Kevin Macdonald's High & Low – John Galliano is now showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries.High & Low – John Galliano.What are the limits of forgiveness? Is making a documentary about a disgraced public figure, in which that remorseful person is allowed to try to explain their actions, inherently an act of damage-control propaganda? Or can it be a way of letting them tighten their own noose? Since its premiere at Telluride last September, Kevin Macdonald’s High & Low – John Galliano (2023) has fueled such heated conversations. Leaving many of its inquiries open-ended, this documentary is about neither complete condemnation nor exoneration. Instead, Macdonald tries to make sense of the enigma at his film’s center: a man who does not deny committing a hate crime over a decade ago, but who still claims to have no memory of the events or how he got there.Widely admired for his audacious style and designs,...
- 4/26/2024
- MUBI
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a legal war drama film written and directed by William Friedkin. The Showtime film is based on Herman Wouk‘s 1952 play named The Caine Mutiny, which was based on Wouk’s book of the same name. The film revolves around a trial against a naval officer who is accused of mutiny. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial stars Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, and Jake Lacy. So, if you love the film here are some similar shows you could watch next.
A Few Good Men (AMC+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Columbia Pictures
Synopsis: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner’s unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one’s conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who’s teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier,...
A Few Good Men (AMC+ & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Columbia Pictures
Synopsis: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner’s unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one’s conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who’s teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Exclusive: BAFTA Award-nominee Tahar Rahim is set to co-star alongside Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix and Academy Award-nominee Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon, the latest film from esteemed director Ridley Scott, who is directing.
Currently in production, the pic is based on the script by David Scarpa and will star Phoenix as French military leader and emperor, Napoleon. The film will be an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Kirby.
Rahim will play Paul Barras, the powerful Commissioner of the Revolutionary Army.
The film is produced by Scott through Scott Free Productions, alongside Mark Huffam and Kevin Walsh. The film expands Apple’s partnership with Scott Free Productions, which has a first-look deal for television projects with Apple TV+.
Rahim’s star has...
Currently in production, the pic is based on the script by David Scarpa and will star Phoenix as French military leader and emperor, Napoleon. The film will be an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Kirby.
Rahim will play Paul Barras, the powerful Commissioner of the Revolutionary Army.
The film is produced by Scott through Scott Free Productions, alongside Mark Huffam and Kevin Walsh. The film expands Apple’s partnership with Scott Free Productions, which has a first-look deal for television projects with Apple TV+.
Rahim’s star has...
- 2/16/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
No doubt playing a serial killer could really mess with one’s psyche. Just ask Tahar Rahim.
The actor portrays real-life 1970s French murderer Charles Sobhraj in Netflix’s eight-episode “The Serpent.” When they first began shooting, he thought he was able to leave the work behind him when he went home at the end of the day. “I needed a workout to let it out, all of this dark energy has to get out of my body, out of myself,” Rahim, 39, tells me on Wednesday’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast, adding, “I needed to relax and the only way I found was to work out.”
The cast and creatives were also careful not to over glamorize or sensationalize Sobhraj’s sometimes flamboyant lifestyle or make him too likeable. “I talked with the director, and I was like, ‘Okay, he has to be charming…Otherwise, [his victims] wouldn’t fall into his net,...
The actor portrays real-life 1970s French murderer Charles Sobhraj in Netflix’s eight-episode “The Serpent.” When they first began shooting, he thought he was able to leave the work behind him when he went home at the end of the day. “I needed a workout to let it out, all of this dark energy has to get out of my body, out of myself,” Rahim, 39, tells me on Wednesday’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast, adding, “I needed to relax and the only way I found was to work out.”
The cast and creatives were also careful not to over glamorize or sensationalize Sobhraj’s sometimes flamboyant lifestyle or make him too likeable. “I talked with the director, and I was like, ‘Okay, he has to be charming…Otherwise, [his victims] wouldn’t fall into his net,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Adaptation
U.K. broadcaster BBC has announced a raft of documentary commissions at the ongoing Sheffield Doc/Fest, including an adaptation of the bestselling book “Natives” by BAFTA and Mobo award-winning hip-hop artist, bestselling author and social entrepreneur Akala‘s
The series “Akala: Race, Class and Empire” (working title), a BBC Three commission, will combine the story of Akala’s own personal journey of self-discovery with an exploration of issues of race, class and empire and how they affect the lives of young people today.
It was commissioned by Fiona Campbell, controller BBC Three and Clare Sillery, head of commissioning, documentaries, history and religion. It is being produced by Akala’s production company Immovable and long-time producing partner Greenacre Films.
Other commissions announced at Sheffield include “All At Sea: Fishing For Britain” (working title), a BBC One series looking at the world of deep-sea fishing; “The Nilsen Files: A Very...
U.K. broadcaster BBC has announced a raft of documentary commissions at the ongoing Sheffield Doc/Fest, including an adaptation of the bestselling book “Natives” by BAFTA and Mobo award-winning hip-hop artist, bestselling author and social entrepreneur Akala‘s
The series “Akala: Race, Class and Empire” (working title), a BBC Three commission, will combine the story of Akala’s own personal journey of self-discovery with an exploration of issues of race, class and empire and how they affect the lives of young people today.
It was commissioned by Fiona Campbell, controller BBC Three and Clare Sillery, head of commissioning, documentaries, history and religion. It is being produced by Akala’s production company Immovable and long-time producing partner Greenacre Films.
Other commissions announced at Sheffield include “All At Sea: Fishing For Britain” (working title), a BBC One series looking at the world of deep-sea fishing; “The Nilsen Files: A Very...
- 6/8/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Prizes will be presented at the festival’s Summer Special event.
Dasha Nekrasova’s The Scary Of Sixty-First and Alice Diop’s We have won the best first feature and documentary awards respectively at the Berlin International Film Festival, which launches its Summer Special event tomorrow (July 9).
Although the 71st edition of the festival took place in March – as an online, industry-only event – the winners of these two prize categories have been held back until the eve of the public summer event, which will host outdoor screenings from July 9-20.
US horror The Scary Of Sixty-First initially screened in the...
Dasha Nekrasova’s The Scary Of Sixty-First and Alice Diop’s We have won the best first feature and documentary awards respectively at the Berlin International Film Festival, which launches its Summer Special event tomorrow (July 9).
Although the 71st edition of the festival took place in March – as an online, industry-only event – the winners of these two prize categories have been held back until the eve of the public summer event, which will host outdoor screenings from July 9-20.
US horror The Scary Of Sixty-First initially screened in the...
- 6/8/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Prime Video today announced that filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s 'The Mauritanian' will see its digital premiere from the 1st of June. The man behind films such as 'The Last King of Scotland' and 'Life in a Day', tackles a sensitive subject of unethical torture in his latest legal drama.
'The Mauritanian' examines the thin line between necessary evils and needless crimes when an innocent man is unjustly held behind the brutal bars of Guantanamo Bay. Trapped alone with all his hope dwindling away, he finds compassionate allies in a righteous defense attorney and her fiery associate.
Based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the movie follows his journey from living a normal life, being imprisoned in hell, to eventually breathing free again. Opening to immense critical acclaim, the film was theatrically released in India by PVR Pictures on 9th April,...
'The Mauritanian' examines the thin line between necessary evils and needless crimes when an innocent man is unjustly held behind the brutal bars of Guantanamo Bay. Trapped alone with all his hope dwindling away, he finds compassionate allies in a righteous defense attorney and her fiery associate.
Based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the movie follows his journey from living a normal life, being imprisoned in hell, to eventually breathing free again. Opening to immense critical acclaim, the film was theatrically released in India by PVR Pictures on 9th April,...
- 5/31/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
The relentless pursuit for justice is one of the most timely and important subjects that’s driving modern American society. Former Guantánamo Bay detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s decades long fight for freedom while being held in American custody is being chronicled in the political thriller, ‘The Mauritanian,’ which is being distributed on home entertainment this spring. […]
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- 5/7/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Kevin Macdonald's drama thriller The Mauritanian on Blu-ray and DVD on May 11th. Screen Anarchy has three (3) Blu-rays to give away to our readers in the U.S. Look for details down below on how to enter to win. Directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, The Mauritanian is based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fight for freedom after being imprisoned without charges for years. As a battle for justice rages and shocking truths are revealed, Slahi proves that the human spirit cannot be locked up. The giveaway is open to residents of the USA and limited to one entry per household. To enter...
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- 5/7/2021
- Screen Anarchy
The Mauritanian is, now available on Digital, and hits Blu-Ray and DVD on May 11th from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on a true story, the film stars Jodie Foster (who won a Golden Globe for her role in the film), Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Zachary Levi.
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Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of The Reckoning. We Are Movie Geeks has three to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie is co-starring Jodie Foster (mine’s Bugsy Malone. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries
Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian,...
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Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of The Reckoning. We Are Movie Geeks has three to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie is co-starring Jodie Foster (mine’s Bugsy Malone. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries
Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jodie Foster stars in The Mauritanian as sage defense attorney Nancy Hollander, who takes on the real-life case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim). Held for years, without charge or trial, in a detention camp on the island of Cuba, thousands of miles away from his island home of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, Slahi is languishing with little hope of anyone believing in his innocence. Accused of being the principal recruiter for the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Slahi faces a death sentence. Who would take on that case? Nancy Hollander would, and did, guided by firmly-held personal principles. As for Slahi, one wonders how he could maintain his sanity, much less his respectful demeanor, despite years of abuse. As Hollander, Jodie Foster gives "a...
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- 5/6/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Tahar Rahim as Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival The Mauritanian, Amazon Prime
The US military's behaviour in Guantanamo Bay is viewed through the prism of a single inmate's experience in Kevin Macdonald's latest film, which is adapted from Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir. He was held at the prison for 14 years without trial under suspicion of having helped the 9/11 terrorists and the film charts what happened to Slahi (Tahar Rahim) as lawyer Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and her assistant (Shaylene Woodley) took on his case. In a separate, though connected story, we follow conservative military lawyer Stuart Couch who has been tasked with prosecuting Slahi - and who shows that integrity is not solely the province of those on the left of politics. This is a film that is about procedure but it becomes gripping thanks largely to Rahim, who brings every...
The US military's behaviour in Guantanamo Bay is viewed through the prism of a single inmate's experience in Kevin Macdonald's latest film, which is adapted from Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir. He was held at the prison for 14 years without trial under suspicion of having helped the 9/11 terrorists and the film charts what happened to Slahi (Tahar Rahim) as lawyer Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and her assistant (Shaylene Woodley) took on his case. In a separate, though connected story, we follow conservative military lawyer Stuart Couch who has been tasked with prosecuting Slahi - and who shows that integrity is not solely the province of those on the left of politics. This is a film that is about procedure but it becomes gripping thanks largely to Rahim, who brings every...
- 4/12/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Awards season can often feel like a months-long echo chamber in which the same handful of films and names are discussed to death. So when BAFTA threw in a number of left-field contenders who had hitherto been largely absent from the conversation, it was both a refreshing change of pace for jaded awards pundits — and a welcome pointer for film fans seeking new recommendations.
It’s rare for BAFTA to shine a major spotlight on work that isn’t being equivalently championed across the Atlantic: In 2016, it took a surge of public conversation and political debate to get Ken Loach’s resonant British welfare drama “I, Daniel Blake” into the best film category, despite no U.S. buzz to speak of.
Until this year, it was the only film this century to score in BAFTA’s top category and receive no Oscar nominations at all.
This year, however, BAFTA flew...
It’s rare for BAFTA to shine a major spotlight on work that isn’t being equivalently championed across the Atlantic: In 2016, it took a surge of public conversation and political debate to get Ken Loach’s resonant British welfare drama “I, Daniel Blake” into the best film category, despite no U.S. buzz to speak of.
Until this year, it was the only film this century to score in BAFTA’s top category and receive no Oscar nominations at all.
This year, however, BAFTA flew...
- 4/8/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim With Shailene Woodley And Benedict Cumberbatch Star In The Riveting And Emotionally Compelling True Story Of Courage And Survival Against All Odds
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itness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian, available to own on Digital April 20, 2021, Video on Demand on May 4, 2021 and on Blu-ray, DVD on May 11, 2021 from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Declared “triumphant” by Clayton Davis, Variety the political thriller is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and has been hailed as one of the most important and timely films of the year.
Filled with deeply emotional and suspenseful moments from beginning to end, the “positively gripping” film stars Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander, Slahi’s tenacious...
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itness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian, available to own on Digital April 20, 2021, Video on Demand on May 4, 2021 and on Blu-ray, DVD on May 11, 2021 from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Declared “triumphant” by Clayton Davis, Variety the political thriller is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi and has been hailed as one of the most important and timely films of the year.
Filled with deeply emotional and suspenseful moments from beginning to end, the “positively gripping” film stars Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander, Slahi’s tenacious...
- 4/6/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In a new interview with The Independent, Benedict Cumberbatch calls on Joe Biden to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Cumberbatch got a crash course in all things Guantanamo Bay as a producer and star of “The Mauritanian,” the Kevin Macdonald-directed legal drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s 2015 memoir “Guantánamo Diary.” Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim in the film) was captured by the U.S. government and imprisoned in the detention camp for 14 years without charge or trial.
“Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy,” Cumberbatch said when asked if he hopes Biden will close Guantanamo Bay. “It is a huge spend. It’s the most expensive prison on earth. And what are the results? Where are the prosecutions? That’s just being really brutally economic about it, it just doesn’t work.”
Cumberbatch continued, “And then you have the human rights issue. It’s an atrocious own goal,...
“Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy,” Cumberbatch said when asked if he hopes Biden will close Guantanamo Bay. “It is a huge spend. It’s the most expensive prison on earth. And what are the results? Where are the prosecutions? That’s just being really brutally economic about it, it just doesn’t work.”
Cumberbatch continued, “And then you have the human rights issue. It’s an atrocious own goal,...
- 4/5/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It’s been quite a year for Tahar Rahim.
Thanks to The Mauritanian — in which he played real-life Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and starred alongside Jodie Foster — the 39-year-old has been getting some of the best film reviews since his phenomenal, Cesar-winning breakout performance in 2009’s A Prophet. His powerful and deeply moving work landed him a Golden Globe nomination, and later this month he’s up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for the BAFTA best actor award.
But before then, Rahim is hitting screens in the U.S. in an almost polar-opposite role.
In ...
Thanks to The Mauritanian — in which he played real-life Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and starred alongside Jodie Foster — the 39-year-old has been getting some of the best film reviews since his phenomenal, Cesar-winning breakout performance in 2009’s A Prophet. His powerful and deeply moving work landed him a Golden Globe nomination, and later this month he’s up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for the BAFTA best actor award.
But before then, Rahim is hitting screens in the U.S. in an almost polar-opposite role.
In ...
It’s been quite a year for Tahar Rahim.
Thanks to The Mauritanian — in which he played real-life Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and starred alongside Jodie Foster — the 39-year-old has been getting some of the best film reviews since his phenomenal, Cesar-winning breakout performance in 2009’s A Prophet. His powerful and deeply moving work landed him a Golden Globe nomination, and later this month he’s up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for the BAFTA best actor award.
But before then, Rahim is hitting screens in the U.S. in an almost polar-opposite role.
In ...
Thanks to The Mauritanian — in which he played real-life Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and starred alongside Jodie Foster — the 39-year-old has been getting some of the best film reviews since his phenomenal, Cesar-winning breakout performance in 2009’s A Prophet. His powerful and deeply moving work landed him a Golden Globe nomination, and later this month he’s up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for the BAFTA best actor award.
But before then, Rahim is hitting screens in the U.S. in an almost polar-opposite role.
In ...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was tortured and detained without charge in Guantánamo for 14 years. Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch discuss bringing his memoir to life
When Mohamedou Ould Slahi came to South Africa to visit the set of The Mauritanian, it was a strange and complicated experience, he says. The film tells the story of Slahi’s experience as possibly the highest-profile detainee at the infamous Guantánamo Bay camp in Cuba. He was kidnapped, tortured in ways barely imaginable and incarcerated for 14 years, but never charged with a crime. Now he was walking around an uncanny replica of his former prison, on a sun-baked set near Cape Town.
He watched a scene on a monitor in which Tahar Rahim played him and Jodie Foster played Nancy Hollander, the lawyer who was instrumental in Slahi’s release. But Slahi could barely look, he says: “It was so reminiscent of my...
When Mohamedou Ould Slahi came to South Africa to visit the set of The Mauritanian, it was a strange and complicated experience, he says. The film tells the story of Slahi’s experience as possibly the highest-profile detainee at the infamous Guantánamo Bay camp in Cuba. He was kidnapped, tortured in ways barely imaginable and incarcerated for 14 years, but never charged with a crime. Now he was walking around an uncanny replica of his former prison, on a sun-baked set near Cape Town.
He watched a scene on a monitor in which Tahar Rahim played him and Jodie Foster played Nancy Hollander, the lawyer who was instrumental in Slahi’s release. But Slahi could barely look, he says: “It was so reminiscent of my...
- 3/26/2021
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
One of 2021’s most honored films — nominated for five BAFTAs and a Critics’ Choice award, as well as the winner of a Golden Globe — and which features a star-studded cast including two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch, will be conspicuously absent in this year’s Oscars. “The Mauritanian” is the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim), a Guantanomo prisoner suffering torture and isolation in the Kafka-esque nightmare of the military prison.
The film also shines a light on the battles of the lawyers working for his freedom (Jodie Foster and Shailene Woodley), as well as Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch (Benedict Cumberbatch), a Marine lawyer charged with keeping Slahi incarcerated but wrestling with his Christian faith and the morality of the job he has been asked to do. The film is one of the first to honestly reckon with our nation’s role in violating international law,...
The film also shines a light on the battles of the lawyers working for his freedom (Jodie Foster and Shailene Woodley), as well as Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch (Benedict Cumberbatch), a Marine lawyer charged with keeping Slahi incarcerated but wrestling with his Christian faith and the morality of the job he has been asked to do. The film is one of the first to honestly reckon with our nation’s role in violating international law,...
- 3/20/2021
- by Salam Al-Marayati
- The Wrap
Tahar Rahim plays Mohamedou Ould Salahi, the real-life Guantanamo Bay detainee, in the new film “The Mauritanian.” His performance has earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
Rahim recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about working with director Kevin Macdonald, meeting the real Salahi and what he hopes viewers take from “The Mauritanian.” Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEJodie Foster interview: ‘The Mauritanian’
Gold Derby: This role hearkens back to your breakthrough in 2009’s “A Prophet.” So I believe that these are the only two films that you’ve done where you spend most of your screen time incarcerated. Was this on your mind while you were shooting?
Tahar Rahim: No, not while I was shooting, but of course, I thought about it. It was a bit ironic (laughs). There was one thing that I took from my experience from “A Prophet,...
Rahim recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about working with director Kevin Macdonald, meeting the real Salahi and what he hopes viewers take from “The Mauritanian.” Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEJodie Foster interview: ‘The Mauritanian’
Gold Derby: This role hearkens back to your breakthrough in 2009’s “A Prophet.” So I believe that these are the only two films that you’ve done where you spend most of your screen time incarcerated. Was this on your mind while you were shooting?
Tahar Rahim: No, not while I was shooting, but of course, I thought about it. It was a bit ironic (laughs). There was one thing that I took from my experience from “A Prophet,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
The Thomas Vinterberg Danish comedy-drama “Another Round” has one of the most talked-about endings of the year, in which actor Mads Mikkelsen embarks on an exhilarating freestyle dance on a pier amongst his friends and former students. And while that scene was difficult for the former gymnast and dancer, who admits he was sore for days, it was actually the beginning of the movie that Mikkelsen cites as being his biggest challenge in making the film.
Mikkelsen stars as Martin, a teacher who finds his life, career and marriage in a rut. He and his three fellow teachers and friends discuss the work of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, who theorized that humans naturally have too low a blood alcohol content, and embark on an experiment to raise theirs. In short, they agree to be drunk during the day. This is discussed at the 40th birthday party of their friend Nicolai, a...
Mikkelsen stars as Martin, a teacher who finds his life, career and marriage in a rut. He and his three fellow teachers and friends discuss the work of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, who theorized that humans naturally have too low a blood alcohol content, and embark on an experiment to raise theirs. In short, they agree to be drunk during the day. This is discussed at the 40th birthday party of their friend Nicolai, a...
- 3/5/2021
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
Jodie Foster plays Nancy Hollander, the real-life defense attorney who helped Mohamedou Ould Salahi find justice, in the new film “The Mauritanian.” Her performance just netted her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
Foster recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about her conversations with Hollander, how she contributed to the film behind the scenes and her memories of winning two Oscars. Watch the exclusive chat above from before the globe victory and read the complete transcript below.
SEEWhere to watch ‘The Mauritanian’
Gold Derby: You’ve said that the real-life person [Nancy Hollander] is a walking contradiction. Can you expand on that?
Jodie Foster: Yes, the real Nancy Hollander, she is this very sober, methodical, intelligent, cerebral lawyer, and yet, she loves her red lipstick and her bright red nail polish and she likes to drive race cars and wear black leather and bright colors and stuff. She loves to shop.
Foster recently spoke with Gold Derby contributing editor Riley Chow about her conversations with Hollander, how she contributed to the film behind the scenes and her memories of winning two Oscars. Watch the exclusive chat above from before the globe victory and read the complete transcript below.
SEEWhere to watch ‘The Mauritanian’
Gold Derby: You’ve said that the real-life person [Nancy Hollander] is a walking contradiction. Can you expand on that?
Jodie Foster: Yes, the real Nancy Hollander, she is this very sober, methodical, intelligent, cerebral lawyer, and yet, she loves her red lipstick and her bright red nail polish and she likes to drive race cars and wear black leather and bright colors and stuff. She loves to shop.
- 3/4/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
The Mauritanian is a harrowing drama that tells the true story of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was held in the detention camp for 14 years without charge. Despite the years of torture — both physical and mental — Salahi managed to emerge from Guantanamo Bay and write a book about his trials, which […]
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- 3/2/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
“I expected, quite honestly, somebody who was really embittered and really traumatized,” says the Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland) about Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years at Guanatanamo Bay. “Instead, what I got on the phone was this smiling face, this witty person whose frame of reference is broader than anyone’s you’ve ever met.”
Macdonald had been approached by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, which owned the rights to Salahi’s prison memoir, about directing its big-screen adaptation. He hesitated because he ...
Macdonald had been approached by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, which owned the rights to Salahi’s prison memoir, about directing its big-screen adaptation. He hesitated because he ...
“I expected, quite honestly, somebody who was really embittered and really traumatized,” says the Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland) about Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years at Guanatanamo Bay. “Instead, what I got on the phone was this smiling face, this witty person whose frame of reference is broader than anyone’s you’ve ever met.”
Macdonald had been approached by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, which owned the rights to Salahi’s prison memoir, about directing its big-screen adaptation. He hesitated because he ...
Macdonald had been approached by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, which owned the rights to Salahi’s prison memoir, about directing its big-screen adaptation. He hesitated because he ...
A returning favorite, a new must-see show on NBC, and an action flick on Hulu.
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Saturday, February 27
9/8c It Was Always You (Hallmark)
Two Hallmark favorites star together in this movie that suggests even the best-laid plans sometimes need to be reconsidered.
When Calls the Heart's Erin Krakow and Tyler Hines star as Elizabeth and David, who themselves falling in love, which is a bit problematic since David is the free-spirited brother of Elizabeth's fiancée.
No amount of life planning can get in the way of true love!
Sunday, February 28
8/7c Golden Globes (NBC)
We're not expecting anyone to watch the online awards, but we sure want you to know they're airing!
9/8c Batwoman (The CW)
Will Ryan's kryptonite turn out to be... kryptonite?...
What more can you ask for? Really? You need to know more?
Well, keep reading to find out what we recommend on TV this week.
Saturday, February 27
9/8c It Was Always You (Hallmark)
Two Hallmark favorites star together in this movie that suggests even the best-laid plans sometimes need to be reconsidered.
When Calls the Heart's Erin Krakow and Tyler Hines star as Elizabeth and David, who themselves falling in love, which is a bit problematic since David is the free-spirited brother of Elizabeth's fiancée.
No amount of life planning can get in the way of true love!
Sunday, February 28
8/7c Golden Globes (NBC)
We're not expecting anyone to watch the online awards, but we sure want you to know they're airing!
9/8c Batwoman (The CW)
Will Ryan's kryptonite turn out to be... kryptonite?...
- 2/27/2021
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Around the world, the vast majority of people are strongly opposed to the continuing existence of the US detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay. In the US, however, polls have continually shown strong public support for it. This is probably what dissuaded Barack Obama from closing it down when he took office in 2009 and it may yet dissuade Joe Biden, who has expressed similar intentions. Despite that support, however, most US citizens now acknowledge that it practises torture. This is in significant part thanks to Mohamedou Ould Salahi, whose memoir, Guantánamo Diary, described his experiences during the 14 years that he spent there without trial. In The Mauritanian, Kevin Macdonald sets out to tell his story and that of the legal battle for his release.
Long and complicated as the story is, it's difficult to condense into an audience-friendly format, and sometimes Michael Bronner's script simplifies too much....
Long and complicated as the story is, it's difficult to condense into an audience-friendly format, and sometimes Michael Bronner's script simplifies too much....
- 2/26/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Since she began acting at the age of 6, Jodie Foster has served as a role model for child actors by demonstrating how to effectively transition to a lasting adult career. Now 58, she is an expert at deliberately choosing projects that reflect her own deeply felt convictions. Nearly every character she has ever played has confronted some sort of injustice, often when no one else will. The same is true of her latest role in “The Mauritanian,” which has brought her her eighth acting Golden Globe nomination.
Foster faces off against Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”), Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Helena Zengel (“News of the World”) in the race for Best Film Supporting Actress. All five competitors are new to the category, but Close and Colman have each won three times outside of it. They both took home Best Actress awards in 2019, with Close winning for her dramatic...
Foster faces off against Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”), Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Helena Zengel (“News of the World”) in the race for Best Film Supporting Actress. All five competitors are new to the category, but Close and Colman have each won three times outside of it. They both took home Best Actress awards in 2019, with Close winning for her dramatic...
- 2/25/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Tahar Rahim as Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
In 2000, electrical engineer Mohamedou Ould Salahi was arrested in his native Mauritania on suspicion of having ties to al Qaeda. He was subsequently moved to Jordan and, in August 2002, to Guantánamo Bay. There he would spend the next 14 years without ever being given a trial. In his heavily redacted memoir, Guantánamo Diary, he reflected on his experiences there and on the lawyers who helped him. That book forms the basis of Kevin Macdonald’s film The Mauritanian, which stars Tahar Rahim in the central role with support from Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch.
I spoke with Kevin in the run-up to the film’s online screening as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, and asked him where he first came across Mohamedou’s story.
Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander in The Mauritanian Photo: courtesy of...
In 2000, electrical engineer Mohamedou Ould Salahi was arrested in his native Mauritania on suspicion of having ties to al Qaeda. He was subsequently moved to Jordan and, in August 2002, to Guantánamo Bay. There he would spend the next 14 years without ever being given a trial. In his heavily redacted memoir, Guantánamo Diary, he reflected on his experiences there and on the lawyers who helped him. That book forms the basis of Kevin Macdonald’s film The Mauritanian, which stars Tahar Rahim in the central role with support from Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch.
I spoke with Kevin in the run-up to the film’s online screening as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, and asked him where he first came across Mohamedou’s story.
Jodie Foster as Nancy Hollander in The Mauritanian Photo: courtesy of...
- 2/25/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
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Best Actor In A Motion Picture (Drama)
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been...
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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Actor In A Motion Picture (Drama)
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been...
- 2/24/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Mauritanian director Kevin MacDonald helms the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi who was imprisoned at Guatanamo Bay for 14 years without a trial after 9/11. The film stars Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley and Golden Globe best actor nominee Tahar Rahim as Salahi. The Scottish director says it's not a political film that judges but a story of forgiviness. ...
- 2/18/2021
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
Three-time Golden Globe Award winner Jodie Foster is nominated for the first time in nine years, for portraying Nancy Hollander in the new docudrama “The Mauritanian” from STX. She contends in the Best Supporting Actress race as the real-life defense attorney; Foster’s co-star Tahar Rahim is up for Best Drama Actor as her client Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2016.
Hollander was on set during filming and Foster explains in her exclusive interview with Gold Derby about playing her (watch the video above), “There are a few things that I didn’t take from her because I felt like they might hurt the pace of the movie or they might not help establish the relationship with Mohamedou.”
SEEour interview with Tahar Rahim.
Foster reveals that she excised swaths of her own material after joining the project to remove the “more distracting parts of Nancy’s life.
Hollander was on set during filming and Foster explains in her exclusive interview with Gold Derby about playing her (watch the video above), “There are a few things that I didn’t take from her because I felt like they might hurt the pace of the movie or they might not help establish the relationship with Mohamedou.”
SEEour interview with Tahar Rahim.
Foster reveals that she excised swaths of her own material after joining the project to remove the “more distracting parts of Nancy’s life.
- 2/12/2021
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Tahar Rahim earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for playing the eponymous character in “The Mauritanian.” Rahim lost 22 pounds to portray the real-life Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained from 2002 to 2014 at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp without charge. STX released Kevin Macdonald‘s docudrama on February 12.
Rahim is nominated for Best Drama Actor while Jodie Foster contends in Best Film Supporting Actress for portraying his American lawyer Nancy Hollander. Rahim, who is the heart and soul of the film, is up against two Globe winners (Anthony Hopkins as “The Father” and Gary Oldman as “Mank”) and two other first-time nominees (Riz Ahmed for “Sound of Metal” and the late Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”).
SEEour interview with Tahar Rahim.
It has been 11 years since Rahim’s introduction to the Golden Globes as the star of “A Prophet” from his home country of France. That prison drama...
Rahim is nominated for Best Drama Actor while Jodie Foster contends in Best Film Supporting Actress for portraying his American lawyer Nancy Hollander. Rahim, who is the heart and soul of the film, is up against two Globe winners (Anthony Hopkins as “The Father” and Gary Oldman as “Mank”) and two other first-time nominees (Riz Ahmed for “Sound of Metal” and the late Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”).
SEEour interview with Tahar Rahim.
It has been 11 years since Rahim’s introduction to the Golden Globes as the star of “A Prophet” from his home country of France. That prison drama...
- 2/12/2021
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
When Jodie Foster accepted her second Academy Award in 1992 for her portrayal of Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs,” she expressed gratitude for the embracement of “such an incredibly strong and beautiful feminist hero.” In the almost three decades since, she has continued to play all sorts of gutsy women in films like “Contact,” “Panic Room,” and “The Brave One.” But she has been nominated for only one of these roles – “Nell” in 1995. She lost that race to Jessica Lange (“Blue Sky”).
This year she should finally be back on the academy’s radar for her scene-stealing turn in “The Mauritanian” from STX. Kevin Macdonald’s gripping docudrama tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was erroneously detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 14 years on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Foster portrays Nancy Hollander, a New Mexico defense attorney who bravely decides to take...
This year she should finally be back on the academy’s radar for her scene-stealing turn in “The Mauritanian” from STX. Kevin Macdonald’s gripping docudrama tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was erroneously detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 14 years on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Foster portrays Nancy Hollander, a New Mexico defense attorney who bravely decides to take...
- 2/11/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Jodie Foster has been acting most of her life, beginning with a sunscreen commercial when she was three years old. In the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s The First Time, Foster talked through some of her earliest acting experiences, like meeting her Taxi Driver co-star Robert De Niro.
“He picked me up from my hotel — I was staying at the Essex House in New York City,” she recalled. “We were gonna go to a coffee shop because he wanted to do rehearsals. But Robert De Niro was super method-y then,...
“He picked me up from my hotel — I was staying at the Essex House in New York City,” she recalled. “We were gonna go to a coffee shop because he wanted to do rehearsals. But Robert De Niro was super method-y then,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Tahar Rahim just received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Film Drama Actor category for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in the upcoming “The Mauritanian.” The docudrama adapted from Salahi’s memoir depicts his 14-year detention at Guantanamo Bay. STX will release the film on February 12.
It has been 11 years since Rahim’s introduction in “A Prophet,” a Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in which he played a fictional six-year convict. “It was like I did that before, so it helped me to get through Mohamedou,” says the actor about playing another prisoner. Rahim explains in his exclusive interview with Gold Derby, “One thing that I took from my experience from ‘A Prophet’ as an actor is how to occupy a very small space — to be alone in a place and improvise things.”
SEEwhat else Tahar Rahim has said about playing the role.
The film culminates in a climactic courtroom speech,...
It has been 11 years since Rahim’s introduction in “A Prophet,” a Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in which he played a fictional six-year convict. “It was like I did that before, so it helped me to get through Mohamedou,” says the actor about playing another prisoner. Rahim explains in his exclusive interview with Gold Derby, “One thing that I took from my experience from ‘A Prophet’ as an actor is how to occupy a very small space — to be alone in a place and improvise things.”
SEEwhat else Tahar Rahim has said about playing the role.
The film culminates in a climactic courtroom speech,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
Tahar Rahim gives the film performance of the year in “The Mauritanian” as Mohamedou Ould Salahi. The docudrama set in the early 2000s depicts the imprisonment-without-charge of Salahi at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. STX will release the film on February 12, which qualifies it for awards consideration against the films from 2020, due to the global pandemic prompting an extension of the eligibility period.
For portraying Salahi’s real-life American lawyer Nancy Hollander, two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster is back in the awards conversation for the first time in nine years for her acting — since her Golden Globe Award-nominated performance in the black comedy film “Carnage.” She ranks 10th in Gold Derby’s racetrack odds for a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars.
SEEwhat Tahar Rahim has had to say about playing the role.
Her comeback is welcome, but Rahim is the one whose performance in “The Mauritanian” has more...
For portraying Salahi’s real-life American lawyer Nancy Hollander, two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster is back in the awards conversation for the first time in nine years for her acting — since her Golden Globe Award-nominated performance in the black comedy film “Carnage.” She ranks 10th in Gold Derby’s racetrack odds for a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars.
SEEwhat Tahar Rahim has had to say about playing the role.
Her comeback is welcome, but Rahim is the one whose performance in “The Mauritanian” has more...
- 2/2/2021
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and renditioned is extraordinary enough, but Kevin Macdonald’s drama The Mauritanian focuses instead on Salahi’s fight for release, starring Tahar Rahim as Salahi, Jodie Foster as his defense attorney Nancy Hollander, and Shailene Woodley as her aide Teri Duncan.
Macdonald explains during the STX Entertainment movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that he was approached to adapt the book by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company Sunnymarch and was immediately impressed.
“The book was a bit of a bestseller about four or five years,” he says. “I was aware of it—I’d...
Macdonald explains during the STX Entertainment movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that he was approached to adapt the book by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company Sunnymarch and was immediately impressed.
“The book was a bit of a bestseller about four or five years,” he says. “I was aware of it—I’d...
- 1/23/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Mohamedou Ould Salahi endured unimaginable horror as an inmate of the U.S. government’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 14 years. In all that time, no charge was ever leveled against him, and with the help of his tireless lawyer Nancy Hollander, who weathered extreme criticism for representing terror suspects, he was finally granted his freedom in 2016. His story is the subject of director Kevin Macdonald’s new film The Mauritanian, based on the memoir Salahi wrote in confinement, in which Tahar Rahim telegraphs the pain and resolve of a casualty of America’s heavy-handed war on terror. Yet, as Rahim explains, it was a role he might have dismissed before reading it…
Deadline: You last worked with Kevin Macdonald on The Eagle. That was your very first role after A Prophet, right?
Tahar Rahim: Yes. I remember when A Prophet came out, I had a lot of offers,...
Deadline: You last worked with Kevin Macdonald on The Eagle. That was your very first role after A Prophet, right?
Tahar Rahim: Yes. I remember when A Prophet came out, I had a lot of offers,...
- 1/21/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
On Radioactive, production designer Michael Carlin created a sense of enormous scope with a relatively modest budget, recreating period environments from five countries, for a story spanning more than a century.
Based on a graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, the drama tells the story of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike), the pioneering scientist who changed the world with her discovery of radioactivity. Intercut with episodes from Curie’s life were scenes that spoke to the consequences of her work, staged at Hiroshima, Chernobyl and other destinations.
To carry the viewer through time and space, Carlin would transform sections of Budapest and Spain, to achieve a diverse assortment of looks.
But for the production designer, Radioactive is one of two dramas in the awards conversation this year, the other being The Mauritanian. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the STX title tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Tahar Rahim), a man held...
Based on a graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, the drama tells the story of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike), the pioneering scientist who changed the world with her discovery of radioactivity. Intercut with episodes from Curie’s life were scenes that spoke to the consequences of her work, staged at Hiroshima, Chernobyl and other destinations.
To carry the viewer through time and space, Carlin would transform sections of Budapest and Spain, to achieve a diverse assortment of looks.
But for the production designer, Radioactive is one of two dramas in the awards conversation this year, the other being The Mauritanian. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the STX title tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Tahar Rahim), a man held...
- 1/13/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
This painfully worthy adaptation of former inmate Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s diary stars only good guys, and is hand-wringingly self congratulatory
Any movie that reminds us of the ongoing civil rights scandal at the US’s extrajudicial detention camp at Guantánamo Bay should be a good thing: it’s still open for business right now, with 40 prisoners inside. The same goes for any reminder of the 9/11 terrorist outrage and the backlash of furious revenge it was designed to provoke, implanting a virus of rage and fear that threatens to live on in the American bloodstream like malaria.
But I was disappointed by this well-meaning movie, based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi from Mauritania in north-west Africa. A former muhajideen anti-communist fighter in Afghanistan in the 1990s, who was picked up and handed over to the US authorities after 9/11 (with the Mauritanian government’s permission) and kept at...
Any movie that reminds us of the ongoing civil rights scandal at the US’s extrajudicial detention camp at Guantánamo Bay should be a good thing: it’s still open for business right now, with 40 prisoners inside. The same goes for any reminder of the 9/11 terrorist outrage and the backlash of furious revenge it was designed to provoke, implanting a virus of rage and fear that threatens to live on in the American bloodstream like malaria.
But I was disappointed by this well-meaning movie, based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi from Mauritania in north-west Africa. A former muhajideen anti-communist fighter in Afghanistan in the 1990s, who was picked up and handed over to the US authorities after 9/11 (with the Mauritanian government’s permission) and kept at...
- 1/13/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Featuring a standout, awards-worthy performance by Tahir Rahim, Kevin Macdonald’s “The Mauritanian,” adapted from Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s memoir “Guantanamo Diary,” about his prolonged imprisonment at the titular base, is a staggering work of docudrama, that highlights the horrors that the American government inflicted on terrorist suspects post-9/11.
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Rahim plays Salahi, a Mauritanian who lives in Germany and, post-9/11, is arrested and renditioned to Guantanamo Bay for three years on vague accusations of orchestrating the attacks.
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Rahim plays Salahi, a Mauritanian who lives in Germany and, post-9/11, is arrested and renditioned to Guantanamo Bay for three years on vague accusations of orchestrating the attacks.
Continue reading ‘The Mauritanian’ Is A Harrowing Condemnation of Bush-Era Torture [Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/12/2021
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Though she has starred in some of the most indelible movies in cinema history—Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused—and won two Oscars for doing so, Jodie Foster’s output has slowed in recent years. And it is not a paucity of roles, she says, but rather a decision to become more selective about what she takes on. For Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian, based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a terror suspect held for 15 years in Guantanamo Bay without charge, that choice was undeniable. Foster plays Nancy Hollander, the lawyer determined to give him a full defense.
Deadline: At this point in your career, you are incredibly selective with the projects you take on. How did The Mauritanian enter your life?
Jodie Foster: As an actor, sometimes it’s as simple as somebody sends you a script and it’s amazing...
Deadline: At this point in your career, you are incredibly selective with the projects you take on. How did The Mauritanian enter your life?
Jodie Foster: As an actor, sometimes it’s as simple as somebody sends you a script and it’s amazing...
- 1/11/2021
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Late to the Oscar race is drama “The Mauritanian,” which finally settled on the title director Kevin Macdonald always wanted for the BBC film he started shooting in December 2019 under the working title “Prisoner 760.” Based on Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s bestselling 2015 memoir “Guantanamo Diary,” STXfilms will release the movie February 19, just in time for the Oscars. That outcome was far from certain.
“We had no distributor in place,” said Macdonald on the phone from London. “We couldn’t get the music score correct, so we were not finished as soon as we should have been. And Covid complicated things. We filmed this labor of love for no money, so we always wanted an awards film. It was the only way we felt to get attention.”
Rather than the original plan of screening at a discovery fall festival like Toronto or Telluride, the financiers sold a five-minute trailer at the 2020 Cannes virtual market to STX,...
“We had no distributor in place,” said Macdonald on the phone from London. “We couldn’t get the music score correct, so we were not finished as soon as we should have been. And Covid complicated things. We filmed this labor of love for no money, so we always wanted an awards film. It was the only way we felt to get attention.”
Rather than the original plan of screening at a discovery fall festival like Toronto or Telluride, the financiers sold a five-minute trailer at the 2020 Cannes virtual market to STX,...
- 1/7/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Late to the Oscar race is drama “The Mauritanian,” which finally settled on the title director Kevin Macdonald always wanted for the BBC film he started shooting in December 2019 under the working title “Prisoner 760.” Based on Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s bestselling 2015 memoir “Guantanamo Diary,” STXfilms will release the movie February 19, just in time for the Oscars. That outcome was far from certain.
“We had no distributor in place,” said Macdonald on the phone from London. “We couldn’t get the music score correct, so we were not finished as soon as we should have been. And Covid complicated things. We filmed this labor of love for no money, so we always wanted an awards film. It was the only way we felt to get attention.”
Rather than the original plan of screening at a discovery fall festival like Toronto or Telluride, the financiers sold a five-minute trailer at the 2020 Cannes virtual market to STX,...
“We had no distributor in place,” said Macdonald on the phone from London. “We couldn’t get the music score correct, so we were not finished as soon as we should have been. And Covid complicated things. We filmed this labor of love for no money, so we always wanted an awards film. It was the only way we felt to get attention.”
Rather than the original plan of screening at a discovery fall festival like Toronto or Telluride, the financiers sold a five-minute trailer at the 2020 Cannes virtual market to STX,...
- 1/7/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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