Thursday, September 30, 2010

Top Thirty Indie Films

Indie Wire: Anne Thompson - Top Thirty Indie Films -
The thirty week series kicks off at L.A.'s American Cinematheque Wednesday night with director Jim Sheridan presenting his 1989 My Left Foot (featuring Daniel Day Lewis's Oscar winning performance) at the Egyptian Theatre.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Jared Harris nabs Moriarty role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel

The Guardian: Jared Harris nabs Moriarty role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel
British Mad Men star beats Brad Pitt and Daniel Day-Lewis to the role of detective's criminal bete noire
ed note: Daniel -- What we really want to know is your next film....We await with great expectation..... What year? What role? - fans: What would you wish for? Put your answer in the comments section to this post.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

So it won't be Daniel...

The Hollywood Reporter: 'Mad Men' actor playing villain in 'Sherlock 2'
Jared Harris, who is perhaps best known for his current work on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will portray classic literary villain Moriarty in Warner Bros.’ “Sherlock Holmes 2.”

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Tamasin Day-Lewis - My Leading Men

The Telegraph UK: My leading men
The writer Tamasin Day-Lewis grew up with two significant others in life – her poet father, Cecil, and her actor brother, Daniel. So how did they shape her attitude to love and men?

Monday, September 20, 2010

Carl Frampton is fighter with star appeal

The Belfast Telegraph: As Carl Frampton — a Belfast boy to the core — gripped us with his electrifying performance, one of those leading the rapturous applause just happened to be an Academy award winner, Daniel Day Lewis.

*************************
Frampton entered the ring to the classic Thin Lizzy track “The Boys are Back in Town” to a rapturous Ulster Hall fight crowd that included a breadth of sporting, television and film personalities that had earlier been introduced to the Ulster Hall crowd. The roll call included veteran sports commentator Jackie Fullerton, TV Presenter Gerry Kelly, TV Chef Jenny Bristol, amateur Irish boxing stars Tommy McCarthy and Ryan Burnett and Academy Award winning actor Daniel Day Lewis.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Daniel and Cecil

From the Cecil Day-Lewis Biography by Peter Stanford:
"...Cecil's death bed: Sean Day-Lewis was there, and Tamasin, on her gap year, and Daniel, at Bedales, were summoned. They gathered round the death bed, Daniel holding the right hand of his father's wasted body."

Oprah: NINE cast interview

Oprah: NINE cast interview

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Movies 101

Great viewing! -- YouTube: Richard Brown - Movies 101 - 2005 interview with DDL - Part One - Two - Three - Four - Five

Friday, September 10, 2010

Films can enrich your lives, Michael Sheen tells pupils

Wales online: Films can enrich your lives, Michael Sheen tells pupils
Sheen’s dad was a part-time Jack Nicholson impersonator when he was growing up, but he said his favourite actor was Daniel Day Lewis, while the favourite character he had portrayed himself was Brian Clough, in The Damned United.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Daniel’s Director

From 1993 - Movieline: Daniel’s Director
The unknown Jim Sheridan directed the not-yet-a-movie-star Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and changed both their careers forever. Now the director and actor have teamed up again, and the surprise is that their film, In the Name of the Father, is not a megaproduction, but a small, personal film not unlike My Left Foot.

Add This button

| More