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- ASOS - November 2011
- Jalouse (Fr) - October 2011
- Tatler (UK) - November 2011
- Glamour (UK) - November 2011 (snippet)
- Marie Claire (US) - November 2011
- Interview - November 2011
- Glamour (UK) - December 2011
- Vogue (Aus) - December 2011
- October 20th - BHFTNM Festival
- November 8th - World Premiere in LA
- November 11th - Theatrical release (US, UK)
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As promised on our Twitter account, I’ve now added screencaps from The Waiting City to our gallery! The caps are not the best quality, but they’re as good as I can get at the moment.
I’ve been waiting to see this film for a while and was really glad to finally get the chance. It was a really beautiful film with great performances and a really moving end. Isabel had a fleeting appearance as a sweet, singing hippie, and I would’ve liked to have seen more of her character! It’s easy to understand why she wanted to be a part of this film. We even got to hear her sing, and she was pretty good!
Entertainment One will release the 2009 cross-cultural drama The Waiting City, starring Radha Mitchell (The Crazies) and Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom), on DVD on May 31.
In the movie, Mitchell and Edgerton star as Fiona and Ben Simmons, a well-to-do Australian couple who head to Calcutta to pick up their newly adopted daughter Lakshmi. Being a lawyer, Fiona has no choice but to take her work with her on the trip, while Ben, a once-successful musician, is obviously more excited about the future that awaits them. The young couple’s journey begins to be overtaken by the allure and mystique of India as the pair start to rediscover themselves and learn the meaning of true happiness.
The film looks to us to have the kind of appeal for the exotic that we saw in Wes Anderson’s 2007 travelogue The Darjeeling Limited.
Written and directed by Claire McCarthy, The Waiting City made a theatrical pit stop in Los Angeles last August, but it is essentially premiering in the U.S. on DVD, where it will carry a list price of $24.98.
Bonus features on the DVD include the following:
* commentary by director Claire McCarthy and actors Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton
* featurette
* cast and crew interviews
I just came across this month-old news about The Waiting City receiving nominations from the Film Critics Circle of Australia, and the ceremony itself will actually be held today (possibly already happened due to time differences)!
Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Waiting City!
Animal Kingdom gets 10 nods from Aussie critics
The Waiting CityThe Film Critics Circle of Australia has announced the nominees for its 2010 Awards, and Animal Kingdom leads the pack with 10 nominations.
Beneath Hill 60 and The Waiting City follow behind with eight nominations each; Tomorrow, When the War Began has five, and Bran Nue Dae and South Solitary have four each.
It’s the first awards ceremony to recognise the previosly ignored Lou and The Waiting City as two of the best films of the year in the main categories; it’s also the first official recognition for South Solitary, which its producers did not even submit for consideration at last December’s AFI Awards.
The ceremony will be held on March 13 at the North Sydney Leagues Club in Cammeray.
The official Twitter account for The Waiting City (@TheWaitingCity) has posted some new news on the film:
- It will be released on DVD and Blu-ray (presumably in Australia) on November 18th (that’s next Thursday).
- The film will receive a premiere tonight in New York, as part of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival. I’m not how big of a premiere this is or whether Isabel will be in attendance. If you are in the area and want to go to see the film then you can buy tickets here.
Religious and moral worlds clash in a visual feast.
The Waiting City is about an Australian couple, played by Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton, who go to India to adopt a child. Once in Kolkata, the adoption agency puts them on hold, hence the title, but there’s another idea. Fiona (Mitchell) has waited to have a child while she pursues a legal career. Though the reason for adoption is not quite clear, the inference is that they are paying a price for her ambition. Fiona gets a thorough going-over here as a modern woman, part of the film’s overall prosecution of arrogant Western values.
This is the second feature of Claire McCarthy, after Cross Life (2007). She knows something about the adoption business. She and her sister, Helena, volunteered with Mother Teresa’s nuns in 2002, where she met many Western couples waiting to adopt. McCarthy’s documentary, Sisters in Calcutta, aired on the ABC in 2008. The Waiting City opens out from these experiences into an ambitious and confronting film with spiritual as well as political overtones.
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It is said to be the first Australian feature shot entirely in India and that gives a sense of immersion – quite literally in a couple of scenes to do with the Ganges. It would be hard to avoid confrontations of many kinds while shooting in India but it’s another thing to catch them on film. McCarthy does that well: she shoots on the streets, at food stalls, within the lively shops of Kolkata, in tiny alleys where bewildering crowds come and go in seconds bearing religious statues on parade. Many films by Westerners tend to do places like Kolkata from high vantage points, possibly to avoid creating more chaos with cameras on the streets, but this one embraces the chaos, at least when the couple venture out of their five-star hotel.
The Waiting City is released in Australia in a couple of days time, and there has been lots of promotion for the film, although sadly Isabel has not been involved. The Official Facebook page has all the info if you’re interested.
The Official Site for the film has also been opened, and, among other things, has a massive gallery with some stunning stills from the film. There are 3 new shots of Isabel in there, which you can also view in our Gallery now.
Finally, a series of behind the scenes videos have been posted on the film’s Facebook page and the 8th one features scenes plus an interview with our Izzy! View it below, and screencaps are in our Gallery now too.
Nothing new on Isabel, but an interesting read anyway!
The Waiting City: Australia goes to India
Director Claire McCarthy and producer Jamie Hilton have made a film with an Australian heart and dressed up in a colourful sari, taking our cinema to a new land full of creative and business opportunities. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
The Waiting City tells the story of an Australian couple who arrive in Calcutta, India, to pick up the girl they have adopted. Unaware that local bureaucracy will force them to wait for days before they can see her for the first time, the stress of waiting, amplified by the culture shock, will test their relationship as they are forced to confront the problems they’ve been avoiding for a long time.
It is not based on a true story, but many that writer/director Claire McCarthy witnessed as she built her own relationship with India.
A: I’m coming out again for the release of The Waiting City. I’m very excited about the release. That movie is very close to my heart. It’s a beautiful love story about a couple who go to India to adopt a baby, but in the process reconnect and fall in love again and rediscover what it is to be married. That’s a really beautiful story to tell. But I was also drawn to the story because it is about adoption and I think that’s a really important issue. And it’s wonderful to be able to explore it in context.
Q: THE WAITING CITY ALSO STARS FELLOW AUSSIES JOEL EDGERTON AND ISABEL LUCAS, WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WORK WITH THEM?
A: The movie co-stars with Joel Edgerton, Isabel Lucas and an Indian actor called Samrat Chakrabarti. It was a pretty amazing cast. And everyone was kind of great. I didn’t realise until we shot the film that Joel is also a really accomplished singer and guitar player and Samrat is an hilarious guy who has a dual persona, he works in Bollywood and in Hollywood. So it was kind of great to hang out with somebody who had that experience, and Isabel is a phenomenal actress and really beautiful and I am so looking forward to seeing more of her work.
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 8th annual festival, which runs April 20-April 25 at ArcLight Hollywood. The six-day festival will showcase 33 films from 5 countries, including 4 world premieres and 7 US premieres.
“This is a true celebration of the art and business of Indian film and culture as well as an opportunity to connect with the game changers and emerging filmmakers of Indian themed content,’ said Christina Marouda, IFFLA’s Executive Director. “As filmmakers of Indian descent forge new relationships in Hollywood, we invite moviegoers and industry professionals to experience our unique and wide ranging program which includes thought-provoking dramas, engaging documentaries, along with a touch of light hearted fare and a taste of Bollywood.”
The festival comes to a close with a Gala event featuring the Australian production of THE WAITING CITY, directed by Claire McCarthy and starring Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton and Samrat Chakrabarti. McCarthy, Mitchell, and Chakrabarti will be in attendance.
THE WAITING CITY/Australia (Director/Screenwriter: Claire McCarthy) –
When a troubled Australian couple travels to Kolkata to adopt a child, their relationship is tested by the bureaucratic roadblocks they encounter along the way. Cast: Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Samrat Chakrabarti, Isabel Lucas. English
