"Peaky Blinders" star Cillian Murphy has always been perfectly frank about his experiences shooting the bloody drama TV show. The herbal cigarettes are a lot, the haircuts were "alarming," and don't even get the actor started on the as-yet unmade sequel film. The role of Tommy Shelby has no doubt been one of the most rewarding of Murphy's career — it's earned him a BAFTA, among other awards — but the process of bringing the complex period piece to life surely took some getting used to. Case in point: In 2019, Murphy told the Birmingham Mail he needed a short guide from one director in order to understand the show's non-chronological shooting schedule.
"We could be doing episode four in the morning and the finale in the afternoon," Murphy told the outlet. He added: "It was an incredibly mindf***ing shoot, so I got our director Tim Mielants to draw up four...
"We could be doing episode four in the morning and the finale in the afternoon," Murphy told the outlet. He added: "It was an incredibly mindf***ing shoot, so I got our director Tim Mielants to draw up four...
- 9/2/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
On the Friday after Tom Wambsgans became the new puppet CEO of the Waystar-Royco media empire, the actor who has spent the past five years essaying the character’s ups, downs, and withering one-liners is propping up the bar of a small boutique hotel in London’s Chelsea. Matthew Macfadyen is nursing a lime tonic and contemplating a rest after several months of hard work on Succession’s blockbusting fourth season. In some other world, one imagines his fictional alter-ego is already discovering the poison in the chalice of the job he has spent a lifetime coveting. Macfadyen, instead, is content simply to think ahead to a quiet family dinner, and to reflect on the adventure of his past half decade.
“I’ll miss it,” he says quietly of his time on Succession. “It was such a lovely, lovely job.”
So confidently has Macfadyen brought his character to life through...
“I’ll miss it,” he says quietly of his time on Succession. “It was such a lovely, lovely job.”
So confidently has Macfadyen brought his character to life through...
- 6/16/2023
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
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Harry Potter stars Alfred Enoch and Bonnie Wright are among those lending their voices to narrate the audiobook of Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
In Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, releasing on Oct. 18, volumes of diary entries written by the late actor running from 1993 to his death in 2016 are shared in which Rickman candidly details his life and career. From inside his home to the sets of films and plays including Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, the Harry Potter franchise to Noël Coward’s Private Lives and the final film he directed, A Little Chaos, Rickman’s diaries offer insight into both his private and public life.
“Reading them is like listening to Rickman chatting to a close companion. Meet Rickman the consummate professional actor, but also the friend, the traveler, the fan, the director, the enthusiast; in short,...
Harry Potter stars Alfred Enoch and Bonnie Wright are among those lending their voices to narrate the audiobook of Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
In Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, releasing on Oct. 18, volumes of diary entries written by the late actor running from 1993 to his death in 2016 are shared in which Rickman candidly details his life and career. From inside his home to the sets of films and plays including Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, the Harry Potter franchise to Noël Coward’s Private Lives and the final film he directed, A Little Chaos, Rickman’s diaries offer insight into both his private and public life.
“Reading them is like listening to Rickman chatting to a close companion. Meet Rickman the consummate professional actor, but also the friend, the traveler, the fan, the director, the enthusiast; in short,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Lexy Perez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Anselm Kiefer: Transition From Warm to Cool Gagosian Gallery, NYC Thru Septemer 1, 2017
An older creative man who finds energy in their work from having a new young love in his life can represent a wonderful coda. In 1857 when Dickens was 45 years old, he fell in love with the 18-year old actresses Ellen Ternan, a passion that lasted the rest of his life. In 1917 the composer Janacek met Kamila Stösslová, 38 years his junior, who inspired a host of new works. A young woman's sexual ecstasy is the central theme of a suite of new pieces by Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian on 21st Street in Chelsea, up until September 1st.
There are a lot of things in this show that he is famous for -- giant, stage-sized paintings and vitrines with large books in them. The paintings are as thick as condo walls with loopy written inscriptions on them. Recently we have...
An older creative man who finds energy in their work from having a new young love in his life can represent a wonderful coda. In 1857 when Dickens was 45 years old, he fell in love with the 18-year old actresses Ellen Ternan, a passion that lasted the rest of his life. In 1917 the composer Janacek met Kamila Stösslová, 38 years his junior, who inspired a host of new works. A young woman's sexual ecstasy is the central theme of a suite of new pieces by Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian on 21st Street in Chelsea, up until September 1st.
There are a lot of things in this show that he is famous for -- giant, stage-sized paintings and vitrines with large books in them. The paintings are as thick as condo walls with loopy written inscriptions on them. Recently we have...
- 8/25/2017
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
If you’re one of the thousands of people who are forced to stay home on Tuesday due to Winter Storm Stella, there is a bright spot amidst all that snow —getting caught up on all the things you’ve been meaning to stream.
If you’re looking for ideas — or just don’t know where to start — we’ve put together a handy guide on the best TV and movies to stream on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and more. And we’ve broken them down by your moods — from wishing you were on a sunny beach somewhere (then-teenaged Lauren Conrad...
If you’re looking for ideas — or just don’t know where to start — we’ve put together a handy guide on the best TV and movies to stream on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and more. And we’ve broken them down by your moods — from wishing you were on a sunny beach somewhere (then-teenaged Lauren Conrad...
- 3/13/2017
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- PEOPLE.com
Devoted fans of the now-departed Downton Abbey will likely never settle for anything less, but creator Julian Fellowes and Amazon have a soft tonic to ease the discomfort. Debuting on May 20 on the streaming service after having played in the UK earlier this spring, Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne is a standard English period piece straight out of the best parts of the 1850s. Based on the third novel in Anthony Trollope's beloved Chronicles of Barsetshire series…...
- 5/17/2016
- Deadline TV
A British estate facing financial ruin? A controversial romance between classes? Top hats and petticoats as far as the eye can see? Downton Abbey fans, we think you’re going to like what you see.
PhotosJohn Krasinski to Star As Jack Ryan in Amazon Drama Series
Amazon on Tuesday released the first official trailer for Doctor Thorne, a new drama from Downton creator Julian Fellowes. Dropping on May 20, the three-part miniseries stars Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) as the titular doc, appearing alongside a slew of familiar faces, including Alison Brie (Community) and Ian McShane (Deadwood).
Doctor Thorne is...
PhotosJohn Krasinski to Star As Jack Ryan in Amazon Drama Series
Amazon on Tuesday released the first official trailer for Doctor Thorne, a new drama from Downton creator Julian Fellowes. Dropping on May 20, the three-part miniseries stars Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) as the titular doc, appearing alongside a slew of familiar faces, including Alison Brie (Community) and Ian McShane (Deadwood).
Doctor Thorne is...
- 5/3/2016
- TVLine.com
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At least one doctor still makes house calls, thanks to Amazon. Watch a preview of the Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne TV show, coming to Amazon, Friday, May 20, 2016. The series, inspired by Anthony Trollope's book series aired as Doctor Thorne in UK on ITV, in March.
Tom Hollander, Rebecca Front, Ian McShane star, and Alison Brie star in the new three-part drama, Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne, adapted for television by Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. Watch a preview, below.
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At least one doctor still makes house calls, thanks to Amazon. Watch a preview of the Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne TV show, coming to Amazon, Friday, May 20, 2016. The series, inspired by Anthony Trollope's book series aired as Doctor Thorne in UK on ITV, in March.
Tom Hollander, Rebecca Front, Ian McShane star, and Alison Brie star in the new three-part drama, Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne, adapted for television by Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. Watch a preview, below.
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- 5/3/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Amazon Prime Video has acquired British period drama Julian Fellowes Presents Doctor Thorne for premiere on May 20. The series, from Downton Abbey creator Fellowes and the Weinstein Company, is based on the book series by Anthony Trollope and stars Tom Hollander (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), Ian McShane (Ray Donovan) and Alison Brie (Mad Men). Niall MacCormick directs. It centers on Dr. Thomas Thorne (Hollander), who lives a quiet life with his niece Mary (Stefani…...
- 5/3/2016
- Deadline TV
From the Sheriff of Nottingham to Severus Snape, Alan Rickman played some of the most memorable roles cinema had to offer. Here are 10 of the best
Alan Rickman dies at 69
Peter Bradshaw pays tributeA life in pictures
Related: Alan Rickman: an actor of singular charm and hypnotic charisma
After graduating from drama school in 1974, Rickman pursued a successful career in theatre, culminating in an award-winning performance as Valmont in the premiere run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985. Before that, however, he had made his mark on screen, playing the oleaginous Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles, the celebrated BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s novels which was broadcast in 1982.
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Alan Rickman dies at 69
Peter Bradshaw pays tributeA life in pictures
Related: Alan Rickman: an actor of singular charm and hypnotic charisma
After graduating from drama school in 1974, Rickman pursued a successful career in theatre, culminating in an award-winning performance as Valmont in the premiere run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985. Before that, however, he had made his mark on screen, playing the oleaginous Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles, the celebrated BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s novels which was broadcast in 1982.
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- 1/14/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has moved on from that period drama and has on deck the ITV adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne as well as the long-gestating NBC drama The Gilded Age. But the busy Lord isn't stopping there. He's also penning a serialized novel fresh with its own app. Grand Central Publishing has acquired rights to the prologue and 10-part Belgravia, which it will release beginning in April. Modeled along the lines of Charles Dickens' The P…...
- 1/5/2016
- Deadline TV
The Weinstein Company has licensed Us and Canadian rights from Hat Trick International to Julian Fellowes’ mini-series ahead of Mipcom.
Tom Hollander, Ian McShane, Alison Brie and Rebecca Front will star in the three one-hour episodes based on the Anthony Trollope novel about love and social ambition.
Executive producers are Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Hat Trick’s head of drama Mark Redhead, Fellowes, Chris Kelly and Ted Childs.
Robert Walak and Michal Podell Steinberg negotiated on behalf of TWC with Paul Cohen at Hat Trick.
Dimension Television is to adapt Stephen King novella The Mist for television from Christian Torpe, the writer of Danish show Rita.
Tom Hollander, Ian McShane, Alison Brie and Rebecca Front will star in the three one-hour episodes based on the Anthony Trollope novel about love and social ambition.
Executive producers are Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Hat Trick’s head of drama Mark Redhead, Fellowes, Chris Kelly and Ted Childs.
Robert Walak and Michal Podell Steinberg negotiated on behalf of TWC with Paul Cohen at Hat Trick.
Dimension Television is to adapt Stephen King novella The Mist for television from Christian Torpe, the writer of Danish show Rita.
- 9/16/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Weinstein Television has acquired the North American rights to Julian Fellowes' "Doctor Throne." The miniseries marks the first TV project shepherded by Fellowes since completing work on "Downton Abbey," which is ending its run after six seasons. Read More: Julian Fellowes On Ending 'Downton Abbey' and Moving Onto 'The Gilded Age' "Doctor Thorne" stars Ian McShane, Alison Brie, and Tom Hollander. The Victorian drama adapts Anthony Trollope's novel about the titular Dr. Thorne, his penniless niece, her wealthy love interest, and his status-obsessed mother. "It’s a tremendous thrill to be a part of Julian Fellowes' first television outing since 'Downton Abbey,' a series we were all such immense fans of. With a script as extremely witty, brilliant, and appealing as this one is, I’m certain 'Doctor Thorne' will replicate the passionate fan base and ratings power of 'Downton Abbey,'...
- 9/16/2015
- by Karen Brill
- Indiewire
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes announced in April that he was adapting Anthony Trollope's Victorian era novel Doctor Thorne as a three-part drama for ITV. The Weinstein Co has now come aboard for North American rights, with Harvey and Bob Weinstein exec producing. At the same time, and with shooting imminent, casting has been confirmed. This comes as the Mipcom TV market is just around the corner; it’s also Fellowes’ first series post-Downton and a next step into…...
- 9/16/2015
- Deadline TV
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes is adapting Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne for ITV, the BBC reports. Fellowes is finding time in his busy schedule to write the three-part drama, produced by Hat Trick Productions, with filming to begin later this year. Set in the fictional picturesque English village of Greshamsbury, Doctor Thorne tells the story of Mary Thorne, niece of the titular village doctor, and her troublesome romantic life. The source novel is part of Trollope's "Chronicles of Barsetshire" series. Read More 'Downton Abbey' Creator Julian Fellowes to Receive International Emmy Founders Award Fellowes said he took on the project
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- 4/28/2015
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Aziz Ansari, whose next show will be on Netflix.
MTV has cancelled the thriller Eye Candy after one season. Series star Victoria Justice made the announcement via twitter.
Hi everyone! I wanted you guys to hear it from me first, that the cast and I received news that Eye Candy will not be returning for season 2. Even though a lot of you are going to feel sad/angry, please know that playing Lindy Sampson, is something that I loved and I will hold dear to my heart. I couldn’t have asked for better cast mates to work with either. They are the most down to earth, talented and kind souls that I am so happy to have met. Then there’s our show runner @Christiantwit1 who is so awesomely talented and made a show that I am so incredibly proud to be a part of. A very special thank...
MTV has cancelled the thriller Eye Candy after one season. Series star Victoria Justice made the announcement via twitter.
Hi everyone! I wanted you guys to hear it from me first, that the cast and I received news that Eye Candy will not be returning for season 2. Even though a lot of you are going to feel sad/angry, please know that playing Lindy Sampson, is something that I loved and I will hold dear to my heart. I couldn’t have asked for better cast mates to work with either. They are the most down to earth, talented and kind souls that I am so happy to have met. Then there’s our show runner @Christiantwit1 who is so awesomely talented and made a show that I am so incredibly proud to be a part of. A very special thank...
- 4/26/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Julian Fellowes is taking a break from Downton Abbey to work on a new ITV series.
The writer and creator of ITV's flagship drama will work with the network on an adaptation of Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.
Doctor Thorne tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt and cousins on the grand Greshamsbury Park estate.
An ITV drama set in a great big country house with a focus on the British class system - haven't we been here before?
Fellowes said: "As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favourite among the great nineteenth century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of, it is tremendously exciting and satisfying to know that my adaptation of one of his best-loved novels is coming to ITV.
"I could not be more delighted."
ITV's Director of Drama Steve November...
The writer and creator of ITV's flagship drama will work with the network on an adaptation of Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.
Doctor Thorne tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt and cousins on the grand Greshamsbury Park estate.
An ITV drama set in a great big country house with a focus on the British class system - haven't we been here before?
Fellowes said: "As a lifetime devotee of Trollope, my own favourite among the great nineteenth century English novelists and certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of, it is tremendously exciting and satisfying to know that my adaptation of one of his best-loved novels is coming to ITV.
"I could not be more delighted."
ITV's Director of Drama Steve November...
- 4/25/2015
- Digital Spy
While Downton Abbey is preparing for its final season on the UK’s ITV, creator Julian Fellowes will be returning to the network with a new drama to begin shooting later this year. Fellowes is to adapt Anthony Trollope’s Victorian era novel Doctor Thorne as a three-part drama. Hat Trick Productions is producing with Mark Redhead (Critical) and Fellowes exec producing with Chris Kelly and Ted Childs. The story centers on Dr Thomas Thorne, who lives in the village of…...
- 4/25/2015
- Deadline TV
Kieran Kinsella
Appropriately enough for this time of year, Acorn Media’s latest batch of DVD releases includes The Fall. It’s a Belfast based psychological crime drama in which Dsi Stella Gibson attempts to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who seems to delight in deviousness. Somewhat unusually for a crime drama, the killer is identified fairly early on as Paul Spector. Thereafter, Spector and Gibson become embroiled in a game of cat and mouse that lasts through five suspensful episodes. The relationship between Spector and Gibson is similar to the one involving Hannibal Lector and Clarice except for the fact that Lector was banged up while Spector is on the loose.
X-Files actress Gillian Anderson takes on the role of Gibson and she seems quite at home on British TV these days having enjoyed success in recent hits such as Great Expectations. Her nemesis is the rather less...
Appropriately enough for this time of year, Acorn Media’s latest batch of DVD releases includes The Fall. It’s a Belfast based psychological crime drama in which Dsi Stella Gibson attempts to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who seems to delight in deviousness. Somewhat unusually for a crime drama, the killer is identified fairly early on as Paul Spector. Thereafter, Spector and Gibson become embroiled in a game of cat and mouse that lasts through five suspensful episodes. The relationship between Spector and Gibson is similar to the one involving Hannibal Lector and Clarice except for the fact that Lector was banged up while Spector is on the loose.
X-Files actress Gillian Anderson takes on the role of Gibson and she seems quite at home on British TV these days having enjoyed success in recent hits such as Great Expectations. Her nemesis is the rather less...
- 10/18/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) – but six key rules emerge
One morning this summer, I got up at first light – I'd left the blinds open the night before – then drank a strong cup of coffee, sat near-naked by an open window for an hour, worked all morning, then had a martini with lunch. I took a long afternoon walk, and for the rest of the week experimented with never working for more than three hours at a stretch.
This was all in an effort to adopt the rituals of some great artists and thinkers: the rising-at-dawn bit came from Ernest Hemingway, who was up at around 5.30am, even if he'd been drinking the night before; the strong coffee was borrowed from Beethoven,...
One morning this summer, I got up at first light – I'd left the blinds open the night before – then drank a strong cup of coffee, sat near-naked by an open window for an hour, worked all morning, then had a martini with lunch. I took a long afternoon walk, and for the rest of the week experimented with never working for more than three hours at a stretch.
This was all in an effort to adopt the rituals of some great artists and thinkers: the rising-at-dawn bit came from Ernest Hemingway, who was up at around 5.30am, even if he'd been drinking the night before; the strong coffee was borrowed from Beethoven,...
- 10/5/2013
- by Oliver Burkeman
- The Guardian - Film News
A stroppy American teen holidays with her goofy Brit cousins – and postapocalyptic anxiety ensues
Teenagers may be renowned for their drama, but it can't get more dramatic than this: a geopolitical catastrophe. How I Live Now is the story of Daisy, a stroppy American teen on holiday in the remote English countryside with her goofy Brit cousins some time in the future. Their world is about to be turned upside down by events they are vaguely aware of from TV news. It is adapted from the 2004 young adult bestseller by Meg Rosoff, which may disappoint all those oldsters crowding into the cinema hoping for an Anthony Trollope adaptation.
Kevin Macdonald directs with a sure hand, and Saoirse Ronan is strong and confident in the lead. When she arrives at the farmhouse, Daisy is baffled by the uncool, outdoorsy kids she's expected to hang out with, including someone called Edmond. (As in Pevensie?...
Teenagers may be renowned for their drama, but it can't get more dramatic than this: a geopolitical catastrophe. How I Live Now is the story of Daisy, a stroppy American teen on holiday in the remote English countryside with her goofy Brit cousins some time in the future. Their world is about to be turned upside down by events they are vaguely aware of from TV news. It is adapted from the 2004 young adult bestseller by Meg Rosoff, which may disappoint all those oldsters crowding into the cinema hoping for an Anthony Trollope adaptation.
Kevin Macdonald directs with a sure hand, and Saoirse Ronan is strong and confident in the lead. When she arrives at the farmhouse, Daisy is baffled by the uncool, outdoorsy kids she's expected to hang out with, including someone called Edmond. (As in Pevensie?...
- 10/4/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“The satirist who writes nothing but satire,” Anthony Trollope said, “should write but little — or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.” Whatever, Trollope. It's been six years since we last had us some Christopher Guest, and that's way too long. Since For Your Consideration, all the director has produced is the odd Census commercial (and really, who can wait a decade for the resolution of such a cliff-hanger?) or Academy Awards sketch when what we really want is some simple yet hilarious improvisational satire.Thankfully, Guest and his fellow Brit moviemaking cohort Jim Piddock (who co-stars in both Best in Show and A Mighty Wind) are hard at work on a new effort. Surprisingly, it’s aimed for television, rather than the big screen. We’re told it’s an improvised genealogy comedy called Family Tree,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Claude Brodesser-Akner,Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Helena Bonham Carter has taken on singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright's voice in the video for his new song Out Of The Game.
The actress plays a sexually-frustrated librarian, roaming the bookshelves and coming face-to-face with incarnations of Wainwright in the promo.
The Philip Andelman-directed clip ends with the Fight Club star reading an Anthony Trollope novel in her underwear.
The actress plays a sexually-frustrated librarian, roaming the bookshelves and coming face-to-face with incarnations of Wainwright in the promo.
The Philip Andelman-directed clip ends with the Fight Club star reading an Anthony Trollope novel in her underwear.
- 4/4/2012
- WENN
Every writer hopes to see his book reviewed in The New York Times. The grand slam is to be reviewed twice, both daily and Sunday. On last Thursday, Janet Maslin reviewed "Life Itself" and it was the best review I could possibly hope for. On Sunday, Maureen Dowd reviewed it in the NYTimes Book Review. Another positive review--indeed, for Dowd, positively generous. ("A captivating, movable feast.") But near the top it contained a zinger. "Ebert is a first-rate second-rate memoirist," she wrote. I cringed, and then I smiled. If there was ever an example of snark that I fully deserved, it was this one. First of all, it is fair enough. If Nabokov's Speak, Memory is an example of the first-rate memoir, then the bar has been set pretty high.
But Dowd, who knows how to line up her ducks in a row, had established a context. "On his first day of classes,...
But Dowd, who knows how to line up her ducks in a row, had established a context. "On his first day of classes,...
- 10/6/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Actor who won a string of awards – including a Bafta – for her stage and TV work died on Sunday after suffering from cancer
The veteran actor Anna Massey has died at the age of 73, her agent said.
Massey won a string of awards for her stage and TV roles, including a Bafta for her performance as a lonely spinster in the 1986 TV adaptation of Hotel du Lac.
Her agent said in a statement: "Actress Anna Massey Cbe passed away peacefully on Sunday 3rd July, with her husband and son by her side.
"She will be remembered as a loving wife and mother, a cherished grandmother, a generous colleague and, always, a consummate professional. She will be greatly missed."
Massey had been suffering from cancer, her agent said.
Her film work included roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy, Possession with Gwyneth Paltrow and an adaptation of The Importance Of Being Earnest.
The veteran actor Anna Massey has died at the age of 73, her agent said.
Massey won a string of awards for her stage and TV roles, including a Bafta for her performance as a lonely spinster in the 1986 TV adaptation of Hotel du Lac.
Her agent said in a statement: "Actress Anna Massey Cbe passed away peacefully on Sunday 3rd July, with her husband and son by her side.
"She will be remembered as a loving wife and mother, a cherished grandmother, a generous colleague and, always, a consummate professional. She will be greatly missed."
Massey had been suffering from cancer, her agent said.
Her film work included roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy, Possession with Gwyneth Paltrow and an adaptation of The Importance Of Being Earnest.
- 7/4/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Computer scientists and an English literature professor teamed up to map social networks in 19th-century British novels. In the process, they upended a tenet in literary theory. Welcome to Jane Austen's Facebook.
Facebook may be the subject of an Oscar-contending movie, but it has yet to become the subject of great literature. Nonetheless, though the social networking site is relatively new, social networks themselves are not. Indeed, they're as old as society itself, and as such, social networks are reflected in works of literature. The thought occurred a few years ago to a Columbia University PhD candidate in computational linguistics, David Elson. Also a film buff and lover of stories, Elson wondered if there might be a way to use software to map social networks within novels.
“I started thinking about how storytelling works as a language, with a syntax that we pick up as children and that differs from culture to culture,...
Facebook may be the subject of an Oscar-contending movie, but it has yet to become the subject of great literature. Nonetheless, though the social networking site is relatively new, social networks themselves are not. Indeed, they're as old as society itself, and as such, social networks are reflected in works of literature. The thought occurred a few years ago to a Columbia University PhD candidate in computational linguistics, David Elson. Also a film buff and lover of stories, Elson wondered if there might be a way to use software to map social networks within novels.
“I started thinking about how storytelling works as a language, with a syntax that we pick up as children and that differs from culture to culture,...
- 2/24/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
Anonymous has been at it again. Following Primary Colors's version of Clinton comes O: A Presidential Novel. Mark Lawson on the tradition of insider political fiction, from Disraeli to The West Wing. A preview from tomorrow's Guardian Review.
Also in tomorrow's Review: Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage on why Anna Nicole Smith is a true operatic heroine, Andrea Levy on why she wrote Small Island, Stefan Collini in praise of Eric Hobsbawm and Sarah Churchwell on the scandalous Lillian Hellman
A successful political career demands a tradeoff between fame and anonymity. A leader needs to be known – an Obama, Blair or Clinton has the global recognisability of a rock star – but high-level politics also frequently depends on the exercise of secrecy. The unattributable briefing ("a party insider, speaking on condition of anonymity", "a source travelling with the prime minister") is a standard tool of political journalism, offering an early first...
Also in tomorrow's Review: Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage on why Anna Nicole Smith is a true operatic heroine, Andrea Levy on why she wrote Small Island, Stefan Collini in praise of Eric Hobsbawm and Sarah Churchwell on the scandalous Lillian Hellman
A successful political career demands a tradeoff between fame and anonymity. A leader needs to be known – an Obama, Blair or Clinton has the global recognisability of a rock star – but high-level politics also frequently depends on the exercise of secrecy. The unattributable briefing ("a party insider, speaking on condition of anonymity", "a source travelling with the prime minister") is a standard tool of political journalism, offering an early first...
- 1/22/2011
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
William Wyler's propaganda-laden wartime drama abounds in the kind of defiant hominess Fellowes has down to a fine art
He is an Oscar-winning screenwriter for Gosford Park, a bestselling author with his novels Snobs and Past Imperfect, and now Julian Fellowes rules the small screen unchallenged thanks to his barnstormingly successful period costume drama Downton Abbey. This crackingly enjoyable TV show is the most successful of its sort since 1981's Brideshead Revisited and has been swiftly recommissioned, with the first series DVD edition poised to catapult off the shelves in time for Christmas. It perfectly demonstrates Fellowes's skills as a writer: he is clever, vigorous, prolific; he has a storyteller's gusto, a killer instinct for a narrative chicane and an uncool interest in the intricacies of the English caste and class system.
The only tiny speck of grit in the vaseline for Mr Fellowes must have been the complaints...
He is an Oscar-winning screenwriter for Gosford Park, a bestselling author with his novels Snobs and Past Imperfect, and now Julian Fellowes rules the small screen unchallenged thanks to his barnstormingly successful period costume drama Downton Abbey. This crackingly enjoyable TV show is the most successful of its sort since 1981's Brideshead Revisited and has been swiftly recommissioned, with the first series DVD edition poised to catapult off the shelves in time for Christmas. It perfectly demonstrates Fellowes's skills as a writer: he is clever, vigorous, prolific; he has a storyteller's gusto, a killer instinct for a narrative chicane and an uncool interest in the intricacies of the English caste and class system.
The only tiny speck of grit in the vaseline for Mr Fellowes must have been the complaints...
- 11/10/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
But Not Me Baby, I'm Too Precious, I Hadda...: Oscar blogger and World's Biggest Sunrise Fan Tom O'Neil is perturbed that Precious (Full title: Precious Based On The Novel "The Charterhouse Of Parma" By Stendhal, oh sorry, Precious Based On The Novel "Push" By Sapphire) didn't get nominated for a Gotham award this year. And he knows who's to blame: "is this just one of those ridiculous, irrelevant side shows we should all just ignore because it's a fluke — a case of huffy film critics acting stubbornly against a popular trend when permitted to decide the nominees of an awards group?"
I know, right? Effing film critics and their huffiness and their effing refusal to go along with a popular trend. What's up with that? For more of O'Neil's critic-hating, check here. As a Snob and a Bad Person, I have to admit: part of me is hoping that...
I know, right? Effing film critics and their huffiness and their effing refusal to go along with a popular trend. What's up with that? For more of O'Neil's critic-hating, check here. As a Snob and a Bad Person, I have to admit: part of me is hoping that...
- 10/23/2009
- MUBI
.An English village provides the severest test of .love thy neighbor... Author Joanna Trollope is a descendant of Victorian author Anthony Trollope. Not only did Ms. Trollope inherit her ancestor.s ability to tell a good story, she has a gift of characterization. Whether in print or on the screen, each of her people becomes real to readers and to audiences. As Anthony Trollope dealt with manners and customs of his time period, so Joanna Trollope tackles the problems of the modern age, but in microcosmic format, a village becomes the paradigm for the rest of the universe, as one person struggles with decisions that can mean personal growth, but with a price. In A Village Affair, the audience...
- 6/17/2009
- by June L.
- Monsters and Critics
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