6 items from 2013
18 April 2013 3:36 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
RomCom Filming in NY: Grant, Tomei Star for Director Lawrence Marc Lawrence’s as-yet untitled, New York-set romantic comedy toplining Hugh Grant and Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei began principal photography yesterday, April 17, producer Martin Shafer announced. -- Pictured above: Marisa Tomei, looking more beautiful than ever. Here's the plot, as per the film's press release: In 1998, Keith Michaels, played by Hugh Grant, was on top of the world -- a witty, sexy, Englishman in Hollywood who had just won a major screenwriter’s award. Fifteen years later, he’s creatively washed up, divorced, and broke. With no other options, he takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small college in Binghamton, New York. Although the idea of teaching is less than thrilling, he hopes to make some easy money and enjoy the favors of impressionable young co-eds. What he doesn’t expect to find is romance »
- Anna Robinson
13 April 2013 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Meryl Streep's Iron Lady to Spitting Image and the Spice Girls, Observer writers and critics pick the films, books, art, music and TV that show Thatcher's lasting influence
Art, chosen by Laura Cumming
Treatment Room (1983)
In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.
Taking Stock (1984)
Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.
In the Sleep of Reason (1982)
Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.
The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting »
- Robert McCrum, Kitty Empire, Philip French, Andrew Rawnsley, Euan Ferguson
13 April 2013 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
From Meryl Streep's Iron Lady to Spitting Image and the Spice Girls, Observer writers and critics pick the films, books, art, music and TV that show Thatcher's lasting influence
Art, chosen by Laura Cumming
Treatment Room (1983)
In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.
Taking Stock (1984)
Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.
In the Sleep of Reason (1982)
Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.
The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting »
- Robert McCrum, Kitty Empire, Philip French, Andrew Rawnsley, Euan Ferguson
14 January 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Locomotion: Dan Snow's History Of Railways | The Riviera: A History In Pictures | Yes, Prime Minister | Pramface | Utopia | Harry & Paul's Magnificent Sporting Moments
Locomotion: Dan Snow's History Of Railways
9pm, BBC2
Forming the nervous system of what would become modern Britain, no advance in engineering can touch the formation of the rail network. In this first of three episodes, Dan Snow looks at the journey from primitive trackway systems for horse-drawn coal carts to George Stephenson's impressive Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Assisted by beautifully animated renderings of illustrations from the era, Snow helps to prove that the history of rail needn't be the preserve of parka-clad cliches. Mark Jones
The Riviera: A History In Pictures
9pm, BBC4
Today, the French Riviera is principally a habitat for the world's ghastlier rich people. As Richard E Grant seeks to remind us in the second part of a series on the Côte d'Azur's artistic heritage, »
- Mark Jones, Andrew Mueller, Ben Arnold, Gwilym Mumford
14 January 2013 5:03 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Gold has released a first preview clip of their Yes, Prime Minister remake. Original writing team Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have rebooted the political satire with David Haig playing beleaguered Prime Minister Jim Hacker. Watch the preview clip of the new Yes, Prime Minister:
> 'Yes, Prime Minister': Tube Talk Gold Henry Goodman stars as Jim Hacker's impenetrably loquacious adviser Sir Humphrey Appleby, while Chris Larkin is cast as Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley. (more) »
- By Alex Fletcher
11 January 2013 10:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Grand Hotel | The Polar Bear Family & Me | The Undateables | Thing X | Borgen | Yes, Prime Minister/Yes, Minister
TV: Grand Hotel
ITV1 is trying to position the daft Mr Selfridge as your seasonal Downton replacement, but we reckon you'd be better served by this stately Spanish affair about scandalous goings-on in an elegant hotel. Expect sex, intrigue, blood-stained daggers and a fair bit of dramatic flouncing. Sky viewers can catch up with the series over on its Go service.
Sky Go
TV: The Polar Bear Family & Me
A sequel of sorts to 2011's The Bear Family And Me, which followed a family of black bears for a year, this three-parter sees wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan pack some thick jumpers and head off to the Norwegian island of Svalbard to document the lives of Lyra and her cubs. Somehow Buchanan manages to get worryingly close to the family, at one point cowering »
- Gwilym Mumford
6 items from 2013
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