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5 Breakout Performers & Directors From The 2012 Cannes Film Festival
29 May 2012 12:31 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
One of the greatest things about film festivals, something that can even get you through the worst films, the lack of sleep, and the terrible B.O. of your fellow moviegoers, is the chance to discover new talent. You'll see absolute newcomers blast off into the stratosphere, or relatively well-known faces suddenly show off what they've always been capable of, and it's never less than a thrill.
And this year's Cannes Film Festival was no exception. With the festival now in the rear-view mirror, we've picked out five major talents who broke out at this year's festival, and whom we're certain we'll be hearing more from in the years to come. Check them out below, and if you were in Cannes, feel free to weigh in with your own suggestions too.
Brandon Cronenberg ("Antiviral")
Given that Lena Dunham has been hit with a wave of accusations of nepotism, despite having »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Classic British TV Series Being Streamed By Acorn TV
24 May 2012 3:40 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
The leading ‘Best British TV’ streaming service Acorn TV is now streaming full seasons of several popular British mystery and drama series, along with two critically acclaimed Canadian series. This week Acorn TV also has a special Memorial Day Weekend Midsomer Marathon with the first 22 episodes of its best-selling series,Midsomer Murders, and the U.S. debut of John Nettles final episodes.
Acorn TV is currently streaming a full season of Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect; the final seasons of the universally acclaimed Canadian dramedy Slings & ARROWSand Derek Jacobi’s mystery series Cadfael; the U.S. debut of the newest season of Murdoch Mysteries; Lynda La Plante’s Trial & Retribution; John Mortimer’s Under The Hammer; the final episodes of WWII drama Wish Me Luck; Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter) in Pie In The Sky; and John Nettles final episodes with Midsomer Murders, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, True Detectives, Classy TV
11 April 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Get ready for some mass hysteria on a “Ghostbusters” level. In an upcoming 8-episode, hour-long TV crime drama, True Detectives, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey co-star, and the show is not all about shirtlessness. I know, shocking, right? It’s like finding out cats and dogs are sleeping together.
True Detectives isn’t even a comedy. I saw these two names in lights attached to it and thought, “Oh, the name’s ironic to be funny, kind of like The Good Guys.” I then came to find out it’s not a stupid joke – it’s not a joke at all. It’s a very serious drama that does not have pot smoking or surfing or pectorals anywhere near the central premise.
True Detectives only gets weirder – and better – from there.
It took a moment for me to wrap my mind around the former bros from EdTV coming together not to party hardy, »
- Matthew C. Funk
Guillermo del Toro to Direct 'Beauty and the Beast' for Warner's
13 February 2012 8:34 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Guillermo del Toro, long attached to produce a new version of "Beauty and the Beast" for Warner Bros., has signed on to direct the movie, TheWrap has confirmed. Andrew Davies, who adapted Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," Alexander Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" and Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones' Diary" for the big screen, will write the latest iteration of the fairy tale. Emma Watson, who has long been loosely attached to the project, is in negotiations to formalize her involvement. Also read: Legendary Makes Deal for Guillermo del Toro 'Pacific Rim' Toys Del Toro is now »
- Joshua L. Weinstein
Naomi Watts replaces Jessica Chastain to play Princess Diana in Caught In Flight
9 February 2012 8:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Towards the end of last year, we heard that rising star Jessica Chastain, for whom 2011 was an incredibly impressive year, was set to play Princess Diana as the lead in the film Caught in Flight.
Word now comes via Variety that Naomi Watts has been cast in the role instead, and will be directed by Batfa-nominated director, Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall), produced by the UK production company Ecosse Films, whose credits include Brideshead Revisited, Nowhere Boy, and Andrea Arnold’s recent Wuthering Heights.
“Story focuses on the last two years of the Princess’ life and charts how finding true personal happiness for the first time allowed her to evolve into a major international campaigner and humanitarian.”
Though there’s no mention of why Watts is coming on board now instead of Chastain, it could well be that with production scheduled to begin later this year here in the UK on Caught in Flight, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Think of me as the butler, Carson
26 January 2012 3:20 PM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
For an hour before bedtime every night for a week, I've watched an episode of "Downton Abbey." Last night the Earl of Grantham interrupted a garden party to announce the beginning of World War I, and I pulled up short. I was watching the first season via Netflix Instant, and inattentively failed to notice there were only seven episodes. I naturally expected ten.
I'm not one of those people who follows every series on Masterpiece Theater, HBO or whatever. There's always a movie to be seen. The last series I watched completely was "Brideshead Revisited," and before that all the way back to "Upstairs, Downstairs." As you know, I'm an Anglophile. I seem particularly drawn to the era of English Country Houses before the First War, and to a degree between the two wars.
Someone wrote that country house life in peacetime was the apogee of human civilization. Could have been Orwell. »
- Roger Ebert
From Hockney to Downton Abbey: have our cultural tastes gone conservative?
23 January 2012 3:58 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Does the popularity of traditional landscape paintings at the Royal Academy and a posh country-house TV series mean Britons are rejecting the progressive for the conservative?
When is culture conservative? This is an urgent question, since in many peoples' eyes Britain is slipping into a regressive mood in the arts and entertainment that – according to your point of view – is either to be loathed or welcomed as a symptom of deep societal change.
The conservative political commentator Peter Oborne welcomes it. In a provocative and trenchant article in the Daily Telegraph, he recently hailed the popularity of David Hockney's exhibition at the Royal Academy as a sign that Britons are rejecting progressive pretensions for conservative honesty, preferring the handmade to the conceptual, the rooted to the cosmopolitan – whatever Hockney's politics may be, suggests Oborne, his landscape paintings are "conservative".
Meanwhile, from the opposite point of view, Simon Schama wrote »
- Jonathan Jones
Irons Chastises Politician Over Bankers' Bonuses
23 January 2012 12:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actor Jeremy Irons used an appearance on a U.K. political TV show on Sunday to tackle Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about the huge bonuses awarded to bankers.
The Brideshead Revisited star was appearing on The Andrew Marr Show to promote his new film Margin Call, in which he plays an investment boss on Wall Street just before the 2008 banking crash.
He was joined by Clegg on the show, and took the chance to question the politician about bankers who pay themselves vasts amounts of money despite the U.K. struggling with economic stagnation and austerity cuts.
He told Clegg, "There are an awful lot of people hurting at the bottom of the chain and I think it's just bad manners... last year's bonuses were a slap in the face for a lot of people.
"We're asking the people who created this situation to sort it out. We need young people with new ideas to see how we can create a balanced economy in the future." »
Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Photo: Golden Globes 2012
17 January 2012 5:42 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Jeremy Irons and Dr. Aida Takla-o'Reilly, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Jeremy Irons, an Oscar winner for Barbet Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune (1990), was a presenter at the 2012 Golden Globes ceremony. Irons has been nominated for six Golden Globes, winning twice: for Reversal of Fortune and for the television miniseries Elizabeth I (2005). Irons received three other television nods — Brideshead Revisited (1982), Georgia O'Keeffe (2009), and The Borgias (2011) — and one for his starring role in Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986). Other presenters at this year's Golden Globes were Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Paula Patton, Piper Perabo, Brad Pitt, Seth Rogen, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Biel, Robert Downey Jr., Jimmy Fallon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Salma Hayek, and Channing Tatum. Jeremy Irons, Aida Takla-o'Reilly Photo: Golden Globes 2012 © HFPA »
- D. Zhea
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