Colin Firth accepts his BAFTA as The King’s Speech sweeps awards
Getty Images Above The King’s Speech star Colin Firth, after his earlier win at the Golden Globes. Below is Colin Firth’s acceptance speech from the BAFTAs, after winning best actor for his role as King George VI in The King’s Speech. The clip, from ITN, is courtesy of BBC1. Firth joked that director […]
Helena Bonham-Carter on her BAFTA win for The King’s Speech
Celebrities braved the weather to head to the 2011 BAFTAs in London, with Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emma Watson and Amy Adams all offering comments from the red carpet. Nominated directors Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and Mike Leigh (Another Year) also comment. The first post-win video is from Helena Bonham-Carter, wearing Vivienne […]
Clive Owen joins Design Hotels’ cinematic photo contest jury
Getty Images and courtesy Bulgari Above Clive Owen, pictured with Julianne Moore at the Paris Bulgari exhibition late last year. Actor Clive Owen is on the jury of Design Hotels’ Don’t Forget the Popcorn photo contest. He joins experts such as, inter alia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Palme d’Or winner 2010, Efe Cakarel, founder and CEO of […]
Blake Lively may be the young Carrie Bradshaw, but she’ll need to bring more
Photo by Michael Simon/Startraks Photo; Haley Mevorach/PR Newswire Above Blake Lively, at last year’s Swarovski Star at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Have you ever wondered how the famous Ms Bradshaw came to be known as Mrs Preston? What is sure to set Sex and the City fans talking is that Blake Lively is […]
The 2011 Golden Globes and the NTAs: from the red carpet
If you hop over to the main part of the site, Elyse Glickman and Leyla Messian have their in-depth report from the Golden Globe suites. ITN, meanwhile, has supplied the below video, after a few months’ absence, with their own update of the fashion from the red carpet at the Globes. ITN believes peach […]
As she leads up to a My Fair Lady remake, Keira Knightley’s in the Zeitgeist
Above Keira Knightley, styled and photographed by Tom Ford, on the cover of Elle UK, March 2011. ‘Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh are my heroes. Not because of their ability, but because of their perseverance.’ Gracing the covers of Vogue Italia and Elle UK, Keira Knightley is back in the Zeitgeist. Following her recent […]
Film composer John Barry, the man behind the James Bond sound, dies
Film score composer John Barry, OBE has died in New York of a heart attack, we have learned, aged 77. Born John Barry Prendergast in 1933 in York, his father was an impresario who owned cinemas in the area. Barry once told the story of how, as a child, he went into the projection […]
Abbas–Mustan’s Players films at Miramar
After stints in Rongotai and Wellington central in New Zealand, the Abbas–Mustan brothers’ Players, the Indian remake of Paramount’s The Italian Job, shifted to Burnham Wharf at Miramar today—putting them near Peter Jackson territory and not far from where parts of his King Kong were filmed. Lead members of the cast were present, and […]
Celebrating Sweden at Berlin Fashion Week
While we await more catwalk images from Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week, we have some videos from the Swedish presence at the event. Three designers, two academics, one photo exhibition and hours of avant-garde fashion films were showcased around Berlin during the January event. The designers, Camilla Norrback—known for her sustainable fashion and her […]
Players, Italian Job remake, begins filming in Wellington, New Zealand
When I first wrote on my personal blog about Players, the Abbas–Mustan brothers’ remake of The Italian Job, I did so with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. It wasn’t so much that the film was being remade again—and by such stylish and expert directors—but that it would take quite a twist in the […]
