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A Quiet Passion (Blu-ray Review) – Terence Davies & Cynthia Nixon explore the life of Emily Dickinson

July 16, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Duncan Duff, Emma Bell
Director: Terence Davies
Running Time: 125 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 17th 2017 (UK)

Filmmaker Terence Davies early work was intentionally autobiographical. The likes of The Terence Davies Trilogy, Distant Voices Still Lives and The Long Day Closes looked at growing up working class in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s, touching on the overwhelming effects of Catholicism on him, as well as his own difficult relationship to being gay. Although his work then hasn’t been so explicitly based on himself, there have always remained very distinct echoes of the director in the subjects he’s chosen and the way he’s approached them.

That continues with A Quiet Passion, his biopic of 19th Century American poet, Emily Dickinson. Davies personal connection to the material is apparent from the first scene, where a young Emily is being asked to pick between two strict ideas of where she and a group of other young women stand in relationship to Christianity. However, she stands alone, unable to say where she should be. Once again Davies is fascinated by the push and pull of religion, of someone who wants the world while simultaneously limiting themselves to a small part of it, as well as the strictures of society for those who both desire to fit in and reject it. [Read more…]

Saoirse Ronan & Cynthia Nixon Join Kidnapping Drama Stockholm, Pennsylvania

February 10, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

saoirse-ronanSaoirse Ronan and Cynthia Nixon have signed up for Stockholm, Pennsylvania for first time writer/director Nikole Beckwith, according to Deadline. As the title may suggest to some of you, it’s all about a kidnapping.

Nixon will be a grief stricken mother whose girl (Saoirse Ronan) was kidnapped and then freed. However the child struggles to acclimate herself to society after being raised by her abductor. The mother goes to great lengths to get closer to her daughter, but she finds it difficult to gain the young woman’s love and acceptance. Jason Isaacs will be the kidnapper, with David Warshofsky portraying the girl’s father.

In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is the phenomenon when kidnap victims begin to sympathise with those holding them captive.

The film is an adaptation of Beckwith’s play, and the script landed on the 2012 Black List. It also won the 2012 Nicholl Fellowship after coming through the Sundance Screenwriting Lab. Shooting is scheduled to begin next month in Los Angeles.

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ACTORS: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon  

Cynthia Nixon Takes On Emily Dickinson For Terence Davies

September 11, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s famous poets, although she’s never quite had as much impact over here in the UK as she has in the States. That’s a shame, as her work is wonderful, and now British director Terence Davies is hoping to bring her life on the screen, with THR reporting that he’s lined up Cynthia Nixon to play Dickinson in A Quiet Passion.

The poetess was famously reclusive, publishing only a few poems during hre lifetime. Most of her work was only found and published after her death, and as it was written just for herself, it has an intensely personal quality that’s rare. There are also rumours she was a lesbian and had a female lover, although whether this will be included in the movie isn’t known (as homosexuality has been one of the main themes of Davies work, it may well be). All THR says is that it will ‘trace Dickinson’s life from precocious schoolgirl to tortured recluse’.

“I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind,” Davies says. “It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialize. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work – and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I’m over the moon.”

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ACTORS: Cynthia Nixon  DIRECTORS: Terence Davies  FILMS: A Quiet Passion  

Was Cythia Nixon Right To Say Being Gay Was A Choice For Her?

January 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Sex & The City star Cynthia Nixon is getting it in the neck at the moment for saying that for her, being gay was choice. Many have pilloried her, saying she’s fallen into a right-wing trap, as anti-gay nutters want to believe being gay is a choice, because if it is, it’s changeable and not an immutable part of individual human nature. They say she should have just said she’s bisexual rather than asserting she had an either/or choice to be gay or straight with nothing in between.

Nixon, who became involved with Christine Marinoni in 2004 not long after ending a 15-year relationship with a man, made the comment in an interview with the New York Times, saying “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice.

“I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

“As you can tell, I am very annoyed about this issue. ‘Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.”

Although many have got red in the face at Nixon, I have to say I kind of agree with her (although not entirely). Rather than it being a right wing trap to say some people might chose to be gay, by constantly making the argument over whether being gay is a choice or not (and not whether there’d be anything wrong if it was) is basically allowing the anti-gay faction to set the terms of the debate. Essentially, even if we did all choose whether we wanted to be gay or not (and I’m not saying at all that we do), what difference would it make?

After all, while for many being gay is no more a choice than being human is, why shouldn’t people choose to be gay or straight if they could? If a straight man decided he was going to only have gay sex from now and hate every minute of it because not one inch of him was homosexual, why shouldn’t he? If one of your straight friends announced tomorrow they’d decided to be gay and started a relationship with someone of the same gender, you might think they were more bisexual than gay or that they were making a mistake, but you wouldn’t stand in the way of the choice they’d made if everyone involved knew what they were getting themselves into. After all, why shouldn’t they?

The way both pro and anti-gay factions have got hung up on whether it’s a choice or not has frustrated me for years. You can understand why it seems important, because there’s a difference between innate sexuality and the expression of it, and it can be tricky in separating those out, with gay people and anti-gay people having very different takes on where the split between them is. But at it’s core it’s besides the point. If my gayness is a choice (whether conscious or not) or innate makes no difference to that fact that if I feel a strong attraction to somebody of either sex, why should anyone else be allowed to stand in the way of it, if both sides are consenting?

Maybe I’m wrong, and I do believe those anti-gay nuts who are obsessed with it being a choice are wrong. But rather than continuing to argue with them, perhaps we should try and move the debate onto something that’s on our terms rather than theirs. I don’t think Cynthia Nixon has it 100% right, but I think she’s thought things through further than those who jumped up to condemn her have.

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ACTORS: Cynthia Nixon  

Rampart Trailer – Woody Harrelson turns corrupt cop

November 21, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


‘Woody Harrelson is the most corrupt cop ever seen on screen’ is a pretty bold claim for a trailer for open with, especially as Rampart is meant to be based on a true story. In the film it’s late-1990s LA and Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet, Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. The movie has a superb cast and looks like it could be pretty good. It’ll be out early next year, when it’ll be having a bit of an awards run.

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ACTORS: Woody Harrelson, Cynthia Nixon, Ben Foster, Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver  DIRECTORS: Oren Moverman  FILMS: Rampart  

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