Ramachandran, Naman (5 February 2023). " 'The Banshees of Inisherin', 'Tar' Lead London Critics' Circle Awards". Variety . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Given the award-winning pedigree of its actors and filmmakers, including the renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins (a regular Mendes collaborator), this could well clean up the town.

a b c d Zivkovic, Alex (2018), "'It's Like Being in the Picture': The Dominion of Light at SFMOMA". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (accessed 19 December 2020)

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a b c Kantrowitz, Jonathan (25 November 2017), René Magritte: The Fifth Season. Art History News. (accessed 19 December 2020) Cassou, Jean (1984) The Concise Encyclopaedia of Symbolism. Chartwell Books, Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey. 292 pp. ISBN 0-89009-706-2 This fantastic poster has never been folded and is in superb condition. Being double-sided, it is suitable for display in an Art of the Movies Light Box or traditional framing. A guaranteed original one sheet movie poster for Sam Mendes' romantic drama "Empire of Light", starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Monica Dolan, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones and Colin Firth.

Kroll, Justin (6 April 2021). "Searchlight Lands Sam Mendes' Next Film 'Empire of Light' Starring Olivia Colman". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 27 July 2021. Tartaglione, Nancy (28 February 2022). "Sam Mendes Starts Production on 'Empire of Light'; Tom Brooke & Hannah Onslow Join Cast of Searchlight Pic". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 28 February 2022.

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Filming began on 7 February 2022 at Margate on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. [10] [11] [12] The Dreamland Margate Cinema building was remodelled and renamed until 15 May 2022. [13] Empire of Light premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 3 September 2022. [15] It received a limited theatrical release by Searchlight Pictures in the United States on 9 December 2022 and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2023. [16] [17] From Academy Award®-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary (Olivia Colman), a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen (Micheal Ward), a new employee who longs to escape the provincial town in which he faces daily adversity. Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship, and come to experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community.

Jones, Ian (13 March 2023). "UK has modest success at 2023 Oscars with four wins". The Independent . Retrieved 13 March 2023. Instead, this looks like a deeply intimate and personal offering from the usually sweeping Mendes, and we can't wait to see how it emerges as a potential Oscars frontrunner. Anderson, Erik (12 December 2022). "2022 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' wins seven". AwardsWatch . Retrieved 11 March 2023. a b Bradshaw, Peter (12 September 2022). "Empire of Light review – Olivia Colman shines in Sam Mendes's darkening hymn to cinema". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 January 2023. One source states the artist was inspired by the works of John Atkinson Grimshaw, an English painter from the Victorian era, who had delighted in his time to paint urban views at sunset. [9] More perceptively, other sources identify the nocturnal paintings by the Belgian symbolist William Degouve de Nuncques (1867 – 1935) as an influence on Magritte's series, specifically his painting The Blind House. [10] :65 p. [7] :126 p. The art historian and former director of the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, A. M . Hammacher also observed that Magritte was "highly interested" in the landscapes of the great German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. [7] :126 p. William Rubin made comparisons between some of Max Ernst's frottage paintings, specifically Forest [(1927), oil on canvas 114 x 146cm. in Joseph Slifka collection, New York at that time], commenting of Ernst's painting "the night landscape enigmatically includes a bright daylight sky (Magritte was to explore this same conjunction later in The Empire of Light II)." [6] :182–184 p. Comparisons with Salvador Dalí's gouache Night and Day Clothes (1936) and Max Ernst's Day and Night (1941–42) in the Menil Collection are also intriguing. [3]The acclaimed Mendes, himself an Oscar winner for American Beauty, sketches a wintry and melancholic portraitof a British coastal town, and the beguiling cinema that lies at its heart. This is the first film that Mendes has written on his own (1917 was a co-writing credit shared with Krysty Wilson-Cairns). Hilary sees Stephen being harassed by a group of skinheads on the street and later deal with a racist customer and Stephen confides in her about the racism he faces. Hilary and Stephen go to the beach, where Stephen tells her about his first love, Ruby, who works at the same hospital as his mother. When Stephen asks about her past, she goes on an agitated rant about men and angrily destroys a sand castle they had been building.

Harper, Brad (23 February 2022). "Dreamland in Margate transformed into cinema for new Sam Mendes film Empire of Light starring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth". Kent Online . Retrieved 25 October 2022.

It's a given that Colman excels at burying beneath the skin of lonely, repressed characters, whom she's able to imbue with vibrant inner life. Her award-winning portrayal of the tragic Queen Anne in The Favourite was a masterclass in mixing sympathy and revulsion, although we're not expecting too much of the latter here. The Empire of Light II (1950), 79 x 99cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (Gift of the Menils) Set in an English Coastal town of the 1980's, Empire of Light explores love, racism and mental health through the eyes of employees of the town's Empire cinema.