Sean Wilson Jan 16, 2017
From the BBC's Sherlock, through Disney, Hans Zimmer and Young Sherlock Holmes: we salute the music of Mr Holmes...
Few characters have enjoyed as much reinvention as Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth Sherlock Holmes, an enduring icon who is as much bound up with the history of cinema (and indeed stage, TV and radio) as he is with literature. Indeed, adaptations of Holmes stories stretch right the way back to the earliest days of film at the start of the 20th century. Fittingly enough given Holmes' penchant for a violin serenade, the musical scores to his adventures are as richly varied as the outcomes to his mysteries are unexpected. Here are Holmes' musical highlights, from Buster Keaton through to Benedict Cumberbatch.
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Not, strictly speaking, a Sherlock movie but as the title implies, the legacy of the character casts a long shadow over Buster Keaton's silent classic.
From the BBC's Sherlock, through Disney, Hans Zimmer and Young Sherlock Holmes: we salute the music of Mr Holmes...
Few characters have enjoyed as much reinvention as Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth Sherlock Holmes, an enduring icon who is as much bound up with the history of cinema (and indeed stage, TV and radio) as he is with literature. Indeed, adaptations of Holmes stories stretch right the way back to the earliest days of film at the start of the 20th century. Fittingly enough given Holmes' penchant for a violin serenade, the musical scores to his adventures are as richly varied as the outcomes to his mysteries are unexpected. Here are Holmes' musical highlights, from Buster Keaton through to Benedict Cumberbatch.
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Not, strictly speaking, a Sherlock movie but as the title implies, the legacy of the character casts a long shadow over Buster Keaton's silent classic.
- 1/15/2017
- Den of Geek
Ian McKellen brings affection and grace to a whimsical portrait of an elderly Sherlock Holmes, struggling with his memory and his myth
Is there a version of Sherlock Holmes we haven’t seen? Screen incarnations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character date back to the birth of cinema (the tricksy short Sherlock Holmes Baffled was made at the turn of the century), and Conan Doyle himself praised actor Eille Norwood’s “wonderful impersonation of Holmes” in shorts and features from the early 1920s. John Barrymore, Raymond Massey and Clive Brook all played the detective before The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) established Basil Rathbone as the iconic bearer of the deerstalker and pipe combo. More recently we’ve had Robert Downey Jr as a pugilist detective in Guy Ritchie’s punchy reboots, and Benedict Cumberbatch as a thoroughly modern Sherlock in the hit BBC TV series.
Now comes Sir Ian McKellen,...
Is there a version of Sherlock Holmes we haven’t seen? Screen incarnations of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character date back to the birth of cinema (the tricksy short Sherlock Holmes Baffled was made at the turn of the century), and Conan Doyle himself praised actor Eille Norwood’s “wonderful impersonation of Holmes” in shorts and features from the early 1920s. John Barrymore, Raymond Massey and Clive Brook all played the detective before The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) established Basil Rathbone as the iconic bearer of the deerstalker and pipe combo. More recently we’ve had Robert Downey Jr as a pugilist detective in Guy Ritchie’s punchy reboots, and Benedict Cumberbatch as a thoroughly modern Sherlock in the hit BBC TV series.
Now comes Sir Ian McKellen,...
- 6/22/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Following the news that writer/director Bill Condon is to reunite with his Gods And Monsters star Ian McKellen for a film featuring Sherlock Holmes, it seems another reunion is on the cards. Condon’s Kinsey and The Fifth Estate star, Laura Linney, will now join the project, which is an adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s 2005 novel, A Slight Trick Of The Mind.
With the source material having been adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher (Casanova, The Duchess), along with Condon, the story depicts the character of Sherlock Holmes having reached his twilight years. He is frail and elderly, with an unreliable memory – but attempts to reflect on his life, and a particularly troubling unsolved case from decades previously. McKellen will play Holmes, while Linney has been cast as his housekeeper, Mrs Munro.
The character of Sherlock Holmes, as conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, first appeared on film in a...
With the source material having been adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher (Casanova, The Duchess), along with Condon, the story depicts the character of Sherlock Holmes having reached his twilight years. He is frail and elderly, with an unreliable memory – but attempts to reflect on his life, and a particularly troubling unsolved case from decades previously. McKellen will play Holmes, while Linney has been cast as his housekeeper, Mrs Munro.
The character of Sherlock Holmes, as conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, first appeared on film in a...
- 5/8/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
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