The Silence of the Lambs actor is bringing out an album of his own classical compositions
Age: 73.
Appearance: Not actually a serial killer.
The one who eats people? Yes, that Sir Anthony Hopkins. The one who – despite hundreds of starring roles on stage and screen – will likely always be remembered by most film fans as psychiatrist and cannibal Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
And for his scene-stealing turn as one-eyed god Odin in Thor, surely? No, I'm pretty sure even Hopkins has forgotten that one.
But he was brilliant! Please, let's not get fixated on his role as Thor.
Fine. What's he done now? He's followed in the footsteps of Hugh Laurie, William Shatner and the guy who plays Karl Kennedy on Neighbours and become one of those actors who decides to release an album.
Like a music album? A lot like a music album, yes.
What's it called?...
Age: 73.
Appearance: Not actually a serial killer.
The one who eats people? Yes, that Sir Anthony Hopkins. The one who – despite hundreds of starring roles on stage and screen – will likely always be remembered by most film fans as psychiatrist and cannibal Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
And for his scene-stealing turn as one-eyed god Odin in Thor, surely? No, I'm pretty sure even Hopkins has forgotten that one.
But he was brilliant! Please, let's not get fixated on his role as Thor.
Fine. What's he done now? He's followed in the footsteps of Hugh Laurie, William Shatner and the guy who plays Karl Kennedy on Neighbours and become one of those actors who decides to release an album.
Like a music album? A lot like a music album, yes.
What's it called?...
- 12/15/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Of the human condition, that kaleidoscope of ethereal emotion and imagery, there are subjective concepts that can only be perceived through dream and imagination. Films generally approach such topics with a scrutinizing eye in the sense of entertainment, but with little honesty. Clint Eastwood's newest drama, Hereafter, boldly stands as one of the most forthcoming treatments on the extremely potent subject of death and what we dream of beyond that final transition.
The Set-up
Eastwood spins an intertwining tale of three individuals from separate worlds, each touched by death in unique ways, their lives forever altered as the world spins about them oblivious and intent on disbelief. It is this unique perspective, this conditional emotional awareness that sublimely defines the film.
Here's the official synopsis from WB:
George (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie (Cécile de France...
The Set-up
Eastwood spins an intertwining tale of three individuals from separate worlds, each touched by death in unique ways, their lives forever altered as the world spins about them oblivious and intent on disbelief. It is this unique perspective, this conditional emotional awareness that sublimely defines the film.
Here's the official synopsis from WB:
George (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie (Cécile de France...
- 3/16/2011
- Cinelinx
Silence of the Lambs star will premiere new music at concerts in Birmingham and Cardiff
The man who played Hannibal Lecter is set to show off his musical side. Anthony Hopkins will present his original classical music, including a new piece composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, at two UK concerts.
Hopkins is "immensely happy" to be working with the orchestra for his music's British premiere, he told BBC News. "There are themes and passages in these pieces that have been several decades in the making and to bring them all vividly to life with one of the great symphony orchestras of the world is absolutely thrilling."
At both dates, in Birmingham on 23 July and in Cardiff on 24 July, Hopkins will introduce music he wrote for his own independently released films. August, released in 1996, and Slipstream, from 2007, were both directed by Hopkins. The actor will also debut a new work,...
The man who played Hannibal Lecter is set to show off his musical side. Anthony Hopkins will present his original classical music, including a new piece composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, at two UK concerts.
Hopkins is "immensely happy" to be working with the orchestra for his music's British premiere, he told BBC News. "There are themes and passages in these pieces that have been several decades in the making and to bring them all vividly to life with one of the great symphony orchestras of the world is absolutely thrilling."
At both dates, in Birmingham on 23 July and in Cardiff on 24 July, Hopkins will introduce music he wrote for his own independently released films. August, released in 1996, and Slipstream, from 2007, were both directed by Hopkins. The actor will also debut a new work,...
- 2/25/2011
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
Sir Anthony Hopkins needs no introduction as an actor. Even if he seems to be recycling the same performance lately, he stands as a giant among his peers, Richard Burton incarnate with less late career turkeys (so far). Lesser known is that he has also been dabbling in music, playing piano and composing. Thus far he's composed three scores, all for films he also directed.
Hopkins will be presenting these compositions at concerts for the first time this summer in the UK, THR reports. The music will be performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and will include compositions Hopkins wrote for the films "August" and "Slipstream."
Hopkins' most recent foray into music for film was a piece he wrote and performed called "Venetian Medley" for 2010's "The City of Your Final Destination," which had a marvelous score by guitarist/composer Jorge Drexler.
The Birmingham orchestra, lead by conductor by Michael Seal,...
Hopkins will be presenting these compositions at concerts for the first time this summer in the UK, THR reports. The music will be performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and will include compositions Hopkins wrote for the films "August" and "Slipstream."
Hopkins' most recent foray into music for film was a piece he wrote and performed called "Venetian Medley" for 2010's "The City of Your Final Destination," which had a marvelous score by guitarist/composer Jorge Drexler.
The Birmingham orchestra, lead by conductor by Michael Seal,...
- 2/25/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Lisa Menzel is the actress / director behind Thinking Speed. Thinking Speed is one of the most ambitious films in indie horror world in terms of its budget and what it is setting out to do. Thinking Speed has over 90 speaking roles! It runs over 2 hours! And it's all being done on a budget of just $1700! Call Lisa Menzel crazy or call her brave, if she flops with Thinking Speed, you can't say she didn't try and at least she is flopping in specular fashion. However, if she pulls it off, she has done something incredible. At any rate, we here at Bdhr wanted to know more about Thinking Speed which stars Pat Doran, Nick Doetsch, Edy Cullen, and Tim Krueger. Here is what Lisa Menzel had to say.
So who is Lisa Menzel and what are you all about?
I think people form who they are from loose and random...
So who is Lisa Menzel and what are you all about?
I think people form who they are from loose and random...
- 10/14/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
There was a time when Anthony Hopkins was making daring movies, classy movies or even weird movies, be it the iconic Hannibal Lecter or 2007's bizarre passion project Slipstream-- and hey, he's still got a Woody Allen movie coming out this summer. But at the age of 73, Hopkins seems to content to spend most of his time taking roles in big-budget genre films that seem to use him to add legitimacy to what they're doing. The last decade has brought us Hopkins as Wise Old Men in Alexander, Beowulf, The Wolfman and the upcoming Thor, and now he's moving on to Arabian Nights, the Prince of Persia knockoff starring Liam Hemsworth as a young commander rescuing Ali Baba's fabled magic lamp. THR reports that Hopkins will play the evil sorcerer Pharotu, who is "looking to amass more magic for himself" and probably has his eye on that lamp as well.
- 5/10/2010
- cinemablend.com
Actor, director, screenwriter, composer – and now painter. Anthony Hopkins has been busy
Anthony Hopkins is at home in California – Malibu to be precise, on the beach. It is late afternoon, the sun is dipping, everything is lovely. I am at home in London. It is 1am, cold and windy, and I am dribbling into my sofa.
The phone goes. It is Sir Anthony, to talk about his paintings. Next month the first British exhibition of his art will open in London, followed by another show in Edinburgh. In recent years, the 72-year-old actor has become something of a renaissance man: in 2007 he wrote, directed and scripted a film called Slipstream. Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Now there's the painting.
Hopkins's paintings are varied and variable – ranging from traditional landscapes to much darker and more garish images. I...
Anthony Hopkins is at home in California – Malibu to be precise, on the beach. It is late afternoon, the sun is dipping, everything is lovely. I am at home in London. It is 1am, cold and windy, and I am dribbling into my sofa.
The phone goes. It is Sir Anthony, to talk about his paintings. Next month the first British exhibition of his art will open in London, followed by another show in Edinburgh. In recent years, the 72-year-old actor has become something of a renaissance man: in 2007 he wrote, directed and scripted a film called Slipstream. Last year, his composition The Masque of Time was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Now there's the painting.
Hopkins's paintings are varied and variable – ranging from traditional landscapes to much darker and more garish images. I...
- 1/21/2010
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
- The jury composed of Walter Carvalho, Saverio Costanzo, Irène Jacob, Jia Zhang-ke, Romuald Karmakar and Bruno Todeschini gave out a bunch of leopards on the weekend. Masahiro Kobayashi (see pic above) won the Golden Leopard for his film Ai no yokan (The Rebirth). Best Director was awarded to Capitaine Achab by Philippe Ramos (France) and the Special Jury Prize went to Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007) by Pedro Costa, Harun Farocki and Eugène Green. Spanish actress Carmen Maura and the French actor Michel Piccoli both received an Excellence Award (Michel Piccoli also received the prize for best actor in Sous les toits de Paris, joint winner was Michele Venitucci in Fuori dalle corde). And finally (and not surprisingly), Death at a Funeral (the Brit comedy by Frank Oz) won the audience award – this making it the 5th or 6th time that it has walked away from an international festival with such honors.
- 8/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
LOCARNO, Switzerland -- A packed screening of Paul Greengrass' "The Bourne Ultimatum" at the Locarno Film Festival's famous Piazza Grande on Saturday was the highlight of the weekend at the 60th edition of the event, furthering the revered festival's increasingly strong ties with Hollywood.
With seven of 19 in competition films screened as of Sunday night, several films had to be rescreened, as two members of the Cineastes du Present Competition jury were forced to leave the festival on short notice for what festival officials said was personal reasons.
Other weekend highlights included an appearance by Anthony Hopkins, in town to promote his latest directorial outing, "Slipstream", and iconic Spanish actress Carmen Maura who was given a career achievement award but was nearly upstaged by Italian Nobel Prize-winning poet Dario Fo, who presented Maura with the award and who charmed the Italian-speaking crowd with a story about his first visit to the Locarno festival 20 years earlier.
Frank Oz' black comedy "Death at a Funeral" received an enthusiastic response in the sold-out Piazza Grande Sunday night, followed by Robert Rodriguez' ultra violent "Planet Terror", which played to a less-than-half-full Piazza after festival organizers repeatedly warned festival goers about the film's violent content.
With seven of 19 in competition films screened as of Sunday night, several films had to be rescreened, as two members of the Cineastes du Present Competition jury were forced to leave the festival on short notice for what festival officials said was personal reasons.
Other weekend highlights included an appearance by Anthony Hopkins, in town to promote his latest directorial outing, "Slipstream", and iconic Spanish actress Carmen Maura who was given a career achievement award but was nearly upstaged by Italian Nobel Prize-winning poet Dario Fo, who presented Maura with the award and who charmed the Italian-speaking crowd with a story about his first visit to the Locarno festival 20 years earlier.
Frank Oz' black comedy "Death at a Funeral" received an enthusiastic response in the sold-out Piazza Grande Sunday night, followed by Robert Rodriguez' ultra violent "Planet Terror", which played to a less-than-half-full Piazza after festival organizers repeatedly warned festival goers about the film's violent content.
PARK CITY -- Introducing Slipstream at its first screening at Sundance, writer, director, star and composer Anthony Hopkins said of his film, I did it as a creative joke. That's not a bad description of this playful melange of surreal imagery, Hollywood in-jokes, random archival footage and a space and time jumble.
Hopkins, the Academy Award-winning actor who has directed two feature-length pieces before, doesn't have the experience or, in all probability, the desire to create a truly masterful work of surrealism. He just wants to have fun. It's a bloody joke, mate, so don't get your snobbish knickers in a twist, you can almost hear him say.
Taken that way, Slipstream is amusing cinematic buffoonery by a man poking fun at movie conventions and the movie business itself. If you look deeper, you'll find only shallow. The audiences for this are those who will turn out to watch Anthony Hopkins pretending to be an experimental filmmaker. Which is not a large audience for a movie that reportedly cost nearly $10 million. What did he spend it on?
Perhaps on people, as the talent behind and in front of the camera is impressive. Press notes brag that cast and crew have accumulated over 70 major awards and over 200 nominations altogether. But you assume these people turned out because Tony flattered them with a personal plea, not for the payday.
At that, they did have hard work, as much of the film takes place in California's Mojave Desert during killer heat on a decaying film set built 25 years ago for a Dennis Hopper movie.
The movie takes place in the mind of a screenwriter (Hopkins) of a murder mystery that has apparently fallen apart during production. The director (Gavin Grazer) and star (Christian Slater) have lost their marbles, so he is rushed to the set for rewrites. Only the characters in his script begin to appear in his life ... or perhaps he is appearing in his own script.
This does produce a few funny bits, such as when Michael Clark Duncan appears before him with a bullet hole in his head to demand to know why his character was killed off earlier than he was scheduled to die according to the shooting script. Or when the film's producer (John Turturro) somehow appears in the hard drive of the writer's computer and through the monitor watches his writer snooze.
As Hopkins flutters back and forth in time and space, it's as if he is searching among the various alternative unrealities to see which he likes best. For the most part, the movie follows a dream-like logic where people, objects and events connect in a haphazard pattern. Scenes repeat themselves. A car changes colors in mid-scene. Veteran actor Kevin McCarthy turns up when someone mentions his most famous film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Then there are nonsensical intrusions -- random shots of Hitler, Nixon and FDR.
The ending is a letdown only if you've taken any of the film seriously. Indeed most viewers will beat Hopkins to the punch by anticipating the film's rather prosaic "explanation."
Technical credits are outstanding as cinematographer Dante Spinoti, editor Michael R. Miller and costume designer Julie Weiss seem to enjoy following Sir Anthony's lead into this wonderland of nonsense.
Slipstream
Samson Films
Credits: Writer/director/music: Anthony Hopkins; Producer: Stella Arroyave,
Robert Katz; Director of photography: Dante Spinotti; Production designer:
Ismael Cardenas; Costume designer: Julie Weiss; Editor: Michael R. Miller.
Cast: Felix Bonhoffer: Anthony Hopkins; Harvey Brickman: John Turturro;
Ray/Matt Dobbs: Christian Slater; Gina: Stella Arroyave; Barbara: Camryn
Manhelm; Tracy/ nurse: Lisa Pepper; Gavin/ambulance driver: Gavin Grazer;
Big Mickey: Michael Lerner; Betty: Lionnula Flanagan.
No MPAA rating, running time 110 minutes.
Hopkins, the Academy Award-winning actor who has directed two feature-length pieces before, doesn't have the experience or, in all probability, the desire to create a truly masterful work of surrealism. He just wants to have fun. It's a bloody joke, mate, so don't get your snobbish knickers in a twist, you can almost hear him say.
Taken that way, Slipstream is amusing cinematic buffoonery by a man poking fun at movie conventions and the movie business itself. If you look deeper, you'll find only shallow. The audiences for this are those who will turn out to watch Anthony Hopkins pretending to be an experimental filmmaker. Which is not a large audience for a movie that reportedly cost nearly $10 million. What did he spend it on?
Perhaps on people, as the talent behind and in front of the camera is impressive. Press notes brag that cast and crew have accumulated over 70 major awards and over 200 nominations altogether. But you assume these people turned out because Tony flattered them with a personal plea, not for the payday.
At that, they did have hard work, as much of the film takes place in California's Mojave Desert during killer heat on a decaying film set built 25 years ago for a Dennis Hopper movie.
The movie takes place in the mind of a screenwriter (Hopkins) of a murder mystery that has apparently fallen apart during production. The director (Gavin Grazer) and star (Christian Slater) have lost their marbles, so he is rushed to the set for rewrites. Only the characters in his script begin to appear in his life ... or perhaps he is appearing in his own script.
This does produce a few funny bits, such as when Michael Clark Duncan appears before him with a bullet hole in his head to demand to know why his character was killed off earlier than he was scheduled to die according to the shooting script. Or when the film's producer (John Turturro) somehow appears in the hard drive of the writer's computer and through the monitor watches his writer snooze.
As Hopkins flutters back and forth in time and space, it's as if he is searching among the various alternative unrealities to see which he likes best. For the most part, the movie follows a dream-like logic where people, objects and events connect in a haphazard pattern. Scenes repeat themselves. A car changes colors in mid-scene. Veteran actor Kevin McCarthy turns up when someone mentions his most famous film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Then there are nonsensical intrusions -- random shots of Hitler, Nixon and FDR.
The ending is a letdown only if you've taken any of the film seriously. Indeed most viewers will beat Hopkins to the punch by anticipating the film's rather prosaic "explanation."
Technical credits are outstanding as cinematographer Dante Spinoti, editor Michael R. Miller and costume designer Julie Weiss seem to enjoy following Sir Anthony's lead into this wonderland of nonsense.
Slipstream
Samson Films
Credits: Writer/director/music: Anthony Hopkins; Producer: Stella Arroyave,
Robert Katz; Director of photography: Dante Spinotti; Production designer:
Ismael Cardenas; Costume designer: Julie Weiss; Editor: Michael R. Miller.
Cast: Felix Bonhoffer: Anthony Hopkins; Harvey Brickman: John Turturro;
Ray/Matt Dobbs: Christian Slater; Gina: Stella Arroyave; Barbara: Camryn
Manhelm; Tracy/ nurse: Lisa Pepper; Gavin/ambulance driver: Gavin Grazer;
Big Mickey: Michael Lerner; Betty: Lionnula Flanagan.
No MPAA rating, running time 110 minutes.
- 1/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Quick Links Complete Film Listing: Premieres Dramatic Comp: Docu Comp: World Dramatic Comp: World Docu Comp: Spectrum: Park City at Midnight: Short Film Programs January 18 to 28, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 18, 2007'); Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe a collection of short films by the French multimedia artist rarely seen outside of museum or art gallery contexts.The Last Dining Table (South Korea), directed and written by Gyeong-Tae Roh, an evocation of the issues of environmental pollution and family values decay in a minimalist/surrealist style. Offscreen (Denmark), directed by Christoffer Boe and written by Boe and Knud Romer Jorgensen, about an actor making an intensely private home movie about himself. World premiere.Phantom Love (U.S.), directed by Nina Menkes, a surreal tale about the personal liberation of a woman trapped in a family. Shot in Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. World premiere. Slipstream (U.S.), directed and written by Anthony Hopkins,
- 1/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Christian Slater has signed with CAA. The actor, onscreen in Emilio Estevez's feature film Bobby, recently portrayed Randle P. McMurphy in the London stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and had a guest-starring role on the NBC comedy series My Name Is Earl. His upcoming films include the 2007 Sundance Film Festival submission Slipstream, written and directed by Anthony Hopkins; He Was a Quiet Man, with William H. Macy; and the Weinstein Co.'s animated Igor, also featuring the voices of John Cleese, Jeremy Piven, Steve Buscemi and Molly Shannon. Slater, who was with ICM, continues to be repped by Untitled Entertainment and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller and Hoberman.
- 12/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Turturro, Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Tambor, S. Epatha Merkerson, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Lawford and Michael Clarke Duncan have joined the ensemble cast of the Anthony Hopkins-helmed indie Slipstream. Hopkins, Christian Slater, Stella Arroyave, Lisa Pepper, Kevin McCarthy, Gavin Grazer, Aaron Tucker and Lana Antonova already have joined the cast. Penned by Hopkins, Slipstream is a noir comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter who, at the very moment of his meeting with fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The story is described as a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man's journey.
- 6/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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