You may have missed this amid all the Breaking Dawn noise, but there is another beautiful book adaptation hitting theaters this weekend that we’re very excited about — maybe you can make it a double feature? Anna Karenina marks the third collaboration between Keira Knightley and director Joe Wright, after their acclaimed work together in Atonement and Pride and Prejudice. It’s also about the thousandth time a director has chosen to cast Keira in a movie set in another time/far-off place, usually in the past, with the exception of Star Wars: Episode I. Early in her career, she appeared in TV adaptations of Oliver Twist and Doctor Zhivago. More recently, she’s worn all sorts of corsets and headpieces for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, A Dangerous Method and The Duchess. After looking through this collection of work, we turned to Wright to explain what it...
- 11/15/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
As an actor in Lost, he was watched worldwide. As a child, he was a 'black Oliver Twist', farmed out for fostering to a white family. Now Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is making a film of his extraordinary life story
The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it's worth mastering because we're likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who was killed by the Man in Black, otherwise known as the Monster. Or perhaps not.
Some will know him as Simon Adebisi, the intimidating African convict in the cult HBO prison series Oz; others may recognise his contributions to films such as Congo and The Bourne Identity; and no doubt his role as an American spy...
The name Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is not one that slips easily off the tongue but it's worth mastering because we're likely to be hearing a lot more of it in the future. Followers of the wilfully perplexing American fantasy series Lost may recall its owner as Mr Eko, the former drug lord turned fake priest who was killed by the Man in Black, otherwise known as the Monster. Or perhaps not.
Some will know him as Simon Adebisi, the intimidating African convict in the cult HBO prison series Oz; others may recognise his contributions to films such as Congo and The Bourne Identity; and no doubt his role as an American spy...
- 5/12/2012
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Cottesloe, London
An air of mystery surrounds any new Mike Leigh project. Like a dedicated scientist, he works behind closed doors researching with his chosen team: his latest experiment didn't even have a name until a few days ago.
And, while it doesn't disappoint in its exploration of the hermetic strangeness of English family life, it lacks the richness of texture of Leigh's finest work for stage and film.
Criticism inevitably spoils the surprise of a play in which information seeps out gradually. But it's fair to reveal that we are in London's south-west suburbs in the late 1950s and that the focus is on a family of three.
Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum. Her brother, Edwin, has worked for the same city insurance...
An air of mystery surrounds any new Mike Leigh project. Like a dedicated scientist, he works behind closed doors researching with his chosen team: his latest experiment didn't even have a name until a few days ago.
And, while it doesn't disappoint in its exploration of the hermetic strangeness of English family life, it lacks the richness of texture of Leigh's finest work for stage and film.
Criticism inevitably spoils the surprise of a play in which information seeps out gradually. But it's fair to reveal that we are in London's south-west suburbs in the late 1950s and that the focus is on a family of three.
Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum. Her brother, Edwin, has worked for the same city insurance...
- 9/22/2011
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Having brought Gollum and King Kong to life, Andy Serkis was the obvious choice for a clever chimpanzee who leads a gang of imprisoned apes to freedom in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Although his character has little to say, there's already a buzz around his outstanding performance. Not to mention the film, which has topped the box office for two weeks in the States, has been the first UK release in a month to dethrone Harry Potter from the top spot.
The movie stars James Franco as Will Rodman, a scientist using apes to test a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease that's turned his father into a helpless old man. When a chimpanzee who's showing promising signs of advanced skills suddenly goes berserk and is put down, Will's left looking after its tiny baby, who he names Caesar.
Unbeknown to Will, the baby chimp's mum passed on...
Although his character has little to say, there's already a buzz around his outstanding performance. Not to mention the film, which has topped the box office for two weeks in the States, has been the first UK release in a month to dethrone Harry Potter from the top spot.
The movie stars James Franco as Will Rodman, a scientist using apes to test a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease that's turned his father into a helpless old man. When a chimpanzee who's showing promising signs of advanced skills suddenly goes berserk and is put down, Will's left looking after its tiny baby, who he names Caesar.
Unbeknown to Will, the baby chimp's mum passed on...
- 8/19/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Andy Serkis says he finds no difference between 'performance capture' and acting. We should take this as a grave warning
The lavish and reckless absurdity of the new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes will do nothing to restrain the cult of Andy Serkis. But nor will it help us negotiate the difference (and the profound resemblance) between what is now called "performance-capture technology" and the thing we once called acting. After all, moving film projected for an audience was, from the outset, a new technological power that recorded and preserved the look and gestures of actors for people who could not see them on stage. The studio we now think of as Paramount was once renowned for distributing rather limited prints of "Famous Players".
What Serkis has been pioneering for a few years now is nothing I understand fully in a technological sense. But it is something...
The lavish and reckless absurdity of the new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes will do nothing to restrain the cult of Andy Serkis. But nor will it help us negotiate the difference (and the profound resemblance) between what is now called "performance-capture technology" and the thing we once called acting. After all, moving film projected for an audience was, from the outset, a new technological power that recorded and preserved the look and gestures of actors for people who could not see them on stage. The studio we now think of as Paramount was once renowned for distributing rather limited prints of "Famous Players".
What Serkis has been pioneering for a few years now is nothing I understand fully in a technological sense. But it is something...
- 8/11/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
This week, HeyUGuys were lucky enough to be invited to the May Fair hotel in London for the premiere of British gangster flick Jack Falls. The concluding part of a trilogy, the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray this Monday.
Adapted from the graphic novels written by Paul Tanter (who makes his directorial debut here) it’s a visually ambitious film with a narrative scope which clearly extends beyond its modest budget.
Before the screening, we had the opportunity to chat to some of the figures from behind and in front of the camera (and in some cases, both).
Co- star Alan Ford (aka Bricktop in Snatch) on why the Brit’s love the gangster genre:
It’s nothing new. People have always liked the villains from that type of world, going right back to Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist.
Does he ever tire of being offered roles as the bad guy?...
Adapted from the graphic novels written by Paul Tanter (who makes his directorial debut here) it’s a visually ambitious film with a narrative scope which clearly extends beyond its modest budget.
Before the screening, we had the opportunity to chat to some of the figures from behind and in front of the camera (and in some cases, both).
Co- star Alan Ford (aka Bricktop in Snatch) on why the Brit’s love the gangster genre:
It’s nothing new. People have always liked the villains from that type of world, going right back to Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist.
Does he ever tire of being offered roles as the bad guy?...
- 3/18/2011
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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