Name Lena Olin
Born Stockholm, Sweden, 1955
Background Before Olin arrived in Hollywood she had already experienced steady stage success in her native Sweden. Acting at Stockholm's Royal Theatre under the tutelage of family friend Ingmar Bergman, she took roles in Ibsen and Shakespeare plays and won her first significant screen part in the directors 1984 television film Efter Repetitionen. But it was her performance as Sabina in Philip Kaufman's Milan Kundura adaptation The Unbearable Lightness of Being that made her name in Europe and beyond. Moving on to Hollywood. Olin played a series of temptresses. being nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 1990 Academy Awards for her portrayal of a cheating wife in Enemies: A Love Story. Despite a dip during the 1990s she went on to star in the widely acclaimed Chocolat. which was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. and to appear regularly as Irina Derevko in television series Alias.
What’s she up to now? Olin is soon set to grace our cinema screens again alongside Heath Ledger in Casanova. She will also appear later this year with Rosamund Pike in The Devr/ You Know and has been keeping busy filming with Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba for Awake. What she says about sexual tension on set ‘Movie shoots encourage intimacy and an attraction between people. Some sort of magic occurs. Like in a closed company. I don't want to hear my co-star — or anyone else on the team for that matter - talk about their wife or girlfriend. Yuck.’
Interesting Fact In 1993‘s Romeo is Bleeding Olin played a psychopathic Russian assassin so desperate to escape that she is willing to chop her own arms off. I Casanova is on general release from Fri 77 Feb. See review page 4 7.
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To throw stones at goats and to let history be what we make of it. Broadcaster and journalist Edward R Murrow lived by this paraphrased mantra. He was from a very different journalist age, one where integrity and intellectual management of the truth in all its perceived forms was everything. His influence can be seen today in the work of Jon Snow, John Pilger, John Sweeney and Orla Guerin. Yet even in his time he could see that the medium he prized above all others - television - was ultimately going to be used to distribute hatred, and to distract and insulate America from the world (what on earth, one might ask, would he have made of today’s Fox News and poisonous bullies like Bill O’Reilly?) As crusading as he was, Murrow was unable to turn the tide on the ‘moronification’ of television but he was able for one brief window in post-war broadcasting to stem the tide. His campaigns were many and fair-handed but he is still best known for This is London, his World War II radio show, and his fight to stop the red scare that gripped the US in the 19505, courtesy of Senators McCarthy and Cohn. It is the latter period that director George Clooney chooses to concentrate on in his modest second feature.
It starts off at the point when Murrow (played with almost forensic attachment by John Sayles' favourite actor David Strathairn) and his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) decided that sometimes there are not two logical sides to the argument and began to take on McCarthy. For CBS, Murrow, Friendly and the entire staff of the current affairs show See It Now the cost was huge, but the dividends were greater.
Filled with grace and measure by cinematographer Bob Elswit's glorious black and white photography, Murrow’s story is — in the spirit of the man - painted in anything but monochrome. Using original transcripts and reported conversations from both Friendly and Murrow’s autobiographies and biographies, Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov have crafted something solid, full of integrity and even handed. If you care ‘that good news cannot come from bad practice', then this will send tingles down your spine. (Paul Dale)
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