With hefty roles in the likes of On Chesil Beach, Outlaw King and The Serpent in recent years, Billy Howle is making a name for himself on film and TV.
Currently Howle is picking up plaudits for The Beast Must Die, the BritBox thriller in which he plays a detective struggling with PTSD.
Howle is one of Britain s most accomplished young actors – and it was a pleasure to venture into his workshop.
What was your ‘big break?’
I don’t know if I’m best qualified to answer this. I have always allowed the work to speak for itself.
Some work I’ve done, that I would consider very good work, has never received the recognition it deserved. Other work has.
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The orange-green glow of heat camera footage reveals a couple of figures, likely soldiers given their bulky clothing and weaponry, standing around a small trench. A prostrate body is dragged in and pitched into the shallow grave, shovelfuls of dirt slung over it.
The image is so alien it takes a minute to process its real horror â the blob representing the victim is glowing orange as the black earth gradually obscures it: he is being buried alive. Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovychâs remarkable Venice 2019 Horizons winner Atlantis may immediately switch to exquisitely composed, live-action images of startlingly crisp, austere devastation but his filmâs most potent motifs are all established in this eerie, alien opening: war, death, callousness, heat and dirt.
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Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Douglas Trumbull had previously brought his VFX experience to film on such groundbreaking classics as 2001, but Silent Running – a sort of proto-Wall-E, with humanity facing the demise of its natural resources – let him loose as a director. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of several crew members on a greenhouse vessel that carries some of the few remaining plants from a ruined Earth. But when his ship is ordered to destroy the vegetation and return, Lowell mutinies and continues to tend his foliage with the help of three memorable robo-assistants. It s by turns dramatic, quiet, and reflective, an environmental warning that refrains from throwing its message in your face.
Long-Delayed Horror Film Antlers Gets New Release Date
Antlers has had a tough go of things, as its first trailer debuted back in 2019 and it has undergone a number of delays for various reasons, with its new release date claiming it will land in theaters on October 29th. It s entirely possible, of course, that as that release date approaches, it could be delayed once again, but with this new release date being nine months away, surely the studio is hopeful that they won t have delay it further. It s also unknown whether the film will debut exclusively in theaters or if it will be made available to rent on VOD on that same date.
Marker’s experimental documentary,
Sunless, was heralded by critics and admirers as a return to personal filmmaking after a decade of radical, collectively produced films. Ostensibly a documentary about Japanese culture,
Sunless blasts apart the realist documentary tradition, continuing the radical aesthetic ideology of Vertovian cinema. Marker’s revival of Vertov’s montage techniques are used in this film to study the ontology of truth in documentary images and narrative films from the past.
Sunless features sequences from Tokyo, the Il de France, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and outer space much in a way that resembles how Vertov combined images taken from opposite ends of the Soviet Union that compressed space-time in their montage. Vertov did it in the service of creating agitprop films that were meant to buttress the Leninist political program and Marker did it to explore connections between various practices, rituals, objects, nations, and cultures that were already co