Projects matching: Kenneth Branagh

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A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival - Gala Presentation - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Gala

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Based on the book 'Lost Lives', which records every single death and its circumstances since the beginning of the modern conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, this heartfelt documentary is a cinematic homage to those, from all sides, who lost their lives. Powerfully narrated by famous Irish and Northern Irish actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Brendan Gleeson, Roma Downey, Liam Neeson, Bríd Brennan and Stephen Rea, the film weaves archive footage with recordings of family and friends responding to the devastating news of the death of loved ones. A score performed by the Ulster Orchestra and striking cinematography complete this elegiac piece. The last entry in the book is Lyra McKee, a journalist who was fatally shot in 2019 – an essential reminder that peace can be a fragile process.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand - World premiere

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In the early months of the Second World War Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated by sea across the English Channel during a fierce battle in World War II.
Director Christopher Nolan weaves a three-stranded tale together over the course of one week on land, one day at sea and one hour in the air.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Event - IMAX 50th Anniversary Screening

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The story of Cinderella follows the fortunes of young Ella whose father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. When Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel stepmother and stepsisters... But, when the Palace sends out an open invitation for all maidens to attend a royal ball, might her fortunes begin to change? Will she go to the ball? Well, as in all good fairy tales, help is at hand as a kindly beggar woman steps forward, armed with a pumpkin and a few mice, and changes her life forever.
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

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Recently expelled from school, Carl has been sent by his jet-set mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an eclectic crew of rock 'n' roll DJ's. They are led by The Count, big, brash, American, a god of the airwaves, and totally in love with the music. He's faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave, Simon, Midnight Mark, Wee Small Hours Bob, Thick Kevin, On The Hour John, and Angus 'The Nut' Nutsford.

However, pirate stations have come to the attention of an establishment that's out for blood against the drug takers, lawbreakers and bottom-bashing fornications of a once great nation. In an era when the stuffy corridors of power stifle anything approaching youthful exuberance, pirate radio becomes Public Enemy Number 1.

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A millionaire detective novelist matches wits with the unemployed actor who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious, seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences.
 

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One of the world’s best-loved operas, in the hands of director Kenneth Branagh and librettist Stephen Fry, The Magic Flute will be a cinematic experience both epic in scale and visionary in its interpretation. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.

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Kenneth Branagh's imaginative adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy.

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A feature version of Mozart's classic opera, featuring a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fry. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.

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The story concerns life at a spiritual retreat where a man and a woman encounter one another whilst searching for their own inner peace.
 
The values of the house require that they do not speak. Their relationship becomes painfully complicated as a result.
 
Listening is a poignant, bittersweet romance.

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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) has not had a good summer. Not only has he had to put up with his overbearing Aunt Petunia (Fiona Shaw) and Uncle Vernon Dursley (Richard Griffiths) and their dread of his magical abilities, but it seems as if Harry's best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) have forgotten him as they haven't replied to a single one of his letters. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, house-elf Dobby appears in Harry's bedroom and warns him of great danger if he should attempt to return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Dobby is so eager to prevent the young Gryffindor from returning to Hogwarts, he has blocked all of Ron and Hermione's correspondence from reaching Harry. But despite the elf's mischievous efforts, the ever-determined Harry is rescued from the Dursleys' dreary clutches by Ron and his brothers - with the aid of a flying car! - and whisked into the warmth of the Weasley household.
But when Harry and Ron are suspiciously prevented from entering Platform 93/4 and boarding the Hogwarts Express back to school, the boys take emergency action to avoid being late for the new term - only to incur the wrath of Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), who calls for their expulsion after they crash the flying Ford Anglia into Hogwarts' enchanted Whomping Willow tree.
Meanwhile, news of Harry's first year heroism has spread throughout Hogwarts and he finds himself the centre of much unwanted attention. His new fans include Ron's little sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright); first year would-be photographer Colin Creevey (Hugh Mitchell); and most irritatingly, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh).
Outshone only by his own vanity, Lockhart craves the attention that Harry shuns and is all too willing to associate himself with Hogwarts' young hero. But not even Lockhart can offer an explanation for the sinister new terror that is gripping the school. Now all eyes are on Harry, and his friends are beginning to doubt him. Everyone, that is, except Ron, Hermione and fragile young Ginny, whose focus has turned to her mysterious new diary.
But Harry is not about to let his friends down and, with or without the support of Gilderoy Lockhart, he will confront the dark force lurking in his beloved school.