... accelerated by the difficult relationship she shares with her mother. Meanwhile, sensitive Milo (Sam Riley) attempts to recover from a recent heartache, just as deeply religious Peter (Bernard Hill) arrives in London to search for his missing son, a haunted Gulf War veteran. As the narrative shifts between the real and imaginary worlds, McMorrow explores the complex relationships between...
... starting with Franklyn which has beautiful art direction along great performances by Eva Green and Sam Riley, the hypnotic 24 City / Er Shi Si Cheng Ji (dir: Jia Zhang-ke) which blurs the lines of documentary and fiction and the documentary Act of God from director Jennifer Baichwal which explores peoples personal stories with lightning. I'm also curious about Jim Jarmusch's latest The Limits...
Carey MulliganJohn HurtHelen MirrenPete Postlethwaite and Sam Riley as 'Pinkie' look at that cast. the name of the film they are all making together is 'brighton rock.' the popular and prolific writer graham greene wrote the novel 'brighton rock' in 1938. it is my personal favorite of his many books i have read. in 1947 it was first filmed and that version is really good though very hard...
This NSFW French-language trailer (via TwentyFourBit ) for Joann Sfar's Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life makes us want to see the film. Mainly because Eric Elmosnino seems to inhabit Gainsbourg the way Sam Riley made like Ian Curtis in Control . Also: Nudity.
... I can feel disappointed with Maybury’s Francis Bacon biopic. The paparazzi have been stalking Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough on the set of a new, BBC-backed production of Brighton Rock . The film will also star Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan, the former a past Oscar winner for Blighty, the latter a future one. Here’s a shrunken thumbnail of some snaps, but there’s lots more at CelebMad...
... I can feel disappointed with Maybury’s Francis Bacon biopic. The paparazzi have been stalking Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough on the set of a new, BBC-backed production of Brighton Rock . The film will also star Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan, the former a past Oscar winner for Blighty, the latter a future one. Here’s a shrunken thumbnail of some snaps, but there’s lots more at CelebMad...
... fiction. Next year, as Barnett notes, a film version of On the Road is slated for release with Sam Riley, the actor who played Ian Curtis in the cheerless Joy Division pic Control, cast as Sal Paradise, the roman à clef’s Kerouac.