Sam Mendes

...West End production of Oliver!. 'I was workhouse boy number 40,' Redmayne says. 'It was such a minor part that I didn't meet Sam Mendes. But his name remained firmly on my cv for a long time. ' He continued to act at school - Eton - and...

In this article: Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rothko, Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth, Stephen Poliakoff, Alfred Molina, and Angelina Jolie

...guides are available for download, below. Away We Go, Feature Film Case Study The Focus Features film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and shot in the spring and summer of 2008, was the subject of a pilot experiment in reducing carbon...

In this article: Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC Universal, Waste, Away We Go, Saturday Night Live, Carbon, Universal, and Al Gore

...the film everybody wanted to do," says Kidman. "Rob Marshall had his pick. " Marshall, whose credits include co-directing with Sam Mendes the Broadway revival of Cabaret, which won four Tony awards, agrees: "I saw just about every female...

In this article: Rob Marshall, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Oscar, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Hollywood, and Javier Bardem

..."Streetcar Named Desire," in a Sydney Theatre Company production directed by Liv Ullmann, at BAM (Nov. 27). | Also at BAM, Sam Mendes directs his touring Bridge Project productions of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (Jan. 12) and "The...

In this article: Scarlett Johansson, Sydney Theatre Company, Ryan Lizza, A View from the Bridge, A Lie of the Mind, The New Yorker, The Miracle Worker, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller

...seeming anomalous. He tells me about his failed attempts at acting. At Cambridge, while his contemporary Sam Mendes knew where he was going, Morris found the theatre scene "rather frightening". But his charming self-disparagement is not...

In this article: Daniel Evans, Sheffield, London, Laurence Olivier, Bristol, Chichester, Michael Grandage, and Liverpool

...bore, one of those curious fizzles in which everyone seems to do everything right, but the film simply refuses to take off. Director Sam Mendes, who previously dissected suburban life so astutely in American Beauty , and screenwriter...

In this article: Roland Emmerich, Danny Glover, John Cusack, George Clooney, The Day After Tomorrow, The Station Agent, Independence Day, Hollywood, and Richard Yates

...to hear I was not alone! Thanks for your work! Revolutionary Road: On the audio commentary track accompanying his film, director Sam Mendes states that his first cut was much more ''reverential'' to Richard Yates' 1961 novel but that he...

In this article: Jon Gosselin, Dog, Great Dane, San Diego, and Richard Yates

...doing their Meyerhold-inflected Romeo and Juliet at last year's Melbourne festival shouldn't exist. Anyone might long to see Sam Mendes' double bill of The Winter's Tale that went from London to New York. Why can't we match it? There's no...

In this article: Neil Armfield, Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, and Melbourne Theatre Company

...this year, Singapore hosted Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" as well as a production of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" directed by Sam Mendes and starring Rebecca Hall and Ethan Hawke, as the global economic crisis made Asian venues...

In this article: Victor Victoria, Asia, Singapore, Victor/Victoria, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards, Victor/Victoria, and The Winter's Tale

...2009 Posted: 12:24 AM, October 24, 2009 Genius is genetic in the family of "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes, the husband of Kate Winslet. His mother, Valerie Mendes, author of four acclaimed young-adult novels in the UK, has sold...

In this article: World War II, Emmy Award, Kate Winslet, Nathan Fillion, American Beauty, and UK