Vanessa Redgrave

All Hail the Conquering Hero!

George Heymont | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Film, Gerard Butler, Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes, William Shakespeare, Vanessa Redgrave, John Logan, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

Magnificently reconceived and directed by Ralph Fiennes, this new adaptation of Coriolanus uses Shakespeare's language in a tightly condensed screenplay by John Logan that grips the audience by the throat within the film's first 20 seconds and never lets go.

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My Week With Shakespeare: Coriolanus

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, Harvey Weinstein, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Culture News
Regina Weinreich

Freshly returned, triumphant at the Golden Globes, Harvey Weinstein exhibited no jet lag introducing a new film, Coriolanus at the Paris Theater.

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James Earl Jones: 'I Can Live In The Shoes Of Racists'

bbc.co.uk | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Driving Miss Daisy, Racism, James Earl Jones Racist, Stephen Sakur, Academy Awards, James Earl Jones, London, Vanessa Redgrave, Black Voices News

James Earl Jones opened up about the "most racist person" he has ever known: his grandmother. During an interview with BBC News, the actor and fam...

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Youyoung Lee

Q&A With 'Anonymous' Director Roland Emmerich

HuffingtonPost.com | Youyoung Lee | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Shakespeare, Anonymous, Roland Emmerich, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News

Roland Emmerich knows he's no William Shakespeare, but that's exactly the point. The director behind such catastrophe films as "2012," "Godzilla" and ...

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Movie Review: Anonymous

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Globe Theater, Anonymous, Joely Richardson, Rhys Ifans, Edward Hogg, Hamlet, Rafe Spall, Queen Elizabeth, Derek Jacobi, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Helen Mirren, Movies, Ben Jonson, Elizabethan England, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, Cate Blanchett, Anonymous Movie Review, David Thewlis, Roland Emmerich, William Shakespeare, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Sprawling, bloody, romantic and witty, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (opening Friday 10/28/11) captures the magic of the theater, even as it folds in th...

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HuffPost Review: The Whistleblower

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, David Strathairn, Marshall Fine, Bosnia, Blackwater, Halliburton, United Nations, Rachel Weisz, Peacekeeping, The Whistleblower Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, The Whistleblower, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Based on a true story, The Whistleblower is dark, grim and harrowing. It tells the tale of Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz), a Nebraska cop looking to make some big dough so she can afford to follow her children.

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Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest

John Farr | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Stanley Donen, Lawrence of Arabia, Albert Finney, The Academy Awards, Charles Laughton, Susannah York, Academy Awards, John Turturro, William Shakespeare, Jacqueline Bisset, Best Movies on DVD, Coen Brothers, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Matt Damon, Derek Jacobi, Agatha Christie, John Huston, Audrey Hepburn, Gabriel Byrne, Sidney Lumet, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Courtenay, The Criterion Collection, The Bourne Ultimatum, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
John Farr

Finney cares a great deal about his work, but very little about publicity. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he has never once attended the ceremony.

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Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miral, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Mona Eltahawy, Steve Buscemi, Amos Oz, Zac Posen, Laurie Anderson, Sean Penn, Yonatan Schapira, Freida Pintos, Rula Jebreal, Alexander Siddiq, Dan Rathe, Willem Dafoe, David Grossman, Yehuda Amichai, Julian Schnabel, Haim Abbass, Candice Bergen, Lou Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Schnabel's film does not instigate a new critique. Rather, continues a discourse in Israel with intellectuals and writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz, and Yehuda Amichai.

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First Nighter: Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman Unleashes Acting Blizzard

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alan Rickman, John Gabriel Borkman, James Macdonald, Private Lives, Fiona Shaw, Harvey Theater, Tom Pye, John Kavanagh, Lindsay Duncan, National Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Cathy Belton, Henrik Ibsen, London Assurance, Eileen Atkins, Paul Schofield, Amy Molloy, Frank McGuinness, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Abbey Theatre, Marty Rea, Richard Eyre, Vanessa Redgrave, Arts News
David Finkle

John Gabriel Borkman is one of the rarely revived Ibsen works, which may be a reason to see it now. On the other hand, this treatment won't serve as a strong argument for its being brought back more often.

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Dissing Miss Daisy

Gwen Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Driving Miss Daisy, God, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Play, Alfred Uhry, Freud, Pulitzer Prize, Vanessa Redgrave, New York News
Gwen Davis

The play into film that so captured hearts with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman was for me, at least, completely unmoving, due to the affectedly mannered Ms. Redgrave.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Finding What Drives Us Through Driving Miss Daisy

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carol Smaldino, Driving Miss Daisy, James Earl Jones, Alfred Uhry, Golden Theatre, Racism, Racism in America, Vanessa Redgrave, New York Times Theater Review, Driving Miss Daisy Review, Broadway Review, Driving Miss Daisy Broadway, Driving Miss Daisy Broadway Show, Arts News
Carol Smaldino

Without surprise, James Earl Jones cannot help but impress anyone present by how much he loves his character "Hoke." Certainly Jones knows the racial issues contained in the play, as he knows his own from his real past.

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Talking Stage Royalty and Southern Roots With Driving Miss Daisy's Boyd Gaines

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadway, Driving Miss Daisy, James Earl Jones, Obama, Vanessa Redgrave, Alfred Uhry, Boyd Gaines, New York News
Jon Chattman

Boyd Gaines has won four Tony Awards, but he's still a bit modest about it. "It's not the kind of thing I think a lot about it," he said.

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Gents-Who Lunch: Nigel Cole and Alfred Uhry

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jessica Tandy, Made in Dagenham, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Sharon Stone, Rosamund Pike. Helen Mirren, Nigel Cole, Sally Hawkins, Christopher Walken, Boyd Gaines, Miranda Richardson, Dana Ivey, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The subject of equal pay for skilled workers is of course a serious subject, but in "Made in Dagenham," a little known but true story about a strike a...

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Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wings, Driving Miss Daisy, Morgan Freeman, Play, James Earl Jones, Jan Maxwell, Alfred Uhry, Second Stage Theatre, Broadway, Boyd Gaines, Arthur Kopit, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Enough cliches in that headline for you? Here are my impressions of two revivals: one Broadway and one Off. DRIVING MISS DAISY ** out of **** Golde...

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Zero Destruction

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baths of Caracalla, Pennsylvania Station, Victory Theatre, Ballet Nacional De Cuba, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Climate Change, Charles Ives, Berliner Ensemble, The Death of the Forest, Grand Central Station, Vanessa Redgrave, Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Holyoke, Donald T. Sanders, Green News
Norman MacAfee

Perhaps someone who reads this will help me do the math on the environmental effects of pointless destruction. What are the effects on global warming of a policy of unthinking destruction?

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Legendary Director Ken Russell Makes A Rare New York Appearance at The Film Society

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenda Jackson, Ken Russell, Twiggy, Lincoln Center Film Society, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, New York News
Brad Balfour

Ken Russell is one of the greatest directors of all time, a filmmaker who pushed the envelope both creatively and professionally -- and in many ways changed the face of cinema, inspiring many of my generation both aesthetically and personally.

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Vanessa Redgrave: Franco Nero Helps Me Heal

people.com | Eunice Oh | Posted 05.25.2011

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After losing her daughter, Natasha Richardson, last year and her brother and sister in the past two months, Vanessa Redgrave says she has drawn streng...

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orson Welles, Clark Gable, Best Movies on DVD, Aldous Huxley, Gone With the Wind, Olivia De Havilland, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, Errol Flynn, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Lynn Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, William Wyler, Aaron Copland, Michael Curtiz, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh, David O. Selznick, Bette Davis, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
John Farr

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

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Vanessa Redgrave 'Glorying' In Late Sister Lynn, Daughter Natasha

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lynn Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Redgrave says she's grieving the deaths of her sister and daughter but also "glorying" in their memory. Redgrave's first pu...

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Thank Google! For Remembering

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Yahoo Search, Google, Bradley Cooper, Alzheimer's, Bing, White House Correspondents Dinner, Memory-Loss, National Institutes of Health, Vanessa Redgrave, Healthy Living News
Linda Bergthold

So while we wrestle with our short term memory loss, science is not going to be helping us any time soon. But thank Google! It will.

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Movie review: Letters to Juliet

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leap Year, Amanda Seyfried, Franco Nero, Verona, New Yorker Magazine, Juliet Capulet, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Letters to Juliet Movie Review, Vanessa Redgrave, Camelot, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

It's hard not to respond emotionally to the big moments in Letters to Juliet, in spite of the fact that they've already been given away in the trailer...

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ReelzChannel: Top 10 Shook-Up Shakespeare Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Top Ten List, Romeo and Juliet, Film, Romantic Comedy, Humor, The Tempest, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Movies, King Lear, Henry IV, Romance, Hamlet, Amanda Seyfried, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V, Letters to Juliet, Comedy, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

William Shakespeare, now there was a guy who could put pen to paper. So powerful was his Romeo and Juliet that the heartbroken of today still write to...

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Baffled by the BAFTAs

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Golden Globes 2010, Bbc, Prince William, Golden Globes, BBC America, Movie Awards, Mo'Nique, British Academy Film Awards, Uma Thurman, Precious, Awards, Mickey Roarke, A Single Man, Matt Dillon, Inglourious Basterds, Moon, Twilight, Vanessa Redgrave, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Dustin Hoffman, BAFTA Photos, Avatar, James Cameron Avatar, Robert Pattinson, Emmy Awards, Jonathon Ross, Entertainment Weekly, Awards Season, Meryl Streep, The Royal Family, Baftas, Dame Edna, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

The ratings for award shows this season are up. Entertainment Weekly reports that Emmy viewership was up 9% and the Golden Globes were up 14%. Why? Simple. My recaps of them here.

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Natasha Richardson Honored By Friends And Family

AP | NICOLE EVATT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Brooke SHields, Meryl Streep, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — A New York City snowstorm can't deter Hollywood's brightest stars from supporting Natasha Richardson's favorite charity. Lady Gaga, ...

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