Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season 6 episode 2 ‘Black Shirt’
At the end of every Peaky Blinders episode comes the expected fiction disclaimer declaring that its names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. The usual next line about “any resemblance to persons living or dead” being purely coincidental isn’t included, for the obvious reason that several of the show’s characters don’t just bear a resemblance to persons living or dead, they’re unequivocally them. Charlie Chaplin, Oswald Mosley, Winston Churchill… The latest is Lady Diana Mitford, played by Amber Anderson.
Peaky Blinders season six is currently taking place in early 1934, when the real Diana was 24 years old. She was one of seven Mitford siblings including six sisters whose lives were endlessly reported by the contemporary press due to romantic scandals, a range of...
At the end of every Peaky Blinders episode comes the expected fiction disclaimer declaring that its names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. The usual next line about “any resemblance to persons living or dead” being purely coincidental isn’t included, for the obvious reason that several of the show’s characters don’t just bear a resemblance to persons living or dead, they’re unequivocally them. Charlie Chaplin, Oswald Mosley, Winston Churchill… The latest is Lady Diana Mitford, played by Amber Anderson.
Peaky Blinders season six is currently taking place in early 1934, when the real Diana was 24 years old. She was one of seven Mitford siblings including six sisters whose lives were endlessly reported by the contemporary press due to romantic scandals, a range of...
- 3/6/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Amelia is the much anticipated film of the pioneering aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This new, historical biopic from director Mira Nair (The Namesake, Vanity Fair), stars two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the legendary pilot (she also serves as executive producer), Richard Gere as her husband and agent/publisher, George Putnam, and Ewan McGregor as Twa founder and Earhart’s lover, Gene Vidal (Gore Vidal’s father). From a screenplay by Ronald Bass (Academy Award winner for Rain Man) and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the books “East to the Dawn” by Susan Butler and “The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell,” Amelia chronicles the life of Earhart from her early life in Kansas, the first flight across the Atlantic, and Putnam’s attempt to make her a female Lindbergh through product placement. The film also covers her...
- 10/23/2009
- by Michelle
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It's Oscar contender season, when the studios trot out the films they hope will capture the attention of the bearers of golden statuettes, and the box office revenue those little gold men bring. One has to wonder just what Fox Searchlight was thinking when they chose to release Amelia.
It seems like a perfect match: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) directing a cast of heavyweights, including Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston. Stuart Dryburgh had an Oscar nod for Best Cinematography for The Piano amongst his list of nominations and wins. Both editors, Allyson C. Johnson and Lee Percy, are seasoned professionals, and Johnson has worked on several Nair projects. The writers, Ron Bass (Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Girl, Interrupted, Mask) each have an Oscar nod. Two books about Earhart are used, including Susan Butler's East to the Dawn and...
It seems like a perfect match: Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) directing a cast of heavyweights, including Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston. Stuart Dryburgh had an Oscar nod for Best Cinematography for The Piano amongst his list of nominations and wins. Both editors, Allyson C. Johnson and Lee Percy, are seasoned professionals, and Johnson has worked on several Nair projects. The writers, Ron Bass (Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Girl, Interrupted, Mask) each have an Oscar nod. Two books about Earhart are used, including Susan Butler's East to the Dawn and...
- 10/22/2009
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Check out twelve new stunt tape clips and new film clips from Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska. Mira Nair directs. Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan wrote the screenplay based on the book "East to the Dawn" by Susan Butler and "The Sound of Wings" by Mary S. Lovell. Visionary. Lover. Dreamer. Fighter. Legend. Icon. Amelia. An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes to light in Amelia, a vast, thrilling account of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank). After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own,...
- 10/21/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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