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Michael Hoffman at THE LAST STATION

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Michael Hoffman at THE LAST STATION

Idealism and living those ideals in the real world is only one of the intriguing issues that screenwriter/director Michael Hoffman wrestled with in adapting THE LAST STATION from the book by Jay Parini to the screen. When I talked to Michael Hoffman on January 6, 2010, he explained how he used Anton Checkov to get… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Christopher Plummer, cinema, director, drama, Helen Mirren, hero worship, idealism, James McAvoy, Leo Tolstoy, Michael Hoffman, movie, narrative, novelists, Paul Giamatti, Sofya Tolstoy, writer

Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills are BEGINNERS

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Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills are BEGINNERS

BEGINNERS is based on writer/director Mike Mills’ experience of having his father come out as gay when he became a widower after forty years of marriage. The film is fictionalized, the father is Hal, played by Christopher Plummer, the son is Oliver, played by McGregor, as far as the details go, but is emotionally true… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, BEGINNERS, Christopher Plummer, director, drama, emotional truth, Ewan McGregor, father-son relationship, Mike Mills, narrative, terrier, writer

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