If there was ever an actor worthy of the distinction of "America's Sweetheart," it's Meg Ryan, who has been appearing in films since 1981. Effortlessly charming and with an often easygoing magnetism whenever she's on-screen, Ryan channels her natural talents effectively in romantic comedies and family-friendly fare. However, Ryan also possesses a much wider range than many give her credit for, delivering solid work in military dramas and character studies while occasionally branching out into hard science-fiction and fantasy.
Despite performing in dozens of film roles over the past 40-plus years, Ryan is one of her generation's more underrated actors. In fact, though millions of moviegoers adore her and her work, Ryan has yet to earn an Academy Award nomination of any kind. With that in mind, here are the 14 best Meg Ryan movies spanning her feature film career so far.
Top Gun (1986)
Just to clarify, the placement of "Top Gun...
Despite performing in dozens of film roles over the past 40-plus years, Ryan is one of her generation's more underrated actors. In fact, though millions of moviegoers adore her and her work, Ryan has yet to earn an Academy Award nomination of any kind. With that in mind, here are the 14 best Meg Ryan movies spanning her feature film career so far.
Top Gun (1986)
Just to clarify, the placement of "Top Gun...
- 4/30/2023
- by Samuel Stone
- Slash Film
by Cláudio Alves
In 1995, Michael Hoffman's Restoration adapted the best-selling novel of Rose Tremain into a sumptuous dramatization of 17th century England. Despite some dumbfounding feats of miscasting and a disjointed structure upended by the advent of the Black Plague, the picture's quite beautiful to look at and features some of the best Baroque designs in film history. The scenography leans into the theatricality of Charles II's court, creating an airless world gilded in gold. The costumes, in turn, indulge in the absurdities of 1660s fashion, conjuring a world of radical contrasts between royal splendor and the austere rigor of Puritan charity.
Both achievements won trophies at the 68th Academy Awards. As usual, I'm more interested in the work of Oscar-winning costume design by the great James Acheson. Let's explore the man's genius, his filmography, and the Baroque stylings of the 25-year-old Restoration…...
In 1995, Michael Hoffman's Restoration adapted the best-selling novel of Rose Tremain into a sumptuous dramatization of 17th century England. Despite some dumbfounding feats of miscasting and a disjointed structure upended by the advent of the Black Plague, the picture's quite beautiful to look at and features some of the best Baroque designs in film history. The scenography leans into the theatricality of Charles II's court, creating an airless world gilded in gold. The costumes, in turn, indulge in the absurdities of 1660s fashion, conjuring a world of radical contrasts between royal splendor and the austere rigor of Puritan charity.
Both achievements won trophies at the 68th Academy Awards. As usual, I'm more interested in the work of Oscar-winning costume design by the great James Acheson. Let's explore the man's genius, his filmography, and the Baroque stylings of the 25-year-old Restoration…...
- 12/29/2020
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Exclusive: Protagonist closes key sale on Tiff premiere.
Clio Barnard’s highly anticipated third feature Dark River has been picked up for UK distribution by Arrow Films.
Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on the title, which is set to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 7-17) in the Platform strand.
The deal was negotiated by Protagonist’s manager of international sales George Hamilton and Arrow Films’ acquisitions director Tom Stewart.
Written and directed by Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant) and inspired by Rose Tremain’s novel Trespass, the film stars Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean in the story of a woman who returns to her hometown for the first time in 15 years following the death of her father.
There, she encounters her older brother, a man she barely recognises after his long struggle to keep the family farm going while caring for their sick father.
It was produced by Barnard’s long-term producer...
Clio Barnard’s highly anticipated third feature Dark River has been picked up for UK distribution by Arrow Films.
Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on the title, which is set to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 7-17) in the Platform strand.
The deal was negotiated by Protagonist’s manager of international sales George Hamilton and Arrow Films’ acquisitions director Tom Stewart.
Written and directed by Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant) and inspired by Rose Tremain’s novel Trespass, the film stars Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean in the story of a woman who returns to her hometown for the first time in 15 years following the death of her father.
There, she encounters her older brother, a man she barely recognises after his long struggle to keep the family farm going while caring for their sick father.
It was produced by Barnard’s long-term producer...
- 8/4/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Jaime Winstone to lead cast for Rose Tremain adaptation.
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Pippa Cross have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their planned feature film adaptation of Rose Tremain’s novel Sacred Country.
The story is about a 6-year-old girl, Mary Ward, in rural Suffolk in 1952 who realises she is a boy. The film follows Mary’s quest to become Martin over the next three decades.
The Indiegogo campaign is now live at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sacred-country, and aims to raise £50,000 of the film’s initial funding in the next five weeks.
Producer Cross, whose credits include Bloody Sunday and Shooting Dogs, told Screen that the crowdfunding campaign was about more than raising money, but showing other potential partners that there is an engaged community and audience for the film, including Lgbt networks and Tremain readers.
“It’s not a niche film but it can start with a niche audience,” Cross said. “The...
- 3/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Selfish Giant director has told Screen how the Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship has informed her upcoming project.
Award-winning filmmaker Clio Barnard has revealed how a new grant has fed in to her next film, an adaptation of Rose Tremain novel Trespass.
The director of The Arbor and The Selfish Giant was awarded the first Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship in association with Film4 this time last year, which included a grant of £30,000 ($50,000).
She has spent a year meeting psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists investigating memory, perception, hallucination and the impact of trauma.
Ahead of the announcement of the new Fellow on Wednesday (Nov 26), Barnard told Screen: “I’ve met a lot of scientists and it has been inspiring in ways I hadn’t expected.
“At other times, it was much more focused on the script I’m writing at the moment and fed directly into that.
“I was particularly interested in how trauma affects...
Award-winning filmmaker Clio Barnard has revealed how a new grant has fed in to her next film, an adaptation of Rose Tremain novel Trespass.
The director of The Arbor and The Selfish Giant was awarded the first Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship in association with Film4 this time last year, which included a grant of £30,000 ($50,000).
She has spent a year meeting psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists investigating memory, perception, hallucination and the impact of trauma.
Ahead of the announcement of the new Fellow on Wednesday (Nov 26), Barnard told Screen: “I’ve met a lot of scientists and it has been inspiring in ways I hadn’t expected.
“At other times, it was much more focused on the script I’m writing at the moment and fed directly into that.
“I was particularly interested in how trauma affects...
- 11/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jan Dunn (Gypo) is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders for producers Michael Knowles of NoW Films and James Collie of Violet Pictures.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
- 2/9/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Clio Barnard's The Arbor charted the troubled life of working-class playwright Andrea Dunbar. Her new film, The Selfish Giant, about two boys who scavenge to survive on a Bradford estate, has been called 'a Kes for the 21st century'. Here she talks about the appeal of the margins
Back in 2010, when Clio Barnard was shooting her first feature film, The Arbor, on the Buttershaw estate in Bradford, a young local lad caught her eye. "I first saw him when he was just 14, when I went to Buttershaw to do a workshop at a school," she recalls. "There was just something about him that was different from the other lads I met. He was a bit volatile, but enigmatic too and he really made his presence felt. When I went to Brafferton Arbor [the street on which The Arbor is set] for the first time, there he was, wearing his rigger boots and really dirty clothes. It was pure attitude,...
Back in 2010, when Clio Barnard was shooting her first feature film, The Arbor, on the Buttershaw estate in Bradford, a young local lad caught her eye. "I first saw him when he was just 14, when I went to Buttershaw to do a workshop at a school," she recalls. "There was just something about him that was different from the other lads I met. He was a bit volatile, but enigmatic too and he really made his presence felt. When I went to Brafferton Arbor [the street on which The Arbor is set] for the first time, there he was, wearing his rigger boots and really dirty clothes. It was pure attitude,...
- 10/12/2013
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Webber ("Emperor," "Girl with a Pearl Earring") is set to direct an adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel "The Colour" at Festival Films and Nukuhau Films.
Tremain will adapt the script which set during the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s.
The story follows newly married immigrants and the husband's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more difficult than he expected, the man sets out to make his fortune and in the process their lives take a disastrous turn.
The project will be shot on New Zealand’s South Island next year. Ray Marshall and Tim Coddington will produce.
Source: THR...
Tremain will adapt the script which set during the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s.
The story follows newly married immigrants and the husband's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more difficult than he expected, the man sets out to make his fortune and in the process their lives take a disastrous turn.
The project will be shot on New Zealand’s South Island next year. Ray Marshall and Tim Coddington will produce.
Source: THR...
- 5/22/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Peter Webber (Emperor, Girl with a Pearl Earring) will direct an adaptation of English author Rose Tremain's epic novel, The Colour, which is set as a U.K.-New Zealand co-production, the New Zealand Film Commission said Wednesday. Video: Peter Webber Cannes 'Emperor' 2012 Producer Ray Marshall's Festival Films developed The Colour with support from the New Zealand Film Commission. The film will be co-produced with Tim Coddington's Nukuhau Films, reuniting Coddington and Webber, who worked together on Emperor. Story: Peter Webber to Direct 'Happy Camp' Tremain, who won the prestigious Orange Prize for her 2008 novel, The
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- 5/22/2013
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Camp Peter Webber ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") is attached to direct the noir thriller "Happy Camp" for Bedlam Productions. Playwright Zayd Dohrn penned the script. Shooting will begin in North America at the end of the year.
The movie follows a drug-addled former deputy sheriff searching for his missing daughter amongst the complex politics of a rural Californian logging community. Stella Nwimo will produce. [Source: THR]
In A Perfect World
Filmmaker Alexandre Aja ("Piranha 3D") has acquired film rights to American writer Laura Kasischke's bestselling novel "In a Perfect World". Charles Gillibert will produce.
The story revolves arounda newly-married, former flight attendant surviving life as a new stepmother to three children. Their lives are altered forever when a deadly flu epidemic breaks out.
Source: Screen Daily
Trespass
Brit director Clio Barnard ("The Selfish Giant") is set to write and direct an adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel "The Trespass" at Left Bank.
The movie follows a drug-addled former deputy sheriff searching for his missing daughter amongst the complex politics of a rural Californian logging community. Stella Nwimo will produce. [Source: THR]
In A Perfect World
Filmmaker Alexandre Aja ("Piranha 3D") has acquired film rights to American writer Laura Kasischke's bestselling novel "In a Perfect World". Charles Gillibert will produce.
The story revolves arounda newly-married, former flight attendant surviving life as a new stepmother to three children. Their lives are altered forever when a deadly flu epidemic breaks out.
Source: Screen Daily
Trespass
Brit director Clio Barnard ("The Selfish Giant") is set to write and direct an adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel "The Trespass" at Left Bank.
- 5/18/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
This film about King Charles II and a fictional doctor flips messily from frippery and farting to 17th-century mental healthcare
Restoration (1995)
Director: Michael Hoffman
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B
King Charles II was restored to the throne of England after the fall of the shortlived Commonwealth in 1660.
Language
Dissolute fictional doctor Robert Merivel (Robert Downey Jr) has pawned his instruments, and must go to his father, a glover, for cash to get them back. His father agrees, reluctantly, on the grounds "that the son of a glovemaker should not be denied the use of those gifts that marked you as a physician before you could spell physic!" English spelling had been somewhat standardised by the King James Bible of 1611 (which spells "physic" as "physick", in "Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick", Apocrypha, Sir 1:19). Even so, bearing in mind that Samuel Johnson would...
Restoration (1995)
Director: Michael Hoffman
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B
King Charles II was restored to the throne of England after the fall of the shortlived Commonwealth in 1660.
Language
Dissolute fictional doctor Robert Merivel (Robert Downey Jr) has pawned his instruments, and must go to his father, a glover, for cash to get them back. His father agrees, reluctantly, on the grounds "that the son of a glovemaker should not be denied the use of those gifts that marked you as a physician before you could spell physic!" English spelling had been somewhat standardised by the King James Bible of 1611 (which spells "physic" as "physick", in "Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick", Apocrypha, Sir 1:19). Even so, bearing in mind that Samuel Johnson would...
- 9/6/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
The 2012 organisers appear to be masterminding a vast operation with the eerie efficiency of the Sith lords in Star Wars
There is a quote beloved of earnest young sportsmen, and the coaches shouting pick‑me-ups at them through a loudhailer: "Life is not a dress rehearsal." It was, apparently, coined by the author Rose Tremain, who should have got a better copyright lawyer: if she had claimed royalties every time that phrase was spouted by ageing rugby players giving motivational talks to South Korean businessmen, she would be living in a house built of gold leaf and black truffle.
I would be willing to bet that there is not an athlete alive who does not have Rose's credo scrawled somewhere in their training diary or, if he or she is an endurance athlete, tattooed to the inside of the eyelids. Which makes me wonder how the swimmers, cyclists and other...
There is a quote beloved of earnest young sportsmen, and the coaches shouting pick‑me-ups at them through a loudhailer: "Life is not a dress rehearsal." It was, apparently, coined by the author Rose Tremain, who should have got a better copyright lawyer: if she had claimed royalties every time that phrase was spouted by ageing rugby players giving motivational talks to South Korean businessmen, she would be living in a house built of gold leaf and black truffle.
I would be willing to bet that there is not an athlete alive who does not have Rose's credo scrawled somewhere in their training diary or, if he or she is an endurance athlete, tattooed to the inside of the eyelids. Which makes me wonder how the swimmers, cyclists and other...
- 8/18/2011
- by Emma John
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2009, Danish director Lone Scherfig transformed the memoir of British journalist Lynn Barber into the Oscar-nominated indie drama An Education. Now with her follow-up, the romance-fueled One Day set to hit theaters this August, Screen Daily has revealed Scherfig’s next move. And just as she stepped from indie stars to A-listers, Scherfig is upping the ante once more with a historical epic titled Music And Silence.
Based on the novel by Rose Tremain, the story is set in the court of 17th-century King Christian IVOf Denmark. Here the King Christian struggles to save his marriage to Kirsten Munk,while love blossoms between two servants on the King’s court. The book, which parallels the two romace-fueled plotlines, was heralded for its lushly developed tale of love, loss and regret that was likewise imbrued with a bawdy sensibility. Notably, these are descriptors that could easily be applied to Scherfig’s breakout Education.
Based on the novel by Rose Tremain, the story is set in the court of 17th-century King Christian IVOf Denmark. Here the King Christian struggles to save his marriage to Kirsten Munk,while love blossoms between two servants on the King’s court. The book, which parallels the two romace-fueled plotlines, was heralded for its lushly developed tale of love, loss and regret that was likewise imbrued with a bawdy sensibility. Notably, these are descriptors that could easily be applied to Scherfig’s breakout Education.
- 5/19/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Danish director Lone Scherfig has made good films in the past; see her 2002 suicide comedy Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself for a dark, delicious treat. But the success of her latest, An Education earned her the unprecedented ability to call her own creative shots for the moment, and she.s using it to move some personal projects through the pipeline. Scherfig will direct a Danish historical epic titled Music And Silence. Based on a script by Martin Sherman (Mrs. Henderson Presents), Music adapts Rose Tremain.s award-winning book about the scandalous happenings in Danish King Christian IV.s royal court in the years 1629 and 1630. Screen Daily reports that Scherfig will shoot her production in the early half of 2012, and plans to release the picture in 2013. .This is a unique project,. said Christine Langan of BBC Films, which is co-developing and will co-finance the picture. .Rose.s book is symphonic in...
- 5/17/2011
- cinemablend.com
Lone Scherfig ("An Education," "One Day") has signed to direct Danish historical epic "Music And Silence" for BBC Films says Screen Daily.
Set in the court of Danish King Christian IV, this tells the story of the king’s fight to save his kingdom and his marriage. At the same time two young servants who are falling in love find themselves torn apart when the king’s wife is banished from the court.
Martin Sherman ("Mrs Henderson Presents," "Bent") has adapted the script based on the award-winning novel by Rose Tremain. Dan Lupovitz and Alexandra Stone are producing and shooting begins early next year for release in 2013.
Set in the court of Danish King Christian IV, this tells the story of the king’s fight to save his kingdom and his marriage. At the same time two young servants who are falling in love find themselves torn apart when the king’s wife is banished from the court.
Martin Sherman ("Mrs Henderson Presents," "Bent") has adapted the script based on the award-winning novel by Rose Tremain. Dan Lupovitz and Alexandra Stone are producing and shooting begins early next year for release in 2013.
- 5/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
An Education director Lone Scherfig has signed on to direct Music And Silence, an adaptation of Rose Tremain's historical novel.
Screenwriter Martin Sherman (Mrs Henderson Presents) has been hired to adapt the material, which centers on a king fighting to save his marriage and kingdom, while a couple of servants fall in love only to be separated when the king’s wife is forced to leave court.
Read more on Lone Scherfig signs on to direct Music And Silence...
Screenwriter Martin Sherman (Mrs Henderson Presents) has been hired to adapt the material, which centers on a king fighting to save his marriage and kingdom, while a couple of servants fall in love only to be separated when the king’s wife is forced to leave court.
Read more on Lone Scherfig signs on to direct Music And Silence...
- 5/16/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- GordonandtheWhale
While the BBC casts a proud eye over Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin at Cannes, a new slate of feature films are set to follow in its success...
The feature filmmaking arm of the BBC has announced a list of films it will be backing in the coming months - including Rufus Norris’ Broken, starring Cillian Murphy, and Mike Newell’s version of the Charles Dickins novel Great Expectations, starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Jeremy Irvine.
Also on the agenda are Rose Tremain's Music and Silence, directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig and StreetDance 2, which promises to carry a very different beat to the first film.
Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films has said: “The bold ambition of Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, which has been passionately embraced by critics in Cannes, represents what we are trying to do across the...
The feature filmmaking arm of the BBC has announced a list of films it will be backing in the coming months - including Rufus Norris’ Broken, starring Cillian Murphy, and Mike Newell’s version of the Charles Dickins novel Great Expectations, starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Jeremy Irvine.
Also on the agenda are Rose Tremain's Music and Silence, directed by An Education’s Lone Scherfig and StreetDance 2, which promises to carry a very different beat to the first film.
Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films has said: “The bold ambition of Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, which has been passionately embraced by critics in Cannes, represents what we are trying to do across the...
- 5/16/2011
- by jennifer.trevorrow@lovefilm.com (Jennifer Trevorrow)
- LOVEFiLM
Johnny Depp and Jerry Bruckheimer reassure fans by insisting possibilities for Pirates of the Caribbean are 'endless'
• Pirates of the Caribbean fervour briefly – and bafflingly, given the poor reviews for the fourth instalment – swept through Cannes at the weekend, with security guards in the Palais des Festivals flinging themselves at crowds rendered hysterical at the presence of Johnny Depp (below) – "Johnny! Johnny!" they screamed, with the desperation of drowning men.
If some had wished this fine actor to announce his and fellow seadogs' retirement from the high seas, they were disappointed. The possibilities, he said, for Pirates were "endless", while the producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, claimed that there "is much more fun to be to be had. As long as the scripts are good and we're working with film-makers such as Rob Marshall, we're all good".
• Gemma Arterton is certainly having her hour: aside from her forthcoming role in Neil Labute...
• Pirates of the Caribbean fervour briefly – and bafflingly, given the poor reviews for the fourth instalment – swept through Cannes at the weekend, with security guards in the Palais des Festivals flinging themselves at crowds rendered hysterical at the presence of Johnny Depp (below) – "Johnny! Johnny!" they screamed, with the desperation of drowning men.
If some had wished this fine actor to announce his and fellow seadogs' retirement from the high seas, they were disappointed. The possibilities, he said, for Pirates were "endless", while the producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, claimed that there "is much more fun to be to be had. As long as the scripts are good and we're working with film-makers such as Rob Marshall, we're all good".
• Gemma Arterton is certainly having her hour: aside from her forthcoming role in Neil Labute...
- 5/15/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Following up An Education and the upcoming romantic adaptation One Day, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess (Focus, August 19), director Lone Scherfig is developing another book, Music and Silence, with BBC Films. Big Bad Wolf Productions' Dan Lupovitz (Hunky Dory, Death Defying Acts) started to develop the Whitbread Award-winning Rose Tremain novel--about upstairs/downstairs romantic intrigue in a Medieval Danish court--with Scherfig during post-production on An Education. They and British producing partner, Alexandra Stone (Young Adam, Kidulthood) brought the package to the BBC, and hired playwright/screenwriter Martin Sherman (Bent, Mrs. Henderson Presents) to adapt the book. One of the most popular of the prolific Tremain's novels, Music and Silence is set in the 17-century court of Danish King Christian IV at a time when the ...
- 5/15/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
A look at what's new on DVD this week:
"A Summer in Genoa"
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Released by Entertainment One
Of the many films Michael Winterbottom ("A Mighty Heart," "9 Songs") has directed in recent years, you wouldn't guess the one starring recent Oscar winner Colin Firth as a father who must take care of his two daughters in the wake of a car accident involving their mother (Hope Davis) would be the one to have trouble making it to the U.S. But here we are three years after "Genova," as it's known in much of the rest of the world, was shot and it's finally arrived on DVD, a mix of supernatural thriller and human drama that's actually getting reasonably good reviews upon its delayed release. Catherine Keener co-stars.
"Belladonna"
Directed by Annika Glac
Released by Osiris
Glac's debut as a writer/director centers on a man whose...
"A Summer in Genoa"
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Released by Entertainment One
Of the many films Michael Winterbottom ("A Mighty Heart," "9 Songs") has directed in recent years, you wouldn't guess the one starring recent Oscar winner Colin Firth as a father who must take care of his two daughters in the wake of a car accident involving their mother (Hope Davis) would be the one to have trouble making it to the U.S. But here we are three years after "Genova," as it's known in much of the rest of the world, was shot and it's finally arrived on DVD, a mix of supernatural thriller and human drama that's actually getting reasonably good reviews upon its delayed release. Catherine Keener co-stars.
"Belladonna"
Directed by Annika Glac
Released by Osiris
Glac's debut as a writer/director centers on a man whose...
- 4/12/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
This looks set to be an exciting year for feminism. Here Viv Groskop rounds up the books, films, theatre and marches that will inspire us all in the coming months
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
- 1/8/2010
- by Viv Groskop
- The Guardian - Film News
This week we can immerse ourselves in tales of American sentiment, French fantasy, English history, Italian romance and alien invasion.
"Avatar"
After more than a decade on hiatus, James Cameron returns from his days as "King of the World" with a mind on conquering a few new ones in this sci-fi epic that the director maintains will alter the face of moviemaking forever. (Early reviews seem to agree.) A galaxy away from Cameron's days as a miniature maker on Roger Corman's "Battle Beyond the Stars," "Avatar" blends performance capture technology with real world photography to create Pandora, where a troubled U.S. marine (Sam Worthington) is tasked with infiltrating the Na'vi, a tribe of primitive but proud aliens, via a genetically created body, though he finds his loyalties torn when he falls in love with one of their own (Zoe Saldana). The film's reported $300 million price tag is surely...
"Avatar"
After more than a decade on hiatus, James Cameron returns from his days as "King of the World" with a mind on conquering a few new ones in this sci-fi epic that the director maintains will alter the face of moviemaking forever. (Early reviews seem to agree.) A galaxy away from Cameron's days as a miniature maker on Roger Corman's "Battle Beyond the Stars," "Avatar" blends performance capture technology with real world photography to create Pandora, where a troubled U.S. marine (Sam Worthington) is tasked with infiltrating the Na'vi, a tribe of primitive but proud aliens, via a genetically created body, though he finds his loyalties torn when he falls in love with one of their own (Zoe Saldana). The film's reported $300 million price tag is surely...
- 12/14/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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