Kathryn Morris UK

The Last Castle

Ideally this post would be another of KM UK’s “Media Alerts” where I post about upcoming broadcasts of Kathryn’s work on British TV, like last week’s posting about A.I. Artificial Intelligence being on over the weekend.

The Rod Lurie (yes, him again) directed film The Last Castle gets its first airing in 18 months on the BBC here in little ol’ England (and Wales and Scotland) this coming Friday (13th Dec 2013) at the ungodly hour of 23:50. Details of the BBC broadcast can be found on their website. As KM UK has not covered The Last Castle in its four and a half year history this is a good excuse to finally do so.

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The Coin – Newly Minted Trailer

Yesterday, Fabien Martorell, the director of the The Coin, released a new version of the trailer for the short film that stars Kathryn as a stressed mother and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) as a homeless man.

You can see it HERE on Vimeo or a small version (as trailer 002) in the KM UK Gallery HERE.

Don’t be fooled by the “11 months ago” date on the Vimeo video, it is not the same as the one I posted about… not surprisingly, 11 months ago. The new edit has directly replaced the old one on the video sharing site so the link and other details are the same as before. You can tell it is different by the updated graphics (the new more colourful font for the stars names), the Big Bear Lake Film Festival award reference, and the recent quotes by the like of Darcell Carraway in LA Firm Magazine (as previously reported on KM UK here).

AI: Artificial Intelligence – Saturday BBC2

It has been a while since I posted a KM UK Media Alert, making other people in the UK aware of an impending Kathryn related TV broadcast or such like. It has been even longer since one of them was about AI: Artificial Intelligence. Four years have passed since the British Broadcasting Corporation has sent the film over the airwaves to our telly boxes.

Assuming the live snooker coverage doesn’t massively over run AI should be hitting the screen at 10:45pm on Saturday, that’s the 7th of December 2013. Details can be found on the BBC’s website here.

AI: Artificial Intelligence was written (with others) and directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2001. Haley Joel Osment plays a highly advanced robot boy who wants to become real so his mother will love him. He goes on a journey meeting various of strange characters.

Kathryn, unfortunately, only makes a very brief appearance in AI. Shoes and socks off you can pretty much count the seconds on all your available digits. There was, apparently, more that got left on the cutting room floor. Teenage Honey, as the character is called, is a presenter at the Flesh Fair, a sort of circus where humans watch robots being destroyed in a gladiatorial-style show.

Screencaps and a video clip from the movie can be found in the Gallery. At a later date I’ll cover the film more comprehensively.

She Can Win With A Minority…

Fellow UK-ite Ednasharon has used online opinion gatherer SodaHead to ask what must be one of the simplest questions ever:

Which stars from Minority Report, you like the best?

Grammatically it leaves a few questions to answer but you get the gist.

Surely their can only be one answer. Can’t there? Apparently not. Ednasharon believes there are 7! It must be one of those multiple choice questions where there is only a single correct answer. Along with the right answer there will be several very plausible but wrong ones, and there is usually an obviously silly answer. In this case it must be “Max von Sydow” because that is clearly a made up name

Let’s get this question answered for Ednasharon. She needs to know.

You can see the question and give the correct answer (it’s ‘Kathryn Morris’ by the way) on SodaHead HERE.

I feel compelled to point out that Ednasharon claims to be a retired, straight, 6′ 11″, 22 year-old, college graduate, with no kids, and is looking for dating (she lurks in the bushes?). Make of that what you will.

Le Coin Un, Deux, Trois

The praise for the short film The Coin continues to roll in from all corners of the world.

This time it is from director Fabien Martorell’s home country of France. “Journaliste cinéma” Catherine Habib posted a note on her Facebook page on Friday (22nd Nov) with some brief thoughts on the short film starring Christopher Lloyd (Stacked), Kathryn and Jack Ryan Shepherd.

In the film Kathryn is the stressed and angry mother of a young boy. Lloyd plays a vagrant sitting on the pavement (sidewalk to our American cousins) outside a shop the mother drags her son into.

Titled “3 good reasons to see THE COIN by Fabien MARTORELL” it is… well, you get the gist. Short and sweet. Kathryn is not named but she is almost certainly included in the reference to “two legends of Hollywood”.

You can read the item in it’s original form on Facebook HERE. Below is a copy alongside an basic English translation done using Google Translate. Any corrections by Français speakers are welcome.

Thank you to Fabien for bringing another item to our attention.

Catherine Habib

3 bonnes raisons de voir THE COIN de Fabien MARTORELL

1) Pour son casting hors du commun, on a pas tous les jours l’occasion de voir réunis dans un seul court métrage 2 légendes du monde hollywoodien!

2) Pour l’humanité du personnage interprété par Christopher Lloyd, on en redemande!

3) Parce qu’en seulement quelques plans et mouvements de caméra – soit à peine 8 minutes 13-, le réalisateur plonge le spectateur dans un univers dramatique qui n’appartient qu’à lui! bravo!

Catherine Habib

3 good reasons to see THE COIN by Fabien MARTORELL

1) For his unusual casting, it is not every day you get the opportunity to see two legends of Hollywood in one short!

2) For the humanity of the character played by Christopher Lloyd, we want more!

3) Because in just a few shots and camera movements – a mere 8 minutes 13 – the director plunges the viewer into a dramatic world that belongs to him! Bravo!