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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 9, 2017 16:47:27 GMT
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Post by sirdaniel on Jul 9, 2017 20:37:26 GMT
Guess it depends if you think heaven is a place or not, doesn't it? But that's probably for another day... |
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Post by vdcni on Jul 10, 2017 15:26:56 GMT
Oh, and Billy Howle - he was in this Christmas-just-gone's Agatha Christie, 'Witness for the Prosecution', and was great in the Young Vic's Life of Galileo, a really moving performance. I was wondering where I'd seen him before, then came out of the theatre and saw him on a film poster on the underground, too. Btw, I thought George Blagden was much more impressive in The Pitchfork Disney than he comes across on TV in Versailles (where his role seems to involve a lot of wide-eyed staring into the middle distance). I agree... if I hadn't seen Blagden in Vikings, I'd think him a terrible actor. He seems very wooden and bland as Louis XIV., in my opinion Alexander Vlahos (another fine young theatre actor) completely walks away with the show as Philippe, especially now that he got the lovely Liselotte for company. I need to catch up with Broken and Poldark when I'm back, I'm presently sojourning in the island of Corfu. For which I partly have British TV to thank for, too... If you're a fan of Vlahos, he's starring in Hamlet on audio soon www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/hamlet-1604The same company has also recently released The Invisible Man with John Hurt (presumably one of the last things he did before he died) and Nicola Walker/Sam Troughton in The Shape of Things to come among other things. They've also got David Warner as King Lear with Louise Jameson, Finty Williams and Ray Fearon. |
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Post by orchid71 on Sept 25, 2017 8:45:01 GMT
Rosalie Craig is going to be in the new series of ITV's Endeavour - think it is due to be screened early 2018.
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Post by crowblack on Sept 25, 2017 14:05:20 GMT
Jessie Buckley featuring prominently in the trailers for The Last Post - she was fab in Taboo (I still haven't got round to War and Peace - I hated the novel! - but I will now the nights are drawing in). One of the new young actors from The Ferryman, Tom Glynn-Carney, is in it too. Series 2 of Dirk Gently is starting in a couple of weeks, too - I appreciate it's probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I bloody love it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 0:45:59 GMT
Matilda Wormwood's family would know! You should ask them!
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Post by crowblack on Oct 2, 2017 21:39:11 GMT
The Last Post is a disappointment so far - very slow and unengaging. In an interview in the Guardian, even Jessie Buckley sounds a bit lukewarm about it.
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Post by Jan on Oct 5, 2017 16:36:19 GMT
How could I forget? Rory Kinnear in Count Arthur Strong! Now I'm torn - I love Rory Kinnear but don't think I could bear to watch Count Arthur. (But thanks for the headsup crowblack. I may just peep out from behind a cushion.) That series is strange, quite run of the mill and conventional, but both of those two are considerable stage performers. Kinnear obviously, but like Dame Edna, Count Arthur on stage is a radical and edgy performer far removed from his sanitised TV version. In one of his shows he stood with his back to the audience drinking a glass of wine for a full five minutes because he’d forgotten they were there. Takes a genius to get away with that. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 23, 2018 20:01:06 GMT
Not only that. There's a Treadaway (queue nicely behind me @ryan) and Stephen Campbell Moore.
What a cast!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 13:10:52 GMT
Is anyone watching the BBC's Ordeal by Innocence? It's finally airing after reshoots to replace one of the cast. I wasn't sure about it at first - the script is by Sarah Phelps, whose work I really like, though she tends to make things very dark, and in this case I feared everyone was so horrible it would be hard to care about them, but stick with it - it works! I haven't read the novel and only know it from the 'Marple' adaptation with Juliet Stevenson & co., but Phelps seems to have made significant changes to the plot.
Btw, it was written to be shown over three days at Christmas, with the episodes set on three consecutive days leading up to a wedding, so I do think it would have made better sense to show it Easter Sunday, Bank Holiday Monday and the last episode this week rather than stringing it across three weeks.
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 10, 2018 16:46:32 GMT
Is anyone watching the BBC's Ordeal by Innocence? I'm watching crowblack and quite enjoying it as well. I'm not normally one for Agatha Christie to be honest, but the telly was on and I kept walking past and seeing famous actors, so started to take more interest. I also like Sarah Phelps' work - I loved The Crimson Fields several years ago. Matthew Goode is amazing in this - I'd never really noticed him as one of Lady Mary's dull suitors, but he really comes into his own here. Also, Luke Treadaway. Wow! Great performance. (Though I'm not so thrilled about what they have done to his beautiful face..) I don't know the book so have no idea who is supposed to have done it. I'm plumping for either the secretary or Demelza, who had a bit of a personality transplant at the end of episode 2 but, as you say, they're all pretty vile. I was interested to read how they inserted the new actor in 12 days (at £1 million cost) in the middle of winter and had to do clever stuff to stop their breath outdoors creating fog. Also, Alice Eve didn't make it over from the States so her scenes are done with a split screen, taken from the original recording. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 10, 2018 17:04:18 GMT
I gave up after the first episode. I found it over-directed and under-written. I need to have someone to care abut - even in a murder mystery. And they all seemed so deeply unpleasant as to completely lose my sympathy.
I cannot see that it was worth reshooting something that is more style than substance. My housemate, an avid Christie fan, says she can't work out who did it because they have changed so much from the original. It just seems wrong to trade off the Christie name if you are going to just use the title for your own story.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 17:25:46 GMT
her scenes are done with a split screen Wow - I didn't know! It looks seamless and summery throughout. Luke Treadaway's very good, and I really enjoyed Matthew Goode in this. He was in an ITV Marple many moons ago as a waspish son, and in the fairly recent Brideshead Revisited film alongside Ben Whishaw, which I think is better than the old Granada TV version and well worth a look. The characters in the ITV version of 'Ordeal' were generally more sympathetic, with some scenes played for laughs, but I really like what Sarah Phelps has done with this - oxfordsimon, give it another go! |
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 10, 2018 17:47:21 GMT
It looks to me as though it's better for those of us who have simply taken it as a TV drama oxfordsimon, rather than Christie aficionados. I know nothing about the original story or other productions so am not comparing it with anything. For me I'm just watching some top-notch theatre actors doing their stuff, wearing gorgeous clothes in a beautiful setting. More about the re-shoot - the fact that there are so many top actors in this made it more difficult to get them together. Apparently Matthew Goode had only 12 hours free within the time frame. (They were on location in Scotland.) Eleanor Tomlinson went straight from the original shoot to the Poldark set and then came straight back for the re-shoot from wrapping on the Poldark set. Anna Chancellor's fur coat had been borrowed and had to be tracked down along with props that were now on various sets throughout Europe. They were very lucky that the owners of the house they used liked the decoration they had done before the original shoot so hadn't changed it much. And yes, I do keep trying to see the joins...but haven't found any yet! |
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 19:27:24 GMT
Jessie Buckley was amazing in War and Peace Just seen a trailer for a film called 'Beast' with Jessie Buckley and Hangmen's Johnny Flynn, and looks like there'll be some Q&A screenings this month, possibly with the actors as well as the director. There's one at my local Picturehouse which I'll defo try to get to. |
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 11, 2018 12:58:30 GMT
I don't know the book so have no idea who is supposed to have done it. {Spoiler - click to view}
It doesn't matter if you've read the book or not. The ending has been changed. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 12, 2018 16:02:05 GMT
More of the lovely Mr. L. Treadaway. (Jack Whitehall's always good value for money too.)
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Post by londonmzfitz on Apr 12, 2018 16:27:03 GMT
Rosalie Craig is going to be in the new series of ITV's Endeavour - think it is due to be screened early 2018. Hadley Fraser was in the same episode wearing some natty duds. And a porn star tash. |
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Post by crowblack on Apr 12, 2018 22:26:57 GMT
Ah, just realised I can get this series on Now TV! Thanks! |
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Post by crowblack on Apr 22, 2018 14:15:07 GMT
Hmm, the FACT-website-advertised Beast Q&A in Liverpool is presumably just a preview screening cos the film has its London BFI Q&A on the same night!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 25, 2018 9:48:01 GMT
Beast was great - apparently the writer/director's feature debut and really impressive. Jessie Buckley is magnetic, Johnny Flynn and the rest of the cast also really good. I won't discuss plot points as it hasn't been released yet and we went in not knowing much about it. My local cinema bumped the preview screening up from the small screen to the big because they got a bigger audience than expected - maybe because Buckley had been on Woman's Hour that morning?
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Post by alece10 on Apr 27, 2018 21:15:00 GMT
EP just appeared on Home from Home BBC1 sitcom as Johnny Vegas mum.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 11:01:11 GMT
The Good Fight, one of the best programmes on tv, this week had Rob MaClure, Nikki M James, Megan Hilty, Alan Alder, alongside the regular amazing cast. Cush Jumbo is just fantastic in this and is my favourite character by far.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 11:36:58 GMT
Alice Fearn was the guest singer at Mick and Linda's wedding in EastEnders a few years ago.
Mazz Murray played a guest character on EastEnders last summer.
Various other theatre actors have been in EastEnders as extras.
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Post by alicechallice on Apr 28, 2018 12:08:12 GMT
I spotted Anna-Jane Casey in Corrie the other night.
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