Author: Zehra Phelan
“You’re were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off” is and will always be Michael Caine’s most iconic line of all time, uttered in the 1969 British Caper The Italian Job. With a career spanning a hefty 64 years between 1953 and 2017, Caine hits our screens yet again this week starring opposite Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin in Going in Style, a remake of the 1979 heist comedy directed by Zach Braff. It tells the story of a trio of retirees who plan to rob a bank after their pensions are cancelled, proving he isn’t quite ready to hang up his acting shoes to start drawing his own pension.
At the tender age of 84 the man previously known as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, now known as Sir Michael Caine after being knighted by the queen in 2000, has starred in a staggering 125 films in his career to date. His...
“You’re were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off” is and will always be Michael Caine’s most iconic line of all time, uttered in the 1969 British Caper The Italian Job. With a career spanning a hefty 64 years between 1953 and 2017, Caine hits our screens yet again this week starring opposite Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin in Going in Style, a remake of the 1979 heist comedy directed by Zach Braff. It tells the story of a trio of retirees who plan to rob a bank after their pensions are cancelled, proving he isn’t quite ready to hang up his acting shoes to start drawing his own pension.
At the tender age of 84 the man previously known as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, now known as Sir Michael Caine after being knighted by the queen in 2000, has starred in a staggering 125 films in his career to date. His...
- 4/5/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With only a few weeks to go until the Berlin Film Festival unspools, much of the competition lineup still remains a mystery. However, today has added some clarity with several titles unveiled. Among them, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest effort. The director, who is under house arrest and a 20-year filmmaking ban, nevertheless manages to get a movie out every couple of years. His last, Closed Curtain, stirred up controversy in Iran when it won the screenwriting prize in Berlin in 2013. This latest film, Taxi, stars the director, although other details were not immediately available.
Also in the mix is the world premiere, out of competition, of Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes, starring Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada and Hattie Morahan. McKellen plays the titular detective as he nears the end of his days and revisits an unsolved case which forced him into retirement.
Werner Herzog...
Also in the mix is the world premiere, out of competition, of Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes, starring Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada and Hattie Morahan. McKellen plays the titular detective as he nears the end of his days and revisits an unsolved case which forced him into retirement.
Werner Herzog...
- 1/14/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson, added to Berlinale competition line-up; Mr. Holmes, starring Ian McKellen as an aged Sherlock, to play out of competition.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has added a further eight titles to its Competition programme, ahead of the complete line-up next week.
The films, which originate from across Europe, Asia, the Us and the Middle East, include the world premiere of Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog’s biopic based on the life of British explorer Gertrude Bell.
Nicole Kidman plays the 19th century explorer, known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, and her co-stars include James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson (as Te Lawrence).
Berlinale 2015: new Competition films
Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere
Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany...
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has added a further eight titles to its Competition programme, ahead of the complete line-up next week.
The films, which originate from across Europe, Asia, the Us and the Middle East, include the world premiere of Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog’s biopic based on the life of British explorer Gertrude Bell.
Nicole Kidman plays the 19th century explorer, known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, and her co-stars include James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson (as Te Lawrence).
Berlinale 2015: new Competition films
Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere
Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany...
- 1/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sebastian Schipper, Werner Herzog, Benoit Jacquot and Further Titles Added to the Selection
Another eight films have been selected for the Competition Programme of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
The productions are from the following countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong/China, Iran, the People’s Republic of China, Poland, the USA, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.
Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere
Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany / Netherlands
By Di Phan Dang (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid)
With Do Thi Hai Yen, Le Cong Hoang, Truong The Vinh
World premiere
Journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)
France / Belgium
By Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen; Three Hearts)
With Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Lacoste
World premiere
Mr. Holmes
United Kingdom
By Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate)
With...
Another eight films have been selected for the Competition Programme of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
The productions are from the following countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong/China, Iran, the People’s Republic of China, Poland, the USA, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.
Body
Poland
By Malgorzata Szumowska (Stranger, Elles, In the Name of)
With Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala
World premiere
Cha và con và (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
Vietnam / France / Germany / Netherlands
By Di Phan Dang (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid)
With Do Thi Hai Yen, Le Cong Hoang, Truong The Vinh
World premiere
Journal d’une femme de chambre (Diary of a Chambermaid)
France / Belgium
By Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen; Three Hearts)
With Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Lacoste
World premiere
Mr. Holmes
United Kingdom
By Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate)
With...
- 1/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Actress Hai Yen - internationally known for The Quiet American and Adrift - will return to the big screen in the new movie by auteur director Phan Dang Di, Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories. The second film directed by Phan Dang Di after Bi, Don't Be Afraid, this project will feature Do Thi Hai Yen as both the leading actress and producer.The latest project by Phan Dang Di tells the story about some young men trying to scrape out a living on Saigon's mean streets - so desperate that they will allow themselves to be sterilized for cash.On July 2, the World Cinema Fund (Wcf) of the Berlin International Film Festival (Germany) announced the four film projects that are funded by Wcf in 2013, including...
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- 7/29/2013
- Screen Anarchy
DVD Release Date: Jan. 31, 2012
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Do Hai Yen (l) and Linh-Dan Pham experience a sexual awakening in Adrift.
The 2009 erotic drama Adrift, a portrait of adultery and sexual awakening in contemporary Hanoi, is the second feature film by Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen.
After her wedding, newlywed Duyen’s (Do Hai Yen) excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve, but overly occupied by his job and mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, Duyen reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam (Linh-Dan Pham), who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor (Johnny Tri Nguyen). The resulting sexual awakening and infidelity thrusts Duyen into a precarious and dangerous love triangle.
The winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, Adrift (or Choi Voi...
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Global Film Initiative
Do Hai Yen (l) and Linh-Dan Pham experience a sexual awakening in Adrift.
The 2009 erotic drama Adrift, a portrait of adultery and sexual awakening in contemporary Hanoi, is the second feature film by Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen.
After her wedding, newlywed Duyen’s (Do Hai Yen) excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve, but overly occupied by his job and mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, Duyen reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam (Linh-Dan Pham), who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor (Johnny Tri Nguyen). The resulting sexual awakening and infidelity thrusts Duyen into a precarious and dangerous love triangle.
The winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, Adrift (or Choi Voi...
- 2/2/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Perhaps we require roles like Thomas Fowler’s to be played by veteran actors; we have to be able to read the murky past all over his face. He is an aging journalist stationed in ’50s Vietnam during the First Indochina War. He has been around too long and is too weary to have any ideals left; they’ve been replaced by cynicism and uncertainty. He understands the problems in Vietnam, but he doesn’t pretend to have a solution; he probably knows the counter-argument to everything one could put forward. He is married to a woman in England who will not give him a divorce; he is in love with a twenty-year-old Vietnamese girl. If he keeps pursuing stories in Vietnam, his paper won’t recall him to London, and he’ll be able to stay with her.
In Phillip Noyce’s 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, Fowler is played by Michael Caine.
In Phillip Noyce’s 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, Fowler is played by Michael Caine.
- 9/20/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Director Chuyên Bui Thac presents a lush, sensual and drewy film about emerging sensuality in Adrift. The film is reminiscent of Tr?n Anh Hùng's classic Scent of Green Papaya. But Hùng's story is about old Vietnam, it's old ways and old traditions. Thac's Adrift looks squarely at the beginning of the transformation of a woman from a artless innocent to awakened woman in modern Hanoi. Duyen (Do Thi Hai Yen) and Hai (Nguyen Duy Khoa) are newlyweds, but they seem more like siblings that husband and wife. The early scenes of Duyen and Hai are fill with...
- 10/8/2010
- by Pamela Alexander-Beutler, SF Movies Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
When The Quiet American, Graham Greene's tale of political intrigue and waning colonialism in French Indochina, was made into a film in 1958 by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, much of the novel's political insights and "ugly Americanism" were eliminated. Before U.S. involvement in Vietnam, there was little point. A new version by director Phillip Noyce, more than a quarter-century after the fall of Saigon, restores the political context, but it's nearly as pointless. Years of movies, books, memoirs and TV shows about the war have made Greene's revelations about U.S. subterfuge in that country during the 1950s yesteryear's news.
Michael Caine delivers a tone-perfect performance as the story's narrator, a cynical and aloof British reporter grown accustomed to the privileges of a colonial lifestyle. Brendan Fraser achieves the creepy self-righteousness of the title character but not quite his stunning political naivete. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle and designer Roger Ford marvelously evoke the decadent pleasures of a decaying, sensual Saigon where boozing and whoring can obliterate the existence of jungle warfare. But the film feels dated both in its message and style.
Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan's script follows Greene's story to the letter. Indeed, the book itself feels like a novelization of a screenplay with its swiftly delineated characters, set pieces and exotic milieu. Caine's Thomas Fowler is one of Greene's Englishmen gone soft in a dangerous tropical clime. His cozy life gets upset by the arrival of Fraser's idealistic and, initially, fawning American, an aid worker who wants to do good and save people in the Third World.
Trouble is, one of the people Alden Pyle most wants to save is Phuong (Hai Yen Do), an ethereal beauty who is Fowler's mistress. On top of this sexual rivalry, the Times wants to recall the indolent Fowler to London. This energizes his journalism, if only to stave off the recall and continue his opium-induced existence. But an investigation into corruption and massacres in the field leads him to the revelation that Pyle is not as "quiet" as he lets on.
Noyce paces the film well and makes good use of his Vietnam locations, but the script does not strengthen the thin narration nor deepen the superficial characterizations that plague the novel. This is essentially a three-character melodrama with a colorful wartime backdrop.
THE QUIET AMERICAN
Miramax Films
Intermedia Film Equities USA/Mirage Enterprises/Saga Pictures
Credits:
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan
Based on the novel by: Graham Greene
Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, William Horberg
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Chris Sievernich, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer: Roger Ford
Music: Craig Armstrong
Editor: John Scott
Cast:
Thomas Fowler: Michael Caine
Alden Pyle: Brendan Fraser
Phuong: Hai Yen Do
Inspector: Rade Serbedzija
Hinh: Tzi Ma
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Michael Caine delivers a tone-perfect performance as the story's narrator, a cynical and aloof British reporter grown accustomed to the privileges of a colonial lifestyle. Brendan Fraser achieves the creepy self-righteousness of the title character but not quite his stunning political naivete. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle and designer Roger Ford marvelously evoke the decadent pleasures of a decaying, sensual Saigon where boozing and whoring can obliterate the existence of jungle warfare. But the film feels dated both in its message and style.
Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan's script follows Greene's story to the letter. Indeed, the book itself feels like a novelization of a screenplay with its swiftly delineated characters, set pieces and exotic milieu. Caine's Thomas Fowler is one of Greene's Englishmen gone soft in a dangerous tropical clime. His cozy life gets upset by the arrival of Fraser's idealistic and, initially, fawning American, an aid worker who wants to do good and save people in the Third World.
Trouble is, one of the people Alden Pyle most wants to save is Phuong (Hai Yen Do), an ethereal beauty who is Fowler's mistress. On top of this sexual rivalry, the Times wants to recall the indolent Fowler to London. This energizes his journalism, if only to stave off the recall and continue his opium-induced existence. But an investigation into corruption and massacres in the field leads him to the revelation that Pyle is not as "quiet" as he lets on.
Noyce paces the film well and makes good use of his Vietnam locations, but the script does not strengthen the thin narration nor deepen the superficial characterizations that plague the novel. This is essentially a three-character melodrama with a colorful wartime backdrop.
THE QUIET AMERICAN
Miramax Films
Intermedia Film Equities USA/Mirage Enterprises/Saga Pictures
Credits:
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan
Based on the novel by: Graham Greene
Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, William Horberg
Executive producers: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Chris Sievernich, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer: Roger Ford
Music: Craig Armstrong
Editor: John Scott
Cast:
Thomas Fowler: Michael Caine
Alden Pyle: Brendan Fraser
Phuong: Hai Yen Do
Inspector: Rade Serbedzija
Hinh: Tzi Ma
Running time -- 101 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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