Tag: The Wife
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‘Roma,’ ‘The Americans’ and ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Critics’ Choice Honors
“Roma” won best picture and director for Alfonso Cuarón at the 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday night. The film also won best cinematography and best foreign film. FX’s “The Americans” and Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” took top TV honors.For films, “Vice” star Christian Bale won…
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‘The Wife’ director Björn Runge boards sci-fi ‘StarDream’ (exclusive)
Project from writer Felix Harrison to shoot in UK this year.Swedish director Björn Runge, whose most recent feature The Wife saw its star Glenn Close win best dramatic actress at last night’s Golden Globes, has boarded sci-fi feature StarDream as his next project.The script is from the UK’s Felix Harrison, with Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber…
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Glenn Close Wins Best Actress Drama Golden Globe for ‘The Wife’
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has named Glenn Close the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. Close won the top prize for her leading role in “The Wife,” beating out Lady Gaga (“A Star Is Born”), Nicole Kidman (“Destroyer”), Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive…
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‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘Ozark’ Lead SAG Nominations
“A Star Is Born” led the way with four SAG feature film nominations while “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Ozark” each scored a quartet of TV nominations.“BlacKkKlansman” and “The Favourite” each took a trio of film nominations. “Barry,” “Glow,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Kominsky Method” all scored three TV nods.Nominees for the feature film…
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Glenn Close and Sam Elliott on the Power of Small Roles and the Allure of Westerns
Glenn Close and Sam Elliott sat down for a conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here.Sam Elliott may be a cinematic icon thanks to his craggy voice and résumé of cowboy roles, but he has yet to be recognized with an Oscar nomination. That will probably change with “A Star Is Born,”…
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Glenn Close on the One Line She Wanted to Cut From ‘The Wife’
“The Wife” features a tumultuous relationship between a married couple (Jonathan Pryce and Glenn Close), and one scene in particular shook Close to her core, so much she almost refused to do it.“The one where he’s dying and he says, ‘Do you love me?’ It was so upsetting to me that I stopped and said,…
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The Wife review – Glenn Close in a class of her own
Close is superb as a long-suffering literary spouse whose marriage reaches crisis point when her husband wins a Nobel prizeSome of the very best screen performances only fully reveal themselves on second viewing. Take Glenn Close in The Wife, an intriguing (if occasionally contrived) tragicomic drama lifted shoulder high by the six-time Oscar nominee in…
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‘Ya Veremos’ Has Decent Start, ‘Eighth Grade’ Passes $13M: Specialty Box Office
Mexican drama Ya Veremos is dominating the slew of specialty newcomers this Labor Day weekend, though overall limited release launches are trending slow. IFC Films doc Pick Of The Litter, however, is showing some gusto, scoring the weekend’s highest per-theater average among the specialties. Sony Classics, meanwhile, expanded Glenn Close starrer The Wife, crossing $1M,…
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John Cho’s ‘Searching’ Grabs Specialty Crowd as ‘Papillon’ and ‘Support the Girls’ Struggle
The dog days of summer are a dropping ground– just before the festival launch of many major award season entries –for weaker commercial entries that need room to breathe. Still, multiple new titles opened this weekend. One, Sundance grad “Searching” (Sony), looks set for wider interest ahead.Remake “Papillon” (Bleecker Street) opened in 544 theaters, neither…