Inside Scarred Minds

Times UK 2005: Inside scarred minds

On his first visit to the Gaza Strip, Daniel Day-Lewis meets the Palestinian families living in the heart of the danger zone — and the psychologists who are counselling them

The film that changed my life: Rosamund Pike

The Guardian: The film that changed my life: Rosamund Pike (In The Name Of The Father)

Because it's almost Oscar time again ---

Daniel getting his Oscar in 2009 -- What a wonderful speech. He has an artist's golden tongue - Wait till 2012 for his Abe Lincoln!!!

Freedom of Wicklow Medal

Taylor to be given freedom of Wicklow

The Irish Examiner: Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 09:17 AM

World champion boxer and Bray native Katie Taylor will be given the freedom of Co Wicklow today.

The 25-year-old will be only the second recipient of the award. Oscar winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis was the first in 2009.

Wicklow County Council said it was bestowing the accolade on Katie because of her outstanding sporting achievements.

Wordplay: Let Your Story Find Its Own Originality

Let Your Story Find Its Own Originality

This week’s video draws examples from the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans to show how thinking outside the box can bring new levels of depth and excitement to your writing.

Irish Film Institute - Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan: In Focus – Listings Details

Opening Film: My Left Foot (1989) Feb 3rd 18.00

The season will be launched by Daniel Day-Lewis at this gala with guests Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Connor and Jim Sheridan.

And in a poignant tribute to the actor Pete Postlethwaite, who passed away earlier this year, the screening of In The Name Of The Father on February 8 will be dedicated to his memory.

Daniel Day-Lewis SAG Speech w/ Heath Ledger

Daniel Day-Lewis SAG Speech w/ Heath Ledger 2009 - Video - OscarFreak.com

Paul Dano will co-star with Robert De Niro in 'Another Night'

Related ( Ballad of Jack and Rose, There Will Be Blood) - EW.com: Paul Dano will co-star with Robert De Niro in 'Another Night'

Andrew Garfield’s Passion and Purpose

Awards Daily: Andrew Garfield’s Passion and Purpose

Garfield also spoke about the type of actors that inspire him, “The actors that excite me and inspire me are not selfish actors, they do it with purpose… they create characters and tell stories with purpose and generosity for an audience… it’s all to serve a story and the themes of the story.  That’s what excites me.” Garfield continued, “I look at Daniel Day-Lewis, the detail of his performances and how lived in they are… he truly experiences every character’s reality that he steps into, that inspires me as well.  The potential for exploring aspects of yourself that have been covered up for years or aspects of yourself you didn’t realize you had. To step into someone else’s shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis does so fully or like DeNiro does so fully.”

In the Name of the Father' -- A. O. Scott on Jim Sheridan's 1993 drama, featuring Daniel Day Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite. (Video)

Cinematical Seven: 'She's a Witch!' Most Rabid Witch Hunts

Moviefone -- Cinematical Seven: Cinematical Seven: 'She's a Witch!' Most Rabid Witch Hunts (The Crucible - See #7)

50 Most Stylish Men In Britain

GQ UK: 50 Most Stylish Men In Britain

EW.com: Pete Postlethwaite: Kevin Spacey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck remember their co-star

Pete Postlethwaite: Kevin Spacey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck remember their co-star

Daniel Day-Lewis, who played Postlethwaite’s son in 1993′s In the Name of the Father (for which they both earned Oscar nominations), and co-starred with him in 1992′s The Last of the Mohicans: ”Pos was the one. As students, it was him we went to see on stage time and time again. It was him we wanted to be like; wild and true; lion hearted; unselfconscious, irreverent. He was on our side. He watched out for us. We loved him and followed him like happy children, never a breath away from laughter. He shouldn’t have gone. I wish so much that he hadn’t. There’s a tendency to make lists at this time of the year. When we get to the Best of British, if Pete isn’t at the top of that list, he shouldn’t be far from it.”

A Bit from Goodwin's A Team Of Rivals

Lincoln Related - I bet Daniel works hard on that walk......

Team of Rivals begins:

 On May 18, 1860, the day when the Republican Party would nominate its candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln was up early. As he climbed the stairs to his plainly furnished law office on the west side of the public square in Springfield, Illinois, breakfast was being served at the 130-room Chenery House on Fourth Street. Fresh butter, flour, lard, and eggs were being put out for sale at the City Grocery Store on North Sixth Street. And in the morning newspaper, the proprietors at Smith, Wickersham & Company had announced the arrival of a large spring stock of silks, calicos, ginghams, and linens, along with a new supply of the latest styles of hosiery and gloves.

 ... Lincoln's shock of black hair, brown furrowed face, and deep-set eyes made him look older than his fifty-one years. He was a familiar figure to almost everyone in Springfield, as was his singular way of walking, which gave the impression that his long, gaunt frame needed oiling. He plodded forward in an awkward manner, hands hanging at his sides or folded behind his back. His step had no spring, his partner William Herndon recalled. He lifted his whole foot at once rather than lifting from the toes and then thrust the whole foot down on the ground rather than landing on his heel. "His legs," another observer noted, "seemed to drag from the knees down, like those of a laborer going home after a hard day's work."

 His features, even supporters conceded, were not such "as belong to a handsome man." In repose, his face was "so overspread with sadness," the reporter Horace White noted, that it seemed as if "Shakespeare's melancholy Jacques had been translated from the forest of Arden to the capital of Illinois."

Pete Postlethwaite, Actor, Dies at 64

We will miss him. A wonderful actor --- Pete Postlethwaite, Actor, Dies at 64