Brian Helgeland's 2001 film "A Knight's Tale" is based on the first of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, but it has as much to do with 14th-century medieval literature as "Wayne's World." The film features characters singing Queen songs and one of the characters invents the Nike "swoop" as a brand for her armor. The story involves William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) a handsome young cove who aims to win jousting tournaments and be welcomed as one of the king's knights. It's a raucous, lightweight, silly movie that is deeply beloved by a very specific age group, that is: those who were between 15 and 17 in May of 2001.
It also depicted Ledger at the height of his heartthrob powers, as well as Paul Bettany (as Chaucer), Rufus Sewell as the villain, Shannyn Sossamon as Ledger's would-be paramour, and a trio of brilliant comedian sidekicks in Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, and Alan Tudyk.
It also depicted Ledger at the height of his heartthrob powers, as well as Paul Bettany (as Chaucer), Rufus Sewell as the villain, Shannyn Sossamon as Ledger's would-be paramour, and a trio of brilliant comedian sidekicks in Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, and Alan Tudyk.
- 4/23/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Medieval movies have long captivated audiences with their tales of heroism, chivalry, and epic battles. Yet, some films stand out for their unique approaches, redefining the genre by infusing modern sensibilities, profound themes, or satirical humor into the traditional medieval backdrop. Let’s embark on a journey through seven exceptional films that have reshaped our understanding and appreciation of the medieval movie genre. A Knight’s Tale Blends Modern Vibes with Medieval Times In A Knight’s Tale (2001), director Brian Helgeland takes a bold leap by integrating rock music into a 14th-century setting. This anachronistic choice, alongside the portrayal of Geoffrey Chaucer...
- 2/21/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
This article contains major spoilers for "May December."
As far back as the Middle Ages, springtime months were frequently depicted in literature as young women, while the later, winter months as old men. The great Geoffrey Chaucer even included a couple in "The Canterbury Tales" named Miss May and Mr. January who were depicted as a young woman and a graying old man. This was written before the Gregorian calendar was accepted which established December as the last month of the year, so updated versions often change his name to "Mr. December." And thus, the expression "May December" was born, a shorthand expression to indicate a large age gap between romantic couples. This is the source of the title of Todd Haynes' latest film, "May December," a delicious melodrama about humanity and boundaries inspired by the real-life scandal and subsequent marriage of 34-year-old Mary Kay Letourneau and her 12-year-old student,...
As far back as the Middle Ages, springtime months were frequently depicted in literature as young women, while the later, winter months as old men. The great Geoffrey Chaucer even included a couple in "The Canterbury Tales" named Miss May and Mr. January who were depicted as a young woman and a graying old man. This was written before the Gregorian calendar was accepted which established December as the last month of the year, so updated versions often change his name to "Mr. December." And thus, the expression "May December" was born, a shorthand expression to indicate a large age gap between romantic couples. This is the source of the title of Todd Haynes' latest film, "May December," a delicious melodrama about humanity and boundaries inspired by the real-life scandal and subsequent marriage of 34-year-old Mary Kay Letourneau and her 12-year-old student,...
- 12/1/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
It felt good didn’t it? Watching a fantasy film where folks could crack a smile and actually enjoy their adventure. There was certainly danger and monsters in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves—not to mention the roleplaying tabletop game’s namesakes!—but that didn’t mean you couldn’t enjoy the ride.
In the last 20 years, fantasy has largely come to take itself exceedingly seriously where the fate of kingdoms or the entire world often hangs in the balance, and the central heroes who may start merry end the story broken, traumatized, and in a few instances ready to murder their homicidal lover… who is also their aunt.
This past weekend’s winsome D&d movie did away with all that, instead favoring some good old-fashioned romping to go along with a pure cut of high fantasy. If you enjoyed the experience, here are some other fantasy movies we recommend to continue the fun.
In the last 20 years, fantasy has largely come to take itself exceedingly seriously where the fate of kingdoms or the entire world often hangs in the balance, and the central heroes who may start merry end the story broken, traumatized, and in a few instances ready to murder their homicidal lover… who is also their aunt.
This past weekend’s winsome D&d movie did away with all that, instead favoring some good old-fashioned romping to go along with a pure cut of high fantasy. If you enjoyed the experience, here are some other fantasy movies we recommend to continue the fun.
- 4/3/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
A&m/UMe celebrates the 30th-anniversary of Sting’s fourth solo album, Ten Summoner’s Tales, with a digital-only Expanded Edition released today. Originally released on March 1, 1993, the album title is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek mashup of the artist’s given surname, Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 15th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales, the summoner.
The 27-track Expanded Edition features the original 12-song Ten Summoner’s Tales album plus 15 bonus tracks consisting of B-sides, remixes, alternate versions, and live performances (complete track listing included below). Eleven of these 15 bonus tracks were previously unavailable for digital download or streaming. Mixed by 4-time Grammy Award winning Robert “Hitmixer” Orton, the album is also available in Dolby Atmos. Listen to or purchase Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales – Expanded Edition Here.
Pivoting from the deeply personal sense of loss that permeated Sting’s platinum solo album The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner...
The 27-track Expanded Edition features the original 12-song Ten Summoner’s Tales album plus 15 bonus tracks consisting of B-sides, remixes, alternate versions, and live performances (complete track listing included below). Eleven of these 15 bonus tracks were previously unavailable for digital download or streaming. Mixed by 4-time Grammy Award winning Robert “Hitmixer” Orton, the album is also available in Dolby Atmos. Listen to or purchase Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales – Expanded Edition Here.
Pivoting from the deeply personal sense of loss that permeated Sting’s platinum solo album The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner...
- 2/26/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Aside from being a rollicking, romantic romp, The Mummy (1999) has carved out an iconic place among movie lovers for what Tor.com’s Leah Schnelbach describes as its chaotic bisexual energy. Here is a movie with an ensemble cast whose combined hotness, sheer charisma, and bucking of gender and societal norms make it so that anyone can see themselves in a variety of characters—and perhaps make some breakthroughs in realizing who they’re attracted to.
As Maggie Tokuda-Hall summed up, “Hot people being horny on main; campy violence; himbos.” But while The Mummy is a unique modern classic, it’s not the only one to spark a bisexual awakening among fans: May I present its equally chaotic bisexual contemporary, Brian Helgeland’s delightful 2001 film, A Knight’s Tale.
Layering medieval anachronism over the familiar beats of a sports narrative, only with jousting replacing football or baseball, A Knight’s Tale succeeds...
As Maggie Tokuda-Hall summed up, “Hot people being horny on main; campy violence; himbos.” But while The Mummy is a unique modern classic, it’s not the only one to spark a bisexual awakening among fans: May I present its equally chaotic bisexual contemporary, Brian Helgeland’s delightful 2001 film, A Knight’s Tale.
Layering medieval anachronism over the familiar beats of a sports narrative, only with jousting replacing football or baseball, A Knight’s Tale succeeds...
- 9/9/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Summer is almost over. You can feel it as the days are getting longer. You can smell it as the air gets a little cooler and that first bit of foliage starts to fall. While the heat is still raging in large swaths of the U.S. (which this streaming list has been composed for), the truth is things are starting to quiet down.
In that vein, it’s a perfect time to curl up with someone and “Netflix and chill” as the kids might say. It’s also just a good time to revisit some old favorites, which Netflix is bringing back to the streaming service in droves. Here are the best of those gems.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
September 1
Hardly a movie for the faint of heart—this is the type of picture that the term “trigger warning” should’ve been invented for—Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange...
In that vein, it’s a perfect time to curl up with someone and “Netflix and chill” as the kids might say. It’s also just a good time to revisit some old favorites, which Netflix is bringing back to the streaming service in droves. Here are the best of those gems.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
September 1
Hardly a movie for the faint of heart—this is the type of picture that the term “trigger warning” should’ve been invented for—Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange...
- 9/1/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" was the first of 24 stories featured in his 1400 anthology "The Canterbury Tales," originally written in Middle English to the chagrin of frustrated literature majors the world over. The premise of Chaucer's work is that a group of pilgrims, all from different walks of life, would take turns telling stories while they traveled from London to Canterbury to visit a shrine to Thomas Becket. Whoever tells the best story will win a free meal at a posh inn on the way back. "The Knight's Tale" is about two knights, best friends, who are arrested and put...
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- 7/18/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
After the events of "Avengers: Endgame," Paul Bettany went from being the little voice in Tony Stark's head to becoming a full-fledged superhero of his own as Vision. But before the actor debuted as J.A.R.V.I.S. in "Iron Man," he'd already spent a good chunk of his career playing already an eccentric bunch of characters. He appeared as a young Geoffrey Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale" and as a convincing figment of John Nash's imagination in "A Beautiful Mind." He even reunited again with Russell Crowe for "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," where Bettany starred as a...
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- 5/6/2022
- by Steven Ward
- Slash Film
As Italy marks the centennial of Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s birth with a series of special events, the Academy Museum is honoring the influential film director, poet, writer and intellectual, whose 1975 murder remains a mystery, with a complete retrospective.
Titled “Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini,” the Los Angeles tribute in the Academy’s Renzo Piano designed temple of cinema opened Feb. 17 with Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti on hand.
Ferretti, in a moving tribute, said he owed his career to Pasolini, having worked on nine of his films, starting with Pasolini’s first work “The Gospel According to Matthew” and ending with his incendiary condemnation of the Italian upper classes “Salò – or the 120 Days of Sodom,” released in Italy just a few weeks after Pasolini’s murder on Nov. 2, 1975, at age 53, in the seaside town of Ostia outside Rome.
The Academy’s complete retro of Pasolini’s...
Titled “Carnal Knowledge: The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini,” the Los Angeles tribute in the Academy’s Renzo Piano designed temple of cinema opened Feb. 17 with Oscar-winning production designer Dante Ferretti on hand.
Ferretti, in a moving tribute, said he owed his career to Pasolini, having worked on nine of his films, starting with Pasolini’s first work “The Gospel According to Matthew” and ending with his incendiary condemnation of the Italian upper classes “Salò – or the 120 Days of Sodom,” released in Italy just a few weeks after Pasolini’s murder on Nov. 2, 1975, at age 53, in the seaside town of Ostia outside Rome.
The Academy’s complete retro of Pasolini’s...
- 2/24/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
It's been 20 years since the release of Legally Blonde, and we're still learning how the pretty much perfect cast came together. In a July 8 oral history of the film by The New York Times, casting director Joseph Middleton and screenwriter Karen McCullah discussed the different actors that were almost cast in the now-iconic roles; including WandaVision's Paul Bettany. "I loved Paul Bettany for the Luke [Wilson] role, but he was British, and they felt like it needed to be a real American," Middleton said of the Marvel star.
Even though Bettany was considered for the role, it seems that Luke Wilson was always destined to be Emmett. "We always called [the love interest Emmett] 'the Luke Wilson character' while we were writing it," McCullah added. "They saw some other actors, and finally Joseph was like, 'Maybe we should get Luke to play the Luke Wilson character.' I was like, 'You think?'" And the rest is history.
Even though Bettany was considered for the role, it seems that Luke Wilson was always destined to be Emmett. "We always called [the love interest Emmett] 'the Luke Wilson character' while we were writing it," McCullah added. "They saw some other actors, and finally Joseph was like, 'Maybe we should get Luke to play the Luke Wilson character.' I was like, 'You think?'" And the rest is history.
- 7/10/2021
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
Bengaluru, June 3 (Ians) Facing a controversy after a Google Search with the keywords "ugliest language in India" showed "Kannada" in the results, Google India said on Thursday that it is not the reflection of the company, as it apologised for misunderstanding and hurting any sentiments.
The Search result sparked an outrage among the netizens earlier in the day, with the Karnataka government threatening to issue a legal notice to the company.
"Search isn't always perfect. Sometimes, the way content is described on the Internet can yield surprising results to specific queries," a Google India spokesperson told Ians in a statement.
"We know this is not ideal, but we take swift corrective action when we are made aware of an issue and are continually working to improve our algorithms. Naturally, these are not reflective of the opinions of Google, and we apologise for the misunderstanding and hurting any sentiments," the company spokesperson added.
The Search result sparked an outrage among the netizens earlier in the day, with the Karnataka government threatening to issue a legal notice to the company.
"Search isn't always perfect. Sometimes, the way content is described on the Internet can yield surprising results to specific queries," a Google India spokesperson told Ians in a statement.
"We know this is not ideal, but we take swift corrective action when we are made aware of an issue and are continually working to improve our algorithms. Naturally, these are not reflective of the opinions of Google, and we apologise for the misunderstanding and hurting any sentiments," the company spokesperson added.
- 6/3/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Some films are appreciated from the start — the big blockbusters find their audiences or the acclaimed indies find the critical raves right out of the gate. Then there are films that are ahead of their time, that find a bigger audience as they age, where the appreciation might come a little later thanks to DVDs or television viewings.
When “A Knight’s Tale” opened in theaters on May 11, 2001, it wasn’t without fanfare. It featured rising star Heath Ledger in the lead, a writer-director hot off an Oscar win and a lot of buzz for the fact it mixed modern music with its medieval setting. It made its money back, had its fans and was notable for its fresh-faced cast who would go on to prominent careers. But it wasn’t a runaway hit; some were confused by the anachronisms and simply couldn’t get past a film about jousting that...
When “A Knight’s Tale” opened in theaters on May 11, 2001, it wasn’t without fanfare. It featured rising star Heath Ledger in the lead, a writer-director hot off an Oscar win and a lot of buzz for the fact it mixed modern music with its medieval setting. It made its money back, had its fans and was notable for its fresh-faced cast who would go on to prominent careers. But it wasn’t a runaway hit; some were confused by the anachronisms and simply couldn’t get past a film about jousting that...
- 5/11/2021
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to Heath Ledger and his movies, The Dark Knight is obviously the film that gets brought up most often, and understandably so. It is, after all, a masterpiece and features not only the best work of the actor’s career, but one of the greatest performances the comic book movie genre – and perhaps even cinema as a whole – has ever seen.
And while Ledger will always be most remembered for Christopher Nolan’s epic, he also did a lot of other notable work across film and television and one of his most beloved movies is actually one of his earliest: A Knight’s Tale. Indeed, it’s arguably the performance that really put him on the map and was a turning point in his career, earning nearly $120 million worldwide at the box office and scoring generally favorable reviews.
Among general audiences, it’s fondly remembered and certainly beloved by Ledger’s fans,...
And while Ledger will always be most remembered for Christopher Nolan’s epic, he also did a lot of other notable work across film and television and one of his most beloved movies is actually one of his earliest: A Knight’s Tale. Indeed, it’s arguably the performance that really put him on the map and was a turning point in his career, earning nearly $120 million worldwide at the box office and scoring generally favorable reviews.
Among general audiences, it’s fondly remembered and certainly beloved by Ledger’s fans,...
- 8/1/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
If you think it’s tough for a writer in 2018, imagine how Margaret Atwood felt at the beginning of her career. “It was impossible,” the celebrated author says. “I was starting out in Canada in the 1950s. There was no market. I thought I would have to have a day job.”
Her back-up plan could have made her into the next Danielle Steel. “I thought I’d write true romances,” Atwood says. “But I tried, and I basically couldn’t do it. I was 18, what can I tell you? It bogged down in the middle. I could do the plots, but I couldn’t do the prose. It was in the age of dots. Something happened on the sofa, and then they were …” She pauses. “Dot, Dot, Dot! I couldn’t do that.”
Atwood is one of five honorees at this year’s Variety Power of Women luncheon on April...
Her back-up plan could have made her into the next Danielle Steel. “I thought I’d write true romances,” Atwood says. “But I tried, and I basically couldn’t do it. I was 18, what can I tell you? It bogged down in the middle. I could do the plots, but I couldn’t do the prose. It was in the age of dots. Something happened on the sofa, and then they were …” She pauses. “Dot, Dot, Dot! I couldn’t do that.”
Atwood is one of five honorees at this year’s Variety Power of Women luncheon on April...
- 4/10/2018
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
Jokes on you, fools! Celebs loooooove to hit up social media on the first of April to play April Fool's jokes on the world—and most of us get tricked every time! But how did this April Fool's business of tricking the ones you love most even start? Well it's got a pretty long history and the origin of April Fool's is widely disputed. Some say the concept of April foolishness goes back to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d'avril (which literally meant "Fish of April") and is possibly the first reference to the April Fool's celebration in France. Some writers suggest that April Fools' originated...
- 4/2/2018
- E! Online
Tagline: "Kissing Counts Cheaters." Valentine's Day was partially created by Geoffrey Chaucer. He said of love: "in love there is but little rest," amongst other things. This day comes but once a year. And, this year, CrypTV has launched a new short film, titled "Valentine's Die!" This short film was created by writer and director Graham Denman (The Divine Tragedies). It stars Arielle Brachfeld (Chemical Peel, 2014), Dan Creed and Matt Mercer. Originally released in 2016, the entire short can be found below. In the short, Samantha (Brachfeld) is having fun without her boyfriend. When Owen (Mercer) comes home, he brings a little, flying friend along with him. Cupid is not happy that all of the characters are cheating, even though: "there was no penetration." "Kissing Counts Cheaters!" As you go about your Valentine's Day, you should take a moment to see one of the funnier shorts, below. And, much like Michael Myers,...
- 2/14/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
From left: Kate Micucci, Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza play nuns with pent-up lust and schemes that are played for bawdy comedy and slapstick absurdity in a movie based on a 14th-century story. Photo: Gunpowder & Sky (c)
Writer/director Jeff Baena draws on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th The Decameron for The Little Hours, a bawdy, absurd comedy where the F-bombs fly through air thick with schemes and suppressed lust. Some audiences may object to foul-mouthed women religious but for those who don’t, Baena’s comedy is very amusing, as well as a clever updated twist on a medieval classic.
Nuns in the 14th century were different from today, as a convent was a place where prosperous families could send unmarried daughters or in which women without wealth could shelter, as much as a place for the religiously devout. Like Chaucer’s later The Canterbury Tales, these women in habits could speak in plain,...
Writer/director Jeff Baena draws on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th The Decameron for The Little Hours, a bawdy, absurd comedy where the F-bombs fly through air thick with schemes and suppressed lust. Some audiences may object to foul-mouthed women religious but for those who don’t, Baena’s comedy is very amusing, as well as a clever updated twist on a medieval classic.
Nuns in the 14th century were different from today, as a convent was a place where prosperous families could send unmarried daughters or in which women without wealth could shelter, as much as a place for the religiously devout. Like Chaucer’s later The Canterbury Tales, these women in habits could speak in plain,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Viewers of BBC Two's Wolf Hall adaptation were shocked to hear the utterance of "c**t" in the latest episode.
A total of 24 members of the public have filed complaints with Ofcom about the use of the word, asking whether it was "really necessary".
The scene in question aired just after the 9pm watershed on Wednesday (February 18).
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel, the drama charts the rise of Thomas Cromwell and regularly uses bad language.
The "c**t" incident occurred during a discussion between courtiers about Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips).
The king (Damian Lewis) spoke of his future bride, pondering: "Does not Mistress Seymour have the tiniest hands?"
After walking away, a courtier mocked him by saying: "Does she not have the whitest throat?", before another piped up, saying: "Has she not got the wettest c**t you ever groped?'
An Ofcom...
A total of 24 members of the public have filed complaints with Ofcom about the use of the word, asking whether it was "really necessary".
The scene in question aired just after the 9pm watershed on Wednesday (February 18).
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel, the drama charts the rise of Thomas Cromwell and regularly uses bad language.
The "c**t" incident occurred during a discussion between courtiers about Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips).
The king (Damian Lewis) spoke of his future bride, pondering: "Does not Mistress Seymour have the tiniest hands?"
After walking away, a courtier mocked him by saying: "Does she not have the whitest throat?", before another piped up, saying: "Has she not got the wettest c**t you ever groped?'
An Ofcom...
- 2/24/2015
- Digital Spy
The Ribald Tales Of Canterbury
(dir: Bud Lee, 1985)
We’ve all been there at some point. A long journey with nothing to do. All of a sudden, someone comes up with the idea of sharing stories and laughs to help pass the time. Yeah, maybe not everyone has been there, but I had to set the scene somehow right? The first film on this double feature release from Vinegar Syndrome follows the journey of a group of noblemen and women headed by the Hostess Hyapatia Lee (Let’s Get Physical) en route to Canterbury. She proposes a wager with her fellow travellers. Each places the grand sum of 20 pence in to a small pouch and whoever can recall the best erotic tale on their journey wins all. It’s certainly a novel way to pass the time! The stories range from a humble knight having a surprising (in the best...
(dir: Bud Lee, 1985)
We’ve all been there at some point. A long journey with nothing to do. All of a sudden, someone comes up with the idea of sharing stories and laughs to help pass the time. Yeah, maybe not everyone has been there, but I had to set the scene somehow right? The first film on this double feature release from Vinegar Syndrome follows the journey of a group of noblemen and women headed by the Hostess Hyapatia Lee (Let’s Get Physical) en route to Canterbury. She proposes a wager with her fellow travellers. Each places the grand sum of 20 pence in to a small pouch and whoever can recall the best erotic tale on their journey wins all. It’s certainly a novel way to pass the time! The stories range from a humble knight having a surprising (in the best...
- 2/21/2015
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Curious to know what movies are coming to Netflix Watch Instantly over the next few weeks? Get a head start and mark your calendars using the list below, just released to us by Netflix. Note: Listed below are just the movies, not the television shows. December 1 A Knight’s Tale (2001) Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Paul Bettany, Laura Fraser, Mark Addy After befriending aspiring writer Geoffrey Chaucer, squire William Thatcher persuades the scribe to forge documents passing William off as a bona fide knight — who soon becomes a jousting star while finding romance with an admiring princess. Almost Famous (2000) Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee...
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- 11/26/2014
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Netflix streaming is upping the ante this December, adding enough high-profile TV shows and movies to more than make up for last month's lackluster offerings.
On the movie side, highlights include Will Ferrell and gang in "Anchorman 2," the Heath Ledger-starring "A Knight's Tale," Cameron Crowe classic "Almost Famous," Oscar-winning "American Beauty," and horror hits "Oculus" and "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones." Oh, and let's not forget '80s classic "Troop Beverly Hills," '90s cult favorite "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion," or Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
And there's plenty to love about what's coming on the TV front: "American Horror Story: Coven" finally gets its day on Netflix, "Sharknado 2" storms its way to streaming, and Brit hit "Broadchurch" finally lands stateside. Oh, and December sees the premiere of the hotly anticipated Netflix Original series "Marco Polo" on the 12th.
Here's a much...
On the movie side, highlights include Will Ferrell and gang in "Anchorman 2," the Heath Ledger-starring "A Knight's Tale," Cameron Crowe classic "Almost Famous," Oscar-winning "American Beauty," and horror hits "Oculus" and "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones." Oh, and let's not forget '80s classic "Troop Beverly Hills," '90s cult favorite "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion," or Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
And there's plenty to love about what's coming on the TV front: "American Horror Story: Coven" finally gets its day on Netflix, "Sharknado 2" storms its way to streaming, and Brit hit "Broadchurch" finally lands stateside. Oh, and December sees the premiere of the hotly anticipated Netflix Original series "Marco Polo" on the 12th.
Here's a much...
- 11/25/2014
- by Tim Hayne
- Moviefone
We're holding a free screening of a crime classic of your choice next week. Here's a look at one option: David Fincher's stunning Seven...
Feature
On the 5th June, we're holding a free crime classic cinema screening to celebrate the launch of the videogame Murdered: Soul Suspect. You can find out details of the screening, and how you can vote for the film you most want to see, here.
For now, here's our look back at another of the films you can choose from: the 1995 thriller, Seven.
Nb: This piece contains spoilers.
Seven tracks Detectives William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) as they investigate a spate of serial killings which take their inspiration from the seven deadly sins. As they dig further, the stakes become more personal and the killings become more disturbing until they come face to face with the killer and find events are much worse than they feared.
Feature
On the 5th June, we're holding a free crime classic cinema screening to celebrate the launch of the videogame Murdered: Soul Suspect. You can find out details of the screening, and how you can vote for the film you most want to see, here.
For now, here's our look back at another of the films you can choose from: the 1995 thriller, Seven.
Nb: This piece contains spoilers.
Seven tracks Detectives William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) as they investigate a spate of serial killings which take their inspiration from the seven deadly sins. As they dig further, the stakes become more personal and the killings become more disturbing until they come face to face with the killer and find events are much worse than they feared.
- 5/27/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The Canterbury Tales
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1972, Italy
The Canterbury Tales (1972) is the second film in Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” that began with Decameron (1971) and Arabian Nights (1974). Each film in the trilogy contains an enormous amount of sex, nudity, slapstick, and scatological jokes and are based on revered works of literature. Pasolini’s adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” contains eight of the 24 stories from the book. Each story effortlessly flows from one to the next and the whole is certainly greater than the sum of its part. Pasolini was a terrific director and his later period shows how he expanded his political cinema by incorporating the Academy’s literary canon. Adapting revered novels did not stop Pasolini from inserting radical subversions into the ideology of these texts.
In The Canterbury Tales, a fictional Chaucer, played by Pasolini, frames the narrative,...
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1972, Italy
The Canterbury Tales (1972) is the second film in Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” that began with Decameron (1971) and Arabian Nights (1974). Each film in the trilogy contains an enormous amount of sex, nudity, slapstick, and scatological jokes and are based on revered works of literature. Pasolini’s adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” contains eight of the 24 stories from the book. Each story effortlessly flows from one to the next and the whole is certainly greater than the sum of its part. Pasolini was a terrific director and his later period shows how he expanded his political cinema by incorporating the Academy’s literary canon. Adapting revered novels did not stop Pasolini from inserting radical subversions into the ideology of these texts.
In The Canterbury Tales, a fictional Chaucer, played by Pasolini, frames the narrative,...
- 3/16/2014
- by Cody Lang
- SoundOnSight
The new Doctor will reportedly revealed on Sunday 4 August 2013, at 7pm; news which would send any right-minded person crazy with anticipation. (You'd probably have to be as crazy as John Simm's Master to *not* be excited about Doctor Who...)
There's been much speculation as to who the 12th Doctor could be, ranging from Rory Kinnear to Burn Gorman to Patterson Joseph (apparently the favourite to play the 11th Doctor before Matt Smith got the role). While many of these possibilities are intriguing, there's one name that hasn't been spoken of enough in connection of the role of The Doctor:
Paul Bettany.
And here's why he'd be perfect to play The Doctor, one of the best, most complex, and most entertaining roles of all time:
He's Geoffrey Chaucer.
Regardless of how well or otherwise the character may be as a representation of the historical writer, Chaucer is awesome as a character in A Knight's Tale.
There's been much speculation as to who the 12th Doctor could be, ranging from Rory Kinnear to Burn Gorman to Patterson Joseph (apparently the favourite to play the 11th Doctor before Matt Smith got the role). While many of these possibilities are intriguing, there's one name that hasn't been spoken of enough in connection of the role of The Doctor:
Paul Bettany.
And here's why he'd be perfect to play The Doctor, one of the best, most complex, and most entertaining roles of all time:
He's Geoffrey Chaucer.
Regardless of how well or otherwise the character may be as a representation of the historical writer, Chaucer is awesome as a character in A Knight's Tale.
- 8/3/2013
- Shadowlocked
Chicago – In the early ’70s, Pier Paolo Pasolini made three adaptations of medieval literature that reflected the truly adult filmmaking language gaining popularity at the time. So many European filmmakers would try to copy the nudity, sexual humor, and scatological slapstick of Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” that the films that inspired a wave of bad movies were somtimes lumped in with them. Criterion goes a long way to correct the historical record with their glorious box set for “Trilogy of Life.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
1971’s “The Decameron,” 1972’s “The Canterbury Tales,” and 1974’s “Arabian Nights” make up “Trilogy of Life” and that third word in the title is exactly what they contain — energetic life. Pasolini was late in his too-brief career at this point (he would only make “Salo” after these three before his murder) and he was throwing caution and taste to the wind, asking audiences to readdress well-known stories from a new perspective.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
1971’s “The Decameron,” 1972’s “The Canterbury Tales,” and 1974’s “Arabian Nights” make up “Trilogy of Life” and that third word in the title is exactly what they contain — energetic life. Pasolini was late in his too-brief career at this point (he would only make “Salo” after these three before his murder) and he was throwing caution and taste to the wind, asking audiences to readdress well-known stories from a new perspective.
- 12/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
His life tragically and brutally cut short by a still unknown assassin, Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last completed project, known as the Trilogy of Life, gets the master treatment from Criterion this month, which includes three films based on classic literary anthologies, The Decameron (1971), The Canterbury Tales (1972), and Arabian Nights (1975). Pasolini was one third done with his next project, to be called the Trilogy of Death, of which his last film, Salo (1975), was the first installment. Upon each of their initial releases, the Life films were all equally greeted with controversy, celebration, and a distinct notoriety, but all overshadowed by the infamy of Salo, which stands on many lists as one of the most difficult to watch films of all time (and was the first Pasolini title to be inducted into Criterion’s annals). Pasolini’s overall motif encapsulated in these three features is a celebration of life,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Before we get into this week's new releases, I have a deal to bring to your attention, which is Amazon is selling the Coen Brothers Collection on Blu-ray for $19.99, which includes Blood Simple, Fargo, Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona. You can pick that up right here. In addition to that, Amazon is having a pre-Black Friday Deals Week, which you can learn more about here. Now let's get to this week's new releases. Lawrence of Arabia I did not receive a review copy of this title, though I did try, which tells me I have either been shunned by Sony or my email is going in the Junk Mail box on the opposite side of the digital spectrum. Oh well, it looks like I will be adding it to my Wish List as I really do love Lawrence of Arabia and owning it on Blu-ray would be excellent, though it's...
- 11/13/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
I never saw A Knight’s Tale when it was released in 2001, and though it had a solid box-office and helped cement the late Heath Ledger’s career, for the life of me, I never thought anyone saw a TV series in it. Still, today with studios and broadcast networks looking for cheap, short term profit in the property they already own, I guess we should not be surprised. So Sony Pictures TV and ABC have brought in Battlestar Galactica show runner and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine producer Ron Moore to develop it into a functioning series. Set in medieval times, the film had Ledger playing a peasant masquerading as knight all while interacting with real historical figures such as the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. But despite the setting, the film used anachronistic touches to entice kids into seeing the film -with Queen’s “We Will Rock You” used on the soundtrack and other things.
- 9/24/2012
- by spaced-odyssey
- doorQ.com
Ron Moore is heading from outer space to medieval times. The "Battlestar Galactica" showrunner will next tackle a television version of "A Knight's Tale" that has been picked up by ABC.
Deadline has the news, reporing that "the series is expected to stay close to the premise and the style of the movie -- it is described as a medieval fantasy incorporating modern music and themes that follows the journey of a young man who starts out impersonating a knight of the realm and ends up becoming one." The 2001 feature film starred Heath Ledger as the titular knight, Shannyn Sossamon as his love interest and Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer.
As fans of Moore will know, he's more than adept at adapting previously successful projects to the small screen. Though it might seem like a strange choice to have him tackle "A Knight's Tale," we'd argue that this is some...
Deadline has the news, reporing that "the series is expected to stay close to the premise and the style of the movie -- it is described as a medieval fantasy incorporating modern music and themes that follows the journey of a young man who starts out impersonating a knight of the realm and ends up becoming one." The 2001 feature film starred Heath Ledger as the titular knight, Shannyn Sossamon as his love interest and Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer.
As fans of Moore will know, he's more than adept at adapting previously successful projects to the small screen. Though it might seem like a strange choice to have him tackle "A Knight's Tale," we'd argue that this is some...
- 9/21/2012
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
"Battlestar Galactica" show runner and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" producer Ron Moore is developing a TV series adaptation of Brian Helgeland's 2001 medieval romantic adventure flick "A Knight's Tale" for Sony Pictures TV and ABC says Deadline.
The original film starred Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a medieval peasant masquerading as a knight and competing in tournaments, along the way meeting real life figures like The Black Prince (James Purefoy) and poet Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany).
Despite the setting, the film was full of anachronistic touches such as the jousting crowds doing a rendition of Queen's "We Will Rock You". It scored good reviews, solid box-office and helped shoot Ledger to stardom.
ABC has made a script commitment to the series version which also has Helgeland, Maril Davis and Todd Black onboard to produce. The tone aims to stay close to that of the film.
The original film starred Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a medieval peasant masquerading as a knight and competing in tournaments, along the way meeting real life figures like The Black Prince (James Purefoy) and poet Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany).
Despite the setting, the film was full of anachronistic touches such as the jousting crowds doing a rendition of Queen's "We Will Rock You". It scored good reviews, solid box-office and helped shoot Ledger to stardom.
ABC has made a script commitment to the series version which also has Helgeland, Maril Davis and Todd Black onboard to produce. The tone aims to stay close to that of the film.
- 9/21/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 13, 2012
Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95
Studio: Criterion
Ninetto Davoli enjoys the sweet smell of life in Pasolini's The Decameron.
Italian poet, philosopher and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s (Salò) Trilogy of Life, from the early 1970s, consists of his film renditions of a trio of masterpieces of pre-modern world literature: Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and One Thousand and One Nights (which is often referred to as The Arabian Nights).
The late Pasolini’s comedy-drama movies are now considered to be most uninhibited and extravagant works, a brazen and bawdy triptych that sets out to challenge consumer capitalism and celebrate the human body while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies.
Definitely not for all tastes, the films offer heaping doses of Pasolini’s scatological humor and his rough-hewn sensuality, most of which leave all modern standards of decency behind.
Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95
Studio: Criterion
Ninetto Davoli enjoys the sweet smell of life in Pasolini's The Decameron.
Italian poet, philosopher and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s (Salò) Trilogy of Life, from the early 1970s, consists of his film renditions of a trio of masterpieces of pre-modern world literature: Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and One Thousand and One Nights (which is often referred to as The Arabian Nights).
The late Pasolini’s comedy-drama movies are now considered to be most uninhibited and extravagant works, a brazen and bawdy triptych that sets out to challenge consumer capitalism and celebrate the human body while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies.
Definitely not for all tastes, the films offer heaping doses of Pasolini’s scatological humor and his rough-hewn sensuality, most of which leave all modern standards of decency behind.
- 8/23/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Yes, that credit does have the faint whiff of "by William Shakespeare, additional dialogue by Sam Taylor" to it, but it can't be helped. Anything needs to be adapted if it's going to work in another medium -- which is a big "if" -- and having it done by one person, who then lays out and draws the thing himself, is about as pure an auteur case as you can get. And it's not as if most people encounter The Canterbury Tales in their pure form, anyway -- when I read them, way back in college years, my class was atypical in using an edition with Chaucer's original spelling and grammar, but even we read an abridged version. The full-on Early Modern English Canterbury Tales has been primarily for scholars for generations now, so any time it comes close to a mass audience -- which is not that often -- you're looking at an adaptation.
- 7/1/2012
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
How best to celebrate the arrival of the fifth month, PopWatchers? Lacking a May pole in EW’s office, I decided to turn to pop culture. Though I considered expanding the net to include non-traditional picks like bunkin’ cousin Maeby Fünke from Arrested Development and Ghost’s Oda Mae Brown (“Molly, you in danger, girl!”), there was plenty of May love to go around without getting Fünke with it. Below, five of my favorite May touchstones.
“The Lusty Month of May,” Camelot
If this number from Lerner and Loewe’s hit 1960 musical doesn’t, ahem, get you in the mood for a new month,...
“The Lusty Month of May,” Camelot
If this number from Lerner and Loewe’s hit 1960 musical doesn’t, ahem, get you in the mood for a new month,...
- 5/1/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
Being a Christian in the 21st century is difficult at the best of times. Even without Mel Gibson constantly putting his foot in it, or Westboro Baptist Church spitting venom at the very people they are supposed to be helping, we have to contend with a media backlash whenever a seemingly ‘Christian’ film is released.
The problem seems to be that people don’t mind Christianity per se: if people are Bible-bashing in the streets, they can ignore them or talk back. What they resent, or appear to resent, are films with Christian undertones – allegories or parables which introduce Christian beliefs or ideas in a supposedly secular context. When The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe came out in 2005, The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee accused it of “invad[ing] children’s minds with Christian iconography… heavily laden with guilt, blame, sacrifice and a suffering that is dark with emotional sadism.” Ouch.
The problem seems to be that people don’t mind Christianity per se: if people are Bible-bashing in the streets, they can ignore them or talk back. What they resent, or appear to resent, are films with Christian undertones – allegories or parables which introduce Christian beliefs or ideas in a supposedly secular context. When The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe came out in 2005, The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee accused it of “invad[ing] children’s minds with Christian iconography… heavily laden with guilt, blame, sacrifice and a suffering that is dark with emotional sadism.” Ouch.
- 9/17/2011
- by Daniel Mumby
- Obsessed with Film
In honour of Joss Whedon’s birthday yesterday (Numfar! Do the Dance of Honour!), Shadowlocked presents a list of twenty-three suggestions for where Joss Whedon could go from here.
While Whedon’s had deserved cult success up to this point, The Avengers is his chance to really break into the mainstream and hopefully get the levels of success that his talent deserves. With great box office will surely come great opportunities. Warren Ellis said that after The Avengers, Joss Whedon would be able to print his own money. Come to think of it, that would be awesome, with a picture of Joss’ face on it (which non-geeks wouldn’t recognise, and then we could educate them!), and a quote like “Grr Argh!” or one of literally hundreds (and probably thousands) of others. And we could do the Dance of Capitalist Superiority every time we spent it.
Not that I’m...
While Whedon’s had deserved cult success up to this point, The Avengers is his chance to really break into the mainstream and hopefully get the levels of success that his talent deserves. With great box office will surely come great opportunities. Warren Ellis said that after The Avengers, Joss Whedon would be able to print his own money. Come to think of it, that would be awesome, with a picture of Joss’ face on it (which non-geeks wouldn’t recognise, and then we could educate them!), and a quote like “Grr Argh!” or one of literally hundreds (and probably thousands) of others. And we could do the Dance of Capitalist Superiority every time we spent it.
Not that I’m...
- 6/24/2011
- Shadowlocked
The Mighty Ducks: The hell is wrong with you people? The Mighty Ducks? It's like the origin film for the Disney sports movie formula. It was Emilio Estevez's last shot at relevance, and the man blew it. And yet, too many of you still adore this movie. Enough that you allowed two sequels to be made. (Yes, I know this is the trailer for D2, but I couldn't find the trailer for the first one. That's how badly Disney wants to hide it from you, so as to not give your nostalgic affection nightmares).
Love Actually: Look, I don't want to go down the road with you people again with this movie. Love, Actually is a simpering ball of sap, manipulative beyond measure, as artificial as Twinkies, and as dim as five feet up a pig's ass. Can we just agree that those of you who love...
Love Actually: Look, I don't want to go down the road with you people again with this movie. Love, Actually is a simpering ball of sap, manipulative beyond measure, as artificial as Twinkies, and as dim as five feet up a pig's ass. Can we just agree that those of you who love...
- 3/3/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
It’s always sad to see the Christmas seasonals disappearing from the tap wall, but it’s a cloud with a sliver lining because those empty taps mean that we can dip into our growing inventory of Badass kegs and, at least for a week or two, triple or even quadruple the number of Badass beers on tap.
Last weekend, when the Shiner Cheer ran out, we tapped the first of two kegs of St Bernardus Christmas. This superb Belgian Strong Dark Ale was one of the Badass Bottles we put on during Christmas in July, and here we are already saying goodbye to this season’s Christmas beers. How can it be six months since then?
The Watou brewery, although the beers are no longer brewed by monks, the friars having decanted back to France, still specialises in abbey style ales such as the dubbel (8%), tripel (8%) and Abt 12 (quadrupel...
Last weekend, when the Shiner Cheer ran out, we tapped the first of two kegs of St Bernardus Christmas. This superb Belgian Strong Dark Ale was one of the Badass Bottles we put on during Christmas in July, and here we are already saying goodbye to this season’s Christmas beers. How can it be six months since then?
The Watou brewery, although the beers are no longer brewed by monks, the friars having decanted back to France, still specialises in abbey style ales such as the dubbel (8%), tripel (8%) and Abt 12 (quadrupel...
- 12/31/2010
- by Jim Hughes
- OriginalAlamo.com
Who's excited about the Freddie Mercury biopic? Me!!!!! As Dustin reported a few months ago, Queen's mustachio'd, tight-panted lead singer will be played by Sacha Baron Cohen (presumably because he had his Borat mustache at the ready). Peter Morgan (The Queen, I know, right??) has been tapped to pen the script. He's a terrific writer and has a knack for turning even dry material (ahem, Frost/Nixon) into riveting drama.
Freddie Mercury's life is, however, anything but dry material. There's a bit of controversy surrounding the fact that the film will not focus at all on Mercury's death from AIDS but will cover, instead, Mercury's life from the formation of Queen to the band's famed performance at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid in 1985. This time frame will, no doubt, enable Morgan et al. to cram as much music into the film as possible. I'm not certain how I...
Freddie Mercury's life is, however, anything but dry material. There's a bit of controversy surrounding the fact that the film will not focus at all on Mercury's death from AIDS but will cover, instead, Mercury's life from the formation of Queen to the band's famed performance at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid in 1985. This time frame will, no doubt, enable Morgan et al. to cram as much music into the film as possible. I'm not certain how I...
- 12/29/2010
- by Joanna Robinson
This trailer for Jinn was made available earlier this month, but this horror movie lover was too knee deep in Geoffrey Chaucer to do anything about it. Now, a high quality version of the clip is available and Jinn is the story of mythological spirits, known throughout much of the Muslim world.
In western countries the Jinn are known as Genies and these creatures have been given some darker colouring in this film and in another called Red Sands. If you like mythology from other cultures, then you will likely like this trailer for Jinn below.
The synopsis for Jinn:
"Man made of Clay. Angels made of Light. And a Third...made of Fire.
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries,...
In western countries the Jinn are known as Genies and these creatures have been given some darker colouring in this film and in another called Red Sands. If you like mythology from other cultures, then you will likely like this trailer for Jinn below.
The synopsis for Jinn:
"Man made of Clay. Angels made of Light. And a Third...made of Fire.
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time. These two races have dominated the landscape of modern mythology for countless centuries,...
- 11/30/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Books: They’re just like movies, only without CGI.
So it’s no wonder that over the past century, Hollywood has consistently turned to books to provide the basis for some of its best works. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” for instance, was based on a book, while “Gigli” wasn’t. See how that works?
With that in mind, then, we decided to put together a sneak peak of all the coolest books currently being turned into major motion pictures (like “The Help,” left). Because these days, the best library you can go to is your local Cineplex.
‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
Attached: Georgie Henley, Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Liam Neeson
Status: The third book from the classic C. S. Lewis series to make it to the big screen, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” has flown a bit under the radar thanks to the media...
So it’s no wonder that over the past century, Hollywood has consistently turned to books to provide the basis for some of its best works. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” for instance, was based on a book, while “Gigli” wasn’t. See how that works?
With that in mind, then, we decided to put together a sneak peak of all the coolest books currently being turned into major motion pictures (like “The Help,” left). Because these days, the best library you can go to is your local Cineplex.
‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
Attached: Georgie Henley, Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Liam Neeson
Status: The third book from the classic C. S. Lewis series to make it to the big screen, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader” has flown a bit under the radar thanks to the media...
- 11/23/2010
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
Jose here.
To celebrate Darwin Day (yeah I know, it's a new holiday for me too) I took in a viewing of Creation, Jon Amiel's film where Paul Bettany stars as legendary scientist Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly plays his wife.
Remember a time when both him and Connelly were awards prospects for this movie? And how it all fell apart in Toronto, sending the poor film to a late January release-the Glacial Age of the cinematic planet-where it has earned exactly $148,742 (did anyone else see it?).
Before getting into debates whether the movie is good or not (it's not by the way) my mind drifted somewhere else and I began to ponder on something that interested me more: the evolution of Paul Bettany's career.
Let's take a peek:
2001 - A Knight's Tale and A Beautiful Mind
Scene stealing as Geoffrey Chaucer in the former and fascinating as...
To celebrate Darwin Day (yeah I know, it's a new holiday for me too) I took in a viewing of Creation, Jon Amiel's film where Paul Bettany stars as legendary scientist Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly plays his wife.
Remember a time when both him and Connelly were awards prospects for this movie? And how it all fell apart in Toronto, sending the poor film to a late January release-the Glacial Age of the cinematic planet-where it has earned exactly $148,742 (did anyone else see it?).
Before getting into debates whether the movie is good or not (it's not by the way) my mind drifted somewhere else and I began to ponder on something that interested me more: the evolution of Paul Bettany's career.
Let's take a peek:
2001 - A Knight's Tale and A Beautiful Mind
Scene stealing as Geoffrey Chaucer in the former and fascinating as...
- 2/12/2010
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Fourteen months after its auspicious debut, we are now able to play "Dante's Inferno" in all of its glory. The wait has been unbearable. Who hasn't been chomping at the bit to get their hands on Visceral Games' grand reinterpretation of Dante Aligheri's seven-hundred-year-old poetry?
If "Dante" manages to capture an audience, we might be on the verge of a new gaming zeitgeist, wherein publishers across the land craft their blockbusters from the most traditional IPs in the public domain. Here are five games based on classic lit and the developers most suited to realizing them.
Don Quixote
Adapted by: Omega Force for Tecmo-Koei
An aged knight sits atop a wearied steed, his sad eyes betraying countless days of travel without rest. His armor creeks as he shifts his weight. The small, portly man riding a donkey beside him advises the knight to equip his weapon before entering battle. Rain...
If "Dante" manages to capture an audience, we might be on the verge of a new gaming zeitgeist, wherein publishers across the land craft their blockbusters from the most traditional IPs in the public domain. Here are five games based on classic lit and the developers most suited to realizing them.
Don Quixote
Adapted by: Omega Force for Tecmo-Koei
An aged knight sits atop a wearied steed, his sad eyes betraying countless days of travel without rest. His armor creeks as he shifts his weight. The small, portly man riding a donkey beside him advises the knight to equip his weapon before entering battle. Rain...
- 2/10/2010
- by John Constantine
- MTV Multiplayer
Playing God again, David Eddings dreamed up a deity-divided world on the brink of apocalypse.
Where does a bestselling fantasy novelist with nearly two dozen books to his credit draw inspiration from for a new series? J.R.R. Tolkien? C.S. Lewis? Robert Jordan?
How about William Faulkner?
“Faulkner basically devised a trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion,” said David Eddings (who died at age 77 on June 2) in this 2003 interview. He was speaking by phone from his home in Carson City, Nevada, where he stoically suffered through an allergy attack to discuss the first book of his Dreamers saga, The Elder Gods (now of course in paperback). “Those stories dealt with the life of this man, Flem Snopes, and were told from several different points-of-view. The idea of using differing points-of-view was interesting to me. We, meaning my wife Leigh and I, have done that a few times in the past,...
Where does a bestselling fantasy novelist with nearly two dozen books to his credit draw inspiration from for a new series? J.R.R. Tolkien? C.S. Lewis? Robert Jordan?
How about William Faulkner?
“Faulkner basically devised a trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion,” said David Eddings (who died at age 77 on June 2) in this 2003 interview. He was speaking by phone from his home in Carson City, Nevada, where he stoically suffered through an allergy attack to discuss the first book of his Dreamers saga, The Elder Gods (now of course in paperback). “Those stories dealt with the life of this man, Flem Snopes, and were told from several different points-of-view. The idea of using differing points-of-view was interesting to me. We, meaning my wife Leigh and I, have done that a few times in the past,...
- 6/9/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Keith Olexa)
- Starlog
If there's one thing the Bluths and Fünkes of Fox's tragically-cancelled Arrested Development can do well, it's a chicken dance. Although reports of the clan's foray into movie-land have resembled an adolescent relationship (on one day, off the next), a 2010 film seems to be in order, and we're dying to see how chicken noises "Chee-Cha," "A-coodle-doodle-ooh" and "Coo-Coo-Ca-Cha," translate to the big screen.
- 3/2/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Paul Bettany has left CAA to sign with Endeavor.
The British actor first sprang to the attention of U.S. audiences with his comic (and naked) role as Geoffrey Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" in 2001. High-profile parts in "A Beautiful Mind," "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," "Wimbledon," "Firewall" and "The Da Vinci Code" followed, along with such indie films as "Gangster No. 1," "The Heart of Me" and "Dogville."
His recent films include "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Inkheart."
Bettany next will be seen in "The Young Victoria," the thriller "Legion" and the drama "Creation," in which he'll play Charles Darwin opposite his wife, Jennifer Connelly.
Bettany is managed by Affirmative Entertainment and repped in the U.K. by the Independent Talent Group.
The British actor first sprang to the attention of U.S. audiences with his comic (and naked) role as Geoffrey Chaucer in Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" in 2001. High-profile parts in "A Beautiful Mind," "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," "Wimbledon," "Firewall" and "The Da Vinci Code" followed, along with such indie films as "Gangster No. 1," "The Heart of Me" and "Dogville."
His recent films include "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Inkheart."
Bettany next will be seen in "The Young Victoria," the thriller "Legion" and the drama "Creation," in which he'll play Charles Darwin opposite his wife, Jennifer Connelly.
Bettany is managed by Affirmative Entertainment and repped in the U.K. by the Independent Talent Group.
- 3/1/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul Bettany can pull off anything, from Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale to the A. I. Jarvis in Iron Man to a very creepy albino in The Davinci Code. But he tops them all as the long haired, shirtless (which could make this my personal favorite), fire juggling character Dustfinger in the new film Inkheart. I got a chance to chat with Bettany about his role as a man read out of a book and into our world, his wife Jennifer Connelly's cameo and working with a stinky ferret...lucky little...
- 1/21/2009
- by Jenna Busch
- JoBlo.com
A Knights Tale star Paul Bettany has the perfect answer to critics who express disdain for the blockbuster movie - he wants to challenge them to a fight. The medieval movie has been criticized for its historical inaccuracies - but British actor Bettany reckons he could take all the historians on in a punch-up. He jokes, "I imagine there will be a few het-up academics, but mostly they'll be over 50, so I reckon I could take 'em in a fist fight." But the 30-year-old star admits to knowing nothing about the work of Geoffrey Chaucer - whose novels inspired the film, and did little research for his part in the film. He confesses, "I got hold of a picture of Chaucer and it turns out he's an enormously fat, bald, bearded dwarf, so the Method approach wasn't really sitting well. I threw out any pretension of doing any research whatsoever and made it up."...
- 8/31/2001
- WENN
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