Christopher Isherwood

...so here's the latest installment of my takes on the players in this game. "A Single Man" Verdict: The 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood is by all reports virtually unfilmable, but fashion-designer-turned-director Tom Ford has turned it...

In this article: Academy Awards, Verdict, Tom Ford, Colin Firth, Disney, Brothers, Julianne Moore, Tobey Maguire, Orson Welles, and Jake Gyllenhaal

...best friend and fag hag. Ford not only directed the movie but also adapted the screenplay from the novel by the very gay Christopher Isherwood and financed the whole thing himself. He's had his hand in every decision made about the movie...

In this article: Tom Ford, Julianne Moore, Colin Firth, A Single Man, Dog, Oscar, Celluloid, Gucci, and Ang Lee

...third nomination for best actor. Plus the story is the kind of uplifting one that Academy voters love. The story: Working from Christopher Isherwood's sensitive 1964 novel, fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford tells the story of a...

In this article: Oscar, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Nelson Mandela, Julie & Julia, Disney, Peter Jackson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophia Loren, and James Cameron

...century. 1966 "Life is beautiful" inside the Broadhurst Theatre tonight as Cabaret opens. Adapted by Joe Masteroff from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, with a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the show will run for 1,165...

In this article: Theatre Guild, Broadway, Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, James Valcq, New York, California, Lillian Hellman, Rex Harrison, and Roundabout Theatre Company

...after the apocalypse. A Single Man » Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directing debut with this adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood story of an older gay man (Colin Firth) adjusting to life after the death of his longtime...

In this article: Penelope Cruz, Robin Williams, George Clooney, Oscar, Disney, Atonement's Saoirse Ronan, Federico Fellini, Jude Law, Orson Welles, and Hugh Grant

...the 40-year-old director, who's also the producer behind the likes of American Dreamz and Tom Ford's hotly-tipped forthcoming Christopher Isherwood adaptation, A Single Man, which is, incidentally, the first film he has produced separately...

In this article: Chris Weitz, Twilight, New Moon, Cirque du Freak, The Golden Compass, Edward Cullen, Jacob Black, and Twilight

...eyebrow off when he was on mescaline, but most fascinatingly of all, to our ears, is the revelation that in his adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man, he gave the main character a last name after his first boyfriend, Ian...

In this article: Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Pierre Berge, Peaches Geldof, France, Botox, Restylane, and Mescaline

...Outstanding Performance of the Year Award at Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre on Feb.13. In the film adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel, Firth plays a college professor in Los Angeles in 1962 dealing with the death of his male...

In this article: Colin Firth, Mark Teschner, General Hospital, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Tom Ford

It all began with Cumming sitting in a railway carriage on his way to Berlin, a flat cap on his head, his Penguin classic (Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin, of course) in his hand, looking like a bargain basement Jay Gatsby.

In this article: Alan Cumming, Robbie Williams, Robbie Coltrane, Cabaret, Berlin, Bob Fosse, and Liza Minnelli

The closing night presentation is with A Single Man with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, based on the moving Christopher Isherwood novel. Among the 80 films scheduled, the program highlights many independent features of the fall...

In this article: American Film Institute, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Academy Awards, Audi, Everybody's Fine, The Road, The Last Station, A Single Man, and James and the Giant Peach