ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[Fran]

Ralph Fiennes, who starred in "Onegin," appeared in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" with Gary Oldman.

From IMDb:  "Onegin" is a charming and dramatic romance. It contains all of the elements of a great film. The acting is underplayed. The cinematography is perfection itself. The colors are muted in concert with the drama itself. One can only desire an extension of the romantic relationship with Onegin himself and his lovely sweetheart. There are very dramatic moments including the duel on the pier. The snow scenes are reminiscent of "Dr. Zhivago." I can highly recommend this picture for those romantics at heart. Alexander Pushkin would be proud to see this serious play in cinematic form. It is now in DVD format with excellent soundtrack and special features. This is one not to miss.

Trivia:  Lots of Fienneses in this one.  The director, Martha Fiennes, is the sister of star Ralph Fiennes. The composer is Magnus Fiennes (Ralph's brother). Sophie Fiennes (another sister) also appears in the credits.

[memento]

Gary Oldman played the part of Joe Orton in his film.



IMDB: This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while the two begin a relationship, it's fairly obvious that it's not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell, not as charming or attractive as Orton, doesn't fare so well in those environs. While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "Loot" become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. But Orton's success takes him farther from Halliwell, whose response ended both his life and the life of the up-and-coming playwright.

[oilgun]

Danielle Darieux was in this film as well as in 8 Women with Virgine Ledoyen who starred in Bosque de sombras (2006) with Gary Oldman.

Plot: Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent to inspect one of the supermarkets. The manager had taken a large loan of money belonging to the firm. When exposed he expects to lose his job. Instead friendship develops between him and Martial who remitted the debt. A sexual relation begins between Francine and Martial, without jealousy from her boyfriend Fernand. Suddenly Martial disappears. He was called to his mother's sickbed. Francine took a job as a waitress. It is not clear if she understood that the owner of the bar would force her to do sexual services for some customers. To save Francine Fernand kills the owner. The only witness is Martial who says 'Run! Do you want to spend ten years in prison!' If he takes the murder on him, he will just return to the luxury hospital he recently came from. Only Francine saw a glimpse of Fernand and understood what really happened. The double sacrifice radically changed her emotions: she came to feel for Fernand as for an older brother and they parted.

[Meryl]

Gary Oldman will star as Holtzer in this Japanese-produced film, based on the novel by Barry Eisler, now in production.

[Fran]

Gary Oldman played Charlie Strom in "Sin."

From IMDb:  Retired cop Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie (Kerry Washington), goes missing Eddie Burns finds himself subjected to a fiendish and ingenious campaign of revenge by the mysterious Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman). In order to protect his sister, Eddie -- disabled, betrayed and alone -- journeys into the heart of his own darkness: where he discovers that the reason for his ordeal lies in his own past sins and those of his adversary Charlie Strom.

[memento]

Gary Oldman played Martin in this film.



IMDB: For this psychological drama, Dennis Potter reworked his 1974 TV play, Schmoedipus, transposing the setting from London to the United States. The title "Track 29" is taken from the lyrics of "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) complains to her husband, surgeon Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), about their sex-less, childless marriage, but he's obsessed with his basement model railroad layout and also engaged in an affair with a nurse (Sandra Bernhard). When mysterious stranger Martin (Gary Oldman) drops in on Linda, he claims to be her long-lost illegitimate son. As seen in flashbacks, the 16-year-old Linda was raped at a carnival by a man (Gary Oldman) who resembles Martin. Subsequent events hint at Martin as a delusion, a product erupting from Linda's fantasy world.

[oilgun]

Gary Oldman will play Rabbi Sendak in this upcoming horror film.

Plot:   A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her


Excerpt from : 'Dark Knight' Writer Hopes To Give Horror Fans Nightmares With 'The Unborn'

[...]
Now, fresh from the success of "The Dark Knight," the director/screenwriter wants to invite you into his nightmares. Literally.

"What happened was I had some free time, and this notion popped in my head. It was kind of a creepy notion, so I just started writing down images and things that scared me or that I found frightening," Goyer said, explaining the genesis of "The Unborn," a supernatural horror film he's currently wrapping. "I wrote it in an unusual way. The movie begins with a dream. I wrote the dream first — the nightmare first — and then let the nightmare kind of dictate what the movie became."
[...]
"The notion actually comes from [the Hebraic legend of the] dybbuk, the dybbuk being someone that did something so horrible in this life that it's been barred from entering heaven," Goyer explained of the film's central conceit, which enables the spirit to wander from vessel to vessel, beginning with a young boy. "It doesn't have a body and it's trying to find a body, and the only way that it can get a body is by evicting someone else from their own body. That person then becomes a dybbuk, and the whole process begins anew."

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1591299/20080722/story.jhtml?rsspartner=rssColdFusion

[southendmd]

Jack Lemmon starred in this film and also JFK, which featured Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Fran]

Gary Oldman played Johnny in "We Think the World of You."

From IMDb:  In post-war London, aimless, young married bisexual Johnny is sent to prison, forcing him to entrust his beloved Alsatian dog, Evie, to the reluctant care of his down-trodden parents and older, middle-class former lover and best friend Frank. After a series of visits to Johnny's parents home, Frank bonds with the dog, whose mischievous spirit reminds him of his incarcerated friend. As it becomes apparent to Frank that Johnny's father is beating the dog, who is left for days on end in a small yard, a class war erupts over Evie's welfare, exacerbated by Johnny's manipulative and antagonistic wife Megan, whose sole aim is to claim Johnny back from Frank on his forthcoming release. A set of tragi-comic relationships evolve with the dog coming to represent the hold they have over each other. The story explores the characters' capacity to make their own and others' lives a misery through their fear of freedom and inability to fulfill their dreams.

[Ellemeno]

IMDB: For this psychological drama, Dennis Potter reworked his 1974 TV play, Schmoedipus, transposing the setting from London to the United States. The title "Track 29" is taken from the lyrics of "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) complains to her husband, surgeon Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), about their sex-less, childless marriage, but he's obsessed with his basement model railroad layout and also engaged in an affair with a nurse (Sandra Bernhard). When mysterious stranger Martin (Gary Oldman) drops in on Linda, he claims to be her long-lost illegitimate son. As seen in flashbacks, the 16-year-old Linda was raped at a carnival by a man (Gary Oldman) who resembles Martin. Subsequent events hint at Martin as a delusion, a product erupting from Linda's fantasy world.

Wow, have I learned a lot reading the IMDb bits of these movies we unearth.  Christopher Lloyd and Sandra Bernhard as lovers - there's one to ponder....