Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022 - 9 - 2

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UK-Ireland box office preview: 'Three Thousand Years Of Longing ... (Screen International)

Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith star, with John Michael McDonagh directing. Univeresal is also re-releasing Steven Spielberg 's E.T., at 533 ...

It is directed by Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta and sees non-professional actors play versions of themselves, focusing on an all-female gang in the Sol Nascente favela. [The Forgiven ](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-forgiven-toronto-review/5163223.article)is out in 425 locations. Alex Pritz directs this exploration of the plight of indigenous farmers in the Brazilian rainforest. The Isabel Coixet-directed title stars Timothy Spall and Sarita Choudhury, and is produced by Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar and Esther García. Dublin-based Wildcard Distribution has the debut feature of Irish dance superstar Michael Flatley in 106 sites. Signature Entertainment is putting Fall into 438 sites – a record wide release for a non-animation title for the company.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing's parts are better than the whole (digitalspy.com)

Marvel stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton star in a new film from Mad Max Fury Road director George Miller. But is 3000 Years of Longing good?

But with the depth of the question, this isn't a satisfying enough answer. She veers just shy of being a Mary Sue if only because the film refuses to let itself be bogged down by any one lens or purpose – a benefit but also a downfall. In this meta way, Miller explores the nature of storytelling as a means of self-definition — I tell stories, therefore I am. Not only does she need a man — or, rather, a love — but she had one, and she had a child who, we are meant to presume, ended in a miscarriage that ruined her relationship and left her alone and – hello! These stories in themselves are compelling enough to hold your attention despite the bumpy gear shift between past and present. The central question at the heart of Three Thousand Years of Longing seems to be, what is it to love?

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What Happened to Three Thousand Years of Longing? (The Escapist)

George Miller movie Three Thousand Years of Longing is a box office failure, and it has to do with marketing after Amazon purchasing MGM.

Three Thousand Years of Longing arguably suffered from the same problems that faced Late Night, eschewing a slow word-of-mouth-building “platform” rollout for a “big bang” wide [2,000+ screen](https://variety.com/2019/film/news/amazon-late-night-flop-bob-berney-exit-1203254436/) release for a movie unsuited to the model. Amazon was such a “ [disruptor](https://www.indiewire.com/2016/02/disruptors-how-netflix-amazon-are-creating-greater-tumult-in-the-independent-film-industry-272596/)” that it never bothered to learn the rules of the industry it entered. Indeed, the big rollout of The Rings of Power this weekend is such a big deal precisely because it’s [the rare multimedia release that does have stakes for Amazon](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/with-rings-of-power-amazon-amzn-bets-a-billion-that-streaming-tv-hasnt-peaked). Bradley Gorham, an associate professor at Syracuse University, [agrees](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087268067/amazon-mgm-deal), “Amazon is trying to bolster its reserves of intellectual property to take on Disney and WarnerMedia.” [less than a decade ago](https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/step-aside-netflix-amazons-entering-the-original-series-race-1200749146/), so it doesn’t have a deep library of existing content. It also doesn’t have a lot of recognizable intellectual property, which is why it is spending so much on [The Rings of Power](https://www.escapistmagazine.com/why-are-people-so-angry-about-the-rings-of-power/). shifted ownership [from AT&T to Discovery Media](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/discovery-warnermedia-merger-close-warner-bros-discovery-1235200983/). [for decades](https://deadline.com/2022/05/george-miller-cannes-three-thousand-years-of-longing-1235020237/). Club](https://www.avclub.com/how-fury-road-became-the-movie-of-the-decade-1839965577), [USA Today](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/12/26/ranked-10-best-movies-decade-get-out-mad-max/2731766001/), and [World of Reel](https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2019/4/results) deemed Fury Road the film of the decade. [the unexpected box office hits of 2021](https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2021/08/15/box-office-free-guy-starring-ryan-reynolds-and-jodie-comer-nabs-surprising-28-million-debut/?sh=76da8c9d5308), in large part because Disney got behind it. [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-passes-100-million-at-the-global-box-office/) and [Elvis](https://collider.com/elvis-movie-worldwide-box-office-234-million/) have been the unexpected box office success stories of the summer, the high-profile underperformance of films like [The Northman](https://gamerant.com/the-northman-shouldnt-have-failed-box-office/) and [Three Thousand Years of Longing](https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/8/ekxzbj77ljbgczzfj4vaqcm9yh8e7f) suggest audiences should enjoy these eclectic movies while they can. Even allowing for [the temperate reviews](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_thousand_years_of_longing), it’s a film that deserves an audience.

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York film preview: Three Thousand Years of Longing, The Forgiven ... (YorkMix)

It's no surprise, then, to find George Miller – the man behind the disparate likes of Mad Max, Babe and Happy Feet – following up the all-conquering Fury Road ...

And finally, your regular budget offerings this week are The Lego Movie at City Screen (Sat 3rd, £3.00), Shrek the Third at Cineworld (Fri 2nd – Mon 5th, £2.50), and two final outings for The Pirates! As mentioned above, this week sees a triumvirate of re-releases hitting the big screen, none bigger than Steven Spielberg’s timeless classic E.T. Also marking the big 4-0 is a film considered by many to be the best of the Enterprise’s cinematic outings, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – you can catch it at Cineworld (Sat 3rd/Sun 4th/Tues 6th/Thurs 8th), City Screen (Sun 4th/Weds 7th), Everyman (Sun 4th/Tues 6th) and Vue (Fri 2nd/Sat 3rd/Sun 4th/Tues 6th). With re-releases of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Star Trek II and E.T. It’s easy!”) and they find themselves stranded with no way of getting back down. at Vue (Fri 2nd, Sun 4th, £2.49, or £1.25 per exclamation mark.

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'Come Back Tomorrow Night and I'll Tell You' (Vulture)

'Come Back Tomorrow Night and I'll Tell You'. George Miller on the destructive and healing powers of language and storytelling. By Bilge Ebiri.

And I got to know a lot of the Indigenous cultures in the areas where I was. In this film, you had to show a djinn reveal that does violate the laws of physics, and you had to find a way to make that play. What’s the best music, what’s the best architecture?” She was asked to write on literature, and she wrote a piece called “Narrate or Die.” It was specifically about the Arabian Nights, or the Thousand and One Nights, being the most significant stories of the millennium. It happened that the real events of that story tended to follow the template of the hero myth. The world was medieval, in a way, so it had to be grounded, and we had to do as much of it for real. At the end of it, and despite it having resonance internationally, I decided that was the last film I was going to make. Would you like to write on it?” We were both in the middle of other things, and we made plans to do that. [If I had tried to make the film years ago] I would have been much more stressed had we had COVID and I learned that we couldn’t shoot in Istanbul. But there was a redundancy in the cables, where if one cable or harness failed, you had to have another one, so that you could make it as safe as possible. The understanding was that we would make it when it was ready to make. In Miller’s worlds, the stories we tell, and the stories we seek, say a lot about who we are as people. I was worried that the timing of the two films were more or less one on top of the other.

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Film Review: Idris Elba mesmerises in Three Thousand Years of ... (Irish Examiner)

"It's a yarn that's even more wildly improbable than Blackbird, woven from magic spells, court intrigue and epic romance, but George Miller has crafted a ...

Having released a Djinn (Idris Elba) from the lamp, Alithea – a pragmatic, logical woman – refuses to play along with granting of three wishes, this because every story about a genie and a lamp always backfires on the human who makes ill-considered wishes. Tilda Swinton is terrific as the hardboiled Northern English scholar who refuses to believe in the Djinn’s supernatural powers – Alithea, after all, has made a career from debunking myth and legend – but even she is outshone by Idris Elba, who is mesmerising as the gravel-toned, hulking but emotionally vulnerable genie. Having released a Djinn (Idris Elba) from the lamp, Alithea – a pragmatic, logical woman – refuses to play along with granting of three wishes, this because every story about a genie and a lamp always backfires on the human who makes ill-considered wishes.(15A) stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a literary scholar – a narratologist, no less – who is attending a conference in Istanbul when she picks up an unusual oil lamp in the bazaar.

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At the Movies: 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Nearly Lives Up ... (Dana Point Times)

SUPPORT THIS INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM The article you're about to read is from our reporters doing their important work — investigating, researching, ...

Three Thousand Years of Longing is loosely based on a 1994 novella called The Djin in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Alithea’s specialty is storytelling—specifically, the narration of how stories are told. The article you’re about to read is from our reporters doing their important work — investigating, researching, and writing their stories.

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At the movies: Three Thousand Years of Longing is a flawed, but ... (Sherman Denison Herald Democrat)

In this adaptation of A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (penned by Miller and Augusta Gore), Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an expert in ...

The willingness of Three Thousand Years of Longing to engage in the inexplicable without cynicism or wry winks to the audience to dilute the strangeness speaks to how much Miller and company want this movie to fit into the grand tradition of myths and fables. It’s not a new classic or anything like that, but Three Thousand Years of Longing is still a remarkable exploration of the power of stories. Chiefly, this is a film packed to the gills with imagination on a visual level. This is all done in the hopes of making her see the problems with wishes they can now avoid. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (penned by Miller and Augusta Gore), Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an expert in narratives and literature heading off to a conference in Istanbul. This being is prepared to grant Binnie a trio of wishes, but she’s read a story or two in her life about wishes and is convinced only trouble will follow any wishes she makes.

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George Miller & 5 Other Great Directors Who Had Weird Genre ... (Collider.com)

From George Miller to Ang Lee, these amazing directors had a major genre switch-up at some point in their career.

His earlier work includes the highly chaotic coils of [Being John Malkovitch](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/) and [Adaptation](https://collider.com/tag/adaptation/), while his later films are quite a contrast as they are more mellow and calming, consisting of [Where the Wild Things Are](https://collider.com/tag/where-the-wild-things-are/) and [Her](https://collider.com/tag/her/). His huge Oscar contenders such as [Life of Pi](https://collider.com/tag/life-of-pi/)and Brokeback Mountain will forever be remembered as great films that many people personally resonate with, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will always be a martial arts masterpiece. [Jackass](https://collider.com/tag/jackass/) films. [an exceptional roster of films](https://collider.com/stanley-kubrick-movies-ranked/) that still feel ahead of their time to this day. [He has also directed a number of other projects](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005069/) excluding his films. These are just a few of Boyle's great titles within [an amazing roster of films](https://collider.com/danny-boyle-movies-ranked-yesterday-trainspotting/). Kubrick has an excessive amount of range within the genres of films he has covered. [Mad Max](https://collider.com/tag/mad-max/) franchise, with the fourth installment of Mad Max: Fury Road being his crowning achievement and a universally loved action flick. This just shows how great of a director he is, as he is able to make something grand and special with any source material. He's a director that clearly has a lot of jarring contrast when it comes to comparing all the films from his catalog. Danny Boyle is known for his imposing style, however, has made a ton of creative differences with his style of filmmaking over the years. There are many directors that stick to a similar format and style, however, there are others who have made a wide variety of very different films, consisting of extremely different genres.

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Review: I wish George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing ... (The North West Star)

As arts reporter I am interested in and cover a wide range of areas - film, visual art, theatre and music, among others - to tell readers about what's ...

And they largely succeed - at its heart this is a thoughtful character piece with some intellectual meat to chew on if you're so inclined, about how stories help us make sense of our world. Byatt, is a modern-day three-wishes tale - but it's also a rumination on the nature and purpose of storytelling. He loved her dearly but when Solomon came along, the djinn was banished to the bottle. It billed the film as being "from the mad genius of George Miller" and such hype is annoying: Miller is a very talented Australian filmmaker who's long been successful making high-quality films both here and in Hollywood. Sometimes it's their own fault for wording things poorly, sometimes a wily djinn exploits the wish in an unexpected way. The trailer for this film seemed to be trying to hype it up as a spectacular fantasy.

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Review: I wish George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing ... (The Canberra Times)

Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton headline this thoughtful fantasy.

And they largely succeed - at its heart this is a thoughtful character piece with some intellectual meat to chew on if you're so inclined, about how stories help us make sense of our world. Byatt, is a modern-day three-wishes tale - but it's also a rumination on the nature and purpose of storytelling. He loved her dearly but when Solomon came along, the djinn was banished to the bottle. It billed the film as being "from the mad genius of George Miller" and such hype is annoying: Miller is a very talented Australian filmmaker who's long been successful making high-quality films both here and in Hollywood. Sometimes it's their own fault for wording things poorly, sometimes a wily djinn exploits the wish in an unexpected way. The trailer for this film seemed to be trying to hype it up as a spectacular fantasy.

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