The Films of Danny Boyle
Date: Sat, May 9th 2009 - Wed, July 1st 2009Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
THE FILMS OF DANNY BOYLE
May 9 - July 1
Audiences can't wait to find out what Danny Boyle's next project will be. Tantalizing rumors are out there--the next Bond film? A remake of MY FAIR LADY with Keira Knightley? With the afterglow of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE's amazing success still twinkling (winner of 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, and Best Director for Boyle), it's the perfect time to take a look back at this eclectic genius's wildly diverse body of work, from early cult hits like SHALLOW GRAVE and TRAINSPOTTING, both starring Ewan McGregor, to the charming family film MILLIONS and the sci-fi adventure SUNSHINE, starring Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh.
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MILLIONS
Boyle's unexpectedly tender and fantastical fable about two young brothers who stumble across a stolen bag of money that must be spent before Britain converts to the euro. Having recently lost their mother, the boys disagree as to how to spend the money. Sensitive younger brother Damian believes it's a gift from above and wants to distribute it to the poor, while worldly older brother Anthony wants to invest. When the original bank robber comes calling, as well as a pretty new lady for their father, the boys have different takes on dealing with the changes.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR Frank Cottrell Boyce; PROD Graham Broadbent, Andrew Hauptman, Damian Jones. UK, 2004, color, 98 min. RATED PG-13
Saturday, May 9, 12:30; Sunday, May 10, 7:40
SUNSHINE
Fifty years from now the sun is dying. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the sun that is failing. When the crew stumbles upon a ship that was sent on the same mission seven years previously, they prepare to sacrifice the success of their mission to aid the spacecraft. Once connection is made personal tensions begin to flare, as well as suspicions that the mission may be sabotaged. With an impressive international cast that includes Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh, this film is a tense science fiction thriller that delivers.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR Alex Garland; PROD Andrew Macdonald. UK/US, 2007, color, 107 min. RATED R
Friday, May 15, 7:00; Saturday, May 16, 10:00; Sunday, May 17, 9:25; Monday, May 18, 9:00; Wednesday, May 20, 9:30
SHALLOW GRAVE
Danny Boyle's debut feature is a blacker-than-black comedy about three Scottish flat dwellers--an accountant (Christopher Eccleston), a doctor (Kerry Fox) and a journalist (Ewan McGregor)--whose new roommate's abrupt departure leaves them with a corpse, some cash and an ever-cascading series of moral dilemmas. A dark, witty and endlessly entertaining thriller, this film immediately marked Boyle as one of the leading lights of the new British cinema.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR John Hodge; PROD Andrew Macdonald. UK, 1994, color, 93 min. RATED R
Friday, May 22, 9:20; Sunday, May 24, 9:00; Monday, May 25, 7:00; Tuesday, May 26, 9:00; Thursday, May 28, 9:20
TRAINSPOTTING
Collaborating again with producer Andrew Macdonald and screenwriter John Hodge (who received an Academy Award nomination), Boyle delivered a rollicking, vibrant adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Ewan McGregor is the charismatic leader of a group of addicts and hangers-on who finds his refusal to "choose life" sorely tested as the consequences of his addiction begin to pile up. Horrifying yet hilarious, bleak yet joyous, this is one of the landmark and controversial films of the 1990s.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR John Hodge, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh; PROD Andrew Macdonald. UK, 1996, color, 94 min. RATED R
Friday, May 29, 9:15; Saturday, May 30, 9:15; Monday, June 1, 9:40; Tuesday, June 2, 9:40; Wednesday, June 3, 9:10
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY
For his third feature, Boyle took aim at the romantic comedy, while losing none of the inventiveness and verve that marked his previous outings. Sent to Earth to unite two lovers, angels Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo set their sights on boss's daughter Cameron Diaz and boss's employee Ewan McGregor, an unlikely couple who find romance amidst kidnapping, extortion, burglary and other unexpected circumstances.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR John Hodge; PROD Andrew Macdonald. UK/US, 1997, color, 103 min. RATED R
Sunday, June 7, 9:35; Monday, June 8, 9:35
THE BEACH
Leonardo DiCaprio is an adventure-seeking American traveling to Thailand where he meets (reoccurring Boyle favorite) Robert Carlyle, a philosophical madman who before committing suicide gives him a mysterious map supposedly leading to a natural paradise. With the help of two fellow French travelers he sets out, but the island utopia he discovers turns out to be far more sinister, and inhabited by a secret community that doesn't take kindly to the uninvited guests.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR John Hodge, based on the novel by Alex Garland; PROD Andrew Macdonald. US/UK, 2000, color, 119 min. RATED R
Friday, June 12, 9:30; Saturday, June 13, 9:40
28 DAYS LATER...
Casting the then-relative unknown Irish actor Cillian Murphy in this low budget zombie thriller turned out to be another twist of genius by Boyle in this box office smash. A highly contagious virus called 'rage' has dispatched the majority of the world's population and has transformed those that remain into bloodthirsty zombies. Jim (Murphy) awakens on a hospital bed 28 days after the virus overwhelms London to a post-apocalyptic devastated city. He joins forces with a band of other survivors, and together they journey toward a mysterious radio broadcast and a man who promises salvation on an isolated country compound.
DIR Danny Boyle; SCR Alex Garland; PROD Andrew Macdonald. UK, 2002, color, 113 min. RATED R
Friday, June 26, 10:00; Saturday, June 27, 11:00; Sunday, June 28, 9:05; Monday, June 29, 9:30; Tuesday, June 30, 9:15; Wednesday, July 1, 9:05
