‘The Woman King’ & ‘Aftersun’ Dominate Girls On Film Awards
The Woman King and Aftersun dominated the main awards at the second annual Girls On Film Awards. The Woman King picked up Best Ensemble, sponsored by Netflix, and Best Female Friendship On Screen. Woman King star Viola Davis was also awarded the Feminist Superhero award. Woman King lead Sheila Atim was there in person to accept the awards. Aftersun nabbed Best Feature Film Sponsored by Eon Productions, while the film’s publicity team also won Best Publicity Campaign. Other big winners included Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder, which took home Best Cinematography and the Sinéad O’Connor pic Nothing Compares (Best Documentary). Nominees for the awards were chosen by a selection of critics and journalists. Girls On Film was launched by Deadline critic and broadcaster Anna Smith and producer Hedda Archbold with the aim of rewarding excellence in the field of feminism,...
The Woman King and Aftersun dominated the main awards at the second annual Girls On Film Awards. The Woman King picked up Best Ensemble, sponsored by Netflix, and Best Female Friendship On Screen. Woman King star Viola Davis was also awarded the Feminist Superhero award. Woman King lead Sheila Atim was there in person to accept the awards. Aftersun nabbed Best Feature Film Sponsored by Eon Productions, while the film’s publicity team also won Best Publicity Campaign. Other big winners included Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder, which took home Best Cinematography and the Sinéad O’Connor pic Nothing Compares (Best Documentary). Nominees for the awards were chosen by a selection of critics and journalists. Girls On Film was launched by Deadline critic and broadcaster Anna Smith and producer Hedda Archbold with the aim of rewarding excellence in the field of feminism,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Zac Ntim, Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Alex Rider’ Producer Eleventh Hour Sets ‘The Man In The Back Seat,’ ‘Payday,’ Expands Creative Team
Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films have revealed two more projects in development and made a senior creative hire.
“The Man In The Back Seat” (working title) a series development from novelist David Peace (“Red Riding”) and actor-writer, Ted Reilly, is the company’s first foray into the original true-crime genre. Based on events documented in the book “The Long Silence” by Paul Stickler, who serves as a consultant, the series will follow the 1962 criminal case, where after the longest trial in British legal history, James Hanratty was executed for the murder of Michael Gregsten, and the rape and attempted murder of Valerie Storie.
Additionally, Eleventh Hour have optioned author and journalist Celia Walden’s thriller “Payday” for development into a series. “Payday” is a female-driven thriller set in Bwl, a property brokerage firm that sells properties to developers for millions where the protagonists decide to destroy the sexist golden boy of the firm.
“The Man In The Back Seat” (working title) a series development from novelist David Peace (“Red Riding”) and actor-writer, Ted Reilly, is the company’s first foray into the original true-crime genre. Based on events documented in the book “The Long Silence” by Paul Stickler, who serves as a consultant, the series will follow the 1962 criminal case, where after the longest trial in British legal history, James Hanratty was executed for the murder of Michael Gregsten, and the rape and attempted murder of Valerie Storie.
Additionally, Eleventh Hour have optioned author and journalist Celia Walden’s thriller “Payday” for development into a series. “Payday” is a female-driven thriller set in Bwl, a property brokerage firm that sells properties to developers for millions where the protagonists decide to destroy the sexist golden boy of the firm.
- 2/24/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to writer Nick Triplow about his new book Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir, which is out now from No Exit Press: https://www.noexit.co.uk/index1.php?imprint=1&isbn=&ebookid=1689
The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times. Get Carter are two words to bring a smile of fond recollection to all British film lovers of a certain age. The cinema classic was based on a book called Jack’s Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott and a host of contemporary crime & noir authors. But what of the man who wrote this seminal work? Ted Lewis is...
The story of Ted Lewis carries historical and cultural resonances for our own troubled times. Get Carter are two words to bring a smile of fond recollection to all British film lovers of a certain age. The cinema classic was based on a book called Jack’s Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott and a host of contemporary crime & noir authors. But what of the man who wrote this seminal work? Ted Lewis is...
- 7/13/2021
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
She was enjoying a successful if gruelling film and TV career when serious illness struck. But Forsyth has channelled that experience into a bleakly beautiful avant-garde album
Yorkshire is the backdrop to many disquieting works of art, such as David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Brontës’ explorations of the soul. The newest is Debris, an album made by a 40-year-old actor with a familiar, pale-eyed, haunting face, whom we have seen in recent years playing a sex worker in Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley and heroin addicts in The Casual Vacancy and Waterloo Road.
Keeley Forsyth’s debut as a musician is an avant-garde proposition, however: a shivery descendent of Scott Walker’s Tilt, a more unsettling older sister of Aldous Harding’s Designer. Forsyth’s voice marries Peggy Lee’s bluesy vibrato with Nico’s thunderous terror, and delivers lyrics that invert nature,...
Yorkshire is the backdrop to many disquieting works of art, such as David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Brontës’ explorations of the soul. The newest is Debris, an album made by a 40-year-old actor with a familiar, pale-eyed, haunting face, whom we have seen in recent years playing a sex worker in Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley and heroin addicts in The Casual Vacancy and Waterloo Road.
Keeley Forsyth’s debut as a musician is an avant-garde proposition, however: a shivery descendent of Scott Walker’s Tilt, a more unsettling older sister of Aldous Harding’s Designer. Forsyth’s voice marries Peggy Lee’s bluesy vibrato with Nico’s thunderous terror, and delivers lyrics that invert nature,...
- 1/9/2020
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
Phillips joins from Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions.
Ray Pictures, the recently-launched UK and Us-based production company headed by Ink Factory alumni Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, has hired Ann Phillips as head of development.
Phillips joins from Tessa Ross’ and Juliette Howell’s House Productions, where she had been a development executive since 2016, working with filmmakers including Sean Durkin, Clio Barnard and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
She previously worked as head of development at See-Saw Films, and before that as a creative executive at Film4 and head of development and acquisitions at sales and financing company WestEnd Films.
Ray Pictures, the recently-launched UK and Us-based production company headed by Ink Factory alumni Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, has hired Ann Phillips as head of development.
Phillips joins from Tessa Ross’ and Juliette Howell’s House Productions, where she had been a development executive since 2016, working with filmmakers including Sean Durkin, Clio Barnard and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
She previously worked as head of development at See-Saw Films, and before that as a creative executive at Film4 and head of development and acquisitions at sales and financing company WestEnd Films.
- 5/15/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Endeavor Content and MediaNet-backed Ray Pictures has hired former House Productions and Film4 exec Ann Phillips as Head Of Development, marking the fledgling outfit’s first senior hire.
Former Ink Factory partners Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, executive producers on The Night Manager, launched TV and film banner Ray earlier this year.
At Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s film and TV indie House Productions, Phillips worked with writers and directors such as Sean Durkin, Peter Straughan, Clio Barnard and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. She previously held posts at See-Saw Films, Film4 as Creative Executive and WestEnd Films as Head Of Development and Acquisitions.
Ray co-CEOs Rhodri Thomas and Alexei Boltho said of today’s hire, “We’re delighted that Ann has joined Ray to work across our fast growing film and TV slate. She has phenomenal taste and filmmaker relationships, and arrives having worked at some of the best companies in the business.
Former Ink Factory partners Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, executive producers on The Night Manager, launched TV and film banner Ray earlier this year.
At Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s film and TV indie House Productions, Phillips worked with writers and directors such as Sean Durkin, Peter Straughan, Clio Barnard and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. She previously held posts at See-Saw Films, Film4 as Creative Executive and WestEnd Films as Head Of Development and Acquisitions.
Ray co-CEOs Rhodri Thomas and Alexei Boltho said of today’s hire, “We’re delighted that Ann has joined Ray to work across our fast growing film and TV slate. She has phenomenal taste and filmmaker relationships, and arrives having worked at some of the best companies in the business.
- 5/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Projects on debut slate include Aquarium starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, the former partners at UK production outfit The Ink Factory whose credits include The Night Manager, have officially launched their new production company Ray Pictures.
The company has backing from Us sales and packaging outfit Endeavor Content and private asset management firm MediaNet Partners. It will be based in London and Los Angeles.
Ray Pictures will develop, finance and produce work across multiple platforms, with a focus on premium scripted drama and feature films.
Boltho and Thomas are launching with a debut slate that includes Aquarium,...
Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, the former partners at UK production outfit The Ink Factory whose credits include The Night Manager, have officially launched their new production company Ray Pictures.
The company has backing from Us sales and packaging outfit Endeavor Content and private asset management firm MediaNet Partners. It will be based in London and Los Angeles.
Ray Pictures will develop, finance and produce work across multiple platforms, with a focus on premium scripted drama and feature films.
Boltho and Thomas are launching with a debut slate that includes Aquarium,...
- 1/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Former Ink Factory partners Alexei Boltho and Rhodri Thomas, executive producers on The Night Manager, have launched new production company Ray Pictures, we can reveal. Backed by Endeavor Content and MediaNet Partners the company will develop, finance and produce for film and TV but will focus on scripted drama.
The London and La-based company’s first projects include a feature film adaptation of John Boyne’s novel, A Ladder to the Sky, with filmmakers to be announced shortly, and a Tokyo-set TV series, Occupied City, written by Ben Hervey (Taboo) from the novel by David Peace. Currently casting is feature film Aquarium adapted from David Vann’s book by Marnie Dickens (Gold Digger), to be directed by debut feature director Lauren Caris Cohan and set to star Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle).
At The Ink Factory the duo worked on hit series The Night Manager (sold by Wme-img) and movies such as...
The London and La-based company’s first projects include a feature film adaptation of John Boyne’s novel, A Ladder to the Sky, with filmmakers to be announced shortly, and a Tokyo-set TV series, Occupied City, written by Ben Hervey (Taboo) from the novel by David Peace. Currently casting is feature film Aquarium adapted from David Vann’s book by Marnie Dickens (Gold Digger), to be directed by debut feature director Lauren Caris Cohan and set to star Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle).
At The Ink Factory the duo worked on hit series The Night Manager (sold by Wme-img) and movies such as...
- 1/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Jonny Owen’s entertaining documentary deals with the manager’s success at Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s
Related: Film review: The Damned United
The reputation of Brian Clough (pictured) in pop culture history famously got a revisionist jolt in 2006 from David Peace’s novel The Damned United, lending an unsuspected dark mythic importance to his brief, bizarrely dysfunctional tenure as Leeds United Fc manager in 1974. The cheeky loudmouth now looked troubled, irrational, even faintly sinister. It was adapted for the cinema in 2009 – in gentler and more conventional terms – starring Michael Sheen. Now Jonny Owen has made an undemanding documentary dealing with the happier era after that, about Clough’s resurgence, managing Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s: the Napoleon of football, leading a little-fancied side to glory in the old first division and the European cup. This affectionate film sets aside all the fashionably “dark” reading of Clough in...
Related: Film review: The Damned United
The reputation of Brian Clough (pictured) in pop culture history famously got a revisionist jolt in 2006 from David Peace’s novel The Damned United, lending an unsuspected dark mythic importance to his brief, bizarrely dysfunctional tenure as Leeds United Fc manager in 1974. The cheeky loudmouth now looked troubled, irrational, even faintly sinister. It was adapted for the cinema in 2009 – in gentler and more conventional terms – starring Michael Sheen. Now Jonny Owen has made an undemanding documentary dealing with the happier era after that, about Clough’s resurgence, managing Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s: the Napoleon of football, leading a little-fancied side to glory in the old first division and the European cup. This affectionate film sets aside all the fashionably “dark” reading of Clough in...
- 10/8/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Film Four Productions
Whether you’re destined to be widowed by the beautiful game, sickened by your team’s performance (or that they didn’t even qualify) or just can’t stand another minute of hearing about the World Cup, at some point during the next few weeks, you’re likely to need some distraction from the football. With that in mind, and to celebrate the importance of British cinema (as well as the kingdom’s flagship status in the footballing world) we’re looking at 66 of the very best British films that will give you a good reason to resist putting your foot through the telly after the match.
There’s no guarantee that they’ll cheer you up but they will certainly take your mind off it.
There are a few rules for this list: for the sake of repetition no Bond, no Harry Potter (though there are...
Whether you’re destined to be widowed by the beautiful game, sickened by your team’s performance (or that they didn’t even qualify) or just can’t stand another minute of hearing about the World Cup, at some point during the next few weeks, you’re likely to need some distraction from the football. With that in mind, and to celebrate the importance of British cinema (as well as the kingdom’s flagship status in the footballing world) we’re looking at 66 of the very best British films that will give you a good reason to resist putting your foot through the telly after the match.
There’s no guarantee that they’ll cheer you up but they will certainly take your mind off it.
There are a few rules for this list: for the sake of repetition no Bond, no Harry Potter (though there are...
- 6/10/2014
- by Chris O'Malley
- Obsessed with Film
Andrew counts down some of the best roles of Sean Bean's career, from the ones you'll know to the ones you probably won't...
Top 10
Sean Bean.
Love him, fear him, smell him: the man breathes fire. And acting.
But what is Sean Bean? Well, adhering to a skeptical epistemology, we simply don't know, but for the purposes of this article he's the bloke who played Errol Partridge in Equilibrium, still to this day his defining role in Equilibrium.
While everyone at Den of Geek loves Equilibrium slightly more than they love each other, Sean Bean is only in it but for a moment. Unfortunately he mistakenly believes that holding up a book in front of his face will stop a bullet, when all he had to do to stop Christian Bale from shooting him was impersonate a puppy. Really, it's hard to argue that the film wouldn't be considerably...
Top 10
Sean Bean.
Love him, fear him, smell him: the man breathes fire. And acting.
But what is Sean Bean? Well, adhering to a skeptical epistemology, we simply don't know, but for the purposes of this article he's the bloke who played Errol Partridge in Equilibrium, still to this day his defining role in Equilibrium.
While everyone at Den of Geek loves Equilibrium slightly more than they love each other, Sean Bean is only in it but for a moment. Unfortunately he mistakenly believes that holding up a book in front of his face will stop a bullet, when all he had to do to stop Christian Bale from shooting him was impersonate a puppy. Really, it's hard to argue that the film wouldn't be considerably...
- 5/30/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
The director's new film is an elegy for pit workers, while up in the north-east the theme of this year's Av is 'extraction'. Together they explore the legacy of a hammer blow to workers' power
Film-maker Bill Morrison is feeling a little rueful. "Striking was once an effective means of leveraging power. Today's striking worker may feel fortunate to wake up and still have a job." He's reflecting on his film The Miners' Hymns, a collaboration with Icelandic musician Jóhann Jóhannsson, which trawls through hundreds of hours of archival footage of mines in the north-east of England to fashion an elegy for the workers, brass bands, local communities and unions that sustained the region throughout much of the 20th century. This month there will be many articles, radio programmes and TV documentaries marking the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the miners' strike: few will be as beautiful or as...
Film-maker Bill Morrison is feeling a little rueful. "Striking was once an effective means of leveraging power. Today's striking worker may feel fortunate to wake up and still have a job." He's reflecting on his film The Miners' Hymns, a collaboration with Icelandic musician Jóhann Jóhannsson, which trawls through hundreds of hours of archival footage of mines in the north-east of England to fashion an elegy for the workers, brass bands, local communities and unions that sustained the region throughout much of the 20th century. This month there will be many articles, radio programmes and TV documentaries marking the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the miners' strike: few will be as beautiful or as...
- 3/8/2014
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Odd List Ryan Lambie 20 Nov 2013 - 06:57
The constantly busy Ridley Scott always has lots of potential films in production, so here's a look at what he might be up to next...
Since his debut in 1977 with the historical drama, The Duellists, director Ridley Scott has gradually built up an eclectic body of work. His Hollywood career began with the stunning one-two sci-fi punch of Alien and Blade Runner, before heading off into fantasy (Legend), thrillers (Someone To Watch Over Me, Black Rain) and road-trip drama (the Oscar-winning Thelma And Louise).
As James Clayton pointed out in his recent Friday column, the 70-something Sir Ridley shows no sign of slowing down, and if anything, his slate of forthcoming films is somewhat bewildering - in what seems like every other interview, the director will mention another project of one sort or another, which makes working out what he's likely to be...
The constantly busy Ridley Scott always has lots of potential films in production, so here's a look at what he might be up to next...
Since his debut in 1977 with the historical drama, The Duellists, director Ridley Scott has gradually built up an eclectic body of work. His Hollywood career began with the stunning one-two sci-fi punch of Alien and Blade Runner, before heading off into fantasy (Legend), thrillers (Someone To Watch Over Me, Black Rain) and road-trip drama (the Oscar-winning Thelma And Louise).
As James Clayton pointed out in his recent Friday column, the 70-something Sir Ridley shows no sign of slowing down, and if anything, his slate of forthcoming films is somewhat bewildering - in what seems like every other interview, the director will mention another project of one sort or another, which makes working out what he's likely to be...
- 11/19/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Red Riding: In The Year of Our Lord 1974 / 1980 / 1983
Directed by Julian Jarrold / James Marsh / Anand Tucker
Written by David Grisoni (from the novels by David Peace)
2009, UK
There’s a much quoted line from David Fincher’s Seven, found in one of many notebooks scribbled by horrific serial killer John Doe, that reads: “Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light”. The sentiment and association is very appropriate when musing on the visceral sledgehammer assault on emotions, morality and senses represented by David Peace’s Red Riding series, a sprawling nine year epic of neo-noir, adult fear and a simmering stew of all forms of human evil. Brought to the screen in the form of a condensed movie trilogy (the second novel, 1977, is sacrificed) by the hand of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas writer Tony Grisoni, adaptation does not spell compromise on style or content.
Directed by Julian Jarrold / James Marsh / Anand Tucker
Written by David Grisoni (from the novels by David Peace)
2009, UK
There’s a much quoted line from David Fincher’s Seven, found in one of many notebooks scribbled by horrific serial killer John Doe, that reads: “Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light”. The sentiment and association is very appropriate when musing on the visceral sledgehammer assault on emotions, morality and senses represented by David Peace’s Red Riding series, a sprawling nine year epic of neo-noir, adult fear and a simmering stew of all forms of human evil. Brought to the screen in the form of a condensed movie trilogy (the second novel, 1977, is sacrificed) by the hand of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas writer Tony Grisoni, adaptation does not spell compromise on style or content.
- 11/17/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
From Formula One to football and boxing to baseball, here are the big screen's finest sport sagas
Rush
Don't get excited, Liverpool fans: director Ron Howard's latest film isn't about the Reds' all-time leading scorer Ian Rush and his rubbish 'tache. Instead, it tells the extraordinary story of the 1976 Formula One season, dominated by the battle between dashing British playboy driver James Hunt (played by Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) and austere Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel "Good Bye, Lenin!" Brühl). After a near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring, Lauda returned just six weeks later, his horrific scalp burns still bandaged and bleeding, to defend his world title. It's scripted by Peter Morgan, who's made a career out of dramatising real events in the likes of The Queen and Frost/Nixon.
The Damned United
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one." Director Tom Hooper...
Rush
Don't get excited, Liverpool fans: director Ron Howard's latest film isn't about the Reds' all-time leading scorer Ian Rush and his rubbish 'tache. Instead, it tells the extraordinary story of the 1976 Formula One season, dominated by the battle between dashing British playboy driver James Hunt (played by Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) and austere Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel "Good Bye, Lenin!" Brühl). After a near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring, Lauda returned just six weeks later, his horrific scalp burns still bandaged and bleeding, to defend his world title. It's scripted by Peter Morgan, who's made a career out of dramatising real events in the likes of The Queen and Frost/Nixon.
The Damned United
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one." Director Tom Hooper...
- 9/7/2013
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
A few Sundays ago, Channel 4′s haunting drama Southcliffe ended. It has left a mark with me ever since. To me it is a beautifully poignant tale of loss, figuratively and literally. Set in the titular fictional town on the North Kent Marshes, it analyses the foreshadowing, the event and the fall-out of a Hungerford-type shooting spree that leaves fifteen dead. Penned by Tony Grisoni, co-writter of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and adapter of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet (Red Riding), and directed by 31 year-old director Sean Durkin, winner of the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for Martha Marcy May Marlene, it is a masterpiece of the exploration of grief, loneliness, tragedy and repair through the eyes of several of the townsfolk, the victims of loss and even the eventual gunman.
For me, Southcliffe is the best British programme I have seen in a long time,...
For me, Southcliffe is the best British programme I have seen in a long time,...
- 8/28/2013
- by Stu Whittaker
- Obsessed with Film
Novelist David Peace shows different dimensions to the Liverpool managerial great amid some artistic licence
Yes, but is it true? That is the second question to be heard in discussions about Red or Dead, David Peace's new book on Bill Shankly. The first is about whether it is worth anyone's time ploughing through 700 pages and a quarter of a million words featuring a prodigious amount of repetition and a very limited vocabulary.
A great sports book is often said to "transcend its genre". With Red or Dead, the reverse is true. Peace's novel – for that is what he calls it – is a sports book that drills deeper into the quotidian realities of its chosen sport than any non-fiction author would dare to do.
Some suggest that the book's Proustian proportions would have been significantly reduced, and the reader saved a great deal of time, had its author not felt...
Yes, but is it true? That is the second question to be heard in discussions about Red or Dead, David Peace's new book on Bill Shankly. The first is about whether it is worth anyone's time ploughing through 700 pages and a quarter of a million words featuring a prodigious amount of repetition and a very limited vocabulary.
A great sports book is often said to "transcend its genre". With Red or Dead, the reverse is true. Peace's novel – for that is what he calls it – is a sports book that drills deeper into the quotidian realities of its chosen sport than any non-fiction author would dare to do.
Some suggest that the book's Proustian proportions would have been significantly reduced, and the reader saved a great deal of time, had its author not felt...
- 8/23/2013
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
As The Mortal Instruments opens in cinemas, Robert Sheehan is set to become a teen heartthrob. Megan Conner meets an Irish actor with style and attitude
It was on Robert Sheehan's flight home from Toronto, where he was auditioning for a role in The Mortal Instruments, that he found himself "yellow carded" on a plane. He wasn't flying alone; while trying out for one of the three leads in the Hollywood teen franchise, tipped to be the next Twilight, he had buddied up with a fellow auditionee and spent much of the week partying. On the final evening, they stayed out all night. "We went straight to the airport in the morning and got on the plane," says Sheehan in his Irish lilt. "We ordered some Caesars, which are like Bloody Marys, and one thing or another led to me buying a bottle of whisky..."
Several hours later Sheehan,...
It was on Robert Sheehan's flight home from Toronto, where he was auditioning for a role in The Mortal Instruments, that he found himself "yellow carded" on a plane. He wasn't flying alone; while trying out for one of the three leads in the Hollywood teen franchise, tipped to be the next Twilight, he had buddied up with a fellow auditionee and spent much of the week partying. On the final evening, they stayed out all night. "We went straight to the airport in the morning and got on the plane," says Sheehan in his Irish lilt. "We ordered some Caesars, which are like Bloody Marys, and one thing or another led to me buying a bottle of whisky..."
Several hours later Sheehan,...
- 8/3/2013
- by Megan Conner
- The Guardian - Film News
What’s that? You don’t get enough of my writing about comics from Panel Discussion with Mark? You don’t? Thank goodness, you’re in luck. I’ve been sent a handful of books and I’m going to tell you what I thought about them using my written communication skills! Buckle up.
Solid State Tank Girl #1, Alan C. Martin, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Titan Comics
Tank Girl, eh? I’ve never read anything with her name on it, but I’ve been aware and amused by her existence for some time. I’m a fan of creator Jamie Hewlett’s art but he isn’t actually attached to this book. Instead, we’ve got some satisfyingly scatty artwork from Warwick Johnson-Cadwell which looks totally boss and is a refreshing change from the super-stylish look of many books.
Alan C Martin’s story is a pastiche of Fantastic Voyage in which...
Solid State Tank Girl #1, Alan C. Martin, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Titan Comics
Tank Girl, eh? I’ve never read anything with her name on it, but I’ve been aware and amused by her existence for some time. I’m a fan of creator Jamie Hewlett’s art but he isn’t actually attached to this book. Instead, we’ve got some satisfyingly scatty artwork from Warwick Johnson-Cadwell which looks totally boss and is a refreshing change from the super-stylish look of many books.
Alan C Martin’s story is a pastiche of Fantastic Voyage in which...
- 5/15/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
From Meryl Streep's Iron Lady to Spitting Image and the Spice Girls, Observer writers and critics pick the films, books, art, music and TV that show Thatcher's lasting influence
Art, chosen by Laura Cumming
Treatment Room (1983)
In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.
Taking Stock (1984)
Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.
In the Sleep of Reason (1982)
Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.
The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting...
Art, chosen by Laura Cumming
Treatment Room (1983)
In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.
Taking Stock (1984)
Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.
In the Sleep of Reason (1982)
Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.
The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting...
- 4/13/2013
- by Robert McCrum, Kitty Empire, Philip French, Andrew Rawnsley, Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
Thirty-five years after it vanished, The Black Panther – Ian Merrick's 1977 film about serial killer Donald Neilson – emerges as a gripping and highly responsible true-crime movie
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
After nearly four decades, Donald Neilson, aka the Black Panther, seems in retrospect like some figment of the phantasmagoric north England of the 1970s, the gothic, occult north of David Peace and the Red Riding trilogy. His crimes – countless burglaries, three murders (of village postmasters), and the kidnapping of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle – took him on meticulously planned nocturnal peregrinations across the north and the Midlands against the unfolding background of the three-day week, the oil crisis, and the Ira's first sustained mainland bombing campaign. (Or, if you prefer, between the decline of glam-rock and the rise of punk.) The dead years, in other words, a leaden age.
Neilson's arrest in December 1975 came just two months after the apprehension of another largely forgotten apparition of the period,...
- 6/6/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt
We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a rather fun summer of movies. With that in mind I focused the second installment of Streaming for Pleasure on some films you should see before this summer hits. Having a familiarity with an actor or director’s career can often shine some light on what their future projects may have in store. Also it can help garner more motivation to see a film you would have otherwise avoided. Curious what the Avengers might be like? What Tom Hardy has in store for the character of Bain? Well check out some of these films and they just might answer some of your questions.
Following
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Written By: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, and Lucy Russell
Synopsis: Christopher Nolan writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a...
We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a rather fun summer of movies. With that in mind I focused the second installment of Streaming for Pleasure on some films you should see before this summer hits. Having a familiarity with an actor or director’s career can often shine some light on what their future projects may have in store. Also it can help garner more motivation to see a film you would have otherwise avoided. Curious what the Avengers might be like? What Tom Hardy has in store for the character of Bain? Well check out some of these films and they just might answer some of your questions.
Following
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Written By: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, and Lucy Russell
Synopsis: Christopher Nolan writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a...
- 4/24/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The Talking City and Wolf’s Clothing
A little over two years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a convention in Glasgow entitled Scottish Students on Screen, an event based around giving young film scholars a better familiarity with the workings of the British Film Industry and general movie making as well as a presentation of their own work. The highlight of this excursion, a series of talks and exhibits inter-cut liberally with group visits to a Wetherspoons chain drinking hole across the street, was the champagne event: an interview and Q&A with Peter Mullan.
To those unfamiliar with Mullan, he is a highly renowned actor and director best known to UK and international film goers as the face of various memorable movie psychos and extreme, flawed anti-heroes. A native of said city, Mullan is regarded as one of the finest acting exports Scotland has ever produced, and...
A little over two years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a convention in Glasgow entitled Scottish Students on Screen, an event based around giving young film scholars a better familiarity with the workings of the British Film Industry and general movie making as well as a presentation of their own work. The highlight of this excursion, a series of talks and exhibits inter-cut liberally with group visits to a Wetherspoons chain drinking hole across the street, was the champagne event: an interview and Q&A with Peter Mullan.
To those unfamiliar with Mullan, he is a highly renowned actor and director best known to UK and international film goers as the face of various memorable movie psychos and extreme, flawed anti-heroes. A native of said city, Mullan is regarded as one of the finest acting exports Scotland has ever produced, and...
- 4/2/2012
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
Of all the recent crime sagas that have made their way to screens — Dragon Tattoo, Carlos, Mesrine — the Red Riding Trilogy is surely one of my favorites. This detailed, three-film saga of corruption in the English police force is utterly captivating, particularly when they’re watched within a general proximity to one another.
The fact that they’re in English makes Ridley Scott‘s adaptation of David Peace’s novels all the more confusing, and although it’s indeed happening, the director might not do much other than produce. Producer Andrew Eaton, in an interview with ThePlaylist, said that he’s “not sure whether Ridley would direct or someone else would”; the once-attached screenwriter Steve Zaillian was once a possible helmer. (James Vanderbilt is now on scripting duties.) No one person seems to be totally locked into place — Scott could do it, Zaillian might give it a shot, or someone...
The fact that they’re in English makes Ridley Scott‘s adaptation of David Peace’s novels all the more confusing, and although it’s indeed happening, the director might not do much other than produce. Producer Andrew Eaton, in an interview with ThePlaylist, said that he’s “not sure whether Ridley would direct or someone else would”; the once-attached screenwriter Steve Zaillian was once a possible helmer. (James Vanderbilt is now on scripting duties.) No one person seems to be totally locked into place — Scott could do it, Zaillian might give it a shot, or someone...
- 10/14/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Film Will Likely Condense Trilogy, Could Be Set In Pennsylvania Somewhere near the very top rung of recent crime movies, along with "Zodiac" and "A Prophet," is the "Red Riding" trilogy. Three films, from three different directors, based on David Peace's quartet of crime novels, and starring a who's who of British acting talent including Andrew Garfield, Rebecca Hall, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Mark Addy, David Morrissey and Peter Mullan, they were originally made for British TV, but were so well received that they rightfully found their way into movie theaters in the U.S. Around the same time,…...
- 10/13/2011
- The Playlist
Trailer and poster for Back Door Channels: The Price of Piece documentary The film helmed by Henry Hunkele is written by Matthew Tollin, Jonathan P. Hicks, Arick B. Wierson and Hunkele and brings together notable figures including Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Boutros Boutros-Ghali among others. Fisher Klingenstein Films sends the film to theaters on September 16th. Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace is the true story of the men who brought lasting Peace to the Middle East. For the first time ever, the filmmakers take the audience behind the public veil obscured by a first of its kind White House issued media blackout on the events. Behind the press conferences and into the smoke-filled backroom corridors of power during one of the world’s greatest historical moments - the 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arab and Jew...
- 8/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Trailer and poster for Back Door Channels: The Price of Piece documentary The film helmed by Henry Hunkele is written by Matthew Tollin, Jonathan P. Hicks, Arick B. Wierson and Hunkele and brings together notable figures including Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Boutros Boutros-Ghali among others. Fisher Klingenstein Films sends the film to theaters on September 16th. Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace is the true story of the men who brought lasting Peace to the Middle East. For the first time ever, the filmmakers take the audience behind the public veil obscured by a first of its kind White House issued media blackout on the events. Behind the press conferences and into the smoke-filled backroom corridors of power during one of the world’s greatest historical moments - the 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arab and Jew...
- 8/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Zodiac" and "The Amazing Spider-Man" scribe James Vanderbilt has been hired to pen the remake of "Red Riding" for director Ridley Scott says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story is based on a four novel series by David Peace which looks at power and police corruption framed around the investigation of the disappearance of several young girls in a case based on the real life Yorkshire Ripper killings.
The project was previously turned into a trilogy of British TV movies which scored a theatrical release in the United States early last year. Back in late 2009, Steve Zaillian ("American Gangster," "Hannibal") was in talks to write the script.
Now Vanderbilt has come onboard to begin work, though the project is still likely some time off. Scott is currently in the midst of shooting his "Alien" spin-off/prequel "Prometheus".
The story is based on a four novel series by David Peace which looks at power and police corruption framed around the investigation of the disappearance of several young girls in a case based on the real life Yorkshire Ripper killings.
The project was previously turned into a trilogy of British TV movies which scored a theatrical release in the United States early last year. Back in late 2009, Steve Zaillian ("American Gangster," "Hannibal") was in talks to write the script.
Now Vanderbilt has come onboard to begin work, though the project is still likely some time off. Scott is currently in the midst of shooting his "Alien" spin-off/prequel "Prometheus".
- 5/14/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Based upon the David Peace book quartet and series of popular British TV movies, Jamie Vanderbilt will be penning an adaption of the noir crime drama. With a time span of 1974 to 1983, the Red Riding Quartet weaves a tale of corruption and conspiracy. They begin with a single young murder victim found brutally murdered on the streets of Yorkshire and moves to the slaughter of prostitutes that draws comparison's to Jack the Ripper. Police are inept or have a twisted sense of justice. Some partake in the services provided by the ones they are to protect. Greed has sullied the very core of the Yorkshire justice system. Outside lawmen, journalist, crooks and others are drawn into the messy web as the quintet paints a picture depicting the baser nature of humanity as the characters...
- 5/14/2011
- by Eric Whitman
- The Daily BLAM!
Herb Cohen is a retired Professional Negotiator who worked for the CIA, FBI, and the Federal Justice Department. He helped craft the governmental response to the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the highjacking of Twa Flight 847, and he was involved in the Camp David Peace Talks. Now, he’s a Jewish retiree from New York living in Florida. Somehow, he got roped into watching The Real Housewives Of New York City, and is addicted (granted, this is regarding last season). He has learned nearly every facet of the show, but watches the women with the understanding that they are all pretty terrible. Dude hates The Countess LuAnn (as he calls her). He thinks Bethenny Frankel is lying about her father’s death. And, actually, he loves Bobby Zarin. (And he thinks Alex’s name is Alec, as in Baldwin, which is amazing.) Everything you wanted to know about The Real Housewives Of New York City...
- 5/11/2011
- by Best Week Ever
- BestWeekEver
Prosecutors think the secrets of the fallen leader's fortune may be hidden at his ritzy Red Sea hideout. In this week's Newsweek, Philip Shenon reports on where Mubarak's wealth may be and how it was concealed.
Forget the allegations that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his family stashed billions of dollars abroad, much of it in Swiss bank accounts and real estate in London and Manhattan. The ailing Mubarak, reported to be suffering from heart problems, may be much closer to his money as he recuperates in the presidential suite of a pyramid-shaped hotel in the glitzy, sun-splashed Egyptian resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Narcissists Defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Western diplomats and law-enforcement officials tell Newsweek that many of the secrets of the Mubarak family's wealth may be revealed along the palm-fringed streets of this town-Egypt's equivalent to Orlando or Las Vegas, where sprawling Western-style luxury hotels,...
Forget the allegations that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his family stashed billions of dollars abroad, much of it in Swiss bank accounts and real estate in London and Manhattan. The ailing Mubarak, reported to be suffering from heart problems, may be much closer to his money as he recuperates in the presidential suite of a pyramid-shaped hotel in the glitzy, sun-splashed Egyptian resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Narcissists Defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Western diplomats and law-enforcement officials tell Newsweek that many of the secrets of the Mubarak family's wealth may be revealed along the palm-fringed streets of this town-Egypt's equivalent to Orlando or Las Vegas, where sprawling Western-style luxury hotels,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Philip Shenon
- The Daily Beast
The axe has fallen on the arts. Were the cuts fair? As some groups celebrate and others face oblivion, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, Jude Kelly and more give their verdicts
Richard Eyre: director
What Arts Council England has done seems quite smart. Equal misery for all would have been deplorable, and lazy. Instead, they've applied the more substantial cuts to the larger organisations, which have a better chance of raising funding through other means. The National theatre, for instance, has been cut by 15%: I imagine that's roughly what they were expecting, and they can pull in sponsorship to make up the shortfall.
Ace has been intelligent in deciding which organsations should receive increases, or be brought into the new portfolio of funded companies; Ace has thoughtfully applied criteria based around talent and risk-taking. The Barbican and the Arcola in London are deserved recipients of their rises [of 108% and 82% respectively]. But I...
Richard Eyre: director
What Arts Council England has done seems quite smart. Equal misery for all would have been deplorable, and lazy. Instead, they've applied the more substantial cuts to the larger organisations, which have a better chance of raising funding through other means. The National theatre, for instance, has been cut by 15%: I imagine that's roughly what they were expecting, and they can pull in sponsorship to make up the shortfall.
Ace has been intelligent in deciding which organsations should receive increases, or be brought into the new portfolio of funded companies; Ace has thoughtfully applied criteria based around talent and risk-taking. The Barbican and the Arcola in London are deserved recipients of their rises [of 108% and 82% respectively]. But I...
- 3/30/2011
- by Laura Barnett, Nosheen Iqbal
- The Guardian - Film News
Viva! Spanish Film Festival, Manchester
Opener Tear This Heart Out recreates a 1930s Mexican town with all its intrigues, and there are star-studded shorts to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution, but much of this year's Spanish-lanugage film festival is bang up to date. Chilean movie The Life Of Fish is set at a party, while Aurora Borealis: My Final Day is presented as a Mexican teenager's video suicide note. The Colours Of The Mountain contrasts a rural village with guerrilla wars, and Spanish comedy Fat People focuses on obesity. Also, the documentary Circus tracks one of Mexico's last travelling circuses, while Sins Of My Father is a son's view of drug baron Pablo Escobar.
Cornerhouse, Sat to 27 Mar
Minghella Film Festival, Newport
Three years after Anthony Minghella's death, the shoring up of his legacy continues thanks to his fans, family and celebrity mates. The latter...
Opener Tear This Heart Out recreates a 1930s Mexican town with all its intrigues, and there are star-studded shorts to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution, but much of this year's Spanish-lanugage film festival is bang up to date. Chilean movie The Life Of Fish is set at a party, while Aurora Borealis: My Final Day is presented as a Mexican teenager's video suicide note. The Colours Of The Mountain contrasts a rural village with guerrilla wars, and Spanish comedy Fat People focuses on obesity. Also, the documentary Circus tracks one of Mexico's last travelling circuses, while Sins Of My Father is a son's view of drug baron Pablo Escobar.
Cornerhouse, Sat to 27 Mar
Minghella Film Festival, Newport
Three years after Anthony Minghella's death, the shoring up of his legacy continues thanks to his fans, family and celebrity mates. The latter...
- 3/5/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
As the probe of Hosni Mubarak's finances heats up, investigators may want to take a closer look at Hussein Salem, an Egyptian spy-turned-businessman found in Dubai with $500 million in cash. By Philip Shenon
The search for Hosni Mubarak's fortune is likely to lead investigators to an Egyptian spy-turned-businessman who was widely seen in Cairo as the Mubarak family's fixer.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Egyptians Rejoice in Tahrir Square
The secretive energy trader and land developer, Hussein Salem, who made his most recent fortune through the sale of Egyptian natural gas to Israel, is reported to have fled Cairo last month after the first of the street riots that led to the collapse of the Mubarak government.
According to news reports in Israel, Salem, believed to be in his early eighties, arrived in Dubai carrying more than enough money to assure himself a comfortable retirement outside Egypt-$500 million.
The search for Hosni Mubarak's fortune is likely to lead investigators to an Egyptian spy-turned-businessman who was widely seen in Cairo as the Mubarak family's fixer.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Egyptians Rejoice in Tahrir Square
The secretive energy trader and land developer, Hussein Salem, who made his most recent fortune through the sale of Egyptian natural gas to Israel, is reported to have fled Cairo last month after the first of the street riots that led to the collapse of the Mubarak government.
According to news reports in Israel, Salem, believed to be in his early eighties, arrived in Dubai carrying more than enough money to assure himself a comfortable retirement outside Egypt-$500 million.
- 2/17/2011
- by Philip Shenon
- The Daily Beast
With roles in The Social Network and Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield's sense of ambition is finally being rewarded
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Age: 27
Credits: Won the 2007 Best TV Actor Bafta for Boy A. Film work includes a major role in The Social Network, Never Let Me Go and the forthcoming Spider-Man reboot.
"Until I was about 17, I didn't quite realise what a major part of my psyche and my soul the American films I was raised on were," says Andrew Garfield. "Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride – those are the films that led me to want to be an actor." Now he has his chance to stake his own claim on the psyches and souls of a new generation of teenage moviegoers, taking the title role in next year's Spider-Man reboot.
Taking on one of cinema's most high-profile roles might be a daunting prospect, but his...
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Age: 27
Credits: Won the 2007 Best TV Actor Bafta for Boy A. Film work includes a major role in The Social Network, Never Let Me Go and the forthcoming Spider-Man reboot.
"Until I was about 17, I didn't quite realise what a major part of my psyche and my soul the American films I was raised on were," says Andrew Garfield. "Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride – those are the films that led me to want to be an actor." Now he has his chance to stake his own claim on the psyches and souls of a new generation of teenage moviegoers, taking the title role in next year's Spider-Man reboot.
Taking on one of cinema's most high-profile roles might be a daunting prospect, but his...
- 10/7/2010
- by Jane Graham
- The Guardian - Film News
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up scribe Daniel Sussman's natural disaster-themed original script “Galveston" reports Risky Biz Blog.
The story revolves around September 8th 1900, the day a Category 4 hurricane destroyed the Texan Gulf Coast city and killed 8,000 people - four times the death toll of Hurricane Katrina.
As the time the booming port town was the biggest in the state and never regained that level of prominence. Polly Johnsen, who is also developing the "Excalibur" remake and an adaptation of David Peace's novel “Occupied City" for Warners, will produce.
The story revolves around September 8th 1900, the day a Category 4 hurricane destroyed the Texan Gulf Coast city and killed 8,000 people - four times the death toll of Hurricane Katrina.
As the time the booming port town was the biggest in the state and never regained that level of prominence. Polly Johnsen, who is also developing the "Excalibur" remake and an adaptation of David Peace's novel “Occupied City" for Warners, will produce.
- 10/4/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ridley Scott isn't on this list just for the films he has directed, but also for his guiding hand as a producer
Director: Robin Hood, Gladiator, Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's fortunes can rise and fall quite spectacularly. One moment he's making the misguided comedy A Good Year, a film branded "a flop" only a week after its Us release by its studio's owner, Rupert Murdoch. The next, his rough-and-ready take on Robin Hood grosses more than $310m internationally, regardless of the sniggering of some critics over the provenance of Russell Crowe's accent.
The glory days of his most influential projects – Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator – may be well behind him, but Scott, 72, isn't on this list just for the films he has directed, but also for his guiding hand as a producer. He formed Scott Free Productions with his brother and fellow director Tony in 1995. Their television work includes Numb3rs,...
Director: Robin Hood, Gladiator, Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's fortunes can rise and fall quite spectacularly. One moment he's making the misguided comedy A Good Year, a film branded "a flop" only a week after its Us release by its studio's owner, Rupert Murdoch. The next, his rough-and-ready take on Robin Hood grosses more than $310m internationally, regardless of the sniggering of some critics over the provenance of Russell Crowe's accent.
The glory days of his most influential projects – Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator – may be well behind him, but Scott, 72, isn't on this list just for the films he has directed, but also for his guiding hand as a producer. He formed Scott Free Productions with his brother and fellow director Tony in 1995. Their television work includes Numb3rs,...
- 9/24/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
By Christopher Stipp
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The Exploding Girl -DVD Review
Bradley Rust Gray has made a film that champions life and love the way it happens, unfolds, and dissolves: slowly.
All you really need to know about this film, which stars Zoe Kazan as Ivy, a girl you wish you could have known throughout your own formative years, is that it is really an intimate portrait of a woman who has a boyfriend waiting for at the college she’s currently attending, she is coming home for spring break, and she is connecting with her old friend Al (Mark Rendall).
What happens after these two re-connect after having been away from one another for a while is the basis for what can only be called one of...
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The Exploding Girl -DVD Review
Bradley Rust Gray has made a film that champions life and love the way it happens, unfolds, and dissolves: slowly.
All you really need to know about this film, which stars Zoe Kazan as Ivy, a girl you wish you could have known throughout your own formative years, is that it is really an intimate portrait of a woman who has a boyfriend waiting for at the college she’s currently attending, she is coming home for spring break, and she is connecting with her old friend Al (Mark Rendall).
What happens after these two re-connect after having been away from one another for a while is the basis for what can only be called one of...
- 9/24/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
The 60s began in Billy Liar's Bradford – but that cultural insurgency now seems a long time ago
In a week with those Camdenites the Milibands stealing away with the Labour leadership race, Andy Burnham's plaint about "metropolitan elites" seems particularly poignant. But then poignancy is the northern tone these days. Mancunians, I found recently, still adduce the Happy Mondays when pressed to say what is distinctive about their home. That the works of this fairly ropey outfit should be taken as a cultural landmark shows what a bleak half century it's been for the north.
I grew up thinking there was a real cachet in being northern. It's 50 years since Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, the 1960 film of Alan Sillitoe's novel, with Albert Finney as a hedonistic machinist in Nottingham. Any youngsters watching him don his suit on the eponymous night must have wished they too were from Pendleton near Salford,...
In a week with those Camdenites the Milibands stealing away with the Labour leadership race, Andy Burnham's plaint about "metropolitan elites" seems particularly poignant. But then poignancy is the northern tone these days. Mancunians, I found recently, still adduce the Happy Mondays when pressed to say what is distinctive about their home. That the works of this fairly ropey outfit should be taken as a cultural landmark shows what a bleak half century it's been for the north.
I grew up thinking there was a real cachet in being northern. It's 50 years since Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, the 1960 film of Alan Sillitoe's novel, with Albert Finney as a hedonistic machinist in Nottingham. Any youngsters watching him don his suit on the eponymous night must have wished they too were from Pendleton near Salford,...
- 9/13/2010
- by Andrew Martin
- The Guardian - Film News
This amazing cinematic triptych juggles plot elements and characters with a finesse and care made all the more amazing by the fact that each of the three films is directed by a different person. Ostensibly a police procedural that unravels the mystery between a ten year old series of child abductions, murders and official corruption in rural Britain, Red Riding In The Year of Our Lord 1974, 1980 and 1983 actually unravel a far more interesting story that traces human longing, despair, depravity and redemption across a class lines. It is literally one of the most heartbreaking and uplifting movies (or series of movies depending on how you look at it) I have seen in the last year.
One of the best things about Red Riding is it's cast which seems packed with actors who just don't get enough screen time in general. Andrew Garfield , Paddy Considine and especially Mark Addy all make...
One of the best things about Red Riding is it's cast which seems packed with actors who just don't get enough screen time in general. Andrew Garfield , Paddy Considine and especially Mark Addy all make...
- 9/9/2010
- Screen Anarchy
While the longform drama will always be the domain of prestigious American premium cable networks, the British do mini-series better than anyone else in the world. A measured, glacially paced adaptation of English author David Peace's hard-hitting Red Riding Quartet, this layered, relentlessly downbeat series encompasses a string of child murders, inclusive, and against the backdrop, of the real-life Yorkshire Ripper slayings that rocked the rural county of Yorkshire in the late seventies. Titled after the year in which they are set (1974, 1980, and 1983), each episode begins "In the Year of Our Lord...", a desperate plea that someone, anyone, is up there watching over us. Because, based on this bleak evidence, no one down here on Earth is.
While each individual installment was helmed by a different director working independently from the other two, the series retains a uniform tone; shuffling characters, looping back on itself, informing what has gone...
While each individual installment was helmed by a different director working independently from the other two, the series retains a uniform tone; shuffling characters, looping back on itself, informing what has gone...
- 9/7/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
The Red Riding Trilogy Directed by: Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker Written by: Tony Grisoni (screenplay), David Peace (novels) Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Mark Addy, Rebecca Hall, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake If you're in the market for a gripping crime drama, it doesn't get much better than The Red Riding Trilogy, an epic series of three feature-length made-for-tv movies that aired on Channel 4 in the U.K. back in March of 2009. Although the "made-for-tv" label is typically given a bad rap here in North America, the Brits definitely seem to put a lot more care into their small screen efforts, and the talent on display here is pretty staggering. It also helps that one of the production companies behind it is Revolution Films, the same people who produced almost all of Michael Winterbottom's films including 24 Hour Party People and The Killer Inside Me.
- 9/3/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
In a relatively slow week for specialty releases on the small screen, the UK's "Red Riding" trilogy and Stephanie Wang-Breal's Silverdocs award-winning "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You), Mommy" are given a chance to shine. The "Red Riding" trilogy, based on the novels by David Peace, chronicles crime and the spotty investigations that follow across ten years in West Yorkshire. The films (Julian Jarrold's "Red Riding: 1974" (criticWIRE rating: B+), James ...
- 8/31/2010
- Indiewire
Red Riding writer David Peace’s 2009 novel Occupied City is his latest work to be optioned for a big screen adaptation…
After a decade of quietly writing one exemplary novel after another, Yorkshire-born writer David Peace has finally been getting the attention he deserves. Channel 4's superb adaptation of three books in the Red Riding quartet (one book was omitted due to budget constraints) brought Peace's taught, hard-hitting storytelling to a wider audience, and featured a stand-out performance from Spider-Man successor Andrew Garfield.
With The Damned United, a controversial fictionalised account of Brian Clough's tenure as manager of Leeds United football club, adapted for the cinema last year, and Columbia Pictures interested in bringing the Red Riding books to the big screen, Peace's profile is steadily beginning to increase.
Now, news is coming in from The Hollywood Reporter that Warner is interested in adapting Peace's most recent publication, Occupied City.
After a decade of quietly writing one exemplary novel after another, Yorkshire-born writer David Peace has finally been getting the attention he deserves. Channel 4's superb adaptation of three books in the Red Riding quartet (one book was omitted due to budget constraints) brought Peace's taught, hard-hitting storytelling to a wider audience, and featured a stand-out performance from Spider-Man successor Andrew Garfield.
With The Damned United, a controversial fictionalised account of Brian Clough's tenure as manager of Leeds United football club, adapted for the cinema last year, and Columbia Pictures interested in bringing the Red Riding books to the big screen, Peace's profile is steadily beginning to increase.
Now, news is coming in from The Hollywood Reporter that Warner is interested in adapting Peace's most recent publication, Occupied City.
- 7/14/2010
- Den of Geek
Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to David Peace’s Japanese crime thriller novel “Occupied City” reports Risky Biz Blog
The story is a "Rashomon"-esque tale depicting the shifting perspectives of people involved in the real life Teikoku Bank incident of 1948. That incident involved sixteen employees of a Tokyo bank being subjected to cyanide poisoning given to them by a man claiming to be an epidemiologist sent by U.S. occupation forces to inoculate the employees against dysentery.
When all were incapacitated, the man stole all the money he could find. Ten of the victims died at the scene, two died later in hospital. A man named Hirasawa Sadamichi was ultimately convicted of the murders and died over three decades later in prison, but is widely believed to have been innocent.
Polly Johnsen is producing the film. The book is the second of a trilogy by Pearce set during the U.
The story is a "Rashomon"-esque tale depicting the shifting perspectives of people involved in the real life Teikoku Bank incident of 1948. That incident involved sixteen employees of a Tokyo bank being subjected to cyanide poisoning given to them by a man claiming to be an epidemiologist sent by U.S. occupation forces to inoculate the employees against dysentery.
When all were incapacitated, the man stole all the money he could find. Ten of the victims died at the scene, two died later in hospital. A man named Hirasawa Sadamichi was ultimately convicted of the murders and died over three decades later in prison, but is widely believed to have been innocent.
Polly Johnsen is producing the film. The book is the second of a trilogy by Pearce set during the U.
- 7/13/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
You may remember the Red Riding Trilogy as a series of sprawling TV movies made in Britain that got limited theatrical releases in the United States, but did you realize they started as a particularly ambitious book? Writer David Peace was named one of the best young British novelists by Granta magazine in 2003, and now apparently the movie industry is taking a shine to his work-- he also wrote the book that inspired The Damned United, the soccer-based film that starred Michael Sheen last year. Now Peace is going even more Hollywood--Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to his novel Occupied City. Whereas Red Riding was about crime in Britain over a series of decades, Occupied is distinctly different, a thriller surrounding a 1948 robbery at a Tokyo bank. You certainly couldn't accuse the guy of being stuck in a rut. There are no immediate plans for putting the adaptation...
- 7/13/2010
- cinemablend.com
David Peace's novel "Occupied City" will be plastered on film thanks to the Warner Bros getting the rights. The story will be produced by Polly Johnsen under her Polymorphic Pictures label. There's no word on who will be penning the script for the new feature. The story is a fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime. Peace's popular Red Riding novel quartet recently was made into a three-part television series in the UK in 2009. The story is centered on the Yorkshire Ripper murders and is being developed into a feature film for Columbia Pictures. Steven Zaillian is writing the latest version with Ridley Scott on board as producer. Peace is also known for his written work with...
- 7/12/2010
- LRMonline.com
Never heard of the young actor cast as Peter Parker? Andrew Garfield has starred in some of Britain's finest TV dramas
Andrew Garfield has swung into Google's most-searched list and Twitter's trending charts, thanks to the three internet Viagra words now tagged onto his name: "new Spider-Man". As Peter Parker, Spider-Man's nerdy alter ego, well knows, "with great power comes great responsibility" – namely, the weight of expectation from the fanboy world. Can he cut it as the pun-loving webslinger/nerdy cub photographer?
If you've never heard of Garfield, you've missed out on one of the finest young actors Britain has produced. His CV so far hasn't strayed too near the geek clique – apart from a guest spot in Doctor Who (as Frank in 2007's Evolution Of The Daleks/Daleks in Manhattan two-parter) – but he's more than acquitted himself. He's had starring roles in two of the grittiest dramas on British TV in recent years,...
Andrew Garfield has swung into Google's most-searched list and Twitter's trending charts, thanks to the three internet Viagra words now tagged onto his name: "new Spider-Man". As Peter Parker, Spider-Man's nerdy alter ego, well knows, "with great power comes great responsibility" – namely, the weight of expectation from the fanboy world. Can he cut it as the pun-loving webslinger/nerdy cub photographer?
If you've never heard of Garfield, you've missed out on one of the finest young actors Britain has produced. His CV so far hasn't strayed too near the geek clique – apart from a guest spot in Doctor Who (as Frank in 2007's Evolution Of The Daleks/Daleks in Manhattan two-parter) – but he's more than acquitted himself. He's had starring roles in two of the grittiest dramas on British TV in recent years,...
- 7/2/2010
- by Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
The Red Riding Trilogy, a gritty British crime drama in three parts, comes to us from across the Atlantic courtesy of Tony Grisoni (Tideland, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas). Grisoni adapted the movies from the similarly titled novels written by David Peace.
Reviews of the first two installments were written by Adam, with additional commentary by Travis. This trilogy will play in its entirety in Saint Louis beginning Friday, April 9 through April 15. Showtimes and ticket info can be found at Landmark Cinema.
Red Riding 1974
Directed by Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots), the first installment is set in 1974 .as the title suggests. and plays like a 70.s era noir piece. The story centers on young and reckless investigative reporter named Eddie Dunford, played by Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus). Eddie is ambitious and a bit naive, following the story of three brutally murdered young girls and the possibility of a single serial killer responsible.
Reviews of the first two installments were written by Adam, with additional commentary by Travis. This trilogy will play in its entirety in Saint Louis beginning Friday, April 9 through April 15. Showtimes and ticket info can be found at Landmark Cinema.
Red Riding 1974
Directed by Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots), the first installment is set in 1974 .as the title suggests. and plays like a 70.s era noir piece. The story centers on young and reckless investigative reporter named Eddie Dunford, played by Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus). Eddie is ambitious and a bit naive, following the story of three brutally murdered young girls and the possibility of a single serial killer responsible.
- 4/9/2010
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Chicago – Much ink has been spilled about how HBO is at the forefront of made-for-tv filmmaking in the world, a fact already demonstrated this year by the brilliant biopic “Temple Grandin” and the stellar WWII mini-series, “The Pacific.” Yet Britain’s Channel 4 deserves just as much attention and praise for producing the “Red Riding” trilogy, which has been routinely compared to HBO’s classic series, “The Wire.”
“Red Riding” originally aired in the U.K. last March, and has been currently playing across America in a limited theatrical release. With their convoluted plotting, brutal intensity, and combined running time of nearly five hours, these three crime thrillers are best seen separately. But moviegoers with the ability to schedule three trips to the theater are well advised to do so, since each “Red Riding” installment is cinematically lensed for a big-screen canvas.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of...
Chicago – Much ink has been spilled about how HBO is at the forefront of made-for-tv filmmaking in the world, a fact already demonstrated this year by the brilliant biopic “Temple Grandin” and the stellar WWII mini-series, “The Pacific.” Yet Britain’s Channel 4 deserves just as much attention and praise for producing the “Red Riding” trilogy, which has been routinely compared to HBO’s classic series, “The Wire.”
“Red Riding” originally aired in the U.K. last March, and has been currently playing across America in a limited theatrical release. With their convoluted plotting, brutal intensity, and combined running time of nearly five hours, these three crime thrillers are best seen separately. But moviegoers with the ability to schedule three trips to the theater are well advised to do so, since each “Red Riding” installment is cinematically lensed for a big-screen canvas.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of...
- 3/16/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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