Tag: Olivia Colman
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #170. Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters
For her third feature film, Thea Sharrock lassoed powerhouses in Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley along with Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Joanna...
Mothering Sunday | Review
Woman in Love: Husson Mounts Reticent Portrait of Living Life Out Loud
At first glance, Mothering Sunday has all the impeccable furnishings evident in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #66. Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light
Empire of Light
Slightly "downgrading" in budget and no necessarily "scope," Sam Mendes' tenth outing (backed by Searchlight) will employ Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Review
Wain’s World: Sharpe Presents Loving Portrait of an Artist
It’s odd to reflect upon a time when felines weren’t regarded as a stereotypical domesticated fur...
The Father | Review
Bend It Like Beckett: Zellers Adapts His Masterful Play into Exploratory Film
In Paradise Lost, John Milton remarked “The mind is its own place, and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #63. Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday
French director Eva Husson makes her English language debut with the UK production Mothering Sunday, a period piece set in post-WWI England which...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #97. The Father – Florian Zeller
The Father
French playwright Florian Zeller makes his directorial debut in 2020 with UK production The Father (of note, he directed a stage version of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
The Favourite | Review
Courtship at Court: Lanthimos Delights with 18th-century Royal Love Triangle
At Her Majesty Queen Anne’s palace, its a disheveled state of affairs. There’s an ongoing...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #33. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite
The Favourite
Fox Searchlight Pictures already owns the distribution rights for Yorgos Lanthimos’ next feature, The Favourite, which is described as a bawdy tale of...
London Road | Review
The Kindness of Stranglers: Norris Mounts Film Version of Macabre Musical
Those familiar with the infamous 2011 musical London Road should be pleased with this...
The Lobster | Review
Animal Farm: Lanthimos’ Dystopic Dip into RomCom
Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos makes an admirable English language debut with The Lobster, set within an original dystopic...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura
Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #4. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos // Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
With his third feature, 2009's Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos became the forefront of what's coming to...
Cuban Fury | Review
1, 2 Step: Griffiths’ Debut Features Solo Frost in Winning Performance
Though it may not command a notable shelf life in your memory, and even...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #2. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer(s): Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou (both featured in pic above)
Producer(s): Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Lee Magiday & Ed Guiney, Scarlet Films'...
