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- 11/3/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
The Rome Film Festival (October 17-27) has unveiled its 2019 official selection, which includes Downton Abbey, Waves, Judy, The Aeronauts, Hustlers and Werner Herzog documentary Nomad[/link] about writer Bruce Chatwin.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
- 10/4/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – Even before I figured out my own sexuality, Judy Garland’s status as a gay icon was known to me. I wouldn’t understand why until much later in my life, but sure as the sky was blue, the city was emerald, and the brick road was yellow, I knew I was a friend of Dorothy. Heartbreakingly, “Judy” paints a bleak portrait of the star, but never takes a look at the bigger picture.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
For those not in the know about gay slang from the 1950s, a “friend of Dorothy” was a term used for Lgbt people to discreetly identify each other during a time when homosexuality was illegal. The Dorothy referenced is, of course, Judy Garland’s fabulous character from “The Wizard of Oz”. Although the term has faded from use in the past few decades, Judy’s status as a cultural figure in the gay community remains as strong as ever.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
For those not in the know about gay slang from the 1950s, a “friend of Dorothy” was a term used for Lgbt people to discreetly identify each other during a time when homosexuality was illegal. The Dorothy referenced is, of course, Judy Garland’s fabulous character from “The Wizard of Oz”. Although the term has faded from use in the past few decades, Judy’s status as a cultural figure in the gay community remains as strong as ever.
- 9/28/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Famous people playing other famous people can be a tricky business. At its worst, the exercise yields nothing but an embarrassing impersonation, but there’s always the hope for that moment of transcendence, in which one legend disappears into the skin of another. In recent years, Michael Douglas managed it, playing Liberace in “Behind the Candelabra,” and a pre-“Black Panther” Chadwick Boseman accomplished it twice, as Jackie Robinson in “42” and James Brown in “Get On Up.”
To that list, we must add Renee Zellweger in “Judy,” giving the kind of masterful performance that requires that we forget everything we think we know about Zellweger as an actor. For 118 minutes, she becomes Judy Garland, which is no easy task — Garland is one of the 20th century’s greatest icons, and while any number of drag queens over the years have paid her varying degrees of homage, she was a...
To that list, we must add Renee Zellweger in “Judy,” giving the kind of masterful performance that requires that we forget everything we think we know about Zellweger as an actor. For 118 minutes, she becomes Judy Garland, which is no easy task — Garland is one of the 20th century’s greatest icons, and while any number of drag queens over the years have paid her varying degrees of homage, she was a...
- 9/25/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Renée Zellweger performs miracles playing Judy Garland: singing her heart out, baring her bruised soul and acting with a ferocity that ultimately rises to a state of grace. Yes, Judy, the well-meaning but wobbly biopic that can barely contain her take on the late Star Is Born star, is pure Oscarbait — ready made for an Academy campaign and rarely soaring to the level of a portrayal that’s a dazzling, deeply felt tribute from one artist to another.
Garland died of an accidental drug overdose in 1969 when she was...
Garland died of an accidental drug overdose in 1969 when she was...
- 9/24/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Jo Woodcock, James Cosmo, Cosmo Jarvis, Amy Ambrose, Suzy Bastone, Donna Berlin, Lee Boardman, Liz May Brice, Amelda Brown, Josephine Butler, Renée Castle, Darren Clarke, Richard Cordery | Written and Directed by Thomas Lawes
Emma Rose (Jo Woodcock) has just had her life turned upside down when here boyfriend has been arrested for some sort of Pyramid scheme that is not really important to the plot so we will keep it generic. Fearing that she may somehow be involved and the next suspect she obviously goes on the run.
In a bid to hide out undetected she finds herself in a quaint little town and offers herself to a wealthy land owner (James Cosmo) and prolific painter, the deal is he gives her somewhere to stay she works for free. However this movie is billed as a Dark British Thriller so get ready for the turn. The painter discovers her...
Emma Rose (Jo Woodcock) has just had her life turned upside down when here boyfriend has been arrested for some sort of Pyramid scheme that is not really important to the plot so we will keep it generic. Fearing that she may somehow be involved and the next suspect she obviously goes on the run.
In a bid to hide out undetected she finds herself in a quaint little town and offers herself to a wealthy land owner (James Cosmo) and prolific painter, the deal is he gives her somewhere to stay she works for free. However this movie is billed as a Dark British Thriller so get ready for the turn. The painter discovers her...
- 6/7/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Universal Pictures has released the trailer for Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire, which is the fourth film in the Dragonheart fantasy film franchise. In this film, Patrick Stewart provides the voice of the dragon Drago. This is a role that Sean Connery played in the 1996 film and Ben Kingsley played in the third film in 2015. Here's the synopsis"
In Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire, Patrick Stewart voices Drago, the magnificent dragon who became bonded with King Gareth. When the king dies, his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon’s unique strengths, use their inherited powers against each other to vie for the throne. When Drago’s source of power – known as the Heartfire – is stolen, more than the throne is at stake; the siblings must end their rivalry with swords and sorcery or the kingdom may fall.
The press release also offers an interesting bit of...
In Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire, Patrick Stewart voices Drago, the magnificent dragon who became bonded with King Gareth. When the king dies, his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon’s unique strengths, use their inherited powers against each other to vie for the throne. When Drago’s source of power – known as the Heartfire – is stolen, more than the throne is at stake; the siblings must end their rivalry with swords and sorcery or the kingdom may fall.
The press release also offers an interesting bit of...
- 3/22/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Producers reps The Thing Is… are representing worldwide rights to Bruce Webb’s British youth drama/thriller Social Suicide and Claude Green’s The Doo Dah Man.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the titles.
Social Suicide, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
The Doo Dah Man is about the relationship between a con man and a young man running away from his father. The cast features...
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the titles.
Social Suicide, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
The Doo Dah Man is about the relationship between a con man and a young man running away from his father. The cast features...
- 11/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Producers reps The Thing Is… are representing worldwide rights to Bruce Webb’s British youth drama/thriller Social Suicide.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the title.
The film, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
Alan McQueen and Chris Johnson from The Thing Is… are both attending Afm to rep the title.
The film, produced by Janet Wells, premiered at Raindance 2015 last month in London and will next travel to Ale Kino, Poland’s Youth Film Festival.
Jackson Bews and India Eisley lead the cast of thriller, which shows the lengths teenagers will go to for Internet fame.
Notably, the adult cast features cameos from Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, reuniting for the first time since playing Romeo and Juliet for Zeffirelli in 1968. The cast is rounded out by Neve McIntosh and Richard Cordery.
Wells also co-wrote the script with Robert Klecha.
- 11/2/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Richard Curtis brings Roald Dahl's Esio Trot to BBC One in an adaptation starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench...
This review contains spoilers.
Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is the story of burgeoning love between two pensioners - the shy and quiet Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) and the outgoing-but-dim Mrs Silver (Judi Dench). Mr Hoppy is far too reserved to express his feelings for Mrs Silver, who appears to only have eyes for her tortoise, Alfie. But when Hoppy hears the object of his affections expressing dismay at Alfie’s lack of growth, he concocts a cunning plan to make her happy and win her heart…
Much criticism has been levelled at Peter Jackson over his decision to turn The Hobbit into three movies, with the final film running at around two minutes per page of the book. However, the book on which the 90-minute Esio Trot is based contains...
This review contains spoilers.
Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot is the story of burgeoning love between two pensioners - the shy and quiet Mr Hoppy (Dustin Hoffman) and the outgoing-but-dim Mrs Silver (Judi Dench). Mr Hoppy is far too reserved to express his feelings for Mrs Silver, who appears to only have eyes for her tortoise, Alfie. But when Hoppy hears the object of his affections expressing dismay at Alfie’s lack of growth, he concocts a cunning plan to make her happy and win her heart…
Much criticism has been levelled at Peter Jackson over his decision to turn The Hobbit into three movies, with the final film running at around two minutes per page of the book. However, the book on which the 90-minute Esio Trot is based contains...
- 12/22/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Spoilers
Despite all the hoo-ha over films such as Blue Jasmine and Stoker contemporary is still pretty much overlooked as a form of costume design. If it’s invisible, well, nobody notices it, and if it’s designer it becomes all about ‘the fashion’ (Omg Totes Want Those Shoes). We are currently in an age when costume design means period and sci-fi. It comes to the extent that if a costumer wants to tell a story through contemporary attire, he/she needs either a director with a key grasp of semiotics, or one that doesn’t care less about semiotics and offers a degree of autonomy. Watching About Time we presume that Richard Curtis is one of the former. Apparently he was specific on his needs to costume designer Verity Hawkes, yet gave her room to breathe and develop the project independently. Basically he let Hawkes do her job. What...
Despite all the hoo-ha over films such as Blue Jasmine and Stoker contemporary is still pretty much overlooked as a form of costume design. If it’s invisible, well, nobody notices it, and if it’s designer it becomes all about ‘the fashion’ (Omg Totes Want Those Shoes). We are currently in an age when costume design means period and sci-fi. It comes to the extent that if a costumer wants to tell a story through contemporary attire, he/she needs either a director with a key grasp of semiotics, or one that doesn’t care less about semiotics and offers a degree of autonomy. Watching About Time we presume that Richard Curtis is one of the former. Apparently he was specific on his needs to costume designer Verity Hawkes, yet gave her room to breathe and develop the project independently. Basically he let Hawkes do her job. What...
- 5/9/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Chicago – Writer/Director Richard Curtis is somewhat of a love guru. Fresh on the heels of the tenth anniversary of what is now his classic Christmas movie, “Love Actually,” comes his latest ode to amore. It’s about life, passion and – oh yeah – a little time travel. It’s “About Time.”
Rating: 3.0/5.0
This effort isn’t as cohesive as “Love Actually” but it still has that gooey center. To recall, “Love Actually” had some bitterness with its Christmas cheer. “About Time” doesn’t have as sharp a counterpoint – it’s mostly gooey center and that can get a bit messy. Yes, there is time travel, but it’s the most selfish time travel available – it’s all about the traveler and not the time. Period jumping is an old science fiction conceit, and in most hands fairly interesting (“Back to the Future,” “Star Trek IV”). The type of time travel...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
This effort isn’t as cohesive as “Love Actually” but it still has that gooey center. To recall, “Love Actually” had some bitterness with its Christmas cheer. “About Time” doesn’t have as sharp a counterpoint – it’s mostly gooey center and that can get a bit messy. Yes, there is time travel, but it’s the most selfish time travel available – it’s all about the traveler and not the time. Period jumping is an old science fiction conceit, and in most hands fairly interesting (“Back to the Future,” “Star Trek IV”). The type of time travel...
- 11/8/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Time to make another trip to movie “rom-com” land once more. Now let’s keep a stiff upper lip, since it’s set in jolly ole’ England, which as Roger Miller’s song says “swing like a pendulum do”! Okay, what are they offering across the pond? Seems they’ve tossed a big dollop of fantasy into the mix, namely time travel! Well that’s been used before in an effort to get couples together, from the McFly saga to Time After Time and Kate And Leopold. What if I tell you this new flick is from Richard Curtis the droll, witty writer behind Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral. Oh, and this is his third directorial effort after Pirate Radio and the cult classic Love Actually. Hopefully that will pique your interest. Enough background info, let’s talk about his latest. Hey, it’s About Time.
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- 11/8/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to “About Time” starring Rachel McAdams from the creator of “Love Actually” and “Notting Hill”!
“About Time,” which is rated “R” and opens on Nov. 8, 2013, also stars Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, Vanessa Kirby, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie and Will Merrick from writer and director Richard Curtis. Note: You must be 17+ to attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free “About Time” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of...
“About Time,” which is rated “R” and opens on Nov. 8, 2013, also stars Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Nighy, Vanessa Kirby, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie and Will Merrick from writer and director Richard Curtis. Note: You must be 17+ to attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free “About Time” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of...
- 10/28/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
See new images from the excellent-looking About Time comedy directed by Richard Curtis, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy. This is one film I can really recommend the trailer for, it's that good. Curtis, known for films like Four Wedding and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked and War Horse, also wrote the Universal Pictures release which opens November 1st. Also in the cast of the romance are Lindsay Duncan, Lydia Wilson, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Richard Cordery, Joshua McQuire, Vanessa Kirby, Will Merrick and Tom Hughes.
- 10/23/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie: About Time; Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lindsay Duncan, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Richard Cordery; Director: Richard Curtis; Rating: **1/2 - Watch for a few good laughs.
Set in a characteristically middle-class English milieu, "About Time" is a sci-fi romantic comedy whose premise is very much on the lines of "Back to the Future" or "The Time Traveller's Wife", where the protagonist can travel back in time.
In an idyllic sea-side town in Cornwall, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) is like any other ordinary boy leading an ordinary life. He is adorably geeky but embarrassingly incompetent.
Set in a characteristically middle-class English milieu, "About Time" is a sci-fi romantic comedy whose premise is very much on the lines of "Back to the Future" or "The Time Traveller's Wife", where the protagonist can travel back in time.
In an idyllic sea-side town in Cornwall, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) is like any other ordinary boy leading an ordinary life. He is adorably geeky but embarrassingly incompetent.
- 10/2/2013
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
Romantic comedy fans have long been starving for satisfying genre fare to hit the box office, all the Valentine’s Days and New Year’s Eves and Arbor Days (surely, the next one, right?) notwithstanding, and it’s long seemed as if the When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail glory days (we loved Nora Ephron, what can we say?) were far gone. Yet, with Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis finally returning to the sort of films he excels at crafting, it’s perhaps a bit early to consider the entire genre dead. Maybe it’s just sleeping. Curtis’ About Time certainly comes with an enviable pedigree (any film that features Curtis directing Bill Nighy is cause to celebrate), but it’s the film’s charming cast and cleverly tangled plot conceit that keeps it ticking right along. About Time centers on hapless young Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, who...
- 10/1/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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