Bright Star

Distributor busy with 'Boys Are Back,' 'Dancer,' 'Bright Star' SYDNEY -- This week's release of Scott Hicks' new Australia-U.K. co-production "The Boys Are Back" is part of a hectic few months for Hopscotch Film Distribution, sandwiched...

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...young man with a wild thatch of hair, amazing cheekbones and dark, deep eyes. No wonder he was cast as the doomed Keats in the new film Bright Star. Even in drainpipe jeans and a regrettable beach shirt he looks impossibly romantic. But his...

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...with. " "I really did love this film and I'm pleased at people's reaction to it," Abbie said of the film Bright Star. "I fell in love with the film instantly, no question about it, and also the character of Fanny. She felt so alive and...

In this article: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, E-mail, Seventeen, John Keats, Twitter, Sydney Morning Herald, and Facebook

...the front-runners. The women starring in the season's two costume dramas, Emily Blunt and Abbie Cornish in "The Young Victoria" and "Bright Star," respectively, are in the mix, along with Penelope Cruz fron "Broken Embraces," though none is...

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Was she really as good as we thought a couple months ago? And does it matter, if nobody's seeing the movie? DOWN: Paul Schneider, Bright Star. He was singled out in reviews, but excitement for the movie is falling off. He was funny on...

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...prejudice, suspicious at the faintest whiff of Quality Street. But if any film vindicates this strain of cinema, Jane Campion's Bright Star is it. Portraying the romance between a man of words and a woman of fashion, Bright Star is itself a...

In this article: John Keats, Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, Charles Brown, Ben Whishaw, Endymion, Paul Schneider, and In the Cut

...transforms the legendary poet John Keats into a pathetic wimp Last updated at 4:17 PM on 06th November 2009 Bright Star (PG) Bright Star is New Zealander Jane Campion's comeback film, six years after In The Cut, her ill-advised...

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...site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. STARRING: ABBIE CORNISH, BEN WHISHAW, PAUL SCHNEIDER WITH Bright Star, Jane Campion has crafted a sedate, intelligent and quietly sensuous film about John Keats...

In this article: John Keats, Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, The Scotsman, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, and Charles Armitage Brown

...suggested, that her swoony, artsy approach to feminist storytelling - a cinematic equivalent of Enya - was no longer in fashion? Bright Star, which she not only directed but adapted from Andrew Motion's 1997 biography of the Romantic poet...

In this article: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and Kerry Fox

The soulful Ben Whishaw was the natural choice to play Keats on screen in Jane Campion's biopic Bright Star. You wouldn't quite call it a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but there's a chill in the air as you approach Keats House...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Jane Campion, Keats House, Paul Schneider, Bedfordshire, Hamlet, and Romantic poet