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...
“Wuthering Heights” was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. “Jane...
Frances O’Connor’s intimate film Emily tells the story of author Emily Brontë, played by rising actress Emma Mackey, and how she pushed back against society. Frances O’Connor’s Emily, her directorial debut, takes a familiar literary biography and garnishes it with the right kind of creative liberties...
The first-time writer-director shines a light on the troubled life of the ‘Wuthering Heights’ scribe. There’s a very good chance that you’ve crossed paths with the literary legends that are the Brontë sisters at some point during your academic career. Their work is synonymous with required...
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...
Only two minutes into "Emily," a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë's life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy freshly bound volumes of "Wuthering Heights," her only novel and life's achievement. "By Emily Brontë," the cover says. But Brontë fans and even some...
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...
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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Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to “Joyride,” a road-trip comedy starring Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and Charlie Reid. The indie studio will release the film in theaters and on demand on Dec. 23. The picture was directed by Emer Reynolds (“Songs for While I’m Away”) and...
Frances O’Connor’s Emily proved the big hit of the 33rd edition of Dinard Film Festival, the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema, for French audiences that closed on October 2. Emily won the Golden Hitchcock for best film, with Emma Mackey receiving the...
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...