Ernest Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast is in the works for the small screen. Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, along with Oscar-nominated actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, John Goldstone (Get Carter) and Marc Rosen (Sense8), have closed a deal to produce a television series based on the book. A search is underway for a writer.
Being told as a Hemingway origin story, A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s earliest known work about his years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book was first published in 1964 and describes the author’s apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. Other notable people featured in the book include Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,...
Being told as a Hemingway origin story, A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s earliest known work about his years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book was first published in 1964 and describes the author’s apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
The memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. Other notable people featured in the book include Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir “A Moveable Feast” is in the works at Village Roadshow Entertainment Group with Hemingway’s granddaughter Mariel Hemingway, John Goldstone and Marc Rosen set to produce the series, the company said Tuesday.
Like the memoir, first published in 1964, the series will follow the famed author’s years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. It will detail his apprenticeship as a young writer as well as his first marriage, to Hadley Richardson.
The book features appearances by other noteworthy figures of his era, including Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop.
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Like the memoir, first published in 1964, the series will follow the famed author’s years as a poor but ambitious young expat journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. It will detail his apprenticeship as a young writer as well as his first marriage, to Hadley Richardson.
The book features appearances by other noteworthy figures of his era, including Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop.
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- 8/13/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which recounts the evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from a beach in Northern France in May and June of 1940, finds the director working in a different register. From Julien Allen at Reverse Shot:For one thing, the events being dramatized in Dunkirk are not a leap of a storyteller's imagination, but recorded facts. Nolan's challenge is constricted by history rather than by science; and it is complicated, morally and artistically, by the need to do justice to real life events. For another, Nolan's obsession with exposition—a painful burden for his films to carry, particularly his highest concept pictures such as Inception and Interstellar—is nowhere to be seen. The story of these stranded men, sitting ducks on the barren beaches, is stripped down to a bare exercise in survival, in which the denial of exposition is demonstrative almost to the point of abstraction. The...
- 7/27/2017
- MUBI
Louisa Mellor Aug 22, 2016
You've heard of Breaking Bad, Orange Is The New Black & House Of Cards, what about Danger 5, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Darknet and more?…
Quite understandably, column inches can't fill up quickly enough with praise for the likes of Netflix original series House Of Cards, Orange Is The New Black, Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul and Marvel's Daredevil. What though, about some of the lesser-known series available on the UK streaming site?
Sweeping past the well-publicised riches of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Arrested Development, Community and the like, we've ventured into the slightly dustier shelf of TV shows available on Netflix UK that may be lesser-known or less widely celebrated than the big hitters out there, but are still richly deserving of your time. Some are new, some are old, some were cancelled long ago, some are ongoing, several are from outside the UK and Us.
From supernatural, sci-fi,...
You've heard of Breaking Bad, Orange Is The New Black & House Of Cards, what about Danger 5, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Darknet and more?…
Quite understandably, column inches can't fill up quickly enough with praise for the likes of Netflix original series House Of Cards, Orange Is The New Black, Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul and Marvel's Daredevil. What though, about some of the lesser-known series available on the UK streaming site?
Sweeping past the well-publicised riches of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Arrested Development, Community and the like, we've ventured into the slightly dustier shelf of TV shows available on Netflix UK that may be lesser-known or less widely celebrated than the big hitters out there, but are still richly deserving of your time. Some are new, some are old, some were cancelled long ago, some are ongoing, several are from outside the UK and Us.
From supernatural, sci-fi,...
- 3/17/2015
- Den of Geek
Studiocanal, Film4 and The Ink Factory, in association with Potboiler Productions, have announced the start of shooting in London of Our Kind Of Traitor.
Susanna White directs this adaptation of John le Carré’s novel from a script by Hossein Amini, with a cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, and Jeremy Northam.
An English couple, Perry (McGregor) and Gail (Harris), are taking a holiday in Marrakech. By chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima (Skarsgard) who owns a villa and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.
What else he wants propels the couple on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.
Our Kind Of Traitor is...
Susanna White directs this adaptation of John le Carré’s novel from a script by Hossein Amini, with a cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, and Jeremy Northam.
An English couple, Perry (McGregor) and Gail (Harris), are taking a holiday in Marrakech. By chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima (Skarsgard) who owns a villa and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.
What else he wants propels the couple on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain’s Intelligence Establishment.
Our Kind Of Traitor is...
- 3/26/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental portrayal of contemporary China. It made me think and laugh. I also love Dave Eggers' The Circle (Hamish Hamilton), which is a sharp-eyed and funny satire about the obsession with "sharing" our lives through technology. It's convincing and a little creepy.
William Boyd
By strange coincidence two of the most intriguing art books I read this year had the word "Breakfast" in their titles. They were Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig (Jonathan Cape) and Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook (Particular). Greig's fascinating, intimate biography of Lucian Freud was a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was...
- 11/23/2013
- by Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Tom Stoppard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William Boyd, Bill Bryson, Shami Chakrabarti, Sarah Churchwell, Antonia Fraser, Mark Haddon, Robert Harris, Max Hastings, Philip Hensher, Simon Hoggart, AM Homes, John Lanchester, Mark Lawson, Robert Macfarlane, Andrew Motion, Ian Rankin, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford, John Gray, David Kynaston, Penelope Lively, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Susie Orbach
- The Guardian - Film News
Do you see what he’s doing? He’s making corrections to the Encyclopedia Britannica. If I’d killed him, no jury would convict!
Parade’s End (2012), is another of the BBC-hbo collaborations aiming for the more discerning viewer. If there are two television programers better suited to such a venture, then they are conspicuous by their obscurity. Parade’s End is an adaptation by Tom Stoppard of Ford Madox Ford’s well-regarded novels. Consider it a highly literate version of Downton Abbey if you like. But if you expect to sit down to the entertainment of one character’s liaison with another or the incorrigible cuteness of upperclass snobbery, then you will be half pleased at best. Upperclass snobbery, you will find, but it will be engaged with deeply by the main character’s inward struggle. Liaisons, there will be, but they will not but once be of joyful satisfaction.
Parade’s End (2012), is another of the BBC-hbo collaborations aiming for the more discerning viewer. If there are two television programers better suited to such a venture, then they are conspicuous by their obscurity. Parade’s End is an adaptation by Tom Stoppard of Ford Madox Ford’s well-regarded novels. Consider it a highly literate version of Downton Abbey if you like. But if you expect to sit down to the entertainment of one character’s liaison with another or the incorrigible cuteness of upperclass snobbery, then you will be half pleased at best. Upperclass snobbery, you will find, but it will be engaged with deeply by the main character’s inward struggle. Liaisons, there will be, but they will not but once be of joyful satisfaction.
- 9/17/2013
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – The most TV-centric column yet advising What to Watch on DVD, Blu-ray, Netflix, Amazon, On Demand, and more is another nearly random collection of offerings that you can use to guide your way through the new releases shelf at Best Buy, the On Demand section on Vudu, the store on iTunes, and maybe even Netflix and Hulu. Pick your favorites. This is the way we’d rank these new releases if you have a free night this weekend or money to burn next week.
Parade’s End
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“Parade’s End”
Fans of “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Sherlock” really need to see what the great Benedict Cumberbatch (also appearing in “The Fifth Estate” and “August: Osage County” this week (he’s blowing up) does here in this great adaptation of the novels by Ford Madox Ford. He’s simply great and matched perfectly by Emmy-worthy...
Parade’s End
Photo credit: HBO
“Parade’s End”
Fans of “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Sherlock” really need to see what the great Benedict Cumberbatch (also appearing in “The Fifth Estate” and “August: Osage County” this week (he’s blowing up) does here in this great adaptation of the novels by Ford Madox Ford. He’s simply great and matched perfectly by Emmy-worthy...
- 9/11/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The campaign for Jj Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness has leaned so heavily on Benedict Cumberbatch's mysterious villain John Harrison that it's easy to forget he's still largely unknown in the Us.
But while Trek fever will have died down by autumn, Cumberbatch fever is unlikely to follow suit: he's got a spectacularly awards-baiting trio lined up with Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate, Steven McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave and Meryl Streep/George Clooney drama August: Osage County.
With that bright future in mind, Digital Spy takes a look back over Cumberbatch's five most memorable roles to date.
Hawking (2004)
Cumberbatch earned his first BAFTA nomination for playing physicist Stephen Hawking in the BBC's bio-drama, which begins with Hawking's diagnosis with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and follows him throughout his doctoral years at Cambridge. It's a remarkably physical performance from Cumberbatch, who tracks...
But while Trek fever will have died down by autumn, Cumberbatch fever is unlikely to follow suit: he's got a spectacularly awards-baiting trio lined up with Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate, Steven McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave and Meryl Streep/George Clooney drama August: Osage County.
With that bright future in mind, Digital Spy takes a look back over Cumberbatch's five most memorable roles to date.
Hawking (2004)
Cumberbatch earned his first BAFTA nomination for playing physicist Stephen Hawking in the BBC's bio-drama, which begins with Hawking's diagnosis with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and follows him throughout his doctoral years at Cambridge. It's a remarkably physical performance from Cumberbatch, who tracks...
- 5/7/2013
- Digital Spy
The Girl has been named the top nominee at this year's Arqiva BAFTA Television Awards.
The BBC and HBO Films co-production gets the nod in four categories, including acting nominations for stars Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton and Toby Jones. When combined with the recently-announced BAFTA TV Craft Award nominations, The Girl has a grand total of eight nominations.
> BAFTA Television Awards 2013: This year's nominees in full
Parade's End follows with a grand total of seven nominations, including a 'Lead Actress' nomination for Rebecca Hall. However Benedict Cumberbatch, who also starred in the BBC One serial, is not nominated for his role in the adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel series.
Accused will compete in six categories - including acting nominations for Sean Bean, Olivia Colman and Stephen Graham - while The Hour, Ripper Street, Last Tango in Halifax and Twenty Twelve each secure five nominations.
Colman has the...
The BBC and HBO Films co-production gets the nod in four categories, including acting nominations for stars Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton and Toby Jones. When combined with the recently-announced BAFTA TV Craft Award nominations, The Girl has a grand total of eight nominations.
> BAFTA Television Awards 2013: This year's nominees in full
Parade's End follows with a grand total of seven nominations, including a 'Lead Actress' nomination for Rebecca Hall. However Benedict Cumberbatch, who also starred in the BBC One serial, is not nominated for his role in the adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel series.
Accused will compete in six categories - including acting nominations for Sean Bean, Olivia Colman and Stephen Graham - while The Hour, Ripper Street, Last Tango in Halifax and Twenty Twelve each secure five nominations.
Colman has the...
- 4/9/2013
- Digital Spy
BBC Two‘s five-part period drama Parade’s End leads the nominees for BAFTA‘s television craft awards with five. The adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novels started airing on HBO on February 26, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson. It took mentions for production design and Tom Stoppard’s writing, among others. Also figuring heavily among the nominees are BBC Two and HBO’s Hitchcock drama The Girl, BBC One and BBC America‘s Ripper Street and BBC Two and BBC America’s cancelled The Hour. Other shows known to U.S. audiences, Doctor Who, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey, Top Gear and The Thick Of It also scored nods. Olympics programming, inlcuding Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony and Stephen Daldry’s closing ceremony are nommed as is the fictional comedy series about the Games, Twenty Twelve. Awards will be handed out on April 28 in London.
- 3/25/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Parade's End actors and writer sweep up prizes at Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
On-screen couple Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall took the top honours at an awards ceremony yesterday for their performances in period drama Parade's End.
The pair were named best actor and best actress respectively at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, where Cumberbatch was also recognised for his starring role in Sherlock as his award was shared between the two performances.
Parade's End, which was shown on BBC Two in five episodes last year, picked up four prizes and was named best drama series, while dramatist Sir Tom Stoppard won the Bpg writer's award for his work adapting the original novels by Ford Madox Ford.
The award for best single documentary went to ITV's exposure of Jimmy Savile's sex crimes, which sparked a chain of events including the downfall of BBC director-general George Entwistle and a wide-ranging...
On-screen couple Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall took the top honours at an awards ceremony yesterday for their performances in period drama Parade's End.
The pair were named best actor and best actress respectively at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, where Cumberbatch was also recognised for his starring role in Sherlock as his award was shared between the two performances.
Parade's End, which was shown on BBC Two in five episodes last year, picked up four prizes and was named best drama series, while dramatist Sir Tom Stoppard won the Bpg writer's award for his work adapting the original novels by Ford Madox Ford.
The award for best single documentary went to ITV's exposure of Jimmy Savile's sex crimes, which sparked a chain of events including the downfall of BBC director-general George Entwistle and a wide-ranging...
- 3/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedict Cumberbatch has picked up another award for his starring role in 'Sherlock' and said he was looking forward to getting his teeth back into the part of the scruffy sleuth.
The actor, who was named best actor at the Broadcasting Press Guild for his performance in 'Sherlock' and the period drama Parade's End, said he was looking forward to starting filming next week.
Cumberbatch with 'Parade's End' adaptor Sir Tom Stoppard
He said: "Playing Sherlock means a great deal to me. It's lovely to be back and have the hair in place. We're getting our teeth into the first episode of the new series next week so it feels like a treat. It's just wonderful to be back."
Benedict's 'Parade's End' co-star, Rebecca Hall, also walked away with a trophy after she was named best actress for her performance as his on-screen wife in the drama.
The actor, who was named best actor at the Broadcasting Press Guild for his performance in 'Sherlock' and the period drama Parade's End, said he was looking forward to starting filming next week.
Cumberbatch with 'Parade's End' adaptor Sir Tom Stoppard
He said: "Playing Sherlock means a great deal to me. It's lovely to be back and have the hair in place. We're getting our teeth into the first episode of the new series next week so it feels like a treat. It's just wonderful to be back."
Benedict's 'Parade's End' co-star, Rebecca Hall, also walked away with a trophy after she was named best actress for her performance as his on-screen wife in the drama.
- 3/14/2013
- by PA
- Huffington Post
HBO's "Parade's End" is a fabulous and slow boil, a story of loss on many levels. Loss of a chance at real love, loss of the love of one's country; loss of faith and loss of traditions that defined a way of life. "Downton Abbey" it is not, though similar in the time period and elite English upper class featured as main players. There's no sense of bubbly, joie de vivre or soapy arcs of character dilemmas. This is high brow drama and takes patience to absorb. Ford Madox Ford's Edwardian-period novels (adapted screenplay by Tom Stoppard) have been brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch in this four part series. Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) is the story's...
- 2/27/2013
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
This is an edited reprint of our coverage from the UK airing last year. Major spoilers ahead, for those who haven't yet watched the HBO broadcast. Recap: Episode 1 The specter of "Downton Abbey" has been present in the run up to the broadcast of BBC and HBO's new period drama "Parade's End." Both are lavish period tales set before, during and after World War I. But in fact, the comparisons are a little overblown. 'Downton' and "Parade's End" (an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's cycle of novels, often labelled as among the finest literary achievements of the 20th century, written for the screen by the great Sir Tom Stoppard, and directed by Susanna White, who was also behind "Bleak House" and "Generation Kill") might share a loose genre, but on the strength of the first episode, they couldn't be more different. 'Downton' is a soap, for better or worse,...
- 2/27/2013
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Don't let the title fool you — the parade is just beginning for "Parade's End."
Tonight (February 26) at 9 p.m. Et, HBO airs the first two installments of "Parade's End," director Susanna White and writer Tom Stoppard's five-part miniseries based on author Ford Madox Ford's novel series set in Europe during the threat of World War I. But the soldiers heading for the battlefield aren't the only ones at war; the miniseries focuses on the tumultuous marriage between Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens — played by future blockbuster stars Benedict Cumberbatch ("Star Trek Into Darkness") and Rebecca Hall ("Iron Man 3") — and what happens to their lives over the course of ten years.
Hall stopped by MTV News to talk about tonight's premiere of "Parade's End" and what viewers can expect to see. (Spoiler: expect the unexpected.)
On the setting: "It could be placed in the bracket of 'World War I drama,...
Tonight (February 26) at 9 p.m. Et, HBO airs the first two installments of "Parade's End," director Susanna White and writer Tom Stoppard's five-part miniseries based on author Ford Madox Ford's novel series set in Europe during the threat of World War I. But the soldiers heading for the battlefield aren't the only ones at war; the miniseries focuses on the tumultuous marriage between Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens — played by future blockbuster stars Benedict Cumberbatch ("Star Trek Into Darkness") and Rebecca Hall ("Iron Man 3") — and what happens to their lives over the course of ten years.
Hall stopped by MTV News to talk about tonight's premiere of "Parade's End" and what viewers can expect to see. (Spoiler: expect the unexpected.)
On the setting: "It could be placed in the bracket of 'World War I drama,...
- 2/26/2013
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
Chicago – HBO brings BBC2’s “Parade’s End,” based on the highly-acclaimed novels by Ford Madox Ford, stateside and the star-studded mini-series with a breathtakingly good script from the legendary Sir Tom Stoppard is a must-see for anyone interested in historical drama, quality acting, or the kind of stunning production values usually reserved for big-screen adaptations with Oscar aspirations. Propelled by a trio of Emmy-worthy performances from Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”), Rebecca Hall (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), and Adelaide Clemens (“Silent Hill: Revelation”) and a stunning supporting cast of classically trained actors (it’s like “The Avengers” for fans of British period pieces), “Parade’s End” is one of the most accomplished and impressive productions you’ll see on TV this year.
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0
It’s also slow. Just a warning. One has to be an admirer of Stoppard’s brilliant way with words and consider the symbolic themes of a...
Television Rating: 4.5/5.0
It’s also slow. Just a warning. One has to be an admirer of Stoppard’s brilliant way with words and consider the symbolic themes of a...
- 2/26/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There is so much to love and so much to be confused by in the five-part miniseries Parade's End, which HBO partnered with the BBC in helping bring to life. It's based on a series of books by Ford Madox Ford that have been called "impenetrable" -- even by the English whose history and class structures are at the center of it -- but are given a thorough and engaging awakening by acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Anna Karenina, Shakespeare in Love). Stoppard, who refuses to make things comprehensibly easy (at once a good and bad decision), is helped immensely by the fact that director Susanna White (Generation
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- 2/22/2013
- by Tim Goodman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This story first appeared in the Feb. 22 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard, 75, has been turning out provocative, challenging plays since his first hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in 1967. But he also has found time for a second career as a screen and TV writer. His latest project, a five-hour adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's World War I-centered Parade's End, debuts Feb. 26 on HBO. The Hollywood Reporter: Historically, a lot of playwrights have approached screenwriting as something they do for money while viewing themselves primarily as
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- 2/15/2013
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Parade's End is the leading nominee for the 2013 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
The BBC One period drama - based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford - is nominated five times, with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam going head-to-head in the same category.
Both Cumberbatch and Allam are actually given the nod for more than one show, bringing their respective performances in Sherlock and The Thick of It into contention.
Elsewhere, The Hour receives three nominations for stars Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Anna Chancellor, while Twenty Twelve, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off also feature in a list which is heavily dominated by BBC output.
ITV's Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, the documentary which first revealed the extent of the TV presenter's sexual abuse and has prompted a number of reports, inquires and a major police investigation, is nominated for 'Best Single Documentary'.
[Left: Clare Balding / Right: Adam Hills]
Clare Balding...
The BBC One period drama - based on the novels by Ford Madox Ford - is nominated five times, with stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam going head-to-head in the same category.
Both Cumberbatch and Allam are actually given the nod for more than one show, bringing their respective performances in Sherlock and The Thick of It into contention.
Elsewhere, The Hour receives three nominations for stars Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw and Anna Chancellor, while Twenty Twelve, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off also feature in a list which is heavily dominated by BBC output.
ITV's Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, the documentary which first revealed the extent of the TV presenter's sexual abuse and has prompted a number of reports, inquires and a major police investigation, is nominated for 'Best Single Documentary'.
[Left: Clare Balding / Right: Adam Hills]
Clare Balding...
- 2/7/2013
- Digital Spy
The first trailer for HBO and BBC's mini-series Parade's End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, and Adelaide Clemens has arrived, featuring all the aristocracy of Downton Abby with the Wwi explosions of Legends Of The Fall. The series premiered last year on BBC and will now make it's debut stateside on HBO. Based on the series of novels by Ford Madox Ford, the story centers on a love triangle between the old-fashioned Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch), his vindictive wife Sylvia...
- 1/22/2013
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
For those looking to get Benedict Cumberbatch ahead of the pack you can watch him this February in the HBO-bbc miniseries Parade’s End and now the network has released a teaser trailer for the five-part Wwi-era miniseries.
Cumberbatch has plenty on his plate for this year or so and now he continues ‘amazing run’ with Parade’s End starring as Christopher Tietjens, a man caught in a love triangle with two women played by Rebecca Hall and Adalaide Clemens.
Written by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Anna Karenina), the adaptation of Madox Ford’s novel series will be directed by Susanna White.
American audiences will get to experience the upper-class Edwardian-era Britain across three consecutive nights starting on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013.
Hit the jump to check out the video below beginning with Cumberbatch’s character announcing that he’s joining the army.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Cumberbatch has plenty on his plate for this year or so and now he continues ‘amazing run’ with Parade’s End starring as Christopher Tietjens, a man caught in a love triangle with two women played by Rebecca Hall and Adalaide Clemens.
Written by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Anna Karenina), the adaptation of Madox Ford’s novel series will be directed by Susanna White.
American audiences will get to experience the upper-class Edwardian-era Britain across three consecutive nights starting on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013.
Hit the jump to check out the video below beginning with Cumberbatch’s character announcing that he’s joining the army.
Click here to view the embedded video.
- 1/5/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. After today’s TCA session on HBO’s miniseries Parade’s End, based on four World War I-era novels by Ford Madox Ford, director Susanna White told Deadline that PBS’ popular Downton Abbey, set in loosely the same era, was not an inspiration for her. “We were commissioned ahead of Downton,” said White of the five part mini, which is set to premiere February 26. “It’s obviously the same time period more or less, but ours is much less of an Upstairs Downstairs world. We are coming from the standpoint of being an adaptation of this series of novels. We’re coming from a slightly different place.” And what place is that? “I’d call it Downton Abbey meets The Wire,” the director quipped. On the panel, White appeared with stars Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens. Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrays Christopher Tietjens,...
- 1/5/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
"Sherlock" fans waiting impatiently for Benedict Cumberbatch to return to TV can tide themselves over with HBO's miniseries "Parade's End," premiering in February.
The British actor has been on a roll lately, co-starring in "The Hobbit" and the upcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness," but made time to appear via satellite from London at the Winter TCA press tour to promote his work in "Parade's End." The miniseries is a co-production between HBO, the BBC and Flemish network Vrt and premiered on the BBC back in August to strong reviews and solid ratings.
Based on a classic series of novels by Ford Madox Ford set in the years prior to and during World War I, the story centers on Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch) -- a virtuous man torn between two women: his manipulative wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and kindly young suffragette Valentine (Adelaide Clemens). The five-part miniseries is written by Tom Stoppard...
The British actor has been on a roll lately, co-starring in "The Hobbit" and the upcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness," but made time to appear via satellite from London at the Winter TCA press tour to promote his work in "Parade's End." The miniseries is a co-production between HBO, the BBC and Flemish network Vrt and premiered on the BBC back in August to strong reviews and solid ratings.
Based on a classic series of novels by Ford Madox Ford set in the years prior to and during World War I, the story centers on Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch) -- a virtuous man torn between two women: his manipulative wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and kindly young suffragette Valentine (Adelaide Clemens). The five-part miniseries is written by Tom Stoppard...
- 1/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
HBO has released a thirty-six second teaser trailer for miniseries Parade's End, a sweeping World War I tale. The five-part HBO-bbc miniseries, which is based on a series of novels by author Ford Madox Ford, stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall in a plot that centers on "a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette," according to the IMDb synopsis. Video: Benedict Cumberbatch Looms Over the 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Teaser Trailer The series will be directed by Susanna White and was penned by screenwriter Tom Stoppard, who also wrote the screenplay
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- 1/5/2013
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Featuring "Sherlock" star Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall and adapted by Tom Stoppard from a tetralogy of 1920s novels by Ford Madox Ford, HBO/BBC/Vrt miniseries "Parade's End" exudes prestige. The five episode arc, directed by Susanna White ("Generation Kill"), aired on BBC Two in August and screened at the Ghent Film Festival, and premieres in the Us on HBO on Tuesday, February 26th at 9pm. The teaser below offers a look at Cumberbatch offering up the posh period thing he does so well. Adelaide Clemens, soon to be seen in the Sundance Channel original drama "Rectify," Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson also star.
- 1/4/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
HBO isn't wasting a single moment in 2013. Next weekend, Lena Dunham's smash hit "Girls" returns for season two, with season one not even a full year in the rearview. And while the world breathlessly awaits "Game Of Thrones" this spring and "Boardwalk Empire" this fall, there will be plenty of programming to keep you occupied. Bummed you missed the U.K. miniseries "Parade's End" with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall that aired overseas last fall (maybe you caught some of our reviews)? Well, settle in because HBO is going to get you over the winter hump by airing it in February. The miniseries is an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s four novels which chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch), a government statistician from a wealthy family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. While Christopher is at war, the novel also follows his...
- 1/4/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed some supernatural happenings that occurred filming for his current BBC drama Parade’s End.
The actor had to visit the battlefields of the First World War as part of his role of Christopher Tietjens in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novels, and reported that he was convinced he was visited by an other-worldly spectre when he was later asleep in a hotel.
Benedict Cumberbatch relates some inexplicable events during the filming of Parade's End
"I was asleep and my then girlfriend woke up," remembers Cumberbatch. "I woke up to her saying ‘Are you all right’ and she screamed. She told me, ‘You were sitting on the end of the bed, and then I turned to where your voice was and you were lying down. You turned round where you were sitting and half your face was missing, you seemed to...
The actor had to visit the battlefields of the First World War as part of his role of Christopher Tietjens in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novels, and reported that he was convinced he was visited by an other-worldly spectre when he was later asleep in a hotel.
Benedict Cumberbatch relates some inexplicable events during the filming of Parade's End
"I was asleep and my then girlfriend woke up," remembers Cumberbatch. "I woke up to her saying ‘Are you all right’ and she screamed. She told me, ‘You were sitting on the end of the bed, and then I turned to where your voice was and you were lying down. You turned round where you were sitting and half your face was missing, you seemed to...
- 9/12/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Directors' group to investigate after Cannes film festival snubs women for Palme d'Or prize
The woman behind the hugely successful new BBC drama Parade's End is leading a campaign to give female directors a better deal in television.
Susanna White, whose adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's four-volume novel is winning widespread acclaim, is a member of Directors UK, a group representing British film and television directors, which has set up an all-women working party to examine the difficulties experienced by aspiring female directors. The move is partly a response to the fact that no women were entered for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
White told the Observer that she had only broken into the top ranks of directors with extreme difficulty. "I think my journey has been a very, very, slow one."
Welcoming the new focus, she said: "I'm very keen for this to happen.
The woman behind the hugely successful new BBC drama Parade's End is leading a campaign to give female directors a better deal in television.
Susanna White, whose adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's four-volume novel is winning widespread acclaim, is a member of Directors UK, a group representing British film and television directors, which has set up an all-women working party to examine the difficulties experienced by aspiring female directors. The move is partly a response to the fact that no women were entered for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
White told the Observer that she had only broken into the top ranks of directors with extreme difficulty. "I think my journey has been a very, very, slow one."
Welcoming the new focus, she said: "I'm very keen for this to happen.
- 9/8/2012
- by Maggie Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
If you haven’t been watching Parade’s End, the five-part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy of novels starring Benedict Cumberbatch, then I seriously suggest you do. As it stands at the start of the episode, the somewhat conservative and brilliant Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch), has resigned from the imperial office of statistics, and away from both his bitterly frustrated wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and his potential saviour-cum-hopelessly smitten suffragette Valentine (Adelaide Clemens). So far, so Downton. But this episode was a reward for patiently enjoying the foundations set in the first two episodes- whilst we see less of the levity of Tietjens’ friend MacMaster (Stephen Graham) and his affair with Edith Duchemin (Anne-Marie Duff), we instead shift focus to three different themes- 1. What Titetjens really means to the women who love him, 2. The Tietjens dynasty and Christopher’s place in it, and 3. The effects...
If you haven’t been watching Parade’s End, the five-part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy of novels starring Benedict Cumberbatch, then I seriously suggest you do. As it stands at the start of the episode, the somewhat conservative and brilliant Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch), has resigned from the imperial office of statistics, and away from both his bitterly frustrated wife Sylvia (Rebecca Hall) and his potential saviour-cum-hopelessly smitten suffragette Valentine (Adelaide Clemens). So far, so Downton. But this episode was a reward for patiently enjoying the foundations set in the first two episodes- whilst we see less of the levity of Tietjens’ friend MacMaster (Stephen Graham) and his affair with Edith Duchemin (Anne-Marie Duff), we instead shift focus to three different themes- 1. What Titetjens really means to the women who love him, 2. The Tietjens dynasty and Christopher’s place in it, and 3. The effects...
- 9/8/2012
- by Oscar Harding
- Obsessed with Film
Tom Stoppard says his original approach to writing the screenplay for Joe Wright's new film adaptation of Anna Karenina was for a fast, modern movie about being in lust. Then wiser counsels – including his own – prevailed
The latest film adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina began in what Tom Stoppard calls "a normal kind of way", though it did not exactly have a normal outcome. Sitting in his penthouse flat in west London with his back to a stunning view of the Thames, he lights the first of the six cigarettes that will measure out this conversation.
"Somebody rang my agent, Anthony Jones," he says, before adding: "It was to ask if I was up for adapting Anna Karenina for Joe Wright. It was Joe's choice of movie."
This is an ideal moment to talk to one of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights. Stoppard is in that limbo that writers experience...
The latest film adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina began in what Tom Stoppard calls "a normal kind of way", though it did not exactly have a normal outcome. Sitting in his penthouse flat in west London with his back to a stunning view of the Thames, he lights the first of the six cigarettes that will measure out this conversation.
"Somebody rang my agent, Anthony Jones," he says, before adding: "It was to ask if I was up for adapting Anna Karenina for Joe Wright. It was Joe's choice of movie."
This is an ideal moment to talk to one of Britain's leading contemporary playwrights. Stoppard is in that limbo that writers experience...
- 9/1/2012
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Major spoilers ahead, for those waiting to see the show on HBO in the fall. The specter of "Downton Abbey" has been present in the run up to the broadcast of BBC and HBO's new period drama "Parade's End," which aired its first episode in the UK last night (it'll come to the Us cable network in the near future, though no exact date has been confirmed yet). Both are lavish period tales in the run up to, midst and aftermath of the first world war, and the star of the latter, Benedict Cumberbatch, didn't help matters much when he labelled the second season of 'Downton' "fucking atrocious" in a recent interview. In fact, the comparisons are a little overblown. 'Downton' and "Parade's End" (an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's cycle of novels, often labelled as among the finest literary achievements of the 20th century, written for the screen...
- 8/25/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Benedict Cumberbatch had to load up on fattening treats to get in correct shape for his latest project. The actor was ''force-feeding himself doughnuts'' to put on weight in order to play his character in 'Parade's End'. His director in the BBC Two drama, Susanna White, revealed that he made the decision to pile on the pounds as novelist Ford Madox Ford described his character as fat. She said: ''He was tired, having just come off the set of 'Sherlock'.'' She added that he was ''force-feeding himself doughnuts'' to fit the image. Meanwhile Susan said that, when she started filming the series, she was...
- 8/25/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Benedict Cumberbatch had to load up on fattening treats to get in correct shape for his latest project. The actor was 'force-feeding himself doughnuts' to put on weight in order to play his character in 'Parade's End'. His director in the BBC Two drama, Susanna White, revealed that he made the decision to pile on the pounds as novelist Ford Madox Ford described his character as fat. She said: 'He was tired, having just come off the set of 'Sherlock'.' She added that he was 'force-feeding himself doughnuts' to fit the image. Meanwhile Susan said that, when she started filming the series, she was conscious of 'one American actor' who was proving troublesome. She admitted: 'He was distracting the...
- 8/25/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Benedict Cumberbatch has spoken about his upcoming new BBC drama Parade's End. The Sherlock actor plays the lead role in the co-production with HBO, which is based on Ford Madox Ford's books and is written by Tom Stoppard. Cumberbatch appeared to make a dig at rival ITV period drama Downton Abbey by talking about the "sophisticated" nature of his new five-part series. "You rarely see a piece about this class of people that is this accurate, funny and pointed, but also three-dimensional," he is quoted as saying in The Sun. "We're not serving purposes to make some clichéd comment about, 'Oh, (more)...
- 8/13/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Benedict Cumberbatch had to ''pinch himself'' to believe his luck when working on 'Parade's End'. The 'Sherlock Holmes' actor - who recently made a jump into films, appearing in 'War Horse' and filming a role in the eagerly anticipated 'Star Trek' sequel - was shocked he had the opportunity to play Christopher Tietjens in the BBC adaptation of the book by Ford Madox Ford because he got to work with Rebecca Hall. He said: ''I have never worked opposite an actress who has such an extraordinary command of her character. She is mesmerising to watch. And we have been friends for...
- 8/3/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
Benedict Cumberbatch had to ''pinch himself'' to believe his luck when working on 'Parade's End'. The 'Sherlock Holmes' actor - who recently made a jump into films, appearing in 'War Horse' and filming a role in the eagerly anticipated 'Star Trek' sequel - was shocked he had the opportunity to play Christopher Tietjens in the BBC adaptation of the book by Ford Madox Ford because he got to work with Rebecca Hall. He said: ''I have never worked opposite an actress who has such an extraordinary command of her character. She is mesmerising to watch. And we have been friends for...
- 8/2/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
It's easy to get lost in the bombast of the blockbuster season and the allure of festivals just around the corner. But BBC2 is here to remind you they've got some tremendously promising, high caliber wares coming to a small screen near you, which might be enticing enough to skip heading the multiplex altogether. The station has dropped a trailer for their new season of original programming, and there are some highlights and first footage worth paying attention to. First up, there's "Parade's End" starring Benedict Cumberbatch and our fave, Rebecca Hall. Based on the book by Ford Madox Ford, the story is set against the backdrop of Wwi and follows Christopher Tietjens (Cumberbatch), a top civil servant from a background of wealth and privilege, whose marriage to Sylvia (Hall) declines, just as it begins. On top of this, Chris is dealing with shell shock and partial memory loss that he endures during the war.
- 7/25/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The first footage of Benedict Cumberbatch's World War One drama Parade's End, Elisabeth Moss's Top of the Lake and series two of The Hour has been released in a new BBC Drama trailer. All three new shows feature in the broadcaster's impressive slate of big name stars and highly-anticipated series coming in late 2012 and 2013. Cumberbatch's new miniseries, which is a co-production with HBO, is based on Ford Madox Ford's books and is written by Tom Stoppard. It will be the first of the new BBC drama commissions (more)...
- 7/25/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Steven Spielberg's equine epic may help dispel the acquiescence in warfare to which his own films contributed
Steven Spielberg has done his bit to shape western attitudes to warfare. Saving Private Ryan burnished the myth of heroic conflict when cinema had lost faith in it. Schindler's List re-established the useful notion of the indisputably evil foe. In the films of the 40s and 50s, our boys socked it to the Nazis time and again to audiences' innocent delight. However, Vietnam swept away the simplicities of battlefield bravado. When Hollywood got round to confronting that ill-fated undertaking, it found little to glorify. Instead it homed in on the horror, the horror.
Films like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Casualties of War fed public disgust with militarism. America, it was said, would never again put boots on the ground in conflict, but would turn its back on foreign entanglements as its founders had intended.
Steven Spielberg has done his bit to shape western attitudes to warfare. Saving Private Ryan burnished the myth of heroic conflict when cinema had lost faith in it. Schindler's List re-established the useful notion of the indisputably evil foe. In the films of the 40s and 50s, our boys socked it to the Nazis time and again to audiences' innocent delight. However, Vietnam swept away the simplicities of battlefield bravado. When Hollywood got round to confronting that ill-fated undertaking, it found little to glorify. Instead it homed in on the horror, the horror.
Films like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Casualties of War fed public disgust with militarism. America, it was said, would never again put boots on the ground in conflict, but would turn its back on foreign entanglements as its founders had intended.
- 1/23/2012
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
War Horse's young British cast talk about the pressures of working with Steven Spielberg, the world's most successful film director, and honouring the memory of a lost generation
Jeremy Irvine
Albert, who joins up to bring his horse, Joey, back from France
Sitting in his Los Angeles hotel, Irvine says he's "living the dream". But does he really mean that? The 21-year-old is the lead in War Horse and, after talking to me, is flying back to London to finish filming his role of Pip in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations. Surely not even his wildest dreams could have made room for this?
"I was pretty desperate to get noticed," he admits. "After one year at drama school, I traipsed round Soho knocking on agents' doors and popping DVDs of my work through letter boxes. But I hadn't actually done any work – I'd got together with a...
Jeremy Irvine
Albert, who joins up to bring his horse, Joey, back from France
Sitting in his Los Angeles hotel, Irvine says he's "living the dream". But does he really mean that? The 21-year-old is the lead in War Horse and, after talking to me, is flying back to London to finish filming his role of Pip in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations. Surely not even his wildest dreams could have made room for this?
"I was pretty desperate to get noticed," he admits. "After one year at drama school, I traipsed round Soho knocking on agents' doors and popping DVDs of my work through letter boxes. But I hadn't actually done any work – I'd got together with a...
- 1/9/2012
- by Akin Ojumu, Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
The Downton Abbey effect is continuing to reverberate on Australian television, with Nine snapping up the rights to the British period drama Parade’s End.
Downton Abbey proved to be an unexpected ratings winner for the Seven Network.
Nine has now bought the rights to the 14-part Parade’s End which is a co-production of the BBC, HBO, Lookout Point and Mammoth Screen. The expensive production, adapted for TV by Sir Tom Stoppard, is unlikely to reach viewers’ screens until the year after next.
Based on four novels by Ford Madox Ford, the story of an aristocratic love triangle begins in 1911 and spans the folowing decade. It crosses between England and the First World War’s Western Front in France.
Nine’s director of TV Michael Healy said: “I am really delighted to partner with BBC Worldwide on this marquee drama.”
Australian actress Adelaide Clemens, who appeared in Love My Way,...
Downton Abbey proved to be an unexpected ratings winner for the Seven Network.
Nine has now bought the rights to the 14-part Parade’s End which is a co-production of the BBC, HBO, Lookout Point and Mammoth Screen. The expensive production, adapted for TV by Sir Tom Stoppard, is unlikely to reach viewers’ screens until the year after next.
Based on four novels by Ford Madox Ford, the story of an aristocratic love triangle begins in 1911 and spans the folowing decade. It crosses between England and the First World War’s Western Front in France.
Nine’s director of TV Michael Healy said: “I am really delighted to partner with BBC Worldwide on this marquee drama.”
Australian actress Adelaide Clemens, who appeared in Love My Way,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Tim Burrowes
- Encore Magazine
Are our most popular films, books and TV shows too entrenched in nostalgia? Robert McCrum and Boyd Hilton debate the state of British culture
Robert McCrum, Observer assistant editor
A Martian, scanning any current listings magazine, might be forgiven for thinking that we Brits really haven't shaken off the post-imperial nostalgia that's been such a feature of postwar culture. Tinker Tailor… (cold war nostalgia); the latest episodes of Downton Abbey (Great War nostalgia); the BBC's forthcoming adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, Parade's End (ditto); and the "Great" (Britain) campaign just launched by the prime minister in New York suggest a society apparently fixated on the stories and images of past glory.
And if you go just below the cultural waterline it's not hard to bump into the outline of a trend: pop "eating itself" in the endless recycling of its material. I do think we are in thrall to the past,...
Robert McCrum, Observer assistant editor
A Martian, scanning any current listings magazine, might be forgiven for thinking that we Brits really haven't shaken off the post-imperial nostalgia that's been such a feature of postwar culture. Tinker Tailor… (cold war nostalgia); the latest episodes of Downton Abbey (Great War nostalgia); the BBC's forthcoming adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, Parade's End (ditto); and the "Great" (Britain) campaign just launched by the prime minister in New York suggest a society apparently fixated on the stories and images of past glory.
And if you go just below the cultural waterline it's not hard to bump into the outline of a trend: pop "eating itself" in the endless recycling of its material. I do think we are in thrall to the past,...
- 9/24/2011
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Irish actress Anne Marie Duff (The Magdalene Sisters, Garage) has landed a role in Mammoth Screen's epic BBC Two drama/HBO miniseries 'Parade's End', with co-stars including Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona). The five-part series has been adapted by playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard (Brazil, Shakespeare in Love) from a quartet of novels by Ford Madox Ford.
- 9/20/2011
- IFTN
HBO and the BBC have announced an all-star cast for their new drama Parade's End. The five-part miniseries, which is being co-produced by the two companies, has been penned by Tom Stoppard and is based on the Ford Madox Ford novels. Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and Vicky Cristina Barcelona actress Rebecca Hall have already signed up for the lead roles in the period drama as husband and wife Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens. Adelaide Clemens, who will appear in upcoming movie Camilla Dickinson, has now joined the cast as a young suffragette called Valentine who becomes embroiled in a love triangle with Christopher and Sylvia. Roger Allam, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett, Boardwalk Empire's Stephen Graham, The Golden Compass actress Claire Higgins, Janet McTeer and Miranda Richardson are among the other names (more)...
- 9/19/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Filming has just started on Parade's End a five part serial for BBC2 / HBO, adapted by Sir Tom Stoppard from the novels by Ford Madox Ford, directed by Susanna White, and produced by David Parfitt and Selwyn Roberts. The series will shoot in England and Belgium until December.
Benedict Cumberbatch will star as English aristocrat Christoper Tietjens, Rebecca Hall (currently to be seen in The Awakening) will play his wife Sylvia.
21 year old Australian rising star Adelaide Clemens has been cast as Valentine, the high-spirited young suffragette with whom Christopher falls head-over-heels in love.
Parade's End is the story of a destructive love triangle, set against the backdrop of a society on the brink of catastrophe. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England give way to the chaos and destruction of the First World War, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens finds himself marrying Sylvia, a beautiful but cruel socialite who is...
Benedict Cumberbatch will star as English aristocrat Christoper Tietjens, Rebecca Hall (currently to be seen in The Awakening) will play his wife Sylvia.
21 year old Australian rising star Adelaide Clemens has been cast as Valentine, the high-spirited young suffragette with whom Christopher falls head-over-heels in love.
Parade's End is the story of a destructive love triangle, set against the backdrop of a society on the brink of catastrophe. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England give way to the chaos and destruction of the First World War, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens finds himself marrying Sylvia, a beautiful but cruel socialite who is...
- 9/16/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
As the Sherlock star prepares to play a dapper 70s spook in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Benedict Cumberbatch tells Emma John about the joys of kitesurfing, being single and punching Tom Hardy – while presenting the sharpest looks from the coming season
Benedict Cumberbatch is talking Edwardian manners, the brutishness of croquet and a million other things that segue rapidly into each other while my brain struggles feebly to keep up. He is making me a cup of Earl Grey, and a single question – shall we share a teabag? – has triggered this rush of inspiration, from tea ceremonies to post-colonial theory. It's fair to say that Cumberbatch is both a thinker and a talker.
His features – the huge almond eyes, the sweeping Cupid's bow, the acute tapering from cheekbones to chin – can, in repose, hint at something extra-terrestrial; lit with animation, however, they're charmingly boyish. He's soon to begin shooting a...
Benedict Cumberbatch is talking Edwardian manners, the brutishness of croquet and a million other things that segue rapidly into each other while my brain struggles feebly to keep up. He is making me a cup of Earl Grey, and a single question – shall we share a teabag? – has triggered this rush of inspiration, from tea ceremonies to post-colonial theory. It's fair to say that Cumberbatch is both a thinker and a talker.
His features – the huge almond eyes, the sweeping Cupid's bow, the acute tapering from cheekbones to chin – can, in repose, hint at something extra-terrestrial; lit with animation, however, they're charmingly boyish. He's soon to begin shooting a...
- 9/3/2011
- by Emma John
- The Guardian - Film News
Comedy; Donmar Warehouse; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, all London
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
Enclosed but transmitting, composed but aquiver, Kristin Scott Thomas is an ideal Pinter actress. She manages, in the way that some actresses mysteriously do, to pull the audience's attention towards her face (not, after all, a very big thing on the stage), where the play's action is reflected in small stiffenings and relaxations and a wave of inflections. She is still, often keeping herself to herself by wrapping her arms around her body, so that when she reaches her arm towards her future lover, it seems an extraordinary act of abandonment. She is an object of desire but she is also a force. She makes response look active.
Betrayal, first staged in 1978, is celebrated for its structure – it works its way backwards through the seven years of a clandestine love affair, beginning with the lovers meeting after their liaison is over,...
- 6/19/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedict Cumberbatch made news recently for joining the HBO and BBC co-production Parade's End, a five-part miniseries based on the books by Ford Madox Ford. According to Deadline, Cumberbatch’s biggest news to date involved him providing the voice of the dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson’s two-part film series The Hobbit. Cumberbatch signed on to voice Smaug in addition to providing the voice for the character Necromancer. Cumberbatch, best known for his starring role in the BBC series Sherlock, also signed on to play a conservative English aristocrat against the backdrop of World War I in Parade’s End opposite Rebecca Hall.
- 6/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Benedict Cumberbatch made news recently for joining the HBO and BBC co-production Parade's End, a five-part miniseries based on the books by Ford Madox Ford. According to Deadline, Cumberbatch’s biggest news to date involved him providing the voice of the dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson’s two-part film series The Hobbit. Cumberbatch signed on to voice Smaug in addition to providing the voice for the character Necromancer. Cumberbatch, best known for his starring role in the BBC series Sherlock, also signed on to play a conservative English aristocrat against the backdrop of World War I in Parade’s End opposite Rebecca Hall.
- 6/16/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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