The film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” has been nominated at the 2015 Golden Globes! It is up for Best Comedy or Musical, against Birdman, Into The Woods, Pride and St. Vincent. Congratulations to the cast and crew!
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Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent
The first promotional stills from “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” have been released, and we’ve added them to our photo gallery. The film is set to premiere during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 22 to February 1, but not date has been set yet.
According to the website Variety, the film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” has joined the 2015 awards race!
On Nov. 19, voting began for SAG nominations. On Dec. 1, art directors and producers kick off the guild voting, while the New York Film Critics Circle are first out of the gate by announcing their winners.
As we get down to the wire, Hollywood calendars are jam-packed with awards events. And at each gathering, voters trade notes about titles they’ve seen recently and the handful of films they need to see. The conversation is always dominated by the latest contenders — and yet this year, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” keeps coming up.
The Wes Anderson film premiered at Berlin almost a year ago and bowed domestically in March, which in an awards-season-timetable is the equivalent of 200 years ago. It has long been on VOD and video, so as a flock of terrific films open to fanfare and media attention, “Budapest” may seem like old news. Au contraire, mes amis.
Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan has been described as “absolutely extraordinary” in her new role in Brooklyn by the man who penned the book.
The acclaimed actress (20) has finished filming on the movie based on the novel of the same name by award-winning Irish author Colm Toibin.
Co-starring Domhnall Gleeson, it tells the story of a young woman named Eilis who moves from a rural town in Ireland to the bright lights of Brooklyn as she tries to follow her dreams. Once in the US, Eilis is initially homesick, but soon settles down in the city and falls in love with an Italian plumber called Tony, who is played by Emory Cohen.
And having seen the first version of the movie, which saw Nick Hornby writing the screenplay, Toibin was left singing the praises of the Carlow native.
“It’s very, very emotional. It’s the first time I suppose she’s doing a part as a lead actress as an adult on her own and she’s absolutely extraordinary,” he said. “I thought, maybe this is for people who remember emigration but all the young people who came from the publishers and agency in London, they were all in tears of the choice she had to make. Was she going to stay in Ireland or was she going to go back to Brooklyn and the guy, the American actor Emory Cohen plays it as pure charm. He’ll do anything to win her.”
He also said there was wonderful chemistry between her and the ‘Stars Wars’ actor, who’s quickly becoming the toast of Hollywood and plays Saoirse’s love interest in the film.
“Domhnall Gleeson in Ireland plays it the other way around (to Cohen). He is just so sincere, so honest, so decent that he would mean pure stability and he sort of needs her and she can see that every word he says is true. So they’re playing the opposite ways against each other and she has to decide which way to go,” Toibin told Newstalk’s Pat Kenny.
The cast also includes Jim Broadbent as the village priest and Julie Waters as Ronan’s mum with the production shot in locations including Enniscorthy in Wexford and Dublin.
Set in 1950’s Ireland, the shoot then moved on to Montreal in Canada with the movie scheduled for release in early 2015 with Toibin saying the only thing left to do is add the music score to the film.
Author Toibin will shortly publish his eight novel, which is entitled Nora Webster.
(Source: Independent.ie)
Saoirse attended the ISPCC Brown Thomas Fashion Show yesterday in Dublin, Ireland. She talked to Louis Walsh about her recent project, Brooklyn, and mentioned she isn’t working on any other film at the moment.
“I’m not doing anything at the moment. I finished ‘Brooklyn’ a couple of months ago. It was amazing and it was probably the toughest job I’ve ever done because it was set in Ireland, because it’s about an Irish girl, because it was the journey that my parents went through and that I’m kind of going through right now.”
Variety has just released a list of their favorite films from 2014, and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is among them.
To say that our top three critics don’t always see eye-to-eye would be an understatement, but they can all agree on at least one thing: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is one of Wes Anderson’s best movies, and one of the strongest entries in a year that has so far offered no shortage of cinematic excellence. Also mentioned by at least one critic: a steamy gay-cruising thriller, a hotly debated biblical epic, and two staggeringly ambitious magnum opuses that clocked in at more than four hours apiece. There will be many more hours (and weeks, and months) of moviegoing to come before they have their final say on the year in movies, but at the moment, 2014 is off to an excellent start.
Wes Anderson’s ambitious chronicle of an imaginary Europe in the lull between two not-so-imaginary wars is, unsurprisingly, a marvel of technology and design, with its round-robin aspect ratios, ingenious use of miniatures and a luxe hotel worthy of Thomas Mann. But the triumph of Anderson’s film is that it is equally rich — and finally, terribly moving — in its sense of an irrecoverable past, first loves, true friendships and small acts of heroism.
For the complete list, visit Variety.com!
Our gallery has been updated with screen captures of Saoirse’s scenes in the film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, in which she plays Agatha.
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