Just in time for James Bond Day on Friday (celebrating the 50th birthday of the film franchise), London critics saw the fast-paced documentary
Everything or Nothing, tracing 007 from his creation by Ian Fleming up to the release of
Skyfall in a couple of weeks. It puts all of the stories together into an enjoyably comprehensive narrative centred on the bromance between producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. A must for fans. We also saw the appallingly unfunny British wedding comedy
The Knot, the clever and very grisly coming-of-age black comedy
Excision and the clunky low-budget killer clown horror
Stitches.
In advance of the London Film Festival (10-21 Oct), we got to see: Frank Langella in the warm, engaging
Robot & Frank; Charlotte Rampling in the unsettling mystery-drama
I, Anna; the lively and rather chaotic biopic
Good Vibrations, about the godfather of Irish punk; the rather too-tidy Israeli drama
Zaytoun, starring Stephen Dorff; the beautifully made award-winning Swiss drama
Sister; the charming French animated adventure
Ernest and Celestine; and the strikingly involving miscarriage-of-justice doc
West of Memphis.
This coming week is another mixed bag, including Paul Thomas Anderson's anxiously awaited
The Master, Tim Burton's
Frankenweenie, Paul Dano in the literary comedy
Ruby Sparks, and the family ensemble comedy
The Oranges. And for the LFF, we'll see Francois Ozon's festival hit
In the House,
Kelly + Victor, The Comedian, and another 50th anniversary film, the digital restoration of
Lawrence of Arabia.
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