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Arclight Films will again have the pleasure of attending Filmart this year.
Arclight Films is pleased to announce that we will again be joining you at Filmart this year with our sensational slate of titles, which includes: THE BANK JOB (formerly "Baker Street"), a gritty heist movie starring The Transporter's Jason Statham; SEX AND DEATH 101, a delicious black comedy from the writer of Heathers, starring Winona Ryder and Simon Baker; THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon's classic novel; ROMULUS, MY FATHER, based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente; NOISE (Sundance / World Dramatic Competition), from exciting new director Matthew Saville, which tells the story a young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus (ear-ringing), who is pitched into the chaos that follows a mass murder on a suburban train; HOW TO ROB A BANK, a new comedic thriller starring Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen; SLIPSTREAM, a mind-bending thriller written, directed and starring Anthony Hopkins and Christian Slater; YO SOY LA JUANI, from acclaimed Spanish director Bigas Luna, which sees a pair of young women leave their boyfriends and small town behind for fun in Madrid; and AFTER SEX, an edgy relationship comedy which uses sex as a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability.
In addition, we are proud to announce that BOBBY, the stellar ensemble film directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Demi Moore, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Heather Graham and more, will be playing in this year's Hong Kong International Film
Festival. Click here for further details.
We will be in attendance and would love to meet with you, so If you would like to schedule a meeting with either Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye, Laura Wu or Ian Gibbins to discuss any of our titles, please contact MiQi Huang at miqi@arclightfilms.com.
During Filmart we will be situated at Stand H27, Exhibition Hall 5, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre and we look forward to seeing you there!
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THE BANK JOB (formerly "Baker Street") (Thriller / In Production)
From acclaimed Director Roger Donaldson (THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN) and based on the true story of the now legendary 1971 Baker Street bank robbery, this is a story which has remained untold for over 35 years due to a government gagging order. The Bank Job tells how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made, nor money ever recovered. It also tells the story of a vault full of secrets, the scandals that unfurled and the lives lost in the pursuit for the truth to stay 'hidden'.
In the tradition of classic British crime sagas such as SEXY BEAST and THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, and with a gutsy performance from international superstar Jason Statham (LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS, SNATCH, TRANSPORTER 1 & 2) the long whispered and rumored truth of what really happened on Baker Street can now be told.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore
Learn more about THE BANK JOB at ArclightFilms.com |
SEX AND DEATH 101 (Black Comedy / Filmart Screening)
- 20 Mar, 09:30, HKCEC Meeting Room 601
A devious new comedy from the writer of HEATHERS, SEX AND DEATH 101 poses the question "If you received a list of every person you have and eventually will have sex with, what would you do?" Roderick Blank's (Simon Baker) life is turned upside down when he receives an email a week before his wedding, listing every woman he has and ever will have sex with.
Driven by lust and curiosity he decides to eschew domesticity in place of searching out every woman on the list to find out if indeed the list is true. He soon finds himself falling for a woman not on the list - Death Nell (Winona Ryder) who turns out to be a psychopath, seducing men before putting them into a coma.
Both wildly subversive and achingly funny, SEX AND DEATH 101 is a pitch black comedy.
Director: Daniel Waters
Cast: Winona Ryder, Simon Baker, Leslie Bibb, Neil Flynn
Learn more about SEX AND DEATH 101 at ArclightFilms.com |
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH (Drama / Post Production)
From the acclaimed best selling novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon (THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, THE WONDER BOYS) comes the heartbreaking, humorous and provocative tale of Art Bechstein, who is faced with a summer of uncertainty following his graduation from Pittsburgh University, as he falls in and out of lust with both boys and girls in his quest for purpose and love.
With a hot young cast including Sienna Miller (CASSANOVA, FACTORY GIRL, LAYER CAKE) and Peter Sarsgaard (YEAR OF THE DOG, JARHEAD, FLIGHTPLAN), and from the acclaimed director of the world wide box office smash DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY, THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH is sure to ignite the screen.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Jon Foster, Sienna Miller, Peter Sarsgaard, Nick Nolte, Mena Suvari
Learn more about THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH at ArclightFilms.com |
ROMULUS, MY FATHER (Drama / Post Production)
ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond.
It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
ROMULUS, MY FATHER stars Eric Bana as Romulus (MUNICH, TROY, CHOPPER), Franka Potente (RUN LOLA RUN, THE BOURNE IDENTITY) as Christina and Marton Csokas (LORD OF THE RINGS) as Romulus's closest friend, Hora.
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Cast: Eric Bana, Franka Potente
Learn more about ROMULUS, MY FATHER at ArclightFilms.com |
NOISE (Psychological Thriller / Completed)
This is a story about the wrong person in the right place at the wrong time. Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. Police quickly connect them but are desperate for witnesses as the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority.
A young police constable, Graham McGahan, suffers from a chronic hearing problem and applies for worker's compensation. To his chagrin, he is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the various people affected by the tragedies and uncovers an unraveling nightmare of guilt and suspicion.
Writer/director Matthew Saville utilizes exquisite sound and production design to bring to life his astonishing script. Saville shifts the police thriller genre away from the familiar and onto the fringe with a fascinating effect. Rather than following the killer or the investigating officers, Noise looks at the ramifications of the events on the everyday people. This perspective creates a far richer exploration of what it means to be a hero or a victim. Noise fuses art and genre as well as any film in recent memory to construct a humanistic portrait of a flawed man searching for a thread of hope.
Noise recently played at Sundance in World Dramatic Competition.
Director: Matthew Saville
Cast: Brendan Cowell, Maia Thomas, Henry Nixon, Nicholas Bell
Learn more about NOISE at ArclightFilms.com |
HOW TO ROB A BANK (Comedy Thriller / Completed)
Jinx (Nick Stahl) has coasted through life oblivious to the world around him and without a care in the world, Jessica (Erika Christensen) is a bank employee bored by her mundane life. Their lives are thrown into a spin when they both get caught in the middle of a bank heist and are forced to arbitrate this intense situation between the thieves and the police.
With a crazy blend of DOG DAY AFTERNOON and DAZED AND CONFUSED, HOW TO ROB A BANK is a trail blazing comedy.
Director: Andrews Jenkins
Cast: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews, Leo Fitzpatrick, Adriano Aragon
Learn more about HOW TO ROB A BANK at ArclightFilms.com |
SLIPSTREAM (Drama Thriller / Completed)
Slipstream is the debut into independent filmmaking by Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins. If it is ever possible to sense the liberation and creative passion unleashed by such a newfound freedom, we can experience it with Hopkins's inventive and multilayered work. The film features a sterling ensemble cast, including Christian Slater, John Turturro, Stella Arroyave, Jeffrey Tambor, and Hopkins himself. Aided by acclaimed cinematographer Dante Spinotti and celebrated costume designer Julie Weiss, Hopkins takes on us an incredible journey into the combustion of a writer's mind and the nature of the creative process.
At times, this film appears to be a conventional, concrete, and straightforward tale about a screenwriter, Felix Bonhoffer. Then it turns riotously hallucinogenic, taking off on tangents and down rabbit holes into dream worlds and streams of consciousness. As the characters from the writer's fictional universe begin to appear in his "real" world, the audience starts questioning the limits of the human brain. We are given an opportunity to see into the vortex of a creative mind fulminating in "madness."
With a structured elegance, at times an overwhelmingly visceral kinesthesia, overflowing with film and artistic references, Hopkins announces he is a filmmaker with an unwaveringly artistic vision on a mission into the ineffable.
Director: Anthony Hopkins
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro, Fionnula Flannagan, Kevin McCarthy, Stella Arroyave, Gavin Grazer, Lisa Pepper, Lana Antonova
Learn more about SLIPSTREAM at ArclightFilms.com |
YO SOY LA JUANI (Comedy Drama / Completed)
The film tells the story of Juani and her best friend Vane, two Spanish women in their early twenties who get fed-up with their small town lives, their dead-end jobs and deadbeat boyfriends and make the decision to move to Madrid to seek fame, fortune and most importantly - fun.
Director: Bigas Luna
Cast: Veronica Echegui, Dani Martin, Laya Marti
Learn more about YO SOY LA JUANI at ArclightFilms.com |
AFTER SEX (Comedy Drama / Completed)
AFTER SEX is an edgy, sexy character driven comedy that explores intimacy, vulnerability and the revelation of self that occurs in relationships.
It's a clever yet honest look at the complexity of modern day relationships told through nine very different couples who all have one thing in common... they've just had sex!
Through witty dialogue and compromising situations, the film takes us from the beginning of a relationship to the aftermath of one, and examines every stage in between.
Our stories find humor in the drama, heartache and confusion of love, in an entertainingly sexy and fun manner.
Director: Eric Amadio
Cast: Mila Kunis, Jane Seymour, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Taryn Manning
Learn more about AFTER SEX at ArclightFilms.com |
BOBBY (Drama / HKIFF Screening "Gala Presentation")
- Thu, 29th Mar, 9:30 PM, HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
- Fri, 6th Apr, 3:00 PM, HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
Bobby is a fictionalized account of various people whose lives intersect in the hours leading up to and including the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The film is a journey of the heart that examines the relationships between men and women, between races and social divisions that have clipped away the foundation of our humanity. We are given a glimpse into how life can be drastically changed in a moment in time, an indelible event in American history. The characters in Bobby are ordinary Americans who find themselves at the epicenter of one of the most important incidents of the 20th Century.
Director: Emilio Estevez
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Demi Moore, William H. Macy, Lindsay Lohan, Emilio Estevez, Christian Slater, Martin Sheen, Helen Hunt, Heather Graham, Ashton Kutcher, Laurence Fishburne
View BOBBY listing at HKIFF.org.hk
Learn more about BOBBY at ArclightFilms.com
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