Spall plays an eccentric architect hired to design a tomb for the the eponymous aristocrat, in writer-director Daniel Graham’s homage to Peter Greenaway
Having apprenticed in arthouse distribution, writer-director Daniel Graham has nobly devoted himself to reviving the aesthetics of once-prominent auteurs deemed unfashionable, uncommercial or both simultaneously. Graham’s 2017 film Opus Zero followed in the thematically dense, landscape-attentive footsteps of Theo Angelopoulos; this deeply eccentric follow-up tips a plumed hat to Peter Greenaway, casting Timothy Spall in what instantly resembles a post-Brexit update of 1987’s The Belly of an Architect. There’s a lot of vomit, and the film is something of a splurge itself, pebble-dashing the screen with ideas. Yet its better ones stick: whether new or regurgitated, the constituent elements are forever intriguing, even if Graham only partially pulls them together at the last.
Spall is at his most Hogarthian, making a full three-course meal out...
Having apprenticed in arthouse distribution, writer-director Daniel Graham has nobly devoted himself to reviving the aesthetics of once-prominent auteurs deemed unfashionable, uncommercial or both simultaneously. Graham’s 2017 film Opus Zero followed in the thematically dense, landscape-attentive footsteps of Theo Angelopoulos; this deeply eccentric follow-up tips a plumed hat to Peter Greenaway, casting Timothy Spall in what instantly resembles a post-Brexit update of 1987’s The Belly of an Architect. There’s a lot of vomit, and the film is something of a splurge itself, pebble-dashing the screen with ideas. Yet its better ones stick: whether new or regurgitated, the constituent elements are forever intriguing, even if Graham only partially pulls them together at the last.
Spall is at his most Hogarthian, making a full three-course meal out...
- 9/17/2021
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Character actor known for the films First Blood and Cocoon, and in his stage work a genuine colossus
Built like a truck but with the capacity to be as gentle as a pussycat, Brian Dennehy was smarter than the average bear-like character actor. The 6ft 3in performer, who has died aged 81 from a heart attack resulting from sepsis, made his screen breakthrough as an adversarial small-town sheriff in First Blood (1982), the thoughtful opening instalment in what would become the Rambo action series. It was the first in his hat-trick of hits from that decade: he also twinkled benignly as one of a group of aliens who have a rejuvenating effect on an elderly community in Cocoon (1985) and played a grizzled but amiable cop in F/X (1986), an enjoyable thriller set in the special effects industry; it was popular enough to spawn a 1991 sequel in which he also starred.
Unusually for a character actor,...
Built like a truck but with the capacity to be as gentle as a pussycat, Brian Dennehy was smarter than the average bear-like character actor. The 6ft 3in performer, who has died aged 81 from a heart attack resulting from sepsis, made his screen breakthrough as an adversarial small-town sheriff in First Blood (1982), the thoughtful opening instalment in what would become the Rambo action series. It was the first in his hat-trick of hits from that decade: he also twinkled benignly as one of a group of aliens who have a rejuvenating effect on an elderly community in Cocoon (1985) and played a grizzled but amiable cop in F/X (1986), an enjoyable thriller set in the special effects industry; it was popular enough to spawn a 1991 sequel in which he also starred.
Unusually for a character actor,...
- 4/17/2020
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Brian Dennehy, a prolific star of Broadway and Hollywood, has died.
He was 81 years old.
According to TMZ, Dennehy died of natural causes on Wednesday night in Connecticut.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related," his daughter Elizabeth wrote on Twitter.
"Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends."
Brian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the oldest of three boys.
His grandparents came to the U.S. from Ireland, and his father, Edward, worked as a writer and editor for the Associated Press.
His career spanned decades, with his first acting role coming in the form of a role on the TV series Kojak.
He followed that up with spots on M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, and Dallas.
He was 81 years old.
According to TMZ, Dennehy died of natural causes on Wednesday night in Connecticut.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related," his daughter Elizabeth wrote on Twitter.
"Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends."
Brian Manion Dennehy was born on July 9, 1938, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the oldest of three boys.
His grandparents came to the U.S. from Ireland, and his father, Edward, worked as a writer and editor for the Associated Press.
His career spanned decades, with his first acting role coming in the form of a role on the TV series Kojak.
He followed that up with spots on M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, and Dallas.
- 4/16/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television roles including “Dynasty” and “Death of a Salesman,” died on Wednesday night in New Haven, Conn. He was 81.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian, passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife, Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, tweeted on Thursday.
His agency ICM also confirmed the news.
In the 1995 comedy “Tommy Boy,” Dennehy was Big Tom, the father of Chris Farley’s character Tom, who takes over the family’s auto parts business with David Spade after his father dies. In Ron Howard’s 1985 hit “Cocoon,” Dennehy played the leader of the alien Antareans who...
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian, passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife, Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, tweeted on Thursday.
His agency ICM also confirmed the news.
In the 1995 comedy “Tommy Boy,” Dennehy was Big Tom, the father of Chris Farley’s character Tom, who takes over the family’s auto parts business with David Spade after his father dies. In Ron Howard’s 1985 hit “Cocoon,” Dennehy played the leader of the alien Antareans who...
- 4/16/2020
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Very few people can pull off wearing a navy blue pinstripe suit paired with a dark lined open-neck shirt. Yet not everyone is Peter Greenaway. The veteran British director, an intriguing, eloquent and eminently likeable subject, has been based in Amsterdam for the last twenty years. In a conversation as eclectic as his latest film, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, he spoke with CineVue's Matt Anderson about his admiration for the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein, intertextuality, film as propaganda, nudity and Donald Duck.
Matt Anderson: What is your earliest recollection of watching an Eisenstein film? Peter Greenaway: I was 15 - we're talking 1957. At the bottom end of Leytonstone there was a little grubby cinema called The State and it became our sort of Mecca. When you're a 15 year old adolescent you're very, very keen to see a naked woman and the chances are you're not going to see it in English cinema,...
Matt Anderson: What is your earliest recollection of watching an Eisenstein film? Peter Greenaway: I was 15 - we're talking 1957. At the bottom end of Leytonstone there was a little grubby cinema called The State and it became our sort of Mecca. When you're a 15 year old adolescent you're very, very keen to see a naked woman and the chances are you're not going to see it in English cinema,...
- 4/20/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
HeyUGuys recently caught up with Stelio Savante who following his lead role in the first film ever to shoot in Equatorial Guinea Where the Road Runs Out, also has a supporting role in Peter Greenaway’s upcoming film Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Between Greenaway and making history, we felt privileged to have an opportunity to discuss with Savante his career to date, which apparently all began thanks to some good looking girls. In an interview mixed with seriousness and humour he spoke of discovering cinema in his native South Africa, the difference between cinema in American and South African culture, working with J.J. Abrams, and the rewards of collaboration.
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Why a career in acting? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Getting paid to do something that I’m passionate about… how could I refuse that? Performing plays in university… I got the bug, it bite hard, and so a journey was born.
Between Greenaway and making history, we felt privileged to have an opportunity to discuss with Savante his career to date, which apparently all began thanks to some good looking girls. In an interview mixed with seriousness and humour he spoke of discovering cinema in his native South Africa, the difference between cinema in American and South African culture, working with J.J. Abrams, and the rewards of collaboration.
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Why a career in acting? Was there that one inspirational moment?
Getting paid to do something that I’m passionate about… how could I refuse that? Performing plays in university… I got the bug, it bite hard, and so a journey was born.
- 3/28/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kermit and the gang hit the shelves last week with the release of James Bobbins’ The Muppets, and this week brings Daniel Radcliffe in his first feature following Harry Potter in James Watkins’ The Woman in Black, which topped the UK box office three weeks in a row back in February, and has been one of 2012’s biggest earners internationally.
Not too bad a follow-up, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Surprisingly few new titles coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week. But next week brings with it Charlize Theron in Young Adult, along with the Blu-ray releases of Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Tales from Earthsea, so be sure to get your pre-orders in early for them. Because who can resist Studio Ghibli?
My picks of the week:
James Watkins’ The Woman in Black & Roman Polanski’s Carnage
The Woman in Black Iframe Embed for Youtube...
Not too bad a follow-up, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Surprisingly few new titles coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week. But next week brings with it Charlize Theron in Young Adult, along with the Blu-ray releases of Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Tales from Earthsea, so be sure to get your pre-orders in early for them. Because who can resist Studio Ghibli?
My picks of the week:
James Watkins’ The Woman in Black & Roman Polanski’s Carnage
The Woman in Black Iframe Embed for Youtube...
- 6/18/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
John Hooper selects 10 of his favourite Rome-based films from Hepburn in Roman Holiday to Fellini's La Dolce Vita
• As featured in our Rome city guide
Roman Holiday, William Wyler, 1953
Insulated from the commotion of Roman life, Via Margutta is a cobbled street near the Spanish Steps, draped in ivy and lined nowadays with art galleries, restaurants and boutiques. It was home to Federico Fellini and Truman Capote. And at number 51, Crown Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) began her fleeting love affair with an American foreign correspondent, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) in the enchanting, if improbable, comedy that shot Hepburn to fame and forever welded Vespas to Rome in the popular imagination. "You have my permission to withdraw..." slurs Hepburn, unaware she has previously been sedated, as she lets her skirt slip to the floor. "Why, thank you very much," replies the gentlemanly Peck and leaves her to sleep alone. It...
• As featured in our Rome city guide
Roman Holiday, William Wyler, 1953
Insulated from the commotion of Roman life, Via Margutta is a cobbled street near the Spanish Steps, draped in ivy and lined nowadays with art galleries, restaurants and boutiques. It was home to Federico Fellini and Truman Capote. And at number 51, Crown Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) began her fleeting love affair with an American foreign correspondent, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) in the enchanting, if improbable, comedy that shot Hepburn to fame and forever welded Vespas to Rome in the popular imagination. "You have my permission to withdraw..." slurs Hepburn, unaware she has previously been sedated, as she lets her skirt slip to the floor. "Why, thank you very much," replies the gentlemanly Peck and leaves her to sleep alone. It...
- 7/13/2011
- by John Hooper
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
One of the most interesting filmmakers out there looks to have a new project on the way, according to Variety, and it seems like it's something entirely new for the strange, challenging and impressively prolific Peter Greenaway. It looks like the man behind 'A Zed and Two Noughts,' 'The Belly of an Architect' and (the wonderfully twisted) 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' is about to get a little romantic comedy in his future.
The project is called '4 Storms and 2 Babies,' and while it's being described as a romantic comedy -- a first for the admirably strange Mr. Greenaway -- the plot is encapsulated like so: "An unconventional love story about two men and a woman who becomes pregnant after a night of three-way sex with them." Given what I know of Greenaway's work, I'm guessing this...
One of the most interesting filmmakers out there looks to have a new project on the way, according to Variety, and it seems like it's something entirely new for the strange, challenging and impressively prolific Peter Greenaway. It looks like the man behind 'A Zed and Two Noughts,' 'The Belly of an Architect' and (the wonderfully twisted) 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' is about to get a little romantic comedy in his future.
The project is called '4 Storms and 2 Babies,' and while it's being described as a romantic comedy -- a first for the admirably strange Mr. Greenaway -- the plot is encapsulated like so: "An unconventional love story about two men and a woman who becomes pregnant after a night of three-way sex with them." Given what I know of Greenaway's work, I'm guessing this...
- 2/15/2011
- by Scott Weinberg
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
One of the most interesting filmmakers out there looks to have a new project on the way, according to Variety, and it seems like it's something entirely new for the strange, challenging and impressively prolific Peter Greenaway. It looks like the man behind 'A Zed and Two Noughts,' 'The Belly of an Architect' and (the wonderfully twisted) 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' is about to get a little romantic comedy in his future.
The project is called '4 Storms and 2 Babies,' and while it's being described as a romantic comedy -- a first for the admirably strange Mr. Greenaway -- the plot is encapsulated like so: "An unconventional love story about two men and a woman who becomes pregnant after a night of three-way sex with them." Given what I know of Greenaway's work, I'm guessing this...
One of the most interesting filmmakers out there looks to have a new project on the way, according to Variety, and it seems like it's something entirely new for the strange, challenging and impressively prolific Peter Greenaway. It looks like the man behind 'A Zed and Two Noughts,' 'The Belly of an Architect' and (the wonderfully twisted) 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' is about to get a little romantic comedy in his future.
The project is called '4 Storms and 2 Babies,' and while it's being described as a romantic comedy -- a first for the admirably strange Mr. Greenaway -- the plot is encapsulated like so: "An unconventional love story about two men and a woman who becomes pregnant after a night of three-way sex with them." Given what I know of Greenaway's work, I'm guessing this...
- 2/15/2011
- by Scott Weinberg
- Cinematical
From The Fountainhead to Blade Runner, the way films portray buildings and architects has nothing to do with reality, right? You'd be surprised
Howard Roark is, up to a point, a plausible name for an architect, but I am less convinced by Stourley Kracklite. Roark, played by Gary Cooper in King Vidor's schlockfest The Fountainhead is a picture of toned muscle and angst, handy with a rock drill and brutal in his wooing. In contrast Kracklite, played by Brian Dennehy in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, has a waistline that authentically overwhelms his belt in the manner pioneered by the 20-stone James Stirling.
Both films have always fascinated me. In the case of The Fountainhead, it's not so much Roark – a tortured genius somewhere between Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright – who's the special attraction, although it's hard not to warm to an architect who, rather than see his work compromised,...
Howard Roark is, up to a point, a plausible name for an architect, but I am less convinced by Stourley Kracklite. Roark, played by Gary Cooper in King Vidor's schlockfest The Fountainhead is a picture of toned muscle and angst, handy with a rock drill and brutal in his wooing. In contrast Kracklite, played by Brian Dennehy in Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, has a waistline that authentically overwhelms his belt in the manner pioneered by the 20-stone James Stirling.
Both films have always fascinated me. In the case of The Fountainhead, it's not so much Roark – a tortured genius somewhere between Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright – who's the special attraction, although it's hard not to warm to an architect who, rather than see his work compromised,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Deyan Sudjic
- The Guardian - Film News
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