‘Cyrano’ Review: A Dashing Peter Dinklage Offers a Fresh Spin on a Romantic Classic

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe devil is in the details. On March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the government will plow €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) over 2021-25 into a Spain AVS Hub plan –  España Hub Audiovisual de Europa in Spanish.This was aimed, as he explained, to encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in Spain and also power up Spanish film and TV productionAt the San Sebastian Festival on Wednesday, Sept.

Earlier this offseason the Cleveland Cavaliers made a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves to acquire a veteran backup point guard in Ricky Rubio. Rubio has 10 years of NBA experience as well as playing at the highest level in Spain at 16 years old.

Chelsea Handler wants everyone to know that she’s “in love!” The 46-year-old comedian made that declaration on Monday, Sept. 20 in the Instagram caption of a photo that featured Chelsea in Mallorca, Spain. Chelsea didn’t divulge the identity of her mystery beau, but she did make it clear to her fans that she’s completely smitten with him.

Netflix’s The Crown swept the floor at the 2021 Emmy Awards on Sunday as the hit show scooped seven prizes.The programme won the highly-coveted Best Drama Series award, while four of the main cast – Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Tobias Menzies and Josh O’Connor – won individual acting accolades. Olivia Colman’s Best Actress in a Drama Series win sparked a tear-jerking speech as the actress took the chance to remember her late father, who died during the pandemic.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpain’s Mediacrest, one of its fastest-rising independent TV production-distribution houses, has attached Spanish novelist Elvira Lindo to adapt Spanish novel “Nada,” one of the greatest modern classics written after Spain’s Civil War.Lindo is joining Daniel Domenjó, Mediacrest managing director, and Alberto Macías, the company’s head of fiction, to present the drama series makeover at a Conecta Fiction panel this Wednesday, entitled Nada, the

Jamie Lang Spain has selected a high profile trio of films as finalists for the country’s 2021 International Feature Oscar submission.The favorite, at least at this early stage, is Pedro Almodóvar’s “Madres paralelas,” which just saw lead Penelope Cruz take the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

The Queen has been faced with fresh heartache as one of her closest friends, Sir Timothy Colman has died age 91. Sir Timothy, who was the husband of the Queen's first cousin Lady Mary Colman, was a close friend of Her Majesty and regularly visited her at Sandringham.The monarch's friend passed away on Thursday 9 September surrounded by family at his home in Bixley Manor, near Norwich.

Mill Valley Film Festival will open with the California premiere of “Cyrano,” directed by Joe Wright and written by Erica Schmidt, adapted from Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name, which is based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Opening night takes place on Oct. 7 at the Sequoia Theatre and Smith Rafael Film Center.Peter Dinklage stars as Cyrano de Bergerac, who, believing himself to be ugly, feels unworthy of the love of his friend Roxanne (Haley Bennett).

Character actor Tim Blake Nelson may have found his niche in memorable turns recalling the heyday when Westerns ruled the roost in Hollywood. Or at least in Venice, where this film festival once again has shown a fondness for the star in a genre that rarely gets much of a closeup anymore.

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Peter Dinklage admits he had some hesitation in playing Tyrion in Game of Thrones.

TELLURIDE – Since it first debuted in 1897, Edmond Rostand’s original play “Cyrano de Bergerac” has been staged all over the world, adapted into numerous films, and seen its ingenious narrative used in almost every form of modern media. For a new version to triumph, it needs to equal or, hopefully, transcend what came before.

In the wake of documentaries on Britney Spears, Lorena Bobbitt, and other victims of a crueler, “more misogynistic” press machine, the hook to these projects is a prodding at both individual and collective memory. They claim to be recontextualizations, revisions, and rehabilitations, while they are still fundamentally pieced together as amalgamations of fame and identity, with the involvement of the subject or not.

There was something moving and even poignant in watching the MGM Lion logo roaring once again at the opening of director Joe Wright’s new musical adaptation of Cyrano last night at the Telluride Film Festival, where this lovely new telling of the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac had its world premiere. Both MGM and de Bergerac have had a storied history in show business, both still very alive in a series of reincarnations.

Clayton Davis Peter Dinklage’s musical interpretation of the “friend zone” took center stage at the Telluride Film Festival for the world premiere of “Cyrano,” and a leading Oscar contender for best actor appeared to emerge.The premiere started with an actor’s tribute to Dinklage, which highlighted notable performances such as his Emmy-winning role in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”Once the film began, the crowd was elated with the music, orchestrated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner, who also compose on

It’s a tale as old as time: someone loves someone who loves someone else entirely. That special type of pain and longing was forever immortalized in Edmond Rostand’s play “Cyrano de Bergerac” back in the 19th century.