LONDON -- Bet you've never seen baby pictures like these. In the thrilling first moments of the National Theater production of ''Frankenstein,'' directed with rough magic by Danny Boyle, a newborn tumbles hard from the womb and straight into the struggle that is life. Oh, the muscle-clenching pain of it, as this still inchoate being tries out its...
In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow slot in Blue John Canyon in Utah, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. Mr. Ralston's ordeal -- described in many interviews after the fact and in his lively, unaffected memoir, ''Between a Rock and a Hard Place'' -- was a struggle for survival and...
HERE'S a not very promising idea for a movie: A young man goes hiking alone, gets his arm stuck under a boulder in a crack in the ground and after five days, during which nothing much happens except a few hallucinations, extricates himself by performing a self-amputation. Unlikely as it sounds -- think of a gorier, more claustrophobic version of...
Danny Boyle (født 20. oktober 1956) er en britisk filminstruktør. Han er særligt kendt for filmene Trainspotting, 28 dage senere, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, for hvilken han modtog en Oscar for bedste instruktør, og 127 Hours, der har modetaget 3 Golden Globes-nomineringer og 6 Oscar-nomineringer 2011.
Danny Boyle spillefilmsdebuterede i 1996 med filmen Trainspotting. Den blev nomineret til en Oscar og vandt flere priser, bl.a. den danske Bodil for "bedste ikke-amerikanske film".
Boyles næste store projekt, var The Beach, baseret på en bog skrevet af Alex Garland. Den blev dog mindre godt modtaget end Trainspotting.
I 2002 slog Boyle igennem med scifi-gyseren 28 dage senere, der blev en stor økonomisk succes. Boyle blev meget rost for denne film, og man siger han har skabt en helt ny genre inde for sci-fi. Fold ud