In the brain-tickling eyesore that is “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” Tilda Swinton plays a narratologist, which is to say, someone who studies stories. Her character, Dr. Alithea Binnie, thinks she’s heard them all, so she’s ahead of the game when she suddenly finds herself at the center of a whopper, a modern-day fairy tale involving a djinn (Idris Elba) ready and eager to grant her three wishes. Some movies aspire to uncover the meaning of life. This one aims to uncover the meaning of movies — as director George Miller attempts to crack the all-encompassing formula for story, the way Albert Einstein did for theoretical physics.
That’s an awful lot for any filmmaker to bite off, but then, this is George Miller we’re talking about, and where else does one go after making the ne plus ultra of action movies, “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Many will...
That’s an awful lot for any filmmaker to bite off, but then, this is George Miller we’re talking about, and where else does one go after making the ne plus ultra of action movies, “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Many will...
- 5/20/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” follow-up “Thousand Years of Longing” is finally in production in Australia, well over two years after the project was first announced. Deadline confirms Miller is 20 days into the movie’s 62-day film shoot. Cast and crew will break for the holidays later this month and reconvene in early 2021 to finish production by spring. Miller is reportedly aiming to have the film finished by September 2021. As previously reported, MGM is on board as the film’s U.S. distributor and the cast is led by Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
While plot details for “Thousand Years of Longing” remain under wraps, “Fury Road” fans will be excited to learn that Miller has gotten nearly all of the Oscar-winning “Mad Max” craft team back together for his new movie. Oscar-winning cinematographer John Seale has come out of retirement to serve as Dp on “Thousand Years of Longing,...
While plot details for “Thousand Years of Longing” remain under wraps, “Fury Road” fans will be excited to learn that Miller has gotten nearly all of the Oscar-winning “Mad Max” craft team back together for his new movie. Oscar-winning cinematographer John Seale has come out of retirement to serve as Dp on “Thousand Years of Longing,...
- 12/9/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Exclusive: More than two years after it was announced and after a couple of delays, George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance-drama Three Thousand Years Of Longing is now underway in Australia, we can reveal.
The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days into its 62-day shoot. The team will break up over Christmas and reconvene early next year before wrapping in the early spring for a planned September 2021 delivery.
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba are starring in Miller’s latest, whose plot details are being kept under wraps. The visionary filmmaker previously described the project to us as an “anti-Mad Max” with plenty of interiors and dialogue but also punctuated with action scenes.
The estimated $60M budget is an indication that this is far from your average two-hander, however. Producer Doug Mitchell, Miller’s long-time producing partner, described the Sydney sets to us today...
The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days into its 62-day shoot. The team will break up over Christmas and reconvene early next year before wrapping in the early spring for a planned September 2021 delivery.
Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba are starring in Miller’s latest, whose plot details are being kept under wraps. The visionary filmmaker previously described the project to us as an “anti-Mad Max” with plenty of interiors and dialogue but also punctuated with action scenes.
The estimated $60M budget is an indication that this is far from your average two-hander, however. Producer Doug Mitchell, Miller’s long-time producing partner, described the Sydney sets to us today...
- 12/9/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Eamon Farren and Amber McMahon in Girl Asleep.
George Miller will present the Cameron Creswell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design at the 6th Annual Australian Production Design Guild Awards.
The event takes place on November 7 at Sydney.s Nida, and celebrates the achievements of designers across 24 categories. New categories this year include Virtual Reality and Game Design.
The Apdg will again acknowledge masters of the craft with three Industry Recognition Awards: The Cameron Creswell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design, the Global Creatures Artisan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Live Performance and the Canal Road Film Centre Artisan Award for Lifetime Achievement..
For the first time, the recipient of the Thelma Afford Theatre, Stage, TV or Film Costume Design Award will also be announced at the ceremony..
Nominations include:
Production Design on a Feature Film: Jonathon Oxlade - Girl Asleep, Jo Ford - Holding The Man, Roger Ford a.
George Miller will present the Cameron Creswell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design at the 6th Annual Australian Production Design Guild Awards.
The event takes place on November 7 at Sydney.s Nida, and celebrates the achievements of designers across 24 categories. New categories this year include Virtual Reality and Game Design.
The Apdg will again acknowledge masters of the craft with three Industry Recognition Awards: The Cameron Creswell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Design, the Global Creatures Artisan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Live Performance and the Canal Road Film Centre Artisan Award for Lifetime Achievement..
For the first time, the recipient of the Thelma Afford Theatre, Stage, TV or Film Costume Design Award will also be announced at the ceremony..
Nominations include:
Production Design on a Feature Film: Jonathon Oxlade - Girl Asleep, Jo Ford - Holding The Man, Roger Ford a.
- 10/28/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker..
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse has wrapped production on feature film The Dressmaker, which has been shooting at Docklands Studio Melbourne and various locations in Victoria for the past eight weeks.
Set in the 1950s, the movie follows Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage (Kate Winslet) who returns to her hometown in the Australian countryside to take care of her sick mother (Judy Davis), after being exiled when she was ten years old because of false accusations of murder. Having since become an expert dressmaker in Paris, Tilly transforms the town members with her couture creations and in the process, exacts revenge on the people who wrongly accused her of murder all those years ago.
The film also stars Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving, as well as featuring Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox , Caroline Goodall, Gyton Grantley, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook and Barry Otto.
.Working with Kate, Judy, Liam and Hugo was wonderful,...
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse has wrapped production on feature film The Dressmaker, which has been shooting at Docklands Studio Melbourne and various locations in Victoria for the past eight weeks.
Set in the 1950s, the movie follows Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage (Kate Winslet) who returns to her hometown in the Australian countryside to take care of her sick mother (Judy Davis), after being exiled when she was ten years old because of false accusations of murder. Having since become an expert dressmaker in Paris, Tilly transforms the town members with her couture creations and in the process, exacts revenge on the people who wrongly accused her of murder all those years ago.
The film also stars Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving, as well as featuring Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox , Caroline Goodall, Gyton Grantley, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook and Barry Otto.
.Working with Kate, Judy, Liam and Hugo was wonderful,...
- 12/17/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Kate Winslet and Judy Davis lead cast of the new film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse.
Production has begun on The Dressmaker at Docklands Studios Melbourne, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres).
As previously announced, the cast includes Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.
Joining the cast are Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.
Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is described as “a bittersweet comedy”, set in 1950s Australia.
Winslet plays Tilly Dunnage, who returns to her rural home town after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses. She reconciles with her ailing mother Molly, played by Davis, and goes about transforming the women of the town to get revenge on those who did her wrong.
The Dressmaker is set to release in Australia on Oct 1, 2015.
“I’ve waited years to...
Production has begun on The Dressmaker at Docklands Studios Melbourne, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres).
As previously announced, the cast includes Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.
Joining the cast are Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.
Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is described as “a bittersweet comedy”, set in 1950s Australia.
Winslet plays Tilly Dunnage, who returns to her rural home town after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses. She reconciles with her ailing mother Molly, played by Davis, and goes about transforming the women of the town to get revenge on those who did her wrong.
The Dressmaker is set to release in Australia on Oct 1, 2015.
“I’ve waited years to...
- 10/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving star in The Dressmaker, a tale of love, revenge and haute couture now shooting at Docklands Studios..
The ensemble cast includes Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.
There have been two changes in the cast since it was first anounced in Cannes. Elizabeth Debicki dropped out to play the lead in the Foxtel drama The Kettering Incident, replaced by Sacha Horler. And Isla Fisher dropped out and Sarah Snook took her role. .
Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy set in 1950s Australia.
Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) is a beautiful and talented misfit who after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses returns home to Dungatar - a fictional rural town - to right some wrongs of the past.
The ensemble cast includes Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.
There have been two changes in the cast since it was first anounced in Cannes. Elizabeth Debicki dropped out to play the lead in the Foxtel drama The Kettering Incident, replaced by Sacha Horler. And Isla Fisher dropped out and Sarah Snook took her role. .
Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy set in 1950s Australia.
Tilly Dunnage (Winslet) is a beautiful and talented misfit who after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses returns home to Dungatar - a fictional rural town - to right some wrongs of the past.
- 10/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki will join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in The Dressmaker, Jocelyn Moorhouse.s 1950s-set comic drama that.s due to shoot in Victoria in October.
The casting was announced at the Cannes Film Market where the UK.s Embankment Films is pitching the project to international buyers and co-representing the Us rights with CAA.
Adapted by Moorhouse from Rosalie Ham.s novel, it.s described as a Gothic tale of love, revenge and haute couture.
Winslet will play Tilly, a glamorous young woman who returns after many years in Europe to her small home town in rural Australia aiming to right some wrongs from the past as she was accused of murder when she was a child.
She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss and her most destructive deed. Davis will play her eccentric mother.
Hemsworth, who stars in The Hunger Games franchise,...
The casting was announced at the Cannes Film Market where the UK.s Embankment Films is pitching the project to international buyers and co-representing the Us rights with CAA.
Adapted by Moorhouse from Rosalie Ham.s novel, it.s described as a Gothic tale of love, revenge and haute couture.
Winslet will play Tilly, a glamorous young woman who returns after many years in Europe to her small home town in rural Australia aiming to right some wrongs from the past as she was accused of murder when she was a child.
She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss and her most destructive deed. Davis will play her eccentric mother.
Hemsworth, who stars in The Hunger Games franchise,...
- 5/11/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Winslet and Judy Davis are all set to join "Proof" director Jocelyn Moorhouse's romantic drama "The Dressmaker".
Winslet's character returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder. Trying to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Initially ostracised, she soon liberates and empowers the town's women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing - unexpectedly finding love and exacting sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Also onboard are director of photography Don McAlpine ("Moulin Rouge"), costume designer Tim Chappel ("The Adventures of Priscilla"), production designer Roger Ford ("Babe") and editor Jill Bilcock ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age").
Sue Maslin produces and filming begins in Victoria, Australia in October.
Source: Screen...
Winslet's character returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder. Trying to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Initially ostracised, she soon liberates and empowers the town's women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing - unexpectedly finding love and exacting sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Also onboard are director of photography Don McAlpine ("Moulin Rouge"), costume designer Tim Chappel ("The Adventures of Priscilla"), production designer Roger Ford ("Babe") and editor Jill Bilcock ("Elizabeth: The Golden Age").
Sue Maslin produces and filming begins in Victoria, Australia in October.
Source: Screen...
- 5/9/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki also board drama readying for October shoot.
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes.
Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps Us rights with CAA.
Winslet will play an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Although ostracised, as an exponent of the most stunning 1950’s haute couture inspired by Madame Vionnet and Balenciaga, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. She unexpectedly finds love and ultimately exacts sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Jocelyn Moorhouse ([link...
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes.
Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps Us rights with CAA.
Winslet will play an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Although ostracised, as an exponent of the most stunning 1950’s haute couture inspired by Madame Vionnet and Balenciaga, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. She unexpectedly finds love and ultimately exacts sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Jocelyn Moorhouse ([link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Films directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, Michael Rowe and Ben Chessell received a total of $4.4 million in funding at Screen Australia.s board meeting on Wednesday.
The agency said the three features will generate almost $25 million in production investment. The casts include Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Melissa George and Canadian Roy Dupuis.
Winslet and Davis will star in writer/director Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin.s comic drama The Dressmaker.. Adapted from Rosalie Ham.s novel, it.s described as a Gothic tale of love, revenge and haute couture.. Winslet will play Tilly, a glamorous young woman who returns after many years in Europe to her small home town in rural Australia aiming to right some wrongs from the past as she was accused of murder when she was a child. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss and her most destructive deed. Davis will play her eccentric mother.
The agency said the three features will generate almost $25 million in production investment. The casts include Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Melissa George and Canadian Roy Dupuis.
Winslet and Davis will star in writer/director Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin.s comic drama The Dressmaker.. Adapted from Rosalie Ham.s novel, it.s described as a Gothic tale of love, revenge and haute couture.. Winslet will play Tilly, a glamorous young woman who returns after many years in Europe to her small home town in rural Australia aiming to right some wrongs from the past as she was accused of murder when she was a child. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss and her most destructive deed. Davis will play her eccentric mother.
- 8/7/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Underbelly: Razor took home two key awards at the Australian Production Design Guild Awards last night.
The ceremony was hosted by Academy Award winner Adam Eliot with presenters At the Movies’ Margaret Pomeranz, Rod Allan, CEO of Docklands Studios Melbourne and Simon Wood, designer of video game La Noire.
The Underbelly series’ production designer Patrick Reardon and art director Scott Bird won the best Design for a Television Drama while Louise Wakefield won for Best Costume design for Screen.
In the Best Design for a Feature category went to Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’s Roger Ford, production designer, and Lucinda Thomson, art director.
CommBank’s Centenary ad won best design on an advertisement, awarding Annie Beauchamp, Nicki Gardiner and Edward Cotton.
A full list of winners can be found on the Apdg website.
The ceremony was hosted by Academy Award winner Adam Eliot with presenters At the Movies’ Margaret Pomeranz, Rod Allan, CEO of Docklands Studios Melbourne and Simon Wood, designer of video game La Noire.
The Underbelly series’ production designer Patrick Reardon and art director Scott Bird won the best Design for a Television Drama while Louise Wakefield won for Best Costume design for Screen.
In the Best Design for a Feature category went to Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’s Roger Ford, production designer, and Lucinda Thomson, art director.
CommBank’s Centenary ad won best design on an advertisement, awarding Annie Beauchamp, Nicki Gardiner and Edward Cotton.
A full list of winners can be found on the Apdg website.
- 10/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Australian Production Design Guild has presented its award for outstanding contribution to design to Roger Kirk.
Kirk is an Australian costume designer working primarily in stage and film. He has also previously won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The King and I and was nominated for 42nd Street. His Australian film credits include Brilliant Lies, Dad and Dave: On Our Selection, and Turtle Beach.
The Apdg Awards were presented at Sydney's Doltone House by Oscar-winner Adam Elliot. Other presenters included the ABC's Margaret Pomeranz, Aftrs head of screen design Sarah Stollman, Docklands Studios Melbourne chief executive Rod Allan, and L.A. Noire game designer Simon Wood.
The full list of Apdg Award winners can be found below and showreels at the Apdg website.
The Aftrs 2012 Apdg - Student Award Lauren O Flaherty - Designer Loot
The Digistor...
Kirk is an Australian costume designer working primarily in stage and film. He has also previously won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The King and I and was nominated for 42nd Street. His Australian film credits include Brilliant Lies, Dad and Dave: On Our Selection, and Turtle Beach.
The Apdg Awards were presented at Sydney's Doltone House by Oscar-winner Adam Elliot. Other presenters included the ABC's Margaret Pomeranz, Aftrs head of screen design Sarah Stollman, Docklands Studios Melbourne chief executive Rod Allan, and L.A. Noire game designer Simon Wood.
The full list of Apdg Award winners can be found below and showreels at the Apdg website.
The Aftrs 2012 Apdg - Student Award Lauren O Flaherty - Designer Loot
The Digistor...
- 10/18/2012
- by Staff Reporter
- IF.com.au
The Australian Production Design Guild has announced its shortlist for this years awards for excellence in stage and screen design.
The announcement:
The Australian Production Design Guild in association with Docklands Studios Melbourne is delighted to announce the nominees for the 2012 Awards for Excellence in Stage and Screen Design
The Australian Production Design Guild’s 2012 Awards for Excellence in Stage and Screen Design will be held on Wednesday 17th October 2012 at Parkview Room, Doltone House Darling Island Wharf from 6.30pm, where the winners across 16 categories will be announced.
“The number of entries was impressive” announced George Liddle, Chair of the Apdg Board. With so many quality entrants this year it was difficult for the judges to make a decision.
The Apdg Awards is an annual event first held in 2011. It gathers together a myriad of talents and associated production design professionals from the Australian film, television, stage and interactive multimedia...
The announcement:
The Australian Production Design Guild in association with Docklands Studios Melbourne is delighted to announce the nominees for the 2012 Awards for Excellence in Stage and Screen Design
The Australian Production Design Guild’s 2012 Awards for Excellence in Stage and Screen Design will be held on Wednesday 17th October 2012 at Parkview Room, Doltone House Darling Island Wharf from 6.30pm, where the winners across 16 categories will be announced.
“The number of entries was impressive” announced George Liddle, Chair of the Apdg Board. With so many quality entrants this year it was difficult for the judges to make a decision.
The Apdg Awards is an annual event first held in 2011. It gathers together a myriad of talents and associated production design professionals from the Australian film, television, stage and interactive multimedia...
- 8/31/2012
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
With the inaugural Australian Production Design Guild Awards this month, Joanne Whitehead speaks with a selection of Australia’s leading production designers about the state of their sector in the industry.
While we so often hear the tired ‘it’s an honour just to be nominated’, during the awards season, for Australian production designers, the ceremony itself will feel like a reward, as their achievements are finally recognised on September 21, when the Australian Production Design Guild (Apdg) will hold their inaugural awards.
Though associations like Apdg existed in other countries before, the Australian guild is relatively new, created in 2009 by founding members Michael Scott Mitchell, Steven Jones Evans, George Liddle, Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Colin Gibson and Owen Paterson. With the awards approaching, it felt appropriate to delve a little further into the often misunderstood role of a production designer.
There are many departments who create the overall feel of...
While we so often hear the tired ‘it’s an honour just to be nominated’, during the awards season, for Australian production designers, the ceremony itself will feel like a reward, as their achievements are finally recognised on September 21, when the Australian Production Design Guild (Apdg) will hold their inaugural awards.
Though associations like Apdg existed in other countries before, the Australian guild is relatively new, created in 2009 by founding members Michael Scott Mitchell, Steven Jones Evans, George Liddle, Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Colin Gibson and Owen Paterson. With the awards approaching, it felt appropriate to delve a little further into the often misunderstood role of a production designer.
There are many departments who create the overall feel of...
- 9/21/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark opens with a basement-set flashback set over one hundred years ago, and it’s a fantastic sequence. Disturbing and chilling without being graphic, the beginning builds in intensity to a deliciously horrific payoff. Yet, as well-made as the rest of the film is, the majority of it is decidedly restrained and, ultimately, nothing impresses as much as its opening moments.
Depressed youngster Sally (Bailee Madison) is especially unhappy with being sent across the country to live in a creepy old mansion with her workaholic, house-renovating father (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes). Pouting, Sally takes to playing in the dark basement and starts to hear strange sounds. She soon discovers the mansion houses little creatures who possess an odd penchant for feeding on children’s teeth. Naturally, her father doesn’t believe her. He’s only interested in finishing the...
Depressed youngster Sally (Bailee Madison) is especially unhappy with being sent across the country to live in a creepy old mansion with her workaholic, house-renovating father (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes). Pouting, Sally takes to playing in the dark basement and starts to hear strange sounds. She soon discovers the mansion houses little creatures who possess an odd penchant for feeding on children’s teeth. Naturally, her father doesn’t believe her. He’s only interested in finishing the...
- 8/26/2011
- by Glenn Kay
- newsinfilm.com
It’s been four years since Encore published its Top 20 Directors and Producers list, and we felt it was time to compile a new, more comprehensive list that included professionals working across all areas – film, television and Tvc production – as well as the leaders and decision-makers that determine the direction of the industry.
Instead of having a limited list of panellists, we consulted with the main agencies and organisations, and also asked our readers to nominate their candidates. We ended up with a list of more than 200 screen industry professionals, and deciding the final 50 was indeed a difficult task. Of course, some other very influential and successful people didn’t make the final cut, but there were only 50 spots and too many talented men and women!
We hope you’ll enjoy – or not, and if so, debate it passionately – the selection of what will become our annual Power 50 list.
1. Christopher Mapp...
Instead of having a limited list of panellists, we consulted with the main agencies and organisations, and also asked our readers to nominate their candidates. We ended up with a list of more than 200 screen industry professionals, and deciding the final 50 was indeed a difficult task. Of course, some other very influential and successful people didn’t make the final cut, but there were only 50 spots and too many talented men and women!
We hope you’ll enjoy – or not, and if so, debate it passionately – the selection of what will become our annual Power 50 list.
1. Christopher Mapp...
- 6/22/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
We're doing this a little different than we did the male and female performances... but we're still skipping the 2009 films -- we'll get to those soon
the list #100-76, #75-51, #50-31, #30-16 and #15-1.
Awards for 2009 begin tomorrow or thereabouts.
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*****
***
**
Here we go again...
75 The Fountain dir. Darren Aronofsky (2006)
Who needs drugs when you can snort Aronofsky movies?
74 thirteen dir Catherine Hardwicke (2003)
I still maintain that this was a stunning debut, deeply felt and ferociously performed. I'm still confused about what followed with Hardwicke.
73 Monsoon Wedding dir. Mira Nair (2001, released 2002)
For its color, energy and beauty and for one of my all-time favorite portraits of extended family love. Naseeruddin Shah and Shefali Shetty jerk my tears every time. Plus a great soundtrack.
72 Kings and Queen (Kings and Queen) dir. Arnaud Desplechin (2004, released in 2005)
Anchored by two of the most important French actors of the decade (Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos...
the list #100-76, #75-51, #50-31, #30-16 and #15-1.
Awards for 2009 begin tomorrow or thereabouts.
***
***
*****
***
**
Here we go again...
75 The Fountain dir. Darren Aronofsky (2006)
Who needs drugs when you can snort Aronofsky movies?
74 thirteen dir Catherine Hardwicke (2003)
I still maintain that this was a stunning debut, deeply felt and ferociously performed. I'm still confused about what followed with Hardwicke.
73 Monsoon Wedding dir. Mira Nair (2001, released 2002)
For its color, energy and beauty and for one of my all-time favorite portraits of extended family love. Naseeruddin Shah and Shefali Shetty jerk my tears every time. Plus a great soundtrack.
72 Kings and Queen (Kings and Queen) dir. Arnaud Desplechin (2004, released in 2005)
Anchored by two of the most important French actors of the decade (Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos...
- 1/13/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Quiet American
When The Quiet American, Graham Greene's tale of political intrigue and waning colonialism in French Indochina, was made into a film in 1958 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, much of the novel's political insights and "ugly Americanism" were eliminated. Before U.S. involvement in Vietnam, there was little point. A new version by director Phillip Noyce, more than a quarter-century after the fall of Saigon, restores the political context, but it's nearly as pointless. Years of movies, books, memoirs and TV shows about the war have made Greene's revelations about U.S. subterfuge in that country during the 1950s yesteryear's news.
Michael Caine delivers a tone-perfect performance as the story's narrator, a cynical and aloof British reporter grown accustomed to the privileges of a colonial lifestyle. Brendan Fraser achieves the creepy self-righteousness of the title character but not quite his stunning political naivete. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle and designer Roger Ford marvelously evoke the decadent pleasures of a decaying, sensual Saigon where boozing and whoring can obliterate the existence of jungle warfare. But the film feels dated both in its message and style.
Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan's script follows Greene's story to the letter. Indeed, the book itself feels like a novelization of a screenplay with its swiftly delineated characters, set pieces and exotic milieu. Caine's Thomas Fowler is one of Greene's Englishmen gone soft in a dangerous tropical clime. His cozy life gets upset by the arrival of Fraser's idealistic and, initially, fawning American, an aid worker who wants to do good and save people in the Third World.
Trouble is, one of the people Alden Pyle most wants to save is Phuong (Hai Yen Do), an ethereal beauty who is Fowler's mistress. On top of this sexual rivalry, the Times wants to recall the indolent Fowler to London. This energizes his journalism, if only to stave off the recall and continue his opium-induced existence. But an investigation into corruption and massacres in the field leads him to the revelation that Pyle is not as "quiet" as he lets on.
Noyce paces the film well and makes good use of his Vietnam locations, but the script does not strengthen the thin narration nor deepen the superficial characterizations that plague the novel. This is essentially a three-character melodrama with a colorful wartime backdrop.
THE QUIET AMERICAN
Miramax Films
Intermedia Film Equities USA/Mirage Enterprises/Saga Pictures
Credits:
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan
Based on the novel by: Graham Greene
Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, William Horberg
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Chris Sievernich, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer: Roger Ford
Music: Craig Armstrong
Editor: John Scott
Cast:
Thomas Fowler: Michael Caine
Alden Pyle: Brendan Fraser
Phuong: Hai Yen Do
Inspector: Rade Serbedzija
Hinh: Tzi Ma
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Michael Caine delivers a tone-perfect performance as the story's narrator, a cynical and aloof British reporter grown accustomed to the privileges of a colonial lifestyle. Brendan Fraser achieves the creepy self-righteousness of the title character but not quite his stunning political naivete. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle and designer Roger Ford marvelously evoke the decadent pleasures of a decaying, sensual Saigon where boozing and whoring can obliterate the existence of jungle warfare. But the film feels dated both in its message and style.
Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan's script follows Greene's story to the letter. Indeed, the book itself feels like a novelization of a screenplay with its swiftly delineated characters, set pieces and exotic milieu. Caine's Thomas Fowler is one of Greene's Englishmen gone soft in a dangerous tropical clime. His cozy life gets upset by the arrival of Fraser's idealistic and, initially, fawning American, an aid worker who wants to do good and save people in the Third World.
Trouble is, one of the people Alden Pyle most wants to save is Phuong (Hai Yen Do), an ethereal beauty who is Fowler's mistress. On top of this sexual rivalry, the Times wants to recall the indolent Fowler to London. This energizes his journalism, if only to stave off the recall and continue his opium-induced existence. But an investigation into corruption and massacres in the field leads him to the revelation that Pyle is not as "quiet" as he lets on.
Noyce paces the film well and makes good use of his Vietnam locations, but the script does not strengthen the thin narration nor deepen the superficial characterizations that plague the novel. This is essentially a three-character melodrama with a colorful wartime backdrop.
THE QUIET AMERICAN
Miramax Films
Intermedia Film Equities USA/Mirage Enterprises/Saga Pictures
Credits:
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan
Based on the novel by: Graham Greene
Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, William Horberg
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Chris Sievernich, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer: Roger Ford
Music: Craig Armstrong
Editor: John Scott
Cast:
Thomas Fowler: Michael Caine
Alden Pyle: Brendan Fraser
Phuong: Hai Yen Do
Inspector: Rade Serbedzija
Hinh: Tzi Ma
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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