Much has been made of "Die Hard" and its enduring charm as not just a quintessential '80s blockbuster but one of the finest action movies ever made. There's a lot to love about the 1988 mega-hit that propelled Bruce Willis from TV comedy to action movie fame. Just as memorable as Willis' lovable everyman cop is Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber, the film's antagonist (or protagonist if you ask the film's writer) and mastermind of the siege on Nakatomi Tower.
Rickman began his career in the theater, having studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and making a real name for himself on the theater circuit. When it came time to make the leap to movies, he was initially hesitant to accept his now legendary "Die Hard" role. Once the actor eventually came onboard, he approached the job with the same dedication he had applied to his theater career,...
Rickman began his career in the theater, having studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and making a real name for himself on the theater circuit. When it came time to make the leap to movies, he was initially hesitant to accept his now legendary "Die Hard" role. Once the actor eventually came onboard, he approached the job with the same dedication he had applied to his theater career,...
- 11/25/2022
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: "A Little Chaos"Where You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: It's the late Alan Rickman's birthday today, and in honor of that, let's shine a spotlight on one of his final films, "A Little Chaos." Rickman wrote the screenplay along with Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan from Deegan's story. It was his second turn as a director, and he also plays the minor but important role of King Louis Xiv of France. "A Little Chaos" is...
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- 2/21/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Simon Brew Mar 4, 2018
The late, great Alan Rickman had a simple tip for when cameras zoomed in on him at awards ceremonies...
Just a little story I came across. I just thought it was a lovely piece about Alan Rickman, and thought it worth passing on in case any of you missed it.
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Author Sebastian Barry was being interviewed on Radio Five Live/Five Live/Radio 5/Five in February 2017, having won the Costa Book Of The Year award for the second year in succession. Whilst he was chatting, the subject of the late, great Alan Rickman came up, and Barry shared a lovely anecdote about the much-missed actor and filmmaker.
Rickman worked with Alison Deegan, Barry’s wife,...
The late, great Alan Rickman had a simple tip for when cameras zoomed in on him at awards ceremonies...
Just a little story I came across. I just thought it was a lovely piece about Alan Rickman, and thought it worth passing on in case any of you missed it.
See related Star Wars Rebels season 4 episode 14 review: A Fool's Hope Star Wars Rebels season 4 episode 13 review: A World Between Worlds Star Wars Rebels season 4 episode 12 review: Wolves And A Door
Author Sebastian Barry was being interviewed on Radio Five Live/Five Live/Radio 5/Five in February 2017, having won the Costa Book Of The Year award for the second year in succession. Whilst he was chatting, the subject of the late, great Alan Rickman came up, and Barry shared a lovely anecdote about the much-missed actor and filmmaker.
Rickman worked with Alison Deegan, Barry’s wife,...
- 2/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new romantic dramedy “A Little Chaos” starring Kate Winslet from director Alan Rickman!
“A Little Chaos,” which opens in Chicago on June 26, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Ehle, Helen McCrory, Rupert Penry-Jones, Steven Waddington, Danny Webb, Henry Garrett and Morgan Watkins from director Alan Rickman and writers Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “A Little Chaos” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 22, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
“A Little Chaos,” which opens in Chicago on June 26, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jennifer Ehle, Helen McCrory, Rupert Penry-Jones, Steven Waddington, Danny Webb, Henry Garrett and Morgan Watkins from director Alan Rickman and writers Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “A Little Chaos” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 22, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
- 6/19/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Romantic and funny and smart and wise and just plain different. This is a historical costume dramedy romp about gardening. How cool is that? I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Historical fantasy! Nope, there are no dragons or wizards or magic. But it’s fantasy nevertheless. And of a very welcome sort. Of a very necessary sort.
In Paris in 1682, King Louis Xiv is preparing to move his court from the Louvre in the city to the countryside palace at Versailles, and he wants gardens that he likens, not in any metaphorical way, to the divine: “Heaven shall be here,” he commands. No small task, then, for royal gardener and landscape architect André Le Notre. And Le Notre takes a real chance when he dares to hire, for one section of the gardens,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Historical fantasy! Nope, there are no dragons or wizards or magic. But it’s fantasy nevertheless. And of a very welcome sort. Of a very necessary sort.
In Paris in 1682, King Louis Xiv is preparing to move his court from the Louvre in the city to the countryside palace at Versailles, and he wants gardens that he likens, not in any metaphorical way, to the divine: “Heaven shall be here,” he commands. No small task, then, for royal gardener and landscape architect André Le Notre. And Le Notre takes a real chance when he dares to hire, for one section of the gardens,...
- 4/17/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Director: Alan Rickman; Screenwriter: Alan Rickman, Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegan; Starring: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Ehle, Matthias Schoenaerts, Helen McCrory; Running time: 117 mins; Certificate: 12A
The famous gardens at Versailles provide the backdrop for this dewy-eyed period romance with Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts, although they have to wade through a lot of mud before the flowers come into bloom. Alan Rickman directs in a laissez-faire style as well as playing a supporting role as the French 'Sun King' Louis Xiv who presides over their efforts to create horticultural perfection. It's the stuff of Sunday night TV drama, for winding down with tea and cake. Very civilised.
The problem is that Rickman had obviously hoped to get pulses racing with 17th-century mores creating a pressure cooker environment for landscape architect Sabine De Barra (Winslet) and the King's master landscaper Andre Le Notre (Schoenaerts) as they get to...
The famous gardens at Versailles provide the backdrop for this dewy-eyed period romance with Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts, although they have to wade through a lot of mud before the flowers come into bloom. Alan Rickman directs in a laissez-faire style as well as playing a supporting role as the French 'Sun King' Louis Xiv who presides over their efforts to create horticultural perfection. It's the stuff of Sunday night TV drama, for winding down with tea and cake. Very civilised.
The problem is that Rickman had obviously hoped to get pulses racing with 17th-century mores creating a pressure cooker environment for landscape architect Sabine De Barra (Winslet) and the King's master landscaper Andre Le Notre (Schoenaerts) as they get to...
- 4/15/2015
- Digital Spy
★★★☆☆ For his second feature as director - following on from the Emma Thompson-starring The Winter Guest (1997) - Alan Rickman brings audiences the period folly A Little Chaos (2014), a film as mildly diverting and inoffensive as its title suggests. Based on a true story and adapted from ex-Casualty star Alison Deegan's debut screenplay, the film tells of a most ostensibly mundane period of King Louis Xiv's tenure at Versailles, doing so in an entirely lightweight and likable manner that, though befitting a casual ITV costume drama, is saved by a wealth of assured hands both on and off screen. Set in 1682, Academy Award winner Kate Winslet plays widowed, green-fingered landscape designer Sabine De Barra.
- 4/14/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
If niche movies are your forte, then you’re in for a treat with Alan Rickman’s second directorial effort, A Little Chaos. At a glance it’s a period piece about gardening. Delve a little deeper and it possesses all of the pre-requisites for a successful time-gone-by movie: a corseted Kate Winslet.
As feisty landscape designer, Sabine, Winslet is enlisted to craft a new garden for King Louis Xiv.s new palace at Versailles. At first she ruffles the feathers of the court’s pre-existing landscaper, André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts), who demands she conjure up stuffy, pedestrian designs. Naturally their initial locked horns turn to locked lips as their workplace relationship evolves into a romantic entanglement.
In addition to sharing a co-writer credit with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock, Rickman co-stars in the flick as King Louis. You can spot him in the latest trailer, which, for the...
As feisty landscape designer, Sabine, Winslet is enlisted to craft a new garden for King Louis Xiv.s new palace at Versailles. At first she ruffles the feathers of the court’s pre-existing landscaper, André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts), who demands she conjure up stuffy, pedestrian designs. Naturally their initial locked horns turn to locked lips as their workplace relationship evolves into a romantic entanglement.
In addition to sharing a co-writer credit with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock, Rickman co-stars in the flick as King Louis. You can spot him in the latest trailer, which, for the...
- 2/26/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Alan Rickman directs and stars in A Little Chaos with Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Ehle. Rickman also co-wrote the story with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock. Winslet plays Madame Sabine De Barra, an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the still‐to-be-completed Palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her, the famous architect Le Nôtre (Schoenaerts). However, as she works…...
- 2/26/2015
- Deadline
Focus Features snapped up North American rights to actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's "A Little Chaos" at Tiff. This romantic drama stars Winslet as a steely landscape designer who breaks sexual and class barriers when she's chosen to build one of King Louis Xiv's gardens at the new Versailles. Sabine also finds herself entangled romantically with renowned landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Costarring Jennifer Ehle and Stanley Tucci, "Chaos" suffered middling reviews at Toronto but still looks intriguingly whimsical, and Winslet is always watchable. Financed by Lionsgate UK and penned by Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock and Rickman, the period romance will have its stateside premiere on March 27, 2015. What this does reveal is that the new Focus under Peter Schlessel wants to stay in the business of releasing this sort of higher brow material. ...
- 2/25/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
The first photo is out of Jamie Dornan in the thriller "The 9th Life Of Louis Drax". The story follows a boy in a coma (Aiden Longworth) and Dornan plays a neurologist who fights to awaken him from his comatose state. The films said to be akin to movies like "Vertigo" and "Bunny Lake is Missing" in tone. [Source: Empire]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Earlier this week I sat down with the two young stars of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" - actors Taron Egerton and Sophie Cookson. Fresh out of drama school with some stage and TV work under their belt, "Kingsman" is their first foray onto the big screen and this charming pair were happy to discuss their experience below:
Blink
Noam Murro ("300: Rise of an Empire") has signed on to direct the thriller "Blink". Hernany Perla penned the script and filming begins this Summer.
The first photo is out of Jamie Dornan in the thriller "The 9th Life Of Louis Drax". The story follows a boy in a coma (Aiden Longworth) and Dornan plays a neurologist who fights to awaken him from his comatose state. The films said to be akin to movies like "Vertigo" and "Bunny Lake is Missing" in tone. [Source: Empire]
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Earlier this week I sat down with the two young stars of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" - actors Taron Egerton and Sophie Cookson. Fresh out of drama school with some stage and TV work under their belt, "Kingsman" is their first foray onto the big screen and this charming pair were happy to discuss their experience below:
Blink
Noam Murro ("300: Rise of an Empire") has signed on to direct the thriller "Blink". Hernany Perla penned the script and filming begins this Summer.
- 1/30/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Focus Features snapped up North American rights to actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's "A Little Chaos" at Tiff. This romantic drama stars Winslet as a steely landscape designer who breaks sexual and class barriers when she's chosen to build one of King Louis Xiv's gardens at the new Versailles. Sabine also finds herself entangled romantically with renowned landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Costarring Jennifer Ehle and Stanley Tucci, "Chaos" suffered middling reviews at Toronto. Financed by Lionsgate UK and penned by Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock and Rickman, the period romance will have its stateside premiere on March 27, 2015. What this does reveal is that the new Focus under Peter Schlessel wants to stay in the business of releasing this sort of arthouse material. ...
- 12/18/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Though the fest is well over, Toronto deals are still shaking out. Focus Features has snapped up North American rights to actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's Tiff premiere "A Little Chaos," a romantic drama starring Winslet as a steely landscape designer who breaks sexual and class barriers when she's chosen to build one of King Louis Xiv's gardens at the new Versailles. Sabine also finds herself entangled romantically with renowned landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Schoenaerts). Costarring Jennifer Ehle and Stanley Tucci, "Chaos" suffered middling reviews at Toronto. Financed by Lionsgate UK and penned by Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock and Rickman, the period romance will have its stateside premiere on March 27, 2015. What this does reveal is that the new Focus under Peter Schlessel wants to stay in the business of releasing this sort of arthouse material. ...
- 9/29/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Focus Features announced today that they have acquired North American distribution rights to A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock. The company also acquired distribution rights to the film, which is financed by Lionsgate UK and BBC Films, in Scandinavia. The romantic drama stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci, Danny Webb and Rickman himself.
- 9/29/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Focus Features has acquired North American distribution rights to “A Little Chaos” starring Kate Winslet, the distributor announced Monday. The period drama, directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock, follows Sabine (Winslet), a strong-willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis Xiv's new palace at Versailles, causing her to become professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Stanley Tucci and Danny Webb also star. Also read: Kate Winslet in ‘Divergent,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Focus Features has taken North American rights to Tiff closing night romantic drama A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts. Alan Rickman directed the story of a strong-willed landscape designer chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis Xiv’s palace at Versailles. Rickman also co-wrote the Lionsgate UK and BBC Films production with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock and stars along with Stanley Tucci and Danny Webb. Focus has set a March 27, 2015 stateside release while Lionsgate UK handles its UK debut early next year. Rickman’s first film as director since 1997’s The Winter Guest is produced by Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood for Potboiler Productions and Bertrand Faivre for The Bureau. Zygi Kamasa, Guy Avshalom, Nick Manzi, Christine Langan, Ray Cooper, Norman Merry, and Richard Wolfe are executive producers. Focus also took Scandinavian rights as the deals closed during Tiff. Focus Features’ Lia Buman,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Toronto — “Titanic” was a seminal moment in Kate Winslet’s career, but she made it clear even during the film's Oscar run and in the years following that it was a more grueling experience than she ever expected. In the years since she’s avoided anything that came close to those shooting conditions, when she spent weeks in water tanks and wading through water. That is until her new period drama, “A Little Chaos,” which screened for the press at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival Wednesday before its Saturday night premiere. In the film, Winslet and her stunt person are drenched when her character tries to manually close an aqueduct from flooding a massive garden she’s been building at Versailles (yes, that Versailles). The long and the short of it is that the sequence found Winslet in a ton of water. And for her to do that, she must simply adore her co-star and director,...
- 9/11/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The Toronto International Film Festival might be starting to wind down, but there's still a few days left and a few big movies to come. Among them: closing film "A Little Chaos," which marks the second directing effort from everyone's favorite Germanic thief/sneering potions professor Alan Rickman. Coming a whopping seventeen years after its predecessor, 1997's "The Winter Guest," the film, written by first-timer Alison Deegan, also stars Rickman as King Louis Xiv of France. The Sun King is looking to make over his garden, and he finds himself with two major candidates for the job: barrier-breaking landscape gardener Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet), and her rival/potential love interest Andre Le Nottre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Ehle, Helen McCrory and Phyllida Law are among the supporting cast as well, so Rickman's certainly been able to attact some talent to the project. The film press screens today before closing the festival on.
- 9/10/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The Toronto Film Festival is only half over, and though several promising festival films have already emerged as Oscar contenders—like Foxcatcher, The Theory of Everything, and Wild—there are still several curious and intriguing movies yet to debut. One of them is A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman’s period romantic-drama that will be Tiff’s closing-night film on Sept. 14. Kate Winslet stars as Sabine De Barra, a strong-willed 17th-century French gardener who challenges sexual and class barriers when she vies to design and build one of the main showcase attractions at King Louis’s Xiv’s new palace at Versailles.
- 9/9/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
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