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Please don’t stop the music: Anne Fontaine isn’t done with it just yet.

Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another melodic project.

“It’s about a character who was a star at 10 years old. He had a ‘magic’ voice, but then he suddenly lost it. Years later, he is ready to come back. It’s a comedy, based on something real,” she says. Admitting that this time, she will swap classical compositions for popular tunes.

“I like songs: they are in our blood. We hear them and remember we lost a lover when they were playing. They mark our lives. There will be so much music [in this film]. And all these amazing voices, including a real-life singer making her film debut.”

New project will combine “cruelty and humor.”

“Our destiny might be cruel, but we are still able to laugh about it.

Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.

A partial list of the literary talents whose work Gottlieb edited includes Nobel laureates such as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; bestselling novelists such as John le Carré, Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; Hollywood types such as Elia Kazan, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Nora Ephron and Lauren Bacall; Pulitzer Prize-winners such as John Cheever, Katharine Graham and Robert Caro; and even a president, Bill Clinton.

Gottlieb was featured in the documentary Turn Every Page, directed by his daughter Lizzie, which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Festival and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. The film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro as...

Exclusive: French actress Guslagie Malanda has signed with Anonymous Content for management, on the heels of a career-elevating awards run with the acclaimed Alice Diop film, Saint Omer.

The French legal drama, billed as a contemporary version of the Medea myth, premiered to rave reviews at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Feature, before going on to be named as France’s 2023 submission for the Best International Feature Oscar. It’s inspired by a true story and follows novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake...

New Delhi, March 16 (Ians) Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on Thursday in London, leaving behind his wife Meru Gokhale and four children.

He was 57 and suffering from cancer.

Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”

At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...

New Delhi, March 16 (Ians) Patrick French, the biographer of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Francis Younghusband, and Dean of the School of Art and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, passed away on Thursday in London, leaving behind his wife Meru Gokhale and four children.

He was 57 and suffering from cancer.

Reacting to the shocking news, fellow writer and Indophile William Dalrymple tweeted: “Heartbroken to hear about the death of Patrick French, who I have loved and admired since we were both thirteen, and who was the Best Man at my wedding. He was funny & clever & charming, always full of enthusiasm & energy. He was also the greatest biographer of our generation.”

At the time of his death, French was writing a biography of British-Zimbabwean Nobel laureate Doris Lessing.

He first attracted the attention of the world with his authoritative account of the life and adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband, the British explorer and diplomatist who revealed,...

Lizzie Gottlieb on Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb: “I wanted to express that it’s a buddy movie, it’s got energy and hopefully humour.” Photo: Claudia Raschke, courtesy of Wild Surmise Productions, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics

Lizzie Gottlieb’s loving double portrait begins with Ethan Hawke (star of Robert Budreau’s Born To Be Blue) reading from Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York, edited by Robert Gottlieb, and ends with a Chet Baker recording (of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Do it the Hard Way). In-between we have Colm Tóibín, Lynn Nesbit, David Remnick, Mary Norris, Bill Clinton, Conan O'Brien, Maria Tucci, Ina Caro and many others commenting on the dynamic duo.

Lizzie Gottlieb with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was really thrilled to be able to interview Bill Clinton.”

Gottlieb, who has been the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster,...

The enthralling documentary “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” opens with white-on-black credits accompanied by the staccato pecks of a typewriter, which will be music to some viewers’ ears. Robert Caro, the author at the center of the documentary, writes towering books of nonfiction — “The Power Broker,” his 1,280-page study of how Robert Moses literally shaped the city of New York, and “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” his four-volume biography that’s currently awaiting its fifth and final volume — but taps out these imperially detailed and captivating tomes on an old electric typewriter, X-ing out passages as he goes along, backing up each page with an extra sheet and a piece of carbon paper. You can’t get much more analog than that. As “Turn Every Page” reveals, Caro is still married to the methods of the last century; the digital revolution hasn’t touched him.

For a Robert Caro fan like myself, waiting for the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fifth volume in his monumental Lbj biography (which launched in 1982) is a condition best described as managing intense anticipation for the continuation of our greatest living storyteller’s magnum opus, and an ever-sobering grasp of mortality: Caro is 86.

True, we can’t hurry excellence, especially one committed to pencils, a typewriter, and carbon paper. But if people like me are chomping, what must his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb be thinking? He just turned 91!

The book world’s most formidable duo for more than 50 years — since they first teamed on Caro’s reputation-making political biography “The Power Broker” — is the subject of “Turn Every Page,” one of the better documentaries about researching, writing, and reading, directed by Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie.

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Photo: Don Quixote Surely, judging a book written 400 years ago in line with modern standards of narrative and storytelling amounts to unforgivable sacrilege and infant-level ignorance, especially since the book under discussion is solely responsible for introducing most of those standards. Yet, when the Norwegian Nobel Institute polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature”, the editors revealed that Don Quixote received 50 percent more votes than any other book ever written. And most polls and inquiries held around the world in the last hundred years reveal that Miguel de Cervantes' tale continues to receive the majority of votes, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. After the Bible, there has hardly been any book that has been more influential and important over a period of four centuries, giving birth to more than 30 film adaptations and countless plays, novels,...

Nofx’s Fat Mike gets into a “gender pronoun bar fight” on the band’s new song, “Fuck Euphemism,” off their upcoming LP, Single Album, out February 26th via Fat Wreck Chords.

The song is a classic bit of blistering pop-punk, and it finds Fat Mike using all sorts of wordplay and double entendre to grapple with the pressure to explicitly define his gender and sexual identity. The song arrives with a lyric video, animated by Chris Graue.

“We had to make a lyric video for this song because these...

This post originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.

Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.

Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...

It’s official: Bob Dylan will not be traveling to Sweden to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Swedish Academy confirmed Dylan’s non-attendance to the press Wednesday, noting that they had received a letter from the enigmatic musical icon saying he was unable to attend the December ceremony “due to pre-existing commitments.” Softening the blow, however, he wrote that he felt “very honored” and expressed his wishes to receive the prize personally.

Dylan, 75, is hardly the first Nobel Prize recipient to not attend his awards ceremony. Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing are among the other luminaries who declined the trip to Sweden.

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Treat yourself to some science fiction reading, with a bunch of recommend reads from the 1970s...

So many types of science fiction exist, and British Sf writing in the 1970s was often in the business of inventing new types or manipulating the old ones into interesting directions. Astonishing visions were created that reflected back on a changing world where the growth of superpowers jostled with the economic hardships at home. Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?

Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. From the foreseeable future to the end of the universe, here’s a look at eleven incredible British science fiction novels of the 1970s:

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Zeitgeist Films opens the French drama in the USA, starting this Friday, December 4, in New York City, at IFC theaters. *** It could just be lack of exposure (or adventure) on my part, but I’ve become accustomed to (and almost expect), films set in modern day France and featuring black people, to be about immigration, social marginalisation, disaffected black youth… all of which tend to serve up images of grit, grime, poverty… So Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s "My Friend Victoria," was something of a surprise. Set in Paris, the film is based on a Doris Lessing story, "Victoria and the Staveneys," and tells the story of Victoria, a young black woman of no remarkable talent,...

Zeitgeist Films will open the French drama in the USA, starting in New York City, at IFC theaters, starting on December 4. *** It could just be lack of exposure (or adventure) on my part, but I’ve become accustomed to (and almost expect), films set in modern day France and featuring black people, to be about immigration, social marginalisation, disaffected black youth… all of which tend to serve up images of grit, grime, poverty… So Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s "My Friend Victoria," was something of a surprise. Set in Paris, the film is based on a Doris Lessing story, "Victoria and the Staveneys," and tells the story of Victoria, a young black woman of no remarkable...

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The Returned series 2 arrives on More4 in the UK tonight, Friday the 16th of October. We spoke to its creators and cast…

Fabrice Gobert, the French creator of supernatural drama The Returned, speaks good English. An inevitability of using a second language though, is the odd grammatical slip. One such slip made by Gobert at the press launch for The Returned series two is too perfect to let pass by. A pitfall of writing fantasy TV, Gobert said, is that “you can lost yourself”.

Add a capital letter to the ‘l’ word, and you can say that again.

During its enviably long run, Lost became both the high and low benchmark for atmospheric, existentially fraught TV dramas. Its early seasons gripped viewers, but its later runs frustrated many by failing to achieve the perfect ratio of mysteries to answers. That’s the tricky challenge The Returned is facing in series two.

My Friend Victoria

Directed and written by Jean-Paul Civeyrac

France, 2015

Civeyrac’s adaptation of Doris Lessing’s short story Victoria and the Staveneys has a soft charm to its story but finds itself hampered by its comparison to the source material. Set in Paris, rather than its original London setting, My Friend Victoria chronicles the life of its eponymous protagonist, Victoria (Guslagie Malanga) and her struggles with boys, children, jobs, etc, in a realistic, albeit distanced, manner. Narrated by Victoria’s friend Fanny (Keemyah Omolongo), who is a surrogate sister after her mother adopts Victoria, as an already written book, the story unfolds in chapters of life. At first, these chapters are devoted to Victoria’s love interests, and then to her first child, Marie. Loosely centred around her relationship with the Staveneys, a white family at whose house Victoria spends the night once during grade school, the film purports to discuss racial/social politics,...

Having just been had the chance to shine at Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema last month, it may have flown under the radar and been passed over by the top tier film fests, but according to IndieWIRE, Zeitgeist Films’ extremely picky Emily Russo and Nancy Gerstman have chosen to adopt Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria. We briefly touched base with the project on last year’s Most Anticipated list; this is perhaps his longest time between features since he began making films and according to this interview, has been the most prosperous in term of box office back at home. My Friend Victoria will open in New York and Los Angeles in the early fall.

Gist: Adapted from a short story by Doris Lessing, this is about Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 who comes from a humble background, happens to spend the night...

Read More: Watch: Trailer for Fslc's 20th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Demands 'Regardez Moi!' Zeitgeist Films has acquired Jean-Paul Civeyrac's "My Friend Victoria," which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. The film was adapted from a short story by Doris Lessing, which follows Victoria, a young Parisian orphan who is overwhelmed by an evening with a bourgeois family.  Zeitgeist Co-Presidents Emily Russo and Nancy Gerstman said that they were thrilled by the acquisition, noting that the mostly unknown cast is brilliant.  "Civeyrac is a real auteur," they said. "Lessing is a complex writer and everyone involved has made a touching and accessible film from her work." "My Friend Victoria" will open in New York and Los Angeles in the early fall. Read More: 5 Must-See New French Films From Rendez-Vous with French Cinema...

Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.

Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.

France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.

The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.

Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...

Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.

Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.

France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.

The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.

Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...

It could just be lack of exposure (or adventure) on my part, but I’ve become accustomed to (and almost expect), films set in modern day France and featuring black people, to be about immigration, social marginalisation, disaffected black youth… all of which tend to serve up images of grit, grime, poverty… So Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s "My Friend Victoria," was something of a surprise. Set in Paris, the film is based on a Doris Lessing story, "Victoria and the Staveneys," and tells the story of Victoria, a young black woman of no remarkable talent, drive or ambition. The story is narrated by Fanny (Nadia Moussa), Victoria’s literature devouring adopted sister and friend,...

It could just be lack of exposure (or adventure) on my part, but I’ve become accustomed to (and almost expect), films set in modern day France and featuring black people, to be about immigration, social marginalisation, disaffected black youth… all of which tend to serve up images of grit, grime, poverty… So Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria, was something of a surprise. Set in Paris, the film is based on a Doris Lessing story, Victoria and the Staveneys, and tells the story of Victoria, a young black woman of no remarkable talent, drive or ambition. The story is narrated by Fanny (Nadia Moussa), Victoria’s literature devouring adopted sister and friend, and starts when...

The folks at One Way Static Records must have chanted “Candyman” five times while looking in the mirror, because their latest release is the soundtrack to 1992’s Candyman, a film based on Clive Barker’s Books of Blood short story, “The Forbidden.” Making its vinyl debut, the eerie soundtrack by Philip Glass is available to pre-order, and we have song samples and a look at the gatefold and cassette cover art.

Press Release - “One Way Static Records is really proud to be bring you their latest release, A release where we had the chance to work with two icons in their own respective fields!

Today we present to you the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Clive Barker’s 1992 ‘Candyman’ composed & performed by Philip Glass.

Clive Barker who wrote the story for Candyman is a multi talented artist, painter, director & producer. The extent of his work is endless. Spawning Nightbreed,...

Shawn, known for his comedy acting as well as his respected theatre productions, has said Dylan Farrow's accusations of sexual abuse against Allen are as shocking as if they were levelled at Desmond Tutu or Franklin Roosevelt

The actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has defended Woody Allen's character as charges of sexual abuse are levelled at him by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, warning people away from kneejerk assumptions of guilt.

"I personally would have to say that it would take overwhelming evidence to convince me that he had sexually abused a child, just as it would take overwhelming evidence to convince me that Desmond Tutu, Franklin D. Roosevelt or Doris Lessing had sexually abused a child," Shawn wrote in the Los Angeles Times. "Like so many of those who have worked with him repeatedly over the decades, I've found him to be not merely thoughtful, serious and honest,...

So sad. A New York fashion designer who created costumes for Broadway shows like ‘Swing,’ ‘Promises, Promises’ and ‘Evita,’ was found dead on Feb. 16 after he apparently slipped and fell into the Hudson River.

Celebrity fashion designer Michele Savoia, 55, was missing for days before his body was finally discovered and pulled from the Hudson River on Feb. 16. It’s unclear at this time whether there was any foul play in his death, police say.

Michele Savoia Dead: Fashion Designer’s Body Found In Hudson River

Michele was last seen leaving the Marquee club in Chelsea in New York City at around 4 a.m. on Feb.13, according to The New York Times.

Michele Savoia's Body Found

Fashion Designer Found Dead

His close friend Kevin James Dalton said it looked like Michele had slipped on an aluminum ramp while trying to board his boat at the Chelsia Piers. Kevin believes his friend...

My Friend Victoria (Mon amie Victoria)

Director: Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Writers: Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Producer(s): Les Films Pelleas

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory, Aurore Broutin

Director Jean-Paul Civeyrac has debuted his films at notable festivals for years now, yet his works don’t seem to get Us distribution. Now, with his 8th feature, he turns to Doris Lessing for inspiration, a British author whose works seem to be an inspiration for many French directors (last year Anne Fontaine made her English language debut with Adore, an adaptation of a Lessing story). Mouchet and Broutin are actresses that have popped up in a number of notable features, while Pascal Greggory is always a welcome addition to any cast (he also headlined 2007’s La France, from Civeyrac’s contemporary, Serge Bozon).

Gist: Based on the novel by Doris Lessing, Victoria, an 8 year-old black girl from a poor background,...

The WWE Hall of Famer is very sick, but despite reports to the contrary, she has not passed away.

Mae Young is incredibly ill and on her death bed. Two different outlets reported that the 90-year-old had died, but the wrestling legend is still alive and battling her serious illness.

Mae Young Incredibly Ill & On Deathbed

The WWE star was a pioneer in her industry, and at 77, she was crowned “Miss Royal Rumble” She is the third woman to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

The S.C. Post and Courier falsely reported that she had been taken off life support and passed away, but they later corrected their mistake.

The WWE Hall of Fame wrestler had her first match in 1939 and has been hospitalized since Dec. 2013.

WWE Star Meets With Dying Child

She was known as The Amazing Mae Young, and started wrestling at 15!

Mae was born,...

So sad. Iconic poet, Amiri Baraka, passed away after a short illness on Jan. 9. He was known for his epic writing, his political voice, and his poem about 9/11 heard ’round the world.

The world has lost one of its most talented writers and poetic activists. Amiri Baraka, who was formerly New Jersey’s poet laureate, died on Jan. 9 at New Jersey’s Beth Israel Medical Center after a short illness, his agent confirmed to CNN. He was 79 years old.

Amiri Baraka: Activist Poet Dies At 79

Baraka, considered a founder of the 1960s Black Arts movement, made a name for himself by being unafraid to hold a mirror up to society with his writing. His own website said that he “adopted a confrontational style for his poetry, drama, fiction and essays. With intent to create awareness and about the concerns of African-Americans, his writings… on one hand have been praised as a voice against oppression,...

From Cory to Paul to Nelson Mandela, we lost many great, talented people in the year 2013. They may be gone, but they will not be forgotten.

The world lost a fair share of legends in 2013, in the entertainment industry and outside of it. But with every star, like Nelson Mandela and Paul Walker, the amazing outpouring of support and love that followed their deaths proved how much they meant to the world. As we turn the page on 2013, let’s remember the stars we lost this year.

2013 In Memoriam

Nelson Mandela

The South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary leader — a ubiquitous sign of hope and freedom — passed away from a lung infection on Dec. 5.

Paul Walker

The Fast & Furious lead man tragically died in a fiery car accident on Nov. 30. at the age of 40.

Paul Walker Video Shows Actor Burned To Death

Cory Monteith

Glee fans were crushed when the actor,...

Odd List Den Of Geek 20 Dec 2013 - 07:00

As nominated by Den of Geek writers, here are our favourite individual TV episodes of 2013…

Contains mild spoilers for some episodes.

A fortnight ago, Den of Geek's writers were asked to channel their inner Rob Gordon and select their top five favourite TV episodes of 2013 so far (anything airing in the second half of December wouldn't be eligible). Now, after much arduous mathematics and tallying up, the results are in.

So broad was the range of nominations, we've bumped up the top ten to a top fifteen this year, and included a bonus extra list at the end of every programme that appeared on the writers' lists of personal favourites.

Here we are then, the Den of Geek writers' favourite fifteen TV episodes of 2013...

15. Arrow – Sacrifice

What our reviewer said:

"But this was as entertaining and satisfying a finale as Arrow could ever have delivered,...

Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"Fast & Furious 6"

What's It About? Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Vin Diesel, and the late Paul Walker reunite with Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, and future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot to put the pedal to the medal in the sixth iteration of this car-racing series. Can our favorite speed freaks outwit and outdrive a gang of drivers led by a British baddie named Shaw (Luke Evans)?

Why We're In: Besides the fact that some of the DVD earnings will be donated to the late Paul Walker's charity Reach Out Worldwide, this is the perfect guilty-pleasure action film to pop on with a bunch of friends. It's worth it for the runway scene alone.

Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week

"Big" (25th Anniversary Edition)

What's It About? Before Tom Hanks saved "Mr. Banks," he won our hearts as a little...

Australian cinemagoers flocked to the latest edition of The Hunger Games and the Doctor Who anniversary special last weekend, but Adoration was unloved.

Box-office takings shot up to 72% to $20 million, thanks to the two newcomers and a reasonable hold by Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire hauled in $12.5 million, 34% bigger than the opening of the original and on par with the debut of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn- Part 2.

The first Hunger Games wound up with $31.2 million so the sequel starring Jennifer Lawrence as feisty heroine Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Philip Seymour Hoffman has an excellent chance of beating that, particularly with no new films targeting that demographic in the next few weeks.

Worldwide, the fantasy adventure directed by Francis Lawrence scored $US308 million last weekend, including $160.6 million in North America.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 3D rang up $1.5 million from 107 locations on Sunday,...

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British novelist Doris Lessing, who took the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died. She was 94.Ms. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so.Reuters reports Ms. Lessing died peacefully at her London home in the early hours of the morning, publisher HarperCollins said in a statement.Ms. Lessing was born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. She emigrated to Britain at the age of 30 with the manuscript of her first novel, "The Grass Is Singing", about the relationship of a white farmer's wife and her black servant. Ms. Lessing's 55 novels and collections of short stories and essays...

So sad. One of the most important feminist writers ever passed away peacefully on Nov. 17 in her London home. She was 94 years old.

Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and wrote important modern classics like The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, has passed away. The talented author died peacefully in her home in London on Nov. 17, her publisher, Harper Collins, said in a statement.

Doris Lessing: Author Dies At 94

“Doris Lessing was one of the great writers of our age,” Charlie Redmayne, CEO of Harper Collins, said. “She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a warm heart who was not afraid to fight for what she believed in.”

Charlie’s high praise is well-deserved. Doris became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when she won it at the age of 88 in 2007. It was an award that summed up her long,...

Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author and feminist icon, died Sunday. She was 94. Her enduring contribution to literature came with the 1962 publication of “The Golden Notebook,” a sprawling and technically ambitious work that followed the peripatetic life of writer Anna Wulf. The post-modern classic charted Wulf’s emotional struggles through an intersecting series of journal entries, while also tackling communism, nuclear conflagration, sexual liberation and maternity. Lessing authored more than 50 novels, ranging from semi-autobiographical chronicles to science fiction tales. Among her works are “The Good Terrorist,” “Memoirs of a Survivor” and “The Grass is Singing,” which explored class struggle,...

Writer Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor, and The Summer Before the Dark, and dozens of other works, died in London today at the age of 94. Born in present-day Iran to British parents, she spent her childhood and twenties in what is now Zimbabwe, though she moved to London after becoming interested in leftist writing and politics. Lessing was the Nobel Prize in 2007, making her the oldest person to ever win the award for literature.Here is a very endearing video of her reaction to the win: Lessing's writing explored apartheid and colonialism in Africa, dystopia in Britain, spirituality, and feminism. Though Lessing shied away from the "feminist" label, the book for which she was best known, 1962's The Golden Notebook, was praised by the Nobel committee as "a pioneering work" that "belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th Century view of...

London (AP) — Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of The Golden Notebook and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, died Sunday. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction and poetry, died peacefully early Sunday. Her family requested privacy, and the exact cause of death was not immediately clear. Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction. She

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2013

Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $39.99

Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment

Robin Wright (TV’s House of Cards) and Naomi Watts (J. Edgar) stretch the boundaries of friendship in drama movie Adore.

Based on the novel by Doris Lessing, the film tells the tale of childhood friends Lil (Watts) and Roz (Wright), who grow up to be neighbors in an Australian seaside town. Their ideas of love, family, morality and passion are tested, however, when the women fall for each other’s sons.

Xavier Samuel (Anonymous), James Frecheville (Animal Kingdom) and Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines) also star in the movie. It’s is the first English-language film directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel), with a screenplay written by Academy Award-winner Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons).

Adore screened in only a handful of theaters in the U.S. and wasn’t loved by critics or moviegoers, getting 33% and 47% approval,...

Set in a small Australian coastal paradise, Adore is the English-speaking directorial debut of French filmmaker Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel). Based on the novella The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing, the film traces the lifelong friendship between Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) and their embarkation on sexual relationships considered scandalous in some social sets: They sleep with each other’s nearly adult sons....

There is little love from the critics and minimal interest from audiences in the Us for Adoration, the Australian romantic drama starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as best friends who end up bonking each other.s teenage sons.

The first English-language feature from French director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, The Girl From Monaco), the film opened on 57 screens in 23 Us cities last weekend.

Renamed Adore in the Us, it took $US125,000 in three days, for a paltry per-screen average of $2,200.

Judging by those figures and the barrage of bad reviews, eOne Hopscotch faces a marketing challenge when it launches the film in Oz in November.

Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay based on the Doris Lessing novella The Grandmothers. The cast includes James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel as the sons plus Gary Sweet, Ben Mendelsohn and Sophie Lowe.

The buzz on the movie hasn.t been great since it...

It’ll be hard to discuss Adore without first addressing the obvious joke in the room, so let’s get it out of the way: Yes, the film bears a remarkable resemblance to the SNL musical skit “Motherfuckers,” in which Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg decided to bed each other's mothers. (“What time is it, dawg?” “It’s time for a switcheroo.”) But since Adore is based on Doris Lessing’s 2003 novella The Grandmothers, maybe we should be marveling more at SNL’s diversity of inspiration rather than at director Anne Fontaine’s poor timing. Still, poor timing it is, and the unfairness of it all would be worth getting more worked up about if Adore were a better movie. It’s not. But it’s a fascinating one nevertheless — a case study in thwarted cinematic ambition and a cautionary tale of stylistic timidity.I haven’t read the Lessing...

Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) makes her English-language directorial debut with the compelling drama Adore, starring Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and Ben Mendelsohn. The film follows two mothers and longtime friends who fall for each other's sons. To celebrate the film's opening in both theaters and VOD formats September 6, we have a contest lined up to give fans a few extra treats while watching this at home on VOD. We're giving away kits that include a cotton tote, 4-piece wine opener set, truffles, 4 wine glasses and wine charms. Take a look at how you can win.

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Adore

Written by Christopher Hampton

Directed by Anne Fontaine

Australia and France, 2013

The struggle to maintain one’s personal sense of youth is at the heart of Adore, an Australian drama that wishes to be provocative without being particularly salacious or deep. Based on one of four short stories by Doris Lessing in the collection “The Grandmothers,” Adore feels very much like an adaptation of a story that’s too brief, a mere wisp that should be a gale force. Writer Christopher Hampton and director Anne Fontaine choose not to capitalize on the opportunity to further develop the quartet of leads at the heart of this scandalous, offering instead a pretty, shallow portrait of intense, worrying vanity.

Robin Wright and Naomi Watts play Roz and Lil, lifelong best friends who live comfortably in New South Wales. As the film opens, Lil’s husband has just died, and she’s coping...

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Two parts high trash and one part scintillating case study, Anne Fontaine’s English language debut, the Australian set Adore, based on a novel by Doris Lessing, is awkward, uncomfortable, and sure to provoke reactions. While dismissal and nervous laughter are perhaps the key responses amongst conditioned conservative consumers of English language cinema, Fontaine’s latest is ballsy, to say the least. While it’s not entirely successful on all counts and has a tendency to seem like a bizarrely crafted arthouse soft core fantasy exploring hot topic taboos, especially considered the disarmingly good looking cast, with two mothers that happen to be played by incredibly attractive actresses (which only makes it foolishly palatable), there’s a fascinating depth to this challenging piece, even if you are laughing when you’re not supposed to,...

The 57th BFI London Film Festival line-up has officially been revealed, and it is led by a slew of incredibly promising films, many of which have already been buzzing on the festival circuit, and a number of which will be making their debuts here in London.

As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.

Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.

And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...

Originally titled “The Grandmothers” and then “Two Mothers,” the Naomi Watts and Robin Wright-starring steamy drama “Adore” will hit VOD and selected theaters next week. Two new clips from the film have arrived online to heat you up under the collar. Based on Doris Lessing’s novella “The Grandmothers,” the Christopher Hampton-scripted and Anne Fontaine-directed adaptation focuses on Watts and Wright as two best friends who embark in sexual relationships with each other’s sons. First up, courtesy of Vulture, is a clip that features Wright sharing a cigarette with Watts’ handsome son and some sinful subtext. Thanks to JoBlo, you can follow up that safe-for-work clip with a red band clip featuring the same two characters wearing even less clothes. “Adore” hits VOD and selected theaters in the states next Friday, September 6th. Check out the two clips below.

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright deliver riveting performances in Adore, a sensual and provocative drama about two lifelong friends who find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. An unpredictable tale of misguided love and a heartfelt celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship, the film is the English-speaking directorial debut of distinguished filmmaker Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel).

It is adapted for the screen by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), from a novella by Nobel Prize winner for Literature Doris Lessing.

Over the course of her career, French writer/director Anne Fontaine has explored the gray areas of emotional desires in acclaimed films such as Dry Cleaning and Nathalie. Each of those films turned on a staid middle-class couple who are unexpectedly pulled off the straight-and-narrow by an alluring young person. With Adore, Fontaine brings her light, sensuous and intelligent touch to a...

Boys will be boys -- unless they're "young gods." Just ask Robin Wright and Naomi Watts.

'Adore,' the new film from director Anne Fontaine, based on the novel by Doris Lessing, has been raising eyebrows since it debuted at Sundance in January. The reason? It centers on the fairly taboo, Oedipal-esque conceit of two lifelong friends, now mothers, who fall for one another's (of-age) sons. In this case, the mothers -- Roz and Lil -- are played by Wright and Watts, and their sons -- Tom and Ian -- are played by James Frecheville ("Animal Kingdom") and Xavier Samuel ("The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"). Of course, a provocative situation like this is enough to strain any friendship.

In this exclusive preview of "Adore," Roz and Lil lie on the beach and reminisce about their younger days as they watch sons Tom and Ian in the distance, commenting on their athletic prowess.