Samuel West

Sam wrote a lovely article about Harold Pinter for the February issue of Socialist Review [link]

Classical TV - La Boheme (directed by Jonathan Miller for the ENO)

Thanks to Christian Russo from Zeta Interactive for the following information:

Classical TV is offering an exclusive web broadcast of Jonathan Miller’s new production of La Bohème at the English National Opera as a free preview. In addition to streaming these performances, the site will offer an editorial package of reviews, a viewer’s guide and an insider's look at the performance.

Classical TV, which is scheduled to officially launch 2 March, is a "best of breed" broadband web portal that will offer both free and pay-per-view broadcasts of the world’s best opera, ballet, theater, and classical music performances.

Click the picture above to access the Classical TV site.

Television - The Long Walk to Finchley. Television - Red Riding

[updated 28 February]

• The Long Walk to Finchley has been nominated for the following Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: Single Drama, Multichannel Program, and Actress (Andrea Riseborough) [link]
• Red Riding
• The official website has been updated with trailers and clips [link]
• Interview with David Morrissey from The Northern Echo [link]
• Quote from the Radio Times:
  

  "...Red Riding (there are three feature-length films in the series) is a woozy, nightmarish, unflinchingly violent piece of television that's uniformly well acted, particularly by Garfield, Bean and Rebecca Hall as the mother of a missing girl..."

Entertainment news

• Genevieve Clay's film Be My Brother, which is about a young man with Down Syndrome, won Tropfest. hooray! [link]
• Clive Owen video interview from the Guardian [link]
  
• Rory Kinnear, Connie Fisher, Donald Sinden, Diana Rigg and Anna Maxwell Martin were asked about award speeches [link]
  
• Interview with John Wilson about the Razzies from The Wrap [link]
• Sam Riley interview from the Yorkshire Post (via ONTD) [link]
  
• Ricky Gervais on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [link]
  
• Kristen Stewart interview from Nylon [link]
• Melissa Leo has joined the cast of indie drama Betty Ann Waters alongside Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver and Sam Rockwell [link]
  
• Gareth David-Lloyd Q&A from Gallifrey One [link]
• Producer Hercules Bellville (Cul De Sac, The Dreamers) has died [link]

Rebecca Hall

From the Evening Standard:

"What did Sir Peter Hall put in his children's tea? I want some of it. Rebecca Hall is currently the toast of the British film industry after her assured performance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Meanwhile, her half-brother, Ed Hall, is consolidating his position as one of our most successful theatre directors. Last year he directed Greta Scacchi in the finest Deep Blue Sea I have seen on stage and last Saturday I went to his all-male production of The Merchant of Venice at the Rose Theatre in Kingston. It is not my favourite Shakespeare play but the imaginative set and inspired casting made me realise that this boy will run and run."

Samuel West, Nancy Carroll

[updated 27 February]

Sam and Nancy will attend the opening of Michael Croft Theatre and Performing Arts Centre at Alleyn's, their alma mater. Sam graduated in 1984, and Nancy graduated in 1992. [link]

An article from The Stage about the event is here.

Rebecca Hall - Television - Red Riding

A mention from an article in Sight and Sound:

"...it's Rebecca Hall, whom Grisoni [Tony Grisoni, the screenwriter] describes as 'incendiary' as Paula Garland, the bereft mother who becomes Eddie's lover, who enhances 1974's British noir air of fatal mystery. 'She's playing the part of a very damaged and dangerous woman and she's somehow signalling, in a way that I associate with the best American actors, that she's inviting you in to enjoy the game...'"

Samuel West - Radio - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be available on iPlayer until this Thursday [link]

Rebecca Hall - Theatre - The Winter's Tale

[updated 19 March 2011]

Reviews

Daily Mail
"...I've enjoyed seeing Beale, Hall, Cusack, Easton and Hamilton in this special company..."

Hartford Courant
"...he [Simon Russell Beale] is matched by the young, stately Rebecca Hall as his seemingly doomed queen Hermione. The daughter of the legendary Peter Hall grows with every performance, and her frozen pose as the queen's statue generates amazement, until she warms and comes alive in the richly moving ending..."

Bloomberg
"...Among the other high points of Sam Mendes’s revival are a most creditable bear and, no less admirable, Hall, posing as Hermione’s statue with perfect immobility...Even when mobile, Hall is a winning Hermione..."

The Brooklyn Paper
"...Hall positively blooms as the wronged queen..."

Music OMH
"...Rebecca Hall steals the show as Hermione, dominating the courtroom scene..."

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"...As Hermoine, Rebecca Hall is also excellent. She shows a starkly believable transformation between a pampered queen and a starved prisoner. Her agony upon learning the fate of her son is heartbreaking and authentic..."

Show Showdown
"...Simon Russell Beale, Sinead Cusack, Rebecca Hall, Ethan Hawke and Richard Easton are all outstanding; it's too rare a pleasure to see an ensemble so thoroughly comfortable with Shakespeare's language and rhythms..."

Time Out NY
"...The wronged wife, Hermione, is played with warm, hurt dignity by Rebecca Hall..."

Play Shakespeare
"...Rebecca Hall as Hermione is stunning, largely pregnant in bold eggplant, with brassy majesty to match. She is truly a fine actress who can anchor a Shakespearean character in authentic emotional clarity..."

Epoch Times
"...As Hermione, Hall comes across as both earthy and regal. The actress brings a bit of fresh air to what could be a rather shallow role, making her completely sympathetic and allowing all to see why The Queen is so respected and loved. (And why some would defy the King on order to aid her.)..."


Pictures

Production:
BAM [link]
Flickr [link]
Chester Higgins Jr [link]

Bridge Project party:
WWD [link]
rebecca-hall.org [link]

Samuel West - Theatre - Freshwater

Sam will be in a production of Freshwater by Virginia Woolf at the Charleston Festival in May. [link]

Update, 28 February 2009: The event has been sold out

Update, 17 August 2013: The original link in this post is broken. This page from Lynne Truss' website has some information about the performance.

Entertainment news

• Oscar winners [link]
  
• The Boat that Rocked trailers (via ONTD) 1|2
  
• Footage of Hugh Jackman at an Oscars rehearsal [link]
• Pirate Bay vs. Hollywood [link]
• Publicists for The Dark Knight and Gossip Girl have received awards [link]
• Short round up of British theatre news, plus discussion about Caryl Churchill's new play Seven Jewish Children [link]
  
• Gorgeous Old Hollywood pictures [link]
  
• Rory Kinnear interview [link]
• NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) has officially launched its 50th Birthday Party celebrations [link]
• Franklyn featurette [link]
• Ricky Gervais interview from the Washington Post (via gervsmerchpilk) [link]
  

Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde

Moviegod.de has some new stills from the film [link]

Rebecca Hall - Television - Red Riding

[updated 19 March 2011]

Interview
The Observer magazine (Jack scanned the cover here) [link]

Article
From the Times:

"...The supporting cast, meanwhile, is as strong an ensemble as television can muster: Sean Bean, Lesley Sharp, David Morrissey, Warren Clarke, Rebecca Hall, Maxine Peake, Ron Cook, Jim Carter and Peter Mullan, for starters..."

Hayley Atwell - Theatre - A View From the Bridge

A nice mention from the Evening Standard:

"...Hayley, queen of Brooklyn

A brilliant new production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre has it all. Ken Stott — surely an underrated national treasure? — plays the uncle who can't quite let go of his 17-year-old niece: he is heart-breaking, masterful and more than a little creepy. Even the Brooklyn accents — always a huge risk — were spot on, no doubt greatly assisted by having Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in the cast (the daughter of an Italian immigrant, she played Gina in Scarface).

The real draw, however, is Hayley Atwell, who acts everyone off the stage. Last year she was a revelation as Julia in the new film of Brideshead Revisited. Here she is voluptuously perfect. A male Judi Dench, a touch of The Godfather and a Keira Knightley with breasts — does theatre get any better?"

Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde

[updated 19 March 2011]

The Hilde official website has been updated.

Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde

HildeDerFilm, Hilde's Youtube account, was launched a few days ago. Dan is in the trailer, and the clips "im Tonstudio" and "Tempelhof 1966".

Screencaps

I previously uploaded trailer screencaps here.

im Tonstudio:


Tempelhof 1966:
(click thumbnails for full size)

Entertainment news

• Dominick Dunne interview from the Times [link]
• Post about An Education from ONTD [link]
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the Universal Backlot Series, which includes a 75th anniversary edition of Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra and some pre-Production Code films [link]
• Ang Lee is going to direct an adaptation of Life of Pi [link]
• Clive Owen interview from the Guardian [link]
• Review of the STC's The War of the Roses [link]
  
• Benicio del Toro interview from Radio 1 [link]
• Trailer for Skellig, starring Tim Roth, John Simm and Kelly Macdonald (via john_simm) [link]
  

Dan Stevens - Film - Hilde - Berlinale

[updated 16 February]

Dan attended the Hilde photocall and press conference at the Berlinale. Streaming video from those events is here.

Reviews

Laut
"...Als Glücksgriff erweist sich der smarte Brite Dan Stevens in der Rolle des zweiten Ehemanns David Cameron..."

Articles

Berlin Online [link]
Flensburg Szene [link]
Schwarzwaelder Bote [link]
20min.ch [link]
Berlin Morning Post [link]

Pictures

Photocall:
Getty 1|2
Rex [link]
berlinale.de [link]

Press conference:
Getty 1|2

Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island

From Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column:

"Watch out for...

David Oyelowo, Naomie Harris, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ruth Wilson, who lead the TV drama based on Andrea Levy's novel Small Island.

The drama has a series of intertwining tales about Jamaican Gilbert Joseph, who joins the RAF and fights for Britain during WWII. Later, his wife Hortense joins him in the UK.

'Gilbert tries to settle in Britain after the war and it's like: "Oh, are you still here?" That's the sense he gets from the Brits, even though he was in the war,' Mr Oyelowo told me during a break from rehearsals.

Filming begins next week on locations in Belfast and London."

Hayley Atwell

From the Evening Standard:

"Who's in and who's out?
UP AND COMING
THEATRE
HAYLEY ATWELL, 26
actor
Winning plaudits for her turn in A View From the Bridge at The Duke of York's, Atwell is blossoming on both stage and screen. She is also in the TV remake of The Prisoner, following well-received cinema roles in Brideshead Revisited and The Duchess in the autumn."

Charles Edwards - Theatre - Where There's a Will

[updated 17 March 2011]

Reviews

The Telegraph
"...Charles Edwards has exactly the right ratio of smugness to panic attacks as the husband..."

whatsonstage
"...Edwards’ humorously pompous politico..."

[another review] "...Charles Edwards as her [Angele, played by Sara Stewart] philandering husband has a restrained flamboyance: seemingly devoted, while in reality he’s playing away with the unseen Madame Savinet. Edwards walks the line between over the top and believable with great skill..."

The Times
"...Charles Edwards is relishably suave and duplicitous as Ribadier..."

The Yorker
"...Although Ribadier is a despicable individual, Edwards’ interpretation made it hard not to warm to the character, with his frequent charming asides and amusing attempts to conceal his wrongdoing..."

Brian Creese
"...Charles Edwards plays the pompous and so-sophisticated ass Ribadier with suitable aplomb..."

Pictures


Alastair Muir/The Telegraph
Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
Nobby Clark/Daily Information, Oxford; The Stage; ETT

Entertainment news

• Article about story plagiarism from The Wrap [link]
• Scans of January Jones and Christina Hendricks from Vogue [link]
• Film London's annual production finance market has formed a partnership with the Melbourne International Film Festival's 37 South market [link]
  
• Romantic comedies:
  
• Matthew Goode and Amy Adams will star in Leap Year [link]
• Kelly Reilly, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Kris Marshall will star in Meant to Be [link]
• Don McAlpine, an Australian DoP, will receive the international achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers [link]
• Inglourious Basterds trailer [link]
• Rosamund Pike has received a Genie Award nomination for Fugitive Pieces [link]
• An Education:
  
• Short interview with Lone Scherfig [link]
• Carey Mulligan interviews 1|2
  
• Christopher Nolan will direct and produce Inception, a sci-fi action film which he hopes to shoot in the [northern hemisphere] summer for a release during summer 2010 [link]
• Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Jason Priestley and Vanessa Redgrave will star in a miniseries adaptation of The Day of the Triffids for the BBC [link]
• Keira Knightley being adorable for Comic Relief [link]
• Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins will star in Woody Allen's next film, which will be set in London [link]
• Pictures from Three Days of Rain, starring James McAvoy, Nigel Harman and Lyndsey Marshal [link]
• Timothy Spall interview about Oliver Twist [link]
• ITV has commissioned more episodes of Marple, Poirot, Foyle's War and Doc Martin [link]
• Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, and David Wenham have joined the voice cast of animated project Guardians of Ga'Hoole [link]
• Rupert Grint interview [link]
• Three AFTRS students have been nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors "Golden Reel" Verna Fields Award [link]
• Toby Kebbell interview [link]
  

Television - Cambridge Spies

[updated 19 March 2011]


IMDB|Wikipedia

Reviews

The Guardian ("Cambridge Spies", 9 May 2003)
"...Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Toby Stephens and Rupert Penry-Jones excel as the infamous communists..."

Houston Chronicle ("The 'Spies' Among Us", 25 October 2003)
"...the acting is a joy to behold. Tom Hollander (Gosford Park) plays the homosexual Burgess with an openness astonishing for its day. Samuel West (Howards End) imbues Blunt with equanimity and intelligence. Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Rupert Penry-Jones (Charlotte Gray) are equally strong as, respectively, Philby and Maclean..."


Articles

The Guardian [link]
UPI [link]
The Age [link]
The Independent [link]
Independent On Sunday "Preview - Cambridge Spies", 4 May 2003
The Northern Echo "Their kind of Guy", 8 May 2003
Televisual "Spies Like Us", 2 April 2003
Yorkshire Post "Sex, Lies and Master Spies", 8 May 2003


Interviews

Rupert Penry-Jones: Belfast News Letter "Catching up with the Cambridge spies saga", 15 May 2003; Daily Post (Liverpool) "Spies and family ties", 10 May 2003
Samuel West: Belfast News Letter "Cambridge spies go West for drama", 30 May 2003; Scottish Daily Record "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel", 3 May 2003; The Western Mail "Let's be Blunt", 29 April 2003; Manchester Evening News; Houston Chronicle "Fourth generation actor stars in BBC America's spy movie", 25 October 2003
Toby Stephens: Augusta Chronicle; sfgate; The Express on Sunday "Bright ideals that ended in the Moscow gloom", 27 April 2003; The Evening Standard "I'm perfect to play toff spy Philby", 1 May 2003; Birmingham Post "Spy Another Day", 5 May 2003
Tom Hollander: Evening Times "The Cam Before the Storm", 9 May 2003


Clip

by FilmographySam



Pictures

Milk Publicity [link]

Stills:
Shootastic (hi-res) (registration required) [link]
OBASC [link]

Screencaps (click thumbnails for full size):

Episode 1






Episode 2






Episode 3






Episode 4







Links

BBC 1|2|3
BAFTA/LA [link]

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