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Sally Hawkins to Produce Thriller ‘Cordelia’ 

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Antonia Campbell-Hughes will play the titular role, with Michael Gambon and Johnny Flynn also starring.

Sally Hawkins is to executive produce the U.K. bombing drama Cordelia from writer-director Adrian Shergold and POW Films, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Hawkins has backed the psychological thriller since its inception. The film sees Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a young actress who is on the London subway system on July 7, 2005, when terrorists attack the carriage she is traveling in. Cordelia, which also stars Michael Gambon, Johnny Flynn and Catherine McCormack, picks up the young woman’s story 12 years after the terrorist attack when she is attempting to get on with her life in a rundown section of London.

Hawkins has her first executive-producing gig after landing a best actress nomination for The Shape of Water, where she played a mute cleaning woman at a top-secret government facility with a romantic interest (played by Doug Jones) in a fishlike creature.

Campbell-Hughes penned the script for Cordelia along with Shergold. Kevin Proctor of London-based POW Films is producing, after earlier collaborating with Shergold on Funny Cow, which is set for a U.K. release next month.

Their latest indie is being shot at the Twickenham studios through May 2018. Hawkins is repped by CAA and Principal Entertainment.

Source: Sally Hawkins to Produce Thriller ‘Cordelia’ | Hollywood Reporter

Film Review: The Ballad Of Shirley Collins

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Music taken from the recent documentary about Shirley Collins’ return to music is more than a mere soundtrack LP, says Luke Turner.

The soundtrack to The Ballad Of Shirley Collins starts with something rather shocking. Over the sound of a crackling fire the veteran folk singer is heard saying “There are some great female voices around now, but I’m not one of them. I wish I was.” Given her recent live appearances have been touching, emotional affairs, it’s rather devastating to hear Collins’ own verdict on her return after notorious decades of silence in which she avoided even singing in the shower. In this time, Collins’ place at the heart of the story of English and American folk music was neglected in favour of a male-dominated narrative, and she was only persuaded to return to song by the pestering of Current 93’s David Tibet. The story of how she rediscovered song is finely told in The Ballad Of Shirley Collins which, if you haven’t already seen it, you should track down now. You can hear the treasure that came from the rediscovery of what her voice can do in 2016’s Lodestar, an album in which Collins and her stripped-back band make songs, some centuries old, resonate with a curiously vibrant psychedelia.

 

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