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He called them «Dirty Pretty Things» and seemed to assault the idea of even looking at pictures, turning the experience into chewing bubble gum.
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Image: «Elvis with Gun» Exhibition dates: 7th April — 14th May «American Envy» is the third exhibition at Scream Gallery of celebrated British artist Russell Young, and it follows his sell out show «Dirty Pretty Things» in 2010.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Superstar, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Forever Young: A Retrospective, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida 2015 Wanted Dead or Alive, 212 Gallery, Aspen, Colorado 2015 Jackie O, Tagliatella Gallery, New York 2015 Rock n» Roll Works on Paper, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2015 Young, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf and Galerie Hafenrichter, Nurnberg, Germany 2014 SUPERSTAR, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2014 Spring Show 2014, Mead Carney Fine Art, London 2014 Wild at Heart, Imitate Modern, London 2013 Dreamland, Bankrobber, London 2013 The Fight of the Paso Del Mar, Bankrobber, London 2013 Kate Moss, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2013 Suicide, Bankrobber, London; Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna and Vertes Modern Art, Zurich 2012 Russell Young, Vertes Modern Art, Zurich, Switzerland 2012 Entertainment for Men, the Playboy Club, London 2012 Private Show, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 A Working Class Hero is Something To Be, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2012 A Retrospective, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 Only Anarchists Are Pretty, Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas 2012 The Queen is Dead, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2012 The Last Picture Show, Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna and Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2011 The Last Picture Show, Guy Hepner, Bal Harbour, Florida and Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2011 American Envy III, Long - Sharp / Curis Modern + Contemporary 2011 American Envy I, Scream Gallery, London 2011 Diamond Dust, Galerie G. Hartinger Fine Arts, Vienna 2011 Icons, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal 2010 Russell Young, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2010 Icons & Iconoclasts, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2010 Pig Portraits, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2010 Russell Young, Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke - Zoute, Belgium 2010 Diamond Dust, Russeck Gallery, San Francisco, California 2010 New Paintings, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California 2010 Dirty Pretty Things, Collectors Contemporary Singapore; Scream Gallery, London and Tagliatella Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida 2010 Selected Works, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2010 Fame + Shame, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2010 Russell Young, Doyle Devere, London 2009 Dirty Pretty Things, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles, California; Valentino, New York; Russeck Gallery, San Francisco and Nikolai Rukaj Gallery, Toronto 2009 The Last Picture Show, Sims Reed Gallery, London 2008 Russell Young, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California 2008 Rebel Rebel, Art of Elysium at Milk Gallery, New York 2008 Russell Young, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2008 Punk + Graffiti, Milk Gallery, New York 2007 Russell Young, Altermann Modern, San Francisco, California 2007 Horsepower, Milk Gallery, New York 2007 Works on Paper, Sims Reed Gallery, New York 2007 Storm, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York 2007 Fame + Shame, Bankrobber, London 2007 Los Angeles, Galerie Adler, Paris 2006 White Rabbit, The Art of Elysium, Beverly Hills, California 2006 Russell Young, Sims Reed Gallery, London 2005 Fame + Shame, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York and The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles 2003 Pig Portraits, SP Gallery, London, and The Art Of Elysium at Don O'Melveney Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Director Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things) usually excels at jumping genres, but fails to do so within a single film.
This is the same group that ticked off «Pan's Labyrinth,» «Dirty Pretty Things,» and the aforementioned «Sixth Sense» on their ballots.
2013 saw a great deal of self - contained films released, including awards contenders Gravity and All Is Lost, but writer / director Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has a nice gift waiting for audiences come April.
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Knight is responsible for having scripted such well - received drama / thriller fare as Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, in addition to biographical dramas (Amazing Grace, Pawn Sacrifice) and intimate character studies alike (Locke).
If that idea doesn't intrinsically sound compelling, there is little in Locke that will convince you otherwise; however, the subtle - yet - bold execution from writer - director Steven Knight (writer of Dirty Pretty Things & Eastern Promises) makes the film stand out even amongst one - man thrillers.
For Frears, who made his first resonant mark with a fantastic quartet of films — My Beautiful Laundrette, Walter and June, Prick Up Your Ears, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid — in the mid -»80s, the return to his homeland presaged a return to his interest in England's bottom caste and immigrant class, first with the grim, slight Liam and now with the trancelike, nightmarish Dirty Pretty Things.
However, perhaps the best performance of the film, with all due respect to Cheadle, comes from Sophie Okenedo (Dirty Pretty Things), as Paul's long - suffering Tutsi wife, Tatiana.
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS *** / **** starring Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo screenplay by Steve Knight directed by Stephen Frears SHANGHAI GHETTO ** / **** directed by Dana Janklowicz - Mann & Amir Mann CAMP * 1/2 / **** starring Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin de Jesus, Steven Cutts written and directed by Todd Graff
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Paramount Pictures and GK Films have announced that principal photgraphy is underway on the romantic thriller Allied, which is being directed by Robert Zemeckis (The Walk) from a script by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) and stars Brad Pitt (Fury) and Marion Cotillard (Macbeth).
It's a simple setup, but writer / director Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) crafts a taught thriller and executes well.
Knight has made a career of following his own interests, cutting his teeth in spoof comedy, creating the original British edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and parlaying that success into his feature writing debut, the black - market organ harvesting drama Dirty Pretty Things.
The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.
Scripted by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Locke), directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump), it is a costume drama set in 1942.
A softer - touch movie would almost certainly have ducked the firebomb attack on Maison Mumbai, and whitewashed the racist graffiti — so let's give credit to socially - minded screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Hummingbird) for ensuring that Hallstrom's doesn't.
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At some point during Dirty Pretty Things, maybe the half - way point, I didn't check, I realized the film's non-traditional approach was holding it back.
It's rare to see such a blatant homage to that classic, but director Robert Zemekis (Oscar winner for Forrest Gump) and writer Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises) deliver their version with an identical setting, nearly identical costumes, and the re-use of a song («La Marseillaise») which played such a crucial role.
The outstanding score is by Ennio Morricone, the screenplay by Robert Bolt and the absolutely beautiful cinematography by Chris Menges, who did The Killing Fields, Michael Collins, Dirty Pretty Things and the upcoming North Country.
He Ejiofor is known for his portrayal of Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things, the Operative in Serenity, Lola in Kinky Boots, Luke in Children of Men, Dr. Adrian Helmsley in 2012, and Dr. Vincent Kapoor in The Martian.
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Twice, Ejiofor won the Outstanding Actor Black Reel Award for 12 Years A Slave (2013), and Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
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The film's screenplay was written by «Dirty Pretty Things» and «Locke» scribe, Steven Knight.
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Victoria and Abdul is directed by veteran filmmaker Stephen Frears, of High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen, Tamara Drewe, Philomena, The Program, and Florence Foster Jenkins previously.
Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, Mrs. Henderson Presents) directs and Helen Mirren (Last Orders, Gosford Park) stars as the Queen of England, but this is no dry costume epic.
From Steven Knight, the director of HUMMINGBIRD, writer of such brilliant films as DIRTY PRETTY THINGS and EASTERN PROMISES, as well as being the creator of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
It is that ambiguity that gives DIRTY PRETTY THINGS its bite and its sting.
Stephen Frears, director of The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liasons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen and so many more quietly great films, seems to get a pretty significant performance out of Ben Foster in his biopic about the myth, hubris and ultimate downfall of American cyclist Lance Armstrong.
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS requires nerves of steel and a fair bit of intestinal fortitude.
And so it is with DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, a stark portrayal of class warfare played out as an elegant game of chess, one of the films» many metaphors, where the pawns are people and their pain real.
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He is played by English actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (Inside Man, Dirty Pretty Things), whose Spencer Tracy — like ability to observe and calmly draw us into an experience is quite powerful here.
High Fidelity, Chicken Run, dirty pretty things, children of men (again 1 of my favorites), united 93 might also be called British films and some might claim a place on that list.
Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things starts with a mystery premise - how did that human heart get into that hotel room toilet?
Dirty Pretty Things Year: 2002 Director: Stephen Frears Avoiding familiar common postcard views of London, Stephen Frears makes Dirty Pretty Things a tour through shady dealings and sufferings that could be set in any big city on either side of the Atlantic.
Conceived, written, shot and finished in less than nine months from page to premiere, the film is the second feature from «Eastern Promises» and «Dirty Pretty Things» writer Steven Knight, who made his debut only a few short months ago with Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird» (known in the U.S. as «Redemption»).
However, we can expect to see Brad Pitt return to our screens in the near zombie - infested future, as LOCKE's Steven Knight, oscar - nominee for DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, has been brought on board by Paramount and Skydance to pen the sequel.
The script from Knight, who previously wrote «Dirty Pretty Things» and «Eastern Promises,» is both efficient and tantalizing in the way it reveals information about this person and the situation in which he's found himself.
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With that twist, the original screenplay by the UK's Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Locke, Dirty Pretty Things) assumes a Hitchcockian tone.