Stephen Frears Articles

Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper, Va.: John Cusack stars in Stephen Frears‘ comedy High Fidelity (2000), in which the owner of a Chicago record store recounts his top five breakups. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974) will be screened on the [...]

Directed by Stephen Frears and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Colette’s novel, Chéri stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a 1920s French courtesan who teaches a young man (Rupert Friend) the ways of love and sex. Also in the Chéri cast: Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Anita Pallenberg, Frances Tomelty. Chéri opens in the US on June 26.

Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Forest Whitaker in The Last King of England (bottom) Perhaps there’s something I’m missing here, but the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts has decided that Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland is the outstanding British film of 2006, coming out ahead of United 93, Notes on a Scandal, Casino Royale, and Stephen Frears‘ The Queen. [...]

2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award nominations: December 14, 2006 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     Film of the Year The Departed Little Miss Sunshine Volver * United 93 The Queen The Attenborough Award for Best British Film Children of Men * The [...]