Martin Amis, the British author known for novels including Money, London Fields and The Information, has died. He was 73.
His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told The New York Times that Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, following a battle with esophageal cancer.
The news comes as Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, which loosely adapts Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to enthusiastic response.
Other film adaptations of his work include the 2018 feature London Fields that starred Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Jason Isaacs and Cara Delevingne. Amis co-wrote the film’s screenplay that was based on his 1989 mystery novel.
Born in Oxford, England, on August 25, 1949, Amis attended Exeter College at the University of Oxford. His first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), won the Somerset Maugham Award.
His best known works are Money...
His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told The New York Times that Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, following a battle with esophageal cancer.
The news comes as Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, which loosely adapts Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to enthusiastic response.
Other film adaptations of his work include the 2018 feature London Fields that starred Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Jason Isaacs and Cara Delevingne. Amis co-wrote the film’s screenplay that was based on his 1989 mystery novel.
Born in Oxford, England, on August 25, 1949, Amis attended Exeter College at the University of Oxford. His first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973), won the Somerset Maugham Award.
His best known works are Money...
- 20.5.2023
- von Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Killing Eve” Season 2, Episode 7, “Wide Awake”]
In the week after “Game of Thrones” took a beating for giving one character an abrupt and perplexing villainous turn, “Killing Eve” takes another step in its season-long arc to lure MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) to the dark side. This subtle and seductive journey has been a gradual descent into depravity that shows just how much work and psychology goes into breaking bad.
In Sunday’s episode, tech mogul Aaron Peel (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) has become intrigued by Villanelle (Jodie Comer) — who’s working undercover for MI6 as disaffected rich American “Billie” — and invites her to Rome with him as he attends a tech conference. With Villanelle in place and equipped with a tiny surveillance microphone, Eve and Hugo (Edward Bluemel) station themselves in a nearby hotel to eavesdrop and learn what weapon Aaron is selling and to whom.
What once was Eve’s safe,...
In the week after “Game of Thrones” took a beating for giving one character an abrupt and perplexing villainous turn, “Killing Eve” takes another step in its season-long arc to lure MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) to the dark side. This subtle and seductive journey has been a gradual descent into depravity that shows just how much work and psychology goes into breaking bad.
In Sunday’s episode, tech mogul Aaron Peel (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) has become intrigued by Villanelle (Jodie Comer) — who’s working undercover for MI6 as disaffected rich American “Billie” — and invites her to Rome with him as he attends a tech conference. With Villanelle in place and equipped with a tiny surveillance microphone, Eve and Hugo (Edward Bluemel) station themselves in a nearby hotel to eavesdrop and learn what weapon Aaron is selling and to whom.
What once was Eve’s safe,...
- 20.5.2019
- von Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Killing Eve” Season 2, Episode 3, “The Hungry Caterpillar.”]
Only on “Killing Eve” can a dangerous blade hidden in lipstick be interpreted as a love note. In the final moments of Sunday’s episode, MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) cuts herself using the doctored lipstick left in her purse by killer Villanelle (Jodie Comer). The name of the lip shade, Love in an Elevator, not only connects Villanelle to a recent assassination in a lift, but reflects her mindset is still firmly focused on Eve. The pain and blood caused by the knife isn’t a threat; it’s a bloody, coded kiss.
Despite this and many other delicious highlights in “The Hungry Caterpillar,” the episode doesn’t make much progress in their cat-and-mouse game and even presses reset by placing Villanelle back with her old handler Konstantin (Kim Bodnia). Compared to Season 1’s third episode, which catapulted the series forward by changing the stakes,...
Only on “Killing Eve” can a dangerous blade hidden in lipstick be interpreted as a love note. In the final moments of Sunday’s episode, MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) cuts herself using the doctored lipstick left in her purse by killer Villanelle (Jodie Comer). The name of the lip shade, Love in an Elevator, not only connects Villanelle to a recent assassination in a lift, but reflects her mindset is still firmly focused on Eve. The pain and blood caused by the knife isn’t a threat; it’s a bloody, coded kiss.
Despite this and many other delicious highlights in “The Hungry Caterpillar,” the episode doesn’t make much progress in their cat-and-mouse game and even presses reset by placing Villanelle back with her old handler Konstantin (Kim Bodnia). Compared to Season 1’s third episode, which catapulted the series forward by changing the stakes,...
- 22.4.2019
- von Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
1973: Nancy Pinkerton debuted as Dorian Lord on One Life to Live.
1978: Dallas' Pam revealed her pregnancy but later lost the baby.
1996: All My Children's Marian played a revealing tape to hurt Tad.
2001: General Hospital's Skye announced she was a Quartermaine."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On Dark Shadows, Jeff (Roger Davis) dozed off in a chair in the living room of the...
1978: Dallas' Pam revealed her pregnancy but later lost the baby.
1996: All My Children's Marian played a revealing tape to hurt Tad.
2001: General Hospital's Skye announced she was a Quartermaine."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1968: On Dark Shadows, Jeff (Roger Davis) dozed off in a chair in the living room of the...
- 30.4.2018
- von Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
This World Heart Day, the British Heart Foundation has teamed up with world renowned photographer Rankin to launch an international art project with creatives from around the world, to raise awareness of the global fight against heart disease.
‘Heart for a Heart’ has seen celebrated artists, celebrities, photographers, and brands from around the world unite against heart disease by creating unique heart-themed artwork and uploading them to social media in celebration of World Heart Day.
The social media movement aims to raise awareness of heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK alone, nearly 160,000 lives are lost to these devastating conditions each year, one every three minutes. Globally it causes an estimated 17.7 million deaths a year.
Among those taking part include actors Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, Anna Friel, Nicholas Hoult, Gillian Anderson, Sadie Frost, Ashley Margolis, Max Beesley, Noel Anthony Clarke, and Emma Pierson; TV personalities Holly Willoughby,...
‘Heart for a Heart’ has seen celebrated artists, celebrities, photographers, and brands from around the world unite against heart disease by creating unique heart-themed artwork and uploading them to social media in celebration of World Heart Day.
The social media movement aims to raise awareness of heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK alone, nearly 160,000 lives are lost to these devastating conditions each year, one every three minutes. Globally it causes an estimated 17.7 million deaths a year.
Among those taking part include actors Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, Anna Friel, Nicholas Hoult, Gillian Anderson, Sadie Frost, Ashley Margolis, Max Beesley, Noel Anthony Clarke, and Emma Pierson; TV personalities Holly Willoughby,...
- 5.10.2017
- Look to the Stars
12 year old Lucy Hutchinson stars as a young Emma Kennedy in a new family comedy set in the 1970s coming to BBC On at the end of September.
Lucy (represented by A&J Management) made her screen debut as young April in the Emmy-award winning Dustbin Baby and has gone on to appear in various TV roles including Eastenders, Little Crackers, The Poison Tree and Dani's Castle. She also played Scout in the Regent's Park Open Air Production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Kennedys is a six-part aspirational family comedy loosely based on actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy's memoirs ‘The Tent, The Bucket and Me.’ Each episode is introduced by Emma Kennedy, played by Lucy, a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tom-boy who is happy to tag along with her much-loved parents, Brenda and Tony Kennedy played by Katherine Parkinson and Dan Skinner.
The Kennedy family have...
Lucy (represented by A&J Management) made her screen debut as young April in the Emmy-award winning Dustbin Baby and has gone on to appear in various TV roles including Eastenders, Little Crackers, The Poison Tree and Dani's Castle. She also played Scout in the Regent's Park Open Air Production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Kennedys is a six-part aspirational family comedy loosely based on actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy's memoirs ‘The Tent, The Bucket and Me.’ Each episode is introduced by Emma Kennedy, played by Lucy, a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tom-boy who is happy to tag along with her much-loved parents, Brenda and Tony Kennedy played by Katherine Parkinson and Dan Skinner.
The Kennedy family have...
- 10.9.2015
- von noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Keith Allen has joined Bradley Walsh and Kayvan Novak in new BBC One comedy Woody.
The Robin Hood actor has signed up alongside Emma Pierson (Up the Women), Jamie Demetriou (The Midnight Beast), and Alan Williams (Starlings).
The show is set on a fictional Spanish island and sees undercover reporter Woody (Novak) fleeing Britain after being framed by his corrupt newspaper editor. On the run, he encounters his former mentor Brutus (Walsh), who now runs a bar.
Despite their attempts to stay out of trouble, the pair soon find themselves tackling a series of crimes and mysteries, with Woody fooling the locals with his array of impromptu disguises.
Jack Dee, Kara Tointon, Tracy Ann Oberman, Paul Kaye, Simon Day, Morgana Robinson, Lee Boardman, Cavan Clerkin, Clive Swift, Alex Kirk and Sean Gilder will also cameo in the series.
"My goodness what a blast it is filming Woody," Walsh said of the show,...
The Robin Hood actor has signed up alongside Emma Pierson (Up the Women), Jamie Demetriou (The Midnight Beast), and Alan Williams (Starlings).
The show is set on a fictional Spanish island and sees undercover reporter Woody (Novak) fleeing Britain after being framed by his corrupt newspaper editor. On the run, he encounters his former mentor Brutus (Walsh), who now runs a bar.
Despite their attempts to stay out of trouble, the pair soon find themselves tackling a series of crimes and mysteries, with Woody fooling the locals with his array of impromptu disguises.
Jack Dee, Kara Tointon, Tracy Ann Oberman, Paul Kaye, Simon Day, Morgana Robinson, Lee Boardman, Cavan Clerkin, Clive Swift, Alex Kirk and Sean Gilder will also cameo in the series.
"My goodness what a blast it is filming Woody," Walsh said of the show,...
- 10.11.2014
- Digital Spy
As a style of filmmaking that has been severely overcooked in the horror genre, spawning a variety of unoriginal, hackneyed productions, handheld footage has certainly served comedy somewhat more favourably. It simply has so much scope to it in such a department, provoking realism and encouraging improvisation. With the likes of This Is Spinal Tap illuminating the sub-genre, and The Office and The Thick of It also triumphing on the smaller screen, James Rouse has followed on in their footsteps with his amiable debut production, Downhill.
The film explores four old school friends and now middle-aged men, reuniting to embark on a coast to coast walk. Gordon (Richard Lumsden) is the ringleader, bringing together Keith (Karl Theobald), Steve (Jeremy Swift) and Julian (Ned Dennehy) for this arduous, yet enlightening adventure, while his young son documents the entire journey on film.
Where Downhill truly shines, is within the naturalistic approach taken,...
The film explores four old school friends and now middle-aged men, reuniting to embark on a coast to coast walk. Gordon (Richard Lumsden) is the ringleader, bringing together Keith (Karl Theobald), Steve (Jeremy Swift) and Julian (Ned Dennehy) for this arduous, yet enlightening adventure, while his young son documents the entire journey on film.
Where Downhill truly shines, is within the naturalistic approach taken,...
- 27.5.2014
- von Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Up The Women has been commissioned for a second series on BBC Two.
The sitcom is written by and stars Jessica Hynes and also features Rebecca Front.
It will return for six half-hour episodes made by BBC In-House Comedy and Baby Cow Productions.
Hynes said: "I am very pleased that the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Request Women's Suffrage, Biccprws, will continue to convene on the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"Our members are thrilled and our passion for social change through militancy burns brighter than ever."
She added: "We are composing an incendiary pamphlet and designing our very own Biccprws egg cosies to celebrate this momentous occasion. Up The Women!"
BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow, who recommissioned the series, added: "I'm delighted to welcome the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle to BBC Two.
"With brilliant writing from Jessica Hynes and a fabulous cast including Rebecca Front, Judy Parfitt and Adrian Scarborough, Up The Women...
The sitcom is written by and stars Jessica Hynes and also features Rebecca Front.
It will return for six half-hour episodes made by BBC In-House Comedy and Baby Cow Productions.
Hynes said: "I am very pleased that the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Request Women's Suffrage, Biccprws, will continue to convene on the British Broadcasting Corporation.
"Our members are thrilled and our passion for social change through militancy burns brighter than ever."
She added: "We are composing an incendiary pamphlet and designing our very own Biccprws egg cosies to celebrate this momentous occasion. Up The Women!"
BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow, who recommissioned the series, added: "I'm delighted to welcome the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle to BBC Two.
"With brilliant writing from Jessica Hynes and a fabulous cast including Rebecca Front, Judy Parfitt and Adrian Scarborough, Up The Women...
- 12.6.2013
- Digital Spy
British model Agyness Deyn is raising money for charity by signing up as part of a showbiz team to run this year's London Marathon.
The beauty is joining her clothing designer pal Henry Holland, British actress Emma Pierson, and model David Gandy in the 'Oxglam Squad', which aims to raise cash for anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
Deyn is running the 26.4-mile (42.2-kilometer) course with the team, which was put together by fashion photographer Chris Rankin. The marathon takes place on April 17.
She says, "It's going to be fun running the marathon with Henry and the rest of the Oxglam Squad, and it's also great knowing that Oxfam will put the money we raise to such good use." British singer Will Young and The Hoosiers front man Irwin Sparkes have also signed up to take part in the marathon.
The beauty is joining her clothing designer pal Henry Holland, British actress Emma Pierson, and model David Gandy in the 'Oxglam Squad', which aims to raise cash for anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
Deyn is running the 26.4-mile (42.2-kilometer) course with the team, which was put together by fashion photographer Chris Rankin. The marathon takes place on April 17.
She says, "It's going to be fun running the marathon with Henry and the rest of the Oxglam Squad, and it's also great knowing that Oxfam will put the money we raise to such good use." British singer Will Young and The Hoosiers front man Irwin Sparkes have also signed up to take part in the marathon.
- 18.2.2011
- von AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Deyn To Run Marathon
British model Agyness Deyn is raising money for charity by signing up as part of a showbiz team to run this year's London Marathon.
The beauty is joining her clothing designer pal Henry Holland, British actress Emma Pierson, and model David Gandy in the 'Oxglam Squad', which aims to raise cash for anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
Deyn is running the 26.4-mile (42.2-kilometre) course with the team, which was put together by fashion photographer Rankin. The marathon takes place on 17 April.
She says, "It's going to be fun running the marathon with Henry and the rest of the Oxglam Squad, and it's also great knowing that Oxfam will put the money we raise to such good use."
British singer Will Young and The Hoosiers frontman Irwin Sparkes have also signed up to take part in the marathon.
The beauty is joining her clothing designer pal Henry Holland, British actress Emma Pierson, and model David Gandy in the 'Oxglam Squad', which aims to raise cash for anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
Deyn is running the 26.4-mile (42.2-kilometre) course with the team, which was put together by fashion photographer Rankin. The marathon takes place on 17 April.
She says, "It's going to be fun running the marathon with Henry and the rest of the Oxglam Squad, and it's also great knowing that Oxfam will put the money we raise to such good use."
British singer Will Young and The Hoosiers frontman Irwin Sparkes have also signed up to take part in the marathon.
- 17.2.2011
- WENN
A disgruntled Britain’s Got Talent auditionee has taken Simon Cowell to court, after he refused to put her through to the next round of the show.
Emma Czikai’s tried to perform ‘You Raise Me Up’ on the show last year, however only seconds into her first attempt Piers Morgan buzzed and when she started again Simon buzzed after only four words.
Simon, whose company SyCo TV produces the ITV1 show, told her: “It’s a beautiful song – when you’re not singing it. You’ve got a horrible singing voice, Emma.”
But in a move that is sure to shock TV producers all over the UK, the West Midlands woman is making a claim under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, saying her unnamed illness affects her hearing in noisy places, like the audition arena.
She told The Daily Star: “My health and wellbeing have been damaged.”
A Bgt spokeswoman...
Emma Czikai’s tried to perform ‘You Raise Me Up’ on the show last year, however only seconds into her first attempt Piers Morgan buzzed and when she started again Simon buzzed after only four words.
Simon, whose company SyCo TV produces the ITV1 show, told her: “It’s a beautiful song – when you’re not singing it. You’ve got a horrible singing voice, Emma.”
But in a move that is sure to shock TV producers all over the UK, the West Midlands woman is making a claim under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, saying her unnamed illness affects her hearing in noisy places, like the audition arena.
She told The Daily Star: “My health and wellbeing have been damaged.”
A Bgt spokeswoman...
- 31.1.2010
- von Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Simon Cowell considered hiring Emma Pierson for the new series of Britain's Got Talent, he has confirmed. The music mogul wanted the Hotel Babylon actress to join the judging panel alongside Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and himself. Show producers eventually decided to recruit Kelly Brook as a fourth judge, but she was axed after just six days. Speaking to the Daily Star, Cowell explained: "[Emma's] very sexy and talented so I went to meet her in L.A. I (more)...
- 12.4.2009
- von By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
A star-studded cast has been announced for Andrew Davies’s upcoming adaptation of the Dickens novel Little Dorrit.
Newcomer Claire Foy (Being Human) will play the title role of Amy Dorrit in the BBC Drama Productions series, with Tom Courtenay as her father.
Vicar of Dibley star James Fleet and Hotel Babylon's Emma Pierson will be Amy's jovial uncle and flighty elder sister respectively.
The supporting cast includes Amanda Redman, Andy Serkis, Robert Hardy and Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones, while Mackenzie . . .
Newcomer Claire Foy (Being Human) will play the title role of Amy Dorrit in the BBC Drama Productions series, with Tom Courtenay as her father.
Vicar of Dibley star James Fleet and Hotel Babylon's Emma Pierson will be Amy's jovial uncle and flighty elder sister respectively.
The supporting cast includes Amanda Redman, Andy Serkis, Robert Hardy and Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones, while Mackenzie . . .
- 7.5.2008
- von Beth Hilton
- Digital Spy
The Lives of the Saints
LOCARNO -- Be careful what you wish for is a maxim explored smartly by photographer and publisher Rankin and his co-director Chris Cottam in their well measured little fable The Lives of the Saints, set on the criminal streets of northeast London.
When a swift-moving courier known as the Roadrunner (Daon Broni), who delivers everything from drugs to lottery tickets, stumbles over an unwashed and wide-eyed youngster (Sam MacLintock) in the park, the lives of several people start to change in the most unexpected way: Yhey begin to get what they want.
Mixing elements of the supernatural with street crime and aspects of religion, the film, debuting in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, delivers a tidy punch and with the right support it could find an appreciative mainstream audience.
The Roadrunner, whose relentless need to be on the move is given gentle pause by his encounter with the child, drops him off at the home of Othello (David Leon), a slick young man who is prince to the local crime king Mr. Karva (James Cosmo).
While his live-in girlfriend Tina (Emma Pierson) sees the strange boy as just a kid, Othello interprets the youngster's oblique mutterings as words of prophecy. In writing down the unrelated letters the boy utters, he sees the names of the winners of horse and dog races, and is soon making a fortune in gambling.
The boy's gaze appears to entrance a chosen few including a waitress, Christella (Gillian Kearney), and the local priest, Father Daniel Marc Warren). By appearing to unleash their secret desires, the boy seems to prove that he is a benign oracle or, as some believe, an angel.
But with his riches, Othello grows independent of Karva, a colorful brute of a man, who views his own declining fortune with alarm. He seeks the child in order to return life to what he sees as its natural order, with him as its glowering ruler. So he employs Othello's dim sidekick, Emilio (Bronson Webb), to do his dirty work. Karva and Emilio have hidden wishes too, however, and when the child grants them, the results complicate all their lives.
Rankin and Cottam employ Tony Grisoni's economical screenplay to great effect and the acting is outstanding. MacLintock is well cast as the wondrously calm boy with the haunting eyes and Cosmo makes a lively impression as the larger-than-life crime king. The film's humor is sly and inventive as the granted wishes take darkly comic and ultimately deadly turns.
Director of photography Baz Irvine, production designer Mark Digby and editor Chris Gill deserve praise for their contributions to an entertaining film that pleases with its look and pace as much as its content.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS
Dazed Film & TV
Credits:
Directors: Rankin, Chris Cottam
Writer: Tony Grisoni
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith
Executive producer: Augusto Romano
Director of photography: Baz Irvine
Production designer: Mark Digby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Chris Gill.
Cast: Othello: David Leon
The child: Sam MacLintock
Roadrunner: Daon Broni
Mr. Karva: James Cosmo
Tina: Emma Pierson
Emilio: Bronson Webb
Christella: Gillian Kearney
Father Daniel: Marc Warren
Mark Digby: James Holmes
Mad Turk: Peter Rnic
Drunk/Michali: Paddy Fletcher
Granny: Stella Quilley
Maqsood Junior: Raj Ghatak
Maqsood Senior: Reny Senta
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
When a swift-moving courier known as the Roadrunner (Daon Broni), who delivers everything from drugs to lottery tickets, stumbles over an unwashed and wide-eyed youngster (Sam MacLintock) in the park, the lives of several people start to change in the most unexpected way: Yhey begin to get what they want.
Mixing elements of the supernatural with street crime and aspects of religion, the film, debuting in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, delivers a tidy punch and with the right support it could find an appreciative mainstream audience.
The Roadrunner, whose relentless need to be on the move is given gentle pause by his encounter with the child, drops him off at the home of Othello (David Leon), a slick young man who is prince to the local crime king Mr. Karva (James Cosmo).
While his live-in girlfriend Tina (Emma Pierson) sees the strange boy as just a kid, Othello interprets the youngster's oblique mutterings as words of prophecy. In writing down the unrelated letters the boy utters, he sees the names of the winners of horse and dog races, and is soon making a fortune in gambling.
The boy's gaze appears to entrance a chosen few including a waitress, Christella (Gillian Kearney), and the local priest, Father Daniel Marc Warren). By appearing to unleash their secret desires, the boy seems to prove that he is a benign oracle or, as some believe, an angel.
But with his riches, Othello grows independent of Karva, a colorful brute of a man, who views his own declining fortune with alarm. He seeks the child in order to return life to what he sees as its natural order, with him as its glowering ruler. So he employs Othello's dim sidekick, Emilio (Bronson Webb), to do his dirty work. Karva and Emilio have hidden wishes too, however, and when the child grants them, the results complicate all their lives.
Rankin and Cottam employ Tony Grisoni's economical screenplay to great effect and the acting is outstanding. MacLintock is well cast as the wondrously calm boy with the haunting eyes and Cosmo makes a lively impression as the larger-than-life crime king. The film's humor is sly and inventive as the granted wishes take darkly comic and ultimately deadly turns.
Director of photography Baz Irvine, production designer Mark Digby and editor Chris Gill deserve praise for their contributions to an entertaining film that pleases with its look and pace as much as its content.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS
Dazed Film & TV
Credits:
Directors: Rankin, Chris Cottam
Writer: Tony Grisoni
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith
Executive producer: Augusto Romano
Director of photography: Baz Irvine
Production designer: Mark Digby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Chris Gill.
Cast: Othello: David Leon
The child: Sam MacLintock
Roadrunner: Daon Broni
Mr. Karva: James Cosmo
Tina: Emma Pierson
Emilio: Bronson Webb
Christella: Gillian Kearney
Father Daniel: Marc Warren
Mark Digby: James Holmes
Mad Turk: Peter Rnic
Drunk/Michali: Paddy Fletcher
Granny: Stella Quilley
Maqsood Junior: Raj Ghatak
Maqsood Senior: Reny Senta
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
- 7.8.2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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