Movie : Margaret
Release Date : September 30, 2011
Studio : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director : Kenneth Lonergan
Screenwriter : Kenneth Lonergan
Starring : Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno
Genre : Drama
Official Website : Not Available
A 17-year-old New York City high-school student feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.
A young woman (Anna Paquin) wrestles with powerful emotions after witnessing a catastrophic bus accident in this drama from Academy Award-nominated writer/director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me). Though production on Margaret wrapped in late 2005, the future of the film came into question when Lonergan's original edit clocked in at approximately 180 minutes and Fox Searchlight executives balked at the titanic runtime. Lawsuits ensued, and eventually a series of filmmakers including Martin Scorsese came aboard to help produce an edit that would both preserve the filmmaker's artistic vision and satisfy the studio's demands for paring the story down
Margaret movie trailer has made sure to highlight the best of drama element and when looking at this amazing and striking Margaret movie trailer viewers feel this motion picture will be an engaging and haunting cinematic venture. One of the most interesting highlights of this movie had been the leading lady Anna Paquin. She will be starring in such a fine role and her performance can expect to be convincing and believable. The former mentioned actress starring in the key role of will be joined by Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo and in addition to that this motion picture will also make sure to deliver some wonderful and marvelous piece of acting to entertainment of audience. 30th of September has been set as the release date of this venture and when looking at Margaret movie trailer viewers feel this latest addition to the genre of drama movies is going to be a crowd puller of a flick. Rest assured this will be a remarkable theatrical venture to watch out and look forward with wide eyed awe.
Margaret is a film that we were really starting to think wouldn’t ever see the light of day. Despite boasting a quality cast in front of the camera and a talented filmmaker in You Can Count On Me’s Kenneth Lonergan behind it, the drama has been caught up in legal issues and release date delays for years. But now the trailer has arrived online over at Apple.
Lonergan began making the movie for Fox Searchlight back in 2005, and while the shoot seemed to go smoothly, nothing has since then. The movie got bogged down in the editing room and sparked two lawsuits about costs and delivery.
The wrangling has overshadowed the movie itself, which features Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick and more, and tells the story of Lisa, a 17-year-old school girl whose life starts to fall apart when she witnesses a fatal bus accident and deals with the guilt of lying to the incident inspectors. Her fears that she’s partly responsible for the accident bubble to the surface and start to take their toll. Eventually, she comes into conflict with the bus driver (Ruffalo) and tries to soothe her feelings by kicking off an affair with a teacher (Damon).
Martin Scorsese and his usual editor Thelma Schoonmaker have been working on a final cut for the film, which hits US cinemas on September 30. There’s no word on when – or even if – it’ll arrive on screens over here.
Six years ago, an all-star cast got together to feature in Kenneth Lonergan's second film, a teenage legal drama about a girl who believes she's responsible for a deadly bus accident. Unfortunately, editing issues, creative disagreements and its own legal wrangling buried the film on a dusty shelf.
And so the public never got to see Anna Paquin, 23 at the time, playing the 17-year old girl, or Mark Ruffalo as the endangered bus driver, or Matt Damon as the understanding teacher who takes advantage of his position.
Dakota Fanning has been cast as Princess Margaret in upcoming movie Girls' Night Out, reports Variety.
The Ecosse Films project takes place on V.E. Day in 1945 and sees princesses Margaret and Elizabeth sneak out of Buckingham Palace to join the celebrations.
The Last Station's Michael Hoffman is directing the film from Trevor De Silva's script, which is inspired by actual events.
Producers are still searching for an actress to take on the role of Margaret's elder sibling Elizabeth. The princess ascended to the throne in 1952 as Queen Elizabeth II following the death of her father King George VI.
Fanning recently starred as Cherie Currie in The Runaways and can next be seen in Breaking Dawn.
This month, the Mead Program continues its celebration of diversity and awareness with the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the Museum of Natural History. The annual festival features documentaries that share the stories of people around the world, and this year, for the first time, a Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award will be presented to the documentarian who captures this diversity with creativity.
One of the award contenders is Boris Bertram, the Danish filmmaker behind Tankograd, a documentary about the dancers of the Contemporary Dance Theater of Chelyabinsk, a Siberian city suffering the after effects of the Soviet Union’s nuclear program during the Cold War. The film captures the beauty life has to offer, even in such dismal settings. It captures hope for a brighter future through interviews with those who have been told that things will only get worse, medically. My only qualm is that we never get to see the finished piece that the dancers have been practicing and preparing throughout the documentary. Nonetheless, Tankograd was an eye-opening experience that will give you a new perspective on life.
With new power, comes new responsibility…The canvassing is over, the campaign trail has finished, and we are now presented with our first coalition government since World War II. The timing of Margaret on DVD is therefore unexpectedly fortuitous, looking back on another political milestone, the career of the Iron Lady herself, Ms Thatcher, just as a new era begins.
The drama itself begins at the start of the 90s, with Lindsey Duncan’s Maggie under fire from dissenters in her own Conservative party. Desperate to hold onto the power she has gained by clawing her way up the ladder, the nail in the coffin would seem to be the resignation of Geoffrey Howe (John Sessions). A hilariously beetle-browed Michael Heseltine (Oliver Cotton), almost a stand-in for the traditional Hollywood villain, establishes himself as Margaret’s biggest threat, but can she even trust her closest advisers, namely foreign advisor Charles Powell (James Fox) and Philip Jackson’s press secretary, Bernard Ingham? Jumping neatly back and forth in time, we soon establish Thatcher’s drive as she worked her way to the top of a male dominated environment. The only constant is her loyal husband Denis (sensitively played by Star Wars’ Ian McDiarmid).
Rather than taking the dry, reverential route, scriber Richard Cottan (Wallander) and director James Kent paint instead in brooding, shadowy tones, full to the brim of (surely exaggerated) skulduggery; a caption at the outset advises that although the public events depicted are real, licence has been taken with the more intimate details. Yet this works to its favour, dramatically enhancing the power-play that went on behind the doors of Whitehall during an especially difficult time in British politics. It’s not so much history as historical impersonation, putting a cinematic face on real characters and situations, Dominic Muldowney’s agitated score driving it along at a fair old clip. Not all of it works: the decision to reduce John Major (Michael Maloney) to a whispering, Gollum-esque figure waiting in the wings is certainly an odd one.
Yet with those parameters in mind, it becomes much easier to enjoy the excellent performances from a jaw dropping ensemble cast, chief amongst which is, of course, Duncan’s commanding, ball-busting central performance, bringing to life the girl amongst the boys who (for better or worse) showed how women could grab the reigns of politics. Yet it’s the quieter moments that are more arresting: Thatcher’s neglect of daughter Carol (Olivia Poulet) or admitting that entering the testosterone-fuelled House of Commons ‘has always frightened her’.
Her increasing difficulty in hiding any display of weakness from McDiarmid’s devoted husband is ultimately extremely moving, reminding us ever so slightly that the Iron Lady was indeed a fallible beast herself. It’s something to be reminded of in our cynical modern climate of spin and media heckling.
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