Hello my name's FIick and I'm taking you
Inside Picturehouse. On this month's
show... blurred lines between truth and
fiction... an indie Chloë Grace Moretz... a
post-modern noir with Blake Lively and
Anna Kendrick... Hollywood royalty Glenn
Close talks about her latest role in The Wife
in which she is utterly outstanding.
welcome to the beautiful post-modern, five screen
Crouch End Picturehouse opened in
November 2015 and situated in the heart
of North London's coolest and most
creative area. The building itself is
quite special, now, it's one of the
biggest public spaces in Crouch End. It's
one of the last surviving examples of
60's modernist architecture in the
whole borough. We've got a cycle rack,
there's a buggy park here. We have a
special small screening room available
for hire, the community room which is
available to businesses, charities, local
groups at a discount rate. We've got a
state-of-the-art technical setup, we can
play digital prints, we can play 35mm film prints
We're all set up for
laptop so people can do presentations,
Q&As and what-have-you. We're also quite a
good venue to have a party in and big
party movies like AB Fab and Mamma Mia
have done very well and we're very much
looking forward to A Simple Favor and
we'll probably be doing a martini night
along with that to go with the perfect
martini theme that runs in the film.
American animals is an extraordinary,
true crime, thriller from director Bart
Layton, The Imposter.
Do you ever feel like you're waiting for something to happen?
That thing that could make your life special.
Yeah, like what?
Exactly.
The lines of truth and fiction are
blurred throughout the telling of the
story about four students actual attempt
to steal the world's most valuable book,
James Audubon's Birds of America
valued at 12 million dollars. What they
imagined would be an Ocean's 11 style
heist turned into a Dog Day Afternoon.
You guys are sending us to jail, you idiots..
Set in 1993 The Mis-education of Cameron
Post stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the
eponymous Post who is sent to a gay
conversion therapy camp following being
caught on prom night with the prom
queen. Not only is this an insight into
the disturbing and bizarre practices
employed by these organizations at the
time but it's a story about finding your
tribe, where you can be yourself which
ironically a gay conversion camp sets
the would-be converts right in the heart
of. Directed by the super talented Desiree Akhavan.
I'm tired of feeling disgusted with myself.
Directed by Paul Feig who has mainly
collaborated with Melissa McCarthy on
comic gems such as Bridesmaids, Heat, Spy and Ghostbusters,
A Simple Favor is a
smart, noir thriller with two strong,
imaginative, female leads; Anna Kendrick
(Pitch Perfect) and Blake Lively (The
Private Lives of Pippa Lee).
Did you just take my picture? Erase it.
I guess I'm not the kind of person you're normally friends with.
Oh, you do not want to be
friends with me. Trust me.
Kendrick plays Stephanie, a blogging mum
who's exotic and exciting new BFF, Lively,
disappears after asking her to pick up
her son. A little digging by Stephanie
uncovers a Viper's nest of intrigue,
betrayal and murder.
You thought, you knew more than you were letting on...
I wanna know your secret.
The wife directed by Bjorn Runger
and starring Glenn Close,
Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater is
an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's 2003
best-selling novel. Tell me this isn't
some great big joke? it's all real darling.
The film is initially a quiet and
intriguing drama that builds beautifully
in tension and guile. On hearing of her
husband of 40 years' Nobel Prize win
for Literature, we watch mesmerised as
Glenn Close's The Wife unravels.
I think you are sick and tired of being invisible...
Without this woman, I am nothing...
I'm going to tell you everything.
Screen Arts. On Thursday the 27th a
unique opportunity to see Chichester
Festival theatres 2017 production of
King Lear starring Ian McKellen. His
intimate, intricate and conversational
performance was hailed as a triumph. The
play received five star reviews for all
its sellout run and after was
transferred to the West End for 100
performances only. This contemporary
retelling of the great tragedy is
directed by Jonathan Munby and also
stars Sinéad Cusack as Kent and Kirstie
Bushell as Regan.
And now September's news. On Thursday the 20th at Brighton's Duke of York's Picturehouse
The women Over Fifty Film Festival
launches with
one of the UK's only screenings of Amy
Adrian's Half the Picture documentary
about bringing the Hollywood studios
into line with the human rights issue of
fair pay and fair treatment for female directors.
Our Culture Shock strand
presents the 20th anniversary screening
of The Big Lebowski one of the Coen
brothers finest hours starring Jeff
Bridges as the White Russian swilling,
dressing gowned, The Dude.
The Vintage Sunday Pixar season
continues throughout September with
screenings of The Incredibles, Wall-E and
Up. September is full of great films so
don't miss out on; The Rider based on a
true story and played by non actors, of a
rodeo cowboy forced to reevaluate his
life following an accident;
Crazy Rich Asians the rom-com currently storming
the US with a great cast and super funny
script and finally, Lucky the glorious
swan song of a 90 year old Harry Dean
Stanton.
On Wednesday 26th Picturehouse are
holding exclusive preview screenings,
prior to the release date, of The Wife.
We were hugely privileged to meet with the
legend that is Glenn Close, star of The
Wife and the film's director Bjorn Runger
following the film's UK premiere
at Somerset house.
For me the film is very much about truth is the key to healing.
Even if it's painful...How did you
find relating to her character?
Ah, life experience... We follow her through the 'to be invisible
to be visible'.
I thought part of the lightness was your
relationship with Christian Slater?
Our main scene together is a wonderful scene. It is cracking...
a wonderful scene and
couldn't wait to do it. We're playing a
mind game with each other.
The most lines in the first half of the script is
given to Jonathan Pryce so we must frame
her in a way that that she's in the
middle of the scene even if she don't
talk so much... Happily you see all those
wonderful wonderful close-ups of Glen.
In fact we renamed her Glenn Close up.
And Jonathan Pryce-less.
That's it for August, remember to keep
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