Paul Bettany thinks his wife Jennifer Connelly is 'mesmerising'. The Broken Lines star - who has been married to the actress for eight years - explained while his spouse is 'very beautiful', he finds it frustrating that she always 'moves at her own pace'. He said: 'My poor wife. She moves at her own pace - she's sort of slightly in slow motion, it's mesmerising and very beautiful - and I'm like, "C'mon, c'mon", we're going to be late.' Paul explained his home life has changed since becoming a father to Stellan, eight, and seven-month-old Agnes, as well as raising Kai, Jennifer's 14-year-old...
- 1/24/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
★★☆☆☆ Sallie Aprahamian's Broken Lines (2008) - starring Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams - was screened earlier this year as part of the London Jewish Film Festival and is now available to own on DVD and Blu-ray. Set it multi-cultural North London, the plot revolves around two sets of couples each coming to terms with personal tragedies including Jake (Dan Fredenburgh), a developer who has recently lost his father and by chance develops a relationship with local waitress, B (Doraly Rosa).
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- 12/6/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Fancy some eye-candy this Friday? Well here's a nice bit of high-class photography from Rankin, the legendary shooter who has previously turned his camera on everyone from Kate Moss to the Queen. This is the stars of Broken Lines, out on DVD next Monday, looking all glam.The film sees Dan Fredenburgh (that's him in the middle) play a young Jewish man in London who's newly engaged to Olivia Williams' Zoe (that's her on the right). But he begins an affair with Doraly Rosa's waitress B (on the left), who's herself involved with a stroke-afflicted ex-boxer, Chester (Paul Bettany, not pictured).Fedenberg and Rosa co-wrote the film, which was directed by Sallie Aprahamian.
- 12/2/2011
- EmpireOnline
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
This film is brilliant on many counts: it manages to treat the themes of coerced confession and the Ira with broad strokes and without compromising their complexity; it has a beautiful soundtrack; the cinematography is gorgeous; Saffron Burrows is lovely in it; the writing and direction are flawless. But it's hard to get away from Daniel Day-Lewis's performance.
I was at drama school when the film came out in the early 90s, and towering central performances only seemed to happen in American films: the De Niros, the Pacinos. Suddenly out came In the Name of the Father, and I was so entirely lost as I watched Day-Lewis [below] in the role of Gerry Conlon [wrongly imprisoned member of the Guildford Four] that I didn't doubt for one moment that this was his life. Of living actors, I feel it's only him and Meryl Streep who have that quality; like...
This film is brilliant on many counts: it manages to treat the themes of coerced confession and the Ira with broad strokes and without compromising their complexity; it has a beautiful soundtrack; the cinematography is gorgeous; Saffron Burrows is lovely in it; the writing and direction are flawless. But it's hard to get away from Daniel Day-Lewis's performance.
I was at drama school when the film came out in the early 90s, and towering central performances only seemed to happen in American films: the De Niros, the Pacinos. Suddenly out came In the Name of the Father, and I was so entirely lost as I watched Day-Lewis [below] in the role of Gerry Conlon [wrongly imprisoned member of the Guildford Four] that I didn't doubt for one moment that this was his life. Of living actors, I feel it's only him and Meryl Streep who have that quality; like...
- 11/13/2011
- by Mina Holland
- The Guardian - Film News
'I consider it an achievement to have survived the 90s without eyebrows that look like spermatozoa'
My face is alarmingly symmetrical. I can't remember if that is supposed to mean I am a psychopath or I'm not a psychopath, but the iPhone face-symmetry app produced a photo that still looked just like me. I think gravity is tugging slightly harder on my right eyelid, though.
I avoid dwelling on what I don't like about my face: that way surgery lies. I try to make disinterested observations, and it is undeniable I have a huge face. There's a picture of Kevin Costner and me from The Postman and my face just filled up so much more of the screen – the sheer square-footage of it, nostrils like rugby balls.
I've spent my career dodging the self-loathing game. You have to be vigilant. Someone's tried to wax my moustache. I wanted to say,...
My face is alarmingly symmetrical. I can't remember if that is supposed to mean I am a psychopath or I'm not a psychopath, but the iPhone face-symmetry app produced a photo that still looked just like me. I think gravity is tugging slightly harder on my right eyelid, though.
I avoid dwelling on what I don't like about my face: that way surgery lies. I try to make disinterested observations, and it is undeniable I have a huge face. There's a picture of Kevin Costner and me from The Postman and my face just filled up so much more of the screen – the sheer square-footage of it, nostrils like rugby balls.
I've spent my career dodging the self-loathing game. You have to be vigilant. Someone's tried to wax my moustache. I wanted to say,...
- 10/7/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Melancholia (15)
(Lars Von Trier, 2010, Den/Swe/Fra/Ger) Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård. 136 mins
Never have crippling depression and the end of the world looked so appealing. Personal and planetary orbits are fatalistically set on collision course in Von Trier's latest, as two sisters struggle with life, the universe and each other, but despite the grimness, its strange beauty stays with you.
The Debt (15)
(John Madden, 2010, Us) Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington. 113 mins
A trio of Israeli agents try to abduct a former Nazi, then deal with the fallout decades later in this structurally (over)ambitious spy epic.
Red State (18)
(Kevin Smith, 2011, Us) Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman. 88 mins
Smith takes aim at Christian fundamentalism in this cultish horror, which doesn't have the firepower it needs.
The Green Wave (Nc)
(Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Ger) 80 mins
Documentary on Iran's 2009 democratic uprising, mixing reportage, animation and tweets and blogs.
(Lars Von Trier, 2010, Den/Swe/Fra/Ger) Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård. 136 mins
Never have crippling depression and the end of the world looked so appealing. Personal and planetary orbits are fatalistically set on collision course in Von Trier's latest, as two sisters struggle with life, the universe and each other, but despite the grimness, its strange beauty stays with you.
The Debt (15)
(John Madden, 2010, Us) Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington. 113 mins
A trio of Israeli agents try to abduct a former Nazi, then deal with the fallout decades later in this structurally (over)ambitious spy epic.
Red State (18)
(Kevin Smith, 2011, Us) Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman. 88 mins
Smith takes aim at Christian fundamentalism in this cultish horror, which doesn't have the firepower it needs.
The Green Wave (Nc)
(Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010, Ger) 80 mins
Documentary on Iran's 2009 democratic uprising, mixing reportage, animation and tweets and blogs.
- 9/30/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Bettany says having young children 'scares the s**t' out of him. The Broken Lines actor - who has two children, Stellan, eight, and four-month-old Agnes, with wife Jennifer Connelly, as well as raising Kai, the actress' 14-year-old son from a previous relationship - loves being a father but admits he is always nervous about the early years of his kids' lives. He said: 'I have a very small baby. Kids are great, great - but the first three years they just scare the s**t out of you.' Paul - who has been married to Jennifer for eight years - also admits he...
- 9/30/2011
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Whether slumming it in action flicks or working with Lars von Trier, Paul Bettany is rarely moved to watch his own films. Hermione Hoby meets the Hollywood idol who can't stand the movie business
Squaring an actor in the flesh with the person you've seen on screen is disorienting, but I'm having a particularly hard time with Paul Bettany. The man I've just been watching is a former boxer, broken in body and spirit after suffering a stroke. Pale and rheumy eyed, he spends much of Broken Lines cowed and meek, dabbing at the at the corner of his dribbling mouth before suddenly erupting into snarling, desperate rage. And now in front of me is this guy, tanned and animated and emanating enough warmth to power a fleet of electric cars.
"Oh, let me turn this off," he says, pocketing his iPhone as he shakes my hand. "Oh no, I shouldn't turn this off.
Squaring an actor in the flesh with the person you've seen on screen is disorienting, but I'm having a particularly hard time with Paul Bettany. The man I've just been watching is a former boxer, broken in body and spirit after suffering a stroke. Pale and rheumy eyed, he spends much of Broken Lines cowed and meek, dabbing at the at the corner of his dribbling mouth before suddenly erupting into snarling, desperate rage. And now in front of me is this guy, tanned and animated and emanating enough warmth to power a fleet of electric cars.
"Oh, let me turn this off," he says, pocketing his iPhone as he shakes my hand. "Oh no, I shouldn't turn this off.
- 9/29/2011
- by Hermione Hoby
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Broken Lines (2008) director Sallie Aprahamian has prior directorial credits for the BAFTA-nominated Teachers, This Life and The Sins, and was also hand-picked by writers/lead actors Dan Fredenburgh and Doraly Rosa to take the reins. It proves a wise decision, as her intimate knowledge of North London seen through French Dop Jean-Louis Bompoint’s camera helps to distract from the imperfect script.
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- 9/29/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
This week Jason Solomons meets actor Paul Bettany who, after starring in blockbusters like Priest and Legion, announces that he has had enough of Hollywood.
Paul is returning to his British indie roots with a role as a physically handicapped boxer in Sallie Aprahamian's Broken Lines. He says that the role helped him realise that his patience with 'movies for 14-year-olds' had worn out.
In this extended interview, Paul discusses his career to date in the mainstream (Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code) and with indie directors, like Lars von Trier (Dogville), and explains why we're likely to see him taking less money for more interesting roles in future.
Jason is also joined by Guardian film critic Xan Brooks to review Lars von Trier's Melancholia (which features a Cannes award-winning performance from Kirsten Dunst) Kevin Smith's bible belt thriller Red State and Helen Mirren in Mossad spy thriller The Debt.
Paul is returning to his British indie roots with a role as a physically handicapped boxer in Sallie Aprahamian's Broken Lines. He says that the role helped him realise that his patience with 'movies for 14-year-olds' had worn out.
In this extended interview, Paul discusses his career to date in the mainstream (Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code) and with indie directors, like Lars von Trier (Dogville), and explains why we're likely to see him taking less money for more interesting roles in future.
Jason is also joined by Guardian film critic Xan Brooks to review Lars von Trier's Melancholia (which features a Cannes award-winning performance from Kirsten Dunst) Kevin Smith's bible belt thriller Red State and Helen Mirren in Mossad spy thriller The Debt.
- 9/29/2011
- by Jason Solomons, Jason Phipps, Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
British actor Paul Bettany relishes promotional trips to the U.K. because he suffers crippling homesickness while living in the U.S.
The Da Vinci Code star lives in New York City with his wife, Jennifer Connelly, and their children, but Bettany admits he often longs for the home comforts of his native Britain.
During an appearance on U.K. TV show BBC Breakfast to promote new movie Broken Lines, he says, "I really miss it (living in Britain). I miss pubs. We don't have pubs in America, you have bars and they are boring places. And I miss my friends and I miss Britishness and British humour."
When asked how long he will be staying in the U.K. during his trip, Bettany reveals he will by flying straight back to New York to look after his wife and their baby daughter, Agnes, who was born in May.
He says, "I have to go home because I've just had a baby... Well my wife, she's had a baby and now we have three children so that's a real circus - they are 14, eight and a four-month-old."...
The Da Vinci Code star lives in New York City with his wife, Jennifer Connelly, and their children, but Bettany admits he often longs for the home comforts of his native Britain.
During an appearance on U.K. TV show BBC Breakfast to promote new movie Broken Lines, he says, "I really miss it (living in Britain). I miss pubs. We don't have pubs in America, you have bars and they are boring places. And I miss my friends and I miss Britishness and British humour."
When asked how long he will be staying in the U.K. during his trip, Bettany reveals he will by flying straight back to New York to look after his wife and their baby daughter, Agnes, who was born in May.
He says, "I have to go home because I've just had a baby... Well my wife, she's had a baby and now we have three children so that's a real circus - they are 14, eight and a four-month-old."...
- 9/27/2011
- WENN
Warrior (12A)
(Gavin O'Connor, 2011, Us) Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. 140 mins
After a summer of CGI robots and superheroes duking it out, here's proof again that nothing beats human-on-human violence. The basic ingredients of this sports drama look very familiar, but there's novelty in the fighting style (mixed martial arts), and the fact that our opponents are two sympathetic brothers – hard-up teacher Edgerton v Afghanistan vet Hardy. For once, the outcome is uncertain.
Drive (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011, Us) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks. 100 mins
A vintage American muscle car with an efficient European engine, this sleek crime thriller handles the genre road superbly, as cool getaway ace Gosling loses his grip over one last job.
Crazy Stupid Love (12A)
(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2011, Us) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone. 118 mins
Male relationship woes are sympathetically mocked in this multi-stranded romcom, centring on Carell's...
(Gavin O'Connor, 2011, Us) Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. 140 mins
After a summer of CGI robots and superheroes duking it out, here's proof again that nothing beats human-on-human violence. The basic ingredients of this sports drama look very familiar, but there's novelty in the fighting style (mixed martial arts), and the fact that our opponents are two sympathetic brothers – hard-up teacher Edgerton v Afghanistan vet Hardy. For once, the outcome is uncertain.
Drive (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011, Us) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks. 100 mins
A vintage American muscle car with an efficient European engine, this sleek crime thriller handles the genre road superbly, as cool getaway ace Gosling loses his grip over one last job.
Crazy Stupid Love (12A)
(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2011, Us) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone. 118 mins
Male relationship woes are sympathetically mocked in this multi-stranded romcom, centring on Carell's...
- 9/23/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Carlo Dusi, internationally respected producer of Little Ashes (directed by Paul Morrison) and The Absinthe Drinkers (directed by John Charles Jopson), has certainly come by his reputation for spectacular film selection honestly. Dusi, who previously produced such films as Broken Lines, Nightwatching, and A Life in Suitcases, is no stranger to the international independent film world. I spoke with Carlo Dusi about his most recent accession, The Absinthe Drinkers (starring The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Peter Facinelli along with Ondine star Alicja Bachleda) as well as his furiously release-approaching Little Ashes (starring How To Be star Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran and Matthew McNulty)....
- 4/20/2009
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
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