Articles by Adam Batty
Adam Batty runs the film website Hope Lies At 24 Frames Per Second. Having recently completed his MA, he is now focussing his attentions on redefining the very concept of the regional film organisation, with SheffieldFilm.com.
Taking place over eleven days in March, the 17th Bradford International Film Festival saw its programme announced this week. Sitting between a Woody Allen flick, and a Woody Harrelson film are over 100 features from over 30 countries.
The Coen Brothers return with a take on the Charles Portis novel that inspired the 1969 John Wayne film of the same name, with Jeff Bridges this time filling the boots of the Duke.
David O. Russell directs Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in this weeks big release, a Boxing-film that deals with far more than physical confrontation.
The 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the events of 7/7 and an exploration of what happens to us when we die form the plot of Clint Eastwood’s latest work, starring Matt Damon.
Here’s a look forward to the cinema of 2011, from resident cinephile Adam Batty.
The charting of the breakdown of a couple, interweaving their initial courtship with the final hours of their marriage, Blue Valentine depicts the story of Dean and Cindy, a pair of young Americans. Dean, a …
This week marks the beginning of the run up to the awards season, with two films tipped to be major hitters come Oscar time. Both Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours are films from British filmmakers that have intercepted the annual circus, and will no doubt be focus of the British media in the run up to any and all ceremony.
2010 has proven an amazing year for the cinema, with every corner of the movie spectrum covered aptly, with both the arthouse and the multiplex brimming with bona-fide classics. Here’s Adam Batty’s count down
Sofia Coppola, 2010. US.
Sofia Coppola returns to the big screen with her first feature in four years with Somewhere, an exploration of Hollywood’s culture and excesses. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, a Hollywood actor estranged from …
Gareth Edwards, 2010. UK/US.
The critical success of Gareth Edwards’ Monsters is really quite something. Visual effects designer turned first time filmmaker Edwards has produced a film which has not only appealed to the mainstream, evident …
Des hommes et des dieux, Xavier Beauvois, 2010. FRA.
I’ve been toiling over my thoughts on Xavier Beauvois Of Gods And Men for a few days now, which considering the subject matter of the film …
Well, a belated send off for the London Film Festival, which closed last Thursday to the end credits of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. Apologies for the delayed reportage, but the last few days proved to …
The talk of the day on Thursday was of The King’s Speech, a film that looks set to repeat its success at the upcoming award season.
The briefest of entries today guys, as I’m super ridiculously busy preparing for Fridays “big-secret interview-with-a-major-film-director!” (the talk of the festival if you will). As a result, I won’t be posting updates on today or …
Apologies for the brevity of todays entry, I’m super-busy in anticipation of some very exciting events leading into the weekend.
West Is West, the follow up to 1999’s East Is East appears to have popped …
The sixth day of this years London Film Festival began with disappointment, as the realisation dawned upon me that …
It’s been a busy first weekend at the 2010 London Film Festival, so apologies if I’ve missed anything off!
Day three at this year’s London Film Festival, and the pace slows down after the Hollywood one-two of the past two days.
The Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank double headlined Conviction was the closest the day came …
The big film of the second day of this years festival was vampire-children-drama Let Me In, the English-language remake of 2008’s hugely successful Let The Right One In, one of the best received Swedish films of the last decade.
The London Film Festival got off to a flying start last night, with the British premiere of Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, the story of three friends growing up at boarding school in a dystopian Britain which is not what it seems.
The Social Network, David Fincher’s charting of the founding fathers of post-911 digital America, tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook and America’s youngest billionaire.
For the first time, The Culture Vulture will be present at the London Film Festival this year, lending a Northern orientated slant to proceedings.
The festival opens tonight with a screening of Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me …
Perhaps the highlight of the Northern film calendar, the Leeds International Film Festival has carved a wonderful niche for itself over the past couple of years, combining mainstream big hitters with one of the most …
Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura makes his way to the region this week, with a screening of his work followed by a talk with the man himself at the University of Leeds on Monday evening.
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Ben Affleck’s latest film, his sophomore effort and third part of his Boston Trilogy follows in the tradition of Michael Mann’s Heat and the Soderbergh Ocean’s films in revitalising the archetypical Heist flick for a new audience.
If David Fincher directed It’s A Wonderful Life using Google Earth, the resulting piece of film would resemble Enter The Void.
