Topic: Phyllida Lloyd
Tweet Comment 0 . The story of Margaret Thatcher gets a rather fragmented treatment in this problematic film from director Phyllida Lloyd. Yet...
Yesterday's outlandish satire is today's Oscar Pleader. Twenty-four years ago, The Comic Strip's The Strike gave us a Hollywood version of the...
This week's cover package is our annual self-improvement guide, which compiles all many of classes you can take to make yourself a better-which is...
Meryl Streep showed her credentials for the role as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher when the launch of the poster for her new biopic "The Iron Lady" went awry in London on Monday.The Oscar-winning actress was supposed to pull on ...
Another day on the Croisette brings another major distribution deal. After an all-night auction, The Weinstein Company emerged with U.S...
Oscar nod or no, these female directors are making waves--and money--in Hollywood and beyond. Hunt wrote, directed and scrounged up financing for her first film, Frozen River, without help from Hollywood. This year, she was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar.. Although ...
A hugely successful year for women's movies at the box office doesn't necessarily translate to Oscar gold for women. "I find it staggering and rather depressing when you look at the Oscar list," says Phyllida Lloyd, who directed last year ...
In a wise editorial in the January number of Opera magazine, John Allison urges opera-lovers to remember that 'opera is only part of a much bigger musical literature. If one goes to operatic performances as frequently as a fairly conscientious and curious ...
OperaSetting limitsTwilight of the GodsColiseumWhile the ENO Ring was in preparation, and we were seeing semi-staged performances of the dramas at the old Coliseum and the Barbican, there were plenty of grounds for hope. There have been two major changes of cast ...
Even Joe Strummer, at the height of punk, admitted he was partial to their delirious disco yarns. Young, American bride-to-be Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has recently found her mum, Donna's, old diary - and realised her dad could be one of three men ...