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This is the story of “The Selfish Giant,” coming to life courtesy of Crescent High School’s players Friday and Saturday night. Their spring show, written by Gillette Elvgren and based on the short ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – In a beautiful garden in the apparently abandoned castle of a giant, children played and ran amid the flowers gone wild – until The Selfish Giant returned and ran them off.
The Selfish Giant sees Barnard turn her hand assuredly to more traditional filmmaking, though there is nothing run-of-the-mill about her blend of ragged immediacy with images poised and poetic ...
By THR Staff The Selfish Giant Cannes Directors Fortnight Still ... are the underlying themes of Barnard’s story, which relies for drama on the increasing hazardousness of Swifty and Arbor ...
STOCKHOLM — Clio Barnard’s “The Selfish ... adolescents, “Giant” world preemed at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight to warm reviews. It’s repped by Protagonist Pictures and produced ...
In this version, “The Selfish Giant” is Kitten (Sean Gilder), the proprietor of a scrap yard, but the story centers on a character named Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend, Swifty ...
John Cushnie reflects on how frost affects the life of a garden, and introduces Oscar Wilde's touching story in which frost descends permanently on a giant's garden when he refuses to let the ...
Low-budget drama The Selfish Giant will go up against space odyssey Gravity (among others) in the best British film category at the Bafta Awards on Sunday. The Selfish Giant, the bleak tale of two ...
It’s a powerful story about an underclass that might otherwise be all but invisible. The Selfish Giant opens at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto on Jan. 24, and in Vancouver and Ottawa on Feb. 28 ...