While The Twilight Zone solidified its place in the cultural canon decades ago, there are times when it feels like we’re only scratching the surface of Rod Serling’s revolutionary series. Many of us know classic episodes like “To Serve Man,” “Time Enough at Last,” and “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” due to their TV rerun presences and the countless references to them in other works over the years. Those episodes deserve all the acclaim they’ve acquired (if not more), but it sometimes feels like we really only talk about 20-25 episodes out of The Twilight Zone‘s original run of 156 episodes when we talk about that series.
In those other 130+ episodes, you’ll find not just some hidden gems but the heart of the show. At its core, The Twilight Zone was a variety series that often took some big creative risks. Not all of those risks paid off,...
In those other 130+ episodes, you’ll find not just some hidden gems but the heart of the show. At its core, The Twilight Zone was a variety series that often took some big creative risks. Not all of those risks paid off,...
- 5/11/2024
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
James Nesbitt and Timothy Spall headline seasonal special The Heist Before Christmas, here’s the trailer.
As seemingly happens to many an English actor of a certain age, it’s now Timothy Spall’s turn to play Father Christmas. Happens to the best of them, and in this case, it’s for a British movie that’s heading to Sky next month. Let’s get down to the basics.
The synopsis for the film in question, The Heist Before Christmas, reads as follows:
Twelve-year-old Mikey Collins, who’s dirt-poor and hates Christmas, finds two Santa Clauses in the woods. One has just robbed a bank and is on the run with the cash, the other Santa claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. Mikey has no time for this second guy – he’s well past believing any of the Jingle Bells, spirit-of-the-season rubbish, even if his little brother Sean...
As seemingly happens to many an English actor of a certain age, it’s now Timothy Spall’s turn to play Father Christmas. Happens to the best of them, and in this case, it’s for a British movie that’s heading to Sky next month. Let’s get down to the basics.
The synopsis for the film in question, The Heist Before Christmas, reads as follows:
Twelve-year-old Mikey Collins, who’s dirt-poor and hates Christmas, finds two Santa Clauses in the woods. One has just robbed a bank and is on the run with the cash, the other Santa claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. Mikey has no time for this second guy – he’s well past believing any of the Jingle Bells, spirit-of-the-season rubbish, even if his little brother Sean...
- 11/27/2023
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Timothy Spall is ready to bring “Joy to the World.”
“It’s a Christmas story, but an unusual Christmas story,” he tells Variety about his upcoming film, directed by Edward Hall. Calico Pictures and Shuk (Studio Hamburg UK) produce for Sky, while James Nesbitt co-stars.
“It’s about a troubled 12-year-old kid who is pretty obnoxious, really. He is clever but doesn’t like his life. His mom is struggling and his brother is desperate for a present he is not going to get. He is full of hate. Then he witnesses a robbery.”
It’s an unusual robbery, however, taking place during a “Santa Dash.”
“He sees one of them rob a bank, tries to pursue him and then encounters this old man in the woods, under the tree, claiming he is Father Christmas. Obviously, the kid thinks he’s mad. It’s a sweet movie, but it has this hard edge to it,...
“It’s a Christmas story, but an unusual Christmas story,” he tells Variety about his upcoming film, directed by Edward Hall. Calico Pictures and Shuk (Studio Hamburg UK) produce for Sky, while James Nesbitt co-stars.
“It’s about a troubled 12-year-old kid who is pretty obnoxious, really. He is clever but doesn’t like his life. His mom is struggling and his brother is desperate for a present he is not going to get. He is full of hate. Then he witnesses a robbery.”
It’s an unusual robbery, however, taking place during a “Santa Dash.”
“He sees one of them rob a bank, tries to pursue him and then encounters this old man in the woods, under the tree, claiming he is Father Christmas. Obviously, the kid thinks he’s mad. It’s a sweet movie, but it has this hard edge to it,...
- 9/24/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
(l-r) Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Max Harwood in The Loneliest Boy In The World. Courtesy of WellGo USA
If you want to get in on the ground floor of a future cult favorite, the little horror comedy The Loneliest Boy In The World may be your latest ticket. The eponymous lad, Oliver (Max Harwood) was an introverted mama’s boy while she was alive, who we find even more isolated after she’d died in a bizarre accident that traumatized him enough for a stretch in a psych ward. Now he’s trying to live alone in their house, pressured by social workers to prove he can survive that way by making some friends. Quickly. That’s a tough challenge, since he spends most of his time in the cemetery talking to his mom’s grave, or watching the TV shows they used to share. No one else cares about him,...
If you want to get in on the ground floor of a future cult favorite, the little horror comedy The Loneliest Boy In The World may be your latest ticket. The eponymous lad, Oliver (Max Harwood) was an introverted mama’s boy while she was alive, who we find even more isolated after she’d died in a bizarre accident that traumatized him enough for a stretch in a psych ward. Now he’s trying to live alone in their house, pressured by social workers to prove he can survive that way by making some friends. Quickly. That’s a tough challenge, since he spends most of his time in the cemetery talking to his mom’s grave, or watching the TV shows they used to share. No one else cares about him,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Gentleman Jack creator Sally Wainwright is not giving up on a third season for the lesbian period drama series following its cancellation last week by HBO.
Wainwright told RadioTimes.com in an interview that HBO’s decision not to move forward with a third season was a surprise, noting however that BBC, the show’s co-producer, “certainly [is] up for” continuing with the show” but would need another streaming partner. The BBC has said that it was “in discussions” with Wainwright about “what’s next”.
“I think if HBO had been up for it, there’d have been no question, Wainwright added. “It’s been a very successful show in all areas for them – it’s had fantastic reviews, it’s had a very respectable audience and on top of that it’s had an impact on the community of gay women. We have the most extraordinary fanbase.”
Using the real...
Wainwright told RadioTimes.com in an interview that HBO’s decision not to move forward with a third season was a surprise, noting however that BBC, the show’s co-producer, “certainly [is] up for” continuing with the show” but would need another streaming partner. The BBC has said that it was “in discussions” with Wainwright about “what’s next”.
“I think if HBO had been up for it, there’d have been no question, Wainwright added. “It’s been a very successful show in all areas for them – it’s had fantastic reviews, it’s had a very respectable audience and on top of that it’s had an impact on the community of gay women. We have the most extraordinary fanbase.”
Using the real...
- 7/15/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
British actor Callum Woodhouse has signed with APA.
Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.
Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.
On stage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London, and is set to take part in ...
Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.
Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.
On stage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London, and is set to take part in ...
- 2/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
British actor Callum Woodhouse has signed with APA.
Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.
Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.
Onstage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London and is set to take part in a ...
Woodhouse is best known for playing Tristan Farnon opposite Samuel West on PBS’ All Creatures Great and Small, a revival of the TV series about James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire.
Woodhouse also starred for four seasons in the role of Leslie Durrell on the ITV/PBS series The Durrells in Corfu, appearing opposite Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor. His TV credits also include Father Brown and playing Josh Marsden on Cold Feet.
Onstage, Woodhouse has appeared in director Edward Hall’s Filthy Business in London and is set to take part in a ...
- 2/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
As the weeks go by and the pandemic begins to lift at a very, very glacial pace we are hearing some more coins drop into the bank of the specialty box office space.
Edward Hall’s adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spirit is one of a handful of films that made its way to theaters and digital this weekend. The IFC Films pic starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann and Judi Dench had a noteworthy opening in 239 theaters across the U.S., grossing an estimated $98,100. The film also managed to hit Apple Movies’ indie movie chart. It also broke the top five in the comedies section top 10 overall. Not too shabby.
“Counter-programming the comedic Blithe Spirit has clearly connected with audiences on all platforms this weekend,” said Arianna Bocco, President, IFC Films of the film’s opening. “We’re looking forward to an ethereal run.”
Lionsgate’s...
Edward Hall’s adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spirit is one of a handful of films that made its way to theaters and digital this weekend. The IFC Films pic starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann and Judi Dench had a noteworthy opening in 239 theaters across the U.S., grossing an estimated $98,100. The film also managed to hit Apple Movies’ indie movie chart. It also broke the top five in the comedies section top 10 overall. Not too shabby.
“Counter-programming the comedic Blithe Spirit has clearly connected with audiences on all platforms this weekend,” said Arianna Bocco, President, IFC Films of the film’s opening. “We’re looking forward to an ethereal run.”
Lionsgate’s...
- 2/21/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
"Blithe Spirit" is the new British horror comedy feature, directed by Edward Hall, starring Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adil Ray, Michele Dotrice and Aimee-Ffion Edwards, based on the 1941 play by Noël Coward, releasing in North America February 19, 2021:
"...a spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block...
"...but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife ..."
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"...a spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block...
"...but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife ..."
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- 2/20/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better option out there.
The week’s a bit thinner on conventional crowd pleasers. Channeling “The Wolf of Wall Street”-style energy on an indie scale, both “Silk Road” and “Body Brokers” offer cutting-edge takes on 21st-century crimes: a black market for illegal drugs in the former and a scheme to profit on recovering addicts in the latter. Also in the Scorsese vein, the Montreal-made...
The week’s a bit thinner on conventional crowd pleasers. Channeling “The Wolf of Wall Street”-style energy on an indie scale, both “Silk Road” and “Body Brokers” offer cutting-edge takes on 21st-century crimes: a black market for illegal drugs in the former and a scheme to profit on recovering addicts in the latter. Also in the Scorsese vein, the Montreal-made...
- 2/19/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
First, the good stuff: casting comedic gems like Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, and Leslie Mann in a screwball Noel Coward adaptation is an inspired idea. Now this is a trio of game performers who always seem keenly aware of what sort of film they’re in and how to best elevate it. The problem, of course, is how to elevate a film that happens to be, well, just sort of bad. Edward Hall’s “Blithe Spirit” isn’t terribly ill-conceived, a slightly modernized version of the classic Noel Coward play — which has already been adapted for the screen by everyone from David Lean to Coward himself — with a wonderful cast and dazzling period details, that still manages to fall short of even limited expectations.
Based on Coward’s still-popular 1941 stage play, this “Blithe Spirit” has been the victim of an awkward update from screenwriters Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, who...
Based on Coward’s still-popular 1941 stage play, this “Blithe Spirit” has been the victim of an awkward update from screenwriters Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft, who...
- 2/19/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Charles Condomine (Dan Stevens) is plagued by writer’s block—so much so that his wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) talked her film producer father (Simon Kunz’s Henry Mackintosh) into paying him to adapt his best-selling detective novel debut into a screenplay. The hope is that an easy task without the need for new ideas will get the creative (and sexual) juices flowing again so that they can push their beds together and maybe even cross the Atlantic to Hollywood. No matter how supportive Ruth has been, however, Charles still can’t muster more than an all-caps “Help” upon the page before losing himself to another temper tantrum. If only his muse was by his side: the first Mrs. Condomine (Leslie Mann’s Elvira), who tragically died seven years prior.
C’est la vie, right? They’ll just have to push through instead: Charles banging his head against his typewriter...
C’est la vie, right? They’ll just have to push through instead: Charles banging his head against his typewriter...
- 2/18/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: After 15 years as co-ceo of international production group Umedia, Adrian Politowski has stepped down to launch La-based production and finance outfit Align. The new company, co-founded by Umedia’s Nadia Khamlichi, intends to deploy $150M from now through 2022, focusing on three-five English-language projects per year across film and television, and with budgets in the $5M-$30M range. Align is backed by its officers as well as high-net-worth individuals out of Europe.
The company’s first project to launch, Blithe Spirit, began principal photography last week. A comedy, it’s directed by Downton Abbey’s Edward Hall and stars Leslie Mann, Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench. Align is majority financing with additional equity secured by Fred Films.
Politowski tells me that after working with dozens of titles a year at Umedia, he “wanted to produce fewer films and be much more involved in them.” Khamlichi, with whom he co-founded Umedia,...
The company’s first project to launch, Blithe Spirit, began principal photography last week. A comedy, it’s directed by Downton Abbey’s Edward Hall and stars Leslie Mann, Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher and Judi Dench. Align is majority financing with additional equity secured by Fred Films.
Politowski tells me that after working with dozens of titles a year at Umedia, he “wanted to produce fewer films and be much more involved in them.” Khamlichi, with whom he co-founded Umedia,...
- 6/24/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Family matters good and bad plague Chicago Med. The staff welcomes a new doctor who just happens to already have a connection to a staff member, but it’s not a connection she is necessarily proud of. The family you choose, the family you don’t, and the family you inherit can all be pretty complicated. In the hospital the best family is the one which gets you through. Dr. Choi treats an elderly patient named Edward Hall, who has trouble getting treatment because of fighting between his girlfriend and his son. Hall has a tumor which could be taken out surgically,
Chicago Med Review: It’s All Relative...
Chicago Med Review: It’s All Relative...
- 10/14/2016
- by Araceli Aviles
- TVovermind.com
The director of a high-profile new BBC drama series has argued that too many female characters on television are portrayed as victims.
Edward Hall has helmed all six episodes of BBC One's new serial Partners in Crime, which stars Jessica Raine as Agatha Christie's heroine Tuppence Beresford.
"It's very hard to find heroines in television drama who are heroines for any reason other than overcoming some kind of physical violence, or sexual violence, or something that makes them a victim," Hall said at a recent press screening.
"You very rarely see women coming in as heroes and saving the day - [intervening] in someone else's crisis. I thought that was a particularly good thing about this project."
Call the Midwife and Fortitude actress Raine agreed, adding that her character's heroism and forthright nature had "a massive appeal".
"It was so nice to play someone - a woman - who...
Edward Hall has helmed all six episodes of BBC One's new serial Partners in Crime, which stars Jessica Raine as Agatha Christie's heroine Tuppence Beresford.
"It's very hard to find heroines in television drama who are heroines for any reason other than overcoming some kind of physical violence, or sexual violence, or something that makes them a victim," Hall said at a recent press screening.
"You very rarely see women coming in as heroes and saving the day - [intervening] in someone else's crisis. I thought that was a particularly good thing about this project."
Call the Midwife and Fortitude actress Raine agreed, adding that her character's heroism and forthright nature had "a massive appeal".
"It was so nice to play someone - a woman - who...
- 7/24/2015
- Digital Spy
Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 7
Directed by Edward Hall
Written by Julian Fellowes
Airs Sundays at 9 Pm on PBS
Many resolutions came to fruition in last night’s episode of Downton Abbey, and on the whole, most of them are some of the most delightful of the season. There were homecomings, leave-takings, an offscreen death of a minor and unscrupulous character. Schemes were hatched, clues dropped, engagements broken, and new relationships budded.
Now that Edith has decided to keep her baby, there’s the issue of what to do with the child. It’s hard to deny the practicality of Rosamund’s plan to take Edith abroad and let a foreign couple adopt her offspring, but Edith’s fierce desire to stay part of her child’s life provides just another reminder of the heavily weighted “lose” column on the imbalanced scorecard tracking her happiness. Luckily, Edith finds another ally in her grandmother,...
Directed by Edward Hall
Written by Julian Fellowes
Airs Sundays at 9 Pm on PBS
Many resolutions came to fruition in last night’s episode of Downton Abbey, and on the whole, most of them are some of the most delightful of the season. There were homecomings, leave-takings, an offscreen death of a minor and unscrupulous character. Schemes were hatched, clues dropped, engagements broken, and new relationships budded.
Now that Edith has decided to keep her baby, there’s the issue of what to do with the child. It’s hard to deny the practicality of Rosamund’s plan to take Edith abroad and let a foreign couple adopt her offspring, but Edith’s fierce desire to stay part of her child’s life provides just another reminder of the heavily weighted “lose” column on the imbalanced scorecard tracking her happiness. Luckily, Edith finds another ally in her grandmother,...
- 2/18/2014
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
Downton Abbey, Season 4, Episode 6
Directed by Edward Hall
Written by Julian Fellowes
Airs Sundays at 9 Pm on PBS
Just last week, Violet accused her adversary, and sometimes friend, Isobel of “running on indignation.” It’s not very often Isobel’s spiteful side overshadows her more pleasant qualities, but her mission to humble the Countess brought out a streak of smugness in the Crawleys’ activist cousin. This week, Violet and viewers get a full dose of Isobel’s exhaustive source of compassion that restores her saintly reputation. It is another rare but not unwelcome moment of tenderness in the tumultuous relationship between these two catty old women. Isobel emerges the clear winner, because their interactions inevitably indicate a winner and a loser, and Violet once again has to swallow her considerable pride. Of course, there’s also a massive sense of relief by the end of the episode when Violet does not die.
Directed by Edward Hall
Written by Julian Fellowes
Airs Sundays at 9 Pm on PBS
Just last week, Violet accused her adversary, and sometimes friend, Isobel of “running on indignation.” It’s not very often Isobel’s spiteful side overshadows her more pleasant qualities, but her mission to humble the Countess brought out a streak of smugness in the Crawleys’ activist cousin. This week, Violet and viewers get a full dose of Isobel’s exhaustive source of compassion that restores her saintly reputation. It is another rare but not unwelcome moment of tenderness in the tumultuous relationship between these two catty old women. Isobel emerges the clear winner, because their interactions inevitably indicate a winner and a loser, and Violet once again has to swallow her considerable pride. Of course, there’s also a massive sense of relief by the end of the episode when Violet does not die.
- 2/10/2014
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
The Sundance Channel's latest foray into original programming, "Restless," is a two part mini-series about a woman ("Downton Abbey"'s Michelle Dockery) who discovers that her mother (Charlotte Rampling) was a spy during World War II. "Restless" also stars Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon and Hayley Atwell. Edward Hall directs. The series was filmed in South Africa and the UK, and follows themes of espionage, love and betrayal. It is based on a novel and teleplay by William Boyd, who is also set to pen the next round of James Bond novels. The Sundance Channel has hosted the critically-beloved "Carlos" mini-series in 2010, as well as "Appropriate Adult" with Dominic West and Emily Watson. The channel is also gearing up for "Rectify," its first scripted drama series from the producers of "Breaking Bad," as well as Jane Campion's recently-wrapped New Zealand-set "Top of the Lake" with Holly...
- 11/19/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Sundance Channel has set a premiere date for their new scripted miniseries "Restless," a drama about a young woman who discovers her mother's secret past as a Russian spy working for the British Secret Intelligence Service. "Restless" will air on the network on December 7th at 9pm Et/Pt. Based on the novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the teleplay) and directed by Edward Hall ("Strike Back"), "Restless" stars Hayley Atwell ("Captain America"), Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery ("Downton Abbey"), Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling. The two-part series will air over two weeks, on December 7th and 14th. Dockery plays Ruth, who discovers in 1976 that her mother (Rampling) has been leading a double life -- Atwell stars as Rampling's younger counterpart, getting involved with an alluring Englishman (Sewell) who trains her in espionage. Produced by Endor Productions, who did the...
- 10/19/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon and Michelle Dockery are set to star in a Sundance Channel and BBC mini-series based on the William Boyd spy novel "Restless" says THR.
Boyd adapted his own novel set during the early days of World War II. The story follows a Russian spy (Atwell) who tries to infiltrate the British Secret Service with the goal of influencing U.S. power brokers and swinging American public opinion in favor of fighting the Nazis.
Rampling will play the same character in 1976, Sewell plays British Secret Service who trains her and becomes her lover, Dockery plays her daughter who eventually discovers her mother’s secret.
Edward Hall ("Spooks") will direct the two-parter with Hilary Bevan Jones ("State of Play") producing. Shooting kicks off this summer in South Africa and the UK ahead of an airing at the end of the year.
Boyd adapted his own novel set during the early days of World War II. The story follows a Russian spy (Atwell) who tries to infiltrate the British Secret Service with the goal of influencing U.S. power brokers and swinging American public opinion in favor of fighting the Nazis.
Rampling will play the same character in 1976, Sewell plays British Secret Service who trains her and becomes her lover, Dockery plays her daughter who eventually discovers her mother’s secret.
Edward Hall ("Spooks") will direct the two-parter with Hilary Bevan Jones ("State of Play") producing. Shooting kicks off this summer in South Africa and the UK ahead of an airing at the end of the year.
- 6/26/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon & Charlotte Rampling Are 'Restless' For 3 Hour BBC Drama
Making movies is hard work, but if you get off the right foot with good source material and a solid cast, you can make your life easier. And that seems to be the case for BBC One who have rounded up a nice ensemble of players for their upcoming dramatic thriller.
Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling are set to star in "Restless" -- which is not a remake of the Gus Van Sant film -- but instead an adaptation of the novel by William Boyd. Set in 1979, the story follows a young woman (Dockery) who discovers that her mother (Rampling) is actually a Russian emigré hired by the British secret service in 1939. In flashbacks to 1939, Atwell will play the younger versoin of Rampling, chronicling how she's hired by the secret service, meanwhile falling in love with the spymaster (Sewell). Thirty years later, the spy...
Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling are set to star in "Restless" -- which is not a remake of the Gus Van Sant film -- but instead an adaptation of the novel by William Boyd. Set in 1979, the story follows a young woman (Dockery) who discovers that her mother (Rampling) is actually a Russian emigré hired by the British secret service in 1939. In flashbacks to 1939, Atwell will play the younger versoin of Rampling, chronicling how she's hired by the secret service, meanwhile falling in love with the spymaster (Sewell). Thirty years later, the spy...
- 6/25/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
In association with The Sundance Channel, Endor Productions will bring the adaptation of William Boyd’s espionage thriller/love story Reckless to BBC One later this year. Cast has now been set with Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling starring. Downton Abbey‘s Dockery plays a young woman in 1979 who learns that her mother (Rampling) has been living a double life and is really a former spy for the British Secret Service. In flashbacks to 1939 Paris, Atwell plays Rampling’s younger self who’s recruited into the service by and falls in love with Sewell’s spymaster. After a crucial mission collapses, she must go into hiding, but 30 years later wants to resurface and enlists her daughter to track down her former lover, now played by Gambon. Boyd wrote the screeplay based on his 2006 best-seller. Theater director Edward Hall is helming the three-hour drama that...
- 6/25/2012
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Cue that music: The Oscar-winning 1980 drama Chariots of Fire will get an entirely new kind of run. London’s Hampstead Theatre announced that, just in time for this summer’s Olympics, they’ll hold the world premiere of Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of the film about two runners beating the odds (and facing down anti-Semitism) in the 1924 Olympics.
The production — which will feature parts of Vangelis’ iconic original score , as well as new music by by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Carr (Sunday in the Park With George) — will be directed by Hampstead’s artistic director Edward Hall, who said...
The production — which will feature parts of Vangelis’ iconic original score , as well as new music by by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Carr (Sunday in the Park With George) — will be directed by Hampstead’s artistic director Edward Hall, who said...
- 1/30/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
One of my favourite festivals is the tiny but perfectly formed Galway theatre festival – and this year's instalment promises to be as brilliant (and boozy) as ever
What makes for a good arts festival? Above all, it has to be distinctive. Edinburgh is obviously defined by its omnivorousness, Manchester by its air of radical experiment. And the Galway arts festival, which kicks off on 11 July, is for me marked by its high-quality selectiveness and liver-testing hospitality. Under the direction of Paul Fahy, himself trained as a visual artist, it clearly believes that nothing but the best is good enough. I've been twice in recent years and have been struck by the way everything on view is excellent, whether it's Blondie in the Festival Big Top or Ed Byrne performing in a room over a pub.
One of the big events in Galway this year is clearly going to be Cillian Murphy...
What makes for a good arts festival? Above all, it has to be distinctive. Edinburgh is obviously defined by its omnivorousness, Manchester by its air of radical experiment. And the Galway arts festival, which kicks off on 11 July, is for me marked by its high-quality selectiveness and liver-testing hospitality. Under the direction of Paul Fahy, himself trained as a visual artist, it clearly believes that nothing but the best is good enough. I've been twice in recent years and have been struck by the way everything on view is excellent, whether it's Blondie in the Festival Big Top or Ed Byrne performing in a room over a pub.
One of the big events in Galway this year is clearly going to be Cillian Murphy...
- 6/28/2011
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
On the eve of a major Magritte exhibition, artists with an eye for the peculiar reveal why they love the witty Belgian surrealist
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
- 6/20/2011
- by Imogen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
Hampstead; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Vaudeville, all London
Ecstasy: by which Mike Leigh means desperation under a candlewick bedspread. His restaging of this 1979 play, originally devised at Hampstead with Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters, is a significant occasion. It's the first time Leigh has returned to one of his old plays. It is, in terms of tickets sold and cash taken, the most successful production in the theatre's history. It is also a blazing demonstration of Leighland.
It begins with electric simplicity. When Siân Brooke and Sinead Matthews – the one with a gin bottle in the cupboard and sexually grumpy visitors, the other waving some pink, slippery tops she's just nicked from C&A – yelp on to the scene, they are bright outlines. The audience chortles, and bring to mind Dominic Cooke's project at the Royal Court: he thinks it grisly that the middle classes should huddle in the stalls to...
Ecstasy: by which Mike Leigh means desperation under a candlewick bedspread. His restaging of this 1979 play, originally devised at Hampstead with Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters, is a significant occasion. It's the first time Leigh has returned to one of his old plays. It is, in terms of tickets sold and cash taken, the most successful production in the theatre's history. It is also a blazing demonstration of Leighland.
It begins with electric simplicity. When Siân Brooke and Sinead Matthews – the one with a gin bottle in the cupboard and sexually grumpy visitors, the other waving some pink, slippery tops she's just nicked from C&A – yelp on to the scene, they are bright outlines. The audience chortles, and bring to mind Dominic Cooke's project at the Royal Court: he thinks it grisly that the middle classes should huddle in the stalls to...
- 3/20/2011
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
Bam is delighted to present a new staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from Edward Hall's award-winning company Propeller. Last at Bam with renowned productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night (2007 Spring Season), comedies that revel in the trials and inevitable tribulations of romantic love, Propeller returns with an audaciously compelling interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, critically acclaimed in its recent U.K. run.
- 3/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Actress Greta Scacchi has used her "painful" heartache over former lover Vincent D'Onofrio to resurrect her acting career in a new show on London's West End.
The White Mischief star was so devastated when she split from D'Onofrio in 1992 she couldn't act for four years - crushing her blossoming Hollywood career.
But Scacchi admits she was forced to resurrect those life-changing emotions for her new role as Hester Collyer in Terence Rattigan's drama The Deep Blue Sea.
She says, "With Rattigan, the convention is that you keep a stiff upper lip and nobody shows any emotion.
"But he (director Edward Hall) got us to really plumb the depths of these emotions and use our own stories. It was quite a cathartic experience.
"I felt I had reawakened stuff in my own situation of overwhelming sexual passion that was unrequited. It was very, very painful and quite scarring."...
The White Mischief star was so devastated when she split from D'Onofrio in 1992 she couldn't act for four years - crushing her blossoming Hollywood career.
But Scacchi admits she was forced to resurrect those life-changing emotions for her new role as Hester Collyer in Terence Rattigan's drama The Deep Blue Sea.
She says, "With Rattigan, the convention is that you keep a stiff upper lip and nobody shows any emotion.
"But he (director Edward Hall) got us to really plumb the depths of these emotions and use our own stories. It was quite a cathartic experience.
"I felt I had reawakened stuff in my own situation of overwhelming sexual passion that was unrequited. It was very, very painful and quite scarring."...
- 4/1/2008
- WENN
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