Keira Knightley & James McAvoy Once Opened Up Their Atonement Love Scene. (Photo Credit – IMDb)
Keira Knightley is one of those actresses who fits perfectly in a period film; her filmography is significant proof of that. She has given outstanding performances in her movies, and the actress selected one of her best intimate scenes on screen. It was with James McAvoy in their film, Atonement. But the X-Men: First Class actor had a different opinion about their passionate lovemaking scene.
The 2007 romance drama was based on Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name. It featured McAvoy and Knightley in lead roles. Saoirse Ronan played an integral part in the movie that was directed by Joe Wright. The film was nominated for multiple Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Ronan. The story was set in the backdrop of the 30s in England—13-year-old Briony spies on her elder...
Keira Knightley is one of those actresses who fits perfectly in a period film; her filmography is significant proof of that. She has given outstanding performances in her movies, and the actress selected one of her best intimate scenes on screen. It was with James McAvoy in their film, Atonement. But the X-Men: First Class actor had a different opinion about their passionate lovemaking scene.
The 2007 romance drama was based on Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name. It featured McAvoy and Knightley in lead roles. Saoirse Ronan played an integral part in the movie that was directed by Joe Wright. The film was nominated for multiple Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Ronan. The story was set in the backdrop of the 30s in England—13-year-old Briony spies on her elder...
- 4/13/2024
- by Esita Mallik
- KoiMoi
This year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival will mark a meeting of the New Hollywood minds in France. Not only is George Lucas receiving the festival’s Honorary Palme d’Or, but filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola and Paul Schrader are in the official Competition for the first time in decades.
While Schrader has gone the route of Venice for his “lonely man in a room” trilogy — “First Reformed,” “The Card Counter,” and “Master Gardener” all premiered in Italy — he’s at Cannes this year with “Oh, Canada.” The lineup was confirmed this morning by Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux. The contemplative drama about a tortured writer looking back on his years as a leftist who fled to Canada to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War stars Jacob Elordi, Richard Gere, and Uma Thurman. Cue the flashbulbs for a buzzy Elordi red carpet moment. The “Euphoria” breakout was last seen...
While Schrader has gone the route of Venice for his “lonely man in a room” trilogy — “First Reformed,” “The Card Counter,” and “Master Gardener” all premiered in Italy — he’s at Cannes this year with “Oh, Canada.” The lineup was confirmed this morning by Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux. The contemplative drama about a tortured writer looking back on his years as a leftist who fled to Canada to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War stars Jacob Elordi, Richard Gere, and Uma Thurman. Cue the flashbulbs for a buzzy Elordi red carpet moment. The “Euphoria” breakout was last seen...
- 4/11/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The 1980s enjoys a privileged, some might even argue inflated position in the sci-fi pantheon. In the US, it was the decade that gave us two thirds of the original Star Wars trilogy, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Terminator and Tron. In TV land, Star Trek got a brand new Generation, Quantums Leapt, Knights Rode, and of course, Alf.
But on the other side of the pond, British science fiction television was doing things the way we British always have – for less money, and a bit more bleak. But it wasn’t all creepy John Wyndham adaptations and hostile alien invasions, the 1980s also delivered a couple of British space comedy classics, along with the most underrated series in sci-fi history.
The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Stream on: purchase-only on Sky Store, Google Play, Amazon (UK); disc import only (US)
For our money, still the only decent adaptation of John...
But on the other side of the pond, British science fiction television was doing things the way we British always have – for less money, and a bit more bleak. But it wasn’t all creepy John Wyndham adaptations and hostile alien invasions, the 1980s also delivered a couple of British space comedy classics, along with the most underrated series in sci-fi history.
The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Stream on: purchase-only on Sky Store, Google Play, Amazon (UK); disc import only (US)
For our money, still the only decent adaptation of John...
- 2/2/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
By the early 1990s, it was still fairly rare to see a Hollywood production invade New England to shoot a film. Things had certainly been made here: Ever heard of Jaws? It was shot entirely on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. And I made a documentary about another one: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, which was shot entirely in Maine in 1988. In fact, much of my documentary film work has focused on stories native to New England. But, still, we didn’t see the kind of movie activity and buzz that we see nowadays. Despite its natural beauty of mountains, rocky coastlines, and beautiful beaches, New England can be difficult (and expensive) to navigate for a film crew. What’s more, during certain months of the year our weather can be unpredictable and harsh. We’re known for our Nor’easters and blizzards and even the occasional hurricane in the autumn months.
- 12/20/2023
- by John Campopiano
- bloody-disgusting.com
As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances
A bungled billet-doux, unjust accusations and the second world war drive a wedge between Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie (James McAvoy). To be honest, it probably wouldn’t have worked out anyway, but Cecilia’s kid sister (Saoirse Ronan) tries to make amends for having naively destroyed their romance in this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s tricksy novel.
A bungled billet-doux, unjust accusations and the second world war drive a wedge between Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie (James McAvoy). To be honest, it probably wouldn’t have worked out anyway, but Cecilia’s kid sister (Saoirse Ronan) tries to make amends for having naively destroyed their romance in this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s tricksy novel.
- 9/7/2023
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Venice film festival: Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of hysteria shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life
A social realist psychodrama of amour fou here in this fiercely intense and often macabre tale from feature first-timer Luna Carmoon, showing how suppressed childhood trauma blossoms into a secret theatre of adult dysfunction and delusion, but it’s also a story in which Carmoon finds the possibility of redemption and escape. Hoard is all the more intriguing for being a very personal project for Carmoon, something made clear in what appears to be an analogue-video home movie clip over the closing credits.
In its study of loneliness and a kind of marooned and thwarted sexuality, Hoard is in some ways like early Ian McEwan such as The Cement Garden – although the lead character has conceived a bizarre obsession with Volker Schlöndorff’s movie The Tin Drum,...
A social realist psychodrama of amour fou here in this fiercely intense and often macabre tale from feature first-timer Luna Carmoon, showing how suppressed childhood trauma blossoms into a secret theatre of adult dysfunction and delusion, but it’s also a story in which Carmoon finds the possibility of redemption and escape. Hoard is all the more intriguing for being a very personal project for Carmoon, something made clear in what appears to be an analogue-video home movie clip over the closing credits.
In its study of loneliness and a kind of marooned and thwarted sexuality, Hoard is in some ways like early Ian McEwan such as The Cement Garden – although the lead character has conceived a bizarre obsession with Volker Schlöndorff’s movie The Tin Drum,...
- 9/2/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
New Delhi, May 21 (Ians) A day after ‘The Zone of Interest’, the Jonathan Glazer film based on the novel of the same by Martin Amis received a rapturous ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, the celebrated British writer passed on at the age of 73.
Famous for his caricatures of what he perceived as the absurdities of “late capitalist” Western society, Martin Amis succumbed to oesophagal cancer at his Florida home, reports BBC, quoting ‘The New York Times’.
Coming from literary nobility — his father was the famous novelist, Sir Kingsley ‘Lucky Jim’ Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard was his stepmother — Amis was hailed by ‘TheTimes’ as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 and he’s best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989), and for his memoir, ‘Experience’ (2000).
‘The Guardian’ has called Amis “an influential author of era-defining novels” and noted that he was “among the celebrated group of novelists,...
Famous for his caricatures of what he perceived as the absurdities of “late capitalist” Western society, Martin Amis succumbed to oesophagal cancer at his Florida home, reports BBC, quoting ‘The New York Times’.
Coming from literary nobility — his father was the famous novelist, Sir Kingsley ‘Lucky Jim’ Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard was his stepmother — Amis was hailed by ‘TheTimes’ as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 and he’s best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989), and for his memoir, ‘Experience’ (2000).
‘The Guardian’ has called Amis “an influential author of era-defining novels” and noted that he was “among the celebrated group of novelists,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Cronenberg has the 1% in his sights in this unnerving satire about wealthy tourists who get more than they bargained for in a luxury resort
Brandon Cronenberg’s new film serves up another slice of that luxury fear-porn that we’ve had on TV’s The White Lotus and Succession, or Triangle of Sadness in the movies. Here, the trappings and appurtenances of the leisured super-rich might turn out to be just the design features of a prison. Infinity Pool is set in a super-exclusive vacation resort, a razor-wired compound of pampering on an otherwise poverty-stricken fictional island – but the place turns out to have Hotel California-style rules about the respective times available for checking out and leaving.
Infinity Pool is part body horror, part folk horror, with twisty hints of Jg Ballard and Ian McEwan; it also features a tremendous turn from Mia Goth, who is currently ruling our cinema...
Brandon Cronenberg’s new film serves up another slice of that luxury fear-porn that we’ve had on TV’s The White Lotus and Succession, or Triangle of Sadness in the movies. Here, the trappings and appurtenances of the leisured super-rich might turn out to be just the design features of a prison. Infinity Pool is set in a super-exclusive vacation resort, a razor-wired compound of pampering on an otherwise poverty-stricken fictional island – but the place turns out to have Hotel California-style rules about the respective times available for checking out and leaving.
Infinity Pool is part body horror, part folk horror, with twisty hints of Jg Ballard and Ian McEwan; it also features a tremendous turn from Mia Goth, who is currently ruling our cinema...
- 3/23/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Kazuo Ishiguro, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the world’s greatest living novelists — and a newly Oscar-nominated screenwriter, as well, for his adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru into the script for Oliver Hermanus’ 2022 film Living.
A Japanese-born Brit, Ishiguro has written eight novels over the last 41 years which have collectively sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S alone, most notably 1989’s The Remains of the Day, which was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize, and 2005’s Never Let Me Go, which Time chose as one of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923 and the Los Angeles Times described as “probably, thus far, the most important English-language novel of the new century.” (Both were adapted, by others, into highly acclaimed films.)
In recognition of Ishiguro’s collective body of work, he was chosen as the recipient of the...
A Japanese-born Brit, Ishiguro has written eight novels over the last 41 years which have collectively sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S alone, most notably 1989’s The Remains of the Day, which was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize, and 2005’s Never Let Me Go, which Time chose as one of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923 and the Los Angeles Times described as “probably, thus far, the most important English-language novel of the new century.” (Both were adapted, by others, into highly acclaimed films.)
In recognition of Ishiguro’s collective body of work, he was chosen as the recipient of the...
- 1/26/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
James McAvoy has said that two authors have said he was miscast in adaptations of their work.
In a new interview, the actor, 43, revealed that not all writers that he has worked with have been happy to see him cast in film or TV adaptations of their work.
McAvoy stars as Asriel in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s books His Dark Materials. Season four will be released on 18 December.
Speaking ahead of the fourth season’s release, McAvoy told The Guardian that he had never spoken to Pullman because he was worried the actor would say: ‘“Hmmm, you’re not really my Asriel!’”
McAvoy went on to say: “I’ve had that with a writer, and it’s just not nice. I’ve had that with two writers, actually.”
Asked for the names of which authors disapproved of casting, McAvoy said it was not Irvine Welsh or Stephen King.
In a new interview, the actor, 43, revealed that not all writers that he has worked with have been happy to see him cast in film or TV adaptations of their work.
McAvoy stars as Asriel in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s books His Dark Materials. Season four will be released on 18 December.
Speaking ahead of the fourth season’s release, McAvoy told The Guardian that he had never spoken to Pullman because he was worried the actor would say: ‘“Hmmm, you’re not really my Asriel!’”
McAvoy went on to say: “I’ve had that with a writer, and it’s just not nice. I’ve had that with two writers, actually.”
Asked for the names of which authors disapproved of casting, McAvoy said it was not Irvine Welsh or Stephen King.
- 12/11/2022
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
James McAvoy has said that he refused to take part in the awards circuit for Atonement because the process made him feel “cheap”.
The actor starred opposite Keira Knightley in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel, which was nominated for six Oscars.
While McAvoy’s performance was singled out and lauded in many reviews, he did not earn a Best Actor nomination, with only a young Saoirse Ronan gaining an acting nod.
But in a new interview with GQ Hype, McAvoy said that, while he’d missed out on a Best Supporting Actor nod forThe Last King of Scotland the year before, he decided to take a step back when it came to Atonement.
Having watched other actors go through the process of trying to secure a nomination, McAvoy said that “it was made clear to me that I was doing it for the benefit of other...
The actor starred opposite Keira Knightley in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel, which was nominated for six Oscars.
While McAvoy’s performance was singled out and lauded in many reviews, he did not earn a Best Actor nomination, with only a young Saoirse Ronan gaining an acting nod.
But in a new interview with GQ Hype, McAvoy said that, while he’d missed out on a Best Supporting Actor nod forThe Last King of Scotland the year before, he decided to take a step back when it came to Atonement.
Having watched other actors go through the process of trying to secure a nomination, McAvoy said that “it was made clear to me that I was doing it for the benefit of other...
- 11/28/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - Film
Nothing has illustrated the current turmoil in British politics quite as starkly as the recent tanking of the pound against the dollar, a puzzle even to the ruling party whose prime minister and chancellor caused it. Richard Eyre’s fitfully funny Allelujah reflects this schism in more ways than one, balancing broad grey-pound comedy and seriously macabre drama with the result that a seemingly gentle satire inexplicably dives into a murky existential abyss in its final act. Even fans of Alan Bennett, the famously folksy playwright and national treasure of the north, will struggle with the juxtaposition of wry bathos and savagery, the latter ramped up from Allelujah’s original incarnation as a Bennett stage play sprinkled with Dennis Potter-style song-and-dance numbers.
The subject is the UK’s National Health Service, once the envy of the world and now the subject of a massive culture war between the sentimental left and the neoliberal right,...
The subject is the UK’s National Health Service, once the envy of the world and now the subject of a massive culture war between the sentimental left and the neoliberal right,...
- 10/1/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Archive footage combines with work from modern film-makers in a rousing and sometimes puzzling series on rural England
This compilation of short films about the English and their relationship to the countryside begins in the archives: seven films dating from the 1930s to 1980s, glimpses of how we lived then. All were filmed on what have become national trails: the long distance walks that came into being after the second world war in response to fears of developers concreting over every square foot of green and pleasant land.
In the first, from 1956, members of a youth fellowship yomp across the South Downs. The scene is like the start of an Ian McEwan novel: young men in stiff wool suits lark about; girls dressed primly like their mothers smile shyly. All look as if they’re gagging for 1963 and the arrival of the you-know-what Philip Larkin wrote about. There’s also...
This compilation of short films about the English and their relationship to the countryside begins in the archives: seven films dating from the 1930s to 1980s, glimpses of how we lived then. All were filmed on what have become national trails: the long distance walks that came into being after the second world war in response to fears of developers concreting over every square foot of green and pleasant land.
In the first, from 1956, members of a youth fellowship yomp across the South Downs. The scene is like the start of an Ian McEwan novel: young men in stiff wool suits lark about; girls dressed primly like their mothers smile shyly. All look as if they’re gagging for 1963 and the arrival of the you-know-what Philip Larkin wrote about. There’s also...
- 9/19/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York.
Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details.
Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white...
Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details.
Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white...
- 8/14/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Emmy winner Margo Martindale (American Crime Story: Impeachment), Andy McQueen (Station Eleven) and Ben Chaplin (The Nevers) have been cast opposite Betty Gilpin and Jake McDorman in Mrs. Davis, Peacock’s new drama series written and executive produced by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof. Emmy-winning director Owen Harris will direct and executive produce multiple episodes, including the first episode, of the series, which comes from Warner Bros. Television, where both Hernandez and Lindelof are under overall deals.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Mrs. Davis is described as an exploration of faith versus technology — an epic battle of biblical and binary proportions.
Gilpin plays a nun who goes to battle against an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence, and McDorman portrays Gilpin’s rebellious ex, who also has a personal vendetta against the Algorithm.
In addition to co-writing and executive producing Mrs. Davis with Lindelof,...
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Mrs. Davis is described as an exploration of faith versus technology — an epic battle of biblical and binary proportions.
Gilpin plays a nun who goes to battle against an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence, and McDorman portrays Gilpin’s rebellious ex, who also has a personal vendetta against the Algorithm.
In addition to co-writing and executive producing Mrs. Davis with Lindelof,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Michell’s final feature film brings good-natured, Ealing-style brio to the 1961 theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington
As with so many of cinema’s most successful practitioners, the South Africa-born British film-maker Roger Michell, who died last September aged 65, was not an “auteur” with a singular distinctive style. On the contrary, he was a versatile craftsman who could turn his hand to a range of genres with ease. From the classic Richard Curtis romcom Notting Hill to the American thriller Changing Lanes and the deliciously twisty Daphne du Maurier dark romance My Cousin Rachel, Michell instinctively understood the differing demands of each story he was telling. He adapted Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for TV with great success, gave Anne Reid her finest role in the taboo-breaking, Kureishi-scripted drama The Mother, and directed a sorely underrated screen adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love,...
As with so many of cinema’s most successful practitioners, the South Africa-born British film-maker Roger Michell, who died last September aged 65, was not an “auteur” with a singular distinctive style. On the contrary, he was a versatile craftsman who could turn his hand to a range of genres with ease. From the classic Richard Curtis romcom Notting Hill to the American thriller Changing Lanes and the deliciously twisty Daphne du Maurier dark romance My Cousin Rachel, Michell instinctively understood the differing demands of each story he was telling. He adapted Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for TV with great success, gave Anne Reid her finest role in the taboo-breaking, Kureishi-scripted drama The Mother, and directed a sorely underrated screen adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love,...
- 2/27/2022
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Dinklage is nothing if not soulful. The 52-year-old actor can do comedic, and charming, and a color palette’s worth of rage; in movies like The Station Agent (2003) or on any given Game of Thrones episode, you’ll likely get a lovely combo of all three. But give him the chance to communicate melancholia — let this veteran thespian unleash a sad-eyed look under a heavy brow — and you see an entirely different side of Dinklage come out. It makes perfect sense that he’d take on the title character...
- 12/29/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Seasoned drama producer Helen Gregory (“Gangs of London”) is joining See-Saw Films in the newly created position of creative director from Sept. 1, reporting into joint MDs Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
Based in London and working closely with the MDs and COO Simon Gillis, Gregory will be responsible for steering the creative strategy of the company and the development of their growing television slate. She will be responsible for leading See-Saw’s team of executive producers across the U.K. and Australia.
Gregory joins See-Saw from her company Trapeze Entertainment and was most recently an executive producer on Pulse and Sister Pictures’ season 2 of “Gangs of London” for Sky/AMC. At Trapeze, she set development projects up with the BBC, Netflix, Sky and with Jude Law’s production company Riff Raff Entertainment — relationships she will continue to build on at See-Saw.
Before founding Trapeze Entertainment, Gregory was managing director of...
Based in London and working closely with the MDs and COO Simon Gillis, Gregory will be responsible for steering the creative strategy of the company and the development of their growing television slate. She will be responsible for leading See-Saw’s team of executive producers across the U.K. and Australia.
Gregory joins See-Saw from her company Trapeze Entertainment and was most recently an executive producer on Pulse and Sister Pictures’ season 2 of “Gangs of London” for Sky/AMC. At Trapeze, she set development projects up with the BBC, Netflix, Sky and with Jude Law’s production company Riff Raff Entertainment — relationships she will continue to build on at See-Saw.
Before founding Trapeze Entertainment, Gregory was managing director of...
- 7/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a curious quirk of the British calendar that Mother’s Day — or Mothering Sunday, if you want to be formal about it — falls not in May, with all that month’s springy symbolism of new life, but the damp, unripe chill of mid-March, when no one feels much like celebrating anything at all. In “Mothering Sunday,” however, a number of upper-class English families meet to picnic on a day so unseasonably warm and bright that the weather is the one safe running topic of conversation: It’s a gathering of more parents than children, where unspoken and unspeakable losses are politely talked around. If Graham Swift’s 2016 novella was a guest at the same elegant, repressed garden party as L.P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between” and Ian McEwan’s “Atonement,” Eva Husson and screenwriter Alice Birch’s unusual, stimulating adaptation comes closer to the shattered experimentalism of Joseph Losey...
- 7/10/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller have earned their first Oscar nominations as a team for “The Father,” which they adapted from Zeller’s acclaimed play “Le Père.” The play, which is centered on an elderly man (Anthony Hopkins) who is gradually losing his bearings due to the onset of dementia, has been acclaimed around the world since its debut in Paris in 2012, with successful productions in London, Sydney, Singapore and on Broadway, as well as being staged in 45 countries to date. Hampton first teamed with Zeller to translate the text for English-language stage productions throughout the world.
In the 2021 Oscar race, Hampton and Zeller face off against fellow adapted screenplay nominees Chloè Zhao for her adaptation of the non-fiction book “Nomadland,” Kemp Powers for adapting his stage play “One Night in Miami,” Ramin Bahrani for adapting the novel “The White Tiger” and a small platoon of writers (nine in total!
In the 2021 Oscar race, Hampton and Zeller face off against fellow adapted screenplay nominees Chloè Zhao for her adaptation of the non-fiction book “Nomadland,” Kemp Powers for adapting his stage play “One Night in Miami,” Ramin Bahrani for adapting the novel “The White Tiger” and a small platoon of writers (nine in total!
- 4/14/2021
- by Tom O'Brien
- Gold Derby
You’ve Got Mail: Cooke Leaves the Cold War on Ice in Sluggish Spy Thriller
Director Dominic Cooke, revered for his stage work before commencing on high profile Shakespearean adaptations in the series “The Hollow Crown” and making his debut in mounting Ian McEwan with 2017’s On Chesil Beach, steps outside of his wheelhouse with The Courier.
The ‘based on true events’ account of Greville Wynne, a British working-class salesman recruited by MI6 and the CIA to act as a messenger with high profile Gru mole Oleg Penkovsky, gets the glossy melodrama treatment seemingly fashioned for intimate performance work rather than a historical overview.…...
Director Dominic Cooke, revered for his stage work before commencing on high profile Shakespearean adaptations in the series “The Hollow Crown” and making his debut in mounting Ian McEwan with 2017’s On Chesil Beach, steps outside of his wheelhouse with The Courier.
The ‘based on true events’ account of Greville Wynne, a British working-class salesman recruited by MI6 and the CIA to act as a messenger with high profile Gru mole Oleg Penkovsky, gets the glossy melodrama treatment seemingly fashioned for intimate performance work rather than a historical overview.…...
- 3/16/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A girl meets her mother as a child in the woods in a moving jewel of a film about memory, friendship and kin
Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and very moving. I fell instantly under its spell, and found myself thinking of classic English tales such as Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce, or The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. And there is an extra-textual pleasure in wondering exactly what its child stars thought about it during filming – and what they think about it now.
Joséphine Sanz plays Nelly, the eight-year-old daughter of Marion (Nina Meurisse). The latter is under enormous stress. Marion’s mother has just died in a care home, from long-term complications of a hereditary bone disorder, which Marion herself had to avoid with a painful operation when she was about Nelly’s age.
Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and very moving. I fell instantly under its spell, and found myself thinking of classic English tales such as Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce, or The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. And there is an extra-textual pleasure in wondering exactly what its child stars thought about it during filming – and what they think about it now.
Joséphine Sanz plays Nelly, the eight-year-old daughter of Marion (Nina Meurisse). The latter is under enormous stress. Marion’s mother has just died in a care home, from long-term complications of a hereditary bone disorder, which Marion herself had to avoid with a painful operation when she was about Nelly’s age.
- 3/3/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Do you enjoy the art of the unexpectedness in writing? Well, I do and by reading Murakami’s books for a while, I can say with a pinch of bitterness that I have almost mastered the ability of predicting the “goin’ ons” of the next page quite often. This needed unexpectedness is served nicely in a story collection like “The Elephant Vanishes”, which contains 17 short tales of either realism or surrealism published in Playboy, The New Yorker, and other magazines between 1980- 1991. Paradoxically, the collection’s first edition was released in English in 1993, followed by the Japanese release in 2005.
To work out the riddle of the Elephant, we must pinpoint a few things that differentiate this collection from his more ambitious projects. First and foremost, the flow of the words is different. The absence of the famous Murakami rhythm is present. It seems that the writer didn...
To work out the riddle of the Elephant, we must pinpoint a few things that differentiate this collection from his more ambitious projects. First and foremost, the flow of the words is different. The absence of the famous Murakami rhythm is present. It seems that the writer didn...
- 1/18/2021
- by Christina Litsa
- AsianMoviePulse
Avalon, the talent management and production company behind series including Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, is expanding. The company has acquired a majority stake in The Agency, which represents writers and directors including Gentleman Jack creator Sally Wainwright and A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies.
The Agency will continue to operate under the leadership and management of its partners. It was founded in 1995 and also reps theatire and children’s authors as well as the dramatic rights for authors including Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and William Boyd.
Other clients including Doctor Foster creator Mike Bartlett, World On Fire’s Peter Bowker, Poldark’s Debbie Horsfield, Discovery of Witches’ Kate Brooke, The Last Kingdom’s Stephen Butchard, The Fall’s Allan Cubitt, Shameless creator Paul Abbott and House of Cards creator Andrew Davies.
The Agency was advised by Tom Manwaring of Helion Partners and Martin Wright of Charles Russell Speechlys Llp.
The Agency will continue to operate under the leadership and management of its partners. It was founded in 1995 and also reps theatire and children’s authors as well as the dramatic rights for authors including Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and William Boyd.
Other clients including Doctor Foster creator Mike Bartlett, World On Fire’s Peter Bowker, Poldark’s Debbie Horsfield, Discovery of Witches’ Kate Brooke, The Last Kingdom’s Stephen Butchard, The Fall’s Allan Cubitt, Shameless creator Paul Abbott and House of Cards creator Andrew Davies.
The Agency was advised by Tom Manwaring of Helion Partners and Martin Wright of Charles Russell Speechlys Llp.
- 10/20/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
There are plenty of disturbing films in the world. One of them is a 1990 release, directed by Paul Schrader and written by Harold Pinter in an adaptation of the book by Ian McEwan. The film in question is The Comfort of Strangers, the latest disturbing film I'm trying to wrap my head around, and it's out this week on Blu-ray and DVD from the Criterion Collection. Mary and Colin are a well-bred couple that seemingly have no issues...
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- 8/21/2020
- Screen Anarchy
“Pain and Glory” director Pedro Almodovar, “The Nun” actor Isabelle Huppert and “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino are among a galaxy of 70 film, television, literature and eminent personalities from other walks of life who have signed an open letter expressing “outrage” over the repression of the LGBT+ community in Poland.
Addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the letter states: “We, the undersigned, express our outrage at repressions directed against the LGBT+ community in Poland. We speak out in solidarity with activists and their allies, who are being detained, brutalized, and intimidated. We voice our grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom.”
Other signees include Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, “Vera Drake” director Mike Leigh, and actors Ed Harris and James Norton.
Addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the letter states: “We, the undersigned, express our outrage at repressions directed against the LGBT+ community in Poland. We speak out in solidarity with activists and their allies, who are being detained, brutalized, and intimidated. We voice our grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom.”
Other signees include Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, “Vera Drake” director Mike Leigh, and actors Ed Harris and James Norton.
- 8/18/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Nan A. Talese, President, Publisher and Editorial Director of her eponymous Doubleday imprint, will retire at the end of the year, bringing an end to one of publishing’s most celebrated careers that also included stints at Random House, Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
Since starting her Nan A. Talese imprint at Doubleday in 1990, Talese, who is married to author Gay Talese, has published a list of prominent authors including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Adam Haslett, Alex Kotlowitz, Pat Conroy, Thomas Keneally, Mia Farrow, Jim Crace, Valerie Martin, Peter Ackroyd, Mary Morris, Louis Begley, Jennifer Egan, Mark Richard, Judy Collins, Barry Unsworth, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Cahill, Janet Wallach, and George Plimpton.
Talese’s successor was not announced.
After beginning her career at Vogue, Talese joined Random House in 1959 as a copy editor, then became the first woman to hold the position of literary editor. In that role, she worked with such writers as A.
- 7/8/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Binoche encounters an attractive younger man online but refuses to meet him face-to-face in this twisty erotic drama
Social-distancing erotic melodrama is the genre we didn’t know we needed. But now we’ve got it, in the form of this very enjoyable picture starring Juliette Binoche from French director Safy Nebbou, who has adapted the novel by actor-turned-writer Camille Laurens. The resulting story of obsession is intriguingly like something by Ian McEwan, with a vinegary dash of 90s Hollywood thriller. The opening shot of Binoche looking enigmatically up at us, her face immersed in water, a tiny air bubble lingering at the nostril, is surely an allusion to Glenn Close’s famous moment from Fatal Attraction.
This is a tale of si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait: a world of alternative identities and alternate realities, the substitute images and life stories we fabricate for ourselves on social media and everywhere else.
Social-distancing erotic melodrama is the genre we didn’t know we needed. But now we’ve got it, in the form of this very enjoyable picture starring Juliette Binoche from French director Safy Nebbou, who has adapted the novel by actor-turned-writer Camille Laurens. The resulting story of obsession is intriguingly like something by Ian McEwan, with a vinegary dash of 90s Hollywood thriller. The opening shot of Binoche looking enigmatically up at us, her face immersed in water, a tiny air bubble lingering at the nostril, is surely an allusion to Glenn Close’s famous moment from Fatal Attraction.
This is a tale of si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait: a world of alternative identities and alternate realities, the substitute images and life stories we fabricate for ourselves on social media and everywhere else.
- 4/9/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ironbark
For his sophomore film, the UK’s Dominic Cooke tackles the Cold War in Ironbark, produced by Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, and Ben Pugh. Lensed by Sean Bobbitt (who has served as Dp on all of Steve McQueen’s films), the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, and Jessie Buckley. BAFTA nominated for his work on the 2016 television series “The Hollow Crown,” Cooke’s first feature, the 2017 adaptation of the Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (review), starring Saoirse Ronan, premiered at Tiff.
Gist: Written by Tom O’Connor, Cumberbatch stars as a spy working in conjunction with his Russian source to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis.…...
For his sophomore film, the UK’s Dominic Cooke tackles the Cold War in Ironbark, produced by Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, and Ben Pugh. Lensed by Sean Bobbitt (who has served as Dp on all of Steve McQueen’s films), the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, and Jessie Buckley. BAFTA nominated for his work on the 2016 television series “The Hollow Crown,” Cooke’s first feature, the 2017 adaptation of the Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (review), starring Saoirse Ronan, premiered at Tiff.
Gist: Written by Tom O’Connor, Cumberbatch stars as a spy working in conjunction with his Russian source to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
That’s Sir Steve, Sir Sam and Dame Olivia, if you please.
Director Sam Mendes, whose World War I film “1917” is causing serious Oscar buzz, is being awarded a knighthood in the latest round of honors handed out by Queen Elizabeth II. Mendes is being recognized for “services to drama” in the annual New Year’s Honors List.
The knighthood means that Mendes should formally be addressed as “Sir Sam,” following the feudal protocol that still remains part of British pomp and pageantry.
Mendes won an Academy Award in 2000 for his direction of “American Beauty.” More recently, he helmed the two recent James Bond outings “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” both of which were blockbusters at the global box office.
Mendes is also an accomplished theater director. “The Lehman Trilogy” and “The Ferryman” both transferred from London to New York.
Singer Olivia Newton-John was awarded a damehood, the equivalent of a knighthood for women,...
Director Sam Mendes, whose World War I film “1917” is causing serious Oscar buzz, is being awarded a knighthood in the latest round of honors handed out by Queen Elizabeth II. Mendes is being recognized for “services to drama” in the annual New Year’s Honors List.
The knighthood means that Mendes should formally be addressed as “Sir Sam,” following the feudal protocol that still remains part of British pomp and pageantry.
Mendes won an Academy Award in 2000 for his direction of “American Beauty.” More recently, he helmed the two recent James Bond outings “Skyfall” and “Spectre,” both of which were blockbusters at the global box office.
Mendes is also an accomplished theater director. “The Lehman Trilogy” and “The Ferryman” both transferred from London to New York.
Singer Olivia Newton-John was awarded a damehood, the equivalent of a knighthood for women,...
- 12/27/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Blair Sep 3, 2019
Without Terrance Dicks' writing, Doctor Who could now well be a thing of the past. Andrew salutes his inestimable contribution...
This article originally ran on Den of Geek UK.
I met Terrance Dicks in Hamilton Library when I was eight. I was holding a copy of The Auton Invasion that I'd bought in a shop in Hereford and could not get the price sticker off. He said it was an early pressing of the first book he'd written for the Target Novelization range, then launched into an anecdote about it. It may not have been this story's first outing but damn it I was paying attention.
I mean, sure, he wrote Warmonger, but can any of us say they haven't on some level "written Warmonger"?
Certainly none of us can say we introduced thousands of children to literature, and not the "Ian McEwan pretends Science Fiction doesn't exist" sort of literature,...
Without Terrance Dicks' writing, Doctor Who could now well be a thing of the past. Andrew salutes his inestimable contribution...
This article originally ran on Den of Geek UK.
I met Terrance Dicks in Hamilton Library when I was eight. I was holding a copy of The Auton Invasion that I'd bought in a shop in Hereford and could not get the price sticker off. He said it was an early pressing of the first book he'd written for the Target Novelization range, then launched into an anecdote about it. It may not have been this story's first outing but damn it I was paying attention.
I mean, sure, he wrote Warmonger, but can any of us say they haven't on some level "written Warmonger"?
Certainly none of us can say we introduced thousands of children to literature, and not the "Ian McEwan pretends Science Fiction doesn't exist" sort of literature,...
- 9/3/2019
- Den of Geek
‘Robin Hood.’
Lionsgate’s $100 million Robin Hood reboot is shaping as one of the biggest busts of 2018 while See-Saw Films/Regency Enterprises’ female-led heist movie Widows had a respectable debut on the back of rave reviews.
Among the other openers last weekend, Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms mirrored its weak Us bow while the ethical and legal dilemma at the heart of Roadshow’s The Children Act proved too challenging for mainstream audiences.
Given the lacklustre new entries, takings for the top 20 titles unsurprisingly slumped by 16 per cent to $14.7 million, according to Numero.
Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald easily retained the top spot, commanding $4.2 million in its second weekend, elevating its total to $15.8 million.
The David Yates-directed adventure fantasy scripted by J.K. Rowling has hauled in $117 million in the Us and $322.6 million in the rest of the world, for a global total of $439.7 million.
Lionsgate’s $100 million Robin Hood reboot is shaping as one of the biggest busts of 2018 while See-Saw Films/Regency Enterprises’ female-led heist movie Widows had a respectable debut on the back of rave reviews.
Among the other openers last weekend, Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms mirrored its weak Us bow while the ethical and legal dilemma at the heart of Roadshow’s The Children Act proved too challenging for mainstream audiences.
Given the lacklustre new entries, takings for the top 20 titles unsurprisingly slumped by 16 per cent to $14.7 million, according to Numero.
Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald easily retained the top spot, commanding $4.2 million in its second weekend, elevating its total to $15.8 million.
The David Yates-directed adventure fantasy scripted by J.K. Rowling has hauled in $117 million in the Us and $322.6 million in the rest of the world, for a global total of $439.7 million.
- 11/26/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham and I turn on some mood lighting and talk about Mandy, the newest film from Panos Cosmatos. Then, Michael and I spend a brief amount of time going over our feelings regarding The Children Act and the adaptations (actual and hypothetical) of Ian McEwan.
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- 9/25/2018
- by Brian Roan
- The Film Stage
After penning 14 novels and winning the Man Booker Prize, Ian McEwan seemingly doesn't have much left to prove. Still, the author says, "I don’t think I've ever worked harder in my life" than in 2018. This year, three film and television adaptations of McEwan's books — two of which he wrote the screenplays for — are rolling out while just last week, McEwan finished another novel. "So yes, it's been quite an interesting year," he says.
The latest of McEwan's works to be released is The Children Act, his own adaptation ...
The latest of McEwan's works to be released is The Children Act, his own adaptation ...
- 9/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After penning 14 novels and winning the Man Booker Prize, Ian McEwan seemingly doesn't have much left to prove. Still, the author says, "I don’t think I've ever worked harder in my life" than in 2018. This year, three film and television adaptations of McEwan's books — two of which he wrote the screenplays for — are rolling out while just last week, McEwan finished another novel. "So yes, it's been quite an interesting year," he says.
The latest of McEwan's works to be released is The Children Act, his own adaptation ...
The latest of McEwan's works to be released is The Children Act, his own adaptation ...
- 9/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
If Emma Thompson can’t make “The Children Act,” a drama about a family-court judge conflicted over her own decisions and the precarious state of her own family, into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can’t.
Screenwriter Ian McEwan, adapting his own novel, and director Richard Eyre (“Notes on a Scandal”) have assembled a fine cast to tackle controversial subjects brimming over with dramatic possibility, but the results are stultifyingly subdued. It’s all so polite, so sober, so convinced of its own importance, that it never has a pulse. This is love and life and death discussed as though they were paint swatches for the guest room.
Thompson stars as Fiona Maye, a high-court judge who specializes in hot-button issues that often put her in the crosshairs of religious fundamentalists. (The “Act” of the title is a noun and not a verb.) As the film opens,...
Screenwriter Ian McEwan, adapting his own novel, and director Richard Eyre (“Notes on a Scandal”) have assembled a fine cast to tackle controversial subjects brimming over with dramatic possibility, but the results are stultifyingly subdued. It’s all so polite, so sober, so convinced of its own importance, that it never has a pulse. This is love and life and death discussed as though they were paint swatches for the guest room.
Thompson stars as Fiona Maye, a high-court judge who specializes in hot-button issues that often put her in the crosshairs of religious fundamentalists. (The “Act” of the title is a noun and not a verb.) As the film opens,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Emma Thompson is having quite the year so far. In June, the British actress, 59, acquired the title of capital-d Dame, thanks to Queen Elizabeth.
Then there is her still-thriving career. She joins her “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day” co-star Anthony Hopkins in a BBC co-production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that will stream on Amazon starting September 28. She plays Goneril, the devious eldest daughter of Hopkins’s tragic royal who takes advantage of his descent into madness.
The double Oscar winner is the main attraction in “The Children Act,” which is now in theaters and is also available on DirecTV. In the drama, based on Ian McEwan’s novel, she plays a British judge who must decide whether a teen boy suffering from leukemia can be forced to get a blood transfusion to save his life — even though it is against his beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Then there is her still-thriving career. She joins her “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day” co-star Anthony Hopkins in a BBC co-production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that will stream on Amazon starting September 28. She plays Goneril, the devious eldest daughter of Hopkins’s tragic royal who takes advantage of his descent into madness.
The double Oscar winner is the main attraction in “The Children Act,” which is now in theaters and is also available on DirecTV. In the drama, based on Ian McEwan’s novel, she plays a British judge who must decide whether a teen boy suffering from leukemia can be forced to get a blood transfusion to save his life — even though it is against his beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
- 9/13/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Ian McEwan writes great novels that most often turn into problematic movies, some wonderful (Atonement), others Wtf happened (On Chesil Beach). The Children Act falls somewhere in the middle, bolstered by a supremely confident and indelibly moving performance from Emma Thompson as a family court judge trying to practice what the law preaches. Thompson plays Fiona Maye, who has dedicated her life to the principles set forth in the 1989 British law known as the Children Act, which protects and prizes the welfare of minors. So devoted is Fiona to the...
- 9/12/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Undercover-cop tale marks Spike Lee’s commercial comeback, while Ian McEwan adaptation The Children Act is dwarfed by box-office giants
Achieving the highest site average for any film on release at UK cinemas is BlacKkKlansman. Spike Lee’s undercover-cop tale – inspired by one Colorado police department’s successful infiltration of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the late 1970s – has begun with a very encouraging £1.11m from 217 venues, or £1.23m including previews. Site average for the weekend period is a very robust £5,122.
Achieving the highest site average for any film on release at UK cinemas is BlacKkKlansman. Spike Lee’s undercover-cop tale – inspired by one Colorado police department’s successful infiltration of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the late 1970s – has begun with a very encouraging £1.11m from 217 venues, or £1.23m including previews. Site average for the weekend period is a very robust £5,122.
- 8/29/2018
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Adapted from the work of Ian McEwan, Sir Richard Eyre returns to the silver screen with The Children Act, and to mark the film’s release we had the pleasure of meeting the man at the helm, as well as the film’s leading two stars – Emma Thompson and Fionn Whitehead.
We asked Thompson, who plays a high-court judge, on her research into this archaic, elusive world, and she goes on to tell us about the joys in being an actor, constantly understanding new people and worlds. This leads into Whitehead (Dunkirk) talking about getting into the head of a teenager who is willing to sacrifice his life for his religion, and he tells us about secretly joining up to as Jehovah’s Witness meeting. Given the young actor has been very vocal about his admiration for Thompson, we asked her if she can recall working with any true legends...
We asked Thompson, who plays a high-court judge, on her research into this archaic, elusive world, and she goes on to tell us about the joys in being an actor, constantly understanding new people and worlds. This leads into Whitehead (Dunkirk) talking about getting into the head of a teenager who is willing to sacrifice his life for his religion, and he tells us about secretly joining up to as Jehovah’s Witness meeting. Given the young actor has been very vocal about his admiration for Thompson, we asked her if she can recall working with any true legends...
- 8/24/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Today sees the release of The Children Act, the new film from Richard Eyre, adapted from the bestseller by the writer Ian McEwan (Atonement), and produced by Duncan Kenworthy.
The film stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Jason Watkins, Rosie Cavaliero and Nikki Amuka-Bird and is have received plaudits for Thompson’s performance in particular.
We present below the full press conference for the film, held in central London on the 15th of August.
The Children Act is released in the UK on the 24th of August, 2018. Here are our premiere interviews.
The Children Act Press Conference
Plot:
Based on the much-loved novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre, The Children Act is a compelling and powerful drama telling the story of Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson), an eminent high court judge presiding over ethically complex cases. As the demands...
The film stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Jason Watkins, Rosie Cavaliero and Nikki Amuka-Bird and is have received plaudits for Thompson’s performance in particular.
We present below the full press conference for the film, held in central London on the 15th of August.
The Children Act is released in the UK on the 24th of August, 2018. Here are our premiere interviews.
The Children Act Press Conference
Plot:
Based on the much-loved novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre, The Children Act is a compelling and powerful drama telling the story of Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson), an eminent high court judge presiding over ethically complex cases. As the demands...
- 8/24/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Further openers include The Spy Who Dumped Me, The Children’s Act and A Northern Soul.
New releases led by Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and a duo of family animations are hoping to light up the UK box office this weekend (Aug 24-26) after last weekend was dominated by holdovers.
Universal is opening BlacKkKlansman wide on over 300 screens. The film, which premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year, stars John David Washington (son of Denzel) and Adam Driver and is based on the true story of a Southern black policeman who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan in the late1970s.
New releases led by Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and a duo of family animations are hoping to light up the UK box office this weekend (Aug 24-26) after last weekend was dominated by holdovers.
Universal is opening BlacKkKlansman wide on over 300 screens. The film, which premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year, stars John David Washington (son of Denzel) and Adam Driver and is based on the true story of a Southern black policeman who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan in the late1970s.
- 8/24/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
In The Children Act, the inimitable Emma Thompson stars as a High Court judge caught in the midst of a moral crisis when she is asked to rule over a delicate and highly volatile case. Adapted by Richard Eyre from Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name, the film presents an interesting premise with themes relating to duty versus faith running through its narrative, but is slightly let down by a less than perfect screenplay.
Working tirelessly for years to become one of the brightest and most respected High Court judges in the country, Fiona Maye (Thompson) finds herself at a loss when her husband Jack (Stanley Tucci) suddenly informs her of his intention to have an extra-marital affair with a much younger woman, blaming Fiona for neglecting their sex life for years. Feeling betrayed and let down by this shocking revelation, Fiona throws herself in her job refusing...
Working tirelessly for years to become one of the brightest and most respected High Court judges in the country, Fiona Maye (Thompson) finds herself at a loss when her husband Jack (Stanley Tucci) suddenly informs her of his intention to have an extra-marital affair with a much younger woman, blaming Fiona for neglecting their sex life for years. Feeling betrayed and let down by this shocking revelation, Fiona throws herself in her job refusing...
- 8/23/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Booker-winning author on Angela Merkel, tennis and his tribute to The Go-Between
Born in Hampshire, Ian McEwan, 70, took a creative writing Ma at the University of East Anglia. In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam. His novels Atonement and On Chesil Beach are both films, and The Children Act is in cinemas on 24 August.
When were you happiest?
In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun. Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.
Born in Hampshire, Ian McEwan, 70, took a creative writing Ma at the University of East Anglia. In 1976, his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam. His novels Atonement and On Chesil Beach are both films, and The Children Act is in cinemas on 24 August.
When were you happiest?
In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun. Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.
- 8/18/2018
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Last night the capital saw the stars of one of the most moving films of the year walk the red carpet for the UK Premiere of The Children Act, the new film from Richard Eyre, adapted from the bestseller by the writer Ian McEwan (Atonement) and produced by Duncan Kenworthy.
The film stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Jason Watkins, Rosie Cavaliero and Nikki Amuka-Bird.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were our men on the red carpet, they asked Fionn Whitehead about life after Dunkirk and got a glimpse of Emma Thompson’s impressive new look she will be sporting in the latest Men in Black film.
The Children Act is released in the UK on the 24th of August, 2018. Here are our premiere interviews.
The Children Act Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Based on the much-loved novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre,...
The film stars Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Jason Watkins, Rosie Cavaliero and Nikki Amuka-Bird.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were our men on the red carpet, they asked Fionn Whitehead about life after Dunkirk and got a glimpse of Emma Thompson’s impressive new look she will be sporting in the latest Men in Black film.
The Children Act is released in the UK on the 24th of August, 2018. Here are our premiere interviews.
The Children Act Premiere Interviews
Plot:
Based on the much-loved novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre,...
- 8/17/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Actor tells of spending time ‘backstage’ in high court for her role in The Children Act
Emma Thompson has said that spending time at the high court for her latest role in which she plays a family court judge was an extraordinary experience and “one of the greatest privileges”.
The actor plays a judge in The Children Act, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2014 novel, in which her character has to decide whether Adam, a 17-year-old with leukaemia, should be forced to have potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the procedure going against his religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Emma Thompson has said that spending time at the high court for her latest role in which she plays a family court judge was an extraordinary experience and “one of the greatest privileges”.
The actor plays a judge in The Children Act, an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2014 novel, in which her character has to decide whether Adam, a 17-year-old with leukaemia, should be forced to have potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the procedure going against his religious beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
- 8/16/2018
- by Nadia Khomami
- The Guardian - Film News
The Children Act A24 & Directv Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Richard Eyre Screenwriter: Ian McEwan from his book Cast: Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Eilseen Walsh, Anthony Calf, Jason Watkins, Dominic Carter Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 7/11/18 Opens: August 18, 2018 on Directv. September 14, 2018 theatrical on A24 Richard […]
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- 8/13/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Is David Lynch just too damn weird for Emmy voters?
That’s a question that could be answered by Emmy nominations in the limited series and television movie categories, where Lynch’s return to “Twin Peaks” on Showtime is both a monumental achievement and one of the strangest things ever put on television.
Among the top contenders in the limited series category, the 18-episode “Twin Peaks” is longest piece of work by more than six hours — and it’s also so bizarre that it makes the last season of “Westworld” look like a model of concise storytelling. There’s a real question as to whether Lynch’s flights of fancy will be embraced or scorned by voters.
Among the other contenders, FX’s Ryan Murphy is always a major presence in these categories, with his big entry this year not the post-election edition of “American Horror Story” but the second...
That’s a question that could be answered by Emmy nominations in the limited series and television movie categories, where Lynch’s return to “Twin Peaks” on Showtime is both a monumental achievement and one of the strangest things ever put on television.
Among the top contenders in the limited series category, the 18-episode “Twin Peaks” is longest piece of work by more than six hours — and it’s also so bizarre that it makes the last season of “Westworld” look like a model of concise storytelling. There’s a real question as to whether Lynch’s flights of fancy will be embraced or scorned by voters.
Among the other contenders, FX’s Ryan Murphy is always a major presence in these categories, with his big entry this year not the post-election edition of “American Horror Story” but the second...
- 7/9/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper (1992) is showing June 9 - July 9, 2018 in the United States.Light SleeperPopularly known as the screenwriter of Taxi Driver (1976), Paul Schrader’s work in cinema extends well beyond this seminal collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, from his beginnings as a film critic to his continued career as a director. When asked how his background as a critic influenced his work as a filmmaker he uses a telling example to outline the two modes of approaching the cinematic medium. Responding cautiously, he explains that for him the analytical impulses of the critic may be"as much for good as bad, maybe in fact more for bad. Because a critic in many ways is like a medical examiner. You know, you open up the cadaver, and you want to see how and why it lived. And a writer, a filmmaker, is, on the other hand,...
- 7/6/2018
- MUBI
The German festival runs from June 28 to July 7.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
- 6/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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