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gets in the way of his search for vital
supplies ( booze).
It’s a big scene so Wheatley
decides to make things easier by staging
it all in one take. “The fi lm is massively
ambitious for the budget” he says.
“It’s a big set lots of movement lots
of characters. My attitude is always
to master it in a single and work from
there.” (Indeed in the fi nished fi lm the
shot has been broken into segments.)
Wheatley blocks out the action with
his actors and his DP Laurie Rose. It will
start with Purefoy and pals move onto
Hiddleston as he spots the tin of paint
he covets fl it on to Evans and conclude
with someone being hit on the back by
a fl ying tin of beans. It’s a glorious blend
of violent movement and precision; the
poetry of chaos. “Laurie Rose has this
great catchphrase which came out at the
end of the fi rst week” laughs Hiddleston.
“We were doing these extreme things in
such long takes and when we cut Laurie
would take his eye off the viewfi nder and
go ‘Fuck you cinema!’” CH
HIGH-RISE IS OUT IN MARCH 2016.

DON’T FRET IF YOU CAN’T GET TICKETS FOR

the Empire Gala screening of High-Rise (on October

9). The 59th BFI London Film Festival has plenty of

treats in store including a whole host of films that

are sure to crop up in the Oscar reckoning...

TRUMBO

Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton Trumbo the brilliant

screenwriter who was blacklisted during the

McCarthy era. Jay Roach who also directs Cranston

as Lyndon B. Johnson in the upcoming HBO movie

All The Way calls the shots. (October 8)

BLACK MASS

Scott Cooper’s true-life thriller about notorious

gangster Whitey Bulger has serious Oscar potential

not least for its near-unrecognisable star Johnny

Depp. (October 11)

BROOKLYN

Saoirse Ronan chooses between Ireland and

America and between two vastly different suitors

in John Crowley’s period drama... (October 12)

A BIGGER SPLASH

A remake of the 1969 French movie La Piscine

Tilda Swinton plays a rock star whose holiday is

disturbed by music producer Ralph Fiennes and his

alluring daughter (Dakota Johnson). (October 9)

BONE TOMAHAWK

TheotherKurt Russell Western of the year this has

been described as The Hills Have Eyes meets The

Searchers. Sold. (October 10)

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT BFI.ORG.UK/LFF

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