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2009

In Fish Tank, 15 year old Mia's life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Director Andrea Arnold casts the same unflinching, unprejudiced gaze and touches on the themes of her Oscar-winning short Wasp to create an original and unsettling tale for our age. Following his acclaimed central performance .. Read more

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  Fish Tank: Katie Jarvis

  • Helen Cowley
  • 09 Sep 2009

  17 year-old Katie Jarvis was discovered having a blazing row with her boyfriend at a train station, and has gone on to give a phenomenal performance as Essex girl Mia in director Andrea Arnold’s Cannes Jury prize winning, Fish Tank. We caught up with Jarvis to talk attitude, acting and babies… LOVEFiLM: Have you been surprised by the amount of success the film has has so far this year? Katie Jarvis: Yeah, it is a little bit unreal I think. I’m still getting used to everything. Read more

  

  Fish Tank & Woman Without Piano triumph at AFI Festival

  • 06 Nov 2009

  Acclaimed indie movies Fish Tank and Woman Without Piano shared the inaugural New Lights Award at the American Film Institute Festival in Hollywood on Thursday (05Nov09). The winners were announced at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel following the closing night gala screening of Tom Ford's A Single Man. The New Lights competition was created to acknowledge and honour vital, groundbreaking films by first and second time feature filmmakers from around the world. Andrea Arnold was honoured for Fish... Read more

  

  Rapace & Skarsgard's son up for Swedish Oscars

  • 06 Jan 2011

  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace and Stellan Skarsgard's son Bill are among the actors nominated for Sweden's version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge. Rapace, who picked up the Best Actress Guldbagge in 2009 for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has been nominated again for her performance in Beyond, which is also nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Ironically, Beyond's first-time director Pernilla August will compete... Read more

  

  The X Factor: the Stars of Tomorrow?

  • 01 Jun 2011

  In Matthew Vaughn’s prequel X-Men: First Class, James McAvoy plays the young Charles Xavier (aka Patrick Stewart), and Michael Fassbender plays the future Magneto (or Ian McKellen). Vaughn – who started out as Guy Ritchie’s producer and who can take some credit, I guess, for spotting the star potential in Jason Statham, Tom Hardy and Vinnie Jones – has assembled a mighty hip cast. It includes Winter’s Bone sensation Jennifer Lawrence (as the young Raven/Mystique), Read more

  

  Hail and Farewell, UKFC

  • 16 Mar 2011

  It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the UK Film Council. The best of times, because the Film Council played a significant role in getting Richard Ayoade’s first film Submarine off the ground. The coming of age comedy, which opens this week, has been met with rave reviews and was sold to The Weinstein Company for US distribution. The Film Council also invested in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur and James Marsh’s documentary Project Nim, both of which won... Read more

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