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Interview: Lone Scherfig (An Education)
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
"Carey Mulligan was found by our casting director. We looked at a lot of girls but I had a good idea of who Jenny should be." - Following in the footsteps of fellow Danish filmmakers (the Biers, the Bornedals and the von Triers) who move between English-language film fair and projects in their native tongue, Lone Scherfig has parlayed her experiences in smaller fair meant for a more “localized” audience into a a smashing coming-of-age film set in 1960's London where a teen girl embraces adulthood via the charm of a man twice her age. Since debuting An Education to plenty of praise at Sundance, the best known for Italian for Beginners filmmaker receives a report card that is graded by critics with A and high B's. Lead by Carey Mulligan in one of those star making performances that is being cross referenced with big names from silver screen's vault, »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Golden Globes 2010 Predictions – Best Supporting Actress
24 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Supporting Actress Mariah Carey, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (with Gabourey Sidibe) An unglamorous social worker Penélope Cruz, Nine A film director’s seductive mistress Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (with Gabourey Sidibe) A Mom from Hell Julianne Moore, A Single Man A married alcoholic in love with a distraught gay professor Emma Thompson, An Education (with Ellie Kendrick, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Carey Mulligan) A school headmistress coping with unruly girls in 1960s London Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon in The Lovely Bones (top); Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (middle, upper); Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (middle, lower); Kathy Bates in Cheri (bottom) Like the Golden Globe Best Actress – Drama race, the Best Supporting Actress category will be [...] »
- Andre Soares
Spotlight Review: The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
23 November 2009 5:12 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge
Director: Richard Curtis
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
- - -
Has anyone really decided what this film is called yet? It's on IMDb under The Boat that Rocked, Fandango has it as Pirate Radio, the theatre that I went to see it at displayed a poster with The Boat that Rocked, I'm confused. And so, must have been director Richard Curtis, since it became apparent during the showing that he didn't really know what he wanted to say. The most representative advertising the film did, was to say, ‘from the people who brought you Love Actually.' They both had charming and funny moments, but they both wandered around, never really sure of where they are supposed to be headed.
The »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
23 November 2009 5:12 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge
Director: Richard Curtis
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
- - -
Has anyone really decided what this film is called yet? It's on IMDb under The Boat that Rocked, Fandango has it as Pirate Radio, the theatre that I went to see it at displayed a poster with The Boat that Rocked, I'm confused. And so, must have been director Richard Curtis, since it became apparent during the showing that he didn't really know what he wanted to say. The most representative advertising the film did, was to say, ‘from the people who brought you Love Actually.' They both had charming and funny moments, but they both wandered around, never really sure of where they are supposed to be headed.
The »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
23 November 2009 5:12 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge
Director: Richard Curtis
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
- - -
Has anyone really decided what this film is called yet? It's on IMDb under The Boat that Rocked, Fandango has it as Pirate Radio, the theatre that I went to see it at displayed a poster with The Boat that Rocked, I'm confused. And so, must have been director Richard Curtis, since it became apparent during the showing that he didn't really know what he wanted to say. The most representative advertising the film did, was to say, ‘from the people who brought you Love Actually.' They both had charming and funny moments, but they both wandered around, never really sure of where they are supposed to be headed.
The »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
23 November 2009 5:12 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge
Director: Richard Curtis
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
- - -
Has anyone really decided what this film is called yet? It's on IMDb under The Boat that Rocked, Fandango has it as Pirate Radio, the theatre that I went to see it at displayed a poster with The Boat that Rocked, I'm confused. And so, must have been director Richard Curtis, since it became apparent during the showing that he didn't really know what he wanted to say. The most representative advertising the film did, was to say, ‘from the people who brought you Love Actually.' They both had charming and funny moments, but they both wandered around, never really sure of where they are supposed to be headed.
The »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio)
23 November 2009 5:12 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Tom Sturridge
Director: Richard Curtis
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
- - -
Has anyone really decided what this film is called yet? It's on IMDb under The Boat that Rocked, Fandango has it as Pirate Radio, the theatre that I went to see it at displayed a poster with The Boat that Rocked, I'm confused. And so, must have been director Richard Curtis, since it became apparent during the showing that he didn't really know what he wanted to say. The most representative advertising the film did, was to say, ‘from the people who brought you Love Actually.' They both had charming and funny moments, but they both wandered around, never really sure of where they are supposed to be headed.
The »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Afm Coverage: Posters and Synopses for Burke And Hare, Electric Slide, Irishman, Effie, Main St., Cash
22 November 2009 8:28 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
By now you’ve probably noticed that Steve got an ungodly amount of material from this year’s American Film Market (Afm). The place where buyers and sellers do business to bring you the films you’ll hopefully be seeing in the near future, Afm has tons of artwork and synopses which are used to promote films but which we will use to bring you news on these films.
Below you’ll find images and synopses for Burke and Hare, Cash, Effie, Main St., The Electric Slide, and The Irishman. Hit the jump to check them all out. Also, all the synopses are copied down directly from the original materials with no editorial alterations. You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 by click on their respective links.
Burke And Hare, directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)
William Burke and William Hare are scratching out a living in 1830s Edinburgh. »
- Matt Goldberg
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Movies This Week: Dogme Alums Get An Education with Bronson
13 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
Happy Friday the 13th! Walk under a ladder, hang out with a black cat, and see some movies. It's a very British heavy release week; three British films are opening in town (two with Emma Thompson in them). Two films new to Austin are directed by Dogme 95 alums. You know, the minimalist film movement started by Lars von Triers and others to thumb their noses at Hollywood and big budgets, with a manifesto demanding a vow of cinematic chastity? Can you guess which film on the list is anti-Dogme?
An Education -- It's London in the 1960s, and a teenage girl encounters a playboy in this coming of age story. Directed by Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners, Dogme #12 ), with a slew of memorable actors, including Dollhouse's Olivia Williams, Rosamund Pike (Pride and Prejudice), Dominic Cooper (The History Boys), and the inestimable Emma Thompson. Only a select few were able »
- Jenn Brown
'Pirate Radio': Adrift, By Kurt Loder
13 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Even Philip Seymour Hoffman can't quite float this boat.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Frost in "Pirate Radio"
Photo: Focus Features
Imagine you're a British teenager in the mid-1960s. The new breed of English rock is taking over the world. Across the pond in America, the Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Animals, Troggs and Yardbirds can all be heard around the clock on U.S. radio. Back at home, though, the government controls the airwaves, through the dowdy BBC, and the government has decided that no one needs to hear this unseemly music.
The new movie "Pirate Radio" trains a fond eye on the rebellion that this oppressive state of affairs spawned: an outbreak of rogue radio stations based on ships anchored just outside of British territorial waters. Radio Caroline was the first of these outfits to go on the air, in 1964, and it was soon joined by others -- »
Pirate Radio
13 November 2009 4:07 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Richard Kurtis
Cast: Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
Running Time: 1 hr 55 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Plot: A rogue group of rock and roll deejays are on the high seas outside of England keeping music alive. This is the story based in some fact of a “pirate radio” boat that inspired 1960s Britain.
Who’S It For? Do you like music? More specifically, the rock and roll that truly mattered? Then you’ll love this. Beyond that though, this film is filled with a great cast of characters that provide enough laughs for any adult to enjoy.
Expectations: This is the director who wrote Notting Hill and directed Love Actually … but romance isn’t center stage. So I was hopeful, but not expecting much.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Tom Sturridge as Carl: Who’s he, right? After all, »
- Jeff Bayer
Emma Thompson and the Polanski petition
12 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The soap opera continues … in France
Is there a more enchanting soap opera than that surrounding the petition to release Roman Polanski, which this week revived its Emma Thompson plotline? You might be aware that Em was an original signatory, but removed her name a fortnight ago – a decision that has motivated French novelist Yann Moix to pen a condemnation on Bernard-Henri Lévy's website.
"Madame Emma Thompson is but passing through petitions," he muses, in a post in which he totally avoids sounding like a stereotypically pretentious French intellectual. "She does not own, she is a tenant. Worse: she is there visiting, with the badge 'guest'. In life, we must choose between whims and ideas . . . [We] would like to now sign a petition that Madame Emma Thompson never again sign a petition, because it would not be her signature that would be ridiculed, but this time the cause."
Naturally, one's »
- Marina Hyde
Pirate Radio Really Rocks
12 November 2009 12:03 AM, PST | Arizona Reporter | See recent Arizona Reporter news »
By Susan Granger - During the 1960s, when rock music was banned on Britain.s BBC, a seafaring band of defiant rock .n. roll deejays broadcast live 24/7 from an old tanker anchored in the middle of the North Sea, beyond British jurisdiction. And when rebellious teenage Carl (Tom Sturridge) is expelled from school, his mother (Emma Thompson) banishes him to live aboard Radio Rock with his godfather, Quentin (Bill Nighy), the dapper captain, who admiringly informs him that his mother is .a sexual legend..
Carl soon becomes an integral part of the motley, pot-smoking, sex-starved vinyl-spinners that includes his dimwitted cabin-mate, aptly named Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke), along with amorous Dave (Nick Frost), melancholy Simon (Chris O.Dowd), idiosyncratic Angus (Rhys Darby), degenerate Mark (Tom Wisdom), elusive Bob (Ralph Brown, evoking the late John Peel) and the crew.s sole female, Felicity (Katherine Parkinson), .a lesbian who cooks.. Reigning supreme »
Exclusive Video: Pirate Radio Cast Interview Featurette
11 November 2009 11:11 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
In 1966, arguably British pop music's finest era, the BBC played only two hours of rock n' roll every week but pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas twenty-four hours a day and twenty-five million people, more than half the population of Britain, listened to these broadcasts every single day. Pirate Radio, opening in theaters everywhere on November 13th, is the latest film from Richard Curtis, the acclaimed director of Notting Hill and Love Actually, and chronicles these pioneers and the music that inspired a generation. The film stars Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and an all-star cast of British actors that includes Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Darby, Nick Frost, Jack Davenport and Kenneth Branagh. We had an opportunity to travel to London a few weeks ago and speak with Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and the films young stars Tom Sturridge and Talulah Riley about the new »
"The Boat That Rocked" gets a new name but keeps its lesbian character
11 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Last spring, we told you Katherine Parkinson would be playing a lesbian cook in the film The Boat That Rocked. The movie was put through the ringer, and is finally in American theaters under the name Pirate Radio.
Reviews indicate that Katherine's character Felicity is a relatively small part, besides being the only woman working on board the boat, which is home to a rogue rock 'n' roll radio station in the 1960s. Cinemablend.com says Felicity is "exempt from the ship's no lady policy because she's a lesbian."
Since she's such a small part in a cast of many, many men, there is another reason to see the film: January Jones. She plays Elenore, who is married to one of the main DJs, Simon (Chris O'Dowd), but is really in love with the star disc jockey, Gavin (Rhys Ifans).
Also in the film is Emma Thompson, playing mother to »
- Trish Bendix
An Education (Review)
11 November 2009 2:11 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
An Education Directed by Lone Scherfig Let's start with the bad. Carey Mulligan's Jenny is just slightly too self-assured and forthright for a sixteen year old. The lurch from light-hearted to a darker tone midway through the film is marginally clumsy. And the running time is about 5 minutes too long: the ending grates somewhat and fractionally undermines that which has gone before it. And...that's about it. An Education is a film in which so much is of the highest order, from the acting to the screenplay to the direction, that these really are its only flaws. [1]The screenplay itself comes from the pen of Nick Hornby, adapting an autobiographical essay by journalist Lynn Barber (the full memoir, of the same name, was not published until June of this year). He does a wonderful job of crafting rounded, likeable characters who are all true to life yet eminently watchable »
- Joel
Hollywood should stop making films about our great writers | Tanya Gold
11 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bright Star, the new movie about Keats, has ruined him for me. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last
On Sunday I did the bad thing again. I bought a ticket to Bright Star, the biopic about John Keats. I have always liked Keats, despite the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" But I had forgotten what I call the Impromptu Law – after the George Sand biopic, Impromptu (1991), which stars Judy Davis as Sand and Hugh Grant and a handkerchief as Chopin.
My "Impromptu law" states: don't watch films about writers. Die of tuberculosis. Stick your head in the oven. If you are a writer, stick your life's work in the oven as well – then maybe they won't get you.
As soon as Keats appeared with his quill, I knew it was bad. Ignore the applauding critics; they have been blinded by the Shrek franchise. »
- Tanya Gold
Review: An Education - A-Grade
10 November 2009 2:04 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Director: Lone Scherfig Starring: Carey Mulligan - Jenny Peter Sarsgaard - David Alfred Molina - Jack Let's start with the bad. Carey Mulligan's Jenny is just slightly too self-assured and forthright for a sixteen year old. The lurch from light-hearted to a darker tone midway through the film is marginally clumsy. And the running time is about 5 minutes too long: the ending grates somewhat and fractionally undermines that which has gone before it. And...that's about it. An Education is a film in which so much is of the highest order, from the acting to the screenplay to the direction, that these really are its only flaws. The screenplay itself comes from the pen of Nick Hornby, adapting an autobiographical essay by journalist Lynn Barber (the full memoir, of the same name, was not published until June of this year). He does a wonderful job of crafting rounded, likeable »
- Joel Gregory
Second Thoughts
9 November 2009 5:30 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
· Jezebel has tracked down a rep for Emma Thompson, who had agreed to remove her name from the letter of Roman Polanski support hosted on French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy's website -- but whose name is still there. The rep said Thompson had "requested that her name be removed when she said she would. We have asked for confirmation from them but have not yet received it." »
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