Del director de ‘Corpus Christi’ y el guionista de ‘El Padre’.
Según The Hollywood Reporter, August Diehl y Andrea Riseborough protagonizarán “The Noise of Time”, del director Jan Komasa (“Corpus Christi”) y el guionista Christopher Hampton (“El Padre”).
Basada en el libro homónimo de Julian Barnes, la película es un drama sobre la vida del compositor ruso Dimitri Shostakovich y su esposa Nina. La película recorrerá la trayectoria de la vida y la carrera de Shostakóvich, comenzando en 1936, cuando el compositor de 30 años se enfrenta por primera vez a la ira de Stalin después de que una de sus óperas sea condenada como contrarrevolucionaria. Escapa a la ejecución, pero durante décadas Shostakovich se ve obligado a ser un representante cultural del Estado soviético, y lucha por mantener la integridad de su música.
El proyecto se presentará a los compradores en el mercado cinematográfico de Cannes esta semana.
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Según The Hollywood Reporter, August Diehl y Andrea Riseborough protagonizarán “The Noise of Time”, del director Jan Komasa (“Corpus Christi”) y el guionista Christopher Hampton (“El Padre”).
Basada en el libro homónimo de Julian Barnes, la película es un drama sobre la vida del compositor ruso Dimitri Shostakovich y su esposa Nina. La película recorrerá la trayectoria de la vida y la carrera de Shostakóvich, comenzando en 1936, cuando el compositor de 30 años se enfrenta por primera vez a la ira de Stalin después de que una de sus óperas sea condenada como contrarrevolucionaria. Escapa a la ejecución, pero durante décadas Shostakovich se ve obligado a ser un representante cultural del Estado soviético, y lucha por mantener la integridad de su música.
El proyecto se presentará a los compradores en el mercado cinematográfico de Cannes esta semana.
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- 5/14/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.
Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...
- 6/14/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
New Delhi, May 21 (Ians) A day after ‘The Zone of Interest’, the Jonathan Glazer film based on the novel of the same by Martin Amis received a rapturous ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, the celebrated British writer passed on at the age of 73.
Famous for his caricatures of what he perceived as the absurdities of “late capitalist” Western society, Martin Amis succumbed to oesophagal cancer at his Florida home, reports BBC, quoting ‘The New York Times’.
Coming from literary nobility — his father was the famous novelist, Sir Kingsley ‘Lucky Jim’ Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard was his stepmother — Amis was hailed by ‘TheTimes’ as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 and he’s best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989), and for his memoir, ‘Experience’ (2000).
‘The Guardian’ has called Amis “an influential author of era-defining novels” and noted that he was “among the celebrated group of novelists,...
Famous for his caricatures of what he perceived as the absurdities of “late capitalist” Western society, Martin Amis succumbed to oesophagal cancer at his Florida home, reports BBC, quoting ‘The New York Times’.
Coming from literary nobility — his father was the famous novelist, Sir Kingsley ‘Lucky Jim’ Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard was his stepmother — Amis was hailed by ‘TheTimes’ as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 and he’s best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989), and for his memoir, ‘Experience’ (2000).
‘The Guardian’ has called Amis “an influential author of era-defining novels” and noted that he was “among the celebrated group of novelists,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The theatre and film actor on staging a pair of Julian Barnes stories, playing Emperor Palpatine, and finding peace in isolation
Ian McDiarmid, 77, has distinguished himself as a theatrical all-rounder. He made his name on stage as an actor of incisive authority and is internationally known as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films. Between 1990 and 2002, he ran – with Jonathan Kent – the Almeida theatre in London with tremendous flair. He is touring a one-man show, The Lemon Table – his adaptation of a pair of acerbically funny Julian Barnes stories: one about Sibelius in old age, the other about a sixtysomething concert-goer with zero tolerance for coughers, chatterers and mobile-phone users.
What first drew you to Julian Barnes’s stories?
I recorded The Silence for Radio 3 for an interval in the Proms in 2004 and thought there was dramatic potential in it. I had a nice letter from Julian Barnes encouraging me to think about it more.
Ian McDiarmid, 77, has distinguished himself as a theatrical all-rounder. He made his name on stage as an actor of incisive authority and is internationally known as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films. Between 1990 and 2002, he ran – with Jonathan Kent – the Almeida theatre in London with tremendous flair. He is touring a one-man show, The Lemon Table – his adaptation of a pair of acerbically funny Julian Barnes stories: one about Sibelius in old age, the other about a sixtysomething concert-goer with zero tolerance for coughers, chatterers and mobile-phone users.
What first drew you to Julian Barnes’s stories?
I recorded The Silence for Radio 3 for an interval in the Proms in 2004 and thought there was dramatic potential in it. I had a nice letter from Julian Barnes encouraging me to think about it more.
- 11/7/2021
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Harriet Walter bring class to this restrained adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel
This pensive but not entirely faithful adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker prize-winning novel is seeded with recurring images of circles. There’s the cycle of life: Tony (Jim Broadbent) receives news of a death just as his daughter is about to give birth; then, in a deceptively amiable Werther’s Original narration at the film’s opening, Tony conjures up the image of life as a series of holding patterns, concentric circles that you navigate as you wait for the next stage to start.
This urge for closure – to loop back to a moment in the past – is a common theme in drama featuring older people. In the unexpected ingress to a lost moment of youth, and in the presence of Charlotte Rampling in a key role, the film evokes Andrew Haigh’s masterly 45 Years.
This pensive but not entirely faithful adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker prize-winning novel is seeded with recurring images of circles. There’s the cycle of life: Tony (Jim Broadbent) receives news of a death just as his daughter is about to give birth; then, in a deceptively amiable Werther’s Original narration at the film’s opening, Tony conjures up the image of life as a series of holding patterns, concentric circles that you navigate as you wait for the next stage to start.
This urge for closure – to loop back to a moment in the past – is a common theme in drama featuring older people. In the unexpected ingress to a lost moment of youth, and in the presence of Charlotte Rampling in a key role, the film evokes Andrew Haigh’s masterly 45 Years.
- 4/16/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Broadbent gives a droll, well-judged performance in this adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker-winner about a blast from the past of a grumpy divorcee
Jim Broadbent gives an engaging and sympathetic performance in this movie, directed by Ritesh Batra (known for his Mumbai-set heartwarmer The Lunchbox) and adapted by Nick Payne from the 2011 Booker-winning novel by Julian Barnes, who is to be glimpsed fleetingly in the background of a pub scene.
It is a film with an intriguing premise and it’s never anything other than watchable and well acted. But, considering that the story is about suicide and forbidden love, it is oddly desiccated, detached, even passionless sometimes. Despite the title, and despite the emphasis on the lead character’s supposed attainment of emotional closure, there is no satisfying sense of an ending. The flashbacks to the leading character’s 1960s youth are important for giving the story depth and drama,...
Jim Broadbent gives an engaging and sympathetic performance in this movie, directed by Ritesh Batra (known for his Mumbai-set heartwarmer The Lunchbox) and adapted by Nick Payne from the 2011 Booker-winning novel by Julian Barnes, who is to be glimpsed fleetingly in the background of a pub scene.
It is a film with an intriguing premise and it’s never anything other than watchable and well acted. But, considering that the story is about suicide and forbidden love, it is oddly desiccated, detached, even passionless sometimes. Despite the title, and despite the emphasis on the lead character’s supposed attainment of emotional closure, there is no satisfying sense of an ending. The flashbacks to the leading character’s 1960s youth are important for giving the story depth and drama,...
- 4/5/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – “The Sense of an Ending” is a highfalutin title, automatically putting most folks into book club mode. It is adapted from a novel, and the narrative has the same page turning-type rhythm. An old man, portrayed by Jim Broadbent, is encountering his past, while his current situation remains untenable.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The “ending” is what the story is driving towards, and it involves a past that is hard to grasp in the complexities, since it involves university days, girlfriends, best friends, parents and post adolescent anger. There is a secret among all this, which is buried under layers of feelings and the years. We are all products of our past, and what haunts us about it defines much of our emotional make up. That is the theme of “The Sense of an Ending,” and that theme is established early and is not much affected by the reveal of what actually happened.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The “ending” is what the story is driving towards, and it involves a past that is hard to grasp in the complexities, since it involves university days, girlfriends, best friends, parents and post adolescent anger. There is a secret among all this, which is buried under layers of feelings and the years. We are all products of our past, and what haunts us about it defines much of our emotional make up. That is the theme of “The Sense of an Ending,” and that theme is established early and is not much affected by the reveal of what actually happened.
- 3/17/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out….but mostly movies.
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
This Past Weekend:
It was absolutely no surprise that Hugh Jackman’s last Wolverine movie Logan would top the box office, but it actually ended up doing even better than my prediction when actual numbers came in, grossing $88.3 million over the weekend. That makes it the fourth highest X-Movie opening (including Deadpool) but also the biggest R-rated opening for March, defeating 300’s once-impressive $70 million opening. It’s also the fourth highest R-rated opening of all time after Deadpool, The Matrix Reloaded and American Sniper.
The bigger surprise was how well Jordan Peele’s thriller Get Out held up in its second weekend, not only because it was going up against Logan, but also because high-profile horror films tend...
- 3/8/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Two films into his career, Ritesh Batra has found a refreshing way to build stories around familiar frameworks. His 2014 debut “The Lunchbox” revolved around love letters between unknown writers, but there was a distinct charm that elevated the film above a simple romance. His sophomore effort “The Sense of an Ending,” an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ 2011 novel, follows another well-worn path, that of a man reconciling first love and fateful decisions of decades past. But it’s how both of these premises evolve that show Batra’s willingness to embrace the full scope of life’s experiences.
“The Sense of an Ending” finds Tony, a retired owner of a small camera shop in Tufnell Park, receiving a vague letter addressed to him from the distant past, tied to the family of a lover from his university days. When he goes to collect the promised attached personal effects, Tony also discovers...
“The Sense of an Ending” finds Tony, a retired owner of a small camera shop in Tufnell Park, receiving a vague letter addressed to him from the distant past, tied to the family of a lover from his university days. When he goes to collect the promised attached personal effects, Tony also discovers...
- 1/6/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending, starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling, will kick off the 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 2-16, while Taylor Hackford’s The Comedian, starring Robert De Niro, will serve as the closing night film.
Sense will have its world premiere when it screens as the opening night film on Jan. 5. An adaptation of the Julian Barnes novel, the feature, which will be released by CBS Films, on March 10, concerns a man looking back on the path his life has taken. It also stars Harriet...
Sense will have its world premiere when it screens as the opening night film on Jan. 5. An adaptation of the Julian Barnes novel, the feature, which will be released by CBS Films, on March 10, concerns a man looking back on the path his life has taken. It also stars Harriet...
- 12/15/2016
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) have all joined the cast of The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of Ending. They join the previously announced Jim Broadbent in the big screen adaptation of 2011 Man Booker Prize winner by Julian Barnes. Playwright Nick Payne (Constellations) is adapting the book. Also joining for the cast are Billy Howle (soon to be seen opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan…...
- 8/7/2015
- Deadline
Us acquisitions teams in Cannes continued to swirl around prestige titles and packages heading into Saturday night including Competition selection The Lobster starring Colin Farrell.
With bids on Miles Teller starrer Bleed For This up to $3m and Lionsgate reportedly nearing a deal on A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks, activity is heating up.
Buyers are also pursuing the Nazi assassination thriller Hhhh, Bryan Cranston crime drama The Infiltrator and Julian Barnes adaptation The Sense Of A Ending.
The Chadwick Boseman action thriller Message From The King is winning admirers and there is interest in A Willing Patriot with Liam Neeson.
Alchemy has reportedly picked up Us rights to Gaspar Noé’s Midnight screening Love.
With bids on Miles Teller starrer Bleed For This up to $3m and Lionsgate reportedly nearing a deal on A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks, activity is heating up.
Buyers are also pursuing the Nazi assassination thriller Hhhh, Bryan Cranston crime drama The Infiltrator and Julian Barnes adaptation The Sense Of A Ending.
The Chadwick Boseman action thriller Message From The King is winning admirers and there is interest in A Willing Patriot with Liam Neeson.
Alchemy has reportedly picked up Us rights to Gaspar Noé’s Midnight screening Love.
- 5/16/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
This week’s biggest upcoming project was one so weird that we needed a few days to process it. It has been called Godzilla meets Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (possibly even Lost in Translation for good measure), and if it seems like those two titles don’t add up in anyway whatsoever, you’re not far off.
The movie is Colossal, and THR reports is set to star Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays a woman returning to her hometown from New York after losing her job. Upon returning home, she discovers that a giant lizard is attacking Tokyo, and she feels strangely connected to the incident via her mind.
Colossal isn’t even some tongue-in-cheek Spike Jonze project but coming from Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), and aiming to be sold at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. “Colossal is my most ambitious script so far, and probably also the most personal one.
The movie is Colossal, and THR reports is set to star Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays a woman returning to her hometown from New York after losing her job. Upon returning home, she discovers that a giant lizard is attacking Tokyo, and she feels strangely connected to the incident via her mind.
Colossal isn’t even some tongue-in-cheek Spike Jonze project but coming from Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), and aiming to be sold at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. “Colossal is my most ambitious script so far, and probably also the most personal one.
- 5/14/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Ritesh Batra nabbed attention at Cannes 2013 with his Critics' Week drama "The Lunchbox," released by Sony Pictures Classics in February 2014 and a 2015 Baft nominee. Now the Indian director is returning to the Croisette with Cannes market title "The Sense of an Ending," lifted from Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel. Jim Broadbent is attached to star. Penned by Nick Payne, whose Broadway play "Constellations" led by Jake Gyllenhaal got a Tony nomination, the film follows a retired man who receives an unexpected letter from a lawyer that forces him to confront his own past — and unfulfilling present — including the suicide of his childhood best friend. The film marks Payne's first screenplay. FilmNation, which has a spate of Cannes market titles this year including films from Tom Ford and Pedro Almodovar, holds worldwide rights and will co-finance with BBC Films. Origin Pictures’ David Thompson ("Woman in Gold") and Ed Rubin are.
- 5/11/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Armando Iannucci is to work on a film adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with the BBC.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
- 3/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Armando Iannucci is to work on a film adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with the BBC.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
- 3/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Ricky Gervais, James Marsh, Armando Iannucci films on slate.
BBC Films has revealed details of its upcoming slate, which includes new projects from Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci, James Marsh and Ritesh Batra.
The slate of projects was revealed during an event in London to celebrate the 25th birthday of BBC Films, whose first first theatrical production, Truly Madly Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, was released in 1990.
As previously reported, Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
The adaptation is the debut screenplay of award-winning playwright Nick Payne and tells the story of Tony Webster, whose comfortable world is rocked to its foundations by the emergence of an explosive letter from his careless youth.
David Thompson will produce for Origin Pictures.
Rafe Spall is confirmed for Swallows and Amazons, a reinvention of Arthur Ransome’s classic. Written by Andrea Gibb, the film will...
BBC Films has revealed details of its upcoming slate, which includes new projects from Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci, James Marsh and Ritesh Batra.
The slate of projects was revealed during an event in London to celebrate the 25th birthday of BBC Films, whose first first theatrical production, Truly Madly Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, was released in 1990.
As previously reported, Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
The adaptation is the debut screenplay of award-winning playwright Nick Payne and tells the story of Tony Webster, whose comfortable world is rocked to its foundations by the emergence of an explosive letter from his careless youth.
David Thompson will produce for Origin Pictures.
Rafe Spall is confirmed for Swallows and Amazons, a reinvention of Arthur Ransome’s classic. Written by Andrea Gibb, the film will...
- 3/25/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Arthur & George: ITV, 9pm
Martin Clunes delivers a nuanced, winning performance as Sherlock Holmes's creator, as this three-part serial based on Julian Barnes' novel continues.
In part two, Arthur starts to stir up trouble when he confronts the officers who investigated the case of the Wyrley Ripper - can he prove that George (Arsher Ali) is innocent?
Criminal Minds: Sky Living, 9pm
The Bau are back from mid-season hiatus, with Sky picking up season 10 from episode 11, 'The Forever People'.
The discovery of frozen bodies in Lake Nevada leads the FBI profilers to a dangerous cult, but Jj (Aj Cook) throws the case - and herself - into jeopardy when she recklessly confronts a serial killer on her own.
The Walking Dead: Fox, 9pm
Last week featured this dystopian drama's most shocking moment yet, as grizzled Rick Grimes *gasp* shaved off his mighty beard - where can...
Martin Clunes delivers a nuanced, winning performance as Sherlock Holmes's creator, as this three-part serial based on Julian Barnes' novel continues.
In part two, Arthur starts to stir up trouble when he confronts the officers who investigated the case of the Wyrley Ripper - can he prove that George (Arsher Ali) is innocent?
Criminal Minds: Sky Living, 9pm
The Bau are back from mid-season hiatus, with Sky picking up season 10 from episode 11, 'The Forever People'.
The discovery of frozen bodies in Lake Nevada leads the FBI profilers to a dangerous cult, but Jj (Aj Cook) throws the case - and herself - into jeopardy when she recklessly confronts a serial killer on her own.
The Walking Dead: Fox, 9pm
Last week featured this dystopian drama's most shocking moment yet, as grizzled Rick Grimes *gasp* shaved off his mighty beard - where can...
- 3/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Martin Clunes plays Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ITV’s entertaining new 3-part detective mystery based on Julian Barnes’ Arthur & George…
This review contains spoilers.
It’s a great story: internationally celebrated crime writer turns detective to exonerate wrongfully convicted man. That’s the juicy real-life premise of ITV’s new three-part drama, Arthur & George, adapted from Julian Barnes’ 2005 novel of the same name. Imagine if Enid Blyton had run a side line catching smuggling gangs on Cornish islands, or Agatha Christie had spent her weekends accusing real-life aristos of poisoning their wife’s lemon posset. TV would salivate at the prospect and understandably so. Life rarely imitates art so neatly.
Arthur & George’s premise isn’t only neat, but as a period crime detective show (the default settings of modern TV drama) about real-life racism, injustice and spookiness featuring the creator of fiction’s most famous sleuth, it ticks...
This review contains spoilers.
It’s a great story: internationally celebrated crime writer turns detective to exonerate wrongfully convicted man. That’s the juicy real-life premise of ITV’s new three-part drama, Arthur & George, adapted from Julian Barnes’ 2005 novel of the same name. Imagine if Enid Blyton had run a side line catching smuggling gangs on Cornish islands, or Agatha Christie had spent her weekends accusing real-life aristos of poisoning their wife’s lemon posset. TV would salivate at the prospect and understandably so. Life rarely imitates art so neatly.
Arthur & George’s premise isn’t only neat, but as a period crime detective show (the default settings of modern TV drama) about real-life racism, injustice and spookiness featuring the creator of fiction’s most famous sleuth, it ticks...
- 3/2/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Arthur & George: ITV, 9pm
Martin Clunes delivers a strong and measured performance in this new ITV drama, playing Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Adapted from Julian Barnes's novel, Arthur & George is based on real events, following Conan Doyle as he fights to free a young man (Arsher Ali) falsely accused of a violent crime.
Mom: ITV2, 9pm
The critics' favourite Us sitcom starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney returns to the UK with its second season.
Back with a double-bill, Mom continues the exploits of single mother Christy (Faris) and her no-nonsense mother Bonnie (Janney).
Moone Boy: Sky1, 9pm
Chris O'Dowd's charming sitcom about a young boy who gets through life with the help of his imaginary friend returns tonight.
One week after her superb Catastrophe ended, Sharon Horgan is back on our screens with a guest spot in this opening episode.
The Walking Dead: Fox,...
Martin Clunes delivers a strong and measured performance in this new ITV drama, playing Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Adapted from Julian Barnes's novel, Arthur & George is based on real events, following Conan Doyle as he fights to free a young man (Arsher Ali) falsely accused of a violent crime.
Mom: ITV2, 9pm
The critics' favourite Us sitcom starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney returns to the UK with its second season.
Back with a double-bill, Mom continues the exploits of single mother Christy (Faris) and her no-nonsense mother Bonnie (Janney).
Moone Boy: Sky1, 9pm
Chris O'Dowd's charming sitcom about a young boy who gets through life with the help of his imaginary friend returns tonight.
One week after her superb Catastrophe ended, Sharon Horgan is back on our screens with a guest spot in this opening episode.
The Walking Dead: Fox,...
- 3/2/2015
- Digital Spy
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
- 2/18/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Martin Clunes stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a new trailer for ITV's Arthur & George.
The three-part series is based on the Julian Barnes novel of the same name, covering true events in the life of the Sherlock Holmes creator.
Following the death of his wife, Conan Doyle is encouraged to find something to occupy himself with. He soon discovers the case of George Edalji (Arsher Ali), who has been wrongly accused of several high-profile crimes.
Accompanied by his servant Alfred 'Woodie' Wood (Charles Edwards), the novelist sets out to prove George Edalji's innocence.
The series also takes a look at Conan Doyle's relationship with younger woman Jean Leckie, who eventually became his second wife.
Other cast members in the series include Art Malik, Emma Fielding, Hattie Morahan and Sandra Voe.
Arthur & George is written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness, Waking The Dead).
The three-part series is based on the Julian Barnes novel of the same name, covering true events in the life of the Sherlock Holmes creator.
Following the death of his wife, Conan Doyle is encouraged to find something to occupy himself with. He soon discovers the case of George Edalji (Arsher Ali), who has been wrongly accused of several high-profile crimes.
Accompanied by his servant Alfred 'Woodie' Wood (Charles Edwards), the novelist sets out to prove George Edalji's innocence.
The series also takes a look at Conan Doyle's relationship with younger woman Jean Leckie, who eventually became his second wife.
Other cast members in the series include Art Malik, Emma Fielding, Hattie Morahan and Sandra Voe.
Arthur & George is written by Ed Whitmore (Silent Witness, Waking The Dead).
- 2/10/2015
- Digital Spy
Ritesh Batra, director of Indian hit The Lunchbox, is in advanced talks to direct an adaptation of award-winning novel The Sense of An Ending.
The film, based on Julian Barnes story of a retired man looking back on an old friendship, is in advanced development with UK production outfit Origin Pictures and is also backed by BBC Films.
The adaptation has been scripted by Nick Payne.
Origin boss David Thompson said of the project: “We’ve been overwhelmed by offers and we are going to be making that this year.”
Also on Origin’s Efm slate is crime drama Silencers, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh and billed as “a thrilling story of a unit of young policemen who combat gun crime”.
Also backed by BBC Films, the drama is likely to shoot this year, directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders).
Meanwhile, Origin’s Charles Dickens’ adaptation A Tale Of Two Cities, scripted by [link...
The film, based on Julian Barnes story of a retired man looking back on an old friendship, is in advanced development with UK production outfit Origin Pictures and is also backed by BBC Films.
The adaptation has been scripted by Nick Payne.
Origin boss David Thompson said of the project: “We’ve been overwhelmed by offers and we are going to be making that this year.”
Also on Origin’s Efm slate is crime drama Silencers, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh and billed as “a thrilling story of a unit of young policemen who combat gun crime”.
Also backed by BBC Films, the drama is likely to shoot this year, directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders).
Meanwhile, Origin’s Charles Dickens’ adaptation A Tale Of Two Cities, scripted by [link...
- 2/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
TCA 2015: Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered two new “Masterpiece” dramas and two documentary series on nuclear weapons
PBS has inked a co-production deal with BBC and BBC Worldwide, PBS’s president and CEO Paula A. Kerger announced during Monday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.
Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered a new Civil War drama series produced by Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) and two new “Masterpiece” series. Also, PBS will produce two new documentary specials focusing on nuclear weapons.
Under the BBC pact, the companies plan to produce eight to 10 new specials to begin premiering as early as this summer.
PBS has inked a co-production deal with BBC and BBC Worldwide, PBS’s president and CEO Paula A. Kerger announced during Monday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena.
Additionally, the broadcaster has ordered a new Civil War drama series produced by Ridley Scott (“Gladiator”) and two new “Masterpiece” series. Also, PBS will produce two new documentary specials focusing on nuclear weapons.
Under the BBC pact, the companies plan to produce eight to 10 new specials to begin premiering as early as this summer.
- 1/19/2015
- by Jethro Nededog
- The Wrap
New cast members for the upcoming ITV drama Arthur & George have been announced.
Arsher Ali, Art Malik and Emma Fielding will star alongside Martin Clunes on the show.
Clunes is to play Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Ali (Four Lions, Complicit) will play George Edalji, and Malik (The Jewel in the Crown, True Lies) will play Reverend Shapurji Edalji.
Fielding (Silk, Dci Banks) will play Charlotte Edalji while Charles Edwards, Hattie Morahan and Sandra Voe also star.
Julian Barnes's novel Arthur & George, on which the series in based, tells the true story of George Edalji, a wrongly convicted man whose quest for freedom was championed by Conan Doyle.
It also explores the fascinating personal life of the Sherlock Holmes writer.
The three-parter will be written by Silent Witness and Waking the Dead scribe Ed Whitmore.
Arsher Ali, Art Malik and Emma Fielding will star alongside Martin Clunes on the show.
Clunes is to play Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Ali (Four Lions, Complicit) will play George Edalji, and Malik (The Jewel in the Crown, True Lies) will play Reverend Shapurji Edalji.
Fielding (Silk, Dci Banks) will play Charlotte Edalji while Charles Edwards, Hattie Morahan and Sandra Voe also star.
Julian Barnes's novel Arthur & George, on which the series in based, tells the true story of George Edalji, a wrongly convicted man whose quest for freedom was championed by Conan Doyle.
It also explores the fascinating personal life of the Sherlock Holmes writer.
The three-parter will be written by Silent Witness and Waking the Dead scribe Ed Whitmore.
- 9/26/2014
- Digital Spy
A+E Networks UK Orders British Version Of ‘Dance Moms’ The UK is getting the first format adaptation of Lifetime’s U.S. reality series Dance Moms. A+E Networks UK has ordered a British version the show, to be titled Dance Mums. Shiver, part of ITV Studios, will produce eight hourlong episodes of the show, which will be fronted by actress and dance Jennifer Ellison, whose Liverpool dance school Fame Academy provides the setting. Dance Mums is due to air this year. Network Ten Bringing Fake Prince Harry Reality Show To Australia Network Ten has acquired Shine International’s upcoming reality series I Wanna Marry ‘Harry’ for Australia. Co-produced by Zig Zag Productions and Ryan Seacrest Productions, the eight-episode series features 12 women competing for their chance to marry “Prince Harry”, while living at an English estate. But there is a catch: It’s not actually Prince Harry but imposter Matthew Hicks.
- 5/15/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Martin Clunes is to play Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an ITV drama.
The high-profile series will be based on the novel Arthur & George by Julian Barnes.
The three-parter will be written by Silent Witness and Waking the Dead scribe Ed Whitmore.
ITV has also commissioned Line of Duty producer World Productions to make Code of a Killer, a two-part DNA-based crime thriller which tells the story of the first major UK case that was solved using DNA profiling.
Written by Michael Crompton, Code of a Killer will be directed by James Strong (Broadchurch). David Threlfall will star as Dcs David Barker, following his recent outing for ITV as Tommy Cooper in Not Like That, Like This.
ITV's director of television, channels and online Peter Fincham spoke about the channel's recent successful dramas, citing Tommy Cooper biopic Not Like That, Like This, The Widower and Prey. He...
The high-profile series will be based on the novel Arthur & George by Julian Barnes.
The three-parter will be written by Silent Witness and Waking the Dead scribe Ed Whitmore.
ITV has also commissioned Line of Duty producer World Productions to make Code of a Killer, a two-part DNA-based crime thriller which tells the story of the first major UK case that was solved using DNA profiling.
Written by Michael Crompton, Code of a Killer will be directed by James Strong (Broadchurch). David Threlfall will star as Dcs David Barker, following his recent outing for ITV as Tommy Cooper in Not Like That, Like This.
ITV's director of television, channels and online Peter Fincham spoke about the channel's recent successful dramas, citing Tommy Cooper biopic Not Like That, Like This, The Widower and Prey. He...
- 5/13/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Origin develops film and TV roster as execs Rubin, Marshall promoted.
Origin Pictures has promoted long-time head of development Ed Rubin to head of film and TV and development executive Claire Marshall to head of development.
The UK film and TV outfit, producers of BBC mini-series Jamaica Inn and horror film The Awakening, is currently in development on a number of film and TV projects with ITV, BBC and the BFI.
On its film slate, Origin is developing playwright Nick Payne’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending with BBC Films, and Silencers, a Manchester-set police thriller from Control and Nowhere Boy writer Matt Greenhalgh with the BFI.
TV projects in development include a contemporary London-set crime series written by Ed Whitmore for ITV, an original multi-part drama about female spies during WWII from Crimson Petal & the White adaptor Lucinda Coxon for the BBC, and [link=nm...
Origin Pictures has promoted long-time head of development Ed Rubin to head of film and TV and development executive Claire Marshall to head of development.
The UK film and TV outfit, producers of BBC mini-series Jamaica Inn and horror film The Awakening, is currently in development on a number of film and TV projects with ITV, BBC and the BFI.
On its film slate, Origin is developing playwright Nick Payne’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending with BBC Films, and Silencers, a Manchester-set police thriller from Control and Nowhere Boy writer Matt Greenhalgh with the BFI.
TV projects in development include a contemporary London-set crime series written by Ed Whitmore for ITV, an original multi-part drama about female spies during WWII from Crimson Petal & the White adaptor Lucinda Coxon for the BBC, and [link=nm...
- 3/25/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Origin develops film and TV roster as execs Rubin, Marshall promoted.
Origin Pictures has promoted long-time head of development Ed Rubin to head of film and TV and development executive Claire Marshall to head of development.
The UK film and TV outfit, producers of BBC mini-series Jamaica Inn and horror film The Awakening, is currently in development on a number of film and TV projects with ITV, BBC and the BFI.
On its film slate, Origin is developing playwright Nick Payne’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending with BBC Films, and Silencers, a Manchester-set police thriller from Control and Nowhere Boy writer Matt Greenhalgh with the BFI.
TV projects in development include a contemporary London-set crime series written by Ed Whitmore for ITV, an original multi-part drama about female spies during WWII from Crimson Petal & the White adaptor Lucinda Coxon for the BBC, and [link=nm...
Origin Pictures has promoted long-time head of development Ed Rubin to head of film and TV and development executive Claire Marshall to head of development.
The UK film and TV outfit, producers of BBC mini-series Jamaica Inn and horror film The Awakening, is currently in development on a number of film and TV projects with ITV, BBC and the BFI.
On its film slate, Origin is developing playwright Nick Payne’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending with BBC Films, and Silencers, a Manchester-set police thriller from Control and Nowhere Boy writer Matt Greenhalgh with the BFI.
TV projects in development include a contemporary London-set crime series written by Ed Whitmore for ITV, an original multi-part drama about female spies during WWII from Crimson Petal & the White adaptor Lucinda Coxon for the BBC, and [link=nm...
- 3/25/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
The novelist talks to Emma Brockes about friendship, rivalry and being a '30-year overnight success'
Fiction asks a lot of people, says Meg Wolitzer, "to tell them that you need to learn about these characters, to take time out in your day from being frightened for your livelihood and your children, to think about Susan and Bill, who don't exist. It's a nervy thing to ask." She asks it of herself every time she sits down to write – "What fiction ought to do" – and the answer had better be good. "The anxiety makes me a stronger writer."
The Interestings, Wolitzer's ninth novel, is more ambitious than any she has written so far, tracking a group of friends from the moment they meet, at summer camp, up through the decades of their lives. It has done very well in the Us, so that at 54, Wolitzer has become, as a friend joked to her recently,...
Fiction asks a lot of people, says Meg Wolitzer, "to tell them that you need to learn about these characters, to take time out in your day from being frightened for your livelihood and your children, to think about Susan and Bill, who don't exist. It's a nervy thing to ask." She asks it of herself every time she sits down to write – "What fiction ought to do" – and the answer had better be good. "The anxiety makes me a stronger writer."
The Interestings, Wolitzer's ninth novel, is more ambitious than any she has written so far, tracking a group of friends from the moment they meet, at summer camp, up through the decades of their lives. It has done very well in the Us, so that at 54, Wolitzer has become, as a friend joked to her recently,...
- 8/10/2013
- by Emma Brockes
- The Guardian - Film News
Broadchurch's ending was known only to a handful of insiders before it was broadcast – and none of them blabbed. Is 'saving the surprise' good news for both artists and audiences?
The late Tony Newton was a fairly obscure Conservative minister of the Major era. But there is a case for arguing that, in modern culture, we are – to adapt David Cameron's recent claim about a female Tory prime minister – all Newtonians now.
The politician, who peaked as John Major's secretary of state for social security, is credited with having kept an astonishing political secret: Major's long affair, before becoming prime minister, with Edwina Currie. Newton, a ministerial colleague, had been told for logistical reasons (in case the lovers needed to be summoned back to the Commons for an emergency vote) but, with almost inhuman levels of discretion, kept it to himself.
And, though he was never a leadership candidate in politics,...
The late Tony Newton was a fairly obscure Conservative minister of the Major era. But there is a case for arguing that, in modern culture, we are – to adapt David Cameron's recent claim about a female Tory prime minister – all Newtonians now.
The politician, who peaked as John Major's secretary of state for social security, is credited with having kept an astonishing political secret: Major's long affair, before becoming prime minister, with Edwina Currie. Newton, a ministerial colleague, had been told for logistical reasons (in case the lovers needed to be summoned back to the Commons for an emergency vote) but, with almost inhuman levels of discretion, kept it to himself.
And, though he was never a leadership candidate in politics,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
January
10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.
18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.
24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.
- 1/5/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Julian Barnes reviews two very different interpretations of Cymbeline in the same TV cycle
Several furlongs understandably separate the left hand of the BBC from the right one. Only rarely, though, do we witness such a cameo of intermanual incomprehension as occurred last week within their Shakespeare cycle: the right hand seizing a hammer and snappishly nailing the left hand to the arm of the chair.
The Bardathon is generally impressive, rarely less than worthy, and often – by making available the obscurer plays – simply very useful. Its handmaiden series Shakespeare in Perspective (BBC2), in which specialist non-specialists sound off about the week's play, is, though usefully conceived, rather iffy in practice. Some of the temporary sages hired have been decidedly unnerved by the task of "introducing Shakespeare", able to handle it only by diving off into larky self-reference ("Gosh, fancy little me talking about big Bill …").
But besides this inner queasiness,...
Several furlongs understandably separate the left hand of the BBC from the right one. Only rarely, though, do we witness such a cameo of intermanual incomprehension as occurred last week within their Shakespeare cycle: the right hand seizing a hammer and snappishly nailing the left hand to the arm of the chair.
The Bardathon is generally impressive, rarely less than worthy, and often – by making available the obscurer plays – simply very useful. Its handmaiden series Shakespeare in Perspective (BBC2), in which specialist non-specialists sound off about the week's play, is, though usefully conceived, rather iffy in practice. Some of the temporary sages hired have been decidedly unnerved by the task of "introducing Shakespeare", able to handle it only by diving off into larky self-reference ("Gosh, fancy little me talking about big Bill …").
But besides this inner queasiness,...
- 7/14/2012
- by Julian Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The Pulitzer prize for fiction will not be awarded this year after the jury couldn't raise a majority for any of the candidates. But is this such a bad thing?
Alex Clark: Observer writer and former Booker prize judge
Just what the literary world needs – another judging spat! I confess that when I heard that the Pulitzer prize for fiction, due to be awarded to the best American novel of last year, was being kept in its cupboard because the committee couldn't reach a majority verdict about any one of the three finalists, my first thought was – good on them. Why do prize juries insist on pronouncing one book – or play, or work of art, or piece of music – worthy of attention and acclaim, even if they privately think that it wasn't all that, just the thing that drifted to the top of the pile or whose advocate had the...
Alex Clark: Observer writer and former Booker prize judge
Just what the literary world needs – another judging spat! I confess that when I heard that the Pulitzer prize for fiction, due to be awarded to the best American novel of last year, was being kept in its cupboard because the committee couldn't reach a majority verdict about any one of the three finalists, my first thought was – good on them. Why do prize juries insist on pronouncing one book – or play, or work of art, or piece of music – worthy of attention and acclaim, even if they privately think that it wasn't all that, just the thing that drifted to the top of the pile or whose advocate had the...
- 4/21/2012
- by Alex Clark, Nick Fraser
- The Guardian - Film News
A roundup of the best culture stories in the Guardian and elsewhere, a look at the weekend's activity on the web, in case you missed it, plus share your arts and culture tips and links
Our top stories today
David Cronenberg: analyse this
Interview: Exploding heads, Ballardian pile-ups – and a spot of spanking with Keira Knightley. Does David Cronenberg need therapy? No, he says: he's just a regular guy.
Lucian Freud Portraits
Five stars
Review: The National Portrait Gallery's tremendous show celebrates the unexpected moments that were ever present in the artist's work.
Ebenezer Scrooge named most popular Dickens character
News: Penguin Books poll to mark 200th anniversary of author's birth reveals miser from A Christmas Carol as best loved.
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats
News: Harry Potter star describes Nick Clegg as 'whipping boy' of Tories and says he will vote Labour.
Best of the rest...
Our top stories today
David Cronenberg: analyse this
Interview: Exploding heads, Ballardian pile-ups – and a spot of spanking with Keira Knightley. Does David Cronenberg need therapy? No, he says: he's just a regular guy.
Lucian Freud Portraits
Five stars
Review: The National Portrait Gallery's tremendous show celebrates the unexpected moments that were ever present in the artist's work.
Ebenezer Scrooge named most popular Dickens character
News: Penguin Books poll to mark 200th anniversary of author's birth reveals miser from A Christmas Carol as best loved.
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats
News: Harry Potter star describes Nick Clegg as 'whipping boy' of Tories and says he will vote Labour.
Best of the rest...
- 2/6/2012
- by Theresa Malone
- The Guardian - Film News
In The Library Book, published for National Libraries Day on 4 February, twenty-three of the UK’s most outstanding writers describe libraries real or imagined, past, present, and future – why they matter and to whom.
Recognising that without libraries we would not have the writers of today and tomorrow, The Library Book’s contributors are all donating their royalties to The Reading Agency, the independent charity working to inspire more people to read more.
Included in the book are Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett, Michael Brooks, James Brown, Ann Cleeves, Stephen Fry, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lucy Mangan, Val McDermid, China Miéville, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Julie Myerson, Bali Rai, Lionel Shriver, Karin Slaughter, Zadie Smith and Nicky Wire.
Read more...
Recognising that without libraries we would not have the writers of today and tomorrow, The Library Book’s contributors are all donating their royalties to The Reading Agency, the independent charity working to inspire more people to read more.
Included in the book are Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett, Michael Brooks, James Brown, Ann Cleeves, Stephen Fry, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lucy Mangan, Val McDermid, China Miéville, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Julie Myerson, Bali Rai, Lionel Shriver, Karin Slaughter, Zadie Smith and Nicky Wire.
Read more...
- 2/2/2012
- Look to the Stars
Continuing live coverage of the Golden Globe awards from Los Angles with Hadley Freeman and Joshua Alston
• All times Et
7:00pm: Hadley – Hello and welcome all to the start of the Golden Globes liveblog. So far I've been watching an hour of the red carpet coverage on E! and already feel like I'm slightly on E: so many bright colours! And overenthusiastic people! And no one making any sense!
High points so far include George Clooney showing off his latest blonde girlfriend (who, in a certain light, reminds me a lot of his aunt Rosemary, although she has yet to break out into a rendition of Sisters, Rosemary's most famous song), and Ricky Gervais being Ricky Gervais-ish.
7.13pm: Joshua – Evening Hadley! Looking forward to watching this year's installment of "Ricky Gervais Rankles The Glitterati…and Also Awards!" with you.
As always, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association offered its...
• All times Et
7:00pm: Hadley – Hello and welcome all to the start of the Golden Globes liveblog. So far I've been watching an hour of the red carpet coverage on E! and already feel like I'm slightly on E: so many bright colours! And overenthusiastic people! And no one making any sense!
High points so far include George Clooney showing off his latest blonde girlfriend (who, in a certain light, reminds me a lot of his aunt Rosemary, although she has yet to break out into a rendition of Sisters, Rosemary's most famous song), and Ricky Gervais being Ricky Gervais-ish.
7.13pm: Joshua – Evening Hadley! Looking forward to watching this year's installment of "Ricky Gervais Rankles The Glitterati…and Also Awards!" with you.
As always, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association offered its...
- 1/16/2012
- by Joshua Alston, Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
He has just ended a busy year by playing Aung San Suu Kyi's husband in a lush biopic. But is David Thewlis actually dreaming of being the next Buñuel?
'You don't often get scripts like this landing on the doorstep," David Thewlis remarks, fingernails idly digging at the skin of a satsuma. "It came along in a very unusual fashion: Luc Besson called me out of the blue one night when I was at home, painting. I didn't even know he had my number. So I was surprised, and even more surprised to be given an offer – I want you to play a lead in my new film."
The film was The Lady, a powerful account of the personal and political struggles of the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. At the film's heart lies the relationship between Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband Dr Michael Aris...
'You don't often get scripts like this landing on the doorstep," David Thewlis remarks, fingernails idly digging at the skin of a satsuma. "It came along in a very unusual fashion: Luc Besson called me out of the blue one night when I was at home, painting. I didn't even know he had my number. So I was surprised, and even more surprised to be given an offer – I want you to play a lead in my new film."
The film was The Lady, a powerful account of the personal and political struggles of the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. At the film's heart lies the relationship between Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband Dr Michael Aris...
- 1/4/2012
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
From The King's Speech to the Great British Bake Off, this year's arts winners ignored the safety-first rules of surviving a downturn
The year began and now ends with an odd little movie, showing an unusual approach to dialogue, becoming an improbable smash. Released in January, The King's Speech, which struggled to be funded and then to be filmed, conjured a global box office triumph and four-Oscar haul from the story of a character who could barely speak. Going even further, The Artist, coming out at the end of this month, seems likely to repeat the feat with characters who never talk at all.
This cinematic neatness is more than coincidence. It's a shibboleth of recessions that consumers become cautious, drawn to proven brands, a theory producers use to excuse a slew of remakes and sequels. But a rare hopeful aspect of the economic emergency is that this has been...
The year began and now ends with an odd little movie, showing an unusual approach to dialogue, becoming an improbable smash. Released in January, The King's Speech, which struggled to be funded and then to be filmed, conjured a global box office triumph and four-Oscar haul from the story of a character who could barely speak. Going even further, The Artist, coming out at the end of this month, seems likely to repeat the feat with characters who never talk at all.
This cinematic neatness is more than coincidence. It's a shibboleth of recessions that consumers become cautious, drawn to proven brands, a theory producers use to excuse a slew of remakes and sequels. But a rare hopeful aspect of the economic emergency is that this has been...
- 12/24/2011
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
Shane Meadows's This Is England '88 provided the outstanding dramatic moments of the week while there was worrying news for bookworms in Imagine
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This Is England, Shane Meadows's coruscating, dark, joyous and hauntingly watchable drama following a gang of friends, desperately amiable misfits, growing up before our eyes in a chill northern town, first exploded on to the big screen five years ago and has now had two TV sequels – the film was set in 1983, the follow-ups in '86 and '88. It is fast becoming not just a drama but our collective memory of the years most of us have lived through together.
We can relive them, and reflect. On all the changes, for good and for ill, the speed of which we...
This is England '88 (C4) | 4Od
Tourettes: I Swear I Can Sing (BBC3) | iPlayer
Imagine: Books – The Last Chapter? (BBC1) | iPlayer
Class Dismissed (BBC2) | iPlayer
This Is England, Shane Meadows's coruscating, dark, joyous and hauntingly watchable drama following a gang of friends, desperately amiable misfits, growing up before our eyes in a chill northern town, first exploded on to the big screen five years ago and has now had two TV sequels – the film was set in 1983, the follow-ups in '86 and '88. It is fast becoming not just a drama but our collective memory of the years most of us have lived through together.
We can relive them, and reflect. On all the changes, for good and for ill, the speed of which we...
- 12/18/2011
- by Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
The golden envelope is opened. It's your name. And then what? Four award winners talk to Shahesta Shaitly about life after the applause
It's the awards season, the time of nominations, shortlists and statuettes. And if you happen to be up for one, whether it be employee of the month or the gong for best vegetable patch, you'll be in the spotlight. But imagine how much more intense it would be if, as with the Oscars, you knew that more than a billion people across the planet were settling down to watch your reactions and judge your acceptance speech.
Natalie Portman, winner of the best actress Oscar for Black Swan, cautions winners to remain grounded, saying: "When you start valuing yourself based on other people's accolades, it is a little dangerous, because then you have to start valuing yourself based on other people's insults, too."
Julian Barnes, once described the...
It's the awards season, the time of nominations, shortlists and statuettes. And if you happen to be up for one, whether it be employee of the month or the gong for best vegetable patch, you'll be in the spotlight. But imagine how much more intense it would be if, as with the Oscars, you knew that more than a billion people across the planet were settling down to watch your reactions and judge your acceptance speech.
Natalie Portman, winner of the best actress Oscar for Black Swan, cautions winners to remain grounded, saying: "When you start valuing yourself based on other people's accolades, it is a little dangerous, because then you have to start valuing yourself based on other people's insults, too."
Julian Barnes, once described the...
- 12/18/2011
- by Shahesta Shaitly
- The Guardian - Film News
An essential collection for serious comics fans
Paul Gravett's 2005 compendium Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life set a standard not just for excellence but also for immodest titles. At first glance, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die seems to crank up the cockiness even further. However, this book is just part of Cassell's trademarked series of guides to paintings, movies, buildings, historic sites and other cultural highlights you must sample before your demise. Gravett's role is that of editor, collating articles written by 65 contributors from all over the world. The medium's ongoing struggle for respect is underlined by the fact that, despite this international community of lecturers, museum curators and historians, the cover blurb still feels the need to tell you that "comics are emphatically no longer just for kids".
Terry Gilliam, accorded equal billing with Gravett, seems to have been roped in mainly for his celebrity value,...
Paul Gravett's 2005 compendium Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life set a standard not just for excellence but also for immodest titles. At first glance, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die seems to crank up the cockiness even further. However, this book is just part of Cassell's trademarked series of guides to paintings, movies, buildings, historic sites and other cultural highlights you must sample before your demise. Gravett's role is that of editor, collating articles written by 65 contributors from all over the world. The medium's ongoing struggle for respect is underlined by the fact that, despite this international community of lecturers, museum curators and historians, the cover blurb still feels the need to tell you that "comics are emphatically no longer just for kids".
Terry Gilliam, accorded equal billing with Gravett, seems to have been roped in mainly for his celebrity value,...
- 12/8/2011
- by Michel Faber
- The Guardian - Film News
Forty years ago my main regular writing spot was a weekly page of general commentary on the arts for the New Statesman, and due to the current discussion provoked by Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending and the appearance of Rod Lurie's 40th anniversary remake of Straw Dogs, two of the items in the column of 2 December 1971 have a certain topical interest. One is about the third winner of the Booker prize, of which I observed: "Vs Naipaul's In a Free State is a splendid book but is it, as the Booker conditions demand, a full-length novel?"
The other is about a film that had opened the previous week: "I was at the press show for Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, and rarely have I experienced such a palpable sense of shock and disgust sweep through an audience. Peckinpah is an artist I admire immensely and I wouldn't want to ban his film,...
The other is about a film that had opened the previous week: "I was at the press show for Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, and rarely have I experienced such a palpable sense of shock and disgust sweep through an audience. Peckinpah is an artist I admire immensely and I wouldn't want to ban his film,...
- 11/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Author Julian Barnes has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
His novel The Sense of an Ending beat out books written by Carol Birch, Patrick DeWitt and A.D. Miller for the coveted literary honour.
Barnes has previously been shortlisted for the award three times - for Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur & George - but he has never won.
His novel The Sense of an Ending beat out books written by Carol Birch, Patrick DeWitt and A.D. Miller for the coveted literary honour.
Barnes has previously been shortlisted for the award three times - for Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur & George - but he has never won.
- 10/19/2011
- WENN
This week's news in the arts
When President Assad or Colonel Gaddafi watches Star Wars – which surely sometimes happens – whatever do they make of it? Do they tut and nod about the sad necessity of Darth Vader's strong leadership, and the difficulty of finding a good henchman nowadays? I ask because, among the many stories told about dictators (usually by men), very few are on the tyrant's side.
By far the largest group are the biographies and based-ons. George Orwell neither fooled anybody, nor tried to, with his meticulous allegory of Stalin's Russia, Animal Farm. Unusually, the book begins with a dictator's overthrow, when farmer Jones is defeated, then shows Napoleon the pig's slow progress towards becoming his replacement.
Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler in Downfall has become perhaps the most memorable performance in the category, thanks partly to its brilliance, but mostly to its aptness for revision on YouTube.
When President Assad or Colonel Gaddafi watches Star Wars – which surely sometimes happens – whatever do they make of it? Do they tut and nod about the sad necessity of Darth Vader's strong leadership, and the difficulty of finding a good henchman nowadays? I ask because, among the many stories told about dictators (usually by men), very few are on the tyrant's side.
By far the largest group are the biographies and based-ons. George Orwell neither fooled anybody, nor tried to, with his meticulous allegory of Stalin's Russia, Animal Farm. Unusually, the book begins with a dictator's overthrow, when farmer Jones is defeated, then shows Napoleon the pig's slow progress towards becoming his replacement.
Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler in Downfall has become perhaps the most memorable performance in the category, thanks partly to its brilliance, but mostly to its aptness for revision on YouTube.
- 8/24/2011
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
University Challenge
So did you see it? The great TV event of the week -- nay, of the year -- took place on Monday. I'm talking, bien sur, about the final of "University Challenge" -- the program wherein teams of four students from the greatest universities in the land, and some less great ones, square off against each other in the hopes of being named Brainiest Brainbox Boffin Brains. The way it works, if you don't live in the country or are the sort of backward half-mind who doesn't watch "University Challenge" and prefers to live in your pigswill-stained hovel with no books, is that the teams have to buzz to answer one question that is open to both of them, and upon winning that starter question, get to tackle three more.
Or, as the fabulous Jeremy Paxman put it at the start of the show, "if you don't know the rules by now,...
So did you see it? The great TV event of the week -- nay, of the year -- took place on Monday. I'm talking, bien sur, about the final of "University Challenge" -- the program wherein teams of four students from the greatest universities in the land, and some less great ones, square off against each other in the hopes of being named Brainiest Brainbox Boffin Brains. The way it works, if you don't live in the country or are the sort of backward half-mind who doesn't watch "University Challenge" and prefers to live in your pigswill-stained hovel with no books, is that the teams have to buzz to answer one question that is open to both of them, and upon winning that starter question, get to tackle three more.
Or, as the fabulous Jeremy Paxman put it at the start of the show, "if you don't know the rules by now,...
- 4/8/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Literary biopics cater not to the boring truth, but to the illusion that writers are drunk, mad, sex-obsessed geniuses
"Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?" Julian Barnes poses these questions in Flaubert's Parrot, his fictional biography of Gustave Flaubert. Perhaps, as readers, we enjoy the amateur detective work that literary biographies offer. We like to excavate the lives of famous authors and uncover the experiences that might have shaped their stories.
The problem is, writers' lives don't always make for great cinema. If writers are any good, it's usually because they spend weeks alone, in a room, with a computer (or paper if they're old-school).
Literary biopics usually cater to the fantasy that writers are drunk, mad, sex-obsessed geniuses inspired by the holy spirit (50% proof). Think Henry Miller (Henry and June), William Burroughs (Naked Lunch...
"Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?" Julian Barnes poses these questions in Flaubert's Parrot, his fictional biography of Gustave Flaubert. Perhaps, as readers, we enjoy the amateur detective work that literary biographies offer. We like to excavate the lives of famous authors and uncover the experiences that might have shaped their stories.
The problem is, writers' lives don't always make for great cinema. If writers are any good, it's usually because they spend weeks alone, in a room, with a computer (or paper if they're old-school).
Literary biopics usually cater to the fantasy that writers are drunk, mad, sex-obsessed geniuses inspired by the holy spirit (50% proof). Think Henry Miller (Henry and June), William Burroughs (Naked Lunch...
- 2/16/2010
- by Evan Maloney
- The Guardian - Film News
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