October 21st, 2008 by Joy | No Comments
The Indie Festival is a traditional festival in the city of Belo Horizonte. Every year, it brings young filmmakers and film lovers to an international exhibition of independent movies, and this year wasn’t different. Being a festival with free admission and not that much promoted, the audience is very select, formed basically by people with [...]
September 19th, 2008 by Joy | No Comments
The story: A wry coming-of-age comedy about twenty-something Art (Robert Pattinson) who gets dumped by his girlfriend, moves back in with his parents and hits a quarter-life crisis. Art uses inheritance money to indulge in retail and new age therapies only to end up enlisting the help of an eccentric self-help guru, Dr. Ellington (Powell [...]
August 10th, 2008 by Isabel | 1 Comment
I took an adventure on Friday night to Rhode Island. A long, traffic-y adventure that had me yelling things at the universe about justice and poor driving skills and Mystic, CT. Blessed be that the universe didn’t have to make good on our “pinky” swear that if I missed the showing of “How [...]
August 8th, 2008 by Isabel | 1 Comment
Hello,
Last night I went to the New Producers Alliance screening of How to Be at the Charlotte Street Hotel in central London - it is was enjoyable as always (my third viewing), and as uncomfortable! Which is the idea!
If you don’t know much about the film, let me enlighten you. How To Be is a [...]
August 7th, 2008 by Joy | No Comments
According to staff members at the 12th Rhode Island International Film Festival, the greatest interest in any film at this year’s festival has been generated by the British film How to Be, which will play tomorrow.
The reason is not because it’s a soul-searching study of twentysomething angst in which a very unhappy young man who [...]
August 7th, 2008 by Tara | 1 Comment
Movie Review:
Immensely funny and awkward, How To Be, is a movie about every young person who’s felt out of place. Throughout the movie we are faced with the both pathetic and sympathetic character of Art; painfully uncomfortable in his own skin, he is who we could all be, with just a little push in [...]
April 2nd, 2008 by Joy | No Comments
Oliver Irving’s wry British comedy explores the quarter-life crisis of Art (Robert Patterson) a frustrated musician who’s completely depressed about his life, and hires a Self-Help specialist, to solve his problems. Produced for around a million quid, “How to Be” is a funny/poignant picture of how truly rubbish it can sometimes be to grow up [...]
January 19th, 2008 by Joy | No Comments
Finished just two days before it’s world premiere, Oliver Irving’s first feature How To Be tells the humorous story of a directionless young man who turns to a self-help guru in hopes of becoming more “normal”.
November 6th, 2006 by Joy | No Comments
All of the BBC’s blue filters must have been requisitioned for The Haunted Airman, a very disturbing, beautifully made and satisfyingly chilling ghost story.