ODB won the Award of Best Actor at the 66th Venice Film Festival!!! Congrats!

Pics of the festival aso here

He's won the Nomination as Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role of the SAGA (Screen Actors Guild Awards)!!! Along with George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Morgan Freeman & Jeremy Renner. Hard competition!!

Official Website with lots and lots of pics and clips: A Single Man

And you can post your congrats on imdb.com

Talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend. He longs for revenge. Comedy.

A ghost story about two American girls and their British father who move to Italy after their mother dies. (source: imdb.com)
 

The whole cast did a brilliant job! Sooo funny! And Pierce Brosnan's singing is not that bad (either that or the sound technicians worked miracles).

ODB is doing a gay guy. VERY FUNNY!! The whole crew obviously had a blast!

Santa Claus brought the DVD for Christmas!!!! *yeah*

Link at imdb: Trailer

Here is the first review: The Hollywood Reporter

And When Did You Last See Your Father? is Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few weeks left to live. Morrison traveled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up. He visited his father at the hospital where he had spent so much time with his own patients as a GP. As his father's condition worsened Morrison contemplated their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. After his father's death Morrison questions the nature of the bond between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we grow up. (by Anonymous of imdb.com)

I liked this movie a lot!

A Philadelphia schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students (Colin). (source: imdb.com)

With: Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Helen Hunt

Good story! And a delightful happy ending!

I do need to get the movie on DVD!!!

Here is the link to the official site: St. Trinian's

This story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, with the city itself over-run. In the preceeding months a small group of British Roman soldiers, led by a true hero, have journeyed to the city and have arrived just before the final climax. The task they have set themselves is to save the spirit of the empire by rescuing the young son of the last Emperor, Romulus Augustus. Having found him and taken him away they decide to journey across northern Europe as there are strong rumours that an entire Legion of the Roman Army has remained loyal to Rome and has become an independent unit. They hope by finding the Legion and establishing the boy as the legitmate Emperor a stand can be taken and the Empire revived. However, their search is fruitless and eventually the leader and the child return to the Britain of the Dark Ages, where they re-emerge in legend as Merlin and Arthur Pendragon.

By now I've read the novel and was really thrilled! Aurelius is a true hero! Unselfish, brave and everything you could wish for! This is a brilliant part for our darling!

Thomas Sangster (Love Actually, Nanny McPhee) is again playing alongside ODB. He is Romulus.

And you will be able to adore one of the most beautiful women of Hindi Cinema: Aishwarya Rai. She is playing Livia who is called Mira in this movie.... cannot imagine any reason for the change of name...

The Stories of different Londoner citizens with different backgrounds who are confronted with homelessness and how they try to cope with it.

RC 1 DVD already

RC 2 out now!!

It ran at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 and will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival this summer. No exaxt dates available until now. Please do check the official website TIFF.

Based on the novel "Where the truth lies" by Rupert Holmes. The book is very thrilling and funny!

For more information about the director Atom Egoyan you will find plenty via imdb.com, Google, Yahoo and other search engines.

German DVD from 31.12.2006 on.

Widower Cedric Brown is desperate. His seven children managed to drive away 17 nannies so far!!! There will be no help for him but Nanny McPhee who seems to be quite different from the others. It's a kind of magic.....

Well, I like this movie.  Although so many things are just a reprisal of the first one but sometimes it's very endearing and just warms your heart..

And - OH MY!!! - Colin looks SO F****** GEORGEOUS!!! Just because of this TEOR is  one of my all-time-favourites.

Mark Darcy is just a dream come true. He is just too good to be real. *sob*

You have to get the DVD! They added the interview in the specials!!! And it's soo hilarious!!

Some consider it a horror movie. But a Firthsister who has seen it twice at the TIFF mailed me (Thanks, Dhana!!! Lucky girl!!) that the movie is terrific and no horror but a psychological movie. Just like Apartment Zero.

I have it at home. It's really heavy stuff! I need time to consume it properly. I will come back later to you on that.

Colin acts so natural. He is sooooo good looking in this movie! (And never wears any underwear......). He is sexy and emotional and..... well, everything! The way his character proposes in the end is just beautiful!

A lot of people don't like it. But I definetely love it!

Colin manages to improve it considerably! He makes Lord Henry Dashwood believable! You have to feel and to fall for him! Another movie where he shows what great an actor he is!

Watch out for the leathertrousers!!! Hilarious! And what a Happy Ending! The way he tells his daughter - in a very British way - that he loves her.... Lovely! (And of course the kiss for his bride afterwards... *swoon*)

Do listen to the different commentaries on the DVD! Every woman involved had a big crush on Colin! Quite naturally....

RC 2 version includes more extras than the North American edition. Cannot figure out why.....

In Germany the German subtitles cannot be switched off when you watch it in English... very annoying!

Colin often shows a twinkle in his eye that's just irresistable. Colin, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon and Frances O'Connor sure had a lot of fun shooting this movie! I for my part had a lot of fun watching it over and over again!

I wish I was Bridget (since I feel like her most of the time anyway.....)!!! The best kiss in film history! *sigh*

Based on a protocoll about the Wannsee conference that really took place.

Brilliant!!! A Must-See!

Take care that you get the original and not a  DVD from some other country. It might be that it has not the English sound but is dubbed!

But my American and British Firthies mostly love it, I don't really know why. Seems that there still are some differences in the social context that I fail to understand. Crikey.... Or maybe it is the dubbing. I only own the German version. ODB has a horrible boyish voice there....

He has to wear an ugly beard and has to punch up several people outside a pub, just for the fun of it.

An utterly failed attempt to do a Woody Allen movie without the wit, the timing and the intelligence of Woody.

on ebay there're recently also DVDs available but you should know that they are made by the vendor and not by legal production release - but since the movie is out of print...... You have to decide what to do....

Colin as Donovan struggles against his own windmills, the inner and the external ones.  He looks wonderful here also.

You'll need a lot of patience to get through this series. Colin has to wear a full beard which doesn't look too bad on him (and that coming from me!!!). Charles is a loving husband who takes his wife back to the country where his father was killed in a revolution and where he inherited a silver mine. Along the line he becomes so obsessed with the mine and the constant struggle against his various enemies that he neglects his wife and their safety.

The main character is supposed to be Nostromo (obviously) but it didn't seem this way to me while watching the series. The emphasis is not lain on him until the very end. And at that stage I for my part was not ready to accept this anymore. There were to many main characters and plots and loose ends. Maybe it would have done the movie some good if it had been a little longer or the scriptwriters had decided what could have been left out.

Stick to the Colin-scenes and forget the rest of it.

Being a lawyer myself I appreciate all those twists and quirky turns in the legal cases even more!!

Well, there are some cut scenes but IMHO you don't miss much if you haven't seen this version. But other Firthies are of a completely different opinion! If you have the chance just decide for yourself.

Be aware that there are two different movies with the same title!

Very sexy lovemaking!!

Alan is living his live through his video clips. In those he is able to control and steer the plot. He definetly cannot handle reality. He actually seems incapable to understand the nature of it.

Also his friends are slightly indifferent to realitiy and its consequences. Some more, some less. In fact they act like a family. They love and hate each other but they stick together and somehow everybody belongs to everyone.

Catherine Zeta Jones is the one who knows live and reality. She is fascinated by them and falls in love with Alan. But in the end she realizes that neither he nor his friends will ever show true feelings or even understand them.

Surrealistic, unforeseable, sexy, weird and quirky! This movie has it all! It's absolutely underrated! One of my all time favourites!

New DVD edition RC 2

NEW! DVD!!! Thanks, Karolina!! She brought one from New Zealand!!! I cannot tell you anything about the RC though I have to watch it first.

imdb.com tells that Robert Carlyle (The Full Monthy, Trainspotting) is also already cast for this.

Jennifer Aniston was first asked to play Nicole but this is still not confirmed. Ben Kingsley will play the tycoon.

An ornithologist at the turn of the 20th century transports hundreds of songbirds to an ailing prime minister in South Africa and falls for a political activist trying to stop the impending Boer War. (source: imdb.com)

Until now only Rachel Weisz is still mentioned in the production. Cannot tell what happend to the rest.