Just occasionally on Rialto Channel, we like to share some of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed feature films and documentaries shows everyday with all direct, domestic SKY basic package subscribers. From April 26th to April 30th anyone with SKY* can watch Rialto Channel, and if you subscribe in April, you get your first month for half price**.
Here are a few of the highlights you’ll be able to enjoy...
Just occasionally on Rialto Channel, we like to share some of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed feature films and documentaries shows everyday with all direct, domestic SKY basic package subscribers. From April 26th to April 30th anyone with SKY* can watch Rialto Channel, and if you subscribe in April, you get your first month for half price**.
Here are a few of the highlights you’ll be able to enjoy:
PROJECT NIM
Starring: Nim Chimpsky
Directed by: James Marsh
Premiering: Thursday 25th April, 8.30pm
Encore Screening: Sunday 28th April, 4pm (during the open period)
In 1973 at the Oklahoma Institute for Primate Studies a ten day old chimpanzee called Nim was taken from his mother given to a human mother to be raised as a child. The experiment was called Project Nim, and aimed to see if Nim could learn a language and function within a family. Made by the team behind the Oscar winning Man on Wire, this documentary makes the most of archive footage, photographs and current interviews with those involved to bring us an unusual biography. It’s fascinating, well-produced and at times sad, and reveals just as much about the people who tried to turn Nim into a human, and eventually back into a chimp again, as it does about primate behavior and intelligence.
A DANGEROUS METHOD
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightly, Viggo Mortensen
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Premiering: Saturday 27th April, 8.30pm
Period drama, A Dangerous Method, tells the story of how the two great minds of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Fassbender), met and the woman who came between them, Russian patient turned doctor Sabine (Knightly). Inspired by true events, Cronenberg was determined his film reflected history as accurately as possible. He used letters and correspondence between Freud and Jung, diaries, film footage and medical books to make sure these characters and their dialogue was as authentic as possible. His Oscar and Golden Globe nominated cast do a wonderful job of bringing this intense story of the birth of psychoanalysis to life.
My blog later in the week features an interview with the legendary producer of A Dangerous Method, Jeremy Thomas (Crash, Naked Lunch, The Last Emperor, Sheltering Sky, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence), about working with David Cronenberg, and life as an independent producer.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and Ed Harris
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Premiering: Sunday 28th April, 8.30pm
Cronenberg gets two mentions this week – partly because he’s so fabulous, and partly because both films highlighted happen to star Viggo Mortensen. He may have been pivotal in helping Frodo to get rid of that ghastly ring, but as an actor he’s avoided the typecasting that often comes with being part of one of the biggest trilogies of the last decade. This is one of my favourite recent Cronenberg films – a thought provoking, unpredictable, intense and timeless exploration of violence within society. A stunner – don’t miss it.
*Direct, domestic SKY subscribers only. Period begins 12.01am Friday April 26 and ends 11.59pm Tuesday April 30, 2013.
**Available to all direct, domestic SKY subscribers only. Offer closes April 30, 2013.