When Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting debuted in 1996, with its comical commentary on clubbing and drugging in Scotland, it was (and in some ways, still is) considered the start of a new age in British filmmaking. One of the artists clearly inspired by Boyle’s style is Director Simon Rumley who went on to create a trilogy of films steeped in London youth culture and varied form between documentary, intimate drama, and a loose flowing comedy. His films Strong Language, The Truth Game, and Club Le Monde are all now available on DVD, and today two out of three of the films stand up to the test of time as prime examples of low-budget British cinema.
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- 9/5/2013
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
With Little Deaths; Red, White & Blue; and a segment in The ABCs of Death, Simon Rumley is one of horror's rising stars. Curious about his early films? Jinga Films has you covered with its August release of Rumley's "youth culture trilogy."
From the Press Release:
From Jinga Films and Simon Rumley, one of the UK's leading independent filmmakers, comes this trilogy of films featuring Strong Language, The Truth Game, and Club Le Monde, available on DVD on August 20th. This youth culture trilogy collectively celebrates clubbing, Britpop, and growing up in the bustling center of 1990s London. Strong Language, The Truth Game, and Club Le Monde will be distributed by Jinga Films separately at an Srp of $16.95 for each DVD.
Strong Language
16 young people talk about everything from ecstasy to one-night stands as a narrator relates a night of terror that changes his life forever.
DVD Special Features:
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From the Press Release:
From Jinga Films and Simon Rumley, one of the UK's leading independent filmmakers, comes this trilogy of films featuring Strong Language, The Truth Game, and Club Le Monde, available on DVD on August 20th. This youth culture trilogy collectively celebrates clubbing, Britpop, and growing up in the bustling center of 1990s London. Strong Language, The Truth Game, and Club Le Monde will be distributed by Jinga Films separately at an Srp of $16.95 for each DVD.
Strong Language
16 young people talk about everything from ecstasy to one-night stands as a narrator relates a night of terror that changes his life forever.
DVD Special Features:
-...
- 7/23/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Gut-twisting and soul-troubling, Simon Rumley's latest film fires a stun gun into the heart of horror. For every convention that is honored, another is upended and a third is smashed to pieces. Red White & Blue amply demonstrates Rumley's continuing evolution as a filmmaker.
It's not enough to say that Rumley traffics in the cinema of the uncomfortable, because that would deny the ribald humor and extreme, everyday horrors that lances his earlier work. The Living and the Dead brought him to the attention of genre fans in 2006, but Rumley's feature film career dates back to 2000, when he made Strong Language, the first of three films that revolved around youth culture in Britain. Young people chat amiably about their adventures, the scenes alternating with shadowy scenes recreating a horrible night for the narrator.
The Truth Game (2001) plays around with a dinner party scenario, in which six friends gather and learn...
It's not enough to say that Rumley traffics in the cinema of the uncomfortable, because that would deny the ribald humor and extreme, everyday horrors that lances his earlier work. The Living and the Dead brought him to the attention of genre fans in 2006, but Rumley's feature film career dates back to 2000, when he made Strong Language, the first of three films that revolved around youth culture in Britain. Young people chat amiably about their adventures, the scenes alternating with shadowy scenes recreating a horrible night for the narrator.
The Truth Game (2001) plays around with a dinner party scenario, in which six friends gather and learn...
- 3/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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