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THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MARCH 2010
Films for March
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R AW, G R I MY AN D I NTE N S E.
TH E U K F I LM TO B EAT I N 2010
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SHANK SOUNDTRACK FEATURING BANGERS FROM TEMPZ, DONAEO,
TINCHY STRYDER, DOTSTAR, SKEPTA & MANY MORE, PLUS THE SMASH
HIT WHEN THE SKY FALLS BY BASHY FEAT. LOICK ESSIEN. OUT MARCH 22
IN CINEMAS MARCH 26
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Shutter Island - Mar 12th Exit Through The Gift Shop Shank – Mar 26th
Following 2006’s “The Departed,”
– Mar 5th
Featuring a cast of up-and-com-
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin A film about Banksy? Starring the ers from London’s film and music
Scorsese reunite once again for man himself?! You mean we finally scene, this debut from music video
this mysterious psychological get to see him?!!! Don’t be so fool- director Mo Ali takes place in the
thriller set on a 1950s women’s off- ish! Why spoil one of the finest capital’s near and dire-looking fu-
shore correctional facility. With an and most ironic self-promotional ture, in which food is the new prize
all-star cast that includes Sir Ben tools in recent memory? Using and commodity and gangs are willing
Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle subverting the documentary form to kill in order to secure their share.
Williams and Patricia Clarkson, and to tell the tale of the infamous and Bleak but stylish, “Shank” is sure
a legendary director finally taking a (somehow!) still anonymous Brit- to generate controversy for its bru-
break from award-hungry prestige ish graffiti artist, Banksy, the film tal depictions of youth violence…
films to spin some dark Hitchcock- follows the guerrilla exploits of the which is to say nothing of the film’s
ian fun, “Shutter Island” looks set to artist and his devoted French film- suggestion that Hula Hoops have a
be one of Spring’s most entertain- making friend and wannabe artist, greater street value than Doritos.
ing entries. Thierry Guetta.
The Last Station
Helen Mirren does it again in this account of the last months
of writer Leo Tolstoy´s life.
Telling the story of one of modern like this onscreen, here they run the puts it, “You are the work of my
literature’s true towering figures, risk of swallowing up Tolstoy, the life… I am the work of yours.” For
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RAW, GRIMY AND INTENSE. Leo Tolstoy, in the final year of his iconic literary figure and political her, and possibly even for the great
THE UK FILM TO BEAT IN 2010
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life and turbulent marriage, it’s only thinker, and reducing his final days man himself, a life dedicated to
fitting that writer/director Michael to an entertaining case for octoge- wholehearted, unconditional love
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Hoffman’s “The Last Station” narian divorce. In the end though, is a more significant project than
succeeds almost entirely on the Hoffman may have done just laying the foundation for revolution.
strength of grandly outsized lead enough to satisfy the expectations
performances from leads Chris- of both scholars and film buffs. Tol- When “The Last Station” reaches
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topher Plummer, as Tolstoy, and stoy’s literary achievements receive its inevitable conclusion at a small
Helen Mirren, as wife Sofya. This lip service for the most part, but his countryside train station and the
isn’t to say that the rest of the cast political activism lies at the heart of larger world has finally forced
are phoning it in by any means – the story, driving a wedge further its way into the frame, it’s still the
James MacAvoy and Paul Giamatti and further into his marriage. small, intimate moments – a tender
are clearly having a ball in fine, fun reunion and a quiet, respectful fare-
turns as Tolstoy’s naïve young sec- While there are no doubt more well – that rise above the swarming
retary and loyal, overzealous fol- than a few learned folks out there masses and punctuate this warm
lower, respectively – but there’s no who might disagree, there is an ode to love in all its forms.
mistaking whose show it is when- argument being made in “The Last
ever the two stars are on camera. Station” that the greatest achieve-
ment of the immortal Leo Tolstoy’s
With its somewhat single-minded life was his commitment to love,
study of love and passion, both in and his having
and out of harmony, the Tolstoy’s remained human
rollercoaster marriage in all its gor- and gleefully im-
geous late-Autumn warmth and perfect in spite of
bitter Winter chill gives the film a all the adulation
steady narrative pulse even without bestowed upon
the assistance of the grand back- him by throngs of
story. But while dramatic fireworks devoted followers.
are always fun to watch with talent As Mirren’s Sofya
SHANK SOUNDTRACK FEATURING BANGERS FROM TEMPZ, DONAEO,
TINCHY STRYDER, DOTSTAR, SKEPTA & MANY MORE, PLUS THE SMASH
HIT WHEN THE SKY FALLS BY BASHY FEAT. LOICK ESSIEN. OUT MARCH 22
IN CINEMAS MARCH 26
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Christopher Plummer
stars as Leo Tolstoy
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