Tag: Cloud Atlas
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Tom Hanks Picks ‘Cloud Atlas’ as One of His Top 3 Tom Hanks Films: ‘Making It Was Magical’
“Cloud Atlas” got its start as an infamous box office flop and one of 2012’s most polarizing critical releases, but it has since garnered a passionate cult following and many fans consider it to be the Wachowski siblings’ unsung masterpiece. The sprawling science-fiction epic is based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name…
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David Mitchell: ‘The world still thinks autistic people don’t do emotions’
The writer on how translating The Reason I Jump for his non-verbal autistic son was a lifesaver and his excitement at seeing the new Matrix film he co-wroteAuthor David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten,…
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‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: A Humble and Humane Documentary Profile of Nonspeaking Autistic People
In 2007, a 13-year-old Japanese boy named Higashida Naoki — with the help of the alphabet board his mother created to help her son communicate his thoughts — built a desperately needed bridge between a nonspeaking autistic mind and the neurotypical world that has long struggled to understand them and too often neglected to try.…
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Kore-eda to make Korean debut ‘Baby, Box, Broker’ with ‘Parasite’ star Song Kang-ho
Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) and Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas) are also starring in the film, produced by Zip Cinema and Cj Entertainment.Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda is set to direct his first Korean film, Baby, Box, Broker, with a trio of Korean stars – Song Kang-ho (Parasite), Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) and Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas).Korean production house…
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Jim Broadbent Joins Judi Dench in Lionsgate’s ‘Six Minutes to Midnight’
Oscar winner Jim Broadbent has joined Judi Dench and Eddie Izzard in the 1930s-set thriller Six Minutes to Midnight.The film, which has now begun production in the U.K., also stars Carla Juri (Blade Runner 2049, Someone Like Me), James D’Arcy (Dunkirk, Cloud Atlas) and Jones (Submergence, Set Fire to the Stars), with additional castmembers Maria…
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The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi
It was seen as a job for the boys. That’s changing thanks to the likes of Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins and Claire Denis being given opportunities to oversee big-budget productionsCritical reactions to Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time may have been mixed, but there’s no denying it is a cinema landmark. DuVernay is not just…