Colin Firth News Archives

Fashion designer Tom Ford establishes himself as a filmmaker to celebrate from the very first sequence of his artfully constructed, heartfelt adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man .

Actor Colin Firth will be feted with the Outstanding Performance of the Year Award during the silver anniversary of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival early next year.

The world premiere of Jasim, a film on the rise to power and prominence of the founder and first ruler of modern Qatar, Sheikh Jasim bin Mohamed bin Thani, will be held tomorrow at 4pm as part of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival at the Museum of Islamic Art .

The actor will be recognized for his role in Tom Ford's Toronto - 09 feature, "A Single Man," which the Weinstein Company picked up in September.

The Pop Five spotlights readers' top five lists. Today's submission comes from Susannah H., aka susannahjo, in Fishers, Ind.: I was just called "nerdy" in my company's break room, simply for admitting that I've read Harry Potter more times than I can count.

Imaginative art and set decoration, lively costumes, witty dialogue, and nifty special effects are all backdrop to Glenn Close's tour de force as Cruella De Vil.

The death of the costume drama on the BBC has been declared before. By the BBC. In the Eighties the Corporation decided that the public no longer had an appetite for it, and barely made any, denying a generation adaptations of the classics.

The BBC's lavish new adaptation of Emma has seen its ratings slide. Jonathan Brown ponders the future of bonnets-and-breeches TV BBC Romola Garai as Emma in the BBC's latest period drama enlarge Jane Austen was in little doubt about the likeability of the eponymous character of her penultimate novel Emma.

First lady Michelle Obama will be serving up answers on "The Jay Leno Show." NBC said Monday that Mrs.

Just let me get this out of my system: phwooooar! Not since Colin Firth stepped dripping from the lake in Pride and Prejudice has upper-class British repression been so sexy.

NANNY McPHEE - She's no Mary Poppins, but Nanny McPhee manages to get the job done.

She's no Mary Poppins, but Nanny McPhee manages to get the job done. Emma Thompson stars as the ugly yet efficient governess who swoops in to help a widower corral his seven children.

In the tradition of lowbrow, wacky British comedies comes St. Trinian's, a reworking and update of the 1954 worldwide hit The Belles of St.

Shenanigans ensue when a jilted firefighter seeks revenge on relationship expert and talk show host, Dr.

A New Kind Of Lesson Plan: Polly and her female fellows set out to save St. Trinian's, widely known as the most unruly school in England, from bankruptcy - with a scheme to rob London's National Gallery.

I don't return my library books on time. I can hear you gasping in horror right now, so let me just say that until recently I was an upright citizen, regularly trundling in with my slew of loaned items.

Watching Atom Egoyan's attempt at film noir on DVD is like watching a visual spectacle through the glasses of an 80-year-old. It's all a bit hazy.