For anyone who says Orson Welles made one good movie and never did again, you are a horribly misinformed person. Welles was a genius, pushing what the medium could do with nearly every film he made. One of these gems has been criminally under seen, mainly due to the fact it is extremely difficult to find. This is his ode to one of William Shakespeare's greatest creations, Falstaff. The film: Chimes at Midnight. It will be screening across the world throughout the month of May in theaters. You can look here to see if it is playing near you. Thankfully, it is playing here in Austin. Following those screenings, Chimes at Midnight will hit DVD and Blu-ray on June 29. I, for one, am extremely excited about this, though, the home release seems to be only for the UK... for now... Hopefully Kino, Olive, Cohen or Criterion will pick it up for a U.
- 5/4/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
Graceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
In a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).
Tall and well-favoured in grace and authority on the stage, he played Fagin in the musical Oliver! for three years, succeeding Ron Moody in the original 1960 production. He was equally in demand on BBC radio, writing and appearing in many plays, including his own adaptations of the Mapp and Lucia novels by Ef Benson (he was a vice-president of the Ef Benson society).
In the early part of his career he...
- 5/14/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict and the BBC's 1969 sitcom Me Mammy
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The...
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The...
- 4/3/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Almeida, London
Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, which he claimed was nothing more than "a De Quinceyish essay in the macabre", makes a bizarre choice for the festive season. But, although the piece has lost some of its flesh-creeping power, it is stylishly done in Roger Michell's swift, interval-free production.
Michell also shifts the focus of interest. Traditionally, the piece is seen as a study of the superman-complex of two Oxford undergraduates who, in committing a murder to show their freedom from moral restraints, hold the mirror up to Nietzsche. Given the piece was partly inspired by the American Leopold-Loeb case, it is also natural, as in Keith Baxter's 1994 revival, to highlight its gay subtext. But Michell seems less interested in the two killers than in their charismatic guest, Rupert Cadell, at a cocktail party staged around the chest containing the body of the murderee.
Rupert, a war-damaged Wildean...
Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, which he claimed was nothing more than "a De Quinceyish essay in the macabre", makes a bizarre choice for the festive season. But, although the piece has lost some of its flesh-creeping power, it is stylishly done in Roger Michell's swift, interval-free production.
Michell also shifts the focus of interest. Traditionally, the piece is seen as a study of the superman-complex of two Oxford undergraduates who, in committing a murder to show their freedom from moral restraints, hold the mirror up to Nietzsche. Given the piece was partly inspired by the American Leopold-Loeb case, it is also natural, as in Keith Baxter's 1994 revival, to highlight its gay subtext. But Michell seems less interested in the two killers than in their charismatic guest, Rupert Cadell, at a cocktail party staged around the chest containing the body of the murderee.
Rupert, a war-damaged Wildean...
- 12/17/2009
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Scrambled Ink
Edited by Anonymous
Dark Horse, July 2008, $19.99
Scrambled Ink is the latest in the recent flurry of comics anthologies by animators, following the high-profile and very successful Flight series (which recently hit its fifth volume) and the slightly newer but still popular Out of Picture (which had a second volume earlier this year). It was published quietly a few months back, and doesn’t seem to have made much of a stir.
And that’s a real shame, since Scrambled Ink is more inventive and ambitious than the most recent Flight and Out of Picture books put together. (And that despite Scrambled Ink being a physically smaller book with only six stories in it.) I’m not sure why that would be – Scrambled Ink comes from animators who worked on Bee Movie, not what one thinks of as an excitingly transgressive piece of cinema – but these DreamWorks animators are...
Edited by Anonymous
Dark Horse, July 2008, $19.99
Scrambled Ink is the latest in the recent flurry of comics anthologies by animators, following the high-profile and very successful Flight series (which recently hit its fifth volume) and the slightly newer but still popular Out of Picture (which had a second volume earlier this year). It was published quietly a few months back, and doesn’t seem to have made much of a stir.
And that’s a real shame, since Scrambled Ink is more inventive and ambitious than the most recent Flight and Out of Picture books put together. (And that despite Scrambled Ink being a physically smaller book with only six stories in it.) I’m not sure why that would be – Scrambled Ink comes from animators who worked on Bee Movie, not what one thinks of as an excitingly transgressive piece of cinema – but these DreamWorks animators are...
- 9/11/2008
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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