The Tourist Stars Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Facebook )
The Tourist brought together an interesting pair of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie together. The romantic thriller was released in 2010 and received mixed response from the critics. However, the film earned at least 278 million dollars at the worldwide box office and received three Golden Globe nominations. The Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directorial is a remake of the 2005 French film, Anthony Zimmer.
In the film, Angelina Jolie plays Elise Clifton-Ward, who helps her lover, Alexander Pearce, escape from the French and Scottish officers. The duo come up with a clever way to trick these officers who are following Elise to find Alexander’s whereabouts. Both Johnny and Angelina look stunning together on screen. But did you know Depp and Jolie weren’t the first choice for the film? Yes, you read it right.
Which actors were the first choice for The Tourist?...
The Tourist brought together an interesting pair of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie together. The romantic thriller was released in 2010 and received mixed response from the critics. However, the film earned at least 278 million dollars at the worldwide box office and received three Golden Globe nominations. The Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directorial is a remake of the 2005 French film, Anthony Zimmer.
In the film, Angelina Jolie plays Elise Clifton-Ward, who helps her lover, Alexander Pearce, escape from the French and Scottish officers. The duo come up with a clever way to trick these officers who are following Elise to find Alexander’s whereabouts. Both Johnny and Angelina look stunning together on screen. But did you know Depp and Jolie weren’t the first choice for the film? Yes, you read it right.
Which actors were the first choice for The Tourist?...
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- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
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The action-adventure pic is inspired by the true story of convicts Robert Greenhill and Alexander Pearce, and their sensational journey of survival after escaping from prison, which scandalized the Victorian-era world. While the story has previously inspired songs, works of fiction and non-fiction, news articles, tall tales, art, illustrations and other printed materials, it has never before been adapted as a large-scale feature film.
When the wrongly-accused Greenhill is shipped to the harshest Tasmanian penal colony in the 1820s, he quickly realizes his only chance of survival is to partner with the notorious murderer Pearce and five other hardened criminals in order to escape.
The action-adventure pic is inspired by the true story of convicts Robert Greenhill and Alexander Pearce, and their sensational journey of survival after escaping from prison, which scandalized the Victorian-era world. While the story has previously inspired songs, works of fiction and non-fiction, news articles, tall tales, art, illustrations and other printed materials, it has never before been adapted as a large-scale feature film.
When the wrongly-accused Greenhill is shipped to the harshest Tasmanian penal colony in the 1820s, he quickly realizes his only chance of survival is to partner with the notorious murderer Pearce and five other hardened criminals in order to escape.
- 2/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Tourist is an obsessive (and I do mean obsessive) homage to thrillers from the late ’50s and early ’60s. One can see nods to Stanley Donen’s Charade and the work of Alfred Hitchcock from its plot to its exotic locales, the costuming and even the performances themselves. Sadly, it emulates its inspirations to a fault, so focused on its artifice and recreating a bygone style and era that it all comes off as stiff.
Angelina Jolie stars as Elise Clifton-Ward. She’s mysterious, snobbish, and under the false assumption that she is Audrey Hepburn. While being tailed by Scotland Yard inspector Acheson (Paul Bettany) and local detectives in France, Elise receives a letter via courier (who delivers to cafes, conveniently). The correspondence’s author is Alexander Pearce, the notorious target of various authorities, Elise’s boyfriend, and an outlaw on the lam for...
Angelina Jolie stars as Elise Clifton-Ward. She’s mysterious, snobbish, and under the false assumption that she is Audrey Hepburn. While being tailed by Scotland Yard inspector Acheson (Paul Bettany) and local detectives in France, Elise receives a letter via courier (who delivers to cafes, conveniently). The correspondence’s author is Alexander Pearce, the notorious target of various authorities, Elise’s boyfriend, and an outlaw on the lam for...
- 12/10/2010
- by Glenn Kay
- newsinfilm.com
The Tourist
Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Rated PG-13
The Tourist has a recipe for success; action, suspense, drama, mystery, romance... not to mention two of the biggest actors in film today. It revolves around the hunt for one Alexander Pearce, who stole $2.3 billion from a mob boss. Both the authorities and gangsters are after him, but he hasn't been seen in years. Their only link is the woman that he loves, Elise Clifton-Ward (Angelina Jolie). The police are following her, and the mobsters have their contacts within the authorities. Elise, after years of waiting, is finally contacted by Alexander. She receives a note that tells her to take a train to Italy, and find someone that's Alexander's height and build, to throw off the people after him.
So where does this go wrong?
On the train, Elise notices Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp) sitting alone,...
Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Rated PG-13
The Tourist has a recipe for success; action, suspense, drama, mystery, romance... not to mention two of the biggest actors in film today. It revolves around the hunt for one Alexander Pearce, who stole $2.3 billion from a mob boss. Both the authorities and gangsters are after him, but he hasn't been seen in years. Their only link is the woman that he loves, Elise Clifton-Ward (Angelina Jolie). The police are following her, and the mobsters have their contacts within the authorities. Elise, after years of waiting, is finally contacted by Alexander. She receives a note that tells her to take a train to Italy, and find someone that's Alexander's height and build, to throw off the people after him.
So where does this go wrong?
On the train, Elise notices Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp) sitting alone,...
- 12/10/2010
- by Josh Baldwin
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Not all critics were won over by Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp's star power.
By Eric Ditzian
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in "The Tourist"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Critics may not be fawning over "The Tourist," but Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie remain big box-office draws, perhaps even more so internationally than here in the States. So while oodles of critics continue to take shots at the new flick, it's likely to attract a sizeable audience.
But will "The Tourist" top the $20 million mark? Will it fall short? Is the movie the right choice for you this weekend, as it faces other new entrants like "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" or the platform release "The Fighter"? Check out what the critics are saying and decide for yourself.
The Story
"One morning in Paris (France, we're helpfully informed), the exquisite Elise Ward (Jolie) strolls down...
By Eric Ditzian
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in "The Tourist"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Critics may not be fawning over "The Tourist," but Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie remain big box-office draws, perhaps even more so internationally than here in the States. So while oodles of critics continue to take shots at the new flick, it's likely to attract a sizeable audience.
But will "The Tourist" top the $20 million mark? Will it fall short? Is the movie the right choice for you this weekend, as it faces other new entrants like "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" or the platform release "The Fighter"? Check out what the critics are saying and decide for yourself.
The Story
"One morning in Paris (France, we're helpfully informed), the exquisite Elise Ward (Jolie) strolls down...
- 12/10/2010
- MTV Music News
Not all critics were won over by Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp's star power.
By Eric Ditzian
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in "The Tourist"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Critics may not be fawning over "The Tourist," but Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie remain big box-office draws, perhaps even more so internationally than here in the States. So while oodles of critics continue to take shots at the new flick, it's likely to attract a sizeable audience.
But will "The Tourist" top the $20 million mark? Will it fall short? Is the movie the right choice for you this weekend, as it faces other new entrants like "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" or the platform release "The Fighter"? Check out what the critics are saying and decide for yourself.
The Story
"One morning in Paris (France, we're helpfully informed), the exquisite Elise Ward (Jolie) strolls down...
By Eric Ditzian
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in "The Tourist"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Critics may not be fawning over "The Tourist," but Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie remain big box-office draws, perhaps even more so internationally than here in the States. So while oodles of critics continue to take shots at the new flick, it's likely to attract a sizeable audience.
But will "The Tourist" top the $20 million mark? Will it fall short? Is the movie the right choice for you this weekend, as it faces other new entrants like "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" or the platform release "The Fighter"? Check out what the critics are saying and decide for yourself.
The Story
"One morning in Paris (France, we're helpfully informed), the exquisite Elise Ward (Jolie) strolls down...
- 12/10/2010
- MTV Movie News
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist
Photo: Columbia Pictures For the life of me I can't think of a director taking a more dramatic turn from one film to the next than Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has done moving from his fantastic 2007 Oscar-winning foreign language feature The Lives of Others to this dim-witted and dull rom-com actioner. The Tourist tries its hand at every trick in the book and comes up empty each and every time. Whether Henckel von Donnersmarck is going for laughs, love or excitement the bored and stone-faced expressions of his actors leaves the film falling flat.
The Tourist is a nothing movie. What is it exactly? A spy thriller? A romance? A case of mistaken identity? A comedy of bumbling buffoonery? It certainly makes an effort at all of these things from the first moment we're introduced to Angelina Jolie's Elise, a woman...
Photo: Columbia Pictures For the life of me I can't think of a director taking a more dramatic turn from one film to the next than Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has done moving from his fantastic 2007 Oscar-winning foreign language feature The Lives of Others to this dim-witted and dull rom-com actioner. The Tourist tries its hand at every trick in the book and comes up empty each and every time. Whether Henckel von Donnersmarck is going for laughs, love or excitement the bored and stone-faced expressions of his actors leaves the film falling flat.
The Tourist is a nothing movie. What is it exactly? A spy thriller? A romance? A case of mistaken identity? A comedy of bumbling buffoonery? It certainly makes an effort at all of these things from the first moment we're introduced to Angelina Jolie's Elise, a woman...
- 12/10/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Remember that classic scene in Thank You For Smoking, when Aaron Eckhart’s deliciously slimy tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor pitches a sexy, cigarette-plugging scene for an upcoming movie? He envisions the world’s two most attractive stars making love, before each lights up a post-coital cigarette. The Tourist, a new thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie – oft cited as the two most desirable people on the planet – could have brought Naylor’s vision to life; it certainly has the beauteous leads and more than enough cigarettes to go around, yet incredibly, it fails to be at all sexy, fun, or exciting.
Elise (Jolie) is a mysterious woman romantically involved with an international fugitive, Alexander Pearce, who owes vast sums of cash to a very dangerous group of gangsters. When she receives a letter from him, requesting that she find a man of similar physical presence...
Remember that classic scene in Thank You For Smoking, when Aaron Eckhart’s deliciously slimy tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor pitches a sexy, cigarette-plugging scene for an upcoming movie? He envisions the world’s two most attractive stars making love, before each lights up a post-coital cigarette. The Tourist, a new thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie – oft cited as the two most desirable people on the planet – could have brought Naylor’s vision to life; it certainly has the beauteous leads and more than enough cigarettes to go around, yet incredibly, it fails to be at all sexy, fun, or exciting.
Elise (Jolie) is a mysterious woman romantically involved with an international fugitive, Alexander Pearce, who owes vast sums of cash to a very dangerous group of gangsters. When she receives a letter from him, requesting that she find a man of similar physical presence...
- 12/9/2010
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
By Gaby Izarra, winner of MTV's Ultimate "Tourist" Guest Correspondent contest
I've seen a lot during my brief stay in Paris as MTV's Ultimate "Tourist" Guest Correspondent -- the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and a bunch of other stuff -- and I have to say that the Le Meurice Hotel must be the most spectacular hotel in the entire city. It's the epitome of European elegance... and thus the perfect locale to host "The Tourist" press junket, where I'd soon interview Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Paul Bettany.
(Click on the photo below for a behind-the-scenes look at Gaby's "Tourist" experience so far, including her sightseeing adventures and the preparations for her celebrity interviews.)
I settled into a seat in the hospitality suite on the top floor to look over my questions for Johnny, Angelina and Paul, all while snacking on tiny sandwiches with the crusts cut off and taking...
I've seen a lot during my brief stay in Paris as MTV's Ultimate "Tourist" Guest Correspondent -- the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and a bunch of other stuff -- and I have to say that the Le Meurice Hotel must be the most spectacular hotel in the entire city. It's the epitome of European elegance... and thus the perfect locale to host "The Tourist" press junket, where I'd soon interview Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie and Paul Bettany.
(Click on the photo below for a behind-the-scenes look at Gaby's "Tourist" experience so far, including her sightseeing adventures and the preparations for her celebrity interviews.)
I settled into a seat in the hospitality suite on the top floor to look over my questions for Johnny, Angelina and Paul, all while snacking on tiny sandwiches with the crusts cut off and taking...
- 12/6/2010
- by MTV Movies Team
- MTV Movies Blog
The newest trailer for The Tourist was just released. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp hot us all riled up after watching the trailer. The Tourist revolves around Frank (Depp) who is an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path in order to mislead all those following her former lover, Alexander Pearce, a criminal wanted in fourteen countries who has stolen money from a gangster (Berkoff) and is being pursued by an agent (Bettany). Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank attempts to forge a potential romance but...
- 10/11/2010
- Hollyscoop.com
Animal Kingdom (A. Partos/S. Petty) , Beneath Hill 60 (C. Skubiszewski), Mao’s Last Dancer (C. Gordon) and The Waiting City (M. Yezerski) are competing for the Best Feature Film Score at this year’s Screen Music Awards.
In the television categories My Place (R. Mason), Rescue Special Ops (N. Tyson-Chew), Tangle (B. Marks) and Underbelly (B. Dallwitz) have been selected for the Best Music for a Television Series category.The 2010 Screen Music Awards, presented by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) will be held at BMW Edge in Melbourne on Tuesday 9 November.
The nominees are:
Best Feature Film Score
Title Animal Kingdom Composers Antony Partos and Sam Petty Title Beneath Hill 60 Composer Cezary Skubiszewski Publisher Albert Music Title Mao’s Last Dancer Composer Christopher Gordon Title The Waiting City Composer Michael Yezerski Publisher Sandcastle Music Pty Ltd
Best Music for a...
In the television categories My Place (R. Mason), Rescue Special Ops (N. Tyson-Chew), Tangle (B. Marks) and Underbelly (B. Dallwitz) have been selected for the Best Music for a Television Series category.The 2010 Screen Music Awards, presented by Apra (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Agsc (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) will be held at BMW Edge in Melbourne on Tuesday 9 November.
The nominees are:
Best Feature Film Score
Title Animal Kingdom Composers Antony Partos and Sam Petty Title Beneath Hill 60 Composer Cezary Skubiszewski Publisher Albert Music Title Mao’s Last Dancer Composer Christopher Gordon Title The Waiting City Composer Michael Yezerski Publisher Sandcastle Music Pty Ltd
Best Music for a...
- 10/8/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Sneak Peek the newest poster supporting the Columbia feature "The Tourist", a comedy-drama thriller, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, remaking the French-language feature "Anthony Zimmer".
Premise of the new film, follows an American tourist, used by an English woman in an attempt to flush out a criminal with whom she once had an affair.
"It's a love story, that's for sure", said director Henckel von Donnersmarck.
"Imagine a woman who is just so elegant and sophisticated and educated and has lived in that world and now, through a whole set of circumstances, suddenly falls in love with a guy who is not any of those things, and it just somehow confuses her whole world because that was not meant to happen. She had it all worked out, she had this grand master plan, and neither he nor she had thought it possible that...
Premise of the new film, follows an American tourist, used by an English woman in an attempt to flush out a criminal with whom she once had an affair.
"It's a love story, that's for sure", said director Henckel von Donnersmarck.
"Imagine a woman who is just so elegant and sophisticated and educated and has lived in that world and now, through a whole set of circumstances, suddenly falls in love with a guy who is not any of those things, and it just somehow confuses her whole world because that was not meant to happen. She had it all worked out, she had this grand master plan, and neither he nor she had thought it possible that...
- 10/1/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
HollywoodLife.com has seen the script of Angelina and Johnny’s upcoming film, The Tourist, and trust us — they’re going to set the screen on fire!
Oh yeah, baby! Shocking as it may sound, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp Have had wild and crazy sex! However, Brad Pitt and Vanessa Paradis don’t have to worry about their partners cheating – they simply shot the steamy scenes for their upcoming thriller, The Tourist!
HollywoodLife.com has obtained the script for the flick, which is based on the 2005 French film, Anthony Zimmer, and let us tell you…you’ll be seeing a lot of action in more ways than one! Johnny, 47, plays Frank Taylor, a just-divorced and completely clueless American tourist who gets pulled into an alluring web of lies told by mysterious and heartbreakingly beautiful Englishwoman Elise Mason (Angelina).
After meeting as strangers on a train, Elise and Frank check...
Oh yeah, baby! Shocking as it may sound, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp Have had wild and crazy sex! However, Brad Pitt and Vanessa Paradis don’t have to worry about their partners cheating – they simply shot the steamy scenes for their upcoming thriller, The Tourist!
HollywoodLife.com has obtained the script for the flick, which is based on the 2005 French film, Anthony Zimmer, and let us tell you…you’ll be seeing a lot of action in more ways than one! Johnny, 47, plays Frank Taylor, a just-divorced and completely clueless American tourist who gets pulled into an alluring web of lies told by mysterious and heartbreakingly beautiful Englishwoman Elise Mason (Angelina).
After meeting as strangers on a train, Elise and Frank check...
- 9/20/2010
- by Laura Schreffler
- HollywoodLife
First time writer director Jonathan auf der Heide serves up a true life story of cannibalism and desperation in the tasty form of “Van Diemen’s Land”. Based upon the confessions of Alexander Pearce, one of Australia’s most notorious convicts, and expanded from Heide’s short “Hell’s Gates”, the film is a grim, brooding affair which pulls no punches in its depiction of men committing dreadful acts in the name of survival. Having won the New Visions Award at the 2009 Stiges International Film Festival and the Best International Feature Award at the Swedish Lund Festival in 2009, the acclaimed film now arrives on region 2 DVD via High Fliers Films. Set in 1822, the film follows a group of 8 English, Irish and Scottish convicts as they escape from Macquarie Harbour on the island which is today known as Tasmania. With only the most meagre of food rations or clue as to where they are going,...
- 5/4/2010
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
A dark and grimy debut feature from Jonathan auf der Heide, Van Diemen's Land certainly has its fans, winning the New Visions Award at the 2009 Sitges International Film Festival and the Best International Feature Award at the 2009 Lund International Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden). It's a harsh and foreboding movie, that takes its time, and offers a more realist portrayal of notorious convict Alexander Pearce, as he escapes into the wilderness now known as Tasmania.
"A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland for repeated crimes, Van Diemen's Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement situated in the most remote and unexplored region of the British Empire. The entrance to its station of secondary punishment, Macquarie Harbour, was named 'Hell's Gates' by its prisoners, with the legend "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" posted on a sign at the harbour's mouth as a warning...
"A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland for repeated crimes, Van Diemen's Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement situated in the most remote and unexplored region of the British Empire. The entrance to its station of secondary punishment, Macquarie Harbour, was named 'Hell's Gates' by its prisoners, with the legend "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" posted on a sign at the harbour's mouth as a warning...
- 4/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
As far as representations of Australia are concerned Jonathan auf der Heide's cannibal drama Van Diemen's Land is about as distanced from the cinematic clichés as possible. No dusty outback, no golden sands, no aborigines and certainly no cans of Fosters over a BBQ. Though unsurprisingly, there is some form of cooked meat on offer. Vdl is concerned with plunging the audience into a very different antipodean environment - an oppressive, dense and seemingly endless mass of forested countryside that to the untrained eye isn't Australia at all, or at least not that of common screen incarnations. It's clearly a matter of perspective (and experience) but when I think of Australia in the movies, I immediately think of Nic Roeg's sublime Walkabout.
Set in what would later become known as Tasmania (the titular Van Diemen's Land) during colonial rule, this dark and foreboding film centers on a group of...
Set in what would later become known as Tasmania (the titular Van Diemen's Land) during colonial rule, this dark and foreboding film centers on a group of...
- 3/23/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Irish Australian drama 'The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce' has won the Best Non-European Dramatic Feature award at the 5th European Independent Film Festival in Paris. The film, set in 1820's Australia stars Irish actors Adrian Dunbar (The Crying Game) and Ciaran McMenamin (Sunday) was produced and written by Irish producer Nial Fulton (Policing the Pacific). The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce' has previously won an Inside Film Award and an Apra Screen Music Award. The docu drama follows Irishman Alexander Pearce (McMenamin) as he awaits execution after being deported to Van Diemen's Land and is reduced by the prison colony experience to serial cannibalism – a story that rocked the English-speaking world in its day.
- 3/23/2010
- IFTN
We’ve been hearing good things about writer-director Jonathan auf der Heide’s debut feature - a gritty, grisly tale of murder and eventually cannibalism - Van Diemen’s Land, so we thought it worth a mention that the film is due for release in the UK on DVD. The movie stars Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel and Paul Ashcroft, in telling the true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce, and his infamous escape into the brutal interior of Van Diemen’s Land (aka Tasmania). Watching the trail the whole thing has definite dark and foreboding feel, with some jaw-dropping cinematography. This has the looks of a survival horror, all grown up. Vdl goes on sale in the UK in May. Synopsis: A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland for repeated crimes, Van Diemen's Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement situated in...
- 3/5/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
After a few personnel shifts, The Tourist is starting production next week without the likes of once-attached Tom Cruise, Charlize Theron, or Sam Worthington. Instead, the film will mark the long-awaited pairing of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp for Spyglass Entertainment’s remake of the French thriller Anthony Zimmer.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, is set to direct his first studio film, but before production gets underway in Venice I thought we’d take a look at the script by Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar of his own for writing Gosford Park.
Jolie plays Cara, an elegant beauty who captures the attention of all men. Her talents begin and end with talking and looking sexy, so don’t expect much from Jolie’s performance other than what already comes natural. Though as the seductive lead and the only intriguing character throughout, it...
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, is set to direct his first studio film, but before production gets underway in Venice I thought we’d take a look at the script by Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar of his own for writing Gosford Park.
Jolie plays Cara, an elegant beauty who captures the attention of all men. Her talents begin and end with talking and looking sexy, so don’t expect much from Jolie’s performance other than what already comes natural. Though as the seductive lead and the only intriguing character throughout, it...
- 2/21/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Director: Jody Dwyer. Review: Adam Wing. It’s Australia’s turn to get down under your skin with Jody Dwyer’s twisted vision of terror, The Hills Have Eyes has a lot to answer for, and Dying Breed proves once again that keeping it in the family is rarely a good thing in the world of horror. Convinced that Tasmanian tigers still exist, and determined to finish the work that her sister started, zoologist Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) sets off on an expedition with her partner Matt, their financier Jack and his girlfriend, Rebecca. An interesting array of characters, not to mention wilfully annoying, between them they have also starred in the likes of Wolf Creek, Snakes On A Plane and Saw. Not exactly strangers to the world of torment and torture then… Their quest leads them deep into isolated territory, which is now inhabited by the descendants of Alexander Pearce...
- 12/8/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
The IFTA nominated drama, 'The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce', an Irish-Australian co-production has been picked up by UK broadcaster Channel 4. The drama, which recently won an Inside Film Award and an Apra Screen Music Award, stars Adrian Dunbar (The Crying Game), Ciaran McMenamin (One Hundred Mornings), Dan Wyllie (Chopper), Don Hany (California King) & Chris Haywood (Shine). The film depicts the final days of convict Alexander Pearce's life in Van Diemen's Land.
- 12/3/2009
- IFTN
Movies about cannibalism come in two (and a half) distinct varieties. They'll either go the exploitation/entertainment route with films like Cannibal Holocaust, Sweeney Todd, and Delicatessen, or they'll go for the dramatic angle with films like Alive and Keep The River On Your Right. (The remaining one half is the rare combination of the two and my favorite of the genre... Ravenous). The dramatic ones are usually more powerful as they present an uncompromising and bleak look at one of the rawer aspects of humanity. They ask what it would take and how long we might last before the darkness within us all rises up and usurps not only the rule of law and common decency, but our table manners as well... In 1822 Tasmania a group of prisoners escape from their captor and head off into the wilderness toward freedom. At least that was the plan. Instead the group find a never-ending landscape of mountains, woodlands...
- 9/27/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Showing our support for independent film, we invite you to have a look at Bavaria Film International's "Van Diemen's Land," starring Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Mark Leonard Winter, Paul Ashcroft, Torquil Neilson, Thomas Wright and Greg Stone. The drama opens Septemnber 24th in limited locations. Jonathan auf der Heide makes his feature-length directorial debut on the prject after a single credit for the short "Hell's Gates" last year. The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth. In 1822...
- 9/22/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A second trailer has debuted for Jonathan Auf Der Heide's Van Diemen's Land, the Australian thriller that has been hiding in the darkness for a while now. We first featured a shorter teaser trailer for this same film back in May (while I was in Cannes) as I was first told about it at the time. The film is now showing at Fantastic Fest next week where I'll finally be seeing it and will have some feedback on it. Van Diemen's Land is about cannibalism during the early 1800s, so tread with caution. The title pertains to an actual piece of Australian wilderness known as Van Diemen's Land, referring to the island of Tasmania. Check it out! Watch the trailer for Jonathan Auf Der Heide's Van Diemen's Land: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/vandiemensland_h640w.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/vandiemensland_h640w.jpg 598 254] For more info on the film, visit the official website: vandiemensland-themovie.com Van Diemen's Land tells the true story of Alexander Pearce,...
- 9/20/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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