Projects matching: Joe Wright

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Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

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Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister in the midst of World War II and faces make-or-break moment of truth.
Days into his new role in 1940, as Britain was getting pounded and on the verge of losing to Germany, Winston Churchill was under pressure to make a deal with Hitler that would have established Britain as a puppet state of the Third Reich. His army stranded in Dunkirk, Churchill instead summoned the courage to fight on.
This is the story of Churchill's decisions, and the actions and immortal speeches in those critical days that defined his place in history and changed the destiny of the world.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Gala Presentations

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode is a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
LFF presents three episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: Nosedive, San Junipero and Shut Up and Dance
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - LFF Connects Television - Events Strand

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.
Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us.
TIFF presents two episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Primetime - World premiere

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One man’s life unravels in a tension-fuelled ninety minute race against time. Ivan Locke has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line. Once Ivan’s journey has begun, there will be no going back.

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Set in late-19th Century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

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A young boy is isolated by grief, and his father isn't coping. He seeks solace in his memories, and finds comfort from a strange woman he meets by chance in the park.

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The film opens in England, on the hottest day of the summer of 1935. Thirteen year old Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend, the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid imagination. Through a series of catastropic misunderstandings which take place that day, the lives of Briony, her sister and her sister's newfound lover Robbie Turner - who is also the housekeeper's son - will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach, becoming victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt of which will colour her entire life.

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A sumptuous new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel following the adventures of the five Bennet sisters, including the strong-willed Lizzie, the serene and beautiful Jane, and Lydia, the youngest and most impetuous, and their attempts to find husbands.

When a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. But once Lizzie meets the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy, what could seem like a match made in heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of the sexes ever portrayed in literature and on screen.

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Mum takes her two girls to Brighton apparently on a day trip to see her brother Ray and his new girlfriend Arlene, but really in a bid to escape her violent husband.

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Old man Ralph sits with his glass eye and wooden leg ranting at the TV. Finding himself no longer able to masturbate, he can see no point in going on and decides to go out with a bang. A local drugs dealer supplies him with a tab of acid which he puts together with a bottle of aspirins and waits to see what will happen. The explosive ending leaves us in no doubt that the plan has worked, but with unexpected consequences.

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A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.life.