Chicago – When in the presence of a powerful acting force like Michael Shannon, the depth of performance is emotional and passionately essential. He co-leads with Travis A. Knight in Red Orchid Theatre’s World Premiere of Levi Holloway’s “Turret,” just extended to June 22nd at the Chopin Theatre. For tickets and info, click Turret.
The story, written and directed by Levi Holloway, is set in a dystopian future, as two men are holed in an underground bunker, after an unnamed event has poisoned the air outside the protective room. Green (Michael Shannon) is a military officer, and Rabbit (Travis A. Knight) is an enlisted grunt who share the bunker space. The place is outfitted with electricity generation, data processing and supplies, which interests an outsider named Birdy (Lawrence Grimm). Can humanity survive in such conditions?
Red Orchid’s ’Turret’ at the Chopin Theatre Extended through June 22nd
Photo credit: RedOrchidTheatre.
The story, written and directed by Levi Holloway, is set in a dystopian future, as two men are holed in an underground bunker, after an unnamed event has poisoned the air outside the protective room. Green (Michael Shannon) is a military officer, and Rabbit (Travis A. Knight) is an enlisted grunt who share the bunker space. The place is outfitted with electricity generation, data processing and supplies, which interests an outsider named Birdy (Lawrence Grimm). Can humanity survive in such conditions?
Red Orchid’s ’Turret’ at the Chopin Theatre Extended through June 22nd
Photo credit: RedOrchidTheatre.
- 5/18/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Exclusive: Toronto-based genre sales specialist Raven Banner has added Neon Noir horror pics Brute 1976 and Garden of Eden to its Cannes Film Market slate.
Brute 1976 from director Marcel Walz is marketed as a throwback to horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and follows a group of friends who stumble upon the desert town Savage while looking for a spot to set their latest photo shoot, only to meet the depraved, mask-wearing Birdy family, who begin hunting them down one by one.
Sarah French, Gigi Gustin, Dazelle Yvette and Adriane McLean star.
Garden of Eden follows the wealthy and devout Eden family, who choose one lucky guest from each of their parties and give them the opportunity to fulfil their greatest desires. However, a life-changing dream for some may become a nightmare for others.
Walz is the director, and like Brute 1976, was written by Joe Knetter.
Brute 1976 from director Marcel Walz is marketed as a throwback to horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and follows a group of friends who stumble upon the desert town Savage while looking for a spot to set their latest photo shoot, only to meet the depraved, mask-wearing Birdy family, who begin hunting them down one by one.
Sarah French, Gigi Gustin, Dazelle Yvette and Adriane McLean star.
Garden of Eden follows the wealthy and devout Eden family, who choose one lucky guest from each of their parties and give them the opportunity to fulfil their greatest desires. However, a life-changing dream for some may become a nightmare for others.
Walz is the director, and like Brute 1976, was written by Joe Knetter.
- 5/8/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
In an interview series with Vanity Fair, Nicolas Cage revisited clips from his past films. One of the clips features his role as Ronny in "Moonstruck," a working-class Italian American with a firey temper and passion for opera. During one of his incensed monologues, you can see a missing tooth. Cage told Vanity Fair that he had pulled out his baby teeth — without anesthesia — for a previous film, "Birdy," but at that point, "they hadn't grown in yet, so when I did 'Moonstruck,' you still see a gaping hole." A character that is both rough and tender, Cage's missing tooth (along with Johnny's wooden hand) was the perfect touch for his idiosyncratic role in "Moonstruck."
For "Birdy," Nicolas Cage wanted to use the physical anguish of removing his teeth to relate to what his character went through in the war. His character Al returns after sustaining injuries from an exploding bomb,...
For "Birdy," Nicolas Cage wanted to use the physical anguish of removing his teeth to relate to what his character went through in the war. His character Al returns after sustaining injuries from an exploding bomb,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
What splits the fine line between desire and expectations? Is it a thing you can see? Is it a thing you can film?
Film at Lincoln Center’s new retrospective supposes that if any of those questions have answers, they might reside in the cinema of Edward Yang. Moving from “A Rational Mind”––the title of their 2011 retrospective of Yang’s work––to “Desire/Expectations” reframes those questions to be more diffuse, less singular. A rational mind could answer in the affirmative or negative; a slash indicates that desire and expectations may occupy the same terrain simultaneously.
“A rational mind” is also, perhaps, an accusation a Yang character could lob at another, especially in A Confucian Confusion (1994), a workplace farce that subjects a “culture company” in 1990s Taipei to the contradictions of Confucian teachings. In turn (or simultaneously), the film interrogates Confucian-influenced, consumer-friendly spaces––like 1990s Taipei––to rethink old-world molds of tradition and expectation.
Film at Lincoln Center’s new retrospective supposes that if any of those questions have answers, they might reside in the cinema of Edward Yang. Moving from “A Rational Mind”––the title of their 2011 retrospective of Yang’s work––to “Desire/Expectations” reframes those questions to be more diffuse, less singular. A rational mind could answer in the affirmative or negative; a slash indicates that desire and expectations may occupy the same terrain simultaneously.
“A rational mind” is also, perhaps, an accusation a Yang character could lob at another, especially in A Confucian Confusion (1994), a workplace farce that subjects a “culture company” in 1990s Taipei to the contradictions of Confucian teachings. In turn (or simultaneously), the film interrogates Confucian-influenced, consumer-friendly spaces––like 1990s Taipei––to rethink old-world molds of tradition and expectation.
- 12/29/2023
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
Bella Ramsey is opening up about the struggles they faced as a child actor in Hollywood.
The Last of Us star told The Independent, in an interview shared online Saturday, that they “didn’t like the separation” they noticed between kids and adult performers.
“The thing I hated the most was being patronized,” Ramsey explained. “I didn’t like the fact that I could only be on set for a certain amount of time, and had to go and do tutoring. I get why the hours protections for child actors are phenomenally important — but I hated feeling like I was lesser or separate from the adult cast.”
Though Ramsey turned 20 years old earlier this year, they still find themselves cast as younger teens in projects, including as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones, Birdy in Catherine Called Birdy and Ellie Williams in The Last of Us, opposite Pedro Pascal.
Ramsey...
The Last of Us star told The Independent, in an interview shared online Saturday, that they “didn’t like the separation” they noticed between kids and adult performers.
“The thing I hated the most was being patronized,” Ramsey explained. “I didn’t like the fact that I could only be on set for a certain amount of time, and had to go and do tutoring. I get why the hours protections for child actors are phenomenally important — but I hated feeling like I was lesser or separate from the adult cast.”
Though Ramsey turned 20 years old earlier this year, they still find themselves cast as younger teens in projects, including as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones, Birdy in Catherine Called Birdy and Ellie Williams in The Last of Us, opposite Pedro Pascal.
Ramsey...
- 12/17/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As The Voice started its Season 23 Battles Monday, it replaced the traditional Save with the Playoff Pass. What is it? You can watch Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance the Rapper and Niall Horan explain above. But in short, it’s a reward for an especially excellent performance that allows a coach to sit out a member of their team during the Knockouts and advance them directly to the Playoffs.
On the surface, this sounds great, right? If I’m a contestant, I’m like, “Whoo hoo! One less chance to be eliminated!” If you think about it, though, should singers...
On the surface, this sounds great, right? If I’m a contestant, I’m like, “Whoo hoo! One less chance to be eliminated!” If you think about it, though, should singers...
- 3/28/2023
- by Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
The UK’s choice for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has been “leaked”.
A day after tickets for the event sold out in less than 34 minutes, the music star set to perform on behalf of the country in Liverpool later this year has been selected.
While odds named Birdy and Rina Sawayama as favourites, it’s being claimed that Mae Muller will go down in history as the UK’s next Eurovision entrant.
The BBC is yet to confirm who will perform, but has said that an announcement will be made on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Thursday (9 March). The Mirror first reported the news.
Muller, who is 25, generated fans after supporting Little Mix on tour in 2019. The London-raised singer has amassed more than six million streams on Spotify for songs including “Close” and “Better Days”.
Eurovision week kicks off on Monday 8 May, with semi-finals taking place on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May.
A day after tickets for the event sold out in less than 34 minutes, the music star set to perform on behalf of the country in Liverpool later this year has been selected.
While odds named Birdy and Rina Sawayama as favourites, it’s being claimed that Mae Muller will go down in history as the UK’s next Eurovision entrant.
The BBC is yet to confirm who will perform, but has said that an announcement will be made on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Thursday (9 March). The Mirror first reported the news.
Muller, who is 25, generated fans after supporting Little Mix on tour in 2019. The London-raised singer has amassed more than six million streams on Spotify for songs including “Close” and “Better Days”.
Eurovision week kicks off on Monday 8 May, with semi-finals taking place on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May.
- 3/9/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Music
With just a few days until the 2023 Oscars, hot contender The Banshees of Inisherin has been given a boost on home soil.
Martin McDonagh’s period tragicomedy — which has nine Academy Award nominations (an all-time Irish record) — has now landed the most film nods this year for the Irish Academy Awards.
Announced by the Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA), Banshees has 11 nominations, including best film and, as with the BAFTAs and Oscars, the film has been nominated in all of the performance categories for its main cast of Colin Farrell (who also got a nod for supporting actor for The Batman), Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Banshees‘ 11 nominations is the same number in 2022 amassed by Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl, which is now also in contention for an Oscar in the international category.
Further down the list, Frank Berry’s immigration drama Aisha — starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor — landed 10 nominations.
Martin McDonagh’s period tragicomedy — which has nine Academy Award nominations (an all-time Irish record) — has now landed the most film nods this year for the Irish Academy Awards.
Announced by the Irish Film & TV Academy (IFTA), Banshees has 11 nominations, including best film and, as with the BAFTAs and Oscars, the film has been nominated in all of the performance categories for its main cast of Colin Farrell (who also got a nod for supporting actor for The Batman), Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Banshees‘ 11 nominations is the same number in 2022 amassed by Irish-language drama The Quiet Girl, which is now also in contention for an Oscar in the international category.
Further down the list, Frank Berry’s immigration drama Aisha — starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor — landed 10 nominations.
- 3/7/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The winners of the 13th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were revealed Sunday night at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
Anton Monsted won best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million for Elvis, while Lauren Marie Mikus and Bruce Gilbert won the award for a film budgeted $25 million or under for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The latter film also won best song written and/or record for a film for “This Is a Life.” Rob Lowry took home two awards for his work on Cha Cha Real Smooth and Do Revenge.
On the television side, Nora Felder won for best music supervision for a television drama for the fourth season of Stranger Things, while Kier Lehman won in the comedy/musical category for Insecure season five. “Perfect Day” from Better Call Saul season six won best song written and/or recorded for TV.
At the awards ceremony,...
Anton Monsted won best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million for Elvis, while Lauren Marie Mikus and Bruce Gilbert won the award for a film budgeted $25 million or under for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The latter film also won best song written and/or record for a film for “This Is a Life.” Rob Lowry took home two awards for his work on Cha Cha Real Smooth and Do Revenge.
On the television side, Nora Felder won for best music supervision for a television drama for the fourth season of Stranger Things, while Kier Lehman won in the comedy/musical category for Insecure season five. “Perfect Day” from Better Call Saul season six won best song written and/or recorded for TV.
At the awards ceremony,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything Everywhere All at Once cleaned up at the 38th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning seven awards, including best feature.
Stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan each collected another award to add to their hauls, taking home best lead performance and best supporting performance, respectively, while Stephanie Hsu won best breakthrough performance. The film’s writer-directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, won the Spirit Award for best director and best screenplay, and Paul Rogers won for his editing work.
Heading into the show, Everything Everywhere All at Once led the film nominations with eight nods, winning every category in which it was nominated. Jamie Lee Curtis also was nominated but lost to her Eeao co-star Quan for best supporting performance.
On the TV side, The Bear was named best new scripted series, with Ayo Edebiri taking home the award for best supporting performance in a new scripted series.
Stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan each collected another award to add to their hauls, taking home best lead performance and best supporting performance, respectively, while Stephanie Hsu won best breakthrough performance. The film’s writer-directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, won the Spirit Award for best director and best screenplay, and Paul Rogers won for his editing work.
Heading into the show, Everything Everywhere All at Once led the film nominations with eight nods, winning every category in which it was nominated. Jamie Lee Curtis also was nominated but lost to her Eeao co-star Quan for best supporting performance.
On the TV side, The Bear was named best new scripted series, with Ayo Edebiri taking home the award for best supporting performance in a new scripted series.
- 3/5/2023
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Elvis lead the nominees for the 2023 Music Supervisors Guild Awards.
Each film earned three nominations in the same categories: best music supervision for film budgeted over 25 million, best song written and/or recorded for a film and best music supervision in a trailer – film.
Artists who contributed to the Black Panther sequel and Elvis movie soundtrack, Rihanna and Doja Cat, were also nominated for awards this year, as were performers and songwriters Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross and David Byrne.
High-profile films and TV shows that earned two nominations apiece include A Jazzman’s Blues, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Atlanta, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Better Call Saul, Stranger Things, P-Valley and The Afterparty.
The winners in categories spanning film, TV, video games, advertising and trailers will be revealed at an in-person and...
Each film earned three nominations in the same categories: best music supervision for film budgeted over 25 million, best song written and/or recorded for a film and best music supervision in a trailer – film.
Artists who contributed to the Black Panther sequel and Elvis movie soundtrack, Rihanna and Doja Cat, were also nominated for awards this year, as were performers and songwriters Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross and David Byrne.
High-profile films and TV shows that earned two nominations apiece include A Jazzman’s Blues, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Atlanta, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Better Call Saul, Stranger Things, P-Valley and The Afterparty.
The winners in categories spanning film, TV, video games, advertising and trailers will be revealed at an in-person and...
- 1/23/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This article may contain spoilers for The Last of Us video game. Avoid if you want an unsullied experience.
Based on the video game of the same name, The Last of Us is a terrifying zombie story and a heartbreaking tale of humanity. Decades after a mutated fungus triggers the zombie apocalypse, a young girl discovers that she’s immune. This girl, Ellie, then has to make her way across the country with smuggler Joel Miller, fighting against both infected and humans alike along the way.
Part of what fans love about this video game series is its hauntingly beautiful story about found family and the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love. But it seems like even newcomers to the story will have a lot to look forward to with the series thanks to the talented actors bringing this emotional story to life. Here are the...
Based on the video game of the same name, The Last of Us is a terrifying zombie story and a heartbreaking tale of humanity. Decades after a mutated fungus triggers the zombie apocalypse, a young girl discovers that she’s immune. This girl, Ellie, then has to make her way across the country with smuggler Joel Miller, fighting against both infected and humans alike along the way.
Part of what fans love about this video game series is its hauntingly beautiful story about found family and the lengths people will go to protect the ones they love. But it seems like even newcomers to the story will have a lot to look forward to with the series thanks to the talented actors bringing this emotional story to life. Here are the...
- 1/15/2023
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
Bella Ramsey, star of HBO’s “The Last of Us” series, has come out as gender fluid.
In an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday leading up to the release of “The Last of Us,” Ramsey described how she identifies.
“I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” Ramsey revealed. “Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it, but I knew that if someone called me ‘he,’ it was a bit exciting.”
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Ramsey posted her profile with The Times to Instagram, crediting those behind the process with “creat[ing] a safe space where I could be myself. I didn’t realise how grateful I was for that.”
Ramsey further explained to The Times how she felt about about pronouns.
“I’m very much just a person,...
In an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday leading up to the release of “The Last of Us,” Ramsey described how she identifies.
“I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” Ramsey revealed. “Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it, but I knew that if someone called me ‘he,’ it was a bit exciting.”
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‘The Last of Us’ Lauded by Critics as the ‘Beginning of a New Era’
Ramsey posted her profile with The Times to Instagram, crediting those behind the process with “creat[ing] a safe space where I could be myself. I didn’t realise how grateful I was for that.”
Ramsey further explained to The Times how she felt about about pronouns.
“I’m very much just a person,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
If police drama remains the bedrock of British TV commissions, with 2022 having welcomed crime series Karen Pirie, Marlow, Magpie Murders, The Responder, Sherwood and many more, broadcasters also gave us a glittering seam of new fantasy and horror. Last year saw a host of new British supernatural and sci-fi series, from Joe Barton’s sci-fi action-thriller The Lazarus Project and the criminally since-cancelled YA Netflix fantasy The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself, BBC Three teen horror Red Rose, Sky dark comedy The Baby, as well as a new telling of John Wyndham’s spooky children classic The Midwich Cuckoos.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
Then there were shows that combined both threads, such as Amazon Prime’s mind-twisting The Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine, and Pete Jackson’s excellent debut Somewhere Boy. And some new British TV shows didn’t even feature a single murder, like Netflix’s adored Heartstopper graphic novel adaptation.
- 1/3/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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For writer-director Lena Dunham, Karen Cushman’s 1994 Newbery Honor-winning YA novel Catherine, Called Birdy is almost a sacred text. Following the comic exploits of a young girl in 13th century England, Cushman’s book is an irreverent take on being a teenage girl at a time when such an identity left young women powerless and beholden to the men in their lives — first their fathers, then their husbands.
Lena Dunham
Bella Ramsey (pictured above, with co-star Joe Alwyn) stars as the 14-year-old title character who rebels against the patriarchy as best as she can when her father (Andrew Scott) announces that she is to be married to a wealthy husband in order to save the family from financial ruin. As she fends off potential suitors to her parents’ dismay, she finds her own voice as a witty, rambunctious young woman who has the...
For writer-director Lena Dunham, Karen Cushman’s 1994 Newbery Honor-winning YA novel Catherine, Called Birdy is almost a sacred text. Following the comic exploits of a young girl in 13th century England, Cushman’s book is an irreverent take on being a teenage girl at a time when such an identity left young women powerless and beholden to the men in their lives — first their fathers, then their husbands.
Lena Dunham
Bella Ramsey (pictured above, with co-star Joe Alwyn) stars as the 14-year-old title character who rebels against the patriarchy as best as she can when her father (Andrew Scott) announces that she is to be married to a wealthy husband in order to save the family from financial ruin. As she fends off potential suitors to her parents’ dismay, she finds her own voice as a witty, rambunctious young woman who has the...
- 1/1/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fleur East talked about how it’s been difficult having “big life moments” without her late father ahead of one of her dances during theStrictly Come Dancing 2022 final on Saturday night (17 December).
The singer, who scored two perfect 40s in the grand finale but was beaten to the Glitterball Trophy by presenter Hamza Yassin, also said the BBC series was her father’s favourite show.
In a Vt shown before East and her pro partner Vito Coppola took to the dancefloor, she spoke of how much the competition meant to her family.
“When I spoke to family I said, ‘I have to do his because this was dad’s favourite show,’” she said. “Truthfully, it’s been really, really hard, so hard, living life and having all these big life moments without him there.”
Following her Show Dance, to “Find Me” by Sigma featuring Birdy, East thanked Strictly and its...
The singer, who scored two perfect 40s in the grand finale but was beaten to the Glitterball Trophy by presenter Hamza Yassin, also said the BBC series was her father’s favourite show.
In a Vt shown before East and her pro partner Vito Coppola took to the dancefloor, she spoke of how much the competition meant to her family.
“When I spoke to family I said, ‘I have to do his because this was dad’s favourite show,’” she said. “Truthfully, it’s been really, really hard, so hard, living life and having all these big life moments without him there.”
Following her Show Dance, to “Find Me” by Sigma featuring Birdy, East thanked Strictly and its...
- 12/18/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
In 2014, Matthew Modine appeared at the 9th Annual Macon Film Festival to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Birdy." He told CW69 Atlanta, "It was a film that just about every young actor in Hollywood wanted to be in. A lot of young actors wanted the parts of Birdy and Al." He originally auditioned for the role of Al, but was surprised to hear that he won the title role instead:
"I said 'Well, that's great! Are you going to change the character's name or am I going to play an Italian-American?' And [director Alan Parker] said 'What are you talking about? You're going to play Birdy!'"
During the 1980s, there were many films about Vietnam veterans trying to reconcile with the trauma and confusion of a hated war. The trend started with "Coming Home" in 1978 and went on into the late 1980s in films such as "Jacknife," "Born on the Fourth of July,...
"I said 'Well, that's great! Are you going to change the character's name or am I going to play an Italian-American?' And [director Alan Parker] said 'What are you talking about? You're going to play Birdy!'"
During the 1980s, there were many films about Vietnam veterans trying to reconcile with the trauma and confusion of a hated war. The trend started with "Coming Home" in 1978 and went on into the late 1980s in films such as "Jacknife," "Born on the Fourth of July,...
- 12/17/2022
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
The good people at Netflix would prefer that reviewers, critics, pundits, wags, culture vultures and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who write about movies on the internet not spoil any of the many twists and turns of Glass Onion, the much-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 tribute/throwback to whodunnits Knives Out. It’s a sentiment that the filmmaker himself shares, given that so much of the fun of these A-list mysteries revolve around misdirection, deduction, the art of the reveal. Someone who traffics in constructing homages to, say, Agatha Christie...
- 11/22/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When costume designer Julian Day met “Catherine Called Birdy” screenwriter-director Lena Dunham, “we always talked about this idea of having a sort of Coachella vibe, or Glastonbury vibe, and we wanted to make it accessible for a modern audience, but still stay true to the ideas of what medieval Britain was about.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Day above.
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Based on the 1994 young adult novel by Karen Cushman, “Catherine Called Birdy” tells the story of the title character (played by “Game of Thrones” alum Bella Ramsey), a headstrong 14-year-old girl living in the 13th century and fighting against her father’s attempts to marry her off to a wealthy suitor. Though the story is set more than 700 years ago, it has an anachronistic style and tone, and Birdy herself has a modern sensibility that rebels against the standards of her time.
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Based on the 1994 young adult novel by Karen Cushman, “Catherine Called Birdy” tells the story of the title character (played by “Game of Thrones” alum Bella Ramsey), a headstrong 14-year-old girl living in the 13th century and fighting against her father’s attempts to marry her off to a wealthy suitor. Though the story is set more than 700 years ago, it has an anachronistic style and tone, and Birdy herself has a modern sensibility that rebels against the standards of her time.
- 11/16/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“From the moment I read it, I felt I had a special connection to the main character. She was bratty, but loving, she could be brave, but childlike. She was a character who felt like she completely resonated on my frequency,” says writer-director Lena Dunham about what drew her to the young adult novel “Catherine Called Birdy” when she read it at age 10. Now as an adult Dunham has adapted the novel into a feature film. We talked to Dunham as part of our “Meet the Experts” film writers panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Catherine Called Birdy” is a coming of age film set in 13th century England, where the rambunctious title character (played by Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old noble girl, resists the expectations placed on young women to marry and produce children. Even though she’s barely a teenager, her father Rollo (Andrew Scott) is already trying...
“Catherine Called Birdy” is a coming of age film set in 13th century England, where the rambunctious title character (played by Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old noble girl, resists the expectations placed on young women to marry and produce children. Even though she’s barely a teenager, her father Rollo (Andrew Scott) is already trying...
- 11/15/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
It seems the Sean O'Neal case is nowhere close to getting resolved.
And unfortunately, by the end of Chicago Pd Season 10 Episode 7, the chief learned about Sean and is in denial, and Sean is officially tipped off about the unit coming after him with Hailey leading the charge.
Now their job is harder than ever if they're trying to take down a prolific trafficker protected by a cop who already knows they're coming for him.
Kudos to the series because they've heeded some of the criticism and are working on it. For starters, they won't have us coming for them over continuity when Hailey has been rocking that scar on her forehead for a good minute.
It coincides nicely with the timeline that reminds us it hasn't been that long since Halstead's departure, but she hasn't been functioning well since then.
We had a few moments where we got some...
And unfortunately, by the end of Chicago Pd Season 10 Episode 7, the chief learned about Sean and is in denial, and Sean is officially tipped off about the unit coming after him with Hailey leading the charge.
Now their job is harder than ever if they're trying to take down a prolific trafficker protected by a cop who already knows they're coming for him.
Kudos to the series because they've heeded some of the criticism and are working on it. For starters, they won't have us coming for them over continuity when Hailey has been rocking that scar on her forehead for a good minute.
It coincides nicely with the timeline that reminds us it hasn't been that long since Halstead's departure, but she hasn't been functioning well since then.
We had a few moments where we got some...
- 11/10/2022
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
Remember when Chicago P.D. guest star Jefferson White told TVLine that Sean and Upton were kindred spirits? This week’s episode tapped into that as the Intelligence detective closed in on Sean’s sex trafficking operation.
Upton was pretty sure that Sean was tracking underage girls and followed his every move to prove it. She tracked him to various meetings and even waited outside of his apartment, snapping photos while remaining out of sight. Since Sean was the son of Police Chief Patrick O’Neal, Intelligence needed to work incognito. That meant using dummy sign-on numbers and doing whatever they...
Upton was pretty sure that Sean was tracking underage girls and followed his every move to prove it. She tracked him to various meetings and even waited outside of his apartment, snapping photos while remaining out of sight. Since Sean was the son of Police Chief Patrick O’Neal, Intelligence needed to work incognito. That meant using dummy sign-on numbers and doing whatever they...
- 11/10/2022
- by Keisha Hatchett
- TVLine.com
Bella Ramsey, the star of Lena Dunham’s recent feature “Catherine, Called Birdy,” has signed with CAA, Variety can exclusively confirm.
In “Catherine, Called Birdy,” which won rave reviews at Toronto International Film Festival last month, Ramsey plays 14-year-old Birdy, who is coming of age in medieval England where her fate is to be married off to any of the potential suitors her father has in mind – Birdy, meanwhile, has other ideas. Joe Alwyn and Andrew Scott also star in the film, which recently hit Prime Video following a theatrical release.
Ramsey also appeared in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” as Lyanna Mormont, the head of the House of Mormont following her mother’s death and the first to declare Jon Snow king of the North during the gathering of the lords at Winterfell.
Her next role will be alongside Pedro Pascal (“Wonder Woman 1984”) in Craig Mazin’s upcoming series for HBO,...
In “Catherine, Called Birdy,” which won rave reviews at Toronto International Film Festival last month, Ramsey plays 14-year-old Birdy, who is coming of age in medieval England where her fate is to be married off to any of the potential suitors her father has in mind – Birdy, meanwhile, has other ideas. Joe Alwyn and Andrew Scott also star in the film, which recently hit Prime Video following a theatrical release.
Ramsey also appeared in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” as Lyanna Mormont, the head of the House of Mormont following her mother’s death and the first to declare Jon Snow king of the North during the gathering of the lords at Winterfell.
Her next role will be alongside Pedro Pascal (“Wonder Woman 1984”) in Craig Mazin’s upcoming series for HBO,...
- 10/18/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Kate Hudson and her mother Goldie Hawn are a little too close sometimes.
Hudson chats to Graham Norton on his show Friday, where she admits that Hawn may have got a little too close for comfort for the births of her kids: Ryder, 18, Bingham, 11, and Rani Rose, 4.
The “Bride Wars” star shares, “She likes to be very involved in my life. So much so that she came to the births of my children.
“She just had to be there and was like right in my vagina with headlight reading glasses on!” Hudson jokes.
“It was like out of a comedy but as funny as it was, it was also this unbelievably emotional experience for both of us.”
Read More: Kate Hudson Praises Mother Goldie Hawn’s Career: ‘There’s No Emulating Mama. She’s An Original’
Elsewhere in the interview, Hudson also talks about starring in the star-studded “Knives Out...
Hudson chats to Graham Norton on his show Friday, where she admits that Hawn may have got a little too close for comfort for the births of her kids: Ryder, 18, Bingham, 11, and Rani Rose, 4.
The “Bride Wars” star shares, “She likes to be very involved in my life. So much so that she came to the births of my children.
“She just had to be there and was like right in my vagina with headlight reading glasses on!” Hudson jokes.
“It was like out of a comedy but as funny as it was, it was also this unbelievably emotional experience for both of us.”
Read More: Kate Hudson Praises Mother Goldie Hawn’s Career: ‘There’s No Emulating Mama. She’s An Original’
Elsewhere in the interview, Hudson also talks about starring in the star-studded “Knives Out...
- 10/14/2022
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Lena Dunham has always offered a unique voice in cinema and television. From Tiny Furniture to the hugely popular Girls, the talented Dunham has found fresh new ways to tell timeless stories. Her latest, feels quite literally like a timeless tale. Catherine Called Birdy is a lively and uplifting tale about a very spirited young girl causing havoc for her family and friends. The film stars Bella Ramsey as Birdy, as well as Lesley Sharp, Joe Alwyn, Sophia Okonedo, and Andrew Scott giving an excellent performance. It’s a terrific cast.
Recently, we had the great pleasure of chatting with Lena and a few of the film’s stars. First up, we spoke with Joe Alwyn and Andrew Scott about working with Dunham, and being involved in the film. And speaking of Dunham, we next spoke with the filmmaker and her star, Bella Ramsey. Talking to Ramsey, it was nice...
Recently, we had the great pleasure of chatting with Lena and a few of the film’s stars. First up, we spoke with Joe Alwyn and Andrew Scott about working with Dunham, and being involved in the film. And speaking of Dunham, we next spoke with the filmmaker and her star, Bella Ramsey. Talking to Ramsey, it was nice...
- 10/13/2022
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
Note: The following contains spoilers for Catherine Called Birdy.
Director Lena Dunham described Karen Cushman’s “Catherine Called Birdy” as a work ingrained in her DNA with a world easy to bring to the screen and populate, but she did want to give the story a more hopeful ending.
Dunham’s film follows Cushman’s story pretty closely, which focuses on young Lady Catherine, who goes by Birdy (Bella Ramsey), daughter of Lord Rollo (Andrew Scott) and Lady Aislinn (Billie Piper). Birdy’s impending arranged marriage to some random stranger drives the film’s plot, as she does everything humanly possible to turn off her suitors.
“The last act shifts pretty significantly from the book, and that just had to do with a real desire to be able to leave Birdy’s character in a better place than we found her,” Dunham said in a recent interview with TheWrap. “The book has a beautiful ending,...
Director Lena Dunham described Karen Cushman’s “Catherine Called Birdy” as a work ingrained in her DNA with a world easy to bring to the screen and populate, but she did want to give the story a more hopeful ending.
Dunham’s film follows Cushman’s story pretty closely, which focuses on young Lady Catherine, who goes by Birdy (Bella Ramsey), daughter of Lord Rollo (Andrew Scott) and Lady Aislinn (Billie Piper). Birdy’s impending arranged marriage to some random stranger drives the film’s plot, as she does everything humanly possible to turn off her suitors.
“The last act shifts pretty significantly from the book, and that just had to do with a real desire to be able to leave Birdy’s character in a better place than we found her,” Dunham said in a recent interview with TheWrap. “The book has a beautiful ending,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
This review originally ran in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
Karen Cushman’s children’s novel “Catherine, Called Birdy” is written in the form of the diary of a 14-year-old girl living in England in 1290. Cushman was most interested in exploring the details of what it was like to live as a young girl during the Middle Ages, whereas this film adaptation of the book, which was written and directed by Lena Dunham, retains the setting but filters everything through Dunham’s very narrow modern sensibility. The result is listless, plodding and self-congratulatory.
During much of the Obama administration, you couldn’t avoid seeing or reading something about Dunham and her HBO TV series “Girls,” which was over-promoted and relentlessly picked apart online. That show was at its best when it satirized the self-absorbed behavior of its young characters on the go...
Karen Cushman’s children’s novel “Catherine, Called Birdy” is written in the form of the diary of a 14-year-old girl living in England in 1290. Cushman was most interested in exploring the details of what it was like to live as a young girl during the Middle Ages, whereas this film adaptation of the book, which was written and directed by Lena Dunham, retains the setting but filters everything through Dunham’s very narrow modern sensibility. The result is listless, plodding and self-congratulatory.
During much of the Obama administration, you couldn’t avoid seeing or reading something about Dunham and her HBO TV series “Girls,” which was over-promoted and relentlessly picked apart online. That show was at its best when it satirized the self-absorbed behavior of its young characters on the go...
- 10/7/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Nowadays, medieval reimaginings about a spunky modern girl ahead of her time are a dime a dozen. Call it the "Arya" effect, but as long as YA has existed (maybe even longer), so has the headstrong female character who bucks gender norms and only wants to play in the mud or with swords. And Birdy, the title character of the charming but slight "Catherine Called Birdy," appears to fall too easily into this category. But writer-director Lena Dunham, dipping her toes into family comedy territory for the first time, imbues "Catherine Called Birdy" with enough irreverence and absurdity to give star Bella Ramsey the chance to soar beyond her fellow "strong female characters" — even if the movie is not quite as dazzling as she is.
Based on the beloved 1994 children's novel of the same name by Karen Cushman, "Catherine Called Birdy" follows the struggles of the rabble-rousing Lady Catherine or,...
Based on the beloved 1994 children's novel of the same name by Karen Cushman, "Catherine Called Birdy" follows the struggles of the rabble-rousing Lady Catherine or,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
‘Catherine Called Birdy’ Is the Family-Friendly Feminist Medieval Comedy We Needed, and So Much More
Around the midway point of Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham’s deliriously fun yet pointed adaptation of Karen Cushman’s YA book, our hero — a 14 year-old named Catherine, nicknamed (surprise!) “Birdy,” played remarkably and brilliantly by Bella Ramsey — begins to list off what girls are not allowed to do. They can’t go on crusades, cut their hair or be horse trainers. They aren’t permitted to be monks or go to hangings; forget about drinking in public houses or, God forbid, they laugh very loud. All strictly verboten.
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- 9/23/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When it comes to recreating the distant past onscreen, all we can really do is guess at how things looked based on what evidence is left behind. Our imagination of medieval and medievalist settings are in large part based on the wind-blasted shells of castles and the arch stonework of cathedrals, which means that, whether you’re in King’s Landing or King Henry’s court, all too often the medieval world is nasty, brutal, and short on color. It’s gray and black and occasionally scorched by firelight, as if nobody worked in primary colors until Da Vinci.
But looking at the time period this way is a little bit like extrapolating what an animal looks like based just on its bones — you miss the things that actually give it shape and character and life. Among the many virtues of “Catherine Called Birdy” is that Lena Dunham’s adaptation...
But looking at the time period this way is a little bit like extrapolating what an animal looks like based just on its bones — you miss the things that actually give it shape and character and life. Among the many virtues of “Catherine Called Birdy” is that Lena Dunham’s adaptation...
- 9/23/2022
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Catherine Called Birdy, director Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Karen Cushman’s bestselling novel, lands in select theaters this weekend. It’s 13th century England. You’re a teenage girl who just discovered that your father plans to marry you off to save his financial situation. You don’t want to be married, not given the marriages you see around you. What do you do? If you’re young Birdy, you come up with a plan to scare off every potential...
- 9/23/2022
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
‘Ticket To Paradise’ first weekend, plus ‘Avatar’ re-release.
Olivia Wilde’s thriller Don’t Worry Darling heads the new films at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with attention finally turning to the film itself after several weeks of extraneous gossip.
The Warner Bros film is opening in 697 cinemas, making it the widest opening in the territory for a film directed by a woman – ahead of the 691 locations of Olivia Newman’s Where The Crawdads Sing in July.
It will then expand to 783 cinemas in the UK and Ireland across its first week.
Written by Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke,...
Olivia Wilde’s thriller Don’t Worry Darling heads the new films at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with attention finally turning to the film itself after several weeks of extraneous gossip.
The Warner Bros film is opening in 697 cinemas, making it the widest opening in the territory for a film directed by a woman – ahead of the 691 locations of Olivia Newman’s Where The Crawdads Sing in July.
It will then expand to 783 cinemas in the UK and Ireland across its first week.
Written by Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
I love, love, love the new movie “Catherine Called Birdy” from director Lena Dunham (“Girls”). Based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Karen Cushman, the film tells the story of Birdy, a 14-year-old girl in and her fight to be free like a bird in 13th-century England. Birdy is played by
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- 9/23/2022
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Dir: Lena Dunham. Starring: Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Billie Piper, Joe Alwyn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Ralph Ineson, Isis Hainsworth, Russell Brand. 12A, 108 minutes.
In Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Karen Cushman’s Nineties children’s novel, we meet a young maiden in the 1290s, Lady Catherine aka Birdy (Bella Ramsey). She’s sweet, rambunctious and utterly blithe when it comes to her privilege. Nestled inside a workman’s cart, on the way to see her friend Aelis (Isis Hainsworth), she wonders what life must be like for the peasant class. She finds them exquisitely fascinating, “so simple… so passionate… so toothless”.
Catherine Called Birdy, paired with Sharp Stick, still unreleased in the UK, form Dunham’s first features since 2010’s Tiny Furniture. She's back and armed to the teeth with millennial ennui, her usual trademarks retooled only to suit her tween audience. The honesty is there. The acerbic wit. The semi-intentional...
In Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Karen Cushman’s Nineties children’s novel, we meet a young maiden in the 1290s, Lady Catherine aka Birdy (Bella Ramsey). She’s sweet, rambunctious and utterly blithe when it comes to her privilege. Nestled inside a workman’s cart, on the way to see her friend Aelis (Isis Hainsworth), she wonders what life must be like for the peasant class. She finds them exquisitely fascinating, “so simple… so passionate… so toothless”.
Catherine Called Birdy, paired with Sharp Stick, still unreleased in the UK, form Dunham’s first features since 2010’s Tiny Furniture. She's back and armed to the teeth with millennial ennui, her usual trademarks retooled only to suit her tween audience. The honesty is there. The acerbic wit. The semi-intentional...
- 9/22/2022
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
The latest from director and writer Lena Dunham, Catherine, Called Birdy, follows the story of 14-year-old Birdy, who is coming of age in medieval England. She bucks the system, much to the displeasure of her father, Lord Rollo.
Bella Ramsey, who plays Birdy, and Andrew Scott, who plays Lord Rollo, recently sat down for an exclusive with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with Dunham.
“I just remember her being very generous and making the set a very supportive and encouraging place – for the whole crew,” Ramsey said. “She definitely helmed the huge ship and created such a good working environment for everybody.”
“I remember watching her one day from the carriage at the end where you’re sword fighting in the torrential rain,” Ramsey continued, turning to Scott. “Just watching her calmly and gently, but so firmly, command the set … Everyone had total respect.
Bella Ramsey, who plays Birdy, and Andrew Scott, who plays Lord Rollo, recently sat down for an exclusive with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with Dunham.
“I just remember her being very generous and making the set a very supportive and encouraging place – for the whole crew,” Ramsey said. “She definitely helmed the huge ship and created such a good working environment for everybody.”
“I remember watching her one day from the carriage at the end where you’re sword fighting in the torrential rain,” Ramsey continued, turning to Scott. “Just watching her calmly and gently, but so firmly, command the set … Everyone had total respect.
- 9/21/2022
- by Rose Carter
- Uinterview
After years as one of the most polarizing figures in entertainment, Lena Dunham is finally taking the win.
Her fourth feature film, the Medieval-set teen comedy “Catherine Called Birdy,” has enjoyed nearly universal praise from critics. She puts all doubts to bed with her latest, an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s YA novel, one of Dunham’s favorite childhood reads that was originally published in 1994.
Filtered through Dunham’s undeniable comedic voice, Cushman’s novel becomes a cheeky romp through a charmingly anachronistic Medieval Britain. With “Game of Thrones” breakout Bella Ramsey as the charismatic lead and Andrew Scott (Aka Hot Priest) as her wry foil of a father, “Catherine Called Birdy” is an unmitigated delight. And that’s exactly how Dunham feels about the warm responses her film is receiving.
“I can’t believe I’m saying something was an unmitigated joy, but it really was,” Dunham told IndieWire...
Her fourth feature film, the Medieval-set teen comedy “Catherine Called Birdy,” has enjoyed nearly universal praise from critics. She puts all doubts to bed with her latest, an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s YA novel, one of Dunham’s favorite childhood reads that was originally published in 1994.
Filtered through Dunham’s undeniable comedic voice, Cushman’s novel becomes a cheeky romp through a charmingly anachronistic Medieval Britain. With “Game of Thrones” breakout Bella Ramsey as the charismatic lead and Andrew Scott (Aka Hot Priest) as her wry foil of a father, “Catherine Called Birdy” is an unmitigated delight. And that’s exactly how Dunham feels about the warm responses her film is receiving.
“I can’t believe I’m saying something was an unmitigated joy, but it really was,” Dunham told IndieWire...
- 9/21/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"Catherine Called Birdy" is a new Medieval comedy feature written and directed by Lena Dunham, starring Bella Ramsey, Lesley Sharp, Sophie Okonedo, Joe Alwyn, Isis Hainsworth, Dean-Charles Chapman, Paul Kaye, Billie Piper and Andrew Scott, opening in theaters September 23, 2022 and streaming October 7, 2022 on Prime Video:
"...'Lady Catherine of Stonebridge Manor' (Ramsey), known to all as 'Birdy', dreams of roaming the world while having countless adventures, just like her 'Uncle George' (Alwyn), who has joined the 'Crusades'. Her indulgent mother, 'Lady Aislinn' (Piper), allows her to skip some of the mundane tasks of a young girl in return for keeping a diary that she shares with her brother 'Edward', a cloistered monk.
"Her spendthrift father is deep in debt and can think of only one way to resolve it. He will marry off his daughter to a wealthy suitor. Horrified to realize the future that awaits, Birdy vows to...
"...'Lady Catherine of Stonebridge Manor' (Ramsey), known to all as 'Birdy', dreams of roaming the world while having countless adventures, just like her 'Uncle George' (Alwyn), who has joined the 'Crusades'. Her indulgent mother, 'Lady Aislinn' (Piper), allows her to skip some of the mundane tasks of a young girl in return for keeping a diary that she shares with her brother 'Edward', a cloistered monk.
"Her spendthrift father is deep in debt and can think of only one way to resolve it. He will marry off his daughter to a wealthy suitor. Horrified to realize the future that awaits, Birdy vows to...
- 9/21/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Lena’s Dunham’s new film Catherine Called Birdy represents a difficult case for this critic. The overwhelming feeling of “it’s simply not for me” throughout the runtime makes it an instance of having to determine if what rang as false or annoying was simply a personal failing. And there’s certainly passion here: Dunham made her personal investment clear before the screening, noting how reading the young adult book by Karen Cushman as an alienated 10-year-old weirdo in 1996 was a life-transforming event. And speaking as one who was definitely a 10-year-old weirdo themselves, the passion is observed, if not totally felt.
Living in 13th-century England, Birdy (Bella Ramsey) is an obnoxious, opinionated, but also intelligent and animal-loving 14-year-old who causes quite the stir amongst all the adults in her life, including of course her exasperated father Sir Rollo (Andrew Scott) and mother Lady Aislinn (Billie Piper). With her family in need of money,...
Living in 13th-century England, Birdy (Bella Ramsey) is an obnoxious, opinionated, but also intelligent and animal-loving 14-year-old who causes quite the stir amongst all the adults in her life, including of course her exasperated father Sir Rollo (Andrew Scott) and mother Lady Aislinn (Billie Piper). With her family in need of money,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Who could have possibly anticipated that, nearly a decade ago when “Girls” creator and star Lena Dunham announced in an early episode of the ground-breaking HBO series that her Hannah Horvath might “be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation” that she really meant that she was the voice of…medieval tweens?
Dunham’s fourth film adapts Karen Cushman’s lauded 1994 YA novel “Catherine, Called Birdy” into Starring “Games of Thrones” breakout Bella Ramsey in the title role, the film — set in medieval England — follows young Catherine as she navigates her way through a world uninterested (and unaccustomed) to caring about the whims and wishes of its women.
If this sounds at all staid to you, you really must read Cushman’s novel, which is fresh and funny in so many ways. And then, you really must see Dunham’s film, which is her best yet,...
Dunham’s fourth film adapts Karen Cushman’s lauded 1994 YA novel “Catherine, Called Birdy” into Starring “Games of Thrones” breakout Bella Ramsey in the title role, the film — set in medieval England — follows young Catherine as she navigates her way through a world uninterested (and unaccustomed) to caring about the whims and wishes of its women.
If this sounds at all staid to you, you really must read Cushman’s novel, which is fresh and funny in so many ways. And then, you really must see Dunham’s film, which is her best yet,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Click here to read the full article.
In her second directorial effort this year, Lena Dunham forgoes the adult themes of Sharp Stick to tell a more traditional coming-of-age story about a headstrong teenage girl living in medieval times. A significant departure from most of her previous work, the playfully broad Catherine Called Birdy, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, is a sincere effort at the sort of classic young adult films that populated the 90s and early 2000s. Young-adult storytelling has always been more than brooding love triangles and devastating wars, but in a post-Hunger Games world it’s easy to forget the smaller, more personal stories. Luckily, Dunham has no trouble remembering Karen Cushman’s 1994 novel on which this film is based, capturing the book’s humorous diary format with cheeky voiceover narration.
In the early 1200s, Lady Catherine (Bella Ramsey) is a girl on the cusp of womanhood.
In her second directorial effort this year, Lena Dunham forgoes the adult themes of Sharp Stick to tell a more traditional coming-of-age story about a headstrong teenage girl living in medieval times. A significant departure from most of her previous work, the playfully broad Catherine Called Birdy, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, is a sincere effort at the sort of classic young adult films that populated the 90s and early 2000s. Young-adult storytelling has always been more than brooding love triangles and devastating wars, but in a post-Hunger Games world it’s easy to forget the smaller, more personal stories. Luckily, Dunham has no trouble remembering Karen Cushman’s 1994 novel on which this film is based, capturing the book’s humorous diary format with cheeky voiceover narration.
In the early 1200s, Lady Catherine (Bella Ramsey) is a girl on the cusp of womanhood.
- 9/11/2022
- by Jourdain Searles
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Lena Dunham admits that she isn’t the first to attempt an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s beloved young adult novel Catherine Called Birdy. “If you could look up Catherine Called Birdy, some teenagers have like made their own movie versions of it on YouTube,” says Dunham.
And while she may not have been the first, Dunham likely had the biggest budget for her outing. Backed by Working Title and set for release on Amazon on Sept. 23, Birdy saw Dunham and her cast, which includes Game of Thrones break-out Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn, and Billy Piper, filming on location in a period-appropriate castle in England with all the necessary accouterments for its medieval shoot: horses, swords, and lots of mud.
The movie, which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 11, follows a rebellious teenager in 13th century England...
Lena Dunham admits that she isn’t the first to attempt an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s beloved young adult novel Catherine Called Birdy. “If you could look up Catherine Called Birdy, some teenagers have like made their own movie versions of it on YouTube,” says Dunham.
And while she may not have been the first, Dunham likely had the biggest budget for her outing. Backed by Working Title and set for release on Amazon on Sept. 23, Birdy saw Dunham and her cast, which includes Game of Thrones break-out Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn, and Billy Piper, filming on location in a period-appropriate castle in England with all the necessary accouterments for its medieval shoot: horses, swords, and lots of mud.
The movie, which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 11, follows a rebellious teenager in 13th century England...
- 9/10/2022
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything I Know About Love isn't just a love letter to friendship—it's also an ode to the very specific time period it's set in: 2012. The Peacock series based on Dolly Alderton's bestselling memoir of the same name follows childhood BFFs Maggie (Emma Appleton) and Birdy (Bel Powley) as they move into their first London flat with their two college pals, Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin). Together, they navigate bad dates, career woes, heartaches and humiliations—all while rocking the very best (and worst!) fashions the 2010s gave us. One of the biggest aesthetics of the time was "indie sleaze," a fashion era defined by skinny jeans, smudged eyeliner, cropped leather...
- 9/5/2022
- E! Online
The success of “Fleabag” loosed a glut of shows about young women tottering – heels broken, mascara smeared – in the vague direction of adult responsibility. Few have been as purely enjoyable as “Everything I Know About Love,” Dolly Alderton’s adaptation of her own memoir, which debuts on Peacock this week after winning plaudits on the BBC in midsummer.
With its photogenic cast, pyjama-party vibe and commitment to steering its characters towards better things, this Working Title-produced, London-set miniseries should provide superior comfort TV for anyone constitutionally unable to face Nathan Fielder’s postmodern provocations or the carnage of a “Game of Thrones” prequel. It’ll be only more comforting the more years you have on the show’s fresh-faced principals.
Alderton’s onscreen surrogate is Maggie Marshall (Emma Appleton), encountered just before the 2012 Olympics as a flighty 24-year-old blogger with a thrusting new beau in porkpie hat-sporting, multiple red flag-raising...
With its photogenic cast, pyjama-party vibe and commitment to steering its characters towards better things, this Working Title-produced, London-set miniseries should provide superior comfort TV for anyone constitutionally unable to face Nathan Fielder’s postmodern provocations or the carnage of a “Game of Thrones” prequel. It’ll be only more comforting the more years you have on the show’s fresh-faced principals.
Alderton’s onscreen surrogate is Maggie Marshall (Emma Appleton), encountered just before the 2012 Olympics as a flighty 24-year-old blogger with a thrusting new beau in porkpie hat-sporting, multiple red flag-raising...
- 8/30/2022
- by Mike McCahill
- Variety Film + TV
Four female friends share the experience of navigating post-college life in London in Peacock’s new series “Everything I Know About Love.”
Set in 2012, the show, which is based on the book of the same name by Dolly Alderton, combines humor and drama as it follows 20 somethings Maggie (Emma Appleton), Birdy (Bel Powley), Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin) as they work on adulting, seek out romance, and even learn a choreographed dance or two in their shared living room.
“I think it’s just so nice to see female friendships not taking a backseat in the storyline,” Appleton told TheWrap. “It’s very much front and center. And that is the romance. And that is most important in this story.”
As things begin in the new series, Maggie is just arrived in London and still trying to figure her life out. As her housemates and friends do the same,...
Set in 2012, the show, which is based on the book of the same name by Dolly Alderton, combines humor and drama as it follows 20 somethings Maggie (Emma Appleton), Birdy (Bel Powley), Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin) as they work on adulting, seek out romance, and even learn a choreographed dance or two in their shared living room.
“I think it’s just so nice to see female friendships not taking a backseat in the storyline,” Appleton told TheWrap. “It’s very much front and center. And that is the romance. And that is most important in this story.”
As things begin in the new series, Maggie is just arrived in London and still trying to figure her life out. As her housemates and friends do the same,...
- 8/28/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
"Catherine Called Birdy" is a new Medieval comedy feature written and directed by Lena Dunham, starring Bella Ramsey, Lesley Sharp, Sophie Okonedo, Joe Alwyn, Isis Hainsworth, Dean-Charles Chapman, Paul Kaye, Billie Piper and Andrew Scott, opening in theaters September 23, 2022 and streaming October 7, 2022 on Prime Video:
"...'Lady Catherine of Stonebridge Manor' (Ramsey), known to all as 'Birdy', dreams of roaming the world while having countless adventures, just like her 'Uncle George' (Alwyn), who has joined the 'Crusades'. Her indulgent mother, 'Lady Aislinn' (Piper), allows her to skip some of the mundane tasks of a young girl in return for keeping a diary that she shares with her brother 'Edward', a cloistered monk.
"Her spendthrift father is deep in debt and can think of only one way to resolve it. He will marry off his daughter to a wealthy suitor. Horrified to realize the future that awaits, Birdy vows to...
"...'Lady Catherine of Stonebridge Manor' (Ramsey), known to all as 'Birdy', dreams of roaming the world while having countless adventures, just like her 'Uncle George' (Alwyn), who has joined the 'Crusades'. Her indulgent mother, 'Lady Aislinn' (Piper), allows her to skip some of the mundane tasks of a young girl in return for keeping a diary that she shares with her brother 'Edward', a cloistered monk.
"Her spendthrift father is deep in debt and can think of only one way to resolve it. He will marry off his daughter to a wealthy suitor. Horrified to realize the future that awaits, Birdy vows to...
- 8/28/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The first (and hopefully not last) season of “Everything I Know About Love” runs for seven episodes. It’s an odd length for a TV season, but this is a show where that lack of a round number makes perfect sense. It’s such an effective form of TV-as-memoir that every episode feels like it could be its last. A snapshot in time of four friends living in London in the summer of 2012, the Peacock original captures the feeling of a group of people who recognize their whole lives are ahead of them, made from chapters that could start or end at any minute. Packed with mid-20s energy and angst, occasional flippancy and real heart, “Everything I Know About Love” justifies giving a date barely a decade past a full and thoughtful revisit.
Based on the book of the same name by Dolly Alderton, who leads the adaptation efforts,...
Based on the book of the same name by Dolly Alderton, who leads the adaptation efforts,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
When Everything I Know About Love first arrived in my inbox, I expected a series that focuses on a focal couple as they navigate the highs and lows of being in a relationship.
However, the series goes in a drastically different direction than I first anticipated, and it solidifies itself as one of the year's best shows.
In this peak TV era, it's rare for shows to break through with an original concept, but Everything I Know About Love is a diamond in the rough.
Based on Dolly Alderton's memoir of the same name, we pick up in 2012 with Maggie (Emma Appleton), a twentysomething who is struggling to get her life in order.
She's partying every single night of the week, lacks focus, and is heavily reliant on her best friend since her youth, Birdy (played by Bel Powley), to help her navigate life.
Birdy doesn't quite have it together,...
However, the series goes in a drastically different direction than I first anticipated, and it solidifies itself as one of the year's best shows.
In this peak TV era, it's rare for shows to break through with an original concept, but Everything I Know About Love is a diamond in the rough.
Based on Dolly Alderton's memoir of the same name, we pick up in 2012 with Maggie (Emma Appleton), a twentysomething who is struggling to get her life in order.
She's partying every single night of the week, lacks focus, and is heavily reliant on her best friend since her youth, Birdy (played by Bel Powley), to help her navigate life.
Birdy doesn't quite have it together,...
- 8/24/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The highest of highs and the lowest of lows—a.k.a. your 20s. Defined by simultaneous feelings of self-doubt and overconfidence, uncertainty and anticipation, and frustration and excitement, the decade is quite the rollercoaster ride. Thankfully, it's a ride that everyone boards—meaning there's a barrage of films, songs, books and TV shows that are all too relatable for anyone feeling the weight (or enjoying the freedom!) that comes with being a 20-something. Among the most recent is Peacock's Everything I Know About Love, a new series inspired by Dolly Alderton's memoir of the same name. Set in a house-share in London in 2012, the show follows childhood BFFs Maggie and Birdy, along...
- 8/24/2022
- E! Online
Prepare to fall for head over heels for Everything I Know About Love. Don't get it twisted, though—the upcoming Peacock series, a semi-fictionalized version of Dolly Alderton's memoir of the same name, is not the stuff of rom-coms. Instead, the central love story is actually the friendship between two 20-somethings, Maggie (Emma Appleton) and Birdy (Bel Powley). Living in London with two of their university pals, the childhood besties are riding the rollercoaster that is young adulthood and experiencing all the twists and turns that come with it. The premise might sound familiar, but what makes the series stand out among its predecessors is, as Powley told Cosmopolitan UK in June, that...
- 8/13/2022
- E! Online
Prime Video has debuted the trailer for Lena Dunham’s adaptation of ‘Catherine Called Birdy.’
Based on the book by Karen Cushman, the story unfolds in 1290. In the Medieval English village of Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest child of Lord Rollo and Lady Aislinn. Her playground is Stonebridge Manor, a house that, like the family, has seen better days. Financially destitute and utterly greedy, Rollo sees his daughter as his path out of financial ruin by marrying her off to a wealthy man for money and land. But Birdy, like all the great teen heroines, is spirited, clever, adventurous, and ready to put off any suitor that comes calling in increasingly ingenious ways. Her imagination, defiance, and deep belief in her own right to independence put her on a collision course with her parents. When the vilest suitor of all arrives, they are presented with the...
Based on the book by Karen Cushman, the story unfolds in 1290. In the Medieval English village of Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest child of Lord Rollo and Lady Aislinn. Her playground is Stonebridge Manor, a house that, like the family, has seen better days. Financially destitute and utterly greedy, Rollo sees his daughter as his path out of financial ruin by marrying her off to a wealthy man for money and land. But Birdy, like all the great teen heroines, is spirited, clever, adventurous, and ready to put off any suitor that comes calling in increasingly ingenious ways. Her imagination, defiance, and deep belief in her own right to independence put her on a collision course with her parents. When the vilest suitor of all arrives, they are presented with the...
- 8/11/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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