ENTERTAINMENT
October 19, 2007 | Gene Seymour, Newsday
The 1980 suicide of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the British rock quartet Joy Division, is a poignant side plot in 2002's raucous survey of the Manchester music scene, "24 Hour Party People."
NEWS
December 5, 2002 | Sorina Diaconescu, Special to The Times
In the upcoming film rendition of Alan Warner's 1995 novel "Morvern Callar," Samantha Morton plays the enigmatic title character: a quiet girl with a boyfriend who slits his wrists on Christmas day and bequeaths her a finished novel and the gift of a mix tape. The rest of this poetic, often beautiful, film unfolds with the music on that tape, letting the emotional content of the songs inform us about the emotional state of the mysterious girl.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 15, 2002 | Mark Olsen, Special to The Times
As with an electron whose exact speed and location can never be determined at the same time, it is difficult to explain "Morvern Callar" in a way that does justice to the what-happens-next elements of its story and the feeling, the sensation, of watching it. The latest from acclaimed British director Lynne Ramsay, the film is a revolutionary head trip charged with energy and spirit that solidifies her position as one of the most interesting filmmakers at work in the world today.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 1, 2013 | By Chris Lee
Deep in post-production on his weird but wonderful sci-fi romance "Her" this past March, Spike Jonze made the difficult decision to - as the old editing edict goes - kill one of his darlings. The nuanced vocal performance turned in by British actress Samantha Morton, who was portraying a Siri-esque computer operating system who finds herself in a state of deep romantic longing with Joaquin Phoenix's lovelorn, all-too-human divorced character, in the end "wasn't right" for the film.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 1, 2009 | Michael Ordona
Ben Foster is standing on a boulder in a field in Armenia. That's not some trendy new Zen practice and he's not shooting a scene (although he's there working on "Here," his next film); he's just trying to manage some decent cell reception. Normally soft-spoken, he gamely shouts into the wind about his turn as an Army casualty notification officer in Oren Moverman's "The Messenger." "If you can remove the filter of war, it's about feelings we all have -- falling in love with someone in a difficult situation; we've all experienced loss; we will make the phone call to loved ones and have to break the news.
NEWS
June 27, 2002
The five top-grossing movies at the weekend box office: 1. "Minority Report," with Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton, above, with a weekend gross of $35.7 million; 2. "Lilo & Stitch," slightly behind at $35.3 million; 3. "Scooby-Doo"; 4. "The Bourne Identity"; 5. "The Sum of All Fears."