Toronto — Let's hope Keira Knightley never changes. Having interviewed the "Pride & Prejudice" star at least five times over the past decade I can attest that she's as blunt, energetic and smart as ever. This is one actress who no doubt rolls her eyes at studio talking points. Take for instance our interview last month about her role in the beloved new Best Picture contender "The Imitation Game" where she was at the top of her, um, game. Winner of the People's Choice Awards at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, "Game" finds Knightley playing real-life WWII code breaker Joan Clark, a woman who, along with Alan Turning and the rest of a secret group working for British Intelligence, solved the notorious Enigma code. Enigma allowed the Nazis to send secret messages to their agents and soldiers around the world and gave them a distinct advantage. Deciphering those message was a key...
- 10/23/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Toronto -- Taking a step back from acting, Molly Parker is to direct her first feature in Canada.Parker ("Swingtown," "Deadwood") is to shoot "The Ballad of Maura MacKenzie" in Newfoundland and Toronto in late summer 2011 for indie producers Markham Street Films and Rock Island Productions.The drama is based on the Joan Clark novel "An Audience of Chairs," which portrays the struggles of woman alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, battling mental illness while grieving the loss of her two daughters.The script was written by Rock Island's Rosemary House.No word on casting.Parker is lending her star wattage to two pictures at this week's Toronto International Film Festival, "Trigger" and "Oliver Sherman."Parker's breakout acting role was in Toronto in 1996 with Lynne Stopkewich's "Kissed," where she played a young woman whose fixation with death led her to acts of necrophilia in a mortuary.– The Hollywood Reporter...
- 9/16/2010
- backstage.com
Toronto -- Taking a step back from acting, Molly Parker is to direct her first feature in Canada.
Parker ("Swingtown," "Deadwood") is to shoot "The Ballad of Maura MacKenzie" in Newfoundland and Toronto in late summer 2011 for indie producers Markham Street Films and Rock Island Productions.
The drama is based on the Joan Clark novel "An Audience of Chairs," which portrays the struggles of woman alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, battling mental illness while grieving the loss of her two daughters.
The script was written by Rock Island's Rosemary House.
No word on casting.
Parker is lending her star wattage to two pictures at this week's Toronto International Film Festival, "Trigger" and "Oliver Sherman."
Parker's breakout acting role was in Toronto in 1996 with Lynne Stopkewich's "Kissed," where she played a young woman whose fixation with death led her to acts of necrophilia in a mortuary.
Parker ("Swingtown," "Deadwood") is to shoot "The Ballad of Maura MacKenzie" in Newfoundland and Toronto in late summer 2011 for indie producers Markham Street Films and Rock Island Productions.
The drama is based on the Joan Clark novel "An Audience of Chairs," which portrays the struggles of woman alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, battling mental illness while grieving the loss of her two daughters.
The script was written by Rock Island's Rosemary House.
No word on casting.
Parker is lending her star wattage to two pictures at this week's Toronto International Film Festival, "Trigger" and "Oliver Sherman."
Parker's breakout acting role was in Toronto in 1996 with Lynne Stopkewich's "Kissed," where she played a young woman whose fixation with death led her to acts of necrophilia in a mortuary.
- 9/16/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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