• Pride And Glory
    Reviews

    Pride And Glory

    2008-09-11T17:09:00Z

    Dir. Gavin O’Connor. US. 2008 125 min.After sitting on the shelf for the better part of two years, Gavin O’Connor’s bruising Manhattan melodrama charges into a congested festival lineup breathing fire and smoke. A coiling police saga about the clash between family and career loyalties, Pride ...

  • Warrior
    Reviews

    Warrior

    2011-08-10T01:00:00Z

    Dir: Gavin O’Connor. US. 2011. 139mins

  • News

    Fine Line options script from O'Connor brothers

    2000-06-27T01:22:00Z

    Fine Line Features has optioned Pride And Glory, a new script from Gregory and Gavin O'Connor, the same team behind Fine Line's Tumbleweeds. The script, which the brothers co-wrote with Robert A Hopes, is currently being reworked by Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed Blood, Guts, Bullets And Octane.Gavin O'Connor ...

  • News

    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...

  • Features

    2008: The New Line Highlights

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Jan 25: Be Kind RewindMichel Gondry's latest offbeat comedy features Jack Black as a video-store employee who accidentally erases all the tapes, so re-enacts and refilms them. Mos Def co-stars.Feb 29: Semi-ProWill Ferrell plays a former benchwarmer who returns to his basketball team in an attempt to take them to ...

  • United States at AFM
    Features

    United States at AFM

    2009-11-03T12:59:00Z

    New projects from Robert Redford, Catherine Hardwicke, Paul Haggis and Sofia Coppola.

  • Features

    Rome opens on a high

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Being the new kid on the block may have its challenges but the three-year-old Rome International Film Festival is rising to them with aplomb. In its first two editions, Rome's ability to squeeze its 10-day festival into the logjam of the autumn calendar raised eyebrows, as did its ability to ...

  • News

    Ready for action: EFM preview

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    It looks like rich pickings for international buyers at this year's European Film Market, with new projects from leading film-makers including Peter Weir, Julian Schnabel, Robert Redford, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Bruce Robinson. PERIOD1939 (UK)Dir/scr: Stephen PoliakoffBBC Films' $6m thriller marks the return of writer-director Poliakoff (Close My Eyes) to film-making ...

  • News

    Toronto: The Buzz Films

    2008-08-29T07:19:00Z

    THE BUZZ FILMSGALA PRESENTATIONSDean Spanley (UK-NZ)Dir: Toa FraserThe story: Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley, this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son.The cast: Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and Sam Neill as an eccentric dean.The buzz: A co-production ...

  • News

    Buzz Films - Toronto 2008: the lowdown

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    GALA PRESENTATIONSDean Spanley (UK-NZ)Dir: Toa FraserThe story: Based on Lord Dunsany's novel My Talks With Dean Spanley, this charts the relationship between a stiff Englishman and his son.The cast: Peter O'Toole plays opposite Jeremy Northam as his son and Sam Neill as an eccentric dean.The buzz: A co-production between New ...