"Spice World" debuted 25 years ago, signalling the absolute zenith of the Spice Girls' celebrity and the phenomenon of Girl Power.
They've got fire in their eyes, hunger in their bellies, and great big shoes on their feet. For any girl who grew up in the '90s, there was one quintet of sassy, stomping women who embodied the era more thoroughly than anyone else. The Spice Girls weren't just a pop band: they were a genuine phenomenon. They sold millions of records and defined a kind of fierce young feminism that seemed tailor-made for the turn of the millennium. While their star burned briefly, it was bright and continues to cast a shadow over 25 years later. For some of us, Ginger, Scary, Posh, Sporty, and Baby Spice symbolized a brand of endless possibility and feminine force that felt like someone had blown the doors off the entire decade. And for one film,...
They've got fire in their eyes, hunger in their bellies, and great big shoes on their feet. For any girl who grew up in the '90s, there was one quintet of sassy, stomping women who embodied the era more thoroughly than anyone else. The Spice Girls weren't just a pop band: they were a genuine phenomenon. They sold millions of records and defined a kind of fierce young feminism that seemed tailor-made for the turn of the millennium. While their star burned briefly, it was bright and continues to cast a shadow over 25 years later. For some of us, Ginger, Scary, Posh, Sporty, and Baby Spice symbolized a brand of endless possibility and feminine force that felt like someone had blown the doors off the entire decade. And for one film,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Kayleigh Donaldson
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Sofia Bryant (I Am Not Ok With This) has been set to lead cast in dramedy feature Never Better from Clouds producers Wayfarer Studios.
The dramedy follows Terese (Bryant), a young woman with cystic fibrosis, who is stuck in the time loop of quarantine. When her self-interested roommate, Amanda (Sarah Kane), returns and fails to practice safe social distancing, our immuno-compromised heroine finds that boredom may be the least of her worries. As she fights her boredom with substances and an unstoppable internal dialogue, Terese ultimately learns to open up and let others in.
The movie, currently in post-production, is one of a slate of movies from producer Wayfarer’s Six Feet Apart Experiment, which challenged storytellers to make contained movies during the pandemic. Five selected filmmakers have been paired with a seasoned storyteller as their mentor and Wayfarer Studios is financing and overseeing the production process. Most of...
The dramedy follows Terese (Bryant), a young woman with cystic fibrosis, who is stuck in the time loop of quarantine. When her self-interested roommate, Amanda (Sarah Kane), returns and fails to practice safe social distancing, our immuno-compromised heroine finds that boredom may be the least of her worries. As she fights her boredom with substances and an unstoppable internal dialogue, Terese ultimately learns to open up and let others in.
The movie, currently in post-production, is one of a slate of movies from producer Wayfarer’s Six Feet Apart Experiment, which challenged storytellers to make contained movies during the pandemic. Five selected filmmakers have been paired with a seasoned storyteller as their mentor and Wayfarer Studios is financing and overseeing the production process. Most of...
- 1/27/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Serge Toubiana with Anne-Katrin Titze: "I've known Jeanne Balibar a long time. I know Tonie Marshall since 40 years, we are very close. Isabelle Huppert - I made a documentary on Isabelle Huppert in 2002."
Serge Toubiana, president of uniFrance, shared with me during the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema reception at the Film Society of Lincoln Center some background on the 25 exhibitions he organised when he was the director of the Cinémathèque Française. They included Tim Burton, Pedro Almodóvar, Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, and the terrific opening installation in the new Cinémathèque building designed by Frank Gehry on Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir - Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema.
Number One (Numéro Une) director Tonie Marshall Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
We discussed Isabelle Huppert's theatre work with Sarah Kane, his tribute to Mathieu Amalric, which filmmaker said yes because of Costa-Gavras, Georges Méliès and Paris, and how...
Serge Toubiana, president of uniFrance, shared with me during the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema reception at the Film Society of Lincoln Center some background on the 25 exhibitions he organised when he was the director of the Cinémathèque Française. They included Tim Burton, Pedro Almodóvar, Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, and the terrific opening installation in the new Cinémathèque building designed by Frank Gehry on Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir - Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema.
Number One (Numéro Une) director Tonie Marshall Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
We discussed Isabelle Huppert's theatre work with Sarah Kane, his tribute to Mathieu Amalric, which filmmaker said yes because of Costa-Gavras, Georges Méliès and Paris, and how...
- 3/13/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
BBC Films appoints Film4 executive to lead role.
Film4 head of creative Rose Garnett has been appointed director of BBC Films.
Garnett has served as head of creative at Film4 since 2015, working on titles including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Andrea Arnold’s American Honey as well as upcoming titles such as Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Clio Barnard’s Dark River and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
She began her time at Film4 as head of development in 2014 before being promoted to head of editorial.
Garnett previously worked in theatre. She and writer-director David Farr ran the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill where they commissioned and worked with writers and directors including Lee Hall, Tracy Letts, Dominic Cook and Sarah Kane.
As previously reported by Screen, Garnett was one of the leading candidates for the job, though long-running BBC Films executive Joe Oppenheimer, who has served...
Film4 head of creative Rose Garnett has been appointed director of BBC Films.
Garnett has served as head of creative at Film4 since 2015, working on titles including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Andrea Arnold’s American Honey as well as upcoming titles such as Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Clio Barnard’s Dark River and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
She began her time at Film4 as head of development in 2014 before being promoted to head of editorial.
Garnett previously worked in theatre. She and writer-director David Farr ran the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill where they commissioned and worked with writers and directors including Lee Hall, Tracy Letts, Dominic Cook and Sarah Kane.
As previously reported by Screen, Garnett was one of the leading candidates for the job, though long-running BBC Films executive Joe Oppenheimer, who has served...
- 2/27/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Isabelle Huppert in Werner Schroeter's MalinaFresh off the triumph of her Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination for her performance in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (2016), the French actress Isabelle Huppert is, at 63 and four decades into her career, starting to reap major American award season appreciation. The Golden Globe was a surprise win, but to those who are familiar with her work, it’s well-deserved. Her accumulation of critical acclaim and European awards has garnered her the title of the “French Meryl Streep,” but her career’s variety, international scope and pure nerve outstrip even Streep’s. “Fearless” could be the most commonly used descriptor applied to Huppert, who is known to take on roles that other major actresses won’t go near: insanity, depravity, crime, and other controversial subject matter are Huppert hallmarks. However, it’s not merely the nature of her characters that sets her apart, it...
- 2/21/2017
- MUBI
Isabelle Huppert stars on stage in Phaedra(s) and films - Elle and Things to Come Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Guillaume Nicloux's bewitching Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert in 2013 presented Abuse Of Weakness with Catherine Breillat at the New York Film Festival. This year she has two films - Paul Verhoeven's Elle with Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny, based on the novel by Philippe Djian with a screenplay by David Birke, and also Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir) with André Marcon and Edith Scob.
Isabelle Huppert in Phaedra(s)
In 2014, Isabelle Huppert performed on stage with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki in New York during the Lincoln Center Festival in the Sydney Theater Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews at City Center.
This year she will star in Phaedra(s), directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski with text composed of excerpts...
Guillaume Nicloux's bewitching Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert in 2013 presented Abuse Of Weakness with Catherine Breillat at the New York Film Festival. This year she has two films - Paul Verhoeven's Elle with Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny, based on the novel by Philippe Djian with a screenplay by David Birke, and also Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir) with André Marcon and Edith Scob.
Isabelle Huppert in Phaedra(s)
In 2014, Isabelle Huppert performed on stage with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki in New York during the Lincoln Center Festival in the Sydney Theater Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews at City Center.
This year she will star in Phaedra(s), directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski with text composed of excerpts...
- 8/18/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
John Waters on Isabelle Huppert: "It's amazing, she gets in the skin of whoever it is." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Us première of Valley Of Love, Guillaume Nicloux's searing portrait of a long divorced couple (Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert), John Waters recalled Bertrand Blier's Going Places (Les Valseuses) as his first Isabelle experience, Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse), and wishing he had seen her in Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire or Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, or Jean Genet's The Maids with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki.
The next morning over coffee, I shared greetings from her Tip Top director Serge Bozon and Mrs. Hyde, where Isabelle will star with Romain Duris and Depardieu. At the French Embassy after party celebrating 25 years of French electronic music with DJs Busy P, Boston Bun, Superpoze and Jacques, she tried to answer John Waters earlier posed question.
At the Us première of Valley Of Love, Guillaume Nicloux's searing portrait of a long divorced couple (Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert), John Waters recalled Bertrand Blier's Going Places (Les Valseuses) as his first Isabelle experience, Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse), and wishing he had seen her in Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire or Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, or Jean Genet's The Maids with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki.
The next morning over coffee, I shared greetings from her Tip Top director Serge Bozon and Mrs. Hyde, where Isabelle will star with Romain Duris and Depardieu. At the French Embassy after party celebrating 25 years of French electronic music with DJs Busy P, Boston Bun, Superpoze and Jacques, she tried to answer John Waters earlier posed question.
- 3/6/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Richard Wilson has told Digital Spy that the BBC have talked to him about starring in a sitcom.
The actor, who is most famous for roles in Merlin and One Foot in the Grave, said that he wasn't sure whether the project would go ahead.
Wilson told DS: "I wouldn't mind considering another sitcom. The BBC have talked about me coming back to do something, but I don't know whether that will happen.
"The trouble with One Foot in the Grave was it was so well-written by David Renwick, it's very hard to find something as good as that."
Wilson is currently fronting ITV's Richard Wilson's On the Road, in which he tours the UK in his vintage car using Shell Guides that were first published in the 1930s.
Asked if he planned to present more factual television, Wilson replied: "No, no. I can still consider myself an active actor,...
The actor, who is most famous for roles in Merlin and One Foot in the Grave, said that he wasn't sure whether the project would go ahead.
Wilson told DS: "I wouldn't mind considering another sitcom. The BBC have talked about me coming back to do something, but I don't know whether that will happen.
"The trouble with One Foot in the Grave was it was so well-written by David Renwick, it's very hard to find something as good as that."
Wilson is currently fronting ITV's Richard Wilson's On the Road, in which he tours the UK in his vintage car using Shell Guides that were first published in the 1930s.
Asked if he planned to present more factual television, Wilson replied: "No, no. I can still consider myself an active actor,...
- 1/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Richard Wilson has said that he doesn't miss starring in Merlin.
The 78-year-old actor played Gaius in the BBC One fantasy drama alongside Colin Morgan and Bradley James.
Asked by Digital Spy whether he missed the show, Wilson replied: "No, no. It was too hectic.
"Merlin was made in France and Wales, and I was an associate director [of New Sheffield Theatres] in Sheffield and I live in London, so I was running between Sheffield, London, France and Cardiff which was a wee bit hectic.
"We did five years of it and it was good fun at the time. But no, I wasn't sad to leave Merlin – well I didn't leave Merlin, it finished!"
Richard Wilson is directing Sarah Kane's Blasted at Sheffield Theatres, which opens on February 10.
The 78-year-old actor played Gaius in the BBC One fantasy drama alongside Colin Morgan and Bradley James.
Asked by Digital Spy whether he missed the show, Wilson replied: "No, no. It was too hectic.
"Merlin was made in France and Wales, and I was an associate director [of New Sheffield Theatres] in Sheffield and I live in London, so I was running between Sheffield, London, France and Cardiff which was a wee bit hectic.
"We did five years of it and it was good fun at the time. But no, I wasn't sad to leave Merlin – well I didn't leave Merlin, it finished!"
Richard Wilson is directing Sarah Kane's Blasted at Sheffield Theatres, which opens on February 10.
- 1/24/2015
- Digital Spy
While construction continues and St. Ann's works to raise the final 2 million of its 30 million capital campaign, the organization will present a stellar final season in its temporary home at 29 Jay Street in Dumbo. It kicks off this October when Tr Warszawa and director Grzegorz Jarzyna return for the American Premiere of their internationally acclaimed production of Sarah Kane's 448 Psychosis, which St. Ann's Founder Artistic Director Susan Feldman has wanted to bring to New York since she first saw it in February 2004 -- the same year St. Ann's presented the American Premiere of the original Royal Court production of Kane's play. St. Ann's Warehouse also announced the following season highlights today Emma Rice and Kneehigh, The Wooster Group, the Slovenian choral group Carmina Slovenica, and The Tiger Lillies.
- 7/30/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Isabelle Huppert as Maud: 'the challenge was to convey the emotion as long and as strongly as possible…' At the Trump International Hotel and Tower, off New York's Columbus Circle, Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse) star, Isabelle Huppert was preparing to fly back to Paris after the New York Film Festival Us premiere. We discussed going to the Met with her director whose style she shares, the link between Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, the hidden metaphor of Michael Haneke, the choreography with her co-star Kool Shen, and how she works to bring her character together.
Maud, played by Isabelle Huppert, who is formidable in every scene and gesture, wakes up one morning under fresh white sheets and notices that there is something wrong with her left arm. She tries to get up and collapses. It takes all her strength to reach the phone. "Half my body is dead,...
Maud, played by Isabelle Huppert, who is formidable in every scene and gesture, wakes up one morning under fresh white sheets and notices that there is something wrong with her left arm. She tries to get up and collapses. It takes all her strength to reach the phone. "Half my body is dead,...
- 10/10/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Trafalgar Studios; Royal Court; Palladium, London
The wonderful thing about Jamie Lloyd's production of Macbeth is that the Scottish play is Scottish. There is a rightness about the accents – it's almost as if one had only heard the play in translation until now. It is tremendous to hear James McAvoy's Macbeth say: "the multitudinous seas incarnadine" rolling the "r", giving the line new momentum. Yet designer Soutra Gilmour's stricken set – a concrete bunker filled with overturned office chairs – is not necessarily Scottish. We could be anywhere. And it is immediately obvious that this production is going to do Macbeth the hard way. It's set in a dystopian future in which everyone looks as if they have recently had a mud or blood bath, the witches wear gas masks and Banquo is so bloody he looks as though he ought to go straight to A&E. One feels one...
The wonderful thing about Jamie Lloyd's production of Macbeth is that the Scottish play is Scottish. There is a rightness about the accents – it's almost as if one had only heard the play in translation until now. It is tremendous to hear James McAvoy's Macbeth say: "the multitudinous seas incarnadine" rolling the "r", giving the line new momentum. Yet designer Soutra Gilmour's stricken set – a concrete bunker filled with overturned office chairs – is not necessarily Scottish. We could be anywhere. And it is immediately obvious that this production is going to do Macbeth the hard way. It's set in a dystopian future in which everyone looks as if they have recently had a mud or blood bath, the witches wear gas masks and Banquo is so bloody he looks as though he ought to go straight to A&E. One feels one...
- 2/24/2013
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
The Royal Court in London, one of the most important new-writing theatres in the world, has over the years been crucial in making the names of writers including Arnold Wesker, Christopher Hampton, Caryl Churchill, Hanif Kureshi, Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh and Simon Stephens. Hell, it was even where "The Rocky Picture Horror Show" started out. And in the last few years, it's been on as impressive a run as any in its history, premiering the acclaimed likes of Jez Butterworth's "Jerusalem," Lucy Prebble's "Enron," Polly Stenham's "That Face," Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Clybourne Park" and Nick Payne's "Constellations," all of which went on to ecstatic reviews, and often transfers to the West End or the U.S. So far, though, none of this recent batch have made it to the screen, though several are in development: George Clooney picked up the rights to "Enron," while...
- 2/5/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Cate Blanchett called him 'brutal' and a critic branded him 'my nightmare' – now he's messing with Chekhov. Maddy Costa meets Benedict Andrews, director of Three Sisters
Benedict Andrews can still quote by heart a letter he received 11 years ago, following his breakthrough production of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Sydney Opera House. "'I wish you luck with your career as a director of music videos,'" it read, "so you can leave those of us who fondly remember something called theatre to get on with it."
Andrews is the kind of director who ruffles feathers. His eight-hour staging of Shakespeare's histories in 2009 prompted one critic to groan: "Benedict Andrews is my nightmare of what director's theatre can come to," while the Telegraph's review of his modernist, futuristic production of Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses last year began with the straightforward declaration: "I didn't like Benedict Andrews's new production … one bit." That...
Benedict Andrews can still quote by heart a letter he received 11 years ago, following his breakthrough production of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Sydney Opera House. "'I wish you luck with your career as a director of music videos,'" it read, "so you can leave those of us who fondly remember something called theatre to get on with it."
Andrews is the kind of director who ruffles feathers. His eight-hour staging of Shakespeare's histories in 2009 prompted one critic to groan: "Benedict Andrews is my nightmare of what director's theatre can come to," while the Telegraph's review of his modernist, futuristic production of Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses last year began with the straightforward declaration: "I didn't like Benedict Andrews's new production … one bit." That...
- 9/10/2012
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
Tim Minchin and Stephen Fry are among the new Cultural Olympiad acts, while protestors take to the stage at Stratford-upon-Avon and encourage audiences to rip up their seats
Starter's orders
After more than a few false dawns, the Cultural Olympiad finally spluttered into life this week, with the unveiling of the full lineup for the London 2012 festival, which will take place from 21 June to 9 September. Many of the events have already been announced and some of them (rather confusingly) have already begun (such as the World Shakespeare festival, which kicked off last Monday). But new acts include comedians Tim Minchin and Stephen Fry, who will both perform as part of the event.
Awards season in full swing
In the Us, meanwhile, theatre awards season kicked off, with the Drama League announcing the nominations for its awards. They often serve as a fairly good indicator for what might fare well at...
Starter's orders
After more than a few false dawns, the Cultural Olympiad finally spluttered into life this week, with the unveiling of the full lineup for the London 2012 festival, which will take place from 21 June to 9 September. Many of the events have already been announced and some of them (rather confusingly) have already begun (such as the World Shakespeare festival, which kicked off last Monday). But new acts include comedians Tim Minchin and Stephen Fry, who will both perform as part of the event.
Awards season in full swing
In the Us, meanwhile, theatre awards season kicked off, with the Drama League announcing the nominations for its awards. They often serve as a fairly good indicator for what might fare well at...
- 4/27/2012
- by Alistair Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
I Dreamed a Dream
SuBo is played by Elaine C Smith in this new musical based on the life of the Britain's Got Talent sensation, who has given her personal endorsement to this money-spinner – sorry, show. Theatre Royal, Newcastle (0844 811 2121), until 31 March, then touring.
Fierce festival
Birmingham gets ready for boundary-busting performances from UK and international performers, including Ann Liv Young, Playgroup and Graeme Miller. The festival takes place in unusual spaces all across the city, including the soon to be demolished library and under Spaghetti Junction. Various locations, Birmingham, Thursday to 8 April.
Film
The Hunger Games (dir. Gary Ross)
Suzanne Collins's teen bestseller is turned into an exciting dystopian thriller. Jennifer Lawrence stars.
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
I Dreamed a Dream
SuBo is played by Elaine C Smith in this new musical based on the life of the Britain's Got Talent sensation, who has given her personal endorsement to this money-spinner – sorry, show. Theatre Royal, Newcastle (0844 811 2121), until 31 March, then touring.
Fierce festival
Birmingham gets ready for boundary-busting performances from UK and international performers, including Ann Liv Young, Playgroup and Graeme Miller. The festival takes place in unusual spaces all across the city, including the soon to be demolished library and under Spaghetti Junction. Various locations, Birmingham, Thursday to 8 April.
Film
The Hunger Games (dir. Gary Ross)
Suzanne Collins's teen bestseller is turned into an exciting dystopian thriller. Jennifer Lawrence stars.
- 3/25/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Lyric Hammersmith, London; Theatre Royal Bath
People go to Saved thinking they know what they will see. They've been told often enough. A baby is stoned to death in a park by a group of youths; a middle-aged woman has her stocking provocatively darned (she's inside it: 'You watch where yer pokin') by her daughter's young admirer. These are the scenes that caused Edward Bond's play to be banned by the Lord Chamberlain in 1965; these are the scenes that have made it famous.
Yet in Sean Holmes's superb production, the play looks less simply confrontational and rebarbative than the stoning suggests. It is intricate, far-reaching and believable. Intervening history – the killing of James Bulger, the Baby P case – may have added to its credibility, but its real force isn't adventitious. The horror begins to look inevitable.
The action uncurls with a series of terrible small blows. A young mother...
People go to Saved thinking they know what they will see. They've been told often enough. A baby is stoned to death in a park by a group of youths; a middle-aged woman has her stocking provocatively darned (she's inside it: 'You watch where yer pokin') by her daughter's young admirer. These are the scenes that caused Edward Bond's play to be banned by the Lord Chamberlain in 1965; these are the scenes that have made it famous.
Yet in Sean Holmes's superb production, the play looks less simply confrontational and rebarbative than the stoning suggests. It is intricate, far-reaching and believable. Intervening history – the killing of James Bulger, the Baby P case – may have added to its credibility, but its real force isn't adventitious. The horror begins to look inevitable.
The action uncurls with a series of terrible small blows. A young mother...
- 10/14/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
William Friedkin's blighted fairytale about a cop/contract killer handling a family's dirty business is paper cut sharp and laced with horrible humour
Killer Joe puts its cards on the table in almost the opening shot: Gina Gershon, naked, from the waist down. She's opening the door to to her stepson, Chris (Emile Hirsch), in the trailer she shares with her second husband, Ansel (Thomas Haden Church) and his daughter, Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris owes men money (we're not bothered with extraneous detail), so he and Pops cook up a plan: they'll bump off Chris and Dottie's mother and cash in her life-insurance policy. But they're bright enough to know they don't have the smarts to pull it off, so they engage the services of the titular hitman (Matthew McConaughey), a cop by day, a contract killer on the side. Trouble is, he wants his fee in advance, or,...
Killer Joe puts its cards on the table in almost the opening shot: Gina Gershon, naked, from the waist down. She's opening the door to to her stepson, Chris (Emile Hirsch), in the trailer she shares with her second husband, Ansel (Thomas Haden Church) and his daughter, Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris owes men money (we're not bothered with extraneous detail), so he and Pops cook up a plan: they'll bump off Chris and Dottie's mother and cash in her life-insurance policy. But they're bright enough to know they don't have the smarts to pull it off, so they engage the services of the titular hitman (Matthew McConaughey), a cop by day, a contract killer on the side. Trouble is, he wants his fee in advance, or,...
- 9/14/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
His Jerusalem is a Broadway hit – now director Ian Rickson is back with a star-studded Betrayal. He talks to Andrew Dickson about his debt to Pinter, coaching Pj Harvey – and why he's finally ready for Shakespeare
Never let it be said that Ian Rickson lacks range. This week, the director opens a new production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas; it turns out that he has also found time to direct Pj Harvey's current tour. "We talked about staging and lighting, should she talk between songs, things like that," he explains, before adding, not wanting to take too much credit: "Director in inverted commas."
I'm not sure he needs the rider. In the four years since Rickson stepped down as artistic director of the Royal Court, there seems to be little he hasn't turned his hand to. His farewell production there, The Seagull, was the first...
Never let it be said that Ian Rickson lacks range. This week, the director opens a new production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas; it turns out that he has also found time to direct Pj Harvey's current tour. "We talked about staging and lighting, should she talk between songs, things like that," he explains, before adding, not wanting to take too much credit: "Director in inverted commas."
I'm not sure he needs the rider. In the four years since Rickson stepped down as artistic director of the Royal Court, there seems to be little he hasn't turned his hand to. His farewell production there, The Seagull, was the first...
- 6/15/2011
- by Andrew Dickson
- The Guardian - Film News
As The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest arrives on DVD, we caught up with producer Søren Stærmose to talk about the adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novels…
Søren Stærmose is the award-winning producer from Yellow Bird films, the production and distribution company behind both the original Swedish and Kenneth Branagh versions of Wallander. However, it was with its film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy that it really hit the big time, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo becoming not only the biggest Swedish film ever, but a huge international smash as well.
In the UK to promote the DVD release of the third and final film, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest (released April 11th), Søren took the time to sit down with us and have a chat about the books’ adaptation, and the forthcoming English-language version from director David Fincher.
Søren proved to be...
Søren Stærmose is the award-winning producer from Yellow Bird films, the production and distribution company behind both the original Swedish and Kenneth Branagh versions of Wallander. However, it was with its film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy that it really hit the big time, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo becoming not only the biggest Swedish film ever, but a huge international smash as well.
In the UK to promote the DVD release of the third and final film, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest (released April 11th), Søren took the time to sit down with us and have a chat about the books’ adaptation, and the forthcoming English-language version from director David Fincher.
Søren proved to be...
- 4/11/2011
- Den of Geek
She says she goes unnoticed in the street and there are times when she can't act, but in just six years Carey Mulligan has gone from giggly teenage wannabe to the 'new Audrey Hepburn'. Xan Brooks asks her how she did it
It's the day of the premiere and confusion reigns inside the London hotel. TV cables are snaking down the corridors, photographers stand in huddles and the doors keep opening and shutting like a Feydeau farce. The press minders, meantime, have turned harried and irritable. "What time are we leaving, Jane?" barks one to the other. "It's Kate," Kate snaps back.
In all the hubbub it takes me a moment to register Carey Mulligan, hiding out on a window-seat with her back to the light. Her blond bob is scrunched, her make-up applied. At first glance, she might be a 14-year-old trying to pass for 18 at the local nightclub.
It's the day of the premiere and confusion reigns inside the London hotel. TV cables are snaking down the corridors, photographers stand in huddles and the doors keep opening and shutting like a Feydeau farce. The press minders, meantime, have turned harried and irritable. "What time are we leaving, Jane?" barks one to the other. "It's Kate," Kate snaps back.
In all the hubbub it takes me a moment to register Carey Mulligan, hiding out on a window-seat with her back to the light. Her blond bob is scrunched, her make-up applied. At first glance, she might be a 14-year-old trying to pass for 18 at the local nightclub.
- 1/22/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to Soho Rep, the Off-Broadway theater company announced Feb. 26."We are so thrilled and grateful to have the amazing partnership of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation," artistic director Sarah Benson said in a written statement. "This support will go directly to furthering and strengthening Soho Rep's work for many seasons to come."Soho Rep has earned 11 Obie Awards for its productions, including two—for Benson's direction and Louisa Thompson's set design—for the premiere last season of Sarah Kane's play "Blasted."...
- 2/26/2010
- backstage.com
When the Bond Street Theatre was founded in the late 1970s, the company's mission was to offer solace through performance to audiences in international hot spots. "We are an artistic humanitarian organization," says Joanna Sherman, the company's artistic director. Over the years, Bond Street set up shop in such strife-torn regions as Colombia, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, among many others. Their next stop is Myanmar, formally known as Burma, where it will collaborate with a local theater company.Thanks to globalization and the Internet, Sherman believes, a burgeoning number of theater and film artists will want to make political/social/cultural differences in regions around the world. They will use theater, film, and the classroom as their vehicles. Back Stage talked with seven such artists to find out why and how they went abroad, the challenges they faced, and how their experiences forced them to redefine their aesthetic and ambitions.
- 11/18/2009
- backstage.com
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