Title: Ginger & Rosa Director: Sally Potter Screenwriter: Sally Potter Cast: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Jodhi May, Annette Bening, Andrew Hawley Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 2/28/13 Opens: March 15, 2013 Awards season’s starting early. Already an incisive performance by 14-year-old Elle Fanning (13 when she performed in “Ginger & Rosa” and 10 when her career began) may be already talked about by organizations that give best-actress accolades. In a film that seems designed to capture all of Ms. Fanning’s talents, Sally Potter’s “Ginger & Rosa” could not be more fitting. Conveying emotions from adolescent giggles to more mature depression and tears, [ Read More ]
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- 3/1/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
A good-looking British entry burrows more deeply into character than the average found-footage foray into the woods
Another week, another found-footage horror. This good-looking, creditably tangled Brit entry benefits from a better-than-average jolt-count and rigorous, dirty-fingernails acting from Scoot McNairy (Monsters) and Anna Skellern as a troubled couple – he's a garrulous Yank, she's a repressed Brit – using their handicams as digital confidants whileon a camping tour of Dartmoor; an opening title card informs us that the pair, along with Skellern's cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), subsequently disappeared. Richard Parry's film suffers from a certain post-Blair Witch familiarity as the night-vision gets toggled, and evidence of a local legend ("the Huntsman") is discovered dangling from the trees. Yet it's unusual in using its 80-odd minutes to burrow down into these characters and match their psychic states with the (still underfilmed) location's physical terrain: one way or another, these relationships will end up on the rocks.
Another week, another found-footage horror. This good-looking, creditably tangled Brit entry benefits from a better-than-average jolt-count and rigorous, dirty-fingernails acting from Scoot McNairy (Monsters) and Anna Skellern as a troubled couple – he's a garrulous Yank, she's a repressed Brit – using their handicams as digital confidants whileon a camping tour of Dartmoor; an opening title card informs us that the pair, along with Skellern's cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley), subsequently disappeared. Richard Parry's film suffers from a certain post-Blair Witch familiarity as the night-vision gets toggled, and evidence of a local legend ("the Huntsman") is discovered dangling from the trees. Yet it's unusual in using its 80-odd minutes to burrow down into these characters and match their psychic states with the (still underfilmed) location's physical terrain: one way or another, these relationships will end up on the rocks.
- 9/6/2012
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Novelist and essayist Andrew O'Hagan turned an unusual trick at the book festival on Sunday: instead of reading from his book, he imported a trio of actors – Ian McDiarmid, Suzanne Bertish and Andrew Hawley – to "do" the voices in his latest, canine-narrated novel, which features Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and a dog called Maf. The novel is slated to become a Hollywood film: Mike Newell is on the cards to direct, and Angelina Jolie and George Clooney to star. Not bad for a one-time Guardian feature writer.
O'Hagan was also chairing – and providing enthusiastic cheerleading for – Bill Clegg, the American literary agent who has written a startling memoir of his addiction to crack cocaine, Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man. Clegg, giving his only public interview about the book, spoke with immense clarity and humility about his dark and secret descent into addiction – and how he managed, for a while,...
O'Hagan was also chairing – and providing enthusiastic cheerleading for – Bill Clegg, the American literary agent who has written a startling memoir of his addiction to crack cocaine, Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man. Clegg, giving his only public interview about the book, spoke with immense clarity and humility about his dark and secret descent into addiction – and how he managed, for a while,...
- 8/17/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
It looks like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie are going to star in a new film that will be an adaption of the novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend, Marilyn Monroe. Clooney will play Frank Sinatra, and Jolie will take on the role of Marilyn Monroe in the story.
The book was written by Andrew O'Hagan and is set to be released this December. It serves as a biopic of Monroe, told through the eyes of her Scottish maltese poodle, Mafia Honey (nicknamed Maf), given to her as a present by Sinatra.
O'Hagan announced the news at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here's what The Times reported:
O’Hagan, who was also accompanied on stage by Suzanne Bertish and Andrew Hawley, announced that a film adaptation of his book, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe,...
The book was written by Andrew O'Hagan and is set to be released this December. It serves as a biopic of Monroe, told through the eyes of her Scottish maltese poodle, Mafia Honey (nicknamed Maf), given to her as a present by Sinatra.
O'Hagan announced the news at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here's what The Times reported:
O’Hagan, who was also accompanied on stage by Suzanne Bertish and Andrew Hawley, announced that a film adaptation of his book, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe,...
- 8/16/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
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