Eric Cantona Articles

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (top); Eric Cantona, Ken Loach on the set of Looking for Eric (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways (bottom) Below are weekend box-office figures (via Box Office Mojo) for a couple of dozen movies currently playing in North America in less than 1,000 theaters. Still doing well are Juan Jose [...]

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5: Robert Barry Ptolemy's Transcendent Man sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been growing exponentially. Imagine a world without death, hunger, disease. (Well, I'm assuming all those great things will happen if [...]

Best Screenplay Any of those listed for best film, in addition to: Marco Bellocchio's Vincere (co-written by Bellocchio and Daniela Ceselli), about how Benito Mussolini mistreated his first wife (Giovanna Mezzogiorno, top photo) and son while millions of Italians thought he was just the greatest guy around. Ken Loach's Looking for Eric (written by Paul Laverty), about a postman who gets soccer player Eric Cantona [...]

Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety: "… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty's ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who's given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of [...]