Showing posts with label TV Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV Movie. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Jacob - The Bible Collection
"For seven long years, Jacob has labored to earn the right to marry beautiful Rachel. Now the seven years are up - but Rachel's devious father substitutes his elder daughter on the wedding night. Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle play Jacob and Rachel in this love story from the Bible. Highlights of Jacob's life - how he usurped his brother Esau's birthright and blessing, the pillow of stone, the ladder to heaven, wrestling with God - are set against the heartache and hope of his relationship with the woman he seems destined never to possess. Sustained by his faith in God and his love for Rachel, Jacob perseveres...and becomes the father of the 12 tribes of Israel."This TV movie was part of a huge Bible production financed by international companies and distributors from Germany, Italy and the United States. In Jacob Lara Flynn Boyle looks as lovely as ever - even with a sunburnt face.
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
The House Next Door on DVD
On May 29th the mystery thriller The House Next Door starring Lara Flynn Boyle celebrates its worldwide DVD premiere - in Germany. Available in anamorphic widescreen edition (1.78:1) the film is presented with English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and German (2.0 Dolby Surround) soundtracks and optional English and German subtitles. Unfortunately, there are no extras listed, not even a trailer. Released by Paramount Home Entertainment the movie is only encoded for region 2 (Europe, Japan). I'll try to pick up a copy and write a review of the movie. Nice to see the cover artwork which presents Lara Flynn Boyle as the leading character with her name above the title. Please find enclosed another link I posted a few weeks ago containing an interview with co-actor Colin Ferguson.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Interview Colin Ferguson
Lara Flynn Boyle stars in the horror tale The House Next Door, produced by Lifetime, as a woman who suspects that something evil lurks in the house next door, some unseen force that causes people who move in to experience tragedies outside the norm. Eureka star Colin Ferguson plays her skeptical husband. He finds out quick enough that his number one lady is telling the truth.
In october 2006 Colin Ferguson gave Tony Bray of the TV-Now website an interview about his movie The House Next Door and, of course, Lara Flynn Boyle. "What drew you to the Lifetime movie?" Ferguson: "The director, Jeff Woolnough. He directed two episodes of the series that I did. That was the first thing that caught my eye. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Jeff. He really knows his stuff and he's really great to talk to and have fun with. I read it and it wasn't a typical Lifetime project. And, of course, Lara Flynn Boyle signed on to do it. I thought that would be interesting."Bray: "She's got gorgeous eyes and is camera friendly."
Ferguson: "It's amazing ... someone of her stature. Every scene was as good as she could do it. She could put herself into a frenzy if she needed to ... really going the distant. To be quite frank, it is sort of a pain, it is hard to do that. But she would do it for every single scene. That was impressive. I figured she would sort of pull back a little bit. She didn't."
Writer Tony Bray adds in his review of the movie: "Boyle looks healthier than she has in years. Critics who used to write only about her weight can finally focus on her talent, which is in fine form." Nicely said.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story
Has anyone seen this tv movie outside of Canada? Apparently not. Surfing through the world wide web I unfortunately couldn't find any indication for a dvd release. Screen Door, the production company of Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story, doesn't seem to be interested in making some money off this 5 Million Dollar Baby - as long as the official budget estimate is correct.
What's the story about? It deals with "ambition, love, betrayal and greed", says the Internet Movie Database. To be precisely: "The film chronicles the private and public struggles of Lord Conrad Black, one of the world's most controversial press barons." Beware!
"Inspired by true events and based on the book by Richard Siklos, Shades of Black takes place in the fall of 2004 before Lord Black of Crossharbour - business tycoon, financier and biographer - was charged with civil fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Already removed as CEO of the company he controlled, Hollinger International, Black holes up in his Toronto mansion as he copes with the personal and professional fallout from fraud allegations that surfaced a year earlier."
"As Black's glamorous second wife, Barbara Amiel, Lara Flynn Boyle portrays a woman of style and substance who unfailingly stands beside her embattled husband as he confronts the biggest challenge in his life." (CTV.ca) "I wasn't aware of her or of their story until I read the script, but I found her fascinating. From my perspective it's an interesting love story," said Boyle to a journalist of TVGuide who resumed: "As a supporting player, Boyle gets all the witty rejoiners and smoldering looks without any of the pop-psychology defenses for her actions. She's simply ambitious, manipulative, and 'magnificent' as Black calls her in the movie." And Toronto's Now Magazine adds: Amiel, a journalist and high-society vixen played with the vacancy of a condemned motel and the warmth of a TV yule log by Lara Flynn Boyle, collagened lips flapping away."
I found another comment about this tv drama which I quote: "A worthy effort, given the limitations of TV docudramas. It is well acted, and narrates to complex life and character of Conrad Black. Black is a personna of tragic resonance. Gifted in intellect, insight and discipline, brought to the precipice of impending bankruptcy and imprisonment by an overarching narcissism, arrogance and disdain for others, especially those unlucky enough to have worked for him. Toronto residents will not only recognize the upper class environs of their city, but the parochial ambitions of its elite.. and the stuffy colonial quality of its clubs and boardrooms. It a cautionary tale of those who take their circumstances in life as divine license to step on the well being of others. That will only provide enemies with a thirst for revenge." (karlbogdan for IMDB.com). Finally, if you want to listen to the main title of Christopher Dedricks' soundtrack, please take a look at his official website.
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