The festival’s co-production forum will also return for a second outing, with this year’s focus being on the relationship between the UK and Ibero-American film industries. Iñárritu, including on Amores Perros, Babel and 21 Grams. Arriaga is known for his collaborations with Alejandro G. Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Guillermo Arriaga will return to the festival for a second consecutive year to deliver a masterclass for aspiring film-makers. The event will feature 14 VR experiences, including Home – An Immersive Spacewalk Experience and Notes On Blindness: Into Darkness. This year, the festival will also introduce a strand titled Raindance Lab – Future of Film, which will include an inaugural virtual reality (VR) Arcade. Receiving its European premiere will be Japanese director Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life, about a young woman who is assigned to follow a stranger.Īmong the seven UK premieres playing in competition are Indian drama The Violin Player from director Bauddhayan Mukherji, Mirko Pincelli’s directorial debut, the Italian-English co-production The Habit Of Beauty, which stars Noel Clark, and Adam Irving’s documentary Off The Rails, about a man with Asperger’s syndrome whose love of impersonating New York City public transport drivers has landed him in jail more than 30 times. They will preside over awards for a competition line-up that features the international premiere of Stephen Elliott’s After Adderall, a semi-autobiographical story about the production of the film adaptation of Elliott’s memoirs. This year’s jury will be comprised of Stephen Fry ( V For Vendetta), Joanna Lumley ( Absolutely Fabulous), Imelda Staunton ( Vera Drake), Jodie Whittaker ( Broadchurch), Anna Friel ( Pushing Daisies), Jack Davenport ( Pirates Of The Caribbean), Nicholas Pinnock ( Top Boy) and American artist David Datuna. I prefer not to see an obviously human face because it’s farther away from what I imagine when I read about the talking beasts (the characters, not the podcast) in the books.The 24 th Raindance Film Festival has revealed its line-up, with 90 feature films set to be screened in London September 21 – October 2. For other viewers, it may be the other way around and they feel hiding the human face robs them of expressiveness. That’s what annoys me about the beavers’ costumes (well, that and the actors’ legs being stuck inside the bodies) and even Reepicheep’s. And I actually quite like his costume, mainly because you can’t see the actor’s face sticking out. To the extent that I do, I imagine him as being kind of flighty (pardon the terrible wordplay) during the day, so maybe that’s why I wasn’t bugged by him in this adaptation as much as Glumpuddle was. (Well, maybe a little more like an owl noise than what Warwick Davis did.) I also don’t have a super strong idea of Glimfeather’s personality. I’ve got to confess that when I “hear” Glimfeather in my mind, I was always hearing someone saying, “tu-whoo,” not an owl noise. I agree with Glumpuddle that the pacing for this episode was good except for that really cheesy scene of Eustace falling off the cliff. I guess it has to do with how they adapted it by making it more of an action scene with Jill and Eustace running from the bullies instead of Eustace finding Jill crying. I’ll admit though that if I’d been directing, I would have told Camilla Power to make it seem like she was holding back tears during that scene. I always imagined her making some kind of protest while she was being bullied. I wasn’t really bugged by Jill pushing back against the bullies like Glumpuddle was because she strikes me as a defensive, somewhat aggressive character. I agree with the podcasters that, apart from the story of course, the actors for Jill and Eustace are the best part of this episode.
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