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Cannes 2012 roundup: Michael Haneke's Amour conquers all
26 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the bonkers Holy Motors to the disappointing On the Road, Cannes offered plenty of breadth, but only Michael Haneke's exquisite tale of an elderly man caring for his frail wife in their Paris apartment ticked all the boxes
Michael Haneke is too good. Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision. It's like the days when Beethoven was around and everyone else gave up composing. Haneke's Amour, about an elderly man looking after his frail wife (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both utterly captivating) when a stroke confines her to their Paris apartment, was by some stretch the finest film at Cannes. It was the only piece to be exquisitely acted, composed, paced and pitched, as well as »
- Jason Solomons
Feel exorcised, psychoanalysed and pleasantly antagonised by ‘Scenes from a Marriage’
22 May 2012 10:04 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
(299 minutes, 6 parts)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Written by Ingmar Bergman
1973, Sweden, Sk
It should be intuitive knowledge, that one’s ability to love is often captive to one’s ability to love themselves, to be happy with where they are, where they are going and where they might never end up despite every effort. And as much as love is a feeling, it is also an action, expressed through behaviour – at least this is how its existence is often ascertained; which is often where incongruity exists between one person’s feelings of genuine affection for another and the beloved-in-question’s own perception of these feelings as expressed by the lover’s actions. To complicate matters further, how does one’s own personal disappointments and failures and existential disquiet sour and poison these unspoken exchanges of love? In other words, what do you get when you have »
- Tope
Cate Blanchett And Mia Wasikowska Confirmed For John Crowley.s Carol
18 May 2012 5:10 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen at Number 9 Films are delighted to confirm that Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska will star in the new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith.s novel Carol (aka .The Price of Salt.).
Directed by BAFTA winning John Crowley (Intermission, .Boy A.), the acclaimed Phyllis Nagy (Mrs Harris) has written the adaptation based on renowned suspense author Patricia Highsmith.s novella (.Strangers on a Train., .The Talented Mr Ripley.). The film will be produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley from Number 9 Films, and co-developed and co-financed by Film4. Filming starts February 2013 in London and New York.
Carol is a love story about pursuit, betrayal and passion that follows the burgeoning relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. One, a girl in her twenties working in a department store who dreams of a more fulfilling life, and the other, a wife trapped in a loveless, »
- Michelle McCue
Daniel Radcliffe Might Voice Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pinocchio,' While Juno Temple Joins 'Maleficent'
17 May 2012 2:21 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Right now, it's still unclear if the fairy tale movie is really going to end up being a potent force. While "Once Upon A Time" and "Grimm" have found fans on the small screen, in the cinema, "Alice in Wonderland" aside (and that's a film that's only really a fairy tale by the loosest definition of the word), none of the live-action reboots of classic folklore material, from "Red Riding Hood" to "Mirror Mirror," have gotten much traction with audiences. That could (and we suspect will) change in a couple of weeks when "Snow White And The Huntsman" opens, but the uncertainty hasn't stopped studios moving forward with a myriad of fairy tale projects: everything from "Beauty & The Beast" to "Cinderella" is in various stages of development.
And two projects that are close to happening look like they might have found some young British talent to add to their casts: Firstly, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Rewind TV: Homeland; Prisoners of War; Planet Earth Live; A Civil Arrangement; Edward VIII
12 May 2012 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The American thriller was fabulous. And until it returns, here's the Israeli version…
Prisoners of War (Sky Arts 1)
Planet Earth Live (BBC1) | iPlayer
A Civil Arrangement (BBC4) | iPlayer
Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King (Channel 4) | 4oD
Homeland – surely the best American TV thriller in years – finished last week with everything but the bang, postponing the expected showdown between the most potent pairing of male-female antagonists since I don't know when (but I'm not going to say Luther) for a second mouth-watering series in the autumn. Claire Danes has been as vivid a bug-eyed bipolar CIA agent as you could wish for in the role of Carrie Mathison, up against (and unhelpfully besotted by) the unblinking menace of Damian Lewis as Us marine and family man Brody, turned by his al-Qaida captors into a would-be suicide bomber just a hug away from the vice-president. »
- Phil Hogan
All in Good Time – review
12 May 2012 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A classic 1960s working-class drama translates beautifully into a comedy of contemporary British Asian family life
All in Good Time is a touching, likable comedy of life in Lancashire's Hindu community. Though this aspect is little publicised, it's closely based on Bill Naughton's 1965 play of the same title.
Born in Ireland and raised in Bolton, Naughton emerged as a novelist and playwright in the late 50s in the wave of northern working-class writers like Shelagh Delaney, Keith Waterhouse, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey and Stan Barstow. But having been born in 1910 and worked for years as a coal-bagger, cotton-loom operator and lorry driver, Naughton belonged to an earlier generation and was altogether less chippy, aggressive, and self-consciously political about his background.
He enjoyed considerable success in the theatre and had three of his plays filmed, though his most enduringly popular work, the film version of Alfie, completely misrepresented Naughton's radio play, »
- Philip French
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
11 May 2012 4:09 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
As sure as night follows day, a hit film becomes a franchise. Robert Downey Jr and Guy Ritchie's take on the often-filmed subject plays the titular sleuth as a sort of supernatural mind-reader who favours punching people in slow motion over deductive reasoning. This second outing has almost even less of a right to trade on the Holmes name than the first, but is arguably the better movie – it's still great-looking, slick entertainment.
The supporting cast is more interesting and entertaining too, from Mad Men's Jared Harris's snobbish turn as nemesis Moriarty to Stephen Fry's even more snobbish Mycroft Holmes – who insists on calling his brother "Shirley". It's a more lavish, detailed, camp and fun world.
If you're expecting clever wordplay and thrashing through clues then you're better off with the BBC's Sherlock. This one is all about huge guns and running through exploding forests. »
- Phelim O'Neill
"Maleficent" - Now With More Mike Leigh!
8 May 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Had a private double take giggle last night when I read the news of Maleficent's latest cast members. Maleficent herself Angelina Jolie and Sleeping Beauty Elle Fanning will be joined by Brit prestige actors like Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson (who will be play the fairy queen aunt of Maleficent), Sam Riley (Control), Kenneth Cranham (Made in Dagenham), and.... wait for it... Mike Leigh thespian goddesses Imelda Staunton & Lesley Manville as Beauty's protectors (two pixies instead of three fairies).
Imelda and Lesley will protect Sleeping Beauty in "Maleficent"
Suddenly I was picturing Mike Leigh in the director's chair!
Imagine the gritty British realness. Picture Angelina Jolie rehearsing for six month to suit Leigh's process. Hee. The insights into Maleficent's psyche- the grotty castle home she's lived in for decades, centuries worth of raven droppings, her unspoken trauma from past society shunnings, the weight of the horns on her head »
- NATHANIEL R
'Les Miserables' Set, Cassavetes and Stewart for 'Cali', 'G.I. Joe 2' Spot and Poster and More
8 May 2012 2:30 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Twitter account for the upcoming Les Miserables feature from director Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe tweeted out the above behind-the-scenes image from the film noting "London's landmark Old Naval College has become Paris in 1832." [source] Nick Cassavetes (whom I will always remember from his role in Face/Off more than anything else) will direct Cali starring Kristen Stewart. Described as a gritty action feature, the script was written by Michael Diliberti (30:Minutes or Less), and follows a pair of San Fernando Valley lovebirds who sell a fake snuff film and ride off with a bundle of cash. Years later, the girl (Stewart) must "return from the dead" to save the younger sister she left behind. Filming is expected to begin late this summer. [source] The Maleficent film starring Angelina Jolie in the title role has added some impressive names including Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Kenneth Cranham, »
- Brad Brevet
Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Sam Riley & Lesley Manville Join 'Maleficent' With Angelina Jolie
7 May 2012 1:54 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With cameras set to roll this summer, "Maleficent" is moving fast, and after adding Sharlto Copley last week, it has bolstered the cast with some more, mostly British names.
THR reports that Imelda Staunton ("Vera Drake," "Alice In Wonderland"), Miranda Richardson (legend, you should already know), Sam Riley ("Control," "On The Road"), Lesley Manville ("Another Year") and Kenneth Cranham ("Made In Dagenham," "Valkyrie") have all come aboard the Angelina Jolie fairy tale vehicle. The live-action film will explore the origins of the evil fairy Maleficent and what led her to curse Princess Aurora in Disney’s animated classic "Sleeping Beauty." And though her name seems to have appearing/disappearing in reports from the trades on the movie, it looks like Elle Fanning is on board, so there you go. So yes, it's another revisionist fairy tale movie, but this cast isn't one to sneeze at.
Mike Leigh veterans Staunton and »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Woody Allen singles out Sally Hawkins for lead role
1 May 2012 5:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The British actor will work with Allen to play a 'fun and rough-around-the-edges neurotic'
It's the acting equivalent of being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, or being selected for the Venice Biennale: Sally Hawkins has become the latest award-winning actor to be picked for a lead in a Woody Allen movie.
Hawkins has acted in an Allen production before, taking a small role in Cassandra's Dream – but that was before her breakout turn as Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008.
According to Variety, Hawkins will play a "neurotic who's ... fun and rough around the edges" in the film, to be shot largely in San Francisco. Allen is aiming to cast Cate Blanchett as Hawkins' co-lead, a "sophisticated woman who has her life together".
As usual with projected Allen films, details are in short supply, but the plan is to shoot this summer, fitting around the »
- Andrew Pulver
Sally Hawkins in Talks for Woody Allen’s Next Film
1 May 2012 1:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Sally Hawkins (Submarine) is in talks to star in Woody Allen’s next, as-yet-untitled film.
Hawkins, who picked up a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, will play one of the two female leads in Allen’s follow-up to this summer’s To Rome with Love.
Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Bradley Cooper (Limitless) are said to be circling other roles in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in San Francisco and New York later this year.
Plot details are unknown and, like all of Allen’s other films, will likely be kept under wraps until nearer the time of release.
Hawkins will next be seen in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, opposite Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes, while Sony Pictures Classics is due to release To Rome with Love in Us cinemas on June 22.
Source: Variety
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- Jamie Neish
Andrea Riseborough Joins Alexander Skarsgard For Hidden
25 April 2012 3:04 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
English actress Andrea Riseborough has been gaining acclaim in the U.K. for several years now, thanks to eye-catching supporting roles in such intriguing British efforts as Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, and Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham. However, even with her starring role in Madonna's historical drama W.E., in which Riseborough played scandalized divorcée Wallis Simpson, the raven-haired starlet hasn't yet managed to make a dent Stateside. But she may be on the verge of a breakthrough as THR has uncovered Riseborough has committed to co-star opposite Alexander Skarsgard in the horror-thriller Hidden. The Warner Bros project centers on a family that is confined to a bomb shelter after fleeing the reach of an inexplicable outbreak. There, things presumably get intense as the world above them falls to ruin. Skarsgard will portray the husband/father, while Riseborough is being lined up to play his wife, and mother to »
Sandwiches with Gary Oldman
21 April 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In 1987, the actor wasn't keen on theatre audiences eating chocolates
In 1987 I met Gary Oldman backstage at Chelsea's Royal Court, where he was playing a corporate raider in Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. Oldman provided tea and cheese sandwiches, then let me watch his makeup being applied.
"Mentally I'm not in London at the moment, I'm in North Carolina working on Nic Roeg's Track 29," he admitted, Cheshire cheese crumbling on to his battered corduroy trousers. "This morning I discovered a shooting schedule in the mail. I'd been hoping the scene in which I assault Theresa Russell would be in week six, but it's the first scene on the first day."
Prick Up Your Ears, in which he played Joe Orton, was shortly to be released, and he explained how he'd "spent many an evening in curry houses drinking Guinness" to look "older, fatter and queenier", whereas to portray »
- John Hind
Stillman and the art of the courteous comedy
20 April 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
His characters are uncool, preppy and full of the self-dramatising melancholy of youth, yet his films are hugely likeable. His latest, Damsels in Distress, continues his peculiar cinematic vision
Every great American film-maker struggles to create their own peculiar vision, just as the studio men struggle to stop them doing so. Yet few visions are quite so peculiar as Whit Stillman's, and few have seemed so marginal to the industry of which they are a part. It's hard to say how much impact his films have had; there have been, for reasons beyond his own control, too few of them. He has succeeded in getting four films made: a comic trilogy set in the 1980s, Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco (1998), and now the about-to-be released "campus comedy" Damsels in Distress. On one level it may seem a rather meagre body of work. However, for some, myself included, »
- Michael Newton
James Corden In Talks To Play Reality Show Opera Star Paul Potts In 'Devil Wears Prada' Director David Frankel's 'One Chance'
20 April 2012 6:21 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
British actor James Corden is the toast of Broadway at the moment. The 33-year-old, got his start in Mike Leigh's "All Or Nothing" and in the stage and film versions of Alan Bennett's "The History Boys," and became a household name in the U.K. after co-writing and starring in the hit sitcom "Gavin and Stacey." He's had ups and downs since then: starring vehicle "Lesbian Vampire Killers" was savaged, and supporting turns in Hollywood pictures like "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Three Musketeers" never quite helped him cross over to the U.S.
But in the last year he's found virtually nothing but praise, thanks to his starring role in the play "One Man, Two Guvnors," a contemporary updating of Carlo Goldoni's "Servant of Two Masters," by playwright Richard Bean. The play, and Corden in particular, received rave reviews when it debuted last summer at the National Theatre in London, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Can Cannes keep on top?
19 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Cannes, which has announced its 2012 line-up, has some serious competition. As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuit
It has been a quiet few months on the film festival front. The last two biggies, Sundance and Berlin, were back in the depths of winter; but now things are suddenly getting interesting. Tribeca, the New York trendoid-magnet, has just started, and Cannes, the swanky Cote d'Azur schmoozathon, has reared its finely contoured head on the horizon. The UK is even getting in on the action, with the much-anticipated arrival next week of Sundance London, an offshoot of Robert Redford's indie-maven event in Park City, Utah.
Sundance London is an example of that industry buzzword "diffusion", whereby name events set up franchises overseas. Tribeca has been doing it since 2009 in Qatar, co-organising the Doha film festival. It's a byproduct of »
- Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard, Andrew Pulver, Wim Wenders
This much I know: Lesley Sharp
16 April 2012 3:03 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The 47-year-old star of Scott & Bailey on adoption, acting and Russell T Davies
People can't place me. I'll be in the supermarket and they'll say, "Are you the woman who goes to the gym with my sister?" And I'll say, "I don't know. Probably." You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it. I'm very happy to do my work and then slip into my private life.
I would go anywhere and do anything for Russell T Davies. We did some great work 10 years ago – the TV series Bob & Rose and The Second Coming. It's not true that he wanted me to be the first female Doctor Who, but I would if he asked, obviously.
Being adopted is different for everybody. For me it has always meant that at some level I don't belong anywhere. It wasn't my adoptive parents who created that feeling – they were »
- Megan Conner
Curzon On Demand: The Curated Online Film Experience
13 April 2012 10:55 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Gary Collinson tries out the new streaming film service Curzon On Demand...
These days, if you fancy watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster home-entertainment release, you don’t even have to leave the comfort of your sofa. Simply connect yourself to the interweb via a computer, games console, TV or smartphone, log in to the steaming film service of your choosing, select the movie and turn down the lights. It’s certainly a far cry from the days of 19” Crt televisions and battered old VHS players. But what about those times when you want an alternative to the most recent Hollywood rom-com or remake? Those times when you’ve a hankering for the very best in world cinema, arthouse or independent film?
Well, that’s where London-based cinema chain Curzon comes in, with their new service Curzon On Demand looking to stand out in the competitive streaming movie market by presenting »
- flickeringmyth
Tim Roth to head Cannes jury
13 April 2012 3:44 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Reservoir Dogs star will lead Un Certain Regard jury, which awards top prize of festival's 'original and different' selection
Tim Roth will head the Un Certain Regard jury at this year's Cannes film festival. The actor and director will lead an as-yet-uannounced group of film-makers and journalists through a shortlist of 20 films competing for the Prix Un Certain Regard – the top prize of the festival's "original and different" selection.
Roth earned international recognition as an actor after starring in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, which appeared at the festival in 1992. He was also in Cannes for the launch of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme d'Or in 1994. His other credits as an actor include work with festival favourites Mike Leigh (Meantime) and Woody Allen (Everyone Says I Love You) as well as an Oscar-nominated turn in Michael Caton-Jones's Rob Roy.
Last year's Prix Un Certain Regard was shared between Arirang, »
- Henry Barnes
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