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.
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.
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.
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."
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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.