NEIL MARSHALL WEEKEND.
August 12th 2010 14:03
In anticipation of the nationwide release of his latest thriller Centurion, Manhattan’s IFC Center will host NEIL MARSHALL WEEKEND, a special two-night retrospective of the films of acclaimed writer/director Neil Marshall. Marshall will be present to introduce midnight screenings of his modern classics The Descent on Friday, August 13 and Doomsday on Saturday, August 14.
Centurion, a gripping survival thriller set in early AD Britain, finds Quintus, the sole survivor of a savage raid on a Roman frontier fort, joining General Virilus’ legendary Ninth Legion to march north and wipe out the terrifying tribes known as the Picts. When the Legion is attacked and Virilus seized, Quintus struggles to survive behind enemy lines with a small band of soldiers in a race to save their general and evade capture, torture and certain death.
Centurion stars Michael Fassbender, DominicWestolga, Kurylenko, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke, Riz Ahmed, JJ Field, Liam Cunningham, Imogen Poots.
Magnolia Pictures will release Centurion on August 27, 2010; the film is also currently available VOD.
Tickets for The Descent and Doomsday are available at the IFC Center box office or online at www.ifccenter.com. IFC Center is located at 323 Sixth Ave., at West 3rd St., box office: 212 924-7771.
Born in Newcastle in 1970, Neil Marshall began making films at the age of 11 with his mother’s Super 8 camera. Driven by a love of all things cinematic, he went on to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1989 (completing a 20-minute zombie action film as his degree project), graduating in 2002. He was quickly spotted and employed as an editor by local director Bharat Nalluri, and would work for the next eight years as a freelance editor in Newcastle. During that time, in 1995, Marshall co-wrote and edited Nalluri’s first feature film Killing Time and continued to write and develop his own projects. Marshall’s debut feature (as both writer and director) Dog Soldiers (2002) was a ‘soldiers vs. werewolves’ horror comedy released in theatres across the U.K. to both positive reviews and healthy box office. His second feature, the critically acclaimed and award-winning underground horror film The Descent was released in 2005 in the U.K. and in 2006 by Lionsgate on more than 2,000 screens in the U.S. The Descent went on to win, amongst other awards, a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film; British Independent Film Awards for Best Director and Best Editor; and the Empire Award for Best Horror Film. Following the popular and critical reception of The Descent (for which Marshall again served as both writer and director), Variety named Marshall one of “Ten Directors to Watch in 2007”. Marshall’s next film as both writer and director was the apocalyptic science-fiction horror action adventure Doomsday.
Centurion stars Michael Fassbender, DominicWestolga, Kurylenko, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke, Riz Ahmed, JJ Field, Liam Cunningham, Imogen Poots.
Magnolia Pictures will release Centurion on August 27, 2010; the film is also currently available VOD.
Tickets for The Descent and Doomsday are available at the IFC Center box office or online at www.ifccenter.com. IFC Center is located at 323 Sixth Ave., at West 3rd St., box office: 212 924-7771.
Born in Newcastle in 1970, Neil Marshall began making films at the age of 11 with his mother’s Super 8 camera. Driven by a love of all things cinematic, he went on to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1989 (completing a 20-minute zombie action film as his degree project), graduating in 2002. He was quickly spotted and employed as an editor by local director Bharat Nalluri, and would work for the next eight years as a freelance editor in Newcastle. During that time, in 1995, Marshall co-wrote and edited Nalluri’s first feature film Killing Time and continued to write and develop his own projects. Marshall’s debut feature (as both writer and director) Dog Soldiers (2002) was a ‘soldiers vs. werewolves’ horror comedy released in theatres across the U.K. to both positive reviews and healthy box office. His second feature, the critically acclaimed and award-winning underground horror film The Descent was released in 2005 in the U.K. and in 2006 by Lionsgate on more than 2,000 screens in the U.S. The Descent went on to win, amongst other awards, a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film; British Independent Film Awards for Best Director and Best Editor; and the Empire Award for Best Horror Film. Following the popular and critical reception of The Descent (for which Marshall again served as both writer and director), Variety named Marshall one of “Ten Directors to Watch in 2007”. Marshall’s next film as both writer and director was the apocalyptic science-fiction horror action adventure Doomsday.
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