The best Tom Hiddleston roles are spread across stage, television, and film. While he gained international recognition for portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the English actor’s versatility extends to different genres, including comedy. Captivating audiences with his exceptional performances has been Hiddleston’s strong suit since his 2001 screen debut. Tom Hiddleston’s celebrated career began in the late 1990s on stage before his television debut in 2001. During the budding stage of his career, Hiddleston played minor roles in television films such as Conspiracy and Armadillo. His film career which began on the set of Unrelated (2007) marked the...
- 1/16/2024
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Tom Hiddleston’s Cinematic Voyage: Breaking Free from Loki and the Marvel Universe ( Photo Credit – IMDb )
In the vibrant tapestry of Hollywood, Tom Hiddleston first caught my attention in 2011 when he brought the mischievous Loki to life in Thor. However, his journey into the realm of cinema began long before that iconic role. Hiddleston’s cinematic voyage commenced with memorable performances in Joanna Hogg’s film Unrelated (2007). As Loki gained widespread recognition within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hiddleston expanded his horizons beyond the MCU, taking on a prominent leading role in the high-budget film Kong: Skull Island (2017). This venture underscored his versatility, proving his ability to command the big screen with distinction.
Beyond the glitz of Hollywood blockbusters, Hiddleston is a seasoned stage performer. His theatrical journey began with a remarkable debut in Journey’s End in 1999, marking the inception of a prolific stage career. Engaging in various theatrical productions, including...
In the vibrant tapestry of Hollywood, Tom Hiddleston first caught my attention in 2011 when he brought the mischievous Loki to life in Thor. However, his journey into the realm of cinema began long before that iconic role. Hiddleston’s cinematic voyage commenced with memorable performances in Joanna Hogg’s film Unrelated (2007). As Loki gained widespread recognition within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hiddleston expanded his horizons beyond the MCU, taking on a prominent leading role in the high-budget film Kong: Skull Island (2017). This venture underscored his versatility, proving his ability to command the big screen with distinction.
Beyond the glitz of Hollywood blockbusters, Hiddleston is a seasoned stage performer. His theatrical journey began with a remarkable debut in Journey’s End in 1999, marking the inception of a prolific stage career. Engaging in various theatrical productions, including...
- 12/10/2023
- by Hari P N
- KoiMoi
How did this emotional sketch become a movie? Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg, born on March 20, 1960 in London, England, UK and known for writing and directing The Souvenir (2019), The Souvenir: Part II (2021) and Unrelated (2007), all produced by Emma Norton of Jwh Films, are favored by the charmed circle of rich white seemingly heterosexual men like Martin Scorsese (Sikelia Productions), David Fenkel and Daniel Katz (A24), and British vet producer Ed Guiney (Element Pictures). This is all conjuncture on my part, as it was when I wrote about the deal behind Triangle of Sadness, but the sketchiness of this and the formulaic quality of Triangle, coupled with the stellar names of those involved in the production lead me to believe there was more to the making of the movie deal than there is to the movie itself. In The Eternal Daughter, these men have chosen to celebrate womanhood as expressed by a particular female filmmaker as she attempts to create a story about herself and her mother plus one kindly black bereaved man played by Joseph Mydell (there is a hint of something about slavery here) and a cold modern young woman played by Carly-Sophia Davies whose heart also melts at the pathos of the celebate and lonely filmmaker, who actually is not pathetic but apparently just creatively alive. Watch the trailer here and then watch the movie and judge for yourself: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13874422/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Together these men must have brought the film to Kristin Irving of the BBC where it got made, somewhat along the same lines as highly touted The Souvenir which landed BBC Films with funds from BFI Film Fund and was also produced by Jwh Films, again in association with Scorsese’s incubator Sikelia. This time Protagonist Pictures was the international sales agent and A24 only distributed in North America. Its sequel, The Souvenir Part II stars real-life mother and daughter Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton Byrne, a conceit which perhaps gave life to the idea of another mother-and-daughter movie in which both roles are played by Tilda Swinton and which was made by the same team plus Ed Guiney of Element Pictures. A24 has now taken on both international sales and US rights. All of these films must have made 2 cents at the box office. What’s up? What is Tilda Swinton herself up to these days? Her previous film Three Thousand Years of Yearning by stalwart filmmaker George Miler sold to more interternational distributors in 2021 and 2022 than the Jwh films did, but it still must not have fared much better at the box office. (Read my blon on that here.) The short by Almodovar, The Human Voice, was a little gem, showing off Swinton’s accomplished acting skills as she enacted the remake of Cocteau’s The Human Voice under strict Covid protocols. But none of these reaches the new heights always expected of her…We’ll see what her next four films The End (pre-production) by Joshua Oppenheimer, Asteroid City (post-production) by Wes Anderson, The Killer (post-production) by David Fincher, and an Untitled Julio Torres Project (post-production) bring to the audiences who eagerly await whatever she does (count me among them). The Eternal Daughter has been described as a mystery drama and as a ghost story about “a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother who confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery.” But there are no ghosts nor is there much of a mystery beyond why a mother and daughter have an eternal and universal tension between them, as most mothers and daughters do. Nor is the nearly vacant hotel ever revealed to be the ancestral home, nor is there much of a mystery about a banging shutter which keeps Tilda the daughter up at night. And whence cometh the acclaim of Joanna Hogg? Perhaps it was Covid. Dare I argue with the top film festivals and critics whom Rotten Tomatoes scored at 95%? Who are these critics? How many males among them? All Swinton has to do is attach her name to a project and it will be made — with male money. The film does truly touch emotions felt by every daughter trying to hard to please a mother who cannot express her own desires or her own heartfelt love for her daughter. But this situation makes the daughter seem pathetic except in her own creative mind as she grapples with the dilemna of The Eternal Duaghter. But what is the story here? That a writer’s imagination trumps reality? Are we so starved for emotional experiences that such a sketch brings us to tears? Am I horribly out of touch with the universe? Another film which touches this same raw nerve is Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun. Where have I gone wrong? Compare this to Eo, a film with no ersatz emotion and created to produce an emotion the director Jerzy Skolomowski had not felt since he saw Au Hasard Balthazar in 1966. Read my blog and his quotations. I am longing for the days of Angelopoulos, of Terence Davies or even Peter Greenaway. Give me hard art, not oblique emotional sketches, playing like the little musical phrase that Proust’s Swann held so dear as a reminder of his lost love. Postscript: An interesting article by Carlos Aguilar appeared in the LA Times shortly after I published this. It explains the long friendship between Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg. At first I thought it negated my negative take on the deal, but on second reading, I decided that it only added another tier to the dealmaking process which is that Tilda swings her own weight and can bring in her friend to the circle of dealmaking whereas before, Hogg remained in the background of the art film world.
- 12/18/2022
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at him; he lives amongst a diaspora of immigrants from Europe and Asia. She has four kids and five grandkids; he has a wife with whom he’s separated yet still unable to admit it to his family, for they wouldn’t approve of letting her stay while she finishes school. The one thing Ava (Claire Rushbrook) and Ali (Adeel Akhtar) do have in common is a little girl named Sofia (Ariana Bodorova). Ava provides educational assistance during her schooling as an aide. Ali employs the...
Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at him; he lives amongst a diaspora of immigrants from Europe and Asia. She has four kids and five grandkids; he has a wife with whom he’s separated yet still unable to admit it to his family, for they wouldn’t approve of letting her stay while she finishes school. The one thing Ava (Claire Rushbrook) and Ali (Adeel Akhtar) do have in common is a little girl named Sofia (Ariana Bodorova). Ava provides educational assistance during her schooling as an aide. Ali employs the...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Hulu Orders Comedy Pilot ‘Bammas’ Starring Opeyemi Olagbaju & Biniam Bizuneh, Ramy Youssef Producing
Hulu has ordered the comedy pilot “Bammas” written by and starring Opeyemi Olagbaju and Biniam Bizuneh, Variety has learned.
The show follows a pair of young Ethiopian- and Nigerian-American best friends as they struggle to overcome their loser reputations in a magical realist version of Washington DC.
Olagbaju and Bizuneh serve as executive producers in addition to starring and writing. Danny Chun (“The Office” “The Simpsons”), who mentored the pair at the Sundance Lab in 2019, will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Jonathan Krisel will direct and executive produce. Ramy Youssef will executive produce under his Cairo Cowboy banner with Andy Campagna overseeing for the company. ABC Signature is the studio.
Bizuneh is Ethiopian-American and has written for shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Dave,” and “Resident Alien.” He is also a stand up comedian, having performed as part of Comedy Central’s “Stand Up Featuring” as well as starring in...
The show follows a pair of young Ethiopian- and Nigerian-American best friends as they struggle to overcome their loser reputations in a magical realist version of Washington DC.
Olagbaju and Bizuneh serve as executive producers in addition to starring and writing. Danny Chun (“The Office” “The Simpsons”), who mentored the pair at the Sundance Lab in 2019, will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Jonathan Krisel will direct and executive produce. Ramy Youssef will executive produce under his Cairo Cowboy banner with Andy Campagna overseeing for the company. ABC Signature is the studio.
Bizuneh is Ethiopian-American and has written for shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Dave,” and “Resident Alien.” He is also a stand up comedian, having performed as part of Comedy Central’s “Stand Up Featuring” as well as starring in...
- 3/15/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu is proceeding with a pilot order to Bammas, a comedy written, executive produced by and starring Opeyemi “Opey” Olagbaju & Biniam Bizuneh.
Executive producing the pilot are Grandfathered creator Danny Chun, who serves as showrunner, Portlandia and Baskets co-creator Jonathan Krisel, who is directing, and Ramy Youssef. ABC Signature is the studio.
In Bammas, a pair of young Ethiopian- and Nigerian-American best friends struggle to overcome their loser reputations in a magical realist version of Washington, D.C.
Youssef executive produces through his Cairo Cowboy Banner, with Andy Campagna overseeing.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
Olagbaju, a Nigerian-American writer and comedian, and Bizuneh, an Ethiopian-American writer and comedian, developed the original pitch at the Sundance Episodic Lab in 2019. Former The Office head writer Chun was their mentor at the Sundance Lab where he read their script, brought it to ABC Signature where he had had a string of overall deals,...
Executive producing the pilot are Grandfathered creator Danny Chun, who serves as showrunner, Portlandia and Baskets co-creator Jonathan Krisel, who is directing, and Ramy Youssef. ABC Signature is the studio.
In Bammas, a pair of young Ethiopian- and Nigerian-American best friends struggle to overcome their loser reputations in a magical realist version of Washington, D.C.
Youssef executive produces through his Cairo Cowboy Banner, with Andy Campagna overseeing.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
Olagbaju, a Nigerian-American writer and comedian, and Bizuneh, an Ethiopian-American writer and comedian, developed the original pitch at the Sundance Episodic Lab in 2019. Former The Office head writer Chun was their mentor at the Sundance Lab where he read their script, brought it to ABC Signature where he had had a string of overall deals,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Arthouse sequels are a rare breed, as is British director Joanna Hogg, who brings her distinctive vision to Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight with The Souvenir Part II. A follow up to 2019’s lauded, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir, it once again stars Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, now mourning the loss of her boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke), a drug addict who claimed to work for the Foreign Office. His spectre looms large as Julie drifts through film school, eventually making a film about her experiences with Anthony with the help of her peers.
Like Hogg films Unrelated, Archipelago and The Souvenir, this favors long takes and understated dialogue and explores the world of the privileged. Julie only has to ask her mother once, meekly, for £10,000 so she can make her film. Byrne’s real-life mother and Cannes stalwart Tilda Swinton puts in a generous, gently amusing turn as one half of a...
Like Hogg films Unrelated, Archipelago and The Souvenir, this favors long takes and understated dialogue and explores the world of the privileged. Julie only has to ask her mother once, meekly, for £10,000 so she can make her film. Byrne’s real-life mother and Cannes stalwart Tilda Swinton puts in a generous, gently amusing turn as one half of a...
- 7/8/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Bad Vacations
I imagine your summer plans didn’t go as expected, but in at least a few films in a new Criterion Channel series, some characters have it worse off than having to quarantine inside. Titled Bad Vacations, the collection includes Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958), La collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967), The Deep (Peter Yates, 1977), House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986), The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990), Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997), Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007), and Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)
“This is utopia, bright and burning.
Bad Vacations
I imagine your summer plans didn’t go as expected, but in at least a few films in a new Criterion Channel series, some characters have it worse off than having to quarantine inside. Titled Bad Vacations, the collection includes Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958), La collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967), The Deep (Peter Yates, 1977), House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986), The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990), Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997), Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007), and Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)
“This is utopia, bright and burning.
- 8/28/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
If you’re looking to dive into the best of independent and foreign filmmaking, The Criterion Channel has announced their August 2020 lineup. The impressive slate includes retrospectives dedicated to Mia Hansen-Løve, Bill Gunn, Stephen Cone, Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, Alain Delon, Bill Plympton, Les Blank, and more.
In terms of new releases, they also have Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau, the fascinating documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, the Kenyan LGBTQ drama Rafiki, and more. There’s also a series on Australian New Wave with films by Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, David Gulpilil, and Peter Weir, as well as one on bad vacations with Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton, 1989
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roy Rowland,...
In terms of new releases, they also have Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau, the fascinating documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, the Kenyan LGBTQ drama Rafiki, and more. There’s also a series on Australian New Wave with films by Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, David Gulpilil, and Peter Weir, as well as one on bad vacations with Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and more.
See the lineup below and explore more on their platform. One can also see our weekly streaming picks here.
25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton, 1989
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roy Rowland,...
- 7/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
- 11/15/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options–not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
One of the best coming-of-age films of the decade, what begins as a fairly standard, but intimately captured story of young passion quickly blossoms to one of the most mature takes on such an event thanks to Mia Hansen-Løve’s remarkably natural style and a script that’s conscious of time and its effects on love. Praise must also go to Lola Creton and Sebastian Urzendowsky for seemingly organic chemistry from such material. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky)
Upon the release of The Man from London, one might...
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
One of the best coming-of-age films of the decade, what begins as a fairly standard, but intimately captured story of young passion quickly blossoms to one of the most mature takes on such an event thanks to Mia Hansen-Løve’s remarkably natural style and a script that’s conscious of time and its effects on love. Praise must also go to Lola Creton and Sebastian Urzendowsky for seemingly organic chemistry from such material. – Jordan R.
Where to Stream: Mubi (free for 30 days)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky)
Upon the release of The Man from London, one might...
- 8/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Seasoned producer Randall Winston has signed a two-year overall deal at ABC Studios. Under the pact, he will continue in his roles on two upcoming ABC Studios/ABC Signature series — he serves as an executive producer on ABC’s black-ish prequel series mixed-ish, focused on young Rainbow, and as a co-executive producer of the Freeform comedy series UnRelated.
Additionally, Winston will be developing original projects and will be directing for the studio.
Winston served as executive producer on NBC’s comedy series Undateable and ABC/TBS’ Cougar Town and as xo-executive producer on ABC’s Roseanne revival and Scrubs, Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, Fox’s Rush Hour and TV Land’s Nobodies, among others. A couple of the gigs stemmed from his stint as Head of Production for Jax Media for the West Coast.
Winston, who has directed episodes of Grace and Frankie, Scrubs and Cougar Town, is...
Additionally, Winston will be developing original projects and will be directing for the studio.
Winston served as executive producer on NBC’s comedy series Undateable and ABC/TBS’ Cougar Town and as xo-executive producer on ABC’s Roseanne revival and Scrubs, Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, Fox’s Rush Hour and TV Land’s Nobodies, among others. A couple of the gigs stemmed from his stint as Head of Production for Jax Media for the West Coast.
Winston, who has directed episodes of Grace and Frankie, Scrubs and Cougar Town, is...
- 6/3/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Burke as Anthony and Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie in The Souvenir. Photograph by Agatha A. Nitecka. Courtesy of A24.
Many women, early in their romantic lives, have an experience with a “bad boy,” a charming rogue who just is not good for them. The Souvenir, director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, presents a particularly dangerous version of that romantic experience. What really boosted this British drama into a Sundance hit, winning the Grand Jury Prize, was the breakout performance of Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also appears in the film) and her ex, Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne.
Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a shy, ambitious British film student. Julie is from a wealthy, aristocratic family and has led a very sheltered and privileged life. Living in a London apartment in upscale Knightsbridge, she is struggling to establish her own adult identity and...
Many women, early in their romantic lives, have an experience with a “bad boy,” a charming rogue who just is not good for them. The Souvenir, director Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical drama, presents a particularly dangerous version of that romantic experience. What really boosted this British drama into a Sundance hit, winning the Grand Jury Prize, was the breakout performance of Honor Swinton Byrne, the daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also appears in the film) and her ex, Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne.
Honor Swinton Byrne plays Julie, a shy, ambitious British film student. Julie is from a wealthy, aristocratic family and has led a very sheltered and privileged life. Living in a London apartment in upscale Knightsbridge, she is struggling to establish her own adult identity and...
- 5/31/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Disarming in their skittery vulnerability and unyielding portrayals of human disaffection, the films of Joanna Hogg have simmered under-the-radar since her powerful feature debut Unrelated (2007). Critical appraisals of her body of work have correctly found common ground between Hogg’s approach and a number of canonical cinematic heavyweights, but any list of touchstones will blur into obsoletion as the breadth and peculiar combination of the cinephile, photographer, and artist’s collection of interests and inspirations meld into a singular auteurism. Hogg’s latest film, The Souvenir, arrived at Sundance this year with a resounding bang. The portrait of an artist as a young woman, Hogg’s fourth feature is based on her own experiences as a film student in 1980s London. Hogg surrogate Julie (Honor Swinton-Byrne) is a 24-year-old living in a smart flat financed by her wealthy parents. But Julie longs to break through the restrictive bubble of her existence,...
- 5/16/2019
- MUBI
Remember the name Honor Swinton Byrne — her star is born. In The Souvenir, she plays Julie, a film student in 1980s London who’s being set up to learn a lot of things the hard way. Written and directed by the bracingly brilliant Joanna Hogg, this delicate, dazzling memoir traces her own origin story, and there is something superheroic about her struggle to look back without hitting the brick wall of formula and weepy nostalgia. In her fourth feature, following Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013), Hogg refuses to hand-hold her audience,...
- 5/16/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Freeform unveiled trailers for three of its upcoming shows during the network’s portion of the Disney upfront presentation on Tuesday.
In addition to a trailer for the upcoming “Party of Five” reboot, the cable network also debuted an extended look at the supernatural drama “Motherland: Fort Salem,” which takes place at an academy for witches training to be in the American military, and a trailer for the Josh Thomas-created comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.”
None of the three series have premiere dates, though they join a growing slate of Freeform originals, which includes the spinoffs “Good Trouble,” “Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists” and the college-set “Grown-ish”; the mermaid drama “Siren,” which was renewed for a third season on Tuesday; “The Bold Type”; Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger”; and the upcoming Kenya Barris comedy “Unrelated.”
Also Read: Lauren Corrao to Replace Karey Burke as Head of Programming at...
In addition to a trailer for the upcoming “Party of Five” reboot, the cable network also debuted an extended look at the supernatural drama “Motherland: Fort Salem,” which takes place at an academy for witches training to be in the American military, and a trailer for the Josh Thomas-created comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay.”
None of the three series have premiere dates, though they join a growing slate of Freeform originals, which includes the spinoffs “Good Trouble,” “Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists” and the college-set “Grown-ish”; the mermaid drama “Siren,” which was renewed for a third season on Tuesday; “The Bold Type”; Marvel’s “Cloak & Dagger”; and the upcoming Kenya Barris comedy “Unrelated.”
Also Read: Lauren Corrao to Replace Karey Burke as Head of Programming at...
- 5/14/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Freeform executive Jana Steele Helman is leaving the cable network for a new position at CBS All Access, Variety has learned exclusively.
Helman was previously the vice president of programming and development at Freeform. She will now serve as the vice president of original content at CBS All Access, reporting to Julie McNamara.
She first joined Freeform in 2016, when the network was still known as ABC Family. After the rebrand, she oversaw the development and production of such series as “Cloak and Dagger,” “Grown-ish,” and the upcoming comedy series “Unrelated” from executive producer Kenya Barris.
Prior to joining Freeform, Helman was the director of comedy development at Warner Brothers Television. She started there as an assistant and was responsible for selling half hour series to broadcast, premium and streaming outlets. During that time, she worked on the development and production of comedies including “Two Broke Girls,” “Undateable,” “Selfie,” “One Big Happy,...
Helman was previously the vice president of programming and development at Freeform. She will now serve as the vice president of original content at CBS All Access, reporting to Julie McNamara.
She first joined Freeform in 2016, when the network was still known as ABC Family. After the rebrand, she oversaw the development and production of such series as “Cloak and Dagger,” “Grown-ish,” and the upcoming comedy series “Unrelated” from executive producer Kenya Barris.
Prior to joining Freeform, Helman was the director of comedy development at Warner Brothers Television. She started there as an assistant and was responsible for selling half hour series to broadcast, premium and streaming outlets. During that time, she worked on the development and production of comedies including “Two Broke Girls,” “Undateable,” “Selfie,” “One Big Happy,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Kris D. Lofton (Ballers) has joined Freeform comedy series Unrelated (fka Besties), starring Jordin Sparks and Gigi Zumbado, in a recasting.
Lofton will play Todd, Becca’s brother, a mama’s boy who still lives in their parents’ basement. He replaces Brooks Brantley, who was initially cast as the character. The role went in another direction creatively and was recast.
Created by Ranada Shepard, Casey Johnson and David Windsor and executive produced by Kenya Barris, Unrelated follows Becca (Sparks) and her newly discovered half-sister Jesi (Zumbado) as they’re thrown into each other’s lives by an online genetics test and have to figure out how to go from strangers to sisters.
The series also stars Jessika Van, Davi Santos and Matt Shively.
Shepard, Johnson and Windsor will executive produce along with Barris. Michael McDonald directs the first episode.
Lofton has been recurring as Kisan Teague on HBO’s Ballers.
Lofton will play Todd, Becca’s brother, a mama’s boy who still lives in their parents’ basement. He replaces Brooks Brantley, who was initially cast as the character. The role went in another direction creatively and was recast.
Created by Ranada Shepard, Casey Johnson and David Windsor and executive produced by Kenya Barris, Unrelated follows Becca (Sparks) and her newly discovered half-sister Jesi (Zumbado) as they’re thrown into each other’s lives by an online genetics test and have to figure out how to go from strangers to sisters.
The series also stars Jessika Van, Davi Santos and Matt Shively.
Shepard, Johnson and Windsor will executive produce along with Barris. Michael McDonald directs the first episode.
Lofton has been recurring as Kisan Teague on HBO’s Ballers.
- 3/9/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
While there’s only been a few major film festivals this year thus far with Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, one clear highlight to emerge is Joanna Hogg’s much-anticipated return with The Souvenir. A transfixing tale of a relationship in peril (and early days of film school), A24 picked up both this film and Hogg’s sequel, shooting this summer and which has Avengers-esque anticipation around this parts. Ahead of a release of the first part this May, they’ve now debuted the first trailer.
I said in my review, “The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns...
I said in my review, “The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Souvenir melds two well-trodden subgenres and through Joanna Hogg’s refreshingly unique vision makes each feel entirely original. Her much-anticipated return after 2013’s Exhibition tells both a painful addiction story and a behind-the-scenes look at film school struggles as we follow Julie (a beautiful debut performance by Honor Swinton Byrne). The daughter of Tilda Swinton (who also briefly turns up), Swinton Byrne is in every scene, and steals them all. Akin to the revelatory introduction to Tom Hiddleston in Hogg’s first two films, Unrelated and Archipelago, she is the lifeblood of The Souvenir, which follows doomed lovers in a story that is conveyed with feels mined from achingly personal memories.
Through her abstract, painterly compositions and improvisational approach, the British director has a keen desire to remove all artifice from her films, stripping away clichés to get to the emotional essence of each scene. Her latest film finds...
Through her abstract, painterly compositions and improvisational approach, the British director has a keen desire to remove all artifice from her films, stripping away clichés to get to the emotional essence of each scene. Her latest film finds...
- 1/29/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Souvenir: Part 1
British director Joanna Hogg has remained one of the UK’s most underrated auteur assets since breaking out of television in the late 2000s with Unrelated (2008), which starred a young Tom Hiddleston—until 2018, that is.
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British director Joanna Hogg has remained one of the UK’s most underrated auteur assets since breaking out of television in the late 2000s with Unrelated (2008), which starred a young Tom Hiddleston—until 2018, that is.
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- 1/4/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The end of the London Film Festival highlights the growing success of a new wave of UK film-makers, including Michael Pearce and Rungano Nyoni
Ever since the late Colin Welland collected his screenwriting Oscar for Chariots of Fire in 1982 and declared with a most un-British triumphalism that “The British are coming!”, such public displays of confidence in the country’s film industry have been uncommon, even frowned upon. Perhaps it is time to amend Welland’s cry this year and state the obvious: the British are here. In 2017, there have been more distinctive homegrown debut features funded, made and released, displaying a greater diversity of theme and focus, than in any other year in recent memory.
Previously it has been possible to identify small, localised pockets of new talent: think of 2006, when both Andrea Arnold (Red Road) and Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton) made their debuts, or 2008, which brought...
Ever since the late Colin Welland collected his screenwriting Oscar for Chariots of Fire in 1982 and declared with a most un-British triumphalism that “The British are coming!”, such public displays of confidence in the country’s film industry have been uncommon, even frowned upon. Perhaps it is time to amend Welland’s cry this year and state the obvious: the British are here. In 2017, there have been more distinctive homegrown debut features funded, made and released, displaying a greater diversity of theme and focus, than in any other year in recent memory.
Previously it has been possible to identify small, localised pockets of new talent: think of 2006, when both Andrea Arnold (Red Road) and Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton) made their debuts, or 2008, which brought...
- 10/14/2017
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Above: Soviet poster for The Ghost That Never Returns (Abram Room, Soviet Union, 1929). Designed by the Sternberg Brothers.Have you seen what’s playing on Mubi lately? Many of you who read my column may not often partake of the best of what Mubi has to offer, which is a beautifully curated, constantly changing selection of films which amounts to a top-notch repertory cinema on your laptop and in your living room. Now that Mubi is on the Roku app too there is even more reason to subscribe to the best film streaming deal on the internet. I know, I know, there is always too much to see and too little time, but for me what elevates Mubi over other streaming services—and I’m not just saying this because I write for them—is the 30-day model which offers you a new surprise every morning as well as the...
- 1/27/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is showing Joanna Hogg's Unrelated (2007) from January 13 - February 12 and her Exhibition (2013) from January 14 - February 13 in the United States.ExhibitionJoanna Hogg’s films, including Unrelated and Exhibition, can at least partly be viewed in the tradition of British realist films: for example, with their long, static takes, casting of non-professional actors in addition to professional ones, or discarding the classicist narrative structure in favor of a more open-ended, episodic organization. However, instead of a narrative focus on the domestic situations of the working class, Hogg’s films focus exclusively on the emotional life of the social and economical elites; while her work could perhaps be said to be linked to Mike Leigh formally, thematically it has more in common with the alienated bourgeois of Michelangelo Antonioni. In her films, especially Unrelated and Exhibition, she explores the (sometimes self-imposed) constraints of the life of upper-class women; but though...
- 1/13/2017
- MUBI
New York Film Critics Circle
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" swept the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning. The feature scored best film, director, and supporting actress for Patricia Arquette's role. Also nabbing acting honors were Marion Cotillard for "Two Days, One Night," Timothy Spall for "Mr. Turner" and J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash".
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" scored best screenplay, "The Babadook" won best first film, "The Immigrant" nabbed best cinematography, "Ida" won best foreign language film, "The Lego Movie" scored best animated feature, and "Citizenfour" won best documentary. [Source: Nyfcc]
Hunter's Prayer
Allen Leech ("Downton Abbey," "In Fear," "The Imitation Game") will join Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush in Jonathan Mostow's "Hunter’s Prayer" based on Kevin Wignall's novel "For the Dogs".
Worthington plays a hired assassin sent to target a woman whom he instead bonds with and together they go on the run. Leech will play the assassin's former employer.
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" swept the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning. The feature scored best film, director, and supporting actress for Patricia Arquette's role. Also nabbing acting honors were Marion Cotillard for "Two Days, One Night," Timothy Spall for "Mr. Turner" and J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash".
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" scored best screenplay, "The Babadook" won best first film, "The Immigrant" nabbed best cinematography, "Ida" won best foreign language film, "The Lego Movie" scored best animated feature, and "Citizenfour" won best documentary. [Source: Nyfcc]
Hunter's Prayer
Allen Leech ("Downton Abbey," "In Fear," "The Imitation Game") will join Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush in Jonathan Mostow's "Hunter’s Prayer" based on Kevin Wignall's novel "For the Dogs".
Worthington plays a hired assassin sent to target a woman whom he instead bonds with and together they go on the run. Leech will play the assassin's former employer.
- 12/1/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"British filmmaker Joanna Hogg has made three intimate, sympathetic features in which vulnerable friends and family members attempt to hide secrets from each other within large houses and open frames," writes Aaron Cutler, who interviews Hogg for Artforum. Today we gather fresh reviews of Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2009) and Exhibition (2013), all of which are screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. » - David Hudson...
- 6/27/2014
- Keyframe
"British filmmaker Joanna Hogg has made three intimate, sympathetic features in which vulnerable friends and family members attempt to hide secrets from each other within large houses and open frames," writes Aaron Cutler, who interviews Hogg for Artforum. Today we gather fresh reviews of Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2009) and Exhibition (2013), all of which are screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. » - David Hudson...
- 6/27/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Somewhere in England’s capital, a pair of married, middle-aged artists spend their days seeking creative inspiration inside their modernist home, a vertical palace of cold minimalism in which D (Viv Albertine) and her husband H (Liam Gillick) communicate largely via interhouse telecom. Though she appears bored, he’s too blind in his artistic and domestic contentment to notice, too concerned with his own work to see that his marriage has reached a stalemate. She finds more satisfaction in onanism, which she keeps secret from her pretentious, passively domineering husband, who removes the clothes from his wife during their alone time, as she dutifully lays on their bed, primed for a joyless fuck.
The idea that a setting is its own “character” is bandied around all too often, but in Exhibition the setting is as integral as the script – the house’s unique spiral staircases and sliding doors couldn’t be removed from the story,...
The idea that a setting is its own “character” is bandied around all too often, but in Exhibition the setting is as integral as the script – the house’s unique spiral staircases and sliding doors couldn’t be removed from the story,...
- 6/23/2014
- by Brogan Morris
- We Got This Covered
Walking to the castle in Unrelated: "Anna wears that looks like a maternity dress. It belonged to Kathryn Worth's mother."
In part 2 of our conversation Joanna Hogg and I discuss the influence of Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli on Archipelago, how Edith Head would not have come upon Tom Hiddleston and Kathryn Worth's capes in Unrelated, the many roles Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick have in Exhibition, A Nos Amours starting with Chantal Akerman, Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin, and games people play.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition, each have totally distinct concepts about costumes.
Joanna Hogg: It's so much about the different stories. With Unrelated, there is a dress that Anna wears that looks like a maternity dress. It belonged to Kathryn Worth's mother. Stéphane [Collonge] and myself were looking at what Kathryn has of her own clothes that might fit into the story.
In part 2 of our conversation Joanna Hogg and I discuss the influence of Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli on Archipelago, how Edith Head would not have come upon Tom Hiddleston and Kathryn Worth's capes in Unrelated, the many roles Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick have in Exhibition, A Nos Amours starting with Chantal Akerman, Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin, and games people play.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition, each have totally distinct concepts about costumes.
Joanna Hogg: It's so much about the different stories. With Unrelated, there is a dress that Anna wears that looks like a maternity dress. It belonged to Kathryn Worth's mother. Stéphane [Collonge] and myself were looking at what Kathryn has of her own clothes that might fit into the story.
- 6/22/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With her new film Exhibition beginning a two-week exclusive engagement at the Film Society of Lincoln Center today, along with her two previous films Unrelated and Archipelago getting theatrical runs concurrently, British filmmaker Joanna Hogg is in town and I was lucky enough to catch up with her for a chat. I saw Exhibition at last year's New York Film Festival and was blown away by it, so I was eager to pick her brains about her Antonioni-esque use of the environment in her family/relationship dramas. Unguarded and sincere, she opened up to all the questions and explained away lengthily much more so than many other directors I've talked with over the years. For this, I thank you Ms. Hogg.An exclusive theatrical run of Exhibition starts 6/20...
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- 6/20/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The latest triumph from acclaimed British director Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated), Exhibition (2013) is an intimate, austere and remarkably engrossing portrait of a modern marriage gradually falling apart, as well as a revealing investigation into memory, architecture and the artistic process. To celebrate the home entertainment release of Hogg's strange and beautiful new endeavour, we have Three brand new DVD copies of Exhibition to give away to our regular returning readers, courtesy of the team at independent and world cinema distributors Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
- 6/20/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It’s one of movieland’s minor mysteries that “Exhibition,” the third feature from British director Joanna Hogg, is the first to have been snapped up immediately for U.S. distribution: it is by some distance her least accessible movie, and features the smallest, cameo-level role from Tom Hiddleston, the bona-fide star whom Hogg is credited with discovering. And we can’t help but think it’s a shame, as her previous two films “Unrelated” and “Archipelago” are brilliantly chilly, incisive surgeries performed on the living patient that is the middle class British family, that are in themselves extremely uncompromising in terms of focus and ambivalence. But in “Exhibition” she narrows that focus so drastically that it feels like we’re at maximum zoom, looking more intently at the space between things, than the things themselves. It’s a very brave and unapologetically cerebral approach to have taken, but it...
- 6/19/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Kathryn Worth as Anna with Tom Hiddleston as Oakley in Unrelated: "What she really wants is to be part of a group."
When I met up with Joanna Hogg in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center she was preparing for the Us theatrical release of her latest film Exhibition, starring Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick with cameos from members of her Unrelated cast, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe and Harry Kershaw. Hiddleston also stars in her second film Archipelago with Lydia Leonard, Kate Fahy, Amy Lloyd and Christopher Baker.
Joanna was selected in 2013 to have her films screened in the Emerging Artists program along with Fernando Eimbcke at the 51st New York Film Festival.
In part 1 of our conversation we discussed D and H as not in Dh Lawrence, Stéphane Collonge's production design, turning absence into a character, how to begin and what an arranged marriage...
When I met up with Joanna Hogg in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center she was preparing for the Us theatrical release of her latest film Exhibition, starring Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick with cameos from members of her Unrelated cast, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe and Harry Kershaw. Hiddleston also stars in her second film Archipelago with Lydia Leonard, Kate Fahy, Amy Lloyd and Christopher Baker.
Joanna was selected in 2013 to have her films screened in the Emerging Artists program along with Fernando Eimbcke at the 51st New York Film Festival.
In part 1 of our conversation we discussed D and H as not in Dh Lawrence, Stéphane Collonge's production design, turning absence into a character, how to begin and what an arranged marriage...
- 6/19/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When Kino Lorber opens Joanna Hogg's new film "Exhibition" in select U.S. theaters this Friday, June 20, many audiences will get their first look at a markedly original talent. A British filmmaker with a long history in television direction, Hogg pulled a complete one-eighty with her minimal freshman film "Unrelated" in 2008; perhaps most notable for launching the career of one Tom Hiddleston ("The Avengers"), who has appeared in all of her work since. She followed that film up 2010's quietly tense "Archipelago," and her newest film, "Exhibition," premiered at last year's Locarno Film Festival before heading stateside. Read More: Michael Haneke Meets Miranda July in Joanna Hogg's Compelling 'Exhibition' While Kino Lorber head Richard Lorber has described the film as Bergman's "Scenes of a Marriage" crossed with Akerman's "Jeanne Dielmann," "Exhibition" is decidedly stranger: an anxious, claustrophobic portrayal of a married couple (musician Viv Albertine and...
- 6/18/2014
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Viv Albertine in Exhibition. "She was very honest in her approach. It's a balance where it's not her and where she puts herself into it" Exhibition is writer/director Joanna Hogg's third feature and she shows no signs of tiring in exploring themes of female sexuality and upper middle-class frostiness that marked out her earlier films Unrelated and Archipelago. This time, her focus is a middle-aged couple D and H (played by former punk band singer Viv Albertine and conceptual artist Liam Gillick) and the fractures that begin to show in their relationship once they decide to move from the designer house they live in, in London.
Hogg introduced the film and took part in a lively Q&A about it at Bradford International Film Festival last week. Speaking about the origins of the film, she explained how she came to know the architect who built it - James Melvin.
Hogg introduced the film and took part in a lively Q&A about it at Bradford International Film Festival last week. Speaking about the origins of the film, she explained how she came to know the architect who built it - James Melvin.
- 4/8/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s one of movieland’s minor mysteries that “Exhibition,” the third feature from British director Joanna Hogg, is the first to have been snapped up immediately for U.S. distribution: it is by some distance her least accessible movie, and features the smallest, cameo-level role from Tom Hiddleston, the bona-fide star whom Hogg is credited with discovering. And we can’t help but think it’s a shame, as her previous two films “Unrelated” and “Archipelago” are brilliantly chilly, incisive surgeries performed on the living patient that is the middle class British family, that are in themselves extremely uncompromising in terms of focus and ambivalence. But in “Exhibition” she narrows that focus so drastically that it feels like we’re at maximum zoom, looking more intently at the space between things, than the things themselves. It’s a very brave and unapologetically cerebral approach to have taken, but it...
- 2/7/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Since her debut with 2007’s “Unrelated,” which is also regarded as the breakout for a certain Tom Hiddleston, British director Joanna Hogg has been quietly making a name for herself as a filmmaker of very distinctive and original style. Her third feature, “Exhibition,” which played at the Göteborg International Film Festival last week, sees her break somewhat with the previous two, both of which dealt more overtly with an analysis of the British middle-class family, to tell instead the story of a married, childless artist couple, H and D, who decide to move from their beloved, modernist home of 18 years. We had the pleasure of meeting Hogg in Göteborg, and having her talk us through “Exhibition” (which will be released stateside in March), and her creative outlook and process in general. It gave us an added insight into just how and why it is that she is being hailed as...
- 2/6/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
First-time director Virginia Gilbert does lovely things with the Provençal light, but her tale of English expats lacks Joanna Hogg's savage honesty
Presumably first-time writer-director Virginia Gilbert (daughter of Brian Gilbert, Wilde) was aiming to make something oblique and fragile about Brits abroad, in the style of Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago). She even hired Hogg's cinematographer, Ed Rutherford. But this slight, conventional tale has nothing of Hogg's rigorous formalism or savage honesty. James Fox and Brenda Fricker play one of those middle-class English couples who've retired to France and act all proprietorial about the place even though, in Brenda's case, they barely speak the language. Their marriage has been becalmed by routine, so when Fox meets feline-featured Natalie Dormer, he offers, with a little too much chivalry, to show her and her jerk of a boyfriend (Paul Nicholls) around Nîmes. Rutherford does lovely things with the Provençal light, but...
Presumably first-time writer-director Virginia Gilbert (daughter of Brian Gilbert, Wilde) was aiming to make something oblique and fragile about Brits abroad, in the style of Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago). She even hired Hogg's cinematographer, Ed Rutherford. But this slight, conventional tale has nothing of Hogg's rigorous formalism or savage honesty. James Fox and Brenda Fricker play one of those middle-class English couples who've retired to France and act all proprietorial about the place even though, in Brenda's case, they barely speak the language. Their marriage has been becalmed by routine, so when Fox meets feline-featured Natalie Dormer, he offers, with a little too much chivalry, to show her and her jerk of a boyfriend (Paul Nicholls) around Nîmes. Rutherford does lovely things with the Provençal light, but...
- 12/6/2013
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Best known for playing mischievous villain Loki in Thor and The Avengers, fan favourite Tom Hiddleston is coming back to cinema screens on October 30 in Thor: The Dark World.
With an army of fans known as 'Hiddlestoners', it's difficult to browse any website without the Brit actor's name popping up. Handily, Digital Spy has ten facts about the star that you may not know.
1. Born in Westminster, London in 1981 to former stage manager Diana Patricia and James Norman, a manager of a pharmaceutical company, Hiddleston is of both Scottish and English descent. He grew up with his two sisters in Wimbledon and later moved to Oxford.
2. Prior to hitting the big time in Kenneth Branagh's Wallander, he'd made a few blink and you'll miss it TV appearances. His on-screen debut was playing a Lord in the TV movie The Life of Nicholas Nickleby, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
With an army of fans known as 'Hiddlestoners', it's difficult to browse any website without the Brit actor's name popping up. Handily, Digital Spy has ten facts about the star that you may not know.
1. Born in Westminster, London in 1981 to former stage manager Diana Patricia and James Norman, a manager of a pharmaceutical company, Hiddleston is of both Scottish and English descent. He grew up with his two sisters in Wimbledon and later moved to Oxford.
2. Prior to hitting the big time in Kenneth Branagh's Wallander, he'd made a few blink and you'll miss it TV appearances. His on-screen debut was playing a Lord in the TV movie The Life of Nicholas Nickleby, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
- 10/23/2013
- Digital Spy
★★★★☆ Distinctive British filmmaker Joanna Hogg returns to London after holidaying in Tuscany (2007's Unrelated) and the Isle of Sicily (2010's Archipelago) with Exhibition (2013), a methodically constructed portrait of bourgeois self-loathing and middle-class paranoia told through an artistic couple whose lives have slowly begun to emulate their art. Hogg takes an intimate and supercilious perspective towards the couple, known only as D (Viv Albertine) and H (Liam Gillick), whose lives are about to be thrown into disarray by the sale of their home of 18 years - a monument to modernist architecture.
Both working from home with offices on different floors, D and H communicate primarily through a telecom whenever they wish to discuss their evening plans or arrange a quick fumble. Their relationship has hit a stumbling block, seemingly held together by the nostalgic memories that permeate the walls of their stylish abode. However, with sexual frustration, incapacitated creativity and social...
Both working from home with offices on different floors, D and H communicate primarily through a telecom whenever they wish to discuss their evening plans or arrange a quick fumble. Their relationship has hit a stumbling block, seemingly held together by the nostalgic memories that permeate the walls of their stylish abode. However, with sexual frustration, incapacitated creativity and social...
- 10/21/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
When Joanna Hogg’s three films played at Nyff this past week in the Emerging Artists series, U.S. audiences got their first look at a markedly original talent. A British filmmaker with a long history in television direction, Hogg pulled a complete one-eighty with her minimal freshman film “Unrelated” in 2008; perhaps most notable for launching the career of one Tom Hiddleston ("The Avengers"), who has appeared in all of her work since. She followed that film up 2010’s quietly tense “Archipelago,” and her newest film, “Exhibition,” premiered at this year’s Locarno Film Festival before heading stateside. At Nyff, “Exhibition” was one of the first films to have its distribution rights snatched up. Kino Lorber will be releasing the film, with an option on the rest of Hogg’s work. While Richard Lorber described the film as Bergman's “Scenes of a Marriage” crossed with Akerman's “Jeanne Dielmann,” “Exhibition” is decidedly stranger: an anxious,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Kino Lorber announced today that they have acquired U.S. distribution rights to writer/director Joanna Hogg's (Archipelago, Unrelated) "Exhibition." The film, which stars Viv Albertine, Liam Gilick, and the critically acclaimed Tom Hiddleston ('The Avengers,' 'Thor'), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and was selected to make its Us premiere at the New York Film Festival, where both of her prior features screened in the festival's Emerging Artists sidebar. This deal was negotiated between Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber and Ryan Kampe of Visit Films. The film follows middle-aged artist couple D and H, living and working together in their London home. When the couple decide to sell their home, where they've lived in for 20 years, they begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof. This prompts struggles and anxieties to surface, paralyzing both D and H's creative outlets.
- 10/4/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
Tfe’s coverage of the 51st New York Film Festival (Sep 27-Oct 14) continues with Glenn discussing Exhibition.
I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff go on in cinemas in the last five years or so. As more and more people stop going to the movies as often and instead rely on home entertainment for their flick fix, so too has the home entertainment has found its way into the cinema. Texting, talking, obnoxiously loud eating practices… they’re all so common place these days that it’s no wonder people are staying home. This, of course, is nothing new. However, today at a the New York Film Festival screening of the education documentary American Promise a man pulled out his laptop. His Laptop! I’d seen an iPad illuminate a cinema before, but never a laptop. The man had it charging at an electrical outlet no less and early...
I’ve seen a lot of weird stuff go on in cinemas in the last five years or so. As more and more people stop going to the movies as often and instead rely on home entertainment for their flick fix, so too has the home entertainment has found its way into the cinema. Texting, talking, obnoxiously loud eating practices… they’re all so common place these days that it’s no wonder people are staying home. This, of course, is nothing new. However, today at a the New York Film Festival screening of the education documentary American Promise a man pulled out his laptop. His Laptop! I’d seen an iPad illuminate a cinema before, but never a laptop. The man had it charging at an electrical outlet no less and early...
- 9/28/2013
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Fresh from triumph on the festival circuit, a host of exciting British films is set for release. We talk to the directors behind this sudden renaissance
At Cannes, in May, there was anxious talk. Of the 70-plus features showcased at the film festival only two of them were British. Did it signal a decline in the UK industry? By the end of 2013, would our film people be wringing their hands while cinemagoers queued up for American fare and the House of Lords unhappily convened a select committee?
Without a doubt, the pair of British films on show at Cannes were excellent – Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant and Paul Wright's For Those in Peril – both bruising, powerful dramas. But French and American and Mexican and Chinese and Cambodian film-makers left Cannes with the top prizes; meanwhile fans and boosters of British cinema travelled back across the Channel in mild panic.
At Cannes, in May, there was anxious talk. Of the 70-plus features showcased at the film festival only two of them were British. Did it signal a decline in the UK industry? By the end of 2013, would our film people be wringing their hands while cinemagoers queued up for American fare and the House of Lords unhappily convened a select committee?
Without a doubt, the pair of British films on show at Cannes were excellent – Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant and Paul Wright's For Those in Peril – both bruising, powerful dramas. But French and American and Mexican and Chinese and Cambodian film-makers left Cannes with the top prizes; meanwhile fans and boosters of British cinema travelled back across the Channel in mild panic.
- 9/15/2013
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
The third film from British director Joanna Hogg, which premiered at the Locarno film festival today, is a brilliantly chilly portrait of a couple, a home, and an unspoken horror
In the space of two films, the 53-year-old British writer-director Joanna Hogg has already carved out a distinctive niche for herself. Her 2007 debut, Unrelated, winner of the Guardian First Film award, documented forensically the seething tensions among the middle-class holidaying in Italy. Its follow-up, Archipelago (which counts Martin Scorsese among its fans), documented forensically the seething tensions among the middle-class holidaying in the Scilly Isles. But her new film, Exhibition, is a bold departure: no one goes on holiday. (Maybe they should. It might help.)
The picture takes place almost entirely in an exquisite modernist house in west London designed by, and formerly home to, the late architect James Melvin (to whom Exhibition is dedicated). Two artists, listed in the...
In the space of two films, the 53-year-old British writer-director Joanna Hogg has already carved out a distinctive niche for herself. Her 2007 debut, Unrelated, winner of the Guardian First Film award, documented forensically the seething tensions among the middle-class holidaying in Italy. Its follow-up, Archipelago (which counts Martin Scorsese among its fans), documented forensically the seething tensions among the middle-class holidaying in the Scilly Isles. But her new film, Exhibition, is a bold departure: no one goes on holiday. (Maybe they should. It might help.)
The picture takes place almost entirely in an exquisite modernist house in west London designed by, and formerly home to, the late architect James Melvin (to whom Exhibition is dedicated). Two artists, listed in the...
- 8/9/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Us sales outfit Visit Films has picked up rights to Locarno-bound drama.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has picked up rights to writer-director Joanna Hogg’s Locarno entry Exhibition, starring Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick and features a cameo from regular collaborator Tom Hiddleston.
Hogg’s anticipated third feature after Archipelago and Unrelated is an intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
Gayle Griffiths of Wild Horses Film Company produces the London-set drama. Artificial Eye releases in the UK. Backers include BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Rooks Nest Entertainment.
Albertine is former guitarist of punk band The Slits. Hogg’s Unrelated picked up London’s Fipresci prize in 2007.
Visit president Kampe, who had been tracking the film for some time and picked it up after seeing a cut, said: “This film is like watching a very careful and studied painted portrait come to...
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has picked up rights to writer-director Joanna Hogg’s Locarno entry Exhibition, starring Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick and features a cameo from regular collaborator Tom Hiddleston.
Hogg’s anticipated third feature after Archipelago and Unrelated is an intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.
Gayle Griffiths of Wild Horses Film Company produces the London-set drama. Artificial Eye releases in the UK. Backers include BFI Film Fund, BBC Films and Rooks Nest Entertainment.
Albertine is former guitarist of punk band The Slits. Hogg’s Unrelated picked up London’s Fipresci prize in 2007.
Visit president Kampe, who had been tracking the film for some time and picked it up after seeing a cut, said: “This film is like watching a very careful and studied painted portrait come to...
- 8/7/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Details of Joanna Hogg’s third feature have emerged, including a title for the film previously known as ‘London Project’.
The film will be released under the title Exhibition and will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August.
For production details visit
Exhibition
It stars Viv Albertine, former guitarist of punk band The Slits, and conceptual artist Liam Gillick in their first feature film performances.
Tom Hiddleston co-stars in a supporting role following his performances in Hogg’s previous feature films, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Explaining the new title, Hogg said: “The word ‘Exhibition’ struck me after we’d finished the final cut. There’s a very obvious level that it works on for the film, but I was also interested in coming from the word ‘inhibition’.
“D, the character I’m telling the story about, is inhibited. The film can be read as being about her coming out of herself and finding a more...
The film will be released under the title Exhibition and will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August.
For production details visit
Exhibition
It stars Viv Albertine, former guitarist of punk band The Slits, and conceptual artist Liam Gillick in their first feature film performances.
Tom Hiddleston co-stars in a supporting role following his performances in Hogg’s previous feature films, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Explaining the new title, Hogg said: “The word ‘Exhibition’ struck me after we’d finished the final cut. There’s a very obvious level that it works on for the film, but I was also interested in coming from the word ‘inhibition’.
“D, the character I’m telling the story about, is inhibited. The film can be read as being about her coming out of herself and finding a more...
- 7/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Details of Joanna Hogg’s third feature have emerged, including a title for the film previously known as ‘London Project’.
The film will be released under the title Exhibition and will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August.
It stars Viv Albertine, former guitarist of punk band The Slits, and conceptual artist Liam Gillick in their first feature film performances.
Tom Hiddleston co-stars in a supporting role following his performances in Hogg’s previous feature films, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Explaining the new title, Hogg said: “The word ‘Exhibition’ struck me after we’d finished the final cut. There’s a very obvious level that it works on for the film, but I was also interested in coming from the word ‘inhibition’.
“D, the character I’m telling the story about, is inhibited. The film can be read as being about her coming out of herself and finding a more exhibitionist side of herself...
The film will be released under the title Exhibition and will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August.
It stars Viv Albertine, former guitarist of punk band The Slits, and conceptual artist Liam Gillick in their first feature film performances.
Tom Hiddleston co-stars in a supporting role following his performances in Hogg’s previous feature films, Unrelated and Archipelago.
Explaining the new title, Hogg said: “The word ‘Exhibition’ struck me after we’d finished the final cut. There’s a very obvious level that it works on for the film, but I was also interested in coming from the word ‘inhibition’.
“D, the character I’m telling the story about, is inhibited. The film can be read as being about her coming out of herself and finding a more exhibitionist side of herself...
- 7/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sheffield Doc/Fest | Dunoon film festival | A Nos Amours | Seret – The London Israeli film and television festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield doesn't quite have the same ring as Cannes or Venice, but in documentary terms it's a fair comparison. This is a market and a meeting place for professionals, and guests this year include Walter Murch, Jonathan Franzen, Trevor McDonald and Captain Sensible, as well as just about every British documentarian you can think of. But this is also the place to see the latest in non-fiction film: 120 films, many of them premieres, on topics ranging from Pussy Riot to Uri Geller's CIA missions, Indonesian genocide, and Bradley Wiggins.
Various venues, Wed to 16 Jun
Dunoon film festival
Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals bring world cinema to Scotland, but this inaugural festival brings Scottish cinema to Scotland, and helps put a seaside town on the cultural map. There are some recent international releases,...
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield doesn't quite have the same ring as Cannes or Venice, but in documentary terms it's a fair comparison. This is a market and a meeting place for professionals, and guests this year include Walter Murch, Jonathan Franzen, Trevor McDonald and Captain Sensible, as well as just about every British documentarian you can think of. But this is also the place to see the latest in non-fiction film: 120 films, many of them premieres, on topics ranging from Pussy Riot to Uri Geller's CIA missions, Indonesian genocide, and Bradley Wiggins.
Various venues, Wed to 16 Jun
Dunoon film festival
Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals bring world cinema to Scotland, but this inaugural festival brings Scottish cinema to Scotland, and helps put a seaside town on the cultural map. There are some recent international releases,...
- 6/8/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
#69. Joanna Hogg’s Untitled London project
Gist: The as yet untitled third feature from Joanna Hogg is described as the everyday intersection between horrendous and comic events, and not much yet is known concerning the plot details. Hogg’s comments indicate another examination of uncomfortable situations such as seen in her 2010 film, Archipelago, but perhaps with even more bite this time around.
Prediction: Hogg reunites with her muse, Tom Hiddleston, who she cast in her 2007 debut, Unrelated (which also happened to be his theatrical feature debut) and Archipelago. He’s a supporting player here, to two intriguing leads, Viv Albertine (one time guitarist for the Slits) and British conceptual artist Liam Gillick. We’re predicting Un Certain Regard for this project.
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Gist: The as yet untitled third feature from Joanna Hogg is described as the everyday intersection between horrendous and comic events, and not much yet is known concerning the plot details. Hogg’s comments indicate another examination of uncomfortable situations such as seen in her 2010 film, Archipelago, but perhaps with even more bite this time around.
Prediction: Hogg reunites with her muse, Tom Hiddleston, who she cast in her 2007 debut, Unrelated (which also happened to be his theatrical feature debut) and Archipelago. He’s a supporting player here, to two intriguing leads, Viv Albertine (one time guitarist for the Slits) and British conceptual artist Liam Gillick. We’re predicting Un Certain Regard for this project.
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- 4/3/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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