Have you ever performed in a language that is not your own? Whether you grew up in a bilingual household or mastered a foreign tongue in school, speaking more than one language can be a major asset as an actor. Need proof? Here are 21 stars who have delivered their best work in two (or more!) languages. Salma HayekHayek made her debut on the Mexican soap opera “Teresa” before breaking into Hollywood in the early 1990s. She has starred in over 40 films and on numerous television shows in both English and Spanish, and frequently draws on her Mexican heritage even in English-speaking roles. Christoph WaltzMost famous for his excellent collaborations with Quentin Tarantino in “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained,” the Austrian-born Waltz trained in New York but spent most of his later career working on stage and screen in Germany. Kristin Scott ThomasOscar-nominated for her role in 1996’s “The English Patient,...
- 8/14/2017
- backstage.com
James Haven, the multi-hyphenate brother of Angelina Jolie, has signed on to direct the sci-fi/fantasy movie “The Last Boy” for Traffic City Productions, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Josh Monkarsh, Asher Levin and Kristin Scott Irving will produce the indie movie. Milo Addica wrote the script, which is based on Thomas M. Burby’s novel “The Last Boy on Earth.” Set in the present-day cities of Bangor and Brewer in central Maine following the advent of an airborne virus that has ravaged humanity, the story follows a teenager named Brady, the last boy on Earth, as he searches for fellow survivors of the.
- 3/24/2016
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Have you ever performed in a language that is not your own? Whether you grew up in a bilingual household or mastered a foreign tongue in school, speaking more than one language can be a major asset as an actor. Need proof? Here are 21 stars who have delivered their best work in two (or more!) languages. Salma HayekHayek made her debut on the Mexican soap opera “Teresa” before breaking into Hollywood in the early 1990s. She has starred in over 40 films and on numerous television shows in both English and Spanish, and frequently draws on her Mexican heritage even in English-speaking roles. Christoph WaltzMost famous for his excellent collaborations with Quentin Tarantino in “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django Unchained,” the Austrian-born Waltz trained in New York but spent most of his later career working on stage and screen in Germany. Kristin Scott ThomasOscar-nominated for her role in 1996’s “The English Patient,...
- 12/1/2015
- backstage.com
Kristin Scott Thomasplays the Queen in a new and updated version ofPeter Morgan'sThe Audience.Stephen Daldry's production is now in previews at the Apollo Theatre, with press night on5 May 2015and is booking to25 July 2015.The Audiencehas designs by Bob Crowley, with lighting by Rick Fisher, sound by Paul Arditti and music by Paul Englishby. Check out a first look at the productionin photosbelow...
- 4/24/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
• Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights alum Jesse Plemons is the latest name to emerge in the Star Wars: Episode VII casting rumor mill. According to The Wrap, Plemons is flying to Los Angeles to audition for director J.J. Abrams for the highly secretive Disney/Lucasfilm project, which is scheduled for a Dec. 18, 2015, release. Franchise originals Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill are all expected to return, but the cast still remains a mystery. Other recent rumors have included Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Sullivan Stapleton. [The Wrap]
• NCIS vet Code De Pablo has joined The 33, which tells the tale...
• NCIS vet Code De Pablo has joined The 33, which tells the tale...
- 1/10/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Continuing our countdown of the best movies of the past year, Peter Bradshaw celebrates a brilliant and brutal anti-revenge film
• The 10 best films of 2013, No 10 - Wadjda
• The 10 best films of 2013, No 9 - I Wish
• The 10 best films of 2013: Have your say
Nicolas Winding Refn's brilliant, bizarre and ultraviolent anti-revenge movie Only God Forgives is his most interesting work since the Pusher trilogy in the Mads Mikkelsen era. It is put together with lethal strangeness: there are bad-dream setpieces of sentimentality and nauseous black comedy. The film takes place in a universe of fear, a place of deepsea-unreality in which you need to breathe through special gills. It is a tragi-exploitation shocker, an enriched uranium-cake of pulp.
Ryan Gosling is the expatriate American gangster Julian, lying low in Bangkok and running a drug business under the cover of a Muay Thai boxing club, co-managed with his psychotic brother,...
• The 10 best films of 2013, No 10 - Wadjda
• The 10 best films of 2013, No 9 - I Wish
• The 10 best films of 2013: Have your say
Nicolas Winding Refn's brilliant, bizarre and ultraviolent anti-revenge movie Only God Forgives is his most interesting work since the Pusher trilogy in the Mads Mikkelsen era. It is put together with lethal strangeness: there are bad-dream setpieces of sentimentality and nauseous black comedy. The film takes place in a universe of fear, a place of deepsea-unreality in which you need to breathe through special gills. It is a tragi-exploitation shocker, an enriched uranium-cake of pulp.
Ryan Gosling is the expatriate American gangster Julian, lying low in Bangkok and running a drug business under the cover of a Muay Thai boxing club, co-managed with his psychotic brother,...
- 12/11/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Pascal Bonitzer's good-looking family drama may be conventional but it's extremely well acted
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In this attractive family drama, Pascal Bonitzer, a former critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, is surprisingly close to the traditional, neatly turned middle-class cinéma de papa that Truffaut and other new wave directors scorned. Both of them exuding characteristic intelligence, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Kristin Scott Thomas play a well-off Parisian couple with an adolescent son. He's a professor of Chinese culture teaching a class for business executives preparing to work in China, she's an avant-garde theatre director, their marriage is approaching the rocks, and he can't bring himself to tell her that he hasn't managed to get his pompous father, a senior judge, to obtain a visa extension for a Serbian relative of hers. It's like a Haneke plot turned into a comforting boulevard play, but it's...
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In this attractive family drama, Pascal Bonitzer, a former critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, is surprisingly close to the traditional, neatly turned middle-class cinéma de papa that Truffaut and other new wave directors scorned. Both of them exuding characteristic intelligence, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Kristin Scott Thomas play a well-off Parisian couple with an adolescent son. He's a professor of Chinese culture teaching a class for business executives preparing to work in China, she's an avant-garde theatre director, their marriage is approaching the rocks, and he can't bring himself to tell her that he hasn't managed to get his pompous father, a senior judge, to obtain a visa extension for a Serbian relative of hers. It's like a Haneke plot turned into a comforting boulevard play, but it's...
- 8/12/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicolas Winding Refn is the latest in a long line of directors to find inspiration among plastic dolls
Only God Forgives 2013
For years, Kristin Scott Thomas has been trashing her brittle English upper-classness in French films, but anglophone audiences who still think of her as posh Fiona from Four Weddings and a Funeral might get a shock when they see her in Nicolas Winding Refn's ultra-violent revenge parable. Sample dialogue: "And how many cocks can you 'entertain' with that cute little cum-dumpster of yours?"
Her Crystal is an abrasive, chain-smoking, bottle-blonde Messalina tottering around in fuck-me shoes and too much eye makeup, wielding Virginia Slims as though they were deadly weapons. She's the Barbie from hell, as if Paris Hilton had suddenly lived 20 more years and had a personality transplant from Lucy Liu in Kill Bill: Volume 1. Just as the hotel chain heiress apparently modelled her own makeover on Mattel's fashion doll,...
Only God Forgives 2013
For years, Kristin Scott Thomas has been trashing her brittle English upper-classness in French films, but anglophone audiences who still think of her as posh Fiona from Four Weddings and a Funeral might get a shock when they see her in Nicolas Winding Refn's ultra-violent revenge parable. Sample dialogue: "And how many cocks can you 'entertain' with that cute little cum-dumpster of yours?"
Her Crystal is an abrasive, chain-smoking, bottle-blonde Messalina tottering around in fuck-me shoes and too much eye makeup, wielding Virginia Slims as though they were deadly weapons. She's the Barbie from hell, as if Paris Hilton had suddenly lived 20 more years and had a personality transplant from Lucy Liu in Kill Bill: Volume 1. Just as the hotel chain heiress apparently modelled her own makeover on Mattel's fashion doll,...
- 5/30/2013
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, France/Denmark)
Official Competition
The pop pleasure and genre subversion of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive was enough to bewitch the majority of its viewers, but beneath its surface sensations were some fundamental filmmaking issues. In his new film, which also stars Ryan Gosling in vapid-stare mode, everything that covered up the bullshit is gone, leaving a hollow core of Refn’s cinema exposed. With minimal dialogue, Refn relies on the strength of his visual prowess and the presence of his actors. However, both of those "qualities" are entirely lacking: Refn has an inability to construct coherent space, and his caricatural figures stare and curse and fight without resonating as anything beyond mannequins (and I don't mean this in an interesting way). Taking place almost entirely in seedy Thai clubs and dark street exteriors, Refn tries to paste an Oedipal allegory onto a Bangkok...
Official Competition
The pop pleasure and genre subversion of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive was enough to bewitch the majority of its viewers, but beneath its surface sensations were some fundamental filmmaking issues. In his new film, which also stars Ryan Gosling in vapid-stare mode, everything that covered up the bullshit is gone, leaving a hollow core of Refn’s cinema exposed. With minimal dialogue, Refn relies on the strength of his visual prowess and the presence of his actors. However, both of those "qualities" are entirely lacking: Refn has an inability to construct coherent space, and his caricatural figures stare and curse and fight without resonating as anything beyond mannequins (and I don't mean this in an interesting way). Taking place almost entirely in seedy Thai clubs and dark street exteriors, Refn tries to paste an Oedipal allegory onto a Bangkok...
- 5/27/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Jessica Alba, Pierce Brosnan and Kristin Scott (ex-Thomas?) are set to headline the romantic comedy How to Make Love Like an Englishman, as it was announced today by people from Southpaw Entertainment, Irish Dreamtime and Envision Entertainment. The film was written by Matthew Newman and will be directed by Tom Vaughan. The film will be introduced at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The story follows Brosnan’s character, a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister, pregnant. “’How to Make Love...
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- 5/9/2013
- by Vesna Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Jessica Alba, Pierce Brosnan and Kristin Scott are set to headline the romantic comedy How to Make Love Like an Englishman , Southpaw Entertainment.s Richard B. Lewis, Irish Dreamtime.s Beau St. Clair and Envision Entertainment.s Grant Cramer announced today. The film was written by Matthew Newman and will be directed by Tom Vaughan. The Solution Entertainment Group.s Lisa Wilson has come on board to handle international rights for the picture and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. In the film, Pierce Brosnan stars as a Cambridge University professor who meets his match in Kristin Scott Thomas, and is forced to re-evaluate his life of hedonistic excess after he manages to get Jessica Alba, her graduate student stepsister, pregnant. .'How...
- 5/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Ryan Gosling gives and gets more beatings in two new trailers for his gritty drama Only God Forgives. It’s in the same vein as previous promotional materials, which paint his reunion with Drive helmer Nicolas Winding Refn as a bloody tale of revenge. The film centers on Julian (Gosling), an American exile living in Thailand. He’s running a boxing ring as a front for a drug business, and along the way his brother is murdered. Story: Ryan Gosling: Indie Megastar Who Asks to Get His Ass Kicked Julian’s response to the murder doesn’t sit well with his mother (Kristin Scott
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- 4/18/2013
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yes, so the Cannes Film Festival lineup dropped this morning and there is a lot to talk about (and we'll be getting to that soon) but there are two things we know: Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives" will be there, and it's still one of our most anticipated movies in the south of France. And even better, hot on the heels of the Cannes announcement this morning comes two brand new international trailer that is just as eye-poppingly badass as the first teaser. The French trailer forgoes the "Tur Kue Kwam Fun (Music Box Version)"-driven American spot and gives up a bit more of the actual plot, and all we can say is: Kristin Scott Fucking Thomas. Playing the matriarch of a drug empire, she looks to be an absolute powerhouse in the role, with Ryan Gosling doing his mostly silent thing as a man (forced?) to...
- 4/18/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Ryan Gosling and Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn are back together with the first trailer for Only God Forgives. Like his previous collaboration with Refn, Gosling once again seems to be playing a tough guy of few words, in a film the star recently told The Hollywood Reporter was "much more extreme" than Drive. Gosling plays Julian, an exiled American running a boxing club in Thailand as a front for a drug business. Story: Ryan Gosling: Indie Megastar Who Asks to Get His Ass Kicked The trailer for the crime drama starts with a voiceover from Gosling’s mother (Kristin Scott
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- 4/4/2013
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Creepy classroom voyeurism gives this poised French drama the promise of a big payoff, but it all ebbs away
François Ozon's new movie is a black-comic psychological drama with poise and self-possession. Featuring Fabrice Luchini and Kristin Scott Thomas, how could it have anything else? It begins grippingly, like something by Claude Chabrol, and yet the film's suspense begins to leak before the end and the comic and serious sides don't quite mesh. At one stage, there is a visit to the cinema to see Match Point – and, in fact, In the House does oddly come to resemble a goodish late-period Woody Allen. Luchini plays Germain, a high-school teacher of French literature; his wife, Jeanne, (Scott Thomas) runs a gallery, featuring bizarre and sexually explicit conceptual art. Germain is bored and depressed with his job, but is one day galvanised by the creative-writing assignments being handed in by talented...
François Ozon's new movie is a black-comic psychological drama with poise and self-possession. Featuring Fabrice Luchini and Kristin Scott Thomas, how could it have anything else? It begins grippingly, like something by Claude Chabrol, and yet the film's suspense begins to leak before the end and the comic and serious sides don't quite mesh. At one stage, there is a visit to the cinema to see Match Point – and, in fact, In the House does oddly come to resemble a goodish late-period Woody Allen. Luchini plays Germain, a high-school teacher of French literature; his wife, Jeanne, (Scott Thomas) runs a gallery, featuring bizarre and sexually explicit conceptual art. Germain is bored and depressed with his job, but is one day galvanised by the creative-writing assignments being handed in by talented...
- 3/29/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The English Patient star talks about her big breakthrough, bad reviews – and why her worst performance is always screening on cable TV
What first drew you to acting?
Wanting to be somebody else. As a child, I played dress-up with great conviction. I'd walk to the village shop wearing my mother's clothes, pretending I was somebody different.
What was your big breakthrough?
There are the obvious ones, like The English Patient or Four Weddings. But on a more personal level, it was when I played Bérénice at the Avignon festival [in 2001]. I hadn't done any theatre since drama school. God knows what the performance was like, but to be able to go out on stage independent of any machinery was incredibly powerful.
Do you suffer for your art?
Frequently – though I'm talking "suffer" in inverted commas. You do get lonely; you're torn in every direction. And if you've had a long career,...
What first drew you to acting?
Wanting to be somebody else. As a child, I played dress-up with great conviction. I'd walk to the village shop wearing my mother's clothes, pretending I was somebody different.
What was your big breakthrough?
There are the obvious ones, like The English Patient or Four Weddings. But on a more personal level, it was when I played Bérénice at the Avignon festival [in 2001]. I hadn't done any theatre since drama school. God knows what the performance was like, but to be able to go out on stage independent of any machinery was incredibly powerful.
Do you suffer for your art?
Frequently – though I'm talking "suffer" in inverted commas. You do get lonely; you're torn in every direction. And if you've had a long career,...
- 3/13/2013
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
In conjunction with news that hit on Monday, ScreenDaily have reported that both Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz will make a (quick) reunion with Pedro Almodóvar on his next film, Standby Lovers. The extent of their work will only require one day of production — my condolences if you wanted more the duo — but this scene will, somewhat amazingly, mark the first time they’ve ever worked together. (Hard as that is to believe.)
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
- 6/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
I can only imagine how many girls will hang the latest Bel Ami poster on their ceiling. Robert Pattinson takes center stage in this poster and is surrounded by very beautiful, but awfully obvious photoshopped, co-stars Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas. Again I can only imagine how many teenagers putting photos of their faces over the Bel Ami co-stars.
Check out the latest poster for Guy da Maupassant’s Bel Ami Starring Robert Pattinson:
Premiere on VOD on May 4th and opening in theaters on June 8th, Guy de Maupassant’s adaptation of Bel Ami stars Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott.
Here’s the synopsis for Bel Ami:
Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth,...
Check out the latest poster for Guy da Maupassant’s Bel Ami Starring Robert Pattinson:
Premiere on VOD on May 4th and opening in theaters on June 8th, Guy de Maupassant’s adaptation of Bel Ami stars Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott.
Here’s the synopsis for Bel Ami:
Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth,...
- 3/30/2012
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
In 1947 the former English professor, drama critic and leading MGM producer Albert Lewin wrote and directed a fascinating version of Maupassant's 1885 novel Bel Ami about the upward progress of the charming, untalented journalist Duroy (nicknamed "Bel Ami") in a corrupt late-19th-century Paris where the press are in cahoots with the politicians. George Sanders (who was Lord Henry Wotton in Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945) was marvellously suave (though somewhat too old) in the title role. Robert Pattinson, of current Twilight fame, plays Duroy in the fabulous-looking but oddly tepid movie debut of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, the joint founders of the Cheek by Jowl theatre company. Pattinson doesn't dominate the movie as one fancies a young Alain Delon would have done 50 years ago under the direction of, say, Roger Vadim. But the women he exploits with increasing confidence – Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci – are excellent,...
- 3/12/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Weinstein's New Label, Radius-twc, Acquires Latest Nicolas Winding Refn / Ryan Gosling Collaboration
The Weinstein Company's new label, Radius-twc, has nabbed U.S. rights to "Only God Forgives," the latest from "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn that sees him re-teaming with that film's star, Ryan Gosling. Kirstin Scott Thomas ("Sarah's Key") and Tom Burke ("Cheri") also star in the crime thriller. Those scared off by the violence in "Drive" should probably steer clear of Refn's latest. As he told Indiewire in Cannes, before winning Best Director over Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar and Lars von Trier, "["Only God Forgives"] has some violence… and then a lot of violence." Here's the synopsis per TWC: Julian (Ryan Gosling) is a former kickboxer and gangster living in Bangkok. When his brother is murdered by a ruthless Thai police lieutenant, Julian is forced to seek vengeance or risk his own death. The film is currently in-production in Bangkok, Thailand. ...
- 3/1/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
All amnesiac thrillers get off to an intriguing start then tend to fall away when their heroes and heroines start to recover their memories. The first half-hour of the Danish ID:a is consistently gripping, as its beautiful heroine awakes in a French river with a scar, a gun, a bag containing €2m and no identity. Her search to discover her past takes her to Denmark, Holland and back to France, and includes some agreeable suspense, a great deal of violence, some rather vague leftwing politics and some narrative holes.
ID:a is worth a visit, as is The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski's first film since My Summer of Love seven years ago and his first thriller. Not exactly an amnesia film but pretty close, it's based on a novel by Douglas Kennedy, the American writer resident in London, whose novel The Big Picture was filmed in France two...
ID:a is worth a visit, as is The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski's first film since My Summer of Love seven years ago and his first thriller. Not exactly an amnesia film but pretty close, it's based on a novel by Douglas Kennedy, the American writer resident in London, whose novel The Big Picture was filmed in France two...
- 2/19/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
A new trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen has debuted. The cast of the film, including stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, share their thoughts on the project in the video. > Ewan McGregor's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen to open Palm Springs Fest The film stars Blunt as Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, a consultant charged by a Sheikh (Amr Waked) to introduce salmon to the Yemen so he may fish there. She enlists the aid of sceptical fisheries expert Fred Jones (McGregor) and the Prime Minister's press secretary Bridget Maxwell (Kristin Scott (more)...
- 2/15/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Here’s a nice new UK trailer courtesy of Lionsgate for Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt’s new movie, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. We saw a Us theatrical trailer for the movie just before Christmas and although this trailer has the same intro dialogue, it give us rather a lot more footage. Blunt and McGregor star alongside Kristin Scott, Amr Waked, Catherine Steadman and Tom Mison. It’s directed by Lasse Hallström and we can expect to see it 9th March.
Synopsis: A romantic, contemporary fable, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen is the tale of government employee Dr Alfred, or Fred, Jones (Ewan McGregor), a rather introverted scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Agriculture. Trudging along in his day job, with his marriage stagnating, his world is suddenly thrown into turmoil when he’s drawn into a scheme hatched by a fly fishing-obsessed Yemeni Sheikh (Amr Waked) who...
Synopsis: A romantic, contemporary fable, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen is the tale of government employee Dr Alfred, or Fred, Jones (Ewan McGregor), a rather introverted scientist at the Department of Fisheries and Agriculture. Trudging along in his day job, with his marriage stagnating, his world is suddenly thrown into turmoil when he’s drawn into a scheme hatched by a fly fishing-obsessed Yemeni Sheikh (Amr Waked) who...
- 1/5/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Robert Pattinson Bel Ami co-star revealed she had fun sex scenes with him & more. Recently,actress Natalia Tena chatted it up with Beehive City,and revealed some fun,steamy sex scenes she had with Twilight Saga superstar Robert Pattinson in his wild,intense,new drama flick "Bel Ami." She played one of Rob's many girlfriends named Rachel in the flick,and they,apparently, got their fun freak on in it. She said it's harder to do sex scenes when they're intimate. "But when I’m just a prostitute who he’s banging, it’s fun sex, you can have a lot of fun with it." So, it looks like Rob's character in Bel Ami is not only a womanizer,but he totally doesn't discriminate. He'll get it on with hookers,or whatever. It's all good with him. Recent reports claim, the movie will finally make it's debut in the spring...
- 12/7/2011
- by Derek
- OnTheFlix
I initially misread the title of this film as "Sarah Keays" and thought I was in for a steamy account of sex, adultery and betrayal in the inner circles of Margaret Thatcher's government in the early 1980s. It is in fact a version of a bestselling French novel with a complex narrative, linking the lives of a Jewish family, brutally arrested by the French police in 1942 Paris on behalf of their German masters, and an American journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) married to a dodgy Frenchman and researching an article in 2009 on the treatment of French Jews. Thomas is good as always. There are grimly convincing recreations of the appalling conditions in Paris's Vélodrome d'hiver where the Jews were incarcerated on the first stage of their journey to extermination camps in the east. The story, covering some 60-odd years in Paris, New York and Italy, is inevitably both affecting and shocking.
- 8/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Kristin Scott Thomas is a journalist who uncovers a secret while researching a piece about the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942
A few weeks ago, Rose Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, or The Roundup, was released here. It was a decent attempt to dramatise one of French history's most horrifying episodes: thousands of Jews in occupied Paris in 1942 were rounded up at the Nazis' bidding, herded into a sports centre (the Winter velodrome, or Vel d'Hiv) before being sent on to the death camps. It took what might be called a top-down view of this event: narrating the story and showing the political machinations of high-ranking French and German officials who had decided on this horrendous action. This film, by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, comes at the same subject from a different angle. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, a modern-day journalist working on a magazine feature about the Vel d'Hiv affair.
A few weeks ago, Rose Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, or The Roundup, was released here. It was a decent attempt to dramatise one of French history's most horrifying episodes: thousands of Jews in occupied Paris in 1942 were rounded up at the Nazis' bidding, herded into a sports centre (the Winter velodrome, or Vel d'Hiv) before being sent on to the death camps. It took what might be called a top-down view of this event: narrating the story and showing the political machinations of high-ranking French and German officials who had decided on this horrendous action. This film, by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, comes at the same subject from a different angle. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, a modern-day journalist working on a magazine feature about the Vel d'Hiv affair.
- 8/4/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It's got Kristin Scott Thomas, a hotshot director and flawless writing – so why are some critics pausing over this revival of Harold Pinter's classic?
Super groups and dream teams do not always work, of course. Ian Rickson is a superb director, Kristin Scott Thomas is a brilliant actor, Harold Pinter is now just about an official genius. Yet this offers no guarantee that the first directing the second in the third will be any more successful than the Traveling Wilburys, say, or the Real Madrid "galacticos" team of 2004. The play in question is Betrayal, first performed in 1978, which charts the progress of an extramarital affair by travelling backwards through its most important scenes. Opinions on this production vary, but what drift there is puts one in mind of Real's last galactico, David Beckham: good, yes, but short of pace.
Strangely, though, no one can quite work out why.
Super groups and dream teams do not always work, of course. Ian Rickson is a superb director, Kristin Scott Thomas is a brilliant actor, Harold Pinter is now just about an official genius. Yet this offers no guarantee that the first directing the second in the third will be any more successful than the Traveling Wilburys, say, or the Real Madrid "galacticos" team of 2004. The play in question is Betrayal, first performed in 1978, which charts the progress of an extramarital affair by travelling backwards through its most important scenes. Opinions on this production vary, but what drift there is puts one in mind of Real's last galactico, David Beckham: good, yes, but short of pace.
Strangely, though, no one can quite work out why.
- 6/20/2011
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
Comedy; Donmar Warehouse; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, all London
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
- 6/19/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
Kristin Scott Thomas is back on the London stage in Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Here she talks about the appeal of theatre and this remarkable new flowering of her acting career
Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, in which Kristin Scott Thomas is about to star at the Comedy theatre in London, explores a love affair lived backwards. The play begins with the characters locked in open recrimination and bitterness, and ends, seven years earlier, with them in thrall to furtive passion. When I meet Scott Thomas for lunch in a break from rehearsals she is full of the complications that this back-to-front narrative presents, and also characteristically anxious to work her way toward a resolution. "Normally you go in to a scene charged with the emotion of the scene before," she says, "but here you have to sort of uncharge things all the time. You lose that progression with which we make sense of things,...
Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, in which Kristin Scott Thomas is about to star at the Comedy theatre in London, explores a love affair lived backwards. The play begins with the characters locked in open recrimination and bitterness, and ends, seven years earlier, with them in thrall to furtive passion. When I meet Scott Thomas for lunch in a break from rehearsals she is full of the complications that this back-to-front narrative presents, and also characteristically anxious to work her way toward a resolution. "Normally you go in to a scene charged with the emotion of the scene before," she says, "but here you have to sort of uncharge things all the time. You lose that progression with which we make sense of things,...
- 5/28/2011
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Justin Chadwick, the director of The Other Boleyn Girl, has only worked in television before and, sadly, you can tell. The movie has things that work better than others, but ultimately it falls down because it cannot find a cinematic way of telling its story. By ‘cinematic’ here I do not mean visual, as actually the movie is rather nicely shot, albeit on digital. But it needed to find a way to sustain its drama on an emotional level for two hours and it doesn’t figure it out; it’s too episodic, skimming through the historical facts it is (loosely) based on without finding a dramatic thread to hold it together.
Four years after it’s theatrical release, The Other Boleyn Girl was released on Blu-ray this week.
This may, for all I know, be a problem with Philippa Gregory’s popular novel on which it is based, which I have not read.
Four years after it’s theatrical release, The Other Boleyn Girl was released on Blu-ray this week.
This may, for all I know, be a problem with Philippa Gregory’s popular novel on which it is based, which I have not read.
- 3/24/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Andrew Garfield has beaten Colin Firth to the 'Best Actor' accolade at this year's Evening Standard Awards. Garfield was honoured at the ceremony for his performances in The Social Network and Never Let Me Go. The 27-year-old beat Academy Award frontrunner Firth, who was nominated for The King's Speech, and Four Lions' Riz Ahmed. Accepting his award in a filmed message, Garfield said: "I really, really appreciate it and intend to let this spur me and provide more fuel for my fire." Kristin Scott (more)...
- 2/8/2011
- by By Christian Tobin
- Digital Spy
Remember that report we brought you on the Miramax and The Weinstein Company’s plan to create sequels to a Lot of their movies, including Bad Santa, Rounders and Shakespeare in Love, Clerks, From Dusk Till Dawn and The Amityville Horror? Well it looks like they’ve found a partner to handle distribution… Starz/Anchor Bay.
From the official press release:
In a significant strategic partnership within the ever-changing home/digital entertainment market, Starz, LLC has agreed to sell The Weinstein Company (TWC) a 25% stake in Starz Media, LLC, a programming production, home entertainment and international TV distribution company which includes Anchor Bay Entertainment and other TV/home entertainment assets. Separately, Anchor Bay has entered into a multi-year domestic distribution agreement for new theatrical content from TWC and its Dimension Films label.The agreements were announced today by Starz, LLC President and CEO Chris Albrecht and TWC Co-Chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
From the official press release:
In a significant strategic partnership within the ever-changing home/digital entertainment market, Starz, LLC has agreed to sell The Weinstein Company (TWC) a 25% stake in Starz Media, LLC, a programming production, home entertainment and international TV distribution company which includes Anchor Bay Entertainment and other TV/home entertainment assets. Separately, Anchor Bay has entered into a multi-year domestic distribution agreement for new theatrical content from TWC and its Dimension Films label.The agreements were announced today by Starz, LLC President and CEO Chris Albrecht and TWC Co-Chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein.
- 1/5/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Leaving; Sex and the City 2; The A-Team; Splice
"French cinema," points out the electrifying Kristin Scott Thomas wryly, "represents a lot of women of my age who are still living – not just sighing and thinking about how beautiful they once were." It's an astute observation, for proof of which one need look no further than Leaving, a tragic romance that begins and ends with a bang and centres upon a woman in the throes of the kind of midlife crisis more usually reserved for male leads.
Scott Thomas plays Suzanne, a quietly frustrated, fortysomething mother with unfulfilled personal and professional aspirations, shaken out of her (un)comfortably complacent marriage by an overwhelming infatuation with Sergi López's burly handyman, Ivan. Having devoted herself to building a bourgeois home with husband, Samuel (Yvan Attal), Suzanne promptly abandons all to pursue a "passionate teen-like relationship" with predictably explosive consequences. "It's a conventional story about adultery,...
"French cinema," points out the electrifying Kristin Scott Thomas wryly, "represents a lot of women of my age who are still living – not just sighing and thinking about how beautiful they once were." It's an astute observation, for proof of which one need look no further than Leaving, a tragic romance that begins and ends with a bang and centres upon a woman in the throes of the kind of midlife crisis more usually reserved for male leads.
Scott Thomas plays Suzanne, a quietly frustrated, fortysomething mother with unfulfilled personal and professional aspirations, shaken out of her (un)comfortably complacent marriage by an overwhelming infatuation with Sergi López's burly handyman, Ivan. Having devoted herself to building a bourgeois home with husband, Samuel (Yvan Attal), Suzanne promptly abandons all to pursue a "passionate teen-like relationship" with predictably explosive consequences. "It's a conventional story about adultery,...
- 11/28/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
I've found another personal favorite film of this fest. I was first introduced to British director Sam Taylor Wood in 2008 when I saw her short film Love You More at the Telluride Film Festival. I instantly fell in love with it and have been anxiously awaiting Nowhere Boy, which is her first feature film about the early days of John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles. I'm a big fan of The Beatles and was interested in learning more about their formation and early days, and while Nowhere Boy isn't as much about the band as it is Lennon's younger years, it's still an incredibly well-directed film that most Beatles fans will enjoy. In Nowhere Boy, we get a look at the early teenage years of Beatles founder John Lennon (played superbly by Aaron Johnson), which is when he lived with his Aunt Mimi Smith (played by Kristin Scott...
- 10/8/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Another superb performance from Kristin Scott Thomas powers this intense, emotional French marital drama, writes Peter Bradshaw
Kristin Scott Thomas pulls out fully 100% of the stops available in this fiercely emotional French film from Catherine Corsini, conceived on traditional, almost classical lines: a marital tragedy with something of Zola or Lawrence. It's comparable in some ways to Thomas's recent movie I've Loved You So Long, though pitched at a yet more intense, grandiloquent level. Scott Thomas plays Suzanne, an English-born woman married to prosperous and socially well-connected doctor Samuel (Yvan Attal) in the south of France. Their children having almost grown up, Suzanne has taken it into her head to train as a physiotherapist, a plan to which Samuel has assented with testy ill grace, and grumbles about paying to convert an outbuilding on their property into her treatment suite. Suzanne's consciousness of how disagreeable Samuel is being about this,...
Kristin Scott Thomas pulls out fully 100% of the stops available in this fiercely emotional French film from Catherine Corsini, conceived on traditional, almost classical lines: a marital tragedy with something of Zola or Lawrence. It's comparable in some ways to Thomas's recent movie I've Loved You So Long, though pitched at a yet more intense, grandiloquent level. Scott Thomas plays Suzanne, an English-born woman married to prosperous and socially well-connected doctor Samuel (Yvan Attal) in the south of France. Their children having almost grown up, Suzanne has taken it into her head to train as a physiotherapist, a plan to which Samuel has assented with testy ill grace, and grumbles about paying to convert an outbuilding on their property into her treatment suite. Suzanne's consciousness of how disagreeable Samuel is being about this,...
- 7/8/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In her new film, Leaving, Kristin Scott Thomas plays a middle-class woman who runs off with a builder. Here, the actress reveals why turning 50 opens new doors in French cinema
I am, it must be said, quite nervous at the prospect of interviewing Kristin Scott Thomas. She has always seemed to exist in the otherworldly atmosphere reserved for the extraordinarily beautiful.
Then there's the fact that she's bilingual, having lived in Paris for the past 30 years, and has managed to carve out a name for herself as an actress of serious note on both sides of La Manche. So when the first thing she says to me is, "We had to cut the last journalist short because he was asking such stupid questions," the signs are not auspicious.
As a film actress, the 50-year-old Scott Thomas minted her considerable reputation playing a succession of aristocratic types – from the splendidly icy...
I am, it must be said, quite nervous at the prospect of interviewing Kristin Scott Thomas. She has always seemed to exist in the otherworldly atmosphere reserved for the extraordinarily beautiful.
Then there's the fact that she's bilingual, having lived in Paris for the past 30 years, and has managed to carve out a name for herself as an actress of serious note on both sides of La Manche. So when the first thing she says to me is, "We had to cut the last journalist short because he was asking such stupid questions," the signs are not auspicious.
As a film actress, the 50-year-old Scott Thomas minted her considerable reputation playing a succession of aristocratic types – from the splendidly icy...
- 7/3/2010
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
Paris – French telecom Orange's Paris-based film subsidiary Studio 37 will decorate movie theaters across the globe with its colorful feature film lineup including new 3D animation project "Mune," Gilles Pacquet-Brenner's "Elle s'Appelait Sarah" starring Kirstin Scott Thomas and Samuel Benchetrit's "Chez Gino," Studio 37 topper Frederique Dumas said Tuesday.
Studio 37 announced a first-look deal with Rezo Films for Gallic distribution in Cannes last year. Studio 37 also has a "privileged partnership" deal with Gregoire Melin's international sales outlet Kinology.
"Mune" is an animated 3D fairytale produced by Onyx films and directed by Benoit Phillipon and Alexandre Heboyan, who worked on "Kung Fu Panda" and "Monsters vs Aliens" among other high-profile Us studio titles.
Studio 37 will focus on Gallic co-productions, but has already branched out into English-language territory with Benoit Philippon's "Lullaby for Pi" starring Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy and Forest Whitaker and recent release Olivier Dahan's "My Own Love Song" with Renee Zellweger,...
Studio 37 announced a first-look deal with Rezo Films for Gallic distribution in Cannes last year. Studio 37 also has a "privileged partnership" deal with Gregoire Melin's international sales outlet Kinology.
"Mune" is an animated 3D fairytale produced by Onyx films and directed by Benoit Phillipon and Alexandre Heboyan, who worked on "Kung Fu Panda" and "Monsters vs Aliens" among other high-profile Us studio titles.
Studio 37 will focus on Gallic co-productions, but has already branched out into English-language territory with Benoit Philippon's "Lullaby for Pi" starring Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy and Forest Whitaker and recent release Olivier Dahan's "My Own Love Song" with Renee Zellweger,...
- 5/25/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bill Condon had to do some schedule rearrangement in order to take on the final chapter in the "Twilight" series, "Breaking Dawn." One of the big projects he was forced to step away from is "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," an adaptation of the Paul Torday novel which is set to star Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott. The Hollywood Reporter reveals today that "Dear John" director Lasse Hallstrom will be taking over for Condon. Check out the full report there.
- 5/13/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
The Toronto Film Festival is the critic's reward for making it through the madness of summer movie season and Comic Con, a chance to sit down and watch movies that their makers actually cared about, movies with a coherent plot and very few corporate tie-ins. Exhausted critics, turn your eyes to the north and toward September, where in Toronto, you shall be free. The festival's programmers announced today a handful of the films that will be screening up there, including the festival opener, Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly's Charles Darwin biopic Creation. As reported in Variety, Tiff director and CEO Piers Handling said "We are pleased to open the Festival with such an impassioned look at Charles Darwin, especially on the year marking the 200th anniversary of his birth." Other films include some Cannes standouts (Jane Campion's Bright Star, Lee Daniels' Precious), some acting greats making splashy...
- 7/14/2009
- cinemablend.com
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