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2008 May 23

Let’s get “Plunge: The Movie” released!

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Fan Juan came up with this great idea to make the directors/producers of the little indie film Plunge: The Movie, featuring Kate (obviously). Her scenes were filmed in October of 1997 (It was probably right after Titanic!).

Director Max Newsom says, “Kate Winslet appeared in my kitchen behind a coffee cup one morning, shortly after the crew had parked themselves behind rows of bacon sandwiches. She’d heard about the rehearsals we’d been having and wanted to see what we were up to. She traveled with us to Cornwall and, two days later, rang to ask if there might not be a part she could do. The result of her inquiry was what you’ll see on screen”.

Anyway, here’s the idea for all of us to try making it released on DVD:

We are going to start a petition, writing e-mails to the following addresses:
charles@plunge-the-movie.com
info@plunge-the-movie.com

Notice that these addresses were, in fact, created for what we intend to do now: “For viewing the movie, contact us.” So, let’s get to it, shall we?!
So, come on, guys, Kate fans, admirers or even someone who doesn’t mind expend 5 minutes of your time and help us fans!
Let’s be creative and send lots of e-mails to those guys for us to get a chance to watch this movie. We need more people sending e-mails… let’s bomb them with e-mails. Make noise, be a pain on the neck!!! :)

Even if she only has a cameo, it is still Kate and we (I think I might as well include all Kate fans here) are dying to see it.

2008 May 18

“Anglo Saxon Attitudes” DVD Release

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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (mini-series) — Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet appear in the Andrew Davies-written U.K. Mini-Series
Available in North America on July 1st

Posted by David Lambert 5/18/2008

The classic British story Anglo Saxon Attitudes, a novel by Angus Wilson, was adapted into a mini-series for U.K. television in 1992 by master storyteller Andrew Davies. The 3-episode production stars Richard Johnson and Tara Fitzgerald, and you can spot both Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) and Kate Winslet (Titanic, Finding Neverland) in one of her first roles.

On July 1st Acorn Media will release a 2-DVD set running 229 minutes, that includes the a Biography of screenwriter Andrew Davies, Program Previews, and Cast Filmographies among the extras. Cost is $39.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$49.99 SRP in Canada. Here is the studio description of this release, followed by the box art:
    A darkly comic, take-no-prisoners satire, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes skewers British social and academic hypocrisy to the very core. Richard Johnson (The Camomile Lawn) stars as Gerald Middleton, a distinguished, retired historian coming to terms with his life’s folly.As a student, Middleton witnessed the unearthing of the Melpham idol, a pagan fertility figure that electrified modern medieval scholarship by turning up in the grave of a 7th-century bishop. He also began an affair with Dollie (Tara Fitzgerald) — the fiancée of his best friend, the man who had privately confessed to planting the idol as a hoax. While trying to reveal the truth, Middleton wrestles with his monstrously overbearing wife and their three emotionally dysfunctional children.

    Based on the novel by Angus Wilson, the story teems with outlandish characters engaged in all manner of deceit, especially the most damning of all: self-deception.

Source: TVShowsOnDVD.com

2008 Apr 01

Articles about Kate in Germany

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For shooting with Kate Winslet (Titanic) traffic society Görlitz next week puts her timetable on the head. For the filming of Bernhard Schlink’s best-seller The Reader the British actress on the second week-end in March rises in a historical streetcar. “Nothing goes as well as before”, said small farmer with oxen of the Connex Sachsen GmbH (?) on Thursday. He meets by order the VGG the arrangements with the film people. The team around the British director Stephen Daldry takes from the 7th to the 9th March Görlitzer rails in fitting.

The action plays in the post-war German land where 15-year-old pupil Michael Berg falls in love with much older conductor Hanna Schmitz. As a law student he meets her years later in the courtroom again when she sits with a war crimes trial as an earlier concentration camp supervisor on the dock. Kate Winslet and the German up-and-coming actor David Kross crisp show the unequal pair in the film. Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth belong to the occupation furthermore. (ut/dpa)

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2008 Mar 11

Kate Winslet documentary brings camera crew to Redroofs

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Canadian documentary-makers have captured the talents of Redroofs Theatre School students on film as part of a profile on its most famous former student.

Production company A+E rolled into town last week as part of a programme being prepared on the stellar career of Kate Winslet.

Winslet, recognized as a genuine Hollywood A-lister after landing starring roles in blockbusters including Titanic, spent five years learning her trade at Redroofs.

While at the school in Bath Road, Maidenhead, the actress appeared on stage in Peter Pan and Adrian Mole, before going on to play Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures.

Director of Redroofs, and Winslet’s ex teacher, Carolyn Mayling said: “The children are delighted to be in the documentary.

“Knowing that Kate Winslet was a ex-pupil at Redroofs is really inspiring for them. The young girls often ask me ‘was Kate actually in this room?’.”

The documentary on Kate Winslet’s life will be aired in Canada on completion, on channel CTV.

Source: Maidenhead Advertiser Online

Could anyone tape it, please?

2008 Jan 16

A Red Carpet at Last

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The National Board of Review Awards drew an award-hungry crowd.

Based on the crowd at Tuesday night’s National Board of Review awards, it seems Hollywood can be divided into two camps: those who love award ceremonies and those who hate them. George Clooney (Best Actor for Michael Clayton) falls into the former category — no surprise — as does Michael Douglas (Career Achievement Award), Josh Brolin (Best Ensemble Cast, No Country for Old Men) and Phil Donahue (Best Documentary, Body of War). Denzel Washington (who accepted The NBR Bulgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression with the incredibly poised Great Debaters star Jurnee Smollett) looked like he was happy enough to be there, but his ensemble (a sloppy, untucked button-down shirt) seemed to say otherwise. And Kate Winslet, who presented Joel and Ethan Coen with the prize for Best Film, gleefully introduced the brothers, but then again, she is an actress. Before the ceremony, held at Cipriani 42nd Street, she said to a pal approaching her table, “I don’t get up because then people start taking pictures of me.”

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2007 Nov 03

It’s about time Kate Winslet wins an award!

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“It’s so nice to attend an awards show and know that you’re actually going to win!”

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Kate Winslet, accepting her Artist of the Year award last night at the BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards. Clearly, Kate was joking about last award season, when she was nominated for — but didn’t win — Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her lead role in Little Children. That’s a lot of gowns to put on for nothing. At least wearing this silver satin frock was worth it!

Don’t count Winslet out of the 2008 Oscar race. Her Oscar-winning husband, Sam Mendes, has directed Winslet for the first time in their upcoming film, Revolutionary Road (due out Dec. 19), based on a book by Richard Yates about a 1950s suburban Connecticut couple who decide to leave the consumer culture behind and move to France with their children and their problems.

In a retrospective mood last night, Winslet listed her career mentors and what they’ve taught her:

“Peter Jackson, who gave me my first job, who taught me to find my muse. Ang Lee, who taught me control. Ken Branagh, who taught me not to be afraid of Shakespeare, not completely successfully, I’m afraid. James Cameron, who taught me to be a warrior, and that’s not a joke, clearly, because none of you are laughing. Michael Apted, who taught me to hang on to my sense of humor through raging morning sickness. Richard Eyre, who taught me to be passionate and stand still at the same time. Jane Campion, who taught me how great it is to be a woman, and Michel Gondry, who taught me to try anything and risk looking stupid. Todd Field, who taught me the magic of collaboration, and Sam Mendes, who has unraveled my heart and taught me to let go.”

Source: The Envelope

2007 Nov 02

BAFTA names Winslet ‘Artist of the Year’

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There’s a telling moment in Little Children when Kate Winslet’s character Sarah Pierce, trapped in a loveless marriage and enmeshed in a messy affair, relates to Madame Bovary during a book club meeting with other stay-at-home moms.

“She can either choose a life of misery or struggle against it,” says Sarah. “She chooses to struggle. She fails in the end, but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in the struggle.”

Winslet’s affinity for struggling, questing characters who refuse to play by society’s rules began with her first feature, Heavenly Creatures, in which she played a murderous fantasist, and continues with her latest, the recently wrapped Revolutionary Road, in which her frustrated suburban housewife suffers from an ennui so acute that quixotic escape is the only option.

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