Now that The Tonight Show has crowned a winner in its Spring book club, we’re getting a first look at what a Jimmy Fallon book bump looks like in 2024.
Back in March, Fallon announced the return of his Fallon Book Club with a tournament-style bracket to choose The Tonight Show’s next official book selection. Last week, Fallon announced “Nightwatching” by Tracy Sierra as the winning pick on air (and sent everyone in the audience home with a copy).
On Friday’s program, Fallon highlighted the effect the tournament has had on the book’s sales. When he first mentioned the book club on air, the “Nightwatching” hardcover stood at #20,143 in Amazon Books’ Best Sellers Rank. Two days after Fallon announced it as the winner, the book shot up to at least #46 on that list.
Nightwatching by @tsierraauthor is our #FallonBookClub Spring Read Winner!
Continue reading Fallon Book Club...
Back in March, Fallon announced the return of his Fallon Book Club with a tournament-style bracket to choose The Tonight Show’s next official book selection. Last week, Fallon announced “Nightwatching” by Tracy Sierra as the winning pick on air (and sent everyone in the audience home with a copy).
On Friday’s program, Fallon highlighted the effect the tournament has had on the book’s sales. When he first mentioned the book club on air, the “Nightwatching” hardcover stood at #20,143 in Amazon Books’ Best Sellers Rank. Two days after Fallon announced it as the winner, the book shot up to at least #46 on that list.
Nightwatching by @tsierraauthor is our #FallonBookClub Spring Read Winner!
Continue reading Fallon Book Club...
- 4/15/2024
- by Nick Riccardo
- LateNighter
On Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon announced the return of the Fallon Book Club—with a March Madness-inspired twist.
The host has selected sixteen books to compete in an NCAA tournament-style bracket that will crown a single author, whose book will then serve as the next selection for members of the Fallon Book Club.
Viewers visiting www.fallonbookclub.com can vote up to 10 times per round, each of which is timed to the NCAA’s March Madness schedule.
Winners of each round will be revealed on The Tonight Show and across its digital platforms, including a dedicated @FallonBookClub Instagram account.
The sweet sixteen contenders in Fallon Book Club’s literary tournament are:
The Fury by Alex Michaelides James by Percival Everett Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The Year...
The host has selected sixteen books to compete in an NCAA tournament-style bracket that will crown a single author, whose book will then serve as the next selection for members of the Fallon Book Club.
Viewers visiting www.fallonbookclub.com can vote up to 10 times per round, each of which is timed to the NCAA’s March Madness schedule.
Winners of each round will be revealed on The Tonight Show and across its digital platforms, including a dedicated @FallonBookClub Instagram account.
The sweet sixteen contenders in Fallon Book Club’s literary tournament are:
The Fury by Alex Michaelides James by Percival Everett Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The Year...
- 3/26/2024
- by Jeff Sneider
- LateNighter
Camerimage, the film festival centered on the art of cinematography, will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Directing Award on helmer Peter Greenaway during its 27th edition, which will take place in Torun, Poland, on Nov. 9-16.
Known for his scenic composition and depictions of pleasure and pain, Greenaway has told visually riveting stories through such films as “Drowning by Numbers” (1988), “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” (1989), “Nightwatching” (2007) and “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” (2015).
A follow-up to the latter called “Eisenstein in Hollywood” is currently in the works, according to IMDb.
Greenaway’s documentary oeuvre includes“Lumiere and Company” (1995) and “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” (2008).
Camerimage picked Greenaway for this honor because he has always challenged filmgoers with works that have always been somehow experimental and presented puzzles and multitudes of meaning. His themes include the struggle between love and death, and the contrast between poetry and the carnal life. He has eschewed...
Known for his scenic composition and depictions of pleasure and pain, Greenaway has told visually riveting stories through such films as “Drowning by Numbers” (1988), “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” (1989), “Nightwatching” (2007) and “Eisenstein in Guanajuato” (2015).
A follow-up to the latter called “Eisenstein in Hollywood” is currently in the works, according to IMDb.
Greenaway’s documentary oeuvre includes“Lumiere and Company” (1995) and “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” (2008).
Camerimage picked Greenaway for this honor because he has always challenged filmgoers with works that have always been somehow experimental and presented puzzles and multitudes of meaning. His themes include the struggle between love and death, and the contrast between poetry and the carnal life. He has eschewed...
- 9/24/2019
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Greenaway’s Homage an Inspired Provocation
Erotically charged and artfully crafted, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is the first of two titles devoted to portions of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s life, and proves Peter Greenaway has lost none of his edge. At the age of 72, British auteur filmmaker maintains his ability to amaze. Ever the provocative experimentalist, he belongs to a rare class of director, one who manages to delight and confound, challenge and dismay even into his later period of film making. There’s a perverse thrill to be had watching the daringness on display in this examination of a Russian legend that bluntly examines his sexual orientation in a way that would never be produced from his native country.
Based out of Netherlands and often focusing on depictions recreating the universe in which iconic works of art originated, Greenaway’s later films...
Erotically charged and artfully crafted, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is the first of two titles devoted to portions of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s life, and proves Peter Greenaway has lost none of his edge. At the age of 72, British auteur filmmaker maintains his ability to amaze. Ever the provocative experimentalist, he belongs to a rare class of director, one who manages to delight and confound, challenge and dismay even into his later period of film making. There’s a perverse thrill to be had watching the daringness on display in this examination of a Russian legend that bluntly examines his sexual orientation in a way that would never be produced from his native country.
Based out of Netherlands and often focusing on depictions recreating the universe in which iconic works of art originated, Greenaway’s later films...
- 2/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
There’s nothing subtle about Peter Greenaway’s film – not least the great Russian film-maker being anally penetrated while pontificating on Bolshevik history
If you’ve decided to make a work of art in which the subject is also one of the fundamental pioneers of your chosen medium, the thinking, I would imagine, is to go big or go home. Eisenstein in Guanajuato is far from a subtle picture, and hardly what you’d call to everyone’s taste, but it certainly doesn’t lack for enthusiasm, vision or style.
Peter Greenaway, the aesthete British director expatriated to Holland, who set an unsolvable murder mystery at a 17th-century estate with The Draughtsman’s Contract; helped concoct the Nc-17 rating with The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; and reimagined a freaky-deaky Tempest with Prospero’s Books has chosen Sergei Eisenstein’s “lost” stint in Mexico for the third...
If you’ve decided to make a work of art in which the subject is also one of the fundamental pioneers of your chosen medium, the thinking, I would imagine, is to go big or go home. Eisenstein in Guanajuato is far from a subtle picture, and hardly what you’d call to everyone’s taste, but it certainly doesn’t lack for enthusiasm, vision or style.
Peter Greenaway, the aesthete British director expatriated to Holland, who set an unsolvable murder mystery at a 17th-century estate with The Draughtsman’s Contract; helped concoct the Nc-17 rating with The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; and reimagined a freaky-deaky Tempest with Prospero’s Books has chosen Sergei Eisenstein’s “lost” stint in Mexico for the third...
- 2/4/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney will co-produce director Steven Spielberg's upcoming adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's story The Bfg.
Walt Disney Studios announced today that Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall and Jemaine Clement are joining Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill and Bill Hader in the company's first-ever Spielberg-directed film.
The Bfg follows a little girl named Sophie (Barnhill) as she teams up with the Queen of England (Wilton) and a big friendly giant (Rylance) to battle a rampaging horde of evil giants.
Iron Man 3's Hall will be playing the Queen's loyal servant Mary.
The giants are portrayed by Hader, Clement, Michael David Adamthwaite (Stargate Sg-1), Daniel Bacon (Iron Man: Armored Adventures), Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley (A Young Doctor's Notebook), Jonathan Holmes (Nightwatching), Paul Moniz de Sa (Eureka) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Deep) in The Bfg.
Spielberg said in a statement: "In more than 40 years of making movies, I have been on...
Walt Disney Studios announced today that Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall and Jemaine Clement are joining Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill and Bill Hader in the company's first-ever Spielberg-directed film.
The Bfg follows a little girl named Sophie (Barnhill) as she teams up with the Queen of England (Wilton) and a big friendly giant (Rylance) to battle a rampaging horde of evil giants.
Iron Man 3's Hall will be playing the Queen's loyal servant Mary.
The giants are portrayed by Hader, Clement, Michael David Adamthwaite (Stargate Sg-1), Daniel Bacon (Iron Man: Armored Adventures), Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley (A Young Doctor's Notebook), Jonathan Holmes (Nightwatching), Paul Moniz de Sa (Eureka) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Deep) in The Bfg.
Spielberg said in a statement: "In more than 40 years of making movies, I have been on...
- 4/13/2015
- Digital Spy
Ahead of it's premier at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, a trailer for Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein in Guanajuato has come our way, telling the story of Battleship Potemkin director Sergei Eisenstein and his time in Mexico in 1931. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Esenstein's time in Mexico helped shape the rest of his career. Like all of Greenaway's work, which includes The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Nightwatching, this look simply gorgeous, and offers a stunning look at the mind of true cinematic genius.
- 2/10/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Other projects supported by Romania’s film fund include Cristian Mungiu’s Rmd and Tudor Giurgiu’s Apropierea.
Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.
Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.
Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.
Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...
Romania’s Centrul National al Cinematografiei (Cnc) has become the latest European film fund to be raided by the ubiquitous film-maker Peter Greenaway for a future project.
Greenaway’s Walking To Paris (Mergand Spre Paris), which is being structured as a co-production between his regular producer Kees Kasander’s UK-based Cinatura, Switzerland’s Cobra Film, France’s Cdp Productions and Romania’s Abis Studio, received 291,000 Ron (€65,000) in the results of the 2013 call for projects.
Walking To Paris centres on the 27-year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi who set off a month-long trek across Europe from Romania to Paris in 1903, and will show how Brancusi’s fight for survival and many adventures during his journey influenced his subsequent work.
Greenaway had previously accessed the Croatian Audiovisual Centre for Goltzius And The Pelican Company and the Polish Film Institute for Nightwatching, while...
- 4/14/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The arthouse director says it is 'a pleasure and a delight' to be honoured for his years of effort and experiment
• Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80'
Peter Greenaway is to receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at this Sunday's Bafta film awards.
The director of The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover will be honoured for more than three decades of film-making. He made his debut in 1980 with The Falls, a post-apocalyptic mock-documentary in 92 short sections.
Greenaway, who is known for his collaborations with the composer Michael Nyman, said: "Given the always complex effort involved, to be permitted in the first place to make films with so many collaborators always astonishes me, and to be permitted the licence to do so with such freedom to continually experiment even more so. Everyone agrees that...
• Peter Greenaway: 'I plan to kill myself when I'm 80'
Peter Greenaway is to receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at this Sunday's Bafta film awards.
The director of The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover will be honoured for more than three decades of film-making. He made his debut in 1980 with The Falls, a post-apocalyptic mock-documentary in 92 short sections.
Greenaway, who is known for his collaborations with the composer Michael Nyman, said: "Given the always complex effort involved, to be permitted in the first place to make films with so many collaborators always astonishes me, and to be permitted the licence to do so with such freedom to continually experiment even more so. Everyone agrees that...
- 2/15/2014
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The actor is about to appear in the return of BBC1's Sherlock and Peter Jackson's blockbuster sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
There was a scene in The Office in which Tim Canterbury, the benign sales rep played by Martin Freeman, compared his life to a roll of the dice.
"My situation now may only be a three. If I jack that in, go for something bigger and better, I could easily roll a six," he told the programme's faux documentary maker. "I could also roll a one. Ok? So I think … just leave the dice alone."
Freeman, who will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the eagerly awaited return on New Year's Day of BBC1's Sherlock, and as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug next week, has just rolled a double six.
It has been an extraordinary rise for the 42-year-old actor,...
There was a scene in The Office in which Tim Canterbury, the benign sales rep played by Martin Freeman, compared his life to a roll of the dice.
"My situation now may only be a three. If I jack that in, go for something bigger and better, I could easily roll a six," he told the programme's faux documentary maker. "I could also roll a one. Ok? So I think … just leave the dice alone."
Freeman, who will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in the eagerly awaited return on New Year's Day of BBC1's Sherlock, and as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug next week, has just rolled a double six.
It has been an extraordinary rise for the 42-year-old actor,...
- 12/7/2013
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
Shooting wraps this week in Argentina on The Rules of The Game, directed by the UK’s Ed McGown.
The cast features two of Screen’s 2010 Stars of Tomorrow, Jack Gordon and Obi Abili, alongside Jack Doolan, Charlie Bewley and Mike Noble.
Jack Gordon said: “What an incredible experience to come to Argentina to shoot The Rules of the Game. Between the talented crew and actors it’s looking fantastic. Ed has so much energy and enthusiasm, you can’t keep the man still for two minutes.”
Strike Films’ Georgina Edwards produces and Lex Filmed Entertainment’s Sascha Hecks and Tracey Adam executive produce.
Sam Michell and Chris Hill wrote the script, an adventure film about “the perfect revenge gone wrong”.
The feature grew out of a teaser of the same name that won Best Short in Cannes Short Film Corner.
It is McGown’s first feature having made award-winning shorts including Out There. He also co-produced...
The cast features two of Screen’s 2010 Stars of Tomorrow, Jack Gordon and Obi Abili, alongside Jack Doolan, Charlie Bewley and Mike Noble.
Jack Gordon said: “What an incredible experience to come to Argentina to shoot The Rules of the Game. Between the talented crew and actors it’s looking fantastic. Ed has so much energy and enthusiasm, you can’t keep the man still for two minutes.”
Strike Films’ Georgina Edwards produces and Lex Filmed Entertainment’s Sascha Hecks and Tracey Adam executive produce.
Sam Michell and Chris Hill wrote the script, an adventure film about “the perfect revenge gone wrong”.
The feature grew out of a teaser of the same name that won Best Short in Cannes Short Film Corner.
It is McGown’s first feature having made award-winning shorts including Out There. He also co-produced...
- 7/5/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Company You Keep: Greenaway’s Latest a Beguiling, Sumptuous Cinematic Film
One seems to forget that Peter Greenaway has been prophesying the death of cinema (for well over a decade now) after watching his visually sumptuous new film, Goltzius and the Pelican Company, which sees the auteur in top form, combining his arresting visionary panache with his signature taboo baiting subject matter in the realm of the high brow. The subject matter is a hard sell, and those unfamiliar or unaccustomed to Greenaway’s unclassifiable narratives (or lack thereof) will most likely be as baffled as ever, but fans of the director and/or offbeat, striking cinema will hopefully embrace one of the infrequent working Greenaway’s best films to date.
Hendrick Goltzius (Ramsey Nasr), a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, takes his employees, known as the Pelican Company, to visit the Margrave of Alsace...
One seems to forget that Peter Greenaway has been prophesying the death of cinema (for well over a decade now) after watching his visually sumptuous new film, Goltzius and the Pelican Company, which sees the auteur in top form, combining his arresting visionary panache with his signature taboo baiting subject matter in the realm of the high brow. The subject matter is a hard sell, and those unfamiliar or unaccustomed to Greenaway’s unclassifiable narratives (or lack thereof) will most likely be as baffled as ever, but fans of the director and/or offbeat, striking cinema will hopefully embrace one of the infrequent working Greenaway’s best films to date.
Hendrick Goltzius (Ramsey Nasr), a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, takes his employees, known as the Pelican Company, to visit the Margrave of Alsace...
- 1/9/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
British polyglot Peter Greenaway (filmmaker, painter, video artist etc) has never easily fit into any mold. The unique talent behind, among many others, “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and Her Lover,” “The Baby of Macon,” “Prospero’s Books” and more recently the evocation of the life and work of Rembrandt in “Nightwatching,” is eternally divisive. Some find the self-conscious intellectualism of his approach appealing, others find it elitist and alienating. His new film, the bemusing but beautiful “Goltzius and the Pelican Company” is not going to settle the debate anytime soon (read our review here). Perhaps the very definition of iconoclastic, it explores sex and death (“What other subjects are there?” Greenaway asks) through the prism of the Bible, religion and 16th century Dutch politics. As so often in the filmmaker’s long career, the density of classical allusion and Greenaway’s instinct...
- 11/19/2012
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Even though he has spent the last decade ringing the death knell for cinema, Peter Greenaway continues to work in the format anyway, either as a way to go down with the ship, or perhaps to try and right the course (or maybe both). But onward he goes nonetheless, and next month he'll be unveiling his latest, "Goltzius And The Pelican Company," at the Rome Film Festival. A few pics from the film have arrived to give folks a preview. Starring F. Murray Abraham, the film tells the tale of Dutch painter Hendrik Goltzius, known for his erotic depictions of Biblical stories. The film is the second in a series of movies about Dutch painters, and follows 2009's "Nightwatching," which centered on Rembrandt. And certainly, this one looks like it'll be a fairly decadent production, perhaps not unlike his own work, which tends to hold little back. There's no distribution for the film stateside yet,...
- 10/24/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It's been five years since "Nightwatching," the last feature length effort from Peter Greenaway. And for a guy who declared "cinema is dead" right around the same time, he certainly has a lot left to say within the art form. Screen Daily reports that not only is Greenaway embarking on "Food For Love" an adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic "Death In Venice," he's got a plan that could seem him make a movie per year for the next decade. The director is currently finishing up "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" starring F. Murray Abraham which is being readied for Cannes, after which he'll tackle "Food For Love" with shooting to start in November. Given the director's own unique style which of late has reserved his movies strictly for hardcore arthouse buffs, his producer Kees Kasander reveals that "Food For Love" could be his most accessible film in nearly two.
- 2/21/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
An Aardman Production For Sony Pictures Animation Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen Also On Board
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to...
- 5/17/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’d only heard of Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross in passing, likely because it played Sundance out of competition, but I recently had a chance to take a look at the film’s trailer and found myself entranced in Majewski’s film which is part drama and part documentary.
The film stars the very busy Rutger Hauer as painter Pieter Bruegel and Michael York and Charlotte Rampling as figures in Bruegel’s masterpiece “The Procession to Calvary,” a painting that is brought to life as a point of reference for the exploration of the history of sixteenth century Flanders. It sounds pretty innovative but Majewski isn’t the first to take this approach. A few years back, renowned director Peter Greenaway took a similar approach to Rembradt’s “The Night Watch” which resulted in both a film (Nightwatching) and a documentary (Rembrandt’s J’Accuse).
This...
The film stars the very busy Rutger Hauer as painter Pieter Bruegel and Michael York and Charlotte Rampling as figures in Bruegel’s masterpiece “The Procession to Calvary,” a painting that is brought to life as a point of reference for the exploration of the history of sixteenth century Flanders. It sounds pretty innovative but Majewski isn’t the first to take this approach. A few years back, renowned director Peter Greenaway took a similar approach to Rembradt’s “The Night Watch” which resulted in both a film (Nightwatching) and a documentary (Rembrandt’s J’Accuse).
This...
- 3/16/2011
- QuietEarth.us
The BFI's assumption of the UK Film Council's responsibilities continues a decades-long saga of chopping and changing in the British film industry
This morning's announcement by Ed Vaizey confirms the rumours that have been circulating from pretty much the moment that the UK Film Council was abolished: the British Film Institute will be picking up the reins of lottery-fund distribution to the film industry. What's remarkable is that, after over two decades of chopping and changing, we are back where we were in the late 1980s: the BFI is the only game in town.
It's especially extraordinary given the kind of rhetoric that accompanied the establishment of the UK Film Council in 2000. When John Woodward was appointed the UK Film Council's chief executive in 2000, an interview he gave to the Guardian was perceived to be a not-especially-coded attack on the kind of – largely experimental – film the BFI's production...
This morning's announcement by Ed Vaizey confirms the rumours that have been circulating from pretty much the moment that the UK Film Council was abolished: the British Film Institute will be picking up the reins of lottery-fund distribution to the film industry. What's remarkable is that, after over two decades of chopping and changing, we are back where we were in the late 1980s: the BFI is the only game in town.
It's especially extraordinary given the kind of rhetoric that accompanied the establishment of the UK Film Council in 2000. When John Woodward was appointed the UK Film Council's chief executive in 2000, an interview he gave to the Guardian was perceived to be a not-especially-coded attack on the kind of – largely experimental – film the BFI's production...
- 11/29/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Freeman may still be in the running for the much-sought-after lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
According to EW, the former The Office star was taken out of the running when filming threatened to interfere with his role as Dr. Watson on BBC's new Sherlock Holmes series. Now, as the landscape of the Hobbit project continues to shift amid MGM's bankruptcy, Guillermo Del Toro dropping out as director and Jackson possibly stepping in, Freeman and the producer's may have found a way to let him juggle both projects simultaneously. While the entire project, which is planned as 2-movies, is in a state of extreme flux, we will see if the actor will eventually land the plum role replacing Ian Holm as Bilbo.
Freeman may also be familiar to geeks not only from his role as Tim in the original Ricky Gervais Office but as...
According to EW, the former The Office star was taken out of the running when filming threatened to interfere with his role as Dr. Watson on BBC's new Sherlock Holmes series. Now, as the landscape of the Hobbit project continues to shift amid MGM's bankruptcy, Guillermo Del Toro dropping out as director and Jackson possibly stepping in, Freeman and the producer's may have found a way to let him juggle both projects simultaneously. While the entire project, which is planned as 2-movies, is in a state of extreme flux, we will see if the actor will eventually land the plum role replacing Ian Holm as Bilbo.
Freeman may also be familiar to geeks not only from his role as Tim in the original Ricky Gervais Office but as...
- 9/8/2010
- UGO Movies
This is a competition for Nightwatching (directed by Peter Greenaway and starring Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes,Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Toby Jones, Jonathan Holmes and Michael Teigen). From Peter Greenaway, one of the most inventive, ambitious and controversial film-makers of our time, comes a thrilling period drama, told in explicit detail with customary irony and wit, that explores the romantic and professional life of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt, and the mystery surrounding the creation of his 1642 masterpiece, 'The Night Watch'.
- 4/29/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
Sci-fi gives birth to its very own Smurfs in James Cameron's ponderous epic
What is there left to be said about Avatar? Its record-breaking box-office success has surely vindicated writer-director James Cameron's creative arrogance, making him the auteur of not one but two of the most financially successful movies of all time. As a piece of spectacular cinema entertainment, it undeniably has the "wow" factor, with interludes of impressively verdant digital landscaping giving way to moments of genuinely jaw-dropping sci-fi action. There's plenty here that you simply won't have seen before – most notably an impressively fluid interaction between the real and virtual worlds that rivals Peter Jackson's work in Middle-earth. Nor is the film lacking in bald subtextual substance, with its tail of thuggish humans merrily ploughing down interstellar tree-huggers in the pursuit of "Unobtanium" being variously read as a parable of American imperialism, European colonialism, or...
What is there left to be said about Avatar? Its record-breaking box-office success has surely vindicated writer-director James Cameron's creative arrogance, making him the auteur of not one but two of the most financially successful movies of all time. As a piece of spectacular cinema entertainment, it undeniably has the "wow" factor, with interludes of impressively verdant digital landscaping giving way to moments of genuinely jaw-dropping sci-fi action. There's plenty here that you simply won't have seen before – most notably an impressively fluid interaction between the real and virtual worlds that rivals Peter Jackson's work in Middle-earth. Nor is the film lacking in bald subtextual substance, with its tail of thuggish humans merrily ploughing down interstellar tree-huggers in the pursuit of "Unobtanium" being variously read as a parable of American imperialism, European colonialism, or...
- 4/24/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
This drama about Rembrandt is Peter Greenaway's best film since Prospero's Books in 1991, writes Philip French
This is Peter Greenaway's first movie to be released here in a decade and his best since Prospero's Books in 1991. Characteristically intelligent and ludic, he meditates on life, death and art in a manner that goes back 20 years to his remarkable breakthrough into the popular consciousness with The Draughtsman's Contract. The film unfolds in a series of spare, elegant tableaux and stars Martin Freeman as a puckish young Rembrandt, very different from Laughton's 1935 version. It deals with his unruly household, his relationships with three women – Saskia Uylenburgh (his wife and niece of his dealer), Geertje Dircks (cunning servant and mistress), and Hendrickje Stoffels (young model, servant and last love) – and most of all with the origins and meaning of Rembrandt's gigantic 1642 masterwork The Night Watch.
In a close reading of the painting's sometimes arcane symbols and iconography,...
This is Peter Greenaway's first movie to be released here in a decade and his best since Prospero's Books in 1991. Characteristically intelligent and ludic, he meditates on life, death and art in a manner that goes back 20 years to his remarkable breakthrough into the popular consciousness with The Draughtsman's Contract. The film unfolds in a series of spare, elegant tableaux and stars Martin Freeman as a puckish young Rembrandt, very different from Laughton's 1935 version. It deals with his unruly household, his relationships with three women – Saskia Uylenburgh (his wife and niece of his dealer), Geertje Dircks (cunning servant and mistress), and Hendrickje Stoffels (young model, servant and last love) – and most of all with the origins and meaning of Rembrandt's gigantic 1642 masterwork The Night Watch.
In a close reading of the painting's sometimes arcane symbols and iconography,...
- 3/28/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Lourdes (U)
(Jessica Hausner, 2009, Aus/Fra/Ger) Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn. 99 mins
Handsomely photographed and coolly observant, this excursion to the French pilgrimage town manages to be both a penetrating study of the spiritual tourism racket and a genuine mystical inquiry. Testud is our central pilgrim, paralysed from the neck down and, like many others, in search of a miracle. But unlike those others, she gets one. Or does she? We're given much to think about.
No One Knows About Persian Cats (12A)
(Bahman Ghobadi, 2009, Iran) Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Khoshanejad. 107 mins
A suitably guerrilla-style tour of Iran's underground (often literally) music scene – a place where even gentle indie rock is considered seditious. Mostly factual and shot illegally, it's eye (and ear)-opening stuff.
The Blind Side (12A)
(John Lee Hancock, 2009, Us) Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron. 128 mins
Bullock might have got her Oscar but that doesn't make it any...
(Jessica Hausner, 2009, Aus/Fra/Ger) Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn. 99 mins
Handsomely photographed and coolly observant, this excursion to the French pilgrimage town manages to be both a penetrating study of the spiritual tourism racket and a genuine mystical inquiry. Testud is our central pilgrim, paralysed from the neck down and, like many others, in search of a miracle. But unlike those others, she gets one. Or does she? We're given much to think about.
No One Knows About Persian Cats (12A)
(Bahman Ghobadi, 2009, Iran) Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Khoshanejad. 107 mins
A suitably guerrilla-style tour of Iran's underground (often literally) music scene – a place where even gentle indie rock is considered seditious. Mostly factual and shot illegally, it's eye (and ear)-opening stuff.
The Blind Side (12A)
(John Lee Hancock, 2009, Us) Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron. 128 mins
Bullock might have got her Oscar but that doesn't make it any...
- 3/27/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Freeman has claimed that he carries a lot of rage inside him. The actor, who played Tim in The Office, stars as Dutch painter Rembrandt in the upcoming Paul Greenway-directed Nightwatching, which features graphic sex scenes and violence. Freeman told The Times: "I carry a lot of rage around inside me. People are always like, 'Oh, he's like my best mate'. Well, no. I am not your f**king best mate. "I don't really know how people can be alive for more than six days without rage. If you live in this world, how can you not have it? "It's the conversation I have with people (more)...
- 3/26/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
I Love You Phillip Morris (15)
(Glen Ficarra, John Requa, 2009, Us) Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor. 97 mins
Jim Carrey doesn't just play gay here, he plays flaming, in-your-face, heels-and-hotpants gay. And it kind of suits him. A police officer-turned-con man, his character is led even further astray when he falls for a fellow prison inmate (McGregor), and their courtship is treated like a traditional Hollywood love affair – albeit one full of prison breaks, audacious deceptions and outrageous accessorising. Gleefully trashy, at times exhaustingly unpredictable, it's certainly a brave move.
The Scouting Book For Boys (15)
(Tom Harper, 2009, UK) Thomas Turgoose, Holly Grainger, Rafe Spall. 93 mins
High hopes have been pinned on this, with Skins scribe Jack Thorne and plenty of young talent on board. Set in a Norfolk caravan camp, it's the tale of a boy-girl friendship developing into something else – quite what is up for grabs when they hatch a fake-kidnapping plan.
(Glen Ficarra, John Requa, 2009, Us) Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor. 97 mins
Jim Carrey doesn't just play gay here, he plays flaming, in-your-face, heels-and-hotpants gay. And it kind of suits him. A police officer-turned-con man, his character is led even further astray when he falls for a fellow prison inmate (McGregor), and their courtship is treated like a traditional Hollywood love affair – albeit one full of prison breaks, audacious deceptions and outrageous accessorising. Gleefully trashy, at times exhaustingly unpredictable, it's certainly a brave move.
The Scouting Book For Boys (15)
(Tom Harper, 2009, UK) Thomas Turgoose, Holly Grainger, Rafe Spall. 93 mins
High hopes have been pinned on this, with Skins scribe Jack Thorne and plenty of young talent on board. Set in a Norfolk caravan camp, it's the tale of a boy-girl friendship developing into something else – quite what is up for grabs when they hatch a fake-kidnapping plan.
- 3/20/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Greenaway makes one thing very clear to Catherine Shoard: there is nothing more to life but sex and death
"I don't know much about you," says Peter Greenaway, sipping his mint tea, "but I do know two things. You were conceived, two people did fuck, and I'm very sorry but you're going to die. Everything else about you is negotiable."
Negligible, too. For Greenaway, there's sex and there's death and "what else is there to talk about?" He believes, he continues, as relaxed as if predicting rain tomorrow, "that all religion is about death and art's about life. Religion is there to say: hey, you don't have to worry – there's an afterlife. Culture represents the opposite of that – sex. A very stupid Freudian way of looking at it, but one is positive and one is negative. Especially against people like you. All religions have always hated females."
Steam billows...
"I don't know much about you," says Peter Greenaway, sipping his mint tea, "but I do know two things. You were conceived, two people did fuck, and I'm very sorry but you're going to die. Everything else about you is negotiable."
Negligible, too. For Greenaway, there's sex and there's death and "what else is there to talk about?" He believes, he continues, as relaxed as if predicting rain tomorrow, "that all religion is about death and art's about life. Religion is there to say: hey, you don't have to worry – there's an afterlife. Culture represents the opposite of that – sex. A very stupid Freudian way of looking at it, but one is positive and one is negative. Especially against people like you. All religions have always hated females."
Steam billows...
- 3/19/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The third week of the 13th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center has arrived, and we’re back to give you an idea of what to expect in the second half of arguably the best fest in the Windy City. We profile several of this week’s hottest tickets, including an anticipated screening hosted by Chicago’s own Jonathan Rosenbaum.
The first half of EU 2010 (which you can read about here and here) produced some memorable films including Sweden’s taut thriller “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Italy’s sumptuous romance “I Am Love,” and France’s exhilaratingly off-kilter re-telling of “Bluebeard.” As good as all of those films were, the festival has generally been offering stronger programming each week, and this is the best one yet. Out of the next four highlights, there are at least two that absolutely should not be missed.
It...
The first half of EU 2010 (which you can read about here and here) produced some memorable films including Sweden’s taut thriller “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Italy’s sumptuous romance “I Am Love,” and France’s exhilaratingly off-kilter re-telling of “Bluebeard.” As good as all of those films were, the festival has generally been offering stronger programming each week, and this is the best one yet. Out of the next four highlights, there are at least two that absolutely should not be missed.
It...
- 3/18/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Martin Freeman made his name in the The Office as the lovely Tim. Now he's playing another nice bloke in Nativity! So why is he so defensive about being typecast?
Martin Freeman is sitting opposite me in a London hotel, and he's being charming. He's already offered to fetch me some refreshments ("Well, if you were in my kitchen I'd get you a drink") and is responding to my questions with vigour, practically bouncing out of his chair as he talks.
We meet during his promotional tour for the film Nativity! It's billed as a "heartwarming and hilarious tale of the true meaning of Christmas" but don't worry – it's better than it sounds. Freeman plays Mr Maddens, a frustrated and frayed teacher at a bog-standard primary school who finds love, joy and personal redemption through directing the school nativity play. As you may expect, there are sing-along songs and cute...
Martin Freeman is sitting opposite me in a London hotel, and he's being charming. He's already offered to fetch me some refreshments ("Well, if you were in my kitchen I'd get you a drink") and is responding to my questions with vigour, practically bouncing out of his chair as he talks.
We meet during his promotional tour for the film Nativity! It's billed as a "heartwarming and hilarious tale of the true meaning of Christmas" but don't worry – it's better than it sounds. Freeman plays Mr Maddens, a frustrated and frayed teacher at a bog-standard primary school who finds love, joy and personal redemption through directing the school nativity play. As you may expect, there are sing-along songs and cute...
- 11/25/2009
- by Alice Wignall
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Horror, action, drama, and comedy - HollywoodChicago.com’s DVD Round-Up has it all. Where else can you read about the latest from internationally acclaimed auteur Peter Greenaway and the newest Mos Def comedy in one column? These are the recently released titles that you might have missed when you last updated your Netflix queue. See if any of them grab you enough to deal with “Very Long Wait”.
All four titles - “Deadgirl,” “Next Day Air,” “Nightwatching,” and “Triangle” - were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Deadgirl”
Photo credit: Mpi Synopsis: “Daringly original and genre-busting, Deadgirl is an odyssey into the soul of our alienated youth that takes the conventions of the horror and coming-of-age movies and turns them on their heads.
When high school misfits Rickie and Jt decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face...
All four titles - “Deadgirl,” “Next Day Air,” “Nightwatching,” and “Triangle” - were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Deadgirl”
Photo credit: Mpi Synopsis: “Daringly original and genre-busting, Deadgirl is an odyssey into the soul of our alienated youth that takes the conventions of the horror and coming-of-age movies and turns them on their heads.
When high school misfits Rickie and Jt decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face...
- 9/29/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
DVD Playhouse—September 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend.
By
Allen Gardner
The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend.
- 9/26/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A biopic is a tricky thing to master. Too often it becomes difficult to choose a proper focus, with filmmakers alternately making the mistake of either casting their net too wide or not wide enough. It's impossible to encompass the life of a person -- especially one who has accomplished a lot -- in a single feature-length film. Yet at the same time, it seems wrong and unjust to attempt to reduce a human being to a montage of episodic clips.
With that out of the way, it seems fair to say that Nightwatching actually handles this predicament rather deftly. A fictionalized depiction of a conspiracy theory being (perhaps) unwittingly immortalized in Rembrandt's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," the film succeeds in that it largely focuses on a lesser-known part of a well-known person's life, and it doesn't attempt to tell us too much, but only just enough.
Rembrandt (Martin Freeman) is a young,...
With that out of the way, it seems fair to say that Nightwatching actually handles this predicament rather deftly. A fictionalized depiction of a conspiracy theory being (perhaps) unwittingly immortalized in Rembrandt's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," the film succeeds in that it largely focuses on a lesser-known part of a well-known person's life, and it doesn't attempt to tell us too much, but only just enough.
Rembrandt (Martin Freeman) is a young,...
- 9/25/2009
- by Inna Mkrtycheva
- JustPressPlay.net
Love them or hate them, there’s no mistaking Peter Greenaway’s films for anyone else’s. From the beginning, Greenaway has combined a formal sense of composition rooted in the art of the 17th and 18th centuries (and, occasionally, Benetton ads) with a daring willingness to drift into abstraction, gamesmanship, and frank eroticism. Greenaway’s films owe as much to painting and theater as other films, but they could belong to no other medium. Even his weaker efforts, like 8 1/2 Women and The Pillow Book—with its nested images—push the visual language of filmmaking in directions ...
- 9/16/2009
- avclub.com
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Army of Darkness, Hero, An American Werewolf in London, The Big Bang Theory Season Two and Bonanza. Yes, some of us are even excited about the debut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which drops today on Blu-ray.
Check them out.
Movies
An American Werewolf in London (Full Moon Edition) ~ David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne (Blu-ray)
Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition) ~ Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz (Blu-ray)
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn ~ Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, and Michael Dorn (DVD)
Child’s Play ~ Roslyn Alexander, Jack Colvin,...
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Army of Darkness, Hero, An American Werewolf in London, The Big Bang Theory Season Two and Bonanza. Yes, some of us are even excited about the debut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which drops today on Blu-ray.
Check them out.
Movies
An American Werewolf in London (Full Moon Edition) ~ David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne (Blu-ray)
Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition) ~ Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz (Blu-ray)
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn ~ Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, and Michael Dorn (DVD)
Child’s Play ~ Roslyn Alexander, Jack Colvin,...
- 9/15/2009
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
It's been hard to forgive Peter Greenaway, above all, for the howling miscreant-ism of "8 1/2 Women" (1999). His particularized brand of hyper-structural art cinema -- and Greenaway's movies have always been stylistically distinctly his, which is no mean achievement -- had already been in self-involved decline ("The Pillow Book," etc.), but "8 1/2 Women" was a cliff edge, a film beyond which any globally respected career would have to take a good stoning, creep shamefacedly into a crawlspace somewhere and work on a sensibility overhaul while hoping we'd soon forget all about it. Greenaway has more or less hibernated since -- a short here or there, and beginning in 2003 he churned out four connected features known as "The Tulse Luper Suitcases" that saw only festival screens, and went unreleased everywhere.
I still appreciate Greenaway, even if his movies are sometimes unbearable -- his obviously honest compulsion to construct intricate Erector Set narrative contraptions, and...
I still appreciate Greenaway, even if his movies are sometimes unbearable -- his obviously honest compulsion to construct intricate Erector Set narrative contraptions, and...
- 9/15/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Our Peter Greenaway show - that's episode 112, by the way - turned out to be such a smash that we decided his latest film, Nightwatching, new to DVD, was an essential inclusion for our latest roundup of new arthouse films to hit store shelves. This one's special, though, because along with a long-overdue chat about Kelly Reichardt's acclaimed Wendy and Lucy, we're joined by filmmaker and recurring guest Eduardo Lucatero, who is such a lucky bastard that he got to go to Cannes this year. We'll be hitting him up for all he's worth. Listen now [1] Download the show in a seperate window [2] [1] http://www.soundonsight.org/SoundReviews/Episode128.mp3 [2] http://www.soundonsight.org/SoundReviews/Episode128.mp3...
- 6/24/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
W Magazine Bruce Willis and his new wife star in quite a photo shoot. Is it weird that I totally miss Bruce Willis?
BlogStage Annette Bening as Medea at UCLA. I expect reports from California readers in September! Or maybe I should fly out myself? It's been ages
Kenneth in the (212) meets Susan Seidelman and talks Desperately Seeking Susan
Topless Robot 2,500 Smurfs?! Dear god
Planet Fabulon "what becomes a legend most" -- I haven't seen this ad campaign in so long: Natalie Wood, Bette Davis, Marlene Deitrich? Wheeee
Pop Seoul John Woo to choose between Rain and Won Bin for next action pic. Isn't that a win/win?
Russia Magazine Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) is making a movie that sounds suspiciously like Knight Rider. I guess that fits into his whole ouevre of bizarre action films that require 23 times the usual amounts of suspension of disbelief
Big Screen Little...
BlogStage Annette Bening as Medea at UCLA. I expect reports from California readers in September! Or maybe I should fly out myself? It's been ages
Kenneth in the (212) meets Susan Seidelman and talks Desperately Seeking Susan
Topless Robot 2,500 Smurfs?! Dear god
Planet Fabulon "what becomes a legend most" -- I haven't seen this ad campaign in so long: Natalie Wood, Bette Davis, Marlene Deitrich? Wheeee
Pop Seoul John Woo to choose between Rain and Won Bin for next action pic. Isn't that a win/win?
Russia Magazine Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) is making a movie that sounds suspiciously like Knight Rider. I guess that fits into his whole ouevre of bizarre action films that require 23 times the usual amounts of suspension of disbelief
Big Screen Little...
- 6/16/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Carlo Dusi, internationally respected producer of Little Ashes (directed by Paul Morrison) and The Absinthe Drinkers (directed by John Charles Jopson), has certainly come by his reputation for spectacular film selection honestly. Dusi, who previously produced such films as Broken Lines, Nightwatching, and A Life in Suitcases, is no stranger to the international independent film world. I spoke with Carlo Dusi about his most recent accession, The Absinthe Drinkers (starring The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Peter Facinelli along with Ondine star Alicja Bachleda) as well as his furiously release-approaching Little Ashes (starring How To Be star Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran and Matthew McNulty)....
- 4/20/2009
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
Chicago – The third week of the 12th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center is nearly upon us and we’re back to give you an idea of what to expect in the second half of arguably the best fest in the Windy City. We feature great new films from Ireland, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
- 3/18/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
AMSTERDAM -- The children's adventure Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (Crusade in Jeans), directed by Ben Sombogaart -- nominated for an Oscar for Twin Sisters -- has nabbed the major award of the 27th edition of the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. The jury, headed by helmer Paula van der Oest, gave the production from Kasander Film Co. the Golden Calf for best feature film.
Most awards, however, went to the family-drama Tussenstand (Half Time), directed by Mijke de Jong. The film won best screenplay, best sound and best actress for Elsie de Brauw. Tussenstand, which received its world premiere this summer at the Locarno Film Festival, also received the Dutch Critics' Award.
Peter Greenaway received best screenplay for Nightwatching, a conspiracy-theory investigation involving Rembrandt's painting, The Night Watch. The film, also produced by Kasander Film Company, additionally won the Golden Calf for best production design. The best actor award went to Marcel Hensema for playing the manager of Dutch rock legend Herman Brood in the biopic Wild Romance.
Rutger Hauer was one of the Dutch stars who handed out the prizes during the closing ceremony.
Most awards, however, went to the family-drama Tussenstand (Half Time), directed by Mijke de Jong. The film won best screenplay, best sound and best actress for Elsie de Brauw. Tussenstand, which received its world premiere this summer at the Locarno Film Festival, also received the Dutch Critics' Award.
Peter Greenaway received best screenplay for Nightwatching, a conspiracy-theory investigation involving Rembrandt's painting, The Night Watch. The film, also produced by Kasander Film Company, additionally won the Golden Calf for best production design. The best actor award went to Marcel Hensema for playing the manager of Dutch rock legend Herman Brood in the biopic Wild Romance.
Rutger Hauer was one of the Dutch stars who handed out the prizes during the closing ceremony.
- 10/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of Fests64th Venice Film Festival When: August 29th to September 8th, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('August 29, 2007'); Where: Venice, Italy Official Website: http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/Due in part to the ‘not ready for Cannes factor’, the surprise element was lacking today with Venice’s announcement of the 22 titles that would make up their official competition. The consensus was that this was going to be a strong year for American films and this will be confirmed by the newest film from the likes of Wes Anderson, Brian De Palma, Todd Haynes and Paul Haggis presenting their films and this doesn’t mean that the jury comprised of filmmakers Zhang Yimou, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Jane Campion, Paul Verhoeven, Catherine Breillat, Emanuele Crialese and Ferzan Ozpetek won’t have a tough time choosing the Golden Lion winner. Strong on war-themed films, English from the U.
- 7/26/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled another slew of premieres Tuesday, including gala slots for George Clooney starrer "Michael Clayton" and Gavin Hood's "Rendition" starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep.
"Clayton", the directorial debut of "Bourne Identity" screenwriter Tony Gilroy, will receive the red carpet treatment at Roy Thomson Hall. The Warner Bros. legal drama is expected to bow in Venice and possibly play Deauville before shifting to Toronto for its North American premiere. It opens Oct. 5 in the U.S.
Also getting a gala sendoff in Toronto is "Rendition", a New Line Cinema thriller set for an Oct. 12 release stateside and a Dec. 21 bow in Canada.
Hood's "Tsotsi" helped put South African films on the map, earning the top audience award at Toronto in 2005 before going on to win the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Elsewhere, films from veteran directors headed to the festival's Special Presentations sidebar include Neil Jordan's "The Brave One", a Warner Bros. release starring Jodie Foster and Mary Steenburgen, and Peter Greenaway's "Nightwatching", a Rembrandt biopic that will have its international premiere here after bowing in the Netherlands.
"Clayton", the directorial debut of "Bourne Identity" screenwriter Tony Gilroy, will receive the red carpet treatment at Roy Thomson Hall. The Warner Bros. legal drama is expected to bow in Venice and possibly play Deauville before shifting to Toronto for its North American premiere. It opens Oct. 5 in the U.S.
Also getting a gala sendoff in Toronto is "Rendition", a New Line Cinema thriller set for an Oct. 12 release stateside and a Dec. 21 bow in Canada.
Hood's "Tsotsi" helped put South African films on the map, earning the top audience award at Toronto in 2005 before going on to win the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Elsewhere, films from veteran directors headed to the festival's Special Presentations sidebar include Neil Jordan's "The Brave One", a Warner Bros. release starring Jodie Foster and Mary Steenburgen, and Peter Greenaway's "Nightwatching", a Rembrandt biopic that will have its international premiere here after bowing in the Netherlands.
- 7/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- British actor Martin Freeman has been signed to play Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in Nightwatching, a film by director Peter Greenaway. Dutch producer Kees Kasander, a longtime collaborator of Greenaway's, said shooting will begin next month. Nightwatching will focus on the creation of The Nightwatch, one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, and the effect it had on his private life. The women in his life will be played by Sarah Polley (Saskia) and Minnie Driver (Geertje). The project is closely linked with an exhibition on Rembrandt, also titled Nightwatching, developed by Greenaway for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.
AMSTERDAM -- British actor Martin Freeman has been signed to play Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in Nightwatching, a film by director Peter Greenaway. Dutch producer Kees Kasander, a longtime collaborator of Greenaway's, said shooting will begin next month. Nightwatching will focus on the creation of The Nightwatch, one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, and the effect it had on his private life. The women in his life will be played by Sarah Polley (Saskia) and Minnie Driver (Geertje). The project is closely linked with an exhibition on Rembrandt, also titled Nightwatching, developed by Greenaway for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.
According to European-Films.net Pride & Prejudice star Matthew MacFadyen has agreed to play Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway's oft-delayed biopic Nightwatching. The independent co-production tells the life story of the 17th century Dutch master, his controversial paintings and the tragic death of his wife and children. Filming is scheduled to begin this June in Poland.
- 4/25/2006
- IMDbPro News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.