WestEnd Films and CAA Media Finance are selling the film.
Babylon Berlin star Liv Lisa Fries has joined Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the cast of Freud’s Last Session, which is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.
A first look at the film, in which Oscar-winner Hopkins plays Sigmund Freud and Goode plays author C.S. Lewis, has been released by WestEnd Films, which handles sales alongside US-based CAA Media Finance.
German actress Fries plays Freud’s daughter in the film, which is set on the eve of the Second World War and sees the founder of...
Babylon Berlin star Liv Lisa Fries has joined Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode in the cast of Freud’s Last Session, which is in its final stages of filming in Ireland.
A first look at the film, in which Oscar-winner Hopkins plays Sigmund Freud and Goode plays author C.S. Lewis, has been released by WestEnd Films, which handles sales alongside US-based CAA Media Finance.
German actress Fries plays Freud’s daughter in the film, which is set on the eve of the Second World War and sees the founder of...
- 4/11/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Long live the Queen.
The Crown, arguably the jewel of Netflix’s original series, is gearing up to shoot its third and fourth seasons back-to-back, and the online streamer has today rolled out the red carpet for its ensemble cast.
Chief among them is newcomer Jason Watkins, who has clinched the role of former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. He’s the latest cabinet member to feature on The Crown, given previous installments of the popular period drama have carved out room for Winston Churchill (John Lithgow), Clement Attlee (Simon Chandler), Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam) and Harold Macmillan (Anton Lesser).
We also have confirmation that former Harry Potter actress Helena Bonham Carter is now officially on board to play Princess Margaret, a role previously occupied by Vanessa Kirby. Here’s what Carter had to say about her casting:
I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about – doing justice...
The Crown, arguably the jewel of Netflix’s original series, is gearing up to shoot its third and fourth seasons back-to-back, and the online streamer has today rolled out the red carpet for its ensemble cast.
Chief among them is newcomer Jason Watkins, who has clinched the role of former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. He’s the latest cabinet member to feature on The Crown, given previous installments of the popular period drama have carved out room for Winston Churchill (John Lithgow), Clement Attlee (Simon Chandler), Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam) and Harold Macmillan (Anton Lesser).
We also have confirmation that former Harry Potter actress Helena Bonham Carter is now officially on board to play Princess Margaret, a role previously occupied by Vanessa Kirby. Here’s what Carter had to say about her casting:
I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about – doing justice...
- 5/3/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Jason Watkins has been tapped to play former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Netflix’s original drama series The Crown. Additionally, Helena Bonham Carter has been officially confirmed to play Princess Margaret on the upcoming third season, slated to premiere in 2019. She will take over the role played in the first two seasons by Vanessa Kirby.
“I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about – doing justice to the real Princess Margaret or following in the shoes of Vanessa Kirby’s Princess Margaret,” Bonham Carter said. “The only thing I can guarantee is that I’ll be shorter (than Vanessa).”
The second season of The Crown premiered December 8 on Netflix. In it, Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon (Matthew Goode) and the season ended with her pregnant with one of their children.
On the upcoming third season, Bonham Carter joins two other actors who are taking...
“I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about – doing justice to the real Princess Margaret or following in the shoes of Vanessa Kirby’s Princess Margaret,” Bonham Carter said. “The only thing I can guarantee is that I’ll be shorter (than Vanessa).”
The second season of The Crown premiered December 8 on Netflix. In it, Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon (Matthew Goode) and the season ended with her pregnant with one of their children.
On the upcoming third season, Bonham Carter joins two other actors who are taking...
- 5/3/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Gary Oldman (center) stars as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, a Focus Features release. Photo credit: Jack English / Focus Features ©
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright Darkest Hour, a riveting drama about Churchill and the earliest darkest days of World War II, as Britain faced the crisis of Dunkirk and invasion by Hitler loomed. The film is an admirable work, a mix of historical drama and biopic, but it is Oldman’s remarkable Oscar-worthy performance that is generating the most attention.
Darkest Hour offers more than Gary Oldman’s sterling, stirring performance. It is also a wonderful companion to a couple of other WWII films released this year, Dunkirk and the less-seen Their Finest Hour, both set around he same time in Britain. Combined with director Joe Wright’s earlier film Atonement, which contains a riveting depiction of a...
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright Darkest Hour, a riveting drama about Churchill and the earliest darkest days of World War II, as Britain faced the crisis of Dunkirk and invasion by Hitler loomed. The film is an admirable work, a mix of historical drama and biopic, but it is Oldman’s remarkable Oscar-worthy performance that is generating the most attention.
Darkest Hour offers more than Gary Oldman’s sterling, stirring performance. It is also a wonderful companion to a couple of other WWII films released this year, Dunkirk and the less-seen Their Finest Hour, both set around he same time in Britain. Combined with director Joe Wright’s earlier film Atonement, which contains a riveting depiction of a...
- 12/8/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Peter Morgan (“The Queen”) has long divided his time between playwriting, screenwriting, and television. But having just wrapped the second 10-episode season for Netflix’s “The Crown” (December 8), the executive producer and showrunner is now wholly devoted to a new genre that he calls “cinematic television.”
It’s not a difficult transition. “The Crown” has the scale of a big-budget production (Netflix paid in advance for two seasons, as well as bonuses to buy out all future royalties), as well as serious awards gravitas: The first season scored a Golden Globe win for Claire Foy and now has 13 Emmy nominations, and could win the fierce contest for Best Dramatic Series.
Read More:‘The Crown’: 7 Reasons Why the Netflix Series Should Dominate the Drama Emmys
While Netflix doesn’t confirm budgets, Morgan wants to set the record straight: the show did not cost $100 million per 10-episode season (that’s the level of “Rome,...
It’s not a difficult transition. “The Crown” has the scale of a big-budget production (Netflix paid in advance for two seasons, as well as bonuses to buy out all future royalties), as well as serious awards gravitas: The first season scored a Golden Globe win for Claire Foy and now has 13 Emmy nominations, and could win the fierce contest for Best Dramatic Series.
Read More:‘The Crown’: 7 Reasons Why the Netflix Series Should Dominate the Drama Emmys
While Netflix doesn’t confirm budgets, Morgan wants to set the record straight: the show did not cost $100 million per 10-episode season (that’s the level of “Rome,...
- 8/21/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Peter Morgan (“The Queen”) has long divided his time between playwriting, screenwriting, and television. But having just wrapped the second 10-episode season for Netflix’s “The Crown” (December 8), the executive producer and showrunner is now wholly devoted to a new genre that he calls “cinematic television.”
It’s not a difficult transition. “The Crown” has the scale of a big-budget production (Netflix paid in advance for two seasons, as well as bonuses to buy out all future royalties), as well as serious awards gravitas: The first season scored a Golden Globe win for Claire Foy and now has 13 Emmy nominations, and could win the fierce contest for Best Dramatic Series.
Read More:‘The Crown’: 7 Reasons Why the Netflix Series Should Dominate the Drama Emmys
While Netflix doesn’t confirm budgets, Morgan wants to set the record straight: the show did not cost $100 million per 10-episode season (that’s the level of “Rome,...
It’s not a difficult transition. “The Crown” has the scale of a big-budget production (Netflix paid in advance for two seasons, as well as bonuses to buy out all future royalties), as well as serious awards gravitas: The first season scored a Golden Globe win for Claire Foy and now has 13 Emmy nominations, and could win the fierce contest for Best Dramatic Series.
Read More:‘The Crown’: 7 Reasons Why the Netflix Series Should Dominate the Drama Emmys
While Netflix doesn’t confirm budgets, Morgan wants to set the record straight: the show did not cost $100 million per 10-episode season (that’s the level of “Rome,...
- 8/21/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
If you weren’t at John Lithgow’s 70th birthday celebration in London, you missed the chance to party with some of Britain’s most elite actors.
“My wife threw a 70th birthday party for me for about 50 people, and she and I were the only Americans,” the actor told IndieWire. “Maybe 60, 70 percent of these people were actors, but only half of them were actors from ‘The Crown.’ The others were people that I’d worked with on other projects – Jonathan Price, and Jim Broadbent, and David Suchet. They came in one after another and it was this constant moment of, ‘What are you doing here?’ They all knew each other.”
Read More:‘The Crown’ Season 2 Trailer and First Look Photos: Heavy Lies the Head
Lithgow’s legendary career includes everything from “Terms of Endearment” to “Third Rock From The Sun,” but even he’s still discovering new tricks. That...
“My wife threw a 70th birthday party for me for about 50 people, and she and I were the only Americans,” the actor told IndieWire. “Maybe 60, 70 percent of these people were actors, but only half of them were actors from ‘The Crown.’ The others were people that I’d worked with on other projects – Jonathan Price, and Jim Broadbent, and David Suchet. They came in one after another and it was this constant moment of, ‘What are you doing here?’ They all knew each other.”
Read More:‘The Crown’ Season 2 Trailer and First Look Photos: Heavy Lies the Head
Lithgow’s legendary career includes everything from “Terms of Endearment” to “Third Rock From The Sun,” but even he’s still discovering new tricks. That...
- 8/18/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
From La La Land’s potential sweep to an overlooked diversity conundrum, Screen weighs in.
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 6.30pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?...
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 6.30pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?...
- 2/12/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
From La La Land’s potential sweep to an overlooked diversity conundrum, Screen weighs in.
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 6.30pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?
3. Bafta is doing well on diversity but it may be time for a female host…
In recent months Bafta has tweaked its eligibility criteria and developed initiatives to promote diversity. It is doing the right things. The makeup of the nominees is more varied than in recent years but the...
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 6.30pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?
3. Bafta is doing well on diversity but it may be time for a female host…
In recent months Bafta has tweaked its eligibility criteria and developed initiatives to promote diversity. It is doing the right things. The makeup of the nominees is more varied than in recent years but the...
- 2/12/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
From La La Land’s potential sweep to an overlooked diversity conundrum, Screen weighs in.
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 7pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?
3. Bafta is doing well on diversity but it may be time for a female host…
In recent months Bafta has tweaked its eligibility criteria and developed initiatives to promote diversity. It is doing the right things. The makeup of the nominees is more varied than in recent years but the...
Screen runs down eight talking points ahead of tonight’s 70th British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Check back in at 7pm GMT to follow our coverage live.
1. Will La La Land sweep?
Will La La Land sweep the boards following its mighty 11 nominations or will Moonlight or Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake be able to pull off an upset or two?
2. Will Arrival or Nocturnal Animals feel the love?
Following their near-Oscar shutout, can two of this year’s Venice favourites find cheer among UK voters?
3. Bafta is doing well on diversity but it may be time for a female host…
In recent months Bafta has tweaked its eligibility criteria and developed initiatives to promote diversity. It is doing the right things. The makeup of the nominees is more varied than in recent years but the...
- 2/12/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Alastair Stewart Nov 17, 2016
Netflix's pricy royal family drama The Crown has stand-out performances from John Lithgow and Matt Smith, but lacks story...
Warning: contains spoilers.
The great cliche about the British is that we’re a stoic lot; emotionally reserved and only ever prone to bouts of ‘hayfever’ when Bambi’s mum dies.
Netflix’s £100m production of The Crown tries to buck this trope with a ten-part series dramatising the personal and political events surrounding the first decade of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign from 1952.
One part Downton Abbey, one part House Of Cards (the original of course), The Crown never quite decides if it wants to commit itself to a political drama or total supposition about the inner workings of the Court of St James's.
Written by Peter Morgan, the identity struggle at the heart of the series is not hard to explain. Morgan made his name as...
Netflix's pricy royal family drama The Crown has stand-out performances from John Lithgow and Matt Smith, but lacks story...
Warning: contains spoilers.
The great cliche about the British is that we’re a stoic lot; emotionally reserved and only ever prone to bouts of ‘hayfever’ when Bambi’s mum dies.
Netflix’s £100m production of The Crown tries to buck this trope with a ten-part series dramatising the personal and political events surrounding the first decade of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign from 1952.
One part Downton Abbey, one part House Of Cards (the original of course), The Crown never quite decides if it wants to commit itself to a political drama or total supposition about the inner workings of the Court of St James's.
Written by Peter Morgan, the identity struggle at the heart of the series is not hard to explain. Morgan made his name as...
- 11/14/2016
- Den of Geek
Sneak Peek footage, images and synopsis from the upcoming 'royals' TV series "The Crown", created by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures, starring Claire Foy as young 'Queen Elizabeth II' debuting November 4, 2016 on Netflix:
"...'The Crown' will trace the life of 'Queen Elizabeth II' from her wedding in 1947 to the present day, spanning 60 episodes over 6 seasons..."
Cast also includes Matt Smith ("Dr. Who") as 'Prince Philip', Jared Harris as 'King George VI', Vanessa Kirby as 'Princess Margaret' and John Lithgow as 'Winston Churchill'.
Also starring are Greg Wise as 'Lord Louis Mountbatten', Victoria Hamilton as 'Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother', Stephen Dillane as 'Graham Sutherland', Andy Sanderson as 'Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester', Michael Culkin as 'Rab Butler', Nicholas Rowe as 'Jock Colville', Rita McDonald Damper as...
"...'The Crown' will trace the life of 'Queen Elizabeth II' from her wedding in 1947 to the present day, spanning 60 episodes over 6 seasons..."
Cast also includes Matt Smith ("Dr. Who") as 'Prince Philip', Jared Harris as 'King George VI', Vanessa Kirby as 'Princess Margaret' and John Lithgow as 'Winston Churchill'.
Also starring are Greg Wise as 'Lord Louis Mountbatten', Victoria Hamilton as 'Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother', Stephen Dillane as 'Graham Sutherland', Andy Sanderson as 'Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester', Michael Culkin as 'Rab Butler', Nicholas Rowe as 'Jock Colville', Rita McDonald Damper as...
- 9/29/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Part I. Anger, Suez and Archie Rice
“There they are,” George Devine told John Osborne, surveying The Entertainer‘s opening night audience. “All waiting for you…Same old pack of c***s, fashionable assholes. Just more of them than usual.” The Royal Court had arrived: no longer outcasts, they were London’s main attraction.
Look Back in Anger vindicated Devine’s model of a writer’s-based theater. Osborne’s success attracted a host of dramatists to Sloane Square. There’s Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey featured a working-class girl pregnant from an interracial dalliance; Harold Pinter’s The Room, a bizarre “comedy of menace”; and John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, which aimed a Gatling gun at its audience. Devine encouraged them, however bold or experimental. “You always knew he was on the writer’s side,” Osborne said.
Peter O’Toole called the Royal Court actors “an...
“There they are,” George Devine told John Osborne, surveying The Entertainer‘s opening night audience. “All waiting for you…Same old pack of c***s, fashionable assholes. Just more of them than usual.” The Royal Court had arrived: no longer outcasts, they were London’s main attraction.
Look Back in Anger vindicated Devine’s model of a writer’s-based theater. Osborne’s success attracted a host of dramatists to Sloane Square. There’s Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey featured a working-class girl pregnant from an interracial dalliance; Harold Pinter’s The Room, a bizarre “comedy of menace”; and John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, which aimed a Gatling gun at its audience. Devine encouraged them, however bold or experimental. “You always knew he was on the writer’s side,” Osborne said.
Peter O’Toole called the Royal Court actors “an...
- 3/13/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
Aha! Steve Coogan's comic creation Alan Partridge has finally bounced back, cementing his Lazarus-like comeback with a best-selling autobiography, Sky Atlantic's Mid Morning Matters and the eagerly-awaited movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
To celebrate the return of one of Norfolk's North Norfolk's finest broadcasters we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying by classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan began his media career DJing on hospital radio before winning a job as a sports reporter for the BBC's current affairs programme The Day Today.
To celebrate the return of one of Norfolk's North Norfolk's finest broadcasters we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying by classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan began his media career DJing on hospital radio before winning a job as a sports reporter for the BBC's current affairs programme The Day Today.
- 8/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Aha! Steve Coogan's comic creation Alan Partridge has finally bounced back, cementing his Lazarus-like comeback with a best-selling autobiography, Sky Atlantic's Mid Morning Matters and the eagerly-awaited movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
To celebrate the return of one of Norfolk's North Norfolk's finest broadcasters we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying by classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan began his media career DJing on hospital radio before winning a job as a sports reporter for the BBC's current affairs programme The Day Today.
To celebrate the return of one of Norfolk's North Norfolk's finest broadcasters we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying by classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan began his media career DJing on hospital radio before winning a job as a sports reporter for the BBC's current affairs programme The Day Today.
- 8/6/2013
- Digital Spy
As our politicians keep on failing, affection grows for those who are unelected. Democracy itself is looking fragile
Who do you love more, those you choose or those whom fate or genes have chosen for you? Usually that's a personal question: who sits closest to your heart, the friends or partner you choose, or the family your DNA picked out for you? Put like that, it's an impossible choice. But framed another way – a more public, more political way – it seems we have an answer. And it's not the one you'd expect.
For a clue, book a ticket to The Audience, the play that sees Helen Mirren and writer Peter Morgan return to the character who brought them such success with the Oscar-winning film The Queen. Mirren's back as Her Maj, this time playing opposite not Tony Blair but eight others drawn from what she calls "the Dirty Dozen" who...
Who do you love more, those you choose or those whom fate or genes have chosen for you? Usually that's a personal question: who sits closest to your heart, the friends or partner you choose, or the family your DNA picked out for you? Put like that, it's an impossible choice. But framed another way – a more public, more political way – it seems we have an answer. And it's not the one you'd expect.
For a clue, book a ticket to The Audience, the play that sees Helen Mirren and writer Peter Morgan return to the character who brought them such success with the Oscar-winning film The Queen. Mirren's back as Her Maj, this time playing opposite not Tony Blair but eight others drawn from what she calls "the Dirty Dozen" who...
- 3/23/2013
- by Jonathan Freedland
- The Guardian - Film News
It was a stirring time, but people were seeking not socialism but reformed capitalism. This film obscures some inconvenient truths
The general election of 1945 is one of the key turning points of modern British history. Labour won a thumping Commons majority and used it to introduce the welfare state, nationalise key industries and guarantee full employment. You have to have a heart of stone – or be an implacable Thatcherite – not to feel that there was something wonderful, heroic even, about that moment.
According to Ken Loach's documentary The Spirit of '45, an election held nearly 70 years ago remains relevant to a world in which the free market is triumphant. As he says: "It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition." A key part of his argument is that as the British people once enthusiastically embraced socialism,...
The general election of 1945 is one of the key turning points of modern British history. Labour won a thumping Commons majority and used it to introduce the welfare state, nationalise key industries and guarantee full employment. You have to have a heart of stone – or be an implacable Thatcherite – not to feel that there was something wonderful, heroic even, about that moment.
According to Ken Loach's documentary The Spirit of '45, an election held nearly 70 years ago remains relevant to a world in which the free market is triumphant. As he says: "It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition." A key part of his argument is that as the British people once enthusiastically embraced socialism,...
- 3/8/2013
- by Steven Fielding
- The Guardian - Film News
Aha! Steve Coogan's comic creation Alan Partridge bounced back last year thanks to his brilliant Mid Morning Matters series on Sky Atlantic. North Norfolk Digital's hapless radio host will complete his Lazarus-like comeback when The Alan Partridge Movie hits the silver screen this August.
To celebrate the return of one of Norwich's finest broadcasters - and the upcoming release of the Partrimilgrimage specials on DVD - we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying from classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan...
To celebrate the return of one of Norwich's finest broadcasters - and the upcoming release of the Partrimilgrimage specials on DVD - we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying from classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan...
- 3/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Aha! Steve Coogan's comic creation Alan Partridge bounced back last year thanks to his brilliant Mid Morning Matters series on Sky Atlantic. North Norfolk Digital's hapless radio host will complete his Lazarus-like comeback when The Alan Partridge Movie hits the silver screen this August.
To celebrate the return of one of Norwich's finest broadcasters - and the upcoming release of the Partrimilgrimage specials on DVD - we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying from classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan...
To celebrate the return of one of Norwich's finest broadcasters - and the upcoming release of the Partrimilgrimage specials on DVD - we pick out 10 things you need to know about Alan Partridge.
1. Alan Gordon Partridge was born in 1955 to Dorothy Partridge at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His arrival coincided with Anthony Eden being named Prime Minister and Chelsea securing the First Division title. Alan spent much of his childhood in Norwich, but freely admits to experiencing difficulties with his emotionally distant father. He was also the victim of school bullying from classmates, who frequently taunted him with cries of "Smelly Alan Fartridge".
2. Alan...
- 3/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Gielgud, London
Peter Morgan struck box-office gold with his movie The Queen. He's likely to do so again with this play based on the private weekly audience given by the monarch to the prime minister. But I'd say that in both cases, Pm owes a great deal to Hm: in other words, Helen Mirren, who once again gives a faultless performance that transcends mere impersonation to endow the monarch with a sense of inner life and a quasi-Shakespearean aura of solitude.
As a dramatist, however, Morgan faces two problems. One is that no one ever knows what is said at these weekly tête-à-têtes since they are un-minuted. The other, more serious, is that in a constitutional monarchy, the Queen has no authority to contradict policy: simply, in the words of Walter Bagehot in the 19th century, "to be consulted, to advise and to warn", which would seem to rule out dramatic conflict.
Peter Morgan struck box-office gold with his movie The Queen. He's likely to do so again with this play based on the private weekly audience given by the monarch to the prime minister. But I'd say that in both cases, Pm owes a great deal to Hm: in other words, Helen Mirren, who once again gives a faultless performance that transcends mere impersonation to endow the monarch with a sense of inner life and a quasi-Shakespearean aura of solitude.
As a dramatist, however, Morgan faces two problems. One is that no one ever knows what is said at these weekly tête-à-têtes since they are un-minuted. The other, more serious, is that in a constitutional monarchy, the Queen has no authority to contradict policy: simply, in the words of Walter Bagehot in the 19th century, "to be consulted, to advise and to warn", which would seem to rule out dramatic conflict.
- 3/6/2013
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Helen Mirren returns to the stage as The Queen in the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience, with Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major, Rufus Wright as David Cameron and Edward Fox as Winston Churchill. Mirren recently chatted with BBC News about returning to the role in the new piece and you can watch the full interview Here.
- 3/5/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Joining Helen Mirren who plays The Queen in the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major, Rufus Wright as David Cameron and Edward Fox as Winston Churchill. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth is played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams. David Peart plays James Callaghan who is joined by ensemble members Jonathan Coote, Ian Houghton and Charlotte Moore. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
- 2/28/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Joining Helen Mirren as The Queen in the world premiere of The Audience are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth will be played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams.
- 2/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Joining Helen Mirren as The Queen in this world premiere are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth will be played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams.
- 2/14/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
From Lorca and Euripides in a festival of chaos to breathtaking circus in a cathedral, our critics pick the best theatrical experiences of the spring
A Marvellous Year for Plums
Long before Iraq, Britain's 1956 invasion of Suez divided the nation and destroyed the reputation of the Pm. In those days it was Sir Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as "half mad baronet and half beautiful woman" and now played by Anthony Andrews in a new piece by Hugh Whitemore. Mb Chichester Festival theatre (01243 781 312), 11 May to 2 June. cft.org.uk
Posh
Time should have given new traction to Laura Wade's play about an elite Oxford dining club filled with arrogant young toffs who presume they are born to rule. First seen at the Royal Court shortly before the last election, it was thought by some to offer an exaggerated portrait of upper-class swagger. Now Lyndsey Turner's production, with many of the original cast,...
A Marvellous Year for Plums
Long before Iraq, Britain's 1956 invasion of Suez divided the nation and destroyed the reputation of the Pm. In those days it was Sir Anthony Eden, described by a colleague as "half mad baronet and half beautiful woman" and now played by Anthony Andrews in a new piece by Hugh Whitemore. Mb Chichester Festival theatre (01243 781 312), 11 May to 2 June. cft.org.uk
Posh
Time should have given new traction to Laura Wade's play about an elite Oxford dining club filled with arrogant young toffs who presume they are born to rule. First seen at the Royal Court shortly before the last election, it was thought by some to offer an exaggerated portrait of upper-class swagger. Now Lyndsey Turner's production, with many of the original cast,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Michael Billington, Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
The quiet hero of Gunsmoke was a fitting archetype for the Eisenhower era when the Us kept the law without resort to force
James Arness, the 6'7" giant who, from 1955 to 1975, played Marshal Matt Dillon on the long-running television series, Gunsmoke (Gun Law, in Britain), was never much of an actor, but his death last week at the age of 88 was a powerful reminder of how much the traditional western, despite its setting on the frontier of the 1870s and 1880s, can be a reflection of contemporary American society. In his role as a lawman who fired his gun only reluctantly and as a last resort, Arness embodied the best values of America's cold war culture.
The film precedents for Arness's Matt Dillon come from two classic cold war westerns. In director Fred Zinnemann's 1952 High Noon, Gary Cooper plays a retiring sheriff, Will Kane, who is about to leave town with his Quaker bride,...
James Arness, the 6'7" giant who, from 1955 to 1975, played Marshal Matt Dillon on the long-running television series, Gunsmoke (Gun Law, in Britain), was never much of an actor, but his death last week at the age of 88 was a powerful reminder of how much the traditional western, despite its setting on the frontier of the 1870s and 1880s, can be a reflection of contemporary American society. In his role as a lawman who fired his gun only reluctantly and as a last resort, Arness embodied the best values of America's cold war culture.
The film precedents for Arness's Matt Dillon come from two classic cold war westerns. In director Fred Zinnemann's 1952 High Noon, Gary Cooper plays a retiring sheriff, Will Kane, who is about to leave town with his Quaker bride,...
- 6/8/2011
- by Nicolaus Mills
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor with poise and presence, best known as Alfred the butler in Tim Burton's Batman
The actor Michael Gough, who has died aged 94, was an arresting presence on stage, television and film for the entire postwar period, notably as the butler Alfred Pennyworth in Tim Burton's Batman movies. Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
Gough started in the Old Vic company in London before the second world war, but it took till 1946 for his career proper to get off to a flying start in the West End, in Frederick Lonsdale's But for the Grace of God. The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine. So copiously...
The actor Michael Gough, who has died aged 94, was an arresting presence on stage, television and film for the entire postwar period, notably as the butler Alfred Pennyworth in Tim Burton's Batman movies. Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
Gough started in the Old Vic company in London before the second world war, but it took till 1946 for his career proper to get off to a flying start in the West End, in Frederick Lonsdale's But for the Grace of God. The fistfight-to-the-death scene was done with such startling verisimilitude that nearly all the stage furniture was demolished nightly, and Gough broke three ribs and injured the base of his spine. So copiously...
- 3/18/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
British cult horror actor Michael Gough has died at the age of 94 after a stellar career playing character roles in over 100 films. Horror fans know him well from his role in the seminal Hammer Horror film Horror Of Dracula (1958) as well as cult goodies such as Horror Hospital, Horrors Of The Black Museum, Legend Of Hell House, and Konga. A younger generation of film fans discovered him when he starred as Alfred the butler in the 90′s Batman franchise and he continued working up to his death, providing voice work for Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride and last year’s Alice In Wonderland.
From The Daily Telegraph:
Michael Gough, the actor who died on Thursday aged 94, achieved cult status for his roles in the Hammer horror films of the 1960s, but became better known as Alfred the Butler in Tim Burton’s Batman films; he was also an accomplished stage actor,...
From The Daily Telegraph:
Michael Gough, the actor who died on Thursday aged 94, achieved cult status for his roles in the Hammer horror films of the 1960s, but became better known as Alfred the Butler in Tim Burton’s Batman films; he was also an accomplished stage actor,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Critics reflect on how social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and myDigg, fit into the perennial debate on cultural elitism
Miranda Sawyer, broadcaster and Observer radio critic: 'Twitter has made it easier for critics to hear other people's opinions. Even then, though, you tend to hear similar views to your own'
When I was writing for the Face, during the 1990s, I went to interview some boy racers: young lads who spent all their money souping up their cars in order to screech around mini roundabouts or rev their engines in supermarket car parks until their tyres smoked. The kids asked me who I was writing for. When I said the Face – a magazine that prided itself on representing all aspects of British youth interests – every single one of them replied: "Never heard of it."
The point is that most people – especially those outside the high-culture capital of London – are...
Miranda Sawyer, broadcaster and Observer radio critic: 'Twitter has made it easier for critics to hear other people's opinions. Even then, though, you tend to hear similar views to your own'
When I was writing for the Face, during the 1990s, I went to interview some boy racers: young lads who spent all their money souping up their cars in order to screech around mini roundabouts or rev their engines in supermarket car parks until their tyres smoked. The kids asked me who I was writing for. When I said the Face – a magazine that prided itself on representing all aspects of British youth interests – every single one of them replied: "Never heard of it."
The point is that most people – especially those outside the high-culture capital of London – are...
- 1/30/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
In this lull before the whirlwind of the 63rd edition starts, the question that I've been pondering is this: why have these past Cannes discoveries never crossed the Channel for a UK release?
Here we are in Cannes, the day before the official opening: the Tuesday Lull. It's the calm before the storm, which, traditionally, is not all that calm. The red carpet is still being hammered into place and the Grand Palais prepared by grey-suited officials bustling about everywhere. Last year, my friend Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times told me he saw a Cannes local walk down the Croisette, survey the scene and loudly sigh: "Les conneries commencent …" ("The bullshit begins …"). For journalists covering the festival, this is a time for savouring all the possibilities of movie experience that must surely be available in the next 10 days, before you're suddenly plunged straight into it, and there never seems to be enough time,...
Here we are in Cannes, the day before the official opening: the Tuesday Lull. It's the calm before the storm, which, traditionally, is not all that calm. The red carpet is still being hammered into place and the Grand Palais prepared by grey-suited officials bustling about everywhere. Last year, my friend Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times told me he saw a Cannes local walk down the Croisette, survey the scene and loudly sigh: "Les conneries commencent …" ("The bullshit begins …"). For journalists covering the festival, this is a time for savouring all the possibilities of movie experience that must surely be available in the next 10 days, before you're suddenly plunged straight into it, and there never seems to be enough time,...
- 5/11/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With Avatar officially the most successful film ever, Hollywood's top 20 is dominated by all-action blockbusters. What happened to grown-up movies?
My wife, who remembers Anthony Eden, Suez and Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, is always complaining that Hollywood doesn't make very many movies aimed at people who grew up in the 1950s or 60s. This, I ceaselessly reconfirm, is true. But a quick glance at the recently revised list of the biggest-grossing films of all time – Avatar has shot to No 1 – shows something even more interesting. Hollywood doesn't make that many movies aimed at people who grew up in the 1970s or 80s, either. With few exceptions, the films that have raked in the most cash at the box office in the entire history of motion pictures are movies made in the past decade, ones that are aimed at adolescents and tykes. Gone with the Wind is no longer on the list.
My wife, who remembers Anthony Eden, Suez and Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, is always complaining that Hollywood doesn't make very many movies aimed at people who grew up in the 1950s or 60s. This, I ceaselessly reconfirm, is true. But a quick glance at the recently revised list of the biggest-grossing films of all time – Avatar has shot to No 1 – shows something even more interesting. Hollywood doesn't make that many movies aimed at people who grew up in the 1970s or 80s, either. With few exceptions, the films that have raked in the most cash at the box office in the entire history of motion pictures are movies made in the past decade, ones that are aimed at adolescents and tykes. Gone with the Wind is no longer on the list.
- 2/14/2010
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Britain's Princess Margaret was not banned from marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend, it has been revealed. A recently unearthed letter has overturned the long held belief Queen Elizabeth's younger sister, who died in 2002 aged 71, was forced not to marry her long-term lover by the royal family and advisors. Instead, the letter from Princess Margaret to then-Prime Minister Anthony Eden revealed she herself was "unsure" of her love for the Battle of Britain pilot. She wrote on August 15, 1955, that she would only be sure of her feelings towards Townsend when they met again in October that year. The note promised to advise the prime minister of her decision by November. Confused Margaret, then 24, wrote: "It is...
- 11/10/2009
- Monsters and Critics
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