Tag: The Selfish Giant
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‘The Essex Serpent’ Trailer: Tom Hiddleston & Claire Danes Star In Clio Barnard’s New Apple TV+ Series
For the last decade, Clio Barnard has been at the forefront of the social-realist resurgence in Britain. Both her quasi-fictional documentary “The Arbor” and her Loach-ian scrap metal drama “The Selfish Giant” picked up BIFA and BAFTA Award nominations—the former also placed at #16 in our ‘Best Documentaries of the Decade [2010s],’ and her musical…
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Netflix hires producer Fiona Lamptey as director of UK features
Screen named Lamptey a UK & Ireland Star of Tomorrow last year.Netflix has hired producer and 2019 Screen Star of Tomorrow Fiona Lamptey as director of UK features, with a remit to develop films focused on British productions and IP.Based in London, Lamptey will identify books, theatre and other material for development. She will also…
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Dark River review – a trauma runs through it
Ruth Wilson plays a woman struggling to come to terms with the past following the death of her fatherThe third film from Clio Barnard (following The Arbor and The Selfish Giant), Dark River sensitively explores the way a traumatic memory can seep through a life in the same way that poisoned groundwater can taint a…