TV Guide: Janet McTeer

Listing: As You Like It

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Video: The Intended

iTunes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:19:29 -0400

Set in the 1920s, Sarah (Janet McTeer) and her younger lover (JJ Feild) travel to an ivory trading post deep in the Malaysian jungle. The influence of the couple's high hopes and obvious love for each other on the small strained group of inhabitants unleashes greed, murder and madness: a tragedy where everyone is the victim of each other's broken dreams. This Dogme 95 inspired costume drama also stars Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Tony Maudsly and Philip Jackson. The Intended is directed by Danish filmmaker, Kristian Levring and was co-written by leading lady, Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, this film premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.

Video: King Is Alive, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:20:16 -0400

Shot against the barren sand dunes of Africa's Namib Desert, The King Is Alive is the fourth film to adhere to the stripped-down aesthetic of the Dogma 95 movement, and the first to bear the directorial stamp of the manifesto's co-author Kristian Levring. The improvised, shot-on-digital video production concerns the exploits of almost a dozen tourists who find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down miles from civilization. A thespian amongst the group, Henry (David Bradley), is the first to suggest that their situation may be more dire than it seems. His doubts send the rest of the folks -- including American travelers Ray (Bruce Davison), Liz (Janet McTeer), Ashley (Brion James), and Gina (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and a high-minded Parisian, Catherine (Romane Bohringer) -- into fits of fear and dread. To get their minds off the heat, hunger, and dehydration, the castaways stage an impromptu reading of Shakespeare's {+King Lear}, which they can only fitfully remember. As their situations worsen, the tou

Video: Intended, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:15:45 -0400

Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring directs the Dogme 95-inspired period drama The Intended, co-written by leading lady Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, the film takes place in the Malaysia jungle during the 1920s. Fortysomething British woman Sarah (McTeer) travels with her younger fianc , Hamish Winslow (JJ Feild), to a small community near Borneo. Hamish has been hired to survey the land and map a road for a trading post run by a deeply dysfunctional family. The local ruler is tough matriarch Mrs. Jones (Brenda Fricker), who dominates her son William (Tony Maudsley) and nephew Norton (Philip Jackson). When a climate change causes them to become even more isolated, the family tension takes a dark turn. Also starring Olympia Dukakis. The Intended premiered at the {~2002 Toronto Film Festival}. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Tumbleweeds

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:06:19 -0400

Gavin O'Connor directed, co-wrote and plays a major supporting role in this drama about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other's problems. In Tumbleweeds, Janet McTeer plays Mary Jo Walker, a single mother with a long string of bad marriages and a habit of hitting the road when things start to turn sour. Her 12-year-old daughter Ava (Kimberly J. Brown) has learned to live with her Mom's nomadic ways and comfortably slips into the pattern of each new town. At the film's outset, Mary Jo and Ava depart Missouri for San Diego, California, with Mary Jo falling for a rough-hewn trucker named Jack (Gavin O'Connor) along the way. Once in San Diego, Mary Jo's relationship with Jack fails to run smoothly and her new job presents more than its share of challenges, while Ava has romantic problems of her own when she gains her first boyfriend. McTeer, an established stage actress in England, made her American screen debut in this film, which also features notable character actor Michael J. Pollard as Mary J

Video: King Is Alive, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:19:49 -0400