Exclusive: watch the first five minutes of 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed'

ComingSoon.net has a preview of the first five minutes of The Disappearance of Alice Creed. It stars Martin Compston and is set to open on August 6 in limited release in the US.

Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag her from the street into the back of the van and, with a bag over her head and ball gag in her mouth, take her back to the flat, tying her to the bed in the room they have converted into a prison cell.

The kidnappers are Danny (Martin Compston) and Vic (Eddie Marsan), two ex-cons planning to make a mint on the ransom for the young woman. The younger, nervier of the two, Danny defers to the more experienced Vic, who acts with a steely conviction. Their hostage is Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), daughter of a rich businessman, chosen by Vic and Danny as their passport to a better life. Terrified and immobile at first, it soon becomes clear that Alice isn't about to let her captors use her as capital without a fight. As determined to escape as Vic and Danny are to succeed, Alice enters into a battle of wills which strains the already fractious relationship between the two men. As the deadline for the exchange draws nearer, all three are brought close to breaking point, with Vic and Danny's foolproof plan descending into a desperate struggle for survival.

A taut, emotionally intense thriller, the debut feature from writer-director J. Blakeson eschews genre convention, generating tension from the sexual and psychological ties that bind captive to captors. [ComingSoon.net]

Sydney Film Festival schedule includes 'Alice Creed' and 'The Ghost Writer'

The 57th annual Sydney Film Festival runs from June 2 to June 14 and the festival's screening schedule is now available.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed with Martin Compston will premiere on Saturday, June 5 at 8:15pm at Event Cinema 8. The film's second screening is on Tuesday, June 8 at 8:45pm at Dendy Opera Quays 2.



The Ghost Writer with Ewan McGregor will have its Australian premiere on Sunday, June 13 at 9:30pm at the State Theatre. The second screening is on Monday, June 14 at 4:45pm at Event Cinema 8. Ewan McGregor might attend the film's premiere. Tickets for the second screening have already been sold out, but as of now, tickets for the premiere are still available. Head on over to the Sydney Film Festival website for more information on tickets.

Martin Compston talks 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed'

Martin Compston and Gemma Arterton talk to Empire Magazine about their film, which opened on April 30 in the UK. The Disappearance of Alice Creed reportedly has a limited August 6 opening in the US.

Martin Compston promotes 'Alice Creed'

The Disappearance of Alice Creed opens on April 30 in the UK and there are two new interviews with Martin Compston.

Martin Compston and his co-star Gemma Arterton talk about working on the film.



There's also a profile in The Times that you can read in full here. Part of the interview with Martin is posted below:

At about this time Compston even gave LA a second shot. He moved there, in the winter of 2007, and worked as a volunteer in a free health clinic on Beverly Boulevard. “I told everyone: ‘I’m going out there not to look for acting work, just to see if I can live there’. ” He says that his time there was “mad”, and that working at the clinic was often “horrible” — “There’d be a guy having a heart attack right in front of me, but because he couldn’t fill out his form nobody would touch him!”

Ultimately, he says, he planned a second professional assault on LA too, but the success of Alice Creed got in the way, and he hasn’t stopped working here since. He’s busy solidly for the entire year, and some of his forthcoming roles include playing a porn star in the crime film Pimp, a dancer in the drama Soul Boys and an ex-convict who has, yes, a raunchy sex scene in the horror movie Comedown. [Kevin Maher]

Win the UK premiere of 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed'

CinemaNX is giving UK fans the opportunity to win the UK premiere of The Disappearance of Alice Creed at their local cinema. All you have to do is nominate your local cinema and get enough votes to win the premiere. Head on over to the film's Facebook page for you chance to enter. The Disappearance of Alice Creed stars Martin Compston and opens on April 30 in the UK.

Synopsis: On a suburban street, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed, daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Danny, have worked out a meticulous plan. But Alice is not going to play the perfect victim – she’s not giving in without a fight. In a tense power-play of greed, duplicity and survival we discover that sometimes disappearances can be deceptive…

Thanks to the folks at CinemaNX for providing the artwork and sharing the information about the contest with us.

'Ondine' and 'Alice Creed' part of Tribeca film lineup

The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled its complete feature film lineup yesterday. The ninth edition of the festival runs April 21 to May 2 in Manhattan.


Ondine, which stars Scottish actor Tony Curran and The Disappearance of Alice Creed with Martin Compston will both have their American premieres as features in the Spotlight section. Both films also have U.S. distribution.

'The Disappearance of Alice Creed' picked up for US distribution

There's no word yet on a release date, but at least the film is on its way to being released in the US:

...the hotly-tipped British thriller "The Disappearance of Alice Creed,"...picked up some strong reviews at the Toronto and London festivals last year, and stars the wonderful Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston ("Red Road") as two criminals who kidnap a rich girl (Gemma Arterton). Anchor Bay have picked it up for US distribution, so we'll be able to see for ourselves if it's as taut and twisty as it's meant to be. [The Playlist]

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Martin Compston at the 'Alice Creed' premier

Martin Compston and co-stars Gemma Arterton and Eddie Marsan were at the premiere of The Disappearance of Alice Creed. The premiere was at the London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. Photos of Martin at the premiere are below:











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Martin Compston talks the making of 'Alice Creed'

Martin Compston and his co-star Eddie Marsan discussed their work on The Disappearance of Alice Creed with MakingOf. Check it out:



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Clip from The Disappearance of Alice Creed

In addition to the two clips from yesterday, there's another clip from the film below:



There are also more reviews for The Disappearance of Alice Creed coming in from TIFF:

The Disappearance…will appeal largely to aficionados of grungy thrillers full of double-crosses and battles of wit. Cult status would appear to be firmly in this film’s grasp.

The Disappearance is more of a verbal battle than a physical one, preferring barbed dialogue to clichéd gunplay. This, of course, requires relatable performances, and all three leads do strong work. Compston nails Danny’s slippery desperation, making it impossible to ever know when he’s telling the truth.

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First look: Martin Compston in The Disappearance of Alice Creed

First, you can head on over to Movieline for two new clips from the film. The Disappearance of Alice Creed has already been bought for some international distribution at TIFF, but has not yet secured domestic rights.

Movieline also gives us Martin Compston's and co-star Eddie Marsan's first official interview for the film:

One of those pleasant gems you hope to stumble upon at any film festival, The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a wonderfully entertaining little thriller from British screenwriter and first-time director, J Blakeson. Set almost entirely in an enclosed apartment, Blakeson’s story takes a simple premise — “So you’ve kidnapped a beautiful heiress. Now what?” — and wrings out of it a darkly humorous and utterly unpredictable tale of greed gone wrong, with shades of Rope, Shallow Grave and Deathtrap. The titular heiress is played by Quantum of Solace star Gemma Arterton, who squeezed in this film between her two upcoming blockbusters, Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans. Rounding out the triangle are the two kidnappers, the elder and more volatile man played by Eddie Marsan — star of Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky and Will Smith’s super-nemesis in Hancock — and the younger played by Martin Compston, a Scottish actor discovered by Ken Loach (who gave him the lead in Sweet Sixteen). Both are superb in their roles. Movieline spoke to Marsan and Compston this morning at TIFF, for what it turns out was their first official interview in support of the film.

There’s a fair bit of nudity required of everyone in Alice Creed. How did you feel about that?

COMPSTON: You never feel really comfortable being naked among strangers, but it was nothing compared with everything Gemma went through, so you just think, well, get on with it. The one scene that sort of freaked me out had a [full frontal shot], but it was quick and you couldn’t really see it. But one of our producers said, just wait until the DVD comes out and people press pause!

You can go here for the rest of the interview.

The film had also been an official selection at the London Film Festival, but I hadn't posted the official screening dates:

Saturday, October 24 | 21:00 | Vue Screen 6

Tuesday, October 27 | 14:00 | NFT1

Tuesday, October 27 | 19:00 | STUDIO

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