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Hollywood comes to Coventry
Warwick Arts Centre's November and December Film Season includes a weekend of incredible cinema events and special guests. On Thursday 25 November there's a special preview screening of Dear Frankie, by Warwickshire film maker, Shona Auerbach. Shona is an...
Frankie speaking with movie writer
ANDREA GIBB: Film writer says Inverclyde has a special hold on her imagination.GREENOCK writer Andrea Gibb is getting ready for one of the biggest weeks in her career with the UK premiere of her second feature film, Dear Frankie. In an exclusive interview with the...
Hobbit star urges backing for film studio in Scotland
BILLY Boyd, the Lord of the Rings actor, has called on the Scottish Executive to support the establishment of a film studio in Scotland. The Scots star spoke out yesterday at the unveiling of nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)...
Kansas film fest adds more movies to the mix
With just days remaining until the start of this year's Kansas International Film Festival (it used to be known as the Halfway to Hollywood fest), organizers have added a slew of films to the lineup. Among the new KIFF titles: • “Dear Frankie”: Little deaf Frankie...
Andrea’s films up for seven Baftas
FILM writer Andrea Gibb is celebrating today after two of her films were showered with Scottish BAFTA nominations. Dear Frankie, which was shot in Greenock and Gourock last year, is up for three awards at the glittering ceremony, the equivalent of Scotland’s Oscars....
Mother! It’s my true role: Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer sits drinking dodgy bottled water at the end of the pier that juts out from the Majestic Hotel's beach-front restaurant. It's a pebble's throw from where her latest film, Dear Frankie, opening in the UK on September 17, was screened to much acclaim on...
Local family is among stars of film festival
An Indianapolis family, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Dave Matthews have something in common: They'll all be seen in Heartland Film Festival offerings Oct. 21-29 at various Indianapolis venues. Crystal Heart Award winners, opening and closing films and other festival...
And the Bafta for most improved nation goes to Scotland
IT’S easy to forget just how far Scottish film has come. In the course of a single generation, film-making in Scotland has grown from the endeavours of a few hardy pioneers to a profession that consistently produces world class work. Inevitably, there are...
‘Facing Window’ picked as SIFF’s best film
"Facing Window," an Italian-British-Turkish-Portuguese co-production directed by "Emerging Master" honoree Ferzan Ozpetek, was named best picture yesterday in the closing-day award ceremonies of the 30th Seattle International Film Festival. Runners-up for the top...
KIFF’S 10 MUST-SEE FILMS
Butler's top 10 Kansas International Film Festival picks: “Bazaar Bizarre”: A fanciful/disturbing riff on KC's own serial killer, Bob Berdella. (See story at right) “Dear Frankie”: Scottish hankie-grabber about a deaf boy yearning for a father. Sounds icky. Isn't....
Dear Frankie and the Masculine Principle (a la Gerard Butler) (Blog)
Dear Frankie (2004) is another of my Netflix pics. My husband and I were on the outs so he really didn't want to watch it with me. But he did anyway. Such a sport! Of course, he griped about it and his crankiness was wearing on me but we soon got into watching the...
Art-house scene passing L.A.
When Milestone Films recently brought The Clay Bird, a Bangladeshi film about growing up Muslim in a country about to ignite in revolution, to the U.S. art-house circuit, the film made its simultaneous debut in New York City and San Francisco, but not Los Angeles....
Jersey Girl DVD Extras
...Disc Extras Static menu with music Scene Access with 18 cues and remote access Subtitles/Captions in English, Spanish with remote access 5 Other Trailer(s) featuring Raising Helen, Finding Neverland, Shall We Dance?, Dear Frankie, The Alamo.10 Deleted Scenes ......
DEAR FRANKIE
(U.K.) A Miramax Films (U.S.)/Pathe Distribution (U.K.) release of a Pathe Pictures presentation in association with U.K. Film Council, Scottish Screen of a Scorpio Films production in association with Sigma Films, Inside Track Prods. Produced by Caroline Wood....
TENTH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
LOS ANGELES – Dawn Hudson, Executive Director of IFP/Los Angeles, announced today the winners for the Tenth Annual Los Angeles Film Festival including the winner of the Target Filmmaker Award (for Best Narrative Feature), which went to Ferenc Toth for "Unknown...
Star Turn: First, the Stranger, then stranger still
Scot Gerard Butler plays a guest father in 'Dear Frankie' before becoming the Phantom. [img]http://www.gerardbutler.net/4images/data/media/20/latimes_092604.jpg[/img] Few actors can do the "tall, dark and handsome" thing well enough to pull off a character known...
Dear Frankie Review
This moving Scottish drama has a strongly emotional punch that, nicely, never turns sappy or sentimental at all. Lizzie (Mortimer) is on the run again, moving with her 9-year-old son Frankie and her cantankerous mother (Riggans) to a new flat so her ex doesn't find...
FILM PRODUCERS TOUR SCHOOLS IN SEARCH OF DEAF BOY FOR STAR ROLE
A SCHOOLBOY is to get a chance of film stardom with a leading role in a pounds 3 million feature film to be shot in Scotland in the spring. The lucky youngster will follow in the footsteps of such recent discoveries as Martin Compston and Kathleen McDermott, who won...
Foreign films outshine American entries at Idaho International Film Festival
The Egyptian theatre was one of three venues in down town Boise participating in this years Idaho International Film Festival. The Flicks and Boise Center on the Grove were also participants . Over fifty films filled three theaters for four days as Boise residents...
THE RAZZ: MOVIE REVIEWS: FILM FESTIVAL THE HIGHLIGHTS
SCOTLAND is well represented at this year's 58th Edinburgh Film Festival - and it's probably just as well. Insiders claim there will be announcements next week about stars coming to the capital. But, for the moment, the films don't boast many big guns, leaving room...