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| British Film Forever |
Last year, Kate gave some interviews to a one season series called "British Film Forever". This series had altogether 7 episodes, and Kate participated in 4 of them.
From Gandhi, Four Weddings And A Funeral, to Brief Encounter and Bend It Like Beckham, Britain has been a major player in world cinema for over 100 years and continues to produce award-winning talent.
The Summer Of British Film on BBC Two is a season dedicated to home grown cinema, encompassing all genres from thriller and comedy to the kitchen sink drama.
This unique television event celebrates the rich heritage of British film and has at its centrepiece British Film Forever a seven-part primetime series for BBC Two.
Jessica Hynes (Nee Stevenson, Shaun Of The Dead) guides us through the series examining British film by genre, with highlights from over 200 exclusive interviews from leading actors and directors including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Ewan McGregor, Gurinder Chadha and Richard Curtis.
The series was made with the support of the British Film Institute and the UK Film Council.
Here are the episodes Kate had a part in:
Episode 1: Guns, Gangsters and Getaways: The Story of the British Crime Thriller
Episode 2: Longing, Loving and Leg-Overs: The Story of British Romance
Episode 4: Corsets, Cleavage and Country Houses: The Story of British Costume Drama
Episode 7: Sauce, Satire and Silliness: The Story of British Comedy
And of course, here on KWF you can see the screen captures and watch all of those!
   
   
   
   
GALLERY LINKS:
British Film Forever: Episode 1
British Film Forever: Episode 2
British Film Forever: Episode 4
British Film Forever: Episode 7
VIDEO LINKS:
British Film Forever: Episode 1 (28 July 2007)
British Film Forever: Episode 2 (4 August 2007)
British Film Forever: Episode 4 (18 August 2007)
British Film Forever: Episode 7 (8 September 2007)
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| Kate and Leo reunited |
Kate Winslet could be heading for her sixth Oscar nomination with the first film she has made with husband Sam Mendes, which reunites the actress with her Titanic leading man Leonardo DiCaprio.
The two star as a Fifties couple in Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates's literary classic.
Oscar contenders will be announced in January.
There's a chance of a further nomination for Stephen Daldry's movie The Reader, but shooting on that picture was completed just a few weeks ago and it may not be ready for release this year.
Daldry is screening a rough cut of film footage for producers Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin in New York next week, and a decision will be made then as to whether Daldry will speed up the finishing touches.
Daldry is pretty busy with rehearsals for the $18 million Broadway production of Billy Elliot, and The Reader is a story of great sensitivity Kate plays a former German prison camp officer who, after the war, has a romance with a teenage schoolboy.
So there's a sense that Daldry might want to take his time over editing, adding the score and so on.
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will, I'm sure, still love Kate's work in 2010.
Also, if The Reader were to open in time for consideration for the Academy Awards, Kate would end up running against herself in a year where there's formidable competition from other quarters.
Meryl Streep is sure to be a best actress contender for the movie Doubt.
Then there's Cate Blanchett for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Nicole Kidman for Australia.
Kate's fellow Brits, Keira Knightley (The Duchess), Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long) and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) are also possible contenders.
Kate was in contention for the best actress Oscar statuette for Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Little Children.
She was also in the best supporting actress category for 1995's Sense And Sensibility.
Source: Daily Mail
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| Interview: Luc Jacquet on The Fox and the Child |
Director Luc Jacquet came to prominence in 2005 with the Oscar winning documentary The March of the Penguins, a surprise hit which also won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
His latest film is called The Fox and the Child which is the charming story of the relationship between a young girl (Bertille Noλl-Bruneau) and the wild fox she befriends. It is narrated by Kate Winslet. I spoke to Luc recently about the film and you can listen to the interview here: AUDIO LINKS:  Luc Jacquet on The Fox and The Child You can also watch the trailer here:
VIDEO LINKS: The Fox and the Child: Trailer The Fox and the Child opens in UK cinemas this Friday
Many thanks to Ambrose Heron for contacting us with this info!
Source: FILMdetail
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| Woody Allen: "Scarlett was an accident" |
Woody Allen has won three Oscars and been nominated 21 times but he says he still can't get out of clarinet practice. The New Yorker can't always get out of his hometown either, but he's been making exceptions to shoot movies.
The latest is the romantic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona which opens in North America next Friday. In the movie, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall play women on vacation in Barcelona who become embroiled in the lives of an artist (Javier Bardem) and his ex-wife (Penelope Cruz). The early consensus is that the movie is a return to Woody Allen form. Still, Allen's never been one to pay attention to judgments the self-confessed neurotic is too busy judging himself. So here is Allen on Allen.
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| Scarlett Johansson Woody's muse Scarlett should have been Winslet |
Finding a new muse in Scarlett Johansson was a happy accident for filmmaker Woody Allen because he was planning to make movies with Brit Kate Winslet.
The revered director had cast Titanic star Winslet in Match Point, but the actress had to pull out to spend more time with her kids so Allen turned to Johansson.
The odd couple has gone on to make three films together, including new movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Allen says, "I had Kate Winslet right up to the last week in pre-production. Then she said she couldn't do the picture because she had worked continually and had spent no time with her child.
"I forgave her and understood that completely but I didn't know Scarlett from a hole in the wall. I thought she was too young; she was only 19 years old at the time.
"But I was in a hole and had to get someone fairly quickly. I knew Scarlett was a great actress and a beauty but I didn't know if she was really what I had written. I hired her and became totally captivated by her."
Allen admits the Lost In Translation star has become his latest muse, following in the footsteps of actresses and ex-lovers Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.
He adds, "I would always call her, as I did with Diane and Mia for years. Mia was a wonderful actress and she never let me down. The same would be true with Scarlett."
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| Capability Kate: How Ms Winslet combines motherhood and movie making |
As well as being a five-time Oscar nominee, Kate Winslet is also a working mother with many of the everyday worries we all recognize.
And she has a refreshingly down-to-earth take on her image in fact, she's on a crusade to make women everywhere feel better about their bodies, beginning with her six-year-old daughter
Kate Winslet, firmly established as the leading British screen actress of her generation thanks to five Oscar nominations and a string of film successes, has always striven to retain the image of a down-to-earth working mother, with day-to-day concerns no different from the rest of us.
Life with her director husband of four years, Sam Mendes, and her children Mia, six (by her first husband) and Joe, three, may seem impossibly glamorous, and their homes - a New York apartment and a Cotswold manor house - are certainly a world away from the terraced house in Reading where she grew up.
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| Queen of the World |
Her spirits sank after her Titanic success, but now a soaring Kate Winslet is
Queen of the World
For millions of people, Kate Winslet will forever be the woman standing on the bow of the Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, her arms spread in exultation. But even as she was starring in one of the big screen's greatest love stories and Titanic was becoming the most popular movie in history Winslet was suffering through a personal romantic tragedy that would change her life.
“Looking back, I see what I was dealing with when Titanic came out", Winslet says. "I had a lot of pain, and I was confused about who I was."
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| Welt magazine interview - June 25, 2007 |
Thanks loads to Ani for sending us the translation for this interview!
Which woman doesn't have a problem with her figure?
The 5 Oscar nominations reveal that Kate Winslet is, without any doubt, an extraordinary actress. The conversation about children, diets and wrong role-models shows: First of all she's an extraordinary woman.
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| Interview: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson |
In Little Children, director Todd Field's second feature (he garnered Oscar nominations with his debut In The Bedroom), the leads Kate Winslet (Sarah) and Patrick Wilson (Brad) grapple with loneliness and loss of identity as they wrestle with being parents and unfulfilled adults.
Into the mix enters a third story realm occupied by Larry (a disgraced cop played by Noah Emmerich) and Ronnie (a convicted sex offender played by Jackie Earle Haley); they both intersect with Sarah and Brad as the film arrives at both a disturbing and open-ended conclusion.
Through Little Children, both Winslet and Wilson have had the opportunity to play around with their conventional images associated with them as hot young actors. Both have tackled roles in other films that defy the stereotypes. As a result, the film has achieved considerable support and has been selected as one of the 28 features accepted to the 44th Annual New York Film Festival held at Lincoln Center.
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| L'interview de Kate Winslet en anglais et en intιgrale |
She could have been stuck in the Titanic forever, but Kate Winslet managed to escape and hence the rut that so many actresses of that One Big Role have so often found themselves in. Speaking in a posh English accent (and even a Brooklyn one), the British actress and three-time Oscar nominee tells us more about her latest flick, Little Children, where she stars as Sarah Pierce, a bored housewife who has a steamy affair...
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| A home girl at heart |
Kate Winslet makes a point of forgoing the usual pampering in the make-up chair for our interview in the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. She is dressed in a simple black cardigan, with wisps of her champagne-blonde hair escaping her ponytail. She is Ordinary Kate, down-to-earth, and accessible.
Yet she is one of our most celebrated actresses, last week nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Little Children. Even though this is her fifth nomination, she still isn't used to the thrill of hearing her name read out.
"It is incredible to get an Academy nomination", she says. "It's one of the best things that has happened to me. You never as an actor think that's going to happen. It genuinely means a lot to me."
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| Kate's reactions to the Oscar nomination |
"I've been laughing, crying, hollering, whooping and leaping around", Little Children star Kate Winslet said.
"My husband, Sam [Mendes], called me. He's in London, I'm in New York. I had just dropped my daughter at school and I was taking my son. There was some serious fist pumping, pounding the ceiling of the car."
"This isn't supposed to happen to a girl who grew up in a tiny town. I was told the only way I'd have a career as an actress would be if I could settle for playing fat girls."
And what did Winslet have to say about co-star Jackie Earle Haley's nod?
"It's not just a whole new career, it's a whole new life. It's gonna change him and his self esteem."
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| Little Children - Kate Winslet interview |
Interview by Rob Carnevale
Kate Winslet talks about the challenges of making Little Children, how becoming a mother changed her life and why she never reads her own reviews...
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| "It's just wonderful" |
Kate Winslet is no stranger to best actress nominations, with more than a dozen under her rather attractive belt.
But despite being a veteran when it comes to awards ceremonies, she is still thrilled at a fourth Golden Globe nomination.
"I can't tell you how happy I feel about this, it's just so, so great", she gushes over the nod for her new film Little Children.
"It's just wonderful. It still feels like the first time it has happened. I was genuinely surprised; you can never count your chickens."
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| Change good as a holiday |
At a time when most of her contemporary Hollywood stars would be eager to capitalize on the exposure of film successes, Kate Winslet has gone to ground.
After doing four films back to back, the British actor is a stay-at-home mum. Her most pressing concern is cooking a hearty soup for her brood, which includes award-winning director husband Sam Mendes, daughter Mia, 6, and son Joe, 3.
But this year-long break from shooting films is anything but a holiday for the New York-based multiple Oscar nominee.
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| Kate Winslet vanishes into her roles |
Sarah Pierce, the central figure in Little Children is a mess. It goes beyond her uncombed hair, baggy overalls and rat's-nest purse. She's a smart woman who has somehow ended up in a dumb life that doesn't feel like it belongs to her. In this she seems very different from the famously grounded Kate Winslet, who plays her in the Todd Field film of Tom Perrotta's story of suburbia and its discontents.
Ms. Winslet, whose finely wrought performance has already won her a Golden Globe nomination and could well land her on this year’s Oscar ballot, deliberately rejected a dumb life after Titanic made her a worldwide celebrity at 22. She refused to become a Hollywood clichι, embarking instead on a decade of playing chewy, interesting parts in a series of films ranging from offbeat indies like Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke to prestige projects like Iris and Quills She was the flaky, bewitching Clementine in Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and the teary, overwrought Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. She has mastered the role of glamorous yet gracious luminary, dolling up for the red carpet and dishing on the talk shows with what appears to be genuine relish.
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| A chat with actress Kate Winslet about her role in 'Little Children' |
SARAH IS definitely the hardest part I've ever had to play!" says the beautiful Kate Winslet.
I met this glamorous creature on 14th Street in the Balducci grocery that now inhabits a former bank. She arrived with a stroller attached, as if part of her outfit; struggled upstairs with it. While we looked down on people buying cheese and fresh veggies, we talked about her latest movie.
In Little Children, directed by Todd Fields, Kate plays a disaffected adulterous suburban wife who doesn't much relate to her little girl or her porn-addicted husband and falls for a neighbor who is a good-looking stay-at-home dad.
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