Red Road

...of many indices of deprivation, low skills and car ownership, high unemployment and social housing. The constituency also contains the Red Road high-rise flats, a 1960s symbol of renewal soon to be demolished. The heroine of Andrea Arnold's...

In this article: Labour, Michael Martin, Gordon Brown, Unemployment, David Kerr, Scotland, and Tories

...a BBC show, and thought I'd be perfect for Connor. I got a call telling me she wanted me, and I was thrilled as I'd seen her first film, "Red Road," and loved it." Q: Is it true that, like Woody Allen, she wouldn't give you the script before...

In this article: Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds, Megan Fox, Quentin Tarantino, Jonah Hex, Andrea Arnold, Jury Prize, and Band of Brothers

...just aren't that many out there. Maybe in five or 10 years' time my deep regard for Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker will bag them a slot. And I'm sorry if your favourite doesn't appear on the list. When I...

In this article: Anthony Quinn, The Independent, LoveFilm, DVD, The Hurt Locker, Disney, Jean-Pierre Melville, Barbara Stanwyck, and Kathryn Bigelow

Navigation - link to other main sections from here The British writer and director Andrea Arnold's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Red Road is a far better film. Once again, we're in the concrete jungle of the contemporary council...

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Michael Fassbender, and Fatal Attraction

...there's little in the film that doesn't ring true: Fish Tank is as convincing a picture of life on the Essex estates as Arnold's debut Red Road was of a similar Scottish milieu. If Fish Tank isn't quite as good as its predecessor, it's...

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Michael Fassbender, and Britain

...also the keynote of Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, though its mood is one of anguish rather than nostalgia. Like her startling debut Red Road (2006) this is set in high-rise, low-income Britain around the emotional travails of a young woman.

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Michael Fassbender, Tilbury, and Bobby Sands

...any attempt at social or psychological analysis. Events happen that don't reveal much about anyone or anything. Arnold's first movie, Red Road, had promise. This merely has pretensions, summed up in a title that suggests something the rest...

In this article: Harry Treadaway and Andrea Arnold

...sink drama which shows British film at its best. Andrea Arnold; Michael Fassbender; Katie Jarvis; Rating: * * * * It was clear from Red Road, Andrea Arnold's darkly compulsive tale of surveillance and revenge in Glasgow, that a...

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Michael Fassbender, Shyness, and Harry Treadaway

...On Sunday site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Film: Andrea Arnold interview From Glasgow's Red Road to London's East End, Andrea Arnold tells Siobhan Synnot how she captures the hearts of people...

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Wasp, Oscar, Glasgow, ITV, Mike Figgis, and Natalie Press

...(especially in mainland Europe) she finds herself acclaimed as a film-maker of international stature. Her two feature-length films, Red Road (2006) and this year's Fish Tank, were both accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes,...

In this article: Andrea Arnold, Terrence Malick, Oscar, Michael Fassbender, and Harry Potter