Colin Firth: Zurich International Film Festival 2013 line-up includes "Devil's Knot" and "The Railway Man."

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
2:06 AM PDT 8/15/2013
by Scott Roxborough

COLOGNE, Germany – A series of high-profile titles will be heading to the Zurich Film Festival this year, with gala premieres of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Lady Di biopic Diana starry Naomi Watts; George Clooney/Sandra Bullock-starrer Gravity from Alfonso Cuaron and period drama The Railway Man from director Jonathan Teplitzky and starring Colin Firth.

Other gala premieres heading to Zurich for the 9th annual international festival this year include Atom Egoyan's latest, Devil's Knot, a crime drama which also features Firth alongside co-star Reese Witherspoon; J.C. Chandor's acclaimed one-man survival drama All is Lost featuring Robert Redford, which premiered in Cannes; David Gordon Green's Joe, which stars Nicolas Cage as a redemptive ex-con; and best agers romantic comedy Le Weekend from Notting Hill director Roger Michell starring  Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a British couple who take a second honeymoon trip to Paris in an attempt to rekindle their marriage.

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Colin Firth a no show so far at Toronto International Film Festival JIM SLOTEK, QMI AGENCY

Colin Firth and Emily Blunt in Arthur Newman

Robert Redford's not doing a press conference at TIFF (and darned little else) for his directing/starring turn in The Company You Keep, and star Shia LaBeouf is a no-show.

There's no presser for Bill Murray's much-talked-about turn as FDR in Hyde Park on the Hudson (loveable flake Murray will supposedly be here for the red carpet, but he's more likely to crash your golf tournament or birthday party than do an interview).

And what about Oscar winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech)? So far, no appearance and no promotion at TIFF for his latest film Arthur Newman.

Co-star Emily Blunt -- who IS talking a lot about her part in the Bruce Willis/Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie Looper -- admits she's disappointed not to be doing press for Arthur Newman.

"I guess it's because it's not very big -- it only cost about $7 million -- and we found out rather late that the film would be in Toronto," she says about its non-promotion.

"But people will see it and it's very strange and beautiful. My sweet friend Colin and I play kind of social outcasts who try and escape their miserable pasts and identities. And they find solace in each other in the most unconventional love story.


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Robert Redford and Brendan Gleeson team up in tense new thriller (INDEPENDENT)

HOLLYWOOD-legend Robert Redford and Brendan Gleeson have teamed up in a new thriller, which is soon to open in the US.

In All the President's Men, Robert Redford famously played a reporter hunting clues that led to President Richard Nixon's downfall. In The Company You Keep, the Oscar winner is the one who is hunted by a journalist, this time played by Shia LaBeouf.

Unlike the 1976 account of the Watergate scandal, The Company You Keep is a fictional thriller based on a 2003 novel by Neil Gordon, and follows a former leftwing American militant whose past comes back to haunt him.

Redford plays Jim Grant, a respectable lawyer and widower with a young daughter whose life is thrown into turmoil when his secret identity, as a member of The Weather Underground decades earlier, is revealed by a tenacious reporter.

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Brendan Gleeson: 'The Company You Keep' Trailer: Robert Redford, (VIDEO) The Huffington Post | By Christopher Rosen

"The Company You Keep" doesn't have an official U.S. release date just yet, but with an amazing cast and crew and a pair of high-profile festival bows in Venice and Toronto, expect one to get announced shortly. That's something you should be excited about, because the first trailer for "The Company You Keep" looks like a cross between "Enemy of the State" and "The Fugitive."

Directed by Robert Redford, and starring (deep breath) Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Brit Marling, Anna Kendrick, Terrence Howard, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Christie, Richard Jenkins, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Sam Elliot and Redford himself, "The Company You Keep" tells the story of a young journalist (LaBeouf) who discovers the identity of a former Weather Underground activist (Redford) wanted for the murder of a security guard 30 years earlier. More good news: Lem Dobbs ("The Limey," "Haywire") wrote the script, which is an adaptation of Neil Gordon's novel.

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Sean Bean: 'Cleanskin' review: Sean Bean fights UK terrorism (DIGITAL SPY)

Published Monday, Mar 5 2012, 3:55am EST |
By Simon Reynolds

Everyone from Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs) to Paul Haggis (In the Valley of Elah) and Paul Greengrass (Green Zone) has tried to answer big questions about America's response to 9/11.

The box office failings of those films suggests that audience appetite for war on terror as entertainment may be limited, but with Homeland enjoying success on the small screen, is there scope for more exploration of the hot topic subject matter?

This week's new release Cleanskin (starring the always-excellent Sean Bean) puts terrorism in the UK under the microscope. It's an action-thriller that wisely favors character development over sermonising, presenting two men at opposing ends of the ideological spectrum.

Bean plays Ewan Keane, a war veteran and secret service agent who saw friends die on the frontlines and lost his wife in the attacks on London. He's on the trail of a terrorist cell who swipe Semtex from a shady arms dealer in Cleanskin's bloody and brutal opening sequence. Ewan's handlers, played by Charlotte Rampling and James Fox, know that his grief and fury makes him an asset who'll shoot to kill.




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Brendan Gleeson to appear in The Company You Keep

M&C

By Sophie Eager Oct 28, 2011, 17:20 GMT

Actor Brendan Gleeson is pictured leaving the ITV studios following a guest appearance on the 'This Morning Show' on London. - Simon Earl / Splash.

Brendan Gleeson has signed up to appear in Robert Redford's new movie The Company You Keep.

Deadline reports that Gleeson, 56, will also be appearing in the movie Albert Nobbs opposite Glenn Close but will now join Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon and Anna Kendrick in the new film.

The Company You Keep is also being directed by Redford.

The film is being adapted from the novel by Neil Gordon.

Brendan Gleeson In Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

Deadline New York

The Guard star Brendan Gleeson has joined Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Brit Marling and Anna Kendrick in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. Gleeson will next be seen opposite Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs, in the John Cusack-starrer The Raven, and with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in the Daniel Espinosa-directed Safe House for Universal. He’s repped by Principal Entertainment and Ireland-based The Agency.

What I have learned: Clive Owen

Times Live

The actor on his looks, having a life outside movies, and getting heckled

THE smoothly virile and devilishly handsome actor Clive Owen, 47, is known for his broody, smouldering glances and way of manning a gun onscreen. He made his name in British TV prime-time crime drama Chancer playing the waggish Stephen Crane.

It wasn't until eight years later that he finally came to Hollywood's attention, following his performance in Croupier, in which he played an aspiring South African writer turned blackjack dealer. His CV is littered with elegant performances on both screen and stage.

He was born in Coventry but lives in London with his two daughters and wife, actress Sarah-Jane Fenton, whom he met while she was playing Juliet on stage to his star-cross'd Romeo.
His latest film is the SAS thriller, Killer Elite.

I'm not known for my light and charming roles. I have an appetite for dark roles such as Spike in Killer Elite. I don't find going to uncomfortable places to be uncomfortable. It is important I stay interested in my work and don't cop out.

I don't want to do work that shows family life in a warm, cosy bubble. Real families are volatile. I know mine is. Parenting is a huge part of my life.

I've always enjoyed being a hands-on father and own up to doing the washing up when I'm home.
Actors can make a huge mistake by wanting to play heroic roles. I'd much rather people relate to me in a role rather than like me as a screen hero.

I never worry about missed opportunities. As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
You can carry yourself in a certain way and be pretty much able to carry on your life as normally as you can. I don't get recognised, but when I do, they just come up to me and say: "I saw that film you were in. I really didn't like it."

Stardom dismays me. I seek to get better at my job, not better known. I have always done theatre and I think it is a very healthy thing to stop film and go back into the theatre, back to learning lines, doing eight performances a week and getting heckled.

The eyes are the sexiest part of the body. They are what connect us as human beings.
I'm no heart-throb. No amount of moisturiser will soften me up, I don't think.
When I was 10 or 11, I played the Artful Dodger in a school production of Oliver. I feel like I've been playing a variation on the same role ever since.

I was very uncomfortable being prime-time TV fodder in Chancer. Suddenly there were posters of my face on the tube. I was young and I handled it badly. I've never wanted fame, as such.
I'm a real Armani fan. I really love their clothes. In the old days I was the kind of guy who blew whatever I had on Armani clothes. Now they send me stuff for free.

I need to keep my life intact. Whatever I'm doing, my real life is my wife and our two daughters, Hannah and Eve. I have a very settled family life, doing things like gardening and laughing and tasting cheeses. To have a life outside the industry is the most important thing in the world.

My childhood was old-fashioned working-class "rough". I know how good my life is now. -

©Marianne Gray

l Killer Elite opens on October 21.

James McAvoy - The Conspirators

Exclusive Clip from The Conspirator

October 20, 2011 By Jon Lyus 

Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator is out on DVD and Blu-ray on the 24th of October and we’ve been given a clip from the film to share with you.
Redford has assembled an excellent cast for the film, which had a decent, if a little short lived, theatrical release earlier in the year and the extras on the home entertainment formats include a commentary from the director as well as some historical accompaniaments to give you a little of the back story to the film.

James McAvoy​ and Robin Wright lead the cast, telling a story of the fallout of the assassinatin of Abraham Lincoln. Justin Long​, Evan Rachel Wood , Tom Wilkinson , Alexis Bledel , Johnny Simmons, Toby Kebbell , Kevin Kline and Danny Huston​ are in support.
Here’s a synopsis to further advise,

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln ’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Wright), 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive

Exclusive clip from The Conspirators