The BBC is celebrating the art of the literary adaptation by screening a variety of classics on BBC Four. More details here.
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
From Distant Voices, Still Lives to Benediction, the lyrical work of the late director was suffused with the ‘ecstasy’ of cinema – and his fraught Liverpool childhood
Last month, British cinema lost one of its greatest and most distinctive screen poets. From an astonishing trilogy of early short films (Children; Madonna and Child; Death and Transfiguration – all available on BFI Player) to his final feature, Benediction (2021), Terence Davies seamlessly blended personal recollections with wider universal truths. His subjects ranged from autobiographically inspired portraits of postwar working-class life in Liverpool to sweeping literary adaptations and intimate portraits of real-life authors, most remarkably the American poet Emily Dickinson, brilliantly played by Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion, 2016. Yet each of his films felt deeply, distinctly personal. No wonder Jack Lowden, who played Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction, told me that after immersing himself in his subject’s diaries in preparation for the role, he...
Last month, British cinema lost one of its greatest and most distinctive screen poets. From an astonishing trilogy of early short films (Children; Madonna and Child; Death and Transfiguration – all available on BFI Player) to his final feature, Benediction (2021), Terence Davies seamlessly blended personal recollections with wider universal truths. His subjects ranged from autobiographically inspired portraits of postwar working-class life in Liverpool to sweeping literary adaptations and intimate portraits of real-life authors, most remarkably the American poet Emily Dickinson, brilliantly played by Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion, 2016. Yet each of his films felt deeply, distinctly personal. No wonder Jack Lowden, who played Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction, told me that after immersing himself in his subject’s diaries in preparation for the role, he...
- 11/4/2023
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Terence Davies, the critically beloved British writer-director who had his international art-house breakthrough with two deeply autobiographical films set in his native Liverpool, England, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, has died. He was 77.
Davies’ official Instagram account confirmed the news Saturday morning, noting that the filmmaker died peacefully at home after a short illness.
Much of Davies’ work is infused with personal emotional experience, reflecting in subtle ways on growing up as a gay, Catholic man in Liverpool in the 1950s and ’60s. The filmmaker directly addressed his childhood in his 2008 feature documentary, Of Time and the City.
Premiering to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival that year, the doc recalled both Davies’ own family life and that of the city, using archival footage, his own commentary voiceover, classical music tracks, film clips and excerpts from poetry and literature in an assemblage by turns caustically funny and melancholy,...
Davies’ official Instagram account confirmed the news Saturday morning, noting that the filmmaker died peacefully at home after a short illness.
Much of Davies’ work is infused with personal emotional experience, reflecting in subtle ways on growing up as a gay, Catholic man in Liverpool in the 1950s and ’60s. The filmmaker directly addressed his childhood in his 2008 feature documentary, Of Time and the City.
Premiering to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival that year, the doc recalled both Davies’ own family life and that of the city, using archival footage, his own commentary voiceover, classical music tracks, film clips and excerpts from poetry and literature in an assemblage by turns caustically funny and melancholy,...
- 10/7/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Terence Davies, the Liverpool-born director of autobiographical memory pieces like “The Long Day Closes” and “Distant Voices, Still Lives,” has died. He was 77. The English filmmaker passed away peacefully in his home after a short illness on October 7, as confirmed on his official social media pages.
Davies directed several masterpieces in his lifetime, from the sorrowful “The Deep Blue Sea” starring Rachel Weisz as an eternally unhappy seeker of love to his debut feature “Distant Voices,” built on his own closeted working-class British upbringing. You could even say the same about his last film, “Benediction,” starring Jack Lowden as the queer poet Siegfried Sassoon, wrapped around by a coterie of Bright Young Things. He received great acclaim for films like “A Quiet Passion,” starring Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, as well as the Edith Wharton adaptation “House of Mirth,” led by Gillian Anderson. Serious actors loved working with him,...
Davies directed several masterpieces in his lifetime, from the sorrowful “The Deep Blue Sea” starring Rachel Weisz as an eternally unhappy seeker of love to his debut feature “Distant Voices,” built on his own closeted working-class British upbringing. You could even say the same about his last film, “Benediction,” starring Jack Lowden as the queer poet Siegfried Sassoon, wrapped around by a coterie of Bright Young Things. He received great acclaim for films like “A Quiet Passion,” starring Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, as well as the Edith Wharton adaptation “House of Mirth,” led by Gillian Anderson. Serious actors loved working with him,...
- 10/7/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Terence Davies is apparently finding having the “moment” he’s been rightly deserving for almost thirty years.
After having a quiet period from The House of Mirth in 2000 to his underrated documentary Of Time And The City in 2008, Davies has given us three new films in the subsequent nine years, including two that are arriving in theaters damn near one year apart. Sunset Song arrived to grandiose notices (including a rave by your’s truly) in the first half of 2016, and thankfully the director has returned with a film that’s arguably one of his best yet.
Entitled A Quiet Passion Davies jumps from the fictional world created by author Lewis Grassic Gibbon that was Sunset Song and into the real world of legendary scribe Emily Dickinson. Cynthia Nixon stars as the beloved 19th-century poet, as we see her go from teenage religious skeptic to something far less bright eyed and bushy tailed,...
After having a quiet period from The House of Mirth in 2000 to his underrated documentary Of Time And The City in 2008, Davies has given us three new films in the subsequent nine years, including two that are arriving in theaters damn near one year apart. Sunset Song arrived to grandiose notices (including a rave by your’s truly) in the first half of 2016, and thankfully the director has returned with a film that’s arguably one of his best yet.
Entitled A Quiet Passion Davies jumps from the fictional world created by author Lewis Grassic Gibbon that was Sunset Song and into the real world of legendary scribe Emily Dickinson. Cynthia Nixon stars as the beloved 19th-century poet, as we see her go from teenage religious skeptic to something far less bright eyed and bushy tailed,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Lewis Grassic Gibbon‘s “Sunset Song,” one of the most celebrated Scottish novels of all time, may have a title that evokes something pastoral, but there is darkness lurking between the pages of the book and in the adaptation by Terence Davies. It’s a complex drama about war, small town life, and modern ideals brushing against […]
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- 8/23/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
Sunset Song is renowned English director Terence Davies’ adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish novel, a drama set in rural Scotland in the years just before and during World War I. Centered on a bright Scottish young woman named Chris, the film is a powerfully moving drama that is at once visually beautiful, in its depiction of the Scottish rural landscape, and realistic in its unblinking portrait of the harshness of working-class farm life and the devastating impact of war.
Agyness Deyn brilliantly plays the lead character, Chris Guthrie, whom we follow from her days as the brightest student in her rural school to her years as a young woman confronting the devastating horror of war from the home front. Chris is a girl who dreams of poetry and of becoming a teacher, and her kind-hearted mother Jean (Daniela Nardini) dotes on her gifted daughter,...
Sunset Song is renowned English director Terence Davies’ adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish novel, a drama set in rural Scotland in the years just before and during World War I. Centered on a bright Scottish young woman named Chris, the film is a powerfully moving drama that is at once visually beautiful, in its depiction of the Scottish rural landscape, and realistic in its unblinking portrait of the harshness of working-class farm life and the devastating impact of war.
Agyness Deyn brilliantly plays the lead character, Chris Guthrie, whom we follow from her days as the brightest student in her rural school to her years as a young woman confronting the devastating horror of war from the home front. Chris is a girl who dreams of poetry and of becoming a teacher, and her kind-hearted mother Jean (Daniela Nardini) dotes on her gifted daughter,...
- 6/3/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Like his past work, Terence Davies’ Sunset Song sets aglow dusty memories of the past, telling a feminist story of domestic liberation that’s mythological in theme and scale despite taking place in a lonely homestead on the outskirts of rural Scotland in the early 20th century. No one does period drama quite like Davies, and his latest effort is just as transportive and lyrical as his previous work, though the story develops in a sort of inelegant, stilted way that doesn’t pay the strong-willed heroine at its center due justice.
The beating heart of the tale is a peasant farm girl, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), tender as can be and wise beyond her years. Her strength of spirit and nurturing nature stem from a horrific upbringing under her emotionally and physically abusive father (a heart-stoppingly terrifying Peter Mullan). We watch years pass at the Guthrie home, Blawearie, as...
The beating heart of the tale is a peasant farm girl, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), tender as can be and wise beyond her years. Her strength of spirit and nurturing nature stem from a horrific upbringing under her emotionally and physically abusive father (a heart-stoppingly terrifying Peter Mullan). We watch years pass at the Guthrie home, Blawearie, as...
- 5/13/2016
- by Bernard Boo
- We Got This Covered
Despite being one of the most beloved art film directors of the last 30+ years, it’s a shockingly rare occasion that we are blessed with a new picture from filmmaker Terence Davies. With only Of Time And The City, a micro-budget, rarely seen essay film, Davies saw 11 years fall between The House of Mirth and his 2011 film The Deep Blue Sea. Thankfully though, that rate appears to be shrinking as his newest film, Sunset Song, debuts in theaters this weekend, and yet another film entitled A Quiet Passion is running the festival circuit.
But let’s not get ahead of things. Sunset Song premieres in limited release this weekend, and it’s yet another stunning achievement from one of the true masters of this era. Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name, Song introduces us to Chris Guthrie, a young woman living with her family on...
But let’s not get ahead of things. Sunset Song premieres in limited release this weekend, and it’s yet another stunning achievement from one of the true masters of this era. Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name, Song introduces us to Chris Guthrie, a young woman living with her family on...
- 5/13/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
A long-in-the-works passion project, Terence Davies’ adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song follows Chris (Agyness Deyn), a Scottish farmer’s daughter whose marriage to Ewen Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie) collides straight into the early days of World War I. There are familiar Davies visual and thematic motifs throughout — the film’s first part tracks Chris’ hellish family life under the tyrannical reign of another bad father (Peter Mullan), a wedding sequence has group sing-alongs, and a sweeping crane shot of a muddy Wwi battlefield is a textbook example of his penchant for camera movement as primary narrative propellant. In the days before […]...
- 5/12/2016
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It’s not just the shot of a field of corn that puts one in mind of Terrence Malick when watching Terence Davies’ “Sunset Song.” Like Malick, Davies has entered a period of unprecedented productivity in his golden years: After the long wait between 2000’s “The House of Mirth” and 2011’s “The Deep Blue Sea,” “Sunset Song,” which adapts a novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is the first of two Davies movies slated for release in 2016. (The Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” should arrive in the fall.) But unlike Malick, whose increased output has left his recent movies feeling.
- 5/12/2016
- by Sam Adams
- The Wrap
Terence Davies’ films deal with repressed desire, longing, and emotional pain that springs from the depths of his characters’ souls, and yet, in person, the great British auteur is undoubtedly the funniest person in the room. He is all smiles and jokes as we sit down to discuss his glorious Sunset Song, entering a limited release this week, and a retrospective of his work at the Museum of the Moving Image. It makes sense that he is joyful rather than somber, because it makes one feel a sort of relief knowing that levity was welcomed between takes on haunting dramas such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Deep Blue Sea. In Sunset Song, Davies takes on the first part of a trilogy written by Lewis Grassic Gibbons, in which we meet farm girl Chris Guthrie (a luminous Agyness Deyn) as she is forced to take on the reins of her life in pre-wwi Scotland.
- 5/12/2016
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
Legendary filmmaker Terence Davies may not work at a quick clip — his last film was 2011's underrated and moving "The Deep Blue Sea" — but when he does get behind the camera, the result is always something special. And that's the case for his upcoming "Sunset Song," partially shot in 70mm, which finds the filmmaker at the peak of his powers. Read More: Tiff Review: Terence Davies' 'Sunset Song' Starring Agyness Deyn & Peter Mullan Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, and Kevin Guthrie, and based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the story is set just before Wwi, and follows a young woman in a rural community who comes of age during a time of tremendous change. Here's the official synopsis: Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life,...
- 4/22/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Sunset Song Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: A- Director: Terence Davies Written by: Terence Davies, adapting Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Ian Pirie Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 4/20/16 Opens: May 13, 2016 If you’re like me, more than occasionally tired of the New York rat race, disgusted with the slow train service and wondering why you’re even willing to be packed in like a sardine, then prepare to envy the topography of Terence Davies’s “Sunset Song.” From the beginning, you’ll see areas of New Zealand, Scotland and Luxembourg, all standing in for a village in Aberdeenshire, in a simpler but [ Read More ]
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- 4/21/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Sunset Song; Grandma; The Forbidden Room; Kill Your Friends; Show Me a Hero; Of Good Report – review
Terence Davies wilts in the great outdoors in Sunset Song while Lily Tomlin gives great grouch in Paul Weitz’s Grandma
Terence Davies has always made films melancholically embedded in the past, yet has never quite fitted the heritage cinema mould: even when adapting Wharton and Rattigan, his period pieces had an elegiac poetry all their own. Newly prolific of late – A Quiet Passion, his dismayingly stodgy Emily Dickinson biopic, recently played Berlin – he seems to have stiffened. Sunset Song (Metrodome, 15), a grandly pictorial adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scots farmland saga, is awash with enough magic-hour cornfield vistas to make his similarly stately namesake, Malick, golden-green with envy. For a director associated principally with delicate, darkened interiority, this is a fully composed foray into epic form.
Peppery and unbending as ever, Lily Tomlin could animate any old dreck
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Terence Davies has always made films melancholically embedded in the past, yet has never quite fitted the heritage cinema mould: even when adapting Wharton and Rattigan, his period pieces had an elegiac poetry all their own. Newly prolific of late – A Quiet Passion, his dismayingly stodgy Emily Dickinson biopic, recently played Berlin – he seems to have stiffened. Sunset Song (Metrodome, 15), a grandly pictorial adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scots farmland saga, is awash with enough magic-hour cornfield vistas to make his similarly stately namesake, Malick, golden-green with envy. For a director associated principally with delicate, darkened interiority, this is a fully composed foray into epic form.
Peppery and unbending as ever, Lily Tomlin could animate any old dreck
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- 4/3/2016
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
The Sunset Song director’s film about the reclusive American poet overcomes the challenge of her closed, interior life, with the help of a great performance by Cynthia Nixon
In 2015 Terence Davies released Sunset Song, his expansive adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel of Scottish hill-farm life; now, early in 2016, another film has emerged: a biopic of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who died in 1886 after a lifetime of respectable frustration. On the face of it, the two couldn’t be more different: the former revels in its sweeping landscapes and full-blooded screaming matches, while the latter is a resolutely-controlled miniature, barely setting foot outside the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Related: Terence Davies on religion, being gay and his life in film: ‘Despair is awful because it’s worse than any pain’
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In 2015 Terence Davies released Sunset Song, his expansive adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel of Scottish hill-farm life; now, early in 2016, another film has emerged: a biopic of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who died in 1886 after a lifetime of respectable frustration. On the face of it, the two couldn’t be more different: the former revels in its sweeping landscapes and full-blooded screaming matches, while the latter is a resolutely-controlled miniature, barely setting foot outside the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Related: Terence Davies on religion, being gay and his life in film: ‘Despair is awful because it’s worse than any pain’
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- 2/14/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Piff 39: Five Films Criterion Collection Fans Should See at the Portland International Film Festival
Tomorrow night, the Northwest Film Center kicks off their 39th annual Portland International Film Festival. They’ll be screening Klaus Härö’s The Fencer as the opening night film (unfortunately the screenings are sold out, but there will be an additional showing on Sunday the 14th). Over the course of the next sixteen days there will be over 90 feature films shown around town at various theaters.
This is one of my favorite festivals that I’ve had the privilege of attending, and I cannot wait to see a some of the films that they have programmed.
As usual, we here at the site will be covering a number of the films throughout the festival, but I wanted to make sure that any local Criterion Collection fans were alerted to some of the treats that we have in store. While there are many films at the festival that will align with...
This is one of my favorite festivals that I’ve had the privilege of attending, and I cannot wait to see a some of the films that they have programmed.
As usual, we here at the site will be covering a number of the films throughout the festival, but I wanted to make sure that any local Criterion Collection fans were alerted to some of the treats that we have in store. While there are many films at the festival that will align with...
- 2/11/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Read More: Watch: New U.S. Trailer For Terence Davies' 'Sunset Song' Starring Agyness Deyn And Peter Mullan After winning over audiences on the festival circuit last year, Terence Davies' "Sunset Song" is finally gearing up for its stateside release with a gorgeous new trailer. Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, the film is based on Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 classic of the same name and centers on a young woman as she deals with the impending First World War. The official synopsis reads: "'Sunset Song' takes place during the early years of the 20th century, with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change; a struggle that continues to resonate today. Set in a rural community, the film is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for...
- 2/4/2016
- by Lauren Townsend
- Indiewire
We fell hard for Terence Davies‘ Sunset Song this past Tiff, proclaiming the Lewis Grassic Gibson adaptation a triumph worthy of Dreyer, one containing “many compositions and gestures beyond just the easy-to-praise 70mm vistas [that] feel destined to replay forever and ever in the mind.” There’s a general consensus that it should be seen on a big screen, and so the pending theatrical release — further highlighted by this, a U.S. trailer — is one of 2016’s most-anticipated happenings.
While I’ll avoid this preview for hope of entering Davies’ film as blind as possible, feel free to partake for yourself. In the meantime, however, consider our review, which goes on to say, “The camera movements take on a sensitive quality (retracting during a rape scene), but also the same bittersweet nature that’s found when swooping through the spaces of Davies’ childhood spaces in the “Tammy” montage from The Long Day Closes.
While I’ll avoid this preview for hope of entering Davies’ film as blind as possible, feel free to partake for yourself. In the meantime, however, consider our review, which goes on to say, “The camera movements take on a sensitive quality (retracting during a rape scene), but also the same bittersweet nature that’s found when swooping through the spaces of Davies’ childhood spaces in the “Tammy” montage from The Long Day Closes.
- 2/3/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
You'd think a literary adaptation directed by Terence Davies, using 70mm for the film's exteriors, would draw a bit more attention. And while "Sunset Song" has been buzzing in cinephile circles since it debuted on the festival circuit last year (our Nikola Grozdanovic called it "a remarkable experience" out of Tiff), the good news is that it's finally arriving in stateside cinemas, and a new trailer has arrived. Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, and Kevin Guthrie, the story is based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and is a coming-of-age tale about a young woman in a rural community that's touched by the coming First World War. Here's the official synopsis: Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon,...
- 2/3/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
British director’s biopic of American poet, A Quiet Passion, starring Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon, will receive its world premiere in Berlin in February
The Berlin film festival has announced that A Quiet Passion, the much-anticipated biopic of American poet Emily Dickinson, directed by Terence Davies and starring Cynthia Nixon, is to receive its world premiere at the festival.
Davies had already finished shooting A Quiet Passion before the release of Sunset Song, the Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation that re-established the British auteur as a major creative force.
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The Berlin film festival has announced that A Quiet Passion, the much-anticipated biopic of American poet Emily Dickinson, directed by Terence Davies and starring Cynthia Nixon, is to receive its world premiere at the festival.
Davies had already finished shooting A Quiet Passion before the release of Sunset Song, the Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation that re-established the British auteur as a major creative force.
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- 1/18/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Scottish actor is best known for playing abusive drunks in Tyrannosaur, Neds and, most recently, Sunset Song. In his new film, Hector, we see a softer side. He reveals how sleeping rough in his youth was ideal preparation for the role – and why he campaigned for independence
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
- 12/10/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The Scottish actor is best known for playing abusive drunks in Tyrannosaur, Neds and, most recently, Sunset Song. In his new film, Hector, we see a softer side. He reveals how sleeping rough in his youth was ideal preparation for the role – and why he campaigned for independence
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
Peter Mullan is known for playing pushers and punishers; men who drink and destroy. There are buckets of booze and abuse in his back catalogue, the cocktail strongest in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s bleak redemption tale, which opens with Mullan’s character, a raging drunk, kicking his dog to death.
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s lush but brutal Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation, Mullan plays the patriarch of a Scottish farming family, the Guthrie clan. Gruff, resentful and controlling, he’s at his lowest after a stroke leaves him bedridden and in the care of his teenage daughter (Agyness Deyn). He rings a bell.
- 12/10/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Terence Davies’s lyrical version of the Scottish classic finds the veteran director at the height of his powers
Back in the dark days when the UK Film Council was merrily throwing money at the shameful Sex Lives of the Potato Men, British film-making legend Terence Davies was finding it impossible to fund a screen adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel, Sunset Song, a hardscrabble tale of a young woman finding her identity – personal, national, spiritual – in rural northeast Scotland beneath the gathering clouds of the Great War. Despite the critical success of The House of Mirth, his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, Davies feared he might never trouble our cinema screens again. It wasn’t until his superb, low-budget love letter to Liverpool, Of Time and the City, became the unexpected toast of Cannes in 2008 that the skies started to brighten for our pre-eminent auteur. Now, with...
Back in the dark days when the UK Film Council was merrily throwing money at the shameful Sex Lives of the Potato Men, British film-making legend Terence Davies was finding it impossible to fund a screen adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel, Sunset Song, a hardscrabble tale of a young woman finding her identity – personal, national, spiritual – in rural northeast Scotland beneath the gathering clouds of the Great War. Despite the critical success of The House of Mirth, his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, Davies feared he might never trouble our cinema screens again. It wasn’t until his superb, low-budget love letter to Liverpool, Of Time and the City, became the unexpected toast of Cannes in 2008 that the skies started to brighten for our pre-eminent auteur. Now, with...
- 12/6/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review Terence Davies’s Sunset Song. Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, it stars Agyness Deyn as a Scottish farmer’s daughter battling her volatile father (Peter Mullan) and falling in love with a local boy (Kevin Guthrie) who is sent off to fight in the first world war. Sunset Song is released in the UK on Friday 4 December
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- 12/4/2015
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Leah Green and Joan Portillo
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wander into the brutality and beauty of Terence Davies’s Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation Sunset Song; watch James McAvoy jolt a new version of the Frankenstein story into life in Victor Frankenstein; learn about the harrowing effects of Chemsex in a documentary about gay sex and hedonism; and see Christmas go to hell in teen frightener Krampus
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- 12/4/2015
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Leah Green and Joan Portillo
- The Guardian - Film News
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Having captured vintage domestic life so brilliantly in Distant Voices, Still Lives, Davies is faced with a bigger challenge here, adapting Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish country novel. It’s a tale of hostile landscapes – internal and external – and a farm-girl hero who is put through a wringer of hardships: patriarchal abuse, family deaths, the first world war and more. Davies’s deliberate, muted storytelling is somewhat at odds with this sweeping narrative, even if it’s all ravishing to behold.
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Having captured vintage domestic life so brilliantly in Distant Voices, Still Lives, Davies is faced with a bigger challenge here, adapting Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scottish country novel. It’s a tale of hostile landscapes – internal and external – and a farm-girl hero who is put through a wringer of hardships: patriarchal abuse, family deaths, the first world war and more. Davies’s deliberate, muted storytelling is somewhat at odds with this sweeping narrative, even if it’s all ravishing to behold.
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- 12/4/2015
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
In this sombre and deeply satisfying tale of a rural community before the first world war, Terence Davies revisits the dark themes that have animated his career
Terence Davies’s Sunset Song is a movie with a catch or sob in its singing voice: a beautifully made and deeply felt adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of rural Scotland before the first world war, in The Mearns on the north-east coast. It’s a project that Davies has been nursing for many years, revisiting and restating the dark themes that have animated him since the early works from the 1980s, such as the autobiographical Trilogy and Distant Voices, Still Lives – the hardship and cruelty of working-class family life, the schoolroom as an aspirational way out, the sins of the father, the terrible burden of forgiveness. But in Sunset Song, Davies has found something not available to the haunted figures of those earlier movies,...
Terence Davies’s Sunset Song is a movie with a catch or sob in its singing voice: a beautifully made and deeply felt adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of rural Scotland before the first world war, in The Mearns on the north-east coast. It’s a project that Davies has been nursing for many years, revisiting and restating the dark themes that have animated him since the early works from the 1980s, such as the autobiographical Trilogy and Distant Voices, Still Lives – the hardship and cruelty of working-class family life, the schoolroom as an aspirational way out, the sins of the father, the terrible burden of forgiveness. But in Sunset Song, Davies has found something not available to the haunted figures of those earlier movies,...
- 12/3/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Terence Davies talks to Henry Barnes about Sunset Song, a melodrama about a young Scottish woman living with her volatile father on the eve of the first world war. He discusses ageing, romance and making films when despair starts to get to him. Sunset Song, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, stars Agyness Deyn and Peter Mullan and is released in the UK on Friday 4 December
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- 12/3/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Moira Armstrong suggests in her letter about Sunset Song (2 December) that publicity for the film has implied that there had been no earlier attempt to dramatise my grandfather’s novel, citing the BBC’s wonderful 1970 TV version. She should rest assured that the director Terence Davies has consistently and generously credited Vivien Heilbron’s portrayal of Chris Guthrie as his inspiration for his 15-year labour of love. She and James Naughtie (Loons and queans and orramen, G2, 25 November) were concerned about Terence’s capturing of the landscape and language. But the film’s potentially toughest critics, the current residents of “Kinraddie”, the fictional setting of the novel, gave it a resounding Doric cheer when it was shown in Arbuthnott village hall, two miles from where Lewis Grassic Gibbon was brought up, on St Andrew’s Day.
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- 12/2/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
It has taken all of 15 years for the venerable auteur Terence Davies to bring Sunset Song to the big screen, and sweeter than the satisfying sound of the bagpipes, it will be music to the ears of many that this glorious adaption of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s esteemed piece of Scottish literature is finally
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- 12/1/2015
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Sunset Song director explains why his new movie about the hardship of Scottish farms moved him – and how poetry saved him when he thought his career was over
I could be wrong, but I don’t think you’d catch Bernardo Bertolucci wearing a jacket with geography-teacher elbow-patches, or Jean-Luc Godard rhapsodising about Anne French Cleansing Milk. But such is the style of Terence Davies, the man who has some claim to being Britain’s greatest living auteur, and who appears to have successfully blocked out everything that has happened since The League of Ovaltineys was disbanded. Cheerfully admitting he “knows nothing about popular culture”, Davies, who has just turned 70, has reappeared on the cinematic map with his long-cherished adaptation of Sunset Song, the 1932 novel of Scottish identity by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, having doggedly pursued it for nearly 20 years.
In some ways, the release closes a circle: Davies’s...
I could be wrong, but I don’t think you’d catch Bernardo Bertolucci wearing a jacket with geography-teacher elbow-patches, or Jean-Luc Godard rhapsodising about Anne French Cleansing Milk. But such is the style of Terence Davies, the man who has some claim to being Britain’s greatest living auteur, and who appears to have successfully blocked out everything that has happened since The League of Ovaltineys was disbanded. Cheerfully admitting he “knows nothing about popular culture”, Davies, who has just turned 70, has reappeared on the cinematic map with his long-cherished adaptation of Sunset Song, the 1932 novel of Scottish identity by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, having doggedly pursued it for nearly 20 years.
In some ways, the release closes a circle: Davies’s...
- 11/19/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Stefan Liberski and Terence Davies in Edinburgh last night. Photo: Mhairi Bell-Moodie Two filmmakers who have adapted major literary works to the screen met on the red carpet at Filmhouse Edinburgh last night (November 11).
Renowned British filmmaker Terence Davies was in attendance for the premiere of Sunset Song, adapted from the classic novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and set for UK and Ireland release on December 4.
Belgian director Stefan Liberski was accompanying his film Tokyo Fiance, adapted from Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb’s novel as part of the 23rd edition of French Film Festival UK with a final festival screening tonight (November 12) at London Cine Lumiere. Their paths criss-crossed as they arrived at the same time to introduce their respective titles.
There are premières of Sunset Song at Glasgow Film Theatre tonight and at Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse on Friday, November 13....
Renowned British filmmaker Terence Davies was in attendance for the premiere of Sunset Song, adapted from the classic novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and set for UK and Ireland release on December 4.
Belgian director Stefan Liberski was accompanying his film Tokyo Fiance, adapted from Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb’s novel as part of the 23rd edition of French Film Festival UK with a final festival screening tonight (November 12) at London Cine Lumiere. Their paths criss-crossed as they arrived at the same time to introduce their respective titles.
There are premières of Sunset Song at Glasgow Film Theatre tonight and at Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse on Friday, November 13....
- 11/12/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While Quentin Tarantino is hogging all the attention for going old school 70mm with this upcoming "The Hateful Eight," he's not the only filmmaker utilizing the format. Far more humbly, Terence Davies went analog for his upcoming "Sunset Song," but with one key difference. The director used the widescreen scope for the exterior sequences of the movie, but went digital indoors, marking quite a different approach than Tarantino. And the results, as you'll see in the first trailer, are lovely. Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, and Kevin Guthrie, and based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the story follows a farmer's daughter who struggles to find love admist hardship and family dysfunction, with Wwi looming in the background. It looks like tremendously lovely stuff and as Nikola wrote in our review out of Tiff, the picture is "a remarkable experience." "Sunset Song" opens in the U.K. on December 4th.
- 11/10/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Sunset Song is Terence Davies’s touching epic of love, hope, and tragedy at the dawn of the Great War. The story centers on a young woman, Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), and the hardship of living in rural Scotland at the time, while looking at the themes of patriarchal and dysfunctional family life whose exploration originally hailed Davies as an auteur.Fernando F. Croce, covering the film for the Notebook, wrote from Toronto:"A passion project for the great British filmmaker with a decade-long production history of false starts, this adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 Scottish novel emerges as a full-bodied reverie of faces and landscapes, splendor and pain."We talked to Terence Davies following the world premiere of Sunset Song at the Toronto International Film Festival. This conversation contains spoilers of the film’s story.Notebook: What made you interested in this novel? How did it fit with your personality as a filmmaker?...
- 10/15/2015
- by Amir Ganjavie
- MUBI
Read More: Filmmakers You Should Know: Terence Davies, Cinematic Poet of Mid-Century British Melodrama Fortissimo Films announced today that Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to Terence Davies' "Sunset Song." The film, which stars Agyness Deyn and Kevin Guthrie, is based on a book of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and is a scenic depiction of rural Scottish life set in the early 1900s. "Sunset Song" opened earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Sunset Song" follows Chris (Agyness Deyn) and the rest of the Guthrie family as they attempt to scratch out a living in the unforgiving landscape of rural Scotland. Drawn towards the beautiful natural world around her and repelled by the violent people in her town, Chris spends her days dreaming of freedom, but when new opportunities present themselves, she may find that growing up is even harder than she had imagined.
- 9/18/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to "Sunset Song," and plans to release the film theatrically in Spring 2016. Adapted from the influential 1932 Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film stretches a few significant years in the life of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), who learns love and sex the hard way over a harvest cycle of trials and tragedies. This is a surprising acquisition from Magnolia, which also picked up Norwegian Oscar entry "The Wave" out of Tiff. Like any Davies film, "Sunset Song" won't be an easy sell stateside. But for patient viewers looking for knockout tableaux and the sort of slow cinema of storytelling yesteryear that Davies has dedicated his life's work to, "Sunset Song" is a rapturous, ravishing swell of a movie. Read More: Toronto Review: Terence Davies and Agyness Deyn Conjure Tremulous Beauty in 'Sunset Song'...
- 9/18/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
This is a capsule review. A full review will be posted closer to release.
From its opening title cards onward, Sunset Song is promising nothing more or less than a respectful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. An emotional crockpot that slowly plays out over a verdant plot of Scottish farmland, Sunset Song is an impeccable celluloid translation of what it’s like to read an engrossing weepy. This makes the film liable to having chapters more sleepy than sweeping, but the greater whole is brought to life with clearness of purpose, and earnestness of feeling.
Director and adaptor Terence Davies transports you to Gibbon’s harsh but romantic story of a country lass learning to make her life her own. As the young but steadfast Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) sees her family taken away from her over a short span of years, she digs...
From its opening title cards onward, Sunset Song is promising nothing more or less than a respectful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. An emotional crockpot that slowly plays out over a verdant plot of Scottish farmland, Sunset Song is an impeccable celluloid translation of what it’s like to read an engrossing weepy. This makes the film liable to having chapters more sleepy than sweeping, but the greater whole is brought to life with clearness of purpose, and earnestness of feeling.
Director and adaptor Terence Davies transports you to Gibbon’s harsh but romantic story of a country lass learning to make her life her own. As the young but steadfast Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) sees her family taken away from her over a short span of years, she digs...
- 9/18/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Dear Danny,Happy to hear of your findings, especially the new films by Federico Veiroj and Kazik Radwanski, whose previous features (A Useful Life and Tower, respectively) struck me as brimming with distinctive talent and sensitivity. I’m eager to catch up with both of these young directors’ visions, but first let me tell you about a veteran’s vision, namely Terence Davies’ in the visually lambent, deeply affecting Sunset Song. A passion project for the great British filmmaker with a decade-long production history of false starts, this adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 Scottish novel emerges as a full-bodied reverie of faces and landscapes, splendor and pain. Taking place in a bucolic Scottish village in the years leading up to World War I, Davies’ sprawling narrative centers characteristically on a sensitive gaze absorbing and challenging a dour world: Young Chris (Agyness Deyn), a farm lass whose lucidity and vivaciousness...
- 9/17/2015
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
★★★☆☆ Earth is the fundamental element of Terence Davis' sumptuous Sunset Song (2015), a lyrical adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel. Like an elegant love letter to the Scottish soil and the endurance of the people it sired, it makes full use of its anamorphic 65mm format with Michael McDonough's stunning landscape compositions. Within them lies the estate of Kinraddie in rural Aberdeenshire where the narrative charts the difficulties suffered by Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) as she navigates early womanhood. While there is hardship and anguish, Davis' deliberate and treatment of the source material ultimately lessens the dramatic impact even while it retains its splendour.
- 9/16/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sunlight settling nervously on a kitchen chair; rainwater filling up a shallow gully; endless panoramic stretches of billowing fields. If these elements don't appeal to you, neither do the films of Terence Davies, the English screenwriter and director responsible for "The Deep Blue Sea," "The House of Mirth" and "Distant Voices, Still Loves," whose gifts are exclusively for the patient. His films have always captured the yearning of the repressed, which can be said for the director himself, whose latest stately, stunning and, at times, anesthetizing literary adaptation is "Sunset Song." Adapted from the influential 1932 Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film stretches a few significant years in the life of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), who learns love and sex the hard way over a harvest cycle of trials and tragedies. As manifested by Davies, it's also clearly a feminist work, with Chris finding liberation and even a fleeting little.
- 9/15/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sun, sex and sumptuousness rule in Terence Davies’s adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel about a farming family torn apart by tragedy on the eve of the first world war
A warning pops up before the Toronto press screening of Terence Davies’ new film: “The following has not been enhanced by IMAX and is not the IMAX experience”.
It got a laugh from the crowd, but actually Davies, perhaps British cinema’s pre-eminent nostalgist, has made a film that’s perfectly suited to the too-big screen. His adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel is packed with emotional bombast, almost relentless in its lushness. The huge performances and bloated run time are a snug fit for the format.
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A warning pops up before the Toronto press screening of Terence Davies’ new film: “The following has not been enhanced by IMAX and is not the IMAX experience”.
It got a laugh from the crowd, but actually Davies, perhaps British cinema’s pre-eminent nostalgist, has made a film that’s perfectly suited to the too-big screen. His adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel is packed with emotional bombast, almost relentless in its lushness. The huge performances and bloated run time are a snug fit for the format.
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- 9/13/2015
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Fortissimo Films’ sells Spanish rights to the Toronto-bound period drama.
Bilbao-based Festival Films has picked up the Spanish distribution rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song from Fortissimo Films.
The period drama, starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur), Agyness Deyn (Pusher) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend Of Barney Thomson), will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) in Special Presentations.
Davies’ long-gestating passion project is an adaptation of the 1932 classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, about a farmer’s daughter in early 20th-century Scotland facing a series of hardships.
Davies has frequently played in Toronto, starting with Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988 and most recently with The Deep Blue Sea in 2011, which Festival Films previously released in Spain.
Sunset Song is also playing in competition at San Sebastian (Sept 18-26).
Metrodome previously picked up UK and Irish rights (excluding TV, which area owned by the BBC) and is planning to release in Q4 2015.
The...
Bilbao-based Festival Films has picked up the Spanish distribution rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song from Fortissimo Films.
The period drama, starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur), Agyness Deyn (Pusher) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend Of Barney Thomson), will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) in Special Presentations.
Davies’ long-gestating passion project is an adaptation of the 1932 classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, about a farmer’s daughter in early 20th-century Scotland facing a series of hardships.
Davies has frequently played in Toronto, starting with Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988 and most recently with The Deep Blue Sea in 2011, which Festival Films previously released in Spain.
Sunset Song is also playing in competition at San Sebastian (Sept 18-26).
Metrodome previously picked up UK and Irish rights (excluding TV, which area owned by the BBC) and is planning to release in Q4 2015.
The...
- 8/26/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 5 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to its huge and highly anticipated international lineup including the Closing Night Film, Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right.
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fortissimo locks UK deal with Metrodome for Toronto title; BBC boards TV rights.
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
- 8/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Agyness Deyn in Sunset Song, which will compete at San Sebastian Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Terence Davies' Sunset Song and Ben Wheatley's High-Rise have been announced in the latest batch of eight titles competing for the Golden Shell at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival next month.
The long-anticipated Scottish-shot Sunset Song - which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival - is a coming-of-age story set at the start of the 1900s, concerning a farmer's daughter, adapted from the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Wheatley's High-Rise - adapted from Jg Ballard - concerns a doctor in a dystopian future who moves into a tower block in search of anonymity, only to find class war breaking out.
Mamoru Hosoda’s anime The Boy And The Beast will be the first animated film to be a contender in the official competition.
The full list...
The long-anticipated Scottish-shot Sunset Song - which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival - is a coming-of-age story set at the start of the 1900s, concerning a farmer's daughter, adapted from the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Wheatley's High-Rise - adapted from Jg Ballard - concerns a doctor in a dystopian future who moves into a tower block in search of anonymity, only to find class war breaking out.
Mamoru Hosoda’s anime The Boy And The Beast will be the first animated film to be a contender in the official competition.
The full list...
- 8/9/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Other new titles in competition include Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and the first animated film to play in San Seb’s official selection.
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
- 8/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 40th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival now has something of a slate. Festival toppers Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling presided over a press conference Tuesday morning where more than 34 films were announced including the world premieres of "The Martian," "The Family Fang" and "Demolition." It's an intriguing initial lineup for the venerable Canadian institution and something of a steadying the ship after losing some major debuts to Venice, Telluride and the New York Film Festival over the past few years. Well, maybe. The most impressive world premieres include the aforementioned "Demolition" with Jake Gyllenhaal (officially the best opening night film in recent memory), "The Family Fang" with Nicole Kidman, "Legend" with Tom Hardy, "Trumbo" with Bryan Cranston, "The Martian" with Matt Damon and Lance Armstrong doc "The Program" with Ben Foster and Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Where to Invade Next." Notable films that will have premiered...
- 7/28/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Terence Davies first announced his biopic of the notoriously reclusive American poet back in 2012, with Cynthia Nixon attached to star. The project stalled as Davies went into production on Lewis Grassic Gibbon adaptation "Sunset Song." That film wasn't ready for Cannes, but Davies will be taking the Dickinson picture to the Marche du Film this year now that Jennifer Ehle has joined the cast. Variety reports that Ehle will star alongside Nixon in "A Quiet Passion," which starts production this week in Belgium. Davies—whose gorgeous movies like "The Deep Blue Sea," "Of Time and the City" and "Distant Voices, Still Lives" challenge mainstream audiences—wrote the script with Nixon in mind. "It was the kind of dream casting you hope for," Davies told THR during Toronto 2012. "I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work -- and now she is.
- 5/5/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Any day that British filmmaking legend Terence Davies gets back behind the camera is a good one, and, as the picture below reveals, today is just such a day. His latest project is Sunset Song, a period drama based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. The Scottish leg of its shoot has just gone underway, involving Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Sunshine On Leith’s Kevin Guthrie.As the official synopsis explains, Sunset Song “is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy.” With the guns of the Great War rumbling on the continent, the world is thrown into a state of flux and social turmoil. “In a final moment of grace”, continues the précis, “Chris endures with remarkable fortitude, looking to the future and drawing strength...
- 4/29/2014
- EmpireOnline
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