Empire Falls - Fate of a City
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Empire Falls - Fate of a City |
| Original title | Empire Falls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | approx. 197 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Fred Schepisi |
| script | Richard Russo |
| production | William Teitler |
| music | Paul Grabowsky |
| camera | Ian Baker |
| cut | Kate Williams |
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Empire Falls - Fate of a City (original title Empire Falls ) is an American two-part miniseries from 2005 . Directed by Fred Schepisi , the screenplay was written by Richard Russo based on his own, Pulitzer Prize- winning novel.
action
Miles Roby lives in the small town of Empire Falls, Maine and works as the manager of the Empire Grill . He lived in the city all his life. Roby is divorced from Janine, who practices in the fitness center owned by Walt Comeau. She has a teenage daughter, Christina.
Christina resents her mother for entering into a relationship with Comeau, who moves into the shared house. She befriends John Voss, who goes to the same school as her.
Roby often meets his father Max and his brother David, who takes drugs. The daughter of the owner of the Empire Grill , Cindy Whiting, was in love with Roby for years. Roby remembers his childhood which is shown in flashbacks .
Reviews
“A miniseries studded with actors based on a bestselling novel, which takes some time to establish and develop the large arsenal of characters, although a number of reviews of the protagonist's past and numerous subplots do not contribute to the rather leisurely pace of the overly long film increase."
Richard Roeper wrote on Ebert & Roeper that it would have been better to break the plot into several parts, as it would lose “rich tissue” through the compression .
The magazine TV Spielfilm 4/2008 wrote that the “ portrait of society” is “only gradually unfolding its magic” and that it is a “well-attended, multi-layered social study” .
Awards
Paul Newman won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 . The nine other Emmy nominations included those for Fred Schepisi, for the screenplay, for Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joanne Woodward. The film for Best Mini-Series or TV Film and Paul Newman for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Mini-Series or TV Film each won a Golden Globe Award in 2006 . Ed Harris and Joanne Woodward were also nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Ed Harris, Paul Newman, and Outstanding Miniseries were each nominated for a Satellite Award in 2005. Paul Newman won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 . Joanne Woodward, Robin Wright Penn and Ed Harris were nominated for the same award.
The film won the Casting Society of America's Artios Award in 2005 and the Art Directors Guild's 2006 Excellence in Production Design Award . Helen Hunt won the Gracie Allen Award in 2006 . Fred Schepisi was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award in 2006, the film in the same year for the Costume Designers Guild Award and for the Producers Guild Award .
backgrounds
The film was shot in various locations in Maine . After its first broadcast in the USA on May 28, 2005, it was released on DVD and video in Hungary , Finland and Argentina . In Germany it was shown in selected cinemas on December 2, 2006.
Web links
- Empire Falls - fate of a city in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Empire Falls - fate of a city at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Empire Falls - Fate of a City. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Quoted from: Empire Falls - Fate of a City at Rotten Tomatoes (English), accessed on October 29, 2017.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm 4/2008, page 194
- ↑ Filming locations for Empire Falls, accessed February 29, 2008
- ↑ Empire Falls premiere dates, accessed February 29, 2008