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Future Cinema
Future Cinema is a London-based events company specialising in the creation of immersive and social cinema experiences as an alternative to the multiplex. Background Future Cinema stages large cinema screenings that incorporate aspects of immersive events. Founder Fabien Riggall, describes the idea behind Future Cinema as, "creating an immersive experience in which the audience becomes part of the narrative. It's about creating a social cinema experience where the audience can connect with each other online and at the event." Subsidiaries Secret Cinema In 2007, Secret Cinema pioneered the form ‘Live Cinema’ by introducing site-specific, immersive experiences based on the settings and actions of popular movies, using actors, sets and narratives that complement the particular film. The first event was a screening of Gus Van Sant's classic '' Paranoid Park'' which screened at Southwark Playhouse in London. Recent screenings include ''The Third Man'' in 2011, '' Prometheus (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplex (movie Theater)
A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens within a single complex. They are usually housed in a specially designed building. Sometimes, an existing venue undergoes a renovation where the existing auditoriums are split into smaller ones, or more auditoriums are added in an extension or expansion of the building. The largest of these complexes can sit thousands of people and are sometimes referred to as a megaplex. The difference between a multiplex and a megaplex is related to the number of screens, but the dividing line is not well-defined. Some say that 16 screens and stadium seating make a megaplex, while others say that at least 24 screens are required. Megaplex theaters may have stadium seating or normal seating, and may have other amenities often not found at smaller movie theaters; multiplex theatres often feature regular seating. The Kinepolis-Madrid Ciudad de la Imagen megaplex in Spain is the largest movie theater in the world, with 25 screens and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabien Riggall
Fabien Riggall (born in 1975) is the founder and creative director of Future shorts, Future Cinema and Secret Cinema. Career Riggall started his career in film as a runner and worked his way up going from working as assistant producer to producing short films. He studied at the New York Film Academy. Fabien Riggall set up Future Shorts in 2003. The company aims to create multi-dimensional environments where audiences experience a film in purpose-built sets, combining art, music, literature, and film in re-imagined, abandoned spaces. By 2007, Fabien's ideas had evolved to become Secret Cinema and the brand has since expanded to incorporate multiple strands under the umbrella name, including Tell No One, Secret Cinema Presents, Secret Cinema X, Secret Music, and Future Shorts, a global short film-festival. Secret Cinema stages events of varying scale, from a few hundred to a hundred thousand attendees. Fabien's ambitions are to establish immersive cinema as a mainstream enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Cinema (events Company)
Secret Cinema is a London-based entertainment company that specialises in immersive film and television events. Founded and created in 2007 by Fabien Riggall, it began with mystery screenings at initially undisclosed venues in London, including interactive performances in purpose-built sets. With over 70 productions to date, the events have grown to large-scale experiences where up to 5,000 people per night spend 5 hours exploring the worlds, engaging with characters, and becoming part of the story. As screenings grew in size and popularity, Secret Cinema began to release the title to its audience beforehand in order allow them to be more engaged with the narrative during the event. Events In December 2011, Secret Cinema held a one-off screening of ''The Third Man'' in Kabul to coincide with its London run of the film. The film was screened in both Kabul and London simultaneously. In between 2011 and 2014, Secret Cinema held screenings of ''Prometheus'', '' Grease'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranoid Park (film)
''Paranoid Park'' is a 2007 Coming of age story, coming of age Teen film, teen drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant. The film is based on the Paranoid Park (novel), novel of the same name by Blake Nelson and takes place in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon. It's the story of a teenage skateboarder (played by Gabe Nevins) set against the backdrop of a police investigation into a mysterious death. Van Sant wrote the draft script in two days after reading and deciding to adapt Nelson's novel. To cast the film's youths, Van Sant posted an open casting call on social networking website MySpace inviting teenagers to audition for speaking roles, as well as experienced skateboarders to act as extra (actor), extras. Filming began in October 2006 and took place at various locations in and around Portland. Scenes at the fictional Eastside Skatepark were filmed at Burnside Skatepark which was, like Eastside, built illegally by skateboarders. ''Paranoid Park'' premiered on May 21, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Man
''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that Lime has died. Viewing his death as suspicious, Martins elects to stay in Vienna and investigate the matter. The atmospheric use of black-and-white expressionist cinematography by Robert Krasker, with harsh lighting and largely subtle "Dutch angle" camera technique, is a major feature of ''The Third Man''. Combined with the iconic theme music by zither player Anton Karas, seedy locations and acclaimed performances from the cast, the style evokes the atmosphere of an exhausted, cynical post-war Vienna at the start of the Cold War. Greene wrote the novella of the same name as preparation for the screenplay. Karas's title composition "The Third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prometheus (2012 Film)
''Prometheus'' ( ) is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship ''Prometheus'' as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species. Development of the film began in the early 2000s as a fifth installment in the ''Alien'' franchise. Scott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror film ''Alien''. In 2002, the development of ''Alien vs. Predator'' took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil (1985 Film)
''Brazil'' is a 1985 dystopian black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a low-ranking bureaucrat trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. ''Brazil''s satire of technocracy, bureaucracy, hyper-surveillance, corporatism and state capitalism is reminiscent of George Orwell's 1949 novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' and has been called Kafkaesque and absurdist. Sarah Street's ''British National Cinema'' (1997) describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society", and John Scalzi's ''Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies'' (2005) describes it as a "dystopian satire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Shorts
Future Shorts is a short film label based in London. It was founded in 2003 by Fabien Riggall. It organizes a monthly short film festival, Future Shorts ONE, that screens short films by filmmakers from all over the world. The Guardian Guide referred to Future Shorts as "an association that sifts through the world of short film every month so you don't have to" in an article about their participation in the Short Film Weekend of London in 2004. Their program at the festival included films by Chris Morris, Lynne Ramsay, Mike Leigh, as well as Run Wrake. According to Screen Daily, Future Shorts "offers a platform for film-makers in 25 countries." Future Shorts launched a DVD distribution division in May 2007. In September 2007, it launched a web TV service in partnership with Joost. The festival has also worked with various organisations and companies. The company collaborated with Samsung to promote their new phone, the Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957), ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965), and ''A Passage to India'' (1984). He also directed the film adaptations of two Charles Dickens novels, '' Great Expectations'' (1946) and '' Oliver Twist'' (1948), as well as the romantic drama ''Brief Encounter'' (1945). Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's '' In Which We Serve'', which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning with '' Summertime'' in 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film ''Ryan's Daughter'' led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brief Encounter
''Brief Encounter'' is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play ''Still Life''. Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, it follows a passionate extramarital affair in England shortly before World War II. The protagonist is Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated after a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger with whom she subsequently falls in love. The film premiered in London on 13 November 1945, and was theatrically released on 25 November to widespread critical acclaim. It received three nominations at the 19th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Actress (for Johnson), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Many critics, historians, and scholars cite the film as one of the greatest of all time. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it as the second-greatest British film of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentines Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution; another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Searching For Sugarman
''Searching for Sugar Man'' is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him in that country. On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London and two weeks later, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Production Initially using Super 8 film to record stylised shots for the film, director Malik Bendjelloul ran out of money for more film to record the final few shots. After three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
