Thursday, August 18, 2011

Lemonade Mouth


Lemonade Mouth, premieres in the UK this September! 



Following in the steps of High School Musical, Lemonade Mouth is the musical drama that stars British actress Naomi Scott together with Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks and Hayley Kiyoko, and tells the story of five high school students who meet in detention and form a band to stand up for their beliefs.

Stella (Hayley Kiyoko) immediately recognizes the potential for the group of friends to become a band, but first she must convince the reluctant group that they need to take a chance on expressing themselves. As the new friends learn more about each other, they discover their common belief that it's time for the students of Mesa High School to stand up and be heard -- all students, not just the popular athletes who benefit from Principal Brenigan's support of their extracurricular programs.

However, not everyone in the school is ready to welcome a new band; the school's popular rock group, Mudslide Crush, are determined to maintain their status as the school's leading entertainment choice.

From Birth to Teens: TV’s Earliest Years at BFI Southbank


Throughout September,  BFI  Southbank will celebrate the 75th  anniversary of a landmark in  
Television history that saw Britain  deliver the world’s first high definition, regular public television service. Together with  The  Alexandra Palace Television Society, the BFI will host a short season of early public demonstration films, plays, and documentaries plus rarely seen extracts from early films and stills on  display. 


In the 1930’s, there  was feverish activity across the globe as inventors, technicians and entrepreneurs sought to create the world’s first public television service. Great strides were being made in America, Russia, Germany, Japan and France, but it was Britain who emerged first. Although experimental services had been operating since the 1920’s, it was in November 1936 that the  BBC launched the world’s first high-definition, regular public television service following test transmissions at Radiolympia in August of that year.  The Television Age had begun.   


Television wasn’t invented by an individual but by the progressive and scientific minds of many, though there is no doubt that, in the UK, it was popularised by the Scottish inventor  John Logie Baird. His startling experiments made newspaper headlines and both him and his invention household names. When the BBC service launched in 1936, transmissions alternated between Baird’s mechanical system and Marconi EMI’s electronic equipment. Eventually the Marconi system was preferred, but Baird’s role in bringing TV to the public eye was of great importance in the development of a fully fledged public service. 

DocHouse Thursdays



From September, join us on DocHouse Thursdays to see why truth is more fascinating than any fiction.


DocHouse has joined forces with the Rich Mix, the Tricycle and Riverside Cinemas to bring the very best in award-winning international documentary to your doorstep. Screenings will also include exciting one-off events: director Q&As, panel discussions, workshops and/or short films.


There’s a new strand every month, launching in September with ‘David v Goliath’: three films that focus on individuals who dare to take on the Goliaths of social exploitation. The documentaries offer independent insights into major global issues, from street violence to deforestation and the bloody side of mobile phones. The season opens with Steve James’ award-winning The Interrupters and a lively panel, followed by Up in Smoke and Blood in the Mobile later in the month.


THE INTERRUPTERS, Riverside Studios, 8th Sept 7.30pm. Followed by a panel discussion.
Steve James / 2011 / USA / 125’
Special Jury Prize – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011


If The Wire’s urban tapestries were real, they might look like this **** - Total Film
A breath-taking account of efforts to end the epidemic of violence in Chicago’s impoverished black communities. Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) follows the ‘violence interrupters’ who have curbed their own troubled pasts to try and protect their neighbourhood. We follow the impassioned representatives from the CeaseFire Project as they battle against the relentless bloodshed of modern gang culture to provide an option of real hope.


UP IN SMOKE, Tricycle Cinema, 15th Sept 8.30pm. Followed by a director Q&A.
Adam Wakeling / 2011 / UK / 70’
Special Mention – Sheffield DocFest 2011


Slash and burn farming is an environmental catastrophe on the rise. Around 250million domestic tropical farmers use the technique that gives a year’s fertile soil, which then washes away with the next year’s rains, perpetually forcing growers into fresh rainforest. Deforestation accounts for more carbon emissions than all international transport, and slash-and-burn accounts for around half of that. But there is an answer. Cornish scientist Mike Hands has been working with a sustainable solution in Honduras for the past 20 years. We follow his struggle to break the devastating cycle and challenge international agricultural agencies.




BLOOD IN THE MOBILE, Rich Mix, 22nd Sept 8pm. Preview screening followed by a director Q&A.


Frank Piasecki Poulsen/ 2010/ Denmark/ 85’


Justice Award – Cinema For Peace Festival 2011


We can’t live without our mobile phones, but their production has a dark and bloody side. Minerals used to make our mobiles come from mines in the Eastern DR Congo, funding a brutal civil war responsible for around 5 million deaths, atrocious child labour and some 300,000 rapes in the last 15 years. It’s a war that will continue as long as armed groups can trade the minerals. Director Frank Poulsen travels to Congo and gets access to its largest illegal tin-mine, where enslaved children dig for days in narrow tunnels. He then tries to confront Nokia, the world’s largest phone company. Are they implicated in trading 'conflict minerals'?


COMING SOON… October’s films are in association with Black History Month, with special screenings of cutting-edge documentaries exploring Africa’s past, present and future.


PRICE: £9 (£7 concession).


DOCHOUSE: The UK Centre for Documentary in the Cinema. DocHouse has been supporting and promoting independent documentary films and filmmakers for a decade, with screenings of outstanding international documentary films, masterclasses and events with leading documentary filmmakers, training courses in association with the NFTS and Dochistory events held in partnership with the BBC. www.dochouse.org


RIVERSIDE STUDIOS CINEMA: Riverside has been working with DocHouse for many years and it's a pleasure to see the audience's appetite for documentaries grow. Now we're joining forces with two other independent cinemas to offer the pick of international documentaries on a regular basis. It's official - Thursday is Docday on the London cinema circuit! Shira Macleod, Cinema Director, Riverside Studios. Box Office: 0208 237 1111 www.riversidestudios.co.uk


TRICYCLE THEATRE & CINEMA: We’re delighted to be part of DocHouse Thursdays, working in collaboration with Riverside Studios and Rich Mix to provide a platform for the fantastic programming of DocHouse. The Tricycle always strives to present work which exposes injustice and responds to contemporary political issues and we look forward to introducing our audiences to this series of compelling documentaries. Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director, Tricycle Theatre. Box Office: 020 7328 1000 www.tricycle.co.uk


RICH MIX: We look forward to starting this exciting partnership with DocHouse and two fellow independent London cinemas - The Tricycle and Riverside Studios. DocHouse Thursdays will enable us to give interesting and diverse documentaries the platform to tell their, often untold, stories to new audiences. Jane Earl, Chief Executive, Rich Mix Cinema and Arts Centre. Box Office: 020 7613 7498 www.richmix.org.uk

Dark Matter



 

‘Brilliant’ – Entertainment Weekly
‘Moving’ – New York Daily News
‘Captivating’ - Newsday 

The psychological thriller ‘Dark Matter’ is based on the Iowa University killings in 1991 when a Chinese student went on the rampage and shot dead four of the university’s leading academics.
The film stars multiple Academy Award winning legend Meryl Streep (‘Doubt’; ‘The Devil Wears Prada’; ‘Mamma Mia!’), Aidan Quinn (‘Desperately Seeking Susan’; ‘Legends of the Fall’; ‘Unknown’) and Liu Ye (‘City Of Life And Death’; ‘Curse Of The Golden Flower’).


Critically acclaimed by the media and a winner at the Sundance Film Festival, ‘Dark Matter’ is released by High Fliers on retail DVD.


It tells the story of Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a scholarship boy from Beijing and a graduate cosmology student, who arrives at Valley State University in Salt Lake City to continue his studies.
Back in China, Liu Xing's parents are proud of him and he dedicates himself to fulfilling their hopes and expectations.


At first, he finds the transition from his humble background in China to his new life in cosmopolitan America hard to cope with but he is helped by Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy university patron who takes a liking to the young student.


Xing joins a select cosmology group under the direction of his hero, the world famous cosmologist Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn). The group is working to create a model of the origins of the Universe, based on Reiser's theory.


Xing's enormous talent soon leads to him becoming Reiser's protégé and it seems that nothing will stand between him and a very bright future as a Scientist.


However, Xing is obsessed with the study of ‘dark matter’, an unseen substance which he believes is inextricably linked to the origins of the Universe, and when his theories start challenging Professor Reisner’s work, Reisner becomes jealous and decides to stop Xing progressing any further.


As a result, Xing’s future in Science suddenly seems shattered and unable to bear the humiliation, he returns to the campus with a loaded gun looking for revenge.


‘Dark Matter’ has a run time of 88 minutes, a 15 certificate and a recommended retail price of £12.99. 

A MAN VANISHES


A MAN VANISHES (Masters of Cinema) is to be released in the UK on DVD on 24 October 2011

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SYNOPSIS:

It is difficult to summarise Shōhei Imamura's legendary 1967 film, the first picture produced by Japan's countercultural Art Theatre Guild (ATG). Is it a documentary that turns into a fiction? A narrative film from beginning to end? A record of improvisation populated with actors or non-actors (and in what proportion)? Is it the investigation into a true disappearance, or a work merely inspired by actual events? Even at the conclusion of its final movement, A Man Vanishes [Ningen jōhatsu, or The Unexplained Disappearance of a Human Being] mirrors its subject in deflecting inquiries into the precise nature of its own being.

A middle-class salaryman has gone missing — possibly of his own accord — and a film crew has set out to assemble a record of the man and the events surrounding his disappearance. As the crew meticulously builds a cachet of interviews with the man's family and lovers, their subject and his motivations become progressively more elusive — until the impossibility of the endeavour seems to transform the very film itself.

Long unavailable anywhere on home video, Imamura's A Man Vanishes remains a unique and crucial entry in a provocative filmmaker's body of work, daring as it does to ask the big questions: what is reality, and what is a man?

Directed by the great Japanese director Shōhei Imamura, A Man Vanishes is one of the most requested, influential, and acclaimed pseudo-documentaries ever made.  Taken from a new high-definition restoration which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, the Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present A Man Vanishes for the first time on DVD in the UK, in an impressive new restoration.


SPECIAL EDITION DVD FEATURES:

• New high-definition restoration of the film
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Exclusive new video interview with scholar Tony Rayns
• More extras to be announced closer to the release date.
• PLUS: A lavish booklet featuring rare archival imagery, and more!
   

DETAILS:

Label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd

Catalogue No: EKA40343 (RETAIL ONLY)
Barcode: 5060000403435
RRP: £20.42
Release Date: 24 October 2011
Certificate: TBC
Run Time: 130 min. approx.
Format:  1.37:1 OAR/ B&W
Genre: Documentary/ Drama
Director: Shōhei IMAMURA
Year: 1967
Country:  Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (Optional)

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The Yellow Sea








Bounty Films in association with Eureka Entertainment Ltd. present

THE YELLOW SEA


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The Yellow Sea, starring Kim Yun-seok is a Korean crime drama directed by Na Hong-jin who won critical acclaim for his previous film The Chaser.  The Yellow Sea was selected to screen as part of the Un Certain Regard programme in Cannes. 

Crushed by gambling debts, Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean living in Yanbian, China, loses his job.  He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but gradually his life only becomes more complicated and pathetic.

One day he meets a hitman named Myun-ga (Kim Yun-seok) and he reluctantly agrees to cross the Yellow Sea and kill a businessman living in Seoul, in return for repayment of his debt. At the same time, he hopes to be reunited with his wife, who has not contacted him since leaving for Korea in search of work six months earlier.

Gu-nam crosses the Yellow Sea and arrives in Seoul. Just before he gets to make his move, his target is murdered right in front of him and he is framed for the killing. Although Gu-nam manages to flee the scene, the police are on his trail. Additionally, the person who ordered the hit is attempting to wipe out all evidence of the crime by eliminating Gu-nam as well as Myun-ga in Yanji City. Now Gu-nam is on the run for the murder he did not commit and chased by those responsible for this mess.

EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT will be distributing The Yellow Sea in the UK & Eire on behalf of BOUNTY FILMS.  The Yellow Sea is set for release on 21 October 2011 in cinemas nationwide.
For press enquiries, please contact:
Steve Hills / Eureka Entertainment / (020) 8459 8054 / steve@eurekavideo.co.uk / Twitter: steve_hills 
Eureka Entertainment, Unit 9 Ironbridge Close, Great Central Way, London NW10 0UF


DETAILS:

Starring: KIM YUN-SEOK, HA JUNG-WOO, CHO SEONG-HA, LEE CHUL-MIN

Directed by: Na Hong-jin
Country: Korea
Year: 2010
Duration: 140 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Picture: Colour
Cert: TBC

UK & Eire Theatrical Release Date: 21 October 2011
Opening in cinemas nationwide