Guy Pearce just so happened to be living in Amsterdam when the opportunity to play Dutch folk hero Han Van Meegeren came his way. Set in the aftermath of World War II, Dan Friedkin’s The Last Vermeer chronicles the Dutch painter and art forger as he strives to prove his innocence amid charges of aiding and abetting the Nazis. Despite playing a complex historical figure, Pearce felt a great deal of freedom in his portrayal since the majority of today’s audience lacks a frame of reference for Van Meegeren.
“Having been here in Holland for a year or two before ...
“Having been here in Holland for a year or two before ...
- 3/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Guy Pearce just so happened to be living in Amsterdam when the opportunity to play Dutch folk hero Han Van Meegeren came his way. Set in the aftermath of World War II, Dan Friedkin’s The Last Vermeer chronicles the Dutch painter and art forger as he strives to prove his innocence amid charges of aiding and abetting the Nazis. Despite playing a complex historical figure, Pearce felt a great deal of freedom in his portrayal since the majority of today’s audience lacks a frame of reference for Van Meegeren.
“Having been here in Holland for a year or two before ...
“Having been here in Holland for a year or two before ...
- 3/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There is a curious sense of ownership from forty-somethings over the cast of shows that were big when they were kids. Here in the UK the late ’80s and early ’90s were awash with the antipodean soap suds of Neighbours and Home and Away. After school we cornered the TV and watched on in eager anticipation as our onscreen heroes grew up with us. As our heroes left the soaps, many scored a well worn groove by leaping to Top of the Pops stardom along with the occasional phone in on the Saturday morning shows. For Guy Pearce however, the end of his three year stint on Neighbours pointed to a very different fate for the actor.
In all Pearce appeared in just four shy of 500 episodes, and like many headlining soap stars of the day there was little doubt he’d crop up again somewhere in the future. Thankfully...
In all Pearce appeared in just four shy of 500 episodes, and like many headlining soap stars of the day there was little doubt he’d crop up again somewhere in the future. Thankfully...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Guy Pearce in The Last Vermeer is now available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD
While Joseph Piller (Claes Bang), a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the witty, debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce) was hosting hedonistic soirees and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Göring and other top Nazis. Following the war, Piller becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration—a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence, Piller, with the aid of his assistant (Vicky Krieps), becomes increasingly convinced of Han’s innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save his life.
Directed By: Dan Friedkin
Screenplay By: James McGee and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
Based on the Book:The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez
Producers: Ryan Friedkin, Danny Friedkin,...
While Joseph Piller (Claes Bang), a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the witty, debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce) was hosting hedonistic soirees and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Göring and other top Nazis. Following the war, Piller becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration—a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence, Piller, with the aid of his assistant (Vicky Krieps), becomes increasingly convinced of Han’s innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save his life.
Directed By: Dan Friedkin
Screenplay By: James McGee and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
Based on the Book:The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez
Producers: Ryan Friedkin, Danny Friedkin,...
- 2/24/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If last week was a big one for Netflix (what with “Mank” and “Hillbilly Elegy” out in theaters), then this one belongs to Amazon, who have a pair of big projects launching via their Prime Video subscription service. The first is “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen’s anthology “Small Axe,” an epic and altogether unconventional series that doesn’t fit neatly into the “film” or “TV” categories: McQueen has made five features, all set in London’s immigrant West Indian community, dealing with aspects of cultural identify, racism and community. Of the three entries I’ve seen, this week’s entry, “Mangrove,” is the strongest — and a great way to kick off the cycle, with a courtroom drama for those who felt Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” didn’t give adequate time to Bobby Seale.
Amazon also launches “The Sound of Metal,” a drama about...
Amazon also launches “The Sound of Metal,” a drama about...
- 11/21/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on November 19th, 2020, reviewing the new films “Mank” and “The Last Verneer” (in theaters).
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Mank - Herman Mankiewicz (portrayed by Gary Oldman) was the co-screenwriter on Citizen Kane, and this film is his adventures in Hollywood from the pivotal years of the 1930s (told in flashback) to his struggle with Kane in the story’s present tense … including with Orson Welles (Tom Burke). This essentially becomes the story of Mank, William Randolph Hearst – whose life Kane is based on – and Hearst’s mistress, actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried). Davies friendship with Mank becomes the basis for Kane, which depicts him doing the lion’s share of screenplay work, disputed to this day. Directed by David Fincher. 4/5 stars.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The Last Vermeer - Guy Pierce portrays Han Van Meegeren, a real life Dutch artist...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Mank - Herman Mankiewicz (portrayed by Gary Oldman) was the co-screenwriter on Citizen Kane, and this film is his adventures in Hollywood from the pivotal years of the 1930s (told in flashback) to his struggle with Kane in the story’s present tense … including with Orson Welles (Tom Burke). This essentially becomes the story of Mank, William Randolph Hearst – whose life Kane is based on – and Hearst’s mistress, actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried). Davies friendship with Mank becomes the basis for Kane, which depicts him doing the lion’s share of screenplay work, disputed to this day. Directed by David Fincher. 4/5 stars.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The Last Vermeer - Guy Pierce portrays Han Van Meegeren, a real life Dutch artist...
- 11/20/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics is closing its second Toronto Film Festival deal, this one for Lyrebird, the Dan Friedkin-directed drama that stars Vicky Krieps, Guy Pearce, Roland Moller and Claes Bang. Deal being wrapped up is for North America, Latin American, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Asia. FilmNation has made a deal for the rest of the world.
It’s Spc’s second festival deal after it secured U.S. rights to the Michael Winterbottom-directed satire Greed, starring Steve Coogan and Isla Fisher.
In Lyrebird, Bang plays Joseph Piller, a soldier and member of the Dutch resistance who is tasked with investigating stolen art in the wake of World War II. His focus is on the flamboyant painter Han van Meegeren (Pearce), who allegedly sold a Vermeer to Hermann Goring. Selling stolen art to the Nazis is a crime punishable by death. After fighting in the Dutch Resistance,...
It’s Spc’s second festival deal after it secured U.S. rights to the Michael Winterbottom-directed satire Greed, starring Steve Coogan and Isla Fisher.
In Lyrebird, Bang plays Joseph Piller, a soldier and member of the Dutch resistance who is tasked with investigating stolen art in the wake of World War II. His focus is on the flamboyant painter Han van Meegeren (Pearce), who allegedly sold a Vermeer to Hermann Goring. Selling stolen art to the Nazis is a crime punishable by death. After fighting in the Dutch Resistance,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
FilmNation Entertainment said Tuesday that it will handle international sales for Lyrebird, Dan Friedkin’s directorial debut that had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this past weekend. FilmNation will now launch the pic at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday. 30West is already aboard handling domestic sales.
Guy Pearce stars in Lyrebird as Han van Meegeren, an eccentric Dutch painter being investigated for selling art to high-ranking Nazi officials at the end of World War II. Claes Bang (The Square) plays the soldier and resistance member leading the investigation. Roland Moller and Vicky Krieps also star.
James McGee and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby wrote the script, and Friedkin’s Imperative Entertainment is producing.
The pic is a Special Presentation at Toronto, where it will make its international debut September 11 at the Ryerson Theatre.
Tiff runs through September 15.
Guy Pearce stars in Lyrebird as Han van Meegeren, an eccentric Dutch painter being investigated for selling art to high-ranking Nazi officials at the end of World War II. Claes Bang (The Square) plays the soldier and resistance member leading the investigation. Roland Moller and Vicky Krieps also star.
James McGee and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby wrote the script, and Friedkin’s Imperative Entertainment is producing.
The pic is a Special Presentation at Toronto, where it will make its international debut September 11 at the Ryerson Theatre.
Tiff runs through September 15.
- 9/3/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Imperative Entertainment / 30West’s Dan Friedkin makes feature directorial debut.
FilmNation will kick off international sales this week on the wartime drama and Toronto selection Lyrebird starring Guy Pearce, Claes Bang and Vicky Krieps following its world premiere in Telluride.
Dan Friedkin’s feature directorial debut is set to receive its international premiere in Special Presentations on September 11.
Pearce plays Han van Meegeren, an eccentric Dutch painter investigated for selling art to top Nazi officials at the end of the Second World War. Bang plays the soldier and Resistance member leading the investigation into van Meegeren’s artistic dealings and alliances.
FilmNation will kick off international sales this week on the wartime drama and Toronto selection Lyrebird starring Guy Pearce, Claes Bang and Vicky Krieps following its world premiere in Telluride.
Dan Friedkin’s feature directorial debut is set to receive its international premiere in Special Presentations on September 11.
Pearce plays Han van Meegeren, an eccentric Dutch painter investigated for selling art to top Nazi officials at the end of the Second World War. Bang plays the soldier and Resistance member leading the investigation into van Meegeren’s artistic dealings and alliances.
- 9/3/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
What will the moviegoing public make of a film called “Lyrebird”? Oblique but apt, that title refers to an ostentatious Australian bird capable of mimicking the calls of countless other species — the relevance of which may not be immediately apparent to those intrigued by the true, post-World War II story of a notorious Dutch art dealer accused of selling a priceless cultural treasure to Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring.
After being arrested and tried for collaborating with the enemy, Han van Meegeren mounted a most unconventional defense: He claimed that the artwork in question, “The Supper at Emmaus,” was not in fact a Johannes Vermeer masterpiece but a masterful forgery, painted by none other than himself. While the truth is considerably more complicated, van Meegeren’s story reduces neatly to the kind of handsome, upscale night-out offering that still draws sophisticated older audiences to art houses — catnip for those who...
After being arrested and tried for collaborating with the enemy, Han van Meegeren mounted a most unconventional defense: He claimed that the artwork in question, “The Supper at Emmaus,” was not in fact a Johannes Vermeer masterpiece but a masterful forgery, painted by none other than himself. While the truth is considerably more complicated, van Meegeren’s story reduces neatly to the kind of handsome, upscale night-out offering that still draws sophisticated older audiences to art houses — catnip for those who...
- 9/1/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps and Roland Møller are starring in Lyrebird, the true story about an art forger who victimized the Nazis with bang-on copies of masterpieces. The film marks the directorial debut by Dan Friedkin, whose Imperative Entertainment is producing with Ridley Scott. Production is underway in the UK and Holland.
Dutch folk hero Han van Meegeren swindled millions of dollars from the Nazis by selling them forgeries of Johannes Vermeer paintings and is considered the most successful art forger of all time. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby wrote the script with John Orloff.
Friedkin is the principal behind Imperative, who backed Scott’s last-minute All the Money in the World re-shoot weeks before its release, to scrub scandal-scarred Kevin Spacey and replace him with Christopher Plummer, who got Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of J. Paul Getty. Scott in turn is backing up Friedkin’s filmmaker vision here,...
Dutch folk hero Han van Meegeren swindled millions of dollars from the Nazis by selling them forgeries of Johannes Vermeer paintings and is considered the most successful art forger of all time. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby wrote the script with John Orloff.
Friedkin is the principal behind Imperative, who backed Scott’s last-minute All the Money in the World re-shoot weeks before its release, to scrub scandal-scarred Kevin Spacey and replace him with Christopher Plummer, who got Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of J. Paul Getty. Scott in turn is backing up Friedkin’s filmmaker vision here,...
- 4/25/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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