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Classic Picture Goer

The

A Little Chaos

2015

Experience

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Lead Editor & Designer

Sandy Wallace

‘For the mature minded film lover’

yesterday we opened! So much has happened since then. We can now plan ahead with a secure footing, at present we have four towns operating a mid week morning film club in the South East. Looking at future plans we have five more cinemas in the pipe line eager to join our project. Film production companies are acknowledging the maturer audience with upcoming films including A Royal Night, The Falling, Force Majeure and While Were Young to name a few. With many anticipated films coming up we will keep you updated on quality made film and news in cinema industry. Keep your film suggestions coming in and thank you once again for making the past 25 years possible.

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Celebrate our 25th Anniversary here at Silver Screen as an unmissable summer of film approaches.

Editor In ChiefTim Perrow Sandy Wallace

Welcome and thank you for buying The Classic Picture Goer. A special thanks if you have recently joined our film club. Your participation helps finance our printing costs of our publication. The whole of Europe has switched to digital which we were fortunate to be a part of. Many of you know we introduced our 4k digital projectors on the 6th September last year. A big thank you to Dover District Council and Dover Town Council who realise that a local cinema is an asset to the community. We would also like to thank Folkestone Town Council for renewing our lease at our first cinema in Folkestone which opened 25 years ago on the 22nd April 1990. It only feels like

Christian Bale suffers serious knee injury, postpones filming for The Deep Blue Good-By.

Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan will be developing the next Jack and the Beanstalk.

Renowned Hobbit and The Lord Of The Ringscinematographer Andrew Lesnie dies age 59.

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Paramount has announced that they will send a free DVD copy of the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma to every high school in America.

Daniel Craig apparently turned down a lot of James Bond product placement money.

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Goodfellas celebrates its 25th Anniversary with the stars on the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet.

EAST KENT INDEPENDANT CINEMAS

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Kent has a lot to offer. Whilst you debate what to do for a great night out why not explore your local cinemas and theatres which provide unique experience!

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Matthew McConaughey in his upcoming film The Free State Of Jones.

what makes

A GREAT FILM ? A great film has to make a contribution to the development of the medium. And it has to have lasting importance. You can measure that in many ways, but the key one is influence. Does the film influence or even teach other directors to make films in new ways? Finally, the great film must strike a chord with viewers no matter how much time has passed since it was made. Let us look at some unique films which bring light to this topic. Yes get excited!

“I could think up in my dreams I attempted to photograph.”

Welles’s achievements in this film marked a new direction in cinema. Many critics argue that Citizen Kane, with its inventive use of lighting and shadow, is the first film noir, or at least the direct predecessor of noir, a genre that employs dark, moody atmosphere to augment the often violent or mysterious

FILMING TECHNIQUES Citizen Kane 1942

fRESH IDEAWhether you look at The Matrix as an incomprehensible mess of mumbo jumbo or a message filled marvel, there is no denying the effect it had on cinema with its introduction of bullet-time camerawork that was not only cool, but an effective, and almost vital, way to tell their story; without it this film may have quite possibly failed right out of the gate. It's very rare to find technical advances in film that actually service the story rather than hinder the filmmakers.

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events taking place. Citizen Kane introduced Hollywood to the creative potential of cinematic technique. Even apart from the controversy the film stirred, a multitude of innovations made Citizen Kane the most exciting movie in the history of cinema at that time.

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casting

The casting was the first triumph for Star Wars. The famous trio Luke, Han and Leia create a believable story which we indulge into. Harrison Ford is a charismatic and magnetic personality and portrayed Han with a professionalism that you’d expect from more seasoned actors. He seems almost childish here, not really straining to create a

character, and it’s this flip charm that makes it work, against all odds. Carrie Fisher portrayed Leia in a way that, up until then, had never been experienced. Most “princess” types before her were whining and whimpering, incapable of anything beyond tripping and twisting their ankle in times of peril, while Fisher portrayed her character as a bold,

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brazen, yet sophisticated and educated woman who was capable of defending herself and her realm with the utmost authority. Mark Hamill’s portayel as Luke provides a fitting archetypal character which grows up quite well on film. He is sustains an endearingpersonality for the audience and matures on his journey. Lucas sure casts characters we will never forget!

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4. Saving Private Ryan 1998

What Saving Private Ryan does extremely well, is show the world the harsh reality of war without pulling any punches. The story about a squad of soldiers sent to retrieve the surviving brother of three dead soldiers is told with competency and due reverence from all perspectives of the characters involved. It is an uncommon and intriguing drama, but it serves as an

excuse to describe a setting, rather than the other way around. The story manages to move us through all sorts of different landscapes and scenarios, giving us an unforgettable glimpse of a world unknown to most of us, and terrifying to those who are familiar with it from personal experience.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. Steven Spielberg”

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script 5.The Godfather 1972

ow can we miss this classic? Coppola gives us an excellent script based on author Mario Puzo best selling novel which most film buffs adore! If The Godfather was made by someone less capable than Coppola, the movie would have become just an impressive gangster movie -- full of large scale violence. Certainly it is that, but the beauty of The Godfather is in the intimacy and realism of the script. “Don’t forget the cannoli!” screams Clemenza. Next to Humphrey Bogart’s Rick from Casablanca, Oscar winner Marlon Brando’s Don Vito may be the most imitated character in screen history. The line “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse” has attained legendary status, as has the entire performance. With his raspy voice, deliberate movements, and penetrating stare, Brando has created a personae that will be recalled for as long as motion pictures exist. Coppola’s script exams the meaning of family, violence, love, betrayal, and loyalty just to name a few, its

quality set a standard that few films have matched. An unforgettable motion picture, but one worth seeing again and again. Rarely does a film tell as many diverse-yet-inter connected stories. Strongcontribute to The Godfather’s success. This motion picture was not slapped together to satiate the appetite of the masses; it was carefully and painstakingly crafted. The Godfather is like a disease once you see it you fall in love with it. I don’t know if it is the greatest movie ever but it is definitely the most iconic film ever made.

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DADS ARMYAGAIN...

What do you make when you don’t know what to make?

What do you make when you’ve run out of ideas?

What do you make when your previous films didn’t sell enough tickets to justify a sequel? There’s only one answer to all these questions: you make a remake.

remake gives you instant brand recognition. A remake guarantees you at least some publicity. A remake may even entice an audience over 25 to go to their local cinema (an increasingly rare thing these days). But there’s a problem. If you don’t want to be mocked from pillar to post, your remake will have to be better than the original. Not so hard, perhaps, when you remaking Mission Impossible, or The Dukes of Hazard, or The A-Team; or even the first St. Trinians.But Dad’s Army? How on earth do you improve on this most classic of all British comedies? Or even equal it? Nonetheless, a new film version of Dad’s Army will soon be coming to a cinema near you. Firmly aimed at the older audience, the film has an all-star cast of British thespians, who will do their best to fill the boots of the original cast. Toby Jones will play Arthur Lowe playing Captain Mainwaring; Bill Nighy will play John Le Mesurier playing Sergeant Wilson; and

A Sir Tom Courtenay will attempt to equal the immortal Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones. Catherine Zeta-Jones will provide the eye candy. I’m sure that the cast will do their best. But the truth is that they can’t win. If they copy the original actors’ interpretations they’ll be accused of mimicking. If they bring something new to their parts, the audience will be out-raged by their innovations. All they can hope for is to get paid. That’s really the only reason for this remake – to make money. Not only was the original perfect, but the world has moved on since then, both from the 1940s, and from the 1970s when the TV series was made. So the new film will inevitably seem strangely unreal and forced. Personally, I’ll be going to the cinema when something new and original is on show. As for Dad’s Army, I’ll just buy a box set of the original series on DVD; and enjoy the real thing, and not a pale imitation.

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Don’t panic! Don’t panic!

Director Oliver Parker blows some cobwebs off the old classic.

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orn and raised in Boston, Leonard Nimoy started acting as a boy, but moved to Los Angeles at age 18 to give it a go on a professional level. Leonard worked his way up from small roles in the likes of Queen for a Day, Zombies of the Stratosphere and Them! to major guest star turns in such shows as Broken Arrow, Dragnet, Sea Hunt, Twilight Zone, Wagon Train and The OuterLimits. At one point, Leonard acted in an episode of The Lieutenant, a show written and created by a rising behind-the-scenes talent named Gene Roddenberry, and he acted in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with a young Canadian by the name of William Shatner.

It wouldn’t be long before their lives intersected again. Roddenberry created Star Trek: The Original Series, tapping Nimoy to play Spock and Jeffrey Hunter to play Captain Pike. NBC rejected the pilot, but asked Roddenberry to try again. The second pilot once again featured Nimoy as Spock, but after Hunter opted out of his contract, Roddenberry hired Shatner to play Captain Kirk. DeForest Kelley, who’d turned down the role of Spock, came on board to portray Dr. McCoy, and that unforgettable trio -- complemented by Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei and, starting with season two, Walter Koenig -- formed the cast that would see Star Trek through three seasons of the original show, 20-plus episodes of an animated series and six feature films, not to mention numerous television commercials and countless convention appearances.

Nimoy at times waged an internal battle when it came to Spock. He titled his first autobiography I Am Not Spock. Twenty years later, though, he wrote I Am Spock. He turned down the proposed Star Trek: Phase II series, but returned for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Spock died in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, only to be resurrected for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which Nimoy directed. He also directed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and produced and developed the story for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and, as a tie-in, he guest starred as Ambassador Spock on two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And in 2009, after 18 long years, Nimoy helped J.J. Abrams reboot the Star Trek franchise by playing Spock Prime in Star Trek (2009), passing the torch to Zachary Quinto, who became a close friend. He also voiced Spock for Star Trek Online andmade a cameo in Star Trek Into Darkness.

Beyond Star Trek, Nimoy’s many film, TV and stage credits included Mission: Impossible, A Woman Called Golda, In Search Of..., Equus, Never Forget, Vincent, Standby: Lights! Camera! Action!, The Simpsons, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Fringe. With his friend and TNG’s Q, John de Lancie, he created Alien Voices, which staged and recorded radio play-style productions of classic and original sci-fi/fantasy stories. Nimoy passed away on Friday, February 27, 2015 succumbing to the end stages of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), an illness that resulted from years of smoking and which afflicted him despite having quit smoking three decades earlier.

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I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love William Shatner

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MARMALADE INDULGENCE

In the spirit of the best Disney classics, Paddington is one for the ages and all ages. Fun and charm rain down like the London rain often on view, and views themselves (enchanting location shooting in Britain and in Costa Rica, a fine stand-in for the bear’s native Peruvian jungle) are treats for the eyes. No doubt this warm and fuzzy (or is it furry?) transition to the big screen of a children’s classic had a perfect steward in producer David Heyman (the Harry Potter movies, Gravity, etc.), returning to his reel-house. The familiar tropes of the fairytale here are alive, percolating and brightly rendered. Kids will have a ball and the impressive cast alone should pique adult interest especially from art-house and PBS fans. What also shines is the well-told story at its heart. Loyal to author Michael Bond, the Peruvian bear Paddington, returned with his rumpled hat and amiability, begins his big-screen life—as seen in a grainy old newsreel—discovered decades earlier in the jungle by a British explorer assigned to capture game for London’s natural-history museum. Charmed by the bear creatures, especially the youngest, eventually to be named Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw), he leaves them be, assuring they’d be warmly welcomed in London. Some time following this encounter, a terrible storm ravages the jungle, taking the lives of many, including Paddington’s beloved Uncle Pastuzo (the voice of Michael Gambon). The disaster leaves Paddington and his dear Aunt Lucy (the voice of Imelda Staunton) the only survivors. Wanting a better life for him, Aunt Lucy packs her nephew off as a stowaway on a freighter bound for England with those familiar jars of marmalade he loves. Arrived in London at Paddington Station in a pile of mail, this immigrant, like new arrivals of other species, is left alone and ignored until he catches the attention of returning traveler Mary Brown (Sally Hawkins), a sympathetic wife and mother who wants to take him home. Her 11-year old son Jonathan (Samuel Joslin) and young teen daughter Judy (Madeleine Harris) are also on board, but adamantly defiant is paterfamilias Henry Brown (Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey”), a stuffy and uptight risk analyst who

We all have fond memories of Paddington but has

director Paul King done it justice with his recent film?

The loveable bear made his first appearence on paper in 1958. Top marks for those who got knew!

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allows the bear a single night. The family brings him into their cozy bourgeois London home where eccentric, no-nonsense distant relative Mrs. Bird (Julie Walters) keeps house and troubleshoots. New to middle-class, homey ways, poor Paddington causes havoc (including a bathroom flood) and Henry wants to kick him out. When Mary learns of Paddington’s long-ago encounter in Peru with the explorer, she and the bear embark on a mission to locate him and maybe find the bear a mentor. First clues emerge from a visit to a Portobello antique shop from kindly émigré owner Mr. Gruber (Jim Broadbent), who suggests the venerable Explorers Club. The search is on, but so are brick walls and mysteries. The club strangely has no record of the explorer; creepy Brown family neighbor Mr. Curry (Peter Capaldi, who almost stole the political comedy In the Loop) also runs interference but not as nefariously as wickedly obsessive Natural Museum taxidermist Millicent (Nicole Kidman channeling 101 Dalmatians’ Cruella De Vil and sporting a severe blonde hairdo). Learning of Paddington, Millicent gives chase, determined to turn him into the institution’s latest stuffed specimen. The adventure intensifies as Millicent, in spite of spiky heels, advances closer to her prey (chases through London streets, close calls, reversals, a Topkapi-like home invasion to kidnap the bear). Paddington could have slipped into sentimentality and predictability but doesn’t. Look for some juicy revelations, including a dark horse to really save the day. Also noteworthy is the seamless integration of the entirely CGI-created Paddington into the live action and overall special effects (the work of about 500 animators, compositors and VFX crew). The film’s often Calypso-inflected score and its design—a bouquet of originality, atmosphere and popping colors– further keeps things fresh. Fun aside, Paddington is also a light allegory of immigration and a call for assimilation and acceptance. It’s also a celebration of wildlife, the environment, family, free-spiritedness and being different. The film opened at the top of the U.K. chart, but as quality family entertainment it’s an endangered species of a different kind.

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keen to flag up the improvements in mo-cap technology since 2011, which mean that the ape actors’ performances have been translated even more accurately on to the screen. “It is now a direct correlation,” he said. “It’s not to take away anything from the CGI artist, but everything that creates those performances is authored by the actor on set. We are trying to ask how stories are going to be told in 20 years time, and trying to invent the technology and find the performers to do that.” Serkis mentions with a smile.

wearing the make up. He even drove round on the free way to scare people whilst still wearing the make up. That takes guts! Eventually when the make up was ready to come off, Mcdowall just ripped it off with his hands. With a rebooted franchise film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was the first film to use motion capture technology on location. Before that, all motion capturing had to be done in a studio. The technology has become so certification that ninety percent of Dawn was actually filmed on location and not in a studio. In a recent interview Serkis was

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ilmmaking is art as illusion. The filmmaker’s goal is to make the audience believe in the fictional world he has created. The world could be very much like our own or an imaginative fantasy land. But all of the elements of that world -- from the buildings to the cars to the contents of the main character’s refrigerator -- need to work together to tell a story. Since filmmaking is predominantly a visual medium, everything that appears on the screen plays an important role in telling us who the characters are and what their world is like. The human brain processes visual cues faster than verbal information, so if a filmmaker wants to tell the audience that the main character is a struggling artist, he doesn’t need to open the movie with a voiceover saying, “My name is Vincent, and I’m a struggling artist.” Instead, the movie opens with a wide establishing shot of late 19th-century Paris. Then we see the exterior of a shabby apartment building in the bustling district of Montmartre. The next shot is of a dark, dingy apartment furnished with only a bare mattress and lit by candles stuck into empty absinthe bottles. There are open art books, discarded wine glasses and chicken bones scattered on the paint-splattered wooden floor. There are dozens of small, half-finished canvasses stacked three-deep against the walls. Before we even meet Vincent, we know who lives in this apartment. The filmmaker has established a clear sense of place and a palpable mood through

film set construction

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how it works

careful research, painstaking film set construction and creative set decoration. Film set construction planning begins months or even years before a film goes into production. It all starts with the script. The script includes descriptions of all sets and locations that will be used in the film. These descriptions can be very generalized or highly detailed, depending on the screenwriter. Often the first person to see the script is the production designer, who uses the screenwriter’s scene descriptions to give an accurate estimate on how much the completed film sets will cost. The production designer will also look for places in the script where computer-generated (CG) effects would be more affordable than building entire sets. Based on this information, movie producers can create a budget and look for funding. Once a director is chosen for the film, he will meet with the production designer to talk about the best way to visually represent the locations in the script. The production designer will hire a location manager who will scout out interior and exterior locations for certain sets. The rest will need to be built from scratch on a studio soundstage or backlot. Research is an important part of the early stages of set construction planning, particularly for films that takes place in the past or the future. Large film studios employ full-time researchers to dig up architectural drawings, archival photographs and artist renderings of historical

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buildings and locations. If a movie is set deep into the future, researchers may consult technology experts and futurists who can work with concept artists to sketch out 25th century skyscrapers and supersonic highways. The production designer also works with the director and cinematographer to establish color palettes, textures, lighting and composition that help tell the story visually. If you paint a set with bright colors, for example, it implies a light, happy mood. Flat, gray colors create a lifeless, sterile atmosphere. The production designer uses research and colour decisions to finalize concept drawings, sketches and even miniature models for each set that needs to be built. At this stage, it’s important that the production designer work closely with the movie’s producers to keep everything within budget. Time is also a crucial consideration. The production designer must make sure that everything can be completed on time with the projected amount of employees. When sketches, drawings and models have been approved, they’re handed to the art director. The art director oversees a team of draftsmen who act as the architects of the film sets. They use computer-aided drafting (CAD) software to create detailed, three-dimensional blueprints of the final structures. In the planning stage, the art director needs to start ordering hard-to-find props like replica airplanes, hire sculptors and other specialty artists to create original works of art and contract with special effects houses to create digital matte paintings and other CG techniques to supplement the constructed set.With the blueprints in hand, now it’s time for the construction manager to start hiring all of the carpenters,painters, plasterers, riggers, model

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makers, scenic artists and stagehands who will physically build the film set. This is where artistic vision meets wood, nails and concrete. The goal is to bring the whole project in on time, under budget and in accordance with the specific vision of the director.

Aspects of Film Set Construction

Set construction is the responsibility of the art department, which is typically the largest department working on a film. The art department oversees everything that appears onscreen other than the actors themselves. The responsibilities of the art department go far beyond simply building the sets, but involve the creation of a living, breathing, fully detailed world. Prop masters are responsible for all the objects handled by the actors themselves or that interact with the actors. This can be everything from a whisk to a pistol to a peacock. On larger productions, the prop master might work with weapons masters or animal trainers who specialize in these areas. Some props are so essential to the character or story -- like the falcon in “The Maltese Falcon” or Indiana Jones’ whip, that several versions of the prop are made or purchased as back ups Filmmaking is a business. Every film has a budget and the size of that budget dictates many of the most important decisions related to set construction. The production designer and the director have to figure out the best way to achieve their artistic goals with the money that’s available. A lower-budget film might re-create a turn-of-the-century Japanese village by shooting inside a re-purposed log cabin. A big budget movie, on the other hand, might build an entire village from the ground up complete with historically accurate architectural details, live oxen and a man-maderiver running through the

center of town. The budget also influences the amount of special effects that are used in a movie. In the newest “Star Wars” trilogy, for example, the production designer decided it would be cheaper -- and more visually powerful -- to build scale models of some alien worlds instead of creating them entirely with computers. In the movie “The Last Samurai,” on the other hand, the script includes a scene where the main character walks out of a bar and onto the streets of 19th-century San Francisco. The production designer knew it would be too expensive to build a large-scale replica of the historic San Francisco skyline, so he shot the scene with a green screen and filled

in the background with a digital matte painting.

Jobs in Film Set ConstructionThe production designer is the head of the art department, which employs the most people and takes up most of the budget on a feature film. The production designer needs to be a master of many skills: a filmmaker, an artist, an interior designer. He also needs experience in physical construction like carpentry, plastering, welding and painting. And, he has to be able to work with everybody from directors to producers to art department interns.

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Production designers have years of experience in the business, working up from art directors, set dressers and construction managers.The production designer defines the film’s artistic vision, but it’s the art director’s job to carry it out. The art director manages a huge team of workers with wildly different responsibilities. The art director leads a team of draftsmen who design the sets, then coordinates with the construction manager to actually build them. The art director works closely with the set dressers and props masters to realize the production designer’s vision. The art director is also the contact for all third-party special effects work. Meanwhile, the art director has to consult with accountants and producers to make sure the production stays on budget. Construction managers are in charge of everything related to the physical construction of the film sets. He’s part of the early

planning process, helping the production designer decide how many sets need to be built and what they will cost. The construction manager hires all of the construction department heads and skilled workers and is responsible for ordering all supplies and negotiating the best prices. He is also in charge of transporting supplies to location shots and striking (taking down) the set after shooting is finished. Construction managers have years of film production experience as carpenters, painters, riggers, welders and plasterers. And most have construction experience outside of film as well. The construction manager has the tough job of being the liaison between the artists and the construction workers, a responsibility that requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Set dressers or set decorators are in charge of assembling all of the design elements of a set that aren’t mailed down. They need to work closely with negotiating

the best prices. He is also in charge of transporting supplies to location shots and striking (taking down) the set after shooting is finished. Construction managers have years of film production experience as carpenters, painters, riggers, welders and plasterers. And most have construction experience outside of film as well. The construction manager has the tough job of being the liaison between the artists and the construction workers, a responsibility that requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Set dressers or set decorators are in charge of assembling all of the design elements of a set that aren’t mailed down. They need to work closely with the production designer and art director to track down all of the props, furniture, decorations and small physical details that populate the fictional world of the film. One of the set dressers main worries is continuity. If there are several scenes in the same location, then all of the set elements need to be in the same place. The set dresser works closely with the prop master to make sure that an actor’s glass is filled to the same level for each take, or that a throw pillow doesn’t mysteriously disappear from one shot to the next. But these are only a fraction of the hundreds of jobs required to build a film set. For example, in the painting department alone, there’s the department head, a supervising painter, regular painters and standby painters. In the art department, there are supervisors, assistants, standbys and runners of every kind. The typical career path is to receive some kind of art or design education, then work your way up through the art department or construction department. The hours on film sets are highly irregular and long, but the work can be tremendously creative and satisfying.

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An extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of - time.

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Director - James Marsh Duration - 123 minsUSA

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TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

WILD

A searing story of love and war. Based on the classic First World War memoir, this is the incredible true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.

With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. WILD powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

(2014)

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Director - James Kent Duration - 127 mins USA

Director - Jean-Marc ValléeDuration - 113 mins USA

Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West and Emily Watson. Contains scenes of bloody injury.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Gaby Hoffmann and Laura Dern. Contains strong language, sex and drug use.

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INTO THE WOODS

Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

Into the Woods is a modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests.

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Starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Lindsay Duncan and Merritt Wever. Contains strong language, sex references.

Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu Duration - 119 mins USA

Starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp. Contains mild violence and threat.

Director - Rob Marshall Duration - 122 mins USA

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BIRDMAN

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GONE GIRL

WHIPLASH

With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent.

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.

(2014)

(2014)

Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Scoot McNairy and Carrie Coon. Contains strong bloody violence and very strong language.

Director - David FincherDuration - 143 mins USA

Starring T Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist and J.K. Simmons. Contains very strong language and strong sex references.

Director - Damien ChazelleDuration - 106 mins United Kingdom

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Warning: Film contains strong violence and very strong language.

SELMA

SUITE FRANçCAISE

Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.

Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky and set during the German occupation of France in the 1940’s, Suite Française tells the story of Lucille Angellier as she awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war.

(2014)

(2014)

Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi and Tim Roth. Contains moderate violence, racist language and infrequent strong language.

Director - Ava DuVernay Duration - 128 mins USA

Director - Saul DibbDuration - 107 mins USA

Starring Margot Robbie, Ruth Wilson, Michelle Williams, Sam Riley, Kristin Scott Thomas and Alexandra Maria Lara. Contains strong language and strong violence.

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BOYHOOD

PADDINGTON

Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes.

The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear who travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says “Please look after this bear. Thank you,” and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.

(2014)

(2014)

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Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Contains strong language, sex references and drug use.

Starring Ben Whishaw (voice), Julie Walters, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Peter Capaldi, Jim Broadbent and Nicole Kidman. Contains angerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo, infrequent mild bad language.

Director - Richard Linklater Duration - 162 mins USA

Director - Paul King Duration - 95 mins USA

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THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

THE JUDGE

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them - and us - on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.

(2015)

(2014)

Starring Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Judi Dench, and Dev Patel. Contains mild bad language and sex references.

Starring Shailene Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga and Billy Bob Thornton, Contains strong language, moderate sex references.

Director - John Madden Duration - 122 mins USA

Director - Josh BooneDuration - 123 mins USA

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CHILD 44(2015)

Starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Noomi Rapace, and Charles Dance. Contains strong violence, strong language, sex, and hild murder theme.

a little chaosA female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis XIV.Starring Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory and Alan Rickman. Contains brief nudity.

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Director - Daniel Espinosa Duration - 137 mins USA

Director - Alan Rickman Duration - 156 mins United Kingdom

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(2014)

Set in 1953 Soviet Russia a disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

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FAR FROM THE MADING CROWD In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. A young woman must choose between three suitors.

Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Juno Temple. Contains moderate violence and sex references.

(2015)

Director - Thomas Vinterberg Duration - 119 mins USA

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“...James Bond at its best”

- DEAN KNIGHTSilver Screen Writer

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Hugh Michael Jackman was born on October 12, 1968, in Sydney, Australia. The youngest of five children, Jackman was 8 when his mother left the family, and he and his siblings were largely raised by their father. He attended the exclusive Knox Grammar School and graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney. He got his first taste of b

professional acting on the stage, appearing in several Melbourne musicals. He soon entered the international scene, earning critical praise for his portrayals of Curly in Oklahoma! in London and Billy Bigelo in Carousel in New York City. To mainstream audiences, Jackman is perhaps best known for the role of Wolverine in the American film X-Men (2000). Other early films include Swordfish (2001), Kate and Leopold (2001) and Van Helsing (2004). Despite his growing big-screen career, Jackman remains true to his stage roots. In 2004, he won a Tony Award for his lead role in Broadway’s The Boy from Oz (2003-04). The following year, he won an Emmy Award for his turn as host of the 2005 Tony Awards.

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C a r e e r H i g h s a n d L o w s

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Acting is something I love. It’s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for.

STEP ASIDE IAN Mcshane...

J A C K M A N same character in 15 movies.” After the immense succes of Les Mis, Jackman took on a lighter film role in the comedy Movie 43 (2013). The film had several A-list names attached, including Dennis Quaid, Halle Berry, Kate Winslet, Richard Gere, Gerard Butler and Emma Stone, among several others. However, even with a star-studded cast, the film was highly criticized and did far worse than expected at the box office. He reprised his role as as Wolverine in his next two roles, starring in The Wolverine (2013) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Jackman took on lead roles as the popular mutant hero in both films, and stars alongside other actors who have also reprised their roles from previous X-Men films, including Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy. Jackman has also continued to stay connected to his stage roots, hosting the 2014 Tony Awards. Keep up the great work Hugh!

In 2012, Jackman helped bring one of the most famous musicals of all time to the big screen: He starred in Les Miserables with Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and Russell Crowe. In the film, Jackman plays Jean Valjean, a former prisoner who tries to hold on to the new life he has built for himself. Russell Crowe portrays the police officer on his trail. In January 2013, Jackman received a Golden Globe Award (best actor in a musical or comedy) for his Les Miserables performance. For his acclaimed role in Les Mis, Jackman was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 in the category of Best Actor, but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis for his role in Lincoln. On 13th December 2012, Jackman was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to the Los Angeles Times, Jackman stated during the momentous event, “I believe this is the 2,487th star on the Walk of Fame. However, apart from Lassie, I’m the only one who’s gotten it for playing the 29spring / summer

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Jackman on the set of Pan

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Despite these setbacks, Jackman remains one of the most popular actors working today. He was named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine in December of 2008, joining the ranks of such past recipients as George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. Jackman also had the distinction of serving as the host of the Academy Awards in February of 2009. His next big film project, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was released the following summer. He soon followed up his summer blockbuster with several smaller pictures. In Real Steel (2011), Jackman played a father builds a better relationship with his son through training a fighting robot. He also appeared in the comedy Butter that same year.

Back on the big screen, Jackman returned as one of his most famous characters, Wolverine, for X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). The action film proved to be a big success, earning more than $234 million at the box office. Working with director Woody Allen, Jackman starred in the mystery Scoop (2006) with Scarlett Johansson. He next appeared with co-star Christian Bale in the historical drama The Prestige (2006), a film about two rival magicians in Victorian-era England. Also in 2006, Jackman leant his voice to two animated feature films: Flushed Away and Happy Feet. He did some work on the small screen as well, appearing in the short-lived musical dramatic series Viva Laughlin in 2007. His 2008 thriller, Deception, failed to make much of an impression on the movie-going public, earning only $4.6 million at the box office. Later that year, Jackman’s highly anticipated work with fellow Australians Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann was released. Epic in its scope, Australia (2008) tells the story of an English woman (Kidman) who travels to the outback to find her husband, and ends up fighting for the land she inherited after his death. She is helped by a local man, played by Jackman, and the two become an unlikely romantic couple. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office disappointment.

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tory trumps storytelling in A Little Chaos, which reunites Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman, two stars of Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility, only this time without the gossamer touch and infinite understanding of character that are hallmarks of Jane Austen. A period drama about the private and professional struggles of a nonconformist female landscape architect hired to work on King Louis XIV’s gardens at Versailles, this decently acted film is agreeable entertainment, even if it works better on a scene by scene basis than in terms of overall flow. It’s been 17 years since Rickman’s first stab at directing with 1997’s The Winter Guest, an adaptation of a play set in a bleak Scottish seaside town in which a series of vignettes were woven around the slow thaw of a grieving woman toward the prickly

mother who intrudes on her sorrow. The fussy theatricality of that modest feature was perhaps embedded in its source material. But there’s a stiff staginess to parts of this more ambitiously scaled venture as well, despite it being dramatized directly for the screen by writers Allison Deegan, Rickman and Jeremy Brock. Winslet plays the widowed Madame Sabine De Barra, whose rejection of stifling symmetry and her taste for incorporating the untamed elements of nature in her designs make her an unlikely match for master landscaper Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts), known for his love of perfectly manicured classical order. In preparation for the move of the Sun King’s court from Paris to Versailles in 1682, Le Notre has been commissioned to create “gardens of exquisite and

Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts star with director Alan Rickman in this frock piece about the creation of the gardens at Versailles. Keep smiling alan!

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A Little Chaos

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matchless beauty.” The scale and haste of the project require the hiring of additional hands. Stirred by her forthright opinions, Andre engages Sabine to design the Rockwork Garden, an outdoor ballroom with fountain elements. But the sneers of her professional rivals, who are naturally all male, prove nothing compared to the vipers at court, where everyone is competing for favor. Among the most ambitious of them is Madame Le Notre (Helen McCrory), the socially savvy promoter behind her husband’s creative genius. While she dictated the terms of their open marriage arrangement to allow for her own strategic bed-hopping, she spots the signs of a connection between her husband and Sabine almost before they do, and sets about sabotaging both the relationship and the Rockwork project.

The romance between Andre and Sabine is clearly meant to be a slow-burn affair, but it blossoms in uncertain fits and starts. Partly, it suffers from a shortage of chemistry between Winslet and Schoenaerts, but more likely it’s because both of them are so gloomy and introspective — Andre is a brooding type in a loveless marriage and Sabine is plagued by remorse over the death of her husband and daughter. There’s more life in a lovely central interlude during which the king (Rickman), in mourning for his Spanish Queen, doffs his wig and coat for a quiet moment in the shrubbery. When Sabine blunders in to talk perennials, she initially is unaware of his identity. But even after she wises up, he encourages her to dispense with deference and just chat, relishing the unaccustomed ease of an informal exchange. As enjoyable as the extended scene is, with Winslet showing emotional

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candor and Rickman allowing glimpses of the solitude beneath the King’s world-weariness, it’s typical of the modern gloss that the script puts on its characters and their relationships. The worst example of this is a later scene at Fontainebleau, during which Sabine is ushered by the king’s mistress (Jennifer Ehle) into her ladies’ salon, and the group draws her out about her personal history, bonding over the sorrows of women. (Rickman’s Winter Guest star Phyllida Law plays a wilted rose among them.) If the director and his co-writers had gone all the way in viewing this semi-fictionalized historical chapter through a prism of contemporary attitudes — like, say, Sofia Coppola in her crazy but invigorating and underrated Versailles pop movie, Marie Antoinette — it might have seemed less artificial. Even the textured physicality of cinematographer Ellen Kuras’ shooting style could have been pushed further. Instead, it just sounds clumsy when 17th century characters spout lines like “I’ll call in some favors.” Or worse, when Sabine says of Andre, “He isthe most complete person I know.” Sabine is a modern woman in that she

rolls up her sleeves and gets hands-on with the hard labor, even risking her life when Madame Le Notre’s co-conspirators deliberately flood the construction site. Other influential figures welcome her uncalculating honesty as a breath of fresh air. But less time spent on court intrigue and more on the central relationship might have added heat to the romance. While the dictates of filming a French story for an English-language international market are hard to get around, there’s sadly little sense of place here. That said, the story is engaging, the pretty locations and costumes are easy on the eyes, and the cast capable if rarely required to do much — including Stanley Tucci, queening it up as the king’s foppish brother. Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) delivers the requisite melancholy hunk with minimal nuance, and Rickman trots out his familiar laconic arched-eyebrow routine. Winslet’s mix of grace, gumption and private sadness is the chief reason to keep watching, but she deserves a more dynamic film.

I really did just love the story and the simplicity of it

Kate Winslet “ ”

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A Little Chaos is in cinemas now.

Born on October 5, 1975, in Reading, England, Kate Winslet started acting at age 7. She starred on the British stage until 1995, when she appeared in her first film, Heavenly Creatures. In 1997 she landed the lead in Titanic, which propelled her to international stardom. She has since starred in several off-beat films and has won the Best Actress Oscar for The Reader.

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