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How Glorious 39 could help America learn to love Stephen Poliakoff
13 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
He's our Paul Schrader, on an idiosyncratic journey, so why haven't my Us friends heard of Poliakoff?
Whenever my American friends ask me to name a good English director they've not heard of, I always push them towards the work of Stephen Poliakoff, whose Glorious 39 arrives this week. And those who take up my recommendation/challenge usually come back about three weeks later, after a bracing immersion in whatever traces of Poliakoff can be found in La's video stores, filled with gratitude and suddenly obsessed with Poliakoff's recurring themes: ancient family secrets, the power of images and documents to realign our understanding of histories both national and familial, and London as a city of secrets, forever yielding up surprises and shocks from its subterranean depths and farthest-flung outer suburbs; all somehow viewed by Poliakoff with the fresh-peeled eyeballs of a newly landed immigrant.
Poliakoff's American profile is diffuse and indistinct, »
- John Patterson
Cooper Eyes Sadistic Thriller Playing 'The Devil's Double'
10 November 2009 1:22 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
If there's one thing I particularly dug about An Education it was Dominic Cooper's smug, suave and mildly compassionate character. I mildly remembered him from The Duchess, but beyond that his roles in The History Boys and even Mamma Mia! are lost on me. Perhaps they were small and forgettable or just plain forgettable, but he was one cool cat in An Education and it's nice to see him scoring some additional work even if it is for Lee Tamahori, the director of the disappointing Bond film Die Another Day and xXx: State of the Union.
The film is The Devil's Double and is described by Screen Daily as a taut action tale about the extraordinary life of Latif Yahia. Cooper will play Yahia, a dead ringer for Saddam Hussein's sadistic and widely despised son, was forced against his will to stand in for Uday in potentially dangerous situations. »
- Brad Brevet
Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 8, 2009
8 November 2009 10:08 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This week:
The box office sings A Christmas Carol; Faceman visits Dark Fields; Michael Fassbender fires A Single Shot; High Fidelity guys re-team with Lay The Favorite and Helen Mirren sees Red.
Box Office
Christmas came early for Disney with A Christmas Carol. The motion capture Jim Carey film managed to snag around $31 million over the weekend.
Michael Jackson’s This is It banked about $13.4 million over the weekend after dropping less than 42 % from last weekend.
George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare At Goats and Milla Jovovich’s The Fourth Kind were almost neck and neck over the weekend with a weekend take of just under $14 million for each film.
Paranormal Activity just keep knocking at the door marked profit with another $8.5 million.
Cameron Diaz’s The Box opened with a disappointing $7.8 million. This poor opening means that the Richard Kelly film will not be in the financial Darko for a while. »
- Niall Browne
Stephen Frears Reteaming with 'High Fidelity' Writer
7 November 2009 8:02 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
High Fidelity should have done better at the box office a million years ago. It did Ok considering - $27 million plus about another $20 million internationally, but I think Disney was probably the wrong place to distribute it, and it probably never made a big impression on a lot of people until it hit the home video market.
One of the things the film shows is the versatility of director Stephen Frears (The Queen). It doesn't hurt that they had a fantastic Nick Hornby novel to work from, and now, a decade later, Frears and High Fidelity screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis might reunite to tackle "a dramedy set in the world of geeky gamblers," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is an adaptation of the upcoming memoir Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog by Beth Raymer, which is basically 21 with middle-age guys. »
- Colin Boyd
Stephen Frears Re-Teaming with His High Fidelty Screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis for Lay The Favorite
6 November 2009 1:20 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Stephen Frears is probably one of the most successful directors that most Americans have never heard of because his movies tend to be highly British. However, he does enjoy some solid success when he comes over to this side of the Atlantic with the popular films “The Grifters” and “High Fidelity”. The latter film, adapted from Nick Hornby’s book, was a box office flop but has developed a strong cult following over the years. Now it looks like he may reunite with the film’s screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis for another adaptation. This time they’re going for geeky gamblers rather than music nerds. Hit the jump for details.
According to THR, Frears and DeVincentis would re-team for “Lay the Favorite”, based on Beth Raymer’s upcoming memoir “Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog”. As THR describes the plot, it looks like this film could be a lot of fun: »
- Matt Goldberg
Stephen Frears Gears Up for 'High Fidelity' Reunion
6 November 2009 12:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Having dipped into the seductive waters of sexy courtesans, Stephen Frears is now looking towards the future, and the future's got lots of gambling. The trades are reporting that Frears is set to direct Lay the Favorite, a dramedy that will rejoin him with High Fidelity scribe D.V. De Vincentis. The project stems from an upcoming memoir by Beth Raymer called Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog, which will be published this Spring.
Now, why did I say trades and not pick one? That's because it's time to play Pick the Plot.
In one corner, we've got The Hollywood Reporter, who says that this is a world of "geeky gamblers" who "figure out how to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas for their own profit. It centers on a woman in her early thirties who has made a series of bad choices but achieves a redemption of sorts when »
- Monika Bartyzel
Team Behind High Fidelity Tells You to 'Lay Your Favorite'
6 November 2009 10:12 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
If we listed the top movies about break-ups, there's no doubt High Fidelity would be near the top. Well, good news, as the team behind one of John Cusack's best is moving to the arguably more dangerous world of gambling as THR reports that director Stephen Frears and writer D.V. DeVincentis are re-teaming for an adaptation of Beth Raymer's upcoming memoir Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog. Story centers a woman in her early thirties who has made a series of bad choices but achieves a redemption of sorts when she meets a group of fiftyish math geeks who figure out how to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas. D.V. DeVincentis says: "It's a less violent, less sketchy version of the mob. This is the version of 50-year-old math geeks from Queens in basketball shorts who have pet guinea pigs." And while this film might seem like »
- Ethan Anderton
'High Fidelity' Writer, Director May Reunite
6 November 2009 5:51 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By the Hollywood Reporter
Call it higher fidelity.
Stephen Frears and D.V. DeVincentis, who teamed up on the John Cusack breakout "High Fidelity," could be joining forces again. DeVincentis is writing and Frears is attached to direct "Lay the Favorite," a dramedy set in the world of geeky gamblers that's set up at Focus Features.
Read more from the Hollywood Reporter. »
- Dylan Stableford
'High Fidelity' duo to 'Lay The Favourite'
6 November 2009 4:46 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
High Fidelity makers Stephen Frears and D.V. DeVincentis are eyeing a reunion on dramedy Lay The Favorite. Screenwriter DeVincentis will adapt Beth Raymer's upcoming memoir Lay The Favorite, Take The Dog, which follows a 30-something woman as she meets a group of middle-aged nerds who use their maths skills to gamble in Las Vegas. Frears is currently attached to direct the project. "It's (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
High Fidelity reunion
6 November 2009 3:26 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Director Stephen Frears and writer D.V. DeVincentis last worked together on the John Cusack classic, High Fidelity back in 2000, but now they’ve reteamed for a new project, titled Lay The Favorite, based on an upcoming memoir by Beth Raymer. Raymer's memoir is set amid a group of fiftyish math geeks who figure out how to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas for their own profit. It centers on a woman in her early thirties who has made a series of bad choices but achieves a... »
- Paul Tassi
Stephen Frears lines up Lay The Favourite
6 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Stephen Frears looks to have lined up a possible new directing job, attaching himself to an adaptation of Beth Raymer's memoir Lay The Favourite, Take The Dog. If he does make the film, it'll make something of a High Fidelity reunion as writer Dv DeVincentis, who worked on Fidelity, is the man tackling the script. The plot would follow the based-on-truth tale of 50-something maths geeks who figure out how to work the sports betting system in Vegas. They meet a woman in her 30s whose life has taken a change for the worse thanks...
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- James White
High Fidelity Writer & Director Reteam for Geeky Gambling Film, Lay the Favorite
5 November 2009 10:49 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Director Stephen Frears and writer D.V. DeVincentis are teaming up for another project, which seems to have some similarities to the John Cusack-starring hit, High Fidelity. The two are adapting the upcoming Beth Raymer memoir, Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog, which will be released this spring. The adaptation will simply be titled Lay the Favorite. The dramedy concerns a thirty-something woman who falls in with a crowd of older math geeks that have figured out how to game the sportsbook system in Vegas. Says DeVincentis, "It's a less violent, less sketchy version of the mob. This is the version of 50-year-old math geeks from Queens in basketball shorts who have pet guinea pigs." He also goes on to spell out the similarities to High Fidelity, "[the gamblers] have an intense pride in a very specific expertise -- and a lack of socialization." And of course, they're struggling to come to »
- Devindra Hardawar
Stephen Frears and D.V. DeVincentis could reteam for Lay the Favorite for Focus Features.
5 November 2009 10:41 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Stephen Frears and D.V. DeVincentis, the team behind the winning ""High Fidelity" starring John Cusack, could be joining forces again. Frears is set to direct "Lay the Favorite" which DeVincentis is writing. The dramedy is apparently set in the world of geeky gamblers with Focus Features distributing. The project is based on Beth Raymer's upcoming memoir "Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog," which Random House is set to publish in the spring. The memoir follows a group of math geeks in their fifties who figure out how to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas for their own benefit. The center point is a woman who is in her early thirties plagued by a series of bad choices who achieves a redemption of sorts when she meets and then becomes involved with the gamblers. »
A High Fidelity Reunion Will Happen In Vegas
5 November 2009 8:53 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
High Fidelity is one of the few movies that perfectly articulates the relationship between popular media and our lives. Throw in a career starting performance by Jack Black (for better or for worse) and a cameo by The Boss, and it is a film that stands proudly in many DVD collections. It's been nine years since the film came out, and while one has seen their career rise while the other's somewhat fizzled, it now appears that film's writer and director may be working together again. Director Stephen Frears and writer D.V. DeVincentis, according to THR, are now both attached to Lay the Favorite, a dramedy based on the memoirs of Beth Raymer (the book has a release date of next June). The film will focus on a woman in her thirties (presumably Raymer) who, after making a series of bad life choices, gets involved with a group of ... »
Stephen Frears Will Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog
5 November 2009 4:16 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Variety reports that Stephen Frears is going to direct Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog. This is an adaptation of the soon to be released memoir from Beth Raymer.
Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog follows a young woman as she navigates the world of sports gambling.
The film is being made through a partnership between Random House Films and Focus Features. It will start production in June.
Adapting the book for the screen will be D.V. DeVincentis. He previously worked with Frears on High Fidelity.
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CHÉRI DVD Review
26 October 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Miramax Film’s “Chéri” marks the reunion of director Stephen Frears, screenwriter Christopher Hampton, and actress Michelle Pfeiffer, who previously worked together on 1988’s deliciously evil costume drama “Dangerous Liaisons.” Here, Pfeiffer trades in the virginal innocence of her “Liaisons” character for the hardened beauty and shrewd business acumen of the less than virginal Lea de Lonvsal. Set during the prosperous Belle Époque era in pre World War I France, “Chéri” tells the charming and ultimately heartbreaking story of how Lea, an aging courtesan, finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with a man young enough to be her…well, son. That synopsis might make it tempting to label “Chéri” “cougar” cinema, but let’s allow that somewhat degrading term to rest on billboards advertising the latest pedestrian sitcom, rather than a film this pedigreed. More after the jump:
Based on two novels by bad girl French writer Colette, “Chéri” opens »
- Harrison Pierce
DVD Review – Cheri
22 October 2009 5:37 PM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Cheri is under the impression it’s a play with cameras watching it. Missing are the set changes in favor of editing to the next scene but the exchanges between the characters feel like they’re on stage rather than trying to emulate life on film. Director Stephen Frears brings it in terms of set design and production value, but something feels lost when it comes to the narrative and the acting. The film presents an interesting tale, and it wants to be great but it falls well below it’s goal.
Cheri stars Michelle Pfieffer and while she’s in full Catwoman mode, she gives one of her best performances in a good while. She gives Lea life, and plays her subtly as a woman fearing her latter days where her sex appeal has worn off. She’s takes things as they happen, and Pfieffer hits all the right notes. »
- Philip Barrett
Cary Fukunaga Courts Jane Eyre
21 October 2009 12:54 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director of this year's brutal Spanish language drama Sin Nombre is close to signing on to Ruby Films' new Jane Eyre adaptation.The script for the blood and thunder romance is by Moira Buffini, who has just adapted Posy Simmonds' comic strip Tamara Drew (itself based on Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd) for Stephen Frears to direct.Charlotte Bronte's classic novel has been filmed many times before of course. Best of all was the 1944 version with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine, but Franco Zeffirelli's 1994 version with Charlotte Gainsbourg is also worth a look. The Ruby Films' is a co-production with the BBC, who produced an award-winning TV adaptation as recently as 2007.Fukunaga is a left-field choice for the material, but that should be A Good Thing if the familiar story of tyrannical aunts, Byronic heroes, imposing halls, head-pounding loves, covered-up histories and (spoiler! »
DVD: Review:DVDs In Brief: October 21, 2009
20 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
There was much well-deserved hand-wringing over how a movie as lunkheaded and widely reviled as Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Paramount) ended the summer as the year’s biggest money-grosser, but who can be blamed for wanting to see giant robots do battle for the fate of the planet? It’s the movie equivalent of a drunken one-night stand: seduction chased with regret the following morning. And its financial success will only encourage Michael Bay’s campaign to destroy cinema, one incoherent action setpiece at a time… Coverage of Stephen Frears’ costume drama Chéri (Miramax) largely centered on how ... »
Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 10/20
20 October 2009 10:48 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox run for their lives as Michael Bay's giant robots trample onto the home video scene on DVD (single-disc or two-disc special edition) and Blu-ray (two-disc special edition). The special editions includes audio commentary by Bay and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, deleted / alternate scenes, a music video, and additional features, such as "A Day With Bay: Tokyo," "Giant Effing Movie," and "The Matrix of Marketing." To approximate the theatrical experience, play really, really loud, and sit as far back from the screen as you possibly can. Resistance is futile. Rent it.
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Chris Nahon's live-action adaptation of an anime series features a half-human, half-vampire samurai battling an infestation of demons. "the result is so laughably awful that it easily qualifies for so-bad-it's-good status," wrote Jeffrey M. Anderson. »
- Peter Martin
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