Well hello there Prince Harry! The royal attended Field of Remembrance outside of Westminster Abbey in London earlier today and looked as dapper as can be in his full uniform. The 30-year-old redhead helped place crosses out in honor of servicemen who've passed alongside their friends and family. It's being reported that over 100,000 crosses were laid out during this morning's event, and the royal planted a cross with his own insignia on it. Harry specifically donned a No. 1 dress uniform of the Blues and Royals with a poppy on his hat. According to the Telegraph, widow Lisa McKinlay spoke with Harry about her late husband, Jonathan McKinlay and the somber...
- 11/7/2014
- E! Online
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 12 Dec 2013 - 05:49
The year of Baggins, Potter and Spider-Man also had a wealth of lesser-known movies. Here’s our pick of 2002's underappreciated films...
At the top of the box office tree, 2002 was dominated by fantasy and special effects. Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers made almost a billion dollars all by itself, with Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets taking second place and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man not too far behind.
In many ways, 2002 set the tempo for the Hollywood blockbuster landscape, which has changed relatively little in the decade since. A quick look at 2013‘s top 10, for example, reveals a markedly similar mix of superhero movies, with Iron Man 3 still ruling the roost at the time of writing, followed by effects-heavy action flicks and family-friendly animated features.
As usual in these lists, we're looking...
The year of Baggins, Potter and Spider-Man also had a wealth of lesser-known movies. Here’s our pick of 2002's underappreciated films...
At the top of the box office tree, 2002 was dominated by fantasy and special effects. Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers made almost a billion dollars all by itself, with Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets taking second place and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man not too far behind.
In many ways, 2002 set the tempo for the Hollywood blockbuster landscape, which has changed relatively little in the decade since. A quick look at 2013‘s top 10, for example, reveals a markedly similar mix of superhero movies, with Iron Man 3 still ruling the roost at the time of writing, followed by effects-heavy action flicks and family-friendly animated features.
As usual in these lists, we're looking...
- 12/11/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Opens
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a Dusty Warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a Dusty Warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Opens
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a dusty warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, March 12 (New York)
Friday, March 26 (Los Angeles)
Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig is a gifted storyteller whose last film, the tender ensemble piece "Italian for Beginners", was an international hit.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself", her first English-language feature, her agile touch is in evidence as she continues to mine everyday longings and love's improbabilities. The comic drama should prove hearty at the art house boxoffice.
The Glasgow, Scotland-set tale, scripted by Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen (with Lars Von Trier as script consultant), balances black humor and naturalism, a deep ache underlying the deadpan loopiness. Trading in the anti-artifice strictures of Dogme for polished widescreen compositions and an elegant musical score, Scherfig maintains her affection for lonely characters, abetted by fine performances.
Death is an insistent fact of life in the hospital-centric "Wilbur". "It gets more and more humiliating every time I survive!" the soulful-eyed title character (Jamie Sives) complains after his latest unsuccessful suicide attempt. His fellow depressives expel him from their hospital therapy group for being a downer, and he moves in with his quiet, good-natured brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), a master of equanimity.
They've just inherited their father's bookshop, a dusty warren of used volumes. Harbour takes a liking to Alice (Shirley Henderson), a single mother on the hospital's janitorial crew who has become a shop regular, selling books that patients have left behind. When Harbour and Alice marry, much to the delight of her 9-year-old daughter (Lisa McKinlay), their two broken families form a quartet of refugees from the mainstream. The brothers provide the first experience of birthday and holiday celebrations for the other two, and there's a new sense of safety for all of them -- even the death-courting Wilbur.
Scherfig is less interested in reasons for Wilbur's despair -- she offers information about a haunting childhood trauma but doesn't belabor the cause-and-effect angle -- than she is in his awakening to his own resilience. That awakening unfolds with realistic messiness and not a drop of sap. As the household adjusts to dark developments, roles shift and new caretakers emerge.
The central trio of actors deliver engaging, pitch-perfect work. Making impressions in supporting roles are Julia Davis and Mads Mikkelsen. Davis plays a self-righteous New Ager who pursues Wilbur, a man oblivious to his charms
Mikkelsen is the hospital's chain-smoking senior psychologist, whose bluntness belies a ready compassion.
Using a green-gray palette, DP Jorgen Johansson captures the cold light and gloom of the northern setting and casts the haven of the bookshop in sepia warmth. Joachim Holbek's lovely, judiciously used music heightens the story's plaintive mood.
WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
ThinkFilm
Zentropa Entertainments/Wilbur Ltd./Danish Film Institute/TV2/Scottish Screen/Glasgow Film Fund
Credits:
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriters: Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Olsen
Executive producer: Peter Aalbeck Jensen
Director of photography: Jorgen Johansson
Production designer: Jette Lehmann
Music: Joachim Holbek
Co-producer: Gillian Berrie
Editor: Gerd Tjur
Cast:
Wilbur: Jamie Sives
Harbour: Adrian Rawlins
Alice: Shirley Henderson
Mary: Lisa McKinlay
Horst: Mads Mikkelsen
Moira: Julia Davis
Sophie: Susan Vidler
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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