- Christian Bale and Kermit the frog [link]
- Tilda Swinton interviews 1|2 (via ONTD)|3
- Leighton Meester interview (via gossipgirltv) [link]
- Interviews with Emilia Fox 1|2
- Screen Test | Naomi Watts - The Moment blog - NYTimes.com [link]
- Episode 2 of Simon Pegg's video diary from The Guardian [link]
- Article from The Times about crime movies [link]
- Interviews with François Ozon 1|2
- Interviews with Keira Knightley 1|2
- Quantum of Solace video blog - Anatole Taubman (Elvis) [link]
Saturday 30 August 2008
Film & TV links
Sunday 24 August 2008
Rebecca Hall - Film - Frost/Nixon - trailer
Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner
- Article about the locations being used (source: denofgeek via The Medium is not Enough ) [link]
- From the AMC blog for the production:
"...Ruth Wilson, who will play No. 313, arrived yesterday [14 August] to film a scene with Jim [Caviezel]..."
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Entertainment & media links
- Article about the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, which took place Aug. 15-23. The festival was launched by Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins [link]
- Anne Thompson from Variety has written an article about the difficulties of getting distribution for independent films [link]
- "Stage actors love theater. Film actors see movies. Musicians dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch much TV..." [link]
- Adrian Dunbar (Whistleblowers) and Kimberley Nixon (Cranford) will star in a stage adaptation of Tracey Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring [link]
- Hugh Laurie interview from Emmy magazine [link]
- Guests who are expected to attend this year's Toronto Film Festival [link]
- Recent projects that have received funding from Screen Australia [link]
- Profiles about Robert Downey Jr and Lauren Bacall 1|2
- Episode 1 of Simon Pegg's video blog for the Guardian [link]
- A hilarious quote from Ricky Gervais's blog about newspaper bullshittery (source: rickygervais.com via gervsmerchpilk):
"...If you have trouble filling the newspaper, use a bigger font. Print a poem. Leave a space..."
- Interviews with Romola Garai and François Ozon 1|2|3
- Article about tabloid reporting [link]
- Rosamund Pike and Dame Judi Dench will star in Madame de Sade at Wyndham's theatre in March next year [link]
- Article about test screenings from the Guardian [link]
Adrian Dunbar 1|2|3
Kimberley Nixon 1|2|3
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Dan Stevens - Audio - The Outcast
updated: 20 October
The Independent
"...Dan Stevens is the perfect reader for this remarkably original, accomplished and compelling book. The ground-bass of his voice is steady, low and tense, yet when the text requires it he is as capable of light flirtatiousness as of furious rage. One man emerges as the real villain of the piece: slimy Dickie Cunningham, rich, manipulative and sadistic, given to beating his daughter. Stevens reads him as if smiling between clenched teeth. When Lewis finally exposes him as the brute he is, in a magnificently cathartic penultimate scene, you want to cheer."
The Guardian
"...the narration is stunning. The gentleness of Dan Stevens's voice and his finely judged hesitations reveal all Lewis's vulnerabilities, and make the flaws of this quite awful social circle convincing and human."
The Times
"...Dan Stevens, the narrator, gets the voices of the 1950s absolutely right, as convincing as Lewis's bottled-up-father as he is as Kit's vampish older sister..."
Link
Audible [link]
The Independent
"...Dan Stevens is the perfect reader for this remarkably original, accomplished and compelling book. The ground-bass of his voice is steady, low and tense, yet when the text requires it he is as capable of light flirtatiousness as of furious rage. One man emerges as the real villain of the piece: slimy Dickie Cunningham, rich, manipulative and sadistic, given to beating his daughter. Stevens reads him as if smiling between clenched teeth. When Lewis finally exposes him as the brute he is, in a magnificently cathartic penultimate scene, you want to cheer."
The Guardian
"...the narration is stunning. The gentleness of Dan Stevens's voice and his finely judged hesitations reveal all Lewis's vulnerabilities, and make the flaws of this quite awful social circle convincing and human."
The Times
"...Dan Stevens, the narrator, gets the voices of the 1950s absolutely right, as convincing as Lewis's bottled-up-father as he is as Kit's vampish older sister..."
Link
Audible [link]
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Film & TV links
- A judge has denied a Warner Bros. motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s lawsuit over Warners’ right to make a film based on the graphic novel Watchmen. [link]
- Apple's iTunes Store on Thursday became the first online service in Australia and New Zealand to offer downloadable movies day-and-date with their local DVD release [link]
- New York Film Festival program [link]
- V.O.D. in the has been good for UK broadcasters, according to a recent report by Thinkbox 1|2|3
- A nice quote about Rebecca Hall from the New York Times' review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona:
"...The appealing Ms. Hall, whose jaw line and brittle delivery evoke Katharine Hepburn, furnishes an actual performance, one that, tinged with sadness, makes evident that this is as much a tragedy as a comedy..."
- Robert Downey Jr interview about Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes film [link]
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Saturday 16 August 2008
Dan Stevens - Audio - Day
Film links
- Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen will star in Debbie Isitt's film Nativity, which is about two rival English schools vying to outdo each other in the annual Christmas nativity play [link]
- Taylor Hackford will direct a biopic about Tennessee Williams titled Tenn [link]
- Article about financing for Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which stars Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz [link]
- Interview with Tilda Swinton from wmagazine.com [link]
Martin Freeman 1|2|3
Ashley Jensen 1|2
Tilda Swinton 1|2
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Thursday 14 August 2008
Charles Edwards - Theatre
Some niceness about Charles from an interview with Sam Robards, who recently took over as Richard Hannay in the Broadway production of The 39 Steps:
"...was the idea of filling Charles Edwards' shoes scary?
Totally. He's one of the great actors I've seen and a sweet guy. I would rehearse and then see him perform that night, feeling very comfortable with how rehearsal went, and leave [the performance] feeling completely terrified. Then luckily I got to see his understudy go on. He was great, but totally different. And all of a sudden I thought, "Oh, okay. I can do this. The play actually works!" That , for me, was key. I said from the beginning that I couldn't do what Charles does, not the way he does it. Because he's British, his innate sensibility is truer [to the story] than mine. But I do wear larger undershorts!"
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Dan Stevens - Audio - Strike Back
[updated 2 February 2011]
Daily Express (16 November 2007, Kati Nicholl)
"...Dan Stevens' reading adds to the action..."
Link
Audible [link]
Daily Express (16 November 2007, Kati Nicholl)
"...Dan Stevens' reading adds to the action..."
Link
Audible [link]
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Wednesday 13 August 2008
Hayley Atwell, Ruth Wilson - Television - The Prisoner
Dan Stevens - Audio - Snakehead
40bestaudiobooks.co.uk
"...Dan Stevens is a gorgeous reader and brings Alex to edge-of-the-seat life."
The Independent
"...Anthony Horowitz's Snakehead features another Protean reader in Dan Stevens. Alex Rider's latest adventure is a more serious tale of desperation and greed, involving people-trafficking and the forced sale of human organs. Horowitz's filmic style powerfully evokes the slums of Bangkok and the claustrophobia of being locked up in a container ship..."
Links
Audible [link]
Anthony Horowitz [link]
Alex Rider [link]
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Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited
- Federal Fashion
"...Hayley Atwell really embodied the part of Julia. She captured the character's tendency to be aloof, but at the same time, her ability to be receptive to the advances of Charles, all while sporting a STUNNING wardrobe..." - Magazine interviews/articles
Credit: mygazines.com
Credit: nxtbook.com
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Tuesday 12 August 2008
Samuel West - Theatre - Hamlet
From the Guardian:
Links
The gallery referred to in the article above [link]
David-Tennant.com [link]
An article by Michael Billington discussing the prospects for David Tennant's appearance as Hamlet at Stratford-upon-Avon (The role to die for, G2, page 23, July 31) invited readers to turn to a gallery of portraits of Tennant in action on guardian.co.uk/culture. One of these showed Tennant wearing a parka, and the caption suggested that this was "almost certainly" the first time a Hamlet had appeared on stage clad in this fashion. Not so, says the actor Sam West: he did so in a production by Steven Pimlott in 2001.
Links
The gallery referred to in the article above [link]
David-Tennant.com [link]
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Sunday 10 August 2008
Saturday 9 August 2008
Film & TV links
- Steve Buscemi, Emily Mortimer and Peter Dinklage are in Saint John of Las Vegas, an appropriation of Dante's Inferno. [link]
- Rebecca Hall and Emilia Fox have joined the cast of Dorian Gray, which stars Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. [link]
- AMC is developing a series from Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation (hmmm). [link]
- Mark Wahlberg will have a cameo in season 5 of Entourage, which begins on HBO 8 September. [link]
Related links
Emily Mortimer 1|2|3
Rebecca Hall 1|2|3
Emilia Fox 1|2|3
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Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited
- The Mercury News
"...As played by Hayley Atwell, Julia is a smoldering ingénue, a challenging achievement delicious to watch..."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"...Hayley Atwell is saucy and lively as Sebastian's sister..." - Interviews 1|2
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Dan Stevens - Audio - The Dragon's Eye
[updated 2 February 2011]
The Daily Express (20 April 2007, Kati Nicholl)
"...Dan Stevens's excellent rendition of the adventures of Beatrice and Daniel Cook as they attempt to prevent the evil Ignatius Crook stealing the dragon's eye and becoming Dragon Master is hopefully the first of many audiobook narrations by him. Dragons galore, interesting adults and feisty children are beautifully combined, so great listening..."
frombumptogrump.co.uk
"...The wonderful thing about audiobooks is that they enable the listener’s imagination to be used to full effect, even more so than in paper as the voices of the narrator and accompanying sounds add to the atmosphere. This book is full of vivid description and takes you deep into the world of Daniel and Beatrice Cook, apprentice Dragonologists. Mystery, tension and lashings of fantasy make this an unmissable adventure..."
The Times
"...Dugald A. Steer's The Dragon's Eye is the first instalment of the Dragonology Chronicles, which adds narrative adventures to Dragonology, Steer's hugely popular encyclopaedia of dragon lore. The narrator, Dan Stevens, reads with such conviction and spirit that he makes it almost believable..."
Links
Orion Books [link]
Audible [link]
The Daily Express (20 April 2007, Kati Nicholl)
"...Dan Stevens's excellent rendition of the adventures of Beatrice and Daniel Cook as they attempt to prevent the evil Ignatius Crook stealing the dragon's eye and becoming Dragon Master is hopefully the first of many audiobook narrations by him. Dragons galore, interesting adults and feisty children are beautifully combined, so great listening..."
frombumptogrump.co.uk
"...The wonderful thing about audiobooks is that they enable the listener’s imagination to be used to full effect, even more so than in paper as the voices of the narrator and accompanying sounds add to the atmosphere. This book is full of vivid description and takes you deep into the world of Daniel and Beatrice Cook, apprentice Dragonologists. Mystery, tension and lashings of fantasy make this an unmissable adventure..."
The Times
"...Dugald A. Steer's The Dragon's Eye is the first instalment of the Dragonology Chronicles, which adds narrative adventures to Dragonology, Steer's hugely popular encyclopaedia of dragon lore. The narrator, Dan Stevens, reads with such conviction and spirit that he makes it almost believable..."
Links
Orion Books [link]
Audible [link]
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Monday 4 August 2008
Sunday 3 August 2008
Saturday 2 August 2008
Dan Stevens - Radio - Dickens Confidential
Dickens Confidential Series 2
by Mike Walker and Rob Kinsman
Broadcast June-July 2008 on BBC Radio 4
Charles Dickens was a working journalist and, for a time, editor of The Daily News. This BBC Radio 4 series returns to take another imaginative look at how Dickens would have tackled bringing news to the masses.
It is the mid-19th-century and Charles Dickens is editor of The Herald, a newspaper part-owned by Joseph Paxton, railway magnate and self-made man. This is a paper not like any other. Its mission is to celebrate the world of industry and expose the seamy underside of British life...
Dan Stevens plays Dickens in a cast including Freddy White, Gerard Murphy, Bertie Carvel and John Dougall.
Producers. David Hunter and Tracey Neale
The Times
Links
BBC Programmes [link]
BBC Press Office [link]
by Mike Walker and Rob Kinsman
Broadcast June-July 2008 on BBC Radio 4
Charles Dickens was a working journalist and, for a time, editor of The Daily News. This BBC Radio 4 series returns to take another imaginative look at how Dickens would have tackled bringing news to the masses.
It is the mid-19th-century and Charles Dickens is editor of The Herald, a newspaper part-owned by Joseph Paxton, railway magnate and self-made man. This is a paper not like any other. Its mission is to celebrate the world of industry and expose the seamy underside of British life...
Dan Stevens plays Dickens in a cast including Freddy White, Gerard Murphy, Bertie Carvel and John Dougall.
Producers. David Hunter and Tracey Neale
The Times
Last year Dickens Confidential imagined what might have happened during the days when Charles Dickens was a working journalist and, indeed, the Editor of The Daily News. Cunningly, Dickens's editorship was switched from the political Daily News to the tabloid Herald, which meant that he was at the sharp end of anything going - horrible murder, steamy scandal, ladies of the night, blackmailed bluebloods ... Now he's back - played this time by Dan Stevens - in another six tales of derring-do. In the first episode, Joseph Paxton, the newspaper's part-owner, is badly beaten. Could this have anything to do with the emergence of a new bank headed by the bombastic Iron Billy? Gangster bankers. Love it.
Links
BBC Programmes [link]
BBC Press Office [link]
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Dan Stevens - Radio - The Tennis Court
The Tennis Court
by Jonathan Smith
Broadcast 19 January, 2008 on BBC Radio 4
Jonathan Smith's love story is set in England and India during WWII. Sam Greenwood is posted to India with the 14th Army while his haemophiliac brother Arthur has to remain at home in Kent. Under siege in the small hilltop town of Kohima in northern India, Sam steels himself for the Japanese onslaught, but is haunted by events at home and a secret he has not shared with Arthur.
Sam ...... Dan Stevens
Arthur ...... Jot Davies
Mother ...... Celia Imrie
Lettie ...... Jasmine Hyde
Pearce ...... Thomas Arnold
Penny ...... Cressida Trew
Tom ...... Martin T Sherman
Directed by Bruce Young
Links:
BBC programmes [link]
Diversity - Jonathan Smith [link]
by Jonathan Smith
Broadcast 19 January, 2008 on BBC Radio 4
Jonathan Smith's love story is set in England and India during WWII. Sam Greenwood is posted to India with the 14th Army while his haemophiliac brother Arthur has to remain at home in Kent. Under siege in the small hilltop town of Kohima in northern India, Sam steels himself for the Japanese onslaught, but is haunted by events at home and a secret he has not shared with Arthur.
Sam ...... Dan Stevens
Arthur ...... Jot Davies
Mother ...... Celia Imrie
Lettie ...... Jasmine Hyde
Pearce ...... Thomas Arnold
Penny ...... Cressida Trew
Tom ...... Martin T Sherman
Directed by Bruce Young
Links:
BBC programmes [link]
Diversity - Jonathan Smith [link]
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Dan Stevens - Radio - A Question of Attribution
A Question of Attribution
by Alan Bennett
Broadcast 16 September, 2006 on BBC Radio 4
From radiolistings.co.uk:
The late 60s. Prior to being disgraced as a spy, Professor Anthony Blunt, Director of the Courtauld Institute, is replacing a Titian at the Palace when The Queen comes in. The painting is a fake...
Blunt....Edward Petherbridge
Restorer....Robert Pickavance
Chubb....Nicky Henson
The Queen....Prunella Scales
Philips....Dan Stevens
Colin....Harry Myers
Producer/director Susan Roberts
by Alan Bennett
Broadcast 16 September, 2006 on BBC Radio 4
From radiolistings.co.uk:
The late 60s. Prior to being disgraced as a spy, Professor Anthony Blunt, Director of the Courtauld Institute, is replacing a Titian at the Palace when The Queen comes in. The painting is a fake...
Blunt....Edward Petherbridge
Restorer....Robert Pickavance
Chubb....Nicky Henson
The Queen....Prunella Scales
Philips....Dan Stevens
Colin....Harry Myers
Producer/director Susan Roberts
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Samuel West - Choir of London
Hayley Atwell - Film - Brideshead Revisited
[updated 10 February 2009]
- Quotes from reviews:
newsobserver.com
"...Charles meets Sebastian's bewitching, irresistible sister Julia (the sparkling Hayley Atwell)..."
tcpalm.com
"...Hayley Atwell successfully portrays the passion lying just beneath the surface, repressed as she is by her mother's tenacious hold..." - Hayley and Matthew attended an event at Castle Howard which included a preview screening, a garden party and a press conference.
Pictures
Getty [link]
WireImage [link]
hayley-atwell.org (untagged) [link]
Doug Jackson 1|2
Articles
Malton Mercury [link]
Northern Echo [link] - Interviews 1|2
- News segment about the film from better.tv (her surname is typoed - disgraceful!):
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