Wednesday 30 September 2009

Films from Film4

 Enduring Love is a 2004 British film directed by Roger Michell with screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on the the novel by Ian McEwan. The story is about two strangers who become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. It won four awards including Empire for Scene of the Year and ALFS for Best British Actor (Daniel Craig).

 Borat is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by20th Century Fox. It was written, produced by, and stars the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role of a fictitious Kazakh journalist travelling through the United States, recording real-life interactions with Americans. It won 12 awards including a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an actor in a Motion Picture.

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. Set and filmed in India, the film tells the story of a young man from the slums ofMumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The film won 8 Oscars and 7 Baftas.

 Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell, co-produced also by Working Title Films and Duncan Kenworthy. The film follows the adventures of a group of friends through the eyes of Charles, a debonair but faux pas-prone Englishman, who is smitten by Carrie, an attractive American whom Charles repeatedly meets at weddings and at a funeral. It won an ASACP Award and 3 Baftas.

The Lovely Bones is an upcoming film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alice Sebold. Jackson and his producer partners acquired the rights independently and developed a script on their own, later selling it to DreamWorks. The film will be released on 29 January 2010 in the UK.

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