British actor Tim Roth is to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award in recognition of his “exceptional contribution to the art of film.” The ceremony at the Sarajevo Film Festival will be held on Tuesday. He will hold a masterclass on the same day.
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
His first screen role was the lead in the controversial Prix Italia award-winning TV movie “Made in Britain.” Roth’s second project came immediately after, starring in Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed film “Meantime.” As his success continued, Roth starred in more than 15 film and television projects including Stephen Frears’ “The Hit,” for which he won the Standard Award for best newcomer, Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,” Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” and Robert Altman’s “Vincent and Theo,” in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh.
Roth gained worldwide recognition for his roles in two Quentin Tarantino films,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Tim Roth has revealed that both he and his father were abused by his grandfather as children.
Roth, who has spoken in the past about being abused as a child, made the startling revelation during a recent interview with The Guardian on Sunday.
Speaking about his father’s politics, Roth mentioned that his dad dropped out of Britain’s communist party in the 1970s after a wave of sex scandals. “He was an abused kid, my dad, and it was a terrible childhood that he had, and he took that s— seriously,” he explained.
The Oscar-nominee, known for his long-time collaborations with Quentin Tarantino,...
Roth, who has spoken in the past about being abused as a child, made the startling revelation during a recent interview with The Guardian on Sunday.
Speaking about his father’s politics, Roth mentioned that his dad dropped out of Britain’s communist party in the 1970s after a wave of sex scandals. “He was an abused kid, my dad, and it was a terrible childhood that he had, and he took that s— seriously,” he explained.
The Oscar-nominee, known for his long-time collaborations with Quentin Tarantino,...
- 12/5/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
In the admittedly tiny sub-genre of harrowing-late-1990s-domestic-dramas-starring-Ray-Winstone-and-directed-by-well-respected-British-character-actors-who-have-yet-to-make-a-second-film, Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth" just has the edge--underrated to this day, the film showed an assured hand from Oldman, and has two towering performances, by Winstone and Kathy Burke, the latter of whom picked up Best Actress at Cannes in 1997. But that's not to undervalue Tim Roth's "The War Zone," an adaptation of Alexander Stuart's novel examining incest and sexual abuse in a Devonshire family--it's incredibly powerful stuff, and it's a shame that Roth has never followed it up. But the actor, who currently stars on the seemingly-not-long-for-this-world TV procedural "Lie…...
- 4/19/2011
- The Playlist
Variety reports that Angelina Jolie is attached to the new Warner Bros. project Bitten, about a female werewolf, based on the novel by Kelly Armstrong. Alexander Stuart (The War Zone) will adapt the book, about a woman who turns into a werewolf after she gets bitten and lives among a clandestine wolf pack in Canada. After she finally decides to suppress her animalistic tendencies and live a normal human life, she's drawn back to her pack when a rogue band of werewolves begins drafting criminals. No director is attached yet.
- 10/15/2002
- IMDbPro News
PARK CITY, UTAH--Actors often take up the director's mantel, but few show any particular visual or storytelling skills. Such is not the case with Tim Roth, whose "The War Zone" was greeted with admiration and applause during its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. A wrenching story about family incest, this film may prove daunting for casual viewers, but its hard-forged eloquence should guarantee favorable reaction as an art house release.
The gruesome subject matter -- a father continually violates his teenage daughter during and after his wife's pregnancy -- is also emblemized by the cruel, natural setting of the story line.
The denuded and barren hills of Devon, just outside London, are a forbidding site, especially in the late fall when life has been sapped to a dull gray. It's a depressing landscape and an overall depressing situation for a hard-knocked family of four forced to more from the city to start anew amid the hardscrabble times of this rural burg.
Still, there is great expectation when mum (Tilda Swinton) gives birth to a girl, but even this blessed event is marred by a serious car accident on the way to the hospital. All family members, though bloodied and more than a bit unnerved, are ultimately OK, but the baby, it seems, suffers from some inner malady.
And things are even worse below the surface: Weary Ray (Ray Winstone) has brutally begun a cruel sexual relationship with 18-year-old Jessie (Lara Belmont), his vulnerable and troubled daughter. It's been going on a while and clearly is not something that is soon going to stop.
Inevitably, 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) stumbles upon his father and sister's rutting, and it decimates his kinship with his sister and severs fully his respect for his father. It's through Tom's ruptured viewpoint that screenwriter Alexander Stuart tells this tale.
There are no easy answers, no pat psychological explanations or causal justification in this painful story. Told with flinty precision and stark shadowings, "War Zone" is a searing look at the dark underbelly of what appears to be a bland societal situation.
The strength of "War Zone" is gathered from the edgy, never softened performances. As the loutish father, Winstone is a credible combination of sheer strength, kindliness and mendacity; it's a very human performance, and Winstone, to his credit, does not make the character cosmetically palatable. Cunliffe is terrific as the shattered son who confronts the heinous relationship, and Belmont is remarkable as the daughter who endures and, to an extent, encourages the coupling. She shows a woman confounded by crosscurrent of urges and insecurities. Swinton is well cast as the stolid wife and mother who has, essentially, been discarded by her husband.
Although it's not surprising that Roth has gathered marvelous performances from a talented cast, his visual powers are just as sure-footed. From the film's denuded, color-drenched look and thorny compositions, we feel the hardship and cutting-bone edge of the characters' lives. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has done a masterful job of framing and positioning his pictorial contribution. Similarly, Simon Boswell's sharp, assonant score clues us to the coldness and pain of this family "War Zone".
THE WAR ZONE
Credits: Producers: Sarah Radclyffe, Dixie Linder; Director: Tim Roth; Screenwriter: Alexander Stuart, based on his novel "The War Zone"; Executive producer: Eric Abraham; Director of photography: Seamus McGarvey; Production designer: Michael Carlin; Editor: Trevor Waite; Music: Simon Boswell; Costume designer: Mary Jane Reyner; Casting directors: Jina Jay, Sharon Howard-Field. Cast: Dad: Ray Winstone; Lucy: Kate Ashfield; Jessie: Lara Belmont; Tom: Freddie Cunliffe; Mum: Tilda Swinton. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 98 minutes.
The gruesome subject matter -- a father continually violates his teenage daughter during and after his wife's pregnancy -- is also emblemized by the cruel, natural setting of the story line.
The denuded and barren hills of Devon, just outside London, are a forbidding site, especially in the late fall when life has been sapped to a dull gray. It's a depressing landscape and an overall depressing situation for a hard-knocked family of four forced to more from the city to start anew amid the hardscrabble times of this rural burg.
Still, there is great expectation when mum (Tilda Swinton) gives birth to a girl, but even this blessed event is marred by a serious car accident on the way to the hospital. All family members, though bloodied and more than a bit unnerved, are ultimately OK, but the baby, it seems, suffers from some inner malady.
And things are even worse below the surface: Weary Ray (Ray Winstone) has brutally begun a cruel sexual relationship with 18-year-old Jessie (Lara Belmont), his vulnerable and troubled daughter. It's been going on a while and clearly is not something that is soon going to stop.
Inevitably, 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) stumbles upon his father and sister's rutting, and it decimates his kinship with his sister and severs fully his respect for his father. It's through Tom's ruptured viewpoint that screenwriter Alexander Stuart tells this tale.
There are no easy answers, no pat psychological explanations or causal justification in this painful story. Told with flinty precision and stark shadowings, "War Zone" is a searing look at the dark underbelly of what appears to be a bland societal situation.
The strength of "War Zone" is gathered from the edgy, never softened performances. As the loutish father, Winstone is a credible combination of sheer strength, kindliness and mendacity; it's a very human performance, and Winstone, to his credit, does not make the character cosmetically palatable. Cunliffe is terrific as the shattered son who confronts the heinous relationship, and Belmont is remarkable as the daughter who endures and, to an extent, encourages the coupling. She shows a woman confounded by crosscurrent of urges and insecurities. Swinton is well cast as the stolid wife and mother who has, essentially, been discarded by her husband.
Although it's not surprising that Roth has gathered marvelous performances from a talented cast, his visual powers are just as sure-footed. From the film's denuded, color-drenched look and thorny compositions, we feel the hardship and cutting-bone edge of the characters' lives. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey has done a masterful job of framing and positioning his pictorial contribution. Similarly, Simon Boswell's sharp, assonant score clues us to the coldness and pain of this family "War Zone".
THE WAR ZONE
Credits: Producers: Sarah Radclyffe, Dixie Linder; Director: Tim Roth; Screenwriter: Alexander Stuart, based on his novel "The War Zone"; Executive producer: Eric Abraham; Director of photography: Seamus McGarvey; Production designer: Michael Carlin; Editor: Trevor Waite; Music: Simon Boswell; Costume designer: Mary Jane Reyner; Casting directors: Jina Jay, Sharon Howard-Field. Cast: Dad: Ray Winstone; Lucy: Kate Ashfield; Jessie: Lara Belmont; Tom: Freddie Cunliffe; Mum: Tilda Swinton. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 98 minutes.
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