Triple header: Excision, The Master and Tempest

Getting worried about the week beginning 2 November. Not only is The Shining receiving a re- release but there are least three compelling reasons to go to the cinema in the UK. I haven't seen these yet but the trailers alone have got me hooked.
Excision looks like one of the oddest movies of the year and a rarity in cinema - a serious minded coming of age film for young women. Starring Annalyn McCord, an isolated teenager fascinated with road kill, surgery on strangers and sex, if that doesn't get you interested there's always the cast which includes movie luminaries Malcolm McDowell and John Waters. Watch the trailer. My first thought was Rosemar

Then there is The Master with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Pheonix. Intense and brooding The Master tells the tale of a World War II veteran (Pheonix) who falls in with what seems like a philosophical cult under the control Hoffman.

Then there is a version of Shakespeare's Tempest. This is what the PR says: "TEMPEST is both a celebration of contemporary urban youth culture, and a 21st Century re-imagining of Shakespeare's last great play.

"17 young actors from South London struggle to put on a production. Their story unfolds alongside Prospero's as The Oval is transformed into Shakespeare’s magical island and the outcast Duke conjures the spirits in his quest to regain his kingdom."

TEMPEST trailer from rob curry on Vimeo. Labels: