Warning: contains finale spoilers for Netflix’s One Day.
A year before One Day author David Nicholls published the novel that made his name, his adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles aired on BBC One. Years later, Nicholls described Tess to The Guardian as the book that changed his life:
“It was the first book I adapted for the screen and gave me the confidence to write something other than comedy. Adaptation does that sometimes – gives you a hand-up into new territory. Also Chapter 15 contains the germ of the idea for One Day, for which I will always be grateful.”
That germ of an idea was a quote from Tess, which is included among One Day’s many epigraphs, and it also finds its way into the final episode of Nicole Taylor’s new 14-episode Netflix adaptation starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall.
The...
A year before One Day author David Nicholls published the novel that made his name, his adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles aired on BBC One. Years later, Nicholls described Tess to The Guardian as the book that changed his life:
“It was the first book I adapted for the screen and gave me the confidence to write something other than comedy. Adaptation does that sometimes – gives you a hand-up into new territory. Also Chapter 15 contains the germ of the idea for One Day, for which I will always be grateful.”
That germ of an idea was a quote from Tess, which is included among One Day’s many epigraphs, and it also finds its way into the final episode of Nicole Taylor’s new 14-episode Netflix adaptation starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall.
The...
- 2/10/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA.
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening Standard Best Director Award for the production, and three years later again won that award for his productions of The Wild Duck and his adaptation of The Doctor.
Icke directed Hamlet, starring client Andrew Scott, at the Almeida and on the West End in 2017 and at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2022.
He is set to direct Sir Ian McKellen this spring in the West End’s Player Kings, Icke’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. McKellen will play Falstaff.
Icke also is set to direct a production of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, in...
- 1/30/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Clu Gulager, a beloved character who appeared in small parts in some hugely successful movies, has passed away. He was nearing his 94th birthday.
Gulager’s passing was announced by Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, where he made frequent appearances and his films were paid tribute. “Clu Gulager, 1928 – 2022. A beautiful life filled with family, friends, and films, Clu will always have a seat in our front row. We send our love to John, Tom, Diane, and to all the lives he touched.”
No cause of death has been released.
Clu Gulager, 1928 – 2022. A beautiful life filled with family, friends, and films, Clu will always have a seat in our front row. We send our love to John, Tom, Diane, and to all the lives he touched. photo by Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times pic.twitter.com/jSDqGXgvYI
— New Beverly Cinema (@newbeverly) August 6, 2022
A television stalwart...
Gulager’s passing was announced by Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, where he made frequent appearances and his films were paid tribute. “Clu Gulager, 1928 – 2022. A beautiful life filled with family, friends, and films, Clu will always have a seat in our front row. We send our love to John, Tom, Diane, and to all the lives he touched.”
No cause of death has been released.
Clu Gulager, 1928 – 2022. A beautiful life filled with family, friends, and films, Clu will always have a seat in our front row. We send our love to John, Tom, Diane, and to all the lives he touched. photo by Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times pic.twitter.com/jSDqGXgvYI
— New Beverly Cinema (@newbeverly) August 6, 2022
A television stalwart...
- 8/6/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Actress Emily Beecham ("Into The Badlands") poses for a digital edition of "The Fall", wearing fine jewellery from Adler Joailliers, photographed by Fenton Bailey:
Beecham is noted for her role in the Coen Brothers film "Hail, Caesar!", playing 'The Widow' in the AMC TV series "Into the Badlands" and for the title role in the 2017 film "Daphne". In 2019, she starred in Austrian director Jessica Hausner's film "Little Joe", earning a 'Best Actress' award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Beecham has also appeared in numerous UK TV series, including Agatha Christie's "Marple", "Tess of The D'Urbervilles" and "The Street".
"In order to press further with who you want to become", said Beecham, "you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable...."
"The girlfriend roles that we are usually offered are nearly always just kind and supportive. So it is...
Beecham is noted for her role in the Coen Brothers film "Hail, Caesar!", playing 'The Widow' in the AMC TV series "Into the Badlands" and for the title role in the 2017 film "Daphne". In 2019, she starred in Austrian director Jessica Hausner's film "Little Joe", earning a 'Best Actress' award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Beecham has also appeared in numerous UK TV series, including Agatha Christie's "Marple", "Tess of The D'Urbervilles" and "The Street".
"In order to press further with who you want to become", said Beecham, "you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable...."
"The girlfriend roles that we are usually offered are nearly always just kind and supportive. So it is...
- 8/21/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
We’ve all read the commentaries on the Academy’s shortcomings when it comes to diversity. But what’s revealing is the movies the 8,500 voters actually nominated for Best Picture. Even long-running, well-reviewed hits like “The Farewell” and “Hustlers” didn’t resonate with enough Academy voters, accessible as they were. It reminds us of who these industry insiders are: Mostly white males over 60, many of whom — like writing branch member Stephen King — vote with their own taste rather than consider what they might be missing.
“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.
The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...
“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.
The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
We’ve all read the commentaries on the Academy’s shortcomings when it comes to diversity. But what’s revealing is the movies the 8,500 voters actually nominated for Best Picture. Even long-running, well-reviewed hits like “The Farewell” and “Hustlers” didn’t resonate with enough Academy voters, accessible as they were. It reminds us of who these industry insiders are: Mostly white males over 60, many of whom — like writing branch member Stephen King — vote with their own taste rather than consider what they might be missing.
“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.
The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...
“For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up,” King tweeted. “That said, I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” King drew a hailstorm of criticism.
The Academy has raised the percentage of people of color to 16, international members to 20, and women to 32. However,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Andrew Moir Oct 26, 2017
Andrew takes a nerdy dive into the pop culture real and fictional that's made its way into the world of Red Dwarf...
Creating culture within science-fiction can be tricky. It’s potentially alienating, with the audience required to understand allusions without a reference point. Then again, if you throw in too many contemporary references, the future starts to look dated pretty quickly. Red Dwarf has walked that fine line, building its own stars and entertainment but chucking in the familiar, just to keep the world grounded. We take a look at humanity’s future culture as seen through the eyes of Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Holly.
See related Gunpowder episode 1 review Amazon Prime UK: what’s new in October 2017? New on Netflix UK: what's added in October 2017? Music
Red Dwarf set out its fictional musical world early on with the opening scenes of the first episode...
Andrew takes a nerdy dive into the pop culture real and fictional that's made its way into the world of Red Dwarf...
Creating culture within science-fiction can be tricky. It’s potentially alienating, with the audience required to understand allusions without a reference point. Then again, if you throw in too many contemporary references, the future starts to look dated pretty quickly. Red Dwarf has walked that fine line, building its own stars and entertainment but chucking in the familiar, just to keep the world grounded. We take a look at humanity’s future culture as seen through the eyes of Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Holly.
See related Gunpowder episode 1 review Amazon Prime UK: what’s new in October 2017? New on Netflix UK: what's added in October 2017? Music
Red Dwarf set out its fictional musical world early on with the opening scenes of the first episode...
- 10/25/2017
- Den of Geek
Today is a big day for Doctor Who fans, as actress Jodie Whittaker has officially been announced as the Thirteenth Time Lord on the long-running BBC series, with Peter Capaldi making his bow as the 12th Doctor during this year's Christmas special:
Press Release (via The Futon Critic): New York - July 16, 2017 - The BBC and BBC America today announced to the world that Jodie Whittaker will be the new Doctor Who. She will be the Thirteenth Time Lord and take over from Peter Capaldi who leaves the global hit show at Christmas.
New head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall who takes over from Steven Moffat on the next series made the decision to cast the first ever woman in the iconic role.
Jodie Whittaker says: "I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet. It's more than an honor to play the Doctor.
Press Release (via The Futon Critic): New York - July 16, 2017 - The BBC and BBC America today announced to the world that Jodie Whittaker will be the new Doctor Who. She will be the Thirteenth Time Lord and take over from Peter Capaldi who leaves the global hit show at Christmas.
New head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall who takes over from Steven Moffat on the next series made the decision to cast the first ever woman in the iconic role.
Jodie Whittaker says: "I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet. It's more than an honor to play the Doctor.
- 7/16/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Kayti Burt Jul 17, 2017
Jodie Whittaker will take over the role of the Doctor in the Christimas special. Here are five roles to watch while you wait.
You've no doubt heard the news. Jodie Whittaker will be playing the 13th Doctor in Season 11 of Doctor Who.
See related Baby Driver review Baby Driver 2 is tempting, admits Edgar Wright
If you're unfamiliar with her work, we recommend these five roles as a good place to start...
Video of Attack the Block - Exclusive Extended Clip! (HD) Attack the Block
If you've never seen Attack the Block, stop what you're doing now. The horror comedy flick about a South London council state that gets invaded by aliens is a fun, funny, and terrifying film in its own right. It's directed by Joe Cornish and starring a young John Boyega in his first on-screen role.
Whittaker plays Samantha, a 25-year-old nurse whose assumptions are...
Jodie Whittaker will take over the role of the Doctor in the Christimas special. Here are five roles to watch while you wait.
You've no doubt heard the news. Jodie Whittaker will be playing the 13th Doctor in Season 11 of Doctor Who.
See related Baby Driver review Baby Driver 2 is tempting, admits Edgar Wright
If you're unfamiliar with her work, we recommend these five roles as a good place to start...
Video of Attack the Block - Exclusive Extended Clip! (HD) Attack the Block
If you've never seen Attack the Block, stop what you're doing now. The horror comedy flick about a South London council state that gets invaded by aliens is a fun, funny, and terrifying film in its own right. It's directed by Joe Cornish and starring a young John Boyega in his first on-screen role.
Whittaker plays Samantha, a 25-year-old nurse whose assumptions are...
- 7/16/2017
- Den of Geek
[Brightcove "4040943949001" "" "" "auto"] When we first meet Miss Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, she's just an innocent college student with a taste for jeans and Converse sneakers. Her only experience with romance is reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and her idea of fun is staying in. "At the beginning of the film, Ana's never really had any romantic relationship with anyone," says Dakota Johnson in People's exclusive video. "She throws herself into literature instead of boys and parties." Adds Johnson: "It's not that she hasn't been interested, it's that she's never been ignited by someone before." But she soon encounters the singular Christian Grey,...
- 2/10/2015
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
When we first meet Miss Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, she's just an innocent college student with a taste for jeans and Converse sneakers. Her only experience with romance is reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and her idea of fun is staying in. "At the beginning of the film, Ana's never really had any romantic relationship with anyone," says Dakota Johnson in People's exclusive video. "She throws herself into literature instead of boys and parties." Adds Johnson: "It's not that she hasn't been interested, it's that she's never been ignited by someone before." But she soon encounters the singular Christian Grey,...
- 2/10/2015
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
Stephen Edwards' Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, a musical adaption of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel, is a musical that never found its proper footing. Prior to opening on the West End, the UK tour was met with positive reviews, but poor critical reception at London's Savoy Theatre saw the musical shutter faster than anyone anticipated. Yet, Tess still has life thanks to Tess Of The D'Urbervilles Original Cast Recording.
- 9/29/2014
- by David Clarke
- BroadwayWorld.com
Stage Door Records have released 'first listen' of excerpts from all 21 tracks that will feature on the upcoming 'Tess Of The D'Urbervilles' cast recording. The CD release is due in stores on September 29th, continuing Stage Door's London cast album series and commitment to preserve 'lost' British theatre scores of the past 50 years. Scroll down for a preview of the album...
- 9/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roman Polanski .... "unique artist who has managed to translate turning points in his own life so creatively." Photo: Guy Ferrandis
Now 80, Roman Polanski looks more like a man in his early sixties. His youthful demeanour may be partly explained by his becoming a father at 60. The mother of his 21-year-old daughter Morgane and 16-year-old son Elvis is actress Emannuelle Seigner, 48, whom he cast first in Tess, his 1979 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, and later in Bitter Moon, Frantic and most recently Venus In Fur.
The couple will be in attendance at the Locarno Film Festival, which starts next week and where Polanksi is guest of honour. He will give a talk on life and work at an event open to the public.
Polanski ‘s trademark has been an ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retaining a coherent vision of cinema, and he...
Now 80, Roman Polanski looks more like a man in his early sixties. His youthful demeanour may be partly explained by his becoming a father at 60. The mother of his 21-year-old daughter Morgane and 16-year-old son Elvis is actress Emannuelle Seigner, 48, whom he cast first in Tess, his 1979 version of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The d'Urbervilles, and later in Bitter Moon, Frantic and most recently Venus In Fur.
The couple will be in attendance at the Locarno Film Festival, which starts next week and where Polanksi is guest of honour. He will give a talk on life and work at an event open to the public.
Polanski ‘s trademark has been an ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retaining a coherent vision of cinema, and he...
- 7/29/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Auf Weidersehen Pet's Christopher Fairbank is rumoured to be making a guest appearance in Doctor Who series 8...
News
Details are thin on the ground for this one so far, but on the authority of the mighty Blogtor Who and filming set photos, it's been reported that Christopher Fairbank, a familiar face from well, just about everything is to make a guest appearance in Doctor Who's new series.
Fairbank has been a regular presence in TV and film since the late 1970s, memorably playing the role of Albert Arthur Moxey in Auf Weidersehen Pet, as well as appearing in just about any novel adaptation worth its salt (The Rotters' Club, The Line Of Beauty, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles and this year, Jamaica Inn). He's also tipped up in Merlin, Pirates Of The Caribbean 4, and The Fifth Element. Buy a ticket to the Dwayne Johnson-starring Hercules to enjoy all the Rock's...
News
Details are thin on the ground for this one so far, but on the authority of the mighty Blogtor Who and filming set photos, it's been reported that Christopher Fairbank, a familiar face from well, just about everything is to make a guest appearance in Doctor Who's new series.
Fairbank has been a regular presence in TV and film since the late 1970s, memorably playing the role of Albert Arthur Moxey in Auf Weidersehen Pet, as well as appearing in just about any novel adaptation worth its salt (The Rotters' Club, The Line Of Beauty, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles and this year, Jamaica Inn). He's also tipped up in Merlin, Pirates Of The Caribbean 4, and The Fifth Element. Buy a ticket to the Dwayne Johnson-starring Hercules to enjoy all the Rock's...
- 6/4/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"Gravity"
What's It About? A routine space walk goes horribly awry when space debris smashes into the shuttle, leaving a medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and an astronaut (George Clooney) a mere 90 minutes to make it to the International Space Station.
Why We're In: Even though you won't be getting the whole IMAX 3D experience of being alone in space with Sandy Bullock, you'll still feel crazy anxious about the fate of her character. Plus, Alfonso Cuarón and his crew have snagged tons of awards and Oscar nominations for this sci-fi chiller.
Exclusive: Go behind-the-scenes on "Gravity" (Video)
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Tess" (Criterion)
What's It About? Roman Polanski's take on Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is a Victorian drama about a lower class peasant (Nastassja Kinski) who runs into all sorts of trouble when her father discovers...
"Gravity"
What's It About? A routine space walk goes horribly awry when space debris smashes into the shuttle, leaving a medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and an astronaut (George Clooney) a mere 90 minutes to make it to the International Space Station.
Why We're In: Even though you won't be getting the whole IMAX 3D experience of being alone in space with Sandy Bullock, you'll still feel crazy anxious about the fate of her character. Plus, Alfonso Cuarón and his crew have snagged tons of awards and Oscar nominations for this sci-fi chiller.
Exclusive: Go behind-the-scenes on "Gravity" (Video)
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Tess" (Criterion)
What's It About? Roman Polanski's take on Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is a Victorian drama about a lower class peasant (Nastassja Kinski) who runs into all sorts of trouble when her father discovers...
- 2/25/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Actor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stage
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
- 10/15/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
nBaz Luhrman's 1920s extravaganza to open 66th festival and cement Surrey girl Carey Mulligan's arrival in Hollywood A-list
Many people might think The Great Gatsby has already had a premiere with reviews from American screenings widely available. But for its British star, Carey Mulligan, the red carpet Cannes screening of Baz Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza on Wednesday evening will secure her position among the top flight of international talent.
The film will officially open the annual event in the south of France, regarded as the leading festival in the cinema industry's calendar. Mulligan is expected to attend alongside Lurhrman and her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and will be the glamorous focus of the most high-profile function of the fortnight.
The actor from Surrey, who is married to Marcus Mumford of the award-winning band Mumford and Sons, is to have a second moment of glory later in the festival when she...
Many people might think The Great Gatsby has already had a premiere with reviews from American screenings widely available. But for its British star, Carey Mulligan, the red carpet Cannes screening of Baz Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza on Wednesday evening will secure her position among the top flight of international talent.
The film will officially open the annual event in the south of France, regarded as the leading festival in the cinema industry's calendar. Mulligan is expected to attend alongside Lurhrman and her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and will be the glamorous focus of the most high-profile function of the fortnight.
The actor from Surrey, who is married to Marcus Mumford of the award-winning band Mumford and Sons, is to have a second moment of glory later in the festival when she...
- 5/11/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Now, before you get too excited -- nothing is confirmed just yet, this is a lot of best case scenario stuff, but if it works out? Damn. As you'll recall, last fall it was reported that "The Hunt" and "Celebration" director Thomas Vinterberg was gearing up an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd," and was eyeing Carey Mulligan to star. Well, her name is still in the mix and two more actors are being tossed around to join her. Baz Bamigboye reveals that "Rust & Bone" and "Bullhead" star Matthias Schoenaerts has been offered a role and Matthew Goode has been rumored to join the production. David Nicholls (the Ralph Fiennes/Helena Bonham Carter "Great Expectations" and the 2008 Brit TV mini-series "Tess of the D'Urbervilles") is penning the script that tells the tale of Bathsheba Everdene, who is courted by three men: Gabriel Oak, a shepherd; Sergeant Troy,...
- 4/12/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
(Roman Polanski, 1979, BFI, 12)
This adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, completed in 1891, was Roman Polanski's first movie after jumping bail in the Us in 1978, having pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. This prevented him ever working in the States or Britain again and may have introduced a note of caution into his handling of a story about an innocent young woman. It certainly made it impossible to shoot the picture in Hardy's Wessex. In the event the film (originally thought of as a vehicle for his late wife, Sharon Tate, to whom it's dedicated) is an outstanding piece of work.
Sensitively staged on well-chosen locations in Normandy and Brittany, it revolves around a deeply moving performance by Polanski's former lover and protege, the German actress Nastassja Kinski, as the country girl Tess. She was the victim, as Hardy saw it,...
This adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, completed in 1891, was Roman Polanski's first movie after jumping bail in the Us in 1978, having pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. This prevented him ever working in the States or Britain again and may have introduced a note of caution into his handling of a story about an innocent young woman. It certainly made it impossible to shoot the picture in Hardy's Wessex. In the event the film (originally thought of as a vehicle for his late wife, Sharon Tate, to whom it's dedicated) is an outstanding piece of work.
Sensitively staged on well-chosen locations in Normandy and Brittany, it revolves around a deeply moving performance by Polanski's former lover and protege, the German actress Nastassja Kinski, as the country girl Tess. She was the victim, as Hardy saw it,...
- 3/24/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Following on from their retrospective earlier in the year, this week the BFI rerelease Roman Polanski's award-winning period drama Tess (1979) on DVD and - for the first time in the UK - Blu-ray, mastered from a crisp new 4K restoration of the film. A faithful, yet perhaps overly reverential screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, it's easy to see why the Polish-French director's sweeping drama dominated the design categories at the 1981 Academy Awards - especially in this new high resolution presentation. However, its languid pace and unwillingness to innovate with Hardy's text do still detract.
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- 3/19/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Kate Middleton will probably be a glamorous fashionplate for years to come, but you wouldn't know it from checking out her new official portrait. The Duchess of Cambridge looks slightly fatigued and sinister in the new painting, and while we won't hold that against Kate or her chicness, we will make fun of it. Here are 10 things this bizarre picture reminds us of.
1. A morph between Liz and Dick
2. A Kate Walsh screentest for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln
3. An abandoned Julia Roberts project called Mona Lisa Smize
4. A less-then-effervescent Valerie Bertinelli (which is basically impossible)
5. Masterpiece Theatre presents Tess of the D'Urbervilles... is Tired
6. Michelle Pfeiffer as Kathleen Turner as Lindsay Lohan
7. Exactly the face Lauren Bacall made while doing Fancy Feast voiceovers.
8. A still from an overly earnest Advil commercial
9. Kate Middleton doing her best impression of Eileen Rand from Smash
10. Sarah Ferguson, Attorney At Law
Your turn!
1. A morph between Liz and Dick
2. A Kate Walsh screentest for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln
3. An abandoned Julia Roberts project called Mona Lisa Smize
4. A less-then-effervescent Valerie Bertinelli (which is basically impossible)
5. Masterpiece Theatre presents Tess of the D'Urbervilles... is Tired
6. Michelle Pfeiffer as Kathleen Turner as Lindsay Lohan
7. Exactly the face Lauren Bacall made while doing Fancy Feast voiceovers.
8. A still from an overly earnest Advil commercial
9. Kate Middleton doing her best impression of Eileen Rand from Smash
10. Sarah Ferguson, Attorney At Law
Your turn!
- 1/11/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
David Nicholls, author of the hit novel One Day, has always loved Dickens's novel. As the film version is about to be released, he reveals how he set about his adaptation
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. For some people it's Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, but for me it is Great Expectations. I first read it at 14 or so and, apart from some infatuations with Orwell, Fitzgerald, Salinger and Hardy, it has remained my favourite novel ever since. By some miracle, a story written in the mid-1850s had captured much of how I felt in a small provincial town at the end of the 1970s.
Yet if I saw myself in the book, it wasn't a particularly flattering portrait. It's clear why a young reader might aspire to be Elizabeth Bennet, but who would want to be Pip Pirrip?...
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. For some people it's Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, but for me it is Great Expectations. I first read it at 14 or so and, apart from some infatuations with Orwell, Fitzgerald, Salinger and Hardy, it has remained my favourite novel ever since. By some miracle, a story written in the mid-1850s had captured much of how I felt in a small provincial town at the end of the 1970s.
Yet if I saw myself in the book, it wasn't a particularly flattering portrait. It's clear why a young reader might aspire to be Elizabeth Bennet, but who would want to be Pip Pirrip?...
- 11/17/2012
- by David Nicholls
- The Guardian - Film News
The son of a vicar (and Charles Darwin was his great-uncle), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) became one of the most popular English composers. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry at the Royal College of Music, but also read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he palled around with the philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. He also went to Germany for lessons with Max Bruch, but ultimately rejected the 19th century German Romantic style Friendships with fellow Rcm students Gustav Holst and Leopold Stokowski later bore more fruit, in different ways: Stokowski, who moved to the United States, became Rvw's biggest supporter there; Holst and Vaughan Williams critiqued each others' work and joined in the study and collection of English folk songs. "The knowledge of our folk songs did not so much discover for us something new, but uncovered something which had been hidden by foreign matter,...
- 10/12/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Charles Dickens' classic coming-of-age novel Great Expectations has been adapted for stage and screen many times over the past century - and now Harry Potter director Mike Newell is bringing it to a new generation of viewers.
Newell, whose directing credits include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Four Weddings and a Funeral, has assembled an all-star cast led by Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, Jeremy Irvine as Pip and Holliday Grainger as Estella.
Joining them are Jason Flemyng as Joe Gargery, Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, David Walliams as Uncle Pumblechook, Tamzin Outhwaite as Molly, Ewen Bremner as Wemmick and Sally Hawkins as Mrs Joe.
The film has its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow. Two clips and a set of images have been released and are included here.
This latest production has been adapted for the screen by David Nicholls,...
Newell, whose directing credits include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Four Weddings and a Funeral, has assembled an all-star cast led by Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, Jeremy Irvine as Pip and Holliday Grainger as Estella.
Joining them are Jason Flemyng as Joe Gargery, Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, David Walliams as Uncle Pumblechook, Tamzin Outhwaite as Molly, Ewen Bremner as Wemmick and Sally Hawkins as Mrs Joe.
The film has its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow. Two clips and a set of images have been released and are included here.
This latest production has been adapted for the screen by David Nicholls,...
- 9/10/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
New York, July 16: Freida Pinto, who became an overnight star after the success of "Slumdog Millionaire" has described her latest flick "Trishna" a beautiful, yet tragic tale.
The movie, which is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', has been directed by Michael Winterbottom
The flick is set in rural Rajasthan and narrates a tale of a village girl torn between.
The movie, which is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', has been directed by Michael Winterbottom
The flick is set in rural Rajasthan and narrates a tale of a village girl torn between.
- 7/16/2012
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Freida Pinto, of the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire," is starring in the new film "Trishna," an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" that is set in modern-day India. Pinto tells the New York Daily News about her character's story arc.
"I guess the journey is very beautiful and at the same time very tragic because it goes from being really innocent to being in a situation of almost desperation and finally redemption," says Pinto.
She continues that the role of Trishna was tough for her because it's so different from what she is in real life. The main character in the novel is the victim of a rape that leads to a sickly baby being born and subsequently dying, and then the woman feeling shamed at having to confess the rape to her husband-to-be some years later. He sends her away while he comes to terms with her not being a virgin.
"I guess the journey is very beautiful and at the same time very tragic because it goes from being really innocent to being in a situation of almost desperation and finally redemption," says Pinto.
She continues that the role of Trishna was tough for her because it's so different from what she is in real life. The main character in the novel is the victim of a rape that leads to a sickly baby being born and subsequently dying, and then the woman feeling shamed at having to confess the rape to her husband-to-be some years later. He sends her away while he comes to terms with her not being a virgin.
- 7/15/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Washington, July 15: Freida Pinto, who became an overnight celebrity after the multiple-Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire", views her new film "Trishna" as a "very beautiful and yet tragic" tale of a village girl torn between her traditional upbringing and the dreams of a girl from modern India.
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's newest film is set in rural Rajasthan. It has Pinto playing the title role of Trishna, an auto-rickshaw driver's daughter.
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's newest film is set in rural Rajasthan. It has Pinto playing the title role of Trishna, an auto-rickshaw driver's daughter.
- 7/15/2012
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
It's impossible to predict filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's next move, other than to assume it will be nothing like his last. The English director went from the graphic music-driven romance 9 Songs to the cheeky esoteric comedy Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story to the harrowing documentary The Road to Guantanamo. More recently, he made the controversial and sickeningly violent The Killer Inside Me, then followed it up with the jaunty buddy comedy/travel doc The Trip, now with Trishna he has translated Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which was set in 1870s England, into a sensual drama set in contemporary India. Freida Pinto stars as the title character, the lowly daughter of an auto rickshaw owner who enters into a doomed romance with the son of a wealth real estate developer. Riz Ahmed of Four Lions co-stars as her lover. While the first trailer reveled in...
- 7/14/2012
- cinemablend.com
Let's take a moment to step away from the fervor and chaos of Comic-Con to tout a limited release film worth seeking out this weekend. Granted, the box office will be slow with the only new wide release being Ice Age: Continental Drift, giving you the perfect opportunity to check out Trishna. What is Trishna? Directed by acclaimed English director Michael Winterbottom, Trishna is a loose adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, set in modern-day India. The film stars Freida Pinto in the title role as a 19-year-old woman from a poor village who wins the attention of a young man from a rich family, played by Riz Ahemd. The film follows her journey as she experiences the different cultures of her country, moving between her small village to the...
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- 7/13/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Over his career, Michael Winterbottom has hopped frequently from genre to genre, from subject matter to subject matter, rarely covering the same territory twice. But one of the few things he has returned to is the work of Thomas Hardy. The late 19th century British author has so far inspired two of the director's films: 1995's "Jude," an adaptation of "Jude the Obscure" with Kate Winslet, and "The Claim," a version of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" moved to a Californian mountain Western setting. Both are very strong, firmly in tune with Hardy's bleak originals, so when it was announced that Winterbottom was going back to the well for "Trishna," a loose adaptation of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (a Hardy novel previously done by Roman Polanski in "Tess" and more recently, a BBC miniseries starring Gemma Arterton and Eddie Redmayne) for a version set in contemporary India, hope was high that it'd.
- 7/12/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Audiences who know Michael Winterbottom as the director of such wry Brit flicks as "24 Hour Party People" and "The Trip" may be surprised by his latest release, "Trishna," a melodramatic adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" set in modern-day India. Freida Pinto plays the title character, a poor but beautiful girl from rural Rajasthan whose affair with a half-English hotel heir (Riz Ahmed) lifts her out of her life of drudgery, only to deposit her in a fresh (if better-decorated) hell. The exotic locations give audiences plenty to "ooh" and "ah" at, and the elaborate rules of Indian society -- both in conservative Rajasthan and permissive Mumbai -- lend contemporary credibility to Hardy's 19th-century storyline. Pinto's Trishna, meanwhile, is a haunting if frequently frustrating feminine icon, utterly hemmed in by her low status -- except during one fateful moment.
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- 7/11/2012
- by Michael Hogan
- Huffington Post
Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is no stranger to a good Thomas Hardy novel. Trishna, his adaptation of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, is the third time the director has scripted films from the famed British novelist's works. Winterbottom first received widespread attention for Jude, his adaptation of Jude the Obscure, which starred Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet as the tragic cousins. He next tackled Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge in The Claim, featured Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich and Sarah Polley. In Trishna, Winterbottom transplants Hardy's famous story from the sweeping moors of England to modern day Mumbai. Winterbottom's Tess is Trishna (Frieda Pinto), a maid working in a luxury hotel where she meets Jay (Riz Ahmed), an amalgam of two Hardy characters, the pious Angel and the licentious Alec. Brillantly playing off the difference between rural India and the teeming Mumbai, Wintterbottom brings a modern dynamic to Hardy's bleak romantic classic.
- 7/11/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Anyone who reads ComingSoon.net is probably well aware how prolific and versatile British director Michael Winterbottom has been in recent years as he's kept apace with Woody Allen in directing at least one movie a year since 1995. His latest film is Trishna , a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Tess of the D'urbervilles" set in modern-day India, starring Freida Pinto as the title character, a 19-year-old woman from an impoverished village who wins the charms of a young man from a rich family named Jay (played by Riz Ahmed of Road to Guantanamo ) when he sees her dancing in her village. The film follows the journey of this woman as she experiences the different cultures of her country, moving between her small village to the teaming city of Mumbai....
- 7/10/2012
- Comingsoon.net
★★☆☆☆ For the third time, British director Michael Winterbottom once again attempts to breathe cinematic life into the works of 19th century author Thomas Hardy, one of the countries most beloved writers. Having previously adapted Jude The Obscure (given the cut-down title, Jude, in 1996) and transported The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America in 2000 with The Claim, he now turns to Tess of the D'Urbervilles, transplanted to modern day Indian in the form of Trishna (2011).
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- 7/10/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Finding fame after Danny Boyle picked her for his multiple Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, Indian model Freida Pinto went on star in Hollywood blockbusters Rise of The Planet of the Apes and Immortals.
Freida also headlines the British drama Trishna, released in UK cinemas in March 2012 and heading to DVD and Blu-ray on July 9. It's also getting a limited Us release on July 13.
Trishna is English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's Bollywood-flavoured, modernised retelling of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
It's also Winterbottom's third adaptation of a Hardy tale, following Jude (1996) and The Claim (2000).
So what drew Freida to the story and how has the 1891 classic of English literature been given a Bollywood flavour? Here's what the actress had to say.
Q: Take us through the process of how you became involved in the project. What attracted you to it and to the role of Trishna?
Freida Pinto:...
Freida also headlines the British drama Trishna, released in UK cinemas in March 2012 and heading to DVD and Blu-ray on July 9. It's also getting a limited Us release on July 13.
Trishna is English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's Bollywood-flavoured, modernised retelling of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
It's also Winterbottom's third adaptation of a Hardy tale, following Jude (1996) and The Claim (2000).
So what drew Freida to the story and how has the 1891 classic of English literature been given a Bollywood flavour? Here's what the actress had to say.
Q: Take us through the process of how you became involved in the project. What attracted you to it and to the role of Trishna?
Freida Pinto:...
- 7/4/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
It's not often that filmmakers want to categorize their film with an adult tag, especially when aiming to make the maximum from the audience. Well, such is not the case with the film Trishna. Freida Pinto's forthcoming film Trishna, directed by Michael Winterbottom, has apparently applied for an 'A' certificate from the censor board. It is learnt that producer Sunil Bohra, contrary to popular opinion, feels that the Censor Board has become highly progressive. Since the film revolves around a love story with a sad ending with sequences that have references to the Kamasutra, the makers have applied for an 'A' Certificate. Trishna is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the d'urbervilles., which opened at Iffi Goa last year. The story of the film starts off as a tale of romance, but later turns into a lustful affair in which Riz's character exploits Trishna (Freida) in the name of love.
- 5/23/2012
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Does Michael Winterbottom ever stop working? In the 17 years since his debut "Butterfly Kiss," he's helmed twenty feature films, averaging more than one a year, and the director has several more in the works: he's wrapped on "King of Soho," with Steve Coogan, ambitious, multi-year project "Here and There" is nearing completion, and he's got Jack Black vehicle "Bailout" and Beatles flick "The Longest Cocktail Party" on the dance card as well. And his most recent picture isn't even in theaters yet.
But it's not long before it is: "Trishna" is hitting theaters, courtesy of IFC Films, in a couple of months, and we're pleased to exclusively unveil the U.S. poster for the latest film from one of our favorite directors. The picture sees Winterbottom return to the Thomas Hardy well that proved so successful on "Jude" and "The Claim," for a contemporary spin on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" set in modern-day India.
But it's not long before it is: "Trishna" is hitting theaters, courtesy of IFC Films, in a couple of months, and we're pleased to exclusively unveil the U.S. poster for the latest film from one of our favorite directors. The picture sees Winterbottom return to the Thomas Hardy well that proved so successful on "Jude" and "The Claim," for a contemporary spin on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" set in modern-day India.
- 5/18/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Movie: Trishna Director: Michael Winterbottom Screenwriter: Michael Winterbottom (adapted from Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles") Lead Cast: Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed Theatrical Release Date: July 13, 2012 Festival Date: Friday, May 18 and Sunday, May 20 Synopsis: Trishna (Freida Pinto) lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan, India's largest state. As the eldest daughter, she works in a nearby resort to help pay the bills. Jay (Riz Ahmed) is the wealthy son of a property developer. When he takes up managing a resort at his father's request, he meets Trishna at a dance and their fates cross. Jay finds every opportunity to win Trishna's affection and she accepts his efforts with shy curiosity. But when the two move to Mumbai and become a couple, Jay's deep family bond threatens the young lovers' bliss. Quick Thoughts: Beautiful cinematography from Marcel Zyskind combined with vibrant costumes and scenery. An enriching...
- 5/7/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Following up on last week's preview of the Tribeca Film Festival (site), this'll be the entry that'll carry us through to Sunday. Introducing Slant's package of reviews, Ed Gonzalez argues that Tribeca "has blossomed from a celebration of the Big Apple as a filmmaking center into a great facilitator and promoter of international film and video culture." The Los Angeles Times' Steven Zeitchik agrees that it's "a prime venue to discover international films." More packages and lists: Smithsonian Magazine's Daniel Eagan ("What to See"), indieWIRE ("12 New Films We're Excited For"), Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay ("25 Films I'm Looking Forward To"), Movies.com ("20 Most Anticipated Movies"), Time's Lily Rothman ("Top 15 Chatter-Worthy Films"), Time Out New York and Twitch ("Top 15 Picks").
Having previewed "30-odd films" for the Voice, Eric Hynes recommends 14, and Take This Waltz is one of them: "Sarah Polley's follow-up to her moving directorial debut, Away From Her, is a modern...
Having previewed "30-odd films" for the Voice, Eric Hynes recommends 14, and Take This Waltz is one of them: "Sarah Polley's follow-up to her moving directorial debut, Away From Her, is a modern...
- 4/25/2012
- MUBI
It's been a whole month since SXSW but the next fest is just a day away, with the 11th installment of the Tribeca Film Festival, the New York-based celebration of the movies set up by Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal, kicking off this Wednesday, April 18th.
Running to the end of the month, this year's festival is bookended by a pair of particularly high-profile pictures: opening with "The Five-Year Engagement," the latest Judd Apatow-produced rom-com from Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel (the team behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "The Muppets") and closing with Joss Whedon's Marvel superhero team-up "The Avengers." And yesterday, we ran down our most anticipated titles from the fest, many of which are making their world premiere or stateside debuts.
However, a number of films playing Tribeca are highlights from major festivals across the last year, from Cannes to Sundance. We've caught...
Running to the end of the month, this year's festival is bookended by a pair of particularly high-profile pictures: opening with "The Five-Year Engagement," the latest Judd Apatow-produced rom-com from Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel (the team behind "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "The Muppets") and closing with Joss Whedon's Marvel superhero team-up "The Avengers." And yesterday, we ran down our most anticipated titles from the fest, many of which are making their world premiere or stateside debuts.
However, a number of films playing Tribeca are highlights from major festivals across the last year, from Cannes to Sundance. We've caught...
- 4/17/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
New York -- If there's a keynote performance at the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival, it may well be Abbie Cornish's riveting portrayal of a Texas single mother who, desperate for money to regain custody of her son, haphazardly smuggles Mexican immigrants across the border.
Such leading roles don't frequently come around for women, but this year's Tribeca boasts a boatload of them. In David Riker's "The Girl," which will make its world premiere in competition at the festival, Cornish's fraught, sweaty performance of a mother on the brink bears two more pervasive themes at the 2012 Tribeca: financial straits and overlapping worlds.
"It totally rebirthed me as an actor," says Cornish, the Aussie actress of "Bright Star" and "Limitless." "It felt like it was the first time again. In making the film, I felt like it was the best I had ever been as an actor in all regards – as an actor,...
Such leading roles don't frequently come around for women, but this year's Tribeca boasts a boatload of them. In David Riker's "The Girl," which will make its world premiere in competition at the festival, Cornish's fraught, sweaty performance of a mother on the brink bears two more pervasive themes at the 2012 Tribeca: financial straits and overlapping worlds.
"It totally rebirthed me as an actor," says Cornish, the Aussie actress of "Bright Star" and "Limitless." "It felt like it was the first time again. In making the film, I felt like it was the best I had ever been as an actor in all regards – as an actor,...
- 4/17/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Thomas Hardy is no stranger to Michael Winterbottom, this is his third stab (pun intended) at this author's novels, the other two being The Claim, an loose adaptation of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and Jude, an adaptation of "Jude the Obscure." Trishna is a modern retelling of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and while I didn't love it (when I caught it at Tiff last year) there is no denying that it is beautifully shot, and features some impressive location shooting in both urban and rural parts of modern India. In a nutshell, this film is drop-dead gorgeous (pun also intended). As the resident Winterbottom geek, I would say that it continues his tradition of exploring storytelling through landscapes (mainly through cities, but here he makes...
- 4/5/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Michael Winterbottom's Trishna has been making the rounds at various film festivals around the world. Having already screened at Toronto, Abu Dhabi, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Rome film fests, the film makes its stateside debut at the Tribeca Film Festival. If you're unable to catch the film on April 27 and 28, there will be a limited release on July 13. The film stars Freida Pinto (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Slumdog Millionaire) and Riz Ahmed (the hilarious Four Lions) in a story about the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner. Thomas Hardy adapted his novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Winterbottom. Check out the domestic trailer premiere courtesy of Yahoo Movies. Ready...
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- 4/4/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Until now, the teasers and previews for Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna" have largely focused on the lush Indian setting and the handsome faces of its two leads, but with the film now a few months away from hitting theaters, a brand new trailer has arrived showing off the tougher dramatic undercurrent running through it.
Starring Riz Ahmed and Freida Pinto, the film is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," but transported to Rajasthan, India, and follows the tragic romance between the lower class daughter of a rickshaw owner, and the upper class son of a property developer. He sweeps her off her feet, but when they move to the big city, their differences, dependence and expectations are put to the test. Certainly, the film looks gorgeous and sounds great -- due in no small part to the songs by Indian film composer Amit Trivedi and...
Starring Riz Ahmed and Freida Pinto, the film is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," but transported to Rajasthan, India, and follows the tragic romance between the lower class daughter of a rickshaw owner, and the upper class son of a property developer. He sweeps her off her feet, but when they move to the big city, their differences, dependence and expectations are put to the test. Certainly, the film looks gorgeous and sounds great -- due in no small part to the songs by Indian film composer Amit Trivedi and...
- 4/4/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The 14th London Asian Film Festival press launch took place yesterday (March 12) at Soas. Sarah McKenzie, managing director of Creative Screen Associates, outlined the key highlights of the festival ahead of its official opening later this week. "The festival includes Asian-themed films made by directors from anywhere in the world, represented this year by Trishna, a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Frieda Pinto and Riz Ahmed," McKenzie said. "We have work from Asian filmmakers working all over the world, from Britain's Asif Kapadia who has made the BAFTA award-winning documentary Senna." McKenzie added that the annual Nargis Dutt lecture will be given by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She said that the festival will feature "a showcase (more)...
- 3/13/2012
- by By Priya Joshi
- Digital Spy
Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto captivates in Michael Winterbottom's bold reading of Hardy's tragedy
"In this life," Sir Thomas Beecham is said to have advised us, "try everything once, except incest and morris dancing" – an admonition that Michael Winterbottom, Britain's most prolific and versatile director, has followed. Indeed after 9 Songs, his venture into unsimulated sex between consenting actors, he may well be contemplating an excursion into cinematic incest. Winterbottom's movies have ranged from the music scene in Manchester to incarceration in Guantánamo, and at regular intervals he has made versions of Thomas Hardy novels on three continents.
In 1996, quite early in his career, he adapted Jude the Obscure with some fidelity to its plot and its Victorian times with Christopher Eccleston as the doomed Wessex stonemason and Kate Winslet as his deranged second wife. In 2000 he transposed The Mayor of Casterbridge to the Californian gold rush of the 1860s as The Claim,...
"In this life," Sir Thomas Beecham is said to have advised us, "try everything once, except incest and morris dancing" – an admonition that Michael Winterbottom, Britain's most prolific and versatile director, has followed. Indeed after 9 Songs, his venture into unsimulated sex between consenting actors, he may well be contemplating an excursion into cinematic incest. Winterbottom's movies have ranged from the music scene in Manchester to incarceration in Guantánamo, and at regular intervals he has made versions of Thomas Hardy novels on three continents.
In 1996, quite early in his career, he adapted Jude the Obscure with some fidelity to its plot and its Victorian times with Christopher Eccleston as the doomed Wessex stonemason and Kate Winslet as his deranged second wife. In 2000 he transposed The Mayor of Casterbridge to the Californian gold rush of the 1860s as The Claim,...
- 3/11/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom transplants Hardy perennial Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Jaipur, but she fails to bloom
Michael Winterbottom is such a restlessly, brilliantly prolific and unparochial film-maker, declining to be limited either conceptually or geographically: always keeping us on our toes. This latest movie starts with a bold and intriguing concept, but is bafflingly muted and underpowered, its initial promise fading as it drifts away to a self-conscious conclusion. Trishna is a Thomas Hardy adaptation – Winterbottom's third, in fact, having made Jude in 1996 and The Claim (based on The Mayor of Casterbridge) in 2000. It is a loose reworking of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and the story is transplanted to modern India where Jay (Riz Ahmed), the son of a rich Jaipur hotelier, is travelling with friends. One evening Jay is captivated by the delicate beauty of a young woman he sees at a party: this is Trishna, played by Freida Pinto.
Michael Winterbottom is such a restlessly, brilliantly prolific and unparochial film-maker, declining to be limited either conceptually or geographically: always keeping us on our toes. This latest movie starts with a bold and intriguing concept, but is bafflingly muted and underpowered, its initial promise fading as it drifts away to a self-conscious conclusion. Trishna is a Thomas Hardy adaptation – Winterbottom's third, in fact, having made Jude in 1996 and The Claim (based on The Mayor of Casterbridge) in 2000. It is a loose reworking of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and the story is transplanted to modern India where Jay (Riz Ahmed), the son of a rich Jaipur hotelier, is travelling with friends. One evening Jay is captivated by the delicate beauty of a young woman he sees at a party: this is Trishna, played by Freida Pinto.
- 3/9/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This week on Film Weekly Jason Solomons meets the British Pakistani actor and rapper Riz Ahmed to discuss his starring role alongside Freida Pinto in Michael Winterbottom's Trishna. The film - a twist on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles - moves the drama from the English countryside to Mumbai and sees Riz's character Jay pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood star, while attempting to help Trishna (Pinto) escape her poor upbringing. Riz, who also recently starred in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black Gold, tells Jason how he juggles a busy film career with being a hip-hop Mc.
In the reviews section Jason is joined by Henry Barnes to review some of this week's other big releases, including the sci-fi epic John Carter, the gangster Brit-flick Hard Boiled Sweets and David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald in an off-kilter romantic drama The Decoy Bride.
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In the reviews section Jason is joined by Henry Barnes to review some of this week's other big releases, including the sci-fi epic John Carter, the gangster Brit-flick Hard Boiled Sweets and David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald in an off-kilter romantic drama The Decoy Bride.
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- 3/8/2012
- by Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Arguably Britain's most prolific director, Michael Winterbottom returns to Thomas Hardy territory with Trishna (2011), a retooled version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Relocated to present day India and shot in the beautiful rural area of Rajasthan as well as the more familiar Mumbai, Freida Pinto stars as the titular heroine, who lives with her family, scratching a living from occasional jobs at hotels and helping her father deliver produce in his jeep.
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- 3/7/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
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