'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon': 'You Were Never Really Here' Director Lynne Ramsay Helming Stephen King Adaptation
Lynne Ramsay has signed on to direct The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, based on the novel by Stephen King.
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More Female Directors Were Worthy Of A Best Director Nod Than Ever, But Got Shut Out Of The Oscars
The Best Director category at the Oscars once again finds itself stacked with men, but the female directors that deserved a slot were shut out.
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18 Movies Directed By Women In 2018 You Should Watch
Women were behind some of the most critically acclaimed indie dramas, genre flicks, and more last year. See these movies directed by women in 2018.
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'You Were Never Really Here' Director Lynne Ramsay Writing An "Epic Environmental Horror" Film
Want to see an "environmental horror" film from the director of You Were Never Really Here? Read about the Lynne Ramsay horror movie that's in the works.
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Lynne Ramsay On Defying Clichés In 'You Were Never Really Here' And Her Thoughts On Joaquin Phoenix As The Joker [Interview]
In a Lynne Ramsay interview with /Film, the You Were Never Really Here director talks about the raves for her film, and working with Joaquin Phoenix.
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Director Lynne Ramsay Gets Real Sweat And Grime In 'You Were Never Really Here' [Interview]
In our Lynne Ramsay interview, the director talks about her first genre piece, a lean and introspective thriller with Joaquin Pheonix.
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'You Were Never Really Here' Is A Brilliant Movie Because Of What It Doesn't Show Us
We examine how Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here uses a brilliant less-is-more approach to storytelling to convey an intentionally fractured narrative.
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'You Were Never Really Here' Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is Chilling In This Brutal Thriller [Sundance]
After making a splash at Cannes last year, we have a You Were Never Really Here review from the film's screening at the Sundance Film Festival.
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'You Were Never Really Here' Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Has His Own Particular Set Of Skills
In the latest You Were Never Really Here trailer, we get a glimpse of Joaquin Phoenix's particular set of skills as he tracks down a missing girl.
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This Week In Trailers: Life And Nothing More, Kill Me Please, Brimstone And Glory, You Were Never Really Here, Foxtrot, Long Shot
Trailers 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 week…
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Why Amazon Wants Their Movies Released Theatrically
Amazon wants to provide their consumers and filmmakers with the "full theatrical experience," which is why we'll continue to see Amazon theatrical releases.
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27 People Who Could (Or Should) Direct 'The Batman'
With Ben Affleck officially vacating the director's chair, here are 27 people who could (or should) take his place on The Batman.
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Lynne Ramsay And Joaquin Phoenix Will Get Their Vengeance On With 'You Were Never Really Here'
You Were Never Really Here will team actor Joaquin Phoenix and director Lynne Ramsay for a revenge thriller set against the sex trade.
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Bradley Cooper Replaces Jude Law In 'Jane Got A Gun'
The all-star lineup for Jane Got a Gun is changing again, hopefully for the last time. Bradley Cooper has just joined the Gavin O'Connor-directed Western in the villain role vacated last month by Jude Law -- who was himself a replacement for Joel Edgerton, who switched characters when Michael Fassbender departed. The troubled Western has…
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Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, And Jeff Bridges Eyed For 'Jane Got A Gun;' Lynne Ramsay Remains Silent
The Jane Got a Gun story keeps getting more complicated. The outline of the story, as we know it, is that the indie western produced by and starring Natalie Portman was set to begin shooting this past Monday, but that Ramsay didn't turn up to direct on the day. Producer/financier Scott Steindorff spoke out via Deadline,…
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'Warrior' Director Gavin O'Connor Steps In To Direct 'Jane Got A Gun'
On Monday, Lynne Ramsay was set to begin shooting the western Jane Got a Gun, with Natalie Portman (who is also producing) as a woman who, with a former lover, defends her homestead and spouse against bandits that wounded her husband. Joel Edgerton and Jude Law are also in the cast, with Law replacing Michael…
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'Jane Got A Gun' Loses Director On Day One Of Shooting; Lynne Ramsay Quits By Not Showing Up
Lynne Ramsay's third film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, is nearly a masterpiece of parental paranoia and despair. Based on that, and her previous work, and a great cast, we had big hopes for her new movie, Jane Got a Gun. The indie western stars Natalie Portman as a woman who takes up arms to…
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Jude Law Replaces Joel Edgerton, Edgerton Replaces Michael Fassbender In Lynne Ramsay's 'Jane Got A Gun'
With just weeks to go until shooting, Lynne Ramsay's Jane Got a Gun has just been hit with some very good news and some very bad news. Michael Fassbender has just dropped out of the hero role in the Western, leaving Joel Edgerton to take over the spot. But as Edgerton was originally slated to…
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Lynne Ramsay Gets Funding To Launch 'Moby Dick' Into Space With 'Mobius'
I'm still haunted by Lynne Ramsay's last film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, which I believe is one of the best horror films of the last few years. And so "We Need to Talk About Moby Dick in Space" is a great title for the announcement that Ramsay now has financial backing for Mobius,…
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Michael Fassbender May Play Key Role Opposite Natalie Portman In 'Jane Got A Gun'
Lynne Ramsay has made three very good films (most recently We Need to Talk About Kevin, which followed Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar) and now she's prepping a western called Jane Got a Gun. The film has Natalie Portman attached to play “a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She…
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Natalie Portman Attached To Defend Her Homestead In 'Jane Got A Gun,' A Western Directed By Lynne Ramsay
Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff) isn't going to have the market cornered when it comes to new female-led Westerns. Scottish director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ratcatcher) is now attached to direct a film called Jane Got a Gun. And now the project has Natalie Portman attached to star and produce. THR reports…
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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Poster Calls Back To 'Rosemary's Baby'
Living waaaay out in the sticks (that is: Atlanta) I haven't yet had a chance to see Lynne Ramsay's discussion-sparking 2011 film We Need to Talk About Kevin. But I know the basics, which are that Tilda Swinton plays the mother of a young man named Kevin (Ezra Miller) who isn't, let's say, the most…
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This Week In Trailers: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Oslo, August 31st, Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway, Wreckers, Special Forces, Holy Rollers: The True Story Of Card Counting Christians
Trailers 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Lynne Ramsay To Make A Claustrophobic Sci-Fi 'Moby Dick'
I'm a big fan of Lynne Ramsay based on her first two films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. The conversations about her third, We Need to Talk About Kevin, have been extremely tempting to read, but I'm waiting to delve into those until I've had a chance to see the film for myself. Suffice to say…
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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' French Teaser Trailer And Poster
One of the most buzzed-about films at Cannes this year was Lynne Ramsay's third feature, We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play the parents of the sociopathic Kevin, played by Ezra Miller. The adaptation of Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel was hailed as a difficult but fascinating film,…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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Cannes Showstopper 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Picked Up By Oscilloscope
Forgive me, but we need to talk about Lynne Ramsay. She has made only three films, the first two being Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. Both are great pieces of work -- Ratcatcher is a movie that I go back to again and again. Others can have their Amblin movies as snapshots back into their youth;…
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