The Oscars Made Joaquin Phoenix Sad

Earlier this year, VICE Films and Grolsch Film Works teamed up with the directors Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski to make a three-part film called The Fourth Dimension. Now, Grolsch Film Works have a new website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

While it's all good and well to try and re-cap the week's movie news, we realise that since it's the weekend and the daily grind has probably all but frazzled your brain, to the point where you can't concentrate on actual words or things that aren't brightly-coloured. This is where the internet sensation for GIFs come in, because why try and explain things when you can simply capture all your emotions in one constantly looping moving image?

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Arbitrage is a slick and engaging new thriller starring an excellent Richard Gere as Robert Miller, a New York hedge fund manager who finds his carefully ordered life coming apart at the seams following a disastrous incident in his personal life. We sat down recently to chat with the film’s young director Nicholas Jarecki to talk about the film, his past as a hacker and his friendship with Bret Easton Ellis.

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Michel Gondry’s latest is an engaging drama set entirely on the last day of school in the South Bronx. Following familiar scenes of kids escaping their educational prison with unrestrained glee, they all leap aboard the bus to take them the hell out of there. Archetypes are swiftly established: the loudmouth bullies in the back seats; the preening-yet-insecure princess; the earnest musician types; the lonely, troubled girl (here in a bizarre Lady Gaga-esque wig); the arty nerd etc…

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And then it hits you: a face full of spots, growing pains, hideous stretch marks, uncontrollable and confused sexual urges, self-loathing and for half the population – The Curse. Growing up is hard to do, and films about the perils of puberty are a welcome distraction from all the angst. As Cecilia explains after a botched self-harming attempt in The Virgin Suicides: “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl”. I have, it sucks. Roll on with the list…

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Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.