“Oh, What A Lovely War?”
By Raymond Benson
Filmmaker John Boorman was between the ages of six and twelve during World War II, and in 1987 he released a fictional “memoir” of a film based on his childhood recollections of what life was like on the home front in Britain while the conflict raged. By most of the media and promotional materials, Hope and Glory was billed as a “comedy”—in fact, it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (and it was also nominated for the Oscar Best Picture and Director).
Whether it truly is a comedy or not is up for debate. There are indeed humorous moments as we follow the days through the eyes of young Billy Rowan (played with empathy and intelligence by child actor Sebastian Rice-Edwards) as he navigates the bombed-out neighborhood where he and his family live, runs around with the...
By Raymond Benson
Filmmaker John Boorman was between the ages of six and twelve during World War II, and in 1987 he released a fictional “memoir” of a film based on his childhood recollections of what life was like on the home front in Britain while the conflict raged. By most of the media and promotional materials, Hope and Glory was billed as a “comedy”—in fact, it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (and it was also nominated for the Oscar Best Picture and Director).
Whether it truly is a comedy or not is up for debate. There are indeed humorous moments as we follow the days through the eyes of young Billy Rowan (played with empathy and intelligence by child actor Sebastian Rice-Edwards) as he navigates the bombed-out neighborhood where he and his family live, runs around with the...
- 4/10/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
From anime to pitch-black thrillers, here's our pick of the underappreciated movies of 1987...
Sometimes, the challenge with these lists isn't just what to put in, but what to leave out. We loved Princess Bride, but with a decent showing at the box office and a huge cult following, isn't it a bit too popular to be described as underappreciated? Likewise Joe Dante's Innerspace, a fabulously geeky, comic reworking of the 60s sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage.
What we've gone for instead is a mix of genre fare, dramas and animated films that may have garnered a cult following since, but didn't do well either critically or financially at the time of release. Some of the movies on our list just about made their money back, but none made anything close to the sort of returns enjoyed by the likes of 1987's biggest films - Three Men And A Baby, Fatal Attraction...
Sometimes, the challenge with these lists isn't just what to put in, but what to leave out. We loved Princess Bride, but with a decent showing at the box office and a huge cult following, isn't it a bit too popular to be described as underappreciated? Likewise Joe Dante's Innerspace, a fabulously geeky, comic reworking of the 60s sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage.
What we've gone for instead is a mix of genre fare, dramas and animated films that may have garnered a cult following since, but didn't do well either critically or financially at the time of release. Some of the movies on our list just about made their money back, but none made anything close to the sort of returns enjoyed by the likes of 1987's biggest films - Three Men And A Baby, Fatal Attraction...
- 5/13/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Nicholas Hoult headlined the cast of two films that hit #1 at the North American box office in 2013, but he’s still not on the Hollywood A-list. Determined to get there, the British actor and model, who starred in last year’s Warm Bodies and Jack the Giant Slayer, is now going to prove his mettle as a dramatic lead in Sand Castle, an Iraq War drama from commercial director Seb Edwards.
Sand Castle comes from Chris Roessner’s Blacklisted script, based on the scribe’s own experiences as a machine gunner for two years (and more than 200 missions) in Iraq. Hoult will play Matt Ocre, a soldier trying to protect Baqubah, a dangerous farming village in the country’s volatile Sunni Triangle region. The story will focus on Ocre’s relationship with his platoon leader, Sergeant Baker (who has not yet been cast).
As I mentioned above, Hoult proved to...
Sand Castle comes from Chris Roessner’s Blacklisted script, based on the scribe’s own experiences as a machine gunner for two years (and more than 200 missions) in Iraq. Hoult will play Matt Ocre, a soldier trying to protect Baqubah, a dangerous farming village in the country’s volatile Sunni Triangle region. The story will focus on Ocre’s relationship with his platoon leader, Sergeant Baker (who has not yet been cast).
As I mentioned above, Hoult proved to...
- 3/13/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
After more than thirty years working as a producer, writer and director, English auteur John Boorman eased up on his output, releasing only three films since 2001, none of which won much notice Stateside. But the celebrated filmmaker behind Deliverance is revisiting his heyday with Queen and Country, a sequel to his 1987 war drama Hope and Glory that scored five Academy Award nominations, including nods for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Inspired by his own experiences, Hope and Glory centered on a nine-year-old boy named Bill who sees the terrifying times of the blitz on London in World War II as a sort of thrilling adventure. Young Sebastian Rice-Edwards made his first and only screen appearance in the film as its plucky protagonist, and Variety reports that its sequel Queen and Country will follow the grown Bill on his exploits as a soldier conscripted at the latter end...
- 9/12/2012
- cinemablend.com
Caleb Landry Jones is in negotiations to appear in John Boorman's upcoming Queen and Country , a big-screen sequel to his semiautobiographical 1987 drama Hope and Glory , Variety reports. Jones would likely take on the role of an older Bill Rowan (played by Sebastian Rice-Edwards in the first film) who, in Hope and Glory , saw the London Blitzkrieg through the eyes of a nine-year old boy. Boorman, who last directed 2006's The Tiger's Tale , will write, direct and produce alongside Kieran Morgan. Jones recently starred as Sean "Banshee" Cassidy in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class . He can next be seen in the sci-fi thriller Antiviral and Neil Jordan's vampire tale Byzantium . (Photo Credit: Ian Wilson / WENN.com)...
- 9/11/2012
- Comingsoon.net
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