Kate Beckinsale was one of the leading actresses who made her breakthrough in the 90s in her small but impressive role as Her in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing. She continued showcasing her incredible versatility in British costume films such as Prince of Jutland, Cold Comfort Farm, Emma, and The Golden Bowl.
Kate Beckinsale in 1996’s Emma
2001’s Pearl Harbor was her first tentpole studio film where she starred alongside Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. Director Michael Bay had a specific treatment that he wanted to have for the film depicting the horrible Pearl Harbor attacks. Going the commercial route rather than focusing on historical accuracy, the director had a weird demand for Beckinsale that proved to be humiliating for the actress.
Michael Bay Wanted Kate Beckinsale to Have a Stuffed Bra on Pearl Harbor
Kate Beckinsale played Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor
Michael Bay took on...
Kate Beckinsale in 1996’s Emma
2001’s Pearl Harbor was her first tentpole studio film where she starred alongside Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. Director Michael Bay had a specific treatment that he wanted to have for the film depicting the horrible Pearl Harbor attacks. Going the commercial route rather than focusing on historical accuracy, the director had a weird demand for Beckinsale that proved to be humiliating for the actress.
Michael Bay Wanted Kate Beckinsale to Have a Stuffed Bra on Pearl Harbor
Kate Beckinsale played Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor
Michael Bay took on...
- 5/7/2024
- by Rahul Thokchom
- FandomWire
The BBC is celebrating the art of the literary adaptation by screening a variety of classics on BBC Four. More details here.
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
"Underworld" actress Kate Beckinsale, star of the upcoming feature "Canary Black", poses for the latest digital issue of "Flaunt" magazine, wearing Max Mara, Hermès and Dundas, photographed by Frederic Auerbach:
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
- 8/21/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Underworld" actress Kate Beckinsale, star of the upcoming feature "Canary Black", poses for the latest digital issue of "Flaunt" magazine, wearing Max Mara, Hermès and Dundas, photographed by Frederic Auerbach:
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
- 8/5/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Underworld" actress Kate Beckinsale, star of the upcoming feature "Canary Black", poses for the latest digital issue of "Flaunt" magazine, wearing Max Mara, Hermès and Dundas, photographed by Frederic Auerbach:
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the US she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York...
- 5/6/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Underworld" actress Kate Beckinsale poses for the January/February 2020 issue of "Women's Health" magazine, wearing Fila, Heroine Sport and Koral, photographed by Ben Watts:
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the Us she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York" (2017) and the ITV...
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the Us she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York" (2017) and the ITV...
- 2/19/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Underworld" actress Kate Beckinsale poses for the January/February 2020 issue of "Women's Health" magazine, wearing Fila, Heroine Sport and Koral, photographed by Ben Watts:
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the Us she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York" (2017) and the ITV...
Beckinsale made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in Brit 'costume dramas' including "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996) and "The Golden Bowl" (2000).
In the Us she appeared in indie dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), followed by starring roles in "Pearl Harbor" (2001), "Serendipity" (2003), "Tiptoes" (2003), "The Aviator" (2004) and "Click" (2006).
Since being cast as 'Selene' in the "Underworld" film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films...
...including "Van Helsing" (2004), "Whiteout" (2009), "Contraband" (2012) and "Total Recall" (2012).
Beckinsale continues to work in film including "Snow Angels" (2007), "Nothing but the Truth" (2008), "Everybody's Fine" (2009), "Love & Friendship" (2016), "Underworld: Blood Wars" (2016)...
..."The Only Living Boy in New York" (2017) and the ITV...
- 12/20/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Freddie Jones, the British actor who over a nearly 70-year career played such memorable roles as the sadistic freakshow owner in David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man,” died July 9 in the U.K., according to numerous British media reports. He was 91.
The father of actor Toby Jones, he had more recently been appearing on British soap “Emmerdale” as Sandy Thomas.
In 1980, he starred his first film for Lynch, “The Elephant Man,” which starred John Hurt as a deformed man in Victorian London. Subsequently, the actor continued working with Lynch and appeared in “Dune” (1984), “Wild at Heart” (1990), and the three-part U.S. TV series “Hotel Room.” Upon news of Jones’ death, the filmmaker shared his remarks on Twitter.
“Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones,” Lynch tweeted. “Man-o-man will he be missed.”
Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones. Man-o-man will he be missed.
— David Lynch (@DAVID...
The father of actor Toby Jones, he had more recently been appearing on British soap “Emmerdale” as Sandy Thomas.
In 1980, he starred his first film for Lynch, “The Elephant Man,” which starred John Hurt as a deformed man in Victorian London. Subsequently, the actor continued working with Lynch and appeared in “Dune” (1984), “Wild at Heart” (1990), and the three-part U.S. TV series “Hotel Room.” Upon news of Jones’ death, the filmmaker shared his remarks on Twitter.
“Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones,” Lynch tweeted. “Man-o-man will he be missed.”
Dear Twitter Friends, I loved, loved, loved Freddie Jones. Man-o-man will he be missed.
— David Lynch (@DAVID...
- 7/10/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Harvey Atkin (1942-2017) - Actor. He starred in Meatballs and appears in Silver Streak, Atlantic City and The Stupids. He died of cancer on July 17. (THR) Trevor Baxter (1932-2017) - British Actor. He starred in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A Man for All Seasons, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj and Cold Comfort Farm. He died on July 16. (Big Finish News) Chester Bennington (1976-2017) - Singer. As front man of Linkin...
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- 8/2/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
If you live on the West Coast and you're a fan of Death Dealer Selene from the Underworld movies, then you'll want to mark the weekend of June 17th–18th on your calendar, because Kate Beckinsale will be a featured guest at Wizard World Sacramento. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have details on the Blu-ray / DVD release of Peelers and the lineup for Attack of the 50 Foot Film Fest in Atlanta.
Kate Beckinsale to Attend Wizard World Sacramento: Press Release: "Sacramento, Calif., June 5, 2017 – Kate Beckinsale, star of such films as Underworld and Pearl Harbor, and Val Kilmer, standout in Batman Forever and Top Gun, have been added to the top-flight celebrity roster at Wizard World Comic Con Sacramento at the Sacramento Convention Center. Both will appear on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18, when they will greet fans, sign autographs, pose for photo ops and conduct interactive Q&A sessions with fans.
Kate Beckinsale to Attend Wizard World Sacramento: Press Release: "Sacramento, Calif., June 5, 2017 – Kate Beckinsale, star of such films as Underworld and Pearl Harbor, and Val Kilmer, standout in Batman Forever and Top Gun, have been added to the top-flight celebrity roster at Wizard World Comic Con Sacramento at the Sacramento Convention Center. Both will appear on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18, when they will greet fans, sign autographs, pose for photo ops and conduct interactive Q&A sessions with fans.
- 6/6/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
David Crow Sep 19, 2019
The Underworld movies might be some of the strangest and most melodramatic B-action movies ever. That's a good thing.
Of all the B-movies that have grown, survived, flourished, and then declined well beyond their first installment with an unending string of preposterous sequels, none have been quite as colorful as the Underworld movies—the ones that feature Kate Beckinsale in skintight leather fighting werewolves. Despite enjoying a nigh monochrome visual scheme of blacks and pallid whites (occasionally punctuated by supernaturally tinged glowing blue eyes or spurts of scarlet liquid), the Underworld franchise has often sought to infuse a bit of prestigious highbrow blood into its B-movie veins. Quizzically, via repurposed Shakespearean conventions… but, you know, with vampires.
To be clear, from its 2003 inception Underworld has always known exactly what it was: The Matrix aesthetic of shiny black leather-numbers now adorning beautiful people who may or may not transform into gruesome monsters.
The Underworld movies might be some of the strangest and most melodramatic B-action movies ever. That's a good thing.
Of all the B-movies that have grown, survived, flourished, and then declined well beyond their first installment with an unending string of preposterous sequels, none have been quite as colorful as the Underworld movies—the ones that feature Kate Beckinsale in skintight leather fighting werewolves. Despite enjoying a nigh monochrome visual scheme of blacks and pallid whites (occasionally punctuated by supernaturally tinged glowing blue eyes or spurts of scarlet liquid), the Underworld franchise has often sought to infuse a bit of prestigious highbrow blood into its B-movie veins. Quizzically, via repurposed Shakespearean conventions… but, you know, with vampires.
To be clear, from its 2003 inception Underworld has always known exactly what it was: The Matrix aesthetic of shiny black leather-numbers now adorning beautiful people who may or may not transform into gruesome monsters.
- 1/4/2017
- Den of Geek
It’s safe to say that filmmaker Whit Stillman knows his wheelhouse.
The director behind such sharp comedies of manners like “Metropolitan” and “Damsels in Distress” has always been compelled by period pieces that shine a light on the often hilarious — and frequently rotten — behavior of his characters, so his decision to adapt Jane Austen’s early novella “Lady Susan” into a very Stillman-esque feature film was a natural enough one.
Yet Stillman, who has only made five films over the course of a quarter-century, struggled to get his take on the material, eventually known as “Love & Friendship,” turned into a film for many years, cycling through financiers and producers until finally landing on an appropriate fit (to wit, a pact with Amazon and Roadside Attractions, who provided the film with a very robust theatrical release, in addition to copious streaming options). But despite some outside push and pull, Stillman...
The director behind such sharp comedies of manners like “Metropolitan” and “Damsels in Distress” has always been compelled by period pieces that shine a light on the often hilarious — and frequently rotten — behavior of his characters, so his decision to adapt Jane Austen’s early novella “Lady Susan” into a very Stillman-esque feature film was a natural enough one.
Yet Stillman, who has only made five films over the course of a quarter-century, struggled to get his take on the material, eventually known as “Love & Friendship,” turned into a film for many years, cycling through financiers and producers until finally landing on an appropriate fit (to wit, a pact with Amazon and Roadside Attractions, who provided the film with a very robust theatrical release, in addition to copious streaming options). But despite some outside push and pull, Stillman...
- 11/2/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
So entertaining, so unexpected, so wonderfully oddball, so damn good. Witty genre-busting simmering with pathos, humor, and calamity. I’m “biast” (pro): love Kate Winslet; desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Like a gunslinger riding into town. Determined and dangerous. This is how director Jocelyn Moorhouse depicts the return of Tilly Dunnage to her backwater Australian town of Dungatar. The locale may be vaguely western-ish — remote and dusty — but the year is 1951 and Tilly comes armed only with a Singer sewing machine, her Parisian-inspired haute-couture style, and a superpowered ache for revenge.
I had no idea what I was in for with The Dressmaker, and even that opening — with its witty genre-busting that culminates in Tilly’s snarl to herself of “I’m back, you bastards” — couldn’t possibly have clued me in.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Like a gunslinger riding into town. Determined and dangerous. This is how director Jocelyn Moorhouse depicts the return of Tilly Dunnage to her backwater Australian town of Dungatar. The locale may be vaguely western-ish — remote and dusty — but the year is 1951 and Tilly comes armed only with a Singer sewing machine, her Parisian-inspired haute-couture style, and a superpowered ache for revenge.
I had no idea what I was in for with The Dressmaker, and even that opening — with its witty genre-busting that culminates in Tilly’s snarl to herself of “I’m back, you bastards” — couldn’t possibly have clued me in.
- 11/20/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"Good-bye. Don't forget to feed the parrot!" shrieked Flora, who disliked this prolongation of the ceremony of saying farewell, as every civilized traveller must.
"What parrot?" they all shrieked back from the fast-receding platform, just as they were meant to do.
But it was too much trouble to reply. Flora contented herself with muttering, "Oh, any parrot, bless you all," and with a final affectionate wave of her hand to Mrs. Smiling, she drew back into the carriage and, opening a fashion journal, composed herself for the journey.
--Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Saying farewell to Slackerwood has been very difficult. And I do think of it as "au revoir" -- I'm still in Austin, I'm still writing, and so are many of the current Slackerwood contributors. You'll see us again.
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"What parrot?" they all shrieked back from the fast-receding platform, just as they were meant to do.
But it was too much trouble to reply. Flora contented herself with muttering, "Oh, any parrot, bless you all," and with a final affectionate wave of her hand to Mrs. Smiling, she drew back into the carriage and, opening a fashion journal, composed herself for the journey.
--Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Saying farewell to Slackerwood has been very difficult. And I do think of it as "au revoir" -- I'm still in Austin, I'm still writing, and so are many of the current Slackerwood contributors. You'll see us again.
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- 5/28/2015
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Even from a small English village, Atticus Finch, the lawyer defending a wrongly accused African American in the deep south of America, seemed the epitome of quiet decency, fatherly tenderness and physical courage
Why I'd like to be Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Why I'd like to be Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm
Why I'd like to be Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark Continue reading...
Why I'd like to be Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Why I'd like to be Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm
Why I'd like to be Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark Continue reading...
- 7/24/2014
- by Neil Mitchell
- The Guardian - Film News
He's awkward, nerdy and refuses to go with the rock'n'roll flow, but teen writer William Miller in Almost Famous has been my hero since I secretly watched the film aged 10. Not cool
Why I'd like to be Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Why I'd like to be Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm
Why I'd like to be Michael J Fox in Back to the Future Continue reading...
Why I'd like to be Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Why I'd like to be Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm
Why I'd like to be Michael J Fox in Back to the Future Continue reading...
- 7/22/2014
- by Hannah Ellis-Petersen
- The Guardian - Film News
The New Year is a time to look forward at all the exciting things that are coming ahead, but is also a time of loss. That loss, of course, is with Netflix, as the streaming service will be saying goodbye to a number of previously-available TV shows and movies.
Since Netflix no longer advertises when various titles in its library are expiring, one Reddit thread (via Vulture) collected them for your pleasure. It's worth noting that some of these titles may not permanently disappear, and might return as soon as a day or several hours after being removed as per Netflix's contract agreements.
Fortunately for all your TV-loving folks out there, not many television shows are being removed. The ones on the chopping block are "The Kids in the Hall," the original "Dark Shadows," "Mr. Bean," "Saturday Night Live The 2000s" and "Perfect 10 Model Boxing: Vol. 1." So if any of...
Since Netflix no longer advertises when various titles in its library are expiring, one Reddit thread (via Vulture) collected them for your pleasure. It's worth noting that some of these titles may not permanently disappear, and might return as soon as a day or several hours after being removed as per Netflix's contract agreements.
Fortunately for all your TV-loving folks out there, not many television shows are being removed. The ones on the chopping block are "The Kids in the Hall," the original "Dark Shadows," "Mr. Bean," "Saturday Night Live The 2000s" and "Perfect 10 Model Boxing: Vol. 1." So if any of...
- 12/29/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Rufus Sewell was a pin-up in the 1990s, then his career stalled. He tells us about moving to La, giving up drinking and why he can't wait to lose his looks
There was a moment in the mid-1990s when Rufus Sewell's international stardom was assured. Before his 30th birthday, he had starred in two hugely successful TV adaptations, of Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, and taken a lead role in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, alongside Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy. He would clearly become stupidly famous. But then he… didn't.
"People talk about opportunity knocking," he says, "but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. I was the lead in Interview With The Vampire, until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in The Wings Of The Dove with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I...
There was a moment in the mid-1990s when Rufus Sewell's international stardom was assured. Before his 30th birthday, he had starred in two hugely successful TV adaptations, of Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, and taken a lead role in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, alongside Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy. He would clearly become stupidly famous. But then he… didn't.
"People talk about opportunity knocking," he says, "but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. I was the lead in Interview With The Vampire, until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in The Wings Of The Dove with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I...
- 3/30/2013
- by Liese Spencer
- The Guardian - Film News
Danny Boyle's Isles of Wonder celebrates the British countryside and is infused with literary references – and a British Library exhibition also explores this idea of pastoral paradise
Stratford, Newham, meets Stratford-upon-Avon this July, and a line spoken by Caliban in The Tempest has emerged as the guiding spirit of Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony: "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises."
After Boyle's launch event last week, we now know that the stadium in Stratford is also to be full of cows, geese, and ducks (to say nothing of the three sheep dogs). It may say a lot about the country's anxiety for the future that the opening ceremony (or what we currently know of it) references not the white heat of digitally enabled tomorrows, but harks back to the earthly paradise of rural dreams; a vision of an eternal Britain that endures in the cycles...
Stratford, Newham, meets Stratford-upon-Avon this July, and a line spoken by Caliban in The Tempest has emerged as the guiding spirit of Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony: "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises."
After Boyle's launch event last week, we now know that the stadium in Stratford is also to be full of cows, geese, and ducks (to say nothing of the three sheep dogs). It may say a lot about the country's anxiety for the future that the opening ceremony (or what we currently know of it) references not the white heat of digitally enabled tomorrows, but harks back to the earthly paradise of rural dreams; a vision of an eternal Britain that endures in the cycles...
- 6/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Rufus Sewell vowed to give up playing bad guys and cads, then found himself out of work for months. So now he's back – in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – as a 5,000-year-old bloodsucker
Three years ago, Rufus Sewell gave up bad guys for good. After an early career steaming up teatimes in Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, he slipped, in his 30s, into a rut of rotters – cruel toffs on horseback in films such as A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro and Tristan and Isolde. At 40, he renounced them for better men. Men with names like Tom Builder (from HBO's The Pillars of the Earth) and Dr Jacob Hood (police procedural Eleventh Hour), and Zen, the cool Italian detective from the Michael Dibdin books adapted for the BBC.
Next week Sewell, now 44, can be seen as "Adam, lead vampire" in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a 3D film from Timur Bekmambetov,...
Three years ago, Rufus Sewell gave up bad guys for good. After an early career steaming up teatimes in Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, he slipped, in his 30s, into a rut of rotters – cruel toffs on horseback in films such as A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro and Tristan and Isolde. At 40, he renounced them for better men. Men with names like Tom Builder (from HBO's The Pillars of the Earth) and Dr Jacob Hood (police procedural Eleventh Hour), and Zen, the cool Italian detective from the Michael Dibdin books adapted for the BBC.
Next week Sewell, now 44, can be seen as "Adam, lead vampire" in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, a 3D film from Timur Bekmambetov,...
- 6/15/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
British actress Kate Beckinsale returned to the big screen after a long break to reprise her role as sexy vampire Selene in Underworld Awakening.
The fourth chapter in the Underworld horror franchise hit cinemas in January.
Kate will be back in action alongside Mark Wahlberg in Contraband - out in the UK on March 16 - and with husband Len Wiseman's remake of Total Recall, co-starring Colin Farrell and released in August.
So where has she been these past three years? And what's it been like getting back into action-movie mode?
Prior to the recent Underworld adventure, we last saw Kate on screen in 2009 in the drama Everybody's Fine and the poorly-received comic book adaptation Whiteout.
Another film she worked on in 2009 with Matt Dillon and Vera Farmiga went straight to DVD, and she says a Hollywood writers' strike meant there were few projects around.
"I didn't plan on a sabbatical,...
The fourth chapter in the Underworld horror franchise hit cinemas in January.
Kate will be back in action alongside Mark Wahlberg in Contraband - out in the UK on March 16 - and with husband Len Wiseman's remake of Total Recall, co-starring Colin Farrell and released in August.
So where has she been these past three years? And what's it been like getting back into action-movie mode?
Prior to the recent Underworld adventure, we last saw Kate on screen in 2009 in the drama Everybody's Fine and the poorly-received comic book adaptation Whiteout.
Another film she worked on in 2009 with Matt Dillon and Vera Farmiga went straight to DVD, and she says a Hollywood writers' strike meant there were few projects around.
"I didn't plan on a sabbatical,...
- 3/4/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Kate Beckinsale won her big film break in John Schlesinger's period drama Cold Comfort Farm by writing the director a letter to convince him she was the right person for the role of Flora Poste.
The Underworld star had auditioned for the role and felt the part was hers only to learn from an agent that Schlesinger felt he needed an older actress.
The studious star recalls, "I went through the book, found all the points that supported the I was the correct age, wrote what was essentially a research paper in the form of a, 'Dear John, you're making a terrible mistake and I'm gonna save you from it...' letter, and delivered it to his door."
The bold move paid off.
Beckinsale tells Angeleno magazine, "He found it very amusing, phoned and told me the part was mine."...
The Underworld star had auditioned for the role and felt the part was hers only to learn from an agent that Schlesinger felt he needed an older actress.
The studious star recalls, "I went through the book, found all the points that supported the I was the correct age, wrote what was essentially a research paper in the form of a, 'Dear John, you're making a terrible mistake and I'm gonna save you from it...' letter, and delivered it to his door."
The bold move paid off.
Beckinsale tells Angeleno magazine, "He found it very amusing, phoned and told me the part was mine."...
- 1/18/2012
- WENN
Move over, Kristen Stewart.
The much-loved star of "Serendipity" and "Cold Comfort Farm" is revving up for the release of the fourth installment of her vampire-werewolf "Underworld" saga. But the British actress didn't break into Hollywood quite as easily as it may seem -- in fact, she wiggled her way in with a strongly-worded letter.
"My audition went very well; I heard I was the favorite," Beckinsale told Manhattan of her audition for the lead role of Flora Poste in 1995's "Cold Comfort Farm." "But then my agent called and said they were looking for somebody older... I went through the book, found all the points supporting that I was the correct age, wrote what was essentially a research paper in the form of a 'Dear John, You're Making a Terrible Mistake and I'm Going to Save You From It' letter, and delivered it to his door. Luckily he found it very amusing,...
The much-loved star of "Serendipity" and "Cold Comfort Farm" is revving up for the release of the fourth installment of her vampire-werewolf "Underworld" saga. But the British actress didn't break into Hollywood quite as easily as it may seem -- in fact, she wiggled her way in with a strongly-worded letter.
"My audition went very well; I heard I was the favorite," Beckinsale told Manhattan of her audition for the lead role of Flora Poste in 1995's "Cold Comfort Farm." "But then my agent called and said they were looking for somebody older... I went through the book, found all the points supporting that I was the correct age, wrote what was essentially a research paper in the form of a 'Dear John, You're Making a Terrible Mistake and I'm Going to Save You From It' letter, and delivered it to his door. Luckily he found it very amusing,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale will announce the nominees for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 8 a.m. at The London West Hollywood Hotel, it was revealed today by Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival.
As previously announced, the 27th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held at the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, Feb. 25.
The premiere broadcast of the ceremony will air later that evening at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on IFC.
Bios on each actor, from a release:
Anthony Mackie was classically trained at the Julliard School of Drama and was discovered playing Tupac Shakur in the off-Broadway play “Up Against the Wind.” He made his film debut in Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile and proceeded to garner roles in Spike Lee’s Sucker Free City and She Hate Me,...
hollywoodnews.com: Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale will announce the nominees for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 8 a.m. at The London West Hollywood Hotel, it was revealed today by Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival.
As previously announced, the 27th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will be held at the beach in Santa Monica on Saturday, Feb. 25.
The premiere broadcast of the ceremony will air later that evening at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on IFC.
Bios on each actor, from a release:
Anthony Mackie was classically trained at the Julliard School of Drama and was discovered playing Tupac Shakur in the off-Broadway play “Up Against the Wind.” He made his film debut in Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile and proceeded to garner roles in Spike Lee’s Sucker Free City and She Hate Me,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
A striking stage presence for more than 60 years and a familiar face on TV
Sheila Burrell, who has died aged 89 after a long illness, was a cousin of Laurence Olivier, and a similarly distinctive and fiery actor with a broad, open face, high cheekbones and expressive eyes. She stood at only 5ft 5ins but could fill the widest stage and hold the largest audience. Her voice was a mezzo marvel, kittenish or growling and, in later life, acquired the viscosity and vintage of an old ruby port, matured after years of experience.
In a career spanning more than 60 years, she made her name as a wild, red-headed Barbara Allen (subject of the famous ballad) in Peter Brook's 1949 production of Dark of the Moon (Ambassadors theatre), an American pot-boiler about the seduction of a lusty girl by a witch boy and the hysterical reaction of her local community.
The role remained one of her favourites,...
Sheila Burrell, who has died aged 89 after a long illness, was a cousin of Laurence Olivier, and a similarly distinctive and fiery actor with a broad, open face, high cheekbones and expressive eyes. She stood at only 5ft 5ins but could fill the widest stage and hold the largest audience. Her voice was a mezzo marvel, kittenish or growling and, in later life, acquired the viscosity and vintage of an old ruby port, matured after years of experience.
In a career spanning more than 60 years, she made her name as a wild, red-headed Barbara Allen (subject of the famous ballad) in Peter Brook's 1949 production of Dark of the Moon (Ambassadors theatre), an American pot-boiler about the seduction of a lusty girl by a witch boy and the hysterical reaction of her local community.
The role remained one of her favourites,...
- 7/27/2011
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Nov 25, 2010
One of the more obscure graphic novels to join the film adaptation fray this year is the English comedy Tamara Drewe. Originating in 2005 in the weekly pages of The Guardian newspaper in the U.K and primarily based on the classic British novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, the author's epic romantic tapestry has been retooled as a country manner comedy in the vein of Cold Comfort Farm by the journeyman director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen) in a rare ill-fit for a filmmaker usually adept at drawing ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
One of the more obscure graphic novels to join the film adaptation fray this year is the English comedy Tamara Drewe. Originating in 2005 in the weekly pages of The Guardian newspaper in the U.K and primarily based on the classic British novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, the author's epic romantic tapestry has been retooled as a country manner comedy in the vein of Cold Comfort Farm by the journeyman director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen) in a rare ill-fit for a filmmaker usually adept at drawing ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
- 11/25/2010
- CinemaNerdz
Had your fill of romance? Indulge in a delicious British satire about a smart city girl (Kate Beckinsale) who saves her gothic Wuthering Heights-y family (Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, and more) with good common sense. Cold Comfort Farm Dir. John Schlesinger (1995) Sure, you could spend your Valentine's Day wallowing in the most gothic of English Romances, the likes of Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, or the Bronte sisters. (In fact, the 1996 adaptation of Hardy's Jude the Obscure, retitled Jude and featuring Kate Winslet, is now available on Hulu.) But for all those romantics out there, here's a better option: the smart and cheeky British adaptation of Stella Gibbons' comic novel Cold Comfort Farm. Made for British TV (but released theatrically in America), John Schlesiinger's (Midnight Cowboy) adaptation features an all star cast (Kate Beckinsale, Absolutely Fabulous' Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Ian...
- 2/12/2010
- by Tribeca Film
- Huffington Post
Cold Comfort Farm Dir. John Schlesinger (1995) Sure, you could spend your Valentine's Day wallowing in the most gothic of English Romances, the likes of Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, or the Bronte sisters. (In fact, the 1996 adaptation of Hardy's Jude the Obscure, retitled Jude and featuring Kate Winslet, is now available on Hulu.) But for all those romantics out there, here's a better option: the smart and cheeky British adaptation of Stella Gibbons' comic novel Cold Comfort Farm. Made for British TV (but released theatrically in America), John Schlesiinger's (Midnight Cowboy) adaptation features an all star cast (Kate Beckinsale, Absolutely Fabulous' Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen, and Eileen Atkins), doing proper tribute to this parody of the English country novel. In this film, smart city girl Flora Poste (Beckinsale, in her ingenue years), recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her crazy relatives on Cold Comfort Farm.
- 2/12/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
It is rare for me to love a book and its film adaptation equally -- or almost equally, perhaps with a slight bias to the novel in question. I am very fond of Stella Gibbons' 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm ... and the 1995 movie, which you can watch online for free, is very nearly as entertaining. Flora Poste, played by Kate Beckinsale, is a 1930s headstrong young woman obviously modeled on the heroines of Jane Austen, particularly Emma Woodhouse (whom Beckinsale later played in a BBC production). Flora is left nearly penniless when her parents die, and rather than live with her friend Mrs. Smiling (Joanna Lumley) in London and learn how to work for a living, decides to throw herself on the mercy of relatives. She ends up at Cold Comfort Farm in bleakest Sussex with her Starkadder cousins, and the chaotic state of their lives appalls her so much...
- 1/19/2010
- by Jette Kernion
- Cinematical
From trashing the Terminator to praising the baboon – here's a selection of the stories you chose as your favourite in 2009
Anything by Lucy Mangan, because of the hooting hilarity that invariably ensues (Wookey Hole wants to hire a witch. Well, I can cackle ... G2 shortcuts, 9 July) – Sadie Clifford, Stockport
The greatest named place in Britain is inviting applicants for possibly the country's greatest job – to become the modern-day counterpart to the legendary witch of Wookey Hole.
The Somerset caves have long been home to a witch turned to stone in the middle ages by a Benedictine monk with a flair for that kind of thing called Father Bernard. Now, however, the popular tourist attraction is in need of someone with a wider skill set than that possessed by the average vaguely person-shaped rocky outcropping, and is advertising for a living witch to take up residence in the caves at weekends,...
Anything by Lucy Mangan, because of the hooting hilarity that invariably ensues (Wookey Hole wants to hire a witch. Well, I can cackle ... G2 shortcuts, 9 July) – Sadie Clifford, Stockport
The greatest named place in Britain is inviting applicants for possibly the country's greatest job – to become the modern-day counterpart to the legendary witch of Wookey Hole.
The Somerset caves have long been home to a witch turned to stone in the middle ages by a Benedictine monk with a flair for that kind of thing called Father Bernard. Now, however, the popular tourist attraction is in need of someone with a wider skill set than that possessed by the average vaguely person-shaped rocky outcropping, and is advertising for a living witch to take up residence in the caves at weekends,...
- 12/29/2009
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The third week of the 12th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center is nearly upon us and we’re back to give you an idea of what to expect in the second half of arguably the best fest in the Windy City. We feature great new films from Ireland, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
- 3/18/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Kate Beckinsale is "a little bit of a genius," according to Nothing but the Truth writer-director Rod Lurie. Known for crafting fiercely intelligent female characters in films such as The Contender and on ABC's Commander in Chief, Lurie was unprepared for just how prepared Beckinsale was on the first day of Truth's five-week shoot. "Kate's rather remarkable because she will come on any day and the script pages will be covered in notes," he says. "From every point of view, she has consulted with people that are experts in the field. There was almost nothing to tell her." Genius might not be the first word that comes to mind upon seeing the stunning Beckinsale as a leather-clad bloodsucking warrior in the Underworld series, a sword-swinging vampire killer in Van Helsing, or the innocent Hero in her breakthrough film, Much Ado About Nothing. But even in a bodysuit that leaves little to fanboys' imaginations,...
- 12/11/2008
- by Lauren Horwitch
- backstage.com
The AP is reporting that director John Schlesinger has passed away at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California. Mr. Schlesinger was 77. Schlesinger was born in 1926 and spent the early part of his career as a bit actor. He then made a successful move behind the lens, becoming one of the "angry young men" associated with the Kitchen Sink school of British filmmaking, along with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. Schlesinger crafted the well-received Billy Liar, Darling, and Far from the Madding Crowd before making the film that brought him to prominence in America, Midnight Cowboy. Cowboy, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards®, remains the only X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture; it also garnered Schlesinger the Best Director nod, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay for Waldo Salt. Schlesinger never equaled the critical and popular success of Cowboy though he continued to make quality films over the years such as the violent thriller Marathon Man, the creepy suspense/horror film The Believers and the sublime satire Cold Comfort Farm. Schlesinger had suffered a debilitating heart attack in 2000 which led to declining health. He was removed from life support yesterday (Thursday, 7/24). Schlesinger lived the last 30 years in Palm Springs with his companion, photographer Michael Childers. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 7/25/2003
- IMDb News
The AP is reporting that director John Schlesinger has passed away at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California. Mr. Schlesinger was 77. Schlesinger was born in 1926 and spent the early part of his career as a bit actor. He then made a successful move behind the lens, becoming one of the "angry young men" associated with the Kitchen Sink school of British filmmaking, along with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. Schlesinger crafted the well-received Billy Liar, Darling, and Far from the Madding Crowd before making the film that brought him to prominence in America, Midnight Cowboy. Cowboy, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards®, remains the only X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture; it also garnered Schlesinger the Best Director nod, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay for Waldo Salt. Schlesinger never equaled the critical and popular success of Cowboy though he continued to make quality films over the years such as the violent thriller Marathon Man, the creepy suspense/horror film The Believers and the sublime satire Cold Comfort Farm. Schlesinger had suffered a debilitating heart attack in 2000 which led to declining health. He was removed from life support yesterday (Thursday, 7/24). Schlesinger lived the last 30 years in Palm Springs with his companion, photographer Michael Childers. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 7/25/2003
- WENN
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