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a b c Kantrowitz, Jonathan (25 November 2017), René Magritte: The Fifth Season. Art History News. (accessed 19 December 2020) 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. If I believe this evocation has such poetic power, it is because among other reasons, I have always felt the greatest interest in night and in day, yet without ever having preferred one or the other. This great personal interest in night and day is a feeling of admiration and astonishment." [8] :177 p.

Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Empire of Light movie review & film summary (2022)". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved 23 January 2023.Anderson, Erik (18 February 2023). "2022 Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) winners". AwardsWatch . Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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 employeeCassou, Jean (1984) The Concise Encyclopaedia of Symbolism. Chartwell Books, Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey. 292 pp. ISBN 0-89009-706-2 The film had its world premiere at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on 3 September 2022, and was released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through a limited theatrical release in the United States on 9 December 2022 and theatrically in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2023. Empire of Light received praise for Colman and Ward's performances and Roger Deakins's cinematography, but the screenplay was criticised. [ by whom?] At the 80th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Colman, while Ward received a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 76th British Academy Film Awards. It also received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the 95th Academy Awards. [4] Plot [ edit ] Sam Mendes’ explains why he chose to set EMPIRE OF LIGHT in Margate: “I was drawn to this particular place because it offered so much opportunity in the scale of the visual landscape,” says Mendes. “It’s where JMW Turner painted most of his famous paintings – he went there because he said that the skies were the finest in Europe. It’s where TS Eliot wrote the Waste Land, sitting in a shelter just outside of the cinema looking out over the beach and the grey sea that sits beyond. There’s a breadth about the place, which gives it poetry and a cinematic scope.” Colman and Ward's characters become friends and soulmates across the course of the drama, with Toby Jones playing the cinema projectionist and Colin Firth in an as-yet undisclosed role. Tangcay, Jazz (5 January 2023). " 'Banshees of Inisherin', 'Everything Everywhere', 'Women Talking' Tie for Most Wins at Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards". Variety . Retrieved 5 January 2023.

Likewise, the trailer doesn't give too much away, impressionistically cutting between Colman's central character and another figure played by Blue Storybreakout Micheal Ward. Zilko, Christian (2 September 2022). "New 'Empire of Light' Images Offer a Closer Look at Sam Mendes' Love Letter to Cinema". IndieWire . Retrieved 25 October 2022. 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. 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]

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Grobar, Matt (21 December 2021). " 'Empire of Light': Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke & Tanya Moodie Join Sam Mendes' Searchlight Pictures Drama". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 21 December 2021. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting. Magritte ended up producing multiple large, high-quality versions that year to satisfy the collectors, and he continued to occasionally explore the theme in paintings for the rest of his life. [4] a b c d e Torczyner, Harry (1977) Magritte: Ideas and Images. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 277 pp. ISBN 0-8109-1300-3 Wright, Joe (22 November 2021). "Empire of Light, starring Olivia Colman and directed by Sam Mendes, to be filmed at Dreamland in Margate". Kent Online . Retrieved 29 November 2021.