The BBC is celebrating the art of the literary adaptation by screening a variety of classics on BBC Four. More details here.
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
The BBC is quite rightly celebrated for its rich history of book to screen adaptations, such as the iconic 1995 version of Jane Austen’a Pride And Prejudice to Cbbc’s hugely successful adaptation of Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker series.
It has now put together a season of 14 adaptations from the BBC archive, some of which have rarely been seen since their original broadcast.
The dramas are:
The Great Gatsby
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd lead the cast in this 2000 BBC adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on the American dream in the jazz age.
Small Island
Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ashley Walters star in this 2009 TV version of Andrea Levy’s novel focusing on the lives and...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Fierce Irish rebels go head-to-head with Brit occupation forces, and James Cagney is first on the barricades. Michael Anderson’s thriller about terror violence in 1921 Dublin has suspense, beautiful cinematography in real Irish locations, and a standout cast: Don Murray, Glynis Johns, Dana Wynter, Michael Redgrave, Cyril Cusack and Sybil Thorndike — plus added-value players Richard Harris, Donal Donnelly and Niall MacGinness. Cagney’s surgeon-turned guerilla doesn’t yell “Top of the World!” but he’s as psychotic as Cody Jarrett: he wants to shoot both the leading ladies. Included is a good interview with Don Murray.
Shake Hands with the Devil
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / Color B&w / 1:66 widescreen/ 111 min. / Street Date January 4, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Cusack, Marianne Benet, Robert Brown, John Cairney, Harry H. Corbett, Eileen Crowe, Allan Cuthbertson, Donal Donnelly, Richard Harris,...
Shake Hands with the Devil
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1959 / Color B&w / 1:66 widescreen/ 111 min. / Street Date January 4, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Cusack, Marianne Benet, Robert Brown, John Cairney, Harry H. Corbett, Eileen Crowe, Allan Cuthbertson, Donal Donnelly, Richard Harris,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Alfred Hitchcock puts Jane Wyman in harm’s way, as she tries to rescue her unworthy boyfriend Richard Todd from a murder charge. Is Jane proving her love, or are both of them being manipulated by a scheming actress, Marlene Dietrich? This is the movie in which Hitch inflicts a ‘frump complex’ on Ms. Wyman — she looks demoralized whenever she shares the screen with Dietrich. It’s also the movie that ponders the cinematic concept of ‘The Lying Flashback,’ which made perfect sense to Hitchcock but frustrated his audience. Also starring Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim and a cherry-picked list of English acting royalty.
Stage Fright
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date January 25, 2022 / 21.99
Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell, André Morell, Patricia Hitchcock, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl. Lionel Jeffries.
Cinematography:...
Stage Fright
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date January 25, 2022 / 21.99
Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell, André Morell, Patricia Hitchcock, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl. Lionel Jeffries.
Cinematography:...
- 1/29/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“He was an abominable man. Why do women marry abominable men?”
Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright (1950) will be available on Blu-ray January 25th from Warner Archive
In Alfred Hitchcock’s world, theaters are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem, and that “final curtain” can drop any second. The droll Stage Fright springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve Gill, who tries to clear a friend (Richard Todd) being framed for murder by becoming the maid of flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Filming in his native England, Hitchcock merrily juggles elements of humor and whodunit and puts a game ensemble through its paces. No one turns a theatre into a bastion of dread like Hitchcock, and Stage Fright is proof positive.
Special Features:
Featurette: “Hitchcock and Stage Fright”Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
The post Marlene Dietrich in...
Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright (1950) will be available on Blu-ray January 25th from Warner Archive
In Alfred Hitchcock’s world, theaters are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem, and that “final curtain” can drop any second. The droll Stage Fright springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve Gill, who tries to clear a friend (Richard Todd) being framed for murder by becoming the maid of flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Filming in his native England, Hitchcock merrily juggles elements of humor and whodunit and puts a game ensemble through its paces. No one turns a theatre into a bastion of dread like Hitchcock, and Stage Fright is proof positive.
Special Features:
Featurette: “Hitchcock and Stage Fright”Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
The post Marlene Dietrich in...
- 1/3/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Classic cinematics from first-rank filmmakers. No ballet or heroism, so not a crowd pleaser, but Michael Powell’s original version of Gone to Earth is another unique Archers creation. Jennifer Jones finally gets to chew on a character role with grit, as a natural virgin/vixen misunderstood by contrasting suitors. David O. Selznick’s revision The Wild Heart is a classic too — of unnecessary meddling.
Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1950 / Color / 1:37 flat Academy / 110, 86 min. / Street Date June 25, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman, Esmond Knight, Hugh Griffith.
Cinematography: Christopher Challis
Film Editor: Reginald Mills
From the novel by: Mary Webb
Music by Brian Easdale
Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
This is one beautiful production, one that will thrill Powell & Pressburger fans eager to see all of his films. With his typical cinematic simplicity,...
Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1950 / Color / 1:37 flat Academy / 110, 86 min. / Street Date June 25, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman, Esmond Knight, Hugh Griffith.
Cinematography: Christopher Challis
Film Editor: Reginald Mills
From the novel by: Mary Webb
Music by Brian Easdale
Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
This is one beautiful production, one that will thrill Powell & Pressburger fans eager to see all of his films. With his typical cinematic simplicity,...
- 7/9/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Though his name is scarcely remembered on American shores, N.C. Hunter was one of the more popular English playwrights during the 1950s. His genteel dramas would feature such distinguished cast members as John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike, Ingrid Bergman, Ralph Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave and Michael Redgrave, but his work fell out of favor with the rise of Britain's 'angry young men' playwrights.
- 9/5/2016
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...
- 11/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict and the BBC's 1969 sitcom Me Mammy
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The...
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The...
- 4/3/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
The 78-year-old Britsh actor, whose 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown is being re-released, talks about her rebellious past, why she's not dame material – and what she'd love to do next
Sylvia Syms sits in her lovely flat in west London explaining how she avoided being treated as a piece of meat in the 1950s. There was an "assumption that because you were blond and an actress, you were available," she says. Determined not to be "pretty, available and treated like shit", she took inspiration from Dame Sybil Thorndike.
"I thought, that's what I want," says Syms, who seems to have worked with every British screen legend – from Dirk Bogarde to Michael Caine – during her seven decades in film, TV and theatre. "I want to go on working when I'm an old lady and have that kind of jolliness and respect, which she had. She was just incredible."
Syms turns on me like a hawk.
Sylvia Syms sits in her lovely flat in west London explaining how she avoided being treated as a piece of meat in the 1950s. There was an "assumption that because you were blond and an actress, you were available," she says. Determined not to be "pretty, available and treated like shit", she took inspiration from Dame Sybil Thorndike.
"I thought, that's what I want," says Syms, who seems to have worked with every British screen legend – from Dirk Bogarde to Michael Caine – during her seven decades in film, TV and theatre. "I want to go on working when I'm an old lady and have that kind of jolliness and respect, which she had. She was just incredible."
Syms turns on me like a hawk.
- 7/20/2012
- by Patrick Barkham
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Last year’s slate of Best Actress Oscar-nominees was among the weakest in recent memory. There was no clear front-runner since there was no picture worthy of the exemplary actress at its core. From Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady” to Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs,” 2011 deserves to be remembered as the year of great female performances trapped in subpar material.
Perhaps the most frustrating misuse of talent is contained within TV veteran Simon Curtis’s feature debut, “My Week with Marilyn,” an adaptation of a memoir written by Colin Clark, who served as Third Assistant Director on the set of 1956’s unremarkable romance, “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film was most famous for teaming up the unlikely duo of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who would subsequently go on to deliver some of the most acclaimed work of their careers.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
The unsatisfactory premise of...
Perhaps the most frustrating misuse of talent is contained within TV veteran Simon Curtis’s feature debut, “My Week with Marilyn,” an adaptation of a memoir written by Colin Clark, who served as Third Assistant Director on the set of 1956’s unremarkable romance, “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film was most famous for teaming up the unlikely duo of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who would subsequently go on to deliver some of the most acclaimed work of their careers.
Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0
The unsatisfactory premise of...
- 3/22/2012
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
- 3/17/2012
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
Kristen Wiig, Busy Philipps, Michelle Williams Kristen Wiig, Busy Philipps, and Michelle Williams (Albert Nobb' SAG Award nominee Janet McTeer can be spotted in the background) arrive at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards ceremony was broadcast on TNT/TBS directly from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage.) Kristen Wiig was a 2012 SAG Award nominee as a cast member of Paul Feig's sleeper hit Bridesmaids, along with veteran Jill Clayburgh (La Luna, Starting Over, It's My Turn, An Unmarried Woman), plus Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Matt Lucas, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, Maya Rudolph, and Ellie Kemper. Michelle Williams, for her part, was nominated as Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, co-starring BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominee Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier,...
- 2/1/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Michelle Williams Actress Michelle Williams arrives at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast on TNT/TBS from the Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.) Michelle Williams was nominated for the SAG Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, co-starring BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominee Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier. My Week with Marilyn is set during the making of Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). The cast also includes Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper, Pip Torrens, Dougray Scott, Geraldine Somerville, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's Emma Watson. Williams SAG Awards competition consisted of Meryl Streep in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Glenn Close in Rodrigo García's Albert Nobbs, Tilda Swinton...
- 2/1/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh was the London Film Critics' Supporting Actor of the Year for his performance as Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn. Co-starring Actress of the Year nominee Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne, the film is set during the time Marilyn Monroe (Williams) was in England co-starring with Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl. Also in the My Week with Marilyn cast are Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike and Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh. [Full list of London Film Critics winners.] Kenneth Branagh's competition was composed of Simon Russell Beale for Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, Albert Brooks for Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Christopher Plummer for Mike Mills' Beginners, and Michael Smiley for Ben Wheatley's Kill List. Last Sunday, the veteran Plummer (The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would be King) was the Golden Globe winner in the Best Supporting Actor category. Kenneth Branagh...
- 1/19/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Michelle Williams Actress Michelle Williams poses backstage after winning the Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her work in Simon Curtis' My Week With Marilyn. In the above photo, Williams is seen in the press room with her Golden Globe Award at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, January 15, 2012. In My Week with Marilyn, Williams plays Marilyn Monroe during the making of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl. The cast also includes BAFTA Orange Rising Star nominee Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh (as Laurence Olivier), Julia Ormond (as Vivien Leigh), and Judi Dench (as Sybil Thorndike). Others in the cast are Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Pip Torrens, Dougray Scott, and Geraldine Somerville. Michelle Williams' competition in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical category...
- 1/19/2012
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced its nominations for the awards it'll be presenting on February 12.
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Outstanding British Film
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Attack the Block - Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
Black Pond - Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes (Director)
Submarine - Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
Director
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Documentary
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
Original Screenplay
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo,...
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Outstanding British Film
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Attack the Block - Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
Black Pond - Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes (Director)
Submarine - Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
Director
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Documentary
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
Original Screenplay
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo,...
- 1/17/2012
- MUBI
The complete list of nominations for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Film Not in the English Language
Incendies
Pina
Potiche
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Outstanding British Film
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Director
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Original Screenplay
The Artist
Bridesmaids
The Guard
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
The Help
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Editing
The Artist
Drive
Hugo
Senna
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
Production...
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Film Not in the English Language
Incendies
Pina
Potiche
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Outstanding British Film
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Director
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Original Screenplay
The Artist
Bridesmaids
The Guard
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
The Help
The Ides of March
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Cinematography
The Artist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Editing
The Artist
Drive
Hugo
Senna
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
Production...
- 1/17/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Join us from 7.40am when we'll be liveblogging the nominations in the second round of voting for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards
7.40am:
Tim Curry is teeing things up …
We're going to star those longlist contenders that make the shortlist:
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Extra Potiche 1
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Attack The Block
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus...
7.40am:
Tim Curry is teeing things up …
We're going to star those longlist contenders that make the shortlist:
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Extra Potiche 1
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Attack The Block
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus...
- 1/17/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Eddie Redmayne in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn The Artist, My Week With Marilyn, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lead BAFTA Longlists Leading Actor Antonio Banderas (Robert Ledgard) – The Skin I Live In Brad Pitt (Billy Beane) – Moneyball* Brendan Gleeson (Gerry Boyle) – The Guard Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist) – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Eddie Redmayne (Colin Clark) – My Week with Marilyn Gary Oldman (George Smiley) – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* George Clooney (Matt King) – The Descendants* Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) – The Artist* Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar Hoover) – J. Edgar Michael Fassbender (Brandon) – Shame* Owen Wilson (Gil) – Midnight in Paris Peter Mullan (Joseph) – Tyrannosaur Ralph Fiennes (Caius Martius Coriolanus) – Coriolanus Ryan Gosling (Driver) – Drive Ryan Gosling (Stephen Meyers) – The Ides of March Leading Actress Bérénice Bejo (Peppy Miller) – The Artist* Carey Mulligan (Sissy) – Shame Charlize Theron (Mavis Gary) – Young Adult Emma Stone (Skeeter Phelan) – The Help Helen Mirren (Rachel Singer...
- 1/8/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The full list of contenders in the first round of voting for this year's British Academy Film Awards
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Working with Marilyn Monroe must have been quite a special experience for third assistant director Colin Clark, whose brief time with the star has turned into two memoirs, and now a film, titled My Week with Marilyn. Similarly, the experience of working with Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams portraying Monroe must have been something magical for first-time director Simon Curtis.
I sat down with Curtis in a roundtable interview to discuss working with Williams on her inevitably Oscar-nominated performance, his feelings about Monroe, and what film set he wishes he could witness just as Colin Clark did back in 1956.
My Week with Marilyn is now playing in select theaters.
What fascinates you most about the movie star and production system of the 1950s, and which you wanted to communicate that in the film?
My way into this film was reading Colin Clark’s diaries, and Clark seeing the details as to...
I sat down with Curtis in a roundtable interview to discuss working with Williams on her inevitably Oscar-nominated performance, his feelings about Monroe, and what film set he wishes he could witness just as Colin Clark did back in 1956.
My Week with Marilyn is now playing in select theaters.
What fascinates you most about the movie star and production system of the 1950s, and which you wanted to communicate that in the film?
My way into this film was reading Colin Clark’s diaries, and Clark seeing the details as to...
- 12/1/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Long after the death of Marilyn Monroe, the old Etonian Colin Clark, documentary film-maker and son of Lord Clark of Civilisation, published a diary about the time he spent as a naive 23-year-old working as third assistant director to family friend Laurence Olivier on the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. He later published a shorter book about his chaste romantic affair with Monroe during the course of shooting. This latter part, which forms the core of this film (with Eddie Redmayne as Clark), is amusing but fanciful and ultimately lacks the ring of truth. The rest, as knowingly scripted by Adrian Hodges, an experienced screenwriter and former showbusiness journalist, carries conviction. There is a real feeling for British cinema in its moderately prosperous, constantly crisis-dogged, ever-aspiring days in the 1950s, the period detail seems right, Kenneth Branagh's Olivier is just this side of caricature, Judi Dench is a moving,...
- 11/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Marilyn Monroe was a complicated woman. Even today, people struggle to make sense of her life and career. For many, she was merely a starlet, a famous actress and icon with the world wrapped around her finger. They believe she had the perfect life. The truth, however, is the subject of My Week With Marilyn. The story revolves around a young man named Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) who wishes to make his own way by breaking into the motion picture business, instead of riding on his father.s success. Colin ventures out to obtain a job — any job will do — with Sir Laurence Olivier.s production company in London. Colin.s timing and youthful determination lands him on the set of The Prince And The Showgirl. This is how he meets Marilyn Monroe, played by Michelle Williams.
As London prepares for the arrival of the world.s most famous woman,...
As London prepares for the arrival of the world.s most famous woman,...
- 11/25/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The stand-off between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier while making The Prince and the Showgirl is recreated wonderfully in this entertaining film
In 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Britain to make a movie at Pinewood Studios with Laurence Olivier. This was the tense and ill-fated light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, scripted by Terence Rattigan, a film that became a legend for the lack of chemistry between its insecure and incompatible stars. One was a sexy, feminine, sensual and mercurial diva. The other would go on to make Some Like It Hot.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody. The whole thing is seen from the standpoint of the film's star-struck third assistant director, Colin Clark, son of the great art historian Kenneth,...
In 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Britain to make a movie at Pinewood Studios with Laurence Olivier. This was the tense and ill-fated light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, scripted by Terence Rattigan, a film that became a legend for the lack of chemistry between its insecure and incompatible stars. One was a sexy, feminine, sensual and mercurial diva. The other would go on to make Some Like It Hot.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody. The whole thing is seen from the standpoint of the film's star-struck third assistant director, Colin Clark, son of the great art historian Kenneth,...
- 11/25/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Bringing the popular culture past back to life in a movie is always a tricky proposition. No matter what, there are always inevitable comparisons to the real thing. They don’t come any more really famous than Marilyn Monroe, and Michelle Williams takes on a portrayal that exemplifies, honors and humanizes the iconic star in “My Week with Marilyn.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Credit also should be given to director Simon Curtis – working with an adapted screenplay by Adrian Hodges – who establishes an accessible narrative to show all sides of Monroe, at a crucial juncture in her life. Kenneth Branagh also is on his game as Sir Lawrence Olivier, cursed with a crossroads of his own that clashes ironically with the mercurial Marilyn. This is a film that will put a smile on the face of any movie fanatic, but is also fun for the generations not as familiar with the old stars,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Credit also should be given to director Simon Curtis – working with an adapted screenplay by Adrian Hodges – who establishes an accessible narrative to show all sides of Monroe, at a crucial juncture in her life. Kenneth Branagh also is on his game as Sir Lawrence Olivier, cursed with a crossroads of his own that clashes ironically with the mercurial Marilyn. This is a film that will put a smile on the face of any movie fanatic, but is also fun for the generations not as familiar with the old stars,...
- 11/23/2011
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s gems like filmmaker Colin Clark’s memoir of his personal experience with an icon that make the best screen stories, the ones that delve deeper into the celebrity’s persona to prove, disprove or enlighten our knowledge further and make for a more honest and intimate affair. My Week With Marilyn, the name of said memoir and debut feature-film director Simon Curtis’ new film, is one such example that much like the Marilyn Monroe it portrays, is an instant heart warmer that you can’t help but be charmed by.
In the summer of 1956, Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams) arrived on British soil to produce and star in The Prince and the Showgirl, co-starring and directed by acting legend and British acting royalty Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). On that same shoot was then-23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an Oxford graduate from a well-established...
In the summer of 1956, Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams) arrived on British soil to produce and star in The Prince and the Showgirl, co-starring and directed by acting legend and British acting royalty Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). On that same shoot was then-23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an Oxford graduate from a well-established...
- 11/23/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 1956, British thespian Sir Laurence Olivier and Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe joined their considerable forces for the production of The Prince and the Showgirl, a light comedy precursor to Monroe’s acting career peak, Some Like It Hot.
Colin Clark, a well-off yet determined young man of 23 (going on 24), performed “gofer” work behind the tumultuous scenes and supposedly shared a moment with Monroe while obeying her every whim, then wrote a memoir about it forty years later.
Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn is the film adaptation of that book, featuring a radiant Michelle Williams as the blonde bombshell, Eddie Redmayne as the concupiscent Clark, and Kenneth Branagh as a continually aggravated “Larry” Olivier. Unfortunately, now two major motion picture productions have revolved around Monroe’s frivolity on set, and both turned out decidedly less than magical.
Of course, there’s no question Marilyn was enchanting. She was the kind of glamorous star that,...
Colin Clark, a well-off yet determined young man of 23 (going on 24), performed “gofer” work behind the tumultuous scenes and supposedly shared a moment with Monroe while obeying her every whim, then wrote a memoir about it forty years later.
Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn is the film adaptation of that book, featuring a radiant Michelle Williams as the blonde bombshell, Eddie Redmayne as the concupiscent Clark, and Kenneth Branagh as a continually aggravated “Larry” Olivier. Unfortunately, now two major motion picture productions have revolved around Monroe’s frivolity on set, and both turned out decidedly less than magical.
Of course, there’s no question Marilyn was enchanting. She was the kind of glamorous star that,...
- 11/23/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Despite how well made Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn is, from the acting all the way down to the production design, it feels like such a small piece to a much larger story that I had a hard time remaining all that interested. It serves more as an introduction to Marilyn Monroe rather than a piece that really has anything to say.
Curtis sets out to tell the story of one week of the actress' life as she takes on a role in Sir Laurence Olivier's latest feature. Michelle Williams does an excellent job depicting Monroe from her captivating elegance to her borderline neurosis, but I couldn't help but feel as if I was only seeing an extended piece of a much larger story. And for anyone that knows anything about Monroe, you already know there is much more to tell.
The titular "my" the title is referring to is Colin Clark,...
Curtis sets out to tell the story of one week of the actress' life as she takes on a role in Sir Laurence Olivier's latest feature. Michelle Williams does an excellent job depicting Monroe from her captivating elegance to her borderline neurosis, but I couldn't help but feel as if I was only seeing an extended piece of a much larger story. And for anyone that knows anything about Monroe, you already know there is much more to tell.
The titular "my" the title is referring to is Colin Clark,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – Marilyn Monroe will never go away. The iconic actress of a long-gone era is the subject of a new film, “My Week with Marilyn,” directed by Simon Curtis. Ms. Monroe is portrayed during a in collaboration with Sir Lawrence Olivier, and their characters are played with sublime grace by Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh.
Director Simon Curtis was tapped to bring these actors – plus Julia Ormond, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson and Dame Judi Dench – to occupy another time and place with the image of Marilyn Monroe. Curtis was able to fully interpret the Adrian Hodges screenplay adaptation, in addition to balancing the public image and private dread of the Monroe essence. Admirers of both Monroe and Olivier will be transported.
She Wants to Loved By You: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Photo credit: The Weinstein Company
British born Simon Curtis has risen through the...
Director Simon Curtis was tapped to bring these actors – plus Julia Ormond, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson and Dame Judi Dench – to occupy another time and place with the image of Marilyn Monroe. Curtis was able to fully interpret the Adrian Hodges screenplay adaptation, in addition to balancing the public image and private dread of the Monroe essence. Admirers of both Monroe and Olivier will be transported.
She Wants to Loved By You: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Photo credit: The Weinstein Company
British born Simon Curtis has risen through the...
- 11/21/2011
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
My Week With Marilyn features a startling turn from Michelle Williams as screen icon Monroe, but does the film have much else to offer? Here’s Luke’s review…
Following on from the planet-conquering success of The King’s Speech, it was always a fairly safe bet that Hollywood uber-producers the Weinstein brothers would seek to replicate the enormous financial remuneration they'd achieved with similarly frugal fare. The result of their shrewd business sense is My Week With Marilyn, another low-budget Brit semi-biopic with eyes clearly fixed on awards season.
Esteemed television director Simon Curtis and Primeval and Survivor screenwriter Adrian Hodges have adapted Colin Clark’s book, which belatedly described the hitherto untold true story of his tumultuous nine days within the hectic social sphere of Marilyn Monroe – then, arguably, the most famous woman on the planet.
It’s 1956, and the 23-year-old Clark (Eddie Redmayne), eschewing his wealthy father’s wishes,...
Following on from the planet-conquering success of The King’s Speech, it was always a fairly safe bet that Hollywood uber-producers the Weinstein brothers would seek to replicate the enormous financial remuneration they'd achieved with similarly frugal fare. The result of their shrewd business sense is My Week With Marilyn, another low-budget Brit semi-biopic with eyes clearly fixed on awards season.
Esteemed television director Simon Curtis and Primeval and Survivor screenwriter Adrian Hodges have adapted Colin Clark’s book, which belatedly described the hitherto untold true story of his tumultuous nine days within the hectic social sphere of Marilyn Monroe – then, arguably, the most famous woman on the planet.
It’s 1956, and the 23-year-old Clark (Eddie Redmayne), eschewing his wealthy father’s wishes,...
- 11/21/2011
- Den of Geek
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a monthly newspaper run by Steve DeBellis, a well know St. Louis historian, and it.s the largest one-man newspaper in the world. The concept of The Globe is that there is an old historic headline, then all the articles in that issue are written as though it.s the year that the headline is from. It.s an unusual concept but the paper is now in its 25th successful year! Steve and I collaborated last Spring on an all-Vincent Price issue of The Globe and I’ve been writing a regular monthly movie-related column since then. Since there is no on-line version of The Globe, I will be posting all of my articles here at We Are Movie Geeks. When Steve informed me that this month.s St. Louis Globe-Democrat was to take place in 1939, often labeled “Hollywood’s Greatest Year”, I knew the possibilities were immense.
- 11/8/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Next month we get to see Emma Watson stepping out of Hermione’s shadow in her first role since the end of the Harry Potter franchise for My Week with Marilyn, the movie about a specific time in the life of Marilyn Monroe. In the film Emma plays Lucy, a costume assistant working on Laurence Olivier’s film The Prince and the Showgirl.
Emma recently wrote her fans a message on her official website.
“Just to say have a great term and good luck with all your work. You might not hear from me for a while because I will be really busy studying but I wanted to just say hi and bye : ) Hope you all like My Week with Marilyn and I’ll keep you posted on Perks,”
(Perks being The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Emma’s next film due for release in 2012)
My Week with Marilyn...
Emma recently wrote her fans a message on her official website.
“Just to say have a great term and good luck with all your work. You might not hear from me for a while because I will be really busy studying but I wanted to just say hi and bye : ) Hope you all like My Week with Marilyn and I’ll keep you posted on Perks,”
(Perks being The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Emma’s next film due for release in 2012)
My Week with Marilyn...
- 10/27/2011
- by Fay Brennan
- Obsessed with Film
I've just added 16 new images from Simon Curtis's upcoming feature My Week with Marilyn giving you new looks at virtually every member of the cast including Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, Emma Watson as Lucy, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike, Toby Jones as Arthur Jacobs, Derek Jacobi as Sir Owen Moreshead, Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller, Zoe Wanamaker as Paula Strasberg and Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene. The film depicts one week in the life of Marilyn Monroe (Williams), which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clark (Redmayne), an assistant to Sir Laurence Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on the time Clark spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to introduce Marilyn to...
- 10/26/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
My Week with Marilyn
Written by Adrian Hodges
Directed by Simon Curits
2011, USA
My Week with Marilyn showcases a pantheon of amazing British talents and gives them the chance to do what they do best: awe an audience, but the performance everyone will be talking about belongs to Michelle Williams. Williams inhabits Monroe in such a way she not only brilliantly resurrects a time-honored Hollywood icon but she recalls an entire era of filmmaking that defined glamour and style for the generations to follow.
The week in question concerns a stretch of time Marilyn Monroe spends in England with Colin Clark, who works as a third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl. Colin is completely new to show business, so he is already elated at the prospect of working on a movie. But when Marilyn arrives on the scene, despite multiple warnings against it, Colin completely loses his...
Written by Adrian Hodges
Directed by Simon Curits
2011, USA
My Week with Marilyn showcases a pantheon of amazing British talents and gives them the chance to do what they do best: awe an audience, but the performance everyone will be talking about belongs to Michelle Williams. Williams inhabits Monroe in such a way she not only brilliantly resurrects a time-honored Hollywood icon but she recalls an entire era of filmmaking that defined glamour and style for the generations to follow.
The week in question concerns a stretch of time Marilyn Monroe spends in England with Colin Clark, who works as a third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl. Colin is completely new to show business, so he is already elated at the prospect of working on a movie. But when Marilyn arrives on the scene, despite multiple warnings against it, Colin completely loses his...
- 10/12/2011
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
Screening as the Centerpiece Gala at this year's Nyff, Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn is, for Miriam Bale, writing at the L, a "predictable, schlocky first love story about a rangy Eton boy's bildugsroman heartbreak by — here's the twist — Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), while working as Lawrence Olivier's assistant on The Prince and the Showgirl in 1950s London. Williams seems a great actress because there's nothing there to begin with, so any character she plays takes over her body and soul so completely that every role seems a conjuring act. She is particularly suitable, then, for not only reproducing Monroe's reflection accurately, but exactly replicating Monroe's blank 'fuck me' photoshoot face, the look that made Monroe such a hugely fuckable star. This blank canvas for male fantasy will no doubt make Williams a much bigger star, too," but: "The secret star of the film is the Dp Ben Smithard,...
- 10/11/2011
- MUBI
Wow, I have to say, the music, the imagery and just the overall editing of this first trailer for My Week with Marilyn has won me over already. I try not to watch too many trailers but I didn't want to just regurgitate the same commentary again saying Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh are vying for Oscars with their respective portrayals of Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier so I decided to watch and ... again ... Wow! I loved it.
Based on a true story, My Week with Marilyn depicts one week in the life of Marilyn Monroe, which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an assistant to Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on the time Clark spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to introduce Marilyn to some...
Based on a true story, My Week with Marilyn depicts one week in the life of Marilyn Monroe, which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an assistant to Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on the time Clark spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to introduce Marilyn to some...
- 10/6/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
I really want to see this movie!
Here's the first trailer for My Week With Marilyn directed by Simon Curtis. The film stars Michelle Wiliams as Marilyn Monroe, and stars Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene, Emma Watson, as well as Julia Ormond.
The biopic follows details a week in the life of the golden age bombshell -- from the perspective of writer Colin Clark, then a young man just getting his start in the film industry. Clark was tasked with chaperoning Monroe around Britain, while her new husband Arthur Miller was out of the country, during the filming of 'The Prince and the Showgirl.' As the story progresses, Clark (and the audience) will learn more about the starlet's complicated relationship with the spotlight.
What do you all think of Michelle as Marilyn?...
Here's the first trailer for My Week With Marilyn directed by Simon Curtis. The film stars Michelle Wiliams as Marilyn Monroe, and stars Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene, Emma Watson, as well as Julia Ormond.
The biopic follows details a week in the life of the golden age bombshell -- from the perspective of writer Colin Clark, then a young man just getting his start in the film industry. Clark was tasked with chaperoning Monroe around Britain, while her new husband Arthur Miller was out of the country, during the filming of 'The Prince and the Showgirl.' As the story progresses, Clark (and the audience) will learn more about the starlet's complicated relationship with the spotlight.
What do you all think of Michelle as Marilyn?...
- 10/6/2011
- by Mars
- GeekTyrant
"First love is such sweet despair." Are you ready to finally meet Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe? The Weinstein Company has unveiled the official trailer for My Week with Marilyn, starring Williams as Monroe on her visit to London in the 50s to film The Prince and the Showgirl. This is being positioned as an Oscar heavyweight with some great performances, including from Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier. For those that though Williams wasn't right, I'm curious to hear a reaction! I'm impressed, this looks beautiful, and I'm not just talking about her. Watch the official trailer for Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, via Yahoo: You can also download the full My Week with Marilyn trailer in High Def on Yahoo In addition to Williams as Monroe, the cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
With a film still and the poster already released for My Week with Marilyn showcasing Michelle Williams stepping effortlessly into Marilyn’s iconic blonde bob and sultry pout this week it was the turn of co-star Kenneth Branagh to fill some equally iconic shoes. Empire has the first look at the Thor director and regular Shakespearean actor in his role as Thee legendary Shakespearean actor Laurence Olivier.
The film is based on the diary written by Monroe’s (Michelle Williams) assistant Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) during the production of the 1957 movie The Prince and the Showgirl. The new movie follows their friendship and Monroe’s turbulent relationship with director and co-star Laurence Olivier with incredibly fun supporting roles for Judi Dench (Dame Sybil Thorndike), Dougary Scott (as Arthur Miller), Julia Ormond (as Vivien Leigh) and Dominic Cooper (Arthur Miller). Emma Watson and Toby Jones also support.
Branagh is certainly no...
The film is based on the diary written by Monroe’s (Michelle Williams) assistant Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) during the production of the 1957 movie The Prince and the Showgirl. The new movie follows their friendship and Monroe’s turbulent relationship with director and co-star Laurence Olivier with incredibly fun supporting roles for Judi Dench (Dame Sybil Thorndike), Dougary Scott (as Arthur Miller), Julia Ormond (as Vivien Leigh) and Dominic Cooper (Arthur Miller). Emma Watson and Toby Jones also support.
Branagh is certainly no...
- 9/2/2011
- by Fay Brennan
- Obsessed with Film
Most of the early buzz for the upcoming drama My Week With Marilyn has been about Michelle Williams and her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. Here, for a change, we focus on Kenneth Branagh and his take on Sir Laurence Olivier.
My Week With Marilyn is based on the filming of The Prince And The Showgirl as seen through the eyes of Olivier’s assistant (Eddie Redmayne). Olivier directed and starred in the movie opposite Monroe, whose real-life dramatics rivaled those onscreen. The production was so difficult, Olivier didn’t direct again for 13 years.
Branagh is a perfect fit for the role, as both he and Olivier are writer/actor/directors who dabbled in both Shakespeare (Hamlet, Henry IV) and mainstream pop (The Prince And The Showgirl, Thor). A comparison:
Branagh tells Empire Online:
I was incredibly impressed by the screenplay and wanted to play this man – who just happened to...
My Week With Marilyn is based on the filming of The Prince And The Showgirl as seen through the eyes of Olivier’s assistant (Eddie Redmayne). Olivier directed and starred in the movie opposite Monroe, whose real-life dramatics rivaled those onscreen. The production was so difficult, Olivier didn’t direct again for 13 years.
Branagh is a perfect fit for the role, as both he and Olivier are writer/actor/directors who dabbled in both Shakespeare (Hamlet, Henry IV) and mainstream pop (The Prince And The Showgirl, Thor). A comparison:
Branagh tells Empire Online:
I was incredibly impressed by the screenplay and wanted to play this man – who just happened to...
- 9/1/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, My Week with Marilyn Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated for two Academy Awards for directing and starring in Henry V, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play that back in early 1947 had earned Olivier a Best Actor nomination and an Honorary Award for "his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen." More Olivier comparisons followed as Branagh went on to tackle Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), and Hamlet (1996). The latter two had served as prestigious Olivier vehicles: Best Picture Oscar winner Hamlet (1948) earned Olivier a Best Actor Oscar and a Best Director nomination; the originally made-for-television Othello (1965) received several special big-screen showings and ended up earning Olivier his seventh Best Actor Oscar nod. (Note: Olivier had the title role in Othello; Branagh played Iago...
- 9/1/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Go figure, I asked the Weinstein Co. only one day ago if they had an image of Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn to accompany my Oscar predictions and the response was they didn't have one yet, but there should be one on their publicity site shortly. I wish they had told me to keep an eye on Empire where the first look at Branagh in a role that is already garnering some Oscar buzz has debuted.
The film features Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, and depicts one week in the actress' life which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clarke (Eddie Redmayne), an assistant to Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on one week Clarke spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to...
The film features Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, and depicts one week in the actress' life which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clarke (Eddie Redmayne), an assistant to Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on one week Clarke spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to...
- 9/1/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Marlene Dietrich on TCM Pt.2: A Foreign Affair, The Blue Angel Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am The Monte Carlo Story (1957) Two compulsive gamblers fall in love on the French Riviera. Dir: Samuel A. Taylor. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell. C-101 mins, Letterbox Format. 7:45 Am Knight Without Armour (1937) A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union. Dir: Jacques Feyder. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Van Brugh. Bw-107 mins. 9:45 Am The Lady Is Willing (1942) A Broadway star has to find a husband so she can adopt an abandoned child. Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon. Bw-91 mins. 11:30 Am Kismet (1944) In the classic Arabian Nights tale king of the beggars enters high society to help his daughter marry a handsome prince. Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig.
- 9/1/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Here is the first official poster for My Week With Marilyn directed by Simon Curtis. The film stars Michelle Wiliams as Marilyn Monroe, and stars Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike, Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene, Emma Watson, as well as Julia Ormond.
The biopic follows details a week in the life of the golden age bombshell -- from the perspective of writer Colin Clark, then a young man just getting his start in the film industry. Clark was tasked with chaperoning Monroe around Britain, while her new husband Arthur Miller was out of the country, during the filming of 'The Prince and the Showgirl.' As the story progresses, Clark (and the audience) will learn more about the starlet's complicated relationship with the spotlight.
The film arrives in theaters on November 4, from the Weinstein Company.
The biopic follows details a week in the life of the golden age bombshell -- from the perspective of writer Colin Clark, then a young man just getting his start in the film industry. Clark was tasked with chaperoning Monroe around Britain, while her new husband Arthur Miller was out of the country, during the filming of 'The Prince and the Showgirl.' As the story progresses, Clark (and the audience) will learn more about the starlet's complicated relationship with the spotlight.
The film arrives in theaters on November 4, from the Weinstein Company.
- 8/24/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
When it was announced that Michelle Williams was set to play Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, tongues began wagging at the potential for the film. Now, news has arisen that My Week with Marilyn will premiere at the esteemed New York Film Festival in October.
This is one of those movies that has anticipation rising on many levels. First, obviously, is seeing Oscar nominee Williams as the icon. Second, the film features a behind-the-scenes look at a classic Hollywood film, The Prince and the Showgirl. Third, it is the first film Harry Potter star Emma Watson is appearing in after the bow of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
The film is based on a diary that writer Colin Clark kept while working as Monroe’s assistant while she filmed the movie that co-starred another legend in Sir Laurence Olivier. The written work arrived in two books,...
This is one of those movies that has anticipation rising on many levels. First, obviously, is seeing Oscar nominee Williams as the icon. Second, the film features a behind-the-scenes look at a classic Hollywood film, The Prince and the Showgirl. Third, it is the first film Harry Potter star Emma Watson is appearing in after the bow of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
The film is based on a diary that writer Colin Clark kept while working as Monroe’s assistant while she filmed the movie that co-starred another legend in Sir Laurence Olivier. The written work arrived in two books,...
- 8/5/2011
- by [email protected] (Movie Fanatic Staff)
- Reel Movie News
HollywoodNews.com: Sarah Jessica Parker is not waiting around for another “Sex and the City” movie. No way. On Friday night in Cannes, Sjp– wearing a white Dolce & Gabbana gown with strings of pearls–showed off a lot of clips from her fall film, “I Don’t Know How She Does It.”
The occasion was a Weinstein Company party at the H0tel Martinez where movie mogul Harvey Weinstein unveiled highlights from several new films and talked a little bit about some that are going to start production–including David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” which was announced in this column, and Quentin Tarantino‘s new one, “Django Unchained”–with rumored cast members Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Parker was a little nervous, but it turned out she needn’t have been. Her Doug McGrath directed comedy has an all star cast including Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan,...
The occasion was a Weinstein Company party at the H0tel Martinez where movie mogul Harvey Weinstein unveiled highlights from several new films and talked a little bit about some that are going to start production–including David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” which was announced in this column, and Quentin Tarantino‘s new one, “Django Unchained”–with rumored cast members Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Parker was a little nervous, but it turned out she needn’t have been. Her Doug McGrath directed comedy has an all star cast including Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan,...
- 5/15/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Energetic founder of the pioneering experimental theatre club La MaMa
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
- 1/27/2011
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Emma Watson gets her first role after completing the production of "Harry Potter" film franchise in "My Week with Marilyn". Now the first picture of her in the biopic has emerged via Daily Mail. It shows her as her character Lucy, an assistant in the wardrobe department at Pinewood studios in 1956, sporting a wig which has bangs and standing among some clothes.
"My Week with Marilyn" has Michelle Williams taking the lead role of Marilyn Monroe. The movie is based on the diary of Colin Clark who was Laurence Olivier's assistant who looked after Monroe when she arrived in London to film "The Prince and The Showgirl".
Portrayed by Eddie Redmayne, Clark flirted with Lucy as much as possible in between takes. He described Lucy as "one of the prettiest little girls I have ever seen in my life... slim as a wand, curly brown hair, huge brown eyes and a wide cheeky grin.
"My Week with Marilyn" has Michelle Williams taking the lead role of Marilyn Monroe. The movie is based on the diary of Colin Clark who was Laurence Olivier's assistant who looked after Monroe when she arrived in London to film "The Prince and The Showgirl".
Portrayed by Eddie Redmayne, Clark flirted with Lucy as much as possible in between takes. He described Lucy as "one of the prettiest little girls I have ever seen in my life... slim as a wand, curly brown hair, huge brown eyes and a wide cheeky grin.
- 12/11/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Monroe Gives Williams' Portrayal Her Seal Of Approval From Beyond The Grave
Marilyn Monroe has given Michelle Williams' portrayal of her in new movie My Week With Marilyn a big thumbs up from beyond the grave.
The tragic star recently connected her longtime Hollywood psychic Kenny Kingston at a Halloween seance he held in her honour, and gave her opinion about the film, which chronicles the time Monroe spent in London in 1956 shooting The Prince & The Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
After the seance, Kingston told WENN, "Marilyn gave her stamp of approval to Michelle Williams. She suggests that Michelle should always wear a bit of red while filming, for good luck, energy and safety.
"She told me that even though they did not get along well in life, Marilyn, Vivien Leigh and Lord Olivier are now friendly on the other side.
"In fact, they visit the set of My Week with Marilyn frequently. Marilyn and Vivien are guiding Michelle Williams and Julia Ormond, who portray them in the new film.
"She joked, 'I think I should be named technical advisor on the film'."
But there's one aspect of the film Monroe is unhappy with, according to Kingston: "Marilyn said, 'They should know that my problems on Prince and the Showgirl and other films were due to agoraphobia, not a star tantrum."
And Monroe has high hopes for the film, predicting Oscar nominations for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Olivier, and Dame Judy Dench, who plays Dame Sybil Thorndike.
Kingston tells WENN, "Marilyn says she loves Dame Judy Dench and feels they would be friends if they were both on the other side."...
The tragic star recently connected her longtime Hollywood psychic Kenny Kingston at a Halloween seance he held in her honour, and gave her opinion about the film, which chronicles the time Monroe spent in London in 1956 shooting The Prince & The Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
After the seance, Kingston told WENN, "Marilyn gave her stamp of approval to Michelle Williams. She suggests that Michelle should always wear a bit of red while filming, for good luck, energy and safety.
"She told me that even though they did not get along well in life, Marilyn, Vivien Leigh and Lord Olivier are now friendly on the other side.
"In fact, they visit the set of My Week with Marilyn frequently. Marilyn and Vivien are guiding Michelle Williams and Julia Ormond, who portray them in the new film.
"She joked, 'I think I should be named technical advisor on the film'."
But there's one aspect of the film Monroe is unhappy with, according to Kingston: "Marilyn said, 'They should know that my problems on Prince and the Showgirl and other films were due to agoraphobia, not a star tantrum."
And Monroe has high hopes for the film, predicting Oscar nominations for Kenneth Branagh, who plays Olivier, and Dame Judy Dench, who plays Dame Sybil Thorndike.
Kingston tells WENN, "Marilyn says she loves Dame Judy Dench and feels they would be friends if they were both on the other side."...
- 11/2/2010
- WENN
Simon Curtis is directing
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Total Images: (1)');">My Week with Marilyn based on Colin Clark's diaries during the production of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl that documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Click on the image to see the larger photo.<a href='http://www.filmsnmovies.com/?img=3926/my_week_with_marilyn_01.jpg'><img src='http://www.filmsnmovies.com/media/galleries/3926/my_week_with_marilyn_01s.jpg'></a>Click for additional information.Colin Clark was an assistant to Sir Laurence Olivier in 1956 when the actor appeared in The Princess and the Showgirl with Marilyn Monroe, he showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film.The Weinstein Company released some additional information on cast as well as the first image of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Kenneth Branagh plays Olivier, Eddie Redmayne will appear as Colin Clark, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, and Dougray Scott as Monroe's husband at the time, famous playwright Arthur Miller. Also Judi Dench, Emma Watson, and Dominic Cooper are among the cast.
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Total Images: (1)');">My Week with Marilyn based on Colin Clark's diaries during the production of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl that documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Click on the image to see the larger photo.<a href='http://www.filmsnmovies.com/?img=3926/my_week_with_marilyn_01.jpg'><img src='http://www.filmsnmovies.com/media/galleries/3926/my_week_with_marilyn_01s.jpg'></a>Click for additional information.Colin Clark was an assistant to Sir Laurence Olivier in 1956 when the actor appeared in The Princess and the Showgirl with Marilyn Monroe, he showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film.The Weinstein Company released some additional information on cast as well as the first image of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Kenneth Branagh plays Olivier, Eddie Redmayne will appear as Colin Clark, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, and Dougray Scott as Monroe's husband at the time, famous playwright Arthur Miller. Also Judi Dench, Emma Watson, and Dominic Cooper are among the cast.
- 10/12/2010
- Films N Movies
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