From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Barney's Version star Rachelle Lefevre is slated to present Anne Michaels' The Winter Vault next Tuesday, November 10th, at the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, according to a recent report. The gala is one which celebrates novels and their authors by awarding cash prizes for selection by a panel of judges. The first place winner of the award will receive $50,000. Lefevre is a notable proponent of the arts. In her tweets, she talks about various pieces of literature and film that she enjoys and encourages her followers and friends to check out books like Coco Before Chanel and Where The Wild Things Are. The author whose work she is presenting at the gala, Anne Michaels, also wrote the celebrated Fugitive Pieces: A Novel as well as other works like The Weight of Oranges/Miner's Pond, and Skin Divers (poetry coll ...
- 11/6/2009
- by thetwilightexaminer
- Twilight Examiner
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (Acct) have announced the nominees for the 29th Annual Genie Awards. Leading the pack for the awards honoring the best in Canadian film was "The Necessities of Life". The movie about an Inuit hunter stranded in a Quebec hospital collected eight gongs, including best picture, best director for Benoit Pilon and best original screenplay for Bernard Emond.
In the category of best pictures, Pilon's film will be up against "Amal", "Normal", "Passchendaele" and "Everything Is Fine". Meanwhile, for the best original screenplay title, it placed Bernard Emond in competition with Deepa Mehta of "Heaven on Earth", Travis McDonald of "Normal", Randall Cole of "Real Time" and Guillaume Vigneault of "Everything Is Fine".
While "The Necessities of Life" took the most nominations, "Fugitive Pieces", the Samuel Goldwyn Films drama based on best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels grabbed six nods. Some of the...
In the category of best pictures, Pilon's film will be up against "Amal", "Normal", "Passchendaele" and "Everything Is Fine". Meanwhile, for the best original screenplay title, it placed Bernard Emond in competition with Deepa Mehta of "Heaven on Earth", Travis McDonald of "Normal", Randall Cole of "Real Time" and Guillaume Vigneault of "Everything Is Fine".
While "The Necessities of Life" took the most nominations, "Fugitive Pieces", the Samuel Goldwyn Films drama based on best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels grabbed six nods. Some of the...
- 2/11/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
In the opening scenes of Jeremy Podeswa's adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, a young boy hides in his house in Poland in 1942, and through the cracks in the baseboard, he watches Nazis kill his parents and abduct his sister. Throughout the film, Podeswa cuts back and forth between the story of how that little boy survived the war and how as an adult (played by Stephen Dillane) he tries to make a new life for himself in Canada as an author and professor. Yet even as Dillane is living in a well-appointed home with lovely young social butterfly Rosamund Pike, he still takes a worm's-eye view of life, always peering through the cracks. By and large, Fugitive Pieces is a familiar Holocaust survivor's tale, in that it's about a group of people—Dillane and the remaining people he knows from back home—who are so scarred by their.
- 5/1/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
The Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing, but if you don't live in New York, there's no need to fret. No less than three films ("From Within," "Mister Lonely" and "Redbelt") on this list of coming attractions have played the festival in recent days. Then again, if you are in New York and want to catch something outside the fest, there's always that intimate character drama starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and a red and gold metal suit of armor.
"The Favor"
Writer/director Eva J. Aridjis brings us a quiet tale of angst and alienation starring former New York subway busker Ryan Donowho as Johnny, a high school loner who's taken in by Lawrence (Frank Wood), a quiet pet photographer, after his mother (Paige Turco) is killed in an accident. In order to be the father he needs, Lawrence must fight through Johnny's rebellious...
The Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing, but if you don't live in New York, there's no need to fret. No less than three films ("From Within," "Mister Lonely" and "Redbelt") on this list of coming attractions have played the festival in recent days. Then again, if you are in New York and want to catch something outside the fest, there's always that intimate character drama starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and a red and gold metal suit of armor.
"The Favor"
Writer/director Eva J. Aridjis brings us a quiet tale of angst and alienation starring former New York subway busker Ryan Donowho as Johnny, a high school loner who's taken in by Lawrence (Frank Wood), a quiet pet photographer, after his mother (Paige Turco) is killed in an accident. In order to be the father he needs, Lawrence must fight through Johnny's rebellious...
- 4/30/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- When Jakob was a boy, the last thing his mother said to him as she hid him underneath a covered table was not to come out, no matter what. In the moments that followed, Jakob watched as his mother took a rifle to her head, his father then shot dead and his older sister was dragged out of their home by her hair. It’s no wonder Jakob would grow up to become a man who lives his life as if he were still cowering under that same table. The connection between past and present centers the vast story of Canadian director, Jeremy Podeswa’s Fugitive Pieces. Based on the prize-winning novel of the same name by Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces follows Jakob from his childhood through the rest of his life, from his escape from Nazi-controlled Poland to his exile in Greece alongside his surrogate father, Athos, and finally to Canada,
- 4/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Samuel Goldwyn Films are still in the game - the indie distributor looked north towards its cold cousin for Toronto film festival opener Fugitive Pieces. Writer/director Jeremy Podeswa's drama is based on the novel by Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces tells the story of Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during the Second World War. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate, Greek archaeologist. He then spends the rest of his life trying to come to terms with the losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is given the opportunity to free himself from the legacy of his past.Look for the film to get a May release and expect to see Ioncinema.com's exclusive interview with Jeremy sometime in that area. ...
- 1/16/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the World War II-era drama Fugitive Pieces and has set its U.S. premiere for Feb. 2 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated by Goldwyn vp acquisitions Peter Goldwyn and John Sloss of Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
Goldwyn plans a May release for the film, which first bowed on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival and garnered a best actor prize for Rade Sherbedgia at the Rome International Film Festival.
Jeremy Podeswa, who helmed such series as Showtime's Dexter and Six Feet Under, wrote and directed the film, produced by Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises).
Fugitive Pieces, based on the novel by Anne Michaels, revolves around Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a Polish orphan who is saved by a Greek archaeologist and attempts to deal with his losses through writing and the discovery of true love.
The film is the latest addition to Goldwyn's 2008 slate, which includes Priceless, Roman De Gare and Trumbo.
The deal was negotiated by Goldwyn vp acquisitions Peter Goldwyn and John Sloss of Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
Goldwyn plans a May release for the film, which first bowed on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival and garnered a best actor prize for Rade Sherbedgia at the Rome International Film Festival.
Jeremy Podeswa, who helmed such series as Showtime's Dexter and Six Feet Under, wrote and directed the film, produced by Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises).
Fugitive Pieces, based on the novel by Anne Michaels, revolves around Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a Polish orphan who is saved by a Greek archaeologist and attempts to deal with his losses through writing and the discovery of true love.
The film is the latest addition to Goldwyn's 2008 slate, which includes Priceless, Roman De Gare and Trumbo.
- 1/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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