Details From The Set Of Terrence Malick’s New Drama

First Still: Rachel Weisz In ‘The Deep Blue Sea’

The first still from The Deep Blue Sea has landed online, highlighting Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston’s on-screen chemistry. The actress has her hand on his shoulder while the actor puts his hand on her waist, presumably while doing a dancing scene.
In the movie, the two are indeed playing a couple. Weisz is “dazzling socialite Hester Collyer” while Hiddleston is “a dashing ex-RAF pilot”. But their love affair does not go smoothly as she is already married to a high court judge, portrayed by Simon Russell Beale.
Set in the ’50s in Merseyside and London, “The Deep Blue Sea” will see a forbidden love that leaves Hester with an impossible choice. The story is based on a play of the same name by Terence Rattigan.
Production was kicked off in mid November and is planned to be wrapped this month. Terence Davies serves behind the lens of the drama in addition to teaming up with Terence Rattigan to write the script. No release date has been set for the drama yet.


Happy Holidays!
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We want to wish you a merry christmas, great holidays and a happy new year! This site is going on a little winter break. Don’t worry, we’re back in January 2011 with the latest on Miss Rachel Weisz!


Exclusive: Details From The Set Of Terrence Malick’s New Drama




Terrence Malick is a notoriously secretive, fiercely press-shy filmmaker who has always kept a tight lid on his projects.


If you’re a fan of the reclusive director of The Thin Red Line and don’t want to be spoiled, read no further — because we’ve got tons of details about Malick’s follow-up to The Tree of Life, which is rumored to be titled The Burial.
The Oscar-nominated director recently wrapped principal photography on the “romantic drama” starring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Olga Kurylenko – the recent Bond girl – along with Javier Bardem and Barry Pepper.
An individual inside the production provided TheWrap with call sheets, the details of which Deal Central has pieced together to reveal much of the plot. Continue reading…
Source: TheWrap.com


Dream House Forced Into Reshoots

“We went to Toronto in January and it didn’t snow one day that month. And the entire movie is set in a snow storm.” Says Irish film director Jim Sheridan as he watched falling snow blanket the Canadian Ski Resort of Whistler. Sheridan is in Whistler, B.C, after snow, or the lack thereof cursed the original shoot in Toronto for his psychological thriller Dream House starring Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz- he revealed that they are set for reshoots in March 2011. ”We went to Toronto in January and it didn’t snow one day that month. And the entire movie is set in a snow storm,” he explained. Even worse, in Connecticut, where the supernatural thriller for Universal Pictures is set, it snowed heavily from January to March last winter, Sheridan recalled.






Agora” DVD Review


THE DVD
Video: The widescreen 2.35:1 transfer on Agora looks splendid, showcasing the muted color palette and the heavy production detail to great effect. The image is sharp and the blacks, particularly when gazing at the night sky, are good and deep.
Sound: A 5.1 audio mix of the English soundtrack uses surround technology very well, working through all the speakers in the larger scenes and properly centering the dialogue in quieter moments.
Subtitle options include English Closed Captioning and Spanish.
Extras: The Agora DVD offers two opportunities for director Alejandro Amenábar to address the audience, a director commentary and director presentation. The latter is a very short video introduction, recorded by the director just before he did the commentary. Both features are in Spanish with English subtitles, and they reveal the filmmaker to be a thoughtful, meticulous artist, and his explanations add depth to one’s understanding of his creation.
The hour-long “Journey to Alexandria” is a multi-part documentary covering the making of the movie, with specific segments on building the sets, the costumes, the characters and their historical origins, and the various stages of production: inception, shooting, and completion. You can play each piece on its own, or just run them all at once.
Seven Deleted Scenes run ten minutes, and they include a different prologue (more shots of the cosmos, essentially), alongside a handful of inconsequential trims (a discussion of Hypatia taking over the library, more romantic brooding from Davus, the aftermath of a brawl, the precursor to another brawl, etc.). A montage of the parabolani roaming the streets and enforcing their version of Christian law is the only thing here that I think would have added anything to the finished product, as it fully illustrates how bad they were on a day-to-day basis.
Though listed as storyboards, the gallery section is actually a collection of production drawings for the sets and the costumes–and it’s exceptional work, at that. There is also a photo gallery.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Highly Recommended. Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is a rich and wholly satisfying historical drama. Rachel Weisz stars as the 4th-century philosopher Hypatia, who was at the center of scholarly thought in Alexandria when the social scales tipped in favor of the Christians and against the Romans. This complex narrative tackles both emotions and ideas, making for a movie that has a solid plot but that is also about something. Excellent performances joined with well-crafted sets and costumes make for an altogether excellent period piece, and some smartly done DVD extras make for a great overall package.