A great chance to see some of your favorite LOTR stars! And not at Cannes! [More]
Month: May 2001
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000)
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK 
Psycho (1998) UK
Perfect Murder, A (1998) UK
Albino Alligator (1996)
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996)
Passion of Darkly Noon, The (1995)
Prophecy, The (1995)
Floundering (1994)
American Yakuza (1994)
Boiling Point (1993)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Young Guns II (1990)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999) UK
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) UK
Armageddon (1998)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV)
eXistenZ (1999) UK
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
Fifth Element, The (1997) UK
Madness of King George, The (1994)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Hamlet (1990) UK
Brazil (1985) UK
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Return of the Soldier, The (1982)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) (TV)
Severed Head, A (1971) UK
Fixer, The (1968) UK
Bofors Gun, The (1968) UK
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Black Beauty (1994) UK
Marton Csokas (Celeborn)
Halifax f.p: Swimming with Sharks (1999) (TV)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Interview, The (1998)
Babe (1995) UK
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
Dead Letter Office (1998)
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The (2000)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Ice Storm, The (1997)
Good Son, The (1993)
Forever Young (1992) UK
Internal Affairs (1990)
Avalon (1990) UK
Back to the Future Part II (1989) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Ideal Husband, An (1999) UK
Pushing Tin (1999) UK
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
Shadow, The (1994) UK
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
Scandal (1989)
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Great White Hype, The (1996) UK
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) (V)
Katharina die Große (1995) (TV)
Cyborg Cop (1994)
Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, The (1993)
Sunset Grill (1993)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing (1992) (TV)
Seventh Coin, The (1992)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) (TV)
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV) UK
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Arabian Nights (2000) (TV) UK
Among Giants (1998) UK
Mojo (1997) UK
Harry Sinclair (Isildur)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Kimberly (1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Dish Dogs (1998)
Long Way Home, The (1997) UK
Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV)
Low Life, The (1994/I)
Where the Day Takes You (1992) UK
Encino Man (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
Memphis Belle (1990)
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
White Water Summer (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Odyssey, The (1997) (TV) UK
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Safari 3000 (1982)
1941 (1979) UK
Circle of Iron (1979)
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Nothing But the Night (1972)
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
Gorgon, The (1964) UK
Beat Girl (1960)
Battle of the River Plate, The (1956) UK
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Shadow Hours (2000) UK
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Color of Night (1994)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Trauma (1993)
Body Parts (1991) UK
Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Child’s Play 2 (1990) UK
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Mississippi Burning (1988) UK
Dune (1984) UK
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
102 Dalmatians (2000)
Anna and the King (1999)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) UK
Cliffhanger (1993)
Batman Returns (1992)
Ghost (1990)
2010 (1984) UK
Howard Shore (Composer)
Cell, The (2000)
eXistenZ (1999) UK
Analyze This (1999) UK
Se7en (1995)
Ed Wood (1994)
Sliver (1993)
Single White Female (1992) UK
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
She-Devil (1989)
Big (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Moving (1988)
Fly, The (1986)
Places in the Heart (1984) UK
Videodrome (1983) UK
Silkwood (1983) UK
Peter Jackson (Director)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
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TV One in New Zealand has a clip on it’s website from their reporter in Cannes, who got to speak to Peter Jackson and some of the cast. You get a look at the action in the chateau de Castellaras, sort of. Don’t all write and complain/exclaim about the music – they don’t say it’s actually out of the movie. [More}
NZ’s TV show “Holmes” showed a few minutes of interviews in Cannes, including one with Peter Jackson and some of the cast. There’s almost-clear shots of the Cannes party set-up with actors and musicians. Go here and look in the archive for May 14.
The sound kind of goes splah in the last minutes, but thanks to Ringer spy Nigel we have a transcript of the last part:
“Reporter: Its said you’ve made the biggest film project ever. How big is big?
Peter Jackson: Well it is the biggest ever. I mean really its 3 movies which is obviously one of the factors. But its 15 months of shooting continuously, nobody has ever shot a movie for 15 months before.
Reporter: This is a huge step, would you have ever dreamt when you were making all those splatter movies like Braindead that one day you would be producing something like this?
Peter Jackson: No. I’m just very lucky because I’m doing what I want to do. Everyday that I’m working on this project I just feel incredibly lucky.
Reporter: You’re a happy man?
Peter Jackson: Yeah. I love directing movies and I’m directing Lord of the Rings. Its the ultimate.
[Cut to Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom]
Reporter: Liv when they told you were gonna make a blockbuster right at the bottom of the world what was your reaction?
Liv Tyler: I think that more than even anything was my first kind of *high sigh* cause I was incredibly excited about the project and I didn’t have any concerns about being away from my career for a year. But personally being away from my family and stuff I just thought ‘oh my god can I handle that?’ you know. But it was great and I did and I just thought ‘you know what? It’s a year out of my life and I can handle it,’ and it was such a beautiful wonderful place and I tended to get home sick something the boys didn’t as much as me..
Orlando Bloom: We made the most of the surf and bungie, and skydiving.
Reporter: What was Peter like to work with Liv?
Liv Tyler: Peter’s amazing. He cares so much about this book and about this story. I think he’s a Hobbit but there is some part of each character inside of him and I could really see it come alive, his imagination is enormous and just full of so much passion for the project.
[Cut to Sean Aston] Peter Jackson is a great actor . He could do the hobbits to us and I could see him turn and do Aragorn, do the human hero and he changed! I learned a lot about acting just watching him direct.
[Cut to Sir Ian Holme] In a word genius. Forthright, patient, focussed ..a kiwi.
[Cut to Sir Ian McKellan and Christopher Lee]
Sir Ian McKellan: I’ve never worked with a director who has only one pair of shoes *laughter* and doesn’t wear them very often.
Christopher Lee: I’ve never worked with a director myself, for the first time 2 days ago wearing long trousers *more laughter*
[Cut to Dominic Monaghen] We’re all hoping that Peter will now be recognized as one of the greatest film makers alive today and that he will be given the opportunity to make the movies that he wants to make.”
We reported that the official LOTR website had a book of amazing images available to download as pdf files. This news has rolled off the front page and so we’re getting emails saying ‘why don’t you tell people about that incredible book on the official site!’
So in case you missed it the first time, here it is again.
Empire and the BBC have added to their Cannes coverage of LOTR [More]