At this point in his 40+ year career, it can be said that filmmaker George Miller is a mythmaker. Despite his cinematic range, which spans brutal, violent live-action movies to family-friendly animated fare, all of his works have a spark of myth about them, whether he's dealing with women experimenting with the occult (as in "The Witches of Eastwick") or anthropomorphized animals venturing beyond their comfort zones (as in "Babe" and "Happy Feet").
Of course, Miller's magnum opus is what has now been officially dubbed the "Mad Max" saga, a series of films that has spanned the entire breadth of Miller's career to date. The fifth in the saga, "Furiosa," is in theaters now, and it's a picture that should silence anyone who still refers to these films as merely action movies. Unlike the previous "Mad Max" film, 2015's "Fury Road" (which "Furiosa" is a prequel to), this movie is a...
Of course, Miller's magnum opus is what has now been officially dubbed the "Mad Max" saga, a series of films that has spanned the entire breadth of Miller's career to date. The fifth in the saga, "Furiosa," is in theaters now, and it's a picture that should silence anyone who still refers to these films as merely action movies. Unlike the previous "Mad Max" film, 2015's "Fury Road" (which "Furiosa" is a prequel to), this movie is a...
- 5/24/2024
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
After pitting a knife-wielding Jennifer Lopez and a submachine gun-armed Jennifer Coolidge against a pack of wedding-crashing pirates in the rom-com/action mashup "Shotgun Wedding" (you can read our review of the film here), Prime Video is slowing things down a little in February. That month will see the release of the second and final season of the streamer's fantasy neo-noir series "Carnival Row," which is dropping nearly three and a half years after the first season launched in August 2019, in case you find yourself wondering (much like /Film's Valerie Ettenhofer), "Wait, so I didn't imagine the show where Orlando Bloom solves crimes and hooks up with pixie Cara Delevingne?" No, no you did not, but hey, at least now it has a proper ending!
In the absence of too many major new releases beyond that, Prime Video and Freevee viewers might want to spend February catching one of the...
In the absence of too many major new releases beyond that, Prime Video and Freevee viewers might want to spend February catching one of the...
- 1/25/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Cannes 2022: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ by George MillerStarring Tilda Swinton and Idres Elba, a tale in the style of Arabian Nights or Aladdin where interracial love is finally allowed in the guise of mythology.
Life is a story we tell ourselves and Tilda Swinton, playing an uptight academic specializing in mythology lets her imagined self go as Edris Elba swoops her into a cosmic flux.
Going into this movie with a very critical eye, I wondered how George Miller, a white Australian male would view Tilda Swinton vis a vis her geni, Idris Elba. I wondered if there was a racial or racist slant and if so what would it be? I wondered if there would be an “Oriental”-ism in the depiction westerners of the 19th century used in painting the lushness of harems and cruelty of what was called “the Orient” under the rule of the Ottomon Empire. After all, Turkey is the place of mythology. But surprisingly, we see very little local color except then Alithea goes into the bazaar and buys the charming blown glass bottle which contains the geni, or “Djinn” in its native language.
Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, an uptight, charmingly eccentric scholar, on a trip to Istanbul who discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Can Tilda Swinton hold her own opposite Idris Elba?
Can she really be a mythological figure visa vis another mythological being from another realm of reality. Is “realm” related to “reality”? Do we all live in realms of mythology in our lives as opposed to realms of realism?
Three thousand years of longing by whom? Ostensibly by the djinn and wished for by our protagonist as the geni tells her his story which excavates her (three centuries old?) layers of repression to reveal her own longing for sexual and loving fulfillment.
These were the questions I hoped this movie would answer as I let myself be drawn into its broad, brightly colored lines of development, visually well designed with a tune that suddenly seems to reflect a recurring theme of one’s own life: one’s own heartfelt wishes, long buried, revealing 3,000 years of longing. The music, composed by Junkie X, billed here as Tom Holkenborg is stunning. From the Song of Solomon (with a really unintendedly funny animated accompanist), to the theme song itself, the score complements the story without ever getting into its way.
The djinn’s story coincides with the fall of the Ottomon Empire where such stories (as I said) of Aladin or 1,001 Nights originated. If considered within the context of Western Civilization in which the Ottomon Empire was destroyed by the rise of Christianity, the story takes on a racial and racist slant. But we who are watching the movie do not have to deal with that. This is a tale told by a teller of tales.
And in the end, the Djinn (who is never given a proper name) cannot live in a white, christian, cleanly lit society. He must return to the darker realms where storytelling is an art, not a means of coping with life.
Tilda, the white savior of the geni, in her pure goodness, makes her third wish, one of seemingly self-sacrifice in the name of love; she wishes that he return to where he belongs and will thrive. He, in turn, rewards her with occasional returns so their love can continue but without interrupting her happy existence as an affluent, productive single white female.
Watch the trailer here.
I too could tell such a story, but in the realm of our “real” society, it is not so clean and clear but is strewn with rough, irreconcilable elements. This is clearly a love story between two opposites whose attraction/ separation has lasted three thousand years. It is a fairytale which fulfills a longing many of us have in our minds but which remains, as in this sweetly told movie, only a fairytale.
Don’t get me wrong. I loved the movie. I would put it into a category with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, in which a retired school teacher, yearning for some adventure, and some sex hires a young sex worker named Leo Grande. It is a true “date movie” which, I am happy to report filled the Odeon Theater in Berlin on the Saturday night I saw it.
It is a brave move to make such a film in today’s environment. I do not think any American white male or female director would dare to tackle such a subject. Directed by George Miller on what must be a huge budget judging by the credits after the film, it is also co-written by Miller who wrote to lyrics to a song according to the credits but whose words I do not recall, though the theme melody is hauntingly beautiful. It is cowritten by Augusta Gore whose single credit on IMDb is this movie. I wonder if she pitched it to Miller. It is based upon the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt.
Further kudos should go to the director of photography John Seale, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The English Patient (1996) and Witness (1985); the production designer Roger Ford, known for Babe (1995), Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002) and The Dressmaker (2015); the art directors Sophie Nash, known for The Nightingale (2018) and The Light Between Oceans (2016) and Nicholas Dare(Hacksaw Ridge); and the film editor Margaret Sixel, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Happy Feet (2006) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998). She has also been married to George Miller since 1995. They have two children.
Other notable below-the-line crew members include set decorator Lisa Thompson, costume designer Kym Barrett, and an extensive expensive makeup department: Lara Jade Birch…crowd hair supervisor / crowd makeup supervisor Terri Farmer…key hair stylist / key makeup artist Brydie Stone…key prosthetics artist Lesley Vanderwalt…hair designer / makeup designer Sheldon Wade…prosthetic artist
International sales agent FilmNation coproduced with U.S. studio-North American distributor United Artists Releasing / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)and licensed rights to
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2020) (Switzerland) (theatrical)BfParis (2022) (Argentina) (theatrical)Blue Lantern Entertainment International (2020) (Vietnam) (theatrical)Chantier (2020) (Turkey) (theatrical)Eagle Pictures (2020) (Italy) (theatrical)Golden Scene (2020) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)Hkc Entertainment (2022) (Pakistan) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Aruba) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Bolivia) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Brazil) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Colombia) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Costa Rica) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Dominican Republic) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Ecuador) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (El Salvador) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Guatemala) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Honduras) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Jamaica) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Mexico) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Nicaragua) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Panama) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Peru) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Suriname) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Trinidad & Tobago) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Uruguay) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Venezuela) (theatrical)Kino Films (2020) (Japan) (theatrical)Leonine (2020) (Germany and German speaking territories) (theatrical)Metropolitan Filmexport (2022) (France) (theatrical)Monolith Films (2020) (Poland) (theatrical)Monolith (2020) (Malta) (theatrical(Nk Contents (2022) (Korea) (theatrical)Nos Audiovisuais (2020) (Portugal) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Denmark) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Finland) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Norway) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Sweden) (theatrical)PVR Pictures (2020) (India) (theatrical)Roadshow (2020) (Australia/ N.Z.) (theatrical)Sam Film (2020) (Iceland) (theatrical)Shaw Organisation (2022) (Singapore) (theatrical)Tanweer Alliances (2022) (Greece) (theatrical)TriPictures (2020) (Spain) (theatrical)Vlg Filmai (2020) (Lithuania) (theatrical)Volga (2020) (Russia) (theatrical)DeAPlaneta (2020) (Spain) (all media)Leonine Distribution (2022) (Germany) (all media)Sunac (2022) (China) (all media)The Searchers (2022) (Benelux) (all media)Universal for rest of worldProduced by
Rachael Gill…associate producer Dean Hood…executive producer Craig McMahon…executive producer George Miller…producer (produced by) Doug Mitchell…producer (produced by) Kevin Sun…executive producer...
Life is a story we tell ourselves and Tilda Swinton, playing an uptight academic specializing in mythology lets her imagined self go as Edris Elba swoops her into a cosmic flux.
Going into this movie with a very critical eye, I wondered how George Miller, a white Australian male would view Tilda Swinton vis a vis her geni, Idris Elba. I wondered if there was a racial or racist slant and if so what would it be? I wondered if there would be an “Oriental”-ism in the depiction westerners of the 19th century used in painting the lushness of harems and cruelty of what was called “the Orient” under the rule of the Ottomon Empire. After all, Turkey is the place of mythology. But surprisingly, we see very little local color except then Alithea goes into the bazaar and buys the charming blown glass bottle which contains the geni, or “Djinn” in its native language.
Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, an uptight, charmingly eccentric scholar, on a trip to Istanbul who discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Can Tilda Swinton hold her own opposite Idris Elba?
Can she really be a mythological figure visa vis another mythological being from another realm of reality. Is “realm” related to “reality”? Do we all live in realms of mythology in our lives as opposed to realms of realism?
Three thousand years of longing by whom? Ostensibly by the djinn and wished for by our protagonist as the geni tells her his story which excavates her (three centuries old?) layers of repression to reveal her own longing for sexual and loving fulfillment.
These were the questions I hoped this movie would answer as I let myself be drawn into its broad, brightly colored lines of development, visually well designed with a tune that suddenly seems to reflect a recurring theme of one’s own life: one’s own heartfelt wishes, long buried, revealing 3,000 years of longing. The music, composed by Junkie X, billed here as Tom Holkenborg is stunning. From the Song of Solomon (with a really unintendedly funny animated accompanist), to the theme song itself, the score complements the story without ever getting into its way.
The djinn’s story coincides with the fall of the Ottomon Empire where such stories (as I said) of Aladin or 1,001 Nights originated. If considered within the context of Western Civilization in which the Ottomon Empire was destroyed by the rise of Christianity, the story takes on a racial and racist slant. But we who are watching the movie do not have to deal with that. This is a tale told by a teller of tales.
And in the end, the Djinn (who is never given a proper name) cannot live in a white, christian, cleanly lit society. He must return to the darker realms where storytelling is an art, not a means of coping with life.
Tilda, the white savior of the geni, in her pure goodness, makes her third wish, one of seemingly self-sacrifice in the name of love; she wishes that he return to where he belongs and will thrive. He, in turn, rewards her with occasional returns so their love can continue but without interrupting her happy existence as an affluent, productive single white female.
Watch the trailer here.
I too could tell such a story, but in the realm of our “real” society, it is not so clean and clear but is strewn with rough, irreconcilable elements. This is clearly a love story between two opposites whose attraction/ separation has lasted three thousand years. It is a fairytale which fulfills a longing many of us have in our minds but which remains, as in this sweetly told movie, only a fairytale.
Don’t get me wrong. I loved the movie. I would put it into a category with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, in which a retired school teacher, yearning for some adventure, and some sex hires a young sex worker named Leo Grande. It is a true “date movie” which, I am happy to report filled the Odeon Theater in Berlin on the Saturday night I saw it.
It is a brave move to make such a film in today’s environment. I do not think any American white male or female director would dare to tackle such a subject. Directed by George Miller on what must be a huge budget judging by the credits after the film, it is also co-written by Miller who wrote to lyrics to a song according to the credits but whose words I do not recall, though the theme melody is hauntingly beautiful. It is cowritten by Augusta Gore whose single credit on IMDb is this movie. I wonder if she pitched it to Miller. It is based upon the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt.
Further kudos should go to the director of photography John Seale, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The English Patient (1996) and Witness (1985); the production designer Roger Ford, known for Babe (1995), Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002) and The Dressmaker (2015); the art directors Sophie Nash, known for The Nightingale (2018) and The Light Between Oceans (2016) and Nicholas Dare(Hacksaw Ridge); and the film editor Margaret Sixel, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Happy Feet (2006) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998). She has also been married to George Miller since 1995. They have two children.
Other notable below-the-line crew members include set decorator Lisa Thompson, costume designer Kym Barrett, and an extensive expensive makeup department: Lara Jade Birch…crowd hair supervisor / crowd makeup supervisor Terri Farmer…key hair stylist / key makeup artist Brydie Stone…key prosthetics artist Lesley Vanderwalt…hair designer / makeup designer Sheldon Wade…prosthetic artist
International sales agent FilmNation coproduced with U.S. studio-North American distributor United Artists Releasing / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)and licensed rights to
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2020) (Switzerland) (theatrical)BfParis (2022) (Argentina) (theatrical)Blue Lantern Entertainment International (2020) (Vietnam) (theatrical)Chantier (2020) (Turkey) (theatrical)Eagle Pictures (2020) (Italy) (theatrical)Golden Scene (2020) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)Hkc Entertainment (2022) (Pakistan) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Aruba) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Bolivia) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Brazil) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Colombia) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Costa Rica) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Dominican Republic) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Ecuador) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (El Salvador) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Guatemala) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Honduras) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Jamaica) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Mexico) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Nicaragua) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Panama) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Peru) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Suriname) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Trinidad & Tobago) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Uruguay) (theatrical)Idc (2020) (Venezuela) (theatrical)Kino Films (2020) (Japan) (theatrical)Leonine (2020) (Germany and German speaking territories) (theatrical)Metropolitan Filmexport (2022) (France) (theatrical)Monolith Films (2020) (Poland) (theatrical)Monolith (2020) (Malta) (theatrical(Nk Contents (2022) (Korea) (theatrical)Nos Audiovisuais (2020) (Portugal) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Denmark) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Finland) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Norway) (theatrical)Nordisk Film (2020) (Sweden) (theatrical)PVR Pictures (2020) (India) (theatrical)Roadshow (2020) (Australia/ N.Z.) (theatrical)Sam Film (2020) (Iceland) (theatrical)Shaw Organisation (2022) (Singapore) (theatrical)Tanweer Alliances (2022) (Greece) (theatrical)TriPictures (2020) (Spain) (theatrical)Vlg Filmai (2020) (Lithuania) (theatrical)Volga (2020) (Russia) (theatrical)DeAPlaneta (2020) (Spain) (all media)Leonine Distribution (2022) (Germany) (all media)Sunac (2022) (China) (all media)The Searchers (2022) (Benelux) (all media)Universal for rest of worldProduced by
Rachael Gill…associate producer Dean Hood…executive producer Craig McMahon…executive producer George Miller…producer (produced by) Doug Mitchell…producer (produced by) Kevin Sun…executive producer...
- 12/18/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
From ‘Blonde’ to ‘Bones and All,’ Get to Know These Must-Listen Audiobooks Before the Films Come Out
It’s fall film festival season and there’s a whole new crop of literary-minded films coming to screens through the rest of the year. Since the films that premiere at festivals like Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York are the ones that fill awards nominations lists a few months later, the festivals provide an early peek at the movies that will be front and center at the Oscars, film critics awards and all the other end-of-year kudosfests.
But there’s a way to get to know many of these works even before they premiere at festivals and come to streaming or movie screens: get familiar with the books they’re based on. These titles won’t be winning the original screenplay prize, but there are at least eight adaptations of notable literary works coming this year that are worth diving into. If reading time is short, why not try listening on audiobook while commuting,...
But there’s a way to get to know many of these works even before they premiere at festivals and come to streaming or movie screens: get familiar with the books they’re based on. These titles won’t be winning the original screenplay prize, but there are at least eight adaptations of notable literary works coming this year that are worth diving into. If reading time is short, why not try listening on audiobook while commuting,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Three Thousand Years of Longing Review — Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by George Miller, written by George Miller, Augusta Gore and A.S. Byatt and starring Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Berk Ozturk, Anthony Moisset, Alyla Browne, Abel Bond, Peter Bertoni, Lianne Mackessy and Aamito Lagum. Idris Elba [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022): George Miller’s Film Plays Like an Art House Movie with Grand Ambitions...
Continue reading: Film Review: Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022): George Miller’s Film Plays Like an Art House Movie with Grand Ambitions...
- 8/31/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
No matter how they are told or which culture they originate from, stories are the very essence of human existence. Every group of people throughout history has lived off stories, mythology, and the like to progress their society. After all, what is the point of history if you do not keep track of and learn from it?
That is the idea at the core of "Three Thousand Years of Longing," George Miller's maximalist adaptation of A.S. Byatt's short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye." While it is fair to expect something as epic and intense as "Mad Max: Fury Road," that couldn't be further from what viewers receive with this film. "Three Thousand Years of Longing" is quieter and contemplative, opting to use its sprawling visuals sparingly to convey its grand ideas. A beautiful yet appropriately flawed ode to storytelling, Miller champions the resilience of humanity that...
That is the idea at the core of "Three Thousand Years of Longing," George Miller's maximalist adaptation of A.S. Byatt's short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye." While it is fair to expect something as epic and intense as "Mad Max: Fury Road," that couldn't be further from what viewers receive with this film. "Three Thousand Years of Longing" is quieter and contemplative, opting to use its sprawling visuals sparingly to convey its grand ideas. A beautiful yet appropriately flawed ode to storytelling, Miller champions the resilience of humanity that...
- 8/29/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
"Three Thousand Years of Longing", directed by Oscar winner George Miller ("Mad Max: Fury Road") is the new 'epic fantasy' romance feature, adapting the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt, starring Idris Elba as a pointy-eared 'genie', now playing:
"...a scholar, content with life, encounters a 'Djinn' who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
"Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul...
"... leads to consequences neither would have expected..."
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- 8/29/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Tilda Swinton must decide what wishes to make, or whether to make them at all, when she discovers a Djinn (genie) played by Idris Elba in the latest film from “Mad Max: Fury Road” director George Miller.
It’s based on “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” a collection of short stories by “Possession” and “Angels & Insects” novelist A.S. Byatt.
Here’s all the information you need if you wish to see the film for yourself.
When Does “Three Thousand Years of Longing” Come Out?
The movie opened on Friday, Aug. 26.
Is “Three Thousand Years of Longing” Streaming or in Theaters?
Right now, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is playing exclusively in theaters. While we don’t have an exact streaming release date yet, look for the movie to stream later on Prime Video. (Amazon acquired MGM earlier this year.)
Also Read:
George Miller on the Idris Elba...
It’s based on “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” a collection of short stories by “Possession” and “Angels & Insects” novelist A.S. Byatt.
Here’s all the information you need if you wish to see the film for yourself.
When Does “Three Thousand Years of Longing” Come Out?
The movie opened on Friday, Aug. 26.
Is “Three Thousand Years of Longing” Streaming or in Theaters?
Right now, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is playing exclusively in theaters. While we don’t have an exact streaming release date yet, look for the movie to stream later on Prime Video. (Amazon acquired MGM earlier this year.)
Also Read:
George Miller on the Idris Elba...
- 8/26/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Cohen Media Group hopes a Spanish film can dent the tough market for foreign language fare, Bleecker Street is out with a hostage drama and A24 presents Owen Kline’s directorial debut about a teenage cartoonist as the arthouse market flexes more muscle than it has in weeks.
The dearth of new releases itself nudged some distributors to grab a window now before a more crowded fall, including Uar’s supersized specialty opening of the Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton-starring Three Thousand Years Of Longing on 2,436 screens, considerably wider than originally anticipated.
George Miller’s fantasy fairytale, written by Miller and Augusta Gore, is based on the 1994 A.S. Byatt short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’. Swinton is a complacent academic, Elba is the Djinn (a kind of spirit genie) she encounters at a conference in Istanbul in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition entry. Deadline review here.
The Good Boss...
The dearth of new releases itself nudged some distributors to grab a window now before a more crowded fall, including Uar’s supersized specialty opening of the Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton-starring Three Thousand Years Of Longing on 2,436 screens, considerably wider than originally anticipated.
George Miller’s fantasy fairytale, written by Miller and Augusta Gore, is based on the 1994 A.S. Byatt short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’. Swinton is a complacent academic, Elba is the Djinn (a kind of spirit genie) she encounters at a conference in Istanbul in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition entry. Deadline review here.
The Good Boss...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"Three Thousand Years of Longing," the centuries-spanning epic and George Miller's first film since "Mad Max: Fury Road," has finally arrived in theaters after a boisterous Cannes debut. However, what many might not know is that it is actually an adaptation of a short story by British writer A.S. Byatt titled "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye," a story published in her 1994 collection of the same name.
While speaking to /Film's Emma Stefansky in an interview, Miller recounted when he first read "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye." Once he finished the story, he knew that it was a story he had to adapt to the big screen.
"I first came across the story when someone gave me a small anthology of fairy tales that A.S. Byatt had written," the "Happy Feet" director recalled. "One of them was a little longer than the others, about 40 pages, called 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.
While speaking to /Film's Emma Stefansky in an interview, Miller recounted when he first read "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye." Once he finished the story, he knew that it was a story he had to adapt to the big screen.
"I first came across the story when someone gave me a small anthology of fairy tales that A.S. Byatt had written," the "Happy Feet" director recalled. "One of them was a little longer than the others, about 40 pages, called 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.
- 8/26/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
While watching various George Miller movies from the outside looking in will likely cultivate a healthy respect for the director's casting eye, those who've read Kyle Buchanan's "Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road" oral history have an even deeper appreciation for the esteemed filmmaker's process. After all, just imagine meeting the enormous task of having to fill Mel Gibson's shoes for the character of Max Rockatansky (to say nothing of casting Gibson in the first place with the original "Mad Max") and deciding to take a leap of faith on, at the time, an up-and-coming Tom Hardy. From Hardy to Charlize Theron to Nicholas Hoult — the latter of whom even Miller had initially dismissed — the director went above and beyond to remind audiences that he might very well be second to none when it comes to pinpointing his lead actors.
"Three Thousand Years of Longing,...
"Three Thousand Years of Longing,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
There are no half measures with George Miller. The Australian filmmaker commits everything he has to movies about pigs who wish they were sheepdogs, penguins who wish they were tap dancers, and denizens of post-apocalyptic wastelands who wish only for the next drop of water, the next scavenge-able ghost town, the next souped-up war rig full of guzzolene to ride straight to Valhalla, shiny and chrome. It's been seven years since Miller blazed back onto the scene with the breathtaking "Mad Max: Fury Road," which carved his place in film history as the kind of guy who knows exactly how to squeeze every last drop of adrenaline from every unbelievable action scene. His newest film, the Arabian Nights-influenced fairytale romance "Three Thousand Years of Longing," could not be more different.
"Three Thousand Years of Longing," based on A.S. Byatt's short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye," spins...
"Three Thousand Years of Longing," based on A.S. Byatt's short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye," spins...
- 8/26/2022
- by Emma Stefansky
- Slash Film
Writer-director George Miller’s 2015 action extravaganza “Mad Max: Fury Road” is already considered a classic of its genre less than a decade after its initial theatrical release. So how does a filmmaker follow a movie that Edgar Wright described as “the best action film of all time” and that an Empire magazine poll anointed “the greatest movie of the century”?
For an artist like Miller, there was really only one choice: to strike out in an entirely different direction, which is what he did with his dazzling new fantasy film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.” Miller first bought the rights to the film’s source material, A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” in the late 1990s, so for years he moved back and forth between it and “Fury Road.” “One was a palette cleanser for the other,” Miller told IndieWire, explaining that by working...
For an artist like Miller, there was really only one choice: to strike out in an entirely different direction, which is what he did with his dazzling new fantasy film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.” Miller first bought the rights to the film’s source material, A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” in the late 1990s, so for years he moved back and forth between it and “Fury Road.” “One was a palette cleanser for the other,” Miller told IndieWire, explaining that by working...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
On a trip to Istanbul for a conference, Alithea Binnie, a scholar of narrative and myth, finds herself swept up into a mythic story of her own. Alithea, played by Tilda Swinton, buys a bottle from an old shop, a cultural token for her travels, only to find that it is apparently home to a genie. One moment, she’s rinsing the bottle off in her hotel sink. The next, a giant Idris Elba, speaking another language and flowing with colorful undercurrents of fire and electricity beneath his skin, has...
- 8/26/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
George Miller is back. And not a moment too soon.
The acclaimed Australian auteur, who has been responsible for everything from “Happy Feet” to “Mad Max: Fury Road” (and the upcoming spin-off “Furiosa”), returns this weekend with “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a long-in-development adaptation of “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” a short story collection by A.S. Byatt. Tilda Swinton stars as a bookish scholar who accidentally unleashes a mystical genie (played by Idris Elba) from a lamp. After he emerges, he tells her the story of how he got in the lamp and tales about his previous masters, all while forming a close emotional relationship with his new ward. It’s strange and gorgeous and very Miller, full of rococo visual flourishes and snappy editorial tics.
It should be noted that when I got on the Zoom with Miller, he noticed artwork on my wall. Some of...
The acclaimed Australian auteur, who has been responsible for everything from “Happy Feet” to “Mad Max: Fury Road” (and the upcoming spin-off “Furiosa”), returns this weekend with “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a long-in-development adaptation of “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” a short story collection by A.S. Byatt. Tilda Swinton stars as a bookish scholar who accidentally unleashes a mystical genie (played by Idris Elba) from a lamp. After he emerges, he tells her the story of how he got in the lamp and tales about his previous masters, all while forming a close emotional relationship with his new ward. It’s strange and gorgeous and very Miller, full of rococo visual flourishes and snappy editorial tics.
It should be noted that when I got on the Zoom with Miller, he noticed artwork on my wall. Some of...
- 8/26/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
This review originally ran in conjunction with the film’s premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Of all the delirious sights that fill the screen and dazzle the eyes in George Miller’s delightfully idiosyncratic “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the most surprising is also, without a doubt, the most banal: It is the four-inch piece of cloth that actress Tilda Swinton drapes across her nose and mouth as her character rides a city bus.
It would seem this fairy-tale landscape that Miller has dreamed up – a land of Djinns and magic wishes and men who morph into malicious little ghouls before scattering away as 10,000 scarabs – is also, apparently, a world shook by Covid.
This tension between escapism and the dreariness we often hope to escape lies at the heart of the mad scientist Miller’s latest experiment, which premiered to waves of applause at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
Of all the delirious sights that fill the screen and dazzle the eyes in George Miller’s delightfully idiosyncratic “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the most surprising is also, without a doubt, the most banal: It is the four-inch piece of cloth that actress Tilda Swinton drapes across her nose and mouth as her character rides a city bus.
It would seem this fairy-tale landscape that Miller has dreamed up – a land of Djinns and magic wishes and men who morph into malicious little ghouls before scattering away as 10,000 scarabs – is also, apparently, a world shook by Covid.
This tension between escapism and the dreariness we often hope to escape lies at the heart of the mad scientist Miller’s latest experiment, which premiered to waves of applause at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
- 8/26/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
There’s no question that Australian filmmaker and all-around eccentric genius George Miller has had one of the most eclectic directorial journeys in cinema. He’s only directed 10 ¼ features, and out of those, only three are standalone films. Four of his movies comprise perhaps the greatest post-apocalyptic action series of all time, while three more are…part of beloved and/or successful children’s franchises. It’s an odd resume, to say the least.
Which brings us to his latest venture, Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on the novella “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Following his 2015 masterpiece, Mad Max: Fury Road, the new film is about as far away from that visceral, high-octane desert epic as one could get, especially since it largely takes place between two characters in one hotel room. Of course, one of those characters is a Djinn, played with majesty,...
Which brings us to his latest venture, Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on the novella “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Following his 2015 masterpiece, Mad Max: Fury Road, the new film is about as far away from that visceral, high-octane desert epic as one could get, especially since it largely takes place between two characters in one hotel room. Of course, one of those characters is a Djinn, played with majesty,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Idris Elba wasn’t longing for any Dijinn prep work ahead of “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”
George Miller’s first film since 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is based on the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Elba portrays a Dijinn who offers a scholar (Tilda Swinton) three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, unfolding in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to decades-spanning, globe-trotting consequences neither expected. The film premiered at Cannes and opens in theaters August 26.
Director Miller penned the script along with daughter Augusta Gore, and that proved to be enough source material for Elba without needing the full history of the tale.
“I actually didn’t read the novella — I didn’t want to be tainted or influenced by it,” Elba explained to Entertainment Weekly. “Any literature about djinn was off the table for me. I didn...
George Miller’s first film since 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is based on the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Elba portrays a Dijinn who offers a scholar (Tilda Swinton) three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, unfolding in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to decades-spanning, globe-trotting consequences neither expected. The film premiered at Cannes and opens in theaters August 26.
Director Miller penned the script along with daughter Augusta Gore, and that proved to be enough source material for Elba without needing the full history of the tale.
“I actually didn’t read the novella — I didn’t want to be tainted or influenced by it,” Elba explained to Entertainment Weekly. “Any literature about djinn was off the table for me. I didn...
- 8/26/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
There’s a reason why the term “Dog Days of Summer” is frequently bandied about this time of year, and this weekend will probably be another great example of how the last few weeks of August affect any movies daring enough to be released. The studios usually know better, and let’s just say that they’re not going to throw out their biggest movies on a weekend when schools are reopening and people are returning from summer activities. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
It’s into this market that we get a popular filmmaker’s follow-up to his six-time Oscar-winning film, as George Miller‘s first movie after 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a literary adaptation with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Based on A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” the movie stars...
It’s into this market that we get a popular filmmaker’s follow-up to his six-time Oscar-winning film, as George Miller‘s first movie after 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” a literary adaptation with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Based on A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” the movie stars...
- 8/24/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
While George Miller is currently in the midst of production on the Mad Max prequel, we do have another film of his to look forward to before our return to the wastelands. MGM has released a new clip from Three Thousand Years of Longing, the upcoming fantasy film starring Idris Elba and Tilda Winston.
Based on the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt, Three Thousand Years of Longing stars Tilda Swinton as Dr. Alithea Binnie, an academic and creature of reason who is content with her life. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. The Three Thousand Years of Longing clip finds Dr. Binnie attempting to tell the Djinn that she has no desire for one wish, let alone three. When she abruptly wishes that they’d never met,...
Based on the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt, Three Thousand Years of Longing stars Tilda Swinton as Dr. Alithea Binnie, an academic and creature of reason who is content with her life. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. The Three Thousand Years of Longing clip finds Dr. Binnie attempting to tell the Djinn that she has no desire for one wish, let alone three. When she abruptly wishes that they’d never met,...
- 8/12/2022
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
We’re getting closer to what some lovingly (and some not so lovingly) call the “dog days of summer” at movie theaters. There can still be a few breakout hits, and even a few early Oscar contenders, but the studios know schools are starting back up, people are going on vacation, etc. It has never been the best time to release a movie, especially as it gets later in the month. Read on for Gold Derby’s August 2022 box office preview.
With that in mind, we have about eight or nine wide releases of various sizes that will get some sort of nationwide release, and maybe, there will be a few hidden gems in there.
“Bullet Train” (Sony) – August 5
The first wide release of August is also likely to be the biggest of the month, as Brad Pitt leads the new action movie from David Leitch (“Deadpool 2”), which co-stars the likes of Bad Bunny,...
With that in mind, we have about eight or nine wide releases of various sizes that will get some sort of nationwide release, and maybe, there will be a few hidden gems in there.
“Bullet Train” (Sony) – August 5
The first wide release of August is also likely to be the biggest of the month, as Brad Pitt leads the new action movie from David Leitch (“Deadpool 2”), which co-stars the likes of Bad Bunny,...
- 7/30/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Sylvia Kristel in Emmanuelle (1974). Audrey Diwan, whose film Happening won last year's Golden Lion at Venice, will be directing an English-language adaptation of the erotic novel Emmanuelle. The film will star Léa Seydoux in the titular role, which was first played by the great Sylvia Kristel. Ahead of this new iteration of Emmanuelle, we also recommend reading Abbey Bender's reappraisal of the subversive softcore series.Lynne Ramsay has announced her next feature: an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's short story Stone Mattress, starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh. The story takes place on a cruise into the Arctic Passage, where protagonist Verna (to be played by Moore) encounters a man from her past.Recommended VIEWINGThe trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller's first film since 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road.
- 5/25/2022
- MUBI
Notebook is covering the Cannes Film Festival with an ongoing correspondence between critics Leonardo Goi and Lawrence Garcia, and editor Daniel Kasman.Eo.Dear Lawrence and Leo,These days, big festivals seem so wary of disturbing attendees, whether on the business or press side, that radical works of cinema are rarely placed directly in the spotlight. Thus when we get a token art-first-commerce-second-(or not at all) bone thrown to a receptive viewer like me, I’m both delighted at the bold choice, and brought face to face with the fact it's not taken more often. (Past examples in Cannes: anything by Malick; Carax’s Holy Motors; Godard’s Goodbye to Language; Kiarostami et fils’ 24 Frames.) This year the refreshment of audacity adventure was Eo, a modern version of Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966), a tale of humankind's kindness towards and, more often, mistreatment of a donkey, directed by...
- 5/25/2022
- MUBI
Here’s a look at the full trailer for Three Thousand Years Of Longing. From director George Miller, the movie screened at the 75th Cannes Film Festival out of competition and was met with a six minute standing ovation.
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Written by George Miller and Augusta Gore, Three Thousand Years Of Longing is based...
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Written by George Miller and Augusta Gore, Three Thousand Years Of Longing is based...
- 5/23/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In Three Thousand Years of Longing, an introverted historian (as if there’s another kind) meets a genie. The historian is played by a bespectacled Tilda Swinton, affecting a North English accent, and the genie by Idris Elba—blue, shimmering, with pointy ears, and liable to disappear in a puff of smoke if the appropriate words are spoken. The director is George Miller, directing for the first time since Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015. As acts to follow go, they don’t get much harder.
What Fury Road‘s success does allow, it seems, is a free swing. And as a testament to Miller, he puts his back into it. Three Thousand Years of Longing is the most “passion project”-looking passion project to have graced us in quite some time. Freewheeling through eras and Arabic mythology with breezy, bonkers ease, it offers its scattershot secrets like a fable. The...
What Fury Road‘s success does allow, it seems, is a free swing. And as a testament to Miller, he puts his back into it. Three Thousand Years of Longing is the most “passion project”-looking passion project to have graced us in quite some time. Freewheeling through eras and Arabic mythology with breezy, bonkers ease, it offers its scattershot secrets like a fable. The...
- 5/23/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
MGM has debuted a new trailer for George Miller’s madcap feature ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing.’
Based on the short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’ by A.S. Byatt, the film revolves around the encounter in a hotel room in Istanbul between a scholar (Tilda Swinton) and a djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation leads to consequences neither would have expected.
Directed by George Miller, the R-rated fantasy-romance drama is released in the US on August 31st.
Also in trailers – Chris Pratt stars in trailer for ‘The Terminal List’
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Based on the short story ‘The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye’ by A.S. Byatt, the film revolves around the encounter in a hotel room in Istanbul between a scholar (Tilda Swinton) and a djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation leads to consequences neither would have expected.
Directed by George Miller, the R-rated fantasy-romance drama is released in the US on August 31st.
Also in trailers – Chris Pratt stars in trailer for ‘The Terminal List’
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- 5/23/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
When ranging out of Mad Max territory, George Miller’s films are highly diverse and unpredictable in nature, and never has this proved more the case than with his time-traveling, narratively far-ranging new drama, Three Thousand Years of Longing. In this Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition entry, the director delves back into old texts to examine the nature and power of legendary stories that have endured for centuries in a way that is both sharply creative and a bit off-putting; the film begins on quite a high, only to slowly deflate as it works its way toward its modern-day ending.
Based on a 1994 short story, “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” by A.S. Byatt and adapted by Miller and his daughter Augusta Gore, the film is bracing in its intelligence and thirst for inquiry, immoderately well made and carried to the highest levels of screen acting by two sensationally good actors,...
Based on a 1994 short story, “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” by A.S. Byatt and adapted by Miller and his daughter Augusta Gore, the film is bracing in its intelligence and thirst for inquiry, immoderately well made and carried to the highest levels of screen acting by two sensationally good actors,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
In the brain-tickling eyesore that is “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” Tilda Swinton plays a narratologist, which is to say, someone who studies stories. Her character, Dr. Alithea Binnie, thinks she’s heard them all, so she’s ahead of the game when she suddenly finds herself at the center of a whopper, a modern-day fairy tale involving a djinn (Idris Elba) ready and eager to grant her three wishes. Some movies aspire to uncover the meaning of life. This one aims to uncover the meaning of movies — as director George Miller attempts to crack the all-encompassing formula for story, the way Albert Einstein did for theoretical physics.
That’s an awful lot for any filmmaker to bite off, but then, this is George Miller we’re talking about, and where else does one go after making the ne plus ultra of action movies, “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Many will...
That’s an awful lot for any filmmaker to bite off, but then, this is George Miller we’re talking about, and where else does one go after making the ne plus ultra of action movies, “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Many will...
- 5/20/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes debut of “Three Thousand Years of Longing” was never going to be a dull affair.
George Miller’s long-gestating follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Road,” which also premiered out of competition at Cannes, is one of the festival’s most anticipated titles. The dialogue-driven fantasy marks a sharp divergence from the action-heavy “Fury Road,” and many cinephiles were eager to see the Australian director surprise audiences again. But few expected the shocking surprises to begin on the red carpet.
As the film’s stars, which include Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, arrived at the premiere, an incident occurred on the red carpet. An unidentified woman, who appeared to be wearing a shirt that said “Scum” on the back, burst onto the scene and began screaming at the top of her lungs. The activist appeared to be protesting sexual violence against and suppression of women, as Scum is a...
George Miller’s long-gestating follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Road,” which also premiered out of competition at Cannes, is one of the festival’s most anticipated titles. The dialogue-driven fantasy marks a sharp divergence from the action-heavy “Fury Road,” and many cinephiles were eager to see the Australian director surprise audiences again. But few expected the shocking surprises to begin on the red carpet.
As the film’s stars, which include Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, arrived at the premiere, an incident occurred on the red carpet. An unidentified woman, who appeared to be wearing a shirt that said “Scum” on the back, burst onto the scene and began screaming at the top of her lungs. The activist appeared to be protesting sexual violence against and suppression of women, as Scum is a...
- 5/20/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is just trying to keep things in order.
Oscar-winner Swinton stars as Alithea, an academic content with leading a life of reason and logic. However, all of her beliefs are thrown into a tailspin after encountering a Djinn, played by Idris Elba, while attending a conference in Istanbul. Suddenly Alithea has the chance to make three wishes that will come true, in exchange for the Dijinn’s freedom.
The mystical plot of writer-director George Miller’s long-awaited “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is expertly matched with jaw-dropping special effects. The film debuts in theaters August 31 after premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival out of competition
Per an official synopsis, Alithea’s wishes present two problems: First, she doubts that the Dijinn is real and second, since she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The...
Oscar-winner Swinton stars as Alithea, an academic content with leading a life of reason and logic. However, all of her beliefs are thrown into a tailspin after encountering a Djinn, played by Idris Elba, while attending a conference in Istanbul. Suddenly Alithea has the chance to make three wishes that will come true, in exchange for the Dijinn’s freedom.
The mystical plot of writer-director George Miller’s long-awaited “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is expertly matched with jaw-dropping special effects. The film debuts in theaters August 31 after premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival out of competition
Per an official synopsis, Alithea’s wishes present two problems: First, she doubts that the Dijinn is real and second, since she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The...
- 5/20/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Ahead of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, MGM has released the first trailer for George Miller’s next film after “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” and anyone who knows how crazed, colorful and generally bats— that movie was won’t be disappointed at the first look at his latest.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” stars Tilda Swinton as an academic who while attending a conference in Istanbul encounters Idris Elba as a millennia old Djinn — or genie — who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Swinton’s character however doubts whether Elba’s Djinn is the real deal, and she also knows full well of the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. But The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past, eventually beguiling her to make a wish that surprises them both.
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“Three Thousand Years of Longing” stars Tilda Swinton as an academic who while attending a conference in Istanbul encounters Idris Elba as a millennia old Djinn — or genie — who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Swinton’s character however doubts whether Elba’s Djinn is the real deal, and she also knows full well of the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. But The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past, eventually beguiling her to make a wish that surprises them both.
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- 5/20/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Between Mad Max: Fury Road and his forthcoming Furiosa, George Miller has directed the fantasy drama Three Thousand Years of Longing, coming at the end of August from MGM. It follows a scholar (Tilda Swinton) who encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) offering her three wishes. A first trailer has arrived as the film debuts at Cannes, revealing another epic, ambitious adventure from the director.
“If people are too busy scrolling through their cellphones, on TikTok and Instagram and whatever else, you have to acknowledge those things are addictive simply because they’re telling stories in such a quick and efficient way,” Miller recently told Deadline, “We are speedreading the moving image now, and if you don’t take account for that in your cinema… That’s not to say you can’t have slow-burning films, but there has to be a dramatic purpose to them.
An adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s short story,...
“If people are too busy scrolling through their cellphones, on TikTok and Instagram and whatever else, you have to acknowledge those things are addictive simply because they’re telling stories in such a quick and efficient way,” Miller recently told Deadline, “We are speedreading the moving image now, and if you don’t take account for that in your cinema… That’s not to say you can’t have slow-burning films, but there has to be a dramatic purpose to them.
An adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s short story,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tilda Swinton stars as Alithea Binnie and Idris Elba as The Djinn in director George Miller’s film Three Thousand Years Of Longing A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film Photo credit: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc. © 2022 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved
Watch the official trailer tease for Three Thousand Years Of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, directed by George Miller. See the full trailer online this Friday.
The film will show Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film’s score was composed by Tom Holkenborg, who had written the music for Mad Max: Fury
Road.
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts...
Watch the official trailer tease for Three Thousand Years Of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, directed by George Miller. See the full trailer online this Friday.
The film will show Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film’s score was composed by Tom Holkenborg, who had written the music for Mad Max: Fury
Road.
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts...
- 5/18/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Dreaming of genie takes on a whole new meaning in George Miller’s twisted sprawling fantasy “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”
The film debuts at 2022 Cannes and Tilda Swinton stars as a scholar who encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba), who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, unfolding in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to decades-spanning consequences neither expected. “Three Thousand Years of Longing” premieres in theaters August 31. Check out the first footage below.
The teaser shows Elba’s character being horrifically sucked back into an urn, while Swinton as academic Dr. Alithea Binnie rides a train wearing a face mask. A succession of lush images is juxtaposed with a leering god-like figure. The trio of wishes are informed by Elba, recalling his origin story as a Dijinn, leading to Swinton’s Binnie making a shocking decision.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” marks director Miller...
The film debuts at 2022 Cannes and Tilda Swinton stars as a scholar who encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba), who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, unfolding in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to decades-spanning consequences neither expected. “Three Thousand Years of Longing” premieres in theaters August 31. Check out the first footage below.
The teaser shows Elba’s character being horrifically sucked back into an urn, while Swinton as academic Dr. Alithea Binnie rides a train wearing a face mask. A succession of lush images is juxtaposed with a leering god-like figure. The trio of wishes are informed by Elba, recalling his origin story as a Dijinn, leading to Swinton’s Binnie making a shocking decision.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” marks director Miller...
- 5/18/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: George Miller is distracted. Five minutes into our meeting, he begs forgiveness to take a quick call. And then, on an iPad tilted in his direction, the filmmaker watches as a camera feed from the Australian outback offers him a live view of a pre-shoot for his next feature, Furiosa. His supervising stunt coordinator and second unit director, Guy Norris, whose work with Miller stretches back to 1981’s Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior, is already shooting sequences for the new film.
Set 15 years before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road, the film will tell the backstory of Charlize Theron’s enigmatic Furiosa, this time played by Anya Taylor-Joy. “Here I am doing an interview with you halfway across the world, and I’m able to look at this footage being shot far west from where I am and we’re discussing it as we go through the process,...
Set 15 years before the events of Mad Max: Fury Road, the film will tell the backstory of Charlize Theron’s enigmatic Furiosa, this time played by Anya Taylor-Joy. “Here I am doing an interview with you halfway across the world, and I’m able to look at this footage being shot far west from where I am and we’re discussing it as we go through the process,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Last year saw the release of the most recent iteration of a Spidey game, “Marvel’s Spider-Man,” developed by Insomniac Games. “Marvel’s Spider-Man” smashed all kinds of records. It dethroned “God of War” as the fastest-selling Sony-exclusive of all time and it achieved launch month sales 37% higher than the launch month sales of every previous Spider-Man game combined.
But success outside of comics for Marvel’s creations doesn’t need to rely on its biggest heroes. Netflix shows set in the fictional Hell’s Kitchen over the last four years have highlighted the fact that there is a lot of potential imbued in some of the lesser known comic book heroes too. And that success could easily be capitalized on by giving one of these heroes a starring role in a new video game of their own. Perhaps the most intriguing candidate for this is Frank Castle, a.
But success outside of comics for Marvel’s creations doesn’t need to rely on its biggest heroes. Netflix shows set in the fictional Hell’s Kitchen over the last four years have highlighted the fact that there is a lot of potential imbued in some of the lesser known comic book heroes too. And that success could easily be capitalized on by giving one of these heroes a starring role in a new video game of their own. Perhaps the most intriguing candidate for this is Frank Castle, a.
- 1/22/2019
- by Cian Maher
- Variety Film + TV
On this day (August 24th) in showbiz-related history...
1890 "Father of modern surfing" and part time movie actor Duke Kahanamoku born in Hawaii. We've written about him before. Where's his biopic?
1967 The Whisperers premieres in London. It's about an old poor woman living in solitude who is beginning to lose her grip on reality. Dame Edith Evans sterling work was instantly lauded - she won Best Actress at Berlinale and from such disparate groups as the Nyfcc, Nbr and the Golden Globes. She landed her third and final Oscar nomination in the Best Actress lineup (sadly only the winner, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner's Hepburn, was less than superb in that shortlist!). At the time Evans was the oldest Oscar nominee of all time in any acting category having just turned 80 years old. That record has since been undone but she's still the third oldest lead actress nominee after Jessica Tandy...
1890 "Father of modern surfing" and part time movie actor Duke Kahanamoku born in Hawaii. We've written about him before. Where's his biopic?
1967 The Whisperers premieres in London. It's about an old poor woman living in solitude who is beginning to lose her grip on reality. Dame Edith Evans sterling work was instantly lauded - she won Best Actress at Berlinale and from such disparate groups as the Nyfcc, Nbr and the Golden Globes. She landed her third and final Oscar nomination in the Best Actress lineup (sadly only the winner, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner's Hepburn, was less than superb in that shortlist!). At the time Evans was the oldest Oscar nominee of all time in any acting category having just turned 80 years old. That record has since been undone but she's still the third oldest lead actress nominee after Jessica Tandy...
- 8/24/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
We were a little surprised to hear that Neil Labute would be directing Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House, so we decided to quiz him about it. When we caught up with the writer-director in Cannes, we sat down with him for an intriguing Q and A: How did you get involved in this? "Every decade I like to take a hallowed English writer and adapt their work and prepare myself to be stoned. First it was A.S. Byatt and now Agatha Christie. I’ll get to Coward and Wilde eventually. "But seriously, I saw Julian Fellowes’...
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- 5/17/2011
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
Can art and nature redeem us, or will their counterpoint to our social and industrial misery simply drive us mad? In A.S. Byatt’s pointillist novel about the end of Victorian England, potters, puppeteers, and fairytale authors create obsessively, trying to balance their private drives with market demands. At the same time, these artists are on the forefront of the many social revolutions afoot at the end of the 19th century—Fabianism, women’s suffrage, sexual freedom, anarchism. Yet their ideas can’t run fast enough to keep ahead of the change from Victorianism to Edwardianism to sudden, terrifying ...
- 10/29/2009
- avclub.com
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