It’s been over 20 years since her death, yet many are still curious to know what Princess Diana‘s last words were.
14.09.2021 - 20:39 / deadline.com
When a studio is looking to get traction on their awards season contender, there’s no better start at this early point in the fall than the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award.
The top prize at the Great White North cinema fest has often been a predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, or notable contenders, i.e. in the last 20 years, the TIFF People’s Choice awards winner has continued on to win Oscar’s top prize 5x including last year’s Nomadland, 2018’s Green
It’s been over 20 years since her death, yet many are still curious to know what Princess Diana‘s last words were.
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The Crown has just dropped a huge hint that the last months of Princess Diana’s life will play out on screen after sharing its latest casting announcement.
Last Night in Soho.Wright explained to Total Film that the Pulp Fiction filmmaker – also his longtime friend – inspired him when discussing a song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.“In Death Proof, Quentin uses a Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song, ‘Hold Tight’,” Wright said.“I was talking to him about that song, and that band, and he said, ‘Have you ever heard ‘Last Night in Soho?’’ He played it for me, and he goes, ‘This is the best title music for a film that’s never been made.’”The
Edgar Wright is bringing a bit of London in the swinging ‘60s to Toronto with his latest film, the psychological thriller “Last Night In Soho”. Together with co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, the duo tells ET Canada about bringing Soho to life with Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie.
Toronto International Film Festival, is also the best high-camp scary flick since “Black Swan.” The demure ingénue, Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie), actually has a lot in common with the whack-job ballerina that won Natalie Portman her first Oscar back in 2011.
Anyone who is a fan of filmmaker Edgar Wright’s movies will know that he’s a giant cinephile with a knack for countless references and needle drops to older decades and classic filmmakers. But his new film “Last Night in Soho” warns that idolizing the past too much can be trouble.
The past is full of surprises.
TheWrap’s critic calling it Wright’s best movie since his debut “Shaun of the Dead” and singling out its eclectic ’60s needle drops and sly references to other art house movies of the day. “Last Night in Soho” also stars Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao and Synnøve Karlsen.
Edgar Wright fans rejoice: after waiting nearly a year for the director’s new film, “Last Night In Soho” finally had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival just recently. It’s Wright’s first straight-up horror film of his career and his latest feature since 2017’s “Baby Driver.” Given the director’s penchant for genre deep-dives, this makes “Soho” one of the most anticipated films of 2021.
Even though COVID might prevent a lot of folks from making the trip to the UK for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, the event is shaping up to be yet another fall film festival jam-packed with awesome features. READ MORE: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films According to BFI, this year’s LFF is going to feature 159 feature films, including 21 World Premieres.
Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorThe Venice crowd at the Sala Grande theater could not take their eyes off Anya Taylor-Joy during Edgar Wright’s trippy psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho.”But when the movie ended just after midnight on Saturday and the spotlight shone on the cast to receive applause from the festival attendees, as is tradition, Taylor-Joy was nowhere to be found.Had she left her own movie?Director Edgar Wright and Matt Smith applauded along with the crowd — as confusion
Anya Taylor-Joy has always been a fashion icon and her latest red carpet look continues to cement her status as one!
Guess it had to happen sometime, but it’s a shame that the previously-thought-to-be inexhaustible energy resource of Edgar Wright’s omnivorous, giddy cinephilia should finally be showing signs running out right now, just when a jaded, weary, pandemic-drab world could use it most.
Leave it to Edgar Wright to play with genre expectations and deliver yet another delightfully off-kilter thriller that also thrills with its undeniably trippy atmosphere and blast to the past of swinging 60’s London. The director of films like Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim Vs.
Guy Lodge Film CriticHave you ever noticed how the icily dramatic opening strings in “You’re My World,” Cilla Black’s earnest, bawling-on-the-bathroom-floor ballad from 1965, could just as easily be a shivery horror theme by Bernard Herrmann? Edgar Wright has, and uses the likeness to briefly spine-tingling effect early in “Last Night in Soho”: As ’60s-fixated Gen-Z fashion student Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) finds herself somehow transported in time to the Swinging London world of naive party
Dansette record player as hand luggage. But her eccentric, old-fashioned ways mean student halls are too bitchy for her, and she eventually takes lodgings in a dingy room just north of Soho, at the top of a creaky house run by mysterious landlady Mrs.
Anya Taylor-Joy‘s new horror film Last Night in Soho is having its premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and director Edgar Wright is hoping audiences will keep the movie’s secrets to themselves.
When Last Night In Soho director Edgar Wright submitted his latest film to the Venice Film Festival, he called it “a dark Valentine to Soho.” Elaborating on that, Wright told the Lido press corps this afternoon, “I love London, but there’s a lot to fear about it as well, so you have a conflicted relationship with the city… I’ve spent more time in Soho than I have on any of my couches at home. The story of the film and the film itself were inescapable at some point.”