Tom Jolliffe looks back at 20 great performances from the past decade… There have been plenty of legendary performances through the years. Some gain the greatest of acclaim from the off, culminating in Oscar glory. Others hit below the radar, or don’t get the marketing push required for an Oscar run. Award season is in […]
Ten Essential Film4 Films
Tom Jolliffe with ten essential films from Film4… Film4, under the Channel 4 banner, has championed great cinema for nearly 40 years. Whether producing independently or co-producing (often with indie studios or European production houses), there’s a stamp of quality that comes associated with the mark of Film4 (or Channel 4 films). For the most […]
Movie Review – The Father (2020)
The Father, 2020. Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Mark Gatiss and Olivia Williams. SYNOPSIS: Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is living with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell). Their relationship is loving yet sporadically fractious, as the arrival of unfamiliar faces begins to unsettle this delicate […]
Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to star in The Father follow-up The Son
THR is reporting that Florian Zeller is set to follow his Oscar-nominated feature directorial debut The Father with The Son, an adaptation of his own stage play which is part of a trilogy of family-based dramas alongside The Father and The Mother. Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are set to star, while Zeller will script […]
Movie Review – The Father (2020)
The Father, 2020. Directed by Florian Zeller. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Ayesha Dharker. SYNOPSIS: A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind […]
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman star in trailer for The Father
Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for Florian Zeller’s upcoming drama The Father which stars Anthony Hopkins as an aging and highly independent man who refuses all assistance from his daughter (Olivia Colman) until his circumstances change and he begins to doubt his own mind and reality. Check them out here, along with the […]
Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman teaming for The Father
Oscar-winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) have been cast in director Florian Zeller’s upcoming feature debut The Father, THR has revealed. Based on Zeller’s acclaimed stage show, the film will see Hopkins portraying “a mischievous and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his […]
