Focus Features just sent over a press release revealing that the company is teaming up with Working Title Films for a new movie called Darkest Hour, which they'll release in 2017. Gary Oldman will star as Winston Churchill in the drama, which is described like this:
Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
People make a big deal about The Academy Awards because it's the closest...
Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
People make a big deal about The Academy Awards because it's the closest...
- 9/6/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Murtada here. Iconoclastic British filmmaker Sally Potter (Orlando, The Man Who Cried, Ginger & Rosa) started shooting her new movie The Party, this week. The film, which unfolds in real time, revolves around a drinks party held by a London couple to celebrate the wife’s promotion to minister in the Shadow Cabinet. It is described by its producers like so:
a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.”
Intriguing.
The cast includes Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones and two Tfe favorites Kristin Scott Thomas and Patricia Clarkson. One of whom might be playing the lead role of the celebrated minister. Since the movie is set in London we are guessing Scott Thomas. Not that we don't think Clarkson can rock an English accent...
a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.”
Intriguing.
The cast includes Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones and two Tfe favorites Kristin Scott Thomas and Patricia Clarkson. One of whom might be playing the lead role of the celebrated minister. Since the movie is set in London we are guessing Scott Thomas. Not that we don't think Clarkson can rock an English accent...
- 6/16/2016
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Timothy Spall and Cherry Jones are all set to star in "Orlando" director Sally Potter's film "The Party" for Adventure Pictures.
Set in a house in contemporary London, the comic tragedy starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.
Christopher Sheppard and Kurban Kassam will produce and a fourteen-day shoot has just kicked off in the United Kingdom.
Source: Variety...
Set in a house in contemporary London, the comic tragedy starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor.
Christopher Sheppard and Kurban Kassam will produce and a fourteen-day shoot has just kicked off in the United Kingdom.
Source: Variety...
- 6/15/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jurors include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christine Vachon and Mabel Cheung.
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has announced that Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski will head up this year’s Official Competition Jury.
Ida won the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Award for Pawlikowski, whose previous films include Last Resort and My Summer of Love.
The jury will include Chiwetel Ejiofor, star of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things
He will be joied by British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, Us producer Christine Vachon (Carol) and Chinese director Mabel Cheung (A Tales of Three Cities).
Pawlikowski said: “It is an honour to be Jury President for the BFI London Film Festival this year especially as my last film Ida won the Best Film Award in 2013 at the very beginning of its journey.”
The titles include:
11 Minutes, Jerzy SkolimowskiBeasts Of No Nation, Cary FukunagaCemetery...
The 59th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18) has announced that Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski will head up this year’s Official Competition Jury.
Ida won the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Award for Pawlikowski, whose previous films include Last Resort and My Summer of Love.
The jury will include Chiwetel Ejiofor, star of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things
He will be joied by British actress Kristin Scott Thomas, Us producer Christine Vachon (Carol) and Chinese director Mabel Cheung (A Tales of Three Cities).
Pawlikowski said: “It is an honour to be Jury President for the BFI London Film Festival this year especially as my last film Ida won the Best Film Award in 2013 at the very beginning of its journey.”
The titles include:
11 Minutes, Jerzy SkolimowskiBeasts Of No Nation, Cary FukunagaCemetery...
- 9/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The annual New Year Honours list in the United Kingdom includes actresses Joan Collins and Kristin Scott Thomas becoming dames and actor John Hurt becoming a knight. Collins is known for her years on the American drama "Dynasty." Scott Thomas is a past Oscar nominee for "The English Patient." Hurt is a previous Oscar nominee for "The Elephant Man." A total of 1,164 people are featured as honorees this year, many of them not famous but recognized for charitable and community work. Other celebrities being honored include James Corden (OBE), Mary Quant (Damehood), Esther Rantzen (Damehood), Sheridan Smith (OBE), Meera Syal (Cbe), and Emily Watson (OBE). BBC -Break- Ileane Rudolph previews the fifth season of "Downton Abbey," which premieres on PBS this Sunday. She says that Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) might take a lover or at least take control this season. She has also "regained the regal air and acerbic wit inherited from her.
- 12/31/2014
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Director [pictured] to start shooting gritty drama in France in June.
French director Philippe Claudel is set to work with key cast members of Stranger by the Lake – Pierre Deladonchamps and Patrick D’Assumçao – on his upcoming film (childhood).
The picture, which is due to shoot in France in June, revolves around 13-year-old Jimmy, a teenager forced to grow-up too soon due to his turbulent home-life, caught between a depressed mother and a controlling stepfather.
Deladonchamps, D’Assumçao and Angelica Sarre feature in the cast alongside two unknown siblings in the child roles.
The €3.9m production is due to start shooting in north-eastern France in June. Les Films du Losange, which is also producing, will start pre-sales on (childhood) at the Efm.
Claudel is best known internationally for I Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman re-building her life after 15 years in prison, which competed at the Berlinale in 2008 and also won a Bafta...
French director Philippe Claudel is set to work with key cast members of Stranger by the Lake – Pierre Deladonchamps and Patrick D’Assumçao – on his upcoming film (childhood).
The picture, which is due to shoot in France in June, revolves around 13-year-old Jimmy, a teenager forced to grow-up too soon due to his turbulent home-life, caught between a depressed mother and a controlling stepfather.
Deladonchamps, D’Assumçao and Angelica Sarre feature in the cast alongside two unknown siblings in the child roles.
The €3.9m production is due to start shooting in north-eastern France in June. Les Films du Losange, which is also producing, will start pre-sales on (childhood) at the Efm.
Claudel is best known internationally for I Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman re-building her life after 15 years in prison, which competed at the Berlinale in 2008 and also won a Bafta...
- 2/6/2014
- ScreenDaily
These days, you can watch pretty much any movie online. Yet there's still one thing the magical wonders of instant streaming haven't solved for indecisive movie-lovers: what the heck to watch! Moviefone is here to recommend the best streaming movies from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant and new digital releases from iTunes and Vudu each week in Moviefone's Digital Download.
This week's Digital Download picks range from Disney nightmares and obsessive teachers to awakened evil spirits and FBI agents turned beauty queens. Check out our suggestions below, and happy streaming!
Comedy: 'Miss Congeniality' (2000)
America has been wowed by Sandra Bullock's death-defying role in "Gravity," so what better time for a good ol' Sandie throwback? Messy FBI agent Gracie Hart hasn't been on a date (or brushed her hair) in years, and she's one of the funniest female characters in recent comedy history. From watching her learn how...
This week's Digital Download picks range from Disney nightmares and obsessive teachers to awakened evil spirits and FBI agents turned beauty queens. Check out our suggestions below, and happy streaming!
Comedy: 'Miss Congeniality' (2000)
America has been wowed by Sandra Bullock's death-defying role in "Gravity," so what better time for a good ol' Sandie throwback? Messy FBI agent Gracie Hart hasn't been on a date (or brushed her hair) in years, and she's one of the funniest female characters in recent comedy history. From watching her learn how...
- 10/24/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
Drive director confesses to a fetish for violence, and star Kristin Scott Thomas says film became 'more and more despicable'
Two sounds provided the keynote of the first screening of Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Drive: the screams of characters being subjected to grotesque acts of dismemberment and torture, and the slap of seats springing upright as members of the press walked out of the grandest cinema at the Cannes film festival. One American woman exclaimed loudly as she exited: "This is shit."
Even its British co-star, Kristin Scott Thomas, said: "Films where this kind of violence happens I don't enjoy watching at all" and joked that as the film was made "it got more and more despicable". But its director, Nicolas Winding Refn, said that he approached filmmaking "like a pornographer: it's about what arouses me. Certain things turn me on more than other stuff and I can't suppress that.
Two sounds provided the keynote of the first screening of Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Drive: the screams of characters being subjected to grotesque acts of dismemberment and torture, and the slap of seats springing upright as members of the press walked out of the grandest cinema at the Cannes film festival. One American woman exclaimed loudly as she exited: "This is shit."
Even its British co-star, Kristin Scott Thomas, said: "Films where this kind of violence happens I don't enjoy watching at all" and joked that as the film was made "it got more and more despicable". But its director, Nicolas Winding Refn, said that he approached filmmaking "like a pornographer: it's about what arouses me. Certain things turn me on more than other stuff and I can't suppress that.
- 5/22/2013
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
With both Skyfall and Twilight experiencing fairly hefty drop-offs for the second week running, 37 and 55% respectively, Rise of the Guardians sneaked past both with a solid second week to claim top spot with takings of around £1.6million at the UK Box Office this past weekend.
Dreamworks’ animated film will be benefitting not only from the lack of festive feel-good competition, but also the fact that school are starting to break up and more and more families will start going to see it as a result. Likewise Nativity 2, the only other major Christmas family film out in cinemas this month, had another strong week and remains in fifth spot in defiance of the legions of bad reviews it has received.
Seven Psychopaths had a pretty decent opening, going straight into third spot at the Box Office after taking in around £1.2million over the past weekend. A fair chunk of that number...
Dreamworks’ animated film will be benefitting not only from the lack of festive feel-good competition, but also the fact that school are starting to break up and more and more families will start going to see it as a result. Likewise Nativity 2, the only other major Christmas family film out in cinemas this month, had another strong week and remains in fifth spot in defiance of the legions of bad reviews it has received.
Seven Psychopaths had a pretty decent opening, going straight into third spot at the Box Office after taking in around £1.2million over the past weekend. A fair chunk of that number...
- 12/14/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kristin Scott Thomas plays a ruthless executive who delights in toying with the innocence of her new assistant (Ludivine Sagnier). However, when her young protégé's ideas become tempting enough to pass on as her own, she underestimates her junior's opponent's ambition and cunning. This serpentine French thriller is fired along by terrific performances from Scott Thomas's corporate ball-buster and Sagnier's deliciously vengeful manipulator.
- 12/13/2012
- Sky Movies
How to describe Francois Ozon’s In the House… Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is a teacher of literature, critical of his pupils except for the one student – Claude (Ernst Umhauer) – who’s just written a voyeuristic document about his new friend Rapha (Bastien Ughetto) as his French assignment. Germain questions Claude’s critical depiction of his friend’s family home, but gets drawn into Claude’s increasingly fanciful stories from ‘in the house.’ Germain starts to influence Claude’s writing, recommending changes to passages of the story, but these recommendations may be impacting on Claude’s treatment of Rapha, his doting father (Denis Menochet) and bored mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) within their home.
Layered and metatextual to the extreme, In the House (based on a play by Juan Mayorga) must have been a complicated film to assemble. At times it descends into Pedro Almodovar territory, bored of its own plot, bored of its characters,...
Layered and metatextual to the extreme, In the House (based on a play by Juan Mayorga) must have been a complicated film to assemble. At times it descends into Pedro Almodovar territory, bored of its own plot, bored of its characters,...
- 11/4/2012
- by Brogan Morris
- Obsessed with Film
Sneak Peek actresses Kristen Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier, in a trailer supporting the reissue of director Alain Corneau's 2010 French thriller "Love Crime", described as "Working Girl" meets "Fatal Attraction""...in a tale of money, power, sex and murder..." :
"...'Isabelle' (Sagnier) is a young executive who must negotiate a stressful workplace at a company presided over by bossy 'Christine' (Scott Thomas), at first a figure of hero-worship for the young employee.
"But Isabelle is not prepared to deal with the head games and psychological manipulations that pile on, eventually leading to her implication in a brutal crime..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Love Crime"...
"...'Isabelle' (Sagnier) is a young executive who must negotiate a stressful workplace at a company presided over by bossy 'Christine' (Scott Thomas), at first a figure of hero-worship for the young employee.
"But Isabelle is not prepared to deal with the head games and psychological manipulations that pile on, eventually leading to her implication in a brutal crime..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Love Crime"...
- 10/26/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
Upcoming French thriller Love Crime has been billed as a blend of Working Girl and Fatal Attraction, or Dangerous Liaisons with Blackberries. Or Disclôsure. Whatever hokey tag we give it - and trust us, we can do this all day - it unquestionably features twisted business exec Kristin Scott Thomas doing things that would give your average Hr person an aneurysm. The film has a new international trailer, showing Ludivine Sagnier as Isabelle. She's a young executive who must negotiate an unusually stressful workplace. The company is presided over with bullying efficiency by Scott Thomas's boss Christine, a figure of hero-worship for the young employee, and, if this promo is anything to go by, a nasty piece of work. Isabelle looks ill-equipped to deal with the power games and psychological manipulations that follow. A brutal crime is committed, the police are involved and Isabelle is left to fish herself out of the ensuing mess,...
- 10/25/2012
- EmpireOnline
A diverse slate of big-budget studio and indie fare -- from romantic comedy to the latest actioner from “End of Watch” director David Ayer -- are slowly shaping up for production, and that means their cast lists are growing larger, starting with a long-gestating WWII period drama just finding its leads. First announced in 2010 with “The Duchess” director Saul Dibb attached, the wartime-set drama “Suite Francaise” brought on Michelle Williams last week, and now Kristin Scott Thomas will join her to lead the adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's novel, which charts the love affair between a young French woman (Williams) and the German officer assigned to watch her in Nazi-occupied France. Scott Thomas is on-board to play Williams' mother, while the role of the officer has not yet been cast. With two pivotal parts secured though, expect production to speed nicely along. [Screen Daily] One independent project that just begun filming in New.
- 10/16/2012
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Rufus Sewell will also star in the first of Pinter's plays to be staged at the West End theatre that was renamed in the playwright's honour last year
Harold Pinter's Old Times will be the first of his plays to be produced at the West End theatre that was renamed in his honour last year, when a stellar revival opens in January.
Ian Rickson's production will star Kristin Scott Thomas, who appeared in the final show at what was then called the Comedy theatre, a revival of another Pinter three-hander, Betrayal), also directed by Rickson.
Old Times premiered at the Aldwych theatre in 1971 and shows married couple Kate and Deeley reminiscing about the start of their relationship with Kate's cryptic old friend Anna. Old wounds resurface over the course of an evening underpinned by sexual tension.
Scott Thomas will alternate the roles of Kate and Anna with Lia Williams,...
Harold Pinter's Old Times will be the first of his plays to be produced at the West End theatre that was renamed in his honour last year, when a stellar revival opens in January.
Ian Rickson's production will star Kristin Scott Thomas, who appeared in the final show at what was then called the Comedy theatre, a revival of another Pinter three-hander, Betrayal), also directed by Rickson.
Old Times premiered at the Aldwych theatre in 1971 and shows married couple Kate and Deeley reminiscing about the start of their relationship with Kate's cryptic old friend Anna. Old wounds resurface over the course of an evening underpinned by sexual tension.
Scott Thomas will alternate the roles of Kate and Anna with Lia Williams,...
- 10/10/2012
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Write On: Ozon’s Latest an Exercise in Authorial Manipulation
The steadily working Francois Ozon continues with his playful dark comic streak in his latest, In the House, an adaptation of a play by Juan Mayorga. A thriller with literary machinations, not unlike Swimming Pool (2003), one of Ozon’s most well known features, his latest is a low key narrative, one that starts out as a broad caricature loosely criticizing class ideals but then coils tightly to an introspective finale on manipulation and a cheeky exploration of the truth.
French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is all set to start another school year after spending a leisurely summer reading. The new school year is beginning with some major changes, namely that all students will now be required to wear school uniforms, a concept Germain disagrees with, as this is seen as a move to make all the students equal when on the premises.
The steadily working Francois Ozon continues with his playful dark comic streak in his latest, In the House, an adaptation of a play by Juan Mayorga. A thriller with literary machinations, not unlike Swimming Pool (2003), one of Ozon’s most well known features, his latest is a low key narrative, one that starts out as a broad caricature loosely criticizing class ideals but then coils tightly to an introspective finale on manipulation and a cheeky exploration of the truth.
French teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) is all set to start another school year after spending a leisurely summer reading. The new school year is beginning with some major changes, namely that all students will now be required to wear school uniforms, a concept Germain disagrees with, as this is seen as a move to make all the students equal when on the premises.
- 9/21/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Passion plays as if writer/director Brian De Palma took Alain Corneau's screenplay for Love Crime, added on six minutes to the ending and shot every scene in one take no matter how well it turned out. All the elements from Corneau's original are here, but none of the intrigue. It's a stilted and stiff production with absolutely zero fluidity from scene to scene and lines such as "How about you call me... Never!" after Rachel McAdams is stood up by her booty call and she tosses her cell phone across the room. It's big moves, daring proclamations and over-acting met with an absence of thrills. The score tells you things are about to get intense, but it isn't long before you realize that's just not the case. I should note my opinion of this film is going to be much different when compared to someone that hasn't seen the original.
- 9/11/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The hosts of The Talk put on a brave - and naked - face Monday afternoon. The five women - Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood - went au naturel on the season premiere of their show, wearing no makeup or fake eyelashes, and sporting nothing but white robes. Walking out with their hands covering their faces, the ladies eventually revealed their makeup-free selves to the audience, who was equally underdone. "Gorgeous," the hosts gushed when Osbourne's face was revealed alongside a shot of her all done up. Related: Julie Chen Shares 'Trepidation' About The Talk...
- 9/10/2012
- PEOPLE.com
Venice - With the Venice film festival in full swing, 52-year-old British actress Kristin Scott Thomas came to the Lido to promote her latest film Looking For Hortense, by French director Pascal Bonitzer, a comedy about a professional couple that splits up. Scott Thomas also gave glimpses into films she is currently working on - Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, a story about a Bangkok police lieutenant and a gangster who settle their differences in a Thai-boxing match, also starring Ryan Gosling, and Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman, the story of author Charles Dickens' secret mistress that is
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- 9/7/2012
- by Alexandra Zawia
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What does Robert Pattinson have to do to get a one-night stand around here?! The British actor's hands are full and his promises are empty in Bel Ami, this year's big-screen adaptation of the 1885 Guy de Maupassant novel, out today on DVD and Blu-ray. And it's not hard to believe, judging by this clip exclusively obtained by E! News, the book's full title when it was published in English in 1903: Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel. First, watch Pattinson's greedy libertine make eyes at Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci and Uma Thurman. Then, he beds Scott Thomas, who at 52 to his 26 is literally twice his age, and gets rid of her in the nick of time before...
- 8/7/2012
- E! Online
Urn & Willow by Scott Thomas (Dark Regions Press)
Urn & Willow is the fifth book in Dark Regions ongoing Ghost House imprint and features eleven interior illustrations by artist Erin Wells.
Ghostly tales of 18th and 19th century New England The hour is late, and wind whispers at the window. Autumn leaves have taken wing and a breeze troubles the candle flame. Something from the past has returned and walks the moonlit night. Something dead.
The door may be bolted and the fire may be warm, but the ghosts in Scott Thomas’s Urn And Willow will find you. They wait patiently within the covers, inviting you to visit the lonely chamber where three sisters starved to death, and the small town where the devil’s hoof prints steam in the snow, and a house where the rooms mysteriously multiply and are inhabited by otherworldly creatures. Come inside and visit the haunted seasons of the past.
Urn & Willow is the fifth book in Dark Regions ongoing Ghost House imprint and features eleven interior illustrations by artist Erin Wells.
Ghostly tales of 18th and 19th century New England The hour is late, and wind whispers at the window. Autumn leaves have taken wing and a breeze troubles the candle flame. Something from the past has returned and walks the moonlit night. Something dead.
The door may be bolted and the fire may be warm, but the ghosts in Scott Thomas’s Urn And Willow will find you. They wait patiently within the covers, inviting you to visit the lonely chamber where three sisters starved to death, and the small town where the devil’s hoof prints steam in the snow, and a house where the rooms mysteriously multiply and are inhabited by otherworldly creatures. Come inside and visit the haunted seasons of the past.
- 7/30/2012
- by Peter Schwotzer
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, made the first announcement of films to premiere at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.
Toronto audiences will be the first to see the world premieres of films from directors Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski,...
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, made the first announcement of films to premiere at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.
Toronto audiences will be the first to see the world premieres of films from directors Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Earlier, we brought you a snapshot glance at the first wave of programming announced for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Shortly after, the fest released a thorough breakdown of the Galas and Special Presentations for this year’s event, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 6.
So far, 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations have been announced, including 38 world premieres. Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski, Margarethe von Trotta, Joss Whedon and...
Hollywoodnews.com: Earlier, we brought you a snapshot glance at the first wave of programming announced for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Shortly after, the fest released a thorough breakdown of the Galas and Special Presentations for this year’s event, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 6.
So far, 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations have been announced, including 38 world premieres. Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski, Margarethe von Trotta, Joss Whedon and...
- 7/24/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
2012′s Toronto International Film Festival is set to officially announce its initial line-up later today, but Variety let the cat out of the bag, at least partially; and it’s quite astounding. Most of our most-anticipated films of the year will be premiering at the Canadian festival, notably Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder, Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer‘s epic-sounding Cloud Atlas, Rian Johnson‘s Looper (which will open the fest), Ben Affleck‘s Argo, Dereck Cianfrance‘s The Place Beyond the Pines and much, more more.
Coming from Sundance, the only mentioned film was Ben Lewis‘ John Hawkes-starring The Sessions, while Cannes premieres include Matteo Garrone‘s Reality, Thomas Vinterberg‘s The Hunt, Pablo Larrain‘s No and Jacques Audiard‘s Rust and Bone. One of the biggest surprises is a new film from Noah Baumbach, starring Greta Gerwing titled Frances Ha. There’s also The Avengers director Joss Whedon...
Coming from Sundance, the only mentioned film was Ben Lewis‘ John Hawkes-starring The Sessions, while Cannes premieres include Matteo Garrone‘s Reality, Thomas Vinterberg‘s The Hunt, Pablo Larrain‘s No and Jacques Audiard‘s Rust and Bone. One of the biggest surprises is a new film from Noah Baumbach, starring Greta Gerwing titled Frances Ha. There’s also The Avengers director Joss Whedon...
- 7/24/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Scott Thomas is fast becoming the go-to actor of choice for central roles in French/multi-national film productions entrenched in intrigue, lust and moral degradation. Sadly, as with several of her last outings (with 2011's The Woman in the Fifth and 2012's Bel Ami easily the worst two offenders), Scott Thomas often appears to be far above the material she is asked to work with. The same is sadly true of Lola Doillon's In Your Hands (Contre toi, 2010), given the ominous role of counter-programming against Batman behemoth The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
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- 7/20/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Kristin Scott Thomas adds to her recent Francophone transgressive sex canon – but this one runs out of ideas
Kristin Scott Thomas gives us another movie in a distinctive genre that she has made her own: modern day, no makeup, speaking French, transgressive sex. It's an intense and claustrophobic two-hander, well acted – especially by her – but frankly a bit of a shaggy-dog story with a faintly unsatisfactory ending. Scott Thomas plays Anna Cooper, a single professional woman living on her own in Paris and a bit of a workaholic. The name signals that, though a fluent and idiomatic French speaker, she is British but otherwise there is no back story. At the beginning of a rare holiday, Anna comes into traumatic contact with an intense figure: Yann, played by Pio Marmaï, and their encounter becomes a terrifying ordeal. The film begins intriguingly and promises much, with an interesting flashback structure which...
Kristin Scott Thomas gives us another movie in a distinctive genre that she has made her own: modern day, no makeup, speaking French, transgressive sex. It's an intense and claustrophobic two-hander, well acted – especially by her – but frankly a bit of a shaggy-dog story with a faintly unsatisfactory ending. Scott Thomas plays Anna Cooper, a single professional woman living on her own in Paris and a bit of a workaholic. The name signals that, though a fluent and idiomatic French speaker, she is British but otherwise there is no back story. At the beginning of a rare holiday, Anna comes into traumatic contact with an intense figure: Yann, played by Pio Marmaï, and their encounter becomes a terrifying ordeal. The film begins intriguingly and promises much, with an interesting flashback structure which...
- 7/19/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Hey there! The world of the creative takes center stage on the big screen this week, as singers, writers, and performance artists feature heavily in the weekend releases. From ‘80s rock bands to the New York art scene to ex-pat writers in the birthplace of literary circles, The City of Lights itself, a hefty dose of the artistic graces the cinemas and adds some interesting and nontraditional subject matter to the lineup. Though the obligatory summer fare – another adult male with Peter Pan syndrome, a grisly murder flick, and even more aliens – isn’t very far behind. Looks like a blast!
Wedding bells reunite a father and son in this weekend’s “That’s My Boy,” from director Sean Anders (“Hot Tub Time Machine”). Of course, the reunion’s motives are mixed, as drunk, deadbeat dad Donny (Adam Sandler) is just looking for a handout from his son Todd (Andy Samberg...
Wedding bells reunite a father and son in this weekend’s “That’s My Boy,” from director Sean Anders (“Hot Tub Time Machine”). Of course, the reunion’s motives are mixed, as drunk, deadbeat dad Donny (Adam Sandler) is just looking for a handout from his son Todd (Andy Samberg...
- 6/15/2012
- by Emma Bernstein
- The Playlist
In conjunction with news that hit on Monday, ScreenDaily have reported that both Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz will make a (quick) reunion with Pedro Almodóvar on his next film, Standby Lovers. The extent of their work will only require one day of production — my condolences if you wanted more the duo — but this scene will, somewhat amazingly, mark the first time they’ve ever worked together. (Hard as that is to believe.)
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
- 6/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
May try Your Patience to the Nth: Pawlikowski’s Comeback Thriller Travels in Familiar Territory
Highly esteemed director Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature since 2004’s excellent My Summer of Love is an adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s novel, The Woman in the Fifth, an American in Paris thriller with a tweak of Kafkaesque happenings. Much like Kafka’s novel Amerika , which was written without its author ever having traveled there, much of Pawlikowski’s latest feels like a vague dream, though one that’s listless and evaporates quickly upon awakening.
Ethan Hawke stars as an American author, Tom Ricks, suddenly absconding to Paris to be near his daughter. The bespectacled Ricks quickly finds his estranged wife who is anything but pleased to see him. Immediately she calls the police while he searches her flat for his daughter. After he falls asleep on a bus, he discovers he has been robbed...
Highly esteemed director Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature since 2004’s excellent My Summer of Love is an adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s novel, The Woman in the Fifth, an American in Paris thriller with a tweak of Kafkaesque happenings. Much like Kafka’s novel Amerika , which was written without its author ever having traveled there, much of Pawlikowski’s latest feels like a vague dream, though one that’s listless and evaporates quickly upon awakening.
Ethan Hawke stars as an American author, Tom Ricks, suddenly absconding to Paris to be near his daughter. The bespectacled Ricks quickly finds his estranged wife who is anything but pleased to see him. Immediately she calls the police while he searches her flat for his daughter. After he falls asleep on a bus, he discovers he has been robbed...
- 6/13/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
'This new 'Bel Ami' has a lot to recommend it, but it never seems as artful or smart as 'Dangerous Liaisons,' writes Noel Murray of the A.V. Club.
By Kara Warner
Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami"
Photo: Magnolia Pictures
At long last, your wait to see Robert Pattinson in all his shirtless, pants-less, bum-baring big-screen glory has arrived! "Bel Ami" opens in Los Angeles, New York and other select cites Friday (June 8), in addition to already being available on VOD.
Our story takes place in 19th-century Paris, where self-made man of sorts Georges Duroy (Pattinson) uses his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute's embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties. It's a curiously familiar societal setting in which politics and media jostle for influence and where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
As excited as Pattinson fans are...
By Kara Warner
Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami"
Photo: Magnolia Pictures
At long last, your wait to see Robert Pattinson in all his shirtless, pants-less, bum-baring big-screen glory has arrived! "Bel Ami" opens in Los Angeles, New York and other select cites Friday (June 8), in addition to already being available on VOD.
Our story takes place in 19th-century Paris, where self-made man of sorts Georges Duroy (Pattinson) uses his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute's embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties. It's a curiously familiar societal setting in which politics and media jostle for influence and where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
As excited as Pattinson fans are...
- 6/8/2012
- MTV Movie News
'This new 'Bel Ami' has a lot to recommend it, but it never seems as artful or smart as 'Dangerous Liaisons,' writes Noel Murray of the A.V. Club.
By Kara Warner
Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami"
Photo: Magnolia Pictures
At long last, your wait to see Robert Pattinson in all his shirtless, pants-less, bum-baring big-screen glory has arrived! "Bel Ami" opens in Los Angeles, New York and other select cites Friday (June 8), in addition to already being available on VOD.
Our story takes place in 19th-century Paris, where self-made man of sorts Georges Duroy (Pattinson) uses his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute's embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties. It's a curiously familiar societal setting in which politics and media jostle for influence and where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
As excited as Pattinson fans are...
By Kara Warner
Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami"
Photo: Magnolia Pictures
At long last, your wait to see Robert Pattinson in all his shirtless, pants-less, bum-baring big-screen glory has arrived! "Bel Ami" opens in Los Angeles, New York and other select cites Friday (June 8), in addition to already being available on VOD.
Our story takes place in 19th-century Paris, where self-made man of sorts Georges Duroy (Pattinson) uses his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute's embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties. It's a curiously familiar societal setting in which politics and media jostle for influence and where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
As excited as Pattinson fans are...
- 6/8/2012
- MTV Music News
There are more staff changes among the top ranks at Innovative Artists.The head of the agency’s alternative department, Kimberly Carver, has jumped ship to 3 Arts Entertainment. She’ll be a manager in the company’s alternative department, according to Deadline.At Innovative, Carver’s clients included unscripted producers Andrew Hoegl, Matt Anderson, Nate Green, and Sue Kolinsky, as well as writers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas. The site reported her clients are likely to follow her to 3 Arts Entertainment.Carver’s departure is the latest staffing change at Innovative Artists. The agency recently announced Joe Eshenbaugh joined its comedy department.
- 5/30/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Sean J. Miller)
- backstage.com
Passion movie The Rachel McAdams-Noomi Rapace lesbian kiss in Passion is prominently featured in the sales poster for the upcoming Brian De Palma thriller. De Palma’s Passion movie will be offered at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow evening with a screening of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. A remake of Alain Corneau’s French thriller Crime d’amour / Love Crime — in which lesbianism remains a subtext — Passion stars The Vow‘s McAdams in the old Kristin Scott Thomas role. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘s Rapace replaces Ludivine Sagnier. The erotic element in De Palma’s remake is clearly seen as a key selling point for the movie. The Passion plot is described as "a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business": Isabelle (Noomi Rapace) is a bright and naive personal assistant to a ruthless boss...
- 5/15/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
No, this isn’t an Onion article. Filmmaker Timon Birkhofer is currently planning Capital C, a movie about the crowdfunding movement made popular by Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and you. And what better way to finance the documentary than by creating a Kickstarter page? Birkhofer already has interviews lined up with Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola, Obama campaign Design Director Scott Thomas, “Wasteland 2″ creator Brian Fargo, former CEO of Universal Music Europe Tim Renner, and several others to discuss the philosophy, potential and popular impact of finding hundreds and thousands of investors for interesting ideas. They’re looking to film this summer after reaching their $80,000 goal. They’ve already got close to $14,000 covered, so if the project sounds interesting, feel free to help them out. It will be the most meta thing you do all day.
- 4/25/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the sort of – pardon the pun – “baity” title which sounds so self-consciously affected that it could quite easily sour expectations before the film even begins. Nevertheless, get past the daft title – which is uttered innumerable times throughout – and you get a surprisingly charming, if undeniably uneven dramedy which glides on the immaculate chemistry between its leads.
The yearnings of a powerful Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) to fish for salmon at will is certainly an odd premise in which to situate a politico-romantic comic drama, yet it is a mix that, in spite of its flaws, actually works. Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) is a representative of the sheik, looking to source salmon and expertise from British scientist Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor), who quickly dismisses the idea as absurd. With some not-so-gentle nudging – and financial remuneration – from the Pm’s press secretary...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the sort of – pardon the pun – “baity” title which sounds so self-consciously affected that it could quite easily sour expectations before the film even begins. Nevertheless, get past the daft title – which is uttered innumerable times throughout – and you get a surprisingly charming, if undeniably uneven dramedy which glides on the immaculate chemistry between its leads.
The yearnings of a powerful Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) to fish for salmon at will is certainly an odd premise in which to situate a politico-romantic comic drama, yet it is a mix that, in spite of its flaws, actually works. Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) is a representative of the sheik, looking to source salmon and expertise from British scientist Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor), who quickly dismisses the idea as absurd. With some not-so-gentle nudging – and financial remuneration – from the Pm’s press secretary...
- 4/25/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
With a disappointingly toothless script by Simon Beaufoy, author of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, this sub-Ealing (or perhaps inferior Boulting brothers) comedy is a lame, sentimental enterprise. Ewan McGregor plays a shy expert from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries drawn into a lovably eccentric sheikh's plan to introduce Scottish salmon to his desert emirate. Pulling and pushing McGregor are an upper-middle-class PR woman (Emily Blunt), whose Sas boyfriend is missing in action, and the prime minister's foul-mouthed, stop-at-nothing press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas). If the film were capable of redemption, Scott Thomas, doing a version of Malcolm Tucker/Alastair Campbell in skirts, would be its redeeming feature.
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- 4/23/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
When conservative fisheries expert Dr. Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor) receives an unexpected request from legal representative Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt), he finds himself embroiled in a wealthy sheikh’s ludicrous dream of introducing salmon fishing into the Yemen. After the project receives backing from the British government as a way of diverting attention away from their latest blunder in the Middle-East, Fred slowly finds the faith needed to turn a dream into a reality.
Adapted from Paul Torday’s acclaimed novel, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy employs neat tactics to ensure the narrative plays out at a believable, tempered pace, cleverly playing on the social satire to ensure the parable-like tone is established from the offset. Where the first half revels in the silliness of the sheikh’s dream, brilliantly captured in the way Fred tries every method possible to bypass the mammoth task put in his command, the second tapers off somewhat,...
Adapted from Paul Torday’s acclaimed novel, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy employs neat tactics to ensure the narrative plays out at a believable, tempered pace, cleverly playing on the social satire to ensure the parable-like tone is established from the offset. Where the first half revels in the silliness of the sheikh’s dream, brilliantly captured in the way Fred tries every method possible to bypass the mammoth task put in his command, the second tapers off somewhat,...
- 4/19/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bel Ami American poster: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci As much as I liked the German poster for Bel Ami, the American Bel Ami poster — a sort of reboot of the German version — is even classier thanks to the stylish background. Also, notice that it's the same Robert Pattinson image, but all three leading ladies have had their pictures changed. [Bel Ami extended scenes.] For Uma Thurman, they kept the face but altered the hair and the dress; we now get some cleavage. Kristin Scott Thomas is wearing the same dress, but here she's looking straight at the camera (or at you, looking at the poster). Christina Ricci is wearing what I believe is the same dress, but here her garment is much more brightly colored than in the German poster. Also, like Scott Thomas, Ricci is looking is straight at the camera. In the German poster, both Scott Thomas and Ricci were looking sideways.
- 3/29/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Bel Ami Blu-ray: Robert Pattinson is "Robert Pattison" Bel Ami, starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Christina Ricci comes out on DVD/Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on July 23 as per Amazon.com. That's good news for Pattinson, Thurman, Scott Thomas, and Ricci fans, but as belamifilm.com has pointed out, there's one glitch: Robert Pattinson is billed as "Robert Pattison" on the DVD cover. We've made that mistake before; our excuse is that we have a — to put it mildly — skeleton editorial staff. For now, it's unclear whether or not DVD distributor StudioCanal will correct the typo. In the United States, Bel Ami will be available on VOD on May 4. Magnolia Pictures will distribute the period comedy-drama in Us theaters on June 8. Even though it had already had special screenings in various Belgian cities, the film had its official World Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
- 3/21/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
When an action film starring the new Superman (Henry Cavill), Bruce Willis, and Sigourney Weaver exists to almost everyone’s obliviousness — less than four weeks before it hits — there’s a problem. Summit figured their method wasn’t so sound, as Exhibitor Relations tells us that Mabrouk El Mechri‘s The Cold Light of Day has been moved from April 6th to September 7th, four weeks before Willis‘ other actioner, Looper. Not to be unfair to a film which looks utterly inoffensive, but Rian Johnson made the one I’m really looking forward to.
Now, let’s make the smooth transition from studio action films to period dramas. Exhibitor Relations also report that Joe Wright‘s intriguing Anna Karenina has (shock!) a fall release of November 9th. Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Olivia Williams, Kelly Macdonald, and Emily Watson star in the adaptation that gives a little twist to Tolstoy.
Now, let’s make the smooth transition from studio action films to period dramas. Exhibitor Relations also report that Joe Wright‘s intriguing Anna Karenina has (shock!) a fall release of November 9th. Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Olivia Williams, Kelly Macdonald, and Emily Watson star in the adaptation that gives a little twist to Tolstoy.
- 3/12/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
I’d be remiss if I didn’t explain the two most pressing points about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen right up front. Yes, they do get salmon in the Yemen, and of course our charming leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt get together. I don’t think that’s a spoiler as much as a romantic comedy stable. Romcoms are always about the journey, not the destination and this is one journey that is absolutely worth taking.
The foundation of the plot comes at the whims of two very important and extremely powerful people. One is a rich Yemeni Sheikh (Amr Waked) who wants to bring his favorite Scottish past time, salmon fishing, to his homeland in order to foster good will and cooperation amongst its fractured populace. Never mind the fact that his homeland is relatively baron of all things that scream out “this is a good place to fish.
The foundation of the plot comes at the whims of two very important and extremely powerful people. One is a rich Yemeni Sheikh (Amr Waked) who wants to bring his favorite Scottish past time, salmon fishing, to his homeland in order to foster good will and cooperation amongst its fractured populace. Never mind the fact that his homeland is relatively baron of all things that scream out “this is a good place to fish.
- 3/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristen Scott Thomas, Amr Waked
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Plot: A fisheries expert (McGregor) is hired by a consultant (Blunt) to help a sheikh (Waked) realize his dream of being able to fish for salmon in the desert.
Who’S It For?: Like your romances light and international? And maybe with a few dashes of human spirit sprinkled throughout? This unique dish could be a nice treat for your taste.
Expectations: Before sitting down for this one having barely remembered a preview, I can absolutely admit that the title created some large skepticism; was the name of this movie meant to be a marketing prank? Or perhaps, a test for publicists? At the same time, I was curious as to whether the charismatic McGregor and Blunt could somehow pull this one off.
Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristen Scott Thomas, Amr Waked
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Plot: A fisheries expert (McGregor) is hired by a consultant (Blunt) to help a sheikh (Waked) realize his dream of being able to fish for salmon in the desert.
Who’S It For?: Like your romances light and international? And maybe with a few dashes of human spirit sprinkled throughout? This unique dish could be a nice treat for your taste.
Expectations: Before sitting down for this one having barely remembered a preview, I can absolutely admit that the title created some large skepticism; was the name of this movie meant to be a marketing prank? Or perhaps, a test for publicists? At the same time, I was curious as to whether the charismatic McGregor and Blunt could somehow pull this one off.
- 3/9/2012
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) is a peasant. Finding himself in Paris, he’s taken under the wing of old friend Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister), who lands him employment as a political writer and introduces him to three high society ladies: his wife Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman), Virginie Walters (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Clotilde De Marelle (Christina Ricci). Through means of seduction, betrayal and deception, Georges slowly rises from poverty to wealth, but it all comes at a price.
The concept of one man’s elevation to wealth and power through any means necessary is a fascinating one, and, perhaps with a screenwriter more attuned with Guy De Maupassant’s original novel, Bel Ami could’ve been a success. Unfortunately, Rachel Bennette’s screenplay is too light-footed and short on emotional resonance to enthral. No sooner are the characters introduced than they are thrown into fickle plot lines and forced to...
The concept of one man’s elevation to wealth and power through any means necessary is a fascinating one, and, perhaps with a screenwriter more attuned with Guy De Maupassant’s original novel, Bel Ami could’ve been a success. Unfortunately, Rachel Bennette’s screenplay is too light-footed and short on emotional resonance to enthral. No sooner are the characters introduced than they are thrown into fickle plot lines and forced to...
- 2/24/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There are no really good male roles in Alain Corneau's 2010 French thriller Love Crime. While Kristen Scott Thomas' character does a boyfriend, played by Patrick Mille, that she uses to manipulate the young protagonist (Ludivine Sagnier), but the real heart of the story lies in the conflict between the hero and the villain. Hence why it's such a shame that a talented actor like Dominic Cooper has signed on to Brian De Palma's remake. MediaBiz (via The Playlist) has learned that Cooper and Karoline Herfurth have both signed on for unspecified roles in the DePalma movie, which has been titled Passion. The film is already set to star Rachel McAdams (in the Sagnier part) and Noomi Rapace (who takes over for Scott Thomas). While the remake will change the story a bit, the original Corneau film is about a woman who is set up by her boss and...
- 2/22/2012
- cinemablend.com
Christina Ricci, Robert Pattinson, Bel Ami "'I had no conception of the depths of your emptiness!' a character shrieks in Bel Ami, and her words take on an unintended resonance as addressed to Robert Pattinson in the lead role," says Justin Chang in his Variety review of Bel Ami, which had its official World Premiere earlier today at the Berlin Film Festival. [Watch Bel Ami trailer.] "Displaying little in the way of wily self-assurance, charisma or gravitas," Chang continues, "the Twilight Saga heartthrob doesn't exactly invigorate this flailing English-language adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's much-filmed novel about a handsome scoundrel seducing his way up the social ladder in 19th-century Paris." Further down in his review, Chang adds the following about Pattinson's performance as the cunning, pathologically ambitious Georges Duroy: "But it's one thing to embody a moral void, quite another to look merely vacant, and in scene after scene, Pattinson registers a...
- 2/18/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Woman In The Fifth (15)
(Pawel Pawlikowski, 2011, Fra/Pol/UK) Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig. 84 mins.
Mysteries abound in this sombre, 1970s-style drama, and so do women. Hawke's emotionally wracked American in Paris is plagued by them – not just the seductress of the title (Scott Thomas) but also his estranged wife and daughter, and the pretty Polish waitress. Plus some dodgy (male) gangster types. If it all seems too good to be true, it is, but this doesn't show its hand till very late on – maybe too late – and maybe too many cards, or too few.
Hadewijch (12A)
(Bruno Dumont, 2009, Fra) Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime, Karl Sarafidis. 105 mins.
Boldly drawing connections between (Christian) religious devotion and (Muslim) religious extremism, this radical but naturalistic drama follows a rejected nun whose search for spiritual solace takes her far out of her central Paris comfort zone, and deep into the paradoxes of faith.
(Pawel Pawlikowski, 2011, Fra/Pol/UK) Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig. 84 mins.
Mysteries abound in this sombre, 1970s-style drama, and so do women. Hawke's emotionally wracked American in Paris is plagued by them – not just the seductress of the title (Scott Thomas) but also his estranged wife and daughter, and the pretty Polish waitress. Plus some dodgy (male) gangster types. If it all seems too good to be true, it is, but this doesn't show its hand till very late on – maybe too late – and maybe too many cards, or too few.
Hadewijch (12A)
(Bruno Dumont, 2009, Fra) Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salime, Karl Sarafidis. 105 mins.
Boldly drawing connections between (Christian) religious devotion and (Muslim) religious extremism, this radical but naturalistic drama follows a rejected nun whose search for spiritual solace takes her far out of her central Paris comfort zone, and deep into the paradoxes of faith.
- 2/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert Pattinson film: Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami Twelve minutes from the latest Robert Pattinson film, an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami, have been uploaded online. Those consist of five brief, disparate scenes from the movie, all of them featuring Pattinson. (This Bel Ami online video — please scroll down — was initially posted at Robert Pattinson Life.) Set in a darkly lit church, the first scene shows Pattinson's ambitious ex-soldier Georges Duroy playing a very determined game of seduction with Older (and very married) Woman Kristin Scott Thomas. In the second, Pattinson convincingly plays a drunk Duroy in a rowdy cabaret. That's when he runs into the obnoxious publisher Charles Forestier, who will inadvertently assist Duroy in his meteoric ascent in Parisian society. The third scene is set at the Forestier dinner table. The issue of class is all too evident — Duroy doesn't know which knife to use.
- 2/10/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Bel Ami poster: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci This classy, supercool, German (Guy de Maupassant's) Bel Ami poster features Robert Pattinson as the ambitious 19th-century ex-soldier Georges Duroy and the three main women in his life: Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Notice the use of color — blue for Pattinson, green for Thurman, yellow for Ricci, red for Scott Thomas. And notice how Pattinson's blue-clad Duroy is positioned in the foreground, between red-clad Scott Thomas and yellow-clad Ricci, while green-clad Thurman, also slightly in the background, is seen further to the left. (Poster via Robert Pattinson Life.) The German tag line reads: "Senhsucht, Verführung, Begierde." That can be translated as "Longing, Seduction, Desire." Or, perhaps more emphatically, "Desperate Longing, Seduction, Ardent Desire." Also billed on the German-language poster is Colm Meaney, in addition to the Berlin Film Festival itself, with Bel Ami described...
- 2/9/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Ralph Fiennes is set to reteam with his The English Patient co-star Kristin Scott Thomas for a new movie about Charles Dickens.
The actor will step behind the camera to make The Invisible Woman, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's book about the novelist's secret mistress, Ellen Ternan.
It will mark the first time the pair has worked together since they played lovers in the 1996 World War II epic romance, which went on to scoop nine Academy Awards.
Scott Thomas says, "I'm going to do Ralph's film because he's an old friend and he did such a good job on (movie adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy) Coriolanus that I want to be there for him when he does his next film."
British actress Ternan embarked on a passionate 13-year affair with the Great Expectations writer when she was just 18.
The actor will step behind the camera to make The Invisible Woman, an adaptation of Claire Tomalin's book about the novelist's secret mistress, Ellen Ternan.
It will mark the first time the pair has worked together since they played lovers in the 1996 World War II epic romance, which went on to scoop nine Academy Awards.
Scott Thomas says, "I'm going to do Ralph's film because he's an old friend and he did such a good job on (movie adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy) Coriolanus that I want to be there for him when he does his next film."
British actress Ternan embarked on a passionate 13-year affair with the Great Expectations writer when she was just 18.
- 2/8/2012
- WENN
Robert Pattinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Bel Ami As can be attested by the Bel Ami online clip (see below) from the Russian MTV — with English subtitles — the Robert Pattinson period drama is a potential nominee for the Best Costume Design Academy Award of 201. As part of the Gay Paree Bel Ami look, you get Pattinson wearing a top hat, and Kristin Scott Thomas, Uma Thurman, and Christina Ricci garbed in fancy 19th-century dresses. [Watch Bel Ami trailer.] Dramatically speaking, one Bel Ami scene that is particularly effective features a pathetic — as in, full of pathos — Scott Thomas following and being pushed aside by Pattinson's ambitious former soldier Georges Duroy. The clip also offers several brief — but cool — behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Bel Ami set. Bel Ami, which has already had a few special screenings in various Belgian cities, will have its official world premiere — out of competition — at the Berlin Film Festival. In addition to Robert Pattinson,...
- 1/26/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
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