London 2009: Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion, Andy Serkis
Composer Mark Bradshaw, Producers Caroline Hewitt, Jan Chapman, Samuel Roukin, Edie Martin (front), Director Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw and Antonia Campbell-Hughes pose at the premiere of potential Oscar 2010 contender Bright Star during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19.
Andy Serkis, Lorraine Ashbourne
Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox
Photos: Ian Gavan/Getty Images
by Joan Lister | October 25, 2009
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Tags: Andy Serkis, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ben Whishaw, Caroline Hewitt, Film Festivals, Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Mark Bradshaw, Photos, Samuel Roukin
London 2009: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox
Jane Campion attends the premiere of Bright Star, a potential Oscar 2010 best picture contender, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19.
Kerry Fox
Ben Whishaw
Photos: Ian Gavan/Getty Images
by Joan Lister | October 25, 2009
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Tags: Ben Whishaw, Film Festivals, Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Photos
London 2009: Ben Whishaw, Catherine Breillat, Mary McCartney
Catherine Breillat attends the premiere of Bluebeard during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion at the premiere of potential Oscar 2010 contender Bright Star during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
Mary McCartney arrives for the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
by Joan Lister | October 25, 2009
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Tags: Ben Whishaw, Catherine Breillat, Film Festivals, Jane Campion, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Mary McCartney, Photos
Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Actor
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Up in the Air
A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity.
Matt Damon, The Informant!
A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard)
In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old Marcello Mastroianni role of the Italian film director trying to cope with the women in his life.
Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor is determined to kill himself after learning that his lover has died in an accident.
Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
I’d say that four [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2009
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, 2010 Oscar Predictions, A Single Man, Ben Whishaw, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, George Clooney, Hal Holbrook, James McAvoy, Matt Damon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nine, The Informant, The Road, Up in the Air, Viggo Mortensen
Cannes 2009: Best Actor Favorites
Best Actor
Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet.
Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star.
André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass.
François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
by Andre Soares | May 22, 2009
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Tags: À l'origine, A Prophet, Abbie Cornish, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Emmanuelle Devos, Film Awards, Film Festivals, François Cluzet, In the Beginning, John Keats, Les Herbes folles, Tahar Rahim, Wild Grass
Cannes 2009: Palme d’Or Favorites
Palme d’Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize:
Alain Resnais‘ romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly’s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman
Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit)
Writer-director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed in a series of nasty events right before the beginning of World War I
Writer-director Jane Campion’s Bright Star, about the doomed love affair between British poet John Keats and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
by Massimo David | May 22, 2009
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Tags: A Prophet, Abbie Cornish, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Alain Resnais, Alex Reval, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Christian Gailly, Das Weisse Band, Fanny Brawne, Film Awards, Film Fetivals, Jacques Audiard, Jane Campion, John Keats, Laurent Herbiet, Les Herbes folles, Michael Haneke, Nicolas Peufaillit, Palme d'Or, Sabine Azéma, Tahar Rahim, The White Ribbon, Thomas Bidegain, Wild Grass
Cannes 2009: Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Brillante Mendoza, Johnnie To, Lou Ye
Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian:
"Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d’Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the ecstasy of loss which suffuses his love affair with Fanny Brawne – a love thwarted not due to illness, but to a pernicious web of money worries, social scruples and irrelevant male loyalties."
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Maggie Lee on Kinatay in The Hollywood Reporter:
"Festival darling Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay is a long night’s journey into the [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: Abbie Cornish, Alain Resnais, André Dussollier, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Brillante Mendoza, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Fanny Brawne, Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Howard Feinstein, indieWIRE, Jane Campion, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Keats, Johnnie To, Johnny Hallyday, Kinatay, Les Herbes folles, Lou Ye, Photos, Screen Daily, Spring Fever, The Hollywood Reporter, Thomas Sotinel, Vengeance, Wild Grass
2007 Bavarian Film Award Winners
Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot / Grave Decisions. Photo: Christian Hartmann / Roxy Film
The winners of the 2007 Bavarian Film Awards — the most important German film prize after the German Academy’s Lolas — were announced yesterday at a gala ceremony in Munich.
The Porcelain Pierrot (worth €200,000) for best film — or best production — went to a local effort, Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s feel-good dark comedy Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot / Grave Decisions (top photo). Spoken in one of the local Bavarian dialects, Rosenmüller’s feature-film debut became a surprise hit in Germany, earning more than 10 million euros at the box office. Rosenmüller also took home the prize for best young director.
Wer [...]
by Andre Soares | January 20, 2007
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Tags: Ben Whishaw, Chris Kraus, Film Awards, Four Minutes, Grave Decisions, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Monica Bleibtreu, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Tom Tykwer
