Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling delighted fans when she recently unveiled Harry Potter at Home. It’s an initiative designed for people stuck in lockdown and features celebrities reading chapters of the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or, I guess, The Sorceror’s Stone *rolls eyes Britishly*).
A trailer for the project revealed a glittering array of readers. These include Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts), Claudia Kim (Nagini in The Crimes Of Grindelwald), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione Granger in the original West End and Broadway runs of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Stephen Fry (who read the acclaimed audiobooks), David Beckham, Dakota Fanning and many more to be announced.
But they kicked off the project with someone very special: Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe. He read the first chapter of the first book, The Boy Who Lived and, well, let’s just...
A trailer for the project revealed a glittering array of readers. These include Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts), Claudia Kim (Nagini in The Crimes Of Grindelwald), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione Granger in the original West End and Broadway runs of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Stephen Fry (who read the acclaimed audiobooks), David Beckham, Dakota Fanning and many more to be announced.
But they kicked off the project with someone very special: Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe. He read the first chapter of the first book, The Boy Who Lived and, well, let’s just...
- 5/6/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Daniel Radcliffe is picking up his wand again and returning to the world that catapulted him to stardom by reading the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of a Wizarding World lockdown initiative.
Radcliffe has been joined by a cast of narrators, including Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne, who will each read a chapter from the first installment in J. K. Rowling’s mega-franchise. In doing so, they hope to help people “continue to stay at home and keep safe.”
The readings will be released on a weekly basis by Rowling’s Wizarding World. They will be published as videos on the Wizarding World website, while the audio will be available to stream exclusively on Spotify. Radcliffe’s first chapter was released today to launch the series.
Stephen Fry, David Beckham, Dakota Fanning, Claudia Kim and Noma Dumezweni are also among the narrators, and surprises...
Radcliffe has been joined by a cast of narrators, including Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne, who will each read a chapter from the first installment in J. K. Rowling’s mega-franchise. In doing so, they hope to help people “continue to stay at home and keep safe.”
The readings will be released on a weekly basis by Rowling’s Wizarding World. They will be published as videos on the Wizarding World website, while the audio will be available to stream exclusively on Spotify. Radcliffe’s first chapter was released today to launch the series.
Stephen Fry, David Beckham, Dakota Fanning, Claudia Kim and Noma Dumezweni are also among the narrators, and surprises...
- 5/5/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Daniel Radcliffe, David Beckham, Dakota Fanning and more will read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first of J.K. Rowling’s classic series, out loud from home in quarantine.
Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter in all eight films, kicked off the readings with Chapter One, “The Boy Who Lived,” when a baby Potter is left on the doorstep of his aunt and uncle. Radcliffe reads the famous opening lines from his couch: “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,...
Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter in all eight films, kicked off the readings with Chapter One, “The Boy Who Lived,” when a baby Potter is left on the doorstep of his aunt and uncle. Radcliffe reads the famous opening lines from his couch: “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,...
- 5/5/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The British Film Institute (BFI) is hosting a special two-month Satyajit Ray season, the first of which will be held in August. Ray’s films will be screened throughout the month in London, in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ray received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement-just before his death in Calcutta-in 1992.
The films to be screened as part of Ray season in August are Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Mahanagar, Jalsaghar, Apur Sansar, Devi, Teen Kanya, Charulata, Kanchenjungha, Nayak, Kapurush, Chiriakhana, Abhijan and Parash Pathar.
Two documentaries directed by Ray– commemorating writer, artist and composer Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray’s father Sukumar Ray will also be screened.
A Masterclass will be conducted on Pather Panchali by filmmaker and teacher Mamoun Hassan, who headed the BFI in 1970s.
As reported earlier, BFI will also release Ray’s Mahanagar to mark the 50th anniversary of the film.
Ray received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement-just before his death in Calcutta-in 1992.
The films to be screened as part of Ray season in August are Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Mahanagar, Jalsaghar, Apur Sansar, Devi, Teen Kanya, Charulata, Kanchenjungha, Nayak, Kapurush, Chiriakhana, Abhijan and Parash Pathar.
Two documentaries directed by Ray– commemorating writer, artist and composer Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray’s father Sukumar Ray will also be screened.
A Masterclass will be conducted on Pather Panchali by filmmaker and teacher Mamoun Hassan, who headed the BFI in 1970s.
As reported earlier, BFI will also release Ray’s Mahanagar to mark the 50th anniversary of the film.
- 7/15/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Before soaring to pan-India—and, indeed, international—fame with Do Bigha Zameen (1953) that spoke of the travails of Shambhu the peasant, Bimal Roy had, almost a decade earlier, in 1944, become a household name in Bengal with Udayer Pathey (Towards The Dawn), his directorial debut in Bengali for Calcutta’s New Theatres, remade in Hindi as Humrahi in 1945. The hugely successful Udayer Pathey, made by New Theatres on the smallest budget, actually became the studio’s biggest earner. The music was by Raichand Boral and the lyrics by Shailen Roy—in addition, the film featured three very memorable Tagore songs.
Bimal Roy’s works all have a distinct flavor of social realism about them, and Udayer Pathey is steeped in that flavor. It is the story of Anup Chaudhuri, an intrepid writer-intellectual who upholds the cause of the proletariat in a system where the balance of power is skewed towards the moneyed class.
Bimal Roy’s works all have a distinct flavor of social realism about them, and Udayer Pathey is steeped in that flavor. It is the story of Anup Chaudhuri, an intrepid writer-intellectual who upholds the cause of the proletariat in a system where the balance of power is skewed towards the moneyed class.
- 1/5/2013
- by Nivedita Ramakrishnan
- DearCinema.com
The Indian film industry is probably the most prolific in the entire world. According to the latest count in 2010, India ranks the first in production of movies followed by Hollywood and China. But of the huge pantheon of regional and national Indian stars present in Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray is an icon who cannot be forgotten. His unique perspective on Indian life and his impact on Bengali, as well as, Indian cinema cannot be forgotten.
Satyajit Ray was born 2 May 1921 to Sukumar Ray and Suprabhar Roy. His entire family was steeped in literature, socialism and music. This love for journalism, art and cinema was transferred quickly to the young mind of the growing boy. His father passed away when he was three but his mother always insisted on a world-class education for the boy and he was quickly enrolled in the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, that was set up...
Satyajit Ray was born 2 May 1921 to Sukumar Ray and Suprabhar Roy. His entire family was steeped in literature, socialism and music. This love for journalism, art and cinema was transferred quickly to the young mind of the growing boy. His father passed away when he was three but his mother always insisted on a world-class education for the boy and he was quickly enrolled in the Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, that was set up...
- 2/6/2012
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
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