Lara`s pictures from “Ah, Marbella!”

Lara preparing for Airport scene.

Isn`t she cute? :)

Lara with her partner at the airport

Lara, saving a baby-goat :)

Lara`s pictures from “Ashes and Sand”

 

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Another fan of Lara Belmont, this time from Czech Republic! :)

 Stupid man love movie stars.. Of course I am not one of them. I don’t love Angelina Jolie, neither Pamela Anderson.. And you know what, I love just my self and that’s it! Anyway, I will post some pictures of Lara Belmont here, just because I like her movies, maybe you guys dont know here.. Hey, does someone know her?! Heyyy?! Haha..

http://ireturn1day.blog.cz/0607/stupid-man-are-falling-in-love-with-movie-stars

Lara Belmont Fanmail

OK, so if any of you would like to contact Lara Belmont, you may do so by mailng her trough her agent Markham and Froggatt

by mailing her on following adress:

Lara Belmont
Markham and Froggatt Ltd
4 Windmill Street
London W1T 2HZ
UK

Address Information:

Markham and Froggatt Ltd

(Talent Management Company)

4 Windmill Street

London W1T 2HZ

UK

Phone: +44 (0)20 7636 4412

Fax: +44 (0)20 7637 5233

Review of Lara in “The War Zone” from www.anyoldactress.com

I have only seen Lara Belmont in 1999’s The War Zone but it was more than enough. It was the most impressive debut from an actress that I have ever seen. She was perfect, note for note. Someone who could play the role the way that she did is surely someone special and an actress to watch out for. Belmont has done a few films since then but they aren’t easily available in the USA. I’ll keep my eyes open though. I’d hate to miss her.

The War Zone was directed by Tim Roth and based on the novel by Alexander Stuart (he is responsible for the screenplay as well). The plot is that a young man discovers a horrible secret about his family - his father and sister are lovers - and how he tries to bring it all out in the open. They have just moved from London to remote Devon. They essentially only have each other. But this isn’t driven by plot. It’s not really about that at all. It’s emotions and deep rooted trauma. How they feel about one another and what they do to each other. Tom accuses Jessie when he confronts her….

http://www.anyoldactress.com/larabelmont.html 

Long Time Dead (2002, horror)

 With: Joe Absolom, Lara Belmont, Melanie Gutteridge, Lukas Haas, James Hillier, Alec Newman, Mel Raido, Marsha Thomason, Tom Bell, Michael Feast, Cyril Nri, Nicolas Chagrin, Tameka Empson, Peter Gevisser, Derek Lea, Joel Pitts, Pete Valente.
A pesky Moroccan djinn starts taking out a group of students who roused it via a Ouija board in “Long Time Dead,” a shake ‘n’ bake British youth-horror pic that’s pure multiplex fare. Tight pacing, a down-to-the-bone storyline and a highly worked soundtrack ensure a decent number of thrills and chills, signaling a fast clean-up among undemanding auds prior to a healthy reincarnation on video.

Shot in London back in the summer of 2000, film is the second production — following “Billy Elliot” — from Working Title’s subsidiary banner, WT², whose goal is to make “low-budget films that people want to go and see.” With a grungier look than most U.S. genre models, it’s still a fairly slick piece of work, without overdosing on digital effects for their own sake. And in tempo and atmosphere it’s a major step-up from similar British genre movies of the ’70s. First time feature helmer Marcus Adams began in music promos and commercials.

Intro, set underground in Morocco, 1979, sketches a satanic ritual that ends in grisly death and destruction. In present-day London, a bunch of students go to a warehouse party, get mildly loaded and, for a laugh, dabble with a Ouija board in a back room. When the glass goes wild and spells out “die,” the body count starts with the spectacular death through a skylight of Annie (Melanie Gutteridge), g.f. of Liam (Alec Newman), who’s troubled by Moroccan flashbacks.

Lucy (Marsha Thomason), who happens to be into the occult, reckons they’ve accidentally summoned a djinn. Said Arabian fire demon can only become free when whoever summoned it is dead — which bodes ill for the longtime health prospects of the entire group.

For safety, Lucy stays that night with the rest of the group in their shared house. When a fuse blows in the basement, Yank computer nerd Webster (Lukas Haas) and Lucy’s b.f., Spence (James Hillier), discover a collection of occult clippings and a dossier on the Morocco disaster in the room of their weird landlord, Becker (Tom Bell).

Meanwhile, Liam, whose father is still in stir for the Morocco massacre despite claiming it was the work of a demon, is starting to look badly bent out of shape. And then — in the movie’s most effective sequence — another in the group, Stella (Lara Belmont), is bloodily battered to death in a toilet stall. Becker tells them he can help by performing a “banishing,” to send the naughty djinn back whence it came.

The largely no-name but solidly experienced young cast performs well together, with Tomason, Haas and Newman making the greatest impression. The alternately creepy-crawly/crashing score by Don Davis, a past master at that this kind of thing (”The Matrix,” “Jurassic Park III”), and the busy sound effects track both help keep the mind diverted from the hokey plot, and lensing by Nic Morris gives the whole thing a gritty London flavor.
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Camera (Technicolor prints), Nic Morris; editor, Lucia Zucchetti; additional editor, Niven Howie; music, Don Davis; production designer, Alison Riva; art director, Jane Tomblin; costume designer, Pamela Blundell; sound (Dolby), Simon Okin, Sandy Macrae, Tim Alban; stunt coordinator, Tom Delmar; special effects, Any Effects; prosthetic make-up, Carter White FX; visual effects supervisor, Ed Hawkins; digital visual effects, the Moving Picture Co.; assistant director, Max Keene; casting, Andy Pryor. Reviewed at Mr. Young’s preview theater, London, Dec. 13, 2001. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 91 MIN.

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 A group of British students enbark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die. Written by Pete, England

A group of British college students who are close friends embark on a night of intense partying including alcohol and drugs, and while under the influence, intent on a bit of fun, try to establish a link with the spirit world using a homemade Ouija board. However, fun is the last thing on their minds when the Ouija board spells out the words “All Die”, and they give up on the board before closing the link to the spirit world and, unknown to them, unleash something evil into their world, and it isn’t long before one of them is murdered by an unseen force. Soon they all find themselves terrified for their lives, as the spirit they have let out begins to kill them off, one by one.

Pictures of Lara Belmont in “Long time dead”

Lara Belmont in David Cairns blog

I had the pleasure of nearly working with Lara Belmont once. She had just done Tim Roth’s THE WAR ZONE, which was much-hyped in the biz, and the word was that casting her in our film could help us get the backing, so I was under a certain amount of pressure to like her. I met her and DID like her. She liked our script and the notes she gave me on her character were very intelligent, if practically illiterate from a strict grammar and spelling point of view. Only then did I see THE WAR ZONE.She looked fantastic onscreen. Her seemingly lidless eyes hooked you into a scene, and you could read great depths of thought behind them. Her steep wall of forehead and impossible four-dimensional lips made her fascinating and surprising from every angle.

All this was somewhat dissipated whenever she parted those lips to give utterance. A newcomer to acting, Lara hadn’t really any facility with lines, which tended to sound like lines when she spoke them. I later heard that Roth and crew had sometimes filmed rehearsals, without telling her, in an attempt to capture the freshness and spontaneity that would vanish when she was self-conscious. I wasn’t convinced this had worked.

Anyway, whore that I am, I offered her the part. I was hoping that the experience of doing Roth’s film, and the confidence she must have gained from the (to me, somewhat inexplicable) rave reviews, would help her out. Knowing how great she was considered purely as a compositional element, and knowing that she was both smart and extremely dedicated (she burned her body with a cigarette lighter during one scene of THE WAR ZONE, something I had no intention of asking her to do), I had some hope that her difficulties with dialogue-speaking could be overcome. I was gambling with both of our reputations, though.

Anyway, Lara’s agent ultimately persuaded her to do a different film instead (”a piece of nonsense”) and our project lumbered on for a few years before dying a natural death. So I never found out if our film could have sailed to glory on Lara’s amazing face. I’d still love to get her in front of my camera though: whether or not I succeeded in getting the best from her as an actor, no film with those features gracing it could ever be entirely ordinary. http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/features/

Someone Else (2007)

Synopsis

The grass is always greener on the other side of the bed.

David (Stephen Mangan), a photographer has been going out with Lisa (Susan Lynch) for a number of years. Maintaining separate lives it looks like their relationship might never move onto the next level. Unbeknown to Lisa, David has met the carefree and bohemian Nina (Lara Belmont)

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who appears to be offering him everything Lisa cannot. When Lisa surprises David with tickets for a romantic trip he breaks off the relationship only to discover that Nina, too, has Someone else. A charming romantic film for all those in-love, out-of-love and somewhere in between.

Lara Belmont Variety Interview, Jan. 1st 2001.

Hometown: Grew up all around Southern England

Favorite Thing About the Business: Meeting people and working together toward one point

Least Favorite: If people don’t know your face, you mean nothing to them.

Breakthrough: “The War Zone”

Worst Fan Experience: “Once, I’d just bought a dress (for the British Independent Film Awards) and I was wearing it (home) walking down Covent Garden and this guy on this bike came hurtling up to me and goes, ‘Are you that incest queen? You’re that chick from “The War Zone,” aren’t you?’ I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he went, ‘Fucking hated it!’”

As far as going Hollywood goes, for the moment we don’t have to worry about Lara Belmont. After being plucked from a flea market by casting agents, her debut as a sexually abused teen in Tim Roth’s “The War Zone” garnered the British Independent Film Award for best newcomer. But the U.K native still lives outside London and rarely gets recognized on the street. If she continues turning in the same level of performances, though, that could change soon.

Playing Jessie, a girl in her late teens who is molested by her father, the first-time actress’ first challenge was to place huge trust in director Roth and co-star Ray Winstone, who plays Jessie’s abusive father.

“When I read the script I knew that I could play her; it’s just whether I wanted to,” Belmont says. “Tim gave me the confidence. He wasn’t going to make this something cheesy.”

Indeed, Roth delivered a spare look at abuse, including unflinching scenes between father and daughter. “Ray was probably the strongest person (in) those scenes,” Belmont says. “He has kids who are my age and I really get on with one of them. It was hard to do for him. We kind of helped each other.”

Despite the help, it’s Belmont who found Jessie’s tough side. While a victim of her circumstances, there’s a fierceness about the character Belmont credits to a will to survive and escape her surroundings.

“For me, Jessie, she’s going to college in six months. If you’re being fucked by your father, you’ve lost the child in you,” she says. “You’ve lost the ability to trust and from a very young age you’ve been sexualized. … You do become hard and vindictive.”

Not that Belmont has much experience with life’s hard edges. She lived at home until “The War Zone” came along and even now lives with three friends in Gloucester.

Currently, she’s reading scripts and going on auditions. Being miles from Hollywood doesn’t bother her, though. “Most American movies have American actresses in them and my accent gets in the way,” Belmont says. “A lot is happening over here … enough for me to contend with.”

TOM TAPP
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117779314.html?categoryid=13&cs=1#

Lara Belmont in “Ashes And Sand”

This is a British movie set in Brighton. It shows teenage angst and female gang behaviour.

The leader of the gang is Hayley (Lara Belmont) and the other gang members are Jo (Beccy Armory), Anna (Sarah French-Ellis) and Lauren (Jessica Harris). They roam the streets of Brighton stalking single men, seducing and then robbing them. Hayley meets a policeman, Daniel (Nick Moran), and becomes fixated on him. She dreams of becoming his girlfriend/lover. Daniel has a shoe fetish and lets himself be seduced by Hayley. The end result is not what he envisages.
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