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Fiction Debut of the Year
A thunderbolt of provocative words and startling images, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff marks
the fiction debut of one of America's most acclaimed artists.
Whether describing the daily lives and desires of strong female characters or the horror of battle, Tides of War is set to be
the fiction debut of the year.
In what is certain to be one of the most talked - about
fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against a backdrop of Iran's tumultuous history, dramatic landscapes, and cultural beauty.
Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished
fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope.
Not exact matches
In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and
debuted the first official footage
of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators
of the science
fiction show Westworld.
She also took from her religious training a confessional impulse, on display in three memoirs and her
debut work
of fiction, The Company She Keeps.
Source Code In his 2009
debut feature, Moon, director Duncan Jones established himself as an impresario
of mind - blowing science
fiction.
More polished than his
debut feature Another Earth, Cahill and his brand
of humanist science
fiction are destined to appeal most to like - minded souls.
When Wes Anderson's feature
debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp
Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most
of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.
Adapted here by Alex Garland, riding on the modest success
of his directorial
debut, Ex Machina, as an infidelity mystery wrapped in big science
fiction ideas and a splicing
of cinematic DNA
of Andrei Tarkovsky and John Carpenter, among others.
A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative
fiction («Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...»), Garland made a knockout directorial
debut with «Ex Machina» (2014), which gave us the gift
of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image
of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor.
To be clear, nobody promised me anything; still, expectations were raised — by Garland's encouraging directorial
debut, 2014's Ex Machina, a nearly baked speculative
fiction about the responsible rearing
of robots, and by VanderMeer's reputation (highly regarded, though I admit I haven't the read the books).
Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material
of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial
debut with the magnificent science
fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.
A million miles removed from such peripherally comparable fare as Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us or Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Joshua Z Weinstein's
fiction - feature
debut gets right under the skin
of its characters, gently unpicking themes
of social conformity and religious responsibility with melancholy wit and wry, tragicomic insight.
Netflix has released the first official teaser
of its upcoming reboot
of the classic science
fiction TV series Lost in Space, which is slated to
debut on April 13.
After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language
debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced
of the trio
of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science
fiction flick, Snowpiercer.
The slate includes a number
of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and
fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will
debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.
It's the intent
of Chinese - American filmmaker Chloé Zhao to carve a story out
of the real lives
of the people she puts on screen; her docu -
fiction technique was what distinguished her striking 2015 feature
debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me, set among the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
However, this one is less indicative
of his «early, funny ones,» feeling like pretentious science
fiction as if Stillman wanted to make a more old - fashioned, sophisticated «Heathers,» «Clueless,» or «Mean Girls» mixed with Noah Baumbach's 1995 pre-mumblecore
debut «Kicking and Screaming.»
The Joy
Of Six includes the directorial debut of Romola Garai and the first short from Dan Sully while Matthew Holness brings the pulp fiction of Terry Finch to the big scree
Of Six includes the directorial
debut of Romola Garai and the first short from Dan Sully while Matthew Holness brings the pulp fiction of Terry Finch to the big scree
of Romola Garai and the first short from Dan Sully while Matthew Holness brings the pulp
fiction of Terry Finch to the big scree
of Terry Finch to the big screen.
Ranging from
debut to valedictory work, most
of these
fiction and documentary features have American distribution and will be presented at other festivals.
American Animals is Layton's narrative
debut, but it similarly tracks a stranger - than -
fiction tale
of four young men who brazenly attempt to execute one
of the most audacious art heists in US history.
You'd think the concurrent BD
debut of Pulp
Fiction would warrant a notice, but then it's safe to assume most watching this already know about that one.
That worked to the film's advantage because it ended up making its DVD
debut in August 2002 (smack in the middle
of Disney's few years
of comprehensive DVD editions) as a robust 2 - disc Collector's Edition alongside one for Pulp
Fiction.
In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles
of geeks flaming nerdboners with his
debut feature «Moon,» a film that dragged science
fiction kicking and screaming back into the -LSB-...]
Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit
of science
fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense
of the film.
During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature
debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top
of the Lake), the challenge
of casting a child actor, balancing fact and
fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.
A great mix
of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document
of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere
of Katharina Wyss's powerful
debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's
fiction feature
debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere
of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait
of a young man's life over the course
of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.
The series benefited from uncanny timing,
debuting just a few months into the Trump / Pence administration and in the wake
of the historic Women's March last January, during which some women carried signs saying «Make Margaret Atwood
Fiction Again.»
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu -
fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes
of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere
of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere
of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable
debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful
debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE
OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale
of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre
of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of the screen; the European premiere
of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait
of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN
OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study
of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
Among the other
fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment
of his parishioners and the rage
of another inhabitant
of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the
debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (
of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.
Kiss Me Deadly, the film that introduced the world to Mickey Spillane's private eye / thug Mike Hammer, also inspired (among other things) the briefcase gag in Pulp
Fiction (seriously guys, don't open it), and marked the film
debut of erstwhile Nurse Diesel Cloris Leachman.
Who: Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Sonoya Mizuno What: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities
of a breathtaking female A.I.. When: April 10th Why: Writer Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science
fiction genre, so it comes as no surprise that his directorial
debut occupies a similar space.
Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science
fiction genre (from «Sunshine,» to «Never Let Me Go,» to «Dredd»), so it comes as no surprise that his directorial
debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate
of artificial intelligence.
Berg, making her
fiction debut, and her director
of photography, Rob Hardy, push Every Secret Thing into the overcast dimness that has become a color - palette requirement for cinematic narratives in which loved ones get murdered or go missing.
Anyone who feared that the writer's directorial
debut would abandon the cerebral, doughty fare
of his previously - penned Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and roughly 15 minutes
of 2011's Dredd need not have worried — more than any
of Garland's previous efforts, Ex Machina weighs the heavier side
of science
fiction and what it means to be human.
Chuck Hayward's (Netflix's series Dear White People) irreverent script is all about embracing your inner loser as the ultimate winner, making Emmy - nominated Jennifer Arnold's (A Small Act)
fiction feature directorial
debut a willfully offensive adult comedy with no manners and tons
of heart.
WHY: Screenwriter Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science
fiction genre, so it comes as no surprise that his directorial
debut occupies a similar space, this time focusing on the decades - old debate
of artificial intelligence.
Disregarding its overly explanatory director's cut, Richard Kelly's
debut is less
of a straight science -
fiction film than a metaphysical meditation on teenage alienation, on that feeling like neither you nor anything you do matters.
Bart Layton's audacious feature
debut uniquely tacks together documentary and narrative styles to tell the stranger than
fiction tale
of a notorious art heist gone horribly wrong.
4K Restoration DONNIE DARKO — DIRECTOR»S CUT Sun, April 30 7:45 p.m.; Mon, May 1, 9:20 p.m.; Thurs, May 4, 9:20 p.m. Richard Kelly described his
debut feature as «The Catcher in the Rye» told by Philip K. Dick, and the film delivers, combining coming -
of - age woes with high - concept science
fiction.
It's an intelligent, intriguing piece
of science
fiction that marks the directorial
debut of Alex Garland, novelest (The Beach, The Tesseract) and screenwriter (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, Dredd).
Following her self - funded
fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle
of Nowhere.
In their feature
debut, artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard combine footage
of Cave and the Bad Seeds recording their 2013 album Push the Sky Away with alternately telling and teasing scenes that fall somewhere between fact and
fiction.
As terrifying as it is meticulously crafted, this chilling
debut from writer / director Robert Eggers is an audacious hybrid
of historical
fiction and supernatural horror.
The
debut feature
of comic book artist Dash Shaw, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, begins by firmly zeroing in on the concerns
of young adult
fiction: the new school year, the character's social status, and all the insecurities that are inherent in being a teenager.
Complete List
of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life
of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life
of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House
of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House
of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House
of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House
of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening
of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories
Fiction - «In the Night
of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou
Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration
of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son
of Promise, Child
of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper
I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth
of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's
fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak
of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation
of the kidnapping
of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's
debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.
Britain's Crime Writers» Association is gearing up for another round
of the
Debut Dagger competition, its annual search for the best unpublished English - language crime
fiction novel.