full list of projects
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
The UK’s Johnny Kevorkian and Sophie Fiennes, Israeli Tom Shoval, Norwegian Iram Haq and Russia’s Angelina Nikonova will be among the filmmakers presenting their upcoming projects at the Les Arcs Co-Production Village this year.
The event, running Dec 13-16 within the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 13-20), will present 25 projects in development and a further 10 Works-in-Progress.
“I thinks it’s a good sign that filmmakers whose projects we presented in development are now coming back to show their films in Work-in-Progress, which is the case for Sparrow and Rams,” said Les Arcs industry head Vanja Kaludjercic.
“Conversely, we’ve got directors who presented in Works-in Progress, such as Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, who came with Paris of the North last year, who is back with his new project The Tree...
- 11/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Johnny Kevorkian to direct Hidden Folk; Pinball Films to produce.
UK producer Ashley Horner of Pinball Films will be at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market (Aug 20-21) pitching Hidden Folk, a Norway-set thriller to be directed by Johnny Kevorkian.
Stuart Wright wrote the screenplay, set on an isolated Norwegian farm, about an overprotective father battling a shape-shifting demon to protect his teenage daughter.
Potential cast for the €2m project includes Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure, Game of Thrones).
Petter Olsen of Kindergarten Media will be the Norwegian co-producer, and the project is being readied for a summer 2015 shoot.
Kevorkian’s last feature was The Disappeared, which was sold to Soda Pictures in the UK and IFC in North America.
Pinball’s credits include The Orgasm Diaries (aka Brilliantlove), produced and directed by Horner and written by Sean Conway; as well as co-productions Objects Attack! and The Conundrum.
UK producer Ashley Horner of Pinball Films will be at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market (Aug 20-21) pitching Hidden Folk, a Norway-set thriller to be directed by Johnny Kevorkian.
Stuart Wright wrote the screenplay, set on an isolated Norwegian farm, about an overprotective father battling a shape-shifting demon to protect his teenage daughter.
Potential cast for the €2m project includes Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure, Game of Thrones).
Petter Olsen of Kindergarten Media will be the Norwegian co-producer, and the project is being readied for a summer 2015 shoot.
Kevorkian’s last feature was The Disappeared, which was sold to Soda Pictures in the UK and IFC in North America.
Pinball’s credits include The Orgasm Diaries (aka Brilliantlove), produced and directed by Horner and written by Sean Conway; as well as co-productions Objects Attack! and The Conundrum.
- 8/12/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Johnny Kevorkian to direct Hidden Folk; Pinball Films to produce.
UK producer Ashley Horner of Pinball Films will be at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market (Aug 20-21) pitching Hidden Folk, a Norway-set thriller to be directed by Johnny Kevorkian.
Stuart Wright wrote the screenplay, set on an isolated Norwegian farm, about an overprotective father battling a shape-shifting demon to protect his teenage daughter.
Potential cast for the €2m project includes Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure, Game of Thrones).
Petter Olsen of Kindergarten Media will be the Norwegian co-producer, and the project is being readied for a summer 2015 shoot.
Kevorkian’s last feature was The Disappeared, which was sold to Soda Pictures in the UK and IFC in North America.
Pinball’s credits include The Orgasm Diaries (aka Brilliantlove), produced and directed by Horner and written by Sean Conway; as well as co-productions Objects Attack! and The Conundrum.
UK producer Ashley Horner of Pinball Films will be at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market (Aug 20-21) pitching Hidden Folk, a Norway-set thriller to be directed by Johnny Kevorkian.
Stuart Wright wrote the screenplay, set on an isolated Norwegian farm, about an overprotective father battling a shape-shifting demon to protect his teenage daughter.
Potential cast for the €2m project includes Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure, Game of Thrones).
Petter Olsen of Kindergarten Media will be the Norwegian co-producer, and the project is being readied for a summer 2015 shoot.
Kevorkian’s last feature was The Disappeared, which was sold to Soda Pictures in the UK and IFC in North America.
Pinball’s credits include The Orgasm Diaries (aka Brilliantlove), produced and directed by Horner and written by Sean Conway; as well as co-productions Objects Attack! and The Conundrum.
- 8/12/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Orgasm Diaries--known in the UK as brilliantlove--is director Ashley Horner's second feature film. In 2006, he produced and directed The Other Possibility, drawing upon his experience in the music industry to tell the story of a music journalist who, upon discovering she has blood cancer, travels to find her father. Yet Horner describes it as "very much a first film". We spoke with Horner about the process of making the graphic erotic drama brilliantlove; how it became marketed as The Orgasm Diaries when IFC Midnight picked it up; and the sexual mores of European versus American audiences.
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- 1/6/2011
- by Natalie Zutter
- Filmology
Our film critic makes the nominations for his own personal Oscars in a widely underrated year for film
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
- 12/1/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
We Are What We Are (15)
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
- 11/13/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
The premise of this sexually explicit debut might be a bit implausible, but there's no faulting the performances, writes Peter Bradshaw
There are some unrealities and implausibilities in this sexually explicit film from first-time feature director Ashley Horner, yet it's made interesting by the physically and emotionally exhibitionistic, on- and, in fact, over-the-edge performances by Nancy Trotter Landry and Liam Browne. They are Noon, a would-be taxidermist madly in love with Manchester, a photography student who lives in a terrible lock-up garage where the couple have steamy penetrative sex 24 hours out of 24. Manchester is into photographing Leah while they're having sex, and the pictures fall into the hands of a somewhat unlikely porn baron who's looking to move into some sort of sub-Saatchi, upmarket-museum-quality erotica. He persuades Manchester to let him take over his career, and Manchester's interest in Noon's body becomes ever more manipulative and obsessive; he shows himself...
There are some unrealities and implausibilities in this sexually explicit film from first-time feature director Ashley Horner, yet it's made interesting by the physically and emotionally exhibitionistic, on- and, in fact, over-the-edge performances by Nancy Trotter Landry and Liam Browne. They are Noon, a would-be taxidermist madly in love with Manchester, a photography student who lives in a terrible lock-up garage where the couple have steamy penetrative sex 24 hours out of 24. Manchester is into photographing Leah while they're having sex, and the pictures fall into the hands of a somewhat unlikely porn baron who's looking to move into some sort of sub-Saatchi, upmarket-museum-quality erotica. He persuades Manchester to let him take over his career, and Manchester's interest in Noon's body becomes ever more manipulative and obsessive; he shows himself...
- 11/12/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Illusionist and Ben Miller's directing debut, Huge, are two of the gems this year
Magicians don't exist is the forlorn message of Sylvain Chomet's beautiful animation The Illusionist, which opened the 64th Edinburgh international film festival. I should think film festival organisers often reach a similarly prosaic conclusion, for they can only work with what's in front of them. But the collection of films on show this year has certainly got some style about it, if not quite magic.
After complaining for the past few years about Edinburgh holding its gala nights in the unattractive multiplex on the edge of town, I was delighted with the transformation of the lovely old Festival theatre on Nicolson Street into an atmospheric cinema. It gave the opening night a real flourish, complete with dancing girls in feathers, a brass band and moustached mime-artists performing magic.
The Illusionist, the follow-up to the director's award-winning Belleville Rendez-Vous,...
Magicians don't exist is the forlorn message of Sylvain Chomet's beautiful animation The Illusionist, which opened the 64th Edinburgh international film festival. I should think film festival organisers often reach a similarly prosaic conclusion, for they can only work with what's in front of them. But the collection of films on show this year has certainly got some style about it, if not quite magic.
After complaining for the past few years about Edinburgh holding its gala nights in the unattractive multiplex on the edge of town, I was delighted with the transformation of the lovely old Festival theatre on Nicolson Street into an atmospheric cinema. It gave the opening night a real flourish, complete with dancing girls in feathers, a brass band and moustached mime-artists performing magic.
The Illusionist, the follow-up to the director's award-winning Belleville Rendez-Vous,...
- 6/19/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Rating: 1.5/5
Directors: Ashley Horner
Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry
The conceit of Brilliantlove is simple: Love can not be challenged until something comes along to test its strength. If a perfect world is created around two people, whether intentional or unintentional, they can exist inside a bubble filled with life and surroundings of their choosing; an environment that only compliments their relationship with nothing to undermine it and nothing to cheapen it. There’s a real beauty knowing that it can still be possible to be so wrapped around someone that you don’t know where they end and you begin. Oh, and the sex is great, too.
Read more on Tribeca 2010 Review: Brilliantlove…...
Directors: Ashley Horner
Cast: Liam Browne, Nancy Trotter Landry
The conceit of Brilliantlove is simple: Love can not be challenged until something comes along to test its strength. If a perfect world is created around two people, whether intentional or unintentional, they can exist inside a bubble filled with life and surroundings of their choosing; an environment that only compliments their relationship with nothing to undermine it and nothing to cheapen it. There’s a real beauty knowing that it can still be possible to be so wrapped around someone that you don’t know where they end and you begin. Oh, and the sex is great, too.
Read more on Tribeca 2010 Review: Brilliantlove…...
- 5/4/2010
- by Drew Tinnin
- GordonandtheWhale
I agreed to interview brilliantlove director Ashley Horner before I was able to see the film, a decision that has to be made often at film festivals because schedules are so hectic. After I saw the film I was faced with an interesting dilemma-- an interview with the director of a film I totally hated (read my review here to find out how much). I could have cancelled the interview, but I was actually interested to hear Horner talk about some of the biggest problems I had with the film, namely that the idealistic central characters Noon and Manchester were utterly unbelievable and irritating, and that the film's central focus on sex seemed like shocking for shock's sake. I didn't want to lay into Horner for all the reasons I didn't like his film, but posed my questions in a way I hope was respectful, questions coming from a genuine...
- 5/3/2010
- cinemablend.com
Year: 2010
Directors: Ashley Horner
Writers: Sean Conway
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 4 out of 10
Brilliantlove tells the story of Manchester (Liam Browne) and Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry)—two super insignificant hipster twenty-somethings—who are madly in love with one another, have sex every five seconds, live in a garage in a dilapidated countryside, steal from the local grocer who’s just trying to make a living, and say the word “pussy” a lot. So, what you’ve got here is a film about bourgeois gentrifiers, stealing from the working class, as they try far too hard to be “real” and intense while they look for their next pair of skinny jeans. In essence, they suck.
The plot is even more yawn-able: Boy-hipster takes silly and pretentious photos of his lover when she’s naked, when she’s sleeping, and when she’s taxiderming. (Did you know...
Directors: Ashley Horner
Writers: Sean Conway
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 4 out of 10
Brilliantlove tells the story of Manchester (Liam Browne) and Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry)—two super insignificant hipster twenty-somethings—who are madly in love with one another, have sex every five seconds, live in a garage in a dilapidated countryside, steal from the local grocer who’s just trying to make a living, and say the word “pussy” a lot. So, what you’ve got here is a film about bourgeois gentrifiers, stealing from the working class, as they try far too hard to be “real” and intense while they look for their next pair of skinny jeans. In essence, they suck.
The plot is even more yawn-able: Boy-hipster takes silly and pretentious photos of his lover when she’s naked, when she’s sleeping, and when she’s taxiderming. (Did you know...
- 4/30/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The sexuality in "brilliantlove," in which a couple's private lovemaking photos go public, creates a simultaneously frank and disarmingly innocent experience. An explicit British drama competently directed by Ashley Horner, the movie revolves around Manchester (Liam Browne) and Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry), two young lovebirds with horniness to spare. Living out of his garage in the colorful backdrop of the English countryside, Manchester relaxes in the summer heat, taking candid snapshots ...
- 4/29/2010
- Indiewire
brilliantlove has a title that's all lowercase and all one word, so you know it's artsy from the beginning. Read the synopsis and you can probably learn that it's also a very earnest movie about young people in love and having lots of sex. Unless you're 14 years old, that should be all the information you need to stay very, very far away. The second film by English director Ashley Horner, who is really old enough to know better, brilliantlove is about Noon (Nancy Trotter Landy) and Manchester (Liam Browne), two young twentysomethings who call themselves artists but don't seem to be making any art that anyone else has seen. Noon, because she's a movie character and not a real person, is an aspiring taxidermist, while Manchester takes a lot of photos of Noon while she's naked, or even while having sex with him. Did I mention these kids have a...
- 4/27/2010
- cinemablend.com
"Love is like a bird: hold it too tight and you'll crush it, too loose and it'll fly away." Such is the story of brilliantlove, a film written by Sean Conway and directed by Ashley Horner. In the film, Manchester and Noon are so tangibly in love, you can taste it. He paints brilliantlove on the door to their little love nest inside a storage unit, where the two live with only a bed, a stash of kitschy junk and a fridge full of ice pops. They rarely, if ever, wear clothes. In this nest, they make love - often, and graphically. However, what it arouses is not a desire for such unabashed lovemaking, but for the uncomplicated love implied. It's beautiful and deeply stirring to see how Manchester is half-mad over Noon, in fact. He takes her photo constantly, in all states: from above, from underneath, undressed or partially so.
- 4/26/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Yes boys and girls we're just a few days out from the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival here in New York City, which I will be attending all by my lonesome. If there are any New York readers who happen to attend a film and would like to contribute to the coverage, than drop me a line at: benumstead@gmail.com
On the evening of Wednesday, April 21st, things kick off with the world premiere of... uh... Shrek Forever After. Yeah, Ok... while that may not be totally twitch inducing, the fest has some eclectic offerings from April 22nd - May 2nd, that I'm sure will float yer boats.
From established fest successes making one last hurrah before release, like Neil Jordan's latest fairy tale twist, Ondine, and J Blakeson's Isle of Man set thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, to premieres like longtime Shane Meadows' collaborator Paul Fraser's debut,...
On the evening of Wednesday, April 21st, things kick off with the world premiere of... uh... Shrek Forever After. Yeah, Ok... while that may not be totally twitch inducing, the fest has some eclectic offerings from April 22nd - May 2nd, that I'm sure will float yer boats.
From established fest successes making one last hurrah before release, like Neil Jordan's latest fairy tale twist, Ondine, and J Blakeson's Isle of Man set thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed, to premieres like longtime Shane Meadows' collaborator Paul Fraser's debut,...
- 4/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
While most of the eyes in film are on either SXSW or ShoWest out on the West Coast, folks out on the East Coast are gearing up for Tribeca Film Festival coming up next month. Last week, the fest announced the first group of films, which included the World Narrative films, the Documentaries, as well as Showcases and Special Events.
Now, the festival is getting a bit more star-heavy, as films starring such actors as Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Casey Affleck, and even Jessica Alba have joined the list of those titles appearing at the fest. All of these films are now coming to the festival this year, as well as the world premiere of Shrek Forever After.
The fest runs from April 21st to May 2nd. Check out the full list of new films after the jump, and be sure to keep it here, as the full list of...
Now, the festival is getting a bit more star-heavy, as films starring such actors as Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Casey Affleck, and even Jessica Alba have joined the list of those titles appearing at the fest. All of these films are now coming to the festival this year, as well as the world premiere of Shrek Forever After.
The fest runs from April 21st to May 2nd. Check out the full list of new films after the jump, and be sure to keep it here, as the full list of...
- 3/16/2010
- by Matt Raub
- The Flickcast
The Tribeca Film Festival opens on April 21, 2010 and a variety of films will be on display, from documentaries and international films, to big budget films like "Shrek Forever After" (which will make its world premiere at Tribeca).
Today the festival has announced its entire feature film lineup, and you can check out below what films will be on display.
2010 Tribeca Film Festival:
Encounters
"The Chameleon ("Le Cameleon")," directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, written by Jean-Paul Salomé and Natalie Carter. (France, USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Climate of Change," directed by Brian Hill. (USA/UK) – North American Premiere, Documentary. "Every Day," directed and written by Richard Levine. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Last Play at Shea," directed by Paul Crowder and Jon Small (concert footage). (USA) – World Premiere, Documentary. "Meet Monica Velour," directed and written by Keith Bearden. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Monogamy," directed by Dana Adam Shapiro, written by Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan Weiner.
Today the festival has announced its entire feature film lineup, and you can check out below what films will be on display.
2010 Tribeca Film Festival:
Encounters
"The Chameleon ("Le Cameleon")," directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, written by Jean-Paul Salomé and Natalie Carter. (France, USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Climate of Change," directed by Brian Hill. (USA/UK) – North American Premiere, Documentary. "Every Day," directed and written by Richard Levine. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Last Play at Shea," directed by Paul Crowder and Jon Small (concert footage). (USA) – World Premiere, Documentary. "Meet Monica Velour," directed and written by Keith Bearden. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. "Monogamy," directed by Dana Adam Shapiro, written by Dana Adam Shapiro and Evan Weiner.
- 3/15/2010
- by amcsts@gmail.com
- AMC - Script to Screen
Edward Burns, Chuck Workman and Alex Gibney will all unveil the world premieres of their newest films at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, running from Apr. 21-May 2 in lower Manhattan.
The three filmmakers will present their latest work as part of the fest's Encounters section, announced today, which encompasses 14 films from established talent. Filling out its program, the fest also revealed another 17 films in its Discovery section, which focuses on emerging talent, and another eight films in its Spotlight section, featuring movies built around performances from such artists as Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall.
"Our Discovery and Encounters sections complement one another -- one highlights fresh talent that is breaking onto the scene, while the latter continues to offer original films that reflect pop culture and contemporary issues," senior programmer Genna Terranova said. New York native Burns will bring "Nice Guy Johnny,...
The three filmmakers will present their latest work as part of the fest's Encounters section, announced today, which encompasses 14 films from established talent. Filling out its program, the fest also revealed another 17 films in its Discovery section, which focuses on emerging talent, and another eight films in its Spotlight section, featuring movies built around performances from such artists as Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall.
"Our Discovery and Encounters sections complement one another -- one highlights fresh talent that is breaking onto the scene, while the latter continues to offer original films that reflect pop culture and contemporary issues," senior programmer Genna Terranova said. New York native Burns will bring "Nice Guy Johnny,...
- 3/15/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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