Gillian to attend 43rd New York Film Festival
Posted at 1:16 PM (PDT) on Thursday, September 15, 2005

Gillian plans to attend the screening of "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" and a Question & Answer session on October 7.

According to the 43rd New York Film Festival web site, this show is SOLD OUT (standby line day of event).

Excerpts from the Evening Standard Review
by Nick Roddick

Coogan's Shandy is no small beer

Michael Winterbottom's reportedly troubled movie of Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story turns out to be pretty much of a triumph: an ingenious adaptation of Laurence Sterne's novel (thought by many to be unfilmable) and a hilarious comedy about the perils of film-making.

Winterbottom's film charts the attempts of director Mark (Jeremy Northam, looking quite like Winterbottom himself) to overcome the problems of making a period drama with limited means, not to mention Winterbottom's own problems making the film we are watching.

Highlights of this are the casting of Gillian Anderson as the Widow Wadham, via a very funny split-screen link-up to Los Angeles, which provoked spontaneous audience applause; and a preposterous giant womb into which Steve Coogan is lowered upside down to recreate the moment of Tristram's birth.

To read the full review, click here.