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Classic British TV Series Being Streamed By Acorn TV
24 May 2012 3:40 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
The leading ‘Best British TV’ streaming service Acorn TV is now streaming full seasons of several popular British mystery and drama series, along with two critically acclaimed Canadian series. This week Acorn TV also has a special Memorial Day Weekend Midsomer Marathon with the first 22 episodes of its best-selling series,Midsomer Murders, and the U.S. debut of John Nettles final episodes.
Acorn TV is currently streaming a full season of Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect; the final seasons of the universally acclaimed Canadian dramedy Slings & ARROWSand Derek Jacobi’s mystery series Cadfael; the U.S. debut of the newest season of Murdoch Mysteries; Lynda La Plante’s Trial & Retribution; John Mortimer’s Under The Hammer; the final episodes of WWII drama Wish Me Luck; Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter) in Pie In The Sky; and John Nettles final episodes with Midsomer Murders, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
From the archive, 27 April 1982: Celia Johnson's exquisite artistry
26 April 2012 11:30 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Nicholas de Jongh pays tribute to the Brief Encounter star
Celia Johnson died in her prime - at the age of 73. There was no other actress on the English stage whose career reached its zenith, a luminous Indian summer on both stage and television, in middle and old age. She defined to perfection a social type occupying the entrenched territories of middle and upper-middle class gentility, whose crisp, understated manners and stringent lack of sentimentality she conveyed to the manner born.
Yet she did not simply serve as a comprehensive guide-book to or map of a contracting portion of England. She incarnated qualities both of restraint and of passion; she knew everything about high English comedy whose airs of distraction and self-absorbed remoteness she conveyed so sharply in Coward's Hay Fever and Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking; more surprisingly she was able in old age to act indelibly roles of high tragic velocity and pathos, »
- Nicholas de Jongh
Clip And Trailer For Chariots Of Fire Re-Release; In UK Theaters July 13 And On Blu-ray July 10
19 April 2012 3:20 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
With the Olympics set to kickoff in less than 100 days, take a look at the new trailer for the forthcoming re-release of Chariots Of Fire – in UK cinemas July 13th. For the first time in a generation, audiences across the UK will have the opportunity to enjoy the Great British movie classic, Chariots Of Fire on the big screen as Twentieth Century Fox, in association with The Sun and BT and with the support of the BFI, release the internationally acclaimed, multi Oscar®-winning Olympic drama in a stunning digitally restored version.
An official part of the London 2012 Festival, Chariots Of Fire will help get this summer.s Olympic celebrations off to a flying start on July 10th, with the British Premiere for the film taking place simultaneously in London.s Leicester Square, at Edinburgh.s iconic Festival Theatre, and at selected locations across the country. The events will be »
- Michelle McCue
Take Three: John Hurt
17 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig here with the third season of Take Three. Today: John Hurt
Take One: Brighton Rock (2010)
Hurt has alternated starring roles with supporting performances since he began acting in films with The Wild and the Willing in 1962. The amount of quality supporting turns he’s delivered over the years is vast: 10 Rillington Place, Midnight Express, The Shout, The Hit, Scandal, The Field, Contact, The Proposition, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are a mere few. His fine turn as accountant Phil Corkery in the Brighton Rock remake (backing up Helen Mirren, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and Andy Serkis) is a recent solid addition to the list and deserves due credit. Phil’s a gaunt shambles, but loyal to Mirren’s Ida, his long-time crush. He’s one of the old guard. A proud man accustomed to propping up bars whilst waxing forth about the state of the world. He’s the »
- Craig Bloomfield
The Films Of Sidney Lumet: A Retrospective
9 April 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011.
Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.
Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum -- but hell, it’s true -- Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let's not romanticize it too much, he did his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).
His directing career stretched well over 50 years, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
New streaming titles: Johnny Depp goes West in 'Rango,' Taylor Swift gets 'Fearless'
6 April 2012 5:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Did you know that 68% of date nights take place on the couch in front of a wall-mounted TV? No, you didn’t, because I made that up. But it seems increasingly apparent that more people are using their weekends to stay in and snuggle (either with a partner, a posse, or themselves) while binging on some of streaming’s finest. If your weekend date with Netflix is hopelessly unplanned, let EW help you track down some of this week’s best new streaming additions:
New on Netflix*: Movies
Rango (2011) – Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin – PG, 107 minutes, Animated
- Marc Snetiker
DVD Review - Murder by Decree (1979)
2 April 2012 10:45 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Murder by Decree, 1979.
Directed by Bob Clark.
Starring Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Donald Sutherland, John Gielgud, Anthony Quayle, Geneviève Bujold and Frank Finlay.
Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves on the trail of Jack the Ripper as they investigate the notorious Whitechapel murders.
Sherlock Holmes has offered a go to for the film and TV world for many years. There have been countless incarnations on the big and small screen of Holmes and Watson. In recent times of note, we’ve had Robert Downey Jr. donning the famous hat and pipe, as well as the immensely popular BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch. Murder by Decree was “yet another” Holmes cinematic escape, way back in 1979.
Jack the Ripper has been murdering prostitutes in the Whitechapel area. Holmes is called upon to uncover the identity of the killer. When Holmes takes on the case he uncovers »
- flickeringmyth
Game of Thrones: 'the Sopranos with swords' returns
30 March 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
It was the big HBO hit of last year, full of conniving, back stabbing and dragons' eggs, now Game of Thrones is back. Richard Vine talks strategy with the cast and crew
Spring is here. And that can mean only one thing: winter is coming. Last year, unsuspecting viewers were first introduced to the bloodied world of Westeros. If you've yet to watch, Game Of Thrones is a fantasy following the machinations of nine long-standing dynasties spread across seven kingdoms, all fighting to take control of the seat of power – the Iron Throne. There's incest, infanticide and adultery – but also starvation, corruption and council meetings. We meet giant wolves in the forests, burly knights in brothels and tiny kids in battle; kings who have no interest in ruling, and politicians who can barely contain their contempt for authority. You can lose your head (literally) if you cross the wrong man, »
- Richard Vine
Blu-ray Release: Chariots of Fire
30 March 2012 12:49 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray: July 10, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Warner
The 1981 film drama Chariots of Fire, the 1982 winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture that tells the true story of two very different men competing in the 1924 Olympics, comes to Blu-ray for the first time in July, 2012 with its release coinciding with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Directed by Hugh Hudson (I Dreamed of Africa), the 1981 film tells the tale of British sprinters Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross, Star Trek) and Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson, (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes) and the reasons that they run: Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God, while Harold, the son of a newly wealthy Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society.
In addition to winning Best Picture, Chariots –which also features John Gielgud (Arthur) and Ian Holm (The Lord of the Rings trilogy)–picked up Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, »
- Laurence
Peter Halliday obituary
27 February 2012 5:38 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The actor Peter Halliday, who has died aged 87, was best known for playing the scientist John Fleming in the BBC's cult sci-fi series A for Andromeda (1961), co-starring Julie Christie, and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962), with Susan Hampshire. He also portrayed a number of characters in Doctor Who in the 1960s and 70s, including Packer in the serial The Invasion.
Peter was born near Llangollen, north-east Wales. When he was five, his family moved to Welshpool in Powys. He attended Oswestry school in Shropshire and, aged 18, was called up by the army. He spent three and a half years in Iraq, Palestine and Egypt. He auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and, much to his surprise, was accepted; he started his studies upon leaving the army.
He enjoyed his time at Rada and became friends with Patricia Hitchcock, the daughter of Alfred Hitchcock. He taught her about cricket »
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Oscar Hosts: From Worst To Best, Rating 60 Years Of Academy Awards Emcees (Photos)
22 February 2012 2:18 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
They've tried everything. One host. Two hosts. Four hosts. 32 hosts. Comic hosts. Serious-thespian hosts. Hollywood-legend hosts. Young hosts. Old hosts. Hip hosts. Square hosts. Singing-and-dancing hosts. Every year, it seems, the Academy Awards goes back to the drawing board to figure out what sort of emcee will keep the show lively, attract viewers (especially younger viewers) and keep them from flipping channels during the slow parts. It's a thankless gig; no wonder Billy Crystal, who's done it eight times, decided to sit out for eight years before agreeing to return to host this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night. The job requires a difficult and rare set of skills: a host must entertain both the Hollywood big-shots in the auditorium and regular folks at home. They can poke fun at the huge egos in the room, but can't deflate them with too much snark, and they can't be too inside-baseball. »
- Gary Susman
Ben Hur Hunk Boyd Hinted At Homosexuality To Smitten Welch
12 February 2012 5:41 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Veteran sex symbol Raquel Welch is convinced late movie hunk Stephen Boyd was gay, revealing he hinted he preferred the company of men in a bid to stop his Fantastic Voyage co-star wasting her energy by lusting after him.
Welch admits she had a huge crush on the Ben Hur star, who was among the actors in the running to play James Bond in Dr. No, and she did everything in her power to seduce him.
But while walking her back to her hotel room in New York after a dinner with movie mogul Darryl Zanuck, the Irishman made it clear he wasn't interested in a romance.
Speaking at a weekend (11-12Feb12) film retrospective at New York's Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater, the movie beauty said, "He was so hot with his cleft chin and he was so not interested in me. I tried to seduce him one time. I was so smitten with him and I was so excited every time I would come on the set I would see Stephen, and think, 'Oh God, he's so cute.' He had what sounded like a Welsh (sic) brogue that was so charming.
"For my first trip to New York, when we opened the movie, we were both staying at the Plaza Hotel, so I thought, 'Here's my chance!' So Darryl Zanuck took us all out to dinner at 21 and on the way back to the hotel we shared a cab. I said to him as we were going up in the lift, 'So Stephen, would you like to come in for a drink?'
"We got out of the lift and he walked me to my room and he said, 'I'd like to tell you a little story that was told to me by John Gielgud when I was working with the National Theatre (in London). You'll have to think about it for a moment but I hope you get my drift: An actress is a little bit more than a woman, but an actor is a little bit less than a man.'
"I thought, 'Oh! He's not interested in me; I am the wrong sex!'
"Honestly, he was such a love and he's not here anymore. Of course I'm sure a lot of people in the National Theater knew!"
Boyd, who died in 1977, was married twice and never 'came out' as a gay man. »
Scott Rudin hits the Egot jackpot
12 February 2012 4:49 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
It's been 10 years since anyone joined the pantheon of people who've won the Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), but now Scott Rudin is among the immortals who include Mel Brooks, John Gielgud, Whoopi Goldberg, Marvin Hamlisch, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Mike Nichols, Richard Rodgers and Jonathan Tunick. Rudin just won a Grammy for producing Best Musical Theater Album ("Book of Mormon"). Previously, Rudin won a Tony for producing Best Musical "Book of Mormon" on Broadway in addition to Tonys for "The History Boys" (Best Play, 2006), "Doubt" (Best Play, 2005), "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" (Best Play 2002), "Copenhagen" (Best Play, 2000) and "Passion" (Best Musical, 1994). He won an Oscar for producing Best Picture "No Country for Old Men" (2007) and an Emmy for Best Children's Program "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing" (1984). Photo: Rudin (center) with the Coh »
Larry Karaszewski Presents The Loved One!
1 February 2012 11:23 AM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Los Angeles: It’s this Saturday!
Larry Karaszewski is a busy man, but that hasn’t stopped him from presenting great screenings of great films. As part of that ongoing series of impossibly cool American Cinematheque screenings, Larry Karaszewski will host Tony Richardson’s hilarious, morbid comedy The Loved One at the Egyptian Theater on Saturday, February 4.
So sayeth The Cinematheque:
Marketed as “the motion picture with something to offend everyone!” this achingly funny, pitch-black comedy could only have been released in the anything-goes era of the 1960s. Judged unfilmable for more than a decade (Luis Buñuel was trying to set it up for years), writer Evelyn Waugh’s spot-on satire of Southern California – specifically the funeral business – finally was brought to the screen in the mid-’60s by director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) with a screenplay by Terry Southern (Candy, Easy Rider) and Christopher Isherwood (!). Robert Morse, a British »
- Danny
Nicol Williamson obituary
27 January 2012 2:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talent
Nicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most electrifying actor of his generation, but one whose career flickered and faded like a faulty light fitting. Tall and wiry, with a rasping scowl of a voice, a battered baby face and a mop of unruly curls, he was the best modern Hamlet since John Gielgud, and certainly the angriest, though he scuppered his own performance at the Round House, north London, in 1969, by apologising to the audience and walking off the stage. The experience was recycled in a 1991 Broadway comedy called I Hate Hamlet, in which he proved his point and fell out badly with his co-star.
Williamson's greatest performance was as the dissolute and disintegrating lawyer Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court theatre in 1964. It was »
- Michael Coveney
Nicol Williamson obituary
27 January 2012 2:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talent
Nicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most electrifying actor of his generation, but one whose career flickered and faded like a faulty light fitting. Tall and wiry, with a rasping scowl of a voice, a battered baby face and a mop of unruly curls, he was the best modern Hamlet since John Gielgud, and certainly the angriest, though he scuppered his own performance at the Round House, north London, in 1969, by apologising to the audience and walking off the stage. The experience was recycled in a 1991 Broadway comedy called I Hate Hamlet, in which he proved his point and fell out badly with his co-star.
Williamson's greatest performance was as the dissolute and disintegrating lawyer Bill Maitland in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court theatre in 1964. It was »
- Michael Coveney
Nicol Williamson, 1938 - 2012
26 January 2012 3:24 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Nicol Williamson, the British actor best known for his role as the wizard Merlin in the 1981 film Excalibur, has died of esophageal cancer," reports the AP. "Williamson had dozens of film credits to his name but won more plaudits for his stage acting. Playwright John Osborne once described him as 'the greatest actor since Marlon Brando.' He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1966 for his role in Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence and again in 1974 for Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. He also was nominated three times for acting honors at the British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars."
"He made his professional stage debut at the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1960, before appearing in Tony Richardson's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre," notes the BBC. "He later teamed up with Richardson again, to star his Hamlet production at the Roundhouse. It was so successful, »
Nicol Williamson Dies: Stage Hamlet; Screen Merlin, Sherlock Holmes
26 January 2012 2:22 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Stage and screen actor Nicol Williamson, who played Hamlet onstage and Merlin on screen, died of esophageal cancer on December 16 in Amsterdam, where he had been living since 1970. His son announced the death yesterday, January 25. Reports vary on Williamson's age; he was either 73 or 75. For those familiar only with Williamson's movie work, he was best remembered for his cocaine-addicted Sherlock Holmes in Herbert Ross' The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and for his campy Merlin in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981, photo). Based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) entices Holmes to seek psychiatric help with none other than a pre-Viggo Mortensen Sigmund Freud: Alan Arkin. (Here's wondering if Shakespeare's shrink, as found in John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, was inspired by the Holmes-Freud relationship in Ross' movie.) Though made for a modest $4 million (about $16 million today), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution turned out to be »
- Andre Soares
The Forgotten: A Different Kind of Love
26 January 2012 5:47 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Gregory Le Cava's Unfinished Business (1941) screens at Anthology Film Archives in New York on 27th - 29th January, along with the director's 1935 film She Married Her Boss in part of the on-going series, Stuck on the Second Tier: Underknown Auteurs.
The first distinguishing feature I noticed about Gregory La Cava's films, apart from his great ability with comedy, was the tension between humor and pain, which often seemed quite off-kilter, unpredictable, and liable to Whang you in the face. The happy ending of Stage Door (1937) is marred by our consciousness of the death of the most sympathetic and passionate character (some prints apparently include a quick shot of her grave at the end, not smoothing over the problem so much as highlighting it). When Lee Tracy prepares to beat up Lupe Velez at the end of The Half-Naked Truth (1932), and the soundtrack jauntily plays Mendelssohn's Wedding March, the modern sensibility rather shudders. »
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