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Joyce Redman obituary
13 May 2012 7:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Vivacious Irish actor best known for her role opposite Albert Finney in Tom Jones
The red-haired, vivacious and provocative Irish actor Joyce Redman, who has died aged 93, will for ever be remembered for her lubricious meal-time munching and swallowing opposite Albert Finney in Tony Richardson's 1963 film of Tom Jones. Eyes locked, lips smacked and jaws rotated as the two of them tucked into a succulent feast while eyeing up the afters. Sinking one's teeth into a role is one thing. This was quite another, and deliciously naughty, the mother of all modern mastication scenes.
Redman and Finney were renewing a friendship forged five years earlier when both appeared with Charles Laughton in Jane Arden's The Party at the New (now the Noël Coward) theatre. Redman was not blamed by the critic Kenneth Tynan for making nothing of her role as Laughton's wife. "Nothing," he said, "after all, will come of nothing. »
- Michael Coveney
BBC to screen four Shakespeare history plays after 30-year gap
2 May 2012 11:13 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sam Mendes' films of Henry plays and Richard II to include Jeremy Irons, Julie Walters, Michelle Dockery and John Hurt
It is more than 30 years since the BBC last screened a major cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. So it is little surprise that this summer's four new films from the corporation have attracted the cream of British acting and directing talent – from Jeremy Irons and Ben Whisaw to Simon Russell Beale and Sir Richard Eyre.
With the Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes as executive producer, the BBC will screen Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, and Henry V, from late June on BBC2 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
Mendes' partner at Neal Street Productions, Pippa Harris, said the combination of the Queen's diamond jubilee and the Olympics made 2012 the perfect opportunity to revisit the histories: "There are so many themes in these four plays which seem fitting »
- Vicky Frost
Liam Neeson Confirmed for The Dark Knight Rises
28 March 2012 12:31 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
It was rumored earlier this year that Liam Neeson would return to reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. He was spotted on the set of the film, but until today there's been no confirmation of his involvement. Warner Bros. made the announcement in the production notes for the film that says,
Neeson next appears in Peter Berg's actioner "Battleship," and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated action thriller "The Dark Knight Rises.
It makes perfect sense to me that his character would be back as this Batman finale as we've heard Nolan would bring everything back around in full circle in the franchise. I can't wait to see what this film has in store for us! I just can't help but think it's going to be mind blowing.
Josh Pence is playing Ra's al Ghul in the films flashbacks. »
- Venkman
Trailer trash
24 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
David Lynch prepares to unleash his surreal debut pop promo, while Catherine Deneuve and daughter reveal their love for Boots the chemist
Lynch mob
David Lynch has made his first pop promo – and it's possibly the weirdest, angriest video of all time. The director of Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks released an album, Crazy Clown Time, last year, and its two previous singles, "I Know" and "Good Day Today", had videos directed by other people, submitted through online competitions a nd judged by Lynch and his UK music label, Rob da Bank's Sunday Best recordings. However, for the next single (the album's title track) Lynch has decided to take charge himself.
The result is as bizarre and unsettling as you'd hope. It shows a group of young people trying to have a good time in a backyard but instead creating a nightmare scenario of topless women having beer poured »
- Jason Solomons
K is for Jan Kott | Michael Billington's A to Z of modern drama
21 February 2012 10:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The largely forgotten Polish professor, who drew a connection between Shakespeare and 20th-century European theatre, had a huge impact on modern-day theatrical culture
Does anyone still read Jan Kott? For those unfamiliar with the name, Kott (1914–2001) was a Polish professor whose book Shakespeare Our Contemporary, published in English in 1964, had a profound impact on theatre. Reading it again today, I am stunned by how much of it has been absorbed into our theatrical culture. Although we live in an age of great Shakespearean scholarship, represented by figures such as James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate and Stephen Greenblatt, I can't think of anyone today who influences production in quite the same way as Kott.
Partly, that stemmed from Kott's experience of living in a Poland that was either under Nazi occupation or Soviet domination. As Peter Brook wrote in the introduction to the English edition, Kott is the only Elizabethan scholar to »
- Michael Billington
Frederick Treves obituary
3 February 2012 11:15 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
A familiar face on stage and screen, he often played authority figures
In an acting career that lasted for well over half a century, Frederick Treves, who has died aged 86, specialised in playing men in positions of authority – senior police officers, peers, admirals, colonels and scientists. He was a tall man with a heavily jowled, amiable face, a hawk-like profile and a patrician bearing. A regular National Theatre player, he supported many television dramas, including The Regiment (1973), a BBC series set in India; Destiny, David Edgar's 1978 Play for Today; The Jewel in the Crown (1984); The Invisible Man (1984); Poirot (1991); Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1997); and The Rector's Wife (1994). In all of these disparate productions, he played a colonel.
Treves was the great-nephew of Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon who rescued Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (he also had a role as an alderman in David Lynch's 1980 film about the case). He was born in Margate, »
- Gavin Gaughan
Eton spawns a new breed of stage and screen luminaries
21 January 2012 4:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Renowned as launch pad for politicians and TV personalities, the school has found new role as source of acting talent
From Wellington to Gladstone, and Macmillan to Cameron, Eton College has long been a seedbed for British politics and for the diplomatic service. More recently a smattering of television personalities, conductors and Olympic sportsmen have also been able to look back at schooldays spent on the celebrated playing fields. Now though, that famously establishment school near Windsor is increasingly being hailed as a first-rate launch pad for a theatrical career.
Leading Old Etonian actors such as Tom Hiddleston, Harry Lloyd, Eddie Redmayne, Henry Faber and Harry Hadden-Paton are suddenly at the top of the list for casting directors on the most prestigious film and television projects.
This week Hiddleston, star of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, is in Wales filming Sir Richard Eyre's Henry IV, along with Faber and Lloyd, »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Eton spawns a new breed of stage and screen luminaries
21 January 2012 4:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Renowned as launch pad for politicians and TV personalities, the school has found new role as source of acting talent
From Wellington to Gladstone, and Macmillan to Cameron, Eton College has long been a seedbed for British politics and for the diplomatic service. More recently a smattering of television personalities, conductors and Olympic sportsmen have also been able to look back at schooldays spent on the celebrated playing fields. Now though, that famously establishment school near Windsor is increasingly being hailed as a first-rate launch pad for a theatrical career.
Leading Old Etonian actors such as Tom Hiddleston, Harry Lloyd, Eddie Redmayne, Henry Faber and Harry Hadden-Paton are suddenly at the top of the list for casting directors on the most prestigious film and television projects.
This week Hiddleston, star of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, is in Wales filming Sir Richard Eyre's Henry IV, along with Faber and Lloyd, »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Kate Winslet Photo: Golden Globes 2012
17 January 2012 5:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Kate Winslet Actress Kate Winslet, after having won in the category of Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her role in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce (HBO), poses backstage in the press room with her Golden Globe Award at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 15. Winslet's competitors in that category were Diane Lane for Cinema Verite, Romola Garai for The Hour, Elizabeth McGovern for Downton Abbey, and Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult. Winslet had previously won an Emmy for her performance in Mildred Pierce, based on James M. Cain's novel. Originally made as a motion picture in 1945, Mildred Pierce earned Joan Crawford a Best Actress Oscar. Michael Curtiz directed. Winslet won a Best Actress Oscar for Stephen Daldry's The Reader in early 2009. She had been previously nominated five times: as Best Actress for James Cameron's Titanic »
- D. Zhea
Literary events in 2012
6 January 2012 2:51 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, »
Literary events in 2012
6 January 2012 2:51 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, »
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