Vanity Fair

...another awful US accent from a Ewan McGregor. Director Mira Nair brings none of the vibrancy of her breakout film Monsoon Wedding or even her exuberant Vanity Fair to Earhart's proto-feminist story. Detailing in flashback how she became the...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, Mira Nair, Richard Gere, Oscar, and Monsoon Wedding

...most talked-about journeys in history. AMELIA is directed by Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE, VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Ron Bass (RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt,...

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...from the old newsreels -- yet academic and a little bloodless. Director Mira Nair ("The Namesake," PG-13, 2006; "Vanity Fair," PG-13, 2004) has taken a rather staid approach here. Were she and her navigator, Fred Noonan (Christopher...

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...Howland. The movie focuses on Earhart's love life, asserting a love triangle among Amelia, Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), the dashing head of the Bureau of Air Commerce and writer Gore Vidal's father. The filmmakers...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Mary Lovell, George Putnam, Hilary Swank, and Howland

...time. The film narrows its sights to the decade when Earhart captivated the nation, from her first flight across the Atlantic in 1928 until she disappeared in the Pacific in 1937 during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Many of the...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Hilary Swank, Mira Nair, George Putnam, Atlantic, and Oscar

What's more, Nancy Meyers directs Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin in the middle-aged romantic comedy It's Complicated; and Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) is directing Hilary Swank in Amelia, a biopic of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

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...Biopic February 1st, 2008 10:32am EST Post a comment Vanity Fair filmmaker Mira Nair has replaced Philip Noyce as the director of Hilary Swank's Amelia Earhart biopic. Noyce recently revealed he'd quit the project due to ongoing...

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...review by Sean O'Connell - Copyright © 2009 Filmcritic.com How does the director of the jubilant Monsoon Wedding and the opulent Vanity Fair create as chaste a film as Amelia? Several factors contribute to the subdued mood of Mira Nair's...

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Hilary Swank, George Putnam, Ron Bass, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Languid, and Mia Wasikowska

...aeronautics instructor Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), the father of writer Gore Vidal. Director Mira Nair, who brought such passion to her Indian-themed films ("The Namesake," "Monsoon Wedding," even "Vanity Fair"), is hamstrung by a...

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