Christopher Hampton

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright to Star in THE GRANDMOTHERS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 4th, 2011 at 8:17 pm

Naomi Watts and Robin Wright will star in The Grandmothers for director Anne Fontaine (Coco Avant Chanel).  According to THR, The Grandmothers is “the erotic tale of misguided love”—and stop right there.  I think this is a picture for everyone who sees movies when they only know the title (yes, these people exist; you probably know at least one or two of them).  Continue, THR: “—a tale of misguided love and a celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship.”  Aww.  That’s actually kind of sweet.  So what’s the actual plot?  “The Grandmothers tells the story of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s teenage sons.”

Holy crap.  Anne Fontaine is unintentionally turning The Lonely Island’s “Motherlover” into a movie.  Hit the jump for more.

First Look at Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in David Cronenberg’s A DANGEROUS METHOD

by Jason Barr    Posted: July 5th, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Nearing the end of a ten week European shoot, the first images of David Cronenberg’s (A History of Violence) A Dangerous Method have surfaced online via The Playlist, tt.com and heute.at.  The film, which stars Viggo Mortensen and young-Magneto/Michael Fassbender as psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung respectively, portrays the relationship of Jung and patient Sabina Spielrein (played by Keira Knightley) and the imbalance it eventually causes between Jung and his mentor-Freud.

Hit the jump for a synopsis as well as a look at the impressive images as the costume and makeup for both Mortensen and Fassbender seem to be very accurate representations of their critical thinking counterparts. Based on the acclaimed 2002 play The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton, A Dangerous Method is currently anticipating a 2011 release.

Keira Knightley, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender Join Cronenberg’s THE TALKING CURE

by Kevin Mahadeo    Posted: December 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 am

Australian distributor Hopscotch Films announced via its Facebook page that the acting trifecta of Keira Knightley, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender have joined acclaimed director David Cronenberg for the adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure. The play focuses on famous psychoanalysts and close friends Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and their relationship with patient Sabina Spielrein. The movie marks the first from Cronenberg since his 2007 project Eastern Promises and the second time Knightley features in a Hampton piece, the first being the Oscar-nominated Atonement.

Find out my thoughts on the news as a film buff and psychology nut after the jump.

CHÉRI DVD Review

by Harrison Pierce    Posted: October 26th, 2009 at 8:03 am

Miramax Film’s “Chéri” marks the reunion of director Stephen Frears, screenwriter Christopher Hampton, and actress Michelle Pfeiffer, who previously worked together on 1988′s deliciously evil costume drama “Dangerous Liaisons.” Here, Pfeiffer trades in the virginal innocence of her “Liaisons” character for the hardened beauty and shrewd business acumen of the less than virginal Lea de Lonvsal. Set during the prosperous Belle Époque era in pre World War I France, “Chéri” tells the charming and ultimately heartbreaking story of how Lea, an aging courtesan, finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with a man young enough to be her…well, son. That synopsis might make it tempting to label “Chéri” “cougar” cinema, but let’s allow that somewhat degrading term to rest on billboards advertising the latest pedestrian sitcom, rather than a film this pedigreed. More after the jump:

9 Movie Clips from COCO BEFORE CHANEL Starring Audrey Tautou as Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 19th, 2009 at 8:10 am

While director Anne Fontaine’s “Coco Before Chanel” has already opened in most of the world, the film is finally getting released here in America September 25th. If you can’t tell by the name, the film is about Coco Chanel’s rise in the fashion world and it stars Audrey Tautou as the famous designer. While I haven’t seen the film so I can’t tell you what I thought, it has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, so a lot of people have enjoyed it. So to help promote the movie, we’ve been given 9 clips (about 12 minutes of the movie) and they’re after the jump. Take a look:

CHÉRI Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

“Chéri” is not the film that I typically go for.  It’s a period drama set in Paris in the 1920s and focuses on the lives of former courtesans and the relationship one has with the son of another.  And yet “Chéri” had me hooked throughout with the combination of Stephen Frears’ skillful direction and Michelle Pfeiffer turning in one of the best performances of her career.

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