The 61st BFI London Film Festival has announced its full lineup for the 2017 festival. Running October 4-16, the festival will screen 242 films with 29 world premieres, 8 international premieres and 34 European premieres. There will be on-stage Q&As with talent including Julian Rosefeldt & Cate Blanchett, David Fincher, Ian McEwan and Takashi Miike. In addition to the already announced opener and closer (Breathe and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri respectively)…...
- 8/31/2017
- Deadline
A father-and-son editing team has compiled a new anthology in which 100 prominent male figures reveal the lines that make them cry
The cover of a new collection of poetry should probably carry a sticker bearing Shakespeare's warning: "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry is an anthology of some of the most emotive lines in literature chosen by 100 famous and admired men, ranging from Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, John le Carré and Jonathan Franzen. Published next month and edited by the journalist and biographer Anthony Holden and his film-producer son, Ben, the book is winning praise for introducing male readers to unfamiliar works – and emotions.
Contributor Simon Schama has tweeted enthusing about his choice, Wh Auden's Lullaby, the poem that opens with the words "Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm." Auden turns out to be the...
The cover of a new collection of poetry should probably carry a sticker bearing Shakespeare's warning: "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry is an anthology of some of the most emotive lines in literature chosen by 100 famous and admired men, ranging from Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, John le Carré and Jonathan Franzen. Published next month and edited by the journalist and biographer Anthony Holden and his film-producer son, Ben, the book is winning praise for introducing male readers to unfamiliar works – and emotions.
Contributor Simon Schama has tweeted enthusing about his choice, Wh Auden's Lullaby, the poem that opens with the words "Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm." Auden turns out to be the...
- 3/23/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter system of press regulation.
They join people who have been victims of press misbehaviour in arguing that charter will give "vital protection to the vulnerable" from abuse of power by the press.
The signatories include broadcasters Stephen Fry, Clare Balding, Gary Lineker and Rory Bremner. Actor Emma Thompson has signed, as have Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Jonathan Miller.
Several film directors are on the list, such as Stephen Frears, Alan Parker, Mike Leigh, Beeban Kidron, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Daldry, Bill Forsyth, Peter Kosminsky, Terry Gilliam and Michael Apted.
Among the writers and playwrights are Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, Monica Ali, Helen Fielding, Michael Frayn, Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, David Hare, Alan Hollinghurst, Jk Rowling, Salman Rushdie,...
They join people who have been victims of press misbehaviour in arguing that charter will give "vital protection to the vulnerable" from abuse of power by the press.
The signatories include broadcasters Stephen Fry, Clare Balding, Gary Lineker and Rory Bremner. Actor Emma Thompson has signed, as have Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Jonathan Miller.
Several film directors are on the list, such as Stephen Frears, Alan Parker, Mike Leigh, Beeban Kidron, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Daldry, Bill Forsyth, Peter Kosminsky, Terry Gilliam and Michael Apted.
Among the writers and playwrights are Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, Monica Ali, Helen Fielding, Michael Frayn, Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, David Hare, Alan Hollinghurst, Jk Rowling, Salman Rushdie,...
- 11/29/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Fiction sometimes seems to contain almost as many recipes as cookery, but which are the most appetising?
James Bond was always fussy about his food – remember that breakfast in Casino Royale with "half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, and a double portion of coffee without sugar". Now William Boyd has taken 007's foodie fetishism to a new level with a footnoted recipe for salad dressing.
It opens up a whole new perspective on your bookshelves – what if you tried to live off the recipes buried between the covers of your favourite fiction? There's an old joke about Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) – you might not enjoy the novel, but you can certainly learn how to make the French classic dish boeuf en daube. But this is completely untrue: the dish is made by Mildred (a cook who seems to spend most of her time...
James Bond was always fussy about his food – remember that breakfast in Casino Royale with "half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, and a double portion of coffee without sugar". Now William Boyd has taken 007's foodie fetishism to a new level with a footnoted recipe for salad dressing.
It opens up a whole new perspective on your bookshelves – what if you tried to live off the recipes buried between the covers of your favourite fiction? There's an old joke about Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) – you might not enjoy the novel, but you can certainly learn how to make the French classic dish boeuf en daube. But this is completely untrue: the dish is made by Mildred (a cook who seems to spend most of her time...
- 11/8/2013
- by Moira Redmond
- The Guardian - Film News
(Cert 15)
There are moments - delirious, languorous, romantic moments - when this film appears to have the lineaments of a classic. Yet could it be that its epic, haunting story of tragic love in the second world war is too oblique and opaque, with too complex an enigma at its heart, to press the right commercial buttons?
I hope not. This is Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan that was his breakthrough into serious bestsellerdom, and, it is widely believed, raised him above the Amis-McEwan-Barnes triumvirate into a premier league of his own: the greatest living English novelist.
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There are moments - delirious, languorous, romantic moments - when this film appears to have the lineaments of a classic. Yet could it be that its epic, haunting story of tragic love in the second world war is too oblique and opaque, with too complex an enigma at its heart, to press the right commercial buttons?
I hope not. This is Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan that was his breakthrough into serious bestsellerdom, and, it is widely believed, raised him above the Amis-McEwan-Barnes triumvirate into a premier league of his own: the greatest living English novelist.
Continue reading...
- 9/6/2007
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Cert 18
The beginning is startling and beautifully shot. As a couple relax over a picnic in the countryside, a balloon thumps down to earth near them and threatens to take off again with a child on board. Onlookers appear and try to drag it to earth before dropping back down. One clings on too long before plummeting to his death. This vivid, colourful scene - bright red balloon, bright blue sky, bright green grass - haunts its characters and its audience. From here on, all is muted and downbeat. One of the survivors (Daniel Craig) is haunted by another (Rhys Ifans), who believes they now have an unbreakable bond. He becomes a virtual stalker and the adaptation of Ian McEwan's book, which starts as a thoughtful philosophical inquiry, becomes a less convincing thriller.
Craig is impressive as the angry lecturer, questioning concepts such as "enduring love" ("Is it just...
The beginning is startling and beautifully shot. As a couple relax over a picnic in the countryside, a balloon thumps down to earth near them and threatens to take off again with a child on board. Onlookers appear and try to drag it to earth before dropping back down. One clings on too long before plummeting to his death. This vivid, colourful scene - bright red balloon, bright blue sky, bright green grass - haunts its characters and its audience. From here on, all is muted and downbeat. One of the survivors (Daniel Craig) is haunted by another (Rhys Ifans), who believes they now have an unbreakable bond. He becomes a virtual stalker and the adaptation of Ian McEwan's book, which starts as a thoughtful philosophical inquiry, becomes a less convincing thriller.
Craig is impressive as the angry lecturer, questioning concepts such as "enduring love" ("Is it just...
- 4/8/2005
- by Rob Mackie
- The Guardian - Film News
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