John Hurt in ‘Sailcloth.’
“Sailcloth” is one of the live action short films selected for this year’s Oscar shortlist, that stars British actor John Hurt as a man who decides one day to leave his nursing home with his belongings, and take to the sea.
The 17-minute short, directed by newcomer Elfar Adalsteins, was filmed for five days in St. Mawes, Cornwall. In the film, Hurt doesn’t speak. The only interaction he has with another person is a...
“Sailcloth” is one of the live action short films selected for this year’s Oscar shortlist, that stars British actor John Hurt as a man who decides one day to leave his nursing home with his belongings, and take to the sea.
The 17-minute short, directed by newcomer Elfar Adalsteins, was filmed for five days in St. Mawes, Cornwall. In the film, Hurt doesn’t speak. The only interaction he has with another person is a...
- 12/18/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Darren Criss, it seems, did not step too deeply into that famed "puddle of HIV."
Bret Easton Ellis, famed author of such happy tomes as "American Psycho," went on a widely-read Twitter rant back in April in which he dissed everyone's favorite high school musical dramedy. "I like the idea of 'Glee' but why is it that every time I watch an episode I feel like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV?" he wrote.
That drew the scathing criticism and protective claws of Gleeks the world round (and, probably, HIV advocates), leading him to tweet two days later, "Okay, okay, I get it, I get it. I'll stop riffing on H.I.Glee and tweet about how boring the collected stories of William Trevor are. Happy?"
On Sunday, Easton Ellis returned to the subject of the show, but for a very different reason.
"Whatever my problems with...
Bret Easton Ellis, famed author of such happy tomes as "American Psycho," went on a widely-read Twitter rant back in April in which he dissed everyone's favorite high school musical dramedy. "I like the idea of 'Glee' but why is it that every time I watch an episode I feel like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV?" he wrote.
That drew the scathing criticism and protective claws of Gleeks the world round (and, probably, HIV advocates), leading him to tweet two days later, "Okay, okay, I get it, I get it. I'll stop riffing on H.I.Glee and tweet about how boring the collected stories of William Trevor are. Happy?"
On Sunday, Easton Ellis returned to the subject of the show, but for a very different reason.
"Whatever my problems with...
- 8/23/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
'That means the show is good if people have not-nice things to say,' the actor said regarding author Bret Easton Ellis' divisive tweets.
By Jocelyn Vena
Matthew Morrison
Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images
Last week, novelist Bret Easton Ellis made headlines when he posted some disparaging comments about "Glee" on Twitter. The "Rules of Attraction" author wrote, "I like the idea of Glee but why is it that every time I watch an episode I feel like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV?"
He soon followed up his comments by tweeting, "No, I wasn't drunk last night. I was watching Chris Colfer singing, um, 'Le Jazz Hot' and felt like I had suddenly come down with the hivs." The writer added a few days later, "Okay, okay, I get it, I get it. I'll stop riffing on H.I.Glee and tweet about how boring the collected stories of [Irish author/playwright] William Trevor are.
By Jocelyn Vena
Matthew Morrison
Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images
Last week, novelist Bret Easton Ellis made headlines when he posted some disparaging comments about "Glee" on Twitter. The "Rules of Attraction" author wrote, "I like the idea of Glee but why is it that every time I watch an episode I feel like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV?"
He soon followed up his comments by tweeting, "No, I wasn't drunk last night. I was watching Chris Colfer singing, um, 'Le Jazz Hot' and felt like I had suddenly come down with the hivs." The writer added a few days later, "Okay, okay, I get it, I get it. I'll stop riffing on H.I.Glee and tweet about how boring the collected stories of [Irish author/playwright] William Trevor are.
- 4/18/2011
- MTV Music News
American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis has continued his criticism of Glee after likening the series to "a puddle of HIV" earlier this week. The author, whose first literary hit was 1985's Less Than Zero, posted a message on his official Twitter page on Tuesday wherein he mocked the hit show. He wrote: "I like the idea of Glee but why is it that every time I watch an episode I feel like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV?" Ellis has now responded to rebukes from Twitter followers - including users branding his remarks as "incredibly offensive" and "disgusting" - by referring to the show as "H.I.Glee", before claiming that he'll spend his time commenting on the works of Irish playwright William Trevor. "Okay, (more)...
- 4/15/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Alice Munro wrote a short story once called “Deep Holes,” and it’s as fitting a title as any when one considers her body of work. Munro has made a career out of writing the same short story over and over again, but because that story is shot through with an incredible amount of depth, with endless bottoms of nuance and complexity and minor shifts and adjustments each time, it constantly amazes. Jonathan Franzen (who himself rewrote his 2001 classic novel The Corrections as the even better Freedom), reviewing Munro’s 2004 collection Runaway, nailed it:
I like stories because it takes the best kind of talent to invent fresh characters and situations while telling the same story over and over. All fiction writers suffer from the condition of having nothing new to say, but story writers are the ones most abjectly prone to this condition. There is, again, no hiding. The craftiest old dogs,...
I like stories because it takes the best kind of talent to invent fresh characters and situations while telling the same story over and over. All fiction writers suffer from the condition of having nothing new to say, but story writers are the ones most abjectly prone to this condition. There is, again, no hiding. The craftiest old dogs,...
- 2/14/2011
- by Zachary Wigon
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Tina Brown, Peter Beinart, John Avlon, Michelle Goldberg, and other Daily Beast writers and contributors pick their favorite books of 2010.
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
Tina Brown
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
It takes a daring biographer to turn her sharp eye on her own life as Antonia Fraser does so movingly and beautifully in her memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. It's a compelling diary of a passionate love affair, marriage, and 40-year conversation of two soul mates in the milieu of London's chattering classes.
Harvard superstar professor Niall Ferguson wrote a superb book, High Financier, that I hope every Wall Street banker is receiving along with their fat bonus checks because Siegmund Warburg was a banker with style, integrity, and a serious intellect-rare qualities these days.
Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is one of the most important books of the last...
- 12/18/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
A chance to speak face to face, and at length, with Atom Egoyan, was both intoxicating and liberating offering the chance for rich dialogue but passing by all too quickly. Seldom have I spoken to filmmaker who seemed this invested in the hearts and minds of his characters and audience. And seldom have a felt more frustrated not to have more time. This in spite of a full half an hour with the man. Gregarious, thoughtful and genuinely interested in his work he also manages to evoke that passion with a peace that speaks directly to the heart of his work.
Dave: You know, when I first started writing about film I was accidently sent a copy of Felicia's Journey by Lionsgate and I fell completely in love with it. It was one of the big reasons I pursued this interview so aggressively. The film had a point of view...
Dave: You know, when I first started writing about film I was accidently sent a copy of Felicia's Journey by Lionsgate and I fell completely in love with it. It was one of the big reasons I pursued this interview so aggressively. The film had a point of view...
- 3/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cannes Film review: 'Felicia's Journey'
Not as original or compelling a film as his 1997 prize-winner "The Sweet Hereafter", Atom Egoyan's latest Cannes contender is still a well-crafted, superbly acted work of restrained horror as a young Irish woman on a sad quest is helped and then threatened by a sinister Englishman played brilliantly by Bob Hoskins.
An upcoming Artisan Entertainment release domestically, "Felicia's Journey" was greeted enthusiastically by the press in general, but with such big expectations -- and with the 1994 source novel by William Trevor widely admired -- the critical reception will be mixed and it's doubtful the movie will go far commercially.
Expect Egoyan to take flack in some circles for making key alterations to the book, such as in the character of Hoskins' mother and the truncated final coda, but the film is nonetheless satisfying. Indeed, such an unsensationalistic take on a grim subject, with no violent scenes and a repressively evil lead, calls for the biggest effort on Hoskins' part and the actor comes through with one of his best efforts.
With perhaps too much emphasis on portly caterer Hilditch (Hoskins), a congenial chap to his employees but living alone in his family home/museum, Egoyan dilutes a great deal one's sympathies for pregnant, lovesick Felicia, although Elaine Cassidy ("The Sun, The Moon and The Stars") is just fine in the role.
Daughter of a Republican (Gerard McSorely) who curses her for sleeping with a local boy turned British soldier (Peter McDonald), Felicia is naive but determined to find her lover. She travels on her own from Ireland to the English midlands where she believes he's gone to work in a lawnmower factory.
In a ploy that brings some crowd-pleasing laughs to the otherwise uneasy atmosphere, Egoyan has mild-mannered Hilditch cook gourmet meals with the help of videotapes of his TV chef mother (Arsinee Khanjian). With a horrid French accent, she even employs the youngster in her shows, but these preserved moments are not always pleasant for Hilditch, a serial befriender of needy girls on the road.
He is also a lonely planter of corpses in his backyard, as becomes apparent. Hilditch has more tapes in his collection -- of his past victims -- which provide some of the usual half-dozen narrative threads that Egoyan cuts between in his trademark non-linear style. But more often than not, Egoyan is more literal than he's been in the past and the results are less complex characters and motivations and more predictable cinematic flourishes than in his best works.
The scenes in Ireland with pre-journey Felicia cooing over her handsome beau and then getting the cold shoulder from his mother (Brid Brennan) are more expedient than evocative. Likewise the interlude where Felicia seeks shelter with a Christian mission headed by Jamaican zealot Miss Calligary (Claire Benedict) does not contribute much until the somewhat botched climax.
Paul Sarossy's widescreen cinematography is striking and the sound work is superb, but Mychael Danna's score is often oppressive and the use of songs by Malcolm Vaughn and Kate Bush is disappointingly mundane.
FELICIA'S JOURNEY
Artisan Entertainment
An Icon production
In association with Alliance Atlantis Pictures
CREDITS:
Writer-director:Atom Egoyan
Producer:Bruce Davey
Executive producers:Paul Tucker, Ralph Kamp
Director of photography:Paul Sarossy
Production designer:Jim Clay
Editor:Susan Shipton
Music:Mychael Danna
Costume designer:Sandy Powell
Color/stereo
CAST:
Hilditch:Bob Hoskins
Felicia:Elaine Cassidy
Johnny Lysaght:Peter McDonald
Gala:Arsinee Khanjian
Felicia's Father:Gerard McSorley
Mrs. Lysaght:Brid Brennan
Miss Calligary:Claire Benedict
Running time:114 minutes...
An upcoming Artisan Entertainment release domestically, "Felicia's Journey" was greeted enthusiastically by the press in general, but with such big expectations -- and with the 1994 source novel by William Trevor widely admired -- the critical reception will be mixed and it's doubtful the movie will go far commercially.
Expect Egoyan to take flack in some circles for making key alterations to the book, such as in the character of Hoskins' mother and the truncated final coda, but the film is nonetheless satisfying. Indeed, such an unsensationalistic take on a grim subject, with no violent scenes and a repressively evil lead, calls for the biggest effort on Hoskins' part and the actor comes through with one of his best efforts.
With perhaps too much emphasis on portly caterer Hilditch (Hoskins), a congenial chap to his employees but living alone in his family home/museum, Egoyan dilutes a great deal one's sympathies for pregnant, lovesick Felicia, although Elaine Cassidy ("The Sun, The Moon and The Stars") is just fine in the role.
Daughter of a Republican (Gerard McSorely) who curses her for sleeping with a local boy turned British soldier (Peter McDonald), Felicia is naive but determined to find her lover. She travels on her own from Ireland to the English midlands where she believes he's gone to work in a lawnmower factory.
In a ploy that brings some crowd-pleasing laughs to the otherwise uneasy atmosphere, Egoyan has mild-mannered Hilditch cook gourmet meals with the help of videotapes of his TV chef mother (Arsinee Khanjian). With a horrid French accent, she even employs the youngster in her shows, but these preserved moments are not always pleasant for Hilditch, a serial befriender of needy girls on the road.
He is also a lonely planter of corpses in his backyard, as becomes apparent. Hilditch has more tapes in his collection -- of his past victims -- which provide some of the usual half-dozen narrative threads that Egoyan cuts between in his trademark non-linear style. But more often than not, Egoyan is more literal than he's been in the past and the results are less complex characters and motivations and more predictable cinematic flourishes than in his best works.
The scenes in Ireland with pre-journey Felicia cooing over her handsome beau and then getting the cold shoulder from his mother (Brid Brennan) are more expedient than evocative. Likewise the interlude where Felicia seeks shelter with a Christian mission headed by Jamaican zealot Miss Calligary (Claire Benedict) does not contribute much until the somewhat botched climax.
Paul Sarossy's widescreen cinematography is striking and the sound work is superb, but Mychael Danna's score is often oppressive and the use of songs by Malcolm Vaughn and Kate Bush is disappointingly mundane.
FELICIA'S JOURNEY
Artisan Entertainment
An Icon production
In association with Alliance Atlantis Pictures
CREDITS:
Writer-director:Atom Egoyan
Producer:Bruce Davey
Executive producers:Paul Tucker, Ralph Kamp
Director of photography:Paul Sarossy
Production designer:Jim Clay
Editor:Susan Shipton
Music:Mychael Danna
Costume designer:Sandy Powell
Color/stereo
CAST:
Hilditch:Bob Hoskins
Felicia:Elaine Cassidy
Johnny Lysaght:Peter McDonald
Gala:Arsinee Khanjian
Felicia's Father:Gerard McSorley
Mrs. Lysaght:Brid Brennan
Miss Calligary:Claire Benedict
Running time:114 minutes...
- 5/18/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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