Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Freud’s Last Session,” which stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud and Matthew Goode as author C. S. Lewis, is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.
“Freud’s Last Session” is set on the eve of the Second World War, when at the end of his life, Freud (Hopkins) invites “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis (Goode) to debate the existence of God. Interweaving past, present and fantasy, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
Sony Pictures Classics last year snapped up all rights for North America, the Middle East, Turkey, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Cis), Asia and Latin America and worldwide airlines. WestEnd Films, which is selling the film, has also struck deals across Australia (Sharmill Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Italy (Adler), Benelux (Just Entertainment), Portugal (Nos), Israel (United King) and Greece...
“Freud’s Last Session” is set on the eve of the Second World War, when at the end of his life, Freud (Hopkins) invites “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis (Goode) to debate the existence of God. Interweaving past, present and fantasy, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), and Lewis’ unconventional relationship with his best friend’s mother.
Sony Pictures Classics last year snapped up all rights for North America, the Middle East, Turkey, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Cis), Asia and Latin America and worldwide airlines. WestEnd Films, which is selling the film, has also struck deals across Australia (Sharmill Films), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Italy (Adler), Benelux (Just Entertainment), Portugal (Nos), Israel (United King) and Greece...
- 4/11/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
WestEnd Films and CAA Media Finance are selling the film.
Babylon Berlin star Liv Lisa Fries has joined Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the cast of Freud’s Last Session, which is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.
A first look at the film, in which Oscar-winner Hopkins plays Sigmund Freud and Goode plays author C.S. Lewis, has been released by WestEnd Films, which handles sales alongside US-based CAA Media Finance.
German actress Fries plays Freud’s daughter in the film, which is set on the eve of the Second World War and sees the founder of...
Babylon Berlin star Liv Lisa Fries has joined Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the cast of Freud’s Last Session, which is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.
A first look at the film, in which Oscar-winner Hopkins plays Sigmund Freud and Goode plays author C.S. Lewis, has been released by WestEnd Films, which handles sales alongside US-based CAA Media Finance.
German actress Fries plays Freud’s daughter in the film, which is set on the eve of the Second World War and sees the founder of...
- 4/11/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Producer Guillaume Benski explains how the hit film came to be made.
“It wasn’t supposed to be this big,” says producer Guillaume Benski of the international box office success of Anthony Fabian’s Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
The English-language film, produced by Benski’s Paris and London-based Superbe Films, with Xavier Marchand’s MoonRiver, has grossed approximately 30m worldwide since its release in July 2022. It opened first in North America via Focus Features, grossing 10.3m. Universal Pictures then opened Mrs Harris around the world where it has performed particularly well in the...
“It wasn’t supposed to be this big,” says producer Guillaume Benski of the international box office success of Anthony Fabian’s Mrs Harris Goes To Paris, starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
The English-language film, produced by Benski’s Paris and London-based Superbe Films, with Xavier Marchand’s MoonRiver, has grossed approximately 30m worldwide since its release in July 2022. It opened first in North America via Focus Features, grossing 10.3m. Universal Pictures then opened Mrs Harris around the world where it has performed particularly well in the...
- 1/10/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Production set to begin in the UK in late January 2023.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired from WestEnd Films all rights in North America, Middle East, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia), Turkey and worldwide airlines to Freud’s Last Session to star Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode.
Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) will direct from a screenplay by Mark St. Germain based on his play of the same name. Alan Greisman (The Bucket List), Rick Nicita (Hacksaw Ridge), Meg Thomson (Siren), and Hannah Leader (Gosford Park) are producing. Production is set to begin in the UK in late January...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired from WestEnd Films all rights in North America, Middle East, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia), Turkey and worldwide airlines to Freud’s Last Session to star Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode.
Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) will direct from a screenplay by Mark St. Germain based on his play of the same name. Alan Greisman (The Bucket List), Rick Nicita (Hacksaw Ridge), Meg Thomson (Siren), and Hannah Leader (Gosford Park) are producing. Production is set to begin in the UK in late January...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the film “Freud’s Last Session” starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode from Westend Films in a deal that includes all rights in North America, the Middle East, India, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia), Turkey, and worldwide airlines.
The film is directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) and written by Mark St. Germain (“The God Committee”) based on his play of the same name.
The film is described as the following: “On the eve of the Second World War and the end of his life, Sigmund Freud (Hopkins) invites iconic author C.S. Lewis (Goode) for a debate over the existence of God. Innovatively, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his lesbian daughter Anna, and Lewis’ unconventional romance with his best friend’s mother. ‘Freud’s Last Session’ interweaves past, present and fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
The film is directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) and written by Mark St. Germain (“The God Committee”) based on his play of the same name.
The film is described as the following: “On the eve of the Second World War and the end of his life, Sigmund Freud (Hopkins) invites iconic author C.S. Lewis (Goode) for a debate over the existence of God. Innovatively, the film explores Freud’s unique relationship with his lesbian daughter Anna, and Lewis’ unconventional romance with his best friend’s mother. ‘Freud’s Last Session’ interweaves past, present and fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
- 11/2/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
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Ian Whittaker, the British actor turned Oscar-winning set decorator known for his work on such films as Alien, Howards End, Tommy and Anna and the King, died Oct. 16 of prostate cancer, The Guardian reported. He was 94.
Whittaker also served as set dresser on Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess From Hong Kong (1967), James Clavell’s To Sir, With Love (1967), Tony Richardson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and as art director on Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer (1969) and Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979).
He collaborated with director Ken Russell on nine features, from the 1971 releases The Music Lovers, The Boy Friend and The Devils to Tommy (1975), Lisztomania (1975) — both featuring The Who’s Roger Daltrey — and the Rudolf Nureyev-starring Valentino (1977).
Whittaker received his Oscar — shared with his production designer Luciana Arrighi, with whom he...
Ian Whittaker, the British actor turned Oscar-winning set decorator known for his work on such films as Alien, Howards End, Tommy and Anna and the King, died Oct. 16 of prostate cancer, The Guardian reported. He was 94.
Whittaker also served as set dresser on Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess From Hong Kong (1967), James Clavell’s To Sir, With Love (1967), Tony Richardson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and as art director on Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer (1969) and Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979).
He collaborated with director Ken Russell on nine features, from the 1971 releases The Music Lovers, The Boy Friend and The Devils to Tommy (1975), Lisztomania (1975) — both featuring The Who’s Roger Daltrey — and the Rudolf Nureyev-starring Valentino (1977).
Whittaker received his Oscar — shared with his production designer Luciana Arrighi, with whom he...
- 10/27/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott
The set decorator Ian Whittaker, who has died of prostate cancer aged 94, won an Oscar for the 1992 screen version of Em Forster’s Howards End. This was among the best in a string of literary adaptations directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Whittaker was in the running for another Oscar for the same team’s film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1993), though his career was not confined to costume drama. “Council houses, stately homes, spaceships, I’ve done them all,” he said.
His first nomination was for Ridley Scott’s intergalactic horror smash Alien (1979). To build the futuristic interior of the Nostromo spacecraft, where most of the action takes place, he assembled bits and bobs of old washing machines: “We just stuck them...
The set decorator Ian Whittaker, who has died of prostate cancer aged 94, won an Oscar for the 1992 screen version of Em Forster’s Howards End. This was among the best in a string of literary adaptations directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Whittaker was in the running for another Oscar for the same team’s film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1993), though his career was not confined to costume drama. “Council houses, stately homes, spaceships, I’ve done them all,” he said.
His first nomination was for Ridley Scott’s intergalactic horror smash Alien (1979). To build the futuristic interior of the Nostromo spacecraft, where most of the action takes place, he assembled bits and bobs of old washing machines: “We just stuck them...
- 10/26/2022
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Buoyed by a delightful performance from Lesley Manville as the titular character, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris manages to outshine even its effervescent lead to produce a heart-warming and emotionally rewarding drama.
The film relates the tale of recently widowed Ada Harris, who, after becoming entranced by a couture Dior dress, embarks on a quest to purchase one of her own. Suddenly, through a series of fortunate events, Mrs. Harris finds herself on an adventure in Paris that will resonate throughout both her own life and the House of Dior itself.
The heart and soul of the film rests on the capable shoulders of Lesley Manville, who delivers a tour de force performance as the title character. She is easily the aspect that draws the viewer into the film and thereafter keeps him/her enthralled by the events swirling and unfolding around this extremely likable cleaning lady. Similarly, Isabelle Huppert also shines as Claudine Colbert,...
The film relates the tale of recently widowed Ada Harris, who, after becoming entranced by a couture Dior dress, embarks on a quest to purchase one of her own. Suddenly, through a series of fortunate events, Mrs. Harris finds herself on an adventure in Paris that will resonate throughout both her own life and the House of Dior itself.
The heart and soul of the film rests on the capable shoulders of Lesley Manville, who delivers a tour de force performance as the title character. She is easily the aspect that draws the viewer into the film and thereafter keeps him/her enthralled by the events swirling and unfolding around this extremely likable cleaning lady. Similarly, Isabelle Huppert also shines as Claudine Colbert,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
‘Falling for Figaro.’
Ben Lewin’s Falling for Figaro, a romantic comedy starring Danielle Macdonald and Joanna Lumley, is among 30 titles from around the world that will feature at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) outside the official selection.
TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams chose the line-up from 29 countries for TIFF Industry Selects, which will screen to accredited users on the festival’s press and industry platform TIFF Digital Cinema Pro.
Billed as the first ever Scottish-Australian co-production, the rom-com scripted by Lewin (The Sessions) and Allen Palmer follows Macdonald as Millie, a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley) and meets fellow student Max (Flea Bag and Little Birds...
Ben Lewin’s Falling for Figaro, a romantic comedy starring Danielle Macdonald and Joanna Lumley, is among 30 titles from around the world that will feature at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) outside the official selection.
TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams chose the line-up from 29 countries for TIFF Industry Selects, which will screen to accredited users on the festival’s press and industry platform TIFF Digital Cinema Pro.
Billed as the first ever Scottish-Australian co-production, the rom-com scripted by Lewin (The Sessions) and Allen Palmer follows Macdonald as Millie, a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley) and meets fellow student Max (Flea Bag and Little Birds...
- 9/7/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Danielle Macdonald.
Danielle Macdonald and Joanna Lumley will star in Falling For Figaro, a romantic comedy from The Sessions director Ben Lewin which will be an Australian-uk co-production.
Co-written by Lewin and Allen Palmer, the film will follow Macdonald as Millie, a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley) and meets fellow student Max, who is training for an upcoming contest.
The soundtrack will feature music from famous operas including The Barber Of Seville, The Marriage Of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Romeo And Juliet and Carmen.
The producers are Philip Wade, who was an executive producer on Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother, Judi Levine (The Sessions) and Arabella Page Croft (Sunshine On Leith...
Danielle Macdonald and Joanna Lumley will star in Falling For Figaro, a romantic comedy from The Sessions director Ben Lewin which will be an Australian-uk co-production.
Co-written by Lewin and Allen Palmer, the film will follow Macdonald as Millie, a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley) and meets fellow student Max, who is training for an upcoming contest.
The soundtrack will feature music from famous operas including The Barber Of Seville, The Marriage Of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Romeo And Juliet and Carmen.
The producers are Philip Wade, who was an executive producer on Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother, Judi Levine (The Sessions) and Arabella Page Croft (Sunshine On Leith...
- 10/29/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Peter Whitford | Written by Eleanor Whitcombe | Directed by Gillian Armstrong
In the 19th century, on a remote Australian farm, teenager Sybylla (Judy Davis) dreams of a life of culture. Definitely a dreamer rather than a doer, she is shipped around various pockets of her extended family, mostly with a view to finding a matriarch who can curtail her “godless” behaviour. Everyone fails; and when she meets Harry (Sam Neill), she finds a muse for her mischievous energy. The obvious next step is marriage, particularly when you consider that the moneyed Harry is willing to wait years for Sybylla’s hand. But marriage is not Sybylla’s way. She is a young firebrand who is fiercely defensive of her independence. The push and pull between duty and independence is the basis for what becomes a very nuanced and involving character study.
It...
In the 19th century, on a remote Australian farm, teenager Sybylla (Judy Davis) dreams of a life of culture. Definitely a dreamer rather than a doer, she is shipped around various pockets of her extended family, mostly with a view to finding a matriarch who can curtail her “godless” behaviour. Everyone fails; and when she meets Harry (Sam Neill), she finds a muse for her mischievous energy. The obvious next step is marriage, particularly when you consider that the moneyed Harry is willing to wait years for Sybylla’s hand. But marriage is not Sybylla’s way. She is a young firebrand who is fiercely defensive of her independence. The push and pull between duty and independence is the basis for what becomes a very nuanced and involving character study.
It...
- 5/27/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Gill(ian) Armstrong’s breakthrough feature does a leapfrog over stories like Little Women, with heroines that prevail even when adhering to the Meek Sex role of their time. Judy Davis’s Sybylla Melvin knows that she’s a freckle-faced pain in the neck: despite being proud that she’s attracted the local male catch, her every sinew is committed to her goal of artistic expression and self-fulfillment. The setting is the turn-of-the-century Australian Outback but the story is universal. Sam Neill suffers through the best ‘thankless’ romantic role ever.
My Brilliant Career
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 973
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 30, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Aileen Britton, Patricia Kennedy.
Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Film Editor: Nicholas Beauman
Original Music: Nathan Waks
Written by Eleanor Witcombe from the novel by Miles Franklin
Produced by Margaret Fink...
My Brilliant Career
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 973
1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 30, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Aileen Britton, Patricia Kennedy.
Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Film Editor: Nicholas Beauman
Original Music: Nathan Waks
Written by Eleanor Witcombe from the novel by Miles Franklin
Produced by Margaret Fink...
- 4/30/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
From the start, there’s plenty to like about The Catcher Was a Spy, directed by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd. Based on the fascinating life of pro baseball player Moe Berg and adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s book of the same name, this is the type of film that feels slightly out of place at Sundance. There’s nothing particularly controversial about the subject matter, nothing brazen or overly ambitious in the technique. Lewin is clearly angling for a classical Hollywood studio picture aesthetic and he mostly succeeds, only sometimes betrayed by his budget.
Rudd plays Berg, a washed-up catcher who takes on a job with the Office of Strategic Services (Oss) after retiring from baseball. We learn early on that he’s a man of many faces. Unmarried but in a relationship with the longing Estella (Sienna Miller, wasted here) and Jewish but determined to blend in...
Rudd plays Berg, a washed-up catcher who takes on a job with the Office of Strategic Services (Oss) after retiring from baseball. We learn early on that he’s a man of many faces. Unmarried but in a relationship with the longing Estella (Sienna Miller, wasted here) and Jewish but determined to blend in...
- 1/22/2018
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
John Stephenson’s Mozart drama will begin shooting in Prague in April.
Aneurin Barnard (Citadel) will star as Mozart alongside James Purefoy (Solomon Kane) and Samantha Banks (Les Miserables) in John Stephenson’s (Animal Farm) forthcoming drama Interlude In Prague, which is scheduled to shoot in Prague in April this year.
The plot follows Mozart as he composes his operatic masterpiece Don Giovanni. While visiting Prague, the composer becomes embroiled in a turbulent narrative of lust and murder.
London-based Carnaby International is handling worldwide sales rights and will be introducing the film to buyers at the Efm (Feb 11-19).
Huw Penallt Jones is producing the project for UK-based outfit Productive International alongside Hannah Leader.
Brian Ashby has penned the film’s screenplay, while Charlotte Truman will compose the film’s score.
Interlude In Prague will have cinematography from Michael Brewster and production design from Luciana Arrighi, who won an Oscar for her work on 1992 picture Howards End.
Aneurin Barnard (Citadel) will star as Mozart alongside James Purefoy (Solomon Kane) and Samantha Banks (Les Miserables) in John Stephenson’s (Animal Farm) forthcoming drama Interlude In Prague, which is scheduled to shoot in Prague in April this year.
The plot follows Mozart as he composes his operatic masterpiece Don Giovanni. While visiting Prague, the composer becomes embroiled in a turbulent narrative of lust and murder.
London-based Carnaby International is handling worldwide sales rights and will be introducing the film to buyers at the Efm (Feb 11-19).
Huw Penallt Jones is producing the project for UK-based outfit Productive International alongside Hannah Leader.
Brian Ashby has penned the film’s screenplay, while Charlotte Truman will compose the film’s score.
Interlude In Prague will have cinematography from Michael Brewster and production design from Luciana Arrighi, who won an Oscar for her work on 1992 picture Howards End.
- 2/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
In just two weeks, Alamo Drafthouses nationwide will host screenings of A24's The Witch. More details on that story after the jump. Also in this round-up: a trailer for Night Terrors, Angelica release details, a new clip from The Final Project, and four images from The Terrible Two.
The Witch: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Feb 3, 2016 - The Alamo Drafthouse is excited to announce A24's chilling new horror film The Witch as the latest Drafthouse Recommends title. The film will open at Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide with "sneak preview" screenings on the night of Feb. 18th, 2016. In the lead up to that opening date, select Alamo locations will also host free retrospective screenings of witchcraft horror classics to get audiences in the, er, spirit and to set the stage for director Robert Eggers' debut feature and groundbreaking new take on the genre.
And, for a limited time this month,...
The Witch: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Feb 3, 2016 - The Alamo Drafthouse is excited to announce A24's chilling new horror film The Witch as the latest Drafthouse Recommends title. The film will open at Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide with "sneak preview" screenings on the night of Feb. 18th, 2016. In the lead up to that opening date, select Alamo locations will also host free retrospective screenings of witchcraft horror classics to get audiences in the, er, spirit and to set the stage for director Robert Eggers' debut feature and groundbreaking new take on the genre.
And, for a limited time this month,...
- 2/4/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
By Lee Pfeiffer
You don't have to be gay to admire John Schlesinger's 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, but it probably helps in terms of appreciating just how ground-breaking the movie was in its day. As a straight guy of high school age when the film was released, I do remember it causing a sensation, although it would literally take me decades before I finally caught up with it. Gay friends always spoke reverently of the movie and expressed how the most refreshing aspect of the story was how "normally" a loving relationship between two adult men was portrayed. In viewing the film as a recent Criterion Blu-ray release, I feel I can finally appreciate that point of view. Gay men have long been portrayed in movies, of course, but for the most part they have been depicted as objects of ridicule or as sexual deviants. There were the odd...
You don't have to be gay to admire John Schlesinger's 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, but it probably helps in terms of appreciating just how ground-breaking the movie was in its day. As a straight guy of high school age when the film was released, I do remember it causing a sensation, although it would literally take me decades before I finally caught up with it. Gay friends always spoke reverently of the movie and expressed how the most refreshing aspect of the story was how "normally" a loving relationship between two adult men was portrayed. In viewing the film as a recent Criterion Blu-ray release, I feel I can finally appreciate that point of view. Gay men have long been portrayed in movies, of course, but for the most part they have been depicted as objects of ridicule or as sexual deviants. There were the odd...
- 5/16/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
News.
The BFI London Film Festival has announced its 2012 award winners. Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone is the Best Film, and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild (which also picked up an award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this past week) is the Best Debut. For a complete list of winners, click here. The Rome Film Festival has unveiled some additions to their lineup, including new films from Paul Verhoeven (his mid-length feature Tricked, which we've previously shared the trailer for) and Peter Greenaway. Via The Guardian: It's hard to go very long without hearing word of new projects from Werner Herzog, and his list of forthcoming films has grown yet again with the announcement of his adaptation of Dbc Pierre's Vernon God Little:
"Herzog will return to Texas: it's about a teenager who heads to Mexico after becoming a scapegoat for a high-school killing in a small Texan town.
The BFI London Film Festival has announced its 2012 award winners. Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone is the Best Film, and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild (which also picked up an award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this past week) is the Best Debut. For a complete list of winners, click here. The Rome Film Festival has unveiled some additions to their lineup, including new films from Paul Verhoeven (his mid-length feature Tricked, which we've previously shared the trailer for) and Peter Greenaway. Via The Guardian: It's hard to go very long without hearing word of new projects from Werner Herzog, and his list of forthcoming films has grown yet again with the announcement of his adaptation of Dbc Pierre's Vernon God Little:
"Herzog will return to Texas: it's about a teenager who heads to Mexico after becoming a scapegoat for a high-school killing in a small Texan town.
- 10/25/2012
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
It's important to not only view a film in the context of current societal norms, but when viewing older films it's just as important to think of them in the context of how it would have been perceived when it was originally released. This is easy enough when it comes to visual effects, but when it comes to societal norms and thematic material it's importance goes beyond what's visually believable. Released in 1971 on the heels of the unanticipated success of Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday centers on a trio of Londoners. Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) is a middle-aged, Jewish doctor, Alex (Glenda Jackson) is a thirty-something divorcee and between the two is Bob (Murray Head), a young artist who is sleeping with both of them. Bob isn't keeping his love affair secret from either Daniel or Alex, both of which do their best to understand while craving his attention and affection.
- 10/24/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
By Allen Gardner
Prometheus (20th Century Fox) Ridley Scott’s quasi-prequel to his 1979 classic “Alien” has an intergalactic exploratory team (Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba) arriving on a uncharted planet, where they discover what appears to be a dormant alien spacecraft and what might be the first discovery of intelligent life outside of Earth. Of course, everything goes straight to hell before you can scream “Don’t touch that egg!” Sumptuous visuals and strong performances from the cast (not to mention a nearly-perfect first half) can’t compensate for gaping plot and logic holes that nearly sink the proceedings in the film’s protracted second half. It feels as though some very crucial footage wound up on the cutting room floor. Perhaps, as with “Alien” and “Aliens” we’ll see a “Director’s Cut” of “Prometheus” arriving on DVD within the next year. In the meantime,...
Prometheus (20th Century Fox) Ridley Scott’s quasi-prequel to his 1979 classic “Alien” has an intergalactic exploratory team (Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba) arriving on a uncharted planet, where they discover what appears to be a dormant alien spacecraft and what might be the first discovery of intelligent life outside of Earth. Of course, everything goes straight to hell before you can scream “Don’t touch that egg!” Sumptuous visuals and strong performances from the cast (not to mention a nearly-perfect first half) can’t compensate for gaping plot and logic holes that nearly sink the proceedings in the film’s protracted second half. It feels as though some very crucial footage wound up on the cutting room floor. Perhaps, as with “Alien” and “Aliens” we’ll see a “Director’s Cut” of “Prometheus” arriving on DVD within the next year. In the meantime,...
- 10/8/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 23, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Glenda Jackson stands between Peter Finch (l.) and Murray Head--or does she?--in Sunday Bloody Sunday.
British filmmaker John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award–winning 1969 film Midnight Cowboy with 1971’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, a sophisticated and highly personal drama about love and sex.
Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners—a middle-aged doctor (Peter Finch, Network) and a prickly thirty-something divorcée (Glenda Jackson, Women in Love) —who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist (Murray Head, TV’s Heartbeat).
Written by novelist and critic Penelope Gilliatt, the R-rated Sunday Bloody Sunday was considered to be quite a racy revelation way back when. Looking back on the film now, it’s definitely one of the 1970s’ most intelligent, multi-textured films about the complexities of romantic relationships.
The Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film contains...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Glenda Jackson stands between Peter Finch (l.) and Murray Head--or does she?--in Sunday Bloody Sunday.
British filmmaker John Schlesinger followed his Academy Award–winning 1969 film Midnight Cowboy with 1971’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, a sophisticated and highly personal drama about love and sex.
Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners—a middle-aged doctor (Peter Finch, Network) and a prickly thirty-something divorcée (Glenda Jackson, Women in Love) —who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist (Murray Head, TV’s Heartbeat).
Written by novelist and critic Penelope Gilliatt, the R-rated Sunday Bloody Sunday was considered to be quite a racy revelation way back when. Looking back on the film now, it’s definitely one of the 1970s’ most intelligent, multi-textured films about the complexities of romantic relationships.
The Criterion Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film contains...
- 7/20/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
My experience with Merchant/Ivory Productions is limited to say the least as Howards End now marks the second film of theirs I have seen, with A Room With a View being the other. While elegantly made, A Room With a View didn't move me that much, but I can say Howards End did a lot to squelch my fears it too would bore me more than engage me. Criterion brings Howards End to Blu-ray following their previous two-disc DVD release back in 2005, and while the only new feature is a video appreciation of the late producer Ismail Merchant by director James Ivory, this is a film ripe for high definition.
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, Howards End takes a look at class divisions in Edwardian England and the inheritance of England by the working/lower class. The film centers on the well-to-do Wilcox family and the relationship...
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, Howards End takes a look at class divisions in Edwardian England and the inheritance of England by the working/lower class. The film centers on the well-to-do Wilcox family and the relationship...
- 11/3/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
It's a good day for funny people, especially if your name is Tina Fey or Seth MacFarlane.
Fey's series, 30 Rock, was handed 22 Emmy nominations this morning, which stands as a record for a comedy series. She and Alec Baldwin were also nominated for acting awards. Plus, for the first time some of the other actors on NBC's laffer were recognized. Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and Tracy Morgan all picked up supporting nominations.
MacFarlane's Family Guy was also nominated for best comedy series, the first time an animated show has cracked that category since The Flintstones in 1961. Two years ago MacFarlane decided to pull his show from contention in the animated series category to have it considered for best comedy.
Mad Men, the drama about the advertising world in the sixties, picked up 16 nominations in the drama categories, including a best actor nod for Jon Hamm. Hamm is also nominated as...
Fey's series, 30 Rock, was handed 22 Emmy nominations this morning, which stands as a record for a comedy series. She and Alec Baldwin were also nominated for acting awards. Plus, for the first time some of the other actors on NBC's laffer were recognized. Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and Tracy Morgan all picked up supporting nominations.
MacFarlane's Family Guy was also nominated for best comedy series, the first time an animated show has cracked that category since The Flintstones in 1961. Two years ago MacFarlane decided to pull his show from contention in the animated series category to have it considered for best comedy.
Mad Men, the drama about the advertising world in the sixties, picked up 16 nominations in the drama categories, including a best actor nod for Jon Hamm. Hamm is also nominated as...
- 7/16/2009
- CinemaSpy
Who knew that beneath the facade of cool cynicism that is Neil LaBute -- or at least the Neil LaBute of his first two films, "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends & Neighbors" -- beats the heart of a wild romantic?
"Possession", which he directed and co-wrote with David Henry Hwang and Laura Jones, explores romantic desire in a devilishly clever screenplay based on A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel. What propels everything in this film is a rapturous sense of passion -- for language, for England and literature and, most of all, for romance.
This film is aimed with no apologies at mature adults. Put it this way: A guy gets into bed with Gwyneth Paltrow, and his first impulse is to read poetry. We're in Merchant Ivory territory with a touch of Tom Stoppard's witty play "Arcadia", in which academic pursuits have emotional appeal. If marketed well by Focus Features, the film, despite succumbing to melodramatic excess, could become an art house hit.
"Possession" takes place in parallel time periods -- present day and the Victorian era. The surprise is that it's the moderns who are emotionally stunted, not the Victorians. Our two moderns are Roland (Aaron Eckhart), an American on a fellowship in London to study the great Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, and Maud (Paltrow), an authority on Victorian poet Christabel LaMotte, who is her ancestor.
They meet professionally after Roland discovers two previously unknown drafts of letters by Ash that suggest a romantic liaison between him and LaMotte. Maud is too polite to laugh. Nevertheless, she does point out the unlikelihood of any relationship between Ash, known for poems dedicated to his beloved wife, and LaMotte, a feminist and lesbian.
As the literary detective work evolves, the movie transports us back into the lives of the two poets. Dashing Jeremy Northam is robust and coolly casual as Ash. The lovely Jennifer Ehle gives an exquisite portrait of a lady experiencing a new kind of passion, while the darkly beautiful Lena Headey, as Christabel's lover, Blanche, also experiences something new but deeply disturbing -- sexual jealousy.
The methodical work of true academic research gets left in the dust in this movie, where clues come more rapidly than in a murder mystery and the trail leads the researchers across England and even to France. What is marvelously fun -- and funny -- about this somewhat tongue-in-cheek portrait of the academicians is that they have less scruples than Cold War spies.
As romance blooms in parallel stories, the two couples' impulses are wildly different. The Victorians, whose foreplay is verbal rather than physical, respond to passions once they are declared. But the moderns, played with a nice balance between harmony and dissonance by Paltrow and Eckhart, initially stay aloof, fearing passion's flame and wary of its consequences.
In this film, LaBute indulges in a love for all things British from its dusty chambers and prestigious museums to cheerful London streets and rural splendors. Only foreigners -- the American director and his French cinematographer, Jean Yves Escoffier -- would lovingly transform Britain into a place so lushly romantic. Two Merchant Ivory veterans, designer Luciana Arrighi and costumer Jenny Beavan, are on hand to make certain the look of both periods has dramatic resonance.
The film goes over the top near the end with midnight grave-robbing and fights between academics. LaBute also has a tendency to hit his dramatic notes too hard, as if fearful audiences won't get the point. But these drawbacks are small compared to an otherwise witty, literate and mesmerizing bit of romantic escapism.
POSSESSION
Focus Features
Focus Features and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Neil LaBute
Screenwriters: David Henry Hwang, Laura Jones, Neil LaBute
Based on the novel by: A.S. Byatt
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Barry Levinson
Executive producers: David Barron, Len Amato
Director of photography: Jean Yves Escoffier
Production designer: Luciana Arrighi
Music: Gabriel Yared
Co-producer: Stephen Pevner
Costume designer: Jenny Beavan
Editor: Claire Simpson
Cast:
Maud Bailey: Gwyneth Paltrow
Roland: Aaron Eckhart
Randolph Henry Ash: Jeremy Northam
Christabel LaMotte: Jennifer Ehle
Blanche Glover: Lena Headey
Ellen Ash: Holly Aird
Fergus Wolfe: Toby Stephens
Cropper: Trevor Eve
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
"Possession", which he directed and co-wrote with David Henry Hwang and Laura Jones, explores romantic desire in a devilishly clever screenplay based on A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel. What propels everything in this film is a rapturous sense of passion -- for language, for England and literature and, most of all, for romance.
This film is aimed with no apologies at mature adults. Put it this way: A guy gets into bed with Gwyneth Paltrow, and his first impulse is to read poetry. We're in Merchant Ivory territory with a touch of Tom Stoppard's witty play "Arcadia", in which academic pursuits have emotional appeal. If marketed well by Focus Features, the film, despite succumbing to melodramatic excess, could become an art house hit.
"Possession" takes place in parallel time periods -- present day and the Victorian era. The surprise is that it's the moderns who are emotionally stunted, not the Victorians. Our two moderns are Roland (Aaron Eckhart), an American on a fellowship in London to study the great Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, and Maud (Paltrow), an authority on Victorian poet Christabel LaMotte, who is her ancestor.
They meet professionally after Roland discovers two previously unknown drafts of letters by Ash that suggest a romantic liaison between him and LaMotte. Maud is too polite to laugh. Nevertheless, she does point out the unlikelihood of any relationship between Ash, known for poems dedicated to his beloved wife, and LaMotte, a feminist and lesbian.
As the literary detective work evolves, the movie transports us back into the lives of the two poets. Dashing Jeremy Northam is robust and coolly casual as Ash. The lovely Jennifer Ehle gives an exquisite portrait of a lady experiencing a new kind of passion, while the darkly beautiful Lena Headey, as Christabel's lover, Blanche, also experiences something new but deeply disturbing -- sexual jealousy.
The methodical work of true academic research gets left in the dust in this movie, where clues come more rapidly than in a murder mystery and the trail leads the researchers across England and even to France. What is marvelously fun -- and funny -- about this somewhat tongue-in-cheek portrait of the academicians is that they have less scruples than Cold War spies.
As romance blooms in parallel stories, the two couples' impulses are wildly different. The Victorians, whose foreplay is verbal rather than physical, respond to passions once they are declared. But the moderns, played with a nice balance between harmony and dissonance by Paltrow and Eckhart, initially stay aloof, fearing passion's flame and wary of its consequences.
In this film, LaBute indulges in a love for all things British from its dusty chambers and prestigious museums to cheerful London streets and rural splendors. Only foreigners -- the American director and his French cinematographer, Jean Yves Escoffier -- would lovingly transform Britain into a place so lushly romantic. Two Merchant Ivory veterans, designer Luciana Arrighi and costumer Jenny Beavan, are on hand to make certain the look of both periods has dramatic resonance.
The film goes over the top near the end with midnight grave-robbing and fights between academics. LaBute also has a tendency to hit his dramatic notes too hard, as if fearful audiences won't get the point. But these drawbacks are small compared to an otherwise witty, literate and mesmerizing bit of romantic escapism.
POSSESSION
Focus Features
Focus Features and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Neil LaBute
Screenwriters: David Henry Hwang, Laura Jones, Neil LaBute
Based on the novel by: A.S. Byatt
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Barry Levinson
Executive producers: David Barron, Len Amato
Director of photography: Jean Yves Escoffier
Production designer: Luciana Arrighi
Music: Gabriel Yared
Co-producer: Stephen Pevner
Costume designer: Jenny Beavan
Editor: Claire Simpson
Cast:
Maud Bailey: Gwyneth Paltrow
Roland: Aaron Eckhart
Randolph Henry Ash: Jeremy Northam
Christabel LaMotte: Jennifer Ehle
Blanche Glover: Lena Headey
Ellen Ash: Holly Aird
Fergus Wolfe: Toby Stephens
Cropper: Trevor Eve
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Hollywood's hottest dead scribe strikes again.
With a little reconfiguring from writer-director Michael Hoffman, the latest rendering of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a lush, lusty and appropriately enchanting romantic comedy.
Graced by wonderful performances and sparkling production values, the Fox Searchlight release has the makings of -- to borrow a line from one of the Bard's other notable efforts -- a hit, a very palpable hit.
Shifting the place and time to Tuscany at the close of the 19th century, Hoffman effectively mines the lush backdrops of the Italian countryside to spin the love-crossed saga of Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius.
When her father fully expects her to marry Demetrius (Christian Bale), Hermia (Anna Friel) and true love Lysander (Dominic West) flee to the woods on bicycles. They're soon followed by Demetrius and eternal fifth-wheel (or, in this case, third wheel) Helena (Calista Flockhart), whose deep affections for Demetrius are hopelessly unrequited.
Things, of course, will happen to change the course of their lives as the quartet unwittingly park themselves on the home base of Oberon, King of the Fairies (Rupert Everett) and his beauteous and strong-willed Queen, Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their impish, potion-dispensing minion, Puck (Stanley Tucci).
Landing coincidentally in the same vicinity is a band of actors in search of rehearsal space including the irrepressibly hammy Bottom (Kevin Kline), who is destined to make a complete and utter ass of himself before the day is done.
While the picture takes a little time to weave its own spell, once all the elements click firmly into place, the ultimate effect is beguiling and moving. Hoffman, while reshaping things here and there, has left the dialogue reasonably intact.
Among his dream team of players, Kline makes a top-notch Bottom, full of the requisite pomposity but also equally adept at tapping into a sweetly introspective side. As his surprise love match, you couldn't find a more perfect Titania than the preternaturally beautiful and very game Pfeiffer; Tucci makes for an ideally mischievous Puck.
Flockhart, too, does a fine job relating the spirited comic determination of the neurotic Helena.
Leading the stellar lineup of behind-the-scenes players is production designer Luciana Arrighi ("Howards End", "Remains of the Day"), who does a richly rewarding job in merging the worlds of 19th century Tuscany and Oberon and Titania's timeless fairy kingdom. So does costume designer Gabriella Pescucci ("The Age of Innocence").
Cinematographer Oliver Stapleton ("The Grifters") nicely captures both the verdant, sun-drenched landscapes and the nocturnal starry-skied magic in equal measure. Simon Boswell's score seamlessly weaves Felix Mendelssohn's famous music for the play with a little Puccini and Verdi to complete the unapologetically theatrical mood.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Regency Enterprises present
a Michael Hoffman film
Director-screenwriter: Michael Hoffman
Based on the play by: William Shakespeare
Producers: Leslie Urdang, Michael Hoffman
Executive producer: Arnon Milchan
Director of photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production designer: Luciana Arrighi
Editor: Garth Craven
Costume designer: Gabriella Pescucci
Music: Simon Boswell
Casting: Lora Kennedy.
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nick Bottom: Kevin Kline
Titania: Michelle Pfeiffer
Oberon: Rupert Everett
Puck: Stanley Tucci
Helena: Calista Flockhart
Hermia: Anna Friel
Demetrius: Christian Bale
Lysander: Dominic West
Theseus: David Strathairn
Hippolyta: Sophie Marceau
Running time -- 115 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
With a little reconfiguring from writer-director Michael Hoffman, the latest rendering of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a lush, lusty and appropriately enchanting romantic comedy.
Graced by wonderful performances and sparkling production values, the Fox Searchlight release has the makings of -- to borrow a line from one of the Bard's other notable efforts -- a hit, a very palpable hit.
Shifting the place and time to Tuscany at the close of the 19th century, Hoffman effectively mines the lush backdrops of the Italian countryside to spin the love-crossed saga of Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius.
When her father fully expects her to marry Demetrius (Christian Bale), Hermia (Anna Friel) and true love Lysander (Dominic West) flee to the woods on bicycles. They're soon followed by Demetrius and eternal fifth-wheel (or, in this case, third wheel) Helena (Calista Flockhart), whose deep affections for Demetrius are hopelessly unrequited.
Things, of course, will happen to change the course of their lives as the quartet unwittingly park themselves on the home base of Oberon, King of the Fairies (Rupert Everett) and his beauteous and strong-willed Queen, Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their impish, potion-dispensing minion, Puck (Stanley Tucci).
Landing coincidentally in the same vicinity is a band of actors in search of rehearsal space including the irrepressibly hammy Bottom (Kevin Kline), who is destined to make a complete and utter ass of himself before the day is done.
While the picture takes a little time to weave its own spell, once all the elements click firmly into place, the ultimate effect is beguiling and moving. Hoffman, while reshaping things here and there, has left the dialogue reasonably intact.
Among his dream team of players, Kline makes a top-notch Bottom, full of the requisite pomposity but also equally adept at tapping into a sweetly introspective side. As his surprise love match, you couldn't find a more perfect Titania than the preternaturally beautiful and very game Pfeiffer; Tucci makes for an ideally mischievous Puck.
Flockhart, too, does a fine job relating the spirited comic determination of the neurotic Helena.
Leading the stellar lineup of behind-the-scenes players is production designer Luciana Arrighi ("Howards End", "Remains of the Day"), who does a richly rewarding job in merging the worlds of 19th century Tuscany and Oberon and Titania's timeless fairy kingdom. So does costume designer Gabriella Pescucci ("The Age of Innocence").
Cinematographer Oliver Stapleton ("The Grifters") nicely captures both the verdant, sun-drenched landscapes and the nocturnal starry-skied magic in equal measure. Simon Boswell's score seamlessly weaves Felix Mendelssohn's famous music for the play with a little Puccini and Verdi to complete the unapologetically theatrical mood.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Regency Enterprises present
a Michael Hoffman film
Director-screenwriter: Michael Hoffman
Based on the play by: William Shakespeare
Producers: Leslie Urdang, Michael Hoffman
Executive producer: Arnon Milchan
Director of photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production designer: Luciana Arrighi
Editor: Garth Craven
Costume designer: Gabriella Pescucci
Music: Simon Boswell
Casting: Lora Kennedy.
Color/stereo
Cast:
Nick Bottom: Kevin Kline
Titania: Michelle Pfeiffer
Oberon: Rupert Everett
Puck: Stanley Tucci
Helena: Calista Flockhart
Hermia: Anna Friel
Demetrius: Christian Bale
Lysander: Dominic West
Theseus: David Strathairn
Hippolyta: Sophie Marceau
Running time -- 115 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 5/11/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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