Jaws
This is an absolute classic which struck the fear of God into me as a child, and I still get the shivers when I watch Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss head out together. It’s a great film, with a great finale.
The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ classic offbeat comedy is a film I will never tire of watching. I’ve just worked with John Goodman and I’m happy to report that he’s a fabulous man. I just love his character, Walter, so much.
A Matter Of Life And Death
This Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger classic features my favourite David Niven performance. It’s visually stunning and so far ahead of its time for sheer cinematic invention. It’s beautifully touching and witty, and if you haven’t seen it, you’re in for a treat.
Matthew Goode has said that he is expecting big things from Chan-wook Park‘s upcoming movie Stoker.
“[Miller] wrote the film under a pseudonym and it was on the Black List, which is the top scripts that haven’t been made yet – that was in 2010,” he said.
“It got picked up by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and Fox Searchlight, and the fact they got Chan-wook Park to make it is creating quite a lot of buzz. He’s just the most stupendously gifted director. He speaks more English than he lets on, but everything is done via a translator. In the end it was just incredible, a really great experience.”
Discussing his mysterious character Uncle Charlie, Goode added: “He turns up at this funeral – the opening shot is of Nicole and Mia, they’re a mother and daughter, he’s the uncle and it’s his brother who’s died.
“[Charlie] hasn’t been around for 25 years he’s been off travelling, or so we think, and various people start to disappear. Then you realise there’s possibly a pre-disposition in the bloodline of the family to do dark things. It should be great.”
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A Single Man and Watchmen star Matthew Goode has announced the initial line-up for 2012′s Jameson Cult Film Club.
The free cult film event will kick off with an advanced screening of Jo Nesbo’s Scandinavian thriller Headhunters at London’s Saatchi Gallery on March 21.
Headhunters, which opens in UK cinemas on April 6, will be the first in Jameson’s ‘Future Cult’ strand and feature a post-screen Q&A with the cast and filmmakers.
The movie, based on the novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo, centres on an accomplished headhunter who risks everything to steal a valuable painting
Goode told Digital Spy of his new role as Jameson’s cult film ambassador: “It’s in its fourth year and they came and asked, and I actually hadn’t been to any of the events before but I just loved the sound of it and obviously I’ll be going to them this year.
“It’s just a little bit different and exciting and obviously Jameson has been a champion of cinema… it’s difficult to say ‘this is going to be a cult film’ immediately but it’s really championed independent film, which is obviously quite close to my heart.”
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“Match Point.” Tennis pros like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick all tend to date beautiful women, and the movie “Match Point” brought this point home. Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a former tournament pro who is coming to grips with the end of his competitive career and is looking for a position as a teaching pro. He makes friends with Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode) who is engaged to the sultry Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson). Chris wants Nola in the worst way and she likes him as well, but they know that going behind Tom’s back is wrong. Nevertheless they begin an affair and Chris has to hide his feelings from Tom.
This elegant adaptation of the much-loved Sebastian Faulks novel might not have Sherlock’s bells and whistles but it oozes class and is sure to keep BBC1’s stranglehold on Sunday night viewing for the next two weeks. Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy are the star-crossed lovers in a tale that switches time between the misery of the trenches of World War I and pre-war France, and there’s staunch support from Joseph Mawle and Matthew Goode. Be warned: it’s a three-hankie job.
Sebastian Faulks’s novel, about one man’s intense experiences of the extremes of both love and war, has become a bona fide modern classic. A bestseller since its 1993 publication, it was also voted Britain’s 13th favourite book in the BBC’s Big Read poll.
This two-part adaptation by Abi Morgan, writer of 1950s-set drama The Hour and recent film The Iron Lady, therefore has a lot to live up to.
Sublimely shot and strongly performed, it’s directed by Philip Martin, whose CV includes the Mo Mowlam biopic, while the classy supporting cast includes Matthew Goode and Anthony Andrews.
The story begins in 1910, with Englishman Stephen Wraysford (rising star Eddie Redmayne) arriving to work at a textile factory in northern France.
He soon falls for his host’s wife Isabelle (Clémence Poésy, best known from the Harry Potter films), and the pair embark on a passionate affair.
Source: Telegraph
Jonathan Teplitzky’s bracing exploration of grief was alternately devastating and life-affirming, a cathartic masterwork that boasted some of the year’s best performances, particularly Matthew Goode as a chef in mourning and Kate Beahan as a compassionate sex worker. It also had, in its shambolic school concert, the best, most determinedly “Australian” spin on the Hollywood ending of the year – a scene the makers of Crazy, Stupid, Love should be forced to watch on repeat.
Source: The Vine