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Robot & Frank (Blu-ray)

July 19, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Peter Sarsgaard, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler
Director: Jake Schreier
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 15th 2013

Hunter (James Marsden) is fed up with dealing with his aging father, Frank (Frank Langella), and so rather than having to constantly drives miles to sort him out, he buys him a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard), who’ll serve as a carer and butler. Frank doesn’t want this contraption, but eventually agrees to keep it while simultaneously plotting ways to get rid of it.

However Frank slowly realises the bot may have a use. Frank is a former jewel thief, and he recognises that the robot can be taught skills such as lock picking, which Frank can use in a scheme he cooks up to rejoin his former criminal profession. [Read more…]

Glenn Close & Frank Langella Going 5 to 7 With Anton Yelchin

May 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A few months ago, Anton Yelchin signed up to star in 5 To 7. While it had been due to shoot in February, that’s slipped until after the actor has finished promoting Star Trek Into Darkness (which seems to have caused Diane Kruger to leave the film). Now a new start date in June has been set and so Anton needs some co-stars.

Variety reports that Glenn Close, Frank Langella, Berenice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson and Olivia Thirlby have signed up to appear in the movie.

Yelchin will play a young novelist living in New York who begins an affair with the wife of a French Diplomat (Marlohe). Lambert Wilson is set to play the cuckolded diplomat, Thirlby will be a New York book editor, while Langella and Close will play the novelist’s parents.

Victor Levin is directing the indie dramedy from his own script.

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ACTORS: Anton Yelchin, Glenn Close, Frank Langella, Berenice Marlohe, Lambert Wilson, Olivia Thirlby FILMS: 5 To 7

All Good Things (DVD)

February 19, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Philip Baker Hall, Lily Rabe, Ryan Gosling
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Running Time: 100 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 18th 2013

We’ve had to wait a while for All Good Things. Shot in 2008 it was slated for US release in 2009, but various issues with the distribution meant it didn’t actually hit American cinemas until late 2010 (and even then it only got a small release). It’s take another two full years for it to arrive in the UK, despite the presence of Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.

Based on a true story, Gosling plays David Marks, who in the early 1980s is the heir to a mega-rich empire. However he massively dislikes his father (Frank Langella) and would prefer to have little to do with the family business. He meets and marries the lower-middle class Katie (Kirsten Dunst), fleeing the city to a place in rural Vermont. However they’re lured back to New York by David’s father. [Read more…]

Grace Of Monaco Gets Tim Roth & Frank Langella

August 15, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Nicole Kidman and Paz Vega have already signed up for Olivier Dahan’s Grace Of Monaco, and now they’ve got a bit of male company, as Variety reports that Tim Roth and Frank Langella have signed up for the movie.

The film concentrates on the time when Monaco was in a conflict with France and Grace Kelly, who by then had given up acting and was the small country’s princess. She worked to prevent a coup, after French president Charles de Gaulle handed Grace’s husband Crown Prince Rainier, a six-month deadline to reform Monaco’s financial laws and status as an extreme tax haven.

Roth will play the prince, while Langella is Father Tucker, the priest who set the couple up and became a close friend. Paz Vega recently signed up to play opera singer Maria Callas, who was having an affair with wealthy Aristotle Onassis at the time.

Dahan plan to film the movie this autumn in France.

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ACTORS: Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Nicole Kidman DIRECTORS: Olivier Dahan FILMS: Grave Of Monaco