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Posted: 13 Sep 2011 03:26 AM PDT

TORONTO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The global financial crisis and a 111-year-old play about sexual intrigue helped inspire the latest film by "The Queen" screenwriter Peter Morgan, in which characters from different global cities find themselves interlinked by good and bad choices.

"360", which had its world debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday and will open the London Film Festival in October, follows characters ranging from a Slovakian sex worker to a Brazilian photographer as they travel through places as diverse as Vienna and Denver.

While romance, infidelity and friendship are major themes, Morgan said the story sprang partly from seeing how the banking crisis of 2008 fed upon itself, with bad news from one lender or country having a domino effect on others.

"I really don't want this film ever to be thought of as a metaphor for the banking crisis, but there's no doubt that's what I was thinking of when I wrote it," he reporters in Toronto.

The film also drew inspiration from Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde", a play that scandalized Europe at the start of the 20th century with its frank depiction of characters moving from one sexual partner to another.

What interested Morgan was the way the fate of the play's characters intertwines and comes full circle, an increasingly relevant theme in an age of the Internet, air travel, flu pandemics and global commerce.

"I wanted to write something that reflected the post-Internet world, and the way in which we're all linked. And I thought the best way to do that was through romance and through individual choices," said Morgan, whose scripts for "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon" were both nominated for Oscars.

The film stars Jude Law as a lonely British businessman seeking to meet an Eastern European prostitute, Rachel Weisz as a married woman having an affair with a younger man, and Anthony Hopkins as a recovering alcoholic on the hunt for his missing daughter.

For Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, who received an Oscar nomination for directing "City of God", the challenge was holding on to the thread of the story with so many intertwining plots and characters.

"I always had this fear of how to make all this feel like one film ... I think it feels like a film, not like nine short films put together," he said.

Still, some early reviews, which compare "360" to films like "Babel", have said the ambitious structure may stretch itself too thin.

"With a starry international cast and multinational locations, you never take your eyes off the screen for a second. On the other hand, this is a cold and cerebral movie, where one's attachment to any particular character or story is tentative at best," the Hollywood Reporter said in its review.

"You watch the film rather than get absorbed by it."

MayDay rocks in 3D

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT

TAIWAN rock band MayDay releases its first film, a 3D production of the boy band's 2010 live concerts interwoven with a selection of offstage episodes.

Lead singer A-Shin said that MayDay 3DNA will include the band's 12 most popular songs, such as Loving You, and All Of A Sudden Missing You.

A-Shin said the band originally thought that shooting the film would be easy "but the design work, manpower and technologies were far beyond our imagination."

In addition to the five band members, the film also features actress Rene Liu and actor Richie Jen.

They will appear in three separate stories interwoven in the script.

MayDay 3DNA opens in Malaysian cinemas on Thursday.

Roland Emmerich wins over critics with new film

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 12:52 AM PDT

TORONTO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Known for blockbuster movie hits that are often panned by critics, Roland Emmerich is winning early praise for a change with his new "Anonymous," which challenges Shakespeare's authorship of plays and poems.

The subject matter is a departure for the German-born Emmerich, who has spent the last 15 years knocking down skyscrapers and unleashing giant waves on cities in special effects-laden movies such as "Independence Day", "The Day After Tomorrow", "Godzilla", and "2012".

In "Anonymous", which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, he uses special effects to build, rather than destroy, constructing an intricate recreation of Elizabethan London as backdrop for a tale focused on the argument of so-called "Anti-Stratfordians". At a news conference, Emmerich said the script penned by "A Mighty Heart" writer John Orloff drew him to the project that he readily admitted was outside his normal comfort zone.

"My friends said 'are you really sure you want to do this?. But in the end, you have to just believe in yourself," he told reporters.

The film posits that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford,was responsible for the remarkable collection of plays and poems that have made William Shakespeare the most revered name in English-language literature.

De Vere is one of a group 16th-century figures - Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are also popular suspects - believed by some to be the true author of Shakespeare's works.

"Anonymous" weaves in the question of Shakespeare's authorship with the story of the 1601 Essex rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I, and portrays Shakespeare as a drunken wag who can barely write his own name.

EMMERICH WINS PRAISE

The Hollywood Reporter called the film's argument "historical rubbish", but described it as easily Emmerich's best film, which "steers a coherent path through a complex bit of Tudor history while establishing a highly credible atmosphere of paranoia and intrigue."

British newspaper The Guardian looked past any assessment of historical accuracy, writing, "Emmerich's meticulously crafted and often well-acted expose of the 'real' William Shakespeare is shocking only in that it is rather good."

Members of the predominantly British cast admitted to varying degrees of skepticism about Shakespeare's legitimacy.

"I think of the thing that's fascinating still today, how such a huge diverse body of work could be written by one person," said Rafe Spall, who plays Shakespeare in the film.

Rhys Ifans, who plays the Earl of Oxford, went a step further. "I'm not necessarily convinced that Oxford is the author of these plays, but I am definitely absolutely adamant that it was not the guy called William Shakespeare from Stratford," he said.

The film, which will be released widely on Oct. 28, also stars David Thewlis and Sebastian Armesto, and features mother and daughter Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson as Queen Elizabeth at old and young ages.

For his part, Emmerich said he did not plan to abandon the summer blockbuster-type films that have made him famous.

"I'm happy I made ("Anonymous")...because I want to alternate my big movies with movies like this," he said.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Selasa, 13 September 2011

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