Shallow Grave (1994)
Directed by Danny Boyle
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
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A sci-fi thriller with hints of Danny Boyle 's 1994 "Shallow Grave," the new film "Time Lapse" revolves around three roommates grappling with the ethics and side effects of a fortune-telling contraption.
A nifty little cross between Primer and Shallow Grave, with a central MacGuffin that manages to maintain its plausibility until the credits roll.
What starts as a London-based riff on the themes of Shallow Grave gradually descends into a bargain-basement Straw Dogs as James Franco and Kate Hudson’s misplaced American couple grapple with the fallout of finding a stash of cash amid their dead tenant’s belongings.
Trance is high-order, film noir nonsense that takes Boyle back to the thrillers he made at the start of his career with John Hodge (he wrote Trance, too), like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, that were preoccupied with the grimy corners of the psyche.
This one shares DNA and one of its cowriters with "Shallow Grave" but its style is current Boyle, as defined by the stunning work of now constant collaborator cinematographer Anthony Todd Mantle.
Scripters Joe Ahearne (a BBC -TV veteran) and John Lodge (who worked on Boyle's excellent early films, "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting") have given the story more twists and turns and double crosses than a Boy Scout manual of knots, and untangling them becomes a bit of a chore.
Though beguiling, it doesn't have the dark wit of Boyle's mysterious Shallow Grave or the pulsating suspense of Trainspotting, his harrowing portrait of drug addiction.
This is Boyle from an excellent vintage: his first feature, the delicious dark comedy Shallow Grave (1994) plays the same game of whom do you trust?
Back in the day, all it took was a bit of muscle and some nerve to rob art from auction, Simon explains in a stretch of Scottish-lilted, direct-address narration that not only recalls Hodge’s earlier scripts (“Shallow Grave,” “Trainspotting”), but suggests a younger, softer-edged Ewan McGregor.
Cuando Danny Boyle dirigió Shallow Grave (1993) impactó la forma en que a través de una muy atractiva propuesta visual (emplazando la cámara baja, usando lentes gran angulares, ediciones veloces entre tomas abiertas y cerradas...) acentuaba y estilizaba su retrato de una juventud desencantada, inconforme, iconoclasta.
Directed by Danny Boyle ("T2: Trainspotting," "127 Hours," "Millions," "28 Days Later..." "Trainspotting," "Shallow Grave").
Boyle is better known for his searing dissections of the human condition ( Trainspotting , 28 Days Later , Shallow Grave ), but often exposes a sweeter side.
Whether it is individuals unexpectedly coming into money (Shallow Grave, Millions), or tales of finding love in the face of danger (Slumdog Millionaire, A Life Less Ordinary), Boyle has always brought a unique angle to his filmmaking.
Boyle may have launched his filmmaking career with works as dark as "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting."
From "Shallow Grave" and " Trainspotting " right through to " Slumdog Millionaire ," he can't resist juicing everything he touches.
Like nearly all of his films — "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting" come to mind — this movie begins with unbridled verve.
Movement--visceral, kinetic movement--has been the hallmark of Boyle’s films since his auspicious directorial debut Shallow Grave (1994), whether it be the introduction of the main characters in a dead sprint to Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in Trainspotting (1996) or Slumdog’s bobbing, weaving back-and-forth narrative structure.
During such moments 127 Hours evokes a bit of the filmmaker’s past too, as its immersion in Aron’s subjective experience is of a piece with most of Boyle’s movies, from Shallow Grave and Trainspotting to Millions and Sunshine.
The finale of "127 Hours" is perfect, as were the finales of Boyle's "Shallow Grave," "Trainspotting" and "Slumdog."
He gained a cult-like following with fan favorites " Trainspotting " and " 28 Days Later ," " Slumdog Millionaire " won him an Oscar, and " 127 Hours " was pretty outstanding but was perhaps blown up more than it should have been.
Director Danny Boyle who impressed audiences with "Shallow Grave" and "Transpotting" then hit a bump in the road with the uneven "A Life Less Ordinary" really seems out of his element in this very lightweight, mainstream Leo vehicle.
I thought "Shallow Grave" (1995) was a wonderfully dark and twisted crime thriller, and I still haven't gotten totally over the head rush that is "Trainspotting" (1996).
Eccleston in Shallow Grave, Renton vs. Begbie in Trainspotting, Murphy's bloody woodland spree in 28 Days Later , the Sun-God killer/whatever in Sunshine ( Tim's review ).
This is a film by the men who made "Shallow Grave" and "Trainspotting" (that smack flick that gave Ewan McGregor a case of the bends), so leave your Teen People at home: It ain't that kind of party.
Boyle, Hodge, and producer Andrew Macdonald have made two of the most innovative and exciting films in recent memory, Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.
In his first film, Shallow Grave, he portrayed three people trying to decide what to do with a lot of cash and a dead body.
Boyle has always been one of the most eclectic directors, skipping from black comedy to sci-fi to horror; one of the most erratic, too, capable of not only "Shallow Grave" or "28 Days Later," but "The Beach" and "A Life Less Ordinary."
But his total feature filmography runs the gamut, and so this deceptively simple-sounding story of a street kid from India who finds himself on the cusp of winning big on Kaun Banega Crorepati (the country's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) doesn't seem so odd in the midst of eclectic fare such as Sunshine, Shallow Grave , The Beach , A Life Less Ordinary , and (especially) Millions.
A distrust of money pervades Boyle's work, from his gruesome 1994 debut Shallow Grave, about the trouble that arises from the discovery of ill-gotten swag, to his recent children's adventure Millions, about the trouble that arises from . . .
Boyle launched his feature career with such energetic, scabrously observed movies as Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, later veering toward speculative genre twists in 28 Days Later and Sunshine.
Boyle, who has consistently impressed me with flicks like Trainspotting , 28 Days Later and Sunshine , deserves plenty of praise for his work, but I don't think it ranks next to any of the movies I just listed -- or even his debut gem, Shallow Grave .
As it happens, the 52-year-old Mr. Boyle has displayed a flair for noirishly horrific narratives ever since his striking film debut in 1995 with Shallow Grave, a marvelously well-acted saga of treachery and betrayal among three Scottish housemates of both genders who come into the sudden possession of a hoard of cash.
Directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting; Shallow Grave), the film is reminiscent of George A. Romero’s Dead trilogy - even though the infected aren’t zombies as such they’re still stumbling around in search of blood.
With his first two films - Shallow Grave and Trainspotting - director Danny Boyle established himself as a promising new talent with a genuine creativity behind the camera.
Television veteran Danny Boyle began his filmmaking career with the double bang of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting , but continued it with a whimper ( The Beach , the disastrous A Life Less Ordinary , the aborted Alien Love Triangle ).
While I will try to avoid exposing any more of the plot then I have, I found the film to be a very ambitious and unsettling work by Director Danny Boyle, who made a name for himself with such classics as "Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave".
The Beach was pretty horrifying, but this is more like the flicks of Danny Boyle’s funny-gross roots — Trainspotting, the brilliant Shallow Grave — kinetic and mercurial, but harder, grittier… it’s humanistic and unsentimental, like some lost science fiction flick from the 70s that’s just been rediscovered.
Danny Boyle, the director of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, has brought his off-center perspective to this story.
She glamorously revels in scandalizing the petty folks she’d left behind, a slightly overdone gaggle that includes the resident politico (Shane Bourne), the town schoolmarm (Kerry Fox, “Shallow Grave”), and a dowdy shopgirl (Sarah Snook).
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Like Alice Creed , which carried flavors of early Neil Marshall as well as Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave , I Care a Lot also feels indebted to Blakeson’s fellow UK genre filmmakers.
America�s copious outpouring of trendy bloodfest movies -- from "River's Edge" to "Natural Born Killers" -- seems to have inspired a banal, worldwide creativity.
…its multi-hyphenate sensibilities make this closer to crime-gone-wrong antics like The Big Lebowski or Shallow Grave…
Johnson has plenty of both, and as a result, Brick is at least close to the Coens’ Blood Simple (1984) and Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave (1994) in terms of an audacious debut work.
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Maybe it's the fact that every minute of the early scenes has the makeshift quality of an underground secret, with Christopher Eccleston ( "Shallow Grave" ) playing the focus group Svengali.
The closest the country had previously come to producing something similar was way back when Danny Boyle first burst on the screen with 1994’s Shallow Grave, and even that was more Hitchcock than post-modern histrionics.