GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
Directed by Simon Curtis (WOMAN IN GOLD, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN), the film opens in St. Louis on October 20th.
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Sony Classical announces the release of GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with an original score by Academy Award®-nominated composer Carter Burwell.
The soundtrack will be released digitally on October 13 and on CD on October 27, 2017. The film will be released in the US on October 13, 2017.
Goodbye Christopher Robin is directed by Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn, Woman in Gold) and will be released in US theaters by Fox Searchlight Pictures on October 13, 2017.
Carter Burwell said about the score:
“One of the riskier decisions Simon Curtis and I made with the score was to withhold the main theme until the middle of the film, when A. A. Milne begins to write and his friend Ernest Shepard begins to illustrate “Winnie The Pooh”. We did this to make that moment especially noteworthy, to make it the turning point of the story. Before that point, the music plays many things – the trauma of war, the transition from city to country life, the awkward relations between Christopher Robin and his parents. But then Pooh changes everything.”
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
The screenwriters are Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Simon Vaughan, and the producers of the film are Damian Jones and Steve Christian.
Carter Burwell has composed the music for more than 80 feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods And Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (BAFTA Nominee for Film Music), Before Night Falls, A Knight’s Tale, The Rookie, Adaptation, Intolerable Cruelty, No Country For Old Men, In Bruges, Burn After Reading, Twilight, Where The Wild Things Are (Golden Globe® Nominee for Best Original Score), A Serious Man, The Blind Side, The Kids Are All Right, True Grit, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 & 2, And The Fifth Estate, Mr. Holmes, Legend, The Finest Hours, Hail,Caesar!, The Family Fang And The Founder.
Burwell most recently wrote the music for the drama Carol starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Burwell received his first Oscar® nomination for Best Original Score for Carol. He was also was nominated for a Golden Globe® and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Carol. Burwell won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Award for Best Music Score for Carol and Anomalisa. His theater work includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and the Mabou Mines productions Mother and Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. Burwell has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tracklist:
1. Tree of Memory
2. Birth
3. First Night
4. Cotchford Farm
5. The Object Of My Affection (The Boswell Sisters with Jimmie Grier)
6. Toys and Stars
7. Into the Forest
8. Bear Hunt
9. Goes to Town in a Golden
10. To the Zoo
11. Balloons
12. Snowfall, Snowrise
13. A Man and His Dream (Al Bowlly)
14. Drawing Pooh
15. I’m Billy Moon, and I’ll
16. When We Were Young
17. The People a Person
18. Fame
19. Tea With Christopher
20. Keep Your Memories
21. Down the Stairs, Nobody
22. Not Another Word
23. Private Milne
24. Billy Leaves
25. Well, If It Isn’t Billy
26. Home, I Should Think
In January 2017, fans of A.A. Milne celebrated the anniversary of his birthday which has become Winnie the Pooh Day. Biography.com posted a list about the British author earlier this year which you can see here.
In 2006, Winnie the Pooh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, marking the 80th birthday of Milne’s creation.
Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed bear, originally named “Edward”, was renamed “Winnie-the-Pooh” after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. “The pooh” comes from a swan called “Pooh”. E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son’s teddy, Growler (“a magnificent bear”), as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne’s toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into A. A. Milne’s stories, and two more characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne’s imagination. Christopher Robin Milne’s own toys are now under glass in New York where 750,000 people visit them every year.
The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. They are on display in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in New York. The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. (wikipedia)
Milne with his son Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear, at Cotchford Farm, their home in Sussex. Photo by Howard Coster, 1926.
Now comes the film, GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN opening in select theaters October 13.
Watch the first trailer from Fox Searchlight Pictures.
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
The film is directed by Simon Curtis (MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, WOMAN IN GOLD), and could possibly show up during awards season, especially with BAFTA. Possible early screenings of GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN could be at Telluride (September 1-4) and/or Toronto (Sept. 7 – 17).
Fox Searchlight UK has featured a lovely new motion poster for the upcoming film GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN. From director Simon Curtis (WOMAN IN GOLD, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN), count on it to be in this year’s awards season mix.
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN opens in select US theaters November 10 and in UK cinemas on September 29.
