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News: The Painful reason Emma Thompson Won’t Be In The Love Actually Reunion
It was announced last week that Love Actually is getting a spring sequel — 14 years later (because Christmas is all around us even in March, eh?!).
The short film – also written and directed by Richard Curtis — will reunite old cast members and catch up with their characters in 2017.
However, Emma Thompson won’t be joining co-stars Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon, Colin Firth and Keira Knightley.
The reason is as simple as it is heart-breaking.
Her close friend and partner in the film Alan Rickman died last year and it would be too painful.
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Michael Keaton on Playing Ray Kroc in ‘The Founder’
Keaton’s latest film sees him starring as Ray Kroc, the controversial mastermind behind McDonald’s national (and later global) expansion. Keaton spoke to Variety about how he got into the character of a man whose corporation has fed billions of people over the last several decades.
Keaton highlights that one of the most important aspects of playing a real-life individual is to “lock in” on that person’s essence. He says, “Really, from what John [Lee Hancock, director] started to tell me and what the writer had given me. I watched a documentary on Ray and I wasn’t into it long — seven or eight minutes — and I went, ‘I got it.’ It’s not like, ‘Oh, I got it, I understand everything.’ It was that I locked into what I thought the essence of the guy was. It immediately put me on the general highway. Then I had to narrow it down, and narrow it down and winnow it down, and get into the details. You never do an impression, and yet I felt somewhat obligated to kind of simulate his attitude and his sound. You know, that Illinois-ish, not quite Chicago-ish Midwest kind of thing. Then once you start looking in his wardrobe and then you start to put on the wardrobe.”
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Why Is Vampyr A Classical International Movie
Despite being considered as a classic today, VAMPYR wasn’t that well received upon its release. It is a true curiosity but there is a lot to be said for its qualities notwithstanding the fact that it has influenced numerous filmmakers over the years in some way or another.
Since this movie was inspired by elements from Le Fanu’s literary universe and not a self sufficient story, it does feel a little patched together. Still, what could’ve been an obvious inconvenience here becomes an advantage in the sense that these almost disparate elements make up the overall ambiance of abstract horrors and mysteries. And some of these elements are so different from what we’re used to seeing in vampire movies that they feel almost modern. Dreyer doesn’t focus exclusively on what makes up the traditional vampire — stalking beautiful women, disliking daylight, having no reflection — but instead creates a whole movie world of eeriness in which the vampire is but one element.
Another strength of this film is the fact that it is mostly a silent film meaning that the story is conveyed primarily through its visuals. There are several title cards throughout in the form of pages from a book about vampires and also a few bits of dialogue since the movie was shot with sound but in three different languages, leading Dreyer to opt for something a little easier to deal with. He also chose to film entirely on location and utilized a soft focus photographic technique thus conveying a surreal and dreamlike quality to the overall atmosphere or maybe that should be “nightmarish quality” since the The whole movie is like a a bad dream in that it blends symbols, metaphors and real happenings.
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