Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.
It was only a matter of time before the progressive, cigar-toting director Jean-Luc Godard would embrace the divisive 3D format. Following in the footsteps of Wim Wenders (Pina), Martin Scorsese (Hugo) and Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams), the 82-year-old filmmaker will be exploring the format in 3X3D, a Portugal-set segment to a portmanteaux film made alongside directors Peter Greenway and Edgar Pêra.READ FULL STORYTHE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX
It’s the early noughties. Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain, aka Silibil ‘n’ Brains, are two lads from outer-Dundee with a talent for hip-hop. After being rejected with the moniker ‘The Rapping Proclaimers’ at a London music industry try-out, they return to Scotland to reinvent themselves as louche Californian rappers – clothes, accent, backstory, the works. The industry suddenly lies down for them, and Silibil ‘n’ Brains sign to a major label with $75k in their account and London’s nightlife calling.
The Great Hip Hop Hoax revisits the pair in the present day. Nottingham-based director Jeanie Finlay tells us how they managed to get away with it at first, and how it all managed to go so horribly wrong.READ FULL STORYWIN DARREN ARONOFSKY'S 'PI' ON BLU RAY
It's hard to believe that it's the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Pi, Darren Aronofsky's insanely ingenious and nightmarishly surreal feature debut. To celebrate next month's re-release of the 1998 cult classic we've got three Blu-rays to give away. All you have to do is enter the competition below to be in with a chance of winning.ENTER COMPETITIONKeep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.
JEAN-LUC GODARD EMBRACES 3D
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SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST EVER FILM IS A MUST-SEE
We've been raving about Wadjda for a while now (read our 4-star review); it's the first ever film to be made entirely in Saudi Arabia, by its country’s first female filmmaker, Haifaa Al-Mansour – as mould-breaking cinema goes, these are two very big achievements. And thankfully, you'll all be able to wrap your eyeballs around it soon as we edge ever closer to a release date (Sony Pictures Classics will release it later this year, although a date has yet to be announced).READ FULL STORY
