The scent and sweat of a film set can be nauseating first thing in the morning. But this is no ordinary location - Digital Spy is stood on the sweeping set of Sky Atlantic's Fleming in the grand city of Budapest.
Back in January 2013, the Fleming crew are staging an elaborate ballroom sequence that wouldn't look out of place in one of the films that Ian Fleming's James Bond novels inspired.
Fleming is a biopic of Bond's creator tinged with the style and sensibility of the 007 movies, though director Mat Whitecross tells DS and other assembled press that he was keen for the four-part drama to avoid parody or pastiche.
"It's about the guy who created Bond, but you don't want to riff on it too much," says Whitecross, the filmmaker behind Ian Dury movie biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and the Stone Roses-inspired Spike Island.
"The viewers will...
Back in January 2013, the Fleming crew are staging an elaborate ballroom sequence that wouldn't look out of place in one of the films that Ian Fleming's James Bond novels inspired.
Fleming is a biopic of Bond's creator tinged with the style and sensibility of the 007 movies, though director Mat Whitecross tells DS and other assembled press that he was keen for the four-part drama to avoid parody or pastiche.
"It's about the guy who created Bond, but you don't want to riff on it too much," says Whitecross, the filmmaker behind Ian Dury movie biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and the Stone Roses-inspired Spike Island.
"The viewers will...
- 2/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Powell and Pressburger's Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp is typical of Archers Film and almost un-English in its audacity
You live abroad for a couple of decades and it's surprising which memories of the old country flicker into a different kind of focus. I'm not the nostalgic or homesick type, I haven't been home in six years. And yet two decades have made me feel more English than I ever did in England – and technically I'm not even English (I'm Scotch-Irish). I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
Neither did I celebrate my birthday every year, as I do now, with a large scotch watching A Canterbury Tale alone, certain in the knowledge that when Eric Portman talks about the mysterious continuity of ancient tradition I will find myself,...
You live abroad for a couple of decades and it's surprising which memories of the old country flicker into a different kind of focus. I'm not the nostalgic or homesick type, I haven't been home in six years. And yet two decades have made me feel more English than I ever did in England – and technically I'm not even English (I'm Scotch-Irish). I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
Neither did I celebrate my birthday every year, as I do now, with a large scotch watching A Canterbury Tale alone, certain in the knowledge that when Eric Portman talks about the mysterious continuity of ancient tradition I will find myself,...
- 5/11/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Producer of popular BBC television dramas
Alan Shallcross, who has died aged 78, epitomised the BBC television producer of the 1970s and 80s. Always dapper, never without a tie and eminently respectable, Alan had a passion for drama and a respect for writers, actors and the creative process. He knew what he wanted and he got it by searching out talented individuals, nurturing them and then watching them weave their magic in his productions.
In those days, when Paul Fox was controller of BBC1 and Christopher Morahan was head of plays, the BBC drama department bubbled with life. Producers such as Alan were given commissioning power. The writer Brian Phelan, who worked with him often, has described how they went out to lunch, chewed over an idea and, if all was well, went ahead and did it: no committees, no commissioning department, just one producer with an eye for a good...
Alan Shallcross, who has died aged 78, epitomised the BBC television producer of the 1970s and 80s. Always dapper, never without a tie and eminently respectable, Alan had a passion for drama and a respect for writers, actors and the creative process. He knew what he wanted and he got it by searching out talented individuals, nurturing them and then watching them weave their magic in his productions.
In those days, when Paul Fox was controller of BBC1 and Christopher Morahan was head of plays, the BBC drama department bubbled with life. Producers such as Alan were given commissioning power. The writer Brian Phelan, who worked with him often, has described how they went out to lunch, chewed over an idea and, if all was well, went ahead and did it: no committees, no commissioning department, just one producer with an eye for a good...
- 2/14/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
27-year-old Matt Smith, the current eleventh incarnation of The Doctor in UK sci-fi series "Doctor Who", is set to play acclaimed gay British novelist Christopher Isherwood in BBC2 TV movie "Christopher And His Kind" reports The Sun.
Isherwood penned the semi-autobiographical 1964 novel "A Single Man" which was adapted last year into the acclaimed Tom Ford-directed film that scored Colin Firth an Oscar nomination. Isherwood also penned 1939 novel "Goodbye to Berlin" which ultimately served as the basis for the classic Kander-Ebb musical "Cabaret".
'Kind' is based on his fully autobiographical 1974 book of the same name which covers a decade in his life (1929-1939) from escaping his suffocating upbringing to live in Berlin, his departure from Germany after Hitler came to power, his years wandering around Europe and his eventual move to New York City.
Along the way it frankly deals with his experiences as a gay man in this politically turbulent time period,...
Isherwood penned the semi-autobiographical 1964 novel "A Single Man" which was adapted last year into the acclaimed Tom Ford-directed film that scored Colin Firth an Oscar nomination. Isherwood also penned 1939 novel "Goodbye to Berlin" which ultimately served as the basis for the classic Kander-Ebb musical "Cabaret".
'Kind' is based on his fully autobiographical 1974 book of the same name which covers a decade in his life (1929-1939) from escaping his suffocating upbringing to live in Berlin, his departure from Germany after Hitler came to power, his years wandering around Europe and his eventual move to New York City.
Along the way it frankly deals with his experiences as a gay man in this politically turbulent time period,...
- 4/29/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Heart of Me was an extraordinary performance, and made me believe we've only seen a fraction of what Olivia Williams can do
A little over 10 years ago, the question was being asked: what is this very English-seeming actress doing in so many American films? Have the Americans "discovered" her – and, if so, where will she go from here? Olivia Williams made her movie debut in Kevin Costner's very strange film The Postman (1997) about a post-apocalyptic world in which Costner tries to keep the mail functioning in the wild forsaken north-west. Williams was his girl, Abby, and because of the shortage of cosmetics she wasn't meant to look beautiful, exactly. But she looked very good and she never let the film down.
She was far better, and really very striking as the schoolteacher, Rosemary Cross, who wins the love of both Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray in Wes Anderson...
A little over 10 years ago, the question was being asked: what is this very English-seeming actress doing in so many American films? Have the Americans "discovered" her – and, if so, where will she go from here? Olivia Williams made her movie debut in Kevin Costner's very strange film The Postman (1997) about a post-apocalyptic world in which Costner tries to keep the mail functioning in the wild forsaken north-west. Williams was his girl, Abby, and because of the shortage of cosmetics she wasn't meant to look beautiful, exactly. But she looked very good and she never let the film down.
She was far better, and really very striking as the schoolteacher, Rosemary Cross, who wins the love of both Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray in Wes Anderson...
- 4/1/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
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