Chicago – There ain’t nothing like Dame Helen Mirren, international star and Oscar winner for “The Queen.” She, along with her husband Taylor Hackford (director of “Ray” and “An Officer and a Gentleman”), were honored at the Cinema/Chicago Spring Gala on May 24, 2017.
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Helen Mirren at the Cinema/Chicago Spring Gala, May 24th, 2017
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren was born in London, and...
Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, is a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to fostering communication between people of diverse cultures through the art of film and the moving image. Their programs include the Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago International Television Festival, the CineYouth Festival, international screenings, and a year-round education program. Celebrating its 53rd edition October 12-26, 2017, the Chicago International Film Festival is North America’s longest running competitive film fest.
Helen Mirren at the Cinema/Chicago Spring Gala, May 24th, 2017
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren was born in London, and...
- 5/31/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Though many won’t be done obsessing over exactly what happened last night for quite some time, life must go on after the Academy Awards. That applies to the winners as much as anyone else, of course, and all of the big prizewinners have high-profile projects in the works. See below for a look at what they’re up to.
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Adele Romanski (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Romanski, whose previous credits as producer include last year’s “Morris from America” and “Kicks,” will collaborate with “The Myth of the American Sleepover” writer/director David Robert Mitchell once again on “Under the Silver Lake,” his follow-up to “It Follows.”
Dede Gardner (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Last night marked Gardner’s second big win at the Academy Awards, following “12 Years a Slave” likewise winning Best Picture three years ago. She also produced James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z,...
Read More: 2017 Oscars: Full Winners List
Adele Romanski (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Romanski, whose previous credits as producer include last year’s “Morris from America” and “Kicks,” will collaborate with “The Myth of the American Sleepover” writer/director David Robert Mitchell once again on “Under the Silver Lake,” his follow-up to “It Follows.”
Dede Gardner (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Last night marked Gardner’s second big win at the Academy Awards, following “12 Years a Slave” likewise winning Best Picture three years ago. She also produced James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z,...
- 2/28/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Fran Kranz was nervous about taking on Shakespeare for Joss Whedon. The Buffy creator’s charming film adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing has received tons of praise, including for Kranz’s performance as Claudio, but at the time when the 12-day, secret production of the film was about to start, Kranz was nervous. “I maybe had lost a little of confidence with the language,” said Kranz, who had performed in several Shakespeare productions in high school and at Yale University but not yet professionally. It was Whedon and the intimate way he shot the film — in his own house, a familiar place to his friends and frequent collaborators — that Kranz says calmed his nerves and reinstilled in him confidence with the Bard’s words. Whedon filmed his take on the comedy at his Santa Monica, CA home after having hosted evenings of Shakespeare readings with his friends there for several years.
- 4/28/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
The Oliver Awards honor outstanding acheivements in the arts in London and Dame Judi Dench was the belle of the ball at Sunday's celebration of the 40th annual edition of these kudos. She claimed her seventh competitive award winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Paulina in "The Winter's Tale" opposite Kenneth Branagh in his production of the Shakespearean play. She previously prevailed in 1977 for "Macbeth," 1980 for "Juno and the Paycock," 1983 for "Pack of Lies," 1987 for "Antony and Cleopatra," 1995 for "A Little Night Music" and 1996 for "Absolute Hell." And she was feted with a special lifetime achievement award in 2004. (See full list of winners and nominees Here.) -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Tony Predictions Two transfers of Tony-winning musicals claimed three apiece: Three years after s...
- 4/4/2016
- Gold Derby
My sister, Julia Wilson-Dickson, who has died aged 66 after a brain haemorrhage, was an eminent voice and dialect teacher who worked with many of the brightest talents of stage and film.
She coached Robert de Niro on Frankenstein (1994), Helena Bonham Carter on Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair (1999), Glenn Close on Albert Nobbs (2011), and Eddie Redmayne for the performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) that won him an Oscar. On stage she worked on several Peter Hall productions: with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix theatre, London, 1989), Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending (Haymarket, 1988), and Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra (at the National Theatre, 1987).
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She coached Robert de Niro on Frankenstein (1994), Helena Bonham Carter on Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair (1999), Glenn Close on Albert Nobbs (2011), and Eddie Redmayne for the performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) that won him an Oscar. On stage she worked on several Peter Hall productions: with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix theatre, London, 1989), Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending (Haymarket, 1988), and Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra (at the National Theatre, 1987).
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- 10/18/2015
- by Andrew Wilson-Dickson
- The Guardian - Film News
Patrick Stewart graced the stage of the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal this week, and BroadwayWorld's Racheal McCaig was on hand to snap these exclusive photos Check them out below. Tony nominee Stewart, known to many as Star Trek's 'Captain Jean-Luc Picard', hasgraced the New York stage in A Life in the Theatre, Macbeth, The Caretaker, A Christmas Carol, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol and A Midsummer Night's Dream. After a start with the RSC, Stewart went on to appear in West End productions of Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Hamlet and manymore.
- 7/24/2015
- by Racheal McCaig
- BroadwayWorld.com
Experience the thrill of watching theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe from the comfort of the Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Boulevard, in The Loop, St. Louis, Mo, 63130) thanks to ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’. These productions of Shakespeare’s plays are shown on the Tivoli’s big screen in their entirety, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the world famous Globe Theatre and these critically acclaimed performances. Shakespeare’s Globe is a reconstruction of the theatre in which Shakespeare worked. With performances of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and new writing, productions play to over 300,000 people from around the world each summer.
We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have Five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the next installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Antony And Cleopatra. The date is next Thursday, June 4th and the show begins at 7pm.
We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have Five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the next installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Antony And Cleopatra. The date is next Thursday, June 4th and the show begins at 7pm.
- 5/29/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – The romance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, has fascinated sensibilities for centuries. William Shakespeare, no slouch when it comes to cultural commentary, wrote his version of the pairing in “Antony and Cleopatra,” the latest in the Stratford (Ontario) Festival of High Definition cinema adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. Chicagoan Gary Griffin directed the stage production, that was rendered to HD. The screenings of “Antony and Cleopatra” will take place on May 21st, 2015, in various movie theaters across the country, including Chicago.
Griffin is a professional theater veteran, originally from Rockford, Illinois, who cut his teeth in the Chicago theater scene. For the Stratford Festival – besides this version of “Antony and Cleopatra” – he has directed the musicals “42nd Street,” “Camelot,” “Evita” and “West Side Story.” Locally, he has worked with the the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among other area theatrical venues, and he has won eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for direction.
Griffin is a professional theater veteran, originally from Rockford, Illinois, who cut his teeth in the Chicago theater scene. For the Stratford Festival – besides this version of “Antony and Cleopatra” – he has directed the musicals “42nd Street,” “Camelot,” “Evita” and “West Side Story.” Locally, he has worked with the the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among other area theatrical venues, and he has won eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for direction.
- 5/21/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Experience the thrill of watching theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe from the comfort of the Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Boulevard, in The Loop, St. Louis, Mo, 63130) thanks to ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’. These productions of Shakespeare’s plays are shown on the Tivoli’s big screen in their entirety, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the world famous Globe Theatre and these critically acclaimed performances. Shakespeare’s Globe is a reconstruction of the theatre in which Shakespeare worked. With performances of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and new writing, productions play to over 300,000 people from around the world each summer.
We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the first installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Julius Caesar. The date is next Thursday, April 30th and the show begins at 7pm.
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We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the first installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Julius Caesar. The date is next Thursday, April 30th and the show begins at 7pm.
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- 4/22/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Experience the thrill of watching theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe from the comfort of the Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Boulevard, in The Loop, St. Louis, Mo, 63130) thanks to ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’. These productions of Shakespeare’s plays are shown on the Tivoli’s big screen in their entirety, giving you the opportunity to enjoy the world famous Globe Theatre and these critically acclaimed performances. Shakespeare’s Globe is a reconstruction of the theatre in which Shakespeare worked. With performances of Shakespeare, his contemporaries and new writing, productions play to over 300,000 people from around the world each summer.
We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the first installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Titus Andronicus. The date is next Thursday, March 26th and the show begins at 7pm.
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We Are Movie Geeks has teamed up with the Tivoli Theater for a special giveaway! We have five pairs of tickets (a $30 value) for the first installment of ‘Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen’, which will be Titus Andronicus. The date is next Thursday, March 26th and the show begins at 7pm.
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- 3/18/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Experience has partnered with the renowned Stratford Festival to present Stratford Festival HD, a stage to screen event series bringing the best of Shakespeare from North America's leading classical theatre company to cinema audiences around the world. Tickets for the first three productions of this series - King Lear February 25, King John April 8 and Antony and Cleopatra May 21 - will go on sale Friday, December 12. Visit www.stratfordfestivalHD.com for tickets and participating cinema locations.
- 12/10/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
'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
I Can't Sing! star Cynthia Erivo has opened up about the show's closure on Saturday (May 10).
The actress and singer plays the lead female role of Chenise in the X Factor musical, which was axed after launching in late March at the London Palladium due to low ticket sales.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Erivo said that she and her castmates remain positive despite the early end.
She said: "It's natural to be upset when you've enjoyed something so much, and we're all powering through until the end of the week to make sure that everyone has as good a time as we've had in the production.
"It'll be full of fun. I'm sure there'll be a couple of tears because we're a close company, but I don't think the day will be a day of depression at all."
She continued: "Although it's short-lived, it's not something that I'm going to forget anytime soon,...
The actress and singer plays the lead female role of Chenise in the X Factor musical, which was axed after launching in late March at the London Palladium due to low ticket sales.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Erivo said that she and her castmates remain positive despite the early end.
She said: "It's natural to be upset when you've enjoyed something so much, and we're all powering through until the end of the week to make sure that everyone has as good a time as we've had in the production.
"It'll be full of fun. I'm sure there'll be a couple of tears because we're a close company, but I don't think the day will be a day of depression at all."
She continued: "Although it's short-lived, it's not something that I'm going to forget anytime soon,...
- 5/7/2014
- Digital Spy
“I have made a series of very bad decisions and I cannot make another one” was a line once spoken by Breaking Bad’s Walter White, but it couldn’t be less true of the actor who said it. The one and only Bryan Cranston — on an impeccable roll for the last few years — has just made his Broadway debut to ecstatic notices for his lived-in, charged Lyndon Baines Johnson in All the Way, and early pundits indicate he may be the man to beat at Tony time. (Though not so fast, he still has heavy-hitters like Denzel Washington, Michael C. Hall,...
- 3/8/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Public Theater, kindly giving local Shakespeareans a break from the exhausting parade of King Lears, is offering a “radical edit” of Antony and Cleopatra by the 32-year-old playwright and 2013 MacArthur fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney. Edited or not, Antony and Cleopatra, written around the same year as Lear, poses some of the same difficulties; its story, though brilliant in précis and overflowing with beautiful poetry, plays out like a deliberate exercise in diminishing returns. Some three dozen characters speak, not to mention supernumeraries; the action careens almost drunkenly about the Mediterranean; and what started as an exquisite rarity — a study of passionate love between great equals — winds up as a count-the-corpses Grand Guignol.So I happily grant McCraney, who also directs this production, his scissors and paste and (as it turns out) watercolors. Sensibly enough, he has mostly cast Cleopatra and her coterie with black actors while Antony...
- 3/6/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Dark Knight co-star will join Ewan McGregor in The Real Thing revival. Plus, Sting ships maritime musical to the Great White Way and Hugh Jackman to host Tony awards … again
Maggie Gyllenhaal is to make her Broadway debut this year when she joins Ewan McGregor in a revival of Tom Stoppard's comedy The Real Thing.
Gyllenhaal will star as Annie, an actor involved in an extramarital affair with a glib playwright – to be played by McGregor, whose casting was announced in November. The roles were first played on Broadway in 1984 by Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, who both won Tony awards for their performances.
This is The Real Thing's third outing on Broadway. A Donmar Warehouse transfer in 2000, with Jennifer Ehle and Stephen Dillane, also won several Tony awards. The new revival will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, with the acclaimed director Sam Gold at the helm.
Maggie Gyllenhaal is to make her Broadway debut this year when she joins Ewan McGregor in a revival of Tom Stoppard's comedy The Real Thing.
Gyllenhaal will star as Annie, an actor involved in an extramarital affair with a glib playwright – to be played by McGregor, whose casting was announced in November. The roles were first played on Broadway in 1984 by Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, who both won Tony awards for their performances.
This is The Real Thing's third outing on Broadway. A Donmar Warehouse transfer in 2000, with Jennifer Ehle and Stephen Dillane, also won several Tony awards. The new revival will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, with the acclaimed director Sam Gold at the helm.
- 2/13/2014
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
The Royal Shakespeare Company, Miami's Gablestage, and The Public Theater recently teamed up for a new production of Shakespeare's Antony And Cleopatra. This unique company has been cast in both the U.S. and the U.K., and comprises five actors from each country to make up the cast of Shakespeare's historical play of love and politics. Director Tarell Alvin McCraney has decided to put a new spin on this classic play, and he has set it in the late 1700s against the backdrop of Saint-Domingue, on the eve of the Haitian Revolution against the French, bringing to light vivid historical parallels with the story of Antony and Cleopatra. This exciting new production has already had two successful runs in Stratford-upon-Avon and Miami, and will begin its final run in New York at The Public Theater on February 18.BroadwayWorld recently had the opportunity to chat with Charise Castro Smith, who...
- 2/12/2014
- by Diana Heisroth
- BroadwayWorld.com
Part of the international collaboration between The Public Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Miami's GableStage, Antony And Cleopatra features Jonathan Cake as Antony and Joaquina Kalukango as Cleopatra and is directed and edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney. This Shakespearean tragedy, fresh from engagements in Stratford-upon-Avon and Miami's Colony Theatre, begins performances on February 18 and will run through March 23 in The Public's Anspacher Theater, with an official press opening on March 5. Single tickets can be purchased by calling 212 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production below...
- 2/11/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public Theater will begin performances for Antony And Cleopatra on Tuesday, February 18 in The Public's Anspacher Theater, the culmination of the international collaboration between The Public Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Miami's GableStage. Antony And Cleopatra is directed and edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney with Joaquina Kalukango as Cleopatra and Jonathan Cake as Mark Antony. This rarely-seen Shakespearean tragedy will run through Sunday, March 23, with an official press opening on Wednesday, March 5. Single tickets can be purchased by calling 212 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street.
- 2/10/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tickets to The Public's Antony And Cleopatra, The Library with Chloe Grace Moretz & More Now On Sale
The Public Theater announced today that single tickets are now on sale for the 2014 spring season, beginning on February 18 with Antony And Cleopatra, the exciting international collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and GableStage in Miami. Edited and directed by MacArthur Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney, Antony And Cleopatra will run through Sunday, March 23, with an official press opening on Wednesday, March 5 in the Anspacher Theater.
- 2/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
BBC Radio 3 produces little-known screenplay The Beach of Falesa, taken up by Richard Burton but never made into a film
It is not a typical Dylan Thomas subject – murder, mystery and intrigue in the South Pacific – and the script he wrote, despite being bought by the actor Richard Burton, never developed into the film he was hoping for.
But now at least it will be performed on the airwaves. Radio 3 has said it will broadcast the world premiere of the all but forgotten work The Beach of Falesa.
The drama will be broadcast in May to mark the centenary of Thomas's birth and will be the first production of the little-known piece.
Matthew Dodd, head of Radio 3 speech programmes, called the production a "fantastic thing" for the station and said it continued a relationship with Thomas that went back 50 years – it was the Third Programme, Radio 3's predecessor, that first broadcast Under Milk Wood.
It is not a typical Dylan Thomas subject – murder, mystery and intrigue in the South Pacific – and the script he wrote, despite being bought by the actor Richard Burton, never developed into the film he was hoping for.
But now at least it will be performed on the airwaves. Radio 3 has said it will broadcast the world premiere of the all but forgotten work The Beach of Falesa.
The drama will be broadcast in May to mark the centenary of Thomas's birth and will be the first production of the little-known piece.
Matthew Dodd, head of Radio 3 speech programmes, called the production a "fantastic thing" for the station and said it continued a relationship with Thomas that went back 50 years – it was the Third Programme, Radio 3's predecessor, that first broadcast Under Milk Wood.
- 1/30/2014
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Famed Welsh poet’s The Beach of Falesa to receive airing on May 4.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
- 1/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Famed Welsh poet’s The Beach of Falesa to receive airing on May 4.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
Radio 3 is to air Dylan Thomas’ unproduced film script The Beach of Falesa.
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the famed Welsh poet, Thomas’ script will air as a radio drama on May 4. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, it centres on the romance between a British trader and an island girl.
Published as a novella 12 years after his death, the script was never filmed despite interest from Richard Burton.
Radio 3’s spring schedule also includes Alison Hindell’s production of Antony and Cleopatra, with Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston in the lead roles, to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
- 1/30/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Actor known for his Shakespearean roles, but who also appeared on TV and in films including Winstanley and Orlando
Jerome Willis, who has died at the age of 85, was an actor who might have described himself, without bitterness, as an "attendant lord". He was a natural Shakespearean, in possession of a strong physique and the ability to speak verse with enviable confidence. In a distinguished career spanning almost 60 years, he brought to every part he undertook a perceptive intelligence that illuminated even the smallest cameo. He also became a familiar face on television from 1974 to 1978 as Charles Radley, the deputy governor of Stone Park prison in Within These Walls, with Googie Withers as his boss.
Jerome began his career as a disc jockey, newsreader and actor by turns, posted to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1946 for his national service in the Raf and serving in communications for the Ceylonese station Radio Seac.
Jerome Willis, who has died at the age of 85, was an actor who might have described himself, without bitterness, as an "attendant lord". He was a natural Shakespearean, in possession of a strong physique and the ability to speak verse with enviable confidence. In a distinguished career spanning almost 60 years, he brought to every part he undertook a perceptive intelligence that illuminated even the smallest cameo. He also became a familiar face on television from 1974 to 1978 as Charles Radley, the deputy governor of Stone Park prison in Within These Walls, with Googie Withers as his boss.
Jerome began his career as a disc jockey, newsreader and actor by turns, posted to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1946 for his national service in the Raf and serving in communications for the Ceylonese station Radio Seac.
- 1/27/2014
- by Paul Bailey
- The Guardian - Film News
Single tickets are on sale now for the spring production of Antony And Cleopatra at The Public Theater, beginning performances on Tuesday, February 18. Part of the international collaboration between The Public Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Miami's GableStage, Antony And Cleopatra features Jonathan Cake as Antony and Joaquina Kalukango as Cleopatra and is directed and edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney. This Shakespearean tragedy, fresh from engagements in Stratford-upon-Avon and Miami's Colony Theatre, will run through March 23 in The Public's Anspacher Theater, with an official press opening on March 5. Single tickets can be purchased by calling 212 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street.
- 1/7/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mojo | Antony And Cleopatra | 12 Angry Men | Solid Air | A Strange Wild Song; The Man In The Moone | The Recruiting Officer
Mojo, London
There's a star-studded approach to casting in Jez Butterworth's play about London gangs, Mojo. Harry Potter's Rupert Grint makes his stage debut after years of Ron Weasley, while Downton Abbey's Mr Bates (Brendan Coyle) adds to his years of fine theatrical endeavour. The top-notch cast also includes Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Peter And Alice) and Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs). Mojo, featuring rival gangs and grisly goings-on in 1950s Soho over the kidnap of a teenage pop star, was the first debut play to be performed on the Royal Court's main stage in 40 years since the kitchen-sink classic Look Back In Anger. It was a huge success, becoming a film in 1997, and Butterworth has since written the multi-award-winning Jerusalem. A surefire hit return.
Harold Pinter Theatre, SW1, Wed...
Mojo, London
There's a star-studded approach to casting in Jez Butterworth's play about London gangs, Mojo. Harry Potter's Rupert Grint makes his stage debut after years of Ron Weasley, while Downton Abbey's Mr Bates (Brendan Coyle) adds to his years of fine theatrical endeavour. The top-notch cast also includes Ben Whishaw (Skyfall, Peter And Alice) and Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs). Mojo, featuring rival gangs and grisly goings-on in 1950s Soho over the kidnap of a teenage pop star, was the first debut play to be performed on the Royal Court's main stage in 40 years since the kitchen-sink classic Look Back In Anger. It was a huge success, becoming a film in 1997, and Butterworth has since written the multi-award-winning Jerusalem. A surefire hit return.
Harold Pinter Theatre, SW1, Wed...
- 11/9/2013
- by Mark Cook, Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
Vivien Leigh biography, movies, and photo exhibit among centenary celebrations (photo: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in ‘That Hamilton Woman’) [See previous post: "Vivien Leigh Turns 100: Centenary of One of the Greatest Movie Stars."] From November 30, 2013, to July 20, 2014, London’s National Portrait Gallery will be hosting a Vivien Leigh photo exhibit, tracing her life and career. The exhibit will be a joint celebration of both Leigh’s centenary and the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind. (Scroll down to check out a classy Vivien Leigh video homage. See also: “‘Gone with the Wind’ article.”) Additionally, the British Film Institute is hosting a lengthy Vivien Leigh and Gone with the Wind celebration, screening all of Leigh’s post-1936 movies, from Fire Over England to Ship of Fools — and including The Deep Blue Sea ("a digital copy of the only surviving 35mm print we were able to locate; the condition is variable"). I should add that Terence Davies recently...
- 11/7/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The 50th anniversary celebration 'Live From The National Theatre 50 Years On Stage,' directed by Nicholas Hytner, will be broadcast by National Theatre Live to cinemas internationally today, November 2, 2013 with many encore dates in U.S. cities. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The History Boys, from Antony and Cleopatra to Angels in America, from Guys and Dolls to London Road, this will be a thrilling evening of live performance and rare glimpses from the archive, featuring many of the most celebrated actors who have performed on their stages over the past five decades.
- 11/2/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Helen Mirren, Benedict Cumberbatch and Christopher Eccleston have joined the starry cast for the National Theatre of Great Britain's 50th anniversary celebration Live From The National Theatre 50 Years On Stage, directed by Nicholas Hytner. This special event will be broadcast by National Theatre Live to cinemas internationally on Saturday, November 2, 2013 with many encore dates in U.S. cities. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The History Boys, from Antony and Cleopatra to Angels in America, from Guys and Dolls to London Road, this will be a thrilling evening of live performance and rare glimpses from the archive, featuring many of the most celebrated actors who have performed on their stages over the past five decades.
- 10/11/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public Theater has announced casting today for the international collaboration of Shakespeare's Antony And Cleopatra, produced by The Public Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Miami's GableStage. Directed and edited by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Antony And Cleopatra will play in Stratford-upon-Avon at the RSC's Swan Theatre November 7-30, 2013, before travelling to the United States for an engagement in Miami Beach at The Colony Theater January 11-February 9, 2014 followed by a limited run at The Public Theater February 18-March 23, 2014. Antony And Cleopatra features a transatlantic cast that includes Jonathan Cake as Mark Antony and Joaquina Kalukango as Cleopatra.
- 9/6/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
National Theatre Live has just announced a live broadcast of the National Theatre of Great Britain's 50th anniversary celebration 'National Theatre 50 Years on Stage,' to cinemas around the world. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The History Boys, from Antony and Cleopatra to Angels in America, from Guys and Dolls to London Road, this will be a thrilling evening of live performance and rare glimpses from the archive, featuring many of the most celebrated actors who have performed on their stages over the past five decades and directed by Nicholas Hytner. The celebration will be broadcast to cinemas internationally and in the UK on BBC Two on Saturday, November 2, 2013 with many encore dates in U.S. cities.
- 9/5/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Review Juliette Harrisson 23 Jul 2013 - 12:00
BBC Four biopic Burton And Taylor comes highly recommended to film fans. Here's Juliette's review...
This review contains spoilers.
Burton and Taylor is an intimate new feature-length drama from BBC4, focusing on one of Hollywood’s most (in)famous love affairs, that between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The film traces the story of the last time the two worked together, on a critically lambasted theatrical tour of Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, as they remember and reassess their relationship.
The titular superstars are magnificently played by Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter. Both succeed in walking the fine line between impersonation and acting. Just as you might start to think they’ve slipped away from the very familiar faces they’re playing, West will erupt into a towering rage or Bonham Carter will assume a pose of taught dignity or throw a...
BBC Four biopic Burton And Taylor comes highly recommended to film fans. Here's Juliette's review...
This review contains spoilers.
Burton and Taylor is an intimate new feature-length drama from BBC4, focusing on one of Hollywood’s most (in)famous love affairs, that between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The film traces the story of the last time the two worked together, on a critically lambasted theatrical tour of Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, as they remember and reassess their relationship.
The titular superstars are magnificently played by Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter. Both succeed in walking the fine line between impersonation and acting. Just as you might start to think they’ve slipped away from the very familiar faces they’re playing, West will erupt into a towering rage or Bonham Carter will assume a pose of taught dignity or throw a...
- 7/31/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The songstress is nude and covered in glitter, looking every inch like the divine diva she is, on the cover of the magazine — and it’s amazing!
Beyonce never ceases to amaze us! On the cover of Flaunt magazine she looks like a gorgeous mermaid, covered in golden glitter — and not much else! Her hair is completely pulled back, making her look bald, and her gorgeous face is shining. The 31-year-old star is definitely one of the only people that can pull of a bald cap so seamlessly and still look so breathtaking. She is pictured in all different types of exotic photos with face paint, orange hair, and colorful, tribal jewelry. We cannot get over how drop dead gorgeous she looks – do you agree?
Beyonce’s Flaunt Magazine Cover & Interview:
When Flaunt asked Bey if there is any sex scandal that she thought was awesome she quickly responded. While...
Beyonce never ceases to amaze us! On the cover of Flaunt magazine she looks like a gorgeous mermaid, covered in golden glitter — and not much else! Her hair is completely pulled back, making her look bald, and her gorgeous face is shining. The 31-year-old star is definitely one of the only people that can pull of a bald cap so seamlessly and still look so breathtaking. She is pictured in all different types of exotic photos with face paint, orange hair, and colorful, tribal jewelry. We cannot get over how drop dead gorgeous she looks – do you agree?
Beyonce’s Flaunt Magazine Cover & Interview:
When Flaunt asked Bey if there is any sex scandal that she thought was awesome she quickly responded. While...
- 7/10/2013
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are Britain's new golden acting couple, tackling everything from classical theatres to action movies. But they are reluctant stars who are happy to live out of the limelight
Standards have been set when it comes to golden couples of stage and screen. Half a century ago, when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, then the most expensive movie ever made, the powerful personal chemistry was immediately clear. In consequence, the love of the two British-born stars is now almost as fabled as the story of Antony and Cleopatra itself.
Since the 1960s there have been occasional challenges, one from Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, perhaps, for the title of Britain's premiere theatrical partners. But quietly, even reluctantly, since they do not desire it, a talented new pairing has staked a claim: Anne-Marie Duff and her husband James McAvoy.
Their screen...
Standards have been set when it comes to golden couples of stage and screen. Half a century ago, when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, then the most expensive movie ever made, the powerful personal chemistry was immediately clear. In consequence, the love of the two British-born stars is now almost as fabled as the story of Antony and Cleopatra itself.
Since the 1960s there have been occasional challenges, one from Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, perhaps, for the title of Britain's premiere theatrical partners. But quietly, even reluctantly, since they do not desire it, a talented new pairing has staked a claim: Anne-Marie Duff and her husband James McAvoy.
Their screen...
- 3/17/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Alan Rickman. Based on the harsh reviews I’ve seen on the latest Die Hard, they should have found a way to let his character live in that first installment after Rickman delivered one of the best villain turns in an action movie. He’s been working up a storm anyway, on screen and stage. On stage, Rickman’s played Mark Antony opposite Helen Mirren’s Cleopatra in the Royal National Theatre’s production of Antony And Cleopatra, and he starred in Yukio Ninagawa’s Tango At The End Of Winter on London’s West End. His stage breakout came in Les Liasons Dangereuses and he most recently was onstage in the Theresa Rebeck play Seminar. Onscreen, Rickman next plays Ronald Reagan in the Lee Daniels-directed The Butler, along with the Patrice Leconte-directed A Promise, Randall Miller’s Cbgb, and the Michael Hoffman...
- 2/19/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Imposing stage and screen actor whose work ranged from Shakespeare to The Bill
The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.
In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thai chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker...
The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.
In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thai chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker...
- 1/31/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Below is our transcript from last night's liveblog. Relive the White Diamonds of train wrecks!
*Note - Feel free to participate in the Liz & Dick drinking game. Every time I use the word "Howler," ... down a shot!
We start with "Based On A True Story." Hmm ... wasn't The Texas Chainsaw Massacre also "Based On a True Story?" I have a feeling this is going to be even more brutal
Speaking of Leatherface, we get our first glimpse of Lindsay Lohan as "Elizabeth Taylor," as she sits by a pool, as the voice of "Richard Burton," (played by True Blood's Cooter) speaks on the soundtrack about the first time he met her. Cooter looks nothing like Richard Burton, but the makeup people have done a stunning job of making him look like ... a bad botox victim.
So this flashback leads to ... another flashback ... of the last day of Richard Burton's life,...
*Note - Feel free to participate in the Liz & Dick drinking game. Every time I use the word "Howler," ... down a shot!
We start with "Based On A True Story." Hmm ... wasn't The Texas Chainsaw Massacre also "Based On a True Story?" I have a feeling this is going to be even more brutal
Speaking of Leatherface, we get our first glimpse of Lindsay Lohan as "Elizabeth Taylor," as she sits by a pool, as the voice of "Richard Burton," (played by True Blood's Cooter) speaks on the soundtrack about the first time he met her. Cooter looks nothing like Richard Burton, but the makeup people have done a stunning job of making him look like ... a bad botox victim.
So this flashback leads to ... another flashback ... of the last day of Richard Burton's life,...
- 11/25/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Director-provocateur Ivo van Hove and his Toneelgroep troupe are best known in the U.S. for wreaking hypermodern ultraviolent havoc on old standbys (Streetcar, The Little Foxes). Roman Tragedies — a taut, sinewy, witty adaptation and elision of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra — is their grandest show yet to reach these shores. Audiences wander freely throughout the massive Gilman Opera House as Roman democracy comes unsprung; we're even encouraged to mount the stage itself, a multimedia "spa" environment subdivided with modular furniture, TV screens, a working bar, and a phalanx of videographers shooting everything. You're in the midst of it, and fully liberated — yet entirely at the mercy of forces beyond your control. This is war as experienced through media and politics: the tense detachment and the sudden consequences. Rome is burning, so don't fiddle. See this once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event now. Playing at Bam tonight and tomorrow.
- 11/17/2012
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced an international collaboration today between Miamis GableStage and the Royal Shakespeare Company to present Tarell Alvin McCraneys radical new staging of Antony And Cleopatra. Directed and edited by McCraney, Antony And Cleopatra will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Companys Stratford-upon-Avon home in November 2013 before coming to the United States to play at Miamis GableStage at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in January 2014 followed by The Public Theater in late January 2014.
- 11/12/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York — The Public Theater unveiled its four-year, $40 million face-lift on Thursday with a celebration that had some Shakespeare, some singing hippies and some veteran stage stars including Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber and Mandy Patinkin.
The speakers, which included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, took turns reading snippets of Shakespeare verse and the 45-minute event ended when the recent cast of "Hair" serenaded the crowd with a rendition of "Let the Sun Shine In." The musical "Hair" was the first show produced in the building when the Public took it over in 1967.
The nonprofit's 158-year-old headquarters in Astor Place now has a new exterior, refurbished lobby, ramps, a new lounge, staircases, upgraded dressing rooms and expanded restrooms, which received the biggest applause from the guests at the ceremony.
"Have you gone to the bathroom here in the last 50 years? Then you know why it got a cheer," joked Patrick Willingham, the Public's executive director.
The speakers, which included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, took turns reading snippets of Shakespeare verse and the 45-minute event ended when the recent cast of "Hair" serenaded the crowd with a rendition of "Let the Sun Shine In." The musical "Hair" was the first show produced in the building when the Public took it over in 1967.
The nonprofit's 158-year-old headquarters in Astor Place now has a new exterior, refurbished lobby, ramps, a new lounge, staircases, upgraded dressing rooms and expanded restrooms, which received the biggest applause from the guests at the ceremony.
"Have you gone to the bathroom here in the last 50 years? Then you know why it got a cheer," joked Patrick Willingham, the Public's executive director.
- 10/4/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
This story first appeared in the Sept. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. In November 2009, four actors gathered at the striking Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ennis House in Los Angeles to shoot a short film called Love and War. The script was adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and in this unusual production, the legendary Egyptian queen was played by a blond woman in her 70s, opposite a decades-younger Antony. This Cleopatra -- who also adapted the script and served as executive producer and co-director -- was Jane Romney, older sister of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Jane
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- 9/5/2012
- by Kim Masters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dame Judi Dench, who played Ophelia in Hamlet in 1957, on what Shakespeare means to her
Shakespeare really understood women. The emotions, twists and turns that Cleopatra goes through are phenomenal.
I remember the first time I saw Shakespeare as if it were the week before last. I was seven and I was taken to see Macbeth at my brother's school; he played Duncan. He said: "What bloody man is that?" I thought it was a very, very racy line because he said "bloody".
I missed my graduation ceremony so I could go and see Sir Laurence in Titus Andronicus three days running.
I made my professional debut as Ophelia in 1957. I didn't know enough to be daunted by it at the time. I learnt an incredible amount from it. My notices were certainly daunting. You learn from them – you learn very soon. You just have to grit your teeth and...
Shakespeare really understood women. The emotions, twists and turns that Cleopatra goes through are phenomenal.
I remember the first time I saw Shakespeare as if it were the week before last. I was seven and I was taken to see Macbeth at my brother's school; he played Duncan. He said: "What bloody man is that?" I thought it was a very, very racy line because he said "bloody".
I missed my graduation ceremony so I could go and see Sir Laurence in Titus Andronicus three days running.
I made my professional debut as Ophelia in 1957. I didn't know enough to be daunted by it at the time. I learnt an incredible amount from it. My notices were certainly daunting. You learn from them – you learn very soon. You just have to grit your teeth and...
- 6/30/2012
- by Alice Fisher
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Queen of Versailles” lives up to the dual meaning of its title. The documentary, directed by Lauren Greenfield, follows Jackie and David Siegel and their eight children – one of the wealthiest families in America – as they task themselves with building the largest home in the country, a mansion estate that they have dubbed Versailles. Midway through construction, however, comes the onset of the current economic recession, sending the family’s finances reeling and work on their new home screeching to a halt. Documented over the course of three years, this film showcases the slow demise of the closest thing this country has to an aristocracy, equating the Siegels’ financial downfall with the dethroning of a King and Queen.
The opening sequence proudly introduces the gaudy opulence and self-importance that will shape the next two hours. The camera trails across rows of framed pictures and paintings: Jackie in a prom dress with a crystal tiara,...
The opening sequence proudly introduces the gaudy opulence and self-importance that will shape the next two hours. The camera trails across rows of framed pictures and paintings: Jackie in a prom dress with a crystal tiara,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Emma Bernstein
- The Playlist
Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall brushed up on her Shakespeare skills on Monday by joining a group of New York students during their acting workshop.
Attendees at the Columbia University class were stunned when the veteran actress sat in on their tutorial unannounced, to practise for her role as Cleopatra in an upcoming British production of Antony and Cleopatra.
Cattrall recited lines from the Bard's famous play with the aspiring actors, much to the students' disbelief.
One witness tells the New York Post's Page Six column Cattrall was "amazing" in the part.
The actress will hit the stage at the Chichester Festival Theatre in England on 7 September.
Attendees at the Columbia University class were stunned when the veteran actress sat in on their tutorial unannounced, to practise for her role as Cleopatra in an upcoming British production of Antony and Cleopatra.
Cattrall recited lines from the Bard's famous play with the aspiring actors, much to the students' disbelief.
One witness tells the New York Post's Page Six column Cattrall was "amazing" in the part.
The actress will hit the stage at the Chichester Festival Theatre in England on 7 September.
- 6/6/2012
- WENN
It's sweet that they're inseparable, but real talk: absence makes the heart grow fonder! Nothing will make their love sweeter than missing each other and planning for some very special dates when they reunite! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are the best couple of all time (sorry, Antony and Cleopatra!), but there is one bad thing about their relationship: they spend Way too much time together! I think if they cooled it a bit, it would only make their relationship heat up even more! Selena, 19, recently revealed that although she may have a brief vacation with Justin, 18, they are spending much of the summer apart working. I think that is an Amazing idea that will do wonders for their relationship! Even though they love being together, Justin and Selena are so young that I would hate for them to feel burned out in their relationship. After all, they are both...
- 4/24/2012
- by William Earl
- HollywoodLife
The thing with making a movie about waiters is, you're bound to have a lot of chefs in the kitchen.
Joe Dinicol, star of the Canadian comedy Servitude — about one waiter's crazy last night on the job — confirms that "a good 90 to 95 percent" of the film's cast had waiting experience, as did writer Mike Sparaga and director Warren P. Sonoda.
"It's really the only thing we're qualified to do other than acting, if we're at all qualified to do that in the first place," says the 28-year-old Stratford, Ontario, native. He's been acting since he played Antony and Cleopatra's son at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1993; he's also waited or bussed tables at many restaurants in that time, including Toronto's Gladstone Hotel and Mildred's Temple Kitchen.
But, says Dinicol, the cast's waiting experience only made Servitude a better film. "It brought up a lot of stories and memories and...
Joe Dinicol, star of the Canadian comedy Servitude — about one waiter's crazy last night on the job — confirms that "a good 90 to 95 percent" of the film's cast had waiting experience, as did writer Mike Sparaga and director Warren P. Sonoda.
"It's really the only thing we're qualified to do other than acting, if we're at all qualified to do that in the first place," says the 28-year-old Stratford, Ontario, native. He's been acting since he played Antony and Cleopatra's son at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1993; he's also waited or bussed tables at many restaurants in that time, including Toronto's Gladstone Hotel and Mildred's Temple Kitchen.
But, says Dinicol, the cast's waiting experience only made Servitude a better film. "It brought up a lot of stories and memories and...
- 3/21/2012
- by Marni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
(Our review from the Berlin Film Festival re-posted)
Forgive my ignorance or lack of cultural sophistication but I actually hadn’t heard of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus prior to the announcement that a Ralph Fiennes directed adaptation would be screened in competition at Berlin this year. It turns out that this was a terrible omission on my part, as Coriolanus is an especially relevant play when it comes to its themes as well as its basic story: a fact made all the more apparent by Fiennes’ sure-footed directorial debut which transports the play to a contemporary setting whilst retaining the 17th century language.
Coriolanus is set during a time of famine and hardship for the people of the Roman Empire and, like many of the Bard’s works, follows a flawed, tyrannical and ultimately tragic figure in the form of the titular Roman general, played by Fiennes.
(Our review from the Berlin Film Festival re-posted)
Forgive my ignorance or lack of cultural sophistication but I actually hadn’t heard of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus prior to the announcement that a Ralph Fiennes directed adaptation would be screened in competition at Berlin this year. It turns out that this was a terrible omission on my part, as Coriolanus is an especially relevant play when it comes to its themes as well as its basic story: a fact made all the more apparent by Fiennes’ sure-footed directorial debut which transports the play to a contemporary setting whilst retaining the 17th century language.
Coriolanus is set during a time of famine and hardship for the people of the Roman Empire and, like many of the Bard’s works, follows a flawed, tyrannical and ultimately tragic figure in the form of the titular Roman general, played by Fiennes.
- 1/20/2012
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
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ITV today confirmed that the the first episode of Whitechapel season three will air on 30 January at 9.00p.m. The episode centers around the murder of four people in a tailor’s workshop. As ever, the key to solving the murders can be found in East End history books. Fortunately, Ed Buchan (Steve Pemberton) is on hand to help Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and the always skeptical DS Miles (Phil Davis) rifle through an archive containing old crime files that may prove invaluable in solving the crime.
As in previous years, Whitechapel season three will consist of three self-contained stories although this time each story will last for two episodes. Guest stars for the new season include Christina Chong, Sam Reid and Louise Dillon.
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ITV today confirmed that the the first episode of Whitechapel season three will air on 30 January at 9.00p.m. The episode centers around the murder of four people in a tailor’s workshop. As ever, the key to solving the murders can be found in East End history books. Fortunately, Ed Buchan (Steve Pemberton) is on hand to help Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and the always skeptical DS Miles (Phil Davis) rifle through an archive containing old crime files that may prove invaluable in solving the crime.
As in previous years, Whitechapel season three will consist of three self-contained stories although this time each story will last for two episodes. Guest stars for the new season include Christina Chong, Sam Reid and Louise Dillon.
- 1/19/2012
- by admin
As an aunt who’s had to sit through her fair share of Dora and Diego DVDs (great, now the Rescue Pack theme song is stuck in my head), I’m happy to give parents, aunts, and uncles who are forced to watch PBS Kids’ Martha Speaks a bit of good news: Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, and their German shepherd mix, Cora, provide voices in Feb. 20′s two-part season 4 premiere “Cora! Cora! Cora!” (check local listings). No wonder Cora’s always hounded by paparazzi!
Martha Speaks follows the adventures of Martha, a dog whose appetite for alphabet soup gives her the power to talk.
Martha Speaks follows the adventures of Martha, a dog whose appetite for alphabet soup gives her the power to talk.
- 1/19/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Two-day Antony and Cleopatra workshop in Sydney, directed by Declan Donnellan and starring Blanchett as Shakespeare's Egyptian queen, could lead to a full-scale production
Having played Elizabeth I and Jrr Tolkien's elf queen Galadriel, Cate Blanchett is no stranger to royal roles. Now she could be set to tackle Shakespeare's most famous queen, after workshopping Anthony and Cleopatra in Sydney with British director Declan Donnellan.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a two-day workshop that was held last week could lead to a full-scale production, opening in Sydney towards the end of next year, before launching a European tour. The form would mirror that of Blanchett's current stage appearance, Gross und Klein (Big and Small), which will receive its UK premiere at the Barbican in April.
Richard Roxburgh, best known as the oleaginous Duke in Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge, took the role of Anthony for the workshops last Thursday and...
Having played Elizabeth I and Jrr Tolkien's elf queen Galadriel, Cate Blanchett is no stranger to royal roles. Now she could be set to tackle Shakespeare's most famous queen, after workshopping Anthony and Cleopatra in Sydney with British director Declan Donnellan.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a two-day workshop that was held last week could lead to a full-scale production, opening in Sydney towards the end of next year, before launching a European tour. The form would mirror that of Blanchett's current stage appearance, Gross und Klein (Big and Small), which will receive its UK premiere at the Barbican in April.
Richard Roxburgh, best known as the oleaginous Duke in Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge, took the role of Anthony for the workshops last Thursday and...
- 1/19/2012
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
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