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20 articles from 2009
Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, »
- Roger Ebert
Classic Cameos: Bruce Springsteen, 'High Fidelity'
20 September 2009 3:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Some of the best celebrity cameo appearances in movies are rock stars, even if they're not actually playing music. One of my favorite moments with a musician appearing briefly onscreen is Bruce Springsteen in High Fidelity, the 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears. It's small even as cameos go -- less than a minute -- but The Boss adds a nice touch to a film centered on music and musical taste, based on the novel by Nick Hornby.
In the scene, which you can watch via YouTube after the jump, Rob (John Cusack) is ruminating about whether he should visit his five major ex-girlfriends in order to get some perspective on his recent break-up with Laura (Iben Hjejle). As Rob lies on his bed considering the idea, he imagines Bruce Springsteen giving him advice. Happily, we get to see and hear The Boss himself, strumming his guitar as he speaks. It's a low-key moment, »
- Jette Kernion
Cheri DVD Set to Seduce Audiences on October 20th
14 August 2009 8:15 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Michelle Pfeiffer's sexy new drama Cheri will slink its way onto DVD October 20th with a retail price of $29.99 Srp. Stephen Frears, the director who bolstered his international reputation with his Choderlos de Laclos adaptation Dangerous Liaisons, returns to the annals of period intrigue over 20 years later with this melodrama, which reunites him with Dangerous Liaisons scripter Christopher Hampton and star Michelle Pfeiffer.
An adaptation of Colette's 1920 novel of the same name, the tale unfurls in late 19th century Paris, where numerous courtesans (or female companions of noblemen who occupied the royal courts) have worked their way up through the ranks of high society. Two retired courtesans, Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates) and Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer), meet for some routine gossip; Lea then meets Charlotte's hedonistic playboy son, nicknamed "Chéri" (Rupert Friend), and a passionate, erotic affair blossoms for the next six years between Lea and Chéri. »
McPherson's ‘Eclipse’ chosen to open L.A. Irish film festival (IrishCentral)
4 August 2009 12:34 PM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
The 2009 Los Angeles Irish Film Festival has announced they will open with “The Eclipse,” the Conor McPherson movie starring Irish actor Ciaran Hinds and Irish-American acting favorite Aidan Quinn. The acclaimed Irish supernatural tale premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews, and was soon after picked up for distribution by Magnolia Pictures in the first major sale at the festival in years. The announcement of its headliner screening at the Los Angeles festival on September 23 has only further boosted the hype surrounding McPherson’s directorial debut film. The Irish playwright also penned “The Seafarer,” which had a successful Broadway run last year. “We wanted to find an exceptional film to open our second edition and we got our wish with the west coast premiere of ‘The Eclipse’ from the talented Conor McPherson,” said festival director Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman. Based in and around an Irish literary festival, “Eclipse” follows Michael »
Six of the Worst Movie Proposals
20 June 2009 6:21 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
This weekend Sandra Bullock returns for more romantic comedy in The Proposal, this time dragging along Ryan Reynolds for the other half of the “will they or won’t they” formula. You can probably already guess the generic ending even before stepping foot in a theater, so it’s mostly just sit back and hope Reynolds pulls off another one-liner.
The predictable plot is par for the course with director Anne Fletcher, who walks down the aisle of another wedding rom-com after last year’s 27 Dresses. However, this proposal is a working world pun on office offers and engagement exchanges. Maggie (Bullock), a Canadian, has to get married in order to avoid being deported and losing her job at a New York City publishing firm. She comes to a mutual agreement (well, blackmail) with Andy (Reynolds) to play up the nuptials until she secures her citizenship. The rest of the »
- Jeff Leins
Blu-Ray Review: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber Shine, But ‘Defiance’ Misses
2 June 2009 9:41 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – There are many things to like about Edward Zwick’s “Defiance,” including Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber’s excellent performances, a lovely score by James Newton Howard, and, of course, the important subject matter, but the overdone screenplay and Zwick’s typically melodramatic direction just barely sink the film, although a nice Blu-Ray release should help make a few of its flaws easier to overlook.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.0/5.0 “Defiance” is a story about an amazing human struggle for survival led by the Bielski brothers - the reluctant Tuvia (Craig) and the powerful Zus (Schreiber). The brothers are joined by their younger brother Asael (Jamie Bell), a young man who follows their every move but often gets stuck in the middle.
Defiance was released on Blu-Ray on June 2nd, 2009.
Photo credit: Paramount
The film opens with the mass execution by Nazi soldiers at Novogrudok that killed a large portion of the Bielski’s family and friends. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Movies We Love: High Fidelity
6 May 2009 3:24 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
High Fidelity (2000) What fucking Ian guy?! Synopsis A hipper-than-thou misanthrope named Rob Gordon (John Cusack) reevaluates his life after being dumped by his girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle). Between running his own vinyl store, dealing with the idiocy of the Musical Moron Twins (Todd Louiso as Dick and Jack Black as Barry), and shepherding along the musical sounds of two shoplifting skater punks, he tracks down his All-Time Top Five breakups to figure out why he'll always be doomed to be rejected. Why We Love It I'm not too proud to admit that I let the scenarios and emotional responses in this movie inform every opinion I have about dating and romance. It's sweet and sad, yet the humor is dead on - mostly displaying what almost every human has gone through during a breakup. Those moments. The tossing and turning at imagining your ex, the person you've just been cut off from having that comfortable, intimate »
- Cole Abaius
Ciaran Hinds Wins at Tribeca
6 May 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Ciaran Hinds has won the Best Actor award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York for his role in Conor McPherson's supernatural drama 'The Eclipse'. Set in an Irish seaside town, Hinds plays a widowed writer who, when helping out at an annual literary festival, develops a relationship with a visiting novelist (Iben Hjejle) and begins to see ghostly visions. Aidan Quinn also stars as a rival writer who is also pinning for the novelist's attentions. »
Magnolia takes supernatural drama The Eclipse
4 May 2009 7:26 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
No, the indie company that has brought us some of the best recent genre fare isn’t jumping into Twilight territory. Rather, Variety reports that Magnolia Pictures grabbed worldwide rights to Irish writer/director Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse shortly after its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Ciarán Hinds (pictured) won the Best Actor in a Narrative Feature award for his performance in the movie.
In the film, Hinds plays Michael Farr, a widower who volunteers at a literary festival, where he winds up as the driver for Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), a best-selling author of ghost stories. Michael has some ghosts of his own to deal with, and while The Eclipse is largely a drama—and a powerful one—about living with loss and how the past figuratively haunts the present, it contains a handful of genuinely scary moments as Michael is literally confronted by his worst fears. »
Magnolia Procures The Eclipse at Tribeca
2 May 2009 12:27 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Established playwright Conor McPherson can add another feather to his cap now that Magnolia has acquired his debut directorial project, The Eclipse (not to be confused with Eclipse, the 2nd Twilight sequel), at Tribeca 2009. The deal is also notable as the first major sale at the fest for the past several years.
The Eclipse seems to be more atmospheric drama than pure horror, but The Hollywood Reporter describes it as containing enough "relationship and genre elements [so that] the film has been seen by buyers at the fest as a potential crossover hit", and Magnolia is certainly no stranger to genre films, which bodes well for fans.
Here's a synopsis from the Tribeca website: Amid lush hills and crumbling stone abbeys, the soggy waterside town of Cobh plays host to a chaotic annual literary festival. Widower Michael (Ciarán Hinds, Munich) has been adjusting to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two young kids. »
- The Woman In Black
The Ghosts of Conor McPherson's Past
1 May 2009 3:34 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Conor McPherson insists it's his lead Ciarán Hinds who provides "instant soul" to his latest film "The Eclipse," but it's the 37-year-old Irish playwright who's responsible for the ghosts. As has been his habit in his acclaimed plays like as "Shining City" and "The Seafarer," McPherson once again conjures up the supernatural for a love story about a grieving widower (Hinds) who finds a connection with a writer of ghost stories (Iben Hjejle) when he volunteers at a literary festival in the small Irish town of Cobh, serving as a driver to a loutish bestselling author (Aidan Quinn) who's equally entranced by her. While the film's gravitas and unexpected wit has led to that even more elusive spirit -- buzz of a distribution deal -- McPherson's preoccupation with ghosts even prompted fellow playwright John Patrick Shanley to finally ask about it during the Q & A that followed the film's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. »
- Stephen Saito
Tribeca in 60 Seconds: Monday, April 27, 2009
28 April 2009 6:32 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
What's been happening at the Tribeca Film Festival the past couple of days?
Deals. Discussions are underway on several titles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Distribution executives were spotted at Conor McPherson's drama The Eclipse, a title that jumped out at me when the lineup was first announced. The great Ciaran Hinds (Rome, Munich) stars in an "atmospheric drama about a widower who sees and hears strange things in his house." Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity) also star. Other titles "in play" include Cheryl Hines' comedy Serious Midnight, written by the late Adrienne Shelly, starring Kristen Bell, Justin Long, and Meg Ryan; Jake Goldberger's drama Don McKay, starring Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue; and Marshall Curry's Racing Dreams, a documentary about Go-Kart racing.
Our Coverage. Kirby Dick's "engrossing, revelatory" doc Outrage makes its message clear, wrote Eric D. Snider: "If you're a »
- Peter Martin
'Eclipse' & 'Confession' Stir Tribeca Fest
27 April 2009 6:18 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
Having received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday - Conor McPherson's 'The Eclipse', starring Aidan Quinn and Ciaran Hinds is said to be close to a sales deal with sales agent Submarine Entertainment. Short film 'The Confession' has also been selected to broadcast on the festival's web channel. 'The Eclipse', directed and written by McPherson and produced by Robert Walpole at Treasure Entertainment, is a supernatural drama centering on a widowed man (Hinds) and the relationship he develops with a horror novelist (Iben Hjejle). Quinn plays an American writer who is also trying to win the novelist's affections. »
Tribeca Film Festival Focus - Lionsgate, Magnolia, Roadside may want "The Eclipse" - See new images from the film.
27 April 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Sources report that several distribution execs pitched up for the Friday world premiere of the Conor McPherson-helmed and written "The Eclipse" at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Those who could be interested include Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions and Magnolia Pictures. See images from "The Eclipse" which stars Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle. Robert Walpole produces the Treasure Films production. Check them out here. What's "The Eclipse" about? Ciarán Hinds plays Michael Farr, a man who has recently lost his whife and lives in a seaside Irish town. He thinks he is seeing ghosts and develops a relationship with a horror novelist who is visiting (played by Iben Hjejle). Aidan Quinn comes in as an American writer who is aiming to win over Hjejle's character. »
Tribeca Film Festival Focus - Lionsgate, Magnolia, Roadside may want "The Eclipse" - See new images from the film.
27 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Sources report that several distribution execs pitched up for the Friday world premiere of the Conor McPherson-helmed and written "The Eclipse" at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Those who could be interested include Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions and Magnolia Pictures. Now, see images from "The Eclipse" which stars Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle. Robert Walpole produces the Treasure Films production. Ciarán Hinds plays Michael Farr, a man who has recently lost his whife and lives in a seaside Irish town. He thinks he is seeing ghosts and develops a relationship with a horror novelist who is visiting (played by Iben Hjejle). Aidan Quinn comes... »
Tribeca Film Festival Focus - Lionsgate, Magnolia, Roadside may want "The Eclipse" - See new images from the film.
27 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Sources report that several distribution execs pitched up for the Friday world premiere of the Conor McPherson-helmed and written "The Eclipse" at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Those who could be interested include Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions and Magnolia Pictures. Now, see images from "The Eclipse" which stars Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn and Iben Hjejle. Robert Walpole produces the Treasure Films production. Ciarán Hinds plays Michael Farr, a man who has recently lost his whife and lives in a seaside Irish town. He thinks he is seeing ghosts and develops a relationship with a horror novelist who is visiting (played by Iben Hjejle). Aidan Quinn comes... »
Tribeca Fest Announces Lineup (Part One)
10 March 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The Tribeca Film Festival has been in the news lately for significant personnel changes, but what about the movies? This year's edition gets underway on April 22, and Cinematical has received a list of the first 38 of the 86 feature films that will be screened. A few titles that jumped out at me:
The Eclipse. The great Ciaran Hinds stars in an "atmospheric drama about a widower who sees and hears strange things in his house." Hinds was fairly magnificent in the TV series Rome and stood out in Steven Spielberg's Munich. Add to that Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn as writers the widower encounters at a literary festival, and this is a drama that I want to see.
The Fish Child. Lucia Puenzo made the well-regarded Xxy and now comes a "a passionate love story in the arms of a pulsating thriller." I love the idea that for her sophomore feature, »
- Peter Martin
'The Eclipse' World Premiere At Tribeca
10 March 2009 7:47 AM, PDT | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »
'The Eclipse', a new feature from Irish writer/director Conor McPherson (The Actors, I Went Down), starring Aidan Quinn (32A), Ciaran Hinds (There Will Be Blood ) and Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity) will receive its World Premiere screening at the Tribeca Film Festival running from April 22 - May 3 in New York. The supernatural drama was filmed in Cork last summer and will feature as part of the World Narrative category which will screen among other titles Woody Allen's new project 'Whatever Works' and the Polish Brother's 'Stay Cool,' starring Winona Ryder. 'The Eclipse' produced by Robert Walpole at Treasure Entertainment saw a line up of top Irish crew come together including costume designer Consolata Boyle (The Queen); production designer Mark Geraghty (Get Rich or Die Tryin') and cinematographer Ivan McCullough (The Sound of People). »
Tribeca Film Fest unveils partial lineup
9 March 2009 8:43 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
I know it looks dire as it's 28% lighter (at least so far) and minus an artistic director, but no fear, there's still more to come, and with what's been announced theirs some interesting sounding stuff, especially a film we wrote about briefly called Accidents Happen. Also premiering is the comedy Stay Cool and the Danish film Original, along with the North American premier of The Exploding Girl which we also wrote about.
Check the narrative features, world documentary, and discovery lineups after the break!
World Narrative Feature Competition
A compelling cross-section of bold creative visions from every corner of the globe come together in this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition. Presenting a diverse array of unique voices, this international film collection includes premieres from a wide range of directors, such as U.S. indie veterans the Polish brothers and Tony-nominated Conor McPherson, as well as exciting newcomers. Together, these »
Edward Zwick’s ‘Defiance’ Drains Strength From Powerful True Story
16 January 2009 6:26 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Ed Zwick’s “Defiance” is a dramatically inert film that misses the mark by allowing its director to play up his notable weaknesses as a filmmaker. Neither satisfying as the action-driven entertainment that Zwick likes to make nor as an emotional historical epic, “Defiance” is flat and dull, only mildly redeemed by two strong lead performances and the inherent power of its subject matter.
Rating: 2.5/5.0 Zwick continues his pattern of falling back on the crutches of the typical action movie - slow motion, rising strings, bombastic explosions, melodramatic monologues - but, once again, he uses them to hold up a plot with inherent dramatic power, thinking that the importance of his subject matter will give his film a weight that he can not. “Blood Diamond,” “The Siege,” “The Last Samurai” - Zwick values epic scope over all else and misses what needed to be a human story to be effective. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
20 articles from 2009
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