A Red Dwarf movie was announced in 2000, and news on it would follow for years afterwards. So: what happened?
When the eighth series of Red Dwarf left our screens in 1999, with the titular (nanobotically-reconstituted) mining vessel being devoured by a highly corrosive micro-organism, it left us with the words “The End” emblazoned over the image, before being replaced by “The Smeg It Is.”
And then, nothing.
It was ten years before the boys from the Dwarf were back on our screens, albeit for a three-episode run on Dave. But that lost decade was not spent watching re-runs of The Flintstones, nor was everyone trapped in a completely immersive video game indistinguishable from reality. Most of it involved co-creator Doug Naylor (his comedy partner Rob Grant left the show after season six), trying to get a movie off the ground.
This had not been the plan. But with the BBC rejecting...
When the eighth series of Red Dwarf left our screens in 1999, with the titular (nanobotically-reconstituted) mining vessel being devoured by a highly corrosive micro-organism, it left us with the words “The End” emblazoned over the image, before being replaced by “The Smeg It Is.”
And then, nothing.
It was ten years before the boys from the Dwarf were back on our screens, albeit for a three-episode run on Dave. But that lost decade was not spent watching re-runs of The Flintstones, nor was everyone trapped in a completely immersive video game indistinguishable from reality. Most of it involved co-creator Doug Naylor (his comedy partner Rob Grant left the show after season six), trying to get a movie off the ground.
This had not been the plan. But with the BBC rejecting...
- 9/29/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
I confess, 'Bright Star' made me utterly lovesick, and it managed to do so without boldly dotting its tragic moments. Its whispers, hints, and suggestions will leave you floating. Jane Campion's film is a breathtaking experience, graced with the painterly touches of cinematographer Greig Fraser, whose delicate textures and lyrical vitality lends a freedom to Campion's storytelling.
Poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) spent the last three years of his life locked in a lingering embrace with his neighbor, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The perpetually poor, aloof, and self-deprecating Keats takes up residence in the outskirts of London with fellow poet Charles Armitage Brown. One half of the house is occupied by the Dilkes family, who introduce the young scribe to Miss Brawne. A flirtation blossoms between the two, composed of awkward glances, subtle gestures, gentle musings, and shared dreams.
[spoilers ahead, unless you know how the Keats/Brawne relationship ends]
Continue Reading...
I confess, 'Bright Star' made me utterly lovesick, and it managed to do so without boldly dotting its tragic moments. Its whispers, hints, and suggestions will leave you floating. Jane Campion's film is a breathtaking experience, graced with the painterly touches of cinematographer Greig Fraser, whose delicate textures and lyrical vitality lends a freedom to Campion's storytelling.
Poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) spent the last three years of his life locked in a lingering embrace with his neighbor, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The perpetually poor, aloof, and self-deprecating Keats takes up residence in the outskirts of London with fellow poet Charles Armitage Brown. One half of the house is occupied by the Dilkes family, who introduce the young scribe to Miss Brawne. A flirtation blossoms between the two, composed of awkward glances, subtle gestures, gentle musings, and shared dreams.
[spoilers ahead, unless you know how the Keats/Brawne relationship ends]
Continue Reading...
- 3/31/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
I confess, 'Bright Star' made me utterly lovesick, and it managed to do so without boldly dotting its tragic moments. Its whispers, hints, and suggestions will leave you floating. Jane Campion's film is a breathtaking experience, graced with the painterly touches of cinematographer Greig Fraser, whose delicate textures and lyrical vitality lends a freedom to Campion's storytelling.
Poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) spent the last three years of his life locked in a lingering embrace with his neighbor, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The perpetually poor, aloof, and self-deprecating Keats takes up residence in the outskirts of London with fellow poet Charles Armitage Brown. One half of the house is occupied by the Dilkes family, who introduce the young scribe to Miss Brawne. A flirtation blossoms between the two, composed of awkward glances, subtle gestures, gentle musings, and shared dreams.
[spoilers ahead, unless you know how the Keats/Brawne relationship ends]
Continue Reading...
I confess, 'Bright Star' made me utterly lovesick, and it managed to do so without boldly dotting its tragic moments. Its whispers, hints, and suggestions will leave you floating. Jane Campion's film is a breathtaking experience, graced with the painterly touches of cinematographer Greig Fraser, whose delicate textures and lyrical vitality lends a freedom to Campion's storytelling.
Poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) spent the last three years of his life locked in a lingering embrace with his neighbor, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The perpetually poor, aloof, and self-deprecating Keats takes up residence in the outskirts of London with fellow poet Charles Armitage Brown. One half of the house is occupied by the Dilkes family, who introduce the young scribe to Miss Brawne. A flirtation blossoms between the two, composed of awkward glances, subtle gestures, gentle musings, and shared dreams.
[spoilers ahead, unless you know how the Keats/Brawne relationship ends]
Continue Reading...
- 3/31/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Craig here with this week's Take Three.
Today: Paul Schneider
Take One: Shining bright in the background
Schneider is the epitome of faded rakishness as Charles Armitage Brown, the somewhat disarmingly oily, though tender, poet pal and occasional gooseberry orbiting around both Ben Whishaw’s Keats and Abbie Cornish’s Fanny in Jane Campion's excellent Bright Star (2009). He is the film's third, understated star – his character is a gem of a role for an actor more averse to playing contemporary slackers.
Fanny on his mind. Schneider as Brown in Bright Star
Some found his Scottish accent a bit wavering, but I didn't notice anything odd about it (though it’s possible he may well have watched Billy Connelly clips as practice). The way he instills Brown with a larger-than-life robustness was endearing and playful; it was a sheer pleasure to watch him jauntily thrust himself front and centre into all social situations,...
Today: Paul Schneider
Take One: Shining bright in the background
Schneider is the epitome of faded rakishness as Charles Armitage Brown, the somewhat disarmingly oily, though tender, poet pal and occasional gooseberry orbiting around both Ben Whishaw’s Keats and Abbie Cornish’s Fanny in Jane Campion's excellent Bright Star (2009). He is the film's third, understated star – his character is a gem of a role for an actor more averse to playing contemporary slackers.
Fanny on his mind. Schneider as Brown in Bright Star
Some found his Scottish accent a bit wavering, but I didn't notice anything odd about it (though it’s possible he may well have watched Billy Connelly clips as practice). The way he instills Brown with a larger-than-life robustness was endearing and playful; it was a sheer pleasure to watch him jauntily thrust himself front and centre into all social situations,...
- 10/4/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
Quentin Tarantino believes violence is what makes movies good. Not just his movies: all movies, according to the London Evening Standard: In general cinema, that's the biggest attraction. I'm a big fan of action and violence in cinema... That's why Thomas Edison created the motion picture camera — because violence is so good. It affects audiences in a big way. You know you're watching a movie. Or perhaps because Tarantino got a sneak peak at the director’s cut of Bright Star -- which restores the awesome gory duel between poets John Keats and Charles Armitage Brown the studio forced Jane Campion to cut -- and really does simply believe the film is stronger and more effective with that shot of Keats’ intestines spilling out onto Hampstead Heath. This has been your Wtf Thought for the Day.
- 1/14/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"I really swallowed that pill."Those are the words of Peter Sarsgaard, looking back at the Actors Studio and the ideas that most shaped his early days. "I was a real devotee of that school of acting," he reflects.Today, he acknowledges a far broader range of influences. Playing the joint lead in "An Education," the little English film about a young girl's relationship with an older man that is fast gaining traction as an awards contender, he says he culled from a host of other sources to create his morally ambivalent character. For one thing, he drew on fellow actors—something he has done ever since working with Sean Penn on "Dead Man Walking." "Just watching him go through different takes, seeing the way he found things, disregarded things, held onto things—there's some fantasy about a certain type of actor that might do it completely differently every time.
- 12/10/2009
- backstage.com
A friend of Paul Schneider's recently referred to him as "the reluctant actor," a label Schneider disputes. "I'm not reluctant," he explains, choosing his words carefully. "When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do. But I also feel differently from the guy who wanted to be an actor since he was 5 years old. I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school." Schneider, currently seen as the object of Amy Poehler's obsession on the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," takes a moment to clarify, lest he sound ungrateful for the opportunities he has been given. "I'm so happy to be able to do these jobs. But I'm not desperate to act. I don't know what I'm desperate to do—I don't know what I'm going to do when I grow up!
- 12/10/2009
- backstage.com
"Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever—or else swoon to death."Poetry: one of the unique albeit unorthodox tools that award-winning casting director Nina Gold used to cast writer-director Jane Campion's homage to 19th-century poetic love cut short, "Bright Star."Named for a poem originally thought to be British poet John Keats' last, "Bright Star" depicts the tragically brief and heartbreaking love affair between the penniless poet and the beautiful Fanny Brawne, the daughter of a Hampstead widow who is principally obsessed with marrying Fanny off to the right man of the right social status. "The really different casting thing that we had everyone do," says Gold, "was to read a poem. All these actors that were so accomplished, it...
- 12/9/2009
- backstage.com
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
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Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
- 10/11/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
- 10/11/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
- 10/11/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
- 10/11/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
Director: Jane Campion
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Running Time: 119 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: Jan Chapman Pictures, BBC Films, Hopscotch Productions
- - -
Character, says Heraclitus, is fate. In the case of English poet John Keats, character might also be manifested in the physical.
The tragedy (the affliction of tuberculosis) that runs in his family, which has also manifested unto him, made Keats frail and emaciated, and just like everything in his short life, even love ends in tragedy.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Campion's latest offering, Bright Star, tells the love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Playing the ill-fated lovers are Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in career-defining performances.
Following the death of his grandmother, John Keats (Ben Whishaw) soon found his brother, Tom Keats (Olly Alexander), entrusted to his care. Tom was suffering, as his mother had,...
- 10/11/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Not to sound cliche but it was truly a delight meeting Jane Campion, one of the three women directors to be ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar (the other two were Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for "Seven Beauties" and Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation").
Borrowing from the great romantic poet, John Keats, the subject of the director's "Bright Star," interviewing Campion was a thing of beauty and will definitely be a joy forever.
Campion was smart, provocative, brilliant. She hinted on quitting making movies right after 2003's "In the Cut." That would have been a tragedy.
So thank you to my friends at Palm Springs International Film Society for making these interviews happened. Actor Paul Schneider, who perfected a Scottish accent to play Keats' confidante, Charles Armitage Brown, was also a pleasure to talk to.
To read my review of "Bright Star," click here.
Here's my interview with Campion.
Borrowing from the great romantic poet, John Keats, the subject of the director's "Bright Star," interviewing Campion was a thing of beauty and will definitely be a joy forever.
Campion was smart, provocative, brilliant. She hinted on quitting making movies right after 2003's "In the Cut." That would have been a tragedy.
So thank you to my friends at Palm Springs International Film Society for making these interviews happened. Actor Paul Schneider, who perfected a Scottish accent to play Keats' confidante, Charles Armitage Brown, was also a pleasure to talk to.
To read my review of "Bright Star," click here.
Here's my interview with Campion.
- 9/25/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
"So...Andrei Tarkovsky!" Paul Schneider said when I sat down to talk with him. I wasn't really prepared to discuss the merits of the Russian auteur, but then neither was he -- it was the just the kind of disarming introduction you'd expect from Schneider, who's made a career of playing guys you'd want to have a beer with in films like "All the Real Girls" and "Elizabethtown." Schneider can currently be seen working his low-key charms on the Amy Poehler sitcom "Parks and Recreation," and serving as a much-needed leavening agent in Jane Campion's period romance "Bright Star."
In the film, Schneider plays once again, the best friend -- Charles Armitage Brown, the colleague and confidant of poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and unlikely rival to seamstress Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) for Keats' attention. While Whishaw and Cornish tug at the heart, Schneider's turn as the sharp-tongued Scot...
In the film, Schneider plays once again, the best friend -- Charles Armitage Brown, the colleague and confidant of poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and unlikely rival to seamstress Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) for Keats' attention. While Whishaw and Cornish tug at the heart, Schneider's turn as the sharp-tongued Scot...
- 9/23/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
From .The Piano. to .In the Cut,. writer-director Jane Campion always puts strong women characters at the center. Whether she.s a mute woman like Holly Hunter.s Oscar-winning role in .The Piano. or Meg Ryan.s writing professor in .In the Cut,. Campion.s heroines are mostly disempowered women living outside mainstream society.
In .Bright Star,. Campion.s heroine is Fanny Brawne (the breathtaking Abbie Cornish), a smart, young dressmaker who will do anything if someone tries to break her relationship with the man she loves, the great romantic poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw).
Inspired by the acclaimed biography of Keats written by Andrew Motion, Campion focuses on the love story between Brawne and Keats. Told through the eyes of the poet.s love and inspiration, their romance inspired some of the most beautiful love letters ever written. Their correspondence would later scandalize Victorian society.
Told during the last...
In .Bright Star,. Campion.s heroine is Fanny Brawne (the breathtaking Abbie Cornish), a smart, young dressmaker who will do anything if someone tries to break her relationship with the man she loves, the great romantic poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw).
Inspired by the acclaimed biography of Keats written by Andrew Motion, Campion focuses on the love story between Brawne and Keats. Told through the eyes of the poet.s love and inspiration, their romance inspired some of the most beautiful love letters ever written. Their correspondence would later scandalize Victorian society.
Told during the last...
- 9/23/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The lasting impact of first love is the subject of Jane Campion's Bright Star, a Palme d'or-nominated film that is at once about, and not merely about, the brilliance of the Romantic poet John Keats. Tossing the usual biopic formula, Campion opts not to retell Keats' entire life, focusing instead on the brief lifespan of his romantic courtship with a young woman named Fanny Brawne in 19th century London -- a relationship that, Campion argues, awakened love in Keats, and in turn, inspired his genius.
As such, what unfolds is less a by-the-numbers examination of the artist, who died a pauper at the age of 25 before any of his poetry was truly appreciated, and more a tribute to the power of the well-documented love that Keats and Brawne shared, partly through letters.
When they first meet, Keats (played marvelously by British actor Ben Whishaw) is a struggling poet with no money to his name.
As such, what unfolds is less a by-the-numbers examination of the artist, who died a pauper at the age of 25 before any of his poetry was truly appreciated, and more a tribute to the power of the well-documented love that Keats and Brawne shared, partly through letters.
When they first meet, Keats (played marvelously by British actor Ben Whishaw) is a struggling poet with no money to his name.
- 9/19/2009
- by Jen Yamato
- Cinematical
You’ve seen Paul Schneider in movies like Lars and the Real Girl and Away We Go, and he’s in Parks & Recreation on NBC, which just had its second season premiere last night. And now he’s starring in Bright Star, Jane Campion’s new movie about the poet John Keats and his romance with Fanny Brawne, which inspired some of his poetry (Schneider plays Keats’ best friend, the Scottish poet Charles Armitage Brown). I talked this week with Schneider about his work -- check it my interview with him at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. (I’ll review the movie soon.)...
- 9/18/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
With the Venice Film Festival having just concluded and Toronto now underway, the award season's wheels begin to roll with big name players, both indie and arthouse, making a showing, with Steven Soderbergh and Jennifer Aniston keeping things light at the multiplex.
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While Claire Denis' latest film, "White Material," is in the midst of a prestigious festival run that will take in Venice, Toronto and soon London, fans of the French filmmaker's work can enjoy this delicate domestic portrayal of tenderness and devotion from last year that begins a small theatrical run here in New York. Set in a nondescript Parisian neighborhood, Denis' film casually unfolds the dynamic of unspoken trust and mutual support played out between a stoic widower Lionel (Alex Descas), his daughter Joséphine (Mati Diop), and the...
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"35 Shots of Rum"
While Claire Denis' latest film, "White Material," is in the midst of a prestigious festival run that will take in Venice, Toronto and soon London, fans of the French filmmaker's work can enjoy this delicate domestic portrayal of tenderness and devotion from last year that begins a small theatrical run here in New York. Set in a nondescript Parisian neighborhood, Denis' film casually unfolds the dynamic of unspoken trust and mutual support played out between a stoic widower Lionel (Alex Descas), his daughter Joséphine (Mati Diop), and the...
- 9/14/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
ComingSoon.net has an exclusive first look at three new photos from writer/director Jane Campion's Bright Star , opening on September 18th. The romantic drama stars Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider and Kerry Fox. In the film, set in 1818 London, a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet John Keats (Whishaw) and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Cornish), an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. But when Keats's younger brother falls ill John and Fanny are drawn together. Keats, touched by Fanny's efforts to help care for his brother, agrees to teach her poetry. By the time Fanny's alarmed mother (Kerry Fox) and Keats's best friend Charles Armitage Brown...
- 9/2/2009
- Comingsoon.net
- Variety reports that an American (Kerry Fox) and a Brit (Paul Schneider) have been cast as supporting players in Jane Campion's Bright Star. Written by Campion, this is based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Cornish), which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25. Fox (known for her role in Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave) will play Fanny’s mother and Schneider who recently showcased his skills in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Lars and the Real Girl will play Keats’ best friend, Charles Armitage Brown. Jan Chapman and Caroline Hewitt produce the pic, which is shooting on location in the U.K....
- 4/2/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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