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roseshavethoughts · 13 hours

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Their Finest (2016)

Their Finest (2016) #Review

Synopsis – When the British ministry plans to release propaganda films during a war, Catrin is hired as a scriptwriter. She along with the film’s crew makes a film. Director- Lone Scherfig. Starring- Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin Genre- War | Romance | Drama Released – 2016 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “Their Finest” is a cinematic gem that seamlessly weaves together elements of…

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years

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Their Finest (Lone Scherfig, 2016).

#their finest (2016)#lone scherfig #gaby chiappe #lissa evans #gemma arterton #bill nighy #sebastian blenkov #lucia zucchetti #alice normington #liz griffiths #su mejor historia #su mejor historia (2016)

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jerichopalms · 3 years

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#114: Misbehaviour (2020, dir. by Philippa Lowthorpe)

#misbehaviour #movies of 2021 #movie posters #philippa lowthorpe #rebecca frayne #gaby chiappe #you go girl pass that bechdel test #52 weeks of women #52 films by women #directed by women #women directors #female directors #women screenwriters #female screenwriters

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filmreviewonline · 3 years

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The Beast Must Die - Not the Peter Cushing one but new AMC / BritBox series

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The Beast Must Die - Not the Peter Cushing one but new AMC / BritBox series

AMC has this original five-part revenge thriller The Beast Must Die debuting sometime this spring 2021. It’s a revenge thriller which tells the story of a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she believes killed her son.

The thriller is the first drama to shoot specifically for BritBox UK. It therefore will also be available on that streaming channel sometime in 2021.

This is not The Beast Must Die from 1974 which starred Peter Cushing! It’s actually based on the novel by Nicholas Blake, the pen name of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis CBE!

Director & Screenwriter

Dome Karukoski directed the series from a screenwriter by Gaby Chiappe.

Gaby explains, “What captured me when I read the novel was the combination of a thriller pulse and complex, nuanced characters”.

Dome reveals that, “Gaby tricked me. I never anticipated to get so engaged with this evocative vendetta. Suddenly The Beast Must Die became an obsession for me”.

He goes on to say, “I find the story intriguing as to whether the beast is the person we want to take revenge upon or if the beast is within us – one who wants to replace grief with hate”.

The production team used the UK 2020 national lockdown to refine the scripts and narrative. Then the series was filmed, safely, for eleven weeks around the UK’s Isle of Wight.

The Beast Must Die Cast & Producers

The cast of the five episodes include:-

Bafta, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men)

Cush Jumbo OBE (The Good Wife, The Good Fight)

Billy Howle (MotherFatherSon, On Chesil Beach)

and Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Outcast)

Executive Producers are:-

Ed Rubin and Emma Broughton for New Regency

Marina Brackenbury and David Zucker for Scott Free

plus Nathaniel Parker and Gaby Chiapp

This min-series is produced by New Regency Television and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Films.

#Billy Howle #Cecil Day-Lewis #Cush Jumbo #Dome Karukoski #Gaby Chiappe #Jared Harri #Nathaniel Parker #Nicholas Blake #Peter Cushing #The Beast Must Die (1974)#The Beast Must Die (2021 tv)

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fuckyeahfemaleleads · 5 years

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Misbehaviour (2020)

The movie follows the events of the 1970 Miss World competition, which saw the crowning of the first black competitor.

#Misbehaviour #Gugu Mbatha Raw #Keira Knightley #triple #Philippa Lowthorpe #Rebecca Frayn #Gaby Chiappe #movie #2020 #2020s #UK

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scenesandscreens · 6 years

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Their Finest (2016)

Director - Lone Scherfig, Cinematography - Sebastian Blenkov

"You and I were given opportunities only because young men are gone. But to turn our back on those opportunities, wouldn't that be giving death dominion over life?"

#scenesandscreens #their finest #lone scherfig #gaby chiappe #gemma arterton #sam claflin #bill nighy #jack huston #helen mccrory #eddie marsden #jake lacy #rachael starling #richard e grant #sebastian blenkov

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femaledirectedfilms · 6 years

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Their Finest (2016) - dir. Lone Scherfig & written by Gaby Chiappe

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milliondollarbaby87 · 3 years

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Misbehaviour (2020) Review

A group of women plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London, coming together with their hatred for it. Wanting better rights for women in the process. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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filmforager · 7 years

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Their Finest: Review

Ladies, Camera, Action

Typically, films about war tend to downplay the contribution made by women, reducing them to damsels in distress or the passive wives back home. However, the opposite is true for Their Finest, a story about the making of a propaganda film that centers on an inspiring, if fabricated, tale of female courage in the midst of war. While perhaps too light to truly last in the memory, this charming, often hilarious film is not without purpose, showing how the artistic license of cinema can offer a fantastic escape from the dark realities of life.

Drawn from the novel ‘Their Finest Hour and a Half‘ by Lissa Evans, this is set during the Second World War in 1940s Britain, where the German blitzkrieg campaign has reduced much of London to rubble, and forced scared civilians to run for shelter. Looking to propaganda films to raise morale for the nation, the British ministry recruits promising cartoonist Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) to help write a war film with a more feminist bent, drawing women and men alike. Catrin’s entry into a male-dominated film industry is amusingly played, as her creative voice threatens to be stifled amid casual gender prejudices (she’s immediately told that she’ll be paid less than her male counterparts), and a husband (Jack Huston) who puts her dreams second to his unlikely ambitions as an artist.

Despite some potentially dark subject matter, Their Finest is nothing if not entertaining. Breezily written by Gaby Chiappe, director Lone Scherfig (The Riot Club, One Day) has made a film that explores ideas of war, loss and gender politics in a fun and fruitful way, without ever trivializing their significance. Using the eyewitness account of twin sisters who played a sketchy role in rescuing British soldiers in Dunkirk, Catrin strives for female representation amongst her male colleagues, particularly a snarky fellow writer (played with just enough likeability by Sam Claflin). Catrin’s plight is keenly brought to life by Arterton’s wide-eyed but strong-willed performance, which represents a rare source of sanity amid what turns into a circus-like production.

At its best, Their Finest is a broad and often absurd comedy that takes in a series of colorful characters and amusing complications. As it soon becomes clear that the story of the twins isn’t entirely true, Catrin and her colleagues use their imaginations to create a story for multiple audiences, resulting in a truly improbable story of courage under fire. Hilariously, in a bid to gain American military support, they have to find a role for an American Air Force soldier (Jake Lacy) whose acting abilities are ghastly to say the least. The standout performance is from Bill Nighy as an egotistic, fading actor who delights in reciting his most famous lines, but resents the idea of playing the aged, clumsy uncle of the picture. Nighy is clearly having a ball here, and it’s also a lot of fun seeing this pompous character being cut down by a new, pragmatic agent (Helen McCrory).

Inevitably, this style of filming may come across too irreverent for some, and results in a few awkward tonal shifts (comedic scenes suddenly interrupted by horrific bombing attacks). A romantic subplot between Arterton and Claflin also feels a bit predictable and unnecessary within the scheme of the film’s bigger ideas. Yet, Scherfig should be praised for resisting the urge to round the film off with a neat, happy ending. Like the film within the film, Their Finest draws on humor and levity in a tactful, clever way, showing how cinema can offer a reprieve during difficult times. The resulting film may not quite be movie magic, but it often comes close.

Light-hearted but thoroughly compelling, Their Finest is a crowd-pleasing tale about the power of film in the face of war and heartbreak, offering both winning comic moments and gentle gender politics.

★★★

#their finest #jack huston #gemma arterton #lone scherfig #sam claflin #helen mccrory #gaby chiappe #blitzkrieg #world war 2 #jake lacy #bill nighy #dunkirk #3 stars #review

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comiccrusaders · 7 years

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MOVIE REVIEW: Their Finest

It’s 1940 England, the War is raging across Europe and America has yet to enter the fray. A young welsh girl has come to London and her talent for writing female characters in comic strips is noticed by the propaganda men. They want her to write short cinematic films to inspire the women of England to join in the effort in any way that they can. When a chance comes along to turn a real life…

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#Bill Nighy #Gaby Chiappe #Gemma Arterton #Lissa Evans #Lone Scherfig #Sam Claflin

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badgaymovies · 7 years

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Their Finest

BBBB.5 (out of 5) Gemma Arterton rules this tribute to the spirit of British filmmaking and the spirit of Britain itself during World War II. She plays a newspaper copy editor who is advanced to script doctor when the Ministry of Information is looking to bolster the war effort through cinema but needs women to write the “mush” (women’s dialogue in propagandistic motion pictures). When she…

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sesiondemadrugada · 6 years

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Their Finest (Lone Scherfig, 2016).

#their finest (2016)#lone scherfig #gaby chiappe #lissa evans #their finest hour and a half #gemma arterton #sam claflin #sebastian blenkov #lucia zucchetti #alice normington #liz griffiths #their finest #su mejor historia

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pigballoon · 7 years

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Their Finest

(Lone Scherfig, 2017)

For most of its two hour run time, I feel like Lone Scherfig’s latest directorial effort is one of those movies that you sort of enjoy in spite of itself. It’s gorgeously produced, it’s charming as all hell, it moves along briskly, and it’s cast all light up the screen. One of the best things you can say about the whole enterprise is that Scherfig, working from a screenplay by Gaby Chiappe (based on a novel by Lissa Evans), keeps the movies tone so pitch perfect.

Their Finest is a crowd pleaser of a movie set during the middle of a war in a city under siege. That can be a difficult balance to get right but, but never at any point during its efforts to entertain you does this movie lose sight of the toll being taken upon the world in which these characters find themselves, and at the same time never does their making that reality clear impede attempts to play to the masses.

Still, it is ultimately the movies blending of these two sides of its nature that gives it the kick in the final act that significantly elevates the entire thing. For Their Finest’s primary issue for me was how it deals with the problem of being a movie based on a true story of people making a movie based on a true story, and all the inevitable complications that entails. Still, I think Chiappe’s screenplay is clever enough, and Scherfig’s direction amusingly knowing enough to just about pull it off. Their narrative is strong enough to keep you hooked through these difficult moments till they’re ready to unleash their masterstroke.

It is ultimately quite a brilliant stroke of storytelling genius, built on the back of the logic unleashed in an earlier scene wonderfully played by Sam Claflin, they nail you with a twist that knocks the entire movie off its axis, completing the meta journey they’ve been stringing you along on for about an hour and a half in just about the only way that could ensure the movies credibility, and make it so much more than just a good time at the movies.

Their Finest is ultimately a film about films, about filmmaking, and it’s well written enough to explore and encompass differing points of view within itself, making it a beautifully rounded experience. It is a movie that acknowledges the magic and power of the medium in even our darkest hours, while also one entirely clued up on the truth out of which cinematic bleakness can be born.

And as already covered, if none of that underlying stuff does it for you, then the eternally magical Gemma Arterton, the inevitably unforgettable Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Rachel Stirling, Jack Huston, the aforementioned Sam Claflin, the underused Richard E. Grant, and even more underused, but all too glorious Jeremy Irons should all ensure that this is a movie from which moments will linger in the memory long after you see it. It masquerades as fluff, but there’s far too much going on underneath for it to be so easily categorized and dismissed. It is ultimately probably one of the most devilishly, cleverly constructed films we’ll see this year. Lone Scherfig’s love affair with this little island continues, and finally well and truly hits the spot.

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bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews · 7 years

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One Mann's Movies Film Review: Their Finest (2017).

One Mann's Movies Film Review - Their Finest (2017). FFFF.

Keep Calm and Carry on Writing.

In a well-mined category, “Their Finest” is a World War 2 comedy/drama telling a tale I haven’t seen told before: the story behind the British Ministry of Information and their drive to produce propaganda films that support morale and promote positive messages in a time of national crisis. For it is 1940 and London is under nightly attack by the Luftwaffe during…

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reviewsphere · 7 years

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Their Finest (2017)

FILM REVIEW: Their Finest (2017) @theirfinest

Fictional screenwriter Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) said of film: it is real life with all the boring bits cut out. Unfortunately Gaby Chiappe, the real-life screenwriter behind scores of television dramas and soap operas such as Shetland, Eastenders and Casualty who makes her feature debut with the ironically entitled Their Finest, fails to take heed of her own advice.

For after a promising first…

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#Bill Nighy #Gaby Chiappe #Gemma Arterton #Lissa Evans #Lone Scherfig #Sam Claflin

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flickfeast · 7 years

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Their Finest (2016)

#TheirFinest starring #GemmaArterton & #BillNighy is in cinemas on Friday. Check out our review

The latest adaptation by Danish director Lone Scherfig, Their Finest is set in 1940s London during the Second World War. In order to boost morale, the British Ministry hires Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) as a screenwriter to give their propaganda films a feminine touch. Her quick wit and talent doesn’t go unnoticed by her peers, including cynical screenwriter Buckley (Sam Clalfin), and the two…

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#Bill Nighy #Gaby Chiappe #Gemma Arterton #Lissa Evans #Lone Scherfig #sam claflin #Their Finest #Their Finest Hour and Half

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