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Sweeney todd and Helena World Forum...

2007-08-09T00:16:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of posters for "Sweeney Todd":

And here is a great Helena forum (the best I've ever come across):
http://www.helena-world.com/forum/index.php

Sooo, lots of news

2007-08-08T23:56:00.000-07:00

First of all, Helena's pregnant again!!!

Second of all, Harry Potter is a HUGE hit and is sure to do wonders for Helena's career:

We're sure to see more Bellatrix in Helena's future :-)

Major update...

2006-12-05T17:10:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I FINALLY have time to update this place. Major, major news:

1.) Helena will star in Tim Burton's new film "Sweeney Todd":

"Carter Cast in Burton's Sweeney Todd
Source: DreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
October 18, 2006
Helena Bonham Carter will join the cast of Sweeney Todd, the DreamWorks Studios and Warner Bros. co-production that will star Johnny Depp as The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Tim Burton is set to direct the film based on the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical thriller.She will play the starring role of the diabolical Mrs. Lovett who dispenses her victims' bodies in her meat pies and becomes Sweeney's amorous accomplice.Production is planned to begin early in 2007 for release late that year. Paramount will distribute for DreamWorks domestically and Warner Bros. internationally.Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are partnered with Richard D. Zanuck and John Logan to produce the screenplay adaptation which has been written by Logan.In her film career, Helena Bonham Carter has starred in a range of roles including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, and The Wings of the Dove for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress. She most recently completed filming on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She has also lent her voice to animated films such as the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Corpse Bride.The original production of "Sweeney Todd" with Sondheim's music and lyrics and a book by Hugh Wheeler based on the play by Christopher Bond, opened on Broadway in 1979 and won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The show's mix of the comic, the dramatic, and the macabre was held together by Sondheim's movie-like score. It has had hundreds of productions throughout the world including its recent acclaimed revival in New York."

SOURCE: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17053

2.) We finally have a pic of Helena as Bellatrix from the next "Harry Potter" film:

I'll try to update more.

More reviews for "Conversations"...

2006-09-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

-"Bonham Carter is equally good as she uses the emotional distance of flirtation to keep intimacy at arm's length, fully embodying the comment: "The illusion of effortlessness takes great effort indeed."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/282467_women25q.html

-"fine acting and sexy chemistry between Bonham Carter and Eckhart make it work. "

TV Guide: http://online.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=281314&more=ucmoviereview

-"It's about adults, as well, dealing with the romantic aspirations of two middle-aged people and their accumulated choices and regrets. Both Bonham Carter and Eckhart are good at giving us their characters' practiced surface and the truth that's underneath it. Eckhart's smile is about as engaging and thoroughly untrustworthy as that of anyone in the current cinema, and our wondering about him is part of the movie's suspense. Likewise, Bonham Carter's prickliness, as the woman, could be the indication of either strong, uncompromising character or mere irritability. "

San Francisco Chronicle: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/11/DDGRSKESO01.DTL&type=movies

-"As for Bonham Carter, Tim Burton movies and new motherhood have kept her from wandering of late into roles like this, which is our loss. Always a vivid actress, she gets more interesting with each passing year -- more adept at conveying undercurrents of passion, knowledge, wit, dread. Age genuinely becomes Carter, unlike most of her bland Hollywood peers, and I'm beginning to think we haven't seen her best work yet."

Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=9279

-"Writer Gabrielle Zevin has an acerbic, peppery tone, especially when it comes to Bonham Carter's pungent observations on aging, and director Hans Canosa uses what could be an irritating split-screen conceit to its full advantage, making "Conversations With Other Women" a rather ingenious experiment in structure. The film ultimately becomes too contrived to be anything but a fleeting diversion, but kudos to these emerging filmmakers for daring to make something a little bit different and, for the most part, intriguing. And props to the gorgeously haggard Bonham Carter for daring to age so honestly on film."

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile&id=1106920&categories=Movies&nm=1

-"Bonham Carter transcends all that, and in her cool, wryly self-mocking fashion she manages to reveal all sorts of inner-life tensions. This minor relationship picture comes and goes, but her performance lingers."

Chicago Tribune: http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-060825-movies-review-women,0,5428225.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds

-"Carter gives a wise and wonderfully rueful performance"

Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0632,taylor,74128,20.html

There are bunches more, but I don't have time to post them at the moment. I might later :-)

Conversations with Other Women Part II

2006-09-27T12:42:00.000-07:00

So, "Conversations with Other Women" is out in the US (finally) and Helena has been getting rave reviews. Here is a review that praises the dickens out of Helena:

"THIS TALK ISN'T CHEAP
By KYLE SMITH

August 11, 2006 -- Rating: ***1/2
REMEMBER Helena Bonham Carter? "Conversations With Other Women" jolts us back to who she was before her partner Tim Burton started dressing her as an ape ("Planet of the Apes") or a witch. Having been locked up in Burton's toy chest for so long, she is all the more dazzling in this wistful two-character infidelity drama.
Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart play ex-lovers whose names we never learn. Fifteen years after they first dated, they run into each other at a wedding. The man approaches with two flutes of champagne and an invitation to a long night twinkling in his cad's eyes. She's happily married. He's dating a dancer. He doesn't understand how a married woman can be a brides-maid: "Bridesmaids are brides in training. They're like matrimonial interns."
As the two of them decide whether they still like each other (yes), whether they're flirting (heavily) and whether they're going to get a room (possibly), the script by Gabrielle Zevin is honest and tender at the same time.
The strength of the writing, though, is undercut by an annoying gimmick: For the entire movie, we watch a split screen with a different image on each side. Each actor is usually isolated on half the screen. Still, the trick gets less distracting as the film goes on because Bonham Carter is such a virtuoso that you learn to park your attention on her. Her expression flickers from haggard to girlish, from sarcastic to wounded. When she says, "It's quite easy to lie once you get started," she layers the line with a wedding cake of emotions. It's brilliant work. And how can you not like a movie that shows a bridesmaid's dress flying out the window?
CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMENFlirting with adultery.Running time: 84 minutes. Not rated (profanity, nudity, sex)."

SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/movies/this_talk_isnt_cheap_movies_kyle_smith.htm

Harry Potter

2006-09-25T15:09:00.000-07:00

Still no pics of Helens from the new Harry Potter film, but here are some pics of the other stars: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1414202006

If you have new pics of Helena, please send the m to me or leave a link in a comment. Thanks

Hmmm...New Movie?

2006-09-06T15:25:00.000-07:00

IMDB, which isn 't very trustworthy, is reporting that Helena Bonham Carter is going to star in a new movie called "Eleanor and Collette" with Susan Sarandon. Here is the plot:

"Eleanor (Sarandon), a patient at a psychiatric institute, retains Colette (Bonham Carter), an attorney, to represent her complaint against the hospital, which has been prescribing her psychopharmacological drugs. During the lengthy process, the two women bond and form a special friendship."

Apparently, the film will be shooting in the Spring after Helena completes "Harry Potter". Who knows if this is real or not.

"Sixty Six" trailer...

2006-08-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

The international trailer for Helena's new movie "Sixty Six" has premiered:

http://comingsoon.net/films.php?id=16113

Warning: I won't be updating as often because of college, but I'll update whenever I have the chance or Helena news is out.

2006-08-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

Eep. Sorry about the serious lack of updates lately. I have been very busy, but I'll try to be better about updating the blog. New set pics of "Harry Potter" have been released, but unfortunately none of them feature Miss Helena.

Reviews for "The Wings of the Dove"

2006-07-30T11:36:00.000-07:00

Helena received stellar reviews for "The Wings of the Dove", and I have decided to post a few:

"Kate, played with flashing eyes and bold imagination by Helena Bonham Carter, is a poor girl with a tenuous foothold in society. Her father is a penniless drunkard. Her mother is dead. She is taken in by her wealthy Aunt Maude (Charlotte Rampling), who wants to marry her off to the best advantage--perhaps to Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). But Kate loves Merton Densher (Linus Roache), an ill-paid journalist who cheerfully admits he doesn't believe the things he writes. Maude forbids the marriage and even threatens to cut off the weekly shillings she pays Kate's father."

-Roger Ebert

Link: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971114/REVIEWS/711140306/1023

"Meanwhile, Carter, usually relegated to playing doll-like virgins, gets to portray a brooding vixen here, and she's impressive. She and Roache make the mutual sexual enthrallment of Kate and Merton convincing and erotic in a way that's also deeply sad."

-Laura Miller,
Salon

Link: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/1997/11/14wings.html?CP=SAL&DN=110

"Costume-drama queen Helena Bonham Carter plays Kate and she is superb. Her intensely intelligent, darkly sensual performance has already earned her a best actress award from the National Board of Review. An Oscar nomination -- at the very least -- seems inevitable. "

-Carol Buckland
CNN

Link: http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/09/wings.dove/

"This is a breakthrough for Softley, whose earlier films ``Backbeat'' and ``Hackers'' only hinted at the style and complexity he displays here, and a wonderful showcase for Roache, Elliott and Bonham Carter, who gives her best performance yet. "

-Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/14/DD57299.DTL

"Helena Bonham Carter can do no wrong in my book. She was a soaring Shakespearean comedian in "Twelfth Night" and a standard-issue neurotic New Yorker in "Mighty Aphrodite." In "A Room with a View," "Howards End" and others, she's always provided an oasis of intelligent and thoughtful performance.
In "The Wings of the Dove," she has the nastiness and perversity of Henry James to negotiate and does so admirably. "

-Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/11/14/WEEKEND13430.dtl

"Helena Bonham Carter gives one of her best performances, for which she received a well-deserved Oscar® nomination. She portrays Kate as an opportunist more than a cold-blooded schemer. Even when we sympathize with the manipulative Kate the least, Carter keeps her human. "

-Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm

Link: http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/w/wingsdove.htm

"The Wings of the Dove"...

2006-07-30T11:11:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. Helena gives one of her amazing performances in this (she was nominated for an Oscar for it). If you haven't seen this, do yourself a favour and rent it NOW.

Sixty Six

2006-07-26T13:46:00.000-07:00

Helena has another movie coming out this year called "Sixty Six". Here is the plot (from the official site):

"It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. However, Bernie's family are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son, and the scale of Bernie's Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie's longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster..."

Here is the official site: http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=97

And here are some pics:

"Sixty Six" will be released in the UK on October 6th. No dates for a North American release, yet.

Conversations With Other Women...

2006-07-22T18:14:00.000-07:00

Sooooo, Helena's new film "Conversations With other Women" will be coming out in the US on August 11 (So go see it!). Here is the plot (from IMDB):

"When a man (Aaron Eckhart) and a woman (Helena Bonham Carter) flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse."

Official Site: http://www.conversationsthemovie.com/

Here is the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/conversationswithotherwomen/
If that link doesn't work, go to the official site and you can find it in the media section.

and the Poster:

the movie has been floating around the Film Festival circuit for a while and has been snatching up awards (Helena won Best Actress at the Tokyo international Film Festival for this movie).

Pic of the Day (!)

2006-07-20T12:03:00.000-07:00

Frankenstein

2006-07-20T11:28:00.000-07:00

In my opinion, "Frankenstein" is one of Helena's most underrated films. I think it is a wonderful film and Helena gives an amazing performance. I really love this movie. Here are some pics:

Pic of the Day

2006-07-17T15:45:00.000-07:00

Pantaloonies, oh my!

2006-07-17T15:08:00.000-07:00

Helena recwently released her own fashion line with swimwear designer Samantha Sage called Pantaloonies. Here are some links about the new line:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26491-2143107,00.html

http://socialitelife.com/2006/06/23/helena_bonham_carters_pantaloonsies.php

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=16468

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Helena+Bonham+Carter+to+launch+lingerie-9622.html

-CaptainStigmata

Pic of the Day

2006-07-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter Stuff

2006-07-16T09:57:00.000-07:00

I figured my first real post should be about Helena's next project: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Helena plays Bellatrix LeStrange. You can find info about her character here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellatrix_Lestrange. Helen McCrory(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567031/) was originally cast, but had to back out when she became pregnant. Then Helena was cast. Here are articles on Helena's casting:

-http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_5010000/newsid_5015300/5015376.stm

-http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14704

-http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=329712

-http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/710/710120p1.html

-CaptainStigmata

Welcome to HelenaBlog...

2006-07-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

I created this blog because I noticed a serious lack of Helena Bonham Carter fan sites, forums and blogs. I realized that there wasn't a place on the web where Helena fans could get their Bonham Carter fix, so I created HelenaBlog. I will post news, information, photos and other Helena things here. I also plan on creating a Helena Bonham Carter forum. If you have any news, info or new pics or just anything Helena-related that you would like posted, contact me! HelenaBlog is your premier source for Helena Bonham Carter on the web~

-CaptainStigmata