Author Archive: Del Harvey
Del Harvey is a co-founder of Film Monthly. He is an independent filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and film teacher, currently living in Chicago.
Wuthering Heights (2011)
“Pure cinema” relies heavily upon the visual and the visceral. It is the environment as much as the story. In director Andrea Arnold’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, we are introduced to the Earnshaw family and young Heathcliff in a vast and wild English countryside buffeted by unceasing winds and framed and filmed with [...]
“Lawrence of Arabia” Returns to the Big Screen to Celebrate 50th Anniversary!
NCM® Fathom Events and Sony Pictures Entertainment present a cinematic treasure in select movie theaters on October 4th, 2012. One of the most popular and influential films in the history of cinema returns to the silver screen with“Lawrence of Arabia 50th Anniversary Event: Digitally Restored” on Thursday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m. local time, with special matinees in select theaters. Presented by NCM® Fathom [...]
Bedevilled (2009)
Yeong-hie Seo (The Chaser) and Seong-won Ji (Harmony) star in Director Chul-soo Jang chilling first feature Bedevilled, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital October 9th from Well Go USA Entertainment. When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter’s death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames. Bedevilled won the Audience Award for “Best [...]
The Crimson Petal And The White
Romola Garai is an amazing actress who does not get enough notice in this country. Her last major film role was in Atonement, and since then she seems to be focusing on the small screen. In this latest release, The Crimson Petal And The White, she surprises as an intellectual prostitute in Victorian England who [...]
Upstairs Downstairs Season 2
In the year before WWII, 165 Eaton Place reopens its doors and welcomes viewers back into the lives of its inhabitants, upstairs and down. Lady Agnes and Sir Hallam’s family is now complete with the addition of two small children, but Sir Hallam is drawn into dangerous waters by his preoccupation with the threat of [...]
Wallander III
The world’s most-read detective returns in three new entries from Masterpiece Mystery! beginning Sunday, September 9 and concluding Sunday, September 23, 2012, on PBS. Henning Mankell’s Wallander books have been adapted twice before in Sweden in series which were hugely popular in their home countries. Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Henry V, Hamlet) returns [...]
Injustice
Created by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War, Midsomer Murders), Injustice, debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on August 28, 2012; offering a tale of murder, conspiracy, secrets, and guilt. James Purefoy (Rome, Episodes, and opposite Kevin Bacon on FOX’s forthcoming series The Following) leads a distinguished cast featuring Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel), Charlie Creed-Miles (Five Days), and Nathaniel [...]
The Expendables 2
In case you haven’t heard, Sylvester Stallone made a sequel to “The Expendables.” You know what he called it? “The Expendables 2.” Cool, huh? You know what else? There are a lot more old 80′s action heroes in it, plus a couple of guys from, like, this past decade, even. You know what else? They [...]
FLOST, aka FUCKLOAD OF SCOTCH TAPE
Independent filmmaker Julian Grant’s latest ultra-ultra low budget feature film is called FLOST, which translates to FuckLoad Of Scotch Tape. It is a story of a young man’s descent into his own personal hell, and the mistakes he made to get there. Julian calls the film a “musical Neo-Noir drama where a patsy is set up [...]
The Dark Knight Rises
On Friday, July 20, 2012, it all ended. By ‘it’ I mean Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. And by ‘end’ I mean he’s done with it. And to prove he’s done with it, the exceptional director has done everything he can to ensure no one could possibly, ever, in any way, make a continuation of his [...]
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