Tracks director John Curran on Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson: "She was pretty immediate about her enthusiasm." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
John Curran's astute and tender Tracks stars Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson with Adam Driver as photographer Rick Smolan and Rainer Bock as camel rancher Kurt Posel. Bock miraculously combines his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Christian Petzold's Dreileben: Beats Being Dead and Barbara, into an Outback brute able to compete in attention with the growling beasts.
In New York, Curran and I discussed Wasikowska coming to him after Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive "in a state she needed to work through", an unrealised F Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful And The Damned project with Keira Knightley, The Wizard Of Oz, Stardust Memories, basic survival and basic relationships.
Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson in the...
John Curran's astute and tender Tracks stars Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson with Adam Driver as photographer Rick Smolan and Rainer Bock as camel rancher Kurt Posel. Bock miraculously combines his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Christian Petzold's Dreileben: Beats Being Dead and Barbara, into an Outback brute able to compete in attention with the growling beasts.
In New York, Curran and I discussed Wasikowska coming to him after Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive "in a state she needed to work through", an unrealised F Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful And The Damned project with Keira Knightley, The Wizard Of Oz, Stardust Memories, basic survival and basic relationships.
Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson in the...
- 9/17/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jude Law has replaced Michael Fassbender in new biopic Genius.
The Side Effects actor will portray literary icon Thomas Wolfe opposite Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, reports Deadline.
Adapted from A Scott Berg's biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, the new movie tells the story of Perkins (Firth), a renowned book editor at Scribner who worked with literary giants F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.
Genius will focus on the relationship between Perkins and Wolfe and their falling out.
It was announced in November that Michael Fassbender would be playing Wolfe.
Genius, scheduled for a 2015 release, is directed by Michael Grandage and adapted to a feature by John Logan.
Law was last seen in Side Effects and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Watch the trailer for The Grand Budapest Hotel below:...
The Side Effects actor will portray literary icon Thomas Wolfe opposite Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, reports Deadline.
Adapted from A Scott Berg's biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, the new movie tells the story of Perkins (Firth), a renowned book editor at Scribner who worked with literary giants F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.
Genius will focus on the relationship between Perkins and Wolfe and their falling out.
It was announced in November that Michael Fassbender would be playing Wolfe.
Genius, scheduled for a 2015 release, is directed by Michael Grandage and adapted to a feature by John Logan.
Law was last seen in Side Effects and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Watch the trailer for The Grand Budapest Hotel below:...
- 4/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Sherlock and Doctor Who will battle it out at Freesat's 2014 Free TV Awards.
The BBC One shows are nominated for Best TV Programme or Series, alongside Strictly Come Dancing, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Downton Abbey.
Sherlock is also up for Best TV Drama, up against Line of Duty, The Fall, Lucan and Black Mirror.
Mrs Brown's Boys is nominated for Best TV Sitcom, along with Inside No 9, The Wrong Mans, Birds of a Feather and Toast of London.
Celebrity Big Brother is recognised in the Best Live TV Programme category, and is up against Strictly Come Dancing, This Morning, Saturday Night Takeaway and the Winter Olympics.
Emma Willis, Kylie Minogue and Susanna Reid are in the shortlist for Broadcast Personality of the Year, alongside Ant & Dec, Clare Balding, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Jonny Mitchell, Mary Berry and Paul O'Grady.
In its sixth year, the Freesat Free...
The BBC One shows are nominated for Best TV Programme or Series, alongside Strictly Come Dancing, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Downton Abbey.
Sherlock is also up for Best TV Drama, up against Line of Duty, The Fall, Lucan and Black Mirror.
Mrs Brown's Boys is nominated for Best TV Sitcom, along with Inside No 9, The Wrong Mans, Birds of a Feather and Toast of London.
Celebrity Big Brother is recognised in the Best Live TV Programme category, and is up against Strictly Come Dancing, This Morning, Saturday Night Takeaway and the Winter Olympics.
Emma Willis, Kylie Minogue and Susanna Reid are in the shortlist for Broadcast Personality of the Year, alongside Ant & Dec, Clare Balding, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Jonny Mitchell, Mary Berry and Paul O'Grady.
In its sixth year, the Freesat Free...
- 3/28/2014
- Digital Spy
The American playwright and screenwriter on True Detective, David Hockney and langoustines at the River Cafe
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
Playwright and screenwriter Jon Robin "Robbie" Baitz was brought up in Brazil and South Africa before returning to his birthplace, Los Angeles. In 1988 his first two-act play, The Film Society, transferred to an off-Broadway theatre, following a successful run in La. His subsequent work for the stage has included The Substance of Fire, People I Know, an adaptation of Hedda Gabler and the Pulitzer prize-nominated A Fair Country. Baitz has written for television, with credits including The West Wing and Alias, and he made the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five series. Baitz's Broadway debut, Other Desert Cities, which received five Tony award nominations and earned him his second Pulitzer Pprize nomination, runs at the Old Vic until 24 May.
TV: True Detective
This is a brilliant, existential, American television series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
From Siegfried Sassoon and Ivor Novello to Gore Vidal and Fred Astaire, a surprisingly large number of writers have paired off with film stars
On Monday, a raunchy letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich – a surreal fantasy about her, reflecting what he called an "unsynchronised passion" that endured for more than 25 years – is part of an online auction of Dietrich's possessions. Although their relationship remained platonic, many other authors did have movie-star lovers …
F Scott Fitzgerald – Lois Moran
Fitzgerald's affair in the 1920s with this Zelda lookalike, a silent screen actor who was 17 when he first met her, infuriated his wife – she once threw a jewellery gift from him out of a train window while raging about Moran – but inspired Dick Diver's romance with the actor Rosemary Hoyt in Tender Is the Night.
Siegfried Sassoon – Ivor Novello
The war poet's relationship with Novello – now remembered mostly as a songwriter,...
On Monday, a raunchy letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich – a surreal fantasy about her, reflecting what he called an "unsynchronised passion" that endured for more than 25 years – is part of an online auction of Dietrich's possessions. Although their relationship remained platonic, many other authors did have movie-star lovers …
F Scott Fitzgerald – Lois Moran
Fitzgerald's affair in the 1920s with this Zelda lookalike, a silent screen actor who was 17 when he first met her, infuriated his wife – she once threw a jewellery gift from him out of a train window while raging about Moran – but inspired Dick Diver's romance with the actor Rosemary Hoyt in Tender Is the Night.
Siegfried Sassoon – Ivor Novello
The war poet's relationship with Novello – now remembered mostly as a songwriter,...
- 3/14/2014
- by John Dugdale
- The Guardian - Film News
This week it finally happened, Lovefilm is no more, it has now been completely consumed by its Amazon overlords and is now known as Amazon Prime and something that operates totally through your Amazon account should you have one.
At first this was a baffling experience, there was rumours of a lot more new content being added and when you logged into the Ios app for Lovefilm/Amazon post switchover, suddenly you were faced with A Lot of new content, things like Aliens, Congo, Cujo, Invaders from Mars and lots of HBO shows including Eastbound and Down, Enlightened and the Sopranos as well as Community in the ‘Recently Added’ section.
Of course this was too good to be true and you could add these to your watchlist but then not actually watch them. So when things calmed down and you logged back in, these titles it turned out were part...
At first this was a baffling experience, there was rumours of a lot more new content being added and when you logged into the Ios app for Lovefilm/Amazon post switchover, suddenly you were faced with A Lot of new content, things like Aliens, Congo, Cujo, Invaders from Mars and lots of HBO shows including Eastbound and Down, Enlightened and the Sopranos as well as Community in the ‘Recently Added’ section.
Of course this was too good to be true and you could add these to your watchlist but then not actually watch them. So when things calmed down and you logged back in, these titles it turned out were part...
- 3/3/2014
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann brings his customary flamboyant flair to F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the sumptuous life of enigmatic American millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Viewed through the eyes of his Long Island neighbour and aspiring stock broker Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), it's the story of Gatsby's secret wooing of married old flame Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), set against a backdrop of opulently corrupt 1920s America. Brash and brilliant, it's an off-kilter adaptation fuelled by unadulterated verve.
- 2/28/2014
- Sky Movies
Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed that his "atrocious" singing voice cost him the lead role in Moulin Rouge!.
Director Baz Luhrmann had initially planned to reunite with his Romeo + Juliet star on the musical, but the part eventually went to Ewan McGregor after DiCaprio struggled to convince the filmmaker he could sing.
"To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice," he told Variety.
"But we had a friendly thing where it was me and him and a piano player, and we tried to sing a song together. It didn't go too well.
"I think it was 'Lean on Me', and when I hit the high note, he just turned to me [and said], 'Yes, D, I don't know if this conversation should continue'."
DiCaprio and Luhrmann later teamed up for F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation The Great Gatsby.
Watch the trailer for Moulin Rouge!
Director Baz Luhrmann had initially planned to reunite with his Romeo + Juliet star on the musical, but the part eventually went to Ewan McGregor after DiCaprio struggled to convince the filmmaker he could sing.
"To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice," he told Variety.
"But we had a friendly thing where it was me and him and a piano player, and we tried to sing a song together. It didn't go too well.
"I think it was 'Lean on Me', and when I hit the high note, he just turned to me [and said], 'Yes, D, I don't know if this conversation should continue'."
DiCaprio and Luhrmann later teamed up for F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation The Great Gatsby.
Watch the trailer for Moulin Rouge!
- 2/14/2014
- Digital Spy
In The Big Sleep, published 75 years ago this week, the reading public met a very different kind of detective for the first time
Seventy-five years ago this week a revolution in crime-writing began when Knopf published The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler's first novel. Reviews in 1939 were wary and unenthusiastic, however, and only gradually was it recognised that Chandler had pulled off a bold fusion of highbrow and lowbrow – much-applauded by authors such as Wh Auden, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, but also much-imitated by fellow chroniclers of murder.
What was so new? Almost everything in the first chapter, which introduces Philip Marlowe as he visits the Sternwood family mansion. Marlowe speaks to us. Whereas Holmes, Poirot, Maigret, Sam Spade are observed externally, Marlowe is the detective as autobiographer, starting three consecutive sentences in the first paragraph with "I" (ending with "I was calling on four million dollars").
He is a private detective,...
Seventy-five years ago this week a revolution in crime-writing began when Knopf published The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler's first novel. Reviews in 1939 were wary and unenthusiastic, however, and only gradually was it recognised that Chandler had pulled off a bold fusion of highbrow and lowbrow – much-applauded by authors such as Wh Auden, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, but also much-imitated by fellow chroniclers of murder.
What was so new? Almost everything in the first chapter, which introduces Philip Marlowe as he visits the Sternwood family mansion. Marlowe speaks to us. Whereas Holmes, Poirot, Maigret, Sam Spade are observed externally, Marlowe is the detective as autobiographer, starting three consecutive sentences in the first paragraph with "I" (ending with "I was calling on four million dollars").
He is a private detective,...
- 2/6/2014
- by John Dugdale
- The Guardian - Film News
Hollywood extravaganza The Great Gatsby dominates movie category while Redfern Now scoops best drama series
Video: Jacki Weaver - 'I'm a little bit overwhelmed'
A David-and-Goliath battle between a low budget film set in Laos and an extravagant Hollywood production of The Great Gatsby ended with the giant victorious at Australia's Academy Awards, the Aactas
Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster, filmed entirely in Sydney studios with computer graphics helping to create the F Scott Fitzgerald story's Long Island and New York backdrops, took six of the top prizes on 30 January, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay for Luhrmann and long-time collaborator Craig Pearce. This brought its tally to 13 following its sweep of the craft awards announced two days earlier at the country's top annual film and TV awards.
In the television categories, Jane Campion's quirky crime series Top of the Lake, a four nation co-production set in rural New Zealand,...
Video: Jacki Weaver - 'I'm a little bit overwhelmed'
A David-and-Goliath battle between a low budget film set in Laos and an extravagant Hollywood production of The Great Gatsby ended with the giant victorious at Australia's Academy Awards, the Aactas
Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster, filmed entirely in Sydney studios with computer graphics helping to create the F Scott Fitzgerald story's Long Island and New York backdrops, took six of the top prizes on 30 January, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay for Luhrmann and long-time collaborator Craig Pearce. This brought its tally to 13 following its sweep of the craft awards announced two days earlier at the country's top annual film and TV awards.
In the television categories, Jane Campion's quirky crime series Top of the Lake, a four nation co-production set in rural New Zealand,...
- 1/30/2014
- by Lynden Barber
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscar-winning actor who played threatened heroines for Alfred Hitchcock in Rebecca and Suspicion
It was hard to cast the lead in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939. The female fans of the bestseller were very protective of the naive woman whom the widower Max de Winter marries and transports to his ancestral home of Manderley. None of the contenders – including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter and Loretta Young – felt right for the second Mrs de Winter, who was every lending-library reader's dream self.
To play opposite Laurence Olivier in the film, the producer David O Selznick suggested instead a 21-year-old actor with whom he was smitten: Joan Fontaine. The prolonged casting process made Fontaine anxious. Vulnerability was central to the part, and you can see that vulnerability, that inability to trust her own judgment, in every frame of the film. The performance brought Fontaine, who has died...
It was hard to cast the lead in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939. The female fans of the bestseller were very protective of the naive woman whom the widower Max de Winter marries and transports to his ancestral home of Manderley. None of the contenders – including Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter and Loretta Young – felt right for the second Mrs de Winter, who was every lending-library reader's dream self.
To play opposite Laurence Olivier in the film, the producer David O Selznick suggested instead a 21-year-old actor with whom he was smitten: Joan Fontaine. The prolonged casting process made Fontaine anxious. Vulnerability was central to the part, and you can see that vulnerability, that inability to trust her own judgment, in every frame of the film. The performance brought Fontaine, who has died...
- 12/16/2013
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Studios failed to archive early films properly leading to huge losses due to fire and deterioration
• Top 10 silent films
• Alfred Hitchcock silent films added to Unesco register
Most of the feature-length films made by Hollywood during the golden age of silent movies have been lost forever, according to a new study by the Us Library of Congress.
Only 14% of a total of around 11,000 movies made between 1912 and 1930 exist in their original format, with a further 11% available to view in foreign language versions, or in a lower quality format. Around 70% are completely lost. The failure of the early studios, in most cases, to maintain silent era archives has been described as an "alarming and irretrievable loss" to America's cultural record by officials.
Historian and archivist David Pierce, who conducted the extensive two-year study, said the silent art form retained a rare resonance. "It's a lost style of storytelling, and the best...
• Top 10 silent films
• Alfred Hitchcock silent films added to Unesco register
Most of the feature-length films made by Hollywood during the golden age of silent movies have been lost forever, according to a new study by the Us Library of Congress.
Only 14% of a total of around 11,000 movies made between 1912 and 1930 exist in their original format, with a further 11% available to view in foreign language versions, or in a lower quality format. Around 70% are completely lost. The failure of the early studios, in most cases, to maintain silent era archives has been described as an "alarming and irretrievable loss" to America's cultural record by officials.
Historian and archivist David Pierce, who conducted the extensive two-year study, said the silent art form retained a rare resonance. "It's a lost style of storytelling, and the best...
- 12/4/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Other best film nominations include Dead Europe, Mystery Road, Satellite Boy and The Turning.Scroll down for full list
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket lead the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television (Aacta) Award nominations: 14 and 12 respectively, it was announced today.
Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald 1925 novel was made on a Hollywood-sized budget by a very experienced director while festival hit The Rocket, which tells the story of a boy trying to prove he isn’t cursed, was filmed in Laos by a writer/director who had not previously made a dramatic feature.
The Rocket and The Great Gatsby are pitted against each other for the prestigious best film award, for best director and in three of the four acting categories.
The best actor award, for example, could go to Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in The Great Gatsby or to Sitthiphon Disamoe, a one-time...
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket lead the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television (Aacta) Award nominations: 14 and 12 respectively, it was announced today.
Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald 1925 novel was made on a Hollywood-sized budget by a very experienced director while festival hit The Rocket, which tells the story of a boy trying to prove he isn’t cursed, was filmed in Laos by a writer/director who had not previously made a dramatic feature.
The Rocket and The Great Gatsby are pitted against each other for the prestigious best film award, for best director and in three of the four acting categories.
The best actor award, for example, could go to Leonardo DiCaprio for his performance in The Great Gatsby or to Sitthiphon Disamoe, a one-time...
- 12/3/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
The Australian director is reportedly being courted by Steven Spielberg to take the reins on an HBO mini-series adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's most cherished screenplay
• Luhrmann interviewed in May 2013
Baz Luhrmann is being courted by Steven Spielberg to direct the much-hyped television adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's legendary unfilmed screenplay on the life of Napoleon, reports Deadline.
The site also reveals that the miniseries is likely to screen on HBO in the Us. The cable channel is home to celebrated shows such as Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood.
News of the Napoleon miniseries first emerged in March ahead of Spielberg's tenure as president of the jury for this year's Cannes film festival. The Hollywood icon told Canal Plus he was "developing a Stanley Kubrick screenplay for a miniseries – not for a motion picture – about the life of Napoleon," in conjunction with the late director's family.
Kubrick...
• Luhrmann interviewed in May 2013
Baz Luhrmann is being courted by Steven Spielberg to direct the much-hyped television adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's legendary unfilmed screenplay on the life of Napoleon, reports Deadline.
The site also reveals that the miniseries is likely to screen on HBO in the Us. The cable channel is home to celebrated shows such as Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood.
News of the Napoleon miniseries first emerged in March ahead of Spielberg's tenure as president of the jury for this year's Cannes film festival. The Hollywood icon told Canal Plus he was "developing a Stanley Kubrick screenplay for a miniseries – not for a motion picture – about the life of Napoleon," in conjunction with the late director's family.
Kubrick...
- 11/27/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The Australian auteur bludgeons F Scott Fitzgerald's great American tragedy, replacing its subtlety and intelligence with hyperactivity and song. Luhrmann focuses on the story's narrator, Nick Carraway, played by a smirking, spaced-out Tobey Maguire. He's terribly miscast, as is Carey Mulligan as the weak, fickle Daisy and Joel Edgerton as her brutish, racist husband. The only thing keeping this mess afloat is Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby (pictured), who calmly strives to capture this enigmatic figure's optimism and romanticism.
- 11/8/2013
- The Independent - Film
Other film nominees include The Wee Man and Fire In The Night.Scroll down for full list of nominees
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
Full list of nominees
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan [link...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
Full list of nominees
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Other film nominees include The Wee Man and Fire In The Night.
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
The nominees are:
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan The Fear
Sharon Rooney My Mad Fat Diary
Animation...
Paul Wright’s For Those In Peril, about a young man in a Scottish fishing village reeling after a tragic accident, leads the film nominees for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2013.
The film, which was selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, has four nominations: best actor (George MacKay), writer (Wright), director (Wright) and best film.
Documentaries Fire In The Night and I Am Breathing each got two nominations, as did feature film The Wee Man.
The awards will be held in Glasgow on Nov 17. They honour both Scottish productions as well as Scottish talent working in other UK productions.
The nominees are:
Film Actor/Actress
Iain De Caestecker Not Another Happy Ending
Martin Compston The Wee Man
George MacKay For Those in Peril
TV Actor/Actress
Ford Kiernan The Field of Blood: The Dead Hour
Peter Mullan The Fear
Sharon Rooney My Mad Fat Diary
Animation...
- 10/30/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Jc Chandor with Robert Redford (Our Man), who decides to shave Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Robert Redford and Bruce Dern in 1974's The Great Gatsby were battling over F Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan. At this year's New York, London and Cannes film festivals they battle their demons on land and at sea respectively in Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Jc Chandor's All Is Lost. Another grand ageless man, Shoah director Claude Lanzmann, gives us a powerful look at The Last Of The Unjust, his film about Theresienstadt Elder Benjamin Murmelstein, whom he interviewed in Rome in 1975 and whose statements about Adolf Eichmann and the conception of Theresienstadt need to be heard.
All is Lost
Hardly any words are spoken. Robert Redford as "Our Man," is alone at sea on a sinking ship after a floating container carrying a freight of sneakers rams his sailboat. At the New York Film...
All is Lost
Hardly any words are spoken. Robert Redford as "Our Man," is alone at sea on a sinking ship after a floating container carrying a freight of sneakers rams his sailboat. At the New York Film...
- 10/12/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cate Blanchett is a former Manhattan socialite scrabbling to stay afloat, as Woody Allen's fortunes finally veer upwards in his most satisfying directorial effort for years
• Watch the trailer
• First look review
Here it is: the real deal, an actual Woody Allen film, the kind we once looked forward to, took for granted, then despaired of ever seeing again. After all those false dawns, non-comebacks and semi-successful Euro jeux d'esprit, Allen has produced an outstanding movie, immensely satisfying and absorbing, and set squarely on American turf: that is, partly in San Francisco and partly in New York. It is now getting selected previews before a full UK release next week.
Cate Blanchett carries off a magnificently watchable lead performance as Jasmine, the self-deluding socialite fallen on hard times – and there are superbly judged supporting roles for (among others) Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
• Watch the trailer
• First look review
Here it is: the real deal, an actual Woody Allen film, the kind we once looked forward to, took for granted, then despaired of ever seeing again. After all those false dawns, non-comebacks and semi-successful Euro jeux d'esprit, Allen has produced an outstanding movie, immensely satisfying and absorbing, and set squarely on American turf: that is, partly in San Francisco and partly in New York. It is now getting selected previews before a full UK release next week.
Cate Blanchett carries off a magnificently watchable lead performance as Jasmine, the self-deluding socialite fallen on hard times – and there are superbly judged supporting roles for (among others) Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
- 9/19/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Review Paul Martinovic 13 Aug 2013 - 08:13
Breaking Bad is back, and just as explosive as ever. Here's Paul's review...
This review contains spoilers.
5.9 Blood Money
Of course, this has always been a show that has inspired dangerously sustained breath-holding. Even in its infancy, there were few shows that could come close to it for sheer asphyxiating intensity, and in all honesty it's probably a canny move that the show is being distributed in the UK exclusively on the on-demand service Netflix, as I suspect if everybody here watched the show at the same time then the combined force of exhalation at the end of each episode would be sufficiently strong enough to send the whole UK skidding across the Atlantic like a big pebble.
By this point we're so invested in the outcome for Walt, Jesse, Hank, Skyler, Saul et al, that the experience of watching each new episode feels curiously painful,...
Breaking Bad is back, and just as explosive as ever. Here's Paul's review...
This review contains spoilers.
5.9 Blood Money
Of course, this has always been a show that has inspired dangerously sustained breath-holding. Even in its infancy, there were few shows that could come close to it for sheer asphyxiating intensity, and in all honesty it's probably a canny move that the show is being distributed in the UK exclusively on the on-demand service Netflix, as I suspect if everybody here watched the show at the same time then the combined force of exhalation at the end of each episode would be sufficiently strong enough to send the whole UK skidding across the Atlantic like a big pebble.
By this point we're so invested in the outcome for Walt, Jesse, Hank, Skyler, Saul et al, that the experience of watching each new episode feels curiously painful,...
- 8/13/2013
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge remains his awful self in this hilarious, ramped-up, utterly English comedy thriller
Steve Coogan's media personality Alan Partridge is a creation every bit as sad, outrageous, pathetic and funny as Scott Fitzgerald's over-the-hill Hollywood screenwriter Pat Hobby. And, one suspects, he is to Coogan what Hobby was to Fitzgerald, a painfully honest view of the worst way he might be, an alter id more than an alter ego. After 20 years in which Alan has appeared in every possible medium except for a West End musical and a feature movie, he at last appears on the big screen in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
This extremely funny film takes in two movie genres – the desperate journalist unscrupulously exploiting a sensational story and the siege thriller. Alan Partridge is in effect a comic cross between two classic movies: Kirk Douglas as a once big-time journalist making...
Steve Coogan's media personality Alan Partridge is a creation every bit as sad, outrageous, pathetic and funny as Scott Fitzgerald's over-the-hill Hollywood screenwriter Pat Hobby. And, one suspects, he is to Coogan what Hobby was to Fitzgerald, a painfully honest view of the worst way he might be, an alter id more than an alter ego. After 20 years in which Alan has appeared in every possible medium except for a West End musical and a feature movie, he at last appears on the big screen in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
This extremely funny film takes in two movie genres – the desperate journalist unscrupulously exploiting a sensational story and the siege thriller. Alan Partridge is in effect a comic cross between two classic movies: Kirk Douglas as a once big-time journalist making...
- 8/12/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The actor is in talks for a role in an ensemble film about the suffragette movement by Abi Morgan, writer of Shame
Carey Mulligan is considering taking on The Fury, a film about the suffragist movement, according to Deadline.
Originally titled Suffragettes, the drama is reported to be an ensemble piece featuring key figures from the womens' enfranchisement movement. It's been penned by Abi Morgan, writer of The Iron Lady and co-writer of Shame, which Mulligan starred in. Details of Mulligan's potential role in The Fury have not been revealed, but it will be directed by Sarah Gavron, the film-maker behind Brick Lane, which was also co-written by Morgan.
Mulligan, who recently appeared as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's extravagent adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, will next appear in Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers' film about the New York folk scene of the early 1960s.
Carey Mulligan is considering taking on The Fury, a film about the suffragist movement, according to Deadline.
Originally titled Suffragettes, the drama is reported to be an ensemble piece featuring key figures from the womens' enfranchisement movement. It's been penned by Abi Morgan, writer of The Iron Lady and co-writer of Shame, which Mulligan starred in. Details of Mulligan's potential role in The Fury have not been revealed, but it will be directed by Sarah Gavron, the film-maker behind Brick Lane, which was also co-written by Morgan.
Mulligan, who recently appeared as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's extravagent adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, will next appear in Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers' film about the New York folk scene of the early 1960s.
- 7/25/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
In Jerry Bruckheimer's new film "The Lone Ranger," history takes a back seat to entertainment -- but what entertainment it is! Despite the critics, everyone I saw it with this weekend thought it a stunning effort -- epic in all senses, both as a story and a filmmaking venture. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote in "The Last Tycoon," in the entire history of moviemaking there are only a few men who came claim to have held the entire equation in their head -- and can you imagine the moving pieces of story,...
- 7/8/2013
- by Peter McAlevery
- The Wrap
Before and after CGI effects from Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby have been revealed.
The video shows how the film's Sydney shooting location was transformed into 1920s Manhattan.
Cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are seen in post-production shots in and around Jay Gatsby's mansion and garden.
Blue and green screen sets were used during many of the driving scenes, which added the grand aerial views of the city in afterwards.
DiCaprio leads in the title role of Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel alongside Carey Mulligan as love interest Daisy.
Watch how the film used CGI below:...
The video shows how the film's Sydney shooting location was transformed into 1920s Manhattan.
Cast members Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are seen in post-production shots in and around Jay Gatsby's mansion and garden.
Blue and green screen sets were used during many of the driving scenes, which added the grand aerial views of the city in afterwards.
DiCaprio leads in the title role of Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel alongside Carey Mulligan as love interest Daisy.
Watch how the film used CGI below:...
- 7/4/2013
- Digital Spy
British actor will produce and take leading role in adaptation of Suzanne Rindell's jazz-age novel
Keira Knightley will star in and take a producer's role on the jazz-age period piece The Other Typist, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Based on Suzanne Rindell's 1920s-set debut novel, published in the UK this month, the film will centre on a lonely young typist living in a downtrodden police precinct on New York's Lower East Side who befriends an exotic, stylish new arrival at her workplace. Together, Rose and Odalie explore the Big Apple's seedy yet glorious underworld.
The Guardian's John O'Connell has compared Rindell's book with other famous examples of the "unreliable narrator", such as Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley and Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, both of which have been made into films. The novel has also drawn comparisons with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and – perhaps inevitably, given...
Keira Knightley will star in and take a producer's role on the jazz-age period piece The Other Typist, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Based on Suzanne Rindell's 1920s-set debut novel, published in the UK this month, the film will centre on a lonely young typist living in a downtrodden police precinct on New York's Lower East Side who befriends an exotic, stylish new arrival at her workplace. Together, Rose and Odalie explore the Big Apple's seedy yet glorious underworld.
The Guardian's John O'Connell has compared Rindell's book with other famous examples of the "unreliable narrator", such as Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley and Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, both of which have been made into films. The novel has also drawn comparisons with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and – perhaps inevitably, given...
- 6/27/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann's take on The Great Gatsby has broken a national record in its first weekend at the Australian box office.
Luhrmann's take on the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel - starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Tobey Maguire - enters the charts in first place with receipts of Au$6.8m, giving it the biggest opening weekend total for any Australian film to date.
Isla Fisher, Amitabh Bachchan and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki round out the principal cast for The Great Gatsby.
Last week's chart-topper The Hangover Part III slips to second place, taking a further Au$4.37 million, with Star Trek Into Darkness also falling one place to third.
Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar's romantic comedy Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani enters the charts in fifth place, while satirical comedy A Haunted House just makes the top ten.
Meanwhile, animated family comedy The Croods spends a tenth week on the chart,...
Luhrmann's take on the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel - starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Tobey Maguire - enters the charts in first place with receipts of Au$6.8m, giving it the biggest opening weekend total for any Australian film to date.
Isla Fisher, Amitabh Bachchan and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki round out the principal cast for The Great Gatsby.
Last week's chart-topper The Hangover Part III slips to second place, taking a further Au$4.37 million, with Star Trek Into Darkness also falling one place to third.
Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar's romantic comedy Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani enters the charts in fifth place, while satirical comedy A Haunted House just makes the top ten.
Meanwhile, animated family comedy The Croods spends a tenth week on the chart,...
- 6/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Tobey Maguire has revealed that he and Leonardo DiCaprio dwelled on their real-life friendship while shooting The Great Gatsby.
Maguire plays Nick Carraway in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, while DiCaprio portrays the international playboy Jay Gatsby.
Speaking to Flicks and Bits, Maguire said that Carraway and Gatsby's on-screen chemistry was partly rooted in his own relationship with DiCaprio.
"I think Leo and I have a very trusting and close friendship, so I think that just the comfortable, open dialogue that we had in terms of the working process contributed to what we did. We were in it together," he explained.
"In regards to the actual texture chemistry of the relationship it's harder for me to judge what contributed to that but I'm sure that had an effect there."
Maguire continued: "I think the Nick and Gatsby relationship is such an interesting relationship to explore.
Maguire plays Nick Carraway in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, while DiCaprio portrays the international playboy Jay Gatsby.
Speaking to Flicks and Bits, Maguire said that Carraway and Gatsby's on-screen chemistry was partly rooted in his own relationship with DiCaprio.
"I think Leo and I have a very trusting and close friendship, so I think that just the comfortable, open dialogue that we had in terms of the working process contributed to what we did. We were in it together," he explained.
"In regards to the actual texture chemistry of the relationship it's harder for me to judge what contributed to that but I'm sure that had an effect there."
Maguire continued: "I think the Nick and Gatsby relationship is such an interesting relationship to explore.
- 5/22/2013
- Digital Spy
This might be the best attempt yet to film Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Which is not to say this is a good film
Writing about Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby in relation to F Scott Fitzgerald's prose, is like trying to describe a gorilla playing with a Fabergé egg. There it is, this great hairy, wild-eyed beast, stomping, roaring, thumping its chest. It neither knows nor cares about the delicate beauty it holds in its mattock hands, and has no idea why so many people think it so precious. …
That's not to say, however, that the film bears no relation to the book. In a charitable review, the reliably eloquent Mark Kermode said that it's as if Luhrmann has decided that he's simply going to shout the text at you. So, for instance, if you take the famous scene where Nick first sees Gatsby looking out across the sound to that single...
Writing about Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby in relation to F Scott Fitzgerald's prose, is like trying to describe a gorilla playing with a Fabergé egg. There it is, this great hairy, wild-eyed beast, stomping, roaring, thumping its chest. It neither knows nor cares about the delicate beauty it holds in its mattock hands, and has no idea why so many people think it so precious. …
That's not to say, however, that the film bears no relation to the book. In a charitable review, the reliably eloquent Mark Kermode said that it's as if Luhrmann has decided that he's simply going to shout the text at you. So, for instance, if you take the famous scene where Nick first sees Gatsby looking out across the sound to that single...
- 5/22/2013
- by Sam Jordison
- The Guardian - Film News
I'll answer the question first. I might, though I probably shouldn't say that I might. For each year I make an internal plan to read all of the books on which upcoming films are based. Guess how many I usually get through? But given that I'd never trade F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" for any film version that might ever exist, I should probably try and read source material quicker once I know it's going to be a movie. I weep proactively, for example, for anyone who sees August: Osage County first as a movie (if it's not good) without having previously known the brilliance of the play. With this year's "Adapted" crowd, I have actually had read/experienced at least five of them... plus all the superhero stuff, 'natch.
intimate knowledge *before* seeing the movies, 2013 edition
This topic is on the mind since I've posted my predictions...
intimate knowledge *before* seeing the movies, 2013 edition
This topic is on the mind since I've posted my predictions...
- 5/19/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The critics rained on Baz Luhrmann's parade but a star was born in Young and Beautiful, and Sofia Coppola hit a nerve with a film about a teen gang robbing the homes of Hollywood stars
Nicole Kidman is here in Cannes, so is Ang Lee, and Audrey Tautou, and a second-generation Jagger, and Justin Timberlake, and Cindy Crawford, and Cheryl Cole, and Pelé, and all of them have been rained on, stubbornly, for days. Rain at Cannes used to be rare, regulars say. Russell Crowe has an anecdote about sitting in a screening wearing sodden zip-ups back in 1991, and Bruce Willis got splashed by a freak wave in 2006 – but for a couple of decades straight, at least, this festival was a dry deal, screenings and parties staged outdoors, everyone "cooked to a turn" (as F Scott Fitzgerald described the local way of sunbathing). Then last year the roof of the Soixantième theatre blew off.
Nicole Kidman is here in Cannes, so is Ang Lee, and Audrey Tautou, and a second-generation Jagger, and Justin Timberlake, and Cindy Crawford, and Cheryl Cole, and Pelé, and all of them have been rained on, stubbornly, for days. Rain at Cannes used to be rare, regulars say. Russell Crowe has an anecdote about sitting in a screening wearing sodden zip-ups back in 1991, and Bruce Willis got splashed by a freak wave in 2006 – but for a couple of decades straight, at least, this festival was a dry deal, screenings and parties staged outdoors, everyone "cooked to a turn" (as F Scott Fitzgerald described the local way of sunbathing). Then last year the roof of the Soixantième theatre blew off.
- 5/19/2013
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive adaptation tramples over the subtleties of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic
F Scott Fitzgerald did more for Hollywood than it has done for him. After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, "Crazy Sunday", about an alcoholic screenwriter. In the late 30s came the series of insightful comic tales about the ageing movie hack Pat Hobby, and finally The Last Tycoon, the best, least patronising of novels about the movie industry, all the more intriguing for being unfinished. In return, Hollywood paid him handsomely for a while but treated him without respect and made mediocre movies of his books.
So what of this 3D fourth screen version of The Great Gatsby? It is, you might say, a story of three eggs. The mysterious central character is the self-made Jay Gatsby, a millionaire bootlegger who in the summer of 1922 lives at West Egg, the...
F Scott Fitzgerald did more for Hollywood than it has done for him. After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, "Crazy Sunday", about an alcoholic screenwriter. In the late 30s came the series of insightful comic tales about the ageing movie hack Pat Hobby, and finally The Last Tycoon, the best, least patronising of novels about the movie industry, all the more intriguing for being unfinished. In return, Hollywood paid him handsomely for a while but treated him without respect and made mediocre movies of his books.
So what of this 3D fourth screen version of The Great Gatsby? It is, you might say, a story of three eggs. The mysterious central character is the self-made Jay Gatsby, a millionaire bootlegger who in the summer of 1922 lives at West Egg, the...
- 5/18/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Great Gatsby | Beware Of Mr Baker | Fast And Furious 6 | The Stoker | The Liability | Rangeelay
The Great Gatsby (12A)
(Baz Luhrmann, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki. 143 mins
No one's disputing that Luhrmann can put on a show, but can he tell a story? In a way, F Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s parable is a perfect fit: a study of surfaces and seduction and the hollowness of the wealthy. The hedonism and vulgarity are ravishing to behold and the hand-tinted-photo aesthetic is gorgeous. When the fireworks die down, however, that artificiality works against the romantic tragedy, and the characters are too flat to really stir any great emotions. Maybe that's the point.
Beware Of Mr Baker (15)
(Jay Bulger, 2012, Us) 92 mins
When it comes to great rock bio-doc material, Ginger Baker doesn't disappoint on any front: prodigious talent, eventful career (Cream, Blind Faith and Fela Kuti...
The Great Gatsby (12A)
(Baz Luhrmann, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki. 143 mins
No one's disputing that Luhrmann can put on a show, but can he tell a story? In a way, F Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s parable is a perfect fit: a study of surfaces and seduction and the hollowness of the wealthy. The hedonism and vulgarity are ravishing to behold and the hand-tinted-photo aesthetic is gorgeous. When the fireworks die down, however, that artificiality works against the romantic tragedy, and the characters are too flat to really stir any great emotions. Maybe that's the point.
Beware Of Mr Baker (15)
(Jay Bulger, 2012, Us) 92 mins
When it comes to great rock bio-doc material, Ginger Baker doesn't disappoint on any front: prodigious talent, eventful career (Cream, Blind Faith and Fela Kuti...
- 5/18/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The latest film version of The Great Gatsby is currently the talk of the film industry, having just debuted Stateside and opened the Cannes Film Festival this week. Based on F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, the story showcases everything from seduction and money to buried secrets among the elite society in the Roaring '20s.
We take a look back at the five Gatsby screen adaptations in time for the release of Baz Luhrmann's new Leonardo DiCaprio-led film.
1926
This is the only Gatsby film to have been made in Fitzgerald's lifetime and the only silent interpretation of the story. Directed by Herbert Brenon and released by Paramount Pictures, this is a true example of a "lost film" with the below trailer the only evidence of its existence. According to Anne Margaret Daniel in the Huffington Post, the film was not appreciated by the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald,...
We take a look back at the five Gatsby screen adaptations in time for the release of Baz Luhrmann's new Leonardo DiCaprio-led film.
1926
This is the only Gatsby film to have been made in Fitzgerald's lifetime and the only silent interpretation of the story. Directed by Herbert Brenon and released by Paramount Pictures, this is a true example of a "lost film" with the below trailer the only evidence of its existence. According to Anne Margaret Daniel in the Huffington Post, the film was not appreciated by the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald,...
- 5/17/2013
- Digital Spy
The director of the new film of The Great Gatsby is under no illusions that his style is everyone's cup of tea – and that, he says, is why he has such a kinship with the novel's author
It takes a lot of heavy lifting to make a lavish party swing. On the day before The Great Gatsby opens this year's Cannes film festival, the nearby Carlton Hotel has been recast as a chaotic factory of harried PRs and industry factotums. An immaculate woman, all but blinded by the potted plant she is carrying, blunders haplessly through a platter of macaroons that has been left on the floor. The cakes go everywhere; the carpet is carnage. "Merde," exclaims the woman, but she barely breaks her stride.
If high-rolling Jay Gatsby had ever come to Cannes, he would surely have boarded at a joint like this, with its grand beehive domes and tranquil private beach.
It takes a lot of heavy lifting to make a lavish party swing. On the day before The Great Gatsby opens this year's Cannes film festival, the nearby Carlton Hotel has been recast as a chaotic factory of harried PRs and industry factotums. An immaculate woman, all but blinded by the potted plant she is carrying, blunders haplessly through a platter of macaroons that has been left on the floor. The cakes go everywhere; the carpet is carnage. "Merde," exclaims the woman, but she barely breaks her stride.
If high-rolling Jay Gatsby had ever come to Cannes, he would surely have boarded at a joint like this, with its grand beehive domes and tranquil private beach.
- 5/17/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
London, May 17: The literary editions collected by an English teacher from Stirling were sold for a total of 226,000 pounds at an auction in Edinburgh.
Bruce Ritchie, who died in October 2012, owned first editions of classic works such as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol -1843.
The lot also contained Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows- 1908 and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, the BBC reported.
A first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' was bought for 1,875 pounds.
Other books in the lot included a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), which was sold for 4,400 pounds.
Some.
Bruce Ritchie, who died in October 2012, owned first editions of classic works such as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol -1843.
The lot also contained Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows- 1908 and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, the BBC reported.
A first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' was bought for 1,875 pounds.
Other books in the lot included a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), which was sold for 4,400 pounds.
Some.
- 5/17/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann brings his customary flamboyant flair to F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the sumptuous life of enigmatic American millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Viewed through the eyes of his Long Island neighbour and aspiring stock broker Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), it's the story of Gatsby's clandestine wooing of married old flame Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) against a backdrop of opulently corrupt 1920s America. Brash and brilliant, it's an off-kilter adaptation but one that just about gets away with it.
- 5/17/2013
- Sky Movies
The Great Gatsby features a credit for Jay Leno's garage.
The television host allowed Baz Luhrmann access to his vintage car collection during the making of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The crew recorded the sound of his Duesenbergs for the period film.
The yellow 1929 Duesenberg which appears anachronistically in the 1922 setting was a fake made from fibreglass and a Ford V-8 engine.
Luhrmann's adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel - which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire - screened at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
The Great Gatsby is now playing in the Us and UK.
Gallery - Great Gatsby Cannes screening:...
The television host allowed Baz Luhrmann access to his vintage car collection during the making of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The crew recorded the sound of his Duesenbergs for the period film.
The yellow 1929 Duesenberg which appears anachronistically in the 1922 setting was a fake made from fibreglass and a Ford V-8 engine.
Luhrmann's adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel - which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire - screened at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
The Great Gatsby is now playing in the Us and UK.
Gallery - Great Gatsby Cannes screening:...
- 5/16/2013
- Digital Spy
Director: Baz Luhrmann; Screenwriters: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce; Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki; Running time: 142 mins; Certificate: 12A
Flashing the cash is a way of life for angst-ridden, nouveau riche party boy Jay Gatsby, the hero of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great American Novel'. But for director Baz Luhrmann, too, there's a kind of mad urgency, an itchy desperation in the way he throws so much money at the screen to fill almost every moment of this adaptation with all things glittery and bright. Thankfully, in the title role, Leonardo DiCaprio has a million-dollar smile to match the décor and, behind that, a shade of something darker.
Gatsby only enters the scene after half an hour, while his legend is built up in the reminiscences of grudging Wall Street trader Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). In one of the few add-ons to the novel,...
Flashing the cash is a way of life for angst-ridden, nouveau riche party boy Jay Gatsby, the hero of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great American Novel'. But for director Baz Luhrmann, too, there's a kind of mad urgency, an itchy desperation in the way he throws so much money at the screen to fill almost every moment of this adaptation with all things glittery and bright. Thankfully, in the title role, Leonardo DiCaprio has a million-dollar smile to match the décor and, behind that, a shade of something darker.
Gatsby only enters the scene after half an hour, while his legend is built up in the reminiscences of grudging Wall Street trader Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). In one of the few add-ons to the novel,...
- 5/16/2013
- Digital Spy
Title: The Great Gatsby Director: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, Amitabh Bachchan, Elisabeth Debicki. Fitzgerald’s novel, offers an amorous ideal hopelessly bound to cynicism, fostered by rapid changes taking place in American society (Prohibition, the conversion of industry for war to industry for consumer goods, the explosion of the entertainment industry as a vast, inspiring and influential force), channelled by the epitome of the American Dream. Baz Luhrmann has had an osmotic approach in metabolising every single word of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and transforming it into a majestic piece of entertainment. ‘The Great Gatsby’ can be seen as a social satire commenting [ Read More ]
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- 5/16/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Brash and exuberant, the opening movie of the 66th festival has divided critics, but its director is upbeat about audience response
It has divided the critics, who have either praised it for its exuberant, operatic, roaring approach to its material – or derided as a crass, tin-eared rendering of F Scott Fitzgerald's precisely tuned text. But, as The Great Gatsby opened the 66th Cannes film festival, its director and co-adaptor, Baz Luhrmann, defended the film, saying that his chief concern was the healthy box office.
"People are going out to see it" after a "very nervous [opening] weekend" when it was up against "giant action films", he said.
He was used to audience reaction outgunning the critics' voices, he said. "Look, I made Moulin Rouge. And Romeo + Juliet, and Strictly Ballroom for that matter, and they never got those high critics' scores."
He noted that in the last week the novel...
It has divided the critics, who have either praised it for its exuberant, operatic, roaring approach to its material – or derided as a crass, tin-eared rendering of F Scott Fitzgerald's precisely tuned text. But, as The Great Gatsby opened the 66th Cannes film festival, its director and co-adaptor, Baz Luhrmann, defended the film, saying that his chief concern was the healthy box office.
"People are going out to see it" after a "very nervous [opening] weekend" when it was up against "giant action films", he said.
He was used to audience reaction outgunning the critics' voices, he said. "Look, I made Moulin Rouge. And Romeo + Juliet, and Strictly Ballroom for that matter, and they never got those high critics' scores."
He noted that in the last week the novel...
- 5/15/2013
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan were among the guests at the Great Gatsby screening at Cannes this evening (May 15).
Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel opens this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Luhrmann, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton also attended the event, along with this year's festival jury headed up by Steven Spielberg.
The film has already taken over $50 million at the Us box office after its opening weekend.
The Cannes Film Festival will run between May 15 and 26, with the jurors' prizes being announced on the closing night.
This year's jury features Christoph Waltz, Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee among others.
The Great Gatsby is released in the UK on May 17.
Watch a trailer below:...
Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel opens this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Luhrmann, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton also attended the event, along with this year's festival jury headed up by Steven Spielberg.
The film has already taken over $50 million at the Us box office after its opening weekend.
The Cannes Film Festival will run between May 15 and 26, with the jurors' prizes being announced on the closing night.
This year's jury features Christoph Waltz, Nicole Kidman and Ang Lee among others.
The Great Gatsby is released in the UK on May 17.
Watch a trailer below:...
- 5/15/2013
- Digital Spy
We're not short on Jane Austen or John Steinbeck adaptations. So tell us which books Luhrmann should conquer next
Though it's failed to completely win over film critics, Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby has secured the endorsement of two important groups: people who buy movie tickets, and American high school English teachers.
It's the latter group that is especially important, because F Scott Fitzgerald's Great American Novel is one of the most commonly assigned books in Us high school literature classes. As such, it's also one of the most commonly avoided books in Us high school literature classes.
"As an interpretation I think he really nailed the high school angle of it," New York teacher Kyle Mullins told the Atlantic. "The symbolism was really overt. It bothered me being someone who studied it more seriously to see it be so blunt. … It just lacks subtlety, I guess, but that's...
Though it's failed to completely win over film critics, Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby has secured the endorsement of two important groups: people who buy movie tickets, and American high school English teachers.
It's the latter group that is especially important, because F Scott Fitzgerald's Great American Novel is one of the most commonly assigned books in Us high school literature classes. As such, it's also one of the most commonly avoided books in Us high school literature classes.
"As an interpretation I think he really nailed the high school angle of it," New York teacher Kyle Mullins told the Atlantic. "The symbolism was really overt. It bothered me being someone who studied it more seriously to see it be so blunt. … It just lacks subtlety, I guess, but that's...
- 5/15/2013
- by Erin McCann
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann has commented on the mixed critical reception to The Great Gatsby.
The director, whose adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, told reporters during a press conference that he anticipated a lukewarm response from critics.
"I never get one of those big, high critics scores," Reuters quotes Luhrmann as saying, before referencing the poor response to the novel upon its 1945 release.
"I knew [the criticism] would come. I just care that people are going out and seeing it. I really am so moved by that."
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as mysterious billionaire Jay Gatsby, while Tobey Maguire plays the novel's narrator Nick Carraway, a veteran who becomes drawn into Gatsby's glamorous world of excess.
Carey Mulligan plays Gatsby's flighty former flame Daisy, and the supporting cast includes Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki.
Luhrmann recently revealed that his ideal next project would be...
The director, whose adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, told reporters during a press conference that he anticipated a lukewarm response from critics.
"I never get one of those big, high critics scores," Reuters quotes Luhrmann as saying, before referencing the poor response to the novel upon its 1945 release.
"I knew [the criticism] would come. I just care that people are going out and seeing it. I really am so moved by that."
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as mysterious billionaire Jay Gatsby, while Tobey Maguire plays the novel's narrator Nick Carraway, a veteran who becomes drawn into Gatsby's glamorous world of excess.
Carey Mulligan plays Gatsby's flighty former flame Daisy, and the supporting cast includes Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki.
Luhrmann recently revealed that his ideal next project would be...
- 5/15/2013
- Digital Spy
Los Angeles, May 15: Australian director Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gasby" is only the latest in a series of screen adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book. From a silent version to, of course, the famous film starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, the novel has had several cinematic renditions.
The first attempt to bring the book on silver screen was by director Herbert Brenon in 1926. The movie was a silent film starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson and Neil Hamilton in lead roles. The movie was "rotten", said Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of Scott Fitzgerald. However, the prints of the movie were lost later and no archives are said to.
The first attempt to bring the book on silver screen was by director Herbert Brenon in 1926. The movie was a silent film starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson and Neil Hamilton in lead roles. The movie was "rotten", said Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of Scott Fitzgerald. However, the prints of the movie were lost later and no archives are said to.
- 5/15/2013
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
London, May 15: Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann's latest venture together 'The Great Gatsby' will open the annual Cannes film festival.
The film, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, also has British actress Carey Mulligan starring in it.
Early reviews about the movie have been mixed but DiCaprio has been praised for his role of Jay Gatsby.
The 20 movie in competition for Palme d'Or include movies by the Coen brothers and Roman Polanski, the BBC reported.
Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz are in this year's jury - which decides the festival's top prize Palme d'Or..
The film, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, also has British actress Carey Mulligan starring in it.
Early reviews about the movie have been mixed but DiCaprio has been praised for his role of Jay Gatsby.
The 20 movie in competition for Palme d'Or include movies by the Coen brothers and Roman Polanski, the BBC reported.
Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz are in this year's jury - which decides the festival's top prize Palme d'Or..
- 5/15/2013
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Baz Luhrmann delivers an energetic, glittering adaptation of the classic Fitzgerald novel, but sacrifices all of the original's subtlely in the process
F Scott Fitzgerald's classic, complex novella of bad timing and lost love in the Jazz Age has been brought once again to the cinema, now starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the enigmatic young plutocrat Gatsby himself; Carey Mulligan as Daisy, the object of his passion, and Tobey Maguire as Daisy's cousin Nick, the outsider-insider through whose wondering narration the story is filtered. Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it. As it is, the task has fallen to Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge! and Australia, a man who can't see a nuance without calling security for it to be thrown off his set.
F Scott Fitzgerald's classic, complex novella of bad timing and lost love in the Jazz Age has been brought once again to the cinema, now starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the enigmatic young plutocrat Gatsby himself; Carey Mulligan as Daisy, the object of his passion, and Tobey Maguire as Daisy's cousin Nick, the outsider-insider through whose wondering narration the story is filtered. Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it. As it is, the task has fallen to Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge! and Australia, a man who can't see a nuance without calling security for it to be thrown off his set.
- 5/14/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
As a rain-drenched Cannes Film Festival prepares to put on its 1920s glad rags and uber-bling for tonight’s premiere of The Great Gatsby, its Australian director Baz Luhrmann, perhaps to ward off any critical brickbats, was at pains to point out to the media his dedication to F Scott Fitzgerald’s literary intentions and memory.
It has been a long journey, which started on a train trip through Siberia after he had wrapped shooting in 2001 on Moulin Rouge! (also a Cannes opener). He was on the Trans-Siberian Express from Beijing to Paris to meet up with his wife costume designer Catherine Martin and his then newly born daughter.
He described listening to the audio book of the novel within the confines of his carriage as the Siberian scenery flashed by. "I poured some wine and started listening. It was four o'clock in the morning...
It has been a long journey, which started on a train trip through Siberia after he had wrapped shooting in 2001 on Moulin Rouge! (also a Cannes opener). He was on the Trans-Siberian Express from Beijing to Paris to meet up with his wife costume designer Catherine Martin and his then newly born daughter.
He described listening to the audio book of the novel within the confines of his carriage as the Siberian scenery flashed by. "I poured some wine and started listening. It was four o'clock in the morning...
- 5/14/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Telegraph, Mail and Guardian among UK newspapers refusing to obey ban on reviewing Baz Luhrmann's film ahead of Cannes
It has long been a bugbear of despairing editors: the determination of film studios to maintain regional embargoes for critics' reviews in an internet age where geographical boundaries are increasingly irrelevant. Now the matter may finally have come to a head after a number of British newspapers blankly refused to obey a ban on reviewing Baz Luhrmann's much-hyped new adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ahead of its European premiere at the Cannes film festival tomorrow night.
Studio Warner Bros was still continuing to apply the embargo of noon tomorrow (Wednesday 15 May) to all non-us outlets as late as yesterday, despite the Daily Mail having published a review as early as Tuesday last week. The Independent followed suit on Friday with a review from a Us-based critic,...
It has long been a bugbear of despairing editors: the determination of film studios to maintain regional embargoes for critics' reviews in an internet age where geographical boundaries are increasingly irrelevant. Now the matter may finally have come to a head after a number of British newspapers blankly refused to obey a ban on reviewing Baz Luhrmann's much-hyped new adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ahead of its European premiere at the Cannes film festival tomorrow night.
Studio Warner Bros was still continuing to apply the embargo of noon tomorrow (Wednesday 15 May) to all non-us outlets as late as yesterday, despite the Daily Mail having published a review as early as Tuesday last week. The Independent followed suit on Friday with a review from a Us-based critic,...
- 5/14/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Baz Luhrmann's new version is the latest attempt to adapt a book notoriously hard to bring to the screen
I'm writing this a few days before the UK premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new film of The Great Gatsby – at which stage the broad consensus seems to be that the novel can't be filmed. Aside from a few midway-convincing theories about the impossibility of matching the beauty of Fitzgerald's line-by-line writing, most of this agreement is based on the fact that all previous attempts to bring the book to life have emerged stillborn.
Sadly, the very first effort, a 1926 silent movie directed by Herbert Brenon, is almost entirely lost. Or perhaps, not so sadly. When F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald went to see the film in Los Angeles, they walked out. Zelda wrote to her son Scottie: "We saw 'The Great Gatsby' in the movies. It's Rotten and awful and terrible and we left.
I'm writing this a few days before the UK premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new film of The Great Gatsby – at which stage the broad consensus seems to be that the novel can't be filmed. Aside from a few midway-convincing theories about the impossibility of matching the beauty of Fitzgerald's line-by-line writing, most of this agreement is based on the fact that all previous attempts to bring the book to life have emerged stillborn.
Sadly, the very first effort, a 1926 silent movie directed by Herbert Brenon, is almost entirely lost. Or perhaps, not so sadly. When F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald went to see the film in Los Angeles, they walked out. Zelda wrote to her son Scottie: "We saw 'The Great Gatsby' in the movies. It's Rotten and awful and terrible and we left.
- 5/14/2013
- by Sam Jordison
- The Guardian - Film News
Amitabh Bachchan's voice has been used in a song by Jay-z for The Great Gatsby.
The Meyer Wolfsheim actor's dialogue in the film has been incorporated in a song by Jay-z, who is the executive producer of the movie soundtrack.
Speaking to Pti, Bachchan said: "Jay-z, who has done the music on it, wanted to use a portion of my dialogue in the song that he has composed.
"Baz Luhrmann just asked me whether he could use my voice. The song probably has something to do with who Gatsby is."
The 70-year-old also described meeting co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire for the first time.
"We did not talk about Indian films," explained Bachchan. "I don't think they know me at all, but it was nice meeting them and they were just very casual, normal individuals. They were very friendly, very warm and very co-operative."
The veteran actor said...
The Meyer Wolfsheim actor's dialogue in the film has been incorporated in a song by Jay-z, who is the executive producer of the movie soundtrack.
Speaking to Pti, Bachchan said: "Jay-z, who has done the music on it, wanted to use a portion of my dialogue in the song that he has composed.
"Baz Luhrmann just asked me whether he could use my voice. The song probably has something to do with who Gatsby is."
The 70-year-old also described meeting co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire for the first time.
"We did not talk about Indian films," explained Bachchan. "I don't think they know me at all, but it was nice meeting them and they were just very casual, normal individuals. They were very friendly, very warm and very co-operative."
The veteran actor said...
- 5/13/2013
- Digital Spy
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