Terence Davies gets ready to go back behind the camera; Pixie Lott prepares for a stage role in StreetDance; the stars queue up to star in Nick Love's revamp of 70s cop show The Sweeney
Hidden gemsGlasses were raised to 75 years of the Bfi archive on London's Southbank last week. Guests attending a screening – on the original combustible nitrate print – of The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, included Stephen Frears, Barbet Schroeder, Diana Quick and a very tanned Terence Davies, just returned from the Midnight Sun film festival in Finland, where there was a restrospective of his films. "God knows it's depressing enough there during the winter — quite why they'd want to sit through my films during their sunny months escapes me," he chuckled.
Davies was clearly buzzing that he might be filming again soon. His acclaimed 2008 memoir, Of Time and the City, seemed to have revived...
Hidden gemsGlasses were raised to 75 years of the Bfi archive on London's Southbank last week. Guests attending a screening – on the original combustible nitrate print – of The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, included Stephen Frears, Barbet Schroeder, Diana Quick and a very tanned Terence Davies, just returned from the Midnight Sun film festival in Finland, where there was a restrospective of his films. "God knows it's depressing enough there during the winter — quite why they'd want to sit through my films during their sunny months escapes me," he chuckled.
Davies was clearly buzzing that he might be filming again soon. His acclaimed 2008 memoir, Of Time and the City, seemed to have revived...
- 7/10/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
British filmmaker Terence Davies ("Of Time And The City," "The Long Day Closes") is working on a film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play "The Deep Blue Sea" reports The Daily Mail via The Playlist.
The story follows High Court Judge's wife Hester Collyer who becomes caught up in a self-destructive affair with a mentally disturbed R.A.F. pilot, and dealt with both post-war trauma and contemporary sexuality.
Kenneth Moore and Vivien Leigh starred in a previous film adaptation in 1955. Sean O'Connor will produce the new version which hopes to kick off shooting later this year.
The story follows High Court Judge's wife Hester Collyer who becomes caught up in a self-destructive affair with a mentally disturbed R.A.F. pilot, and dealt with both post-war trauma and contemporary sexuality.
Kenneth Moore and Vivien Leigh starred in a previous film adaptation in 1955. Sean O'Connor will produce the new version which hopes to kick off shooting later this year.
- 5/28/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Director Ken Annakin.
I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.
I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner,...
I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.
I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner,...
- 4/30/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Tony Award-winning Irish actress Anna Manahan has died of multiple organ failure at the age of 84.
Manahan, whose career on the stage, television and film spanned over 60 years, died on Sunday in Waterford, Ireland.
She made her Broadway debut in Brian Friel's Lovers in 1969, which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Drama.
But it was her role as Mag Folan in famed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's 1996 production Beauty Queen that finally earned her the Tony in 1998 for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.
She also starred in plays written by Irish writers including J.M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Sean O'Casey, and appeared in numerous TV series, most recently in 2004's Fair City.
Her film career saw her star alongside the likes of Sir Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing, Kenneth Moore, and Dame Maggie Smith, while her best-known roles were in 1991's Hear My Song and 1994's A Man of No Importance, featuring Albert Finney and Sir Michael Gambon.
In 2002, Manahan was granted the freedom of the city of Waterford for life achievement in the arts.
She is survived by two brothers, Val and Joe.
Manahan, whose career on the stage, television and film spanned over 60 years, died on Sunday in Waterford, Ireland.
She made her Broadway debut in Brian Friel's Lovers in 1969, which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Drama.
But it was her role as Mag Folan in famed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's 1996 production Beauty Queen that finally earned her the Tony in 1998 for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.
She also starred in plays written by Irish writers including J.M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Sean O'Casey, and appeared in numerous TV series, most recently in 2004's Fair City.
Her film career saw her star alongside the likes of Sir Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing, Kenneth Moore, and Dame Maggie Smith, while her best-known roles were in 1991's Hear My Song and 1994's A Man of No Importance, featuring Albert Finney and Sir Michael Gambon.
In 2002, Manahan was granted the freedom of the city of Waterford for life achievement in the arts.
She is survived by two brothers, Val and Joe.
- 3/10/2009
- WENN
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