UK New Film Releases Week 3: 16 January- 22 January 2009

British Feature Films (Fiction) Released in 2009 – 2 [9% of total film releases]

British Fictional Feature Films (Released in 2009) Watched in the Cinema  in 2009- 1

Total Film Releases in the UK in 2009 – 22

A diverse set of new releases this week – films from France, Romania and South Korea, a Hindi film produced by Warner Bros, a Disney dog film (or a dog of a Disney film), a re-issue, a new Will Smith and the latest Darren Aronofsky, the first UK 3-D release of 2009 (the first of many this year), and the second British film of 2009 – ‘the violent geezer porn’ of Clubbed:

• A Christmas Tale (FR)
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua (USA)
• Boogie (ROM)
• Chandni Chowk to China (INDIA/USA)
• Clubbed (Neil Thompson, 2007, UK) #2 British release 2009
• Hansel and Gretel (SOUTH KOREA)
• My Bloody Valentine 3-D (USA)
• Notorious (re-issue, USA)
• Seven Pounds (USA)
• The Wrestler (USA)

Whereas last week’s British film release, Slumdog Millionaire, is exotic exception, a flurry of style and substance and international recognition, Clubbed is more traditional and easily overlooked average budget fare (£1.8m). This is very much on my territory of understanding – British crime film and male melodrama – tagline – ‘Once your in there’s no way out’. I wonder what is fretting the contemporary British male and driving him to crime?