Many of cinema’s hard men are notorious softies in real life. Ray Winstone may well be one of those, even if he admits to not looking particularly approachable.
“My wife always says to me, ‘Why do you look like you’re going to kill someone when you walk into a room?'” he tells Variety. “But I don’t mean to!”
Winstone’s long-standing status as the go-to man to depict violent approach-with-caution individuals or British mob bosses continues to serve him, however, as “The Gentleman” — Guy Ritchie’s eight-part Netflix spinoff of his 2019 gangster comedy feature of the same name — proves. In the series, awash in the classic Ritchie mix of guns, drugs, violence, aristocrats, boxing and tweed, Winstone stars as a gangland patriarch and head of a massive weed-growing empire. Because of course he does — who else would you cast as an elder statesman than the actor...
“My wife always says to me, ‘Why do you look like you’re going to kill someone when you walk into a room?'” he tells Variety. “But I don’t mean to!”
Winstone’s long-standing status as the go-to man to depict violent approach-with-caution individuals or British mob bosses continues to serve him, however, as “The Gentleman” — Guy Ritchie’s eight-part Netflix spinoff of his 2019 gangster comedy feature of the same name — proves. In the series, awash in the classic Ritchie mix of guns, drugs, violence, aristocrats, boxing and tweed, Winstone stars as a gangland patriarch and head of a massive weed-growing empire. Because of course he does — who else would you cast as an elder statesman than the actor...
- 3/8/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Punch is a coming-of-age drama directed by New Zealander Welby Ings and stars Tim Roth, newcomer Jordan Oosterhaf, and former professional surfer Conan Hayes.
Jim is a young but focused professional fighter and at just seventeen years old, wants nothing more than to make his demanding father proud. With his life on track for success, Jim meets Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his time in an old shack by the beach. Despite his dedication and self confidence, after meeting Whetu, Jim must confront the truth about his own sexuality and his choices.
The Star: Tim Roth Tim Roth. Depostiphotos
Tim Roth is an English actor, director and producer who has had a long and successful career in Hollywood. He first rose to prominence with his performance as Tim ‘Fool’ Condon in the 1985 film The Hit. Since then Tim has gone on to appear in numerous leading roles in films such as Reservoir Dogs,...
Jim is a young but focused professional fighter and at just seventeen years old, wants nothing more than to make his demanding father proud. With his life on track for success, Jim meets Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his time in an old shack by the beach. Despite his dedication and self confidence, after meeting Whetu, Jim must confront the truth about his own sexuality and his choices.
The Star: Tim Roth Tim Roth. Depostiphotos
Tim Roth is an English actor, director and producer who has had a long and successful career in Hollywood. He first rose to prominence with his performance as Tim ‘Fool’ Condon in the 1985 film The Hit. Since then Tim has gone on to appear in numerous leading roles in films such as Reservoir Dogs,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Em Schaum
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Tim Roth is an English actor, director and producer who has had a long and successful career in Hollywood. He first rose to prominence with his performance as Tim ‘Fool’ Condon in the 1985 film The Hit. Since then Tim has gone on to appear in numerous leading roles in films such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Planet of the Apes and The Incredible Hulk. Tim has also starred in television series such as Lie To Me and Tin Star. He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama for his role as Cal Lightman in Lie To Me. Tim has directed several films including The War Zone, Little Odessa, Restless and Broken. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his directing work on The War Zone. Tim is an active philanthropist and serves on the board of directors at Artists For...
- 3/8/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Exclusive: The National Hispanic Media Coalition revealed its lineup for the upcoming 7th Annual Offical Latino Film and Arts Festival to be presented virtually from Nov. 26 to 28.
Titles include Welcome to Our World, directed by Alfredo Ramos, with performances by Danny Trejo, Emilio Rivera, and Valente Rodriguez. The feature tells the story of Freddie, a young and irresponsible supermarket box boy who is forced to rise to the occasion when his father (Trejo) has a work-related accident. Freddie must now assume the role of “the man of the house and keep the family from going homeless with hilarious results.
“The Nhmc is proud to work with Official Latino and HBO to ensure that our stories are being told and that we are creating space for Latino artists to thrive,” said Brenda Castillo, President and CEO of the Nhmc. “ The more we can uplift and promote Latinx talent in the entertainment industry,...
Titles include Welcome to Our World, directed by Alfredo Ramos, with performances by Danny Trejo, Emilio Rivera, and Valente Rodriguez. The feature tells the story of Freddie, a young and irresponsible supermarket box boy who is forced to rise to the occasion when his father (Trejo) has a work-related accident. Freddie must now assume the role of “the man of the house and keep the family from going homeless with hilarious results.
“The Nhmc is proud to work with Official Latino and HBO to ensure that our stories are being told and that we are creating space for Latino artists to thrive,” said Brenda Castillo, President and CEO of the Nhmc. “ The more we can uplift and promote Latinx talent in the entertainment industry,...
- 10/29/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Bayview Entertainment announced this past week that writer/director Jason Figgis’ haunted house horror tale, Winifred Meeks, will be making its domestic DVD debut on Apr. 27. Anna James is a popular teen-centric novelist, who has decided to rent a remote cottage, the Seaview …
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- 3/29/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
British actor Tim Roth is to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award in recognition of his “exceptional contribution to the art of film.” The ceremony at the Sarajevo Film Festival will be held on Tuesday. He will hold a masterclass on the same day.
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
TaTaTu, the cryptocurrency-centric social entertainment platform run by entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, has signed content licensing agreements for library titles from Lakeshore Entertainment, Kew Media Group, and Film4.
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
TaTaTu, the cryptocurrency-centric social entertainment platform run by entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, has signed content licensing agreements for library titles from Lakeshore Entertainment, Kew Media Group, and Film4.
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
The deals will provide more than 50 films and TV shows to TaTaTu users, including the likes of Heathers, The Amateurs, Hotel Splendide, The War Zone and the Children of the Corn trilogy, and featuring talent such as Jeff Bridges, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Winona Ryder, Tommy Lee Jones and Kristen Stewart.
Financial terms of the agreements are not being disclosed. The deal significantly bolsters TaTaTu's offering by adding ...
- 1/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Skinheads, hit men, cops, criminals, cops-posing-as-criminals, princes, junkies, executioners, politicians, supervillains, an 18th-century fop, a 19th-century impressionist painter and a 21st-century psychotic chimp – you name it, and there's an extremely good chance that Tim Roth has played it. The 56-year-old British actor has the sort of varied, overstuffed resumé that suggests a reserved spot in the steadily-working-character-actor canon, and has not one but two projects hitting TV screens at the moment: Tin Star, an Amazon thriller that about an expat cop living in Canada that starts as a quirky fish-out-of-water...
- 9/29/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Tim Roth has revealed that both he and his father were abused by his grandfather as children.
Roth, who has spoken in the past about being abused as a child, made the startling revelation during a recent interview with The Guardian on Sunday.
Speaking about his father’s politics, Roth mentioned that his dad dropped out of Britain’s communist party in the 1970s after a wave of sex scandals. “He was an abused kid, my dad, and it was a terrible childhood that he had, and he took that s— seriously,” he explained.
The Oscar-nominee, known for his long-time collaborations with Quentin Tarantino,...
Roth, who has spoken in the past about being abused as a child, made the startling revelation during a recent interview with The Guardian on Sunday.
Speaking about his father’s politics, Roth mentioned that his dad dropped out of Britain’s communist party in the 1970s after a wave of sex scandals. “He was an abused kid, my dad, and it was a terrible childhood that he had, and he took that s— seriously,” he explained.
The Oscar-nominee, known for his long-time collaborations with Quentin Tarantino,...
- 12/5/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
The dysfunctional family has been an ever-present image in popular culture for decades: the battling husband and wife flanked by their bratty children are perhaps most frequently employed on garishly trite television sitcoms. In the movies, the gloves are ripped away and the reality shines on what is more often than not left unexposed in the darkness. What’s revealed seems to irrefutably prove that Tolstoy was absolutely correct when he wrote: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Now playing in select theaters is Little Men, the newest film from director Ira Sachs, with whom we recently spoke to about its making. The plot follows two teenage boys in Brooklyn, NY who develop a budding friendship, despite the feuding of their parents over the lease of a local dress shop. The film is already receiving raves from critics, including our own review...
Now playing in select theaters is Little Men, the newest film from director Ira Sachs, with whom we recently spoke to about its making. The plot follows two teenage boys in Brooklyn, NY who develop a budding friendship, despite the feuding of their parents over the lease of a local dress shop. The film is already receiving raves from critics, including our own review...
- 8/11/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Two strong British programmes are running at top Mexican film festivals this month.
Mexico City documentary festival Docs Df (Oct 15-24) hosts the second leg of the Docunexion programme that British Council is running in partnership with Imcine, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Docs Df and Ambulante.
This training and mentorship initiative for emerging documentary makers from the UK and Mexico is delivered as part of the 2015 UK-Mexico year of exchange.
Jerry Rothwell, André Singer and Jo Lapping from the UK will give further dedicated development support to participants alongside three Mexican mentors. The programme culminates in a pitching session in front of international decision makers.
Claire Aguilar, programming director at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Britdoc Foundation’s Luke Moody will attend as jury members alongside Julien Temple who will deliver a masterclass to accompany screenings of his films The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, Oil City Confidential and The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.
The programme...
Mexico City documentary festival Docs Df (Oct 15-24) hosts the second leg of the Docunexion programme that British Council is running in partnership with Imcine, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Docs Df and Ambulante.
This training and mentorship initiative for emerging documentary makers from the UK and Mexico is delivered as part of the 2015 UK-Mexico year of exchange.
Jerry Rothwell, André Singer and Jo Lapping from the UK will give further dedicated development support to participants alongside three Mexican mentors. The programme culminates in a pitching session in front of international decision makers.
Claire Aguilar, programming director at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Britdoc Foundation’s Luke Moody will attend as jury members alongside Julien Temple who will deliver a masterclass to accompany screenings of his films The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, Oil City Confidential and The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.
The programme...
- 10/19/2015
- ScreenDaily
This week Brian and Cargill discuss the much-maligned hero flick, Punisher: War Zone.
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- 5/5/2015
- by Brian Salisbury
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Some movies, no matter how old they are, never age a day. Their situations and themes remain as relevant now as when they were first released. Watching them today, they reflect and comment on our present in ways they couldn’t possibly have anticipated. Every month we’re going to pick a movie from the past that does just that, and explore what it has to say about the here and now. August 29th, 1997, aka Judgement Day, is the day according to Terminator 2 when SkyNet becomes self-aware and nukes the world into a man vs. machine post-apocalypse. That day has long come and gone. The 1991 film’s vision for the future, however, has not. Much of what Terminator 2 anticipates hasn’t fully come true in the 23 years since its release, but emphasis on the word “fully.” There’s a lot in James Cameron’s action classic that rings remarkably familiar in the year 2014. 1. America: The War Zone It...
- 12/1/2014
- by Alexander Huls
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
British star of Sexy Beast and Noah to talk on stage about his screen career.
British tough-guy actor Ray Winstone is to discuss his craft and career at a BAFTA A Life In Pictures event on Oct 5. The event will take place at BAFTA’s headquarters in London’s Piccadilly.
Winstone’s association with BAFTA goes back to 1980 when he was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer for one of his earliest roles in drama That Summer!.
The actor first made an impact in 1977 playing a young offender in the controversial television drama Scum. He went on to star in British cult classics Quadrophenia, Nil By Mouth (for which he received his second BAFTA nomination), The War Zone and Sexy Beast.
The past decade has seen Winstone star in Hollywood blockbusters including The Departed, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Beowolf and more recently Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.
His TV work has included BAFTA-winning Great Expectations, Emmy-winning Henry VIII...
British tough-guy actor Ray Winstone is to discuss his craft and career at a BAFTA A Life In Pictures event on Oct 5. The event will take place at BAFTA’s headquarters in London’s Piccadilly.
Winstone’s association with BAFTA goes back to 1980 when he was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer for one of his earliest roles in drama That Summer!.
The actor first made an impact in 1977 playing a young offender in the controversial television drama Scum. He went on to star in British cult classics Quadrophenia, Nil By Mouth (for which he received his second BAFTA nomination), The War Zone and Sexy Beast.
The past decade has seen Winstone star in Hollywood blockbusters including The Departed, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Beowolf and more recently Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.
His TV work has included BAFTA-winning Great Expectations, Emmy-winning Henry VIII...
- 9/3/2014
- ScreenDaily
Thirty years ago, a killing machine from 2029—assuming the form of an Austrian bodybuilder—arrived with a lethal directive to alter the future. That he certainly did. The Terminator, made for $6.4 million by a couple of young disciples of B-movie king Roger Corman, became one of the defining sci-fi touchstones of all time. Its $38 million gross placed it outside of the top-20 box-office releases for 1984, yet the film grew into a phenomenon, spawning a five-picture franchise that’s taken in $1.4 billion to date and securing a place on the National Film Registry, which dubbed it “among the finest science-fiction films in many decades.
- 7/17/2014
- by Joe McGovern
- EW - Inside Movies
Brit character actor Ray Winstone is in talks to star in the tussled-about "Point Break" remake as FBI agent Angelo Pappas, a role Gary Busey immortalized in Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 homoerotic cult classic about bank-robbing surfers. He'll be joining Gerard Butler, currently cast as wave-chasing, surfer-gang leader Bodhi (originally played by Patrick Swayze). Aussie hunk Luke Bracey will star opposite Butler and Winstone as FBI rookie Johnny Utah (played Keanu Reeves in Bigelow's film). Winstone induced shivers in 1999 as a walking picture of paternal evil in Tim Roth's indie "The War Zone," but you've also seen him skulking along the fringes of many mainstream and indie films, including "The Departed," "Cold Mountain," "Hugo," "Sexy Beast" and as a descendent of Cain in "Noah." Across the pond, he's been a film and TV mainstay for decades, with two BAFTA noms under his belt, accolades from the British Independent Film Awards...
- 4/9/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Regent Releasing/Summit Entertainment
There aren’t many movies that lack even a single redeeming quality – movies so inherently terrible that there is literally nothing good to say about them, no matter how hard you rack your brains in the search to find something – anything – worthwhile. Even the “worst movies,” after all (those that are constantly cited as being some of the poorest motion pictures ever made) are at least hilarious or entertaining in their sheer awfulness – think of classics like The Room or Troll 2, both of which are intoxicatingly bad, but are all the better for it. We love ‘em for being crap.
So searching for a movie that has nothing going for it all – not in any way, shape or form – is a surprisingly difficult and perhaps even futile task. Take the first “bad movie” that comes to mind right now; chances are you’ll still be...
There aren’t many movies that lack even a single redeeming quality – movies so inherently terrible that there is literally nothing good to say about them, no matter how hard you rack your brains in the search to find something – anything – worthwhile. Even the “worst movies,” after all (those that are constantly cited as being some of the poorest motion pictures ever made) are at least hilarious or entertaining in their sheer awfulness – think of classics like The Room or Troll 2, both of which are intoxicatingly bad, but are all the better for it. We love ‘em for being crap.
So searching for a movie that has nothing going for it all – not in any way, shape or form – is a surprisingly difficult and perhaps even futile task. Take the first “bad movie” that comes to mind right now; chances are you’ll still be...
- 4/3/2014
- by WhatCulture
- Obsessed with Film
All men must die, but there's no need for you to have "trying to figure out what the hell is going on in Game of Thrones" listed as your cause of death. When Season Four debuts this Sunday, the cast somehow manages to get even bigger, despite a mortality rate that makes trench warfare look like a leisurely stroll through New York City's scenic High Line park. But with a little help, anyone can look like a master of the Game. Brush up with our Season Four cheat sheet, which...
- 4/2/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – Despite any manmade restrictions through governments, religion, commerce or trumped-up morality, the truth has a way of mightily conquering all. “The Patience Stone” is a perfect example of that luxurious truth, and it is an important contemporary fairy tale.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Through the most simplest of premises – a war victim is stuck caring for her vegetative husband – there emerges the passion of what is essential for human beings. Being authentic, unburdening the soul and coming to what is necessary in our lives to fully engage – that is what the film unleashes. The war zone depicted in the story is a Middle East-type setting, but is never named, and provides a presence to the native suffering that is occurs in perpetual conflict. The marginalization of women in these traditionally religious territories is another grand theme of the narrative, and speaks to the broader context of narrowing the humanity of females in general.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Through the most simplest of premises – a war victim is stuck caring for her vegetative husband – there emerges the passion of what is essential for human beings. Being authentic, unburdening the soul and coming to what is necessary in our lives to fully engage – that is what the film unleashes. The war zone depicted in the story is a Middle East-type setting, but is never named, and provides a presence to the native suffering that is occurs in perpetual conflict. The marginalization of women in these traditionally religious territories is another grand theme of the narrative, and speaks to the broader context of narrowing the humanity of females in general.
- 9/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s always good news when we discuss one of our favourite actors here on HeyUGuys and today Tim Roth revealed that he is meeting with Quentin Tarantino to discuss a role in the director’s next film.
Roth was a standout in Reservoir Dogs and had an important role in Pulp Fiction but the pair haven’t worked together for a number of years.
Now that the director is basking in the light cast by Uncle Oscar Roth and Tarantino are seemingly planning a big screen reunion.
Although he wouldn’t discuss what the project will be, the actor told Getty Images Entertainment that discussions are underway. Roth was rumoured to be up for the role of Archie Hicox in Inglorious Basterds, however commitments to his TV series Lie to Me allowed Michael Fassbender to steal that particular show.
He explained,
I don’t know (when) but… we were...
Roth was a standout in Reservoir Dogs and had an important role in Pulp Fiction but the pair haven’t worked together for a number of years.
Now that the director is basking in the light cast by Uncle Oscar Roth and Tarantino are seemingly planning a big screen reunion.
Although he wouldn’t discuss what the project will be, the actor told Getty Images Entertainment that discussions are underway. Roth was rumoured to be up for the role of Archie Hicox in Inglorious Basterds, however commitments to his TV series Lie to Me allowed Michael Fassbender to steal that particular show.
He explained,
I don’t know (when) but… we were...
- 3/21/2013
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
He made his name playing criminals and low-lifes – now Tim Roth is back as the nicest father in town. Catherine Shoard meets him in Cannes to talk films, politics and bringing up his own teenagers
When Clarice Starling is first assigned to interview Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, we are told, in Thomas Harris's novel, that "a brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilised gathering". Something similar happens when you say you're off to interview Tim Roth. A light gasp, a small step back. Roth – who was set to play the younger Lecter in 2002's Red Dragon, until Anthony Hopkins dyed his hair and reprised the role – has a reputation for being slippery. He just doesn't give, I'm told. Meet him in California, people caution, and he clams up. Get an audience in London and he is prickly, defensive.
So why is it that in Cannes,...
When Clarice Starling is first assigned to interview Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, we are told, in Thomas Harris's novel, that "a brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilised gathering". Something similar happens when you say you're off to interview Tim Roth. A light gasp, a small step back. Roth – who was set to play the younger Lecter in 2002's Red Dragon, until Anthony Hopkins dyed his hair and reprised the role – has a reputation for being slippery. He just doesn't give, I'm told. Meet him in California, people caution, and he clams up. Get an audience in London and he is prickly, defensive.
So why is it that in Cannes,...
- 5/20/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Duo attempts to take down the alien invaders in this action-packed look at the Hasbro film.
By Fallon Prinzivalli
Rihanna in "Battleship"
Photo: Universal Pictures
Did you see it? Did you catch it in all its epic glory? As part of "MTV First: Battleship," the A-list cast — featuring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker — premiered a never-before-seen clip Monday night (April 30) from the film.
The exclusive scene opens with an injured Commander Stone Hopper (Skarsgård) looking a little worried as his brother, Lt. Alex Hopper (Kitsch), takes a tiny boat of troops out on the water to get up close and personal with the sea invaders. We have no naval experience and even we know this can't be a good idea. But the officers prove to be some fearless competition for the machines as Kitsch screams to Rihanna, "Light it up!" And as promised, the Talk That Talk...
By Fallon Prinzivalli
Rihanna in "Battleship"
Photo: Universal Pictures
Did you see it? Did you catch it in all its epic glory? As part of "MTV First: Battleship," the A-list cast — featuring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker — premiered a never-before-seen clip Monday night (April 30) from the film.
The exclusive scene opens with an injured Commander Stone Hopper (Skarsgård) looking a little worried as his brother, Lt. Alex Hopper (Kitsch), takes a tiny boat of troops out on the water to get up close and personal with the sea invaders. We have no naval experience and even we know this can't be a good idea. But the officers prove to be some fearless competition for the machines as Kitsch screams to Rihanna, "Light it up!" And as promised, the Talk That Talk...
- 4/30/2012
- MTV Music News
Duo attempts to take down the alien invaders in this action-packed look at the Hasbro film.
By Fallon Prinzivalli
Rihanna in "Battleship"
Photo: Universal Pictures
Did you see it? Did you catch it in all its epic glory? As part of "MTV First: Battleship," the A-list cast — featuring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker — premiered a never-before-seen clip Monday night (April 30) from the film.
The exclusive scene opens with an injured Commander Stone Hopper (Skarsgård) looking a little worried as his brother, Lt. Alex Hopper (Kitsch), takes a tiny boat of troops out on the water to get up close and personal with the sea invaders. We have no naval experience and even we know this can't be a good idea. But the officers prove to be some fearless competition for the machines as Kitsch screams to Rihanna, "Light it up!" And as promised, the Talk That Talk...
By Fallon Prinzivalli
Rihanna in "Battleship"
Photo: Universal Pictures
Did you see it? Did you catch it in all its epic glory? As part of "MTV First: Battleship," the A-list cast — featuring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker — premiered a never-before-seen clip Monday night (April 30) from the film.
The exclusive scene opens with an injured Commander Stone Hopper (Skarsgård) looking a little worried as his brother, Lt. Alex Hopper (Kitsch), takes a tiny boat of troops out on the water to get up close and personal with the sea invaders. We have no naval experience and even we know this can't be a good idea. But the officers prove to be some fearless competition for the machines as Kitsch screams to Rihanna, "Light it up!" And as promised, the Talk That Talk...
- 4/30/2012
- MTV Movie News
With this year’s Cannes Film Festival quickly coming round the bend, now’s as good a time as any to officially start the Fsr pre-festival coverage, and as if by magic, perhaps sensing that I was about to do so, the good folks on the south coast of France have announced that Tim Roth will lead the jury of the festival’s secondary competition. The Un Certain Regard competition seeks to offer films with some intriguing hook or selling point, setting a different tone to the main competition and occasionally unearthing some genuine gems thanks to its agenda of championing new talents. It is that competition that the British actor, famed for such roles as Reservoir Dogs and lately Lie To Me, will preside over, perhaps bringing his own stamp to affairs. So, we can probably expect violence and facial intensity to play a big part – and if Roth’s own The War Zone is anything...
- 4/13/2012
- by Simon Gallagher
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
HollywoodNews.com: English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury, part of the Festival de Cannes Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced at the same time as those for the Competition during the press conference on April, 19th.
He is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, Tim Roth made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994) which earned him international renown. In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in The New World directed by Terrence Malick, Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders,...
He is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, Tim Roth made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994) which earned him international renown. In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in The New World directed by Terrence Malick, Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders,...
- 4/13/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tim Roth
English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Un Certain Regard is part of the festival’s Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced on April, 19th.
Tim Roth is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears. He made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994). In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in The New World directed by Terrence Malick, Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders, Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton, Funny Games...
English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Un Certain Regard is part of the festival’s Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced on April, 19th.
Tim Roth is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears. He made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994). In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in The New World directed by Terrence Malick, Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders, Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton, Funny Games...
- 4/13/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced today. Full press release below. English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury, part of the Festival de Cannes Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced at the same time as those for the Competition during the press conference on April, 19th. He is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, Tim Roth made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d'or, 1994) which earned him international renown. In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes,...
- 4/12/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury, part of the Festival de Cannes Official Selection, for which twenty films will be announced at the same time as those for the Competition during the press conference on April, 19th. He is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, Tim Roth made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994) which earned him international renown. In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders, Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton,...
- 4/12/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Tyrannosaur
Like Gary Oldman (Nil By Mouth) and Tim Roth (The War Zone) before him, actor Paddy Considine has picked a relentlessly grim and challenging story for his first outing as director. It's the story of a bond that forms between the drunken, volatile Joseph (Peter Mullan) and Hannah (Olivia Colman), a good-natured volunteer at a charity shop who is just as tortured and troubled. Their relationship doesn't provide redemption for either of them but it does give them the impetus they need to break whatever circle of misery they are locked into.
As a director Considine isn't too concerned with framing shots or pacing; his real skill lies in capturing moments of intensity and character. Mullan has played men like Joseph before, but that gives him the strength and lack of ego to tackle a character who is introduced killing his dog (offscreen), and later makes racist comments to shop workers.
Like Gary Oldman (Nil By Mouth) and Tim Roth (The War Zone) before him, actor Paddy Considine has picked a relentlessly grim and challenging story for his first outing as director. It's the story of a bond that forms between the drunken, volatile Joseph (Peter Mullan) and Hannah (Olivia Colman), a good-natured volunteer at a charity shop who is just as tortured and troubled. Their relationship doesn't provide redemption for either of them but it does give them the impetus they need to break whatever circle of misery they are locked into.
As a director Considine isn't too concerned with framing shots or pacing; his real skill lies in capturing moments of intensity and character. Mullan has played men like Joseph before, but that gives him the strength and lack of ego to tackle a character who is introduced killing his dog (offscreen), and later makes racist comments to shop workers.
- 2/4/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – She first finds him hiding behind a rack of clothes in her small charity shop. He’s the sort of a battered soul that her Christian instincts naturally desire to protect. The way he crouches on the floor and snarls at her causes him to resemble a threatening animal, but the calming prayer that she recites quickly reduces him to tears. Even before their eyes have had the chance to meet, a vital connection has been made between the two strangers.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This is an early scene from the Sundance darling, “Tyrannosaur,” a brutally raw but deeply moving drama that marks the directorial debut of chameleon-esque character actor Paddy Considine. He appears to have followed in the footsteps of his fellow countryman, Tim Roth, whose first (and only) feature, 1999’s “The War Zone,” was uncompromisingly grim but also exhilaratingly well acted. It’s clear that both Roth and Considine...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This is an early scene from the Sundance darling, “Tyrannosaur,” a brutally raw but deeply moving drama that marks the directorial debut of chameleon-esque character actor Paddy Considine. He appears to have followed in the footsteps of his fellow countryman, Tim Roth, whose first (and only) feature, 1999’s “The War Zone,” was uncompromisingly grim but also exhilaratingly well acted. It’s clear that both Roth and Considine...
- 12/2/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
When Paddy Considine brought Tyrannosaur to New York for New Directors/New Films in March (reviews), Graham Fuller met up with him to interview him for Film Comment, noting that, as an actor, "Considine, 37, has blessed a range of downbeat British films with his lugubrious, sometimes volatile presence, among them his friend Shane Meadows's A Room for Romeo Brass (99) and Dead Man's Shoes (04), Pavel Pawlikowski's Last Resort (00) and My Summer of Love (04), Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People (02), Stoned (05), and Red Riding: 1980 (09). He has also made the odd foray into Hollywood for Cinderella Man (05) and The Bourne Ultimatum (07). As a writer-director, Considine cranks up the volatility with his outstanding feature debut, Tyrannosaur, which he took a dry run at with his 2007 short, Dog Altogether."
The film "opens with Joseph (Peter Mullan) taking out his rage and self-loathing on the last thing he loves, his dog, kicking the animal to death,...
The film "opens with Joseph (Peter Mullan) taking out his rage and self-loathing on the last thing he loves, his dog, kicking the animal to death,...
- 11/18/2011
- MUBI
It's a lack of pretension that makes Ray Winstone so likable – so long as we don't start getting fancy notions of him as 'an actor'
I suspect Ray Winstone usually knows a good film from a bad one, but he has a world-weary calm that sees no need to let us in on the secret. Perhaps he has an inkling of how pleased we are to see him, and since he has had to declare bankruptcy twice so far as a professional actor he may take a certain gloomy pleasure in just being employed. There are actors well versed in elaborate, erudite answers to the question, "Why did you take this part?", but Winstone has the battered patience of a bloke who has seldom believed in "taking" a part rather than having the good/bad luck of ending up with it. It is that lack of pretension that leaves him so natural and likable,...
I suspect Ray Winstone usually knows a good film from a bad one, but he has a world-weary calm that sees no need to let us in on the secret. Perhaps he has an inkling of how pleased we are to see him, and since he has had to declare bankruptcy twice so far as a professional actor he may take a certain gloomy pleasure in just being employed. There are actors well versed in elaborate, erudite answers to the question, "Why did you take this part?", but Winstone has the battered patience of a bloke who has seldom believed in "taking" a part rather than having the good/bad luck of ending up with it. It is that lack of pretension that leaves him so natural and likable,...
- 11/18/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Derek Jarman's former muse is the hottest property at Cannes with her tour de force performance in the film of Lionel Shriver's bestseller
The word last week in Cannes was that Tilda Swinton is perfectly cast in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's film of Lionel Shriver's novel that is one of the favourites to win the Palme d'Or. The news comes as no surprise because Swinton is one of those rare actresses who never leaves an audience wondering what another actor might have been like in a part she has played. As soon as you see her, it's impossible to imagine anyone else taking her place.
This is due in part to the way she looks – like no one else. A whole thesaurus of adjectives – haunting, androgynous, ethereal – has failed to describe her singular appearance. Better to imagine the offspring that would result...
The word last week in Cannes was that Tilda Swinton is perfectly cast in We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's film of Lionel Shriver's novel that is one of the favourites to win the Palme d'Or. The news comes as no surprise because Swinton is one of those rare actresses who never leaves an audience wondering what another actor might have been like in a part she has played. As soon as you see her, it's impossible to imagine anyone else taking her place.
This is due in part to the way she looks – like no one else. A whole thesaurus of adjectives – haunting, androgynous, ethereal – has failed to describe her singular appearance. Better to imagine the offspring that would result...
- 5/15/2011
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
While almost all of you reading this know Tim Roth‘s acting work in films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, you may not be aware that he’s directed a feature, 1999′s The War Zone. The reason you likely haven’t heard of it is due to the fact that it deals with a very sensitive topic, that being incest. It’s a remarkably accomplished work, especially for someone who had never directed before. Just a couple of days ago, I was asking myself if we’d ever get another directorial effort from him; he’s a guy I want to see more from. Well, my wish may have come true, as he’s now stated that he intends to direct again, and possibly soon.
Speaking to THR (via ThePlaylist), the actor said that he plans to make his return behind the camera with an adaptation of Marc Parent...
Speaking to THR (via ThePlaylist), the actor said that he plans to make his return behind the camera with an adaptation of Marc Parent...
- 4/20/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Actor Tim Roth, a victim of child abuse, touched on the very subject in his powerful directorial debut, The War Zone, back in 1999 to much critical acclaim. Today, THR is reporting that Roth will be getting behind the camera once again with a companion piece of sorts, an adaptation of the Marc Parent non-fiction book Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a collection of accounts of children in various situations of child abuse. During his twenties, Parent traveled to...
- 4/20/2011
- by George Merchan
- JoBlo.com
While many may know the name of Tim Roth, and his on-screen performances, many people may not remember that the actor also happens to be a filmmaker. After his directorial debut, The War Zone, Roth had decided to hang up the camera, opting for being in front of the camera instead. Well, until now at least.
Read more on Grab Bag: Tim Roth helming Turning Stones; Joshua Jackson joins Lay The Favorite; Michael Pena in Watch...
Read more on Grab Bag: Tim Roth helming Turning Stones; Joshua Jackson joins Lay The Favorite; Michael Pena in Watch...
- 4/19/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Tim Roth announced his next directing project at the Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema in Krakow, Poland, where Roth was given the Against the Current achievement award. It will be an adaptation of Marc Parent's 1996 non-fiction book Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a collection of accounts of children in various situations of child abuse. The film hit's close to home for Roth, who was abused as a child. He directed The War Zone in 1999, which covered similar material.
According to THR, "Parent was a twentysomething from the Midwest who went to New York city to try to make it as an actor. He was unsuccessful in this endeavor, but joined an experimental social work unit at Emergency Children's Services. What followed was a series of situations in which Parent was called upon to protect children from abusive parents, up to and...
According to THR, "Parent was a twentysomething from the Midwest who went to New York city to try to make it as an actor. He was unsuccessful in this endeavor, but joined an experimental social work unit at Emergency Children's Services. What followed was a series of situations in which Parent was called upon to protect children from abusive parents, up to and...
- 4/19/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Though the actor is better know for his work on screen in films like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, not to mention his TV work on the Fox series "Lie to Me," actor Tim Roth also tried his hand behind the camera with the 1999 film The War Zone. Now it sounds like Roth will be returning to the director's chair as THR has learned he will adapt Marc Parent's non-fiction book Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk. The book chronicles several different stories dealing with child abuse. The topic is close to Roth's heart as he was once an abused child and also dealt with the subject in his aforementioned directorial debut. Parent tells the stories of child abuse from his own experience after joining an experimental social work unit at Emergency Children's Services. While there he found himself in a series of situations ...
- 4/19/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Tim Roth is looking to get back in the directing game with an adaptation of Marc Parent's non-fiction book, Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk. Roth, who was abused as a child, sees the film as a companion piece to his 1999 directorial debut, The War Zone. Parent was a struggling actor in his twenties who joined an experimental social work unit that called upon him to project children from abusive parents. His work sometime required him to at times break up households and even have parents arrested. Roth tells THR, "He was an incredible social worker – he saved tons of children from horrible situations." Roth wants Sam Rockwell to play Parent even though Rockwell is twice Parent's age when he started the job. The film currently has no producer, but Roth is already planning to shoot the film in digital in order to keep costs...
- 4/19/2011
- by Matt Goldberg
- Collider.com
In the admittedly tiny sub-genre of harrowing-late-1990s-domestic-dramas-starring-Ray-Winstone-and-directed-by-well-respected-British-character-actors-who-have-yet-to-make-a-second-film, Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth" just has the edge--underrated to this day, the film showed an assured hand from Oldman, and has two towering performances, by Winstone and Kathy Burke, the latter of whom picked up Best Actress at Cannes in 1997. But that's not to undervalue Tim Roth's "The War Zone," an adaptation of Alexander Stuart's novel examining incest and sexual abuse in a Devonshire family--it's incredibly powerful stuff, and it's a shame that Roth has never followed it up. But the actor, who currently stars on the seemingly-not-long-for-this-world TV procedural "Lie…...
- 4/19/2011
- The Playlist
Tim Roth has confirmed that his next project will be an adaptation of Marc Parent's 1996 non-fiction book "Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk".
Speaking in Poland at the Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Roth tells The Hollywood Reporter that the film is something of a companion piece to his 1999 directorial debut "The War Zone".
Parent was a failed actor from the Midwest living in New York City. Joining an experimental social work unit at Emergency Children's Services, he became involved in a series of situations where he was called upon to protect children from abusive parents, up to and including breaking households apart and having parents arrested.
Roth is pursuing "Conviction" star Sam Rockwell for the lead role, despite the actor being twice the age Parent was during events. Roth also plans to shoot the film digitally.
Speaking in Poland at the Off Plus Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Roth tells The Hollywood Reporter that the film is something of a companion piece to his 1999 directorial debut "The War Zone".
Parent was a failed actor from the Midwest living in New York City. Joining an experimental social work unit at Emergency Children's Services, he became involved in a series of situations where he was called upon to protect children from abusive parents, up to and including breaking households apart and having parents arrested.
Roth is pursuing "Conviction" star Sam Rockwell for the lead role, despite the actor being twice the age Parent was during events. Roth also plans to shoot the film digitally.
- 4/19/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Praise is due to two superb actors who went from a Mike Leigh TV movie to Hollywood, pacing each other every step of the way
One of the nicer aspects of a veteran director returning to action is the chance it gives you to reacquaint yourself with their early films. So it is with Mike Leigh, whose Another Year is fast approaching release. I have to be honest here and admit that in recent years my relationship with Leigh's film-making has become a little frayed, and yet I'll always be grateful to him for showing me that great movies could take place in a recognisable Britain.
One of the first films to bring the glamour home, for me, was 1983's Meantime, a made-for-tv story of an unemployment-wrecked family in Dalston that brought together fresh faced talents Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. Watching it again, I felt the film was still...
One of the nicer aspects of a veteran director returning to action is the chance it gives you to reacquaint yourself with their early films. So it is with Mike Leigh, whose Another Year is fast approaching release. I have to be honest here and admit that in recent years my relationship with Leigh's film-making has become a little frayed, and yet I'll always be grateful to him for showing me that great movies could take place in a recognisable Britain.
One of the first films to bring the glamour home, for me, was 1983's Meantime, a made-for-tv story of an unemployment-wrecked family in Dalston that brought together fresh faced talents Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. Watching it again, I felt the film was still...
- 10/22/2010
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Cinematical
Fall is here, and with it comes the hope for some great fourth-quarter movies. This time of year I always think back to when I was a rookie reviewer in the amazing fall of 1999. In a few short months' time we were treated to the likes of American Beauty, Three Kings, The Limey, Fight Club, The Straight Story, Bringing Out the Dead, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, American Movie, All About My Mother, Dogma, Sleepy Hollow, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, The War Zone, Magnolia, Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Death, Flowers of Shanghai, and more. It felt like some kind of pre-millennial renaissance.
That was a combined experience, one that I realized over time, but singular experiences in this job are much more rare. We go to work in the screening room almost every day, hoping that this next thing will be the one, the movie that will quietly change our lives.
Fall is here, and with it comes the hope for some great fourth-quarter movies. This time of year I always think back to when I was a rookie reviewer in the amazing fall of 1999. In a few short months' time we were treated to the likes of American Beauty, Three Kings, The Limey, Fight Club, The Straight Story, Bringing Out the Dead, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, American Movie, All About My Mother, Dogma, Sleepy Hollow, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, The War Zone, Magnolia, Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Death, Flowers of Shanghai, and more. It felt like some kind of pre-millennial renaissance.
That was a combined experience, one that I realized over time, but singular experiences in this job are much more rare. We go to work in the screening room almost every day, hoping that this next thing will be the one, the movie that will quietly change our lives.
- 10/4/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Moviefone
Filed under: Cinematical
Fall is here, and with it comes the hope for some great fourth-quarter movies. This time of year I always think back to when I was a rookie reviewer in the amazing fall of 1999. In a few short months' time we were treated to the likes of American Beauty, Three Kings, The Limey, Fight Club, The Straight Story, Bringing Out the Dead, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, American Movie, All About My Mother, Dogma, Sleepy Hollow, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, The War Zone, Magnolia, Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Death, Flowers of Shanghai, and more. It felt like some kind of pre-millennial renaissance.
That was a combined experience, one that I realized over time, but singular experiences in this job are much more rare. We go to work in the screening room almost every day, hoping that this next thing will be the one, the movie that will quietly change our lives.
Fall is here, and with it comes the hope for some great fourth-quarter movies. This time of year I always think back to when I was a rookie reviewer in the amazing fall of 1999. In a few short months' time we were treated to the likes of American Beauty, Three Kings, The Limey, Fight Club, The Straight Story, Bringing Out the Dead, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, American Movie, All About My Mother, Dogma, Sleepy Hollow, Sweet and Lowdown, The Green Mile, The War Zone, Magnolia, Topsy-Turvy, Mr. Death, Flowers of Shanghai, and more. It felt like some kind of pre-millennial renaissance.
That was a combined experience, one that I realized over time, but singular experiences in this job are much more rare. We go to work in the screening room almost every day, hoping that this next thing will be the one, the movie that will quietly change our lives.
- 10/4/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
How do you make a king leer? Put the queen in a bikini. Yes, an old joke from The Simpsons, but as literary jokes go – it’s a goodun. The Bard has always been something of an obsession for actor Al Pacino. In the late 1990s, he directed a documentary – Looking For Richard – then he teamed up with Il Postino’s Michael Radford for an adaptation of Merchant Of Venice.
Now Pacino and the Rad are getting back together, so say Total Film, along with a.c.e. cinematographer (see what I did there?) Benoit Delhomme to have a crack at King Lear.
Lear is one of Will Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy’s and no doubt Pacino will be ‘ooh-ahing’ all the way to the bank with this. King Lear is the story of an old king who decides to divvy up his kingdom to his daughters without realising what a bunch of scheming,...
Now Pacino and the Rad are getting back together, so say Total Film, along with a.c.e. cinematographer (see what I did there?) Benoit Delhomme to have a crack at King Lear.
Lear is one of Will Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy’s and no doubt Pacino will be ‘ooh-ahing’ all the way to the bank with this. King Lear is the story of an old king who decides to divvy up his kingdom to his daughters without realising what a bunch of scheming,...
- 5/14/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Production begins this week in Connecticut on the psychological thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin, which is being directed by acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) and produced by Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton, The Informant!), Luc Roeg (Mr. Nice) and Robert Salerno (21 Grams). We Need To Talk About Kevin was written by Ramsay and Rory Kinnear based on the novel by Lionel Shriver. The film stars Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller. Presented by BBC Films and the UK Film Council in association with Footprint Investments Llp, Caemhan Partnership Llp and Lipsync Productions, the film is an Independent / Jennifer Fox production in association with Artina Films and Forward Films. The announcement was made today by Independent, who also holds the international rights to the film.
The film was developed by BBC Films¹ Creative Director Christine Langan (The Damned United, Bright Star) with Paula Jalfon (In The Loop,...
The film was developed by BBC Films¹ Creative Director Christine Langan (The Damned United, Bright Star) with Paula Jalfon (In The Loop,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Staff
- Hollywoodnews.com
A constant air of mystery pervades the mesmerizing psychological drama "Snap." As Sandra (Aisling O'Sullivan, "The War Zone") divulges her side of the story to a documentary crew, the film flashes back to an incident involving her 15-year-old son, Stephen (Stephen Moran), who abducted a toddler and held him captive in his grandfather's home. We don't know why Stephen took the child, nor what he will do with him--we only see ...
- 4/14/2010
- indieWIRE - People
A constant air of mystery pervades the mesmerizing psychological drama "Snap." As Sandra (Aisling O'Sullivan, "The War Zone") divulges her side of the story to a documentary crew, the film flashes back to an incident involving her 15-year-old son, Stephen (Stephen Moran), who abducted a toddler and held him captive in his grandfather's home. We don't know why Stephen took the child, nor what he will do with him--we only see ...
- 4/14/2010
- Indiewire
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the first half of its 2010 slate, and while only one film is pure horror, two more are categorized as noir, and there's also a "gripping psychological drama" thrown in for good measure.
The popular fest, which is branching out to include an online element this year with Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (click here to learn more), runs from April 21 through May 2, 2010. If previous years are any indication, we can expect at least another handful of genre films to join those mentioned here when the balance of the schedule is revealed on March 15th.
Now let's take a look at the last film mentioned above first:
Snap
Directed and written by Carmel Winters (Ireland) – World Premiere
With a fresh and intense style, playwright-turned-director Carmel Winters composes a gripping psychological drama about three generations of a family poised to repeat the mistakes of the past. Aisling...
The popular fest, which is branching out to include an online element this year with Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (click here to learn more), runs from April 21 through May 2, 2010. If previous years are any indication, we can expect at least another handful of genre films to join those mentioned here when the balance of the schedule is revealed on March 15th.
Now let's take a look at the last film mentioned above first:
Snap
Directed and written by Carmel Winters (Ireland) – World Premiere
With a fresh and intense style, playwright-turned-director Carmel Winters composes a gripping psychological drama about three generations of a family poised to repeat the mistakes of the past. Aisling...
- 3/13/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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