A Ukrainian expatriate group disseminated to press an open letter addressed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, questioning whether Top Gun: Maverick should be allowed to remain in this year’s Oscar race following reports the film was partly funded by a Russian oligarch who put money in the film as a silent investor in LA-based New Republic Pictures.
The mega-hit – in which Tom Cruise reprised his role as US Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell – is nominated for best picture, adapted screenplay, editing, original song, sound and visual effects in this year’s Academy Awards taking place this Sunday.
The Toronto-based Ukrainian World Congress (Uwc) asked AMPAS to review the film’s Oscar eligibility, following media reports in January that Russian billionaire Dimitry Rybolovlev indirectly helped finance the film. Rybolovlev is on a list of Russian businessmen sanctioned by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The purpose of the...
The mega-hit – in which Tom Cruise reprised his role as US Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell – is nominated for best picture, adapted screenplay, editing, original song, sound and visual effects in this year’s Academy Awards taking place this Sunday.
The Toronto-based Ukrainian World Congress (Uwc) asked AMPAS to review the film’s Oscar eligibility, following media reports in January that Russian billionaire Dimitry Rybolovlev indirectly helped finance the film. Rybolovlev is on a list of Russian businessmen sanctioned by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The purpose of the...
- 3/8/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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Paul Glickler, who directed, co-wrote, produced and edited the sex-filled 1973 independent film The Cheerleaders, has died. He was 81.
Glickler died Sept. 19 of a heart attack at his Topanga home in Los Angeles, his sister, Louise G.S. Plaschkes, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Cheerleaders starred Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway and Jovita Bush in a playful film about Amorosa High School cheerleaders who have sex with the opposing team’s football players the night before a big game to sap them of their strength.
The X-rated movie — eventually recut to an R rating — was made for 120,000, saw a great return on its investment, was name-checked in a John Grisham novel and spawned quick features including The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), directed by Jack Hill, and Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), helmed by Richard Lerner, a co-writer and producer on Glickler’s movie.
Glickler described The Cheerleaders as...
Paul Glickler, who directed, co-wrote, produced and edited the sex-filled 1973 independent film The Cheerleaders, has died. He was 81.
Glickler died Sept. 19 of a heart attack at his Topanga home in Los Angeles, his sister, Louise G.S. Plaschkes, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Cheerleaders starred Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway and Jovita Bush in a playful film about Amorosa High School cheerleaders who have sex with the opposing team’s football players the night before a big game to sap them of their strength.
The X-rated movie — eventually recut to an R rating — was made for 120,000, saw a great return on its investment, was name-checked in a John Grisham novel and spawned quick features including The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), directed by Jack Hill, and Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), helmed by Richard Lerner, a co-writer and producer on Glickler’s movie.
Glickler described The Cheerleaders as...
- 10/26/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was Paul Gauguin, France’s most celebrated Polynesian tourist, who once wrote of “learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.” It’s a void, he wrote, in which other senses and sensory awarenesses are heightened, amplifying his sense of loneliness and separation from others: “The inhabitants of the district and I mutually watched each other, and the distance remained the same.” Gauguin isn’t mentioned in “Pacifiction,” Albert Serra’s languorous, meandering tour of modern-day Tahiti, though those words echo through its survey of the island’s distanced, distracted residents — even if the nights here aren’t as silent as the artist might remember, disrupted as they are with tinny discotheque beats, darkened trysts and the hovering, unidentified threat of nuclear warfare.
The first film by cultish Catalan provocateur Serra to crack Cannes’s competition lineup, “Pacifiction” is an unhurried, 164-minute tropical tour that is sort of...
The first film by cultish Catalan provocateur Serra to crack Cannes’s competition lineup, “Pacifiction” is an unhurried, 164-minute tropical tour that is sort of...
- 5/27/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
When I was in school growing up we studied a painting that particularly captured my heart and my mind. Its title, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, is a perfect description of the events portrayed in the painting. The French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin created this masterpiece in Tahiti, painting characters that are meditating on the questions about human existence listed in the title. We ought to study the painting from right to left, starting with a sleeping child's figure and ending with an old woman near her death. These same existential questions immediately came to mind while watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things, the latest feature film both written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. Based on the debut novel by Iain Reed, this metaphysical thriller-drama touches on captivating ideas such as dreading existence and merciless aging of human being. Lucy, Lucia, or Louisa...
- 9/5/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When At Eternity’s Gate star Willem Dafoe researched his starring role for the Vincent van Gogh biopic, the details of the iconic artist’s life left him astonished.
Dafoe, who earned his fourth Oscars nomination this year for his role as the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, told People at the 2019 Academy Awards that he was surprised about what he learned as he dived deeper into his portrayal.
“Well, what drew me to the project was Julian Schnabel, a great painter and a great filmmaker, who was going to make a film about [the] painter,” Dafoe said at the Oscars red carpet of the film’s director.
Dafoe, who earned his fourth Oscars nomination this year for his role as the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, told People at the 2019 Academy Awards that he was surprised about what he learned as he dived deeper into his portrayal.
“Well, what drew me to the project was Julian Schnabel, a great painter and a great filmmaker, who was going to make a film about [the] painter,” Dafoe said at the Oscars red carpet of the film’s director.
- 2/25/2019
- by Jason Duaine Hahn
- PEOPLE.com
Oscar Isaac is in talks to join Legendary’s “Dune” reboot opposite Timothée Chalamet, Variety reports. Isaac would play the father of Chalamet’s character. Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, and Charlotte Rampling have already signed on to the project from “Arrival” and “Blade Runner 2049” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. In addition to directing, Villeneuve and is co-writing the script with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts.
Based on the 1965 science fiction saga by Frank Herbert, “Dune” is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and a classic of the genre. The story’s journey to the screen, however, has been fraught with false starts and notorious flops. David Lynch’s 1984 film starring Kyle MacLachlan was a box office disappointment and critically panned. Plagued by rewrites and studio oversteps, Lynch removed his name from the film.
Set in the distant future, the film chronicles Paul Atreides as his family battles...
Based on the 1965 science fiction saga by Frank Herbert, “Dune” is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and a classic of the genre. The story’s journey to the screen, however, has been fraught with false starts and notorious flops. David Lynch’s 1984 film starring Kyle MacLachlan was a box office disappointment and critically panned. Plagued by rewrites and studio oversteps, Lynch removed his name from the film.
Set in the distant future, the film chronicles Paul Atreides as his family battles...
- 1/29/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’S Gate.
Photo credit: Lily Gavin
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel impressionistic biopic At Eternity’S Gate. Schnabel ‘s beautifully-shot film is presented from the viewpoint of the artist, and makes a perfect companion to the earlier animated film Loving Vincent,which told the artist’s story told from the viewpoint of someone trying to understand him and is presented through animated oil-painted recreations of his works.
Director/co-writer Schnabel based At Eternity’S Gate on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, commonly agreed on events from his life, and rumors, but then invented or improvised scenes, to create a sense of the artist at work in his productive but troubled later life. The film suggests the life of Vincent Van Gogh rather than being a straight-forward biography, and focuses more...
Photo credit: Lily Gavin
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel impressionistic biopic At Eternity’S Gate. Schnabel ‘s beautifully-shot film is presented from the viewpoint of the artist, and makes a perfect companion to the earlier animated film Loving Vincent,which told the artist’s story told from the viewpoint of someone trying to understand him and is presented through animated oil-painted recreations of his works.
Director/co-writer Schnabel based At Eternity’S Gate on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, commonly agreed on events from his life, and rumors, but then invented or improvised scenes, to create a sense of the artist at work in his productive but troubled later life. The film suggests the life of Vincent Van Gogh rather than being a straight-forward biography, and focuses more...
- 1/25/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This article first appeared in TheWrap’s Actors/Directors/Screenwriters Oscar magazine.
Award-winning actor Willem Dafoe has played real-life characters T.S. Eliot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Schreck and even Jesus Christ in the past. And now, with “At Eternity’s Gate”, he can throw troubled artist Vincent van Gogh into the mix. In the film, a meditative and often abstract portrait of the painter by artist and director Julian Schnabel, Dafoe had to channel Van Gogh’s mental anguish — but more important than that, he had to learn to paint.
In fact, that’s what originally drew Dafoe to the film — that it had an “accent on painting” and wasn’t focusing too much on Van Gogh’s mental illness. “When [Julian] said he was going to do a film about Van Gogh, I thought, ‘That’s cool,’ because I know a little about how he makes films and I know...
Award-winning actor Willem Dafoe has played real-life characters T.S. Eliot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Schreck and even Jesus Christ in the past. And now, with “At Eternity’s Gate”, he can throw troubled artist Vincent van Gogh into the mix. In the film, a meditative and often abstract portrait of the painter by artist and director Julian Schnabel, Dafoe had to channel Van Gogh’s mental anguish — but more important than that, he had to learn to paint.
In fact, that’s what originally drew Dafoe to the film — that it had an “accent on painting” and wasn’t focusing too much on Van Gogh’s mental illness. “When [Julian] said he was going to do a film about Van Gogh, I thought, ‘That’s cool,’ because I know a little about how he makes films and I know...
- 12/13/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’S Gate.
Photo credit: Lily Gavin
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic biopic At Eternity’S Gate. Schnabel ‘s beautifully-shot film is presented from the viewpoint of the artist, and makes a perfect companion to the earlier animated film Loving Vincent,which told the artist’s story told from the viewpoint of someone trying to understand him and is presented through animated oil-painted recreations of his works.
Director/co-writer Schnabel based At Eternity’S Gate on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, commonly agreed on events from his life, and rumors, but then invented or improvised scenes, to create a sense of the artist at work in his productive but troubled later life. The film suggests the life of Vincent Van Gogh rather than being a straight-forward biography, and focuses...
Photo credit: Lily Gavin
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic biopic At Eternity’S Gate. Schnabel ‘s beautifully-shot film is presented from the viewpoint of the artist, and makes a perfect companion to the earlier animated film Loving Vincent,which told the artist’s story told from the viewpoint of someone trying to understand him and is presented through animated oil-painted recreations of his works.
Director/co-writer Schnabel based At Eternity’S Gate on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, commonly agreed on events from his life, and rumors, but then invented or improvised scenes, to create a sense of the artist at work in his productive but troubled later life. The film suggests the life of Vincent Van Gogh rather than being a straight-forward biography, and focuses...
- 11/21/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With “At Eternity’s Gate,” painter/director Julian Schnabel uses Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) as a vessel to explore the process of painting as a snapshot in time, shared with the viewer. It’s not about Van Gogh, but how he viewed the world through his hyper-real, sculptural art.
“We never wanted it to look like a Van Gogh painting,” said cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, who’s also a painter. Schnabel told him, “‘Van Gogh lives in the normal world…we just see his style when he’s painting something.’ But, slowly, when we were shooting, I think, Van Gogh’s colors came back to us in an unconscious way, the strong blues and strong yellows.”
Read More:‘At Eternity’s Gate’: Willem Dafoe Talks About a Career-Best Performance As Vincent Van Gogh
At the director’s request, Delhomme even attached Schnabel’s antique yellow-tinted bifocals to the camera lens,...
“We never wanted it to look like a Van Gogh painting,” said cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, who’s also a painter. Schnabel told him, “‘Van Gogh lives in the normal world…we just see his style when he’s painting something.’ But, slowly, when we were shooting, I think, Van Gogh’s colors came back to us in an unconscious way, the strong blues and strong yellows.”
Read More:‘At Eternity’s Gate’: Willem Dafoe Talks About a Career-Best Performance As Vincent Van Gogh
At the director’s request, Delhomme even attached Schnabel’s antique yellow-tinted bifocals to the camera lens,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Willem Dafoe paints a moving portrait of Vincent Van Gogh in this unconventional biopic.
It seems to me that the actual filmmaking in a movie should mirror the setting in which the film takes place, especially if it’s a period piece. A good example of how not to shoot a movie is Michael Mann’s 2009 Depression-era gangster tale, Public Enemies, in which he inexplicably shot a movie set in the 1930s with HD video cameras, resulting in a weird, smeary TV esthetic for what should have been a more traditional and richly formal celluloid exercise.
I felt the same way watching Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, which depicts the last, troubled years of the tormented artist Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe). Schnabel, whose previous films include the masterful Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, keeps his camera constantly moving in At Eternity’s Gate -- whipping between characters,...
It seems to me that the actual filmmaking in a movie should mirror the setting in which the film takes place, especially if it’s a period piece. A good example of how not to shoot a movie is Michael Mann’s 2009 Depression-era gangster tale, Public Enemies, in which he inexplicably shot a movie set in the 1930s with HD video cameras, resulting in a weird, smeary TV esthetic for what should have been a more traditional and richly formal celluloid exercise.
I felt the same way watching Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, which depicts the last, troubled years of the tormented artist Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe). Schnabel, whose previous films include the masterful Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, keeps his camera constantly moving in At Eternity’s Gate -- whipping between characters,...
- 11/16/2018
- Den of Geek
For this week’s review round-up, it’s a foursome! The quartet of titles today are a real mixed bag, which happens. We have two misfires, one mild recommendation, and a mixed bag that I really hemmed and hawed about in terms of a thumbs up or thumbs down. You’ll see which are which shortly, but the four films are the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate, the horror hybrid The Clovehitch Killer, the science fiction tinged psychological drama Jonathan, and the documentary The Last Race. These movies are very different, to say the least. The only thing they have in common? Well, that would be that I’m about to discuss them all right now… Here we go: — At Eternity’s Gate At one early stage in the game, At Eternity’s Gate seemed like a potentially big Academy Award player. Some high profile film festival debuts,...
- 11/15/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
That dude could paint! There are biopics of artists that don’t ask more of an audience than that simple reaction. Not so with Julian Schnabel’s extraordinary At Eternity’s Gate, which features a monumental, career-best performance from Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh. It’s not that Schnabel doesn’t glory in the visions the Dutch painter put on canvas. But Schnabel, renowned as a painter in the way Van Gogh never was in life, wants to get inside the head of this tormented artist and make us see what he sees,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
French painter Paul Gauguin receives two noted cinematic approximations in 2018. Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti features Vincent Cassel as the tropically consumed painter who finds romance and liberation during his most prolific artistic period, which hits theatrical in November of 2018). Despite a lack of any major festival play, the title was snapped up by Cohen Media Group and raked in just over two-hundred thousand at the Us box office during a limited theatrical release in July of 2018.…...
- 11/13/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Oscar Isaac, who most recently starred in and produced Chris Weitz’s MGM movie Operation Finale and is reprising the role of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode IX, has signed with Wme for representation in all areas.
Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016 for HBO’s Show Me a Hero, has several film projects in the works including starring in Jc Chandor’s ensemble Triple Frontier, the long-gestating dramatic thriller set up at Netflix. He also voices Gomez Addams in MGM’s upcoming animated The Addams Family movie.
Most immediately, Isaac plays Paul Gauguin opposite Willem Dafoe’s Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, the biopic directed by Julian Schnabel that CBS Films bows November 16.
His credits include Alex Garland’s Ex Machina in 2014, the same year he starred in Chandor’s A Most Violent Year; both films were in that season’s awards mix.
Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016 for HBO’s Show Me a Hero, has several film projects in the works including starring in Jc Chandor’s ensemble Triple Frontier, the long-gestating dramatic thriller set up at Netflix. He also voices Gomez Addams in MGM’s upcoming animated The Addams Family movie.
Most immediately, Isaac plays Paul Gauguin opposite Willem Dafoe’s Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate, the biopic directed by Julian Schnabel that CBS Films bows November 16.
His credits include Alex Garland’s Ex Machina in 2014, the same year he starred in Chandor’s A Most Violent Year; both films were in that season’s awards mix.
- 10/23/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“There was a structure, but then there was also this looseness at the same time … It didn’t feel like a traditional movie,” said Willem Dafoe after his film “At Eternity’s Gate” was screened for press and industry at the New York Film Festival on Friday, October 12. He was joined by co-stars Oscar Isaac and Rupert Friend, director Julian Schnabel, and co-writers Jean-Claude Carriere and Louise Kugelberg for a press conference to discuss the film, which was the fest’s closing night selection. Watch the actors above, and scroll down to hear from the filmmakers below.
“Eternity’s Gate” takes place late in the life of painter Vincent Van Gogh (played by Dafoe), when he was ravaged by mental illness but supported by his loving brother Theo (Friend) and his colleague Paul Gauguin (Isaac). He was largely a pariah, lonely and poor, but he couldn’t conceive of a life without painting,...
“Eternity’s Gate” takes place late in the life of painter Vincent Van Gogh (played by Dafoe), when he was ravaged by mental illness but supported by his loving brother Theo (Friend) and his colleague Paul Gauguin (Isaac). He was largely a pariah, lonely and poor, but he couldn’t conceive of a life without painting,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut “Life Itself” faced a tough crowd from the moment it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to a barrage of negative reviews, which followed the movie into its release a few weeks later. The ensemble drama from the creator of “This Is Us” hit another speed bump after Fogelman attributed the pans to “white male critics who don’t like anything that has emotion” even though several women reviewed the film. (Fogelman backtracked on that argument in another interview.)
However, Fogelman’s movie has left at least one of its main actors content with the end result: Oscar Isaac, who plays the oft-suffering male protagonist reeling from the loss of his wife (Olivia Wilde), said in an interview that the backlash to the movie caught him off-guard.
“I was surprised that there seemed to be a full-on critical narrative to it,” he said, speaking...
However, Fogelman’s movie has left at least one of its main actors content with the end result: Oscar Isaac, who plays the oft-suffering male protagonist reeling from the loss of his wife (Olivia Wilde), said in an interview that the backlash to the movie caught him off-guard.
“I was surprised that there seemed to be a full-on critical narrative to it,” he said, speaking...
- 10/15/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In between shooting the WWII thriller “Operation Finale” and participating in the international press tour for “Star Wars: Episode VIII,” Oscar Isaac squeezed in a very different project: The actor flew to the south of France to play Paul Gauguin opposite Willem Dafoe’s Vincent Van Gough in “At Eternity’s Gate,” painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s intimate portrait of Van Gough’s final days. Though Isaac spent only five days on the set, he welcomed the opportunity to escape thinking about the “Star Wars” Resistance fighter all day long.
“It was a real relief to get on set with Julian because the nature of the way he films is so different from the way a Hollywood movie gets filmed,” said Isaac in an interview before “At Eternity’s Gate” screened as the closing-night selection of the New York Festival. “There were no rules, no boundaries, no lights, no marks. There was an energy to it,...
“It was a real relief to get on set with Julian because the nature of the way he films is so different from the way a Hollywood movie gets filmed,” said Isaac in an interview before “At Eternity’s Gate” screened as the closing-night selection of the New York Festival. “There were no rules, no boundaries, no lights, no marks. There was an energy to it,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
CBS has launched a new trailer for their depiction of Vincent Van Gogh letters, At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe.
Not quite a biopic, the story is based on a number of letters on his life presented as fact, hearsay and complete fabrication.
Willem Dafoe stars as the artist, Van Gogh, alongside Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin Also starring are Vincent Cassel, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner.
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The film will hit Us cinemas on November 16.
At Eternity’s Gate Official Synopsis
Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite scepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based...
Not quite a biopic, the story is based on a number of letters on his life presented as fact, hearsay and complete fabrication.
Willem Dafoe stars as the artist, Van Gogh, alongside Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin Also starring are Vincent Cassel, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner.
Also in trailers – The night Jamie Lee Curtis came home: A new trailer for Halloween is here
The film will hit Us cinemas on November 16.
At Eternity’s Gate Official Synopsis
Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite scepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based...
- 9/6/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I'd like to find a new light... for paintings we haven't yet seen." CBS Films has unveiled an official trailer for the indie drama At Eternity's Gate, the latest feature made by artist & filmmaker Julian Schnabel. This film is about famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, starring Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh, telling the story of his final few years in France when he made the majority of his remarkable paintings. The story follows Van Gogh struggling to survive and make money, along with being sent to a hospital after a judge claimed he was mentally ill. At Eternity's Gate's full cast includes Rupert Friend as his brother Theo, Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin, plus Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Niels Arestrup. This just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and plays at the New York Film Festival next. I just saw it and it's another ...
- 9/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Willem Dafoe brings tortured artist Vincent van Gogh to life in the first trailer for “At Eternity’s Gate.”
The trailer begins with a priest, played by Mads Mikkelsen, questioning van Gogh about why he has become a painter.
“Because I can’t do anything else and believe me, I’ve tried,” van Gogh replies in a voiceover.
The film, which is named after one of van Gogh’s paintings depicting an old man with his face in his hands, follows the last days of van Gogh, and chronicles both his breakthroughs in painting as well as his time spent in an asylum.
“I’ve spent all my life alone in a room,” van Gogh says in the trailer. “I’d like to find a new light, for paintings that we haven’t yet seen.”
The trailer also indicates that some of the scenes portray the way van Gogh saw the world,...
The trailer begins with a priest, played by Mads Mikkelsen, questioning van Gogh about why he has become a painter.
“Because I can’t do anything else and believe me, I’ve tried,” van Gogh replies in a voiceover.
The film, which is named after one of van Gogh’s paintings depicting an old man with his face in his hands, follows the last days of van Gogh, and chronicles both his breakthroughs in painting as well as his time spent in an asylum.
“I’ve spent all my life alone in a room,” van Gogh says in the trailer. “I’d like to find a new light, for paintings that we haven’t yet seen.”
The trailer also indicates that some of the scenes portray the way van Gogh saw the world,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
When Vincent Van Gogh stares at the flat southern France landscape in Julian Schnabel’s contemplative At Eternity’s Gate, what does he see? Cemeteries of dead sunflowers, fields of wheat, solitary trees standing calligraphic on the horizon, but in Willem Dafoe’s awestruck eyes and Benoît Delhomme’s spellbinding cinematography, the horizon becomes “nothing but eternity,” an early line that sets the elegiac and lyrical tone permeating the rest of Schnabel’s work. At Eternity’s Gate is a film made by an artist (“plates painter” Schnabel) less concerned with a painter, more with the way a painter saw the world. In its rupture from traditional biographical narratives, it does not merely stand out as unconventional biopic–it also comes close to resuscitating the idea of cinema as moving pictures.
Co-written by Schnabel and Jean-Claude Carrière (Luis Buñuel’s legendary scribe), At Eternity’s Gate opens in medias res.
Co-written by Schnabel and Jean-Claude Carrière (Luis Buñuel’s legendary scribe), At Eternity’s Gate opens in medias res.
- 9/3/2018
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
“What do you paint?” The question comes from an asylum inmate who is seated next to Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe). Van Gogh replies with a single word: “Sunlight.” That may be as good a description of van Gogh’s art as you’re likely to get. In his brief time on this planet, and the even briefer period of his full creative effusion, van Gogh painted flowers, wheat fields, vineyards, cafés, chairs, boats, starry nights, and himself, but what he really painted was the light that bounced off those things and rippled through them. He painted the ecstatic holiness he saw in that light, with each brush stroke a mystic gob of sensuality and spirit.
“At Eternity’s Gate,” Julian Schnabel’s fluky and transporting drama about van Gogh’s tumultuous, fervid, and artistically possessed last days, is a movie that channels the light — the evanescent glow of van...
“At Eternity’s Gate,” Julian Schnabel’s fluky and transporting drama about van Gogh’s tumultuous, fervid, and artistically possessed last days, is a movie that channels the light — the evanescent glow of van...
- 9/3/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
You hear him speak before you see him paint. The screen black, Vincent Van Gogh tells us what he wants — desires big and small, like earning the respect of his peers and eating a sandwich. It’s a bold way of opening a film about the iconic painter, which is expected with Willem Dafoe in front of the camera and Julian Schnabel behind it in an unconventional biopic that, at its best, is a masterwork worthy of Van Gogh.
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The first real scene of “At Eternity’s Gate” is shot with a handheld camera hovering just inches from a woman’s face, as though we’re meant to be seeing her through Van Gogh’s eyes, our field of vision blurred at the edges. Just as the dialogue alternates between French and English,...
Read More: Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate’: Julian Schnabel Gives Us An Exclusive First Look
The first real scene of “At Eternity’s Gate” is shot with a handheld camera hovering just inches from a woman’s face, as though we’re meant to be seeing her through Van Gogh’s eyes, our field of vision blurred at the edges. Just as the dialogue alternates between French and English,...
- 9/3/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Biographies of famous artists are nothing new, but “At Eternity’s Gate” feels a little special. Director Julian Schnabel’s film explores the life of renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, and it pays lip service to his most notorious tragedies. But more importantly it paints a vivid, expressionistic portrait of his creative process. Any film could give you the gist of Van Gogh’s life story, but perhaps only this one can make you feel what it would be like to stand in a field with this brilliant mind, and watch him make magic out of scenery.
Willem Dafoe plays Van Gogh, and he’s uniquely suited to the task. He’s a captivating performer, as expressive with his body language as Van Gogh was with a brush. In lesser material he can sometimes come across as wild, even bizarre, but in a production like “At Eternity’s Gate” he...
Willem Dafoe plays Van Gogh, and he’s uniquely suited to the task. He’s a captivating performer, as expressive with his body language as Van Gogh was with a brush. In lesser material he can sometimes come across as wild, even bizarre, but in a production like “At Eternity’s Gate” he...
- 9/3/2018
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Mathieu Amalric on directing Barbara: "There would be immediately a presence. It was the spirit we were waiting for." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue over breakfast, Mathieu Amalric discussed with me Pierre Léon's initial involvement with Barbara, Jeanne Balibar's performance, a clip from Jacques Brel's film Franz, an Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai moment, and filming sensations.
Mathieu Amalric will soon be seen as Dr. Paul Gachet in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate (Closing Night film of the 56th New York Film Festival), co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, shot by Benoît Delhomme, and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, with Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mads Mikkelsen, and Niels Arestrup.
Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) with Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) in Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël)
Mathieu is also the...
At the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue over breakfast, Mathieu Amalric discussed with me Pierre Léon's initial involvement with Barbara, Jeanne Balibar's performance, a clip from Jacques Brel's film Franz, an Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai moment, and filming sensations.
Mathieu Amalric will soon be seen as Dr. Paul Gachet in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate (Closing Night film of the 56th New York Film Festival), co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, shot by Benoît Delhomme, and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, with Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mads Mikkelsen, and Niels Arestrup.
Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) with Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) in Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël)
Mathieu is also the...
- 8/14/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Chicago – The art masters, and the masterpieces they have created, become a background culture in our lives… even if we don’t necessarily know the artist. Paul Gauguin is one of those painters-as-cultural-influencer, and a vital point in his artistic life is told in the film “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Vincent Cassel – best known to American audiences in “Ocean’s Twelve” (and “Thirteen”) – dives into the role of Paul Gauguin like a man possessed, and in many ways this was Gauguin’s most obsessive period. He left everything behind as a French painter to find his “artistic” self in Tahiti, and as many great masters do, paid the price. The story is fascinating and frustrating, much like the artist himself, but doesn’t project an understanding to the artist’s inner life or the Tahitian natives around him. This works as a lesson in being an artist over everything else,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Vincent Cassel – best known to American audiences in “Ocean’s Twelve” (and “Thirteen”) – dives into the role of Paul Gauguin like a man possessed, and in many ways this was Gauguin’s most obsessive period. He left everything behind as a French painter to find his “artistic” self in Tahiti, and as many great masters do, paid the price. The story is fascinating and frustrating, much like the artist himself, but doesn’t project an understanding to the artist’s inner life or the Tahitian natives around him. This works as a lesson in being an artist over everything else,...
- 7/24/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sneak Peek footage, plus images from the new dramatic feature "Gaugin: Voyage To Tahiti", directed by Edouard Deluc, starring Vincent Cassel ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") as the 19th Century French post-impressionist artist:
"...'Gaugin: Voyage To Tahiti", follows French painter 'Paul Gauguin' and his love affair with a native from Tahiti..."
Cast also includes Tuheï Adams and Malik Zidi.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Gaugin: Voyage To Tahiti"...
"...'Gaugin: Voyage To Tahiti", follows French painter 'Paul Gauguin' and his love affair with a native from Tahiti..."
Cast also includes Tuheï Adams and Malik Zidi.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Gaugin: Voyage To Tahiti"...
- 7/14/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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- 7/13/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"I feel alive again." Cohen Media Group has released an official Us trailer for the film Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, originally known as just Gauguin in its released in Europe last year. The film is finally hitting limited Us theaters this summer. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti stars Vincent Cassel as famous French artist Paul Gauguin, a painter who decided to leave behind his wife and child and civilized life to travel out to Tahiti in 1891. The film is about his decision to go to Tahiti and his romance and connection with a young Tahitian girl named Tehura, played by Tuheï Adams. The cast includes Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Pernille Bergendorff, Marc Barbé, Paul Jeanson, Cédric Eeckhout, and Samuel Jouy. This looks quite good, with a compelling performance by Cassel as the inspired painter. I would really like to see this. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Edouard Deluc's Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti,...
- 6/13/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
CBS Films has acquired the U.S. rights to “At Eternity’s Gate,” a biopic of renowned 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh, the company announced Tuesday.
Director Julian Schnabel’s film, currently in postproduction, also stars Oscar Isaacs, Rupert Friend and Mads Mikkelsen. Jon Kilik produced the film, which was financed by Spk Pictures and Riverstone Pictures.
The deal is worth $1.75 million, with CBS Films planning a fall release for awards consideration.
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The film follows the Dutch artist during his 1886 move to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Paul Gauguin, and explores the sacrifices he made to produce his post-Impressionist masterpieces.
Dafoe has been on a tear of late, picking up his third Oscar nomination for his supporting turn in last year’s “The Florida Project.” He also appears...
Director Julian Schnabel’s film, currently in postproduction, also stars Oscar Isaacs, Rupert Friend and Mads Mikkelsen. Jon Kilik produced the film, which was financed by Spk Pictures and Riverstone Pictures.
The deal is worth $1.75 million, with CBS Films planning a fall release for awards consideration.
Also Read: 'Florida Project' Star Willem Dafoe on Why Shooting at a Real Motel Made it Authentic (Video)
The film follows the Dutch artist during his 1886 move to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Paul Gauguin, and explores the sacrifices he made to produce his post-Impressionist masterpieces.
Dafoe has been on a tear of late, picking up his third Oscar nomination for his supporting turn in last year’s “The Florida Project.” He also appears...
- 5/15/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
by Nathaniel R
One intriguing possibility is Oscar Isaac as the painter Paul Gauguin in "At Eternity's Gate" -- the film is about Vincent Van Gogh's time in Aries (in which their friendship went awry) -- but will it be ready in time and get strong distribution?
And now we come to the one acting category that arguably has no super devoted fan base: Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Why have we never met an obsessive fan of this category? It's easy to run into people who love leading ladies and/or leading men and, we should know more than anyone given the Supporting Actress Smackdowns that that particular contest tends to fascinate a wide swath of people. So why no love for Supporting Actor? Could it be because the Academy uses this category, we'd argue more than the others, as an afterthought, filling it with 'thanks for the...
One intriguing possibility is Oscar Isaac as the painter Paul Gauguin in "At Eternity's Gate" -- the film is about Vincent Van Gogh's time in Aries (in which their friendship went awry) -- but will it be ready in time and get strong distribution?
And now we come to the one acting category that arguably has no super devoted fan base: Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Why have we never met an obsessive fan of this category? It's easy to run into people who love leading ladies and/or leading men and, we should know more than anyone given the Supporting Actress Smackdowns that that particular contest tends to fascinate a wide swath of people. So why no love for Supporting Actor? Could it be because the Academy uses this category, we'd argue more than the others, as an afterthought, filling it with 'thanks for the...
- 4/28/2018
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Zurich-based Spk Pictures has boarded its first two films as an investor, bankrolling the new features from art-house favorites Julian Schnabel and Harmony Korine.
Spk will help finance Schnabel's upcoming Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate and Korine's The Beach Bum. Both projects are also backed by Riverstone Pictures and are being sold by Rocket Science to buyers at Afm.
Willem Dafoe is playing van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate, alongside Star Wars alum Oscar Isaac, who will play friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin. Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games) is producing. Schnabel, an acclaimed artist in his own...
Spk will help finance Schnabel's upcoming Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate and Korine's The Beach Bum. Both projects are also backed by Riverstone Pictures and are being sold by Rocket Science to buyers at Afm.
Willem Dafoe is playing van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate, alongside Star Wars alum Oscar Isaac, who will play friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin. Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games) is producing. Schnabel, an acclaimed artist in his own...
- 11/2/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“There’s no more face or landscape worth painting here,” says Paul Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) in Paris just before he leaves for Oceania in French writer-director Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin (Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti). Indeed, a lot of the post-Impressionist painter’s most famous works were still ahead of him and Deluc at least avoids trying to give an overview of the artist’s entire life, instead concentrating on just his first voyage to French Polynesia, which occurred between 1891 and 1893.
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array ...
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array ...
- 9/26/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“There’s no more face or landscape worth painting here,” says Paul Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) in Paris just before he leaves for Oceania in French writer-director Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin (Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti). Indeed, a lot of the post-Impressionist painter’s most famous works were still ahead of him and Deluc at least avoids trying to give an overview of the artist’s entire life, instead concentrating on just his first voyage to French Polynesia, which occurred between 1891 and 1893.
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array ...
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array ...
- 9/26/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“There’s no more face or landscape worth painting here,” says Paul Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) in Paris just before he leaves for Oceania in French writer-director Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin (Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti). Indeed, a lot of the post-Impressionist painter’s most famous works were still ahead of him and Deluc at least avoids trying to give an overview of the artist’s entire life, instead concentrating on just his first voyage to French Polynesia, which occurred between 1891 and 1893.
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array of topics, including but certainly...
But even so, the strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array of topics, including but certainly...
- 9/26/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Many know actor Anthony Quinn for his indelible portrayals ranging from the title role in Zorba the Greek to his Oscar-winning takes on artist Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life and Mexican revolutionary Eufemio Zapata in Viva Zapata! What few know is that Quinn, who died in 2001, was a prolific sculptor and painter throughout his lifetime, selling a portrait to Douglas Fairbanks Sr. when he was just a teenager and later studying with legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Even fewer are aware of the notion that Quinn was clairvoyant — at least according to his onetime art dealer, Glenn Harte, whose...
- 7/6/2017
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“When facing a flat landscape I see nothing but eternity. Am I the only one to see it?” “Existence can’t be without reason.” – Vincent Van Gogh, 1888
Rocket Science announced today that Golden Globe Winner Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls) will direct At Eternity’S Gate, which will star Academy Award Nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, John Wick) as Vincent van Gogh.
Based on a screenplay by Schnabel and Jean-Claude Carrière, the story focuses on the time in Vincent’s life that he spent in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Academy Award Nominee Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games franchise, Babel) will produce the film, which will be shot on location in France. Rocket Science is handling international sales and CAA is representing the U.S rights.
“This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity. It is told by a painter.
Rocket Science announced today that Golden Globe Winner Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls) will direct At Eternity’S Gate, which will star Academy Award Nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, John Wick) as Vincent van Gogh.
Based on a screenplay by Schnabel and Jean-Claude Carrière, the story focuses on the time in Vincent’s life that he spent in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Academy Award Nominee Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games franchise, Babel) will produce the film, which will be shot on location in France. Rocket Science is handling international sales and CAA is representing the U.S rights.
“This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity. It is told by a painter.
- 5/21/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When I last spoke with Travis Knight he was juggling the responsibilities of CEO and lead animator at his Portland-based animation studio, Laika. Now, with the company’s fourth feature, he is adding another to his resume: director. Kubo and the Two Strings, the year’s most gorgeous-looking animation thus far, arrives in theaters this week, and I had a chance to speak with him about his debut.
We discussed the wide-ranging influences on the film — from Kurosawa to manga comics — as well as his thoughts on voice acting, Studio Ghibli’s legacy, and much more. Check out the full conversation below.
The Film Stage: In the film, I saw inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress with this ragtag group of characters and the unlikely hero — and obviously that was inspiration for Star Wars, which I heard was one of your first movie-going experiences — so I’m curious...
We discussed the wide-ranging influences on the film — from Kurosawa to manga comics — as well as his thoughts on voice acting, Studio Ghibli’s legacy, and much more. Check out the full conversation below.
The Film Stage: In the film, I saw inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress with this ragtag group of characters and the unlikely hero — and obviously that was inspiration for Star Wars, which I heard was one of your first movie-going experiences — so I’m curious...
- 8/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We got the chance to speak with Runoff Writer/Director Kimberly Levin, who explains some of Runoff's taut formal elements and untangles the creative ties between her transition from Biochemist to theater director, and now filmmaker.
"...I can say without hesitation that if you want to be able to say you were there when a great American filmmaker's career kicked off, you need to see "Runoff."
-Matt Zoller Seitz (RogerEbert.com)
Fortunately for me, I can say I was there at the advent. I was struck by this debut. It came out of left field and seemed too dense and shrewd in form to be cultivated by fresh talent. Runoff is a febrile farmland drama shot on location in Kentucky (though its rustic world building suggests any rural landscape). It stars Joanne Kelly as Betty, a female character a billion times more empowering than any scantily-clad female super-hero...
"...I can say without hesitation that if you want to be able to say you were there when a great American filmmaker's career kicked off, you need to see "Runoff."
-Matt Zoller Seitz (RogerEbert.com)
Fortunately for me, I can say I was there at the advent. I was struck by this debut. It came out of left field and seemed too dense and shrewd in form to be cultivated by fresh talent. Runoff is a febrile farmland drama shot on location in Kentucky (though its rustic world building suggests any rural landscape). It stars Joanne Kelly as Betty, a female character a billion times more empowering than any scantily-clad female super-hero...
- 6/26/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Aaron Hunt)
- Cinelinx
An 1892 painting of two Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin has sold to a group of state museums in Qatar for a record-breaking price of nearly $300 million. That sum breaks the previous record, for Paul Cezanne's "The Card Players," also purchased by Qatar for about $250 million three years ago. The painting, "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)," depicts two Tahitian women, and had previously been owned by Sotheby's retiree Rudolf Staechelin, manager of the Staechelin Family Trust, a collection of at least 20 major Post-Impressionist works that Staechelin's father amassed during World War I. Staechelin, who lives in Basel, Switzerland, did...
- 2/9/2015
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
An 1892 painting of two Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin has sold to a group of state museums in Qatar for a record-breaking price of nearly $300 million. That sum breaks the previous record, for Paul Cezanne's "The Card Players," also purchased by Qatar for about $250 million three years ago. The painting, "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)," depicts two Tahitian women, and had previously been owned by Sotheby's retiree Rudolf Staechelin, manager of the Staechelin Family Trust, a collection of at least 20 major Post-Impressionist works that Staechelin's father amassed during World War I. Staechelin, who lives in Basel, Switzerland, did...
- 2/9/2015
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
A Paul Gauguin still life stolen from a wealthy collector's home in Britain decades ago has been recovered after hanging for 40 years in a Sicilian autoworker's kitchen. The worker bought the painting along with one of lesser value by another French artist, Pierre Bonnard, for about $100 at a 1975 Italian state railway auction of unclaimed lost items, said Maj. Massimiliano Quagliarella of the paramilitary Carabinieri art theft squad. Italian authorities on Wednesday estimated the still life's worth in a range from 10 million euros to 30 million euros ($14 million to $40 million). "The painting, showing fruit, seemed to fit in with dining room decor,...
- 4/3/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Getty Natalie Portman with her best actress Oscar for “Black Swan.”
Natalie Portman on “Black Swan” dance double controversy; Paul Gauguin returns to museum; Grammys cut number of award categories…
Natalie Portman on ‘Black Swan’ Dance Double Controversy: Natalie Portman refuses to weigh in on the controversy surrounding her dancing for her Oscar-winning role in the “Black Swan.” Portman’s dance double, Sarah Lane, she she did most of the dancing for the film, but the filmmakers say that Portman did.
Natalie Portman on “Black Swan” dance double controversy; Paul Gauguin returns to museum; Grammys cut number of award categories…
Natalie Portman on ‘Black Swan’ Dance Double Controversy: Natalie Portman refuses to weigh in on the controversy surrounding her dancing for her Oscar-winning role in the “Black Swan.” Portman’s dance double, Sarah Lane, she she did most of the dancing for the film, but the filmmakers say that Portman did.
- 4/7/2011
- by Lyneka Little
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
There's a double helping of the Dane, Wall Street returns, Wallace and Gromit take up presenting – and Robyn goes for broke. Our critics pick this autumn's hottest shows
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
Theatre
Hamlet
Prepare for the latest battle of the princes. John Simm is first in the field at the Sheffield Crucible; then Rory Kinnear enters the running in a Nicholas Hytner production for the National Theatre. It's not, of course, a contest – but comparisons will be inevitable. Crucible, Sheffield (0114-249 6000), from 16 September; and Olivier, London SE1 (020-7452 3000), from 7 October.
The Thrill of it All
Forced Entertainment continues the British experimental tradition with an evening of vaudevillian capers, Japanese lounge music and tarnished sequins. Nuffield, Lancaster (01524 594151), 12-13 October. Then touring.
Tribes
Nina Raine follows her impressive debut play, Rabbits, with a drama about an unconventional family that has its own private language and rules. At its centre is Billy, who is deaf and...
- 9/14/2010
- by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Clements, Robin Denselow, Alison Flood, John Fordham, Lyn Gardner, Jonathan Glancey, Brian Logan, Judith Mackrell, Alexis Petridis, Adrian Searle, Richard Vine
- The Guardian - Film News
Vincente Minnelli's celebration of the life of Vincent van Gogh is well-researched and enjoyable, even if it gives the best lines to Paul Gauguin
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Entertainment grade: B–
History grade: A–
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch artist. He achieved little fame during his life, struggled with mental illness and lived in poverty.
Since his death, he has been lauded as one of the greatest painters of all time.
Family
After a foray into missionary work at a Belgian coal mine which, while interesting enough and mostly true, feels like it is going in an entirely different direction from the rest of the film, Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) finally takes up art about 20 minutes into the runtime. He lives in his parents' shed and spends all day wearing a manky sheepskin jerkin and drawing things he can't sell, while they drop clanging hints about how he should get a real job.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Entertainment grade: B–
History grade: A–
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch artist. He achieved little fame during his life, struggled with mental illness and lived in poverty.
Since his death, he has been lauded as one of the greatest painters of all time.
Family
After a foray into missionary work at a Belgian coal mine which, while interesting enough and mostly true, feels like it is going in an entirely different direction from the rest of the film, Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) finally takes up art about 20 minutes into the runtime. He lives in his parents' shed and spends all day wearing a manky sheepskin jerkin and drawing things he can't sell, while they drop clanging hints about how he should get a real job.
- 4/8/2010
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Can Martin Scorsese pull off a horror movie? Is Glasgow the new Venice? And what's Ricky Gervais up to in Reading? Our critics pick next year's hottest tickets
Film
Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
Film
Cemetery Junction
Having conquered Hollywood, Ricky Gervais is coming home. With his long-time collaborator Stephen Merchant, he has set out to create a British film in the tradition of Billy Liar and the Likely Lads – and of course his own masterpiece The Office – about three blokes working for the Prudential insurance company in Gervais's hometown of Reading. Released on 7 April.
A Single Man
The smart money says Colin Firth will be bringing home a certain gold, bald-headed statuette for his performance as a bereaved gay man in Los Angeles. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie – fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut – follows one day in the life of Firth's literature academic as he confronts his own mortality. Released on 12 February.
- 12/31/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
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