Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “A lot of people think my height is the reason Cyrano …
Few film pitches sound as much like a collection of names pulled at random from a large hat as the latest offering from Joe Wright : this adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac stars Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage in the titular role and takes the form of an achingly sincere, swashbuckling musical, with songs composed …
Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. Peter Mountain In living color The time period in which Wright chose to set “Cyrano” offered “a much lighter, vibrant time period compared to the 1600s,” Cantini Parrini said. Peter Mountain The …
How teen movies became hooked on classic literature Alamy Ten years ago, the release of Easy A marked the end of a Hollywood trend – for adapting old books and plays into high school movies. High school is a time of life when we are feeling alive with possibilities, excitement, terror, anxiety, romance, drama, dreams, goals – all the stuff …
