Andrea Arnold Articles

So, Robert Pattinson isn't fit to play Kurt Cobain. I agree. On the other hand, I believe that Pattinson would be perfect for the role of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. The anti-Pattinson, anti-Twilight crowd can laugh as much as they want. But nobody broods better than Robert Pattinson, and Emily Brontë's Heathcliff is the broodingest of all brooding literature heroes. (Okay, so Pattinson is brooding [...]

Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank (top); Carey Mulligan in An Education (upper middle); Colin Firth in A Single Man (lower middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (bottom) The BAFTA surprises weren't major surprises, except for one: the Outstanding British Film was Andrea Arnold's gritty Fish Tank instead of the more internationally recognized An Education. Nominated for eight BAFTAs, An Education ended up winning [...]

Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank A PROPHET Beats AVATAR Curiously, even though A Prophet was also in the running in the London Film Critics' Foreign Language Film of the Year category, it lost to Tomas Alfredson's vampire drama Let the One Right In, which received a whole array of US critics' awards early last year. (The film opened in the US in 2008.) [...]

The winners of London’s Evening Standard awards were announced on Monday, Feb. 8. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (above), the tale of a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) who resents her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) was chosen as the best British film of 2009. Although it's been received warmly by critics, Fish Tank is up for only one BAFTA Award: Best British Film. Anne-Marie Duff was [...]