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In Lee, cinematographer and director Ellen Kuras explores a short yet significant chapter in the life of American model, photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller. Beginning in the 1930s sunlit France, Kuras and screenwriters Liz Hannah, Marion Hume and John Collee, focus on Miller's (Kate Winslet) experiences as a correspondent in Europe during World War II. She would capture some of the strongest images of the conflict, including the horrors of the concentration camps, and she would even pose for a photo in Hitler's private bathtub.

As a cinematographer, Kuras has shot Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind, Alan Rickman's directorial feature A Little Chaos and Sam Mendes' Away We Go, as well as the Fran Lebowitz documentary Public Speaking for Martin Scorsese, and the miniseries Pretend It's A City, featuring Lebowitz and Scorsese. Her work as a director includes the.

When she first rolled up her sleeves to tell the story of Lee Miller, star and first-time producer Kate Winslet was surprised that a major movie about the pioneering American war correspondent and photographer who covered World War II for British Vogue hadn’t been made before.

“Her life was incredibly rich and full,” Winslet told IndieWire while promoting the film. “She lived many different versions of that life in her gigantic chapter.” But to Winslet, the decade her film trails is when Lee became Lee. “She went to war as a flawed, complicated, and determined middle-aged woman,” Winslet said. “She redefines femininity for me to mean resilience, courage, compassion, and strength.”

More staggering to Winslet, who plays Miller with physical and emotional vigor and sensitivity, was how this significant woman was in danger of being defined through the male gaze in history.

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To celebrate the anticipated release of Lee, the new biopic/drama starring Oscar Winner Kate Winslet, we had the pleasure of chatting with some of the cast and filmmakers of the film to find out all about this timely historical story of the world’s foremost photographer.

Lee tells the story of Lee Miller (Winslet), American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, but they came at an enormous personal price.

Related: Our red carpet interviews with Kate Winslet & more from the Lee UK Premiere

Chatting to Alexander Sarsgaard, Andy Samberg, and Andrea Riseborough, we discuss their parts in Miller’s extraordinary life, the lure of working with Winslet and how easy it was to say yes, playing real people and, for Samberg, the challenges...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Kate Winslet Brings the Heat to a Wild, Well-Dressed Revenge Dramedy

To paraphrase Moira Rose, “If you love female rage as much as I do, you’ll thrill to Kate Winslet in the underseen Australian movie ‘The Dressmaker.‘”

“The Dressmaker” exists in an odd lull in Winslet’s career. Post-Oscar win for “The Reader,” she appeared in a slew of Ok period films and the “Divergent” series — which meant no one was really looking for the next great Winslet performance. Too bad, because one of her best is at...

Matthias Schoenaerts had worked with Kate Winslet before, but never like this. Never as a lackey engaging in a psychosexual power play with a capricious dictator convinced bacteria is flooding her palace. It almost goes without saying that The Regime is far less restrained than Schoenaerts and Winslet’s previous screen romance, the largely forgotten 2014 period film A Little Chaos.

“We both were like, ‘Ok, so what is this mad piece of work that we’re reading?’ ” Schoenaerts says of his first conversation with Winslet about the HBO limited series. “ ‘Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it both?’ We were trying to figure out what the tone was going to be.”

Will Tracy, who created and co-wrote the show, has a résumé heavy on humorous genre hybrids, including Succession, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Menu. According to Schoenaerts, Tracy was careful never to define...

Adrian Schiller, the British actor who starred as Lord Aethelhelm in the Netflix drama series The Last Kingdom, has died. He was 60.

Schiller died on April 3 of unspecified causes, his agent, Amanda Evans at Scott Marshall Partners in the U.K., confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. “It is with the heaviest and saddest hearts that we announce the death of our beloved client, Adrian Schiller, on Wednesday 3 April. He has died far too soon, and we, his family and close friends are devastated by the loss,” the U.K. talent agency said in a statement.

Schiller’s sudden death followed a star turn in Australia in The Lehman Trilogy, where he performed the role of Henry Lehman in the touring production.

Born on Feb. 21, 1964 in London, England, his extensive TV credits included roles in the ITV series Victoria, where he played Cornelius Penge, a footman in the royal household, Father Brown for BBC,...

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Out of all the high-profile celebrity parents out there, Kate Winslet may have the most intricate blended family dynamic, yet she makes it look so effortlessly easy. A quick rundown for those who aren't familiar with the "Titanic" star's romantic history: she married Jim Threapleton in 1998, they had a baby girl, Mia Honey Threapleton, in 2000 and divorced one year later; she married Sam Mendes in 2003, gave birth to their son Joe Alfie Mendes that same year, and then they split in 2010; in 2012, she married her current husband, Edward Abel Smith, and they have one son together named Bear Blaze Winslet. The blended family, and a happy one at that, now reside in the UK.

In a 2014 interview with Delaware Online, Kate explained the impact of parenthood on her life, saying, "I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life.

In "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," a man in Victorian England is wrongly convicted of a crime so a judge can steal his wife. He attacks her, exiles him, and steals their infant daughter, who he later wants to marry. The barber returns and starts murdering people and putting them into pies to get revenge. Also, it's a musical. That doesn't even begin to touch on the weirdness of "Sweeney Todd." The 2007 Tim Burton-directed musical film is based on Stephen Sondheim's 1979 Broadway musical (with a book from Hugh Wheeler), and it's exceedingly weird. It also has one of the most torturous scores to sing.

Judge Turpin, the villain of a tale full of creepers, was played by the late Alan Rickman. Rickman was a man of many talents, well-known on stage and screen, and very, very good at playing bad guys. He won a BAFTA,...

Much has been made of "Die Hard" and its enduring charm as not just a quintessential '80s blockbuster but one of the finest action movies ever made. There's a lot to love about the 1988 mega-hit that propelled Bruce Willis from TV comedy to action movie fame. Just as memorable as Willis' lovable everyman cop is Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber, the film's antagonist (or protagonist if you ask the film's writer) and mastermind of the siege on Nakatomi Tower.

Rickman began his career in the theater, having studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and making a real name for himself on the theater circuit. When it came time to make the leap to movies, he was initially hesitant to accept his now legendary "Die Hard" role. Once the actor eventually came onboard, he approached the job with the same dedication he had applied to his theater career,...

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: "A Little Chaos"Where You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: It's the late Alan Rickman's birthday today, and in honor of that, let's shine a spotlight on one of his final films, "A Little Chaos." Rickman wrote the screenplay along with Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan from Deegan's story. It was his second turn as a director, and he also plays the minor but important role of King Louis Xiv of France. "A Little Chaos" is...

The post The Daily Stream: Celebrate Alan Rickman's Birthday With A Little Chaos appeared first on /Film.

Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), Emmy nominee Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones), Paloma Faith (Youth) and Michael McElhatton (Game of Thrones) and BAFTA nominee Kosar Ali (Rocks) are among 14 cast in Starz’s original series Dangerous Liaisons, a reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th century novel. Also joining leads Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton in the prequel series are Nathanael Saleh (Mary Poppins Returns), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Godzilla vs. Kong), Hilton Pelser (Moffie), Mia Threapleton (A Little Chaos), Colette Dalal Tchantcho (The Witcher), Lucy Cohu (The Queen’s Sister), Fisayo Akinade (The Personal History of David Copperfield), Maria Friedman (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Clare Higgins (Ready Player One). The series hails from Lionsgate TV, Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment and Tony Krantz’ Flame Ventures.

Dangerous Liaisons tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil (Englert) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Denton) meet...

The “Dangerous Liaisons” series at Starz has added over a dozen actors to its cast.

Lesley Manville, Carice van Houten, Michael McElhatton, Paloma Faith, Koshar Ali, Nathanael Saleh, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Hilton Pelser, Mia Threapleton, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Lucy Cohu, Fisayo Akinade, Maria Friedman, and Clare Higgins will all appear in the series. They join previously announced series leads Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton in the reimagining on the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book of the same name.

Full character descriptions for the new cast members can be found below.

The series tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil (Englert) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Denton) meet as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of revolution. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, we follow the couple as they rise from the slums of Paris and scale the heights of the French aristocracy, seducing and...

Alan Rickman, the British film and theater veteran, died on Thursday. He was 69.

Rickman’s family confirmed the news in a statement. It read, “The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends,” per the BBC.

Born in 1946, Rickman went to college to study graphic design, but decided after several years in that profession to pursue acting. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and after graduation found work in various theater companies throughout the UK.

His biggest stage role came in 1985 when he landed the male lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” When the production moved to Broadway in 1987, Rickman was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance.

However, when the play was adapted into the 1988 film “Dangerous Liaisons,” Rickman was not asked to reprise his role, losing out to John Malkovich.

Vision Distribution, the Italian theatrical distributor jointly operated by pay-tv operator Sky Italia and five prominent Italian production companies, is expanding into international film sales with a new company called Vision Distribution International, to be headed by veteran sales agent Catia Rossi.

The new sales company will launch at the Berlin fest’s European Film Market in February.

Vision Distribution was set up in 2016 when Sky joined forces with ITV-owned Cattleya, Fremantle’s Wildside, Lucisano Media Group, Palomar, and Indiana Production which are among the country’s leading production outfits, to create an innovative content alliance and a theatrical distribution arm for the Italian unit of the pan-European paybox now owned by Comcast.

They are now Italy’s 4th largest domestic distributor, and the 8th overall, with 26 titles released in 2019, four of which among the top ten grossers at the Italian box office last year. Vision Distribution has a...

Justin Kelly’s “Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy,” the closing-night film at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, occupies a difficult slot at the mammoth festival. Tiff’s closing-night films typically don’t go on to enjoy significant commercial or critical success, more often destined for quick obscurity in the U.S. market.

Last year’s closing film, for instance, was the French comedy “C’est La Vie!” Before that, “The Edge of Seventeen” and “Mr. Right” at least made a little noise at the box office, “A Little Chaos” and “Life of Crime” less so.

But there’s good news and bad news for “Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy,” which stars Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart and had its first press screening on Monday in advance of Saturday’s closing-night gala.

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The good news is that current...

Alan Rickman’s film resume includes many memorable characters, but his role as the intimidatingly moody Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise remains one of his most iconic roles. Audiences may have enjoyed him as one of the most layered and pivotal characters in the movie franchise based on the Jk Rowling novels, but in a collection of letters that were released for auction, there were moments where he didn’t enjoy Snape as much as we did.

The archive, which is auctioned off, is a collection of personal papers and letters that span his 40-year career as an actor.

In one particular letter, producer David Heyman wrote to him: “Thank you for making HP2 a success. I know, at times, you are frustrated but please know that you are an integral part of the films. And you are brilliant.”

The frustrations surfaced later in a note Rickman...

Author: Zehra Phelan

Matthias Schoenaerts has come a long way since his 2011 role in Bullhead in which he wowed critics with his performance. Following up with his breakthrough role starring opposite Marion Cotillard in the passionate and brutally affecting Rust and Bone, Hollywood came a-knocking. Roles came flooding in from both American and British productions like Saul Dibb’s Suite Française, the late great Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos, Michaël R. Roskam’s The Drop and Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd.

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Many performances later, we land in 2018 and Schoenaerts is about to star opposite Jennifer Lawrence as her uncle, Vanya Egorov – a character that has a striking resemblance to Russian President, Vladimir Putin – in Francis Lawrence espionage thriller Red Sparrow. We sat down with Schoenaerts to talk about his role in the film. He tells us even though Vanya isn’t...

Simon Beaufoy to adapt screenplay about immigrant workers in Toronto.

Serendipity Point Films, Film4 and Potboiler Productions are partnering on a feature version of Michael Ondaatje’s novel In The Skin Of A Lion.

Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer whose credits include 127 Hours and The Full Monty, will adapt the screenplay.

Serendipity’s Robert Lantos and Potboiler’s Andrea Calderwood are on board as producers on Ondaatje’s sweeping 1987 saga of love and class.

In The Skin Of A Lion takes place in Toronto in the early 1900s and chronicles the lives and loves of immigrant workers who built the city.

The book set the scene for Ondaatje’s The English Patient, which is regarded as a sequel of sorts. The late Anthony Minghella adapted that novel, which famously went on to win nine Oscars .

Serendipity Point’s recent productions include Barney’s Version and the drama Remember starring Christopher Plummer.

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The late, great Alan Rickman had a simple tip for when cameras zoomed in on him at awards ceremonies...

Just a little story I came across. I just thought it was a lovely piece about Alan Rickman, and thought it worth passing on in case any of you missed it.

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Author Sebastian Barry was being interviewed on Radio Five Live/Five Live/Radio 5/Five in February 2017, having won the Costa Book Of The Year award for the second year in succession. Whilst he was chatting, the subject of the late, great Alan Rickman came up, and Barry shared a lovely anecdote about the much-missed actor and filmmaker.

Rickman worked with Alison Deegan, Barry’s wife,...

Investment in London-based Potboiler Television furthers Lionsgate’s burgeoning TV interests.

Lionsgate UK has taken a stake in The Last King Of Scotland producer Potboiler Television and signed a first-look deal for global distribution of its shows.

Potboiler was established by late film producer Simon Channing Williams in 2000, alongside The Constant Gardener producer Gail Egan and went on to join forces with Andrea Calderwood’s Slate Films.

With support from Lionsgate, the two businesses produced films including Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos [pictured] and John Le Carré adaptation A Most Wanted Man.

Lionsgate has now formally invested in the firm, which is yet to secure any TV commissions.

The deal extends the Us firm’s TV interests after it invested in Primal Media & Kindle Entertainment, co-financed Channel 4 comedy Damned and hired former ITV drama boss Steve November as its creative director of UK Television.

Calderwood and Egan said: “Lionsgate and Potboiler have similar entrepreneurial cultures and a shared...

Investment in London-based Potboiler Television furthers Lionsgate’s burgeoning TV interests.

Lionsgate UK has taken a stake in The Last King Of Scotland producer Potboiler Television and signed a first-look deal for global distribution of its shows.

Potboiler was established by late film producer Simon Channing Williams in 2000, alongside The Constant Gardener producer Gail Egan and went on to join forces with Andrea Calderwood’s Slate Films.

With support from Lionsgate, the two businesses produced films including Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos [pictured] and John Le Carré adaptation A Most Wanted Man.

Lionsgate has now formally invested in the firm, which is yet to secure any TV commissions.

The deal extends the Us firm’s TV interests after it invested in Primal Media & Kindle Entertainment, co-financed Channel 4 comedy Damned and hired former ITV drama boss Steve November as its creative director of UK Television.

Calderwood and Egan said: “Lionsgate and Potboiler have similar entrepreneurial cultures and a shared...

Investment in London-based Potboiler Television furthers Lionsgate’s burgeoning TV interests.

Lionsgate UK has taken a stake in The Last King Of Scotland producer Potboiler Television and signed a first-look deal for global distribution of its shows.

Potboiler was established by late film producer Simon Channing Williams in 2000, alongside The Constant Gardener producer Gail Egan and went on to join forces with Andrea Calderwood’s Slate Films.

With support from Lionsgate, the two businesses produced films including Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos [pictured] and John Le Carré adaptation A Most Wanted Man.

Lionsgate has now formally invested in the firm, which is yet to secure any TV commissions.

The deal extends the Us firm’s TV interests after it invested in Primal Media & Kindle Entertainment, co-financed Channel 4 comedy Damned and hired former ITV drama boss Steve November as its creative director of UK Television.

Calderwood and Egan said: “Lionsgate and Potboiler have similar entrepreneurial cultures and a shared...

Rob Leane Mar 2, 2017

Following in the footsteps of Stranger Things and The Oa, 13 Reasons Why is the latest mystery series from Netflix...

Netflix is really carving a market for itself here. After the success of Stranger Things and The Oa, the streaming service is set to add another original product to its 'mystery series starring young people' category.

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Here are the trailers for 13 Reasons Why, the new young adult Netflix show directed by Spotlight's Tom McCarthy, starring Dylan Minette and Katherine Langford, executive produced by Selena Gomez and based on the popular book series by Jay Asher...

And here's a poster...

And here's the synopsis, courtesy of Collider...

13 Reasons Why is a new series from Netflix adapted from the best-selling books by Jay Asher. It follows teenager Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette...

We pay tribute to the film stars and directors from around the world who sadly passed away in 2016.Hector BabencoArgentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco died on July 13 at 70-years-old.He found international success with Brazilian slum drama Pixote (1981), going on to make Kiss Of

We pay tribute to the film stars and directors from around the world who sadly passed away in 2016.

Hector Babenco

Argentine-born Brazilian director Hector Babenco died on July 13 at 70-years-old.

He found international success with Brazilian slum drama Pixote (1981), going on to make Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned a best director Oscar nominee and William Hurt earned an Oscar win for best actor.

Babenco went on to direct Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in Ironweed (1987) and Tom Berenger and John Lithgow in At Play In The Fields Of The Lord (1991).

After undergoing cancer treatment in the 1990s, he returned to the director’s chair for films including Brazilian prison...

Fred Schepisi with Mary Schepisi, on casting Andorra: "Clive Owen, Joanna Lumley, Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson, and I can’t say the other names …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Before the Universal Pictures and Working Title Films Bridget Jones’s Baby lunch with Renée Zellweger, Sharon Maguire, Helen Fielding, Eric Fellner, and Colin Firth at Lotos Club, there was a screening of the film arranged by Peggy Siegal at the Park Avenue Screening Room. When I arrived I noticed director/writer Fred Schepisi with his wife Mary.

Geoffrey Rush with Alexandra and Fred Schepisi for The Eye Of The Storm Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In 2012, Alexandra Schepisi, Geoffrey Rush and the filmmaker met me at The Regency Hotel in New York for a conversation on The Eye of The Storm. And last year, I saw him at the Monkey Bar reception for Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet with Matthias Schoenaerts,...

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Rihanna is set to try on Janet Leigh’s shower cap, taking on the role of Marion Crane for Bates Motel season 5...

Back in July we heard that Rihanna is set to appear in Bates Motel season 5 in role of Marion Crane, the character made famous by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock’s slasher classic Psycho.

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Now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we have these pictures to prove it...

The announcement of RiRi's involvement in the show came via video at the Bates Motel season 5 panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Vera Farmiga, who plays Norma; Freddie Highmore, who plays Norman, Max Thieriot, who plays Dylan Massett and Nestor Carbonell, who plays Sheriff Alex Romero, joined the show’s creators Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse were at the panel.

"We wanted to thrust the iconic role into a...

Summer is officially here, but thanks to HBO’s latest releases, bingeing TV shows and movies on the couch may be preferable to a day at the beach. New original programming includes the premiere of “The Night Of,” a gritty new New York based miniseries, and “Vice Principals,” a dark comedy about feuding administrators.

Returning programming includes Dwayne Johnson’s “Ballers” and “Looking: The Movie,” which sums up the story of gay men in San Francisco that was explored in HBO’s recently canceled series.

Read More: 5 Things We Know About The ‘Looking’ Movie

Theatrical highlights include “Straight Outta Compton,” “Suffragette” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” Also be sure to catch “Ali” and celebrate the life of the boxing legend before the biopic leaves HBO Now at the end of July.

Below are all of the titles hitting HBO Now in July 2016, plus IndieWire’s picks on what to stream.

New...

As entertaining on an escapist level as it is irrefutably engaging on a level that is essential for citizens who are players in our political environment. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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This is warfare today. It’s a colonel in a bunker in outer London (surrounded by computers) and a general in an office building in Whitehall (surrounded by politicians) and a drone pilot in Las Vegas (flying a robot armed with missiles and also, more importantly, with cameras, from thousands of miles away) and a facial-recognition technician at a workstation in Pearl Harbor and an agent of the Kenyan military on the ground in Nairobi collaborating in an operation to capture most-wanted terrorists in a civilian suburban neighborhood in a country that neither the Us nor the UK is at war with.

Matthias Schoenaerts is a virile yet sensitive soldier who takes a security job in this patchily skilful drama

The seemingly ubiquitous Belgian actor and all-round arthouse stud-muffin Matthias Schoenaerts (whose virile yet sensitive mug was recently seen in A Bigger Splash, The Danish Girl and A Little Chaos) stars here as a virile yet sensitive soldier suffering from Ptsd and mild hearing loss. On extended leave from the army in the south of France, he takes a security job looking after the beautiful but somehow sad Euro wife (Diane Kruger) of an uber-rich Lebanese businessman and the couple’s adorable moppet son (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant) while the husband goes on a mysterious business trip. Although as a thriller this is sort of tosh, with illogical plot holes you could drive a luxury SUV through, writer-director Alice Winocour and whoever was in charge of sound design do a great job at suggesting...

The Eye in the Sky cast and crew gathered for the film's N.Y.C. premiere Wednesday, and paid tribute to late co-star Alan Rickman in his final onscreen role. "Obviously, I knew Alan very, very well," Helen Mirren, who plays hard-baked Colonel Katherine Powell, told People. "I did a play with him, Anthony and Cleopatra, and we went through all the unbelievable difficulties and the passion of that." She continued: "The man you see on the screen - and that's what I love about it really - is Alan: the wit, the urbanity, the sophistication, the intelligence, the humanity.

The Eye in the Sky cast and crew gathered for the film's N.Y.C. premiere Wednesday, and paid tribute to late co-star Alan Rickman in his final onscreen role. "Obviously, I knew Alan very, very well," Helen Mirren, who plays hard-baked Colonel Katherine Powell, told People. "I did a play with him, Anthony and Cleopatra, and we went through all the unbelievable difficulties and the passion of that." She continued: "The man you see on the screen - and that's what I love about it really - is Alan: the wit, the urbanity, the sophistication, the intelligence, the humanity.

British actors, directors and films won most of the main awards.Scroll down for full list of winners

Mad Max: Fury Road took film of the year and best director for George Miller at the 36th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards ceremony at the May Fair Hotel on Sunday night.

45 Years took the Attenborough Award for best British/Irish film. Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay were also honoured as actress and actor of the year for their performances in Andrew Haigh’s film.

While Mad Max won in the top two categories, British actors, directors and films won nearly all of the other main awards. Alongside Rampling and Courtenay’s awards, Tom Hardy was named British/Irish actor of the year for his roles in several films, including Fury Road, The Revenant and Legend, while Saoirse Ronan took the British/Irish actress award for Brooklyn.

Kate Winslet won supporting actress for Steve Jobs, Mark Rylance supporting...

Tucci, who co-starred in Rickman’s second film as director, has paid tribute to ‘one of the most generous friends’, who was strikingly kind to Tucci’s Harry Potter-loving children

The actor Stanley Tucci, who made a memorable supporting performance in Alan Rickman’s final film behind the camera, has paid tribute to “a wonderful actor and director”. Tucci also called Rickman, who died on Thursday, “most importantly, behind his wry imperiousness, one of the kindest people and one of the most generous friends I have had the great fortune to know”.

Tucci played the flamboyant Duke of Orléans in last year’s period romance A Little Chaos, in which Rickman also featured as Louis Xiv. They also co-starred in 2012s Gambit. But the pair had been friends since 2010, after meeting in a New York bar when both were directing plays on Broadway.

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British actor Alan Rickman has died, aged 69.

The Harry Potter star's death was confirmed by his family on Thursday (January 14). He had been suffering from cancer.

A statement from his relatives reads, "The actor and director Alan Rickman has died from cancer at the age of 69. He was surrounded by family and friends."

Rickman was born in Acton, west London and attended the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before launching his career on the stage, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He landed a role on TV in 1982 BBC show The Barchester Chronicles, but he first gained international acclaim with his part in a stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, which transferred from London to Broadway in 1987 and landed Rickman a Tony Award nomination.

A year later (88), the actor made his Hollywood breakthrough by landing the role of villainous Hans Gruber in 1988 blockbuster Die Hard opposite Bruce Willis.

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The world has lost British great, Alan Rickman. The actor sadly died at the age of 69.

From the AP:

Rickman’s family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer.

Born to a working-class London family in 1946 and trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rickman was often cast as the bad guy; with his rich, languid voice he could invest evil with wicked, irresistible relish.

His breakout role was as scheming French aristocrat the Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”

Film roles included the psychopathic villain Hans Gruber who tormented Bruce Willis in “Die Hard” in 1988; a deceased lover who consoles his bereaved partner in 1990’s “Truly Madly Deeply”; the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” in 1991; and a wayward husband in 2003 romantic comedy “Love Actually.

Alan Rickman introducing A Little Chaos at Glasgow Film Festival Photo: Eoin Carey British actor Alan Rickman has died in London, aged 69. He had been suffering from cancer. The much-loved star began his career on stage and television before going on to create a number of memorable characters on screen.

He particularly became known for his ability to play bad guys, with roles including Hans Gruber in Die Hard, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - for which he won a supporting actor BAFTA - and Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. Many of his villainous roles also allowed him to display his comic timing, a skill that also led him to provide the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and mock his own Rada Shakespearean training in 1999 space spoof Galaxy Quest.

He was far from typecast, however,...

Alan Rickman, the British actor who played the iconic baddie in Die Hard and brought to life the rigid and rueful Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films has died. He was 69. Rickman's family confirmed the death on Thursday, according to multiple media outlets. The Golden Globe-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee was battling cancer. Rickman, who worked on both stage and screen, is survived by his wife Rima Horton, whom he wed in 2012 after a 40-year romance. The actor spent several years in the Royal Shakespeare Company after graduating from college in London. His turn as the wicked and iconic...

The British actor and director had been suffering from cancer.

Alan Rickman, the British actor best known for his roles in Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the Harry Potter films, has died in London aged 69.

His death was confirmed on Thursday by his family, according to The Guardian, which reported that Rickman had been suffering from cancer.

Rickman began his acting career in theatre, where his credits include a Tony nomination for his performance in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

His feature film debut came in 1988 alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard, playing scene-stealing villain Hans Gruber. Rickman went on to appear in more than 40 films, including the entire Harry Potter series, Sweeney Todd and Love Actually.

Rickman was awarded a BAFTA in 1992 for his role as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. In the same year, he was also BAFTA-nominated for his lead role in...

2016 has gotten off to a brutal start for great British entertainers. As the world gets over the death of David Bowie a few days ago, it has been set in shock again as acting legend Alan Rickman has died in London.

Rickman had been suffering from cancer and his death was confirmed on Thursday by his family. It's the worst kind of coincidence - Bowie and Rickman were 69 years old and passed after battling cancer, and a week before that British musician Lemmy also passed away from cancer just days after turning 70.

Rickman's distinct features and immediately identifiable diction were admired by generations of actors and made him synonymous with playing antagonists - something he famously wasn't a fan of as he preferred to play the dashing leading man role which he did manage to do in some of his work.

Coming to fame with a key role in The BBC's mini-series "The Barchester Chronicles,...

Tom Hardy received three nods for his roles in Legend, The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road.Scroll down for full list

Toddy Haynes’ Carol leads this year’s London Critics’ Circle awards with seven nominations, with Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years receiving six.

Tom Hardy has received three acting nominations: best actor for Legend, supporting actor for The Revenant and British actor of the year for his roles in the aforementioned two as well as Mad Max: Fury Road.

Fury Road, along with Steve Jobs and The Revenant, received five nominations.

Brooklyn, Room and Bifa-winner Ex Machina garnered four apiece.

The winners will be revealed at a ceremony on January 17 at London’s May Fair Hotel.

At last year’s awards, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood won both best film and director.

Full list of nominees

Film Of The Year

45 Years

Amy

Carol

Inside Out

The Look of Silence

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

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One of the smartest and most enthralling Sf film series ever breaks more new ground as it ends on notes as emotional and provocative as they are explosive. I’m “biast” (pro): big Sf geek; love the book series; love Jennifer Lawrence (and much of the rest of the cast); crave female-centered stories

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have read the source material (and I love it)

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

There are many ways in which the Hunger Games series of movies has been groundbreaking. It has given us a female world-changing heroine in the mold of the countless boys and men Hollywood has cast in such a role, and showed the caricature up by depicting her as more human than most of them: more conflicted, more unsure, more afraid yet also more brave for overcoming all that… and also simultaneously more principled and more selfish.

Michael Giacchino took Film Composer of the Year, while Antonio Sanchez took Film Score of the Year for Birdman.

Sitting alongside the 42nd annual Gent Film Festival in Belgium (October 13-24), the 15th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards doled out its musical honours with a coinciding orchestral concert featuring the works of leading composers Alan Silvestri, Patrick Doyle and Daniel Pemberton.

Michael Giacchino was awarded with top honours as Film Composer of the Year for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Inside Out and Jurassic World. He was previously the World Soundtrack Award’s Discovery of the Year in 2005 for his work on The Incredibles.

Antonio Sanchez was also a big winner, beating out Bruno Calais (Song Of The Sea), Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game), Hans Zimmer (Interstellar) and Johann Johansson (The Theory Of Everything) for Best Original Film Score of the Year (Birdman).

Sanchez also nabbed the Discovery of the Year Award.

“I remember...

One of James Cameron.s Aussie collaborators is to make his directing debut on supernatural thriller Nulla, the debut feature from Red Rock Pictures. producer-writer Gary O.Toole.

Simon Christidis Acs was the lead underwater camera operator on Deep Sea Challenge 3D and underwater cinematographer on Sanctum.

Among his other credits he was underwater Dop on Angelina Jolie.s Unbroken and Jonathan M Shiff.s H2O: Just Add Water and second unit Dop on Kimble Rendall.s Bait.

Black Sails. Rupert Penry-Jones is attached to play the lead, a British soldier and Iraq veteran who sets out to drive from Melbourne to Perth with a buddy, a fellow soldier.

En route there.s a horrific accident. The producer is in talks with an internationally recognized Australian actor to play the co-lead.

Penry-Jones .credits include Silk, Spooks, Whitechapel and the features A Little Chaos, Match Point and Charlotte Gray.

O.Toole said of Christidis,...

You’ve never seen such a compelling, entertaining movie about a genius jerk. As smart and as sleek as a Macbook Pro, and a compulsory bit of modern history. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast and Danny Boyle; huge Mac devotee

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Steve Jobs: Genius. Visionary. Asshole. Steve Jobs is not a traditional biography of the Apple founder and, after it went off the rails in the late 1980s and early 90s, its returning hero and savior. We don’t peek in on his childhood, or on the battle with pancreatic cancer that he eventually lost. This is much narrower, the tale of how one man revolutionized the computer industry and as a result, you know, changed the world. Jobs wasn’t an engineer or a...

A Little Chaos producer Faivre delivered the Pfm keynote in London about day-and-date and the theatrical experience.

For filmmakers in search of an “instant impact, there is still nothing better than the cinema,” A Little Chaos producer Bertrand Faivre has told industry in London.

The producer and founder of production outfit The Bureau and sales company Le Bureau, delivered a keynote address at the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm) this morning to a delegation of financiers and producers.

Talking about the distribution of The Bureau hit 45 Years, which set a record for a day and date release in the UK, the producer emphasised the need for theatrical exhibition to be put front and centre.

“For 45 Years, the biggest figures were all in from cinema,” Faivre noted in an interview with ScreenDaily immediately after the talk.

“I haven’t found a better way to screen a film [than theatrically],” he said.

Faivre admitted that VOD could potentially help find...

A Little Chaos producer Faivre keynoted at the Pfm in London about day-and-date and the theatrical experience.

For filmmakers in search of an “instant impact, there is still nothing better than the cinema,” A Little Chaos producer Bertrand Faivre has told industry in London.

The producer and founder of production outfit The Bureau and sales company Le Bureau, delivered a keynote address at the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm) this morning to a delegation of financiers and producers.

Talking about the distribution of The Bureau hit 45 Years, which set a record for a day and date release in the UK, the producer emphasised the need for theatrical exhibition to be put front and centre.

“For 45 Years, the biggest figures were all in from cinema,” Faivre noted in an interview with Screen immediately after the talk.

“I haven’t found a better way to screen a film [than theatrically],” he said.

Faivre admitted that VOD could potentially help find...

Death, rape, domestic violence and really great dresses - this strange Australian film has it all, but somehow needs more

The Toronto film festival wouldn’t be complete without an extended “what the hell was Kate Winslet thinking?” moment. In 2013, she brought Labor Day, a Mills & Boon melodrama about a woman kidnapped by a convict who helps her make peach pie, while last year saw her star as a French landscape gardener trapped in a laboured farce with Alan Rickman in the risible period comedy A Little Chaos. She’s come a long way from her reign as Oscar favourite, with one win and five nominations in the bag, and her latest oddity is taking her even further afield.

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★★☆☆☆ Alan Rickman's second stint as director yields mixed results wrapped up in a stylish French bow, A Little Chaos (2014). It's a beautiful effort but completely sophomoric in all its trappings. There is something inherently off-kilter while watching, the feeling that - despite an intriguing cast, gorgeous sets and an appropriately saccharine and somewhat devious plot - there's something quite hollow here. Set within the royal strata of the court of Louis Xiv (Rickman), the story follows Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet), a widowed landscape architect who finds a renewed sense of purpose when she is hired to construct a new feature for the king's garden at Versailles.

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Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman star in this romantic British drama. Landscape architect Sabine De Barra (Winslet) develops a professional relationship with King Loui’s principal gardener.

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To mark the release of A Little Chaos on 24th August, we’ve been given A Little Chaos poster signed by Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman and a DVD of the film with two runners up receiving a DVD When brilliantly talented landscape gardener Madame Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet – Labor Day, Revolutionary Road) finds

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