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Book To Film: Layer Cake
21 March 2013 9:30 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
J.J. Connolly’s debut novel Layer Cake was published in 2000, and brought to the screen by Matthew Vaughn in 2004. It was the first film Matthew Vaughn directed, after being a producer for Guy Richie’s Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (and Swept Away – Shhhhh!). The film was a breakthrough starring role for Daniel Craig, proving he could carry a movie and helping pave the way for him to take over as James Bond. It’s a tense, dark and often very funny movie, full of plot twists and with an ending that will catch you by surprise. It’s an underrated movie, and the book is even better.
On the surface Layer Cake looks quite similar to Lock Stock, both blackly funny films set in a London underworld filled with larger than life characters, violence and double-crosses. Looking more closely though, Layer Cake is a very different film indeed. »
- Edward Kuhne
Top 10 Rising British Directors
7 March 2013 2:50 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
British cinema does not always get the best deal – the French have been notoriously snobbish over the British film industry in the past, despite their own being long gone from the glory days of the Nouvelle Vague. Directors such as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Sam Mendes, Ken Russel, Nicolas Roeg, Paul Greengrass, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, David Yates and Matthew Vaughn all have lofty worldwide reputations and have regularly produced some of the finest cinema over the last decades.
There have of course been promising British directors that have somewhat bombed out, most notably Guy Ritchie, who’s career was somehow resurrected when he was asked to direct an updated version of Sherlock Holmes. Ritchie did leave a black mark on British cinema as after the huge success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, everybody wanted to make a crime comedy with strong visuals and and quotable dialogue. »
- Sam Moore
Blu-ray Releases: February 12th, 2013
12 February 2013 2:17 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
“This is the end. Hold your breath and count to ten. Feel the earth move and then. Hear my heart burst again. For this is the end. I've drowned and dreamt this moment. So overdue I owe them. Swept away, I'm stolen.” Now, I didn’t see Skyfall but I’m going to pick it up to watch it. It won the BAFTA for best British film and people are saying that this is the best Bond film in a very long time. The only Bond film I saw was Casino Royale but I still think I may enjoy this. With Skyfall, a bunch of Bond films were also released today individually on Blu-ray, if you couldn’t purchase that huge box set. Also, a few other films you may want to see.
Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem. Directed by Sam Mendes »
- Jonathan Silva
Watch: Guy Ritchie Short for H&M Features David Beckham in All His Glory
6 February 2013 1:01 PM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Guy Ritchie ("Snatch," "Swept Away") gives us a short glimpse of shorts we'd love to be working with as well. In the new H&M campaign short for David Beckham's spring line we follow Beckham as he chases Victoria's Range Rover after losing his robe while saying goodbye to the kids as they head off to school. Realizing he is locked out of his house, he attempts to regain the robe and proceeds to run around his L.A. neighborhood sprinting through backyards, losing more of his clothing along the way. He ends up dressed only in the underwear from his own H&M line. After directing the Robert Downey, Jr. "Sherlock Holmes" films, Ritchie is currently attached to direct a big screen adaptation of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." See the short below: »
- Cristina A. Gonzalez
Mariangela Melato
14 January 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Versatile Italian actor known for her roles in Lina Wertmüller's films
Mariangela Melato, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 71, was one of Italy's most versatile and vivacious actresses, working in theatre and cinema with some of the leading directors of her time. She won international cult status for three films directed by Lina Wertmüller in which she co-starred with Giancarlo Giannini: The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973) and Swept Away (1974), in all of which the controversial Wertmüller mixed sex and politics. Melato had no qualms about submitting with great good humour to the sometimes humiliating situations and explicit dialogue inflicted on the two stars.
Those Wertmüller films made Melato well-known, but she liked to be recognised as an actor rather than a star. Born in Milan, she trained at the city's Brera Academy. One of the first companies to sign her up was that of the »
- John Francis Lane
'Swept Away' actress Mariangela Melato died at 71
11 January 2013 6:59 AM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Italian actress Mariangela Melato, known for her critically acclaimed performance as a spoiled socialite stranded with a sailor she had tormented in the 1974 film comedy Swept Away, has died in a Rome hospital at age 71.
The Antea hospital said she died Friday. The Lapresse news agency said she was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
The blond actress had most success in a series of films in the 1970s directed by Italian Lina Wertmuller, including The Seduction of Mimi and Love and Anarchy.
One of the most acclaimed was the role of a socialite who finds herself stranded with Giancarlo Giannini. Her »
- Associated Press
Italian Actress Dies At 71
11 January 2013 5:12 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Rome -- Italian actress Mariangela Melato, known for her critically acclaimed performance as a spoiled socialite stranded with a sailor she had tormented in the 1974 film comedy "Swept Away," has died in a Rome hospital at age 71.
The Antea hospital said she died Friday. The Lapresse news agency said she was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
The blond actress had most success in a series of films in the 1970s directed by Italian Lina Wertmuller, including "The Seduction of Mimi" and "Love and Anarchy."
One of the most acclaimed was the role of a socialite who finds herself stranded with Giancarlo Giannini. Her role was played by Madonna in a 2002 remake.
Melato had less success in Hollywood roles, which included a supporting part in "Flash Gordon" in 1980. »
- AP
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