'Their Finest' Trailer: This Is Not The Movie About Dunkirk You're Waiting For
Watch the Their Finest trailer to get a glimpse at the movie that's about making a movie about a supposedly heroic rescue at Dunkirk during World War II.
Read MoreWatch the Their Finest trailer to get a glimpse at the movie that's about making a movie about a supposedly heroic rescue at Dunkirk during World War II.
Read MoreWatch The Riot Club trailer starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons, and Douglas Booth as the members of an elite Oxford fraternity. Directed by Lone Scherfig.
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
Read MoreThere was no small amount of anticipation for One Day, the new film from An Education director Lone Scherfig, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. But the first trailer was, let's say, uninspiring. Now there is a second trailer, cut for the UK, and it is a definite improvement. It doesn't make the film look…
Read MoreAn Education director Lone Scherfig decided to follow up that film with One Day, an adaptation of the novel by David Nicholls (he also scripted) in which a young couple spends their college graduation night together, and then we see their relationship/friendship evolve over the following years by sampling one day each year. So there's…
Read MoreGood news for fans of director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Game of Thrones), as his new film Win Win will open on March 18 instead of March 25. The film stars Paul Giamatti as "Mike Flaherty, a senior-care attorney and high-school wrestling coach in small-town New Jersey, he compromises his ethics to…
Read MoreFocus Features has dropped new images from two of the company's more promising 2011 films: Lone Scherfig's One Day and Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. That's the new Jane Eyre image, above, showing Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender as the lead characters of Charlotte Brontë's famous novel. We've seen one trailer already (and it was pretty…
Read MoreAn Education director Lone Scherfig just finished shooting her romantic drama One Day, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. The film is based on the novel of the same name by David Nicholls (who also wrote the screenplay) in which a pair of lovers reunites every year for two decades. But they see each other…
Read MoreMario Van Peebles is currently directing Curtis Jackson in Things Fall Apart and, based on Jackson's past thespian efforts, that's not terribly exciting. But now Ray Liotta is joining the cast, so that's a positive turn. Jackson is playing "a star football running back...who faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while…
Read MoreLone Scherfig gained a lot of new admirers with An Education, in which she deftly directed a small ensemble cast through an excellent period recreation and a tonally on-point coming of age tale. The director has said recently that she wouldn't mind switching gears slightly, to tackle a film with an overt criminal element. Now…
Read MoreOn the blah blah rounds to promote her latest picture The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, producer Nina Jacobson has let slip the main talent attached to upcoming project One Day. She revealed that as well as director Lone Scherfig, BAFTA nominated for An Education, there's also potential stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in…
Read MoreWhen Focus Features announced in January the intent to make a biopic based on the life of Nigerian band leader and activist Fela Kuti, I was immediately intrigued. Would the film look more at his music, or his status as sort of an emergent voice of the people? A mix of both is likely (and…
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