The January 6 assault on the Capitol by insurrectionists left many Americans shocked, ashamed, and glued to their TV sets. Errol Morris was one of them. For years, the filmmaker has documented the tragic and dangerous actions of powerful men and the lies they tell the world, most prominently in his Oscar-winning portrait of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. But the violent outbreak on Wednesday echoed a more-recent subject of Morris scrutiny: Steve Bannon.
“He is one of the evil geniuses behind it all,” Morris said in a phone call from his office on January 7. He’s got the proof on film with his 2019 documentary “American Dharma,” which pitted the director against Bannon, Trump’s notorious campaign director-turned-senior advisor, the alt-right hero and former Breitbart News publisher who exploited raging and disenfranchised white conspiracy theorists and cemented the seditious rage at the core of Trump’s base.
Bannon relishes his role.
“He is one of the evil geniuses behind it all,” Morris said in a phone call from his office on January 7. He’s got the proof on film with his 2019 documentary “American Dharma,” which pitted the director against Bannon, Trump’s notorious campaign director-turned-senior advisor, the alt-right hero and former Breitbart News publisher who exploited raging and disenfranchised white conspiracy theorists and cemented the seditious rage at the core of Trump’s base.
Bannon relishes his role.
- 1/9/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
“The Fog of War” and “The Thin Blue Line” director Errol Morris’ next documentary film will be focused on the “High Priest of LSD” Timothy Leary and will debut on Showtime later this year, Showtime Documentary Films announced Tuesday.
The documentary, currently with the working title “A Film By Errol Morris,” is inspired by the memoir “Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story” by Joanna Harcourt-Smith. It will examine the romantic relationship between Harcourt-Smith and Leary as he went from an advocate for the psychedelic LSD drug and then became a narc in 1974.
The film will explore Leary’s period of exile, his re-imprisonment and his subsequent cooperation with the authorities and whether Leary and Harcourt-Smith truly had the “perfect love” or if something else was at play.
Also Read: 'American Dharma' Film Review: Errol Morris' Documentary on Steve Bannon Leaves Too Many Questions Unanswered
“This is a dream project,...
The documentary, currently with the working title “A Film By Errol Morris,” is inspired by the memoir “Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story” by Joanna Harcourt-Smith. It will examine the romantic relationship between Harcourt-Smith and Leary as he went from an advocate for the psychedelic LSD drug and then became a narc in 1974.
The film will explore Leary’s period of exile, his re-imprisonment and his subsequent cooperation with the authorities and whether Leary and Harcourt-Smith truly had the “perfect love” or if something else was at play.
Also Read: 'American Dharma' Film Review: Errol Morris' Documentary on Steve Bannon Leaves Too Many Questions Unanswered
“This is a dream project,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Neil Degrasse Tyson’s cultural value needs company. As a popularizer of science, Tyson introduced audiences to the wonders of the universe with an approachable tone that expanded its appeal beyond physics classrooms and laboratories. Like Carl Sagan before him, Tyson excels at translating the dense field of astrophysics into riveting cosmic terms that anyone can appreciate.
Lately, however, Tyson’s folk-hero status has hobbled, as various developments — from sexual harassment charges to insensitive tweets — have made him more of a burden for the field. None of this has changed Tyson’s underlying value in bringing scientific concepts to the masses, but the backlash is a clear reminder that he shouldn’t be the only famous scientist on TV.
Over the weekend, Tyson issued a bizarre tweet in response to America’s mass shooting debate, listing a range of other death statistics — from suicide to car accidents — and concluding that...
Lately, however, Tyson’s folk-hero status has hobbled, as various developments — from sexual harassment charges to insensitive tweets — have made him more of a burden for the field. None of this has changed Tyson’s underlying value in bringing scientific concepts to the masses, but the backlash is a clear reminder that he shouldn’t be the only famous scientist on TV.
Over the weekend, Tyson issued a bizarre tweet in response to America’s mass shooting debate, listing a range of other death statistics — from suicide to car accidents — and concluding that...
- 8/5/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Stefon Bristol’s debut feature “See You Yesterday,” which has Spike Lee as one of its producers, revolves around the ingenuity of two 16-year-old friends, Claudette and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow), who are working on a homemade time machine in Sebastian’s garage. The effects in this movie are as charmingly lo-fi as the backpack modules that they wear to travel back in time for 10-minute intervals.
“See You Yesterday” nods to some of its 1980s forebears by having Michael J. Fox turn up as one of their teachers at the Bronx High School of Science. Claudette is reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” in his class, while Fox has his nose buried in Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” a popular time travel novel from 1979. When Claudette tells Fox’s Mr. Lockhart about her time-travel backpack project, which she hopes will get her into MIT, Bristol keeps his camera...
“See You Yesterday” nods to some of its 1980s forebears by having Michael J. Fox turn up as one of their teachers at the Bronx High School of Science. Claudette is reading Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” in his class, while Fox has his nose buried in Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” a popular time travel novel from 1979. When Claudette tells Fox’s Mr. Lockhart about her time-travel backpack project, which she hopes will get her into MIT, Bristol keeps his camera...
- 5/4/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Science met science fiction in London, Friday, with “Avengers” and “Star Trek” actor Benedict Cumberbatch among those paying tribute to the late physicist Professor Stephen Hawking. Cumberbatch, who played the scientist in the 2004 BBC TV movie “Hawking,” gave a reading at a memorial service, which was held at Westminster Abbey.
Other names from the entertainment world in attendance included Piers Morgan, David Walliams, Lily Cole, and scientist and TV personality Professor Brian Cox. They joined Hawking’s family and luminaries from the worlds of science and politics, as well as members of the public, who received tickets after entering a public ballot. There were 25,000 applications for 1,000 available tickets.
British astronaut Tim Peake also gave a reading at the service. Hawking’s ashes will be buried alongside the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. In a fitting tribute to a scientific great, Hawking’s words have been set to an...
Other names from the entertainment world in attendance included Piers Morgan, David Walliams, Lily Cole, and scientist and TV personality Professor Brian Cox. They joined Hawking’s family and luminaries from the worlds of science and politics, as well as members of the public, who received tickets after entering a public ballot. There were 25,000 applications for 1,000 available tickets.
British astronaut Tim Peake also gave a reading at the service. Hawking’s ashes will be buried alongside the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton. In a fitting tribute to a scientific great, Hawking’s words have been set to an...
- 6/15/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Hawking, the world's most famous theoretical physicist -- celebrated for his black hole discoveries -- has died ... according to his family. It appears Hawking died early Wednesday. His 3 children released a statement saying, "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today." Hawking had suffered from a rare early-onset form of Als most of his life, which left him wheelchair-bound and almost entirely paralyzed. He could still communicate with the aid of...
- 3/14/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist who authored A Brief History of Time, died on Wednesday morning after a decades-long battle with Als. He was 76.
Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, announced their father’s passing in the following statement:
We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world. He once said, “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.
Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, announced their father’s passing in the following statement:
We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world. He once said, “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.
- 3/14/2018
- TVLine.com
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died on Tuesday, March 14 at the age of 76, a spokesman for his family has said, according to the BBC.
A family statement released by his children Lucy, Robert, and Tim, said, “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world. He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him forever.”
The decorated cosmologist had worked on theorems in general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, named Hawking radiation after himself. He’s also a supporter of the idea of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and has proposed a theory...
A family statement released by his children Lucy, Robert, and Tim, said, “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world. He once said, ‘It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ We will miss him forever.”
The decorated cosmologist had worked on theorems in general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, named Hawking radiation after himself. He’s also a supporter of the idea of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and has proposed a theory...
- 3/14/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Stars paid their condolences to famed British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of the worldwide best-selling book A Brief History of Time and the subject of the Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything, following his death on Tuesday night. He was 76.
Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als) at age 21, in 1963, Hawking went on to win numerous awards for his research in the field of theoretical physics such as the Albert Einstein Award in 1978 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Hawking achieved worldwide fame when his book A Brief History of Time became a worldwide best-seller and...
Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als) at age 21, in 1963, Hawking went on to win numerous awards for his research in the field of theoretical physics such as the Albert Einstein Award in 1978 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Hawking achieved worldwide fame when his book A Brief History of Time became a worldwide best-seller and...
- 3/14/2018
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away Wednesday. He was 76.
The professor’s family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming he died in his home, according to The Guardian.
“We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, with first wife Jane said in the statement.
“He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years,” it continued. “His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world.”
“He once said, ‘It would not be...
The professor’s family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming he died in his home, according to The Guardian.
“We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” his children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, with first wife Jane said in the statement.
“He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years,” it continued. “His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humor inspired people across the world.”
“He once said, ‘It would not be...
- 3/14/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
There are documentarians and then there are storytellers, and Errol Morris firmly fits in the latter category. While the director is best known for efforts like “Gates Of Heaven,” “The Fog Of War,” and “A Brief History Of Time,” his latest effort “Wormwood” probably falls more in line with his docu-drama classic, “The Thin Blue Line.” And Netflix has given the legendary filmmaker six episodes to unfold this fascinating story.
Continue reading ‘Wormwood’ Trailer: Errol Morris Explores The CIA, LSD & Mind Control at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Wormwood’ Trailer: Errol Morris Explores The CIA, LSD & Mind Control at The Playlist.
- 12/4/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
New York City’s annual Doc NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you’ve been looking to beef up on your documentary consumption, Doc NYC is the perfect chance to check out a wide variety of some of the year’s best fact-based features. Ahead, we pick out 14 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts, and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.
Doc NYC runs November 9 – 16 in New York City.
“EuroTrump”
Donald Trump may seem like a sui generis figure, a one-of-a-kind monster who was forged in a perfect storm of racism, tweets, and chaos, but history suggests that he’s really just a new breed of an old type. You don’t even have to look...
Doc NYC runs November 9 – 16 in New York City.
“EuroTrump”
Donald Trump may seem like a sui generis figure, a one-of-a-kind monster who was forged in a perfect storm of racism, tweets, and chaos, but history suggests that he’s really just a new breed of an old type. You don’t even have to look...
- 11/7/2017
- by Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Jude Dry, Anne Thompson, Chris O'Falt, Michael Nordine and Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Since its inception, the award given to the best documentary director at the annual Sundance Film Festival has seen a who’s who of documentary auteurs. Be it Errol Morris for a film like A Brief History Of Time or Morgan Spurlock for Supersize Me, the award, in all of its various iterations, has helped spark the careers of some true non-fiction film making titans.
After The Force, director Peter Nicks is absolutely one of them. Previously known for the underrated The Waiting Room, Nicks is back with The Force, and it’s a stark change in pace for the filmmaker.
Inspired in many ways by the films of Fredrick Wiseman, Nicks’ latest film is classical cinema verite. The film introduces us to the Oakland Police Department, which at the start of 2014, was in the middle of ever increasing controversy. Itself a the A1 example of the modern state of policing,...
After The Force, director Peter Nicks is absolutely one of them. Previously known for the underrated The Waiting Room, Nicks is back with The Force, and it’s a stark change in pace for the filmmaker.
Inspired in many ways by the films of Fredrick Wiseman, Nicks’ latest film is classical cinema verite. The film introduces us to the Oakland Police Department, which at the start of 2014, was in the middle of ever increasing controversy. Itself a the A1 example of the modern state of policing,...
- 9/22/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
4 Reasons Distributors Should Buy Errol Morris Gem ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’
Errol Morris is best known as an influential and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (“The Fog of War”), but he’s also a master of the short form who commands big bucks shooting commercials and episodic television. Then there’s the New York Times op-docs and essays, his many deep dives into photography and the bestsellers such as “Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography” and “A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.” However, none of this prepared me for his latest gem of a film,”The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography,” a gentle exploration of a woman who’s also one of Morris’ best friends.
Read More: New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Documentary Lineup, Including New Films by Errol Morris and Steve James
Dorfman started out photographing the Beats in the early ’60s and became friends with poet Allen Ginsberg, who she shot many times over the decades.
Read More: New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Documentary Lineup, Including New Films by Errol Morris and Steve James
Dorfman started out photographing the Beats in the early ’60s and became friends with poet Allen Ginsberg, who she shot many times over the decades.
- 9/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
4 Reasons Distributors Should Buy Errol Morris Gem ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’
Errol Morris is best known as an influential and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (“The Fog of War”), but he’s also a master of the short form who commands big bucks shooting commercials and episodic television. Then there’s the New York Times op-docs and essays, his many deep dives into photography and the bestsellers such as “Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography” and “A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.” However, none of this prepared me for his latest gem of a film,”The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography,” a gentle exploration of a woman who’s also one of Morris’ best friends.
Read More: New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Documentary Lineup, Including New Films by Errol Morris and Steve James
Dorfman started out photographing the Beats in the early ’60s and became friends with poet Allen Ginsberg, who she shot many times over the decades.
Read More: New York Film Festival Announces 2016 Documentary Lineup, Including New Films by Errol Morris and Steve James
Dorfman started out photographing the Beats in the early ’60s and became friends with poet Allen Ginsberg, who she shot many times over the decades.
- 9/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Every week, the CriticWire Survey asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: This past weekend saw the release of “Indignation,” which has been rather faithfully adapted from the Philip Roth novel of the same name. In the hopes of shining some light on what makes for a great adaptation, is there a film that you believe is better than the book from which it was adapted?
Christopher Campbell (@thefilmcynic) Nonfics/Film School Rejects
This is a difficult question as I admit I haven’t read a lot of the books of movies I love (unless we count my childhood interest in novelizations), so I can’t think of any favorite films I...
This week’s question: This past weekend saw the release of “Indignation,” which has been rather faithfully adapted from the Philip Roth novel of the same name. In the hopes of shining some light on what makes for a great adaptation, is there a film that you believe is better than the book from which it was adapted?
Christopher Campbell (@thefilmcynic) Nonfics/Film School Rejects
This is a difficult question as I admit I haven’t read a lot of the books of movies I love (unless we count my childhood interest in novelizations), so I can’t think of any favorite films I...
- 8/1/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Pexels/Wikipedia
It’s that time of year again. The time to spend hours crammed into a stuffy gadget shop, frantically trying to decide whether whether your Secret Santa recipient would rather have a pot of magnetic putty or a mug with a moustache on it.
Well, never fear, because we’ve got you sorted for at least one of your friends/loved ones. Everyone’s got one. We are, of course, talking about the resident Science Nerd.
By now they’ll have built up a small library of books, probably including multiple copies of A Brief History of Time and at least two New Scientist collections. Don’t get them a book. They’ve probably also got the DVD box set of Cosmos. Yep, both versions.
Luckily, the internet is teeming with weird and wonderful science presents that will put a genuine smile on their face. Plus, you won...
It’s that time of year again. The time to spend hours crammed into a stuffy gadget shop, frantically trying to decide whether whether your Secret Santa recipient would rather have a pot of magnetic putty or a mug with a moustache on it.
Well, never fear, because we’ve got you sorted for at least one of your friends/loved ones. Everyone’s got one. We are, of course, talking about the resident Science Nerd.
By now they’ll have built up a small library of books, probably including multiple copies of A Brief History of Time and at least two New Scientist collections. Don’t get them a book. They’ve probably also got the DVD box set of Cosmos. Yep, both versions.
Luckily, the internet is teeming with weird and wonderful science presents that will put a genuine smile on their face. Plus, you won...
- 12/10/2015
- by Stevie Shephard
- Obsessed with Film
Update: Paramount Pictures just released the official teaser trailer which we replaced below. At first it looks like it might be a trailer for a Stephen Hawking documentary. Maybe a film version of A Brief History of Time? The mechanical voice takes us through the history of the universe, but then you notice something.s just not right. It.s not a movie about obtaining scientific knowledge. It.s about stupid people. Check out the trailer for Zoolander 2: It.s really just a teaser, as the trailer contains no footage of the film itself but for fans of the original, the movie.s trademark dumb can be found in abundance. There.s the brilliant math, (1+4=14, wait, is that not right?), the terrible language (make sure to check out the definition of "Eugoogly" which is a word I will now begin to use) and the existential questions, at least...
- 8/2/2015
- cinemablend.com
Us documentary director to also be subject of a retrospective.
Us director Errol Morris is to compile this year’s Top 10 at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), whcih runs November 18-29.
Morris, the director of seminal documentaries including The Thin Blue Line (1988), A Brief History of Time (1992), The Fog of War (2003) and Standard Operating Procedure (2008), will also be the subject of a retrospective at the festival.
Morris will attend the festival to talk about his work and his choices for the Top 10 in a masterclass.
Previous directors to compile a top 10 for Idfa include Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ulrich Seidl, Heddy Honigmann and Rithy Panh.
Us director Errol Morris is to compile this year’s Top 10 at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), whcih runs November 18-29.
Morris, the director of seminal documentaries including The Thin Blue Line (1988), A Brief History of Time (1992), The Fog of War (2003) and Standard Operating Procedure (2008), will also be the subject of a retrospective at the festival.
Morris will attend the festival to talk about his work and his choices for the Top 10 in a masterclass.
Previous directors to compile a top 10 for Idfa include Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ulrich Seidl, Heddy Honigmann and Rithy Panh.
- 6/30/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ever since we heard Roy Keane's thoughts on Gone Girl ("Rubbish. Absolute rubbish."), we've been consumed with wondering what celebrities think of all the latest movies. So we did some research. Here are some of the entertainment world's best and brightest on the films nominated for this year's Best Picture Oscar.
(Just make sure you read Arnie's tweets in his accent. Please. It makes them ten times funnier.)
American Sniper
American Sniper not Clint Eastwoods finest work for me. I did shed a tear for the story though. #ChrisKyle
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) January 26, 2015
American Sniper was truly great. I should have learned by now to never let Clint surprise me, but I didn't expect to cry through the credits
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) December 22, 2014
Saw Two Days One Night. Long & boring & depressing. English sub titles, so u have to really concentrate. My fave movie American Sniper
— Jackie Collins (@jackiejcollins) January 25, 2015
Birdman...
(Just make sure you read Arnie's tweets in his accent. Please. It makes them ten times funnier.)
American Sniper
American Sniper not Clint Eastwoods finest work for me. I did shed a tear for the story though. #ChrisKyle
— James Arthur (@JamesArthur23) January 26, 2015
American Sniper was truly great. I should have learned by now to never let Clint surprise me, but I didn't expect to cry through the credits
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) December 22, 2014
Saw Two Days One Night. Long & boring & depressing. English sub titles, so u have to really concentrate. My fave movie American Sniper
— Jackie Collins (@jackiejcollins) January 25, 2015
Birdman...
- 1/29/2015
- Digital Spy
The science bit is largely absent from James Marsh’s intimate biopic of Stephen Hawking
James Marsh, the British director of documentaries Man on Wire and Project Nim and a third of the very dark Red Riding TV trilogy, here turns in an accomplished but conventional biopic of Professor Stephen Hawking. Literately scripted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir by the subject’s ex-wife, Jane Hawking, the film follows the physicist from carefree cycling days in Cambridge, through the onset of motor neurone disease, to A Brief History of Time and the advent of the world’s most recognised electronic voice. It feels churlish to complain that the film is uncritical; we’re talking about one of the transcendent intellects of our age, so what’s to criticise? But this Working Title production is somewhat fuzzily life-affirming, and you wonder whether Hawking in his youth was quite as irrepressibly impish...
James Marsh, the British director of documentaries Man on Wire and Project Nim and a third of the very dark Red Riding TV trilogy, here turns in an accomplished but conventional biopic of Professor Stephen Hawking. Literately scripted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir by the subject’s ex-wife, Jane Hawking, the film follows the physicist from carefree cycling days in Cambridge, through the onset of motor neurone disease, to A Brief History of Time and the advent of the world’s most recognised electronic voice. It feels churlish to complain that the film is uncritical; we’re talking about one of the transcendent intellects of our age, so what’s to criticise? But this Working Title production is somewhat fuzzily life-affirming, and you wonder whether Hawking in his youth was quite as irrepressibly impish...
- 1/4/2015
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Eddie Redmayne is superb in The Theory Of Everything, a drama about Stephen Hawking. Our review's here...
For many, Stephen Hawking’s name will be synonymous with his best-selling book A Brief History Of Time, which made his groundbreaking theories about the nature of the universe - just about - intelligible to the masses.
The Theory Of Everything delves back to the university years of Hawking’s life, and tells a story that, as its producer Tim Bevan says, “nobody knew much about.” But the film isn’t just about Hawking, but also about his future wife Jane - how they met, fell in love and remained together, even as Hawking began to display the worst effects of motor neuron disease.
Eddie Redmayne is uncannily good as Hawking, a twinkle-eyed science geek when he first meets Jane (Felicity Jones) at Cambridge university in 1963. Although they seem an odd match at...
For many, Stephen Hawking’s name will be synonymous with his best-selling book A Brief History Of Time, which made his groundbreaking theories about the nature of the universe - just about - intelligible to the masses.
The Theory Of Everything delves back to the university years of Hawking’s life, and tells a story that, as its producer Tim Bevan says, “nobody knew much about.” But the film isn’t just about Hawking, but also about his future wife Jane - how they met, fell in love and remained together, even as Hawking began to display the worst effects of motor neuron disease.
Eddie Redmayne is uncannily good as Hawking, a twinkle-eyed science geek when he first meets Jane (Felicity Jones) at Cambridge university in 1963. Although they seem an odd match at...
- 1/2/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Don’t spoil next year’s great movies by gorging on trailers and teasers
“Are you rushing or are you dragging?” barks the hard-boiled conductor during a tense early scene from the upcoming Us drama Whiplash. Good timing is crucial for this taskmaster, and woe betide the drummer who dares to dawdle or to forge ahead. Falling behind just a hair holds everyone up, but jumping the gun in your eagerness to turn the page and find out what comes next inevitably causes problems of its own.
Whiplash, it turns out, is one of a number of Oscar contenders tangentially concerned with the management of time. Elsewhere on the starting grid we discover Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (which affects to hold its breath during a single, uninterrupted take), Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (which unwinds at leisure over a 12-year period) and The Theory of Everything (in that Eddie Redmayne...
“Are you rushing or are you dragging?” barks the hard-boiled conductor during a tense early scene from the upcoming Us drama Whiplash. Good timing is crucial for this taskmaster, and woe betide the drummer who dares to dawdle or to forge ahead. Falling behind just a hair holds everyone up, but jumping the gun in your eagerness to turn the page and find out what comes next inevitably causes problems of its own.
Whiplash, it turns out, is one of a number of Oscar contenders tangentially concerned with the management of time. Elsewhere on the starting grid we discover Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (which affects to hold its breath during a single, uninterrupted take), Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (which unwinds at leisure over a 12-year period) and The Theory of Everything (in that Eddie Redmayne...
- 1/1/2015
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
To makeover actor Eddie Redmayne into Stephen Hawking, whose could still sneak out a smile through a physical body mangled by disease, makeup designer Jane Sewell avoided all things Hawking. Forget about Benedict Cumberbatch’s biopic "Hawking." And definitely no "Simpsons" cameos. She wouldn’t even watch Errol Morris’s "A Brief History of Time" documentary. Save for reference photos, Sewell had blinders up to any Stephen Hawking appearance. If there was existing pop culture that helped her with the job, it would probably be "Absolutely Fabulous." Getting her start on BBC television, where Sewell says she could buy and experiment with any makeup technique, the makeup designer eventually landed on the classically crass comedy show. Stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley wore prosthetics on "Absolutely Fabulous" all of the time, whether the gals were aging or blowing up their lips with ridiculous collagen injections. "Ab Fab" pushed Sewell’s makeup to the extremes.
- 11/11/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
An actor or actress can be on the periphery of stardom for what seems like an eternity before the right role comes along at the right time and transforms his or her career. Do you know how many times you probably saw Michael Fassbender on screen before he technically broke out four years ago? Did you know Benedict Cumberbatch had been a working actor for almost a decade before he finally got Hollywood's attention after "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Sherlock" (2011)? Enter the latest star on the verge of global recognition: Eddie Redmayne. Ironically a good friend of Cumberbatch's, the London native has been a fixture in front of moviegoers since he earned his big break starring alongside Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd" (2006). And, he’s actually worked pretty consistently since, starting with "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007), starring as Kristen Stewart’s...
- 11/6/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new biography/romantic drama “The Theory of Everything” starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking!
“The Theory of Everything,” which opens in Chicago on Nov. 14, 2014 and is rated “PG-13,” also stars Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking along with Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Prior, Simon McBurney, Guy Oliver-Watts, Paul Longley, Gruffudd Glyn, Alice Orr-Ewing and Harry Lloyd from director James Marsh and writer Anthony McCarten based on the novel by Jane Hawking.
To win your free “The Theory of Everything” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
“The Theory of Everything,” which opens in Chicago on Nov. 14, 2014 and is rated “PG-13,” also stars Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking along with Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Prior, Simon McBurney, Guy Oliver-Watts, Paul Longley, Gruffudd Glyn, Alice Orr-Ewing and Harry Lloyd from director James Marsh and writer Anthony McCarten based on the novel by Jane Hawking.
To win your free “The Theory of Everything” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
- 11/6/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"The Theory of Everything" (in theaters Nov. 7) tells the remarkable story of physicist Stephen Hawking, who revolutionized the way we think of the universe, despite being stricken with a motor neuron disease when he was just 21. He was given only two years but defied the odds, at age 72, still alive today. He is confined to a wheelchair and cannot speak except through a computer, but his book "A Brief History of Time" is not only a best-seller, but made the Big Bang and black holes something regular folks could understand.
We all love the story of someone who succeeds against incredible odds, whether they're fighting disease, prejudice, poverty, imprisonment, injustice or a physical or mental limitation. Here's to the triumph of the unbowed human spirit depicted in these films that are (mostly) inspired by the actual struggles of real people.
We all love the story of someone who succeeds against incredible odds, whether they're fighting disease, prejudice, poverty, imprisonment, injustice or a physical or mental limitation. Here's to the triumph of the unbowed human spirit depicted in these films that are (mostly) inspired by the actual struggles of real people.
- 11/3/2014
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Scenes From a Marriage: Marsh’s Distilled Look at Physicist Stephen Hawking
Spanning twenty five years in their lives together and based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking, The Theory of Everything is the first major motion theatrical release to explore the life of one of the world’s most celebrated physicists, Stephen Hawking, a man with a compelling foothold in the cultural lexicon. As an arena for poignant and impeccably calibrated performances, the film is bound to be highly notable, not unlike a pair of names that overshadowed the significant shortcomings of last year’s The Dallas Buyers Club. As directed by James Marsh, the film is something of a crowd pleaser from a filmmaker that vacillates between arresting documentaries (Man on Wire; Project Nim) and brooding cinema (Shadow Dancer and a portion of the BBC Red Riding trilogy). Standardly told,...
Spanning twenty five years in their lives together and based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking, The Theory of Everything is the first major motion theatrical release to explore the life of one of the world’s most celebrated physicists, Stephen Hawking, a man with a compelling foothold in the cultural lexicon. As an arena for poignant and impeccably calibrated performances, the film is bound to be highly notable, not unlike a pair of names that overshadowed the significant shortcomings of last year’s The Dallas Buyers Club. As directed by James Marsh, the film is something of a crowd pleaser from a filmmaker that vacillates between arresting documentaries (Man on Wire; Project Nim) and brooding cinema (Shadow Dancer and a portion of the BBC Red Riding trilogy). Standardly told,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Los Angeles — Focus Features is circling the wagons with the release of James Marsh's Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything" imminent. Tuesday night's Los Angeles premiere was well-attended and response has the studio excited, while the film's stars, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, along with producer Lisa Bruce and screenwriter Anthony McCarten took part in a Wednesday afternoon luncheon in West Hollywood to bend the ear of select press. Redmayne — dapper as ever — spoke a little about the work that went into training his muscles so they wouldn't flare up after bending his frame into that of the Als-afflicted Hawking for a number of scenes in the film. While he's confined to a wheelchair for much of the film, it's still quite a physical performance in that regard. "There were things like emergency acupuncture, if you tweaked something," he said. I also asked him about Hawking's popular-science...
- 10/29/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
"We all have the sense of Stephen Hawking, the icon," Eddie Redmayne says in an explanatory video for the science-minded biopic, "The Theory of Everything." What fewer people know, according to the Best Actor candidate, is the life before Hawking published "A Brief History of Time" catapulted the wheelchair-bound scientist to mainstream fame. For instance, Redmayne was not aware that Hawking's motor neuron disease only began inhibiting him while pursuing a doctorate in his twenties. We forgive you, Eddie — mostly because there's even more to discover in "Theory of Everything" than the straight-forward facts. From "Man on Wire" director James Marsh, "Theory of Everything" chronicles Hawking's more emotional pursuits, delving into his relationship with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) and the ailment that would challenge and warp their marriage (the couple divorced in 1995 after 30 years of marriage). The film flirts with Hawking's cosmological theories, but the focus is...
- 10/15/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
The movies they show at film festivals are often rife with outlandish hookups and unlikely sexual situations, but who would have expected that the most complicated cinematic love triangle at the Toronto Film Fest would include A Brief History of Time author Stephen Hawking? In James Marsh's new film The Theory of Everything, the famous physicist is played by Les Miserables standout Eddie Redmayne, and we meet Stephen long before his crippling diagnosis of Als, when he's a physically active young man at Cambridge. Redmayne is handsome in a highly unusual, specific way, and though Marsh tries to offset those looks by outfitting him in nerdy glasses, brushed-forward hair, and crushed-velvet blazers, there's only so much that can be done: He looks like Austin Powers in Burberry.At Cambridge, Stephen meets the fetching Jane (Felicity Jones from Like Crazy and The Invisible Woman), and it's immediately apparent that they're...
- 9/7/2014
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Welcome To Issue 60!
If This Is Your First Time Here: Welcome! This is my weekly column where I talk about superhero movie news, rumors and speculation to the detriment of no one. It usually has spoilers. Also it has jokes, sorry Warner Bros.
This Week: Donald Glover finally gets to be Spider-Man, then I don’t know who at DC to talk to about setting “no joke” policies. But I want to make two things clear right from the start: I want the Dcu to succeed because I want to see these movies, and I’m easily excitable when it comes to these things.
Thanks for being so patient while I uprooted my Brooklyn life of 11 years and hauled all my crap back to Colorado last week. There’s something about paying to ship all your Spider-Man toys to another state while you’re throwing away baby pictures of yourself...
If This Is Your First Time Here: Welcome! This is my weekly column where I talk about superhero movie news, rumors and speculation to the detriment of no one. It usually has spoilers. Also it has jokes, sorry Warner Bros.
This Week: Donald Glover finally gets to be Spider-Man, then I don’t know who at DC to talk to about setting “no joke” policies. But I want to make two things clear right from the start: I want the Dcu to succeed because I want to see these movies, and I’m easily excitable when it comes to these things.
Thanks for being so patient while I uprooted my Brooklyn life of 11 years and hauled all my crap back to Colorado last week. There’s something about paying to ship all your Spider-Man toys to another state while you’re throwing away baby pictures of yourself...
- 8/27/2014
- by Da7e
- LRMonline.com
Few things are more exciting for hardcore cinephiles than the semi-annual Barnes and Noble Criterion sale. For a few precious weeks a year, super high-quality Blu-Rays of obscure and influential classic films are on the relative cheap. Most noteworthy: they look really, Really pretty.
Most Criterion-heads are lining up to pick up A Hard Day’s Night, Red River, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and other newer (fiction) releases—as they should because they’re all awesome releases. But how about a little love for the documentary?
Maybe you don’t think docs have a ton of rewatch value, and maybe you’re right in some cases. Criterion’s A+ supplements and video quality—not to mention the timelessness of the films they choose—ought to be enough to sway you in the right direction. But if they aren’t, we’re diving a little deeper into ten of the best Criterion documentaries ever.
Most Criterion-heads are lining up to pick up A Hard Day’s Night, Red River, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and other newer (fiction) releases—as they should because they’re all awesome releases. But how about a little love for the documentary?
Maybe you don’t think docs have a ton of rewatch value, and maybe you’re right in some cases. Criterion’s A+ supplements and video quality—not to mention the timelessness of the films they choose—ought to be enough to sway you in the right direction. But if they aren’t, we’re diving a little deeper into ten of the best Criterion documentaries ever.
- 7/12/2014
- by John Gilpatrick
- SoundOnSight
Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist who penned A Brief History Of Time, is now lending his scientific mind to England’s World Cup squad by providing a statistical analysis of what will give them the best chance of capturing a championship win.
Stephen Hawking Advises England's World Cup Team
In his breakdown for the Roy Hodgson-led team, Hawking offered suggestions on uniform color, formation, referee preference, temperature and kick off time. "Statistically England's red kit is more successful and we should play 4-3-3 rather than 4-4-2,” according to Hawking. “Psychologists in Germany found red makes teams feel more confident and can lead them to being perceived as more aggressive and dominant. Likewise, 4-3-3 is more positive so the team benefits for similar psychological reasons.”
"The data shows we also need to hope for a European referee. European referees are more sympathetic to the English game and...
Stephen Hawking Advises England's World Cup Team
In his breakdown for the Roy Hodgson-led team, Hawking offered suggestions on uniform color, formation, referee preference, temperature and kick off time. "Statistically England's red kit is more successful and we should play 4-3-3 rather than 4-4-2,” according to Hawking. “Psychologists in Germany found red makes teams feel more confident and can lead them to being perceived as more aggressive and dominant. Likewise, 4-3-3 is more positive so the team benefits for similar psychological reasons.”
"The data shows we also need to hope for a European referee. European referees are more sympathetic to the English game and...
- 5/29/2014
- Uinterview
Double Indemnity A wonderful film and most likely the next entry in my Best Movies features once I'm able to get around to this new Blu-ray. The last time I wrote about it was in July 2011 were I said it would be one of my personal "must own" movies on the heels of this post. I can't wait to revisit it in HD.
Touch of Evil I did get a chance to watch this new Blu-ray and it's an interesting presentation. I don't know how many times I've seen Touch of Evil, probably about three times before this latest viewing, and boy did this presentation seem darker. Gary over at DVD Beaver went into this too, comparing to the Masters of Cinema release, which looks to have maintained the film's grain structure to a higher degree. In this situation I'm not sure if either is necessarily the "correct" way to...
Touch of Evil I did get a chance to watch this new Blu-ray and it's an interesting presentation. I don't know how many times I've seen Touch of Evil, probably about three times before this latest viewing, and boy did this presentation seem darker. Gary over at DVD Beaver went into this too, comparing to the Masters of Cinema release, which looks to have maintained the film's grain structure to a higher degree. In this situation I'm not sure if either is necessarily the "correct" way to...
- 4/15/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
If merely listening to Stephen Hawking speak his ideas (to say nothing of actually trying to connect and understand them) makes you feel stupid, don't worry: you're in good company. Taking its title from Hawking's most famous book, A Brief History of Time synthesizes some of his bolder statements with Errol Morris's distinctive interviews and cut-aways to present a biography of Hawking as well as a forum for his work. The portrait that emerges is of a man apart, whose ideas could only be evaluated or challenged once the vastness of the universe itself was fully absorbed; a universe, History argues, about which we know even less than we might have thought. You may not feel as if you understand the man or his ideas by the time the film concludes, but you will doubtless be awed by just how beautifully Morris was able to give shape to something so immense and formless.
- 4/11/2014
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
Working Title Films’ Theory Of Everything will be released domestically by Focus Features in exclusive engagements beginning Friday, November 7th, 2014. Focus CEO Peter Schlessel made the announcement today.
Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) helms the romantic drama starring Eddie Redmayne (of Working Title’s blockbuster Les Misérables) as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous as the author of A Brief History of Time, opposite Gotham Independent Film Award winner Felicity Jones (Like Crazy).
The movie explores the excitement of the 1960s for Stephen as he studies at Cambridge University. At the dawn of a brilliant life’s work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing.
Jane’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen inspired the...
Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) helms the romantic drama starring Eddie Redmayne (of Working Title’s blockbuster Les Misérables) as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous as the author of A Brief History of Time, opposite Gotham Independent Film Award winner Felicity Jones (Like Crazy).
The movie explores the excitement of the 1960s for Stephen as he studies at Cambridge University. At the dawn of a brilliant life’s work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing.
Jane’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen inspired the...
- 4/11/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features has slated a November 7 release date for director James Marsh's brainy romance "Theory of Everything," from British production company Working Title. Eddie Redmayne stars as "A Brief History of Time" author and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The film centers on his tempestuous relationship with a young art student named Jane Wilde, played by Felicity Jones. Here's more on the film: At the dawn of a brilliant life's work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing. With a screenplay by Anthony McCarten -- also coproducer with Lisa Bruce -- the film was inspired by Wilde's 2007 memoir "Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen," which traces the couple's turbulent marriage. Director Marsh previously helmed the documentaries "Man on Wire,...
- 4/10/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Working Title Films. Stephen Hawking drama Theory of Everything is set to be released domestically by Focus Features on November 7, 2014. Academy Award winner James Marsh ( Man on Wire ) helms the romantic drama starring Eddie Redmayne as the theoretical physicist and world-famous as the author of "A Brief History of Time," opposite Gotham Independent Film Award winner Felicity Jones ( Like Crazy ). The movie explores the excitement of the 1960s for Stephen as he studies at Cambridge University. At the dawn of a brilliant life.s work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing....
- 4/10/2014
- Comingsoon.net
The pairing of the finest scientific mind of his generation with one of America’s best documentarians and the preeminent composer of his time should, one would think, have made more of a lasting impression on the cinematic landscape. However, 20-odd years after its release, Errol Morris’ 1992 A Brief History of Time – a (liberal) adaptation of Stephen Hawking’s all-time bestseller, with a score by Philip Glass – is a title receiving a much-needed revival thanks to its release on DVD and Blu ray through Criterion. Morris’ movie, which cannily interweaves Hawking’s own compelling history with the astrophysicist’s theories of the […]...
- 3/19/2014
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The pairing of the finest scientific mind of his generation with one of America’s best documentarians and the preeminent composer of his time should, one would think, have made more of a lasting impression on the cinematic landscape. However, 20-odd years after its release, Errol Morris’ 1992 A Brief History of Time – a (liberal) adaptation of Stephen Hawking’s all-time bestseller, with a score by Philip Glass – is a title receiving a much-needed revival thanks to its release on DVD and Blu ray through Criterion. Morris’ movie, which cannily interweaves Hawking’s own compelling history with the astrophysicist’s theories of the […]...
- 3/19/2014
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"Frozen"
What's It About? Anna (Kristen Bell) doesn't know why she and her sister Elsa (Idina Menzel) have grown apart over the years. Doesn't she want to build a snowman like they used to do when they were kids? Actually, Elsa is a little too good at building snowmen, because she's the gosh-darn Ice Queen and turns everything to frost when she gets mad or stressed out. Anna goes on a mission to save her sister, along with a dude named Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), his beloved reindeer, and a talking snowman named Olaf (Josh Gad) who just wants a hug.
Why We're In: This is one of the best Disney movies to come out in years. Even adults are secretly listening to Menzel belt out the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" on their headphones.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"The Hidden Fortress"
What's It About?...
"Frozen"
What's It About? Anna (Kristen Bell) doesn't know why she and her sister Elsa (Idina Menzel) have grown apart over the years. Doesn't she want to build a snowman like they used to do when they were kids? Actually, Elsa is a little too good at building snowmen, because she's the gosh-darn Ice Queen and turns everything to frost when she gets mad or stressed out. Anna goes on a mission to save her sister, along with a dude named Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), his beloved reindeer, and a talking snowman named Olaf (Josh Gad) who just wants a hug.
Why We're In: This is one of the best Disney movies to come out in years. Even adults are secretly listening to Menzel belt out the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" on their headphones.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"The Hidden Fortress"
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- 3/18/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
In wake of the massive non-fiction success that was The Thin Blue Line, singular director Errol Morris really could have done any number of things with his new found critical clout and studio interest. Having been contacted by Steven Spielberg’s production company, Amblin Entertainment, who had purchased the rights to A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking’s pop-culture piercing piece of science literature, shortly after its release in 1988. The book, which attempted to explain the physics behind the history of our universe in terms digestible by anyone willing to waltz into an airport bookstore, was of philosophical interest to Morris, but it was the unimaginably brilliant man trapped within his own crippled body that the filmmaker found much more fascinating. How fascinating that the man to envision the cosmos as a thing with a lifespan like any other, a beginning and an end, expanding and collapsing, just as Hawking himself has,...
- 3/18/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
With Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day falling on the same wintery weekend, the studios are betting that love sick couples and self-loathing singles will both be lining up for some romantic movies this weekend -- how else to explain the simultaneous release of an unnecessary "Endless Love" remake, an "About Last Night" redo, and "Winter's Tale," arguably the most "original" of the three V-Day offerings but still an adaptation of a 1983 novel written by Mark Helprin.
The film was written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for "A Beautiful Mind" (or, conversely, for running the Batman franchise into the ground with the script for "Batman & Robin"), and stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, and Russell Crowe. Oh, and Will Smith (more on that in a minute). It's a tale of timeless love and spiritual reawakening and is designed to make couples everywhere...
The film was written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for "A Beautiful Mind" (or, conversely, for running the Batman franchise into the ground with the script for "Batman & Robin"), and stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, and Russell Crowe. Oh, and Will Smith (more on that in a minute). It's a tale of timeless love and spiritual reawakening and is designed to make couples everywhere...
- 2/13/2014
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
You already know Stephen Hawking is brilliant, but his autobiographical documentary proves him funny and charming.
The one-hour film "Hawking," premiering on PBS Wednesday, Jan. 29 (check local listings), has Hawking talking about his childhood, education and paralysis from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Family, colleagues and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrayed him in a British biographical film, also talk about the theoretical physicist.
The most riveting moments are when Hawking, 72, explains how, for most of his life, he's had to live each day as if it could be his last. Old photos are woven in with re-enactments of events from his life.
Even in primary school, classmates recognized Hawking's intellect and nicknamed him Einstein. Hawking enjoyed school but truly enjoyed champagne parties at Oxford, where he says, he "did about two hours of work a day."
The film shows him being tended to by a caregiver and on stage lecturing a spellbound audience.
The one-hour film "Hawking," premiering on PBS Wednesday, Jan. 29 (check local listings), has Hawking talking about his childhood, education and paralysis from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Family, colleagues and actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrayed him in a British biographical film, also talk about the theoretical physicist.
The most riveting moments are when Hawking, 72, explains how, for most of his life, he's had to live each day as if it could be his last. Old photos are woven in with re-enactments of events from his life.
Even in primary school, classmates recognized Hawking's intellect and nicknamed him Einstein. Hawking enjoyed school but truly enjoyed champagne parties at Oxford, where he says, he "did about two hours of work a day."
The film shows him being tended to by a caregiver and on stage lecturing a spellbound audience.
- 1/29/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 18, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The life and career of Steven Hawking is chronicled in A Brief History of Time
In the 1991 documentary film A Brief History of Time, filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who is afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs.
An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination.
Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A Brief History of Time...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The life and career of Steven Hawking is chronicled in A Brief History of Time
In the 1991 documentary film A Brief History of Time, filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who is afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs.
An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination.
Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A Brief History of Time...
- 1/2/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Ten years ago Errol Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar for his investigation of former Secretary of Defence, Robert S. McNamara. It’s telling that even Morris was surprised, noting in his speech that “I thought it would never happen.” Given his stance as one of the most important documentarians of his time, it genuinely was surprising that he had never even been nominated before let alone won. I guess it didn’t help that titles like Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and Gates of Heaven were likely easily swept aside as unsubstantial, but The Thin Blue Line? A Brief History of Time? It seemed like the documentary branch clearly weren’t fans.
Still, The Fog of War was fairly hard to ignore even for the Academy who have an innate ability to let grudges and bug bears continue for decades and vice versa (I hear Mia Farrow has an...
Still, The Fog of War was fairly hard to ignore even for the Academy who have an innate ability to let grudges and bug bears continue for decades and vice versa (I hear Mia Farrow has an...
- 11/14/2013
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Les Misérables actor Eddie Redmayne portrays a young Stephen Hawking in the first photos from The Theory of Everything, the story of English physicist Stephen Hawking’s life and marriage to Jane Wilde. Hawking, whose book ‘A Brief History of Time’ sold more than 10 million copies and attempts to explain the Big Bang theory (also, can someone please...Read more»...
- 10/1/2013
- by Barbara DeFranco
- Celebuzz.com
Did Eddie Redmayne just cause a rupture in the space-time continuum? The Les Misérables heartthrob, who's playing a young Stephen Hawking in the upcoming movie Theory of Everything, posed for pictures with the celebrated physicist when the latter visited the film's set in Cambridge, just outside of London on Friday. And by the looks of things, we'd say Redmayne, sporting Hawking's signature frames and clad in a tuxedo, captures the physical likeness, if not spirit of the brilliant scientist in his younger years before he shot to fame thanks to his work on black holes and singularities and captured the popular imagination with his bestseller A Brief History of Time. Thankfully,...
- 9/30/2013
- E! Online
The Samantha Geimer/Roman Polanski case demonstrates our terrible dread of nuance
Samantha Geimer, the girl in the Roman Polanski rape case, has published what might be the most important and valuable book of the century so far.
It may prove to be one of those books that a lot of people talk about without actually reading, like A Brief History of Time, or The Tipping Point, or most of the school syllabus.
But that's Ok. The value of Geimer's book, The Girl, lies in the debate it stirs up; this is already happening through serialisation and widespread, articulate interviews with the author. If that triggers a bigger discussion among non-readers, then she has still done something useful and important.
How much do you know about the story? I knew a bit, but still experienced what hurried book reviewers call "an emotional rollercoaster" while reading one of her interviews.
When...
Samantha Geimer, the girl in the Roman Polanski rape case, has published what might be the most important and valuable book of the century so far.
It may prove to be one of those books that a lot of people talk about without actually reading, like A Brief History of Time, or The Tipping Point, or most of the school syllabus.
But that's Ok. The value of Geimer's book, The Girl, lies in the debate it stirs up; this is already happening through serialisation and widespread, articulate interviews with the author. If that triggers a bigger discussion among non-readers, then she has still done something useful and important.
How much do you know about the story? I knew a bit, but still experienced what hurried book reviewers call "an emotional rollercoaster" while reading one of her interviews.
When...
- 9/30/2013
- by Victoria Coren Mitchell
- The Guardian - Film News
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