Executive producer David Fincher is now attached to a big screen biopic focusing on Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange. Screenplay is by Angela Workman ("Brontë"), for director Leslie Dektor.
Lange was an influential American photographer/photojournalist, noted for her work for the "Farm Security Administration". Her photographs humanized the consequences of the 'Great Depression' while influencing the development of documentary photography.
Stricken with polio as a child, Lange was educated in photography in New York City, then informally apprenticed to New York photography studios. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, opening a portrait studio and in 1920, married western painter Maynard Dixon.
With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange focused her camera lens on unemployed and homeless people, capturing the attention of local photographers and leading to her employment with the federal Fsa.
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Lange was an influential American photographer/photojournalist, noted for her work for the "Farm Security Administration". Her photographs humanized the consequences of the 'Great Depression' while influencing the development of documentary photography.
Stricken with polio as a child, Lange was educated in photography in New York City, then informally apprenticed to New York photography studios. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, opening a portrait studio and in 1920, married western painter Maynard Dixon.
With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange focused her camera lens on unemployed and homeless people, capturing the attention of local photographers and leading to her employment with the federal Fsa.
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- 8/1/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
David Fincher will lend his support as producer to a biopic charting the life of Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange. Fincher is currently in post-production on his version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but he will exec produce the project, while David B. Ginsberg (Get Low) produces. Angela Workman (the writer behind the upcoming Brontë) is currently scribbling away at the script, with documentary maker Leslie Dektor set to direct. Lange was born in New Jersey in 1895, and went on to become one of the most prominent...
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- 7/31/2011
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
The cast for Oliver Parker's upcoming drama "Dorian Gray" is growing, and one of the latest to jump on board the project is Rebecca Hall, according to Variety.
Based on the classic Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story centers on a young man (played by Ben Barnes) who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man embarks a quest for pleasure in life, the painting begins to morph and age.
Also starring in the adaptation is Colin Firth, who plays a ruthless aristocrat corrupting the titular character with his worldview. Ben Chaplin, Max Irons, Fiona Shaw and Emilia Fox co-star, among others.
Hall recently starred in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige." She will next be seen alongside Scarlett Johansson in Woddy Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Other upcoming projects include Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon" and Charles Sturridge's "Brontë."...
Based on the classic Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story centers on a young man (played by Ben Barnes) who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man embarks a quest for pleasure in life, the painting begins to morph and age.
Also starring in the adaptation is Colin Firth, who plays a ruthless aristocrat corrupting the titular character with his worldview. Ben Chaplin, Max Irons, Fiona Shaw and Emilia Fox co-star, among others.
Hall recently starred in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige." She will next be seen alongside Scarlett Johansson in Woddy Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Other upcoming projects include Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon" and Charles Sturridge's "Brontë."...
- 8/7/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Brokeback Mountain costar Michelle Williams is scaling to new heights. According to Production Weekly, the Oscar-nominated actress has agreed to take on the title role in the upcoming biopic Bronte. She joins Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Imelda Staunton, Brian Cox and Ben Chaplin in the British production from writer-director Angela Workman. The film tells the life story of Jane Eyre author Charlotte Brontë, who struggled to rise above the strict social confines of Victorian England. Shooting is expected to begin later this year.
- 5/11/2006
- IMDbPro News
LONDON -- U.K.-based production and financing company Random Harvest has signed Marleen Gorris, director of the foreign-language Oscar-winning Antonia's Line, to shoot Bronte, the company said Thursday. Random Harvest said it picked up the screenplay from DreamWorks SKG for an undisclosed sum after the studio put it in turnaround. No cast has been signed for Bronte, which follows the story of the three Bronte sisters -- Charlotte, Emily and Ann -- who between them wrote several English classics including Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre. The project, currently in development, will be produced under the company's production label Random Harvest Pictures and is set to begin shooting in the fall.
- 3/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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