The main review and focus this week is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchants first feature-film 'Cemetery Junction'. This includes Simon's long-awaited opinion on 'Ghost Town'
. We also cover this weeks film news and cover the London Top 5 films ... which is different to expectations. Jo reviews and discusses 'The Maltese Falcon'
and, in celebration of Shakespeare, we recommend Baz Luhrman's 'Romeo + Juliet'
.Links discussed:
He Shot Cyrus naming his top 5 podcasts!And the Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton - aka, Spendor Cinema
Music:
All music is taken from the soundtrack to Romeo + Juliet
The list of Films in Competition at Cannes:
• Tournee (Mathieu Amalric) – The James Bond baddie in Quantum of Solace now directing!
• Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois)
• Hors la Loi (Rachid Bouchareb)
• Biutiful (Alejandro Gonalez Inarritu) – Previously directed Amores Perros
• Un Homme Qui Crie (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
• Housemaid (Im Sangsoo)
• Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Outage (Takeshi Kitano)
• Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
• Another Year (Mike Leigh) – Previously directed Palme D'Or Winner Secrets and Lies in 1996
• Fair Game (Doug Liman) – Previously directed Go, The Bourne Identity and Swingers
• You. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
• La Nostra Vita (Daniele Luchetti)
• Utomlyonnye Solntsem 2 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
• La Princesse de Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
• Loong Boonmee Ralek Chaat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – Previously directed Syndromes and a Century
