Noel Clarke’s ADULTHOOD on IFC Festival Direct

Noel Clarke’s Adulthood, which was screened at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, opens this week on IFC Festival Direct, a distribution outlet presenting "a collection of the best and most innovative cinema" from film festivals around the world, exclusively on demand.
Adulthood is a follow-up to Kidulthood (2005), which Menhaj Huda directed from Clarke’s screenplay about a group of teenagers doing some quick growing up in west London’s seamy streets: Following the release of Sam (played by Clarke himself), who’d been in prison for killing Trife (Aml Ameen in Kidulthood), several of the original film’s characters must confront the consequences of that violent night in their past.
Also in the Adulthood cast: Ben Drew, Danny Dyer, Scarlett Alice [...]

by Michelle Hutton | November 19, 2009   
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A FRENCH GIGOLO, THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE: IFC Festival Direct

Next month, IFC Films will be releasing via its video-on-demand platform the French box office hit Cliente / A French Gigolo (right), starring veteran Nathalie Baye, on November 4, and Canada’s submission for the 2009 best foreign language film Oscar, The Necessities of Life, on November 11. These films are part of the "IFC Festival Direct" program, an electronic film festival available "at the touch of a remote control button." Each month, viewers can choose from six new films that have premiered at major film festivals from around the world.
The film information below is the the IFC press release:
A French Gigolo, the French box office hit, continues the long tradition of exploring [...]

by Anna Robinson | October 29, 2009   
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