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Filmstar #2 on sale now!
The second issue of Filmstar is at a newsagent near you right now.
Britain's biggest (180 pages!), smartest and most comprehensive film
magazine goes on sale from Thursday 25 June, and costs just £3.99.
Quite incredible, really. Here is but a slither of what wonders await
within its finely crafted pages…
Moon
Moon is a low-budget, big-ideas SF thriller and just the kind of film that Filmstar was made for. It's got instant cult classic written all over it, and we speak with director Duncan 'Zowie Bowie' Jones about the making of his first feature.
Asian cinema
Far-Eastern film isn't all martial arts and horror (though admittedly, there's a fair bit of that). We take a look at the everything from Thai romcoms to Malaysian comedies, and hand-pick the must-see movies from the prolific Pacific arena.
More features!
But that's just the start of it. We also have features on French biopic of career-crim Mesrine; retro ’80s-set theme park-based Adventureland; and comedy/homage Will Ferrell vehicle Land of the Lost.
The Filmstar interview: Francis Ford Coppola
He's a heavyweight of cinema (yes, in both senses), and we talk exclusively to the director of Godfather, Apocalypse Now and, erm, One From the Heart about his rollercoaster career, and how he's now making the films he wants to make on his own terms.
More interviews!
We grill the great and the good of Hollywood in our Talent section. This month we speak with Spanish arthouse actress Penélope Cruz, Italian horror maker Dario Argento, upcoming English actor Hugh Dancy, renegade director and author Alex Cox, and Australian-born star of SF thriller Knowing Rose Byrne, among many others.
Reviews!
The Filmstar reviews section is the biggest you'll find anywhere, and we have all the space we need to cover the films that really count. Major blockbusters are here of course, but also the smaller, artier films that we reckon you'll still be talking about in the years to come, long after the marketing hype has died down. Plus we have the latest DVDs releases, as well as must-see TV, books and video games.
And much, much more!
Our regular Somewhere in Time feature takes a fond backwards glance to 1962, which saw the release of cold-war thriller The Manchurian Candidate and Kubrick's ever-controversial Lolita. This issue's Five Easy Pieces have us muse on the virtues of high-school flick Fast Times and Ridgemont High, the British New Wave movement of the ’50s and ’60s, what went wrong with The Matrix trilogy, the rise and fall and rise again of Winona Ryder, and the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker trio that brought us Airplane! and The Naked Gun. The List brings you a dozen great films about comedians - and why, behind the laughter, tragedy is never far away. In Superstar, meanwhile, we delve into the career and (not so) private life of Aussie actress Nicole Kidman.
All of this and more in Filmstar #2, on sale Thursday 25 June!
Adam Waring June 24, 2009, 3:44:43 pm BST
