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Post by Dave on Oct 22, 2005 16:22:48 GMT
I am projecting a festival screening of Stephen Woolley's, "Stoned" with Mr Woolley himself being in attendance for an after show Q&A session. The film is half way through as I type this, and as of yet, no cock-ups!
Stephen came up to the projection room briefly before the film started to discuss volume and other boring things. Somehow managed to get round to mentioning this site to him (well, not being in the industry, I have no film related anecdotes to dazzle people with). I got round to mentioning the site via the fact that Paddy Considine is in Stoned.
Anyway, Stephen went on to tell me how he was Executive Producer on 24/7 and was on a judging panel that bigged up Where's The Money, Ronnie?
But that is all... he had to go.
Here's hoping there isn't a breakdown before the film finishes!
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Oct 27, 2005 15:04:44 GMT
How did it go Dave? Did you actually get to watch much of the film? Obviously I'm a fan of The Pad, and I was blown away by Leo Gregory in Green Street. So I'm very interested in this film, but have heard only bad things about it so far.
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Post by Morell™ on Oct 27, 2005 17:19:59 GMT
I only went and missed the London screenings didnt I! Well moving house comes first I supose. Bit irresponsible by me as admin of www.paddyconsidine.tk (name drop) but these things cant be helped. So big Dave, did you catch any of the flick or where you busy splicing single frames of porn into the Bambi reel? (a la Tyler Durden) |
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Post by Dave on Oct 27, 2005 17:37:17 GMT
I don't get chance to watch the films while I'm working, and even if I did, it would be rather annoying having a projector rattling away right next to my ear throughout. So I didn't see Stoned sadly.
As for the porn splicing... there are no porn frames here to use.... although having said that, the Bath Film Festival has shown a couple of films which were basically porn. Obviously they were promoted as 'challenging' and 'provocative', rather than simply 'porn', but then I guess top shelf magazines are also provocative and challenging (especially if you are somewhat vertically challenged yourself).
See the Mexican film "Battle In Heaven" for details.
Oh how we laugh when we listen to the punters trying to justify what they have just watched by making remarks such as, "it was an unusually beautiful spectacle", or "I found the provocative scenes actually quite moving".... instead of saying "Ere...I liked it when she was sucking his cock!"
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Post by Morell™ on Oct 28, 2005 13:18:53 GMT
Has anybody noticed Toby Kebel (Anthony in DMS) in the BBC 3 trailer for Wilderness as a chef?
And is it me or is Neil Bell (who plays Soz in DMS) doing the voice over for everything on TV, from BBC to Channel 5. I also spotted Seamus O'Neal (Big Al in DMS) as a copper in that shamelelss program.
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Nov 5, 2005 23:42:52 GMT
I just got back from "Stoned". The film isn't really my cup of tea. Very 60s-ish, trippy, nostalgic. But another fine performance from Paddy (in his usual arc of "sympathetic, damaged guy snaps and does a bad thing"), and you can't deny Stephen Woolley's love for the project. In the Q&A, I asked him how it came to pass that Paddy played Frank Thoroughgood. His answer was cool.
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Post by Morell™ on Nov 6, 2005 12:11:41 GMT
Hey Patrick, Would you care to go in to what Mr Wolleys answer to that question was. As you can probably tell that would be of great intrest to me.
I'm going to watch it soon as it's out so i'll converese on the subject more then.
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Nov 8, 2005 20:51:16 GMT
No problem morell. I'm going from memory, so my apologies for not getting it exactly right but: He explained that he grew up with a fascination with the glamour of the 60s and early 70s, and the music and substances and celebrities and all that... But he had uncles that he remembers. These were men who were very angry, but when he was young he never knew what they were so angry about, and they could never articulate the reasons themselves. But they were people who fought in the war and for the country - and what they had fought for had turned into the artsy-fartsy, drugged-up, free love society. And they resented that. He remembers them actually attacking the television and getting into rages at what was on there, the pop culture at the time. These were the sort of households where "You ain't going out dressed like that!" wasn't yet a cliche or a joke, but very real.
These men provided the influence for the film's version of Frank Thoroughgood - the reality of the 60s as opposed to Brian Jones being the fantasy of the 60s. And Stephen said that Paddy had that quality - that anger and rage behind the eyes, something there like he's not fully at ease with himself. And he was a big fan of Paddy in Dead Man's Shoes and Last Resort (where he played another character very similar to Frank, I think). He described Paddy as one of the finest young actors in Britain. And he needed a strong actor to be able to portray that sort of character - who goes from despising the "puffs" of the rock and roll lifestyle to actually being drawn into it and being one of them.
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