Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
Two English coming-of-age dramas about young girls at a crossroads whose fates are impacted by older men emerged from the festival circuit as critical darlings in 2009. Lone Sherfig’s An Education was a Sundance hit that has already landed in theaters while Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank made waves at [...]

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I don’t know if I like this new US poster for Andrea Arnold’s Cannes and BIFA award-winning Fish Tank (click to enlarge), but I’m a fan of the film so I’m going to take every opportunity to hammer away at it until it comes out next week.
When it comes to English Girl Coming of Age [...]

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I ran the UK trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Cannes hit and BIFA winner Fish Tank back in August and now here’s the official US trailer that went up at Apple a couple of days ago.
The film tells the story of 15-year-old Mia, a working class English girl aching to break free of her grim existence [...]

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Double BIFA nominee Katie Jarvis in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank
This is the part where we start pausing and mentioning just about every awards and festival recognition that comes across the transom.
Here are the British Independent Film Awards. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, which I finally saw last night and will be writing about soon, got 8 [...]

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Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France…
Inglourious Basterds is a rambunctious, revenge fueled, “what if” rewrite of history that could only have been made by a cinematic savant like Quentin Tarantino. Here is a man who views the world through a camera lens winning World War II with the power of sound and images. [...]

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English artist Steve McQueen’s first feature, Hunger, is an uncompromising, grim and intense piece of work that probes the 66 day hunger strike led by Bobby Sands to restore the political status of members of the IRA being held at The Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981.
Largely eschewing the highly charged politics behind the [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]

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