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Monday, 26 December 2011

Attack the Block Reference Portal

I am just a silly with no connection to the makers of this film whatsoever

I think this is something along the lines of what a proper fan-site might put together but in my case it will be a lumbering list of links that I shall attempt to update as and when the mood takes my flighty, little brain.



The shiny official website is here.








Attack the Block is full of win!






After Attack the Block's amazing success in the UK, it's rolling out with dates in the US and Worldwide.







The U.S. Press Tour including San Diego Comic Con 2011







This film has been lovingly squeezed into it's cans (or BARCO spitspot) with the help of Optimum Releasing, Film4, Big Talk and the UK Film Council. All these links have a hotch-potch of things that might interest you if you poke around a bit. What one site lacks in glossy pictures and pithy quotes, it makes up for in wordy bits of information.













Podcasts and Radio Interviews.








Clips and trailers if you can't navigate the official website.







The UK release for the DVD, Blu-ray and digital versions is set for 26th September 2011 and Play.com appear to be offering an exclusive Glow in the Dark Triple Pack with what appears to be a complimenting green case.







So what did those Amerrricans think of the film? They saw it before any of us homeys, after all. The film was so well received at SXSW that it won the Best Midnight Feature nod so here are some links to the ejaculations of over-excited geekboys. Video interviews are here.






The next big public schmoozefest was at the Kapow Comic Con and I've been patiently thrumming my fingers in anticipation that someone might host some of the stuff that was recorded. They're probably waiting until nearer the release date.







and finally, a place to put all the items that defy categorisation.




This site is maintained by Auntie Nubbins.
When she doesn't have Joe's film to think about, she bothers parts of the internet here and here, tweets here and has dipped into Facebook.
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Monday, 5 September 2011

Attack the Block: Worldwide Release

If all this linkage doesn't send me to an early grave, I'll attempt to keep an eye on the film's progress around the world

This page is an erratic mess so I'm consigning older updates to below the line and just popping known release dates & festivals up here at the top.

So far, Attack the Block has attracted these baubles of appreciation.
RELEASE DATES:
FilmAuro have cut a new, dubbed trailer for their May 2012 release in Italy.

 

Clips, reviews and photos from the U.S. Press Tour can be found here.




Joe attended the Locarno Film Festival. IndieWire have an interview with him from Eric Kohn and here are some agency pictures from the festival, using a background inspired by a totally different kind of cat.
There's an audio interview with him here and a video here.


Premiere Fr have an interview with Joe and bring us what I believe is the first dubbed trailer (as if their subtitled version wasn't joyous enough).


Next up, the German dubbed version........


I'm sure this is hilarious and very satirical.

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There are a couple of worthy pieces Scott Wampler and Devin Faraci about the spurious Subtitle Issue.

Happily, an L.A. screening which invited All The Right People persuaded Sony Screen Gems to pick up the US rights.
USC has a screening on 18th July and their link impliesthere is a US theatrical release date of 29th July, 2011.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival scheduled a couple screenings and this leads me to believe it has opened in Malta.

There's a screening in Toronto on 14th June and the lovely Alamo Drafthouse in Austin has a special screening on June 15th.

The Los Angeles Film Festival will be showing it on 22nd June.
Malaysia have a release date of 27th June 2011. Other dates in the mix seem to be 15th June for Indonesia, 21st July for The Netherlands, 27th July for France and 26th August for Finland.

In the Empire Webchat, Joe revealed that Australia had just picked up the film and Avalon acquired it for Spain but there's no release date yet for either of those regions.


Play.com orignally had the UK release for the DVD, Blu-ray and digital versions set for 26th September 2011 and appear to be offering an exclusive Glow in the Dark Double Pack but that's now come down to a Double Play released on 19th September.

Amazon has also dropped down from a triple play to a double play.

Special Features:
Disc 1:
JUNIOR COMMENTARY - Joe Cornish with John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Simon Howard and Leeon Jones
SENIOR COMMENTARY - Joe Cornish with Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway and Nick Frost
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER COMMENTARY - Joe Cornish with Edgar WrightDisc 2:
Featurettes: Behind The Block, Creature Feature, Meet The Gang, It’s A Rap, Unfilmed Action
Trailers

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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Attack the Block UK Premiere - 4th May 2011

For the purposes of not cluttering other pages, content here was generated from the night of the premiere.

Joe’s long career with friend Adam Buxton has thrown up a wild array of strange characters and sketches. We couldn’t resist asking what he thought one of his early characters Ken Korda, might make of his film. “Ken? Err… I think he would be angry and probably confused, but then, that’s just another day in the life of Ken Korda…”
Matthew Groizard from Cine-Vue


Good friend of Ken Korda and Joe Cornish, Adam Buxton rocked up in his wedding best and blogged about it the next day.

This is the first of what sounds like a whole lovely series of films from Bleeding Cool.

HolyMoly have paid for several pictures, bless 'em as did CapitalFM.

There are ton of them here, here and here.

This young man took pictures of his own and everything.

Joe Upton wrote for The Hollywood News and finally, feast your eyes on this turgid waffle from MSN.

A lot of people turned their cameras on the team as they made their way up the red carpet. Sadly, a good deal of what we have is the same waffle from different angles but push through and you'll find the odd adorably fresh nugget.

This film won't embed happily so follow this link to The Independent and then again to TotalFilm's premiere video report and finally This is Fake DIY's report.

There are several links here and more of the same from Metacafe.















This is a lovely blend made from all of the above.



If you think you're heard all you need about Attack the Block, Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly to his opportunity to ask him about anything but....
















Good shot of the bespoke red carpet at the top of the next film. It's one thing having a proper premiere but they made him a carpet with the film's title on...bless.







This is a charming little piece...



Make sure you don't have any sharp object to hand when you watch this. I can't be held responsible if you stab your screen before the interviews even start.



There are one or two blog-style videos from the red carpet which are a giggle and finally, here's a sweet video from the people who organised the post premiere party.

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Thursday, 28 April 2011

Attack the Block Reviews


At the risk of repeating myself, the Big Talk links have a lot of reviews.
There is no risk.
I am repeating myself.
You can short circuit all of this by checking Rotten Tomatoes, of course.


As well as excitement and laughs, Cornish provides some sharp social comment on the subject of aliens and alienation

Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian
First and foremost, Attack the Block is a properly cinematic film unlike anything the British film industry has produced in recent memory.
Ultra Culture held back their words in accordance with the embargo
but then realised they were the only silly billies to be showing
that level of respect.
Cornish, like Garth Jennings, Duncan Jones and Gareth Edwards before him, didn't get the memo that said all British science fiction must be small-scale, tedious analogies of the decline of postwar imperialism or the unbelievable price of stamps or whatever we're complaining about these days.
More delightful twaddle from Neil Alcock of The Incredible Suit fame.
All great horror films work because the heroes are stuck in a locked, small environment. Here we find our gang of kids, and everyone else for that matter, fighting off the alien invasion within the confines of a South London tower block.
Cinematographer Tom Townend turns exclusively nocturnal locations into a riot of neon-drenched colour reminiscent of Andrew Laszlo’s work for Walter Hill, while the electronic throb of Steven Price’s score betrays an unmistakable John Carpenter influence
Michael Brooke for Sight & Sound
The stylistic references are clear (predator, gremlins, close encounters), but the film doesn’t rely on this to support itself, never descending into parody or overly referential fan boy smugness.
Like a love postcard to his postcode this is a movie set in a very real London, and Cornish uses every part of the grimy night streets and neon lit housing estate as a sprawling playground-come-warzone where the crafty kids who ‘call it home’ have the upper hand against their evil aggressors.
From Love Horror

I can imagine discovering Attack The Block at a TIFF Midnight Madness screening circa 1987 or 88, or watching it on a crappy VHS screening copy even. And I think I would have loved it then as much as I love it now.
Norman Wilner for Now Toronto
The character development between the mugged nurse and her hooded marauders provides a solid foundation of urban realism upon which Cornish layers on plenty of visual japes, verbal wisecracks and gory shocks.
from Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy

Joe Cornish, making his debut here, stuffs the film with immensely satisfying, soon-to-be-iconic moments and juggles several major story threads with ease.
Alex Williams for the Daily Texan
But the setting and the aliens are mere supports to the true stars of the film, the young actors, who last week described how they had enjoyed having an input into their characters' dialogue.
Andrew McCorkell for The Independent
It's a perfect example of how every piece of the film is intricately thought out.
Rick DeMott for Animation World Network
Giant Feral Chia Pets Gone Wild
Leah Rozen for TheWrap
The small scale works in favor of the film’s overall charm. There’s no government cover-up or agents running around with walkie-talkies.
Tim Kelly for Guy.com
It's action-packed 88 minutes feel like about 20.
Whitney Matheson for USA Today
The film alternates suspense with flashes of mild gore gross-out and cheerful farce: there's a nice scene in which a bunch of girls set about the aliens with roller skates and standard lamps (the girls, in fact, are feistier and mouthier than the boys, and underused in this somewhat male affair)
Jonathan Romney, also for The Independent
Attack the Block is an affectionate addition to the monster movie catalogue but anyone expecting Cornish, with his comedy pedigree, to have crafted a parody should know that this is a quirky, but brutal sci-fi shocker that’s as violent and tense as the best of the genre demands.
from Ed Whitfield of Obsessed with Films
While the aliens remain unknowable black beasts – prowling blotches of dead space with no eyes and glowing neon fangs – the youngsters gradually evolve from caricatures to characters.
from Jonathan Crocker of Love Film
Most importantly, it gives grotty London estates an almost magical cinematic sheen which is unexpectedly stunning.
by Becky Read for FakeDIY
Cornish was obviously very deliberate when distinguishing each person’s look, speech, attitude and back story and it pays off.
Alongside Ayoade, Cornish is now a director to watch.
Michael Leader for Den of Geek
While the creatures look like vicious Muppets, they make surprisingly convincing antagonists.
David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter
Consistently funny and bursting with creativity, it’s staggering that this is Cornish’s first feature. Along with cinematographer Thomas Townend, Cornish shoots inner city London like Blade Runner’s midnight cityscape; a third-act slow-mo sequence in particular is a scene of unexpected beauty amid the interstellar chaos.
Jordan Farley of SFX Magazine
The socio-political commentary is there if you want to chew on it, but Attack The Block is primarily concerned with the invasion of inky extraterrestrials whose only distinguishing feature is a hellish maw of glow-in-the-dark teeth.
Graeme Virtue of The Sunday Herald
His direction is terrifically solid too, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish.

Danny Bowes for TOR.com

There are some genuine scares too, thanks to the great retro monster design and the stunning night-time cinematography.
From Andy Lea at The Daily Star on Sunday
Attack the Block sets its stall out as a 80s sci-fi, which is very entertaining and brilliantly written.
Andrew Watson for The Script Lab
‘Attack the Block’ is a rousing adventure which packs as much excitement as possible into its 88 minute running time.
by Alan Diment for Hackney Hive
During the climax, I wanted to send along a note to Zack Snyder saying, "This is how you use slo-mo."
Jake writes in his blog
Cornish resists the temptation of including such traditional tropes as a hokey romantic subplot, or of attempting to explore the broken familiar relationships at the heart of the film in any way not befitting the characters themselves.
by Adam Batty of Hope Lies.....
The design of these creatures is brilliant in its simplicity; they are essentially a black, featureless mass with glowing fangs
from Phil - you know, Phil on Film
The lead character Moses with an excellent performance by John Boyega who looks at times eerily like a very young Denzel Washington.
Sergio n for Shadow And Act on Indiewire.
I overheard two earnest-sounding men in the British Library canteen talking about it the other day. One had never heard of it, the other was enthusing about how, finally, underprivileged kids who live on estates would finally have a film that does them justice and give them a positive spin. I think I can see what he means. But don’t watch Attack The Block out of a spurious need for political roughage; watch it (from May 13), because it’s scary and funny.
Andrew Collins has put a solid and balanced blogpost together.
You should read it.
Where Wright’s first two features were satirical romps, and Jones and Edwards chose to set their sci-fi pictures outside the UK, Attack the Block is both muscular and set on his home turf; for once it’s not America that the aliens choose to invade.
from Jamie Dunn at The Skinny
However much goodwill you chuck at it, this isn’t quite the instant cult classic you want it to be. But now and then it’s as blinding as those alien gnashers.
Just in case you thought I was sugaring a pill,
this a rare review with reservations
from James Mottram at......well, it's Total Film
SO WHY THE STRANGE TITLE ATTACK THE BLOCK? BECAUSE THIS A FILM ABOUT TERRITORY. AND TERRITORY BEST MEANS “HOME” AND “COMMUNITY” IN THIS CASE; BEST EXPLORED THROUGH THAT SINGLE, AMAZING CHARACTER.

HULK SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE SOMEONE MADE A MOVIE ABOUT MOSES.
If you like your reviews to SHOUT AT YOU, click HERE.
There will be lots of lazy comparisons with Shaun Of The Dead, taking into consideration the Edgar Wright link (he’s executive producer). On one level, that’s justified — we’ll be throwing in our own lazy comparison later — but like Belloq in Raiders, people seeking to lump Shaun and Block together are digging in the wrong place. For Attack The Block is really the best movie John Carpenter never made
This is the on-line version of Chris Hewitt's review in this month's glossy Empire Magazine I chose that quote because Attack the Block has got about as much to do with Shaun of the Dead as my bottom - i.e. I sat on it to watch both films...though only the very edge of it.
The director Joe Cornish has a sharp ear for the depressing rhythms of teen patois, and the execution has an undeniable zing, but it’s more jumpy than scary...
Jenny McCartney in The Telegraph's Seven (David Gritten's review is also at this link)
In some ways Attack The Block is reminiscent of last year's French zombie actioner The Horde. The high rise council block is the locale for a fantasy event where different types of people come together in an uneasy alliance.
Martyn Conterio from FilmShaft.com
Cast-wise, the young crew of first-timers is plucky and endearing. There’s muscular support from Jodie Whittaker and Nick Frost, while Luke Treadaway walks away with the film as a bumbling posh-boy stoner.
This piece from Time Out was linked by Big Talk
in their SXSW roundup but there'll be more to come
from this team, no doubt.
Despite the inclusion of every potential stereotype, and tackling an entirely improbable storyline, the film still feels fresh and real
Louise Howells at Wired.
Once the Basement Jaxx soundtrack is pumping and the glow-in-the-dark teeth possessing aliens are ascending the tower, the film hits the peak of the frenetic pace and it manages to keep it all the way to the finale.
Stewart Terry for HUH
Cornish’s breathlessly-paced script entwines thrilling action set-pieces with a gently provocative portrayal of urban youth, effectively challenging audience preconceptions while never letting up on the entertainment.
Paul Gallagher writes for The List
Another clever idea is that the alien invasion occurs on bonfire night with most people assuming that when they land they are simply rockets that have been misfired.
Although very funny, Attack the Block refuses to be labelled as a mere comedy and is not to be confused for one.
From Justine Young at Drop Out UK
Steven Price’s score is impressive, is used with wit and verve, and Basement Jaxx (also feature film debutants) contribute a superb pulsing soundtrack.
from Olly Buxton of Flick Feast

There are plenty of reviews on the newsstand as well. Empire has a very entertaining piece in their June issue but they also put this little piece up when the creature poster was released.

It would be remiss of me to exclude Robbie Collin's now notoriously damning review but it's behind a paywall so you'd think I'd have a watertight excuse. I'm not impartial. I can't pretend I am but whilst I disagree with Robbie as often as I concur with him, he's a lovely chap and his thoughts on any film are always worth a look. Due to the Twoutrage on Sunday, Robbie felt the need to not so much defend but explain the basis of his review via his Facebook page and in doing so, pretty much made the salient points of it available for us tightwads.

There are a few more interviews towards the bottom of this page, in audio form.

.......and then we have Mr Kermode's immediate reaction.


...and Picturehouses' Flick's brief introduction starts at 1:52


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