[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The film is The Last Station written and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the novel The Last Station by Jay Parini Sofya Tolstoy Sofya Tolstoy (or Sophia Tolstaya) is famous primarily for her...
Book Addicts Anonymous (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I finished this last night....I just had to...I only had 40+ pages to read To me the novel is very insightful, knowing what went on several years later. Tolstoy could not have foreseen the revolution. Anna is a "tragic" character, she falls for someone whilst married, in a society that gives everything to the man....whatever. She leaves he husband to set up home with her lover, also...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
“The Last Station” depicts the author Leo Tolstoy’s decline with his wife and combative coterie.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sony Pictures Classics has finally released a trailer for Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, a biopic about Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Described in the promotional material as being a "complex, funny, rich, emotional, and true story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it", the movie stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and is joined...
/Film (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sony Pictures Classics has finally released a trailer for Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, a biopic about Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Described in the promotional material as being a "complex, funny, rich, emotional, and true story about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it", the movie stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and is joined...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The first trailer for a historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things – “The Last Station” has been released. Helen Mirren and James McAvoy | The Last Station Both written and directed by Michael Hoffman, the movie stars Christopher [...]
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 26. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter 25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 24. Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 23. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 22. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 21. Persuasion by Jane Austen Join us at about this time tomorrow for the next stage, which will no doubt involve the numbers 20-11,...
The Star Celeb (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy’s (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!—suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title,...
Foolish Blatherings (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
“The Last Station” is a movie that very few people know about. I mentioned this movie on my most anticipated list a couple of weeks back. The movie is about Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) having a winter crisis when he becomes a veganterian and celibate when Cherktov (Paul Giamatti) convinces him to re-write with will to [...]
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Last Station is a story loosely based on fact that sees a young man dispatched by the powers that be to, under the guise of an assistant to help chronicle the works of Leo Tolstoy, keep an eye on him and his wife, Sofya Tolstoy, during his final years of life. It seems that Tolstoy had become a dichotomy, stranded between his wealth, thirteen children, and a somewhat hedonistic...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A first look into the chaos that happens after Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy decides to abandon his comfortable life and surrenders to poverty and celibacy.
Daemon's Movies (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Check out the trailer for THE LAST STATION starring James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti, and directed by Michael Hoffman. The Last Station Synopsis: After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
EW movie critic Lisa Schwarzbaum dubs Helen Mirren an Oscar contender for her role as Leo Tolstoy’s frustrated wife Sofya, struggling against her husband’s renouncement of wealth and sex, in the adaption of the novel The Last Station. The desperation and determination she conveys in the trailer alone has me concurring. Some performances are like
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Lest anyone worried that Oscar voters would have trouble filling this year's acting categories (and it doesn't seem like The Lovely Bones will be much help!), here comes the trailer for Michael Hoffman's last-minute awards entry, The Last Station , featuring a sexy cast of respected British thespians — including: the 79-year-old, never-nominated Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy (who'll...
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy’s (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!—suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title,...
