Task 1

Presentation on a British movement: Free Cinema and British New Wave

Task 2

Comparison of a new and old films 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Wild Child'

Task 3

Celtic Cinema

Wales

• A Childs Christmas in Wales (TV) (1987)
• Director - Don McBrearly
• Writters - Jon Glacoe and Peter Kreuter
• 2 wins and 3 nominations
• Cast - Denholm Elliott
• Genre - family drama

• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
• Director - Christopher Monger
• Writer - Ivor Monger and Christopher Monger
• Genre - comedy/ romance
• Cast - Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald
• A romantic comedy of a town that wouldn't give up, a man that couldn't get out and the mountain that brought them together.
• 1 win and 1 nomination

• Human Traffic (1999)
• Director - Justin Kerrigan
• Writer - Justin Kerrigan
• Cast - John Simm and Danny Dyer
• Genre - Comedy, drama, music
• Cardiff club scene in the 90's, 5 best friends deal with relationships, drugs and music over a weekend.

Scotland 

• Braveheart (1995)
• Director - Mel Gibson
• Writer - Randall Wallace
• Company - Icon Entertainment International
• Genre - Action, biography, drama, history, war
• William Wallace, a commener, unites the 13th century scots to overthrow the english rule.
• Mel gibson plays William Wallace
• It won 5 Oscors in 1996 including Best Picture. It also had 15 other wins and 20 nominations.

• Entrapment (1999)
• Cast - Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Director - Jon Amiel
• Writer - Ronald Bass, Michael Lertzberg
• Genre - action/ crime/ romance/ thriller
• An Insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture and art thief.
• 4 wins 5 nominations

• Loch Ness (1996)
• Cast - Ted Donson and Joley Richardson
• Director - John Henderson
• Writer - John Fusco
• Genre - Drama

Ireland  

• Evelyn (2002)
• Genre - Drama
• Director - Bruce Beresford
• Writer - Paul Pender
• Cast - Pierce Brosnan (also produced), Sophie Vavassuer and Aidan Quinn
• The story of a fathers love that changed a nation.
• 1 win and 7 nominations
• Distrubuted by Pathe Dristribution, United artists

• About Adam (2001)
• Working Title
• Director - Gerard Stembridge
• Writer - Gerard Stembridge
• Genre - comedy/ romance
• Cast - Tommy Tiernan, Kate Hudson, Frances O'Connor
• He came, He saw, He conquered. One sister at a time.
• A waitress falls for customers who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother and her brothers girlfriend.
• 3 nominations

• Intermission (2003)
• Genre - comedy, crime, drama
• Director - John Growley
• Writer - Mark O'Rowe
• Cast - Collin Farrell and Kerry Condon

• Leap Year (2010)
• Director - Anard Tucker
• Writer - Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont
• Genre - Comedy, Romance
• Cast - Amy Adams, Matthew Goode and Adam Scott

• From my research i found:

Genre: alot of drama realism rom-com and some action

-tend to be what the working class can relate to.

-tend to have low budgets

-tend to have little or no cross-over appeal

-tend to attract a particular audience -either giving them something to relate to or to make them think deeper about a particular issue.

-Scotland seems to be more action based and less applicable to modern da eg Braveheart and  Loch Ness 

-Ireland-more rom-com; eg Leap Year  and About Adam , These films have more cross-over appeal and a slightly higher budget therefore having a wider target audience

-Wales-drama/social realism; eg Human Traffic These films are more of a niche and apply to a certain audience to give people to relate to or think about, also have a lower budget.

-These films are generally quite different to mainstream as the subjects aren't as 'sugar-coated'
-They have regional accents appart from the odd more famous actor/ess brought in to help target a wider auience eg -
-Wales- 'Hugh Grant' in The Englishman Who Went Up The Hill But Never Came Down The Mountain 
-Ireland- 'Kate Hudson' in About Adam 
-Scotland- 'Mel Gibson' in Braveheart 

• wikipedia  

-Wales 

-Scotland 

-Ireland 

• Ebay   

• Family Education 

• Hubpages 

• Marklesliewoods 

• imdb