The Establishing Shot: MORE ALBATROSS STILLS

"Albatross" – noun:
1. a large seabird that spends most of its life in flight
2. an oppressive and inescapable fact or influence from the past.

Seventeen year old force-of-nature EMELIA (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) starts a new job at The Cliff House, a small hotel on the South Coast of England, run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. BETH FISCHER (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her exams in a desperate bid to escape to University. Dad JONATHAN (Sebastian Koch) is an author. Once the bright young thing of the literary establishment, he is now suffering interminable writer’s block. Wife JOA (Julia Ormond) runs the hotel Jonathan bought with earnings from his first book. She resents it, him, and everyone around her as she gave up her ‘promising career as an actress’ for this. Her only hope is 6-year-old daughter POSY (Katie Overd) who is showing great promise as a performer herself.

Emelia has been brought up by her grandparents but has a strained relationship with her GRANDPA (Peter Vaughan). She is an aspiring writer; believing she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, but their relationship quickly crosses the pupil-teacher line and they embark on a love affair. At the same time, Emelia and Beth strike up a surprise friendship: Emelia’s free-spirit helps Beth learn to let her hair down and Emelia is inspired by Beth’s determination and focus.

Secrets are revealed and relationships implode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs round her neck and rewrite herself?

Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). Being the dutiful daughter Marie consents to marry the prince and put aside her childish fantasy for the roguish Henri. However, wherever Marie goes attention follows, and soon enough her path crosses with Henri once more.

Release Date: 14 October 2011, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

The Establishing Shot: ALBATROSS STILLS

"Albatross" – noun:
1. a large seabird that spends most of its life in flight
2. an oppressive and inescapable fact or influence from the past.

Seventeen year old force-of-nature EMELIA (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) starts a new job at The Cliff House, a small hotel on the South Coast of England, run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. BETH FISCHER (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her exams in a desperate bid to escape to University. Dad JONATHAN (Sebastian Koch) is an author. Once the bright young thing of the literary establishment, he is now suffering interminable writer’s block. Wife JOA (Julia Ormond) runs the hotel Jonathan bought with earnings from his first book. She resents it, him, and everyone around her as she gave up her ‘promising career as an actress’ for this. Her only hope is 6-year-old daughter POSY (Katie Overd) who is showing great promise as a performer herself.

Emelia has been brought up by her grandparents but has a strained relationship with her GRANDPA (Peter Vaughan). She is an aspiring writer; believing she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, but their relationship quickly crosses the pupil-teacher line and they embark on a love affair. At the same time, Emelia and Beth strike up a surprise friendship: Emelia’s free-spirit helps Beth learn to let her hair down and Emelia is inspired by Beth’s determination and focus.

Secrets are revealed and relationships implode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs round her neck and rewrite herself?

Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). Being the dutiful daughter Marie consents to marry the prince and put aside her childish fantasy for the roguish Henri. However, wherever Marie goes attention follows, and soon enough her path crosses with Henri once more.

Release Date: 14 October 2011, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

The Establishing Shot: ALBATROSS POSTER

"Albatross" – noun:
1. a large seabird that spends most of its life in flight
2. an oppressive and inescapable fact or influence from the past.

Seventeen year old force-of-nature EMELIA (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) starts a new job at The Cliff House, a small hotel on the South Coast of England, run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. BETH FISCHER (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her exams in a desperate bid to escape to University. Dad JONATHAN (Sebastian Koch) is an author. Once the bright young thing of the literary establishment, he is now suffering interminable writer’s block. Wife JOA (Julia Ormond) runs the hotel Jonathan bought with earnings from his first book. She resents it, him, and everyone around her as she gave up her ‘promising career as an actress’ for this. Her only hope is 6-year-old daughter POSY (Katie Overd) who is showing great promise as a performer herself.

Emelia has been brought up by her grandparents but has a strained relationship with her GRANDPA (Peter Vaughan). She is an aspiring writer; believing she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, but their relationship quickly crosses the pupil-teacher line and they embark on a love affair. At the same time, Emelia and Beth strike up a surprise friendship: Emelia’s free-spirit helps Beth learn to let her hair down and Emelia is inspired by Beth’s determination and focus.

Secrets are revealed and relationships implode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs round her neck and rewrite herself?

Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). Being the dutiful daughter Marie consents to marry the prince and put aside her childish fantasy for the roguish Henri. However, wherever Marie goes attention follows, and soon enough her path crosses with Henri once more.

Release Date: 14 October 2011, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

The Establishing Shot: ALBATROSS TRAILER

"Albatross" – noun:
1. a large seabird that spends most of its life in flight
2. an oppressive and inescapable fact or influence from the past.

Seventeen year old force-of-nature EMELIA (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) starts a new job at The Cliff House, a small hotel on the South Coast of England, run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. BETH FISCHER (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her exams in a desperate bid to escape to University. Dad JONATHAN (Sebastian Koch) is an author. Once the bright young thing of the literary establishment, he is now suffering interminable writer’s block. Wife JOA (Julia Ormond) runs the hotel Jonathan bought with earnings from his first book. She resents it, him, and everyone around her as she gave up her ‘promising career as an actress’ for this. Her only hope is 6-year-old daughter POSY (Katie Overd) who is showing great promise as a performer herself.

Emelia has been brought up by her grandparents but has a strained relationship with her GRANDPA (Peter Vaughan). She is an aspiring writer; believing she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, but their relationship quickly crosses the pupil-teacher line and they embark on a love affair. At the same time, Emelia and Beth strike up a surprise friendship: Emelia’s free-spirit helps Beth learn to let her hair down and Emelia is inspired by Beth’s determination and focus.

Secrets are revealed and relationships implode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Emelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs round her neck and rewrite herself?

Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). Being the dutiful daughter Marie consents to marry the prince and put aside her childish fantasy for the roguish Henri. However, wherever Marie goes attention follows, and soon enough her path crosses with Henri once more.

Release Date: 14 October 2011, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

The Establishing Shot : KES RESTORED TRAILER

Director Ken Loach received international acclaim for this enormously moving tale of a lonely working-class Yorkshire boy, who turns from a life of comic books and shoplifting when he finds a baby kestrel and decides to raise and train it.

Release Date: 9 September, 2011

Kes
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Director: Ken Loach
Writers: Barry Hines (book), Barry Hines (adaptation)
Stars: David Bradley, Brian Glover and Freddie Fletcher

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: PETER JACKSON’S SEMINAL HEAVENLY CREATURES BLU-RAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It was the film that put Peter Jackson on the international film circuit. It was the film that rocketed Kate Winslet to fame. It was the film based on a crime that shocked a nation. Welcome to the grim and fantastical world of Heavenly Creatures, now released as a remastered edition on BluRay and DVD.

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

On Blu-ray & DVD September 12, 2011

Heavenly Creatures
Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Peter Jackson (screenplay)
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet and Sarah Peirse

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: TOMBOY RELEASED ONTO UK CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

A surprise box-office hit in its native France with over 200,000 admissions, Peccadillo Pictures bring us Celine Sciamma’s TOMBOY. Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.

The second film from the director of the critically acclaimed Water Lilies, TOMBOY received its world premiere in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Jury Award. The film won further acclaim around its UK premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Ten year old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.

Release Date: 16 September,2011

Tomboy
Settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, a 10-year-old girl decides to introduce herself as a boy.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Writer: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana and Jeanne Disson

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

Gus Van Sant's Restless Trailer

From Imagine Entertainment comes a powerful and emotional coming of age story, a remarkable film told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Directed by Gus Van Sant, one of the most astute observers of people living life on the edge, comes a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.

Release Date: 21 October, 2011

Restless
The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Writer: Jason Lew
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper and Ryo Kase


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Tomboy Trailer

A surprise box-office hit in its native France with over 200,000 admissions, Peccadillo Pictures bring us Celine Sciamma’s TOMBOY. Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.

The second film from the director of the critically acclaimed Water Lilies, TOMBOY received its world premiere in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Jury Award. The film won further acclaim around its UK premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Ten year old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.

Release Date: 16 September,2011

Tomboy
Settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, a 10-year-old girl decides to introduce herself as a boy.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Writer: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana and Jeanne Disson

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

Albatross Trailer

Albatross is a 2011 British coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Niall MacCormick and written by Tamsin Rafn. It stars Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown-Findlay. The film's premise revolves around a teenage aspiring writer entering the lives a dysfunctional family living in the south coast of England.

A fresh, modern-day coming-of-age tale focusing on 17-year-old force of nature Emelia (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) who bursts into the lives of the dysfunctional Fischer family when she is hired to work in their guest house in a sleepy town on the South Coast. Beth Fischer (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her A-Levels, in a desperate bid to escape to University, whilst dad Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), once a best-selling author, is suffering from writer’s block much to the annoyance of frustrated mum Joa (Julia Ormond) who runs the hotel and laments the promising acting career she once left behind.
Aspiring writer Emelia has been bought up by her grandparents and is under the impression that she is the great granddaughter of renowned novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, as Beth becomes enamoured with her forthright friend and decides to take her along on a visit to Oxford University - with hilariously raucous results.

As Emelia’s confidence and free-spirit help Beth learn to enjoy life beyond, Emelia too is inspired by Beth’s determination to focus and she begins to see a way to break through her self-destructive tendencies. However, when Emelia and Jonathan begin an illicit affair, the girls’ friendship is threatened.

Can Emelia and Beth escape the ties of small town existence and free themselves of the Albatross around their necks?

Release Date: 14 October, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

I Killed My Mother Trailer

"We love our mothers almost unknowingly, unconsciously, and we fully realise how deep-rooted that love is when we come to the last separation." Guy de Maupassant

Hubert Minel doesn’t love his mother. The seventeen-year-old regards her with haughty contempt, and sees only her dated sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there are also the cherished family mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by a love/hate relationship which obsesses him more and more each day, and desperate to escape the suffocating atmosphere of his mother’s working-class, suburban home, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical: artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex, and ostracism.

The directing debut of young French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan is a cathartic, fiercely compelling evocation of turbulent late adolescence. Visually stunning, with exquisite performances from Dolan himself – as the volatile, verbally savage Hubert – and a highly acclaimed cast including Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément, 'I Killed My Mother' was the winner of 22 international film awards in 2009, including three categories at Cannes.

Release Date: 12 September, 2011

I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)

A semi-autobiographical story about Dolan as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Director: Xavier Dolan

Writers: Xavier Dolan (screenplay), Xavier Dolan (dialogue)

Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan and François Arnaud

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HEAVENLY CREATURES REMASTERED TRAILER RELEASED!

It was the film that put Peter Jackson on the international film circuit. It was the film that rocketed Kate Winslet to fame. It was the film based on a crime that shocked a nation. Welcome to the grim and fantastical world of Heavenly Creatures, now released as a remastered edition on BluRay and DVD.

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

On Blu-ray & DVD September 12, 2011

Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Peter Jackson (screenplay)
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet and Sarah Peirse

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

Trailer for Richard Ayoade's Brilliant Submarine

Hailed “a triumphantly brilliant movie” (Dazed & Confused) and “the best British comedy in years” (Shortlist), SUBMARINE is the hilarious coming of age story from director Richard Ayoade (Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and star of The IT Crowd) and stars Craig Roberts (Being Human), Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins (Made in Dagenham), Noah Taylor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz).One boy must fight to save his mother from the advances of a Mystic and simultaneously lure his pyromaniac girlfriend into the bedroom, armed with only a wide vocabulary and near-total self belief. His name is Oliver Tate.

Release Date: 1 August, 2011

Director: Richard Ayoade
Writers: Richard Ayoade (screenplay), Joe Dunthorne (novel)
Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine

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