Kristin Scott Thomas shines in Slow Horses as MI5 Deputy Director, proving her spy role potential. Slow Horses redeems Thomas' lost Mission: Impossible character, showcasing her spy skills. Thomas deserved a bigger role in Mission: Impossible, but Slow Horses is finally giving her the appreciation she deserves.
Since 2022, Kristin Scott Thomas has played the Deputy Director General of MI5, Diana Taverner, in Slow Horses, proving that her brief time on Mission: Impossible should have been expanded much further. Long before Slow Horses, Thomas made a name for herself during the 1980s and 1990s in projects such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient, Bitter Moon, and The Horse Whisperer. She has earned notable awards during her career, such as a BAFTA and an Olivier award. Slow Horses is Thomas' most recent television project, and Slow Horses season 4 is set to release in 2024.
Kristin Scott Thomas plays a secret intelligence agent in Slow Horses,...
Since 2022, Kristin Scott Thomas has played the Deputy Director General of MI5, Diana Taverner, in Slow Horses, proving that her brief time on Mission: Impossible should have been expanded much further. Long before Slow Horses, Thomas made a name for herself during the 1980s and 1990s in projects such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient, Bitter Moon, and The Horse Whisperer. She has earned notable awards during her career, such as a BAFTA and an Olivier award. Slow Horses is Thomas' most recent television project, and Slow Horses season 4 is set to release in 2024.
Kristin Scott Thomas plays a secret intelligence agent in Slow Horses,...
- 4/7/2024
- by Megan Hemenway
- ScreenRant
Quinn Donoghue, whose long career as a Hollywood publicist included beating the drum for Superman, Pink Panther and Three Musketeers films, Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s 21 Grams, has died. He was 86.
Donoghue died Dec. 28 in Los Angeles, his son Alex Donoghue announced.
Donoghue also served as a unit publicist on Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Quest for Fire (1981), Roman Polanski’s Frantic (1988) and Bitter Moon (1992), Michael Caton-Jones’ Rob Roy (1995), Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996) and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005).
He did publicity for Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther (1963), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983) and Cuba (1979).
Plus, he produced several films,...
Donoghue died Dec. 28 in Los Angeles, his son Alex Donoghue announced.
Donoghue also served as a unit publicist on Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Quest for Fire (1981), Roman Polanski’s Frantic (1988) and Bitter Moon (1992), Michael Caton-Jones’ Rob Roy (1995), Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996) and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005).
He did publicity for Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther (1963), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983) and Cuba (1979).
Plus, he produced several films,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Women in Love.“British erotica” has long been considered an oxymoron, and this distinction is not entirely unfounded. While European auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Tinto Brass, Walerian Borowczyk, and Luis Buñuel were treating copulation as a springboard to philosophical ruminations, the British were paying to see Barbara Windsor’s bra popping off during an outdoor aerobics session in Carry On Camping (1969). Is this assessment fair? Well…yes and no. While many films point to a nation of buttoned-up prudes and furtive voyeurs, a deeper inspection reveals a colorful mosaic of sexual mores and shifting social values as film became an established part of life.Part of the challenge of defining British erotica lies with the difficulty of defining erotica itself. There’s enormous variability in the human response, and where some prefer explicit material,...
- 2/21/2023
- MUBI
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
The Three Colors: Red restoration debuts as Three Colors: Blue and Three Colors: White continue.
Paris Theater
Prints of High and Low, The Haunting, and The World According to Garp play in a “Directors Selects” series, which also offers Coppola’s Dracula.
Film Forum
To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—The War Is Over and Stavisky—while Dr. Strangelove plays.
Bam
Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy—Hanagatami, Seven Weeks, and Casting Blossoms to the Sky—has screenings this weekend.
Museum of the Moving Image
Tron and Sleeping Beauty play on 70mm this weekend, while a series of zombie films screen.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers 35mm prints of Bitter Moon,...
Film at Lincoln Center
The Three Colors: Red restoration debuts as Three Colors: Blue and Three Colors: White continue.
Paris Theater
Prints of High and Low, The Haunting, and The World According to Garp play in a “Directors Selects” series, which also offers Coppola’s Dracula.
Film Forum
To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—The War Is Over and Stavisky—while Dr. Strangelove plays.
Bam
Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy—Hanagatami, Seven Weeks, and Casting Blossoms to the Sky—has screenings this weekend.
Museum of the Moving Image
Tron and Sleeping Beauty play on 70mm this weekend, while a series of zombie films screen.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers 35mm prints of Bitter Moon,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Vangelis Photo: Ian Patterson, licenced under Creative Commons
From Chariots Of Fire to Blade Runner, some of the most celebrated scores of the past century were created by one man: Greek composer Vangelis, who died on Tuesday from heart failure, at the age of 79. His passing was announced today by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Vangelis' other famous scores include those he wrote for Mel Gibson hit The Bounty, Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon, Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest Of Paradise and Oliver Stone's Alexander. He worked extensively on short films, which gave him a lot of freedom to experiment. He also enjoyed popular success in his native country with band The Forminx before going on to form Aphrodite's Child, which released several albums widely acclaimed for pushing musical boundaries. Later in his career he worked as a solo artist and also engaged in numerous collaborations. He was known for his love of unusual.
From Chariots Of Fire to Blade Runner, some of the most celebrated scores of the past century were created by one man: Greek composer Vangelis, who died on Tuesday from heart failure, at the age of 79. His passing was announced today by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Vangelis' other famous scores include those he wrote for Mel Gibson hit The Bounty, Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon, Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest Of Paradise and Oliver Stone's Alexander. He worked extensively on short films, which gave him a lot of freedom to experiment. He also enjoyed popular success in his native country with band The Forminx before going on to form Aphrodite's Child, which released several albums widely acclaimed for pushing musical boundaries. Later in his career he worked as a solo artist and also engaged in numerous collaborations. He was known for his love of unusual.
- 5/20/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The composer who helped shape the sound of the 1980s as much as any other, Vangelis, is dead from Covid-19 at 79. The Greek musician used electronic instruments to play classical-inspired melodies that became instant earworms in “Chariots of Fire” and “Blade Runner.” For his work on the 1981 sports drama, he won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Born in Agria, Greece, in 1943, Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou worked with pop bands in the 1960s as a producer, arranger, and writer, before forming the influential prog-rock band Aphrodite’s Child. Shortening his name to Vangelis, he got work the following decade as a composer for a series of nature documentaries, culminating in “Opera Sauvage,” his 1979 opus, which introduced some of his best-known themes. One piano-led track, “L’Enfant,” popped up many places over the next decade: as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, in a marching band rendition in “Chariots of Fire,” and...
Born in Agria, Greece, in 1943, Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou worked with pop bands in the 1960s as a producer, arranger, and writer, before forming the influential prog-rock band Aphrodite’s Child. Shortening his name to Vangelis, he got work the following decade as a composer for a series of nature documentaries, culminating in “Opera Sauvage,” his 1979 opus, which introduced some of his best-known themes. One piano-led track, “L’Enfant,” popped up many places over the next decade: as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, in a marching band rendition in “Chariots of Fire,” and...
- 5/19/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Vangelis, whose instantly recognizable musical theme for 1981’s Chariots of Fire won an Oscar and became a sort of aural shorthand for tales of endurance and triumph, died May 17, according to his representatives. He was 79.
His assistant Lefteris Zermas has confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause, saying only that Vangelis died in a hospital in France. Greek newspaper Ot is reporting that Vangelis was being treated for Covid-19.
Born Evangelos Odessey Papathanassiou in Greece, the composer and musician known worldwide simply as Vangelis, combined orchestral music, electronic synth sounds, jazz and ambient to create a then-new sound for the film that seemed to provide the musical equivalent of the ocean waves that crashed as the story’s Olympic runners sprinted down the beach. (Watch the video below.)
Vangelis would go on to compose scores for Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and...
His assistant Lefteris Zermas has confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause, saying only that Vangelis died in a hospital in France. Greek newspaper Ot is reporting that Vangelis was being treated for Covid-19.
Born Evangelos Odessey Papathanassiou in Greece, the composer and musician known worldwide simply as Vangelis, combined orchestral music, electronic synth sounds, jazz and ambient to create a then-new sound for the film that seemed to provide the musical equivalent of the ocean waves that crashed as the story’s Olympic runners sprinted down the beach. (Watch the video below.)
Vangelis would go on to compose scores for Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and...
- 5/19/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Vangelis, the electronic-music pioneer who won an Oscar for “Chariots of Fire” and composed such other landmark film scores as “Blade Runner,” died Tuesday, the Athens News Agency reported. He was 79.
The self-taught musician enjoyed a long career in European pop music before the magical colors and textures of his 1970s solo albums brought him to the attention of film and TV producers. The use of a track from his 1975 album “Heaven and Hell” as the theme for Carl Sagan’s PBS series “Cosmos” brought his name and music into prominence in America.
But it was his music for the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire” that brought him worldwide fame. Producer David Puttnam made the unorthodox choice for his period sports drama after hearing Vangelis’s music for the French nature documentary “Opera Sauvage” and the studio album “China.”
As he often did, Vangelis performed all of the instruments, including synthesizer,...
The self-taught musician enjoyed a long career in European pop music before the magical colors and textures of his 1970s solo albums brought him to the attention of film and TV producers. The use of a track from his 1975 album “Heaven and Hell” as the theme for Carl Sagan’s PBS series “Cosmos” brought his name and music into prominence in America.
But it was his music for the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire” that brought him worldwide fame. Producer David Puttnam made the unorthodox choice for his period sports drama after hearing Vangelis’s music for the French nature documentary “Opera Sauvage” and the studio album “China.”
As he often did, Vangelis performed all of the instruments, including synthesizer,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Paris Theater
An all-35mm Jane Campion retrospective is underway, with the director present for The Piano on Sunday.
Metrograph
Films by Varda, Chris Marker, Demy, and Resnais play in a new series on Left Bank cinema; “Metrograph A to Z” returns with Polanski’s Bitter Moon; Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet, and Perfect Blue screen late.
Museum of Modern Art
A Peter Bogdanovich retrospective has begun, as has a look at the films of Larry Clark.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of Black Orpheus and Pink Narcissus play this weekend.
Film Forum
A new restoration of Joseph Losey’s The Servant begins playing, while Donkey Skin screens on Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
As First Look commences the Museum offers “Second Look,” a retrospective of past festivals that includes a print of Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly and Loznitsa’s Donbass.
Paris Theater
An all-35mm Jane Campion retrospective is underway, with the director present for The Piano on Sunday.
Metrograph
Films by Varda, Chris Marker, Demy, and Resnais play in a new series on Left Bank cinema; “Metrograph A to Z” returns with Polanski’s Bitter Moon; Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet, and Perfect Blue screen late.
Museum of Modern Art
A Peter Bogdanovich retrospective has begun, as has a look at the films of Larry Clark.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of Black Orpheus and Pink Narcissus play this weekend.
Film Forum
A new restoration of Joseph Losey’s The Servant begins playing, while Donkey Skin screens on Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
As First Look commences the Museum offers “Second Look,” a retrospective of past festivals that includes a print of Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly and Loznitsa’s Donbass.
- 3/11/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The 76th Venice Film Festival is only one day old but has already been dominated by talk of director Roman Polanski, whose new movie An Officer And A Spy debuts in Competition tomorrow. The filmmaker won’t be at the festival or doing general press but he has given a strikingly candid, wide-ranging interview for the film’s press notes.
In the interview, 86 year-old Polanski discusses his motivation for making An Officer And A Spy, his experience in the MeToo and Times Up era and the enduring trauma of his wife Sharon Tate’s murder.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Polanski remains a controversial figure due to his arrest in 1977 for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He pled guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor and served 42 days behind bars but has been a fugitive of the U.S. ever since, having fled the country after learning that...
In the interview, 86 year-old Polanski discusses his motivation for making An Officer And A Spy, his experience in the MeToo and Times Up era and the enduring trauma of his wife Sharon Tate’s murder.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Polanski remains a controversial figure due to his arrest in 1977 for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. He pled guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor and served 42 days behind bars but has been a fugitive of the U.S. ever since, having fled the country after learning that...
- 8/29/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Happy Monday, everyone! Before we head into Memorial Day, we have more horror and sci-fi Blu-ray and DVD releases coming our way that should definitely keep genre fans busy for the three-day weekend. Scream Factory is keeping busy with their Blus for The Seduction, The Hunted, and the recent psychological thriller A Dark Place. Shout Select is showing Earthquake some love with their Collector’s Edition this week, and Kino Lorber has two stellar-looking Special Edition releases on their docket as well: Black Moon Rising and Bitter Moon.
Other exciting titles coming home on May 21st include White Chamber, She-Devils on Wheels, A Brilliant Monster, and Crank in 4K.
Black Moon Rising: Special Edition
When master thief Sam Quint is hired by the government to steal top-secret data from a crime organization, he hides the stolen data in the experimental supercar, The Black Moon. But when the car is then...
Other exciting titles coming home on May 21st include White Chamber, She-Devils on Wheels, A Brilliant Monster, and Crank in 4K.
Black Moon Rising: Special Edition
When master thief Sam Quint is hired by the government to steal top-secret data from a crime organization, he hides the stolen data in the experimental supercar, The Black Moon. But when the car is then...
- 5/21/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
A fire broke out on the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Sunday. Shortly thereafter, the flames caused the spire to collapse and spread to one of its landmark tower. The cathedral spokesman shared the heartbreaking news: “Everything is burning, nothing will remain from the frame.”
The 850-year-old cathedral is a landmark in history and on celluloid. It’s the primary backdrop for the classic 1939 film “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” as well as Disney’s 1996 animated feature remake. It has also appeared in the Oscar-nominated “Midnight in Paris” and 2004’s “Van Helsing.”
Here is a list of films either set or shot at the famed Cathedral.
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939)
There have been many versions of this 19th century tale by Victor Hugo, but this 1939 classic with Charles Laughton starring as Quasimodo and Maureen O’Hara playing the object of his love, Esmeralda, differed from the novel...
The 850-year-old cathedral is a landmark in history and on celluloid. It’s the primary backdrop for the classic 1939 film “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” as well as Disney’s 1996 animated feature remake. It has also appeared in the Oscar-nominated “Midnight in Paris” and 2004’s “Van Helsing.”
Here is a list of films either set or shot at the famed Cathedral.
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939)
There have been many versions of this 19th century tale by Victor Hugo, but this 1939 classic with Charles Laughton starring as Quasimodo and Maureen O’Hara playing the object of his love, Esmeralda, differed from the novel...
- 4/15/2019
- by Omar Sanchez
- The Wrap
Hulu has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in October, including the first installment of the horror anthology “Into the Dark” as well as more of season 1 of the Sean Penn drama “The First.” And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites reality shows from other networks, including various editions of “Little Women” and “The Real Housewives.”
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the Oscar-winning “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Raging Bull.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in October
Available October 1
Television
60 Days In – Complete Season 4
America’s Book of Secrets – Complete Season 1 & 2
American Pickers – Complete Season 18
Ancient Aliens – Complete Season 4
Bob’s Burgers – Season 9 Premiere
El Clon – Complete Season 1
Escaping Polygamy – Complete Season 3
Family Guy – Season 16 Premiere
Hoarders – Complete...
Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the Oscar-winning “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “Raging Bull.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in October
Available October 1
Television
60 Days In – Complete Season 4
America’s Book of Secrets – Complete Season 1 & 2
American Pickers – Complete Season 18
Ancient Aliens – Complete Season 4
Bob’s Burgers – Season 9 Premiere
El Clon – Complete Season 1
Escaping Polygamy – Complete Season 3
Family Guy – Season 16 Premiere
Hoarders – Complete...
- 10/1/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“No one does it to you like Roman Polanski” – a tagline that would take on some rather unfortunate new contexts only a few years after its unveiling, or the rare bit of marketing to properly sell an artist? Answer: both. But we’ll only focus on the second point, our impetus being a new, Cristina Álvarez López– and Adrian Martin-helmed video essay on some of the director’s close-quarter thrillers as a “cinema of invasion.”
Even this well-learned Polanski admirer, one who could fire off more than a few examples of how the assorted films — Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-sac, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, Frantic, Bitter Moon, and The Ghost Writer — overlap, was impressed and, more importantly, surprised by the connections drawn here. Taking full advantage of both the material at hand and ways of bringing them closer together (disassociated sound, split-screen), Álvarez López and Martin’s...
Even this well-learned Polanski admirer, one who could fire off more than a few examples of how the assorted films — Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-sac, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, Frantic, Bitter Moon, and The Ghost Writer — overlap, was impressed and, more importantly, surprised by the connections drawn here. Taking full advantage of both the material at hand and ways of bringing them closer together (disassociated sound, split-screen), Álvarez López and Martin’s...
- 10/25/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It's that time again. If you missed it in theaters or merely want to revisit here are some newish options from the past couple of weeks or just now.
New to DVD & BluRay
• The Choice - In which Broadway's favorite bloody bloody musical star, Benjamin Walker, tries his hand at the Sparksverse and even an annoying catchphrase "bother me"
• Jane Got a Gun - Does all the trouble that production had (director walk out / cast changes / delays) show up on screen? With Natalie Portman
• Joy - Decide for yourself if JLaw deserved a fourth Oscar nomination for this drama about a female entrepeneur
• Krampus - This horror flick got surprisingly good reviews. With Toni Collette & Adam Scott
• A Royal Night Out -If Diary of a Teenage Girl had you intrigued about Bel Powley check out her other introduction. Co-starring ubiquitous Sarah Gadon
• Son of Saul - This drama about a...
New to DVD & BluRay
• The Choice - In which Broadway's favorite bloody bloody musical star, Benjamin Walker, tries his hand at the Sparksverse and even an annoying catchphrase "bother me"
• Jane Got a Gun - Does all the trouble that production had (director walk out / cast changes / delays) show up on screen? With Natalie Portman
• Joy - Decide for yourself if JLaw deserved a fourth Oscar nomination for this drama about a female entrepeneur
• Krampus - This horror flick got surprisingly good reviews. With Toni Collette & Adam Scott
• A Royal Night Out -If Diary of a Teenage Girl had you intrigued about Bel Powley check out her other introduction. Co-starring ubiquitous Sarah Gadon
• Son of Saul - This drama about a...
- 5/3/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Den Of Geek Staff Sep 21, 2018
We have a list of the new Hulu movies and shows arriving in October 2018.
Happy Huluween!
Hulu is blessed to have a name that sounds roughly enough like "Hallow." That means it's basically honor-bound to bring the heat for Halloween. Thankfully for the October 2018 new releases, Hulu is bringing us the spookies that we need. The Blair Witch Project, The Others, and Child's Play all arrive this month. And if you're looking for some more wholesome creepies, The Nightmare Before Christmas should do. And if that weren't enough, Hulu is debuting its own horror show - anthology series Into the Dark.
For those shamefully unable to get into the Halloween spirit, Hulu is bringing in some other fun film options. Galaxy Quest, Music and Lyrics, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective should help out with that.
Then of course, are the usual and typically deep TV offerings.
We have a list of the new Hulu movies and shows arriving in October 2018.
Happy Huluween!
Hulu is blessed to have a name that sounds roughly enough like "Hallow." That means it's basically honor-bound to bring the heat for Halloween. Thankfully for the October 2018 new releases, Hulu is bringing us the spookies that we need. The Blair Witch Project, The Others, and Child's Play all arrive this month. And if you're looking for some more wholesome creepies, The Nightmare Before Christmas should do. And if that weren't enough, Hulu is debuting its own horror show - anthology series Into the Dark.
For those shamefully unable to get into the Halloween spirit, Hulu is bringing in some other fun film options. Galaxy Quest, Music and Lyrics, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective should help out with that.
Then of course, are the usual and typically deep TV offerings.
- 1/21/2016
- Den of Geek
We previously told you which new films and TV shows are coming to Netflix streaming next month, but now it’s time for the bad news: what’s leaving. Quite a few titles are due to expire next month, including Skyfall, The Brothers Bloom, Valkyrie, RoboCop, Life Is Beautiful, BASEketball, the underrated Along Came Polly and more. And if you’ve been putting off watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, time to get crackin’. Here’s a full list of titles that are leaving Netflix next month, via THR: Expiring May 1 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue (2012) 6 Bullets (2012) A Knight's Tale (2001) Airplane! (1980) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) All I Want for Christmas (1991) Along Came Polly (2004) An American Haunting (2006) Baby Genius: The Four Seasons Baby Genius: Underwater Adventures BASEketball (1998) Bitter Moon (1992) Boys Don't Cry (1999) Bratz: Babyz: The Movie (2005) Call Me Claus (2001) Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) Cecil B.
- 4/23/2015
- by Adam Chitwood
- Collider.com
In May we will see almost 60 titles leave Netflix, but nearly 60 titles are being added. One of the big warnings I will heed is that you’ve got until May 5 to watch Skyfall, so get on that. The Netflix original Grace & Frankie makes its debut on May 8 and stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston.
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, The Boxtrolls, and Fruitvale Station are just some of the great titles heading your way next month. Check out the full list of new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix.
Available May 1
Beyond Clueless (2014)
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Longmire: Season 3
No No: A Dockumentary (2014)
Shameless: Series 10
The Last Waltz (1978)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Underclassman (2015)
Witnesses: Season 1
Available May 2
Lalaloopsy: Festival of Sugary Sweets (2015)
LeapFrog Letter Factory Adventures: Amazing Word Explorers (2015)
Available May 3
Anita (2013)
D.L. Hughley...
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, The Boxtrolls, and Fruitvale Station are just some of the great titles heading your way next month. Check out the full list of new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix.
Available May 1
Beyond Clueless (2014)
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Longmire: Season 3
No No: A Dockumentary (2014)
Shameless: Series 10
The Last Waltz (1978)
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Underclassman (2015)
Witnesses: Season 1
Available May 2
Lalaloopsy: Festival of Sugary Sweets (2015)
LeapFrog Letter Factory Adventures: Amazing Word Explorers (2015)
Available May 3
Anita (2013)
D.L. Hughley...
- 4/22/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Want to watch that amazing train chase sequence from "Skyfall" one more time? Get to streaming the 2012 James Bond film before May 5, because it's one of the many films leaving Netflix's queue. How about the original "RoboCop"? You have until May 1 to comply, er, stream it. And if you want to catch up on Audrey Hepburn classics "Funny Face" and "Sabrina," those will also be leaving soon, as well as "Romancing the Stone" and its sequel, "The Jewel of the Nile."
Here's a complete list of the movies that Netflix is pulling from your streaming list. And, just so you're not left empty-handed, here's a list of what's new on Netflix in May 2015. (All titles and dates provided by Netflix and subject to change.)
Leaving May 1
"6 Bullets" (2012)
"12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue" (2012)
"A Knight's Tale" (2001)
"The Accused" (1988)
"Airplane!" (1980)
"Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982)
"All I Want for Christmas" (1991)
"Along Came Polly...
Here's a complete list of the movies that Netflix is pulling from your streaming list. And, just so you're not left empty-handed, here's a list of what's new on Netflix in May 2015. (All titles and dates provided by Netflix and subject to change.)
Leaving May 1
"6 Bullets" (2012)
"12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue" (2012)
"A Knight's Tale" (2001)
"The Accused" (1988)
"Airplane!" (1980)
"Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982)
"All I Want for Christmas" (1991)
"Along Came Polly...
- 4/22/2015
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Roman Polanski .... "unique artist who has managed to translate turning points in his own life so creatively." Photo: Guy Ferrandis
Now 80, Roman Polanski looks more like a man in his early sixties. His youthful demeanour may be partly explained by his becoming a father at 60. The mother of his 21-year-old daughter Morgane and 16-year-old son Elvis is actress Emannuelle Seigner, 48, whom he cast first in Tess, his 1979 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, and later in Bitter Moon, Frantic and most recently Venus In Fur.
The couple will be in attendance at the Locarno Film Festival, which starts next week and where Polanksi is guest of honour. He will give a talk on life and work at an event open to the public.
Polanski ‘s trademark has been an ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retaining a coherent vision of cinema, and he...
Now 80, Roman Polanski looks more like a man in his early sixties. His youthful demeanour may be partly explained by his becoming a father at 60. The mother of his 21-year-old daughter Morgane and 16-year-old son Elvis is actress Emannuelle Seigner, 48, whom he cast first in Tess, his 1979 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, and later in Bitter Moon, Frantic and most recently Venus In Fur.
The couple will be in attendance at the Locarno Film Festival, which starts next week and where Polanksi is guest of honour. He will give a talk on life and work at an event open to the public.
Polanski ‘s trademark has been an ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retaining a coherent vision of cinema, and he...
- 7/29/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Director Roman Polanski to hold a public masterclass at Swiss festival.
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, accompanied by his wife and actress Emmanuelle Seigner, is to be a guest of honour at the 67th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16), where he will give a public talk about film.
As well as the masterclass with young filmmakers of the Locarno Summer Academy and public on Aug 15, Polanski will receive a special award from the festival.
He will also introduce a screening of Venus in Fur alongside actress Seigner on Aug 14 on the Piazza Grande.
The director, actor, producer and screenwriter is best known for features includes Repulsion (1965), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974) and The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Oscar for best director.
Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “Roman Polanski’s films have been a regular feature of my trajectory as a filmgoer - making me laugh, shiver, think, and be emotionally moved.
“It has been...
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, accompanied by his wife and actress Emmanuelle Seigner, is to be a guest of honour at the 67th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 6-16), where he will give a public talk about film.
As well as the masterclass with young filmmakers of the Locarno Summer Academy and public on Aug 15, Polanski will receive a special award from the festival.
He will also introduce a screening of Venus in Fur alongside actress Seigner on Aug 14 on the Piazza Grande.
The director, actor, producer and screenwriter is best known for features includes Repulsion (1965), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974) and The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Oscar for best director.
Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian said: “Roman Polanski’s films have been a regular feature of my trajectory as a filmgoer - making me laugh, shiver, think, and be emotionally moved.
“It has been...
- 7/28/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Venus In Fur is from American playwright David Ives’ Tony Award-winning play, a two-character S&M tale set in New York. Now comes the film version, which is set in Paris and is in French. C’est quoi ce bordel? It’s the latest movie directed by 80-year old perv Roman Polanksi who has cast his pretty 46-year old French wife Emmanuelle Seigner in the lead. Venus In Fur is a kinky backstage tango that never quite sizzles, but it’s still an entertaining and often funny riff on the issues of sex and power. I just wish it had been filmed in English.
Venus In Fur opens with stage writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) alone in a Paris theater after a long day of auditioning actresses for his new play, an adaptation of an 18th century erotic tale that explores the explosive relationship between a domineering mistress and her submissive male subject/slave.
Venus In Fur opens with stage writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) alone in a Paris theater after a long day of auditioning actresses for his new play, an adaptation of an 18th century erotic tale that explores the explosive relationship between a domineering mistress and her submissive male subject/slave.
- 7/17/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Paul Verhoeven filmography screens at the Tiff Bell Lightbox through April 4th, culminating in a screening of his new “crowdsourced” film, Tricked.
Common wisdom dictates that cynicism and sentimentality are carefully linked, if not outright synonymous. In filmic terms, the most comfortable formulation of that argument is to align, for instance, romantic comedies with socially-acceptable (and, often, utterly noxious) notions of gender politics. Through the deployment of relationships and character profiles that support popular notions of how women and men behave, these movies are able to exploit comfortable mores in order to mainline easy pathos. What’s less common is to consider how that relationship between affect and effect can be subverted, perhaps because it’s relatively rare for truly subversive artists to be handed the proverbial keys to the kingdom.
Enter Paul Verhoeven. From his early Dutch features, including Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight) and Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange...
Common wisdom dictates that cynicism and sentimentality are carefully linked, if not outright synonymous. In filmic terms, the most comfortable formulation of that argument is to align, for instance, romantic comedies with socially-acceptable (and, often, utterly noxious) notions of gender politics. Through the deployment of relationships and character profiles that support popular notions of how women and men behave, these movies are able to exploit comfortable mores in order to mainline easy pathos. What’s less common is to consider how that relationship between affect and effect can be subverted, perhaps because it’s relatively rare for truly subversive artists to be handed the proverbial keys to the kingdom.
Enter Paul Verhoeven. From his early Dutch features, including Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight) and Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange...
- 3/2/2014
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Kristin Scott Thomas, one of film's most acclaimed and prolific actresses, says that she's essentially retiring from screen acting after three decades and sixty five films.
In a lengthy interview with The Guardian, the 53-year-old actress says this decision came about suddenly in September: "I just suddenly thought, I cannot cope with another film. I realised I've done the things I know how to do so many times in different languages, and I just suddenly thought, I can't do it any more. I'm bored by it. So I'm stopping."
She goes on to say: "The kinds of films that I do are usually quite rapidly put together, and it always seems to be a little bit of a shambles. I like filming, but what I don't like is having to rearrange things and rewrite scenes. I just can't be bothered. I'm often asked to do something because I'm going to...
In a lengthy interview with The Guardian, the 53-year-old actress says this decision came about suddenly in September: "I just suddenly thought, I cannot cope with another film. I realised I've done the things I know how to do so many times in different languages, and I just suddenly thought, I can't do it any more. I'm bored by it. So I'm stopping."
She goes on to say: "The kinds of films that I do are usually quite rapidly put together, and it always seems to be a little bit of a shambles. I like filming, but what I don't like is having to rearrange things and rewrite scenes. I just can't be bothered. I'm often asked to do something because I'm going to...
- 2/4/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
★☆☆☆☆ Numerous derelict cinemas litter the opening of Paul Schrader's now-infamous The Canyons (2013), screening out of competition at this year's Venice Film Festival; and more may follow this portent omen of things to come. Make no mistake - Schrader's latest isn't Basic Instinct 2 bad or even quote-a-long bad, as in the case of cult sensation The Room. Instead, it's just utterly incompetent in every possible way imaginable. Nolan Gerard Funk stars as Ryan, a young actor looking to make it big in Hollywood, who has just landed a role in a low-budget horror movie through his girlfriend, Gina (Amanda Brooks).
The film is being financed by Christian (porn-star James Deen), his girlfriend's rich boss. The Canyons begins with an excruciatingly awkward dinner, with Christian in a boastful mood and his girlfriend Tara (Lindsay Lohan) texting beside him. It turns out that Tara and Christian were once swingers. At this stage,...
The film is being financed by Christian (porn-star James Deen), his girlfriend's rich boss. The Canyons begins with an excruciatingly awkward dinner, with Christian in a boastful mood and his girlfriend Tara (Lindsay Lohan) texting beside him. It turns out that Tara and Christian were once swingers. At this stage,...
- 9/1/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Venus in Fur actress will also accept the Legend Award on behalf of her husband and director Roman Polanski.
The 11th annual Ischia Film & Music Festival is to celebrate women in the arts with awards for actress Emmanuelle Seigner, creative artist Amanda Eliasch and Oscar-nominated director Christina Comencini.
At the festival, which runs from July 14-21 off the coast of Naples, Seigner will receive the Ischia Actress of the Year award, Eliasch will receive the Enrico Job Prize for creativity and the Career Cult Award will go to Italian film director and novelist Comencini.
Seigner’s award will be presented on July 14, Eliasch’s on July 18 and Comenchini’s on July 20.
“We are happy to have the talented Emmanuelle Seigner with us in Ischia for the Festival’s July 14 opening night presentation – the Italian premiere of her latest film, Venus In Fur directed by her husband Roman Polanski, which is appropriately...
The 11th annual Ischia Film & Music Festival is to celebrate women in the arts with awards for actress Emmanuelle Seigner, creative artist Amanda Eliasch and Oscar-nominated director Christina Comencini.
At the festival, which runs from July 14-21 off the coast of Naples, Seigner will receive the Ischia Actress of the Year award, Eliasch will receive the Enrico Job Prize for creativity and the Career Cult Award will go to Italian film director and novelist Comencini.
Seigner’s award will be presented on July 14, Eliasch’s on July 18 and Comenchini’s on July 20.
“We are happy to have the talented Emmanuelle Seigner with us in Ischia for the Festival’s July 14 opening night presentation – the Italian premiere of her latest film, Venus In Fur directed by her husband Roman Polanski, which is appropriately...
- 7/2/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Factory 25 just dropped us a line to let us know they've lined up Andrew Semans' Nancy, Please and Joe Swanberg's Silver Bullets for distribution; and we've got the skinny, artwork, and trailers for both. Dig it!
From the Press Release
Factory 25 has acquired the Tribeca Film Festival film Nancy, Please, a twisted story of obsession and rage directed by Andrew Semans starring Eléonore Hendricks (Bad Fever, Daddy Longlegs and The Dish & the Spoon) and Will Rogers. Nancy, Please tells the story of Paul, a young, gifted, and aimless Yale University student who has just moved in with his girlfriend and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: As Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that he has left something behind, and only his obstinate and casually sinister former roommate, Nancy, can give it back to him.
From the Press Release
Factory 25 has acquired the Tribeca Film Festival film Nancy, Please, a twisted story of obsession and rage directed by Andrew Semans starring Eléonore Hendricks (Bad Fever, Daddy Longlegs and The Dish & the Spoon) and Will Rogers. Nancy, Please tells the story of Paul, a young, gifted, and aimless Yale University student who has just moved in with his girlfriend and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There’s just one snag: As Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that he has left something behind, and only his obstinate and casually sinister former roommate, Nancy, can give it back to him.
- 3/28/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
A world of cruelty, where men are cold-blooded and women cold-hearted … The BFI begins a Roman Polanski retrospective – with extended runs of Repulsion and Chinatown – that showcases the director's fascinating pathology
Any hopes that the BFI's forthcoming retrospective – its second in less than a decade – will turn attention away from the glum key terms of Roman Polanski's life (the Kraków ghetto, Manson, statutory rape) back to the riches of his work are based on false reasoning and certain to be dashed. To watch Polanski's films is to be reminded of what produced their dazed brutality, those early experiences of the oppression of the weak that stole his innocence and distorted his sense of things. If ever there was a body of work on intimate terms with cruelty and domination, and steeped in a vision of men as cold-blooded and women as cold-hearted, this is it.
When, in Polanski's first film,...
Any hopes that the BFI's forthcoming retrospective – its second in less than a decade – will turn attention away from the glum key terms of Roman Polanski's life (the Kraków ghetto, Manson, statutory rape) back to the riches of his work are based on false reasoning and certain to be dashed. To watch Polanski's films is to be reminded of what produced their dazed brutality, those early experiences of the oppression of the weak that stole his innocence and distorted his sense of things. If ever there was a body of work on intimate terms with cruelty and domination, and steeped in a vision of men as cold-blooded and women as cold-hearted, this is it.
When, in Polanski's first film,...
- 12/29/2012
- by Leo Robson
- The Guardian - Film News
After listening to the same old bands as I always have and next to no new music last year, I resolved to change that in 2012. These Top 10 choices are based on what I listened to most according to Last.fm with a little tweaking.
1) Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
Sledge hammer noise-pop with big-arse guitar riffs, pounding drums, sunny and lush vocals and some stupidly catchy melodies. Why this incredible duo aren’t the biggest band in the world, I have no idea. Best Track – Demons
2) Purity Rings – Shrines
Ambient and intimate synth-based pop soundscapes that manage to simultaneously sound sparse and expansive. Intelligent and soothing work. Best Track – Belispeak
3) Murder By Death – Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
The alt-country act continues to mature magnificently on their sixth album. Perhaps more understated than their previous albums, but the song-writing has come on in leaps and bounds. Best Track – I Came Around...
1) Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
Sledge hammer noise-pop with big-arse guitar riffs, pounding drums, sunny and lush vocals and some stupidly catchy melodies. Why this incredible duo aren’t the biggest band in the world, I have no idea. Best Track – Demons
2) Purity Rings – Shrines
Ambient and intimate synth-based pop soundscapes that manage to simultaneously sound sparse and expansive. Intelligent and soothing work. Best Track – Belispeak
3) Murder By Death – Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
The alt-country act continues to mature magnificently on their sixth album. Perhaps more understated than their previous albums, but the song-writing has come on in leaps and bounds. Best Track – I Came Around...
- 12/26/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
There are many things that make Steven Spielberg's 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' -- thirty years old this year -- a magical masterpiece: a sensitive script, fantastic special effects (it's often easy to forget the title star is a mechanical puppet), John Williams' uplifting score. But one of the most over-looked aspects is the cast.
Eschewing big name stars and established child actors, Spielberg discovered a raft of talent, young and old, that do much to make 'E.T.' such an emotional experience. Here are their 'E.T.' stories and what happened next....
E.T. is 30 years old - hard to believe, but true
Henry Thomas (Elliott Taylor)
That was then: "I used to think 'If I mess this up, what's going to happen?'" recalls Henry Thomas about his days as the lead in 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'. "'Are they going fire me? I'm nine years old.
Eschewing big name stars and established child actors, Spielberg discovered a raft of talent, young and old, that do much to make 'E.T.' such an emotional experience. Here are their 'E.T.' stories and what happened next....
E.T. is 30 years old - hard to believe, but true
Henry Thomas (Elliott Taylor)
That was then: "I used to think 'If I mess this up, what's going to happen?'" recalls Henry Thomas about his days as the lead in 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'. "'Are they going fire me? I'm nine years old.
- 10/20/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
The Pianist director has signed up to direct adaptation of David Ives's award-winning play, starring Emmanuelle Seigner
Art looks set to imitate life as Roman Polanski prepares to direct his wife in a film about a director's shifting, compromised relationship with his muse. Venus in Fur, adapted from the Tony award-winning stage-play by David Ives, will star Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda, the apparently fragile actor who auditions for a role in a sadomasochistic drama. French actor Louis Garrel has signed on to play the director.
Polanski's version of Venus in Fur will relocate the action from New York to Paris, the director's regular base since he fled the Us in 1978. "I've been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time," he said in a statement. "Reading Venus in Fur, I realised the moment had arrived."
Seigner, 46, has previously worked with Polanski on Frantic,...
Art looks set to imitate life as Roman Polanski prepares to direct his wife in a film about a director's shifting, compromised relationship with his muse. Venus in Fur, adapted from the Tony award-winning stage-play by David Ives, will star Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda, the apparently fragile actor who auditions for a role in a sadomasochistic drama. French actor Louis Garrel has signed on to play the director.
Polanski's version of Venus in Fur will relocate the action from New York to Paris, the director's regular base since he fled the Us in 1978. "I've been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time," he said in a statement. "Reading Venus in Fur, I realised the moment had arrived."
Seigner, 46, has previously worked with Polanski on Frantic,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Roman Polanski announced today that he will direct a film adaptation of David Ives's play Venus in Fur, a Broadway and off-Broadway success, that received a Tony nomination for Best Play and garnered a Tony for Nina Arianda as Best Actress. Roman Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while awaiting completion of the screenplay for D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Roman Polanski will direct as well.
Venus in Fur will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel.
"I've been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle Seigner for a long time," says Roman Polanski, who previously directed Emmanuelle Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon.
"Reading Venus in Fur I realized the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before D.
Venus in Fur will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel.
"I've been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle Seigner for a long time," says Roman Polanski, who previously directed Emmanuelle Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon.
"Reading Venus in Fur I realized the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before D.
- 9/20/2012
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
The controversial Polish-born director, Roman Polanski who last adapted the hit play God of Carnage for the screen, will next tackle David Ives play Venus in Fur.
Polanski will co-write with Ives and direct a film adaptation of Tony Award-winning comedy-drama and has lined up his wife Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) to star.
Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while he waits for the pieces to come together on the larger-scale D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Polanski will direct as well.
The filmmaker who directed Seigner in Frantic (1988) and Bitter Moon (1992) said in a statement that he’s ‘been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time.’
Director’s longtime collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, will produce. Filming is set to begin in November in Paris.
Venus in Fur chronicles an actress’ sadomasochistic...
Polanski will co-write with Ives and direct a film adaptation of Tony Award-winning comedy-drama and has lined up his wife Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) to star.
Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while he waits for the pieces to come together on the larger-scale D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Polanski will direct as well.
The filmmaker who directed Seigner in Frantic (1988) and Bitter Moon (1992) said in a statement that he’s ‘been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time.’
Director’s longtime collaborators Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, will produce. Filming is set to begin in November in Paris.
Venus in Fur chronicles an actress’ sadomasochistic...
- 9/20/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Roman Polanski will direct "Venus in Fur," an adaptation of the play by David Ivs. The erotic black comedy was a Broadway success, earning a Tony nomination for Best Play and a win for actress Nina Arianda (who subsequently landed the role of Janis Joplin in Sean Durkin's upcoming biopic). Polanski's film will shoot in France this November with his wife Emmanuelle Seigner starring ("Frantic," "Bitter Moon") alongside French hunk Louis Garrel ("The Dreamers"). Polanski is the subject of yet another documentary by Marina Zenovich, "Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out," which screened at Toronto and will show at the New York Film Festival. Polanski states: “[Reading Venus in Fur] I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before 'D.,' whose screenplay and pre-production will demand a few more months. Louis Garrel and Emmanuelle Seigner will make for a stunning...
- 9/20/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Director Roman Polanski (The Pianist) is set to direct Venus in Fur, an adaptation of David Ives' Tony Award-nominated Broadway play. The play, itself a meta-adaptation of the 1870 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novel, centers on a young playwright and the adulterous, erotic game of cat and mouse with one of the actresses auditioning for a role. The picture will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers). The independently financed film will shoot in Paris starting this November. Hit the jump for the full press release. Check out the full press release below: Roman Polanski to Direct the Erotic Black Comedy Venus In Fur Paris, France September 20, 2012 – Roman Polanski announced today that he will direct a film adaptation of David Ives’s play Venus in Fur, a Broadway and off-Broadway success, that received a Tony® nomination for Best...
- 9/20/2012
- by Dave Trumbore
- Collider.com
Roman Polanski announced Thursday that before making his planned Drefyus affair drama “D.,” he will direct an independently financed French-language adaptation of the David Ives play “Venus in Fur.” He has set Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel to star and plans a November production start in Paris. “I’ve been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time,” said Polanski, who directed Seigner in “Frantic” (1988) and “Bitter Moon” (1992). “Reading ‘Venus in Fur’ I realized the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before ‘D.,’ whose screenplay and pre-production will demand a few more months.” Read More: Roman Polanski Will Take on the Dreyfus Affair “Fur” involves an actress performing a sexually charged audition for a gifted playwright, who has adapted...
- 9/20/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Roman Polanski will direct the film version of the Broadway play Venus in Fur, a dark comedy about an actress auditioning before the director of an erotic play.
The show, written by David Ives, earned star Nina Arianda a best actress Tony Award this year for her role as Vanda, a seemingly naïve and desperate actress trying to win over the aloof show director, played by Hugh Dancy. (Both are pictured to the left.)
Polanski, however, has other actors in mind for his film — and a different language, too.
The Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby director intends to make his Venus in Fur in French,...
The show, written by David Ives, earned star Nina Arianda a best actress Tony Award this year for her role as Vanda, a seemingly naïve and desperate actress trying to win over the aloof show director, played by Hugh Dancy. (Both are pictured to the left.)
Polanski, however, has other actors in mind for his film — and a different language, too.
The Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby director intends to make his Venus in Fur in French,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
Breaking: Roman Polanski is set to direct a film adaptation of the David Ives play Venus in Fur. He’ll film in French and has set Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel in the lead roles. The show played Broadway and off-Broadway, and Nina Arianda won a Tony for Best Actress. Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while awaiting completion of the screenplay for D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Polanski will direct as well. Seigner is Polanski’s wife. “I’ve been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time,” said Polanski, who previously directed Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon. “Reading Venus in Fur I realized the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before D., whose screenplay and pre-production will demand a few more months.
- 9/20/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Roman Polanski announced today that he will direct a film adaptation of David Ives's play "Venus in Fur," a Broadway and off-Broadway success, that received a Tony® nomination for Best Play and garnered a Tony for Nina Arianda as Best Actress. Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while awaiting completion of the screenplay for D. , based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Polanski will direct as well. Venus in Fur will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel. "I've been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle for a long time," says Roman Polanski, who previously directed Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon . "Reading 'Venus in Fur' I realized the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to...
- 9/20/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Ben Kingsley: Roman Polanski Prada commercial A Therapy Roman Polanski is everywhere at the Cannes Film Festival. Polanski is the subject (and interviewee) of Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir. He unveiled a restored print of his 1979/1980 Best Picture César and Oscar nominee Tess, starring Nastassja Kinski. And he is the director of the short film / Prada commercial A Therapy. Starring Helena Bonham Carter as a poor little Prada-clad rich woman and Ben Kingsley as her therapist and Prada aficionado, A Therapy was shown prior to the Tess screening. (Please scroll down.) Co-written by Polanski and The Ghost Writer‘s Ronald Harwood, A Therapy boasts music by The Queen‘s Alexandre Desplat, gorgeous cinematography by Girl with the Pearl Earring‘s Eduardo Serra, production design by The Godfather‘s Dean Tavoularis, and editing by The Pianist‘s Hervé de Luze. Ah, and costume design by, I guess,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It's not easy to put together a top 100 of just about anything, but the folks over at Yahoo! Movies have really thrown down the gauntlet this time with a list of the 100 Funniest Movies to See Before You Die. In describing the list, they maintain that their goal was to choose the "funniest" movies out there, not necessarily the "best" comedies. With that in mind, you might think they'd stay away from critically acclaimed classics and lean more toward low brow, quick and easy laughfests. But you'd be wrong. There are a lot of classics on this list, everything from The Apartment to Dr. Strangelove to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and Buster Keaton's The General. There are also movies on here that aren't really "comedies" per se, such as Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. More than anything, this serves as a reminder that what is...
- 4/10/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
In the hands of Roman Polanski, the one-room chamber cinema of Carnage lives up to its name, says John Patterson. Spoiler alert! It all ends messily
"Mmm … Francis Bacon?" says Kate Winslet to Jodie Foster, leafing through a coffee-table book devoted to the master of the cramped interior and the silent scream, "cruelty and splendour, chaos and balance …" Later she will vomit violently and at considerable length all over this same book but for now, she's offering a neat summary of the virtues of Roman Polanski's toothsomely claustrophobic Carnage, from Yasmina Reza's stage play.
One apartment – the film's entire set – holds two bourgeois New York couples meeting to discuss their sons, one of whom has knocked out the other's front teeth, and to effect some kind of settlement between the boys. Add Polanski to this toxic cocktail of passive-aggressive PC liberalism (Foster) v Darwinian corporate sharkiness (Christoph Waltz...
"Mmm … Francis Bacon?" says Kate Winslet to Jodie Foster, leafing through a coffee-table book devoted to the master of the cramped interior and the silent scream, "cruelty and splendour, chaos and balance …" Later she will vomit violently and at considerable length all over this same book but for now, she's offering a neat summary of the virtues of Roman Polanski's toothsomely claustrophobic Carnage, from Yasmina Reza's stage play.
One apartment – the film's entire set – holds two bourgeois New York couples meeting to discuss their sons, one of whom has knocked out the other's front teeth, and to effect some kind of settlement between the boys. Add Polanski to this toxic cocktail of passive-aggressive PC liberalism (Foster) v Darwinian corporate sharkiness (Christoph Waltz...
- 1/30/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
We've got a new Friday feature: A retrospective box office chart, based on one of the top indie titles opening this weekend. Today, we're taking a look at the track record of Kristin Scott Thomas, star of Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key." Since achieving international recognition in the early 1990s through films like Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon" and Mike Newell's "Four Weddings and a Funeral," Scott Thomas' remarkably eclectic career has ...
- 7/22/2011
- Indiewire
The Academy may have snubbed him for best director, but Nolan's global reputation is assured. Matthew Tempest recalls the singularly driven young man he met in the Ucl film society
It was pretty obvious to anyone at the University College London film society in the early 1990s (which comprised about half a dozen of us in a windowless, airless basement) that Chris Nolan was going places. I thought his career might even go all the way, and he might shoot a few adverts before eventually (if he got lucky) directing episodes of The Bill and Coronation Street.
That was simply how the UK film industry was back then. The only career path was to worm a way into directing for telly or commercials. It had been generations since John Schlesinger, Ridley and Tony Scott, Adrian Lyne and Alan Parker had managed to make the leap from London, and telly, to Hollywood.
It was pretty obvious to anyone at the University College London film society in the early 1990s (which comprised about half a dozen of us in a windowless, airless basement) that Chris Nolan was going places. I thought his career might even go all the way, and he might shoot a few adverts before eventually (if he got lucky) directing episodes of The Bill and Coronation Street.
That was simply how the UK film industry was back then. The only career path was to worm a way into directing for telly or commercials. It had been generations since John Schlesinger, Ridley and Tony Scott, Adrian Lyne and Alan Parker had managed to make the leap from London, and telly, to Hollywood.
- 2/24/2011
- by Matthew Tempest
- The Guardian - Film News
Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman in Roman Polanski's The Pianist The story of Polish-Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived World War II against all odds, Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) was sold as a motion picture about the "triumph of the human spirit." For those who believe that human survival instinct is somehow "spiritual" — I'm assuming most people do; I'm not one of them — The Pianist rehabilitated Polanski at least in terms of his filmmaking abilities, following a string of generally dismissed efforts such as Pirates, Bitter Moon, and The Ninth Gate. Eventually, The Pianist went on to receive three Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Actor for Adrien Brody for his highly Americanized portrayal of the Polish Szpilman, and for Ronald Harwood's adaptation of Szpilman's book of memoirs. Now comes Polish journalist Agata Tuszynska, who claims in a biography of the late cabaret singer Wiera Gran that her...
- 11/21/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The final act has arrived for Roman Polanski – still under house arrest. After precocity, ignominy and exile, has he got one more flourish of brilliance left in him?
Imagine this scenario. A man is 76 and perhaps no longer in the best of health – at 76, things in even a ruthless system are likely to be faltering; and in this case, the body is beset by uncommon anxieties or insecurities. In Paris, where he lives, or lived, he had a wife and two children. We don't need to romanticise those ties, but don't discount them either. Because the wife and the children want him home, and they seize upon every hopeful possibility the lawyers can find.
You see, he is in a rare position for a 76-year-old in that he may be as insecure as he has ever been in his life – yet he has always told himself that insecurity is his great thing,...
Imagine this scenario. A man is 76 and perhaps no longer in the best of health – at 76, things in even a ruthless system are likely to be faltering; and in this case, the body is beset by uncommon anxieties or insecurities. In Paris, where he lives, or lived, he had a wife and two children. We don't need to romanticise those ties, but don't discount them either. Because the wife and the children want him home, and they seize upon every hopeful possibility the lawyers can find.
You see, he is in a rare position for a 76-year-old in that he may be as insecure as he has ever been in his life – yet he has always told himself that insecurity is his great thing,...
- 4/16/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
An Op-Ed
by Jon Zelazny
Critics, artists, and intellectuals the world over took last month’s release of The Ghost Writer as a fresh opportunity to proclaim both Roman Polanski’s genius and bemoan his despicable treatment by Los Angeles County and the Swiss government.
Don’t be fooled. The Ghost Writer is a perfectly capable adaptation of a rather pedestrian political thriller, but one can feel the maestro pouring thought and energy into every tiny nuance while either ignoring or disdaining the fact that the work as a whole is brittle, hollow, and often just plain silly. Ewan McGregor, a trouper, is saddled with playing a protagonist who seems less of a human being than an automaton tasked with carrying the plot; he reminded me of poor Sean Connery in Hitchcock’s Marnie… another case of a dynamic actor left stranded by an old director who didn’t seem...
by Jon Zelazny
Critics, artists, and intellectuals the world over took last month’s release of The Ghost Writer as a fresh opportunity to proclaim both Roman Polanski’s genius and bemoan his despicable treatment by Los Angeles County and the Swiss government.
Don’t be fooled. The Ghost Writer is a perfectly capable adaptation of a rather pedestrian political thriller, but one can feel the maestro pouring thought and energy into every tiny nuance while either ignoring or disdaining the fact that the work as a whole is brittle, hollow, and often just plain silly. Ewan McGregor, a trouper, is saddled with playing a protagonist who seems less of a human being than an automaton tasked with carrying the plot; he reminded me of poor Sean Connery in Hitchcock’s Marnie… another case of a dynamic actor left stranded by an old director who didn’t seem...
- 4/15/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Roman Polanski's new film The Ghost Writer uses a long tradition of referencing political events – namely a former British Pm who took the country to war, but will it stand the test of time?
As many readers will know, Roman Polanski's new film, The Ghost Writer, based on the Robert Harris novel, involves an unrepentant former British prime minister who took Britain into the war in Iraq. There are thinly disguised portraits of Cherie Blair and Robin Cook, and a coincidental allusion to Polanski himself in that the former Pm is held under quasi house arrest in Cape Cod and is afraid to leave the USA in case he is arrested for war crimes. All this caused some giggles of recognition among the audience at the Berlinale.
There is a long tradition of works of art that reference current events, as any reading of the footnotes to the...
As many readers will know, Roman Polanski's new film, The Ghost Writer, based on the Robert Harris novel, involves an unrepentant former British prime minister who took Britain into the war in Iraq. There are thinly disguised portraits of Cherie Blair and Robin Cook, and a coincidental allusion to Polanski himself in that the former Pm is held under quasi house arrest in Cape Cod and is afraid to leave the USA in case he is arrested for war crimes. All this caused some giggles of recognition among the audience at the Berlinale.
There is a long tradition of works of art that reference current events, as any reading of the footnotes to the...
- 2/16/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Roman Polanski, the Polish director, is no stranger to me. Certainly his work, no. My first brush with it was at one of the editions of the International Film Festival of India in Kolkata during the early 1990s. The film was Bitter Moon. Starring stars such as Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote, it was an extremely provocative work that had the classic Polanski’s psychological touch, thrilling to the core and disturbing to its depth. Set on the high seas, the movie traces the lives of two couples as they sail towards ...
- 1/6/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Kristin Scott Thomas on self-belief, not being on the right list in Hollywood and playing John Lennon's Aunt Mimi in her latest film
The moment that Kristin Scott Thomas knew she didn't want to be a typical movie star, the moment it seems she switched from playing romantic leads to infinitely more interesting roles, was when a director told her she should make her character more appealing. The idea didn't grab her. "I just thought, I don't want to do that," she says. "I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable. Because if I'm watching that on screen I get irritated." She sits back with a sigh. "I can't bear it."
It was an astute response. After all, Scott Thomas's best work is not about looking doe-eyed and flicking her hair; instead it's defined by froideur, then thaw. There is a toughness in her performances,...
The moment that Kristin Scott Thomas knew she didn't want to be a typical movie star, the moment it seems she switched from playing romantic leads to infinitely more interesting roles, was when a director told her she should make her character more appealing. The idea didn't grab her. "I just thought, I don't want to do that," she says. "I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable. Because if I'm watching that on screen I get irritated." She sits back with a sigh. "I can't bear it."
It was an astute response. After all, Scott Thomas's best work is not about looking doe-eyed and flicking her hair; instead it's defined by froideur, then thaw. There is a toughness in her performances,...
- 12/21/2009
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
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