AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN – Closing Night Gala
Colin Firth, Matthew Goode in A Single Man
AFI FEST 2009’s Closing Night Gala presentation, the US premiere of Tom Ford’s A Single Man, will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday, November 5. (The festival, with screenings in Santa Monica, actually ends on Nov. 7.)
Based on a Christopher Isherwood novel, A Single Man chronicles a day — possibly the last one — in the life of a gay British college professor (Venice 2009 best actor Colin Firth) in the Los Angeles of the mid-’60s, as he seriously considers suicide following the unexpected death of his partner (Matthew Goode).
Written by Ford and David Scearce, A Single Man also features Julianne Moore (a likely best supporting actress [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2009
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Tags: A Single Man, AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, David Scearce, Film Festivals, Julianne Moore, Los Angeles Screenings, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford
Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult: London ‘09
Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode arrive for the premiere of A Single Man, directed by Ford, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 16.
Photos: Samir Hussein/Getty Images
Colin Firth
Matthew Goode
by Joan Lister | October 20, 2009
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Tags: A Single Man, Colin Firth, Film Festivals, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Photos, Tom Ford
A SINGLE MAN Photos
Colin Firth in A Single Man (top); Firth and Matthew Goode play lovers in A Single Man (bottom)
Winner of the Queer Lion for best gay-themed film, A Single Man chronicles the emotional struggles of a suicidal middle-aged college professor mourning the sudden death of his partner of 16 years in a car accident. During that period — one day in 1962 in Los Angeles (a time when gay sex was still illegal in California) — the world is facing the Cuban missile crisis.
Loosely based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, A Single Man was directed by fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford, and adapted by Ford and David Scearce.
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man
Colin Firth won the best actor award [...]
by Andre Soares | September 13, 2009
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Tags: A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, David Scearce, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Photos, Queer Lion, Tom Ford
Venice 2009: Julianne Moore, Colin Firth
Tom Ford, Julianne Moore, best actor winner Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode at the premiere of Queer Lion winner (for best film with a gay theme) A Single Man at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Colin Firth
Nicholas Hoult
by Deborah Arthur | September 13, 2009
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Tags: A Single Man, Colin Firth, Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Photos, Tom Ford, Venice 2009, Venice Film Festival
MATCH POINT d: Woody Allen
Match Point (2005)
Direction and screenplay: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton
If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay co-written by Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, the result would be something like Woody Allen’s latest opus, Match Point. A dark fable about the vagaries of chance in a godless world, Allen’s aesthetically old-fashioned crime drama belies a haunting postmodern sensibility.
Set in London, the basic plot of Match Point follows certain key elements of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy: After experiencing the joys of wealth and high social standing (read: power), an ambitious petit bourgeois resorts to whatever it takes to maintain his newfound status. Between the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 17, 2005
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Tags: Crime Movies, Emily Mortimer, Film Reviews, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point, Matthew Goode, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Woody Allen
