Author: Embankment Films

01 Mar Sony Pictures Classics takes slew of territories for Embankment’s ‘The Miracle Club’ (exclusive)

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all rights in the US, Latin America and across south-east Asia and eastern Europe to The Miracle Club, directed by Irish filmmaker Thaddeus O’Sullivan, starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey. The UK’s Embankment Films is handling...

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25 Feb ‘Golda’ Review: Helen Mirren Channels Golda Meir in a Tense Dramatization of the Yom Kippur War

She brings the prime minister to flinty, vibrant life at a time when Israel faced an existential threat. In “Golda,” Helen Mirren, acting with deft skill and control beneath one of those startling transformative prosthetic makeup jobs, portrays Golda Meir during the three-week cataclysm of the...

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22 Feb Critic’s Pick: ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life

Blending fact with generous, liberating fiction, the director Frances O’Connor brings the author of “Wuthering Heights” to pleasurable life. Recluse, genius, rebel, muse — a multitude of Emily Brontës crowd the cultural imagination. She was kind, cruel, reserved and wild. Her eyes were gray, though sometimes...

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15 Jan Berlin Film Festival Adds Eight Titles To Berlinale Special Lineup Including ‘Golda’ Starring Helen Mirren & Camille Cottin

The Berlin Film Festival today announced eight titles that have been added to its Berlinale Special program. The new crop of films includes Golda, starring Helen Mirren, Camille Cottin, and Liev Schreiber. Directed by Guy Nattiv from a screenplay by Nicholas Martin, the pic follows the...

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16 Sep ‘Emily’ Review: Emma Mackey Breaks Out as the ‘Strangest’ Brontë in Frances O’Connor’s Lovely Debut

The 'Wuthering Heights' author is warmly embraced and gently released by actor-turned-filmmaker O'Connor, in a period drama with a subtly modern sensibility. There are no flirtations with the fourth wall in Frances O’Connor’s “Emily.” There is no synthpop on the soundtrack. No one ranks the relative...

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