'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...
- 11/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
More than 100 prominent people from literature, the arts, science, academia, human rights and the law have signed a declaration urging newspaper and magazine publishers to embrace the royal charter system of press regulation.
They join people who have been victims of press misbehaviour in arguing that charter will give "vital protection to the vulnerable" from abuse of power by the press.
The signatories include broadcasters Stephen Fry, Clare Balding, Gary Lineker and Rory Bremner. Actor Emma Thompson has signed, as have Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Jonathan Miller.
Several film directors are on the list, such as Stephen Frears, Alan Parker, Mike Leigh, Beeban Kidron, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Daldry, Bill Forsyth, Peter Kosminsky, Terry Gilliam and Michael Apted.
Among the writers and playwrights are Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, Monica Ali, Helen Fielding, Michael Frayn, Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, David Hare, Alan Hollinghurst, Jk Rowling, Salman Rushdie,...
They join people who have been victims of press misbehaviour in arguing that charter will give "vital protection to the vulnerable" from abuse of power by the press.
The signatories include broadcasters Stephen Fry, Clare Balding, Gary Lineker and Rory Bremner. Actor Emma Thompson has signed, as have Professor Richard Dawkins and Sir Jonathan Miller.
Several film directors are on the list, such as Stephen Frears, Alan Parker, Mike Leigh, Beeban Kidron, Guy Ritchie, Stephen Daldry, Bill Forsyth, Peter Kosminsky, Terry Gilliam and Michael Apted.
Among the writers and playwrights are Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Alan Ayckbourn, Tom Stoppard, Monica Ali, Helen Fielding, Michael Frayn, Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, David Hare, Alan Hollinghurst, Jk Rowling, Salman Rushdie,...
- 11/29/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Neal Ascherson, the Observer's correspondent in eastern Europe in the 1960s, on the furtive world of the cold war spies
When I pull up memories of the cold war, the first thing I remember is a silence. The big steam-hauled train would come to a halt at Griebnitzsee, the last station before the frontier of West Berlin. Then a profound, infinite silence would fall, broken only by the soft, regular gasp of the locomotive's compressor, and sometimes by the crunch of jackboots pacing along the snowy platform. Even the passengers would speak only in whispers. They were forbidden to leave their compartments and look out of the corridor windows. The world seemed to have stopped turning.
I say "station", but nobody except uniformed frontier guards boarded the train at Griebnitzsee. No passenger left the train here – voluntarily. Very occasionally, the pacing of jackboots would change to the hustling of several feet,...
When I pull up memories of the cold war, the first thing I remember is a silence. The big steam-hauled train would come to a halt at Griebnitzsee, the last station before the frontier of West Berlin. Then a profound, infinite silence would fall, broken only by the soft, regular gasp of the locomotive's compressor, and sometimes by the crunch of jackboots pacing along the snowy platform. Even the passengers would speak only in whispers. They were forbidden to leave their compartments and look out of the corridor windows. The world seemed to have stopped turning.
I say "station", but nobody except uniformed frontier guards boarded the train at Griebnitzsee. No passenger left the train here – voluntarily. Very occasionally, the pacing of jackboots would change to the hustling of several feet,...
- 9/10/2011
- by Neal Ascherson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Venice film festival comes to a close having showcased a fine selection of new British drama. Meanwhile Toronto makes its pitch with a big hitter: Brad Pitt baseball drama, Moneyball
The big story
As the Venice film festival staggers to its close, the baton has been handed over to Toronto – so it's say hello to Catherine Shoard, and wave goodbye to Xan Brooks. Catherine is our reporter on the... what, exactly? Toronto doesn't have a Croisette, or a Lido – but it does have a venue called the Lightbox, which sounds pretty good. So, Catherine is our reporter in the Lightbox, and you can watch her first video report from the 36th Tiff here; she'll also be delivering a stream of reviews and news and interviews over the next week, starting with a review of Brad Pitt baseball mittfest Moneyball, which will be on guardian.co.uk/film at around 10pm BST.
The big story
As the Venice film festival staggers to its close, the baton has been handed over to Toronto – so it's say hello to Catherine Shoard, and wave goodbye to Xan Brooks. Catherine is our reporter on the... what, exactly? Toronto doesn't have a Croisette, or a Lido – but it does have a venue called the Lightbox, which sounds pretty good. So, Catherine is our reporter in the Lightbox, and you can watch her first video report from the 36th Tiff here; she'll also be delivering a stream of reviews and news and interviews over the next week, starting with a review of Brad Pitt baseball mittfest Moneyball, which will be on guardian.co.uk/film at around 10pm BST.
- 9/8/2011
- by Andrew Pulver, Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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