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Post by kathryn on Apr 30, 2018 9:10:48 GMT
I must have dropped off the NT live mailing list/FB page etc.
Very glad about Madness of George III as I was sad not to be seeing that. The Lear I have a ticket for but I'm kinda tempted to NT Live it anyway!
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Post by mailtrix on Jul 25, 2019 15:05:29 GMT
I read this really interesting article in FORBES about the cost of filming shows for NT Live and filming shows on Broadway. Is it really the labor costs that make up the cost difference? Forbes Article on NT LiveAlso, I didn't realize that NT Live is 10 years old. What's been your favorite broadcast? I really liked Frankenstein with Jonny Lee Miller as the monster. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 15:59:50 GMT
I love live cinema screenings. I live in a regional area and can't get to London all that easily, so it's a great way of seeing things that I'd otherwise have missed.
I loved the Frankenstein too, but I preferred it with Cumberbatch as the monster. I thought it was far less predictable than the other way round (although I really enjoyed both, and the production was fantastic).
I think my favourites have been the Gillian Anderson Streetcar (we saw this twice as our cinema had a fault where the screen was twice as wide as it should have been for the first half, and everyone was REALLY short and fat, it was hilarious. They gave us free tickets for an encore) and The Deep Blue Sea, which I knew nothing at all about but which I absolutely adored. It was really beautifully staged and that final scene with the fried egg was the most uplifting thing I think I've seen. I still think about it often.
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Post by mailtrix on Jul 25, 2019 16:29:02 GMT
Actually, now that I think about it, I think that I saw it with Cumberbatch as the monster. It was so many years ago.
I want to see One Man, Two Guvnors, All About Eve, War Horse, and the Lehman Trilogy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 16:43:17 GMT
I'm not seeing Lehman tonight, because it's so hot, and I have a stinking cold, and I'm exhausted. I do really want to see it though, it looks really good.
I enjoyed Small Island recently. I have no desire to see One Man Two Guvnors (James Corden issues) or War Horse (puppet issues) but I'd be interested in All About Eve (I thought that had been and gone?) I quite fancy the politics one with Alex Jennings too.
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Post by mailtrix on Jul 25, 2019 18:19:03 GMT
There might be encores of All About Eve.
It would be great if their stuff was available through a streaming platform, even their own. I would pay to watch it on demand.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jul 25, 2019 18:50:13 GMT
On the top of my Theatrical wish list - NTLive Player
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Post by justfran on Jul 25, 2019 18:54:22 GMT
I’ve only seen a few NT Live but my favourite would have to be A View From the Bridge with Mark Strong, excellent performance.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 19:00:45 GMT
I’ve only seen a few NT Live but my favourite would have to be A View From the Bridge with Mark Strong, excellent performance. Ooh yes, that was good! |
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Post by amybenson on Jul 26, 2019 8:24:49 GMT
One of my favourite broadcasts would be Frankenstein, as it was the first one we had in my hometown, and we kinda had to petition the distributor and the local cinema to prove that there would actually be enough people attending for it to be worth the trouble.
Another one would be Follies, because it left such an impression, that I sometimes forget that I only saw it in cinema and not in theatre.
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Post by Jon on Jul 26, 2019 8:36:06 GMT
I’ve always wondered if NT Live helped cinemas switch from film to digital a lot quicker or if they were already going to anyway.
I am also curious to know what are the best performing cinemas for live events,
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Post by mailtrix on Jul 26, 2019 14:26:46 GMT
One of my favourite broadcasts would be Frankenstein, as it was the first one we had in my hometown, and we kinda had to petition the distributor and the local cinema to prove that there would actually be enough people attending for it to be worth the trouble. Another one would be Follies, because it left such an impression, that I sometimes forget that I only saw it in cinema and not in theatre. I want to see Follies, too. Thank you for the reminder. |
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Post by mailtrix on Jul 26, 2019 14:28:44 GMT
I’ve always wondered if NT Live helped cinemas switch from film to digital a lot quicker or if they were already going to anyway. I am also curious to know what are the best performing cinemas for live events, I doubt that NT Live had the power to influence cinemas. It probably went wherever there were the proper technical specifications. Also, despite what the former director said in the FORBES article, I doubt that the screenings are big money-makers for the theaters. They're not on the same levels as Hollywood blockbuster films. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 16:18:37 GMT
I’ve always wondered if NT Live helped cinemas switch from film to digital a lot quicker or if they were already going to anyway. I am also curious to know what are the best performing cinemas for live events, I doubt that NT Live had the power to influence cinemas. It probably went wherever there were the proper technical specifications. Also, despite what the former director said in the FORBES article, I doubt that the screenings are big money-makers for the theaters. They're not on the same levels as Hollywood blockbuster films.
I dunno - my little local independent theatre is always packed when there is a screening, and at nearly £20 a seat that's not bad for them. I don't think they sell that many tickets to their plays.
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Post by Jon on Jul 26, 2019 18:18:31 GMT
I doubt that NT Live had the power to influence cinemas. It probably went wherever there were the proper technical specifications. Also, despite what the former director said in the FORBES article, I doubt that the screenings are big money-makers for the theaters. They're not on the same levels as Hollywood blockbuster films. A live event by its very nature won't be able to match a cinema release which can play on multiple screens for weeks on end but I have seen that the likes of All About Eve and Andre Rieu have managed to crack the top 5 or even number 1 on the night they played. |
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 27, 2019 10:45:14 GMT
On the top of my Theatrical wish list - NTLive Player One day, surely they're going to want to cash in with a home release? I'd pay good money to get hold of The Habit of Art, or Skylight, No Mans Land etc |
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Post by crabtree on Jul 27, 2019 13:55:46 GMT
have a look at marqueetv.com (there might be a dot after marquee) - they have some brilliant pieces of theatre, ballet, opera and recent ones too.
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Post by andrew on Jul 28, 2019 18:25:39 GMT
On the top of my Theatrical wish list - NTLive Player One day, surely they're going to want to cash in with a home release? I'd pay good money to get hold of The Habit of Art, or Skylight, No Mans Land etc I seem to recall reading somewhere that built into the contracts with actors was an agreement that there wouldn't be a release of these as DVDs or as downloads, but I could be wrong. |
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 28, 2019 22:22:16 GMT
One day, surely they're going to want to cash in with a home release? I'd pay good money to get hold of The Habit of Art, or Skylight, No Mans Land etc I seem to recall reading somewhere that built into the contracts with actors was an agreement that there wouldn't be a release of these as DVDs or as downloads, but I could be wrong. Just seems ludicrous as a missed opportunity. Aside from anything else these productions are now historical documents with the best actors in the world in some of the best plays and should at least be available somewhere! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 7:28:02 GMT
They are available somewhere. Anyone may place a request to go and view filmed footage of a National Theatre production at the National Theatre archive, it doesn't cost anything, you don't have to be an academic researcher or anything, and you will get the NT Live footage of a play that has been screened accordingly. (For older stuff you are alas stuck with "single camcorder at the back of the stalls" footage.)
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Post by Rory on Jun 22, 2024 17:41:22 GMT
Have they given up the ghost or something?
No announcements of anything new in ages!
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Post by Rory on Aug 2, 2024 5:45:34 GMT
What's going on? The new stuff has dropped off a cliff!
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 2, 2024 8:05:56 GMT
They've also just pulled the October and November hold dates from the diary, so Prima Facie will be the last NT live this year until January.
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Post by SilverFox on Aug 2, 2024 8:54:07 GMT
I don't know the answer, but is it perhaps to do with Sky Arts sponsorship / involvement? My local cinema has always presented the live streamings, but recently the new stuff has vanished - not just theatre, but exhibitions and non-NT shows. Trafalgar seems to have stepped in with some older recordings, and there are some (welcome) Broadway screenings (Waitress / Girl From the North Country), but nothing new from the Donmar / NT / Old Vic etc which is a big disappointment!
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Post by Rory on Aug 2, 2024 9:33:04 GMT
They've also just pulled the October and November hold dates from the diary, so Prima Facie will be the last NT live this year until January. That's really disappointing. Nye was the last new show on 23rd April. So nothing new for the last two thirds of the year. In the old days they definitely would have shown something like The Grapes of Wrath. |
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