Emma D’Arcy, star of HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” has signed with CAA for representation.
D’Arcy stars in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series as Rhaenyra Targaryen, the firstborn child of the king and his heir apparent. The show follows the events leading to the war of succession, known as the “Dance of the Dragons,” which begins the fall of House Targaryen.
“House of the Dragon” has been a massive success for HBO, with 9.3 million viewers watching the Season 1 finale, marking the network’s biggest audience since “Game of Thrones.” The series has also garnered critical acclaim, winning best drama series at the 2023 Golden Globes. For their commanding performance, D’Arcy was singled out with a nomination for best actress in a drama series. According to HBO and HBO Max content CEO Casey Bloys, Season 2 is expected in 2024.
Before making their television debut in 2018’s “Wanderlust,” opposite...
D’Arcy stars in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” prequel series as Rhaenyra Targaryen, the firstborn child of the king and his heir apparent. The show follows the events leading to the war of succession, known as the “Dance of the Dragons,” which begins the fall of House Targaryen.
“House of the Dragon” has been a massive success for HBO, with 9.3 million viewers watching the Season 1 finale, marking the network’s biggest audience since “Game of Thrones.” The series has also garnered critical acclaim, winning best drama series at the 2023 Golden Globes. For their commanding performance, D’Arcy was singled out with a nomination for best actress in a drama series. According to HBO and HBO Max content CEO Casey Bloys, Season 2 is expected in 2024.
Before making their television debut in 2018’s “Wanderlust,” opposite...
- 3/8/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Award nominees include previous Bifa and Bafta nominees.
Annika Summerson, Benjamin Kracun and Alwin H. Kuchler are among the nominees for the 2021 Sue Gibson Cinematography award presented by the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The annual award marks its fifth edition, after being first established in 2016 in honour of the late Nfts alumna Sue Gibson who passed away in the same year.
The nominees are:
Annika Summerson for Mogul Mowgli Benjamin Kracun for Promising Young Woman David Katznelson for It’s A Sin James Blann for Feel Good Alwin H. Kuchler for The Mauritanian
Summerson was nominated...
Annika Summerson, Benjamin Kracun and Alwin H. Kuchler are among the nominees for the 2021 Sue Gibson Cinematography award presented by the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts).
The annual award marks its fifth edition, after being first established in 2016 in honour of the late Nfts alumna Sue Gibson who passed away in the same year.
The nominees are:
Annika Summerson for Mogul Mowgli Benjamin Kracun for Promising Young Woman David Katznelson for It’s A Sin James Blann for Feel Good Alwin H. Kuchler for The Mauritanian
Summerson was nominated...
- 8/2/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
While the world, at least parts of it privileged enough to have easy vaccine access, is just starting to peel itself away from lockdown and reflect on the loneliness of the past year, artists have been trying to make sense of it all for months now. The virtual Sundance Film Festival back in January 2021 was already surprisingly stacked with Covid-themed movies, with “How It Ends” making headlines for being shot entirely during quarantine, while Radu Jude’s “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” won Berlin. Now a different festival gives us another taste of this pandemic-centric exploration in film form, this one hailing from Paris.
Shot in one miraculous unbroken take, the adventurous and hypnotic “Roaring 20’s” by Elisabeth Vogler (a pseudonym for the filmmaker who prefers they/them as pronouns) is about today, and not the prosperous and glittery Jazz Age that followed a different pandemic a century ago.
Shot in one miraculous unbroken take, the adventurous and hypnotic “Roaring 20’s” by Elisabeth Vogler (a pseudonym for the filmmaker who prefers they/them as pronouns) is about today, and not the prosperous and glittery Jazz Age that followed a different pandemic a century ago.
- 6/14/2021
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
My favorite sub-genre in cinema happens to be films about filmmaking and second place, before the biopic, are films about the lives of authors, writers and journalists. Chanya Button landed at Tiff with her sophomore feature — a making of …. a relationship and the behind the scenes of one of the greatest novels. Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki (who was also at Tiff for Steve McQueen’s Widows) take on the roles of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Vita & Virginia is based on Sackville-West and Woolf’s correspondence and (is based on Button’s play) and was co-scripted by Eileen Atkins, who also wrote the screen adaptation of Mrs Dalloway (1997).…...
- 9/19/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The list includes Roger Deakins and last year’s winner Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
Roger Deakins and Charlotte Bruus Christensen are among the six nominees for the annual Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography award presented by National Film and Television School (Nfts).
Now in its second year, the award recognises a member of Nfts Cinematography alumni who has advanced the profession of cinematography in a significant way.
The nominees are:
Ula Pontikos for Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool Benjamin Kracun for Beast Charlotte Bruus Christensen for A Quiet Place Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049 Benoit Soler for Mobile Homes Jakob Ihre...
Roger Deakins and Charlotte Bruus Christensen are among the six nominees for the annual Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography award presented by National Film and Television School (Nfts).
Now in its second year, the award recognises a member of Nfts Cinematography alumni who has advanced the profession of cinematography in a significant way.
The nominees are:
Ula Pontikos for Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool Benjamin Kracun for Beast Charlotte Bruus Christensen for A Quiet Place Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049 Benoit Soler for Mobile Homes Jakob Ihre...
- 8/7/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Nominees for inaugural Sue Gibson award revealed.
The National Film and Television School (Nfts) has announced the launch of the Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award, which will recognise an Nfts cinematography alumni who has “advanced the profession of cinematography in a significant way”.
Sue Gibson, who passed away last year, was an award-winning Nfts alumna and also the first female president of the British Society of Cinematographers (Bsc).
She was known for her work on feature films including Alien v Predator, The Holiday, Hear My Song and Mrs Dalloway as well as numerous TV series such as The Forsythe Saga, Spooks, Lewis, Poirot and Death in Paradise.
The five nominees have been voted for by Nfts cinematography alumni including Roger Deakins and Suzie Lavelle.
The winner of the award will be announced in September 2017 and the presentation will follow at an event which will include a masterclass by the winner.
The nominees...
The National Film and Television School (Nfts) has announced the launch of the Sue Gibson Bsc Cinematography Award, which will recognise an Nfts cinematography alumni who has “advanced the profession of cinematography in a significant way”.
Sue Gibson, who passed away last year, was an award-winning Nfts alumna and also the first female president of the British Society of Cinematographers (Bsc).
She was known for her work on feature films including Alien v Predator, The Holiday, Hear My Song and Mrs Dalloway as well as numerous TV series such as The Forsythe Saga, Spooks, Lewis, Poirot and Death in Paradise.
The five nominees have been voted for by Nfts cinematography alumni including Roger Deakins and Suzie Lavelle.
The winner of the award will be announced in September 2017 and the presentation will follow at an event which will include a masterclass by the winner.
The nominees...
- 8/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Michael Fassbender looks nothing like Steve Jobs: 7 actors who don't resemble real-life counterparts
Say what you like about Ashton Kutcher's Jobs movie, but it did hold one ace up its sleeve that the Danny Boyle-directed biopic doesn't - an actor who actually resembles the character they're playing.
We take a look at a handful of stars who don't look anything like the real-life people they played.
1. Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs
As brilliant an actor as the Shame star is, it's clear from the trailers for Danny Boyle's biopic that little has been done to make Fassbender look like the man he's portraying. Ashton Kutcher has him beat in that department (as does Noah Wyle if you go all the way back to Pirates of Silicon Valley), but with the talent involved here we're expecting Steve Jobs to be a cut above Jobs.
Intriguingly, prior to Fassbender's casting Christian Bale was circling the role before bowing out due to worries...
We take a look at a handful of stars who don't look anything like the real-life people they played.
1. Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs
As brilliant an actor as the Shame star is, it's clear from the trailers for Danny Boyle's biopic that little has been done to make Fassbender look like the man he's portraying. Ashton Kutcher has him beat in that department (as does Noah Wyle if you go all the way back to Pirates of Silicon Valley), but with the talent involved here we're expecting Steve Jobs to be a cut above Jobs.
Intriguingly, prior to Fassbender's casting Christian Bale was circling the role before bowing out due to worries...
- 7/2/2015
- Digital Spy
Dutch director Sacha Polak has revealed further details of her first English-language project, Vita and Virginia.
The film, based on the play by Eileen Atkins, tells the story of the passionate love affair between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Both women were members of the free thinking Bloomsbury set but their lesbian affair scandalised parts of British society. Sackville-West was married to the celebrated politician and diarist, Harold Nicholson.
Romola Garai has come on board to play Sackville-West.
“She (Garai) is so interesting and sexy. She will be the perfect Vita,” said Polak, who was at this year’s Berlinale with new film Zurich, sold by Beta.
The part of Woolf will be cast shortly. Polak insists that her film’s Woolf won’t be the “gloomy” and “depressing” figure with the prosthetic nose played by Nicole Kidman in The Hours.
“We are keen on showing another Virginia Woolf, a funny one...
The film, based on the play by Eileen Atkins, tells the story of the passionate love affair between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Both women were members of the free thinking Bloomsbury set but their lesbian affair scandalised parts of British society. Sackville-West was married to the celebrated politician and diarist, Harold Nicholson.
Romola Garai has come on board to play Sackville-West.
“She (Garai) is so interesting and sexy. She will be the perfect Vita,” said Polak, who was at this year’s Berlinale with new film Zurich, sold by Beta.
The part of Woolf will be cast shortly. Polak insists that her film’s Woolf won’t be the “gloomy” and “depressing” figure with the prosthetic nose played by Nicole Kidman in The Hours.
“We are keen on showing another Virginia Woolf, a funny one...
- 2/13/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Fan fiction is more prevalent than you might think. With Fifty Shades of Grey being unleashed in theaters Friday, there's no denying that the novel's author, E L James, has brought fan fiction into the spotlight. Originally titled Master of the Universe, James's Twilight fan fiction based on Stephenie Meyer's multi-million dollar franchise first found its home on FanFiction.net. After the racy material within the story forced James to pull it from FanFiction.net, she next hosted Master of the Universe on her own website called 50Shades.com (which now redirects to her official author page). Back then,...
- 2/12/2015
- by Amanda Michelle Steiner, @amandamichl
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Atkins develops feature with UK outfit Mirror Productions, first film to shoot in 2014.
London-based production outfit Mirror Productions is readying a slate which includes one of the first features to be backed by Goldfinch Pictures and a Virginia Woolf biopic written by Eileen Atkins.
Mirror is spearheaded by former Technicolour executive Simon Baxter and producer Evangelo Kioussis.
The company is in development on actress and screenwriter Eileen Atkins’ long-gestating feature adaptation of her play Virginia and Vita, about the turbulent love affair between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf and the author Vita Sackville West.
“Eileen has found a good ally in my partner Evangelo,” Baxter told Screen. “They have been working on the script, which is now out with directors of note, one of whom will be approved by Eileen.”
“We’ve had quite a bit of verbal interest in the script,” he continued. “Once we have our director on board I’m hopeful we can get...
London-based production outfit Mirror Productions is readying a slate which includes one of the first features to be backed by Goldfinch Pictures and a Virginia Woolf biopic written by Eileen Atkins.
Mirror is spearheaded by former Technicolour executive Simon Baxter and producer Evangelo Kioussis.
The company is in development on actress and screenwriter Eileen Atkins’ long-gestating feature adaptation of her play Virginia and Vita, about the turbulent love affair between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf and the author Vita Sackville West.
“Eileen has found a good ally in my partner Evangelo,” Baxter told Screen. “They have been working on the script, which is now out with directors of note, one of whom will be approved by Eileen.”
“We’ve had quite a bit of verbal interest in the script,” he continued. “Once we have our director on board I’m hopeful we can get...
- 12/16/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
How soon into a movie or book or anything do you know you'll love it? When I first read The Hours, Michael Cunningham's transcendent riff on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" I knew as soon as Clarissa had entered the flower shop. With the film version I knew even sooner, perhaps having been prepped for the movie by the book but also because of the unfussy simplicity of the kick-off to this glorious triptych. (The Hours isn't always unfussy, of course, but note how the music drops out completely in this absolutely key moment when Virginia finds her first sentence.)
All we're left with is three women, three eras, three great actresses, and three separate temperaments.
Virginia: Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Laura: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Clarissa: Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
How utterly perfect and succinct - Art,...
All we're left with is three women, three eras, three great actresses, and three separate temperaments.
Virginia: Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Laura: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Clarissa: Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
How utterly perfect and succinct - Art,...
- 5/14/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Nicole Kidman puts in an Oscar-winning performance as author Virginia Woolf in this adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the writer and two women who are deeply affected by her work. Drawing parallels with Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare skilfully dovetail Woolf's tragic story with those of a 1950s housewife (Julianne Moore) and a modern day party hostess (Meryl Streep). All three face issues of sexuality with varying degrees of tragedy, but though the mood is sombre the drama oozes with sensitivity and class.
- 1/18/2013
- Sky Movies
Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of The Hours. That's just another reason to feel merry today and remember that gratitude isn't just for Thanksgiving. Especially not when it comes to the gift of cinema. We celebrate the movies all year long but we get extra weepy about the greatness of the artform right about now when drowning in awards and top ten lists .
Christmas 2002 brought three very special actresses together
Not that The Hours is an especially festive or celebratory movie but each Christmas does seem to bring us a super-depressing Best Picture Event (this year's iteration: Les Misérables). The Hours tracks three parallel women Virginia Woolf (Oscar winning Nicole Kidman), Laura Brown (Oscar nominee Julianne Moore) and Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) who are connected by difficult personalities, anxious spirits ("I feel as if I'm unravelling"), and Woolf's masterpiece "Mrs Dalloway" which she is writing and Laura...
Christmas 2002 brought three very special actresses together
Not that The Hours is an especially festive or celebratory movie but each Christmas does seem to bring us a super-depressing Best Picture Event (this year's iteration: Les Misérables). The Hours tracks three parallel women Virginia Woolf (Oscar winning Nicole Kidman), Laura Brown (Oscar nominee Julianne Moore) and Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) who are connected by difficult personalities, anxious spirits ("I feel as if I'm unravelling"), and Woolf's masterpiece "Mrs Dalloway" which she is writing and Laura...
- 12/25/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
From the cavorting skeletons of medieval danse macabre through to Saturday Night Fever, the terror of mortality has always mingled with joie de vivre on the dancefloor
The metaphoric relationship between dancing and sex is a two-way street, as in "rockin' and rollin'" and the euphemistic "horizontal tango", a term so cheesy it should turn all right-minded people into wallflowers. Latin dancing, in particular, we think of as a public analogue of intercourse. Inevitably The Simpsons has spoofed this idea with a dance called La Penetrada, which promises to make "sex look like church". In literary circles, Eros graces Jane Austen's dances, despite all the juvenile giggling over red breeches and the stubbornness of the leading man. One of the central cinematic examples of dance as erotic affirmation surely belongs to Saturday Night Fever, with John Travolta's exuberant pelvis nodding "Yes, yes, yes!" to all of life's propositions.
The metaphoric relationship between dancing and sex is a two-way street, as in "rockin' and rollin'" and the euphemistic "horizontal tango", a term so cheesy it should turn all right-minded people into wallflowers. Latin dancing, in particular, we think of as a public analogue of intercourse. Inevitably The Simpsons has spoofed this idea with a dance called La Penetrada, which promises to make "sex look like church". In literary circles, Eros graces Jane Austen's dances, despite all the juvenile giggling over red breeches and the stubbornness of the leading man. One of the central cinematic examples of dance as erotic affirmation surely belongs to Saturday Night Fever, with John Travolta's exuberant pelvis nodding "Yes, yes, yes!" to all of life's propositions.
- 10/26/2012
- by Laurence Scott
- The Guardian - Film News
How amazing does this sound? According to Deadline, Charlie Kaufman is working on a half-hour comedy now in development at HBO, which he'll write and direct and which will star Catherine Keener (who'll also serve as producer). Deadline describes the project, still untitled, as "an exploration of one day in a woman’s life and how the events leading up to it can affect, or not, the reality in which she lives." Sound very... Kaufmanesque. Or like "Mrs Dalloway" meets "24," but funny? This will be the first small-screen starring vehicle for Keener, who's worked with Kaufman before in "Being John Malkovich" and "Synecdoche, New York," and who's attached to his upcoming musical Hollywood satire "Frank Or Francis." She hasn't acted in television since appearing as Jerry's girlfriend in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Letter." Kaufman, of course, got his start in...
- 5/22/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Actor of poise and beauty who enjoyed a rich and productive career on both sides of the Atlantic
Faith Brook, who has died aged 90, was an actor of remarkable elegance, poise and beauty. She was the daughter of Clive Brook, a pillar of the so-called Hollywood Raj, the British acting community that settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s. He appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. Even if she was never a star on the scale of her father, Faith enjoyed a rich and productive career in theatre, film and television on both sides of the Atlantic.
She was born in York and moved with Clive and her mother, Mildred, to California, where her father had already put down roots. Her brother, Lyndon, was born four years after Faith and also became a successful actor.
She was educated in Los Angeles, London and Gstaad, Switzerland. She made her stage...
Faith Brook, who has died aged 90, was an actor of remarkable elegance, poise and beauty. She was the daughter of Clive Brook, a pillar of the so-called Hollywood Raj, the British acting community that settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s. He appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. Even if she was never a star on the scale of her father, Faith enjoyed a rich and productive career in theatre, film and television on both sides of the Atlantic.
She was born in York and moved with Clive and her mother, Mildred, to California, where her father had already put down roots. Her brother, Lyndon, was born four years after Faith and also became a successful actor.
She was educated in Los Angeles, London and Gstaad, Switzerland. She made her stage...
- 3/15/2012
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Kate Winslet, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman are among the A-list names signing up to read 'talking books'
An array of Oscar-winners and A-list stars have signed up to narrate literary classics of their choice for the rapidly growing audiobook market. Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman and Colin Firth are among Hollywood's biggest names to set the trend.
Not so long ago, audiobooks were the poor cousins of the publishing world, particularly in the UK, where "talking books" were largely abridged. Jobbing actors were usually recruited as readers. Now, with worldwide demand soaring, the stars want to be heard reading unabridged books.
A dozen A-list names have already been cast as narrators, inspired by the chance to read a favourite book. Seven are Oscar-winners. Winslet, who won the 2009 best actress award for The Reader, has long wanted to film Zola's gripping murder story Thérèse Raquin but, as Hollywood is yet to be convinced,...
An array of Oscar-winners and A-list stars have signed up to narrate literary classics of their choice for the rapidly growing audiobook market. Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman and Colin Firth are among Hollywood's biggest names to set the trend.
Not so long ago, audiobooks were the poor cousins of the publishing world, particularly in the UK, where "talking books" were largely abridged. Jobbing actors were usually recruited as readers. Now, with worldwide demand soaring, the stars want to be heard reading unabridged books.
A dozen A-list names have already been cast as narrators, inspired by the chance to read a favourite book. Seven are Oscar-winners. Winslet, who won the 2009 best actress award for The Reader, has long wanted to film Zola's gripping murder story Thérèse Raquin but, as Hollywood is yet to be convinced,...
- 10/8/2011
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
One of Britain's most distinguished actors, known for her roles on stage and screen
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Carole Woddis
- The Guardian - Film News
Ahead of Review's book club on The Hours, Michael Cunningham explains how discovering Virginia Woolf as a teenager inspired him to write his novel about her life – and how his mother provided a surprising solution when he got stuck
Virginia Woolf was great fun at parties. I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket.
She did, of course, have her darker interludes. More on that in a moment. But first I'd like to announce, to anyone who might not know, that she, when not sunk in her periodic depressions, was the person one most hoped would come to the party; the one who could speak amusingly on just about any...
Virginia Woolf was great fun at parties. I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket.
She did, of course, have her darker interludes. More on that in a moment. But first I'd like to announce, to anyone who might not know, that she, when not sunk in her periodic depressions, was the person one most hoped would come to the party; the one who could speak amusingly on just about any...
- 6/3/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Uma Thurman plays a blogging whiner in this trite, tiresome movie
Mayor Rudy Giuliani turfed the begging winos out of New York City, only for them to be replaced (so one infers from the films Julie & Julia and Motherhood) by blogging whiners. Eliza, the central character of Motherhood (Uma Thurman in horn-rimmed glasses), believes she's betrayed her Ivy League promise by marriage and sharing a cramped flat with husband and two small children. So she's attempting to achieve purpose and fame through her blog. Eliza is a Greenwich Village version of Virginia Woolf's self-obsessed Mrs Dalloway, living in a stream of consciousness as she goes through the day shopping, meeting disagreeable New Yorkers and preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party. Every few minutes she blogs for attention: you can imagine other housewives looking at their screens saying: "Three-Ten, it's Uma!". This trite, tiresome movie is made even worse by...
Mayor Rudy Giuliani turfed the begging winos out of New York City, only for them to be replaced (so one infers from the films Julie & Julia and Motherhood) by blogging whiners. Eliza, the central character of Motherhood (Uma Thurman in horn-rimmed glasses), believes she's betrayed her Ivy League promise by marriage and sharing a cramped flat with husband and two small children. So she's attempting to achieve purpose and fame through her blog. Eliza is a Greenwich Village version of Virginia Woolf's self-obsessed Mrs Dalloway, living in a stream of consciousness as she goes through the day shopping, meeting disagreeable New Yorkers and preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party. Every few minutes she blogs for attention: you can imagine other housewives looking at their screens saying: "Three-Ten, it's Uma!". This trite, tiresome movie is made even worse by...
- 3/7/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Colin Firth is mesmerising as a bereaved gay man with a death wish in fashion designer Tom Ford's superb debut
Christopher Isherwood was one of the great prose writers of the 20th century, a man of complexity, honesty and wit, and the fashion designer Tom Ford, making his carefully stylised directorial debut, has done an altogether admirable job of bringing to the screen what many regard as his best novel.
Born in 1904, Isherwood grew up with the cinema, was fascinated by the relationship between literature and the new medium, and his most famous line occurs his most celebrated book, Goodbye to Berlin: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Over the years he worked frequently on movies (his masterly novella, Prater Violet, was based on his experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend), and when he and Wh Auden left Britain just...
Christopher Isherwood was one of the great prose writers of the 20th century, a man of complexity, honesty and wit, and the fashion designer Tom Ford, making his carefully stylised directorial debut, has done an altogether admirable job of bringing to the screen what many regard as his best novel.
Born in 1904, Isherwood grew up with the cinema, was fascinated by the relationship between literature and the new medium, and his most famous line occurs his most celebrated book, Goodbye to Berlin: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Over the years he worked frequently on movies (his masterly novella, Prater Violet, was based on his experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend), and when he and Wh Auden left Britain just...
- 2/15/2010
- by Philip French, Colin Firth
- The Guardian - Film News
CANNES -- Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have signed to star in Katselas Films' Boer War political thriller The Colossus, the company announced Friday. Based on the novel Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries, Colossus is being produced by Lisa Katselas (Richard III, Mrs. Dalloway) and directed by Sean Mathias (Bent), who wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. Currently in pre-production, principal photography is expected to begin in fall 2006. The $15 million-budgeted movie tells of ailing arch-colonist Cecil Rhodes' belief that he can only recover his health if he can hear the sound of English song birds outside his window in Cape Town. Ornithologist Francis Wills is hired to transport 500 songbirds to Rhodes's home in South Africa where he falls in love with Olive Schreiner, a local firebrand activist fighting against Rhodes and trying to prevent the inevitable war against the Boers. Wills finds himself at the dangerous center of a daring plot to stop the war. Los Angeles-based worldwide sales and marketing company, the Little Film Co., is handling worldwide sales for the film in Cannes.
- 5/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have signed to star in Katselas Films' Boer War political thriller The Colossus, the company announced Friday. Based on the novel Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries, Colossus is being produced by Lisa Katselas (Richard III, Mrs. Dalloway) and directed by Sean Mathias (Bent), who wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. Currently in pre-production, principal photography is expected to begin in fall 2006. The $15 million-budgeted movie tells of ailing arch-colonist Cecil Rhodes' belief that he can only recover his health if he can hear the sound of English song birds outside his window in Cape Town. Ornithologist Francis Wills is hired to transport 500 songbirds to Rhodes's home in South Africa where he falls in love with Olive Schreiner, a local firebrand activist fighting against Rhodes and trying to prevent the inevitable war against the Boers. Wills finds himself at the dangerous center of a daring plot to stop the war. Los Angeles-based worldwide sales and marketing company, the Little Film Co., is handling worldwide sales for the film in Cannes.
- 5/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Regional subsidy board Filmstifftung NRW has backed two German/French co-productions just two days after the third annual Franco-German cinema summit wrapped in Cologne, Germany. Filmstifftung NRW said Tuesday it will pump 1.2 million ($1.4 million) into Within The Whirlwind, a literary adaptation from director Marleen Gorris (Mrs. Dalloway) that is a co-production of Cologne-based Tatfil and France's Lorival. The funding agency is also putting up 2.5 million ($2.9 million) for Henri Quatre, a three-part miniseries being co-produced by Berlin's Ziegler Film and GTV of France.
- 11/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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