Effie Gray, the Victorian-era drama written by Emma Thompson and starring Dakota Fanning, purports to dramatize the “scandalous” love triangle between art critic John Ruskin, his teenage bride Effie, ...

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critic Claudia Puig and Variety critic Justin Chang review this week’s releases, including "Furious 7," "Woman in Gold," "Effie Gray," and more. TGI-Filmweek! Larry Mantle ...

It’s no coincidence that Dakota Fanning’s Euphemia (nicknamed “Effie”) looks like she stepped out of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Within the first few minutes of Effie Gray, she lives out her storybook ...

Keira Knightley is in talks to play the role of artists’ muse Effie Gray in period drama Untouched for Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington (House of Sand), reports Liza Foreman. The project, which ...

"Effie," which features 17-year-old Dakota Fanning in one of her first adult roles, tells the story of the disastrous marriage between 19th-century art critic John Ruskin and his young bride Effie ...

"Marriage is all about learning how to wait," says David Suchet in a gnomic pronouncement that ought to have sent Effie fleeing homewards to the nearest kilt. Instead, Suchet, playing Ruskin père and ...

Since she first won our hearts as a free spirit with a conscience in Howard’s End in 1992, Emma Thompson has built a career conveying the humanity of proper ladies. Her winning personality, and her ...

We are indebted to PETER QUENNELE, the editor of the Cornhill magazine, for his illuminating editing of this biographical find, the unpublished letters which at last tell the truth about John Ruskin’s ...

Keira Knightley has been cast as Effie Gray in Untouchable. The newly-unveiled period drama will be helmed by Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington (House of Sand), reports Thompson on Hollywood.

In her original screenplay EFFIE GRAY, Emma Thompson takes a bold look at the real life story of the Effie Gray-John Ruskin marriage, while courageously exposing what was truly hiding behind the veil ...