Rope of Silicon posted a clip montage of the adorable and compelling independent film An Education. As I mentioned in an earlier post, An Education star Carey Mulligan (Doctor Who, Pride & Prejudice) received quite a bit of buzz at Sundance this year with Oscar winning predictions from several sources. Mulligan is Jenny, a teenage girl living in Britain in 1961 on the cusp of the strait-laced, post-war period and the free-spirited decade to come.
In an interview with sltrib.com, Mulligan speaks highly of her co-stars Emma Thompson and Peter Sarsgaard. I found her so charming and unpretentious in the interview.
The clip montage of An Education gives you just enough information to understand why people are buzzing about Mulligan and the film. Isn’t the last scene with Emma Thompson brilliant?
Professor Sybil Trelawney won’t be played by Emma Thompson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, reports MTV News.
The actress has instead opted to make a sequel to Nanny McPhee, the 2005 fantasy movie which she wrote and produced. Here’s what she had to say about leaving Harry Potter:
The Harry Potters are great big franchises that are something I’m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively attached to. That’s more like doing a turn, whereas the Nanny McPhees are something I’ve written. The art is in those films, they’re very handmade, they’re something that’s very close to me. Those are the ones I really care about.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang is the sequel she is working on. The story is set one hundred years later during wartime and follows two families of evacuees, with one from the country and the other from the city.
I was looking for this trailer last week and only found the movie poster. Well, here is the Last Chance Harvey trailer with two very talented, Oscar-winning actors. The movie is a gem.
Last Chance Harvey- Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) reunite in Last Chance Harvey, a hopeful romance that celebrates new beginnings — at any age. New Yorker Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s (Liane Balaban) wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting — or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather (James Brolin) walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother (Eileen Atkins), is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives.
Professor Sybil Trelawney won’t be played by Emma Thompson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 