Film News (05/09/09)

The festival season is well and truly upon us. Venice and Telluride started this week, Toronto before next week's news. Films are opening every few minutes with reviewers from across the world busily sending copy across the web. The problem is that none of the films opening at these festivals really appeal to me. For some reason this year there's very little out there that I want to see, with the exception of films which have already opened elsewhere (like Cannes, or Sundance). As a result there is virtually nothing else that's piqued my interest, just the one story in fact...

Tamara Drewe



Posy Simmonds' Guardian comic strip serial is being adapted into a feature. So far so non-story. What could be more natural these days than a comic strip film. The big difference is that Drewe is a modern spin of Far From the Maddening Crowd, and will be directed by Stephen Frears.

All it then needs is super attractive up and coming leads like, I don't know, Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper and I'm there.