lynne ramsay

The film is We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay's newest work, adapting Jonathan Ames book of the same name.It's also been a big one for Joaquin Phoenix, too, whose role as a man who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty to save abducted girls is getting quite a lot plaudits[...]

The BBC and Film 4 commissioned a series of short films as part of the London 2012 festival, which appears to be some sort of cultural pearl growing around the grit of the olympics.Because there's a comedy by Mike Leigh and a new Lynne Ramsay, I'm in There's also Max and Dania's What If, a[...]

It's cruel and kind of funny and sort of accurate, but it would and could never happen in real life, thank god. Here's a parody of Randy Newman singing a theme tune to the harrowing, emotionally draining We Need to Talk About Kevin. Be warned that the lyrics do refer to some key plot points, […]

One of the remaining films for the year that I'm still looking forward to is Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin This sees one of Britain's best directors finally get another feature on screen after a near-decade hiatus, and based on one of the last ten years' most hotly-book clubbed books It's playing[...]

Lynne Ramsay is finally back, with her adaptation of Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin arriving in cinemas worldwide over the next few months This ends almost a decade of waiting since Morvern Callar, a period during which Ramsay tried, and was infamously thwarted in, adapting The Lovely Bones.Kevin, then, is at least[...]

I'd be interested to see how much of the whole film is shifted like this, and what other corners there are to director Lynne Ramsay's style for the picture overall.Thanks to Flix for the embeds.These three short scenes from We Need To Talk About Kevin have hard, saturated surfaces; are crisp, cold and sometimes a[...]