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Known as a novelist first and foremost, author and debut film-maker Julia Leigh wanted to ask the question, what would it be like to be a ‘sleeping beauty’, after reading two novellas by Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Officially selected at Cannes 2011, Leigh’s film, Sleeping Beauty, is a haunting portrait of Lucy (played [...]
Jane Campion (The Piano, Bright Star) is set to direct a new drama series for BBC Two, titled Top of the Lake. Top of the Lake – which Campion wrote in partnership with Gerard Lee (All Men Are Liars, Sweetie) – focuses on the case of a 12-year-old girl who is discovered standing in a [...]
It’s a slow news day today but to tide us over, The Londonist have posted a great arrangement of photos from the first week of the 53rd London Film Festival. You can view all our coverage and reviews from the festival here. They have photos of Emily Watson, Vera Farmiga, Emma Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Sophie [...]
Bright Star is a visually poetic film from Jane Campion, based on the final years of one of the most celebrated Romantic poets, John Keats, and his relationship with Fanny Brawne. Ben Wishaw follows his leading performance in Perfume as the poet and Australian actress Abbie Cornish as Keats’ muse. Based on Andrew Motion’s biography [...]
