A gently funny, elegiac movie about the end of the music hall era and not so much the loss of innocence as its slow, unwitting replacement with experience. Travelling from Paris to a remote Scottish island and finally Edinburgh, The Illusionist has a superb sense of place – director Sylvain Chomet presents a view of [...]
According to Shane Meadows (and his producer, Mark something-or-other), you get a few mates together (particularly if you’re mates with Paddy Considine), call in a few favours with the Arctic Monkeys, and trust to luck that you get enough usable footage. According to Roger Corman, it’s all about planning ahead.
“It’s time for a new dance”
“God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country’s rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction’s doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!”
An afternoon of death and comedy, featuring corpses that don’t fit in coffins, suicidal furries, numerous ill-fated rabbits, and Hitler at the 1948 Olympics.