Which British black comedy film was shown at The Scoop in 2008?
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The Scoop The Scoop is an outdoor amphitheatre situated on the south side of the River Thames near Tower Bridge in London, located underneath City Hall, providing seating for approximately 800 people. Designed by Townshend Landscape Architects, it is a venue used during the summer to show films, musical performances and theatre productions by such companies as The Steam Industry and The Pantaloons. In June 2008, films shown at The Scoop included "The Dam Busters", "Atonement" and "Withnail and I". As of 2010, The Scoop has been used as a performance venue for eight years.
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Withnail and I Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemployed young actors, Withnail and "I" (portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann) who live in a squalid flat in Camden Town in 1969 while squandering their finances on alcohol. Needing a holiday, they obtain the key to a country cottage in the Lake District belonging to Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Monty and drive there. The weekend holiday proves less recuperative than they expected.
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Beastie Boys (film) Beastie Boys () is a 2008 South Korean film about male hosts who serve female clients in discreet salons tucked into the affluent fashion districts of southern Seoul.
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La Charrette La Charrette was for several decades the smallest cinema in the UK. It closed in February 2008.
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2008 Laurence Olivier Awards The 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards were held in 2008 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of London Theatre.
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Bike Squad Bike Squad is a 2008 English television comedy film about a team of bicycle-mounted police.
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Crush and Blush Crush and Blush (; lit. "Miss Hongdangmu" or "Miss Carrot") is a 2008 South Korean film. It is the feature film debut of director Lee Kyoung-mi, and also the first film to be produced by Park Chan-wook.
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Blondie's Secret Blondie's Secret is a 1948 black and white comedy film and the twenty-fourth of the 28 Blondie films.
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Code Name: The Cleaner Code Name: The Cleaner is a 2007 American action comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Lucy Liu, Cedric the Entertainer, Callum Keith Rennie and Nicollette Sheridan. The film was released by New Line Cinema on January 5, 2007. Upon its release, the film was met with negative reviews by critics and was a box office failure.
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Britannia Hospital Britannia Hospital is a 1982 black comedy film by British director Lindsay Anderson which targets the National Health Service and contemporary British society. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and Fantasporto.
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Be Kind Rewind Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on February 22, 2008 in the United Kingdom and in North America.
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2008 Brit Awards The 2008 Brit Awards was the 28th edition of the biggest annual music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 20 February 2008 at the Earls Court in London. The ceremony attracted 6.1 million viewers, 800,000 more than the previous live broadcast. Leona Lewis was nominated for four awards but came away empty-handed.
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The Black Panther (1977 film) The Black Panther is a 1977 British crime film. Its subject is the death of Lesley Whittle, a teenager kidnapped and murdered by criminal Donald Neilson, known as the "Black Panther". It was directed by Ian Merrick, his first feature, and stars Donald Sumpter, Debbie Farrington and Marjorie Yates.
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Amusement (film) Amusement is a 2008 American anthology horror film directed by John Simpson and starring Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge and Jessica Lucas. The film went direct-to-video in January 2009. It was the last film to be distributed by Picturehouse Entertainment before their closure in 2008 and relaunch in 2013.
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Kiwani: The Movie Kiwani: The Movie is a 2008 Ugandan drama film starring Juliana Kanyomozi, Hannington Bugingo, Allan Tumusiime and Flavia Tumusiime and directed and produced by Henry H. Ssali, a Ugandan journalist. The movie tells a tale of cheap tricks used by thieves and pickpocket on the streets of Uganda's Capital City, Kampala, the lives of university students and corporate personalities entangled.
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Pathology (film) Pathology is a 2008 crime-horror film directed by Marc Schölermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The cast was announced on April 4, 2007 and filming started in May 2007. The film premiered April 11, 2008 in the United Kingdom and opened in limited release in the United States on April 18, 2008.
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List of British Press Awards Scoops of the Year The Scoop of the Year award is one of the honours given annually by the British Press Awards.
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Circumcise Me Circumcise Me is a 2008 film about the American-born Israeli comedian Yisrael Campbell.
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Wild Child (film) Wild Child is a 2008 British-French-American teen comedy film starring Emma Roberts, Kimberley Nixon, Juno Temple, Linzey Cocker, Sophie Wu, Alex Pettyfer and Georgia King. "Wild Child" is Natasha Richardson's last on-screen film appearance.
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Charlie Phillips (photographer) Ronald "Charlie" Phillips (born 22 November 1944), also known by the nickname "Smokey", is a Jamaican-born restaurateur, photographer, and documenter of black London. He is now best known for his photographs of Notting Hill during the period of West Indian migration to London; however, his subject matter has also included film stars and student protests, with his photographs having appeared in "Stern", "Harper’s Bazaar", "Life" and "Vogue" and in Italian and Swiss journals. His work has been exhibited at galleries including Tate Britain, Museum of London, Nottingham New Art Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Museum of the City of New York, and is also in collections at The Wedge, London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), as well as the Tate. Phillips has been called: "Arguably the most important (yet least lauded) black British photographer of his generation", and a January 2015 feature in "Time Out London" referred to him as "the greatest London photographer you've never heard of — and some of his best works are only just being discovered".
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Nonsense Revolution Nonsense Revolution is a 2008 Canadian comedy film directed by Ann Verrall and starring Alex House, Anastasia Phillips, Robert Clark and Deborah Allen.
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48 heures par jour 48 heures par jour (48 hours a day) is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Catherine Castel.