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Movies This Week: Dogme Alums Get An Education with Bronson
20 hours ago | 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
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
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
9 November 2009 7:05 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
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." »
DVD Review: Last Chance Harvey
9 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Last Chance Harvey is a romantic comedy directed by Joel Hopkins and starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. After seeing Thompson in roles like Proffessor Sybil Trelawney in Potter and Nanny McPhee, it was nice to see her return to a standard role where we get to see her acting ability shine through.
Last Chance Harvey is about a man who is a composer for TV commercials in theUnited States. He’s stuck in his job which has changed over the years to become digital meaning the job he once loved as a muscian has become mundane and tedious. The main storyline follows Harvey travelling to London, England to see his daughter get married. He arrives to find that the wedding has been planned without any input from him but by his exwife and his daughter’s step father. Things go from bad to worse when his daughter tells him »
- David Sztypuljak
Thompson's Race Relations Speech For Son
8 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
British actress Emma Thompson has called on staff and students at a U.K. university to improve race relations after her adopted son suffered at the hands of bullies.
The Oscar-winner's 22-year-old son, Tindyebwa Agaba, a former Rwandan child soldier who she adopted in 2003, graduated from England's Exeter University in July with a degree in politics.
He endured taunts from other students about his background, and Thompson was determined to address the institution in a bid to help move race relations forward.
She visited the university last week (begs02Nov09) and begged the staff and student population to help make a difference at a lecture on Thursday.
Thompson told the assembled crowd, "It's depressing when people think nothing is being done about it.
"Tindy had his experience and now we're having a big week of educational events to try and help it. Please understand you're already engaged, give yourself small goals. You must understand you have a staff who want this university to be the most humane, safe place it can be.
"You're not going to get hundreds of black students here overnight, but what you can do is make them more comfortable. Visitors are never the ones who come up with the solutions, it is up to you." »
Thompson 'Withdraws Polanski Support'
7 November 2009 6:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
British actress Emma Thompson has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free Roman Polanski after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker.
The Oscar-winning actress signed a petition to free Polanski, who has been imprisoned since September on the request of Los Angeles law officials.
But on a trip to Exeter University in the U.K. earlier this month, Thompson was accosted by a student who requested she retract her support.
And after a lengthy chat with Caitlin Hayward-Tapp, who has set up a petition for those opposed to Polanski's freedom, Thompson agreed.
The 19 year old says, "I asked if I could speak to her (in person). She is such an inspirational woman, I reckoned she must have been willing to reconsider.
"It turned out she was very willing to hear what I had to say. She said she knows Roman Polanski and that she had had calls from friends asking her to sign the petition. She knows what a terrible early life he (Polanski) had.
"She said she had already been thinking a lot about the petition, as others had expressed their dismay at her signing it. We talked for 15 minutes and by the end she said she would get her name removed. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime. If she doesn't do this, it'd be a great shame."
Polanski is facing extradition to the U.S. to face sentencing over a 1977 charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to the charges but fled the country in 1978 before he could be handed his punishment.
Despite calls from his victim to drop the case, Polanski has been refused bail on two separate occasions over worries he is a "flight risk". »
Pucker Up. It's La Pfeiffer
6 November 2009 9:45 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Kissing. I want to bring this series back. Where is the time?
Someone has recorded my dreams! It's Michelle Pfeiffer's make-out sessions in the movies, compiled by the great pfansite, Pfeiffer the Face
Mmmm, Pfeiffer lips. The only person who doesn't love them is Pfeiffer herself "I look like a duck"Head on over to Pfeiffer The Face to vote in the poll for your favorite Pfeifferian smooch.... but someone get Pacino off of her first. He's practically eating her face* in Frankie & Johnny and he wasn't so nice to her in Scarface, either come to think of it.
* In Pacino's defense she is delicious. Even Emma Thompson thinks so. Remember that 90s interview when she was asked who she would like to be paired with if she played a lesbian? [src] Oh, God, well, lots of women, because I love women so much. I think that because of my »
- NATHANIEL R
Blu-Ray Round Up, Nov. 5, 2009: ‘Battlestar Galactica: The Plan,’ ‘Love Actually’
5 November 2009 11:07 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The Blu-Ray Round Up is back with two HD music releases, a beloved holiday movie from a director with a new comedy on the horizon (Richard Curtis, “Pirate Radio”), and a release that’s a must-own for fans of one of the most popular shows of the ’00s. This informative column is designed to let you know synopsis, technical specs, and features for titles that may have slipped under your radar. Pick your favorite.
“Nickelback: Live at Sturgis 2009” and “Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour Live At Red Rocks” were released on October 13th, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” was released on October 27th, 2009.
“Love Actually” was released on November 3rd, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan”
Photo credit: Universal
Synopsis: “The Cylons began as humanity’s robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Fashion fix: Timex Ironman Triathlon watch from Stranger Than Fiction
4 November 2009 2:29 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Movie watches are very rarely scene stealers. Sure, the camera can get up close and personal with them, revealing to us, the audience, every second tick by and yet we don’t think Will Smith need worry that his watch is going to upstage him when he’s saving the world. However, we’ve noted a possible exception – Stranger Than Fiction. The 2006 comedy/ drama stars Will Ferrell as Harold Crick, a sad-sack IRS auditor whose dull life is interrupted when he starts hearing Emma Thompson’s voice in his head, narrating his every move. Until this life-changing disturbance, he runs his life based on the timing of his wristwatch, but not just any watch – the Timex Ironman Triathlon Dual Tech watch. »
New On DVD This Week
3 November 2009 3:35 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, North by Northwest, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Rockford Files. Plus, there’s some classic Dr. Who coming out this week as well.
Check them out.
Movies
A Christmas Carol ~ Alastair Sim, Jack Warner (Blu-ray)
Aliens in the Attic ~ Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts (DVD and Blu-ray)
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1 (The Big Heat / 5 Against the House / The Lineup / Murder by Contract / The Sniper) ~ (DVD)
The Claudette Colbert Collection (Three-Cornered Moon / Maid of Salem / I Met »
- Joe Gillis
Blu-ray Review: Howards End (Criterion Collection)
3 November 2009 3:30 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
My experience with Merchant/Ivory Productions is limited to say the least as Howards End now marks the second film of theirs I have seen, with A Room With a View being the other. While elegantly made, A Room With a View didn't move me that much, but I can say Howards End did a lot to squelch my fears it too would bore me more than engage me. Criterion brings Howards End to Blu-ray following their previous two-disc DVD release back in 2005, and while the only new feature is a video appreciation of the late producer Ismail Merchant by director James Ivory, this is a film ripe for high definition.
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, Howards End takes a look at class divisions in Edwardian England and the inheritance of England by the working/lower class. The film centers on the well-to-do Wilcox family and the relationship »
- Brad Brevet
Joe Wright Is Not Directing My Fair Lady
1 November 2009 9:55 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Well, we can't be right all the time. Last week we brought you the news from the trades (it was in Variety! It's not our fault!) that Joe Wright, director of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice, would be reteaming with Keira Knightley for a new version of My Fair Lady, scripted by Emma Thompson.It turns out that at least 33.3% of that story is completely untrue, as discovered by Screenrush when they asked Joe Wright about it at the London Film Festival."It's not happening! It's all a lie!" opines Wright. "I thought about it for a couple of minutes and decided not to do it, and then suddenly it got into the press that I was doing it." And his motives for turning it down? "No reason really. You get a lot of scripts and you read them and..."So that's Danny Boyle and Joe Wright out of the director's chair. »
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