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With an illustrious and enduring Hollywood career spanning over 40 years and countless cinematic hits to his name, Liam Neeson is undeniably a staple on the silver screen and one of the entertainment industry's most entertaining leading men. Neeson has flexed his phenomenal acting chops in a slew of knockout films like Schindler's List, Love Actually, Batman Begins, and Taken, and has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity thanks to him becoming a certified action hero after starring in the aforementioned fan-favorite hit.

In 2022, Neeson tackled the iconic role of private detective Philip Marlowe in the captivating neo-noir crime thriller Marlowe, sharing the screen with stars like Jessica Lange and Diane Kruger and giving his own dazzling flair and interpretation of the popular literary character. The engrossing period drama impressively marked Neeson's 100th film in his ever-growing resume and further highlighted his charisma and allure as a movie star. Let's take a...

Jessica Lange and Danny Huston from American Horror Story: Coven reunite in Liam Neeson's Marlowe. The two actors' characters were romantically involved in American Horror Story: Coven. Marlowe failed to capitalize on Lange and Huston's chemistry, resulting in a disappointing reunion.

American Horror Story season 3 featured a star-studded cast, and two of the FX television show's actors reunited several years later in Liam Neeson's Marlowe. Unfortunately, their characters didn't interact much in the movie, so their reunion was hard to spot. The neo-noir crime thriller mystery film, directed by Neil Jordan and written by Jordan and William Monahan, premiered at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival in late 2022, and its theatrical run began in February 2023. Marlowe received negative reviews and only grossed $6.27 million, ultimately making it a box office bomb.

Ten years before Marlowe's release, FX debuted the third season of its popular horror anthology series, American Horror Story: Coven.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBreathless.The Mubi Podcast returns on January 25. Titled “Tailor Made,” the fifth season will consider landmark movies that captured major fashions of their times—from Jean Seberg in Breathless to Sofia Coppola’s body of work to date—with insights from leading costume designers, fashion designers, cinematographers, and directors.Alongside the announcement of the Competition and Encounters sections, with the addition of new films by Abderrahmane Sissako, Mati Diop, Hong Sang-soo, Ruth Beckermann, and more, we’ve updated our Berlinale lineup post ahead of the festival’s commencement on February 15.June Givanni, a writer on and curator of African and African diasporic cinema and the founder of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is to be recognized by BAFTA with an Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema...

Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize.

Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.

The prestigious book award has previously been won by novels including The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day, Life Of Pi, The White Tiger, and Wolf Hall, all of which have been adapted into successful movies or TV series.

Chair of Judges, Esi Edugyan, described Prophet Song, which was the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize, as “soul-shattering and true,” adding that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.”

The subject matter rings especially true given the scenes of violence that have erupted in Dublin in recent days. Ireland’s police chief Drew Harris this weekend blamed the rioting and violence, which saw multiple people stabbed, on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology...

London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.

The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.

Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.

The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.

It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...

London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.

The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.

Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.

The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.

It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...

Marlowe is a movie directed by Neil Jordan starirng Liam Neeson. With Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange. It is based on a novel by John Banville.

Marlowe is one of those films that probably shouldn’t have been made, and let me explain why: the main character has all the connotations of a classic that has reached a “sacrosanct” status and is probably the one of the most untouchable characters in the history of cinema, then played by the greatest star in the zenith of the golden age the seventh art – Humphrey Bogart.

About the Movie

Whether it was well-made, brilliant, or even if Orson Welles had directed it, I would have reason to be a bit reticent with this film. And, indeed I am, for the obvious reason that it dares revisit an untouchable classic.

Liam Neeson provides us with a similar role – if not identical – to Bogart’s,...

Marlowe is a movie directed by Neil Jordan starirng Liam Neeson. With Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange. It is based on a novel by John Banville.

Marlowe is one of those films that probably shouldn’t have been made, and let me explain why: the main character has all the connotations of a classic that has reached a “sacrosanct” status and is probably the one of the most untouchable characters in the history of cinema, then played by the greatest star in the zenith of the golden age the seventh art – Humphrey Bogart.

About the Movie

Whether it was well-made, brilliant, or even if Orson Welles had directed it, I would have reason to be a bit reticent with this film. And, indeed I am, for the obvious reason that it dares revisit an untouchable classic.

Liam Neeson provides us with a similar role – if not identical – to Bogart’s,...

Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark

Raymond Chandler’s famous detective Philip Marlowe doesn’t quite come back to life in this new movie from Neil Jordan, adapted from a novel by Booker prize winner John Banville, writing under his genre pen name Benjamin Black. There are some droll touches and the prewar Los Angeles production design looks good. But listening to the dialogue sometimes feels like wading through treacle. The wisecracks fizzle, and Liam Neeson, in the leading role, is not exactly on his most dynamic form. The way the character has been conceived seems to accentuate an exhausted worldweariness and, while I’m sure that Neeson could have given the part some of the wiry strength of a Humphrey Bogart or Elliot Gould, he somehow always looks as...

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Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)

Jackass has been in our lives for more than two decades. Since October 2000, when the original show premiered on MTV, Johnny Knoxville and his gaggle of goofballs have appealed to lowest-common-denominator comedic impulses. They’ve slammed their testicles into things and had them slammed into by other things. They’ve gleefully dove into danger and gotten legitimately hurt. They’ve aggravated and disturbed an entire generation of people who got Reagan and Clinton elected. But then, for another generation, they brought laughter and some earnest sense of camaraderie. Since the halcyon days of the show (which Knoxville quickly ended himself after the ire of a boomer nation called for censorship), Jackass has endured in cinematic form. The first...

Liam Neeson has now starred in 100 films, only a quarter of which are "Taken" sequels. I kid, I kid! Even 15 years into his surprising late-career run as an action star (going back to the original "Taken" in 2008), the Irish thespian retains an eclectic body of work under his belt. Since he started acting in the late 1970s, Neeson's starred in high-art dramas, auteur-driven period pieces, raunchy burlesques, pulpy blockbusters, classic literary adaptations, cheeky animated films, and, yes, more action movies about deadly old-timers than you can shake a stick at. Also, he played Jesus once. Twice, if Aslan from "Chronicles of Narnia" counts.

"Marlowe," which officially gives Neeson 100 movies to his name, casts the actor as Raymond Chandler's famous hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe in a story based on John Banville's 2014 novel, "The Black-Eyed Blonde." The movie also reunites Neeson with director Neil Jordan for their latest go-round...

Liam Neeson has said he found his appearance on ABC’s The View “embarrassing”.

The Taken star appeared on the US talk show last week to promote his forthcoming role in Marlowe.

Marlowe, a neo-noir crime thriller, based on John Banville’s 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, will be Neeson’s 100th film.

Neeson’s segment on The View, as noted by Insider, focused heavily on host Joy Behar’s crush on the actor. The programme featured a montage of on-air moments, in which Behar made remarks about her feelings toward Neeson.

“I would just like to have my ashes sprinkled over Liam Neeson,” she says in one such clip. A co-host joked that “Joy wants to get ‘taken’ by you”.

Speaking about his appearance on the show, Neeson told Rolling Stone that he was disappointed to find that the topic of discussion changed when he joined the show.

“I was...

Liam Neeson has said he found his appearance on ABC’s The View “embarrassing”.

The Taken star appeared on the US talk show last week to promote his forthcoming role in Marlowe.

Marlowe, a neo-noir crime thriller, based on John Banville’s 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, will be Neeson’s 100th film.

Neeson’s segment on The View, as noted by Insider, focused heavily on host Joy Behar’s crush on the actor. The programme featured a montage of on-air moments, in which Behar made remarks about her feelings toward Neeson.

“I would just like to have my ashes sprinkled over Liam Neeson,” she says in one such clip. A co-host joked that “Joy wants to get ‘taken’ by you”.

Speaking about his appearance on the show, Neeson told Rolling Stone that he was disappointed to find that the topic of discussion changed when he joined the show.

“I was...

Liam Neeson celebrated his 100th film “Marlowe” during a special screening Wednesday night at New York City’s Crosby Street Hotel.

“How did I get so lucky? Do you ever get moments like that? Where you think, if I was 15 years of age in a chemistry class or a math lesson in school, and someone showed you a video of where you are now — you’d say, ‘I don’t believe it,’” Neeson told Variety. “Especially working with Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Diane Kruger. It’s just a great cast.”

Based on John Banville’s novel “The Black-Eyed Blonde,” the neo-noir crime thriller follows Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson), who is hired to find heiress Clare Cavendish’s (Diane Kruger) missing former lover.

Although the private eye has been portrayed by such screen veterans as Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, Neeson “didn’t feel intimidated by these other actors,...

Liam Neeson has said he found his appearance on ABC’s The View “embarrassing”.

The Taken star appeared on the US talk show last week to promote his forthcoming role in Marlowe.

Marlowe, a neo-noir crime thriller, based on John Banville’s 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, will be Neeson’s 100th film.

Neeson’s segment on The View, as noted by Insider, focused heavily on host Joy Behar’s crush on the actor. The programme featured a montage of on-air moments, in which Behar made remarks about her feelings toward Neeson.

“I would just like to have my ashes sprinkled over Liam Neeson,” she says in one such clip. A co-host joked that “Joy wants to get ‘taken’ by you”.

Speaking about his appearance on the show, Neeson told Rolling Stone that he was disappointed to find that the topic of discussion changed when he joined the show.

“I was...

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe has been played by some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. To many, Humphrey Bogart remains the definitive Marlowe, based on his performance in Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep, but film noir afficianados will often cite Murder My Sweet’s Dick Powell, or later iterations, like Robert Mitchum in Farewell My Lovely or Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye as the best. Indeed, Liam Neeson is stepping into some mighty big shoes with his new movie, Marlowe, but if anyone can go toe-to-toe with Mitchum or Bogart, it’s Neeson, right?

To help bring Marlowe to the big screen, Neeson recruited one of his most frequent directors, Neil Jordan. The two famously worked together on Michael Collins, as well as the earlier High Spirits and the more recent (underrated) Breakfast on Pluto, and are set to reteam again on a new prison break thriller filming this year.

Despite indie auteur Neil Jordan teaming up with Liam Neeson and an all-star cast, Marlowe has a surprisingly low Rotten Tomatoes score, but that may not be an indication that the film is bad. Currently, the neo-noir has a 26 score from critics and 48 from audiences, which is abysmal given the prestigious names attached to it. The film follows Raymond Chandler's famous literary detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson) as he tries to track down the unscrupulous ex-lover of a wealthy heiress (Diane Kruger), a case that plunges him deep into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood's glamorous Golden Age.

Marlowe has many of the signature components of a classic film noir, with eccentric villains, femme fatales, and a sense of moral decay throughout the mean streets of Los Angeles. Over the past 80 years, Philip Marlowe has been portrayed by several actors in adaptations of Chandler's crime novels, but Marlowe takes its inspiration...

Marlowe - the latest incarnation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled literary detective - is based on John Banville's 2014 novel "The Black-Eyed Blonde," and one simple change honors Chandler's work from the '30s and '40s while making the movie itself feel more authentic. It finds Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) hot on the case of Nico Peterson (François Arnaud), an erstwhile Hollywood prop specialist who's disappeared and left his wealthy lover Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger) distraught. As Marlowe wades deeper into the murky waters of Hollywood's Golden Age, he finds it to be a cesspool of corrupt cops and femme fatales.

A moody period piece with ambiance, performances, and camera work that all pay homage to the film noir movies of the '40s, there are a few ways that it's updated for modern audiences. There are more violent fight scenes, more graphic deaths, and certain revisionist tones that reflect present-day sensibilities.

Warning: spoilers ahead for Marlowe.

Like all of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective stories, Marlowe has a thrilling mystery at its center, and these are the five clues that lead to solving Nico Peterson's disappearance. Based on John Banville's novel "The Black-Eyed Blonde," the neo-noir Marlowe follows Liam Neeson's Philip Marlowe as he tries to find a renegade prop specialist thought to either be deceased or in hiding. From the moment Marlowe is contracted to find Nico Peterson by his wealthy lover Clare Cavendish, played by Diane Kruger, there are clues that the famous gumshoe must interpret in order to solve the case.

Some of these clues are not presented to Marlowe and the other characters, but rather to the audience, inviting viewers to begin solving the case even before he can. From particularly-placed props to the bizarre nature of the body found outside Floyd Hanson's prestigious club,...

Adapted from the authorized 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, which continues the story of Raymond Chandler’s private detective Philip Marlowe, Marlowe has everything that would make a neo-noir thrilling and compelling, but it drops the ball. Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by William Monahan, this updated version of the titular character, played here with weariness by Liam Neeson, is flat and, perhaps most appalling of all, dull. The film struggles to be intriguing, or even mildly enjoyable, pivoting from one mysterious subplot to another with little interest in its own narrative. Despite a stellar cast, Marlowe doesn’t rise to the occasion, stumbling along without ever finding its footing.

Set in Bay City 1939, the film opens with Marlowe (Neeson) being visited by Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), an heiress in search of her missing lover, Nico Peterson (François Arnaud), a props master at a film studio.

It's been 45 years since anyone watched Philip Marlowe solve crimes in a movie, and now Neil Jordan's Marlowe places Liam Neeson among a unique cohort of actors who have played the famous literary detective, from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the gritty '70s. Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is considered one of the most well-known antiheroes in crime fiction, beginning with the hard-boiled variety that rose to prominence in the '20s. Characteristic of protagonists in the genre, Marlowe is an honest gumshoe operating in a corrupt world, often seen as naive and chaste by those around him but a dogged pursuer of the truth no matter the personal cost.

Marlowe uses Chandler's beloved private eye but takes its plot from another author's book "The Black-Eyed Blonde," a 2015 novel by John Banville that focuses on the sudden disappearance of sordid raconteur Niko Peterson. Unlike film noir movie flop Nightmare Alley,...

Neil Jordan's new detective movie "Marlowe," starring Liam Neeson, is the director's first since "Greta" in 2018. Jordan may be one of the moodiest filmmakers working, and the smoky mysteries of film noir seem especially suited to his skills. "Marlowe" does indeed feature the famous P.I. created by Raymond Chandler in his 1939 novel "The Big Sleep," but it is not based on any of Chandler's works. Instead, the screenplay, by William Monahan ("The Departed") is based on a spinoff Marlowe novel called "The Black-Eyed Blonde" by John Banville. True to the genre, "Marlowe" is about the eponymous detective's search for the ex-lover of a rich heiress (Diane Kruger). A notable piece of trivia: "Marlowe" constitutes Neeson's 100th official screen credit.

As of this writing, "Marlowe" is not enjoying the best reviews (it currently has a 23 approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes), but fans of film noir would do well to...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for 2023’s Marlowe

Marlowe is adapted from the 2014 novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, by John Banville, and there are stark differences between the film and the noir book. Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by William Monahan, Marlowe stars Liam Neeson as Philip Marlowe, the private detective who’s tasked with uncovering a disappearance that begins to unravel a web of conspiracies involving drug lords and the story’s femme fatale.

Marlowe takes several pages out of Banville’s book, which itself is a continuation of the work Raymond Chandler started when he created the character, helping to spearhead the hardboiled crime fiction genre. As with any adaptation, there will be certain details and subplots left by the wayside. Certainly, Monahan, most famous for having written The Departed, takes creative liberties with Marlowe, choosing what to take from the source material and what to remove.

Marlowe has a packed and star-studded cast. Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by William Monahan, famous for penning the acclaimed script for The Departed, Marlowe is based on the 2014 novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, by John Banville, who wrote the book under the pen name, Benjamin Black. The film adaptation’s story is a continuation of the established titular character, who was created by author Raymond Chandler, while giving the private detective some modern sensibilities.

The neo-noir follows Philip Marlowe as he investigates the disappearance (and presumed death) of Nico Peterson after being tipped off about it by an heiress. Jordan has assembled a fantastic, talented, and well-known cast to portray the myriad of characters in Marlowe, most of whom have some kind of ulterior motive that Marlowe tries to figure out, all while finding himself knee-deep in illicit affairs the more he unearths their secrets. Led by Liam Neeson...

Neil Jordan is a prolific filmmaker. His work has spanned many genres over the course of his career, and he's not a writer-director whose movies can be placed in a box. Where to even begin listing his credits? There's "The Crying Game," "Interview with a Vampire," "Michael Collins," "Mona Lisa," and a movie we spent a good deal of time asking him about, "The Company of Wolves." Now, Jordan returns to the world of noir with "Marlowe." 

The filmmaker reunites with Liam Neeson for a Philip Marlowe picture, about the same literary detective character Humphrey Bogart played in "The Big Sleep" and Elliott Gould in "The Long Goodbye." This story is not based on one of Raymond Chandler's hardboiled novels, but Jordan does capture the vibe that defines the character at the heart of those stories. As Jordan told us, he wanted to make a colorful noir and even...

It’s hard to believe, but this weekend will be the fourth four-day weekend in the past two months as the nation celebrates Presidents Day, and schools and government workers get another Monday off. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

The big movie this weekend, opening in over 4,300 theaters, is Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray and Jonathan Majors as the MCU’s latest big bad, Kang the Conqueror.

The previous Ant-Man movies didn’t do nearly as well as other solo MCU movies from pre-pandemic, maybe because the character wasn’t as popular as Iron Man, Captain America and Thor, but this time around, “Quantumania” is setting up Phase 5, which will lead up to “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” in three years. The previous two movies opened in July with “Ant-Man” in 2015 opening with 57.2 million,...

Liam Neeson in Marlowe Photo: Open Road Films The dark and violent world of Raymond Chandler’s durable hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe brings many descriptors to mind. Tough. Two-fisted. Cynical. “Elegant” comes far down that list. But a small elegance, expressed in decent production values, terse pacing and long lateral camera takes,...

The key to understanding the new Philip Marlowe film is being aware that it’s not based on an actual novel by Raymond Chandler but a 2014 exercise by Irish mystery writer John Banville to replicate the style of that legendary author. This picture, somewhat of a beguiling genre experiment that seemingly nobody asked for, initially seems like a bad throwback, but in its game of telephone through adaptation ends up, actually, something of a moderately funny joke.

It’s hard to totally pin down Marlowe’s reason for being; a post-modern Irish exile from Hollywood movies (sinister backlot goings-on supporting this reading) or maybe some kind of elaborate tax shelter plot? It’s as if director Neil Jordan and star Liam Neeson committed to making a noir throwback right after L.A. Confidential came out 25 years ago, realized they forgot to ever go through with it and, coming on the...

Raymond Chandler’s famous hard-boiled detective gets an update in Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe.” Stepping into the shoes that Humphrey Bogart and Elliot Gould made famous, Liam Neeson’s 100th feature film suggests, perhaps, the weary actor needn’t be so prolific. An adaptation of John Banville’s “The Black Eyed Blonde,” the film “Marlowe” — like its perfunctory title suggests — is simply going through the motions, adopting its protagonist’s lethargic disposition.

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Plot: In 1939 Los Angeles, hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired by the daughter (Diane Kruger) of a legendary silent star (Jessica Lange) to find a prop man who went missing. Marlowe quickly finds himself embroiled in a case involving drugs, murder, and secrets that the powers-that-be in Hollywood would like kept secret.

Review: With Marlowe, Liam Neeson finds himself stepping into the shoes of perhaps the most iconic film noir hero of all time. Writer Raymond Chandler’s books were big favourites in Tinseltown in the forties, with Dick Powell (Murder My Sweet), Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep) and many more playing Philip Marlowe during the peak noir era. In the seventies neo-noir revival years, the character once again became hip, with Robert Mitchum playing an older Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely and a remake of The Big Sleep. In contrast, Elliot Gould played a hip, spaced-out...

Legendary characters don’t die. They keep getting reinvented. If they exist in fiction, new authors come along to create new adventures for them. And if they exist onscreen, you can bet that a remake or reboot will come along every generation or so in hopes of recatching that lightning in a bottle.

And often both happens, as is the case with Philip Marlowe, the iconic hard-boiled detective invented by Raymond Chandler and portrayed onscreen over the decades by actors including Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and probably others I’ve forgotten.

The latest tough guy actor to don the fedora is Liam Neeson, in director Neil Jordan’s new film based on a 2014 novel by John Banville, writing under the name Benjamin Black. Suffice it to say that the results won’t erase anyone’s memories of The Big Sleep or The Long Goodbye.

Mumbai, Feb 13 (Ians) Irish actor Liam Neeson’s 100th film ‘Marlowe’ will be released theatrically in India on February 24. The film, based on the bestselling novel by John Banville, is a gripping period thriller that promises to keep the viewers guessing right till the end.

Set in the late thirties, the film tells the story of Philip Marlowe, a sharp and sublime but down on the luck private detective who is tasked with the mission to find the ex-lover of a ravishing heiress. As he delves deeper into the hunt, Marlowe realises that there is much more to the case than what meets the eye.

The film, directed by Academy award winning filmmaker Neil Jordan, also features Diane Kruger, Alan Cumming and Danny Huston among others.

Liam, who began his film career back in 1978, is renowned for his powerful performances in films such as ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Gangs of New York...

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February might be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be packed. This year brings the expected rom-coms, internationally traveling strippers, and a bear on cocaine. And that’s just on the movie front. There’s plenty to watch on TV, too (though nothing with cocaine bears). But first, the month kicks off with a chiller from M. Night Shyamalan.

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Not to be confused with the 1969 film, 2023’s Marlowe features Liam Neeson as the titular protagonist Philip Marlowe, taken from the fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. The film comes from an award-winning production team with a star-studded cast that includes the likes of Jessica Lange and Diane Kruger, to name a few. Based on the 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, the neo-noir crime thriller is directed by Neil Jordan and written by William Monahan. Set in 1930s Los Angeles, the plot follows Marlowe, a down-on-luck private eye who is hired by a very wealthy heiress to look for her former lover.

After being portrayed by the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould, James Garner, and Robert Montgomery, the Raymond Chandler creation Philip Marlowe has found new life with Liam Neeson. Based on John Banville’s authorized sequel novel to The Long Goodbye, 2014’s The Black-Eyed Blonde, the script for Neil Jordan’s Marlowe comes from William Monahan (The Departed). Ahead of a release next month, the first trailer has now arrived.

A noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Los Angeles, the film centers around a street-wise, down on his luck detective, Philip Marlowe, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), daughter of a well-known movie star (Jessica Lange). The disappearance unearths a web of lies, and soon Marlowe is involved in a dangerous, deadly investigation where everyone involved has something to hide.

See the trailer below.

Marlowe opens on February 15.

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Other winners include Genki Kawamura’s ‘A Hundred Flowers’ and China’s ‘A Woman’.

Colombian director Laura Mora’s second film The Kings Of The World has won the Golden Shell award for best film at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).

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A Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, the film follows five street kids from Medellin who venture into the countryside in search of the land that one of them inherited. Film Factory Entertainment handles international sales. Mora’s debut was 2017 Toronto and San Sebastian selection Killing Jesus.

World-weary gumshoe Philip Marlowe has been played most famously by Humphrey Bogart but also by James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and sundry others. Enter Liam Neeson, 70 this year but still apparently capable of disabling five assailants at once with the right small arms and some smashable furniture in Marlowe, Neil Jordan’s frisky film noir pastiche. He’s in tough company. He also has a tough crowd – film noir purists, who are legion – to please.

The year is 1939; the setting is old Hollywood, though the film actually shot as an Irish-Spanish co-production in Barcelona. Marlowe is commissioned by Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), a dame who could cut diamonds with her teeth, to find her missing lover. Nico Petersen (François Arnaud) is – or was – a prop master at a film studio, making regular trips to Mexico to buy cheap ornaments that are a literal cover for the drugs he deals...

Forty-four years have passed since a feature film was last built around Raymond Chander’s harder-than-hardboiled fictional detective Philip Marlowe — a screen absence that seems both unduly long and now, in the wake of Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe,” not quite long enough. A phony, flimsy attempt at vintage noir, the film is adapted not from a Chandler work but “The Black-Eyed Blonde,” an authorized Marlowe entry from 2014, by Irish novelist John Banville. Minus Banville’s own knack for literary ventriloquism, however, this all too evidently European co-production can’t help but feel multiple degrees removed from the real thing, not helped by the shuffling, ungainly presence of a wildly miscast Liam Neeson in shoes once filled by Bogart and Mitchum.

Following a low-key premiere as the closing film at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, “Marlowe” will be released Stateside by Open Road Films on December 2 — though even with the big-name cachet of Jordan,...

Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger turned out at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Saturday to support the world premiere of Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe,” which closes the festival tonight.

Jordan and William Monahan’s adaptation of John Banville’s novel “The Black-Eyed Blonde” centers Raymond Chandler’s famous detective Philip Marlowe, and – like Chandler’s books – is set in 1930s Los Angeles.

Jordan said it was confusing to call it a film noir. “First of all, it’s shot in color,” he said.

Even though it is set in the past, it’s a futuristic film that provided his reference point for the look of this one.

“To make a film like this, you have to reinvent the image. The reference I chose was ‘Blade Runner,’ which is set in L.A. in the future. I’m making a film set in L.A. in the past, but somehow it’s a sci-fi film.

The film stars Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange.

Marlowe, directed by Neil Jordan and written by William Monahan, will have its world premiere at the closing gala of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Screening in official competition, Marlowe stars Liam Neeson as the titular private detective asked to hunt down the ex-lover of a mysterious blonde woman, played by Diane Kruger, in 1930’s Los Angeles. It is inspired by John Banville’s novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, based on the character of Philip Marlowe from the novels of Raymond Chandler.

Jessica Lange, Ian Hart, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Alan Cumming also star.

Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe,” which stars Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger, is set to close the San Sebastian Festival next month. It will be the film’s world premiere.

Jordan, who is known for writing features including “The Crying Game” (for which he won an Oscar) and directing “Interview with the Vampire,” which featured Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, will be in attendance at the Kursaal Auditorium on Sept. 24 for the “Marlowe” premiere alongside the film’s stars.

Based on John Banville’s novel “The Black Eyed Blonde,” “Marlowe” is set in 1930s Los Angeles where private eye Philip Marlowe (played by Neeson) is tasked with finding a beautiful heiress’s missing former lover. The character of Marlowe was originally created by Raymond Chandler almost a century ago.

Jessica Lange (“American Horror Story”), Danny Huston (“Succession”), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (“His Dark Materials”), Daniela Melchior (“The Suicide Squad”) and Alan Cumming (“The Good Wife...

Neil Jordan’s ‘Marlowe’: Liam Neeson And Diane Kruger Feature To Debut At San Sebastian

The Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival will close with the world premiere of Marlowe, the latest film by Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan. The film will debut on September 24 at the Kursaal Auditorium with the film’s stars Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in attendance. Based on the novel The Black Eyed Blonde by John Banville, the film is set in 1930s Los Angeles and follows private eye Philip Marlowe (Neeson) as he receives a commission to find the missing lover of a beautiful heiress. The film is produced by Alan Moloney, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Fasano, Billy Hines, Philip Kim, and Patrick Hibler. Shot in Barcelona and Dublin, the film is a co-production between Parallel Films, Hills Productions, and Davis Films, with support from Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland.

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Open Road Films is joining forces with Liam Neeson for Marlowe, a noir crime thriller boasting a star-studded cast that will make your head spin. Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Daniela Melchior, and Francois Arnaud join Neeson as cast members, with Academy Award winner Neil Jordan directing from a script by William Monahan.

Based on Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s book The Black-Eyed Blonde, Marlowe presents “a gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930’s Bay City, centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), daughter of a well-known movie star (Jessica Lange). The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he’s determined to bring to light.

Exclusive: The Suicide Squad breakout Daniela Melchior and The Moodys star François Arnaud are the latest to have joined Liam Neeson movie thriller Marlowe, which is currently filming in Ireland and Spain.

Melchior and Arnaud will play brother and sister, Lynn and Nico Peterson.

In Marlowe, when private detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.

Also starring are Diana Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Danny Huston, Ian Hart and Colm Meaney. William Monahan’s (The Departed) script is based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, with Oscar winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) aboard to direct.

The film is being produced by Alan Moloney,...

Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Danny Huston, Ian Hart and Colm Meaney have joined Liam Neeson in noir thriller Marlowe, which is now filming in Ireland and Spain.

The William Monahan (The Departed) script is based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, with Oscar winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) aboard to direct.

In Marlowe, when private detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.

Kruger will play Clare Cavendish, the femme-fatale, instigator of the plot, who inherits her irresistible charm from her notorious mother, Dorothy Cavendish, played by Oscar winner Jessica Lange.

Hart is set to play detective Joe Green whilst Colm Meaney plays Bernie Ohls,...

Exclusive: Storyboard Media and CAA Media Finance are launching sales on detective thriller Marlowe ahead of the Cannes virtual market, we can reveal.

Taken star Liam Neeson is set to lead the noir thriller about Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective Philip Marlowe with Oscar-winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) directing Oscar-winner William Monahan’s (The Departed) script.

The project has a great premise, one that Neeson could excel in. Based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde, the 1950’s-set film will see private detective Marlowe (Neeson) hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress. Initially it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.

The project, which was first revealed in 2017, now has new impetus with producers and sellers taking the package to...

Production earmarked for October; will take place in Los Angeles, Europe.

Liam Neeson will portray hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe in Neil Jordan’s Marlowe based on a screenplay by William Monahan, with Storyboard Media handling sales at the upcoming virtual Cannes market.

Storyboard Media, H2L Media, Nickel City Pictures and Parallel Film Productions are producing and have lined up an October start on production, which will take place in Los Angeles and Europe.

Monahan adapted the screenplay from the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black, the pseudonym of John Banville who received the blessing of the Raymond Chandler...

A wide group of global entertainment figures have signed a letter supporting the Polish LGBT+ community in the face of growing controversy in the country.

On Tuesday, the government stepped in to support the Polish town of Tuchow, which recently lost financial support from the EU after it set up a ‘LGBT-free’ zone. The authorities said they were “supporting a municipality that has a pro-family agenda”; the decision has provoked angry responses around the world. On August 8, authorities detained 48 people at a reportedly peaceful pro-lgbt+ protest.

The responses now include an open letter signed by a cross-section of notable figures from film, literature and further afield, including the Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar and Oscar-nominated Luca Guadagnino, the Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk, The Handmaid’s Tale writer Margaret Atwood, and Polish filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Jan Komasa.

The letter, published on the website wyborcza.pl, states that homophobia in Poland is...

“Pain and Glory” director Pedro Almodovar, “The Nun” actor Isabelle Huppert and “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino are among a galaxy of 70 film, television, literature and eminent personalities from other walks of life who have signed an open letter expressing “outrage” over the repression of the LGBT+ community in Poland.

Addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the letter states: “We, the undersigned, express our outrage at repressions directed against the LGBT+ community in Poland. We speak out in solidarity with activists and their allies, who are being detained, brutalized, and intimidated. We voice our grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom.”

Other signees include Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, “Vera Drake” director Mike Leigh, and actors Ed Harris and James Norton.

The 2019 recipients of the Oscar Wilde Award, now in its 14th year, amply embody the values of sponsoring organization the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, created by Trina Vargo “with a vision,” as she puts it, “of making an old relationship contemporary, and inclusive.”

Slated to be feted on Feb. 21 at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot HQ in Santa Monica are part-Irish Glenn Close, as well as Ireland-born Aidan Gillen and Chris O’Dowd. Each one’s resume would surely inspire an appreciative nod from any Hibernian. In addition, each has contributed to an important — and remarkably timely — Irish-set film of this decade: Close starred in and co-wrote 2011’s gender-shifting Victorian fable “Albert Nobbs,” while the men played in 2014’s examination of clergy abuse’s legacy, “Calvary.”

Close earned a 1982 Obie for playing the biological female posing as a male hotel butler. “I never forgot her,” the star says. “It basically took...