"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee."

[CHRIS B]

They also have the trailer, it will take some time to capture it and save it - but will upload it today - stay tuned....

i can't wait! by the way, where is there? in toilet? because we see tissue.

Yep, there is a scene with Sandra in the bathroom...a very improtant part of the film or at least in the book.

[CHRIS B]

More footage/ with Winona.

http://www.tvbvideo.de/video/iLyROoafJmpz.html

[CHRIS B]

Some screen captures...

[vulcannonibird]

Pippa Lee Trailer




P.S.: Love to see a HQ version of the Winona pic from the poster....

[CHRIS B]

Oh, those are much better quality!

[vulcannonibird]

They also have a HQ stream on the ZDF site but somehow VLC can't save the stream - maybe they used some mumbo-jumbo to protect it.....

And even if Winona's upcomming parts are small her performances her both times praised - hope this will lead to starring roles in major movies soon.....

[CHRIS B]

What's the ZDF site?

[oinone]

it's a tv channel i think.

[Gary]

http://uk.reuters.com/art...ews/idUKTRE5192MF20090210

btw - some damn hot women in this movie

[CHRIS B]

http://uk.reuters.com/art...ews/idUKTRE5192MF20090210

btw - some damn hot women in this movie

 

[CHRIS B]

The Return of Winona Ryder


My initial disappointment about missing out on the Berlin Film Festival has certainly been helped by the repeated suggestion that almost everything showing there sucks. 

But there was one film for which I had placed my selfish travel wants aside and hoped would be great anyway. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee features the first role with any real potential my beloved Winona Ryder had been given in almost a decade (sure, there was A Scanner Darkly, but she was animated and all so it doesnt 100% count, and while The Ten was fun, it certainly wasn’t up to par with my Winonaspectations).

Sundance after Sundance, we’ve watched every single movie she makes crash, burn and fail to get distribution (The Darwin Awards, The Last Word, The Informers), or just seen films shes made fail to get seen by anyone at all (Sex and Death 101, Water Pills), and probably with good reason.

But when I heard of her casting in Pippa, alongside Julianne Moore, Maria Bello and Robin Wright Penn, among others, my heart skipped: “She’s coming back! After basically wasting the entire ‘00s, probably because any decent film wouldn’t risk insuring her crazy ass, someone was taking a chance on her, and she was going to hit it out of the ballpark and return to form!”

Sure, it looked like a small role, maybe even a cameo.. But it was something! And that cast all-but-ensured it might even screen outside a film festival!

When Pippa screened a few days back in Berlin, I immediately heard whispers it was bad, bad, bad.  And I got worried. Variety’s Alissa Simon’s said the film features “cardboard characters and severe problems of tone [that] fatally flaw the awkward satirical relationship drama.” But she didn’t single out Winona, which made me think that she can’t be that bad.  Then came The Hollywood Reporter’s review, which said the film’s “frenetic, off-putting script ruins what otherwise might have been an entertaining story about a fascinating woman.” However, reviewer Peter Brunette also said “the acting is top-notch.” But he didn’t single out Winona, which made me think that she can’t be that good.

Finally, there was Screen’s much kinder review. I read the review’s first paragraph: “A grown-up love story that’s rambling, quirky and sharp-eyed about mid-life doldrums, Rebecca Miller’s cinematic adaptation of her own novel works largely because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. An across-the-board solid cast backs up Robin Wright Penn’s enjoyable central performance which, like much of the film, is believable without being entirely naturalistic.” Excited, I started to scan for some mention of Ryder.  And there, in the reviews final paragraph, was the glisten of hope: “As well as Moore’s tasty cameo there’s a nice turn from Winona Ryder as Pippa’s fragile poet friend Sandra, a needy, pretty wreck with a tendency to burst into tears.” A nice turn!  I knew it!

Judge for yourself at seconds 0:05-0:06 of this promo trailer, where Ryder offers us a facial expression that plays like a portal into the deeply conflict mind of her “fragile poet.”


True, this might just be a small step, and one review that seems to go way against everyone else’s current occasionally doesn’t mean the film is actually good . But I take it as a token that Ryder still has something to offer, and that the first decade of this century will soon just be viewed as a little blip on a life history destined for multiple Oscars, mental stability, and being my best friend forever.

http://blogs.indiewire.co...he_return_of_winona_ryder

[oinone]

it's so sincere article.. thanks for this.

[vulcannonibird]

destined for multiple Oscars, mental stability, and being my best friend forever.

 

I so truely hope for the first two - but the thrid she has already achieved - at least for me...

[NoniousTheNonian]

She looks great in those screencaps

[CHRIS B]

What about the US?

Mar 19, 2009 06:01 ETIcon Film Distribution Announce June 26th Release Date for THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE
Directed by Rebecca Miller

Starring Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Monica Bellucci, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Mario Bello & Blake Lively
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - March 19, 2009) - From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee (ROBIN WRIGHT PENN) leads a charmed existence. An anchor of feminine serenity, she is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher (ALAN ARKIN) thirty years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test.

In truth, the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of turmoil in her past - an array of erotic misadventures, a diet-pill-addicted mother and the suicide of an exotic rival - until finding love and security in a family of her own. Embarking on a bittersweet journey of self-discovery, along with help from a new, strange and soulful acquaintance (KEANU REEVES), Pippa must now confront both her volatile past and the hidden undercurrents of her seemingly placid world to find the true sense of self which has always eluded her.

Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn (FORREST GUMP) and Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) head an all-star cast that includes Blake Lively (GOSSIP GIRL) as the young Pippa Lee; Maria Bello (A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE) as her mother, Suky Sarkissian; Keanu Reeves (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) as Pippa's inscrutable neighbor, Chris Nadeau; Monica Bellucci (THE MATRIX film series) as the socialite Gigi Lee; triple Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore (THE HOURS) as the freewheeling Kat; Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner Winona Ryder (THE AGE OF INNOCENCE) as Pippa's trusted friend, Sandra Dulles; Mike Binder (THE UPSIDE OF ANGER) as novelist Sam Shapiro and rising stars Zoe Kazan (REVOLUTIONARY ROAD) and Ryan McDonald (BATTLE IN SEATTLE) as Grace and Ben Lee, Pippa's young adult children.

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE is adapted from writer-director Rebecca Miller's novel of the same name. Previous titles from Rebecca Miller include PERSONAL VELOCITY and THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE.

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE will be released in cinemas across the UK 26th June 2009.

http://www.marketwire.com...-Distribution-963378.html