Ranking Christopher Nolan’s Films: From “Tenet” to “Inception” and Beyond (Photo Credit – IMDb)
Christopher Nolan’s films have raked in over $6 billion worldwide. Yeah, he’s a big deal. Nolan’s filmography is like a unicorn—unique and mind-bending. His movies are a trip filled with math, crazy storytelling, mind-blowing effects, and sounds that’ll mess with your head. Ranking his films? Good luck with that. And hey, if you love a movie, who cares where it falls on the list, right? Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
12. Tenet (2020) Genre: Action, Scifi, Mystery & thriller Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia Runtime: 2h 30m Tomatometer: 69% IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 Available on: Netflix (India) Rent from: Microsoft $3.99 (US)
In Kyiv, the protagonist uncovers time inverting tech on a mission. He joins “Tenet,” discovering objects with reversed entropy. His target: Andrei Sator, a Russian oligarch with a...
Christopher Nolan’s films have raked in over $6 billion worldwide. Yeah, he’s a big deal. Nolan’s filmography is like a unicorn—unique and mind-bending. His movies are a trip filled with math, crazy storytelling, mind-blowing effects, and sounds that’ll mess with your head. Ranking his films? Good luck with that. And hey, if you love a movie, who cares where it falls on the list, right? Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
12. Tenet (2020) Genre: Action, Scifi, Mystery & thriller Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia Runtime: 2h 30m Tomatometer: 69% IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 Available on: Netflix (India) Rent from: Microsoft $3.99 (US)
In Kyiv, the protagonist uncovers time inverting tech on a mission. He joins “Tenet,” discovering objects with reversed entropy. His target: Andrei Sator, a Russian oligarch with a...
- 3/12/2024
- by Hari P N
- KoiMoi
A few more returns and more than two dozen (!) new bits of casting have been announced for the second/final season of Wolf Hall.
Masterpiece PBS and the BBC previously announced that the six-episode Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, will bring back Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser.
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This Monday morning,...
Masterpiece PBS and the BBC previously announced that the six-episode Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy, will bring back Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser.
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This Monday morning,...
- 12/4/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
"The only thing he has more than kills, are medals." Amazon Studios has debuted a second official trailer for Without Remorse, the latest Tom Clancy action movie adaptation. This time Michael B. Jordan stars as John Kelly (originally the name is John Clark in the novel), an elite Navy Seal specialist who goes after an escaped operative hiding out in Russia. The explosive origin story of action hero John Clark, one of the most popular characters in author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan universe, Without Remorse is directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Stefano Sollima. The full cast also includes Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce, Lauren London, Jacob Scipio, Todd Lasance, Jack Kesy, Cam Gigandet, and Lucy Russell. This is being released direct to Amazon Prime at the end of this month, which might be the best plan for it despite all the intense action scenes. As this really doesn't look that impressive,...
- 4/6/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"He is more dangerous and effective than any man we have in the field." Amazon Studios has revealed the first official trailer for Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, the latest Tom Clancy action movie adaptation. This time Michael B. Jordan stars as John Kelly (originally the name is John Clark in the novel), an elite Navy Seal specialist who goes after an escaped operative hiding out in Russia. Of course, because this is a Tom Clancy thriller, there are tons of other twists and turns and reveals about everyone, showing who is caught up in some other kind of corruption. The explosive origin story of action hero John Clark, one of the most popular characters in author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan universe, Without Remorse is directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Stefano Sollima. The cast includes Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce, Lauren London, Jacob Scipio, Todd Lasance, Jack Kesy, Cam Gigandet,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rebecca Review — Rebecca (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Ben Wheatley, and starring Lily James, Jacques Bouanich, Marie Collins, Ann Dowd, Kristin Scott Thomas, Armie Hammer, Jean Dell, Sophie Payan, Pippa Winslow, Lucy Russell, Bruno Paviot, Stefo Linard, Tom Hudson, Jeff Rawle, Ashleigh Reynolds and Keeley Hawes. Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca starts with the famous [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Rebecca (2020): Faithful Adherence to Story Makes Gothic Novel Come Alive...
Continue reading: Film Review: Rebecca (2020): Faithful Adherence to Story Makes Gothic Novel Come Alive...
- 11/13/2020
- by Tanushree Mukherjee
- Film-Book
"The mind can be a precarious thing... It can either serve or deceive." The Talash Video Centre and Digital Boulevard have released the official trailer for a peculiar new sci-fi project titled Cognition, the first film made by filmmaker Ravi Ajit Chopra. Cognition is a 27 minute short dystopian sci-fi drama / thriller about a son confronting his past trauma. Journeying through the symbolic landscape of the subconscious mind, the story follows an unbreakable bond between father and son.... A bond that transcends space and time. This uncompromising short fuses two distant worlds in a hallucinogenic roller-coaster ride through the darkest chasms of the mind. Starring Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Lucy Russell, Wolf Kahler, Milo Panni, and Georgia Sandle. The making of this short film has been a labour of love for the team involved - watch a featurette about Ravi's family video shop "Talash Video Centre" and about the making of the film.
- 9/27/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell, Liz White, Simon Paisley Day, John Heffernan, Lee Boardman, Paul Ryan, Kate O’Flynn, Tim Steed, Nicholas Day, Tim McMullan, Richard Goulding, Oliver Maltman | Written by James Graham | Directed by Toby Haynes
Toby Hayne’s untimely and somewhat exploitive chartering of the creation and ultimately the execution of what may just be one of the most consequential political tragedies to befall on the British people by the British people in modern times – Brexit: The Uncivil War is, like its namesake, a disaster.
The subject matter of Hayne’s film has, of course, an interesting basis to be brought to the screen. Almost two years on from David Cameron’s ludicrous political party gamble in a referendum vote on the E.U. and the UK government (nor people for that matter) are nowhere closer formulating a promising deal or coming together to...
Toby Hayne’s untimely and somewhat exploitive chartering of the creation and ultimately the execution of what may just be one of the most consequential political tragedies to befall on the British people by the British people in modern times – Brexit: The Uncivil War is, like its namesake, a disaster.
The subject matter of Hayne’s film has, of course, an interesting basis to be brought to the screen. Almost two years on from David Cameron’s ludicrous political party gamble in a referendum vote on the E.U. and the UK government (nor people for that matter) are nowhere closer formulating a promising deal or coming together to...
- 1/23/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Sandra Hüller with Toni Erdmann director/writer Maren Ade Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maren Ade has teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) to bring us Germany's Oscar submission Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton, meerkats (not from Ang Lee's Life Of Pi), Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, vintage Yves Saint Laurent, and corporate madness came up in my conversation with Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller.
Kent Jones with Maren Ade, Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With a supporting cast including Viktorija Malektorovych, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Michael Wittenborn, Ingrid Bisu, Thomas Loibl, and Trystan Pütter, Ade gives her characters a chance to rediscover themselves in song and skin-deep encounters of the third or fourth or fifth kind.
Maren Ade has teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) to bring us Germany's Oscar submission Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton, meerkats (not from Ang Lee's Life Of Pi), Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, vintage Yves Saint Laurent, and corporate madness came up in my conversation with Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller.
Kent Jones with Maren Ade, Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With a supporting cast including Viktorija Malektorovych, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Michael Wittenborn, Ingrid Bisu, Thomas Loibl, and Trystan Pütter, Ade gives her characters a chance to rediscover themselves in song and skin-deep encounters of the third or fourth or fifth kind.
- 10/26/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Over the last decade, Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the most noteworthy mainstream directors working in the industry, mostly due to the unprecedented cultural impact of his three entries in the Batman series (but not to mention high functioning works of originality at the multiplex, such as 2010’s Inception). His penchant for labyrinthine narrative structure and chronological confusion date back to his delightfully well made feature debut, Following, winning the top prize at the 1999 Rotterdam Film Festival, exploring themes and motifs he would closely mirror in his significantly successful follow-up, Memento. A no budget neo-noir, Criterion restores Nolan’s debut from a new digital transfer, making this edition the definitive way to experience an exciting beginning to a fascinating talent.
We meet a young man (Jeremy Theobald), narrating a story to a stranger that quickly seems to take on ominous dimensions. An aspiring writer, it turns out...
We meet a young man (Jeremy Theobald), narrating a story to a stranger that quickly seems to take on ominous dimensions. An aspiring writer, it turns out...
- 12/18/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Did you enjoy those new character posters for Ben Wheatley's ('Kill List') upcoming dark comedy 'Sightseers' we posted up last week? Of course you did, so you're gonna love this new culmination UK quad poster packed with lovely kind words from various critics. The gala screening of 'Sightseers' will take place at the BFI London Film Festival this Saturday (20 October) and will open nationwide here in the UK from 30 November. 'Sightseers' stars Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Lucy Russell, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Gareth Tunley, Eileen Davies, Stephanie Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi and Kenneth Hadley. Check out the new quad below....
- 10/18/2012
- Horror Asylum
New black comedy 'Sightseers' is set to get its UK premiere at this months London Film Festival this coming Saturday. And ahead of the showing a foursome of new character posters have been revealed from the Ben Wheatley ('Kill List') helmed project. The posters feature its two lead characters Chris and Tina along with their dog Poppy (otherwise known as Banjo) and their beloved Abbey Oxford caravan. Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Lucy Russell, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Gareth Tunley, Eileen Davies, Stephanie Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi and Kenneth Hadley all star. Check out the new posters below and following the Lff screening the movie will open here in the UK in theatres from 30 November....
- 10/15/2012
- Horror Asylum
British director Ben Wheatley follows up his impressive horror thriller 'Kill List' with new black comedy 'Sightseers'. It's due to arrive in UK theatres from 30 November and a brand new and fantastic looking trailer has popped up for the project penned by Amy Jump and star Steve Oram. I'm thoroughly enjoying the very bleak yet British world's that director Wheatley is pulling his audiences into and am very much looking forward to this new vision which also boasts filmmaker Edgar Wright ('Shaun of the Dead', 'Hot Fuzz') who'll be serving as executive producer. Next up for Wheatley will be his segment in horror anthology 'The ABCs of Death'. 'Sightseers' stars Alice Lowe and co-writer Oram, along with Lucy Russell, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Gareth Tunley, Eileen Davies, Stephanie Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi and Kenneth Hadley. Head below for the full synopsis breakdown plus the new trailer.
- 8/29/2012
- Horror Asylum
Sightseers Trailer. Ben Wheatley‘s Sightseers (2012) movie trailer stars Steve Oram, Alice Lowe, Sara Stewart, Lucy Russell, and Richard Lumsden. Sightseers‘ plot synopsis: “Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through this sceptred isle in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. [...]
Continue reading: Sightseers (2012) Movie Trailer: Ben Wheatley, Steve Oram, Alice Lowe...
Continue reading: Sightseers (2012) Movie Trailer: Ben Wheatley, Steve Oram, Alice Lowe...
- 8/29/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
English director Ben Wheatley has made quite a reputation for himself in the indie film circuit over the last few years with his offbeat thriller Kill List, getting many people interested in what he chose to work on next, which turned out to be the horror comedy Sightseers. Wheatley relinquishes writing duties this time to Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, who also take on acting duties in the film, which previously screened at the Cannes film festival, and will be making its North American debut at Tiff 2012. Oram and Lowe are joined in the cast by Lucy Russell, Richard Lumsden, Sara Stewart, Jonathan Aris, and Monica Dolan. A trailer for the movie has now been released, which you can see below.
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- 8/28/2012
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
BFI Southbank has announced a Christopher Nolan season for this July. All of the Inception director's films will be screened throughout the month at the riverside venue, leading up to the release of The Dark Knight Rises at BFI IMAX and nationwide on July 20. "Nolan has created a new type of Hollywood 'mainstream'," the BFI said, "films notable not only for their considerable technical skill but also for their brilliant, complex and playful narrative ingenuity." The full Christopher Nolan programme is as follows: Following (UK 1998. With Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan. 70min. 15)
Plus Doodlebug (UK 1997. With Jeremy Theobald. 3min):
Sunday, 1 July 16:00 NFT2 / Wednesday, July 4, 20:40 NFT2 Memento (USA 2000. With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Jr. 113min. (more)...
Plus Doodlebug (UK 1997. With Jeremy Theobald. 3min):
Sunday, 1 July 16:00 NFT2 / Wednesday, July 4, 20:40 NFT2 Memento (USA 2000. With Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Jr. 113min. (more)...
- 6/1/2012
- by By Emma Dibdin
- Digital Spy
Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt
We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a rather fun summer of movies. With that in mind I focused the second installment of Streaming for Pleasure on some films you should see before this summer hits. Having a familiarity with an actor or director’s career can often shine some light on what their future projects may have in store. Also it can help garner more motivation to see a film you would have otherwise avoided. Curious what the Avengers might be like? What Tom Hardy has in store for the character of Bain? Well check out some of these films and they just might answer some of your questions.
Following
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Written By: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, and Lucy Russell
Synopsis: Christopher Nolan writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a...
We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a rather fun summer of movies. With that in mind I focused the second installment of Streaming for Pleasure on some films you should see before this summer hits. Having a familiarity with an actor or director’s career can often shine some light on what their future projects may have in store. Also it can help garner more motivation to see a film you would have otherwise avoided. Curious what the Avengers might be like? What Tom Hardy has in store for the character of Bain? Well check out some of these films and they just might answer some of your questions.
Following
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Written By: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, and Lucy Russell
Synopsis: Christopher Nolan writes and directs this odd, claustrophobic neo-noir film about a...
- 4/24/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The Academy may have snubbed him for best director, but Nolan's global reputation is assured. Matthew Tempest recalls the singularly driven young man he met in the Ucl film society
It was pretty obvious to anyone at the University College London film society in the early 1990s (which comprised about half a dozen of us in a windowless, airless basement) that Chris Nolan was going places. I thought his career might even go all the way, and he might shoot a few adverts before eventually (if he got lucky) directing episodes of The Bill and Coronation Street.
That was simply how the UK film industry was back then. The only career path was to worm a way into directing for telly or commercials. It had been generations since John Schlesinger, Ridley and Tony Scott, Adrian Lyne and Alan Parker had managed to make the leap from London, and telly, to Hollywood.
It was pretty obvious to anyone at the University College London film society in the early 1990s (which comprised about half a dozen of us in a windowless, airless basement) that Chris Nolan was going places. I thought his career might even go all the way, and he might shoot a few adverts before eventually (if he got lucky) directing episodes of The Bill and Coronation Street.
That was simply how the UK film industry was back then. The only career path was to worm a way into directing for telly or commercials. It had been generations since John Schlesinger, Ridley and Tony Scott, Adrian Lyne and Alan Parker had managed to make the leap from London, and telly, to Hollywood.
- 2/24/2011
- by Matthew Tempest
- The Guardian - Film News
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Gulliver’s Travels – Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel
Little Fockers – Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro
True Grit – Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld
Movie of the Week
True Grit
The Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld
The Plot: A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer.
The Buzz: This one’s an easy pick for “Movie of the Week,” as for me, Jack Black has worn out his welcome, and any film I’ve ever seen with the word “Focker” in the title was absolutely horrid. Though the Coen Brothers have been hit-and-miss in the last decade, with amazing highs (No Country For Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and abysmal lows (Burn After Reading, Intolerable Cruelty), this film, a modern day rehash of the old John Wayne vehicle, looks quite good.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel
Little Fockers – Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro
True Grit – Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld
Movie of the Week
True Grit
The Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld
The Plot: A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer.
The Buzz: This one’s an easy pick for “Movie of the Week,” as for me, Jack Black has worn out his welcome, and any film I’ve ever seen with the word “Focker” in the title was absolutely horrid. Though the Coen Brothers have been hit-and-miss in the last decade, with amazing highs (No Country For Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and abysmal lows (Burn After Reading, Intolerable Cruelty), this film, a modern day rehash of the old John Wayne vehicle, looks quite good.
- 12/22/2010
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
A year in the making, young director Nolan shot his debut feature, Following, on a shoestring budget over the space of a year. So, how does it stand up twelve years on...?
Ambitious, darkly comic, but clumsy and cold, Christopher Nolan's (Inception, The Dark Knight) first feature, Following, showcases a talented writer/director's Herculean effort to show the world his neat bag of tricks.
Made for almost nothing, over a year of weekends (in between his job filming and recording sound on company training videos), and influenced by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) and Kevin Smith (Clerks), Nolan envisaged a film that explored his favourite aspect of film noir: men who were defined by their often brutal actions.
The idea was a bold one: to shoot no more than two usable takes per set-up, to shoot only with natural light, in cheap, available locations and to work around the respective...
Ambitious, darkly comic, but clumsy and cold, Christopher Nolan's (Inception, The Dark Knight) first feature, Following, showcases a talented writer/director's Herculean effort to show the world his neat bag of tricks.
Made for almost nothing, over a year of weekends (in between his job filming and recording sound on company training videos), and influenced by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) and Kevin Smith (Clerks), Nolan envisaged a film that explored his favourite aspect of film noir: men who were defined by their often brutal actions.
The idea was a bold one: to shoot no more than two usable takes per set-up, to shoot only with natural light, in cheap, available locations and to work around the respective...
- 7/27/2010
- Den of Geek
First off, to those of you expecting a review of Chinatown (1974) as promised in the hint that was contained in the Blue Velvet (1986) piece, I apologize. Chinatown will be the next film covered in the retrospective. I simply got sidetracked in the wake of Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) by the auteur completest in me, demanding that I actually sit down and watch Following (1998). While it didn't reach the heights of Memento (2000) or Insomnia (2002), the latter of which is perhaps Nolan's most overlooked and underestimated film due to its remake status, I very much enjoyed his rough and ragged debut (which is allegedly up for both the Criterion treatment and a theatrical re-release thanks to his most recent success---in the meantime you can catch it on Netflix Watch Instantly).
The film is bare, cut and dry almost to the point of The Limey (1999), beginning with a young struggling writer (Jeremy Theobald...
The film is bare, cut and dry almost to the point of The Limey (1999), beginning with a young struggling writer (Jeremy Theobald...
- 7/22/2010
- by Drew Morton
The French director's movies were quintessentially studenty - in the best possible sense
Eric Rohmer's death at the age of 89 is a reminder of the incredible energy, tenacity and longevity of France's great nouvelle vague generation. Rohmer had released his last film only last year, the sublimely unworldly pastoral fantasy Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon): a gentle, reflective movie, of course, but by no means lacking in energy or wit. And, meanwhile, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol – at the respective ages of 79, 81, 81 and 79 – are all still with us, all nursing projects.
Rohmer came from the New Wave tradition of critic-turned-director; he was a former editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, and became the distinctively romantic philosopher of the New Wave and the great master of what was sometimes called "intimist" cinema: delicate, un-showy movie-making about not especially startling people,...
Eric Rohmer's death at the age of 89 is a reminder of the incredible energy, tenacity and longevity of France's great nouvelle vague generation. Rohmer had released his last film only last year, the sublimely unworldly pastoral fantasy Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon): a gentle, reflective movie, of course, but by no means lacking in energy or wit. And, meanwhile, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Jacques Rivette and Claude Chabrol – at the respective ages of 79, 81, 81 and 79 – are all still with us, all nursing projects.
Rohmer came from the New Wave tradition of critic-turned-director; he was a former editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, and became the distinctively romantic philosopher of the New Wave and the great master of what was sometimes called "intimist" cinema: delicate, un-showy movie-making about not especially startling people,...
- 1/12/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the trailer for IFC Films' Angel , written and directed by François Ozon. The romantic drama, opening in theaters on March 18th, stars Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Rampling, Jacqueline Tong, Janine Duvitski, Christopher Benjamin, Simon Woods and Jemma Powell. In the film, set in Edwardian England, a precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
- 2/19/2009
- Comingsoon.net
For the first time in French cinematic history, a movie is playing here that tells the story of the French Revolution from the side of the aristocrats -- a viewpoint that has caused a stir in France, breaking something of a taboo.
Eric Rohmer's "The Lady and the Duke" is a historical epic based on the memoirs of a Scottish noblewomen, Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell), in which she writes of her friendship with an ex-lover, the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), leader of a revolutionary faction and first cousin to King Louis XVI.
This unorthodox take on the events of the French Revolution has not deterred cinemagoers. The movie has notched up respectable admissions since its release last month.
The story line is complicated and full of intrigue, demanding a real talent for remembering the ever-increasing list of army generals and minor aristocrats whose actions hold the plot together. Lose concentration for a minute, miss a name, and a whole scene becomes incomprehensible. With so much dialogue to digest, it runs more like a play than a movie. Only Rohmer's innovative use of computer technology serves as a reminder that you are actually in a cinema.
All credit to the veteran director, who at age 81 is prepared to come to grips with the sort of technology usually put to use in such movies as "Toy Story" or "Jurassic Park". Rohmer's opening scenes show late-18th century Paris in a series of oil paintings re-created in period style. As the camera rests on the last of these paintings, it comes to life, creating a visually stunning if somewhat bizarre effect.
The technique works well enough in interior scenes in which the technology is limited to sketching the landscape as glimpsed through a window. But for exterior scenes, it creates a strange impression -- like that of a children's pop-up book where characters seem strangely detached from their background. At several points, this even gives an unintentionally comic aspect to the action.
Whatever the visual shortfalls of the computer technology, this is more than made up for by the sumptuous costumes and lavish interiors. The Lady of the title is rarely seen in anything less than full bodice, rustling silks and outrageous hats. Russell is impressive in her first major movie role.
She portrays Elliott as intelligent and courageous yet at the same time winningly naive in the face of danger. She is the archetypal aristocrat, who shows that while the peasants might be revolting outside, certain standards must always be maintained inside.
THE LADY AND THE DUKE
Compagnie Eric Rohmer and Pathe Image Production
Credits: Producer: Francoise Etchegary
Screenwriter-director: Eric Rohmer
Director of photography: Diane Barratier
Set designer: Antoine Fontaine
Editor: Mary Stephen
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Cast:
Grace Elliott: Lucy Russell
Le Duc d'Orleans: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Dumouner: Francois Marthouret
Champcenetz: Leonard Cobiant
Nanon: Caroline Morin
Duc de Biron: Alain Libolt
Madame Meyler: Helena Dubiel
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 125 minutes...
Eric Rohmer's "The Lady and the Duke" is a historical epic based on the memoirs of a Scottish noblewomen, Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell), in which she writes of her friendship with an ex-lover, the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), leader of a revolutionary faction and first cousin to King Louis XVI.
This unorthodox take on the events of the French Revolution has not deterred cinemagoers. The movie has notched up respectable admissions since its release last month.
The story line is complicated and full of intrigue, demanding a real talent for remembering the ever-increasing list of army generals and minor aristocrats whose actions hold the plot together. Lose concentration for a minute, miss a name, and a whole scene becomes incomprehensible. With so much dialogue to digest, it runs more like a play than a movie. Only Rohmer's innovative use of computer technology serves as a reminder that you are actually in a cinema.
All credit to the veteran director, who at age 81 is prepared to come to grips with the sort of technology usually put to use in such movies as "Toy Story" or "Jurassic Park". Rohmer's opening scenes show late-18th century Paris in a series of oil paintings re-created in period style. As the camera rests on the last of these paintings, it comes to life, creating a visually stunning if somewhat bizarre effect.
The technique works well enough in interior scenes in which the technology is limited to sketching the landscape as glimpsed through a window. But for exterior scenes, it creates a strange impression -- like that of a children's pop-up book where characters seem strangely detached from their background. At several points, this even gives an unintentionally comic aspect to the action.
Whatever the visual shortfalls of the computer technology, this is more than made up for by the sumptuous costumes and lavish interiors. The Lady of the title is rarely seen in anything less than full bodice, rustling silks and outrageous hats. Russell is impressive in her first major movie role.
She portrays Elliott as intelligent and courageous yet at the same time winningly naive in the face of danger. She is the archetypal aristocrat, who shows that while the peasants might be revolting outside, certain standards must always be maintained inside.
THE LADY AND THE DUKE
Compagnie Eric Rohmer and Pathe Image Production
Credits: Producer: Francoise Etchegary
Screenwriter-director: Eric Rohmer
Director of photography: Diane Barratier
Set designer: Antoine Fontaine
Editor: Mary Stephen
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Cast:
Grace Elliott: Lucy Russell
Le Duc d'Orleans: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Dumouner: Francois Marthouret
Champcenetz: Leonard Cobiant
Nanon: Caroline Morin
Duc de Biron: Alain Libolt
Madame Meyler: Helena Dubiel
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 125 minutes...
PARIS -- French producer and director Charles Gassot will head the jury for the Dinard Film Festival, which brings British cinema to this picturesque French seaside town Oct. 2-5, organizers said Thursday. French actors Sami Bouajila, Emma de Caunes, Julie Gayet and Charlotte de Turckheim will be joined by their counterparts from across the Channel, Jason Flemyng, Lucy Russell, Paul Rhys and Catherine McCormack, to comprise the Dinard jury. Six British features are vying for the Hitchcock D'Or award in the festival's 14th edition (HR 9/16).
- 9/26/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For the first time in French cinematic history, a movie is playing here that tells the story of the French Revolution from the side of the aristocrats -- a viewpoint that has caused a stir in France, breaking something of a taboo.
Eric Rohmer's "The Lady and the Duke" is a historical epic based on the memoirs of a Scottish noblewomen, Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell), in which she writes of her friendship with an ex-lover, the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), leader of a revolutionary faction and first cousin to King Louis XVI.
This unorthodox take on the events of the French Revolution has not deterred cinemagoers. The movie has notched up respectable admissions since its release last month.
The story line is complicated and full of intrigue, demanding a real talent for remembering the ever-increasing list of army generals and minor aristocrats whose actions hold the plot together. Lose concentration for a minute, miss a name, and a whole scene becomes incomprehensible. With so much dialogue to digest, it runs more like a play than a movie. Only Rohmer's innovative use of computer technology serves as a reminder that you are actually in a cinema.
All credit to the veteran director, who at age 81 is prepared to come to grips with the sort of technology usually put to use in such movies as "Toy Story" or "Jurassic Park". Rohmer's opening scenes show late-18th century Paris in a series of oil paintings re-created in period style. As the camera rests on the last of these paintings, it comes to life, creating a visually stunning if somewhat bizarre effect.
The technique works well enough in interior scenes in which the technology is limited to sketching the landscape as glimpsed through a window. But for exterior scenes, it creates a strange impression -- like that of a children's pop-up book where characters seem strangely detached from their background. At several points, this even gives an unintentionally comic aspect to the action.
Whatever the visual shortfalls of the computer technology, this is more than made up for by the sumptuous costumes and lavish interiors. The Lady of the title is rarely seen in anything less than full bodice, rustling silks and outrageous hats. Russell is impressive in her first major movie role.
She portrays Elliott as intelligent and courageous yet at the same time winningly naive in the face of danger. She is the archetypal aristocrat, who shows that while the peasants might be revolting outside, certain standards must always be maintained inside.
THE LADY AND THE DUKE
Compagnie Eric Rohmer and Pathe Image Production
Credits: Producer: Francoise Etchegary
Screenwriter-director: Eric Rohmer
Director of photography: Diane Barratier
Set designer: Antoine Fontaine
Editor: Mary Stephen
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Cast:
Grace Elliott: Lucy Russell
Le Duc d'Orleans: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Dumouner: Francois Marthouret
Champcenetz: Leonard Cobiant
Nanon: Caroline Morin
Duc de Biron: Alain Libolt
Madame Meyler: Helena Dubiel
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 125 minutes...
Eric Rohmer's "The Lady and the Duke" is a historical epic based on the memoirs of a Scottish noblewomen, Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell), in which she writes of her friendship with an ex-lover, the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), leader of a revolutionary faction and first cousin to King Louis XVI.
This unorthodox take on the events of the French Revolution has not deterred cinemagoers. The movie has notched up respectable admissions since its release last month.
The story line is complicated and full of intrigue, demanding a real talent for remembering the ever-increasing list of army generals and minor aristocrats whose actions hold the plot together. Lose concentration for a minute, miss a name, and a whole scene becomes incomprehensible. With so much dialogue to digest, it runs more like a play than a movie. Only Rohmer's innovative use of computer technology serves as a reminder that you are actually in a cinema.
All credit to the veteran director, who at age 81 is prepared to come to grips with the sort of technology usually put to use in such movies as "Toy Story" or "Jurassic Park". Rohmer's opening scenes show late-18th century Paris in a series of oil paintings re-created in period style. As the camera rests on the last of these paintings, it comes to life, creating a visually stunning if somewhat bizarre effect.
The technique works well enough in interior scenes in which the technology is limited to sketching the landscape as glimpsed through a window. But for exterior scenes, it creates a strange impression -- like that of a children's pop-up book where characters seem strangely detached from their background. At several points, this even gives an unintentionally comic aspect to the action.
Whatever the visual shortfalls of the computer technology, this is more than made up for by the sumptuous costumes and lavish interiors. The Lady of the title is rarely seen in anything less than full bodice, rustling silks and outrageous hats. Russell is impressive in her first major movie role.
She portrays Elliott as intelligent and courageous yet at the same time winningly naive in the face of danger. She is the archetypal aristocrat, who shows that while the peasants might be revolting outside, certain standards must always be maintained inside.
THE LADY AND THE DUKE
Compagnie Eric Rohmer and Pathe Image Production
Credits: Producer: Francoise Etchegary
Screenwriter-director: Eric Rohmer
Director of photography: Diane Barratier
Set designer: Antoine Fontaine
Editor: Mary Stephen
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Cast:
Grace Elliott: Lucy Russell
Le Duc d'Orleans: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Dumouner: Francois Marthouret
Champcenetz: Leonard Cobiant
Nanon: Caroline Morin
Duc de Biron: Alain Libolt
Madame Meyler: Helena Dubiel
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 125 minutes...
- 10/2/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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