In the UK some reviews for The Dressmaker were so bitchy and churlish, it.s almost as if the critics were watching a different movie from the one that one million Aussies have enjoyed and appreciated.
The condescending and at times derisive tone smacks of cultural snobbery and an inability to grasp that director Jocelyn Moorhouse and her co-writer P. J. Hogan did a splendid job in adapting Rosalie Ham.s novel.
Tellingly, almost all the naysayers are male. While most Aussie critics hailed Judy Davis. superbly pitched performance, some of their Pommy counterparts were disdainful.
While it.s hard to quantify the impact of reviews on ticket sales, The Dressmaker opened on 202 screens in the UK, generating a modest £236,000 ($A496,000) in its first three days, according to Rentrak.
Producer Sue Maslin tells If, .There were strong reactions for and against in the UK. That says something about a film...
The condescending and at times derisive tone smacks of cultural snobbery and an inability to grasp that director Jocelyn Moorhouse and her co-writer P. J. Hogan did a splendid job in adapting Rosalie Ham.s novel.
Tellingly, almost all the naysayers are male. While most Aussie critics hailed Judy Davis. superbly pitched performance, some of their Pommy counterparts were disdainful.
While it.s hard to quantify the impact of reviews on ticket sales, The Dressmaker opened on 202 screens in the UK, generating a modest £236,000 ($A496,000) in its first three days, according to Rentrak.
Producer Sue Maslin tells If, .There were strong reactions for and against in the UK. That says something about a film...
- 11/22/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Always appropriate for the occasion. Pregnant Kate Middleton honored her veterans on Remembrance Sunday, Nov. 9, bundling up her teensy baby bump in head-to-toe black before stepping out for the day's annual memorial events in London. The Duchess of Cambridge, 32, donned the Alexander McQueen Flared Wool Coat, a structured Jane Corbett hat, and a red poppy pin (a gift from a woman named Anna Smith, the wife of a solider) for the memorial, held at the Cenotaph on Whitehall. Prince George's mum also added her dangling sapphire [...]...
- 11/10/2014
- Us Weekly
Our film critic comes face to face with a disgruntled movie mogul over Grace of Monaco and a trip to Jordan
• All our Cannes 2014 coverage
Harvey Weinstein's annual Cannes reception, in which he unveils clips of forthcoming movies and banters with the press, has become a key event. Crowds jostle at the Majestic Hotel on the Croisette, where it is held, insisting to the three iPad-wielding assistants on the door that they are on the list, and would they kindly look again. It's always a lively affair. And so it was again on Friday evening. But sadly this year it marked a new diplomatic low between Weinstein himself and the Guardian newspaper whose "reviewer" he denounced from the stage in his speech. It made going up afterwards to talk to the great man something of a trial.
Guests were ushered into a hall where rows of seats were laid out facing the screen.
• All our Cannes 2014 coverage
Harvey Weinstein's annual Cannes reception, in which he unveils clips of forthcoming movies and banters with the press, has become a key event. Crowds jostle at the Majestic Hotel on the Croisette, where it is held, insisting to the three iPad-wielding assistants on the door that they are on the list, and would they kindly look again. It's always a lively affair. And so it was again on Friday evening. But sadly this year it marked a new diplomatic low between Weinstein himself and the Guardian newspaper whose "reviewer" he denounced from the stage in his speech. It made going up afterwards to talk to the great man something of a trial.
Guests were ushered into a hall where rows of seats were laid out facing the screen.
- 5/16/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw in Cannes
- The Guardian - Film News
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