Attention movie buffs! Lindsay is the winner of Peter Weir’s The Way Back starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess. Linday says, “Colin Farrell is a hottie!” I am inclined to agree with her and he is very good in this film. He plays a criminal among political prisioners.
If you didn’t win The Way Back, no problem because the movie is available at your neighborhood redbox kiosk for only $1 a night.
Weir is a phenomenal director of such films as Master and Commander, Witness, The Year of Living Dangerously and The Truman Show.
Inspired by real events, join seven prisoners in their attempt to escape from a brutal Siberian gulag and make a 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world’s most merciless terrain. See what happens when supplies are scarce and they have to work as a team to gain their freedom. To celebrate this film, Screenhead is hosting a giveaway of The Way Back DVD.
To enter the giveaway, post your name and we will pick the winner May 2, 2011.
Attention movie buffs! On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Peter Weir’s The Way Back starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess will be available at your neighborhood redbox kiosk for only $1 a night.
Weir is a phenomenal director of such films as Master and Commander, Witness, The Year of Living Dangerously and The Truman Show.
Inspired by real events, join seven prisoners in their attempt to escape from a brutal Siberian gulag and make a 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world’s most merciless terrain. See what happens when supplies are scarce and they have to work as a team to gain their freedom. To celebrate this film, Screenhead is hosting a giveaway of The Way Back DVD.
To enter the giveaway, post your name and we will pick the winner May 2, 2011.
The last film for 2010 is Peter Weir’s The Way Back? According to Deadline and the Academy of Motion Pictures, the Screener for Oscar contender was the last one mailed to the members of the Academy as well as the Guild and DGA.
The film portrays the harrowing journey set in the 1940 of a group of prisoners who escape a Soviet gulag to travel across five hostile countries in search of freedom.
If you want to see The Way Back in a movie theater this week, you will have to journey to West Covina, on the outer reaches of LA County. Weir’s movie is playing there for the one-week Academy qualifying run.
It’s an interesting place, I am being kind, to unveil the filmmaker’s first movie in 7 years. With 6 Oscar nominations and a grand list of movies such as Witness, The Truman Show, Dead Poet’s Society, Mosquito Coast, The Year of Living Dangerously and Master and Commander among others, it compels me to highlight The Way Back and the Award making process.
Peter Weir films like The Year of Living Dangerously or Gallipoli are phenomenal. He knows how to make a movie that’s worth seeing - he is a true filmmaker. The Way Back looks like another great film from Weir. The ensemble cast is stellar, including Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan.
The Way Back is a true story about a very long trek that will be in the theaters very soon and I look forward to seeing it.
The movie arrives in theaters December 29, 2010, just in time for Oscar consideration.
I was just talking to a friend about Peter Weir’s The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford. I adore Peter Weir films like The Year of Living Dangerously or Gallipoli - he is a true filmmaker. The Way Back looks like another great film from Weir. The ensemble cast is stellar, including Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Saoirse Ronan.
The Way Back is a true story about a very long trek that I am looking forward to seeing.
Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan are all in final discussions to star for Peter Weir in The Way Back, a fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.
I love Weir’s style of making grueling movies. They are very calming with a relentless air of suspense and sorrow.
Weir wrote the script, based on the memoir by Slavomir Rawicz called “The Long Way.”
Farrell plays a tough, tattooed Russian; Harris an American; and Sturgess portrays a young Polish inmate. Ronan will play a Russian on the run who meets up with the fugitives.
Production is set to begin in March in Bulgaria. This is Weir’s next film since he directed 2003′s Master and Commander.
One of my favorite directors, Peter Weir, is set to direct The Way Back. Weir also wrote the script which is a fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940.
The film goes into production in March in Bulgaria.
Variety reported that Weir used several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” Book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
