Thank you for the excellent article by James Naughtie on Sunset Song (Loons and queans and orramen, G2, 25 November). He is right to be apprehensive as to whether the film about to be released can capture, as he says, “a love song for a landscape and language”. However, the publicity for the film and the article imply that there have never been any attempts to dramatise the novel – not true. So successful was the six-part television serial made by BBC Scotland in 1970 that it became a set text in Scottish schools, was shown on Masterpiece Theatre in America, and was repeated 10 years later as one of the most popular dramas to be transmitted. So, “the speak of the Mearns” was appreciated even in America.
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- 12/1/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
Fortissimo Films’ sells Spanish rights to the Toronto-bound period drama.
Bilbao-based Festival Films has picked up the Spanish distribution rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song from Fortissimo Films.
The period drama, starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur), Agyness Deyn (Pusher) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend Of Barney Thomson), will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) in Special Presentations.
Davies’ long-gestating passion project is an adaptation of the 1932 classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, about a farmer’s daughter in early 20th-century Scotland facing a series of hardships.
Davies has frequently played in Toronto, starting with Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988 and most recently with The Deep Blue Sea in 2011, which Festival Films previously released in Spain.
Sunset Song is also playing in competition at San Sebastian (Sept 18-26).
Metrodome previously picked up UK and Irish rights (excluding TV, which area owned by the BBC) and is planning to release in Q4 2015.
The...
Bilbao-based Festival Films has picked up the Spanish distribution rights to Terence Davies’ Sunset Song from Fortissimo Films.
The period drama, starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur), Agyness Deyn (Pusher) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend Of Barney Thomson), will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) in Special Presentations.
Davies’ long-gestating passion project is an adaptation of the 1932 classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, about a farmer’s daughter in early 20th-century Scotland facing a series of hardships.
Davies has frequently played in Toronto, starting with Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988 and most recently with The Deep Blue Sea in 2011, which Festival Films previously released in Spain.
Sunset Song is also playing in competition at San Sebastian (Sept 18-26).
Metrodome previously picked up UK and Irish rights (excluding TV, which area owned by the BBC) and is planning to release in Q4 2015.
The...
- 8/26/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 5 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to its huge and highly anticipated international lineup including the Closing Night Film, Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right.
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fortissimo locks UK deal with Metrodome for Toronto title; BBC boards TV rights.
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
- 8/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Agyness Deyn in Sunset Song, which will compete at San Sebastian Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Terence Davies' Sunset Song and Ben Wheatley's High-Rise have been announced in the latest batch of eight titles competing for the Golden Shell at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival next month.
The long-anticipated Scottish-shot Sunset Song - which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival - is a coming-of-age story set at the start of the 1900s, concerning a farmer's daughter, adapted from the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Wheatley's High-Rise - adapted from Jg Ballard - concerns a doctor in a dystopian future who moves into a tower block in search of anonymity, only to find class war breaking out.
Mamoru Hosoda’s anime The Boy And The Beast will be the first animated film to be a contender in the official competition.
The full list...
The long-anticipated Scottish-shot Sunset Song - which will have its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival - is a coming-of-age story set at the start of the 1900s, concerning a farmer's daughter, adapted from the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Wheatley's High-Rise - adapted from Jg Ballard - concerns a doctor in a dystopian future who moves into a tower block in search of anonymity, only to find class war breaking out.
Mamoru Hosoda’s anime The Boy And The Beast will be the first animated film to be a contender in the official competition.
The full list...
- 8/9/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Other new titles in competition include Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and the first animated film to play in San Seb’s official selection.
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
- 8/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The 40th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival now has something of a slate. Festival toppers Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling presided over a press conference Tuesday morning where more than 34 films were announced including the world premieres of "The Martian," "The Family Fang" and "Demolition." It's an intriguing initial lineup for the venerable Canadian institution and something of a steadying the ship after losing some major debuts to Venice, Telluride and the New York Film Festival over the past few years. Well, maybe. The most impressive world premieres include the aforementioned "Demolition" with Jake Gyllenhaal (officially the best opening night film in recent memory), "The Family Fang" with Nicole Kidman, "Legend" with Tom Hardy, "Trumbo" with Bryan Cranston, "The Martian" with Matt Damon and Lance Armstrong doc "The Program" with Ben Foster and Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Where to Invade Next." Notable films that will have premiered...
- 7/28/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Any day that British filmmaking legend Terence Davies gets back behind the camera is a good one, and, as the picture below reveals, today is just such a day. His latest project is Sunset Song, a period drama based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name. The Scottish leg of its shoot has just gone underway, involving Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Sunshine On Leith’s Kevin Guthrie.As the official synopsis explains, Sunset Song “is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy.” With the guns of the Great War rumbling on the continent, the world is thrown into a state of flux and social turmoil. “In a final moment of grace”, continues the précis, “Chris endures with remarkable fortitude, looking to the future and drawing strength...
- 4/29/2014
- EmpireOnline
First look at stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie filming on location.
Director Terence Davies has begun principal photography in Scotload on Sunset Song, a film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel.
The feature, produced by Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and SellOutPictures, stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie.
Fortissimo Films is handling the international distribution rights for the film.
The shoot began in New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by interior work at Filmland in Luxembourg. The UK-Luxembourg co-production is now completing a key period of production in Scotland.
The story is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Agyness Deyn plays a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy, all during a time of great social upheaval and unrest. The effects of the First World War brings the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest of ways...
Director Terence Davies has begun principal photography in Scotload on Sunset Song, a film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel.
The feature, produced by Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and SellOutPictures, stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie.
Fortissimo Films is handling the international distribution rights for the film.
The shoot began in New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by interior work at Filmland in Luxembourg. The UK-Luxembourg co-production is now completing a key period of production in Scotland.
The story is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Agyness Deyn plays a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy, all during a time of great social upheaval and unrest. The effects of the First World War brings the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest of ways...
- 4/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
First look at stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie filming on location.
Director Terence Davies has begun principal photography in Scotload on Sunset Song, a film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel.
The feature, produced by Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and SellOutPictures, stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie.
Fortissimo Films is handling the international distribution rights for the film.
The shoot began in New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by interior work at Filmland in Luxembourg. The UK-Luxembourg co-production is now completing a key period of production in Scotland.
The story is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Agyness Deyn plays a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy, all during a time of great social upheaval and unrest. The effects of the First World War brings the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest of ways...
Director Terence Davies has begun principal photography in Scotload on Sunset Song, a film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel.
The feature, produced by Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and SellOutPictures, stars Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie.
Fortissimo Films is handling the international distribution rights for the film.
The shoot began in New Zealand, to capture the March harvest season, followed by interior work at Filmland in Luxembourg. The UK-Luxembourg co-production is now completing a key period of production in Scotland.
The story is set in the early 20th Century in north-east Scotland, where Agyness Deyn plays a young woman coming of age as her family is beset by tragedy, all during a time of great social upheaval and unrest. The effects of the First World War brings the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest of ways...
- 4/29/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Terence Davies' movie version of Scottish author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 classic novel Sunset Song has begun its location shoot in Scotland. Billed as an intimate epic, Davies's much-anticipated film stars Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (War Horse) and Kevin Guthrie (Sunshine on Leith). The novel is widely regarded as one of the most important works in Scottish literature. Sunset Song was adapted for television in 1971 by BBC Scotland but has never been made into a film. The story is set in the early 20th century in northeast Scotland during a time of great social upheaval and unrest. Deyn plays
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- 4/29/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Development to be aided by Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Hurricane Films, the UK production company behind Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City, has picked up three titles for its production slate.
Triple World Score, set among the world of Scrabble enthusiasts, has been written by Frank Cotterell-Boyle (24 Hour Party People) and will be directed by Carl Hunter.
Two Sevens Clash, based on the true experiences of a young Orthodox Jewish punk rocker in 1977 London, will be directed by scriptwriter Mark Jay.
Prayer Before Dawn is based on the book of the same name by ex-professional kickboxer Billy Moore, who wrote about his five-year prison sentence in the notorious ‘Bangkok Hilton’.
The screenplay is being written by Nick Saltrese, who has worked on UK soaps Emmerdale and EastEnders.
Hurricane has also confirmed that it has created its first Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme vehicle for project development.
The company is in advance development of A Quiet Passion, an Emily Dickinson...
Hurricane Films, the UK production company behind Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City, has picked up three titles for its production slate.
Triple World Score, set among the world of Scrabble enthusiasts, has been written by Frank Cotterell-Boyle (24 Hour Party People) and will be directed by Carl Hunter.
Two Sevens Clash, based on the true experiences of a young Orthodox Jewish punk rocker in 1977 London, will be directed by scriptwriter Mark Jay.
Prayer Before Dawn is based on the book of the same name by ex-professional kickboxer Billy Moore, who wrote about his five-year prison sentence in the notorious ‘Bangkok Hilton’.
The screenplay is being written by Nick Saltrese, who has worked on UK soaps Emmerdale and EastEnders.
Hurricane has also confirmed that it has created its first Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme vehicle for project development.
The company is in advance development of A Quiet Passion, an Emily Dickinson...
- 6/24/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Stone Roses' 1990 gig at Spike Island and Tim Burton's dead dog are given a new lease of life
Fang to rights
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie – a stop-motion, black-and-white ode to the horror films of his youth – opened the 56th BFI London film festival last week. It was bursting with every horror reference you could think of, as young Victor Frankenstein brings his dead dog Sparky back to life with an experiment for the school science fair.
Burton has lovingly crafted his references – doesn't everything in stop motion require hours of planning and thought? – but a little bat told me that he has actually overlooked one crucial aspect of film-making. In one scene the boy's parents are watching a horror movie on TV as he creeps back from the pet cemetery having dug up his dead pup. The parents (voiced by Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short) are cuddling...
Fang to rights
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie – a stop-motion, black-and-white ode to the horror films of his youth – opened the 56th BFI London film festival last week. It was bursting with every horror reference you could think of, as young Victor Frankenstein brings his dead dog Sparky back to life with an experiment for the school science fair.
Burton has lovingly crafted his references – doesn't everything in stop motion require hours of planning and thought? – but a little bat told me that he has actually overlooked one crucial aspect of film-making. In one scene the boy's parents are watching a horror movie on TV as he creeps back from the pet cemetery having dug up his dead pup. The parents (voiced by Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short) are cuddling...
- 10/13/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Back in February, it looked like director Terence Davies was going to follow up his 2011 effort "The Deep Blue Sea" with his long-gestating passion project, "Sunset Song," based on the Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Well, maybe it will or maybe it won't, but Davies has another project fighting for pole position in his schedule: the Emily Dickinson biopic "A Quiet Passion." THR reports from Toronto that Davies has cast "Sex and the City" actress Cynthia Nixon in the lead role of the 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson, whose work was mostly ignored until after her death, at which point she became one of America's most beloved poets. There may be some out there that aren't surprised by the pairing of Davies and Nixon, but the rest of us were unaware that Davies apparently identified himself as a Miranda. "I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind," Davies said of the project.
- 9/14/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- The Playlist
Sex and the City’s Miranda, aka Cynthia Nixon is going to play poet Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion. The actress will lead the biopic for British director Terence Davies, who wrote the script specifically for her.
“I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind,” Davies told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work – and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I’m over the moon.”
The reclusive 19th century American poet only had a handful of poems published in her lifetime, but after her death was celebrated as one of the greats.
Nixon said:
“When I read what Terence had written, I was consumed by the character he had so beautifully put on the page. Emily Dickinson’s words and Terence’s somehow...
“I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind,” Davies told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work – and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I’m over the moon.”
The reclusive 19th century American poet only had a handful of poems published in her lifetime, but after her death was celebrated as one of the greats.
Nixon said:
“When I read what Terence had written, I was consumed by the character he had so beautifully put on the page. Emily Dickinson’s words and Terence’s somehow...
- 9/12/2012
- by Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Cate McCall
Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte and James Cromwell are starring in Karen Moncrieff's "The Trials of Cate McCall" for Sunrise Pictures and Pitbull Pictures with filming currently underway in Los Angeles.
Beckinsale plays a former hotshot prosecutor who threw her career away after becoming an addict. Hoping to regain credibility and win custody of her estranged daughter, she takes on the appeal of a wrongly convicted murderess and takes on both the system and her own inner doubts. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Larry David Film
Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") is set to star in a new untitled improv-based comedy from Fox Searchlight.
"The Dictator" writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel are penning the script while Greg Mottola ("Superbad," "Paul") is in negotiations to direct. [Source: Digital Spy]
Lucky Stiff
Jason Alexander, Nikki M. James, Dominic Marsh and Jayne Houdyshell have been cast in Christopher Ashley's film adaptation of the stage...
Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte and James Cromwell are starring in Karen Moncrieff's "The Trials of Cate McCall" for Sunrise Pictures and Pitbull Pictures with filming currently underway in Los Angeles.
Beckinsale plays a former hotshot prosecutor who threw her career away after becoming an addict. Hoping to regain credibility and win custody of her estranged daughter, she takes on the appeal of a wrongly convicted murderess and takes on both the system and her own inner doubts. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Larry David Film
Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") is set to star in a new untitled improv-based comedy from Fox Searchlight.
"The Dictator" writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel are penning the script while Greg Mottola ("Superbad," "Paul") is in negotiations to direct. [Source: Digital Spy]
Lucky Stiff
Jason Alexander, Nikki M. James, Dominic Marsh and Jayne Houdyshell have been cast in Christopher Ashley's film adaptation of the stage...
- 5/17/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
- 5/16/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
British supermodel Agyness Deyn has landed her first major film role in a big screen adaptation of popular novel Sunset Song.
The blonde catwalk queen has spent several years boosting her acting resume, shooting small roles in Clash of the Titans and a remake of 1996's Pusher, as well as landing an acclaimed part in The Leisure Society in London's West End earlier this year.
She has now been chosen to play the lead, Chris Guthrie, in a big screen take of writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of social hardship in 1930s Scotland.
Filmmaker Terence Davies will direct the movie, while War Horse actor Peter Mullan will co-star.
Deyn tells Vogue, "When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I'm so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he's such an incredible director.
"I can't wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!"...
The blonde catwalk queen has spent several years boosting her acting resume, shooting small roles in Clash of the Titans and a remake of 1996's Pusher, as well as landing an acclaimed part in The Leisure Society in London's West End earlier this year.
She has now been chosen to play the lead, Chris Guthrie, in a big screen take of writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of social hardship in 1930s Scotland.
Filmmaker Terence Davies will direct the movie, while War Horse actor Peter Mullan will co-star.
Deyn tells Vogue, "When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story, I'm so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he's such an incredible director.
"I can't wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!"...
- 5/16/2012
- WENN
Fortissimo Films has acquired the international rights to "Sunset Song," from British filmmaker Terence Davies. Davies recently scored a critical triumph with his moody re-imagining of Terence Rattigan's play "The Deep Blue Sea." He has also received acclaim for prior films like "The House of Mirth" and "Of Time in the City." "Sunset Song" is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Like "The Deep Blue Sea," it indirectly addresses World War II. However, while the Rattigan play derived much of its visual power from...
- 5/16/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
It was a long time between drinks for Terence Davies - excluding, of course, his terrific documentary work - but he seems to have rediscovered the bug for feature filmmaking. His next film, Sunset Song, is coming to fruition and has kicked off Cannes by adding Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn to its cast roster and scoring an international distribution deal with Fortissimo Films. Like his last film, The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song is a period piece with literary roots. In this case, the adaptation stems from a novel rather than a stage play: Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 tale of family dysfunction and rural life in north east Scotland. It's been another Davies project with a tough infancy. The UK Film Council quailed at its tough subject matter and, according to the director, withdrew funding in 2006; understandable perhaps, considering the story kicks off with suicide and a double infanticide.
- 5/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
Hugo; The Deep Blue Sea; We Have a Pope
Despite the inherent redundancy of the format, each new wave of 3D cinema throws up at least one oddity which goes some way toward justifying this technical gimmick. Die-hard 3D apologists cite Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder as a rare triumph from the 1950s fad (although House of Wax is more fun) while Flesh For Frankenstein outshines all other stereoscopic offerings from the 70s and 80s in terms of sheer bloodcurdling camp. But while the blockbusting Avatar remains the commercial flagship for early 21st-century 3D, my money is on Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011, Entertainment, U) being the movie which will be retrospectively regarded as the recent wave's most honourable outing.
Rather than toeing the baloney-on-toast "immersive experience" line trotted out by James Cameron et al, Scorsese's nostalgic homage to early cinema uses 3D as an archaic alienation device, reminding us that...
Despite the inherent redundancy of the format, each new wave of 3D cinema throws up at least one oddity which goes some way toward justifying this technical gimmick. Die-hard 3D apologists cite Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder as a rare triumph from the 1950s fad (although House of Wax is more fun) while Flesh For Frankenstein outshines all other stereoscopic offerings from the 70s and 80s in terms of sheer bloodcurdling camp. But while the blockbusting Avatar remains the commercial flagship for early 21st-century 3D, my money is on Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011, Entertainment, U) being the movie which will be retrospectively regarded as the recent wave's most honourable outing.
Rather than toeing the baloney-on-toast "immersive experience" line trotted out by James Cameron et al, Scorsese's nostalgic homage to early cinema uses 3D as an archaic alienation device, reminding us that...
- 3/31/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
"With The Deep Blue Sea," writes Nick Pinkerton in the Voice, "the great British director Terence Davies returns to the postwar period — though in a sense, he has never left. Born in 1945, Davies's cinema is defined by a mixed pity and fondness for the world of yesterday, a past he seemingly finds impossible to put behind him or to do without. The era's hypocritical propriety and quivering repression has most frequently been held up for 'enlightened,' Pleasantville-style condescension, but Davies is a great historical filmmaker because he feels the period too intimately to mock its rituals and mores, knows that no progress occurs without loss."
A retrospective of Davies's work is running at New York's BAMcinématek through March 27, while Sing, Memory: The Postwar England of Terence Davies opens today at the Harvard Film Archive and runs through March 26. On March 28, The Long Day Closes (1992) opens for a week-long run at New York's Film Forum.
A retrospective of Davies's work is running at New York's BAMcinématek through March 27, while Sing, Memory: The Postwar England of Terence Davies opens today at the Harvard Film Archive and runs through March 26. On March 28, The Long Day Closes (1992) opens for a week-long run at New York's Film Forum.
- 3/19/2012
- MUBI
Dr. Strangelove is one of 13 digitally restored classics
to be digitally projected at Film Forum starting Friday
As David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson wrap their series, "Pandora's digital box," Film Forum launches another on Friday, This Is Dcp. Leah Churner in a preview for the Voice: "Formalized in 2005 by a collective of the six major studios in Hollywood, the Digital Cinema Package, or Dcp, has replaced 35mm as the standard format for theatrical exhibition. It's a set of high-definition video files delivered on a hard drive encrypted with copyright protection, and it plugs into a system of proprietary servers, software, and projectors. Today, two-thirds of American theaters have converted to Dcp."
Churner's overview is a fine snapshot of what Bordwell calls "the Great Digital Changeover," and Churner cites his observation that, in her words, "one of the odder circumstances of the digital age is that as restoration gets easier, conservation gets harder.
to be digitally projected at Film Forum starting Friday
As David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson wrap their series, "Pandora's digital box," Film Forum launches another on Friday, This Is Dcp. Leah Churner in a preview for the Voice: "Formalized in 2005 by a collective of the six major studios in Hollywood, the Digital Cinema Package, or Dcp, has replaced 35mm as the standard format for theatrical exhibition. It's a set of high-definition video files delivered on a hard drive encrypted with copyright protection, and it plugs into a system of proprietary servers, software, and projectors. Today, two-thirds of American theaters have converted to Dcp."
Churner's overview is a fine snapshot of what Bordwell calls "the Great Digital Changeover," and Churner cites his observation that, in her words, "one of the odder circumstances of the digital age is that as restoration gets easier, conservation gets harder.
- 2/29/2012
- MUBI
Acclaimed British filmmaker Terence Davies ("The Deep Blue Dea," "The House of Mirth") is developing a film adaptation of Richard McCann's 2005 novel "Mother of Sorrows" for Leopardrama reports World Screen.
The book is described as ten interwoven stories portraying two adolescent brothers living with a mother they idolise in the post-World War II suburbs of Washington DC.
It's a world of brick houses, sun-struck treeless lawns, and a place where grief and sexuality are seemingly banned - told from the perspective of the one brother who survived the experience and looks back thirty years later.
Davies is expected to deliver scripts by the end of March. His immediate next project is an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic 1932 Scottish novel "Sunset Song".
The book is described as ten interwoven stories portraying two adolescent brothers living with a mother they idolise in the post-World War II suburbs of Washington DC.
It's a world of brick houses, sun-struck treeless lawns, and a place where grief and sexuality are seemingly banned - told from the perspective of the one brother who survived the experience and looks back thirty years later.
Davies is expected to deliver scripts by the end of March. His immediate next project is an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic 1932 Scottish novel "Sunset Song".
- 2/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Coming to us on the same day as the trailer for his next film, Variety reports that British filmmaker Terence Davies intends to develop a feature based on Richard McCann‘s debut novel, Mother of Sorrows. The man is currently working on the project with Leopardrama; EU’s Media program are helping in the funding department.
Published in 2005, Sorrows ”consists of 10 interwoven stories about two teenage brothers dealing with the death of their father and the influence of their strong, complex mother.” After its publication, it went on to win the Jon C. Zacharis First Book Award and was also nominated for the Stonewall Book Award for gay fiction.
“This is an important story because it touches the humanity in all of us,” stated Davies. “I love the delicacy of the book and its gentle odyssey from post-wwii optimism for the American Utopia to a deeper understanding of both maternal...
Published in 2005, Sorrows ”consists of 10 interwoven stories about two teenage brothers dealing with the death of their father and the influence of their strong, complex mother.” After its publication, it went on to win the Jon C. Zacharis First Book Award and was also nominated for the Stonewall Book Award for gay fiction.
“This is an important story because it touches the humanity in all of us,” stated Davies. “I love the delicacy of the book and its gentle odyssey from post-wwii optimism for the American Utopia to a deeper understanding of both maternal...
- 2/29/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Long-awaited project, based on the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, finally secures funding despite its disturbing subject
Sunset Song, Terence Davies's long-awaited project based on the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, is set to finally go into production, Variety reports.
According to producer Bob Last, the film is now casting, with a view to beginning shooting at the end of this year or the start of 2013 in Scotland and Sweden.
Last produced The House of Mirth for Davies in 2000 – that film was the highest-grossing of his career – and is planning to co-finance the film with Hurriance Films, the outfit behind Of Time and the City, Davies's acclaimed black-and-white documentary about the Liverpool of his youth.
Set in the early 20th century, Sunset Song begins – as did Davies's most recent film, The Deep Blue Sea – with a suicide attempt: that of a poverty-stricken woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills...
Sunset Song, Terence Davies's long-awaited project based on the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, is set to finally go into production, Variety reports.
According to producer Bob Last, the film is now casting, with a view to beginning shooting at the end of this year or the start of 2013 in Scotland and Sweden.
Last produced The House of Mirth for Davies in 2000 – that film was the highest-grossing of his career – and is planning to co-finance the film with Hurriance Films, the outfit behind Of Time and the City, Davies's acclaimed black-and-white documentary about the Liverpool of his youth.
Set in the early 20th century, Sunset Song begins – as did Davies's most recent film, The Deep Blue Sea – with a suicide attempt: that of a poverty-stricken woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills...
- 2/17/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
"The Deep Blue Sea" and "House of Mirth" director Terence Davies’ long gestating adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic 1932 Scottish novel "Sunset Song" is finally getting underway says Screen Daily.
The story follows a proud young woman and her bittersweet relationship with the oppressive landscapes and Highland crofting culture in which she was born.
Hurricane Films and Götafilm have come onboard the project which will begin shooting this winter in Scotland and Pavelund, Sweden. Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter will produce.
Casting is currently underway. Hurricane produced Davies' documentary "Of Time And The City".
The story follows a proud young woman and her bittersweet relationship with the oppressive landscapes and Highland crofting culture in which she was born.
Hurricane Films and Götafilm have come onboard the project which will begin shooting this winter in Scotland and Pavelund, Sweden. Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter will produce.
Casting is currently underway. Hurricane produced Davies' documentary "Of Time And The City".
- 2/17/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It would appear that director Terence Davies – who brought us the elegant and superb The Deep Blue Sea last year – isn’t going to have to wait as long between feature films this time. And it also means one of his long-cherished passion projects might finally see the screen, with word that his adaptation of Sunset Song may be coming together at last.Producer Bob Last, who worked with Davies on The House Of Mirth back in 2000, has announced that the film is now entering the casting stage, with shooting set for either later this year or early 2013 in Scotland and Sweden.Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote the novel in 1932, and it focuses on Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter struggling through a tough life filled with pain and family dysfunction. Davies has been trying to get the film version made for more than a decade now, but faced constant obstacles...
- 2/16/2012
- EmpireOnline
Considering Terence Davies tends to take years between pictures, this next bit of news is a bit of surprise, as it seems the helmer isn't wasting any time getting to his next movie. Hot on the heels of his latest effort, the lavish and lovely "The Deep Blue Sea," starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston, which premiered at Tiff last year, his next effort may seem him behind the camera by year's end. Variety reports that Davies is set helm his long-gestating passion project "Sunset Song," an adapation of the classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Written in 1932, the story centers on Chris Guthrie, a farmer's daughter who struggles to find love admist hardship and family dysfunction. The tough nature of the material has apparently made it a diffcult project to finance, with Davies developing it for the past decade. How dark is it? The story opens with Chris'...
- 2/16/2012
- The Playlist
Terence Davies' new film features a bored 1950s wife who leaves her husband after some earth-moving illicit sex. It's how he wishes he'd lived his life, he says
'I'm gay, I live alone and I've been celibate for 30 years," says Terence Davies. "So in a sense, I can't imagine what it's like." The 65-year-old director is talking about women trapped in unfulfilling marriages in the 1950s. And yet, in another sense, he perfectly understands their plight – having witnessed, as a boy in the 1950s, his own mother's brutal marriage.
"My mum had a terrible life because my father was a complete psychopath," he says. "She never once complained. She got on with it. That's what you did. It moves me more than I can say." I can't help thinking of the unbearable scene in his autobiographical 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives in which the father bawls "Shut up! Shut up!
'I'm gay, I live alone and I've been celibate for 30 years," says Terence Davies. "So in a sense, I can't imagine what it's like." The 65-year-old director is talking about women trapped in unfulfilling marriages in the 1950s. And yet, in another sense, he perfectly understands their plight – having witnessed, as a boy in the 1950s, his own mother's brutal marriage.
"My mum had a terrible life because my father was a complete psychopath," he says. "She never once complained. She got on with it. That's what you did. It moves me more than I can say." I can't help thinking of the unbearable scene in his autobiographical 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives in which the father bawls "Shut up! Shut up!
- 11/24/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
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