With the number of ever created movies being unimaginably high, there’s no wonder that an average viewer wonders where the inspiration comes from? Well, the answer is right there: sometimes history gives us the story worthy of creating a movie, but when it doesn’t – there’s always a way to create a remake.
Of course, the niche is dangerous because it takes courage to try to recreate another movie with your own ideas and vision. The main goal is to make it better and not end up being just another disappointment in the industry.
That’s why when Sofia Coppola announced she is going to remake an iconic Western featuring Clint Eastwood. The movie titled The Beguiled was directed by Don Siegel and released in 1971. And After many years have passed, it was Coppola who thought it’s time to create something different from what already existed.
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Of course, the niche is dangerous because it takes courage to try to recreate another movie with your own ideas and vision. The main goal is to make it better and not end up being just another disappointment in the industry.
That’s why when Sofia Coppola announced she is going to remake an iconic Western featuring Clint Eastwood. The movie titled The Beguiled was directed by Don Siegel and released in 1971. And After many years have passed, it was Coppola who thought it’s time to create something different from what already existed.
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- 4/21/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Rachel Bailey)
- STartefacts.com
Nicole Kidman, one of the most honored actresses currently working in both film and television, has returned to the nation’s movie screens in Joel Edgerton‘s “Boy Erased.” She plays the loving wife of an Arkansas minister (Russell Crowe) who both decide to ship their teenage son Jared (Lucas Hedges) off to a gay conversion center when they discover Jared’s sexual orientation.
If all of the awards buzz surrounding Kidman’s performance in “Boy Erased” comes to fruition, it will only add to her haul in awards nominations. To date, Kidman has been nominated for four Academy Awards (including a win for 2002’s “The Hours”), has earned 10 Golden Globe film nominations and has been nominated for seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for movies. Plus she just had an awards sweep at the Emmys, Globes and SAG for her TV work on “Big Little Lies.”
And if that is not enough Nicole for you,...
If all of the awards buzz surrounding Kidman’s performance in “Boy Erased” comes to fruition, it will only add to her haul in awards nominations. To date, Kidman has been nominated for four Academy Awards (including a win for 2002’s “The Hours”), has earned 10 Golden Globe film nominations and has been nominated for seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for movies. Plus she just had an awards sweep at the Emmys, Globes and SAG for her TV work on “Big Little Lies.”
And if that is not enough Nicole for you,...
- 11/2/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber, is our weekly series on Production Design. You can click on the images to see them in magnified detail.
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is no sprawling epic of the Civil War. The Farnsworth Seminary for Girls, where Miss Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) presides, is no Tara. There are no ballgowns or battlefields. There is only a big lonely house, the seat of a plantation that has decayed into an isolated finishing school for an especially isolated handful of girls.
Corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell) is thrust into this setting, his leg wounded and his uniform bloodied. The resulting tension simmers for days, weeks even, before exploding in nocturnal chaos and violence. All the while the house stands silent, forcing these emotions up and down the stairs and into small, dimly-lit corners. There is a forever haze about this place, though never quite hot enough to break into a sweat.
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is no sprawling epic of the Civil War. The Farnsworth Seminary for Girls, where Miss Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) presides, is no Tara. There are no ballgowns or battlefields. There is only a big lonely house, the seat of a plantation that has decayed into an isolated finishing school for an especially isolated handful of girls.
Corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell) is thrust into this setting, his leg wounded and his uniform bloodied. The resulting tension simmers for days, weeks even, before exploding in nocturnal chaos and violence. All the while the house stands silent, forcing these emotions up and down the stairs and into small, dimly-lit corners. There is a forever haze about this place, though never quite hot enough to break into a sweat.
- 10/16/2017
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Sofia Coppola’s dreamy, ‘woman’s eye’ adaptation of a Us civil war story brings the battleground indoors
Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel The Beguiled (Aka A Painted Devil), about a wounded Union soldier taken into a southern girls’ academy during the Us civil war, was first brought to the screen by director Don Siegel in 1971. With posters declaring that leading man Clint Eastwood “has never been in a deadlier spot!”, Siegel’s film was a horror-inflected psychodrama, full of sinewy interior monologues, and foreshadowing some of the male paranoia themes of Eastwood’s directorial debut Play Misty for Me. Now, writer-director Sofia Coppola revisits this story with a sly, sensuous adaptation that earned her the best director award at Cannes, making her the first woman to take that prize since Yuliya Solntseva won for Chronicle of Flaming Years in 1961. Despite closely mirroring the narrative of Siegel’s film (the screenplay...
Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel The Beguiled (Aka A Painted Devil), about a wounded Union soldier taken into a southern girls’ academy during the Us civil war, was first brought to the screen by director Don Siegel in 1971. With posters declaring that leading man Clint Eastwood “has never been in a deadlier spot!”, Siegel’s film was a horror-inflected psychodrama, full of sinewy interior monologues, and foreshadowing some of the male paranoia themes of Eastwood’s directorial debut Play Misty for Me. Now, writer-director Sofia Coppola revisits this story with a sly, sensuous adaptation that earned her the best director award at Cannes, making her the first woman to take that prize since Yuliya Solntseva won for Chronicle of Flaming Years in 1961. Despite closely mirroring the narrative of Siegel’s film (the screenplay...
- 7/16/2017
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The human-ness of being human never changes, fundamentally. The mating season arrives, and the effect makes for both great connections and bad decisions. Director Sofia Coppola emphasizes this in a reverent film production of the story called “The Beguiled.”
Rating: 5.0/5.0
It began as a novel in 1971 by Thomas Cullinan (originally entitled “A Painted Devil”) and was adapted into a film version that same year by director Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood (the same team that brought us “Dirty Harry”). Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay adaptation for her directorial version, focusing on how the relationships developed and changed in a Southern girls boarding school during the Civil War, when adjacent to the property a wounded Union soldier is found. Coppola generates an understanding of how women are, in a repressed society, when faced with their own longings and desires. This is framed by a tense situation – almost a thriller – as...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
It began as a novel in 1971 by Thomas Cullinan (originally entitled “A Painted Devil”) and was adapted into a film version that same year by director Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood (the same team that brought us “Dirty Harry”). Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay adaptation for her directorial version, focusing on how the relationships developed and changed in a Southern girls boarding school during the Civil War, when adjacent to the property a wounded Union soldier is found. Coppola generates an understanding of how women are, in a repressed society, when faced with their own longings and desires. This is framed by a tense situation – almost a thriller – as...
- 7/6/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
How much does it take to push a good person to the edge? What constitutes a “good” person? Are our sexual instincts something that will always ultimately prove to be our undoing? The answer is never as cut and dry as we tend to think, and the sad fact of life is that even the most decent of human beings can be twisted into something unrecognizable. Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Beguiled, is a film that explores these ideas, and does so in a calm, tasteful, and meditative way that really sticks with the viewer.
The story takes place a few years into the American Civil War at a Southern all-girls’ boarding school. One of the girls stumbles upon a wounded Union soldier — Colin Farrell’s John McBurney — and takes him back to the school, headed by Nicole Kidman’s Martha Farnsworth. She begrudgingly agrees to take him in,...
The story takes place a few years into the American Civil War at a Southern all-girls’ boarding school. One of the girls stumbles upon a wounded Union soldier — Colin Farrell’s John McBurney — and takes him back to the school, headed by Nicole Kidman’s Martha Farnsworth. She begrudgingly agrees to take him in,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The Beguiled is as surprising and thought-provoking a film as an exquisitely pruned rose bush flourishing atop a bitter iceberg. It’s elegant. It’s melodramatic. It’s icy, blunt, and deeply silent. But with that, it’s also strangely welcoming.
The movie begins three years into the American Civil War, when we are invited into the gates of the sunlit, musty Farnsworth Seminary to spectate as seven women (comprising the boarding school proprietor, sole teacher, and five students) are startled by the appearance of an injured Union soldier. Jane (played by the exceptional Angourie Rice) is exploring the local forest, picking mushrooms for the ladies’ dinner when she stumbles upon the fallen John McBurney (Colin Farrell), who we come to know as a hired Irish mercenary who feels no moral obligation to either side of the war. The wide-eyed Jane, being one of the youngest students (boarders) at the seminary,...
The movie begins three years into the American Civil War, when we are invited into the gates of the sunlit, musty Farnsworth Seminary to spectate as seven women (comprising the boarding school proprietor, sole teacher, and five students) are startled by the appearance of an injured Union soldier. Jane (played by the exceptional Angourie Rice) is exploring the local forest, picking mushrooms for the ladies’ dinner when she stumbles upon the fallen John McBurney (Colin Farrell), who we come to know as a hired Irish mercenary who feels no moral obligation to either side of the war. The wide-eyed Jane, being one of the youngest students (boarders) at the seminary,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Mandi Ruffner
- CinemaNerdz
The Beguiled is director/writer Sophia Coppola’s remake of an offbeat, little-seen 1971 gem that starred Clint Eastwood. Though directed by Don Siegel, best known for tough crime drama (he directed Clint in Dirty Harry the same year), the original had a strong feminist bent, so it’s seems suitable that the story is retold from a woman filmmaker’s perspective. The new film is faithful to the original to the point where it may seem unnecessary to some, but it’s a compelling story and Ms Coppola and her cast do an admirable job.
The Beguiled is a haunting gothic western that takes place near the end of the Civil War in a Southern mansion that functions as a small all-girls private school. As the war rages on outside its wrought-iron gates, headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) tries to maintain civility inside. The youngest student Amy (Oona Laurence), discovers...
The Beguiled is a haunting gothic western that takes place near the end of the Civil War in a Southern mansion that functions as a small all-girls private school. As the war rages on outside its wrought-iron gates, headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) tries to maintain civility inside. The youngest student Amy (Oona Laurence), discovers...
- 6/29/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As one of the most influential woman filmmakers working today, only Sofia Coppola could sneak in a castration scene. In “The Beguiled,” Coppola flips the script on the original 1971 Don Siegel film starring Clint Eastwood, putting the women at the center of her version and mapping a clear blueprint for a female gaze in cinema.
Set during the Civil War, the film concerns an injured Union soldier who wreaks havoc on the inhabitants of Miss Farnsworth’s School For Girls in Virginia. A house full of women thrown into a tizzy by the presence of a man isn’t the most radically feminist story; that Coppola tells it by objectifying, emasculating, and symbolically castrating her central male character certainly is.
Read More: Sofia Coppola On Female Sexuality In ‘The Beguiled’ And Why She Hopes Gay Men Find Colin Farrell Sexy
The female gaze is a term as new as its burgeoning canon,...
Set during the Civil War, the film concerns an injured Union soldier who wreaks havoc on the inhabitants of Miss Farnsworth’s School For Girls in Virginia. A house full of women thrown into a tizzy by the presence of a man isn’t the most radically feminist story; that Coppola tells it by objectifying, emasculating, and symbolically castrating her central male character certainly is.
Read More: Sofia Coppola On Female Sexuality In ‘The Beguiled’ And Why She Hopes Gay Men Find Colin Farrell Sexy
The female gaze is a term as new as its burgeoning canon,...
- 6/28/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
For anyone who's seen Don Siegel's sensational 1971 adaptation of The Beguiled, drawn from Thomas P. Cullinan’s gothic novel A Painted Devil, it's not hard to see why Sofia Coppola would be attracted to the material. From her debut feature, The Virgin Suicides, Coppola has had a lingering interest in the lives of women trapped by circumstance in one way or another, which the story—set in an all-girls boarding school in Virginia three years into the Civil War—ably extends. But while Coppola's vision is predictably sharp in the way that it tackles the story's sexual politics and laser-like focus on feminine desire, the film also feels flattened, its underlying lurid, psychosexual appeal absorbed into a kind of dreamy gossamer haze.Immediately, the opening—the ornate pink curlicues of the title card; the figure of a small girl walking alone along the forest path framed by dense foliage,...
- 6/23/2017
- MUBI
In less than 20 years, and with five feature films under her belt, filmmaker Sofia Coppola has amassed a rather small but powerful slate of motion pictures. Small though it is, her filmography is a charged batch of feminist expression that tells the world she isn't ready to unleash her next expression until she is good and ready. So it is that we come to her sixth feature, The Beguiled, a remake of the 1971, Don Siegel-directed, Clint Eastwood-starring thriller about the dangers of misogyny in the days of the American Civil War. As with her previous works, it's an immaculately crafted and powerful drama of human interaction and survival in this male-dominated world, and, once again just like her previous efforts, The Beguiled is a phenomenal film, an early candidate as one of the best films the year will offer. Based on the 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan,...
- 6/23/2017
- by Jeremy Kirk
- firstshowing.net
If you're in the market to watch massive robots level cities and various other historical monuments in the ongoing battle to save humanity, then oh boy, do I have a movie to recommend for you! But if you are looking for an antidote to summer tentpoles about aliens and monsters -- perhaps something more sinister, something with more heart, or if you just want to see a movie where women actually actually speak to one another -- might I suggest The Beguiled or The Big Sick (both out in L.A. and NYC on June 23 and expanding next week).
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The Beguiled is a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, which starred Clint Eastwood as an injured Yankee soldier taken in by an all-girls academy in the Antebellum South. The 2017 iteration tells the story from a woman's perspective...
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The Beguiled is a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, which starred Clint Eastwood as an injured Yankee soldier taken in by an all-girls academy in the Antebellum South. The 2017 iteration tells the story from a woman's perspective...
- 6/22/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Colin Farrell has nothing but kind words for Sofia Coppola after working with her on his latest film, The Beguiled.
Sitting down with People at the Cannes Film Festival, the actor credits the acclaimed director for creating a “really cool environment” behind the scenes of the award-winning project.
“Sofia created this really easy, laid back environment on the set that was such a counter point to what was going on in front of the camera,” Farrell, 41, explains. “In between takes of us screaming at each other, we’d go outside and have coffee.”
He continues: “There was this wooden picnic...
Sitting down with People at the Cannes Film Festival, the actor credits the acclaimed director for creating a “really cool environment” behind the scenes of the award-winning project.
“Sofia created this really easy, laid back environment on the set that was such a counter point to what was going on in front of the camera,” Farrell, 41, explains. “In between takes of us screaming at each other, we’d go outside and have coffee.”
He continues: “There was this wooden picnic...
- 6/22/2017
- by Brianne Tracy
- PEOPLE.com
Up until a few years ago, Sofia Coppola swore she would never do a remake. Then her production designer, Anne Ross, brought Don Siegel's 1971 pulp classic The Beguiled to her attention – and the director saw a film ripe for retelling. A group of Southern belles are holed up at an all-girls school during the Civil War; suddenly, the young women and their headmistress have their isolated existence disrupted by a wounded Union soldier. Nearly half a century ago, Clint Eastwood's Corporal John McBurney behaved as if he had arrived at a brothel,...
- 6/22/2017
- Rollingstone.com
When a shirtless Clint Eastwood starred in The Beguiled in 1971 – he played a wounded Yankee soldier who finds refuge from the Civil War on the grounds of a Southern girls school – he was the boss rooster in a henhouse.
That was then. Now writer-director Sofia Coppola has reshaped that film, based on the 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan, into a Southern Gothic that simmers with violent undercurrents and dark, subversive wit. Laughs? You bet, though a few of them will stick in your throat.
Coppola, who last month won the directing prize at Cannes,...
That was then. Now writer-director Sofia Coppola has reshaped that film, based on the 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan, into a Southern Gothic that simmers with violent undercurrents and dark, subversive wit. Laughs? You bet, though a few of them will stick in your throat.
Coppola, who last month won the directing prize at Cannes,...
- 6/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled resembles a decadent pie stuffed with poison apples. Fluffy mounds of cream and a golden, crispity crust – Coppola’s atmospheric outer layer – entice hungry audiences on sight alone. Southern comfort reminds of firefly fields and womanly sophistication in the most innocent ways. Aromatic warmth wofts under noses, but each bite – the scenes that Coppola structures – brings upon the most delicious darkness. Notes of sweetness (a child’s newfound friendship) and spice (the fatal attraction that brews) intoxicate with pleasurable trappings. Coppola’s savory four-star treat is an achievement in both tone and repercussion, and apologies for the metaphor, but all its best scenes play out during mealtime – my madness is with good reason, rest assured.
Ms. Coppola’s 2017 “thrill-ish-er” is both a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 caper and an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel, with Colin Farrell stepping in as wounded Union soldier John McBurney.
Ms. Coppola’s 2017 “thrill-ish-er” is both a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 caper and an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel, with Colin Farrell stepping in as wounded Union soldier John McBurney.
- 6/19/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
On Sofia Coppola’s first morning in Provincetown, all she wanted was a lobster roll. “I’ve got to get a lobster roll while I’m here,” she said, sitting on the porch of the Land’s End Inn, overlooking the town that Tennessee Williams called “the edge of the earth.” It was her first time in Cape Cod’s premier gay travel destination, and she was there at the behest of John Waters, who would present her with the Provincetown International Film Festival’s Filmmaker on the Edge Award later that night. “I just got here last night in the rain and the darkness. It’s so pretty,” she said.
Read More: ‘The Beguiled’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst Subvert Male Fantasies in Sofia Coppola’s Sensational Southern Potboiler
Coppola made history earlier this year when she won the coveted best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
Read More: ‘The Beguiled’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst Subvert Male Fantasies in Sofia Coppola’s Sensational Southern Potboiler
Coppola made history earlier this year when she won the coveted best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
- 6/19/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Remakes are often dismissed out of hand. Most of the time, they’re unnecessary at best and unwatchable at worst. Every so often, however, a worthwhile one comes down the pike and is worth celebrating. This week, we have one to take notice of and actually fete in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. After a successful debut at the Cannes Film Festival, it heads stateside to try and further its chances at sticking around until the precursor season begins. In a somewhat light year for Oscar friendly titles (really, this is the only one, besides The Hero), The Beguiled has at least a fighting chance. The film is, as mentioned above, a remake of the 1971 Don Siegel movie of the same name, which essentially was a Clint Eastwood star vehicle. Set during the Civil War in Virginia, much of the action takes place at a secluded all girls school, one...
- 6/19/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Beguiled premiered in Los Angeles on Monday night ahead of its June 23 release. Director Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman, Quentin Tarantino, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning and producer Youree Henley all graced the red carpet.
- 6/13/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Author: Zehra Phelan
With the fearsome ladies of The Beguiled stepping out to dazzle fans at the La Premiere of the film last night another set of images have emerged from the film to beguile…. Ok, yes that wasn’t very good.
Related: The Beguiled news and trailers
The sensual thriller, which is out in cinemas July 14th has so far met with mixed reviews with some stating this civil war drama is “pulp made tasteful and flavourless” while others have swooned over its cinematic beauty and its touches of black and noir comedy. Whilst it won’t appeal to everyone, Sofia Coppola’s remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 Clint Eastwood led offering will certainly be a focal talking point amongst many film lovers.
Apart from one, the four newly released images depict Colin Farrell’s injured soldier John McBurney in a tension-fuelled atmosphere, and you could almost cut the...
With the fearsome ladies of The Beguiled stepping out to dazzle fans at the La Premiere of the film last night another set of images have emerged from the film to beguile…. Ok, yes that wasn’t very good.
Related: The Beguiled news and trailers
The sensual thriller, which is out in cinemas July 14th has so far met with mixed reviews with some stating this civil war drama is “pulp made tasteful and flavourless” while others have swooned over its cinematic beauty and its touches of black and noir comedy. Whilst it won’t appeal to everyone, Sofia Coppola’s remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 Clint Eastwood led offering will certainly be a focal talking point amongst many film lovers.
Apart from one, the four newly released images depict Colin Farrell’s injured soldier John McBurney in a tension-fuelled atmosphere, and you could almost cut the...
- 6/13/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What do we mean when we say that a filmmaker is “limited”? Is it that their talents are relatively confined? Or is it that because of their particular sensibilities, they choose to make films within a specific arena? Perhaps the better question is: How much does that matter? A filmmaker like Hong Sang-soo, for example—at Cannes this year with both The Day After and Claire's Camera—could certainly be described as “limited” in some respects; but he still produces some of the most consistent and interesting work in the contemporary cinematic landscape. It can't be denied, though, that it's always exciting when filmmakers push themselves and make films squarely outside their comfort zones, which could be said of Sofia Coppola who returns to Cannes this year with The Beguiled. Adapted from Thomas P. Cullinan’s gothic novel A Painted Devil as well as the original 1971 movie adaptation by Don Siegel,...
- 5/29/2017
- MUBI
Cannon fire rumbles menacingly in the distance, but it’s human desire that might prove to be the greater threat after all in The Beguiled. Set to the backdrop of the American Civil War, Sofia Coppola‘s film is a sumptuous and often campy erotic horror, one that marks a confident debut genre outing for a director better-known for contemporary and often quite personal filmmaking (Lost in Translation, Somewhere, etc.). Although primarily based on the 1966 book by Thomas Cullinan, it appears, at first glance, to be a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971 film adaptation rather than any sort of new reading of the original text. Coppola, of course, is far too clever for that.
Colin Farrell portrays Corporal John McBurney, previously played by Clint Eastwood, a Union soldier who is found injured in a Mississippi forest by a young girl who decides to take him to her secluded Catholic presentation school to recover.
Colin Farrell portrays Corporal John McBurney, previously played by Clint Eastwood, a Union soldier who is found injured in a Mississippi forest by a young girl who decides to take him to her secluded Catholic presentation school to recover.
- 5/24/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Between “The Virgin Suicides” and “Marie Antoinette,” it was already quite clear that Sofia Coppola loves watching Kirsten Dunst struggle to make peace with some kind of purgatory. In “The Beguiled,” the mustiest and most conventionally entertaining film of Coppola’s brilliant career, Dunst is once again cast as a woman with so much to give and nowhere to go, but this is the first of her characters who actually has a legitimate hope of escaping from her limbo.
Alas, peace can be hard to come by in the middle of a war, and freedom even harder. And if Edwina Dabney wants to get herself out of the Confederacy, she might have to let the Union inside first.
Ruthlessly shorn from Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel of the same name (and not remade from the Don Siegel adaptation that first brought its story to the screen), “The Beguiled” is a lurid,...
Alas, peace can be hard to come by in the middle of a war, and freedom even harder. And if Edwina Dabney wants to get herself out of the Confederacy, she might have to let the Union inside first.
Ruthlessly shorn from Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 novel of the same name (and not remade from the Don Siegel adaptation that first brought its story to the screen), “The Beguiled” is a lurid,...
- 5/24/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Author: Jo-Ann Titmarsh
Don Siegel’s 1971 The Beguiled is a much loved classic, telling the story of a Union soldier holed up in a boarding school, where he beguiles each of the females and earns his comeuppance. So what would Sofia Coppola, one of a handful of female directors in competition in Cannes, bring to the story that is new by viewing it from a woman’s perspective? The answer is: very little.
Coppola remains faithful to the novel and the original screenplay, as we follow Amy (Oona Laurence) into the woods to forage for her infamous mushrooms. She’s a little red riding hood toting her basket all alone in the humid forest and she is about to stumble upon John McBurney (Colin Farrell), a wolf in Yankee clothing. As Amy helps the injured deserter back to her school, we meet the rest of the ladies: Martha (Nicole Kidman), the headmistress,...
Don Siegel’s 1971 The Beguiled is a much loved classic, telling the story of a Union soldier holed up in a boarding school, where he beguiles each of the females and earns his comeuppance. So what would Sofia Coppola, one of a handful of female directors in competition in Cannes, bring to the story that is new by viewing it from a woman’s perspective? The answer is: very little.
Coppola remains faithful to the novel and the original screenplay, as we follow Amy (Oona Laurence) into the woods to forage for her infamous mushrooms. She’s a little red riding hood toting her basket all alone in the humid forest and she is about to stumble upon John McBurney (Colin Farrell), a wolf in Yankee clothing. As Amy helps the injured deserter back to her school, we meet the rest of the ladies: Martha (Nicole Kidman), the headmistress,...
- 5/24/2017
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sofia Coppola's new version of The Beguiled will debut at the Cannes Film Festival next week, ahead of its theatrical release in the U.S. on June 23, which makes this is an opportune time to consider Don Siegel's 1971 version starring Clint Eastwood. Both movies are based on a novel by Thomas Cullinan, first published in 1966, that follows a badly wounded Union soldier who is given refuge in a Southern girls' academy, where "his presence sets in motion a tragedy of jealousy, hate and lust." (At least, according to Goodreads). As adapted by Albert Maltz and Irene Kamp (writing under their pseudonyms John B. Sherry and Grimes Grice), the film dramatizes that premise. Clint Eastwood portrays John McBurney, the aforementioned Union soldier who is...
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- 5/18/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel "The Beguiled" has long been out of print but in the decades since its original release, it has continued to capture the attention of filmmakers. The first go at the material reunited director Don Siegel with Clint Eastwood for an adaptation that takes the basic themes and plot of the story and turns them up to 11. That movie still plays very well and is one I highly recommend searching out.
When it was announced that Sofia Coppola was putting her own spin on the project, I was excited. It's not often one gets to see the same material handled by both a male and female director and with the story at play here, the female gaze is sure to have some impact on the themes.
Colin Farrell stars as Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier injured in Vir [Continued ...]...
When it was announced that Sofia Coppola was putting her own spin on the project, I was excited. It's not often one gets to see the same material handled by both a male and female director and with the story at play here, the female gaze is sure to have some impact on the themes.
Colin Farrell stars as Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier injured in Vir [Continued ...]...
- 4/20/2017
- QuietEarth.us
Fresh off her acclaimed performance as a wife enduring abusive in “Big Little Lies,” Nicole Kidman is certain to turn heads once more this year in fellow Oscar winner Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” She stars in this 2017 Cannes Film Festival entry as Martha Farnsworth, the rural Virginian schoolmaster at an all-girls school during the Civil War. Closed off from the outside world, the sheltered system she has in place with students like Alicia (Elle Fanning) and colleagues like Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) is destabilized with the arrival of a wounded Union soldier named John McBurney (Colin Farrell). When tensions rise and young lust comes into the mix, this southern school house becomes John’s gothic prison. Read: “Haynes, Coppola, Kidman in Cannes Film Festival 2017 Lineup” The latest from “The Bling Ring” and “Lost in Translation” scribe Coppola, a remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film of the same name, looks to feature an ensemble of fine-tuned,...
- 4/20/2017
- backstage.com
The initial teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola’s remake of The Beguiled was long on ethereal atmosphere and short on plot, but a newly released trailer for the film gives us a little more insight into the sinister events going on behind closed doors at a Southern girls’ boarding school during the Civil War. This trailer focuses on Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), the school’s headmistress, whose initial distrust of injured Union soldier John McBurney (Colin Farrell) turns into cold-blooded hatred—and, it appears, bloody revenge—after he disrupts the school’s peaceful atmosphere with his lustful, philandering ways.
Gather your rags, chloroform, saws, and anatomy books, because The Beguiled hits theaters on June 23.
Gather your rags, chloroform, saws, and anatomy books, because The Beguiled hits theaters on June 23.
- 4/19/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Colin Farrell is under siege by a bunch of Southern belles in the first official teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” a remake of the 1971 drama that starred Clint Eastwood. (Watch the new teaser above.) “The Beguiled” also stars Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice, Nicole Kidman, and Kirsten Dunst. Coppola’s 2017 version marks her third collaboration with star Kirsten Dunst. “The Beguiled” is set in a Confederate girls’ boarding school during the American Civil War, where things are turned upside down by the arrival of a wounded Union soldier, John McBurney (Colin Farrell, taking over for Eastwood). Nicole Kidman plays Martha Farnsworth,...
- 2/8/2017
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Barring the delightful festive treat known as A Very Murray Christmas, it’s going on four years since Sofia Coppola’s last creative effort, The Bling Ring, dazzled moviegoers on the big screen. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the writer-director hasn’t been keeping busy.
In between work on documentaries like The Family Whistle, Coppola has been quietly pulling together a modern remake of The Beguiled, a new, star-studded interpretation on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan. Indeed, Cullinan’s period yarn has graced the screen before; back in 1971, director Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page tackled the family drama, which largely takes place in rural Mississippi during the height of the American Civil War.
Sofia Coppola’s version of The Beguiled will dance to the same tune, only this time it is The Lobster‘s Colin Farrell on board to play wounded Union soldier,...
In between work on documentaries like The Family Whistle, Coppola has been quietly pulling together a modern remake of The Beguiled, a new, star-studded interpretation on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan. Indeed, Cullinan’s period yarn has graced the screen before; back in 1971, director Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page tackled the family drama, which largely takes place in rural Mississippi during the height of the American Civil War.
Sofia Coppola’s version of The Beguiled will dance to the same tune, only this time it is The Lobster‘s Colin Farrell on board to play wounded Union soldier,...
- 2/8/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Happy Birthday to one of We Are Movie Geeks favorite stars. Clint Eastwood was born on this day in 1930, making him 86 years old. The actor and two-time Oscar winning director hasn’t let his age slow him down a bit. Sully, his new movie as a director, opens in September.
We posted a list in 2011 of his ten best directorial efforts Here
Clint Eastwood has appeared in 68 films in his six (!) decades as an actor, and here, according to We Are Movie Geeks, are his ten best:
Honorable Mention: Honkytonk Man
By the 1980s, Clint Eastwood was one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars. With his own production company, directorial skills, and economic clout, Eastwood was able to make smaller, more personal films. A perfect example is the underrated Honkytonk Man, which also happens to be one of Eastwood’s finest performances.
Happy Birthday to one of We Are Movie Geeks favorite stars. Clint Eastwood was born on this day in 1930, making him 86 years old. The actor and two-time Oscar winning director hasn’t let his age slow him down a bit. Sully, his new movie as a director, opens in September.
We posted a list in 2011 of his ten best directorial efforts Here
Clint Eastwood has appeared in 68 films in his six (!) decades as an actor, and here, according to We Are Movie Geeks, are his ten best:
Honorable Mention: Honkytonk Man
By the 1980s, Clint Eastwood was one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars. With his own production company, directorial skills, and economic clout, Eastwood was able to make smaller, more personal films. A perfect example is the underrated Honkytonk Man, which also happens to be one of Eastwood’s finest performances.
- 5/31/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Clint Eastwood is the last, lonely representative of a mythical breed — the badass. Oh sure, there are other tough-guy actors out there (Stallone, Schwarzenegger and other assorted Expendables) but they're all a little too oiled, chiseled and ready for their Men's Health cover shoots. Eastwood is old-school; the kind of gunslinger who survived his shoot-outs not by having bigger biceps, but because he's leaner, meaner and smarter than the bad guy. Men fear his squint, not his heavy artillery or super powers.
But though he's made a permanent cigarillo-chomping, growling, feel-lucky-punk badass crater on all of pop culture (there's no Wolverine or Jason Statham without Clint), Eastwood hasn't always played it hard and flinty. He's been beat up, left for dead, stuck behind a desk and lost and confused on the range. Though he seemed keen to end his acting career as cantankerous and trigger-happy as it began — "Get off my lawn!
But though he's made a permanent cigarillo-chomping, growling, feel-lucky-punk badass crater on all of pop culture (there's no Wolverine or Jason Statham without Clint), Eastwood hasn't always played it hard and flinty. He's been beat up, left for dead, stuck behind a desk and lost and confused on the range. Though he seemed keen to end his acting career as cantankerous and trigger-happy as it began — "Get off my lawn!
- 9/18/2012
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- NextMovie
When J. Edgar was released last Fall, We Are Movie Geeks published our Top Ten Tuesday article on Clint Eastwood’s best films as director. With word that Eastwood has come out of acting retirement, it’s time for another Top Ten list, this time of movies that Clint has starred in. Trouble With The Curve is currently filming and stars Clint as an ailing baseball scout in his twilight years who takes his daughter (played by Amy Adams) on the road for one last recruiting trip. This will be Clint’s first acting role since Gran Torino in 2008.
Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness will be a great way to celebrate the life and films of this legendary American actor. It takes place February 7th at the Way Out Club in St. Louis (2525 Jefferson in South City). Condensed versions of these memorable Clint Eastwood films will be shown on a...
Super-8 Clint Eastwood Movie Madness will be a great way to celebrate the life and films of this legendary American actor. It takes place February 7th at the Way Out Club in St. Louis (2525 Jefferson in South City). Condensed versions of these memorable Clint Eastwood films will be shown on a...
- 1/31/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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