Danny Boyle
Criterion’s new 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray is the best Trainspotting has ever looked and sounded on home video format and is the definitive way of viewing.
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Can film capture national events, the feelings of a nation, or national change? Is there space for it in the age of blockbusters?
While Yesterday isn’t perfect, it’s the lighthearted, fun, summer movie that we need right now.
In our second report from Edinburgh International Film Festival we cover Yesterday, Love Type D, Astrounaut and more!
In Yesterday, a a struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
The quietly consistent career of Cillian Murphy, is one that has seen him become a sure-fire presence in British and American cinema.
T2 Trainspotting, though enjoyable in its own right, ultimately relies too heavily on nostalgia for the original to be a complete success.
In 2009 Danny Boyle joked that he wanted to make a sequel but only when the original actors had visibly aged enough to do it. After 20 years, T2: Trainspotting is coming to cinemas early 2017.
“Based on a true story.” “Based on true events.” “Inspired by actual events.
Since breaking out with Trainspotting 20 years ago, director Danny Boyle has proven himself to be one of the UK’s most diverse filmmakers. Growing up in Greater Manchester, UK, in a working class Irish Catholic family, Boyle spent eight years as a choir boy and intended to join the Priesthood, deciding against it at the age of 14. He went on to study English and Drama at Bangor University and began his career in theater in the 1980’s.
Let’s get this out of the way: Steve Jobs was a great salesman. That is the only positive out of a sea of negatives.
“My approach to 3D is in a way quite conservative … I want it to be comfortable. I want you to forget after a few minutes that you are really watching 3D and just have it operate at a subliminal, subconscious level. That’s the key to great 3D and it makes the audience feel like real participants in what’s going on.
It’s no surprise that the Oscars often get it wrong. The list of film legends who have never won an Academy Award is pretty damning on the Academy: from Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchc*ck to Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
