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“From Britain with Love” – a curated program of six independent UK films will screen across ten Us cities from June 11 – July 9, 2011, as part of a partnership between Film Society of Lincoln Center, UK Film Council and Emerging Pictures.

The showcase’s premiere constitutes a component of the Film Society’s celebration of its new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, and the screenings will run contemporaneously to online webcast conversations with the film’s key talent.

A similar program, named “From Blighty with Love” was run across India in 2010.

Featured in the program are the following films, three of which will be making their Us premieres:

· A Boy Called Dad (80min)

Director: Brian Percival

The debut feature from BAFTA short film winner Brian Percival follows the story of a boy thrust into early adulthood when he becomes a father at the age of 14. Newcomer, Kyle Ward, delivers an impressive performance as...

“From Britain with Love” – a curated program of six independent UK films will screen across ten Us cities from June 11 – July 9, 2011, as part of a partnership between Film Society of Lincoln Center, UK Film Council and Emerging Pictures.

The showcase’s premiere constitutes a component of the Film Society’s celebration of its new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, and the screenings will run contemporaneously to online webcast conversations with the film’s key talent.

A similar program, named “From Blighty with Love” was run across India in 2010.

Featured in the program are the following films, three of which will be making their Us premieres:

· A Boy Called Dad (80min)

Director: Brian Percival

The debut feature from BAFTA short film winner Brian Percival follows the story of a boy thrust into early adulthood when he becomes a father at the age of 14. Newcomer, Kyle Ward, delivers an impressive performance as...

Film Society of Lincoln Center, UK Film Council & Emerging Pictures presents From Britain With Love

June 11 . July 9

6 indie UK films will screen in 10 Us cities launching with Toast starring Helena Bonham Carter

The Film Society of Lincoln Center, UK Film Council and Emerging Pictures announced the details today for plans to showcase six recent independent films produced in the United Kingdom for a release in more than ten cities stateside from June 11 . July 9.

Curated by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and in partnership with Emerging Pictures – the largest all-digital specialty film and alternate content theatre network in the United States – the showcase will premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on June 11 as part of the opening celebration for its state-of-the art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Each of the films will be shown once at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and once downtown at the IFC Center.

Ian Hart is outstanding in A Boy Called Dad, but the darkly comic Perrier's Bounty is hamstrung by its awful title, writes Mark Kermode

Nine years ago, writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival made the affecting short film About a Girl (think Fish Tank meets The Fast Show with a tragic sting in the tale), which went on to win several prestigious awards including a best short Bafta. Having featured on the excellent Cinema 16 collection, About a Girl now resurfaces as one of the DVD extras accompanying Percival and Rutterford's long-awaited first feature, A Boy Called Dad (2009, Kaleidoscope, 15). Talented and confident newcomer Kyle Ward stars as the eponymous baby-father Robbie, an untrammelled 14-year-old whose own errant father Joe has yet to learn the true responsibilities of adulthood. As Joe, Ian Hart brings an effortless sense of conviction to the screen; few actors can convey such conflicted character traits (strength and weakness,...

Iron Man 2 (12A)

(Jon Favreau, 2010, Us) Robert Downey Jr, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow. 125 mins

Considering his CEO status, it's no surprise that Tony Stark's return feels more like an upgrade than a sequel. It's this season's must-have tech-form with a human interface, machine-tooled for enhanced multiplex performance, even if it has trouble finding much to say. Downey divides his time between battling his own ego and Rourke's ridiculous Russian baddie – among other myriad convoluted Marvel-universe subplots – but it's all about as exciting as the launch of a new MacBook.

Revanche (15)

(Götz Spielmann, 2008, Aus) Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko. 122 mins

An Austrian noir thriller, this takes the heist-gone-wrong set-up to intriguing new territory – the countryside – giving our sympathetic crook a new perspective, and bringing him perilously close to his cop nemesis.

Valhalla Rising (15)

(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009, Den/UK) Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson. 100 mins

This gory, hallucinatory Viking odyssey makes an indelible impression,...

This week's podcast goes from kids to kidnapping with two great British character actors: Ian Hart on playing a wayward father in A Boy Called Dad, and Eddie Marsan on playing a menacing criminal in The Disappearance of Alice Creed. Plus, Iron Man 2 is reviewed.

Ian Hart, who first came to wide attention as John Lennon in Backbeat in 1994, has consistently brought an edgy blend of humour, anger and tenderness to his subsequent roles in everything from Ken Loach's Land and Freedom to Prof Quirrell in Harry Potter, and now Joe, an absentee father whose 14-year-old son himself becomes a father, in new film A Boy Called Dad. The actor tells Jason Solomons about improvising with young co-star Kyle Ward, how That Sinking Feeling first inspired him to act and about holding out for parts.

Peter Bradshaw then joins Jason to review the week's key films: Robert Downey Jr in unbeatable,...

Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.

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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.

After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.

Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.

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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.

After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.

Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.

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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.

After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.

Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.

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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.

After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.

Harry Potter star Ian Hart felt terrible for one young mum on the set of his new film A Boy Called Dad - because her triplets were always cold, soaking and in peril.

The unnamed mum agreed to let her babies alternate as the child star of the movie - but Hart feels sure she had no idea what was expected of the tots.

In one scene, his movie son, Kyle Ward, was standing on the edge of a cliff in wind and driving rain - with one of the babies cradled in his arms.

The Backbeat star says, "We did some of that scene with a doll and then we did the rest of the scene with the baby. The mother of the baby was watching it get further and further away from her arms and closer and closer to the edge of a cliff handled by a child, effectively.

"What was going through her mind I don't know! It was raining and it was wet and slippery... We had rain galore and wind.

"The poor little baby was getting rained on. It was freezing cold and the baby was crying; by take two this little baby was soaked! His little face was covered in water. It was terrible."...

Year: 2009

Directors: Brian Percival

Writers: Julie Rutterford

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: projectcyclops

Rating: 4 out of 10

Fourteen-year-old Robbie impregnates classmate Leanne, and becomes a father. His own dad is aloof, irresponsible, immature and gambles away his cash down Ladbrokes. Although he does love Robbie, he's incapable of showing the sustained affection and respect the boy needs so badly, instead he buys him chips and tells jokes, not much of a substitute.

Robbie is denied access to the child, who's living with Leanne and her tough boyfriend, so he steals the kid and drives to Wales, where he meets a young girl called Nia (Charlene McKenna), who's been unable to talk since a serious trauma. The tabloids have a field day over the kidnapping and the police start to close-in on Robbie, who's hiding in a barn with baby Elliot. Hot on his heels as well is his dad, Joe...