Get ready to meet Hollywood’s new heartthrob.
21-year-old British actor/model Hero Fiennes Tiffin is starring in After as Hardin Scott, a mysterious and sulking senior who catches the attention of innocent freshman Tessa Young, played by Josephine Langford. And his performance is bound to get some hearts beating when the movie opens in theaters on Friday.
Though some fans might recognize the movie due to its connection with One Direction and Harry Styles — the story was originally written as fan-fiction with Styles as the main character then later evolved into Hardin — After takes Hardin in a different direction...
21-year-old British actor/model Hero Fiennes Tiffin is starring in After as Hardin Scott, a mysterious and sulking senior who catches the attention of innocent freshman Tessa Young, played by Josephine Langford. And his performance is bound to get some hearts beating when the movie opens in theaters on Friday.
Though some fans might recognize the movie due to its connection with One Direction and Harry Styles — the story was originally written as fan-fiction with Styles as the main character then later evolved into Hardin — After takes Hardin in a different direction...
- 4/11/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Prince Harry's ex is moving on in a big way. After scoring an enviable fashion gig with Mulberry and a role in a high-profile film alongside Judi Dench, Cressida Bonas's star is rising further - as Miss Vogue's latest cover girl. "In real life I'm often so shy - paralyzingly so," the 26-year-old aristocrat says in the magazine's April edition (a supplement to the main issue of British Vogue). "But when I'm performing, it's totally different - I feel free." As if to prove the point, Bonas dances carefree through the streets of London, in a casual Breton-style top and leggings,...
- 3/12/2015
- by Monique Jessen, @moniquejessen
- PEOPLE.com
Prince Harry's ex is moving on in a big way. After scoring an enviable fashion gig with Mulberry and a role in a high-profile film alongside Judi Dench, Cressida Bonas's star is rising further - as Miss Vogue's latest cover girl. "In real life I'm often so shy - paralyzingly so," the 26-year-old aristocrat says in the magazine's April edition (a supplement to the main issue of British Vogue). "But when I'm performing, it's totally different - I feel free." As if to prove the point, Bonas dances carefree through the streets of London, in a casual Breton-style top and leggings,...
- 3/12/2015
- by Monique Jessen, @moniquejessen
- PEOPLE.com
It’s been a couple years since they battled on screen in what became a huge blockbuster, 2010's "Clash of the Titans." Now, real-life friends Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes are reprising their roles as Greek gods in "Wrath of the Titans." Neeson plays Zeus, king of the gods; Fiennes is Hades, his brother and god of the underworld.
These two acting giants first matched wits (and handsomeness) in "Schindler’s List," which scored them a ream of awards nominations and established both as leading men to be reckoned with.
Both were born citizens of the British Empire. Each has taken a different path in film stardom of late, with Neeson known for his recent man-on-a-mission roles and Fiennes renowned for his villainous turn as Lord Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" series.
You might think the 6'4" Neeson would come out on top in a matchup with the 6-foot Fiennes.
These two acting giants first matched wits (and handsomeness) in "Schindler’s List," which scored them a ream of awards nominations and established both as leading men to be reckoned with.
Both were born citizens of the British Empire. Each has taken a different path in film stardom of late, with Neeson known for his recent man-on-a-mission roles and Fiennes renowned for his villainous turn as Lord Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" series.
You might think the 6'4" Neeson would come out on top in a matchup with the 6-foot Fiennes.
- 3/28/2012
- by Hillary Atkin
- NextMovie
Film-maker Martha Fiennes's new work, Nativity, has a soundtrack composed by her brother Magnus. They talk about their bohemian upbringing as two of six siblings and the unusual creative bond they share
'I actually think Magnus is a genius," says Martha Fiennes, of her younger brother. "I really do, I've said it to other people and they've said 'Yeah, I think he is'. I'm chucking stuff out barely finished, but Magnus is picking up on it; I think he tunes into a frequency. What Magnus has done is so completely brilliant. Handel wrote The Messiah in 12 days, I understand, and Magnus has done exactly the same."
She is talking about the soundtrack that Magnus has created for her first digital installation, Nativity, on display for the Christmas season in a specially constructed chalet in Covent Garden piazza, in London. In fact, Handel is thought to have spent 24 days on his oratorio,...
'I actually think Magnus is a genius," says Martha Fiennes, of her younger brother. "I really do, I've said it to other people and they've said 'Yeah, I think he is'. I'm chucking stuff out barely finished, but Magnus is picking up on it; I think he tunes into a frequency. What Magnus has done is so completely brilliant. Handel wrote The Messiah in 12 days, I understand, and Magnus has done exactly the same."
She is talking about the soundtrack that Magnus has created for her first digital installation, Nativity, on display for the Christmas season in a specially constructed chalet in Covent Garden piazza, in London. In fact, Handel is thought to have spent 24 days on his oratorio,...
- 12/3/2011
- by Susanna Rustin
- The Guardian - Film News
The filmmaker sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes is engaged to marry.
Martha Fiennes is to exchange vows again, just 10 months after the breakdown of her relationship to fellow director George Tiffin, the father of her three kids.
The Brit is planning a New Year wedding with her new partner, Syrian-born hedge fund tycoon Issam Kabbani.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "It'll be in the New Year and because Issam is based a lot in Switzerland we're hoping to have ceremonies in London and Geneva."...
Martha Fiennes is to exchange vows again, just 10 months after the breakdown of her relationship to fellow director George Tiffin, the father of her three kids.
The Brit is planning a New Year wedding with her new partner, Syrian-born hedge fund tycoon Issam Kabbani.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "It'll be in the New Year and because Issam is based a lot in Switzerland we're hoping to have ceremonies in London and Geneva."...
- 11/22/2011
- WENN
Oscar-winning editor Jim Clark's hilarious memoir offers valuable insights into an often overlooked aspect of cinema
Numerous directors and a fair number of cinematographers have written autobiographies, but although there are useful books on the art and craft and editing, the only memoir I've come across by a film editor is the eye-opening When the Shooting Stops... the Cutting Begins by Ralph Rosenblum, the New York editor who saved Mel Brooks's The Producers and Woody Allen's Annie Hall from catastrophe. It appeared in 1979, and towards the end of it Rosenblum says of his trade: "The profession selects in favour of caution, timidity, self-abnegation, tact, 'a diplomacy', says British editor James Clark, 'which would normally put us straight into parliament'." Now in retirement, Jim Clark has put aside his diplomacy to write a revealing, funny, devastatingly frank account of a lifetime spent editing film.
Unlike many people in films,...
Numerous directors and a fair number of cinematographers have written autobiographies, but although there are useful books on the art and craft and editing, the only memoir I've come across by a film editor is the eye-opening When the Shooting Stops... the Cutting Begins by Ralph Rosenblum, the New York editor who saved Mel Brooks's The Producers and Woody Allen's Annie Hall from catastrophe. It appeared in 1979, and towards the end of it Rosenblum says of his trade: "The profession selects in favour of caution, timidity, self-abnegation, tact, 'a diplomacy', says British editor James Clark, 'which would normally put us straight into parliament'." Now in retirement, Jim Clark has put aside his diplomacy to write a revealing, funny, devastatingly frank account of a lifetime spent editing film.
Unlike many people in films,...
- 7/28/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Ralph Fiennes is in talks to star in an adaptation of Russian author Ivan Turgenev’s 1872 play "A Month In The Country" for Horosho Production reports Screen Daily.
Despite the play's age, this would mark its first adaptation for the cinema. Fiennes has met with producer Natalia Ivanova and discussed the possibility of him playing Rakitin, the devoted, but resentful admirer of a rich landowner’s wife.
Fiennes has apparently said that he would even be prepared to learn Russian for the part. Fiennes previously starred in another cinematic adaptation of a Russian classic - Martha Fiennes’ 1999 film "Onegin" which was based on Alexander Pushkin’s epic verse novel.
Despite the play's age, this would mark its first adaptation for the cinema. Fiennes has met with producer Natalia Ivanova and discussed the possibility of him playing Rakitin, the devoted, but resentful admirer of a rich landowner’s wife.
Fiennes has apparently said that he would even be prepared to learn Russian for the part. Fiennes previously starred in another cinematic adaptation of a Russian classic - Martha Fiennes’ 1999 film "Onegin" which was based on Alexander Pushkin’s epic verse novel.
- 7/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Filmmaker Martha Fiennes has split from her longterm partner, cinematographer George Tiffin, after over 20 years together. The Onegin director, who is the sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, has three children with Tiffin - including son, Hero, who starred in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", and daughter, Mercy, who starred alongside Keira Knightley in "The Duchess".
Last year, Fiennes admitted she "would love to get married", but Tiffin was strongly against the idea. Now the pair has split - and Fiennes is already dating again.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Very simply, we have mutually parted ways. Yes, I am with someone else - a Swiss-Arab businessman."...
Last year, Fiennes admitted she "would love to get married", but Tiffin was strongly against the idea. Now the pair has split - and Fiennes is already dating again.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Very simply, we have mutually parted ways. Yes, I am with someone else - a Swiss-Arab businessman."...
- 1/7/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Filmmaker Martha Fiennes has split from her longterm partner, cinematographer George Tiffin, after over 20 years together.
The Onegin director, who is the sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, has three children with Tiffin - including son, Hero, who starred in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and daughter, Mercy, who starred alongside Keira Knightley in The Duchess.
Last year, Fiennes admitted she "would love to get married", but Tiffin was strongly against the idea.
Now the pair has split - and Fiennes is already dating again.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Very simply, we have mutually parted ways. Yes, I am with someone else - a Swiss-Arab businessman."...
The Onegin director, who is the sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, has three children with Tiffin - including son, Hero, who starred in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and daughter, Mercy, who starred alongside Keira Knightley in The Duchess.
Last year, Fiennes admitted she "would love to get married", but Tiffin was strongly against the idea.
Now the pair has split - and Fiennes is already dating again.
She tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Very simply, we have mutually parted ways. Yes, I am with someone else - a Swiss-Arab businessman."...
- 1/7/2011
- WENN
Fern Champion on Cameron DiazWe were working at New Line, casting 1994's "The Mask." The story that everybody knows now is that Anna Nicole Smith was the first choice because the men at New Line thought she was stunning. Didn't say she could walk and talk, but she was stunning. We needed someone to talk. The good news is Anna Nicole opted to do "Naked Gun 33 1/3." Oh, too bad. So Fern's back to the drawing board. I'm at my wit's end, because we had gone through all the top models and all the top actors, and nobody was pleasing New Line co-ceo Bob Shaye, executive producer Mike De Luca, and director and executive producer Chuck Russell.I called my girlfriend at the talent agency upstairs at the New Line building, and I said, "Is there anybody we haven't seen?" She said, "I have to tell you something: There's one gal; she hasn't done any acting.
- 7/7/2010
- backstage.com
A couple of noteworthy revelations in the interesting below 8-minute conversation between the BBC’s Marc Cole, Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu (above-right, director of much talked-about sci-fi short, Pumzi), and Brit filmmaker Martha Fiennes. The focus is on women filmmakers; however, both guests (both women) dropped little nuggets worth sharing here.
First, Wandiru’s short film, Pumzi, which has received mucho pub on this blog since we were first made aware of it, will be screening at next month’s New York African Film Festival. I checked the festival’s website, but it hasn’t been updated with 2010 listings; however, I hope that’s rectified soon enough. And since I live in New York, you can be sure that I’ll make every effort to see it, along with the festival’s other offerings.
Secondly, Martha Fiennes talks about a thriller, titled Blown, that she’s been trying to get produced for some time,...
First, Wandiru’s short film, Pumzi, which has received mucho pub on this blog since we were first made aware of it, will be screening at next month’s New York African Film Festival. I checked the festival’s website, but it hasn’t been updated with 2010 listings; however, I hope that’s rectified soon enough. And since I live in New York, you can be sure that I’ll make every effort to see it, along with the festival’s other offerings.
Secondly, Martha Fiennes talks about a thriller, titled Blown, that she’s been trying to get produced for some time,...
- 3/15/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Joseph Fiennes' wife Maria Dolores Dieguez gave birth to a baby daughter. The British actor and his spouse are celebrating after the model had a baby girl - whose name has not yet been revealed - on Monday (08.03.10), just seven months after they married in Tuscany, Italy, last August. The couple are said to be thrilled with the new arrival. Family life is very important to the 39-year-old star - who is currently living in Los Angeles whilst he works on sci-fi TV series 'FlashForward'. The British hunk has six siblings, actor brother Ralph Fiennes, composer Magnus Fiennes, twin brother Jacob Fiennes, filmmaker sisters Sophie and Martha Fiennes and foster brother Michael Emery. He said: "We're very close. Luckily...
- 3/11/2010
- Monsters and Critics
London -- Drew Barrymore's directorial debut "Whip It" is one of seven fictional movies in the lineup for this year's Birds Eye View Festival, an event dreamt up by women and designed to celebrate international female filmmakers.
Barrymore's movie, starring herself, Ellen Page and Juliette Lewis as roller derby girls will skate alongside Jessica Hausner's Golden Lion nominee "Lourdes" and Kim Longinotto's documentary "Rough Aunties" -- grand jury prize winner at last year's Sundance.
The event will also include a retrospective and masterclass from 2006 Oscar nominated Danish director Susanne Bier ("After The Wedding") whose film "Brothers" has had a Lionsgate-backed facelift with Jim Sheridan and starring Natalie Portman among the cast.
Other highlights include a strand of fashion films including work by Ruth Hogben and Wendy Bevan and the launch of an Animation Lab with Lotte Reineger's "The Adventure of Prince Achmed" -- claimed to be the...
Barrymore's movie, starring herself, Ellen Page and Juliette Lewis as roller derby girls will skate alongside Jessica Hausner's Golden Lion nominee "Lourdes" and Kim Longinotto's documentary "Rough Aunties" -- grand jury prize winner at last year's Sundance.
The event will also include a retrospective and masterclass from 2006 Oscar nominated Danish director Susanne Bier ("After The Wedding") whose film "Brothers" has had a Lionsgate-backed facelift with Jim Sheridan and starring Natalie Portman among the cast.
Other highlights include a strand of fashion films including work by Ruth Hogben and Wendy Bevan and the launch of an Animation Lab with Lotte Reineger's "The Adventure of Prince Achmed" -- claimed to be the...
- 1/20/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London -- Composer Michael Nyman is making edited tracks of "The Embrace" and "Lost and Found" from his score to "The Piano" available to a group of short filmmakers.
The tracks are being made available for use in shorts made by members of Shooting People, a networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking.
Nyman will be one of the judges in the organization's June film of the month competition and said he will be looking for the most creative and original use of his soundtrack when picking a winner.
Members who use the track and upload the resulting film to Shooting People by Aug. 12, will have a chance to win a personal endorsement from Nyman, as well as a Final Cut Pro training package from the Frontline Club.
Previous judges have included Mike Figgis, Morgan Spurlock, Stuart Beattie, Martha Fiennes and Vincent Moon.
The tracks are being made available for use in shorts made by members of Shooting People, a networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking.
Nyman will be one of the judges in the organization's June film of the month competition and said he will be looking for the most creative and original use of his soundtrack when picking a winner.
Members who use the track and upload the resulting film to Shooting People by Aug. 12, will have a chance to win a personal endorsement from Nyman, as well as a Final Cut Pro training package from the Frontline Club.
Previous judges have included Mike Figgis, Morgan Spurlock, Stuart Beattie, Martha Fiennes and Vincent Moon.
- 6/2/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jim Caviezel, the guy who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, will attempt to stop Samuel L. Jackson, the guy who is in 70% of films made today, from destroying London in the espionage thriller Blown, according to THR. Martha Fiennes' film centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global…
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- 11/12/2008
- by Liam
- Filmonic.com
Jim Caviezel is joining Samuel L. Jackson in Martha Fiennes’ upcoming thriller “Blown.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Caviezel plays Will Matlock, an MI5 agent whose latest investigation leads him to an imminent terrorist attack.
Jackson will play Julian Lezard, a businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
Fiennes is directing a script by her husband, George Tiffin.
Caviezel, who is known for his role as Jesus in “The Passion of Christ,” recently starred in “Deja Vu.”
Jackson is currently onscreen in “Soul Men.” He will next be seen as The Octopus in “The Spirit.”...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Caviezel plays Will Matlock, an MI5 agent whose latest investigation leads him to an imminent terrorist attack.
Jackson will play Julian Lezard, a businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
Fiennes is directing a script by her husband, George Tiffin.
Caviezel, who is known for his role as Jesus in “The Passion of Christ,” recently starred in “Deja Vu.”
Jackson is currently onscreen in “Soul Men.” He will next be seen as The Octopus in “The Spirit.”...
- 11/12/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Jim Caviezel and Samuel L. Jackson will face off against one another in the espionage thriller Blown. The film centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack. Jackson will play Julian Lezard, the businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception. Martha Fiennes is directing the flick from a screenplay by her husband, George Tiffin. Tiffin will also handle cinematography. U.K.-based Intandem Films is producing Blown, which is in preproduction and eyeing a 2009 release. Shani Hinton, Gareth Wiley (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Fiennes and Tiffin are producing.
- 11/12/2008
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Jim Caviezel is matching wits with Samuel L. Jackson in Blown, an espionage thriller from director Martha Fiennes. Hmm, so it's the former Jesus Christ against the former Jedi Master Mace Windu - it's a battle of the religious icons!This time, however, Caviezel plays a crack MI5 operative who discovers evidence of an imminent terrorist attack on London while engaged in a routine investigation of a global corporation. Jackson will play businessman Julian Lezard, who engages the spy in a "high-stakes game of wit and deception". Well, with a name like "Lezard" he was never going to be a good guy, was he?*Fiennes, who last directed Chromophobia, is in the director's chair and also producing, while her husband George Tiffin wrote the script. This puts her other planned project, Mata Hari, presumably on the back burner until this one is complete.*Apologies to any doctors / missionaries / charity workers...
- 11/12/2008
- EmpireOnline
Samuel L. Jackson has met his match with Jim Caviezel, who will co-star with him in the espionage thriller Blown.
Jim Caviezel Blown
Directed by Martha Fiennes, Blown centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack. Jackson will play Julian Lezard, the businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
Jim Caviezel Blown
Directed by Martha Fiennes, Blown centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack. Jackson will play Julian Lezard, the businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
- 11/12/2008
- www.canmag.com
Jim Caviezel and Samuel L Jackson have snagged the leads in Martha Fiennes’ Blown. The plot, according to The Hollywood Reporter, finds Caviezel’s ace MI5 officer who uncovers an imminent terrorist attack while investigating a corporation. Seems the company’s top man – Jackson as Julian Lezard is behind a plot to destroy London, and Caviezel will have to match wits with him to stop it. Keeping it in the family The film will be a family affair for Fiennes – her husband George Tiffin wrote the screenplay and... .
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- 11/12/2008
- by jwhite
- TotalFilm
Jim Caviezel will attempt to stop Samuel L. Jackson from destroying London in the espionage thriller "Blown."
Martha Fiennes' film centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack. Jackson will play Julian Lezard, the businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
Caviezel ("The Passion of the Christ") is repped by Icm.
U.K.-based Intandem Films is producing and handling Afm presales on "Blown," which is in preproduction. Shani Hinton, Gareth Wiley, Fiennes and Tiffin are producing. Fiennes' husband George Tiffin wrote the sctipt and will handle cinematography.
Martha Fiennes' film centers on Will Matlock (Caviezel), a top MI5 operative whose routine investigation of a global corporation leads him to discover an imminent terrorist attack. Jackson will play Julian Lezard, the businessman who engages him in a high-stakes game of wits and deception.
Caviezel ("The Passion of the Christ") is repped by Icm.
U.K.-based Intandem Films is producing and handling Afm presales on "Blown," which is in preproduction. Shani Hinton, Gareth Wiley, Fiennes and Tiffin are producing. Fiennes' husband George Tiffin wrote the sctipt and will handle cinematography.
- 11/12/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- With the precision of a sharp, cold surgical knife, Martha Fiennes dissects her characters in Chromophobia. Save for one sentimental subplot, the writer-director clearly doesn't care for these people very much. Nor is there much reason for viewers to care, either. The strangely chilly melodrama-cum-satire made an odd choice for the closing night film at the Festival de Cannes. Its strong cast probably ensures North American distributor interest, but this misanthropic take on neurotics in the British professional class will certainly challenge marketers.
The married couple around whom subplots swirl is fast-rising attorney Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis), the son of a distinguished judge (Ian Holm), and his anxious wife Iona (Kristen Scott Thomas). Having been made a partner in a powerful London law firm, Marcus finds himself drawn into an illegal scheme by his boss. Meanwhile, Iona, who suffers from low self-esteem and sexual frustration, deals with her dissatisfactions through a shrink and shopping sprees for clothes and modern art. Her new worry is that their hyperactive, small son might be spending too much time with his gay godfather, Stephen (Ralph Fiennes).
Marcus runs into an old mate from his youthful days in a rock band, Trent Masters (Ben Chaplin), who is now a tabloid journalist. When Marcus drunkenly confides in Trent about his firm's corrupt dealings, Trent can't help investigate a story that could make him a media star.
Meanwhile, in a maudlin and seemingly unrelated story that only connects -- and unconvincingly so -- to the main one later in the movie, ex-cop-turned-social worker Colin (Rhys Ifans) becomes emotionally involved the lives of his only seeming case, that of a seriously ill prostitute (Penelope Cruz) and her beloved small daughter.
Much of what you need to know about the characters -- or, to be precise, about how Fiennes feels about them -- can be gleaned from the production design. Fiennes and her designer Tony Burrough give the married bourgeois couple a sleek, severely modern and ultimately soulless house. At times, when the camera glides down sterile hallways or peers at characters through walls of glass, you can almost feel the director mock her characters.
The judge and his wife occupy a country manor stuffed with the furnishings of satisfied privilege, while Stephen's townhouse brims with lovingly collected art fastidiously displayed. Only the character who inhabits scruffy digs, meaning the prostitute, does the director's attitude soften. Soften, unfortunately, to the point of sentimental mush.
The acting is crisp, but no one's plight in this turgid soap opera gets through to you. Having dissed her characters for more than half the movie, Fiennes cannot turn things around and ask an audience suddenly to sympathize with their predicaments.
Tech credits are certainly pro but insulate the film's characters behind the well-upholstered trappings of wealth and privilege. And what on earth does it mean for the credits to insist that the film's cinematographer, George Tiffin, provided "additional screenplay material?"
CHROMOPHOBIA
Tarak Ben Ammar presents a Rotholz Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Martha Fiennes
Additional screenplay material: George Tiffin
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Ron Rotholz
Executive producers: Robert Bevan, Steve Christian, Charlie Savill, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Director of photography: George Tiffin
Production designer: Tony Burrough
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Michele Clapton
Editor: Tracy Granger
Cast:
Trent: Ben Chaplin
Gloria: Penelope Cruz
Marcus: Damian Lewis
Iona: Kristin Scott Thomas
Colin: Rhys Ifans
Edward: Ian Holm
Penelope: Harriet Walter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 135 minutes...
The married couple around whom subplots swirl is fast-rising attorney Marcus Aylesbury (Damian Lewis), the son of a distinguished judge (Ian Holm), and his anxious wife Iona (Kristen Scott Thomas). Having been made a partner in a powerful London law firm, Marcus finds himself drawn into an illegal scheme by his boss. Meanwhile, Iona, who suffers from low self-esteem and sexual frustration, deals with her dissatisfactions through a shrink and shopping sprees for clothes and modern art. Her new worry is that their hyperactive, small son might be spending too much time with his gay godfather, Stephen (Ralph Fiennes).
Marcus runs into an old mate from his youthful days in a rock band, Trent Masters (Ben Chaplin), who is now a tabloid journalist. When Marcus drunkenly confides in Trent about his firm's corrupt dealings, Trent can't help investigate a story that could make him a media star.
Meanwhile, in a maudlin and seemingly unrelated story that only connects -- and unconvincingly so -- to the main one later in the movie, ex-cop-turned-social worker Colin (Rhys Ifans) becomes emotionally involved the lives of his only seeming case, that of a seriously ill prostitute (Penelope Cruz) and her beloved small daughter.
Much of what you need to know about the characters -- or, to be precise, about how Fiennes feels about them -- can be gleaned from the production design. Fiennes and her designer Tony Burrough give the married bourgeois couple a sleek, severely modern and ultimately soulless house. At times, when the camera glides down sterile hallways or peers at characters through walls of glass, you can almost feel the director mock her characters.
The judge and his wife occupy a country manor stuffed with the furnishings of satisfied privilege, while Stephen's townhouse brims with lovingly collected art fastidiously displayed. Only the character who inhabits scruffy digs, meaning the prostitute, does the director's attitude soften. Soften, unfortunately, to the point of sentimental mush.
The acting is crisp, but no one's plight in this turgid soap opera gets through to you. Having dissed her characters for more than half the movie, Fiennes cannot turn things around and ask an audience suddenly to sympathize with their predicaments.
Tech credits are certainly pro but insulate the film's characters behind the well-upholstered trappings of wealth and privilege. And what on earth does it mean for the credits to insist that the film's cinematographer, George Tiffin, provided "additional screenplay material?"
CHROMOPHOBIA
Tarak Ben Ammar presents a Rotholz Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Martha Fiennes
Additional screenplay material: George Tiffin
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar, Ron Rotholz
Executive producers: Robert Bevan, Steve Christian, Charlie Savill, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
Director of photography: George Tiffin
Production designer: Tony Burrough
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Michele Clapton
Editor: Tracy Granger
Cast:
Trent: Ben Chaplin
Gloria: Penelope Cruz
Marcus: Damian Lewis
Iona: Kristin Scott Thomas
Colin: Rhys Ifans
Edward: Ian Holm
Penelope: Harriet Walter
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 135 minutes...
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones was named best actor at the Festival de Cannes on Saturday night having directed himself in his theatrical feature debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which also won the screenplay award. The festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, went to The Child (L'enfant), by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, with Focus Features' Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, taking the second-place Grand Prize. Austrian Michael Haneke won best director honors for his highly praised Hidden (Cache), starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, and Shanghai Dreams, from Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Jury Prize. Hanna Laslo was named best actress for the Israeli film Free Zone. The prizes were handed out on the last night of the 58th Cannes festival at a gala ceremony that preceded the screening of the closing Out of Competition film Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes.
- 5/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Director Martha Fiennes has secured £63,000 ($98,910) in development funding from the U.K. Film Council, the government-backed strategy and funding body said Wednesday. Fiennes' project involves the development of Revolving Door, which she aims to direct from a script being penned by George Tiffin. Paul Arnott (A Midsummer Night's Dream) will produce the film. Billed as a psychological thriller, the movie is set against the backdrop of a terrorist alert and follows the story of a British intelligence operative and a high-class escort girl as they try to outwit each other. The cash injection comes from the U.K. Film Council's Development Fund, headed by Jenny Borgars, in its latest round of funding.
- 4/24/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martha Fiennes has refused to make a movie with her brothers - because it would be "too incestutous". While she was happy to work with brother RALPH on her last movie Onegin (1999), the thought of working with the rest of the acting family makes her feel ill. And although she has been offered a number of interesting film projects, any which involve her famous siblings have immediately been ruled out. She says, "Maybe I will work with the family together on something one day but not yet. It's too incestuous and I want to avoid that."...
- 4/10/2000
- WENN
In "Onegin", which is her directorial debut, Martha Fiennes displays a sensuous visual style and an assured touch with actors.
A commercial and music video director and the sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, Martha Fiennes has created a lyric and melancholy film out of the famed narrative poem by Russia's most beloved poet, Alexander Pushkin.
With Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler starring in this tale of lost love, the film should find sophisticated audiences in movie houses where its wide-screen splendors will have the greatest impact. The film's theatrical success could make this a solid title in ancillary markets as well.
The major question is, will audiences accept the leisurely pace Fiennes bravely adopts, which is so at odds with much of today's MTV-influenced cinema? Fiennes takes her time to get viewers acquainted with the utterly cynical, gossipy and decadent life of the privileged classes in Russia in the early 19th century. Its denizens are heavily influenced by all things French and despair of all things smacking of social experimentation.
Starting in snowy St. Petersburg in 1827, then moving to the countryside and concluding back in St. Petersburg in 1834, the film focuses on a very simple story. Evgeny Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), a supremely selfish sophisticate firmly committed to a life of idleness in the city, inherits the country estate of his wealthy uncle. While visiting it, the bachelor suddenly decides to stay for awhile.
He develops a fast friendship with his neighbor, Vladimir Lensky (Toby Stephens). He is charmed by Vladimir's fiancee, Olga Larin (Lena Headey), but is even more taken with her younger sister Tatyana (Tyler), the very essence of physical and spiritual purity.
But when the young woman impulsively writes Onegin a letter declaring her love for him, the jaded Onegin politely but callously rejects her love. A misunderstanding between him and Vladimir then results in a duel in which Onegin kills his new friend.
Grief stricken, Onegin goes into self-imposed exile abroad. Returning to St. Petersburg six years later, he is startled to find Tatyana married to his cousin, Prince Nikitin (Martin Donovan). Even more startling and disheartening to Onegin is his discovery that fires of love are erupting inside him for the woman he once so cavalierly rejected.
The script by Michael Ignatieff and Peter Ettedgui bristles with witty dialogue, giving all the actors plum roles to play. The performances nicely capture both the rhythms of early 19th century country life and the world-weariness of St. Petersburg society.
Fiennes treats this intimate story with a lush and fluid style, letting one scene slide into the next or turning down the soundtrack so as to concentrate on the emotions playing across people's faces. Cinematographer Remi Adefarasin has beautifully married exteriors shot in St. Petersburg, which still looks much as it did then, to Jim Clay's interior sets of decaying grandeur, built in Shepperton Studios in the U.K.
The film coolly examines this foreign world with sadness for all that was lost to these characters -- not only love but an appreciation for the grand opportunities life presents if only one seizes the moment. The film's final image of a man who has lost the one thing that would have made his life worthwhile is as painful as it is moving.
ONEGIN
Seven Arts International
Onegin Productions Limited/Rysher Entertainment
Producers: Ileen Maisel, Simon Bosanquet
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writers: Michael Ignatieff, Peter Ettedgui
Based on the verse novel by: Alexander Pushkin
Executive producer: Ralph Fiennes
Director of photography: Remi Adefarasin
Production designer: Jim Clay
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Chloe Obolensky
Editor: Jim Clark
Color/stereo
Cast:
Evgeny Onegin: Ralph Fiennes
Tatyana Larin: Liv Tyler
Prince Nikitin: Martin Donovan
Vladimir Lensky: Toby Stephens
Olga Larin: Lena Headey
Guillot: Jason Watkins
Zaretsky: Alun Armstrong
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A commercial and music video director and the sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, Martha Fiennes has created a lyric and melancholy film out of the famed narrative poem by Russia's most beloved poet, Alexander Pushkin.
With Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler starring in this tale of lost love, the film should find sophisticated audiences in movie houses where its wide-screen splendors will have the greatest impact. The film's theatrical success could make this a solid title in ancillary markets as well.
The major question is, will audiences accept the leisurely pace Fiennes bravely adopts, which is so at odds with much of today's MTV-influenced cinema? Fiennes takes her time to get viewers acquainted with the utterly cynical, gossipy and decadent life of the privileged classes in Russia in the early 19th century. Its denizens are heavily influenced by all things French and despair of all things smacking of social experimentation.
Starting in snowy St. Petersburg in 1827, then moving to the countryside and concluding back in St. Petersburg in 1834, the film focuses on a very simple story. Evgeny Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), a supremely selfish sophisticate firmly committed to a life of idleness in the city, inherits the country estate of his wealthy uncle. While visiting it, the bachelor suddenly decides to stay for awhile.
He develops a fast friendship with his neighbor, Vladimir Lensky (Toby Stephens). He is charmed by Vladimir's fiancee, Olga Larin (Lena Headey), but is even more taken with her younger sister Tatyana (Tyler), the very essence of physical and spiritual purity.
But when the young woman impulsively writes Onegin a letter declaring her love for him, the jaded Onegin politely but callously rejects her love. A misunderstanding between him and Vladimir then results in a duel in which Onegin kills his new friend.
Grief stricken, Onegin goes into self-imposed exile abroad. Returning to St. Petersburg six years later, he is startled to find Tatyana married to his cousin, Prince Nikitin (Martin Donovan). Even more startling and disheartening to Onegin is his discovery that fires of love are erupting inside him for the woman he once so cavalierly rejected.
The script by Michael Ignatieff and Peter Ettedgui bristles with witty dialogue, giving all the actors plum roles to play. The performances nicely capture both the rhythms of early 19th century country life and the world-weariness of St. Petersburg society.
Fiennes treats this intimate story with a lush and fluid style, letting one scene slide into the next or turning down the soundtrack so as to concentrate on the emotions playing across people's faces. Cinematographer Remi Adefarasin has beautifully married exteriors shot in St. Petersburg, which still looks much as it did then, to Jim Clay's interior sets of decaying grandeur, built in Shepperton Studios in the U.K.
The film coolly examines this foreign world with sadness for all that was lost to these characters -- not only love but an appreciation for the grand opportunities life presents if only one seizes the moment. The film's final image of a man who has lost the one thing that would have made his life worthwhile is as painful as it is moving.
ONEGIN
Seven Arts International
Onegin Productions Limited/Rysher Entertainment
Producers: Ileen Maisel, Simon Bosanquet
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writers: Michael Ignatieff, Peter Ettedgui
Based on the verse novel by: Alexander Pushkin
Executive producer: Ralph Fiennes
Director of photography: Remi Adefarasin
Production designer: Jim Clay
Music: Magnus Fiennes
Costumes: Chloe Obolensky
Editor: Jim Clark
Color/stereo
Cast:
Evgeny Onegin: Ralph Fiennes
Tatyana Larin: Liv Tyler
Prince Nikitin: Martin Donovan
Vladimir Lensky: Toby Stephens
Olga Larin: Lena Headey
Guillot: Jason Watkins
Zaretsky: Alun Armstrong
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/23/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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