The Real Housewives of New Jersey could look very different next season! E! News has learned Traci Lynn Barber—wife to veteran footballer Tiki Barber—is poised to join the Bravo reality show for its upcoming season. "Yes, the rumor is true. Traci is down the road with the production company. She and Tiki moved to NJ a few years ago," a source tells E! News. "They are next door neighbors with Snooki." The future of Real Housewives of New Jersey has been up in the air since Teresa Giudice surrendered for her 15-month prison sentence in January. Teresa was the only original cast member left on the series in the recently wrapped sixth season. Bravo has yet to officially announce what is...
- 3/13/2015
- E! Online
The BBC has announced a new commitment to arts programming, which will include a new four-part series called Artsnight.
The weekly arts and culture magazine show will have a different guest editor each week, with writer Armando Iannucci, actress Maxine Peake, Sunday Times journalist Lynn Barber and Director of the Tate Modern Chris Dercon already committed to the series.
The BBC is also embarking on a partnership with cultural movement What Next? to encourage more people to participate in the arts, which will see the corporation airing new arts and cultural programmes during primetime.
BBC Four will launch Artists Question Time, which opens with a debate on who the arts are for in the UK, who can play a part in them and how they should be funded during a recession.
This spring will see a new season on cinema launched in collaboration with the BFI, which will feature Jonathan Ross...
The weekly arts and culture magazine show will have a different guest editor each week, with writer Armando Iannucci, actress Maxine Peake, Sunday Times journalist Lynn Barber and Director of the Tate Modern Chris Dercon already committed to the series.
The BBC is also embarking on a partnership with cultural movement What Next? to encourage more people to participate in the arts, which will see the corporation airing new arts and cultural programmes during primetime.
BBC Four will launch Artists Question Time, which opens with a debate on who the arts are for in the UK, who can play a part in them and how they should be funded during a recession.
This spring will see a new season on cinema launched in collaboration with the BFI, which will feature Jonathan Ross...
- 2/16/2015
- Digital Spy
What the critics thought of The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan, The Letters of John F Kennedy edited by Martin W Sandler, A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston
"The Valley of Amazement doesn't waste any time. The long opening sentence leads us quickly into the only high-class courtesan house in Shanghai run by a white woman, where innumerable complications soon arise. Amy Tan maintains the pace skilfully as we follow the story of three generations of women, spanning the transition from dynastic rule to the early 20th century and travelling from Shanghai to San Francisco and on to a remote village deep in the mountains of China." Krys Lee in the Ft welcomed Tan's sixth novel, and pointed out that although the author has been "accused of exoticising her Asian roots, particularly by Asian readers", and although The Valley of Amazement "can indeed be seen as romanticising cliches...
"The Valley of Amazement doesn't waste any time. The long opening sentence leads us quickly into the only high-class courtesan house in Shanghai run by a white woman, where innumerable complications soon arise. Amy Tan maintains the pace skilfully as we follow the story of three generations of women, spanning the transition from dynastic rule to the early 20th century and travelling from Shanghai to San Francisco and on to a remote village deep in the mountains of China." Krys Lee in the Ft welcomed Tan's sixth novel, and pointed out that although the author has been "accused of exoticising her Asian roots, particularly by Asian readers", and although The Valley of Amazement "can indeed be seen as romanticising cliches...
- 11/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The actor famous for being game for anything talks about his passion for physical theatre, his attraction to strong directors – but declines to comment on the size of his penis
When Willem Dafoe was a little boy in Appleton, Wisconsin, he shut himself in a closet for two days. Nobody missed him. "It was a big family. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to."
Maybe – and it's a theory that would get me evicted from Freudian analysis 101 – the abandoned boy became the inveterate pleaser of adults. Perhaps that early experience of neglect explains why Dafoe has so often been an obliging actor, ready to do anything to accommodate a director's fruity demands. Think Lars von Trier directing Charlotte Gainsbourg to crush his testicles with a block of wood in Antichrist; Madonna,...
When Willem Dafoe was a little boy in Appleton, Wisconsin, he shut himself in a closet for two days. Nobody missed him. "It was a big family. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to."
Maybe – and it's a theory that would get me evicted from Freudian analysis 101 – the abandoned boy became the inveterate pleaser of adults. Perhaps that early experience of neglect explains why Dafoe has so often been an obliging actor, ready to do anything to accommodate a director's fruity demands. Think Lars von Trier directing Charlotte Gainsbourg to crush his testicles with a block of wood in Antichrist; Madonna,...
- 6/16/2013
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Outsider II by Brian Sewell, Ian Rankin's Standing in Another Man's Grave and Totall Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
"This is a remarkable memoir, but what is missing is any bridge between the controversialist and the connoisseur, the potty-mouth and the prig: it is almost as though the life of Henry James had been written by Roy 'Chubby' Brown." Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday gave one star out of five to the second volume of Brian Sewell's memoir, Outsider II: "It is written with his usual verve, powered by exasperation … But his life remains a conundrum. On one level, it is all about the china-shop world of the connoisseur … delving into detail, developing a meticulous eye for suggestion and nuance. On another level, it is about gang-bangs and seething hatreds and releasing the bull into that china shop." According to Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times, the...
"This is a remarkable memoir, but what is missing is any bridge between the controversialist and the connoisseur, the potty-mouth and the prig: it is almost as though the life of Henry James had been written by Roy 'Chubby' Brown." Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday gave one star out of five to the second volume of Brian Sewell's memoir, Outsider II: "It is written with his usual verve, powered by exasperation … But his life remains a conundrum. On one level, it is all about the china-shop world of the connoisseur … delving into detail, developing a meticulous eye for suggestion and nuance. On another level, it is about gang-bangs and seething hatreds and releasing the bull into that china shop." According to Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times, the...
- 11/10/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Dallas star Larry Hagman has reportedly insisted that his eyebrows remain untamed. The 80-year-old's bushy brows have prompted much online discussion from fans - even inspiring a spoof Twitter account - with Dallas head of make-up Lynn Barber telling Entertainment Weekly that Hagman refuses to have them trimmed. "First thing Larry said when I met him was, 'We don't cut my eyebrows. We just maintain them and we groom them'. And I said, 'Yes, sir'. "They're stronger and better than ever. Most times as people age, we lose the eyebrows. They get thinner. Larry's have almost gone the opposite way. I can't imagine Larry without those eyebrows." Barber insisted that Hagman's thick eyebrows add to the "alpha male" persona of his Dallas character J R Ewing. (more)...
- 7/26/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Since the premiere of TNT’s Dallas, viewers have been in awe of two things: How much they’re enjoying the reboot and how gloriously out of control Larry Hagman’s eyebrows are. For EW’s cover story, writer Karen Valby spoke to Hagman about his now signature look. “Before,” he says of his first time around on Dallas, “they were always using mustache wax to keep them down and tame. And I thought well I’m an older person now, and I can do whatever I damn well want to. So just let ‘em grow out and become wild.
- 7/26/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Her Private Hell is a cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad caught up in London’s sleazy world of modelling, and was Britain’s first narrative sex film. Previously unreleased, it finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on 20th February 2012 in a Dual Format Edition on the BFI’s celebrated Flipside label. The new, director-approved High Definition transfer is accompanied by a wealth of rare and fascinating extra features and a comprehensive booklet.
Starring the Italian actress Lucia Modugno (Il generale Della Rovere, Danger: Diabolik), and directed by Norman J. Warren (Satan’s Slave, Prey, Terror), Her Private Hell put Britain on the map in the realm of home- grown adult features. The storyline features beautiful but naïve Marisa who arrives from the continent for a job as a fashion model, but soon discovers she’s being groomed for a different purpose.
By the late 1960s,...
Starring the Italian actress Lucia Modugno (Il generale Della Rovere, Danger: Diabolik), and directed by Norman J. Warren (Satan’s Slave, Prey, Terror), Her Private Hell put Britain on the map in the realm of home- grown adult features. The storyline features beautiful but naïve Marisa who arrives from the continent for a job as a fashion model, but soon discovers she’s being groomed for a different purpose.
By the late 1960s,...
- 1/9/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Save Our Snipewanks!
You may have heard of the UK lawsuit where a judge just awarded £65,000 to a writer wronged by a review. Long story short, Sarah Thornton’s book, Seven Days in the Art World, was reviewed in the Daily Torygraph by Lynn Barber, one of the people she interviewed for it. In her takedown of the book, Barber explicitly said she couldn’t trust Thornton’s claims regarding her rigorous research. Why not? She’s one of the interview subjects named, she said, and she never gave an interview:
“Thornton claims her book is based on hour-long interviews with more than 250 people. I would have taken this on trust, except that my eye flicked down the list of her 250 interviewees and practically fell out of its socket when it hit the name Lynn Barber. I gave her an interview? Surely I would have noticed?”
Unfortunately for Barber, Thornton...
You may have heard of the UK lawsuit where a judge just awarded £65,000 to a writer wronged by a review. Long story short, Sarah Thornton’s book, Seven Days in the Art World, was reviewed in the Daily Torygraph by Lynn Barber, one of the people she interviewed for it. In her takedown of the book, Barber explicitly said she couldn’t trust Thornton’s claims regarding her rigorous research. Why not? She’s one of the interview subjects named, she said, and she never gave an interview:
“Thornton claims her book is based on hour-long interviews with more than 250 people. I would have taken this on trust, except that my eye flicked down the list of her 250 interviewees and practically fell out of its socket when it hit the name Lynn Barber. I gave her an interview? Surely I would have noticed?”
Unfortunately for Barber, Thornton...
- 8/18/2011
- by Hal Duncan
- Boomtron
Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker, Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman and The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
"What emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, much-acclaimed and periodically unhinged Darkmans (2007)," which "sets itself the task of revivifying the famously creaky and now largely neglected tradition of the epistolary novel". "Barker's knack for skewering the mores of the chattering classes remains strong, and a number of sparkling comic set-pieces stand out," contended Nick Garrard in the Independent on Sunday. "However, there is the nagging feeling throughout that Barker is coasting.
"What emerges is a vastly satisfying and adventurous novel, a state-of-the-nation comedy from a novelist who can do pretty much anything she likes and is having a great time doing it." So wrote Tim Martin in the Daily Telegraph of Burley Cross Postbox Theft, by Nicola Barker, "an even more purely comic work than her sprawling, much-acclaimed and periodically unhinged Darkmans (2007)," which "sets itself the task of revivifying the famously creaky and now largely neglected tradition of the epistolary novel". "Barker's knack for skewering the mores of the chattering classes remains strong, and a number of sparkling comic set-pieces stand out," contended Nick Garrard in the Independent on Sunday. "However, there is the nagging feeling throughout that Barker is coasting.
- 5/14/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
The biggest night in Hollywood is here and over the next few hours they’ll be tears, cheers and (hopefully) a few surprises as the 82nd Academy Awards are handed out.
The sordid trudge up the red carpet has finished and I’m going to be blogging live as the winners are announced, you can have a look at our Oscars predictions here and follow us on as the Twitter storm rages, or get all interactive with FilmXtra Tom who is video blogging the Oscars here.
My hopes are with Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan and I’m secretly hoping that Tarantino walks off with Best Picture for Inglourious Basterds and Coraline bests Up for Best Animated Feature.
Ok… the time is upon us. I’ll be updating the blog with the winners as I go, as well as providing as coherent a commentary as possible.
Remember to keep hitting...
The sordid trudge up the red carpet has finished and I’m going to be blogging live as the winners are announced, you can have a look at our Oscars predictions here and follow us on as the Twitter storm rages, or get all interactive with FilmXtra Tom who is video blogging the Oscars here.
My hopes are with Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan and I’m secretly hoping that Tarantino walks off with Best Picture for Inglourious Basterds and Coraline bests Up for Best Animated Feature.
Ok… the time is upon us. I’ll be updating the blog with the winners as I go, as well as providing as coherent a commentary as possible.
Remember to keep hitting...
- 3/8/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Carey Mulligan triumphs in a Bafta-winning performance
It's the confident, light touch that makes this tale adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber's autobiographical book so endearing. Carey Mulligan won the Bafta for her portrayal of the slightly pretentious but entirely realistic 16-year-old being swept up in the adult world of Peter Sarsgaard's thirtyish seducer, skilfully winning over both Mulligan and her naive, suburban parents. The film also gained three other Baftas and three Oscar nominations, including one for Hornby. In her English-language debut, Danish director Lone Scherfig's film is exemplary in everything bar a disappointingly conventional ending. Alfred Molina is outstanding as Mulligan's dad.
Rating: 4/5
DVD and video reviewsNick HornbyLynn BarberRob Mackie
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It's the confident, light touch that makes this tale adapted by Nick Hornby from Lynn Barber's autobiographical book so endearing. Carey Mulligan won the Bafta for her portrayal of the slightly pretentious but entirely realistic 16-year-old being swept up in the adult world of Peter Sarsgaard's thirtyish seducer, skilfully winning over both Mulligan and her naive, suburban parents. The film also gained three other Baftas and three Oscar nominations, including one for Hornby. In her English-language debut, Danish director Lone Scherfig's film is exemplary in everything bar a disappointingly conventional ending. Alfred Molina is outstanding as Mulligan's dad.
Rating: 4/5
DVD and video reviewsNick HornbyLynn BarberRob Mackie
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- 3/4/2010
- by Lynn Barber, Rob Mackie
- The Guardian - Film News
Kathryn Bigelow saw off her ex-husband, Colin Firth triumphed and Carey Mulligan partied. But who stole the show at this year's Baftas?
This year's Baftas were, for many, a heartening demonstration of taste over box office, of value over bucks. James Cameron's colossally profitable Avatar was comprehensively beaten by Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a grim study of a Us army bomb disposal team in Iraq. What this means in the long term for the reputations of both films is anyone's guess, but it certainly showed the British Academy standing up to the assumption that financial success is equivalent to success in every other field. Bigelow became the first woman to win a best director Bafta and may yet become the first woman to win a best director Oscar – although the Oscars might well reverse things in Cameron's favour. Colin Firth, best actor for his role in A Single Man,...
This year's Baftas were, for many, a heartening demonstration of taste over box office, of value over bucks. James Cameron's colossally profitable Avatar was comprehensively beaten by Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a grim study of a Us army bomb disposal team in Iraq. What this means in the long term for the reputations of both films is anyone's guess, but it certainly showed the British Academy standing up to the assumption that financial success is equivalent to success in every other field. Bigelow became the first woman to win a best director Bafta and may yet become the first woman to win a best director Oscar – although the Oscars might well reverse things in Cameron's favour. Colin Firth, best actor for his role in A Single Man,...
- 2/23/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Nominations for Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan and Helen Mirren but The Hurt Locker and Avatar dominate
It will be an Oscar night with some of the most interesting showdowns in years: the low budget arthouse versus the insanely over the top sci-fi; the ex-husband versus the ex-wife; and the upstart newcomer versus an actor who has had more nominations than any before her. Throw in an unpredictable maverick and it could be quite a party.
The nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were revealed yesterday in Los Angeles at 5.38am local time precisely, and were monopolised by two very different films – the $237m (£150m) Avatar from James Cameron and the $11m Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, from his ex-spouse Kathryn Bigelow. Both gathered nine nominations, but sneaking along behind them was Quentin Tarantino's unique take on the second world war, Inglourious Basterds, with eight.
While not a vintage year for the Brits,...
It will be an Oscar night with some of the most interesting showdowns in years: the low budget arthouse versus the insanely over the top sci-fi; the ex-husband versus the ex-wife; and the upstart newcomer versus an actor who has had more nominations than any before her. Throw in an unpredictable maverick and it could be quite a party.
The nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were revealed yesterday in Los Angeles at 5.38am local time precisely, and were monopolised by two very different films – the $237m (£150m) Avatar from James Cameron and the $11m Iraq drama The Hurt Locker, from his ex-spouse Kathryn Bigelow. Both gathered nine nominations, but sneaking along behind them was Quentin Tarantino's unique take on the second world war, Inglourious Basterds, with eight.
While not a vintage year for the Brits,...
- 2/2/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Since Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain, lists have come in tens, not that we couldn't have done with several more commandments. Who says a year has Ten Best Films, anyway? Nobody but readers, editors, and most other movie critics. There was hell to pay last year when I published my list of Twenty Best. You'd have thought I belched at a funeral. So this year I have devoutly limited myself to exactly ten films.
On each of two lists.
The lists are divided into Mainstream Films and Independent Films. This neatly sidesteps two frequent complaints: (1) "You name all those little films most people have never heard of," and (2) "You pick all blockbusters and ignore the indie pictures." Which is is my official Top Ten? They both are equal, and every film here is entitled to name itself "One of the Year's 10 Best!"
Alphabetically:
¶ The Top 10 Mainstream Films
Bad Lieutenant.
On each of two lists.
The lists are divided into Mainstream Films and Independent Films. This neatly sidesteps two frequent complaints: (1) "You name all those little films most people have never heard of," and (2) "You pick all blockbusters and ignore the indie pictures." Which is is my official Top Ten? They both are equal, and every film here is entitled to name itself "One of the Year's 10 Best!"
Alphabetically:
¶ The Top 10 Mainstream Films
Bad Lieutenant.
- 12/30/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Our previous article putting the spotlight on Carey Mulligan says it all. But there are those who still wonder: Who is Carey Mulligan? That's completely understandable since many have not seen Mulligan act on the big screen. To those who attended this year's Sundance, they already have a very good idea of what she's capable of - in terms of acting, that is.
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
- 7/19/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Our previous article putting the spotlight on Carey Mulligan says it all. But there are those who still wonder: Who is Carey Mulligan? That's completely understandable since many have not seen Mulligan act on the big screen. To those who attended this year's Sundance, they already have a very good idea of what she's capable of - in terms of acting, that is.
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
- 7/19/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Our previous article putting the spotlight on Carey Mulligan says it all. But there are those who still wonder: Who is Carey Mulligan? That's completely understandable since many have not seen Mulligan act on the big screen. To those who attended this year's Sundance, they already have a very good idea of what she's capable of - in terms of acting, that is.
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
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This film, An Education, will give Mulligan or any up and coming young actress the best introduction they could ever dream of...
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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood, dreaming of a rarefied, Gauloise-scented existence as she sings along to Juliette Greco in her Twickenham bedroom. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. Meanwhile, she's a diligent student, excelling in every...
- 7/19/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
We have the first poster in from Sony Pictures Classics' "An Education," starring Peter Sarsgaard, Olivia Williams, Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Dominic Cooper, Matthew Beard, Rosumund Pike and Sally Hawkins. Lone Scherfig directs from the screenplay written by Nick Hornby based on the memoir by journalist Lynn Barber. Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey produced fiulm opens on October 9th in limited areas.
- 7/17/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Danish director Lone Scherfig's new movie An Education is one of the finest movies I've seen so far this year and definitely one I'll be gunning for come Oscar time (and I am in good company). Based on the memoir by Lynn Barber and delicately adapted by Nick Hornby, An Education stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, an Oxford-bound schoolgirl who finds the excitement she's been yearning for with David, a smooth operator played by Peter Sarsgaard. (As if dating a much older man who takes her out to parties, art auctions, and horse races isn't edgy enough in 1961, he's also Jewish. Oy!) James Rocchi wrote an excellent review of An Education from Sundance.
David manages to win her strict parents over (Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour) and as their relationship progresses, she transforms into an ultrachic '60s girl who brings her giggling friends perfume back from Paris. Olivia Williams...
David manages to win her strict parents over (Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour) and as their relationship progresses, she transforms into an ultrachic '60s girl who brings her giggling friends perfume back from Paris. Olivia Williams...
- 7/17/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
An Education is the 'coming-of-age' drama based on an autobiographical memoir of the same title written by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig, from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, featuring an ensemble cast led by actor Carey Mulligan. Premise follows 'Jenny' (Carey Mulligan), a young girl on the eve of her 17th birthday who suddenly finds herself in a whirlwind romance with the much older 'David' (Peter Sarsgaard). An Education will open October 2009...
- 7/15/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
If you're not excited about An Education, you haven't been paying attention. One of the most acclaimed movies of the Sundance Film Festival and already considered a lock by many for a Best Picture nominee, it's hitting the festival circuit later this year and will debut in theaters on October. I've been hearing hype for so long without seeing a single minute of film, but now, at least, there's a trailer to show off what everyone's gotten so worked up about. And yes, it looks fantastic. Based on a memoir by Lynn Barber, the film stars Carey Mulligan as a teenage girl who starts a relationship with an older man (Peter Sarsgaard) amid the stuffy social confines of 1960s England. You can see everything else you need to know in the trailer, which you can watch below or see in high-res at Yahoo! Movies. It's definitely worth a look. <!--...
- 7/15/2009
- cinemablend.com
Here's a trailer for the coming-of-age drama An Education, starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard.Premiering at this year's Sundance festival to some excitement, it's a fictionalised, names-changed version of journalist Lynn Barber’s unusual memoir, in which as a teenage overachieving schoolgirl she flirts with the London criminal underworld at the risk of her place at Oxford.It was originally published in the quarterly anthology Granta, but now constitutes the title story in Barber's collection of autobiographical sketches.The screenplay is by Fever Pitch / High Fidelity author Nick Hornby, and the similarly pitch-hitting cast also includes Rosamund Pike, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, and The History Boys' Dominic Cooper.The director is the Danish Lone Scherfig, whose sole previous English-language outing is the sweetly oddball Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself from 2002. If the trailer looks like a standard period drama with a May-to-December relationship at its centre, rest assured...
- 7/15/2009
- EmpireOnline
Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for An Education, a film which was subject to one of the few intense bidding wars at this year’s Sundance. Jenny is a top A-level student who has hopes of attending university at Oxford in the early 1960's, but she meets a charismatic older man (Peter Sarsgaard) who offers an exciting alternative of seeing and experiencing life. The story is adapted from Lynn Barber's memoirs by British novelist Nick Hornby, best known to Americans as the writer of the books High Fidelity, About A Boy and Fever Pitch. The film features a notable performance from Carey Mulligan. After seeing this picture, you too will be convinced she could be the next big thing. Watch the trailer after the jump and leave your thoughts in the comments below. Full Official Plot Synopsis: An Education is the story of a teenage girl’s...
- 7/14/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
If you're not a rabid Oscar watcher or film festival devotee, you may not yet be obsessing over An Education, Lone Scherfig's film that was the hit of Sundance and is poised to be one of the major awards contenders next fall. I haven't seen it yet, so I have no idea how it stands up to the hype, but the publicity campaign is going forward in earnest with the newly revealed one-sheet, posted at Movie City News. The film, based on Lynn Barber's memoir and adapted by none other than Nick Hornby, stars Carey Mulligan as a 16-year-old girl growing up in 1960s England and starting an affair with an older man (Peter Sarsgaard). The poster doesn't quite capture that whole age-inappropriate thing-- Sarsgaard is Photoshopped within an inch of his life-- but still looks great regardless. Check out a smaller version below.
- 7/14/2009
- cinemablend.com
Here's something that may surprise some of you. Learning over the last month that The Human Factor, Eastwood's once Untitled Nelson Mandela Picture, was not a biopic but a sports drama of sorts with biopic ready characters (Nelson Mandela and World Cup star Francois Pienaar) did not deter my prediction that Oscar will love it.
Raats
The inspirational sports film is a regular staple of the multiplex. Most of them come and go with nary an Oscar blip. It's kind of the ugly stepchild within the family of stories Oscar really loves, the true story period piece. I expect this is because everyone thinks of these films as a formulaic paint-by-numbers subgenre that doesn't require artistry so much as predictable story beats, swelling music and one recognizable manly star (Quaid, Washington, McConaughey... take your pick). Every once in a while, though, this overly populated genre does attract Academy eyeballs (Chariots of Fire,...
Raats
The inspirational sports film is a regular staple of the multiplex. Most of them come and go with nary an Oscar blip. It's kind of the ugly stepchild within the family of stories Oscar really loves, the true story period piece. I expect this is because everyone thinks of these films as a formulaic paint-by-numbers subgenre that doesn't require artistry so much as predictable story beats, swelling music and one recognizable manly star (Quaid, Washington, McConaughey... take your pick). Every once in a while, though, this overly populated genre does attract Academy eyeballs (Chariots of Fire,...
- 4/13/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
London -- U.K. indie distributor E1 Films has snapped up U.K. and Irish rights to Lone Scherfig's "An Education" from sales and finance house Odyssey Entertainment.
A Nick Hornby adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir, "An Education" was financed by BBC Films and James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment. The distribution deal was negotiated by E1 Films director Alex Hamilton and Odyssey's CEO Ralph Kamp.
Directed by Scherfig and produced by Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this month, scooping the world cinema audience award as well as the world cinema cinematography award.
The cast includes Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Olivia Williams and is a late addition to the Berlin Film Festival lineup.
The film is produced by Finola Dwyer Prods. and Wildgaze Films.
A Nick Hornby adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir, "An Education" was financed by BBC Films and James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment. The distribution deal was negotiated by E1 Films director Alex Hamilton and Odyssey's CEO Ralph Kamp.
Directed by Scherfig and produced by Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this month, scooping the world cinema audience award as well as the world cinema cinematography award.
The cast includes Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Olivia Williams and is a late addition to the Berlin Film Festival lineup.
The film is produced by Finola Dwyer Prods. and Wildgaze Films.
- 1/27/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An Education: Subject to an intense bidding war at this year’s Sundance, An Education has been sold to Sony Pictures Classics, which most likely means that nobody is going to see it unless it gets nominated for some awards at years end. The good news is that Carey Mulligan’s performance is nominatable. This is the type of film that you watch and say “Wow, who is this gir? Where did she come from?” Mark this on your wall right now - Carey Mulligan is going to be huge. I’m 100% convinced of this!
The story is adapted from Lynn Barber’s memoirs by British novelist Nick Hornby, best known to Americans as the writer of the books High Fidelity, About A Boy and Fever Pitch. Jenny is a top A-level student who has hopes of attending university at Oxford in the early 1960’s, but she meets a...
The story is adapted from Lynn Barber’s memoirs by British novelist Nick Hornby, best known to Americans as the writer of the books High Fidelity, About A Boy and Fever Pitch. Jenny is a top A-level student who has hopes of attending university at Oxford in the early 1960’s, but she meets a...
- 1/24/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
One of the audience and sales success stories at this year's Sundance Film Festival wound up on my screening schedule late in the week through the cruel editorial equations of film festival journalism: An Education became a film I should see because I should see it. There had been praise for Nick Hornby's screenplay adaptation of Lynn Barber's memoir, a coming-of-age-story set in 1961 London; there were raves for Carey Mulligan's performance in the lead role; there was the news that Sony Pictures Classics had picked up the North American distribution rights for $3 million. Late in the festival, buzz and business both assured, An Education became a film to see if only to see if the hum and thrum of the week prior was in fact right.
An Education opens with the sight of young girls balancing books atop their heads to improve their posture, learning ballroom dancing,...
An Education opens with the sight of young girls balancing books atop their heads to improve their posture, learning ballroom dancing,...
- 1/24/2009
- by James Rocchi
- Cinematical
When sitting down to watch a film penned by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy) you expect something lighthearted and emotional, with a bit of British humor. He's a British author after all. But An Education is different than what Hornby has written before. Perhaps because it's adapted from the memoir by Lynn Barber, or that it takes place in a post war style 60's England. The film is a coming of age story for young Jenny, played to perfection by an enchanting Carey Mulligan, who is swept off her feet by the apparently sophisticated David (Peter Sarsgaard). Director Lone Scherfig gives the film a light touch, bringing to mind classic sixties films from the era in which An Education is set. It's a bit ironic that two men were able to bring such understanding to the journey of Jenny, a girl who so much wants to be seen...
- 1/20/2009
- cinemablend.com
- Call it reverse psychology or just smart business practices, but after last year’s examples of big, un-bought films grabbing the headlines, and then fizzling out in full view of journos and buyers alike with no way to get rid of the negative stench in the air, it appears that the new trend is to go into Sundance with no buzz at all. THR reports that sellers might come into the festival and keep the expectations low. Here are some titles that we might see…. An EducationWritten by Nick Hornby and helmed by Lone Scherfig, this is an adapted the screenplay from a memoir by Lynn Barber. The story of a 17-year-old girl living in the quiet London suburbs. As the swinging '60s culture emerges, her world turns upside down after she meets a 35-year-old sportscar-driving Brit (Sarsgaard). He courts her with chic dinners, clubs and foreign trips,
- 11/26/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
The actress and model has lived a life of unparalleled excess: heroin addiction, alcoholism and affairs with Brian Jones and Keith Richards during her time on the road with the Stones. Now, as a recovering addict, and keen allotment holder, she reflects on the lost years and her journey back from the brink. By Lynn Barber
Context is all. If you saw Anita Pallenberg dressed in her glad-rags at, say, a Stones first-night party with her friend Marianne Faithfull, you might just recognise her as one of the great Sixties rock princesses, star of Performance, mother of two of Keith Richards's children. But these days, you'd be more likely to see her cycling to her allotment in Chiswick or attending a botanical drawing class at the Chelsea Physic Garden, in which case you wouldn't recognise her at all. She walks with a slight limp from repeated hip replacements and looks,...
Context is all. If you saw Anita Pallenberg dressed in her glad-rags at, say, a Stones first-night party with her friend Marianne Faithfull, you might just recognise her as one of the great Sixties rock princesses, star of Performance, mother of two of Keith Richards's children. But these days, you'd be more likely to see her cycling to her allotment in Chiswick or attending a botanical drawing class at the Chelsea Physic Garden, in which case you wouldn't recognise her at all. She walks with a slight limp from repeated hip replacements and looks,...
- 2/24/2008
- by Lynn Barber
- The Guardian - Film News
NEW YORK -- Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson will star in the 1960s coming-of-age drama An Education.
Writer Nick Hornby (About a Boy) adapted the screenplay from a memoir by Lynn Barber, published in literary magazine Granta. Endgame Entertainment and BBC Films are financing the film.
Danish director Lone Scherfig will helm the story of a 17-year-old girl (Mulligan) living in the quiet London suburbs. As the swinging '60s culture emerges, her world turns upside down after she meets a 35-year-old sportscar-driving Brit (Sarsgaard). He courts her with chic dinners, clubs and foreign trips, charming her father (Molina) but putting her future at Oxford University in jeopardy. Thompson plays the disapproving headmistress of her school.
Finola Dwyer (Backbeat) and Amanda Posey (Fever Pitch) are producing. Endgame CEO James D. Stern, Wendy Japhet, Douglas E. Hansen and BBC Films' David M. Thompson are executive producing. Principal photography is set to begin in late March in London.
The film will be Hornby's second produced screenplay after Pitch.
Writer Nick Hornby (About a Boy) adapted the screenplay from a memoir by Lynn Barber, published in literary magazine Granta. Endgame Entertainment and BBC Films are financing the film.
Danish director Lone Scherfig will helm the story of a 17-year-old girl (Mulligan) living in the quiet London suburbs. As the swinging '60s culture emerges, her world turns upside down after she meets a 35-year-old sportscar-driving Brit (Sarsgaard). He courts her with chic dinners, clubs and foreign trips, charming her father (Molina) but putting her future at Oxford University in jeopardy. Thompson plays the disapproving headmistress of her school.
Finola Dwyer (Backbeat) and Amanda Posey (Fever Pitch) are producing. Endgame CEO James D. Stern, Wendy Japhet, Douglas E. Hansen and BBC Films' David M. Thompson are executive producing. Principal photography is set to begin in late March in London.
The film will be Hornby's second produced screenplay after Pitch.
- 2/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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