Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2014
Gone Girl Bestseller
]From article]
Gillian Flynn is having a good month. In the past fortnight, the 43-year-old from Missouri has joined JK Rowling and Dan Brown on the official list of the world’s top 20 highest-earning authors, propelled there by the phenomenal global success of her psychological thriller Gone Girl.
And tomorrow evening in New York, the film version of the book, which chronicles the fall-out when an unhappily married woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, gets its world premiere. It is scripted by Flynn herself, and directed by a Hollywood heavyweight, David Fincher.
But does Fincher’s film do justice to every riveting page of Flynn’s book? It can be a precarious business adapting a wildly successful novel for the silver screen. Gone With The Wind and The Godfather didn’t do too badly years ago, nor, more recently, did the franchises unleashed by The Lord Of The Rings and the Harry Potter books.
[. . .]
But the author Gillian Flynn — a fan since girlhood of Alfred Hitchcock’s unsettling masterpiece Psycho — didn’t want only to hear stories of how people were so in thrall to her book that they shut themselves off from the outside world. She wanted evidence that it was messing with their heads and making them look at their own spouses through new, suspicious eyes.
And she got that evidence from her own cousin who, having read the book, reported that when her husband had suggested taking her away on a luxurious holiday, her first thought was that perhaps he was plotting to murder her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2768755/Watch-film-never-look-half-way-The-darkly-gripping-novel-s-sold-6-million-copies-Now-Gone-Girl-s-hit-big-screen.html
Watch this film and you will never look at your other half the same way again: The darkly-gripping novel's sold 6 million copies. Now Gone Girl's hit the big screen
By BRIAN VINER, FILM CRITIC FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EST, 24 September 2014 | UPDATED: 19:28 EST, 24 September 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Film Festival Arlington, MA October 2014
MAD IN
Dear friend of Mad in America,
From October 9th through 12th, 2014, Mad in America will be hosting its first International Film Festival at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. Our mission is to foster the pursuit of social justice and human rights by bringing together an international collective of voices, perspectives, and artistic presentations that challenge the current mental health system and explore alternative understandings of "mental illness."
The Festival Line-up
We have confirmed participants coming from across the United States, England, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, and Canada, all of whom share a commitment to mental health alternatives. We are pleased to be bringing Elizabeth Kenny’s highly acclaimed one-woman play, SICK, to our Festival, and we will have a live musical performance from Dylan Tighe, an up-and-coming Irish singer-songwriter who’s written an album about his experiences of conventional psychiatric treatment. Our days will be full of films, speakers, and panels, and we will have an opening night cocktail party, as well as a closing night Gala dinner and Awards Ceremony with music, great food, and lots of fun.
Tickets now on sale!
Tickets are now available for purchase through our website here, and we are offering great Early Bird prices through July 31st. Available for purchase will be a four-day Festival Pass for $125, which includes all films, all speakers and panels, all live performances, and all social events, as well as one-day tickets for $30 (a one-day ticket for the full Sunday, including Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony, is $50).
Travel and Lodging
We’ve also posted information on our website about travel and lodging to make it easier for those coming from afar. As the fall is busy tourist season, we encourage you to book your accommodations as early as possible!
Supporting MIA
Since our launch in January 2012, Mad in America has remained a grassroots organization run solely on the donations of our readers and community members, and your generosity has meant a great deal to us. In order to finance this Festival, we are continuing to rely on such grassroots funding. If you would like to support the festival with a donation of any amount, your name will be listed in the Festival program alongside our individual and organization sponsors. If you’d like to become a sponsor, please see our ‘Become a Sponsor’ page for more information.
We intend to use a part of your donations to set up a scholarship fund for those who would like to attend the festival, but are unable to do so because of the expense. We will award the scholarships through a lottery program. Stay updated, and spread the word!
To keep apprised of announcements, updates, and information about this exciting four-day event, you can sign up for our newsletter. Please share news of Mad in America’s International Film Festival with your community, and we hope to see you in Arlington this October!
Sincerely,
Laura Delano
Festival Organizer
Mad in America's International Film Festival
October 9th-12th, 2014
Regent Theatre, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
www.MadinAmericaInternationalFilmFestival.com
www.MadinAmerica.com
AMERICA’s
International Film Festival
October 9th - 12th 2014
Regent Theatre
Arlington, MA USA
www.MadInAmericaInternationalFilmFestival.com
Dear friend of Mad in America,
From October 9th through 12th, 2014, Mad in America will be hosting its first International Film Festival at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. Our mission is to foster the pursuit of social justice and human rights by bringing together an international collective of voices, perspectives, and artistic presentations that challenge the current mental health system and explore alternative understandings of "mental illness."
The Festival Line-up
We have confirmed participants coming from across the United States, England, Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, and Canada, all of whom share a commitment to mental health alternatives. We are pleased to be bringing Elizabeth Kenny’s highly acclaimed one-woman play, SICK, to our Festival, and we will have a live musical performance from Dylan Tighe, an up-and-coming Irish singer-songwriter who’s written an album about his experiences of conventional psychiatric treatment. Our days will be full of films, speakers, and panels, and we will have an opening night cocktail party, as well as a closing night Gala dinner and Awards Ceremony with music, great food, and lots of fun.
Tickets now on sale!
Tickets are now available for purchase through our website here, and we are offering great Early Bird prices through July 31st. Available for purchase will be a four-day Festival Pass for $125, which includes all films, all speakers and panels, all live performances, and all social events, as well as one-day tickets for $30 (a one-day ticket for the full Sunday, including Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony, is $50).
Travel and Lodging
We’ve also posted information on our website about travel and lodging to make it easier for those coming from afar. As the fall is busy tourist season, we encourage you to book your accommodations as early as possible!
Supporting MIA
Since our launch in January 2012, Mad in America has remained a grassroots organization run solely on the donations of our readers and community members, and your generosity has meant a great deal to us. In order to finance this Festival, we are continuing to rely on such grassroots funding. If you would like to support the festival with a donation of any amount, your name will be listed in the Festival program alongside our individual and organization sponsors. If you’d like to become a sponsor, please see our ‘Become a Sponsor’ page for more information.
We intend to use a part of your donations to set up a scholarship fund for those who would like to attend the festival, but are unable to do so because of the expense. We will award the scholarships through a lottery program. Stay updated, and spread the word!
To keep apprised of announcements, updates, and information about this exciting four-day event, you can sign up for our newsletter. Please share news of Mad in America’s International Film Festival with your community, and we hope to see you in Arlington this October!
Sincerely,
Laura Delano
Festival Organizer
Mad in America's International Film Festival
October 9th-12th, 2014
Regent Theatre, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
www.MadinAmericaInternationalFilmFestival.com
www.MadinAmerica.com
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