There are no happy endings in Sean Ellis’ World War II drama “Anthropoid.” But should a new plan to honor the heroes portrayed within the new war drama pan out, the true story’s gruesome history might be forever altered in an unexpectedly positive way.
Ellis’ latest film follows the true story of Czech resistance fighters Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who undertook the nearly impossible mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942. The plan ultimately resulted in the deaths of Kubiš, Gabčík and five other Czech fighters – and while Heydrich didn’t die immediately as planned, he did succumb to his injuries soon after, altering the course of the war forever – and while the soldiers have long been national heroes, over seven decades have passed without a proper burial for their bodies.
Thanks to renewed interest in the unbelievable story of Operation Anthropoid,...
Ellis’ latest film follows the true story of Czech resistance fighters Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who undertook the nearly impossible mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942. The plan ultimately resulted in the deaths of Kubiš, Gabčík and five other Czech fighters – and while Heydrich didn’t die immediately as planned, he did succumb to his injuries soon after, altering the course of the war forever – and while the soldiers have long been national heroes, over seven decades have passed without a proper burial for their bodies.
Thanks to renewed interest in the unbelievable story of Operation Anthropoid,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
[Editor's Note: This article is presented in partnership with Shinola in support of Brit Takes, our monthly dispatch on the UK film scene. As makers of modern watches, bicycles, leather goods, and journals, Shinola stands for skill at scale, the preservation of craft and the beauty of industry. Learn more about Shinola handcrafted goods.] Read More: Historical TV Should Stop Taking Liberties, But Not For The Reasons You Think Tamzin Merchant has revived Shakespeare's Juliet in an entirely new light. "Juliet Remembered" is Merchant's second short film, the first being "American Virgin," the story of a 17-year-old girl who attempts to sell her virginity so she can afford to attend a summer program at Juilliard. Her followup, "Ameircan Homo," is already in the works this year. With "Juliet Remembered," Merchant takes on a more earnest and dramatic tone with Maggie Steed ("The Painted Veil"), by playing...
- 1/27/2016
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Displaying a transparency that few filmmakers of his fame and / or caliber would even bother with, Steven Soderbergh has, for a couple of years, been keen on releasing lists of what he watched and read during the previous twelve months. If you’re at all interested in this sort of thing — and why not? what else are you even doing with your day? — the 2015 selection should be of strong interest, this being a time when he was fully enmeshed in the world of creating television.
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Read More: Why the CW Deserves Your Attention This behind-the-scenes clip from the Season 2 DVD of "Reign" takes viewers behind the scenes in the Queen's throne room to show fans the process behind the magic. The DVD (coming out October 6) contains a featurette called "Playing By Her Rules: A Day on Set With a Queen and Her Court" which takes viewers through a day of shooting. In this exclusive clip, the show's actors go through the rehearsal process before the shooting begins. Appearing in this clip are Adelaide Kane playing Queen Mary Stuart, Torrance Coombs playing Sebastian and Toby Regbo playing Prince Francis. The CW period drama follows the Queen of Scots navigating the colluding, conniving world of the French court. "Reign" will begin its third season on Friday, October 9. Read More: Historical TV Should Stop Taking Liberties, But Not For the Reasons You Think...
- 10/5/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Two separate film tax fraud cases are heading towards trial.
Chris Atkins, writer-director of 2007 BAFTA-nominated doc Taking Liberties and 2009 doc Starsuckers, and Terence Potter, co-producer of acclaimed 2005 drama Romanzo Criminale, are among 13 men and women alleged by the Crown Prosecution Service to have taken part in a £2.5m film tax fraud.
The charges against the 13 relate to two film partnerships that allegedly submitted false tax returns so its members could claim relief on losses.
Seven of the 13 individuals are investment bankers.
A provisional trial date of July 13 has been set.
Meanwhile, in a separate case, five film professionals are due to stand trial in September in connection with another film tax scam.
Salt co-directors Robert Bevan and Cyril Megret, executive producers Keith Hayley and Charles Savill, formerly of Little Wing Films (as was Bevan), and Norman Leighton are alleged by the Crown Prosecution Service to have taken part in a tax relief fraud that cost the public...
Chris Atkins, writer-director of 2007 BAFTA-nominated doc Taking Liberties and 2009 doc Starsuckers, and Terence Potter, co-producer of acclaimed 2005 drama Romanzo Criminale, are among 13 men and women alleged by the Crown Prosecution Service to have taken part in a £2.5m film tax fraud.
The charges against the 13 relate to two film partnerships that allegedly submitted false tax returns so its members could claim relief on losses.
Seven of the 13 individuals are investment bankers.
A provisional trial date of July 13 has been set.
Meanwhile, in a separate case, five film professionals are due to stand trial in September in connection with another film tax scam.
Salt co-directors Robert Bevan and Cyril Megret, executive producers Keith Hayley and Charles Savill, formerly of Little Wing Films (as was Bevan), and Norman Leighton are alleged by the Crown Prosecution Service to have taken part in a tax relief fraud that cost the public...
- 2/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
“Hazard Pay” was a prime reminder of the phenomenal writing and acting which has made Breaking Bad the best drama on TV today.
Mark Margolis (as Hector Salamanca) and Giancarlo Esposito (as Gus Fring) may no longer be on the show to add the tense juxtaposition to Walt’s (Bryan Cranston) Icarus climb, but their legacy still haunts him.
Perhaps in contemporary fiction, martial arts and video games, beating the boss means becoming the boss. It’s the logic Darth Vader used when he cut down Obi Wan. “The circle is now complete,” Vader proclaimed. “When I left you, I was but the learner; now – I – am the master.”
That thinking may work if you’re Darth Vader, Jedi master. However, as Mike (Jonathan Banks) reminded Walt, killing Jesse James doesn’t make him (Walt) Jesse James.
Editor’S Pick: Exclusive Breaking Bad Interview: Emmy Bells Toll For Mark Margolis
In the Season 5 premiere,...
Mark Margolis (as Hector Salamanca) and Giancarlo Esposito (as Gus Fring) may no longer be on the show to add the tense juxtaposition to Walt’s (Bryan Cranston) Icarus climb, but their legacy still haunts him.
Perhaps in contemporary fiction, martial arts and video games, beating the boss means becoming the boss. It’s the logic Darth Vader used when he cut down Obi Wan. “The circle is now complete,” Vader proclaimed. “When I left you, I was but the learner; now – I – am the master.”
That thinking may work if you’re Darth Vader, Jedi master. However, as Mike (Jonathan Banks) reminded Walt, killing Jesse James doesn’t make him (Walt) Jesse James.
Editor’S Pick: Exclusive Breaking Bad Interview: Emmy Bells Toll For Mark Margolis
In the Season 5 premiere,...
- 7/30/2012
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days
Taking liberties
Tony Blair
Turns out the attorney general warned him that going to war with Iraq would be illegal. Several times. But really – what do lawyers know? He lived with one, he was one – he knows what they're like. Anyway, things change. Not facts or anything but ... things. And eventually Lord Goldsmith came round to his way of thinking – sort of – and popped a more helpful note through the door of No 10 suggesting that what Mr B wanted and had just promised George W would be Ok after all.
And that was surely right. Why else would our Tone have received this week the 2010 Liberty Award (lovely medal, plus 70 grand to stick in the account) in the Us for "significantly furthering the expansion of freedom, self-governance, equality and peaceful coexistence" in the world. Really, it's enough to move you to tears,...
Taking liberties
Tony Blair
Turns out the attorney general warned him that going to war with Iraq would be illegal. Several times. But really – what do lawyers know? He lived with one, he was one – he knows what they're like. Anyway, things change. Not facts or anything but ... things. And eventually Lord Goldsmith came round to his way of thinking – sort of – and popped a more helpful note through the door of No 10 suggesting that what Mr B wanted and had just promised George W would be Ok after all.
And that was surely right. Why else would our Tone have received this week the 2010 Liberty Award (lovely medal, plus 70 grand to stick in the account) in the Us for "significantly furthering the expansion of freedom, self-governance, equality and peaceful coexistence" in the world. Really, it's enough to move you to tears,...
- 7/2/2010
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
By Natalie Peck
A great big two fingers up to celebrity-obsessed media has come recently in the form of Starsuckers, from the director of BAFTA nominated documentary Taking Liberties, Chris Atkins. The film attempts to mix anthropological examination with some hilarious hoaxes, intent on exposing the way the media exploits the human desire for fame. The film orders itself into lessons, instructing the audience in a self–consciously patronising way on how we are regularly duped by large corporations and media organisations into consuming celebrity culture to a worrying degree.
After completing Taking Liberties, Atkins was told that not having any famous people in the documentary (besides Tony Blair) could hinder the marketing of the film.
A great big two fingers up to celebrity-obsessed media has come recently in the form of Starsuckers, from the director of BAFTA nominated documentary Taking Liberties, Chris Atkins. The film attempts to mix anthropological examination with some hilarious hoaxes, intent on exposing the way the media exploits the human desire for fame. The film orders itself into lessons, instructing the audience in a self–consciously patronising way on how we are regularly duped by large corporations and media organisations into consuming celebrity culture to a worrying degree.
After completing Taking Liberties, Atkins was told that not having any famous people in the documentary (besides Tony Blair) could hinder the marketing of the film.
- 4/10/2010
- by Natalie Peck
- Pure Movies
- Like what had occurred over at the Golden Globes, it comes as no surprise that the Brits backed homegrown Joe Wright period piece of Atonement. Picking up a grand total of 14 nominees, the BAFTAs also gave There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men and Michael Clayton to celebrate. See the complete list below to see how they do things on the other side of the Atlantic. The full list of nominations follows:film“American Gangster” — Brian Grazer/Ridley Scott“Atonement” — Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster“The Lives of Others” — Quirin Berg/Max Wiedemann“No Country for Old Men” — Scott Rudin/Joel Coen/Ethan Coen“There Will Be Blood” — JoAnne Sellar/Paul Thomas Anderson/Daniel LupiBRITISH Film“Atonement” — Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Joe Wright, Christopher Hampton“The Bourne Ultimatum” — Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L. Sandberg, Paul Greengrass, Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi“Control” — Orian Williams,
- 1/17/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
LONDON -- Joe Wright's "Atonement" leads the field of nominations for this year's British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 noms, ahead of the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" and Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood", both of which took nine slots.
The trio of titles are all in the race for the best film award along with Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" and last year's foreign-language Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others". Both "Gangster" and "Others" scored five nominations.
Wright, Joel and Ethan Coen, Anderson and Henckel von Donnersmark also will battle it out with Paul Greengrass for the evening's best director nod, with Greengrass nominated for "The Bourne Ultimatum".
The best British film award, one of 23 awards dished out by the British Academy of Film and Television, will go to one from "Atonement", "Ultimatum", "Control", "Eastern Promises" and "This Is England".
George Clooney ("Michael Clayton"), Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood"), James McAvoy ("Atonement"), Viggo Mortensen ("Eastern Promises") and Ulrich Muehe ("The Lives of Others") all secure nominations for best actor.
Cate Blanchett has two nominations, for leading actress in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and supporting actress in "I'm Not There".
Blanchett will have to triumph over Julie Christie ("Away From Her"), Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), Keira Knightley ("Atonement") and Ellen Page ("Juno") to secure the best actress nod.
And Kelly Macdonald ("No Country"), Samantha Morton ("Control"), Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement") and Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton") might have something to say in the supporting actress race.
Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones (both for "No Country"), Paul Dano ("Blood"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Charlie Wilson's War") and Tom Wilkinson ("Michael Clayton") are slugging it out for supporting actor.
The prize for best animated film will be drawn by "Ratatouille", "Shrek the Third" or "The Simpsons Movie".
Nominations for the Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature include Chris Atkins for writing and directing the documentary "Taking Liberties", Mia Bays for her producer role on documentary "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man", Sarah Gavron for helming "Brick Lane", Matt Greenhalgh for penning "Control" and Andrew Piddington for writing and directing "The Killing of John Lennon".
The original screenplay prize is a contest between Steven Zailian ("American Gangster"), Diablo Cody ("Juno"), Henckel von Donnersmarck ("Lives of Others"), Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton") and Shane Meadows ("This Is England").
Nominations for adapted screenplay are Christopher Hampton ("Atonement"), Ronald Harwood ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), David Benioff ("The Kite Runner"), the Coens ("No Country") and Anderson ("Blood").
The winners will be announced Feb. 10 at London's Royal Opera House.
A complete list of nominations follows:
Best film
"American Gangster" -- Brian Grazer/Ridley Scott
"Atonement" -- Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster
"The Lives of Others" -- Quirin Berg/Max Wiedemann
"No Country for Old Men" -- Scott Rudin/Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" -- JoAnne Sellar/Paul Thomas Anderson/Daniel Lupi
British film
"Atonement" -- Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Joe Wright, Christopher Hampton
"The Bourne Ultimatum" -- Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L.
The trio of titles are all in the race for the best film award along with Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" and last year's foreign-language Oscar winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's "The Lives of Others". Both "Gangster" and "Others" scored five nominations.
Wright, Joel and Ethan Coen, Anderson and Henckel von Donnersmark also will battle it out with Paul Greengrass for the evening's best director nod, with Greengrass nominated for "The Bourne Ultimatum".
The best British film award, one of 23 awards dished out by the British Academy of Film and Television, will go to one from "Atonement", "Ultimatum", "Control", "Eastern Promises" and "This Is England".
George Clooney ("Michael Clayton"), Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood"), James McAvoy ("Atonement"), Viggo Mortensen ("Eastern Promises") and Ulrich Muehe ("The Lives of Others") all secure nominations for best actor.
Cate Blanchett has two nominations, for leading actress in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and supporting actress in "I'm Not There".
Blanchett will have to triumph over Julie Christie ("Away From Her"), Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), Keira Knightley ("Atonement") and Ellen Page ("Juno") to secure the best actress nod.
And Kelly Macdonald ("No Country"), Samantha Morton ("Control"), Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement") and Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton") might have something to say in the supporting actress race.
Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones (both for "No Country"), Paul Dano ("Blood"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Charlie Wilson's War") and Tom Wilkinson ("Michael Clayton") are slugging it out for supporting actor.
The prize for best animated film will be drawn by "Ratatouille", "Shrek the Third" or "The Simpsons Movie".
Nominations for the Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature include Chris Atkins for writing and directing the documentary "Taking Liberties", Mia Bays for her producer role on documentary "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man", Sarah Gavron for helming "Brick Lane", Matt Greenhalgh for penning "Control" and Andrew Piddington for writing and directing "The Killing of John Lennon".
The original screenplay prize is a contest between Steven Zailian ("American Gangster"), Diablo Cody ("Juno"), Henckel von Donnersmarck ("Lives of Others"), Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton") and Shane Meadows ("This Is England").
Nominations for adapted screenplay are Christopher Hampton ("Atonement"), Ronald Harwood ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), David Benioff ("The Kite Runner"), the Coens ("No Country") and Anderson ("Blood").
The winners will be announced Feb. 10 at London's Royal Opera House.
A complete list of nominations follows:
Best film
"American Gangster" -- Brian Grazer/Ridley Scott
"Atonement" -- Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster
"The Lives of Others" -- Quirin Berg/Max Wiedemann
"No Country for Old Men" -- Scott Rudin/Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" -- JoAnne Sellar/Paul Thomas Anderson/Daniel Lupi
British film
"Atonement" -- Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Joe Wright, Christopher Hampton
"The Bourne Ultimatum" -- Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L.
- 1/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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