We’ve been waiting a while for fresh footage from Interview With The Vampire director Neil Jordan’s latest stab at the genre Byzantium, and now here comes the trailer for the film courtesy of Yahoo. Take a look below. Byzantium is the story of Clara (Gemma Arterton) and Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan), who show up and seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets the lonely Noel (Daniel Mays), who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse. Eleanor, who appears to be 16, goes to school and befriends Frank (Caleb Landry Jones), a sickly classmate.Despite the pact of silence shared by the pair, Eleanor reveals their lethal secret: they’re vampires, born 200 years ago and surviving on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequences.With a cast that also includes Sam Riley, Tom Hollander and Barry Cassin, Byzantium explores the...
- 4/16/2013
- EmpireOnline
While his novels, including "The Commitments" and "The Snapper", have made the page-to-screen transition with a generally high degree of success, Ireland's Roddy Doyle has decided to try an original screenplay on for size, and the resulting "When Brendan Met Trudy" is extremely amusing if admittedly slight entertainment.
The story of a disengaged schoolteacher whose main passions in life are films (as opposed to movies) and singing in the local choir -- that is, until he encounters a spirited lass with a fierce lust for life and a shady vocation -- the picture is populated with the sort of lovable but loopy characters that are a hallmark of Doyle's Barrytown trilogy.
But in the hands of television director Kieron J. Walsh, making his feature debut, the requisite tone -- handled so precisely by Alan Parker ("Commitments") and Stephen Frears ("Snapper") -- bounces all over the place with a frantic eagerness to please.
Attention-deficit difficulties aside, this Shooting Gallery series entry has much to enjoy, particularly the performances of its cast of true characters.
After effectively setting the cinema literate scene with a clever goof on Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", Doyle and Walsh waste little time in bringing together the deadpan Brendan (Peter McDonald) and the dynamic Trudy (Flora Montgomery).
It would at first seem like an unlikely pairing, and while introverted Brendan's endless "film buffery" starts getting on Trudy's nerves, she's still tickled by the fact that most guys in Dublin wouldn't be caught dead crooning the somber Panis Angelicus in the middle of a crowded pub. With Trudy, meanwhile, a breathless Brendan believes he has found the Jean Seberg to his dormant Jean-Paul Belmondo alter ego.
When it appears that Trudy isn't the Montessori schoolteacher she professes to be, he reluctantly but willingly agrees to go on what will become a wild ride.
Although the character motivations and plot developments aren't always convincing, even minor Doyle still has it over most of the competition. The generous movie references -- also including "The Quiet Man", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Searchers", "The Producers" and "The African Queen" -- are a guilty pleasure. And the more up-to-date pop-culture references and quirky personalities -- among them Brendan's casually cussing mother (Marie Mullen) and a stern headmaster (Barry Cassin) who sings the virtues of Iggy Pop -- are responsible for some sparkling satire.
Anchoring it all as best they can are McDonald and, particularly, the spunky Montgomery, who manage to generate a convincing chemistry even when some of the scripting and direction fail to do likewise.
Behind-the-scenes contributions are bright and energetic, with production designer Fiona Daly and costume designer Consolata Boyle making the most of all that film buffery.
WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY
Shooting Gallery
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Producer: Lynda Myles
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Mike Phillips, Rod Stoneman, Clare Duignan
Screenwriter: Roddy Doyle
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe
Production designer: Fiona Daly
Editor: Scott Thomas
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brendan: Peter McDonald
Trudy: Flora Montgomery
Nuala: Pauline McLynn
Mother: Marie Mullen
Edgar: Maynard Eziashi
Headmaster: Barry Cassin
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The story of a disengaged schoolteacher whose main passions in life are films (as opposed to movies) and singing in the local choir -- that is, until he encounters a spirited lass with a fierce lust for life and a shady vocation -- the picture is populated with the sort of lovable but loopy characters that are a hallmark of Doyle's Barrytown trilogy.
But in the hands of television director Kieron J. Walsh, making his feature debut, the requisite tone -- handled so precisely by Alan Parker ("Commitments") and Stephen Frears ("Snapper") -- bounces all over the place with a frantic eagerness to please.
Attention-deficit difficulties aside, this Shooting Gallery series entry has much to enjoy, particularly the performances of its cast of true characters.
After effectively setting the cinema literate scene with a clever goof on Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", Doyle and Walsh waste little time in bringing together the deadpan Brendan (Peter McDonald) and the dynamic Trudy (Flora Montgomery).
It would at first seem like an unlikely pairing, and while introverted Brendan's endless "film buffery" starts getting on Trudy's nerves, she's still tickled by the fact that most guys in Dublin wouldn't be caught dead crooning the somber Panis Angelicus in the middle of a crowded pub. With Trudy, meanwhile, a breathless Brendan believes he has found the Jean Seberg to his dormant Jean-Paul Belmondo alter ego.
When it appears that Trudy isn't the Montessori schoolteacher she professes to be, he reluctantly but willingly agrees to go on what will become a wild ride.
Although the character motivations and plot developments aren't always convincing, even minor Doyle still has it over most of the competition. The generous movie references -- also including "The Quiet Man", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Searchers", "The Producers" and "The African Queen" -- are a guilty pleasure. And the more up-to-date pop-culture references and quirky personalities -- among them Brendan's casually cussing mother (Marie Mullen) and a stern headmaster (Barry Cassin) who sings the virtues of Iggy Pop -- are responsible for some sparkling satire.
Anchoring it all as best they can are McDonald and, particularly, the spunky Montgomery, who manage to generate a convincing chemistry even when some of the scripting and direction fail to do likewise.
Behind-the-scenes contributions are bright and energetic, with production designer Fiona Daly and costume designer Consolata Boyle making the most of all that film buffery.
WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY
Shooting Gallery
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Producer: Lynda Myles
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Mike Phillips, Rod Stoneman, Clare Duignan
Screenwriter: Roddy Doyle
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe
Production designer: Fiona Daly
Editor: Scott Thomas
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brendan: Peter McDonald
Trudy: Flora Montgomery
Nuala: Pauline McLynn
Mother: Marie Mullen
Edgar: Maynard Eziashi
Headmaster: Barry Cassin
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
While his novels, including "The Commitments" and "The Snapper", have made the page-to-screen transition with a generally high degree of success, Ireland's Roddy Doyle has decided to try an original screenplay on for size, and the resulting "When Brendan Met Trudy" is extremely amusing if admittedly slight entertainment.
The story of a disengaged schoolteacher whose main passions in life are films (as opposed to movies) and singing in the local choir -- that is, until he encounters a spirited lass with a fierce lust for life and a shady vocation -- the picture is populated with the sort of lovable but loopy characters that are a hallmark of Doyle's Barrytown trilogy.
But in the hands of television director Kieron J. Walsh, making his feature debut, the requisite tone -- handled so precisely by Alan Parker ("Commitments") and Stephen Frears ("Snapper") -- bounces all over the place with a frantic eagerness to please.
Attention-deficit difficulties aside, this Shooting Gallery series entry has much to enjoy, particularly the performances of its cast of true characters.
After effectively setting the cinema literate scene with a clever goof on Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", Doyle and Walsh waste little time in bringing together the deadpan Brendan (Peter McDonald) and the dynamic Trudy (Flora Montgomery).
It would at first seem like an unlikely pairing, and while introverted Brendan's endless "film buffery" starts getting on Trudy's nerves, she's still tickled by the fact that most guys in Dublin wouldn't be caught dead crooning the somber Panis Angelicus in the middle of a crowded pub. With Trudy, meanwhile, a breathless Brendan believes he has found the Jean Seberg to his dormant Jean-Paul Belmondo alter ego.
When it appears that Trudy isn't the Montessori schoolteacher she professes to be, he reluctantly but willingly agrees to go on what will become a wild ride.
Although the character motivations and plot developments aren't always convincing, even minor Doyle still has it over most of the competition. The generous movie references -- also including "The Quiet Man", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Searchers", "The Producers" and "The African Queen" -- are a guilty pleasure. And the more up-to-date pop-culture references and quirky personalities -- among them Brendan's casually cussing mother (Marie Mullen) and a stern headmaster (Barry Cassin) who sings the virtues of Iggy Pop -- are responsible for some sparkling satire.
Anchoring it all as best they can are McDonald and, particularly, the spunky Montgomery, who manage to generate a convincing chemistry even when some of the scripting and direction fail to do likewise.
Behind-the-scenes contributions are bright and energetic, with production designer Fiona Daly and costume designer Consolata Boyle making the most of all that film buffery.
WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY
Shooting Gallery
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Producer: Lynda Myles
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Mike Phillips, Rod Stoneman, Clare Duignan
Screenwriter: Roddy Doyle
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe
Production designer: Fiona Daly
Editor: Scott Thomas
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brendan: Peter McDonald
Trudy: Flora Montgomery
Nuala: Pauline McLynn
Mother: Marie Mullen
Edgar: Maynard Eziashi
Headmaster: Barry Cassin
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The story of a disengaged schoolteacher whose main passions in life are films (as opposed to movies) and singing in the local choir -- that is, until he encounters a spirited lass with a fierce lust for life and a shady vocation -- the picture is populated with the sort of lovable but loopy characters that are a hallmark of Doyle's Barrytown trilogy.
But in the hands of television director Kieron J. Walsh, making his feature debut, the requisite tone -- handled so precisely by Alan Parker ("Commitments") and Stephen Frears ("Snapper") -- bounces all over the place with a frantic eagerness to please.
Attention-deficit difficulties aside, this Shooting Gallery series entry has much to enjoy, particularly the performances of its cast of true characters.
After effectively setting the cinema literate scene with a clever goof on Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", Doyle and Walsh waste little time in bringing together the deadpan Brendan (Peter McDonald) and the dynamic Trudy (Flora Montgomery).
It would at first seem like an unlikely pairing, and while introverted Brendan's endless "film buffery" starts getting on Trudy's nerves, she's still tickled by the fact that most guys in Dublin wouldn't be caught dead crooning the somber Panis Angelicus in the middle of a crowded pub. With Trudy, meanwhile, a breathless Brendan believes he has found the Jean Seberg to his dormant Jean-Paul Belmondo alter ego.
When it appears that Trudy isn't the Montessori schoolteacher she professes to be, he reluctantly but willingly agrees to go on what will become a wild ride.
Although the character motivations and plot developments aren't always convincing, even minor Doyle still has it over most of the competition. The generous movie references -- also including "The Quiet Man", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Searchers", "The Producers" and "The African Queen" -- are a guilty pleasure. And the more up-to-date pop-culture references and quirky personalities -- among them Brendan's casually cussing mother (Marie Mullen) and a stern headmaster (Barry Cassin) who sings the virtues of Iggy Pop -- are responsible for some sparkling satire.
Anchoring it all as best they can are McDonald and, particularly, the spunky Montgomery, who manage to generate a convincing chemistry even when some of the scripting and direction fail to do likewise.
Behind-the-scenes contributions are bright and energetic, with production designer Fiona Daly and costume designer Consolata Boyle making the most of all that film buffery.
WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY
Shooting Gallery
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Producer: Lynda Myles
Executive producers: David M. Thompson, Mike Phillips, Rod Stoneman, Clare Duignan
Screenwriter: Roddy Doyle
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe
Production designer: Fiona Daly
Editor: Scott Thomas
Costume designer: Consolata Boyle
Color/stereo
Cast:
Brendan: Peter McDonald
Trudy: Flora Montgomery
Nuala: Pauline McLynn
Mother: Marie Mullen
Edgar: Maynard Eziashi
Headmaster: Barry Cassin
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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