I have to admit my interest (such as it was) in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz cooled somewhat as the luke warm reviews started to waft in at Cannes, but I was a little surprised it took so long to pick up a US distributor. Now it has one.
Perhaps encouraged by the box office [...]
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Alex Billington over at FirstShowing has snagged the new trailer from the official Agora website for your embedding pleasure. I’m using the YouTube version instead because I have better luck rescaling the size of their videos, but I wanted to give credit where credit was due.
You’ll remember that Alejandro Amenabar’s film stars Rachel Weisz as [...]
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My Son My Son What Have Ye Done makes its Canadian premiere at Toronto. Does that mean Telluride comes first? Also: 18 more Toronto additions including world and North American premieres.
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Sunday brought a highly anticipated historical epic screening out of competition, a controversial competition entry drawing comparison’s to Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible and a genre thriller from Hong Kong. Wherever they take place and no matter how prestigious they are, you have to love film festivals.
Catch up with Days 3 and 4 here, Days 1 and [...]
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I’m not sure there’s a bad time to be Rachel Weisz, but the last few weeks seem like especially good ones because her name keeps turning up everywhere.
She’ll be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones; Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora with Weisz as fourth century mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia of [...]
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Rope of Silicon has the international teaser poster for Agora, the next film from Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, The Sea Inside), which is set to debut this month at Cannes.
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Rachel Weisz plays Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who was murdered by a Christian mob in 391 AD.
Now [...]
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