Some filmmakers are as well-known as their films. Think of the likes of Scorsese, Tarantino, and Spielberg — directors typically referred to solely by their last names. Others are every bit as beloved, even without the same kind of name recognition. Peter Weir is one such filmmaker, and while you won't hear casual film fans discussing "the best Weir," the odds are quite good that they love many of his films without even knowing his name.
Weir has made 13 feature films over his half-century career. Eight of them received Academy Award nominations with four of them taking home some gold. Some of Weir's films are better than others, but there's not a misfire in the bunch. Even the weakest among them is beautifully shot and filled with intriguing ideas and Weir's affection for humanity. That's great for Weir, but it's bad news for someone trying to rank his filmography. What kind...
Weir has made 13 feature films over his half-century career. Eight of them received Academy Award nominations with four of them taking home some gold. Some of Weir's films are better than others, but there's not a misfire in the bunch. Even the weakest among them is beautifully shot and filled with intriguing ideas and Weir's affection for humanity. That's great for Weir, but it's bad news for someone trying to rank his filmography. What kind...
- 12/20/2022
- by Rob Hunter
- Slash Film
The Way Back (2010) Film Review, a movie directed by Peter Weir and starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, and Saoirse Ronan.
The ever brilliant writer/director, Peter Weir, best known for Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year of Living Dangerously, has delivered a visually stunning epic detailing the amazing and prolific story of several individuals journeying against insurmountable odds to flee the confines of a Siberian prison camp by traveling across 4,000 miles of baron winter and scorching desert to reach their ultimate freedom in India.
Not since Forrest Gump, the title character of the 1994 film of the same name, made his lovelorn run across America, have we seen such a long and arduous journey. However, by contrast to the rich character development and emotional tenacity of Forrest Gump, The Way Back falls significantly short, thus making this film based on Slavomir Rawicz’s controversial, but inspiring bestseller “The...
The ever brilliant writer/director, Peter Weir, best known for Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year of Living Dangerously, has delivered a visually stunning epic detailing the amazing and prolific story of several individuals journeying against insurmountable odds to flee the confines of a Siberian prison camp by traveling across 4,000 miles of baron winter and scorching desert to reach their ultimate freedom in India.
Not since Forrest Gump, the title character of the 1994 film of the same name, made his lovelorn run across America, have we seen such a long and arduous journey. However, by contrast to the rich character development and emotional tenacity of Forrest Gump, The Way Back falls significantly short, thus making this film based on Slavomir Rawicz’s controversial, but inspiring bestseller “The...
- 5/13/2011
- by Cara Hall
- Film-Book
The King's Speech; Blue Valentine; Archipelago; The Way Back; I Saw the Devil
What is there left to say about The King's Speech (2010, Momentum, 12)? Having triumphed at both the box office and at international awards ceremonies it arrives on DVD, where its ascension to the top of the charts seems more certain than Charles's ascension to the throne. In cinemas, the real genius (accidental or otherwise) of Tom Hooper's impressively old-fashioned film was that it attracted an audience many of whom don't go to the movies any more, drawing the kind of spontaneous end-credits applause which went out with the playing of the national anthem.
On DVD it comes packed with a host of extras, such as commentaries, making ofs and original broadcasts by Bertie himself, including the eponymous address to the nation on the eve of war. But the main attraction remains the same: Colin Firth's mesmerising...
What is there left to say about The King's Speech (2010, Momentum, 12)? Having triumphed at both the box office and at international awards ceremonies it arrives on DVD, where its ascension to the top of the charts seems more certain than Charles's ascension to the throne. In cinemas, the real genius (accidental or otherwise) of Tom Hooper's impressively old-fashioned film was that it attracted an audience many of whom don't go to the movies any more, drawing the kind of spontaneous end-credits applause which went out with the playing of the national anthem.
On DVD it comes packed with a host of extras, such as commentaries, making ofs and original broadcasts by Bertie himself, including the eponymous address to the nation on the eve of war. But the main attraction remains the same: Colin Firth's mesmerising...
- 5/7/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A look at what's new on DVD this week:
"Fubar: Balls to the Wall"
Directed by Michael Dowse
Released by Screen Media Films
Following up the 2002 cult comedy about lifelong metalhead pals Terry and Dean, this sequel, which recently premiered to much acclaim at SXSW, finds the duo down on their luck when they decide to head up north to work in the oil industry, but when their best laid plans go awry, Dean attempts to get on worker's comp, leading to the kind of exploits best enjoyed with a cold beer.
"Born to Raise Hell" (2011)
Directed by Darren Shahlavi
Released by Paramount
Steven Seagal not only stars as an Interpol agent named Samuel Axel in this Dtv thriller, but also wrote the script, so you know it has to be good. In it, Axel must bring down a gun trafficking ring in the Balkans where the stakes become personal...
"Fubar: Balls to the Wall"
Directed by Michael Dowse
Released by Screen Media Films
Following up the 2002 cult comedy about lifelong metalhead pals Terry and Dean, this sequel, which recently premiered to much acclaim at SXSW, finds the duo down on their luck when they decide to head up north to work in the oil industry, but when their best laid plans go awry, Dean attempts to get on worker's comp, leading to the kind of exploits best enjoyed with a cold beer.
"Born to Raise Hell" (2011)
Directed by Darren Shahlavi
Released by Paramount
Steven Seagal not only stars as an Interpol agent named Samuel Axel in this Dtv thriller, but also wrote the script, so you know it has to be good. In it, Axel must bring down a gun trafficking ring in the Balkans where the stakes become personal...
- 4/19/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Originally posted online on January 19, 2011. The Way Back is nominated for Best Makeup (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng).
A pioneering figure of the new independent Australian cinema in the 1970s, 66-year-old Sydney native Peter Weir (The Truman Show) gravitated to Hollywood in the mid ’80s, found success with a handful of well-crafted studio pictures (Witness, Dead Poets Society), and never really looked back. At least that’s how it might appear after a cursory glance at his unusual oeuvre, which encompasses everything from 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (an oneiric film awash in foreboding, in which a small-town community disintegrates after a group of elite-school girls eerily vanish en masse during a lunchtime hike) to the rollicking high-seas adventure of 2003’s Master and Commander (about the friendship of a British captain and a man of science in the Napoleonic Wars era). Weir may have forsaken the interior...
A pioneering figure of the new independent Australian cinema in the 1970s, 66-year-old Sydney native Peter Weir (The Truman Show) gravitated to Hollywood in the mid ’80s, found success with a handful of well-crafted studio pictures (Witness, Dead Poets Society), and never really looked back. At least that’s how it might appear after a cursory glance at his unusual oeuvre, which encompasses everything from 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (an oneiric film awash in foreboding, in which a small-town community disintegrates after a group of elite-school girls eerily vanish en masse during a lunchtime hike) to the rollicking high-seas adventure of 2003’s Master and Commander (about the friendship of a British captain and a man of science in the Napoleonic Wars era). Weir may have forsaken the interior...
- 2/25/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Rep. Giffords' brother-in-law Scott Kelly has been in orbit since October. He tells Peter J. Boyer about how he heard of the shooting, his twin's return to space, and Nasa's new shine.
When astronaut Scott Kelly blasted into orbit last October, bound for a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station, among the items he brought with him were two books, tales of heroic sojourners overcoming dire peril far from home. One of the volumes was Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, the story of a Polish cavalry officer's escape from the Soviet gulag in Siberia, and his 2,000-mile trek to freedom in British India. The other was South, Sir Ernest Shackleton's classic memoir of disaster, and escape, on an Antarctic expedition in 1915. Life aboard the space station seemed almost a dull routine in comparison.
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In the ‘60s and ‘70s,...
When astronaut Scott Kelly blasted into orbit last October, bound for a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station, among the items he brought with him were two books, tales of heroic sojourners overcoming dire peril far from home. One of the volumes was Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, the story of a Polish cavalry officer's escape from the Soviet gulag in Siberia, and his 2,000-mile trek to freedom in British India. The other was South, Sir Ernest Shackleton's classic memoir of disaster, and escape, on an Antarctic expedition in 1915. Life aboard the space station seemed almost a dull routine in comparison.
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In the ‘60s and ‘70s,...
- 2/18/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
The Way Back Directed by: Peter Weir Written by: Keith R. Clarke and Peter Weir (screenplay), Slavomir Rawicz (novel) Starring: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan In an age where the bankability of an adventure film is measured in gallons of oil exploded, Peter Weir's somber trek The Way Back is something of a revelation. Unlike his last film, the rousing but decidedly Hollywood nautical yarn Master and Commander, Weir dials back star power and technique until all that's left is an uncommonly naturalistic interpretation of the supposedly true events that led political prisoners encamped at a Siberian gulag to walk 4,000 miles to India and their freedom. First, a complaint: I don't mean to come off as a dick, but the fact that Weir preemptively dedicates this film to those men irks me. Not only because so much doubt has been cast on the validity of the story itself,...
- 2/9/2011
- by Colin
- FilmJunk
There is something very poignant about a movie that takes a political movement, turns it into an intangible unearthly feeling and then grows it into an unbearable enemy that is hardly seen or heard – just painfully felt. The Way Back is a stripped down story, free from Hollywood glamour, of man versus the world – in this case, Communism. Though the story drags on at times, being most of the movie is spent hiking (or rather on the run), very reserved and contained performances from Jim Sturgess (Heartless, Upside Down), Ed Harris (Appaloosa, Salvation Boulevard), Colin Farrell (Crazy Heart, Fright Night) and Saoirse Ronan (Hanna, The Hobbit: Part 1) create palpable desperate characters that are more human than those found in the typical blockbuster.
The Way Back is inspired from the Slavomir Rawicz novel “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” It begins with Stalin’s invasion of Poland.
The Way Back is inspired from the Slavomir Rawicz novel “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” It begins with Stalin’s invasion of Poland.
- 1/31/2011
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
The current reigning top of the heap tribute to the human spirit. Master director Peter Weir teams up with co-screenwriter Keith Clarke to bring Slavomir Rawicz. riveting novel of Siberian survival to the screen. Only a few films in history match this testimony to the endurance, faith and camaraderie to be found in the human soul. When all else fails and faith in the human race is flagging, this film brings hope. Americans love escape flicks. As a sub-genre of the caper flick, they couple the maverick denial of the impossible with the triumph of the good guy. In fact, even if the escapee is not a good guy we still love the films. Recent examples of great...
- 1/24/2011
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
In the 1940's, a group of political prisoners escaped a Siberian gulag and trekked over 4000 miles to India, through unforgiving tundra forests, over harsh desert sands, and eventually over the snowy peaks of the Himalayas. Only three would finish the journey. This was documented in Slavomir Rawicz's bestselling memoir The Long Walk. Peter Weir, who hasn't sat in the director's chair since 2003's Master and Commander, brings the arduous slog to life. And I mean to life, with vast sweeping shots of the various vistas the men must tromp across telling more in their Boschian postcard silence than any sort of narration. Weir takes a dynamic cast and hauls them through the bowels of hell. If anything, the film's almost like a historical epic horror story, with the landscape acting as the slasher picking off the survivors one by one. It manages to be poignant without being overly sentimental,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Brian Prisco
While he used to put out movies regularly during the 1970s and 80s, director Peter Weir.s production has slowed in recent years. After making three films during the 90s, Weir.s only movie during the 00s was the impressive Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It.s been a long seven years since Weir.s name has graced the silver screen, but lucky for us, he returned with a gem called The Way Back. Sitting down with the acclaimed Oscar nominated director as part of a roundtable interview, Wier discussed the importance of shooting his newest film on location, the inspiration he derived from Slavomir Rawicz.s book from which the story came from, and his near-death experience while filming The Year of Living Dangerously. Read on below. When it comes to films like this, where the characters go through an epic struggle, you often find...
- 1/20/2011
- cinemablend.com
Thanks to our friends at Collider, we have 7 new clips from the upcoming film The Way Back. Sporting a nice cast which includes Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess, the film looks really good and I've had my eye on this one for a while. It has a nice positive buzz surrounding it and director Peter Weir is a more than capable director. Here's the plot synopsis: Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed book, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (Witness, Master And Commander, & Dead Poet’s Society) The Way Backis a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
- 1/15/2011
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
2010 has gone by in a blur and another year at the movies has come and gone. So may films that seemed promising have turned out to be disappointments and the surprises audiences received were few and far between.But the past is the past, it's time to look onward as a fresh new year begins and hopes are raised for it to be an exciting time in the world of cinema. Kicking off the Winter season are a number of films described in detail and listed below:january 7Season Of The WITCHNicolas Cage stars alongside Ron Perlman as knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland ruined by the Black Plague. Two church elders accuse a girl (Claire Foy) of being a witch and being responsible for the destruction. They command Behmen and Felson to transport her to a monastery so the monks there can lift her curse from the land.
- 1/14/2011
- LRMonline.com
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
A new year, and a new chance for you to tell us where you think we've gone wrong, or called it correctly, with our reviews. This column will be rounding up your thoughts on reviews from our previous issue, and noting the recommendations you make.
To the cinema, and Peter Bradshaw's review of The Way Back, an escape-from- the-gulags epic, which prompted a discussion of the film's director, Peter Weir, and one of its stars, Colin Farrell. "I get the feeling that Weir makes films more because he wants to travel the world, play with ships, have boys-own fun, rather than because he has anything particular to say or any burning desire to create art. His infrequent films are all immaculately crafted with excellent actors, but at the same time rather dull and passionless," suggested pottedstu.
"Weir, at heart,...
A new year, and a new chance for you to tell us where you think we've gone wrong, or called it correctly, with our reviews. This column will be rounding up your thoughts on reviews from our previous issue, and noting the recommendations you make.
To the cinema, and Peter Bradshaw's review of The Way Back, an escape-from- the-gulags epic, which prompted a discussion of the film's director, Peter Weir, and one of its stars, Colin Farrell. "I get the feeling that Weir makes films more because he wants to travel the world, play with ships, have boys-own fun, rather than because he has anything particular to say or any burning desire to create art. His infrequent films are all immaculately crafted with excellent actors, but at the same time rather dull and passionless," suggested pottedstu.
"Weir, at heart,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Whether in standard or high definition, check out new clips from The Way Back, Peter Weir's drama starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Colin Farrell. Six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir (Witness, Master And Commander, & Dead Poet's Society) directs from the writing by Keith R. Clarke based on the novel "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" by Slavomir Rawicz. The Way Back is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners...
- 1/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Whether in standard or high definition, check out new clips from The Way Back, Peter Weir's drama starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Colin Farrell. Six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir (Witness, Master And Commander, & Dead Poet's Society) directs from the writing by Keith R. Clarke based on the novel "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" by Slavomir Rawicz. The Way Back is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners...
- 1/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Read More- Colin Farrell’s role in ‘The Way Back’ one of his least favorite Read More- Saoirse Ronan stuns crowds at ‘The Way Back’ premiere Irish duo Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan’s latest film ‘This Way Back’ has been described by critics as brilliant and wildly under-appreciated. The film is on limited release for Oscar purposes and is not generally available in the U.S. yet but has opened overseas The New Republic has called it ‘the Best Film of 2010” and noted ….”in this astonishing story of a 4,000-mile journey as some prisoners escaped from the gulag in Siberia and walked to India, the stress is not just on the terrible times and the exhausting ordeal. It is also a film that says this is a miraculous world, and the people in it are no less amazing. That view is not fashionable, I suppose, and so the best...
- 12/31/2010
- IrishCentral
Here is the trailer for The Way Back, the film inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts. The Way Back is directed by Peter Weir and stars Ed Harris (Salvation BoulevardAbout The Way Back:
Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six-time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (“Witness”, “Master And Commander”, and “Dead Poet’s Society”) The Way Back is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong. The film is produced by Joni Levin,...
Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six-time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (“Witness”, “Master And Commander”, and “Dead Poet’s Society”) The Way Back is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong. The film is produced by Joni Levin,...
- 12/27/2010
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
Slavomir Rawicz never actually made the epic trek described in his classic book The Long Walk, but Peter Weir's movie version is utterly convincing
My generation growing up during second world war and the early years of the cold war first learnt to hate the Germans and Japanese, then to discover that our believed wartime allies from the Soviet Union were just as bad and the benevolent, paternal Stalin was as monstrous as Hitler.
There was a literature at our disposal during the postwar decade to help us understand that change, significantly Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four, and the symposium The God That Failed written by former communists. To these were added in the mid-1950s an international bestseller, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer captured by Russians in September 1939 when Germany and the Soviet Union carved up his country,...
My generation growing up during second world war and the early years of the cold war first learnt to hate the Germans and Japanese, then to discover that our believed wartime allies from the Soviet Union were just as bad and the benevolent, paternal Stalin was as monstrous as Hitler.
There was a literature at our disposal during the postwar decade to help us understand that change, significantly Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty- Four, and the symposium The God That Failed written by former communists. To these were added in the mid-1950s an international bestseller, The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer captured by Russians in September 1939 when Germany and the Soviet Union carved up his country,...
- 12/26/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Colin Farrell stars in the reconstruction of a daring 1941 escape. Whether it is a true story or not, Peter Weir's film is an engaging piece of storytelling, says Peter Bradshaw
For his first film in seven years, Peter Weir has chosen to tell an epic tale with a panoramic sweep, in the manner of David Lean. It is "inspired" by a true story, which may unfortunately have been itself merely "inspired" by what its author claims to be the truth. Its veracity was in question even before it was put through the movie mill. This source material was a bestseller by the Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, who was imprisoned by the Soviets after their invasion of 1939, accused of spying and sent to the Siberian gulag. In his book, he claimed that with a group of other prisoners he pulled off a daring escape during a blizzard in 1941; against incredible odds,...
For his first film in seven years, Peter Weir has chosen to tell an epic tale with a panoramic sweep, in the manner of David Lean. It is "inspired" by a true story, which may unfortunately have been itself merely "inspired" by what its author claims to be the truth. Its veracity was in question even before it was put through the movie mill. This source material was a bestseller by the Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, who was imprisoned by the Soviets after their invasion of 1939, accused of spying and sent to the Siberian gulag. In his book, he claimed that with a group of other prisoners he pulled off a daring escape during a blizzard in 1941; against incredible odds,...
- 12/24/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Sturgess learned to survive the wild for Peter Weir's latest film The Way Back, but don't ask him to dangle upside down
You need only look at what An Education did for an unknown Carey Mulligan to see where Jim Sturgess might be headed. In 2011 he stars in the new film from Lone Scherfig, director of An Education. One Day is already being talked-up as a dead cert repeat of the award-magnet formula: adaptation of a smart, funny, much-loved Brit lit (in this case, David Nicholls's novel), with a star-making turn by a box-fresh young English actor. It's just one of a handful of top-drawer films Sturgess has trickling out: next up is the Boxing Day biggie, The Way Back, in which he lines up alongside Ed Harris and Colin Farrell as prisoners breaking out of a Russian gulag during the second world war.
The funny thing about Sturgess,...
You need only look at what An Education did for an unknown Carey Mulligan to see where Jim Sturgess might be headed. In 2011 he stars in the new film from Lone Scherfig, director of An Education. One Day is already being talked-up as a dead cert repeat of the award-magnet formula: adaptation of a smart, funny, much-loved Brit lit (in this case, David Nicholls's novel), with a star-making turn by a box-fresh young English actor. It's just one of a handful of top-drawer films Sturgess has trickling out: next up is the Boxing Day biggie, The Way Back, in which he lines up alongside Ed Harris and Colin Farrell as prisoners breaking out of a Russian gulag during the second world war.
The funny thing about Sturgess,...
- 12/24/2010
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
In "The Way Back," several prisoners escape from a Siberian prison in 1940 and wander aimlessly through the wilderness until they reach India. This improbable feat, loosely based on real experiences, provides director Peter Weir with a way to start and end his story while dwelling in the murky space in between those two points. Incorporating details from Slavomir Rawicz's novel "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek ...
- 12/23/2010
- Indiewire
Seven years after directing Russell Crowe in Master and Commander, acclaimed director Peter Weir (The Truman Show) has retaken his place behind the camera for a dramatic journey of survival from within the Soviet Union's iron curtain.
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
- 12/21/2010
- Shadowlocked
There are good things and bad things in Peter Weir’s latest piece of majestic cinema. The greatest feeling however is this once brilliant film-maker’s days as a leading light are over. What’s wrong with The Way Back? Upon reflection, the answer is, well, quite a few things.
Memoirs are always dicey prospects and none more so than Slavomir Rawicz’s incredible story detailing a band of prisoners escaping their Soviet captors in Siberia and walking all the way to India – on foot. That’s about 4,000 miles and change. Only there’s grumbles it never really happened, or at least not to Racwicz, who wrote the book.
Ed Harris becomes only the third actor to work with Weir twice (joining Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford) and he’s appearing with Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Mark Strong and bizarrely, Saiorse Ronan. Yes, a young woman with the looks of...
Memoirs are always dicey prospects and none more so than Slavomir Rawicz’s incredible story detailing a band of prisoners escaping their Soviet captors in Siberia and walking all the way to India – on foot. That’s about 4,000 miles and change. Only there’s grumbles it never really happened, or at least not to Racwicz, who wrote the book.
Ed Harris becomes only the third actor to work with Weir twice (joining Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford) and he’s appearing with Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Mark Strong and bizarrely, Saiorse Ronan. Yes, a young woman with the looks of...
- 12/20/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Irish actor Colin Farrell says he can go to any place to work, but feels it would be a disaster if he sings and dances in a Bollywood movie.'I am an actor and I can travel anywhere for it. I don't think Indians would want me to sing and dance. I can bring the whole infrastructure and the economy down with one song,' Farrell, who's here for the screening of his film 'The Way Back' at the 7th Dubai International Film Festival, told Ians.Based on Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, 'The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom', the film tells the story of soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and made their way to India. It has been directed by six-time Oscar nominated Peter Weir.'It's a very old fashioned film. It's an epic film in its scale, in...
- 12/16/2010
- Filmicafe
The close of 2010 is upon us, but that doesn't mean Tinseltown is finished giving us an assortment of movies. This is the time of year when Hollywood brings out their big guns, films in every genre they hope will successfully cap off their fiscal year and be remembered come Oscar nomination time a few weeks later.Some end up classics in the making, others expensive duds that fail to please the masses. The following is a preview of upcoming films that will either be remembered for years to come, or forgotten as quickly as it takes to eat your popcorn.NOVEMBER19HARRY Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction—the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore,...
- 11/26/2010
- LRMonline.com
Peter Weir is a talented filmmaker, with a buffet of impressive credits including "Black Rain," "Witness," "Dead Poets Society," "Green Card" and "The Truman Show, "Gallipoli" and more. Now, Weir helms the Newmarket Films release "The Way Back" which stars Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Colin Farrell and the film looks like another winner from Weir. The film is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" as well as other real life accounts. Pic is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. Catch it in theaters from January 21st, 2011...
- 11/10/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Peter Weir is a talented filmmaker, with a buffet of impressive credits including "Black Rain," "Witness," "Dead Poets Society," "Green Card" and "The Truman Show, "Gallipoli" and more. Now, Weir helms the Newmarket Films release "The Way Back" which stars Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Colin Farrell and the film looks like another winner from Weir. The film is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" as well as other real life accounts. Pic is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. Catch it in theaters from January 21st, 2011...
- 11/10/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Yahoo! has premiered the first domestic trailer for Peter Weir’s latest film, The Way Back. The story documents a group of escaped prisoners as they escape the Gulag in 1940 and try and make their way across the Ussr.
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Synopsis: Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (“Witness”, “Master And Commander”, & “Dead Poet’s Society”) “The Way Back” is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
The movie stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong.
The Way Back hit limited U.S. theaters on December...
Hit the jump and watch the new trailer.
Synopsis: Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (“Witness”, “Master And Commander”, & “Dead Poet’s Society”) “The Way Back” is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
The movie stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong.
The Way Back hit limited U.S. theaters on December...
- 11/5/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Today we have a brand new trailer for the upcoming survival film "The Way Back," starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan. Check it out below. Plot: Inspired by a true story, the movie tells the tale of a group of prisoners who escaped the Soviet Gulag in 1940 and traveled over 4,000 miles across some of the most dangerous terrain in the world, including mountains, deserts, and rivers. The new movie is directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander) and adapted from a novel by Slavomir Rawicz. It is scheduled to get a limited theatrical release on January 21st. Trailer: If you cannot see the player, click here.
- 11/5/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
Newmarket Films has released the Domestic Trailer for Peter Weir's latest drama "The Way Back" starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Mark Strong.Have a look at the trailer below and let us know what you think."The Way Back" is due out in theaters on January 21, 2011."The Way Back" is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India. Source: Yahoo! Movies...
- 11/5/2010
- LRMonline.com
Photo: Newmarket Films Word is Peter Weir's The Way Back is going to have a small release in Los Angeles on December 29 and expand on January 21, 2011 to additional markets. The L.A. release is obviously in an attempt to qualify for Oscar contention, but I can't help but wonder what it will mean for its Oscar chances. Either way, today we have the first domestic trailer for the film via Yahoo! giving us an all new look at the film, which stars Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan.
The Way Back was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Check out the trailer below and when you're...
The Way Back was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Check out the trailer below and when you're...
- 11/4/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Newmarket Films has debuted the new trailer for writer/director The Way Back , starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan. Opening in theaters on January 21st, The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
- 11/4/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Scene from The Way Back
Photo: Newmarket Films
Peter Weir's The Way Back marks the director's first film in what will be eight years once it's released on January 21, 2011. His last film was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and before that it was the likes of The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society and Witness, which means a film from Weir is one to look out for.
The Way Back is expected to get a short limited Oscar qualifying release on December 29 where the film hopes to make a splash after some good reviews out of Telluride in September.
The story was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" as well as other real life accounts and tells the adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag...
Photo: Newmarket Films
Peter Weir's The Way Back marks the director's first film in what will be eight years once it's released on January 21, 2011. His last film was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and before that it was the likes of The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society and Witness, which means a film from Weir is one to look out for.
The Way Back is expected to get a short limited Oscar qualifying release on December 29 where the film hopes to make a splash after some good reviews out of Telluride in September.
The story was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" as well as other real life accounts and tells the adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag...
- 10/30/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Getting out of the gulag was the easy part. Trying to survive the land afterwards is the hard part. But by gum, Ed Harris and Colin Farrell are gonna give it a shot anyway in Peter Weir’s survival drama “No Way Back”. Take a gander at 30-plus images and a new poster for the movie below. Inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts, six time Oscar nominated director Peter Weir’s (“Witness”, “Master And Commander”, & “Dead Poet’s Society”) “The Way Back” is a remarkable adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries. Starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell and directed by Peter Weir. Look...
- 10/30/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
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- 10/14/2010
- Films N Movies
The trailer for "The Way Back" has been released and already Oscar rumors are buzzing. The movie starring Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris and Mark Strong and tells the true story of prisoners who escaped from a Siberian gulag in 1940. Peter Weir directed the film and although his 17 year career in movies has only seen his named attached to a handful of movies (including "Master and Commander", "The Truman Show" and "Fearless") he has come up with some massive cult movies such as "Dead Poets Society" and "Witness". This movie was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's novel "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom". The amazing group of escapees crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India. The movies will be released in North America on 21 January 2011. ...
- 10/11/2010
- IrishCentral
Check out the movie trailer for Peter Weir’s latest film, The Way Back, starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan.
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back hit limited U.S. theaters on December 29 before getting wider release on January 21, 2011.
Jim Sturgess as Janusz in The Way Back...
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back hit limited U.S. theaters on December 29 before getting wider release on January 21, 2011.
Jim Sturgess as Janusz in The Way Back...
- 10/10/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
"Just keep walking." Walking takes up a large part of Peter Weir's The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris and Saorise Ronan, a 1940 survival adventure inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's novel The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The trailer looks a tad more thrilling (below) than the movie really is, says Kris Tapley during this week's Oscar Talk. He raves about the film, which debuted at Telluride. National Geographic Films, which is run by ex-Miramax chief Daniel Battsek, financed the film with Imagenation Abu Dhabi. Battsek is coordinating an Academy campaign with Chris Ball of Newmarket, who has started the new distribution wing Wrekin Hill Entertainment. They're giving the film a one-week qualifying run December 29, followed by a 500-screen ...
- 10/9/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
Today we have the trailer for the upcoming survival film "The Way Back," starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Mark Strong and Saoirse Ronan. Check it out below. Plot: Inspired by a true story, the movie tells the tale of a group of prisoners who escaped the Soviet Gulag in 1940 and traveled over 4,000 miles across some of the most dangerous terrain in the world, including mountains, deserts, and rivers. The new movie is directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander) and adapted from a novel by Slavomir Rawicz. It is scheduled to get a limited theatrical at the end of December. Trailer: If you cannot see the player, click here.
- 10/9/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
It's been seven long years since Peter Weir has had a directorial effort in theaters. A six time Academy Award nominee for great films like Witness, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show, the man has been sorely missed, but now he's back and taking us across the span of Russia. The Guardian has posted the first trailer for The Way Back, a film based on the novel by Slavomir Rawicz in which a group of soldiers try and make their way home after escaping from a Siberian gulag. In case you never bothered to take notice, it's not exactly an easy trip, filled with some of the harshest terrain on Earth, from frozen tundra to the Himalayan mountains. The film stars Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong and is currently scheduled for a limited release in January (though it will be premiering in Los...
- 10/8/2010
- cinemablend.com
By way of The Playlist, the Guardian.co.uk had debuted the first trailer for Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
It still reminds me of 2008’s Defiance – a film I truly liked. Plus, Peter Weir’s Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World was my favorite film of 2003. The cinematographer of that film, Russell Boyd, once again teams up with Weir for The Way Back. By the look of this first trailer, an amazing film-going experience is ahead! However, for sake of argument, who thinks we’ve seen this movie a million times already? Enough with all the escape films? Has it been overdone?
The Way Back, which recently had its World Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as by other real life accounts. The film...
It still reminds me of 2008’s Defiance – a film I truly liked. Plus, Peter Weir’s Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World was my favorite film of 2003. The cinematographer of that film, Russell Boyd, once again teams up with Weir for The Way Back. By the look of this first trailer, an amazing film-going experience is ahead! However, for sake of argument, who thinks we’ve seen this movie a million times already? Enough with all the escape films? Has it been overdone?
The Way Back, which recently had its World Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as by other real life accounts. The film...
- 10/8/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Earlier this week people went gaga over the idea Peter Weir's latest film, The Way Back would received a one-week Oscar qualifying run, but I thought that had already been established so I didn't understand the fuss. Nevertheless, the first trailer for the film has just arrived giving everyone a preview of what's to come.
Kris Tapley saw the film at Telluride and gave it four-out-of-four stars calling it "quietly profound, epic, bold filmmaking at its very best."
The Way Back is a fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas,...
Kris Tapley saw the film at Telluride and gave it four-out-of-four stars calling it "quietly profound, epic, bold filmmaking at its very best."
The Way Back is a fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas,...
- 10/8/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Guardian have unveiled the brand new UK trailer for Peter Weir’s The Way Back.
Set to open on December 26, The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov and Dragos Bucur.
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back premiered at premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September to positive reviews. The release will ensure the film qualifies for all major awards ceremonies.
Set to open on December 26, The Way Back stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov and Dragos Bucur.
The Way Back is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. The book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
The Way Back premiered at premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September to positive reviews. The release will ensure the film qualifies for all major awards ceremonies.
- 10/8/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Looks like Peter Weir’s film The Way Back will see a 2010 release. When the film premiered at the 37th Telluride Film Festival, A.O. Scott, of the New York Times wrote in early September:
The drama of human beings confronting the elemental power of nature figures in later work like “The Mosquito Coast” and “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” and also in his latest movie, “The Way Back.” … Mr. Weir’s style is stately, almost classical, and the astonishing story he has to tell in the new movie “about a group of men who escaped from a Soviet Labor camp in 1941 and walked from Siberia to India. has an old-fashioned gravity and grandeur. There are fine performances from Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Sturgess as Janusz, the Polish prisoner who leads the trek toward freedom, and breathtaking images of tundra, desert forest and grassland.
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The drama of human beings confronting the elemental power of nature figures in later work like “The Mosquito Coast” and “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” and also in his latest movie, “The Way Back.” … Mr. Weir’s style is stately, almost classical, and the astonishing story he has to tell in the new movie “about a group of men who escaped from a Soviet Labor camp in 1941 and walked from Siberia to India. has an old-fashioned gravity and grandeur. There are fine performances from Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Sturgess as Janusz, the Polish prisoner who leads the trek toward freedom, and breathtaking images of tundra, desert forest and grassland.
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- 10/6/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Peter Weir's The Way Back enters the canon of survival films as perhaps the most sadistically intent on making you feel as much of its subjects' physical agony as possible. Despite its impeccable awards pedigree and prestige pic status, it may be too straight-up harrowing to get much traction, either with the Academy voters or at the box office. For those with the fortitude to take the plunge, it offers an intense, morally thorny exploration of the limits of human endurance.
Weir, the great Australian director of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and The Truman Show, is notoriously selective with his projects, and makes a film a couple times a decade. This purportedly true story, based on the ghostwritten memoir of Slavomir Rawicz (called The Long Walk, not to be confused with the great early Stephen King novella), obviously means a lot to Weir, and the movie gleams with painstaking effort.
Weir, the great Australian director of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and The Truman Show, is notoriously selective with his projects, and makes a film a couple times a decade. This purportedly true story, based on the ghostwritten memoir of Slavomir Rawicz (called The Long Walk, not to be confused with the great early Stephen King novella), obviously means a lot to Weir, and the movie gleams with painstaking effort.
- 9/4/2010
- by Eugene Novikov
- Cinematical
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Deals are starting to come together as filmmakers bring anticipated titles to major fall festivals.
With the Telluride festival about to kick off, Newmarket Films has announced that it has acquired the rights to Peter Weir’s World War II drama “The Way Back,” which will have its world premiere tonight in Colorado. According to Risky Business, the indie studio plans to release Weir’s film on Jan. 21, 2011.
Based on Slavomir Rawicz’s book “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom,” Weir’s “The Way Back” stars Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Mark Strong and Saoirse Ronan in the story of prisoners journeying hundreds of miles across several countries after escaping a Siberian gulag in 1940.
“‘The Way Back’ is one of the great real-life escape stories of our time,” said Chris Ball, co-chairman of Exclusive and president of Newmarket. “It’s...
Hollywoodnews.com: Deals are starting to come together as filmmakers bring anticipated titles to major fall festivals.
With the Telluride festival about to kick off, Newmarket Films has announced that it has acquired the rights to Peter Weir’s World War II drama “The Way Back,” which will have its world premiere tonight in Colorado. According to Risky Business, the indie studio plans to release Weir’s film on Jan. 21, 2011.
Based on Slavomir Rawicz’s book “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom,” Weir’s “The Way Back” stars Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Mark Strong and Saoirse Ronan in the story of prisoners journeying hundreds of miles across several countries after escaping a Siberian gulag in 1940.
“‘The Way Back’ is one of the great real-life escape stories of our time,” said Chris Ball, co-chairman of Exclusive and president of Newmarket. “It’s...
- 9/3/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
You can tell we're on the verge of Oscar season as films such as All Good Things and Biutiful have recently landed distribution deals and now an update on Peter Weir's The Way Back arrives courtesy of producer Joni Levin's Facebook page (via The Playlist).
Levin writes, "Just wanted to let everyone know that I produced a movie last year that my husband, Keith co-wrote with our director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, Dead Poets Society, Witness, Year of Living Dangerously). it's called The Way Back...stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan....comes out for a week in December, wide release Jan 21st 2011."
This is obviously big news considering up to this point all that was known was Exclusive Film Distribution had taken over distribution rights, but as to how they would handle that distribution was unknown. A one week release in December obviously...
Levin writes, "Just wanted to let everyone know that I produced a movie last year that my husband, Keith co-wrote with our director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, Dead Poets Society, Witness, Year of Living Dangerously). it's called The Way Back...stars Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan....comes out for a week in December, wide release Jan 21st 2011."
This is obviously big news considering up to this point all that was known was Exclusive Film Distribution had taken over distribution rights, but as to how they would handle that distribution was unknown. A one week release in December obviously...
- 8/26/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Wow, we made it, and to think this is just the early round of Oscar consideration. By the time we hit the November time frame this list of 87 total films will most likely be whittled down to what I assume will be about 30 or so titles of actual contenders. The real question is just how many from this preliminary list will be left standing once we get to that point? 20? 15? Less?
No matter, this is all for fun anyway as well as taking a moment to introduce you to a few films you may not have known were coming out this year. After all, isn't it better to be "in the know" so you can impress your friends?
In today's fourth and final installment we have the final 13 individual films to make my preliminary list followed by the ten films I can currently see as Animated Feature Film contenders as...
No matter, this is all for fun anyway as well as taking a moment to introduce you to a few films you may not have known were coming out this year. After all, isn't it better to be "in the know" so you can impress your friends?
In today's fourth and final installment we have the final 13 individual films to make my preliminary list followed by the ten films I can currently see as Animated Feature Film contenders as...
- 3/18/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Remember when Harrison For was trying to make an ice machine in Central America? Humans vs. Nature appears to be Weir's specialty and there's nothing better than an escape film in the great outdoors (this is set in Bulgaria, Morocco and India). I'm putting my money on Weir and that this film won't bite. - #70. The Way Back Director/Writer: Peter WeirProducers: Weir, Joni Levin and Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)Distributor: Rights Available. The Gist: This is a fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. This is based it on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" about being account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas,...
- 1/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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