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Shortlisted for Raindance Best UK Feature

posted 18 years ago by thegilbert2002
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News from Raindance Film Festival UK:

The following films have been nominated for the UK Feature Jury Prize at the 14th Raindance Film Festival. There are five films in total that are vying for this award. The titles are as follows:

Cargo
Johnny Was
London to Brighton
Scenes of a Sexual Nature

Some of the jury who will be judging these films are:

Lou Reed (American rock & roll singer/songwriter, multi-media artist)
Judi Dench (British actress stage/screen)
Anton Corbijn (Dutch photographer, Music Video Director, Filmmaker)
Matthew Libatique (American DoP: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Inside Man)
Marky Ramone (of The Ramones, Filmmaker)
Kevin Macdonald (Scottish director: Touching the Void, The Last King of
Scotland)

The winner will be announced at our Closing Night Gala on Sunday 8 October at Cineworld Cinema on Haymarket Street, London, W1. Congratulations and good luck to all those shortlisted

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[–] daview70 18 years ago

Went to see Johnny Was in Trocadero as part of Raindance and the producers asked the audience to post what we thought online so here goes. Pretty Good.

I thought it should of decided whether it wanted to be a genre action flick or a drama, but in a way having one foot in each is maybe what made it different.

The rest of the audience seemed to like it, and I thought some of the lines were very good. The action scene in the big warehouse was good but some of the shootouts towards the end were a bit TV movie, but the music made up for it and the ending was a good twist.

The guy who introduced the movie was Vinny Jones manager and I can see why - this is the best acting he's done by a mile, but I suppose running through walls in X Men in a rubber suit doesnt need much acting. In this one he acts a much more complicated character.

All in all a pretty good movie with good characters, and a few really good scenes as well as a few lame ones - Lennox Lewis stands out.

[–] pkeets 18 years ago

So, who won? I don't see it at the Raindance site.