Director Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor take on the true story of Solomon Northup, and Russell Crowe has his pick of new projects.
There’s something irresistible about a cinematic partnership between a director and their favoured actor. The connection between the person behind the camera and the one in front of it can be electric, and the body of work that eventuates can be evocative and lasting. Think of Robert De Niro as the explicit side of Martin Scorsese’s psyche in the 1970s and 1980s (Mean Streets, Taxi Dri..
The US distributor of Steve McQueen’s sexual drama have shot down the Hungarian poster.
It’s the rejected film poster that everyone is suddenly seeing: recently a censored one sheet (see below) for the Hungarian release of Steve McQueen’s uncompromising sexual addiction drama, Shame, has been bouncing around the internet. Reportedly prepared for the Hungarian distributor, Fox Searchlight, the poster starkly features the film’s title written on bare female skin with ..
Despite projections, female-driven films didn’t end up dominating festival discussion after all.
I have come to think of the 10 days of Sundance as a kind of controlled haemorrhage: The festival begins at maximum capacity as everyone rushes into Park City at the same time, and then as each day passes film news and film people leak out at a roughly proportional rate. My favourite part of this process comes around day six, when all the opening weekend warriors have left, there is time to catch ..
Ryan Murphy looks back at the AIDS epidemic, Julia Roberts plays around with Meryl Streep, and Alejando Gonzalez Inarritu plots some revenge.
Two of the most important and resonant responses to the spread of HIV and the subsequent rise of deaths in the gay community from AIDS have never made it to the movies. Randy Shilts’ damning non-fiction study of the disease’s early spread amid official apathy, And the Band Played On, was made into a HBO mini-series in 1993, while Larry Kramer’s incendiary 1985 play, The Normal He..
Mock posters put a clever new spin on the hype for Academy Awards
candidates.
Amid all the earnest commentary, debate and prognostications over the Academy Awards, it’s refreshing to see someone taking the Mickey out of the nominees.
The UK website TheShiznit.co.uk cheekily has poked fun at the best film contenders by redesigning the movie posters “so they're a little more honest about their content.”
[Related: See the full list of 2012 Oscar nominee..
Benedict Cumberbatch shows class, Bong Joon-ho trains up, and Tommy Lee Jones goes to war.
“Being a posh actor in England, you can’t escape class-typing, from whatever side you look at it. I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals,” the actor Benedict Cumberbatch recently remarked to the Radio Times. “I was brought up in a world of privilege. It can o..
Re-invention is emerging as the true theme of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
In his opening day press conference, Robert Redford told a less-than-full house (blizzardy weather delayed many on their way in to Park City) that Sundance is the only “purely independent” film festival that also runs a filmmaking lab all year round. The first part of that description seemed designed to get the crowd wagging: For almost a decade now, debates over Sundance’s indie..
Three films focusing on Japan’s nuclear plant meltdown and the aftermath
will be unveiled next month.
“If one was to be poisoned by radiation, if he or she did so out of their own will and conviction I believe it to be perfectly fine. But you can’t force that onto the children. The children, you must distance them from the poisoned areas.”
So says Koide Hiroaki, Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Nuclear Test Facility and a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, in th..
The window between yearly awards seasons is practically non-existent nowadays.
If you lean in closely you can see where one year’s award season ends and the next one begins. A publicist’s job is never done, as I was reminded last week as the awards dinner held by the New York Film Critics Circle. Before the ceremony began business cards cut the air and party invitations were dangled, all in anticipation of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The festival, h..
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