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Aidan Turner, Vanessa Redgrave, Theo James, Jack Reynor - ‘The Secret Scripture’ Trailer: Rooney Mara is a Dangerous Woman in Jim Sheridan’s Period Drama — Watch

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Mar 17, 2017 12:36 pm

“The Secret Scripture” had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. Now, the film adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s 2008 bestselling novel of the same name is ready for its big screen release this May. The film comes from beloved Irish director Jim Sheridan, who has six Oscar nominations to his name, for films like “My Left Foot” (1989), “In The Name Of The Father” (1993) and “In America” (2002). 

The film follows the story of Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave), an elderly woman who has spent 50 years in a mental institution in Ireland. The film takes viewers into Roseanne’s past. As a young woman (played by Rooney Mara), Roseanne was involved in a love triangle between a fighter pilot (Jack Reynor) and a priest (Theo James) that had devastating consequences for all three of them.

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THE GATHERING STORM, PART 1 AND 2 (ALBERT FINNEY, VANESSA REDGRAVE, TOM HIDDLESTON, DEREK JACOBI, HUGH BONNEVILLE...)

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

Matthew Macfadyen leads cast for Howards End miniseries

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Ripper Street star Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell from Marvel's Agent Carter and comic Tracey Ullman have all been cast in a new big-budget TV adaptation of EM Foster's classic Howards End.

The novel was previously a hit film for Merchant Ivory and memorably won an Oscar for Emma Thompson for her starring role opposite Anthony Hopkins.

The Oscar nominated writer director of Manchester By the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan is adapting Forster's turn-of-the-century novel about the English class system into a four-episode run.

In a statement a spokesperson for the BBC described Lonergan as "one of our truly great contemporary voices" ans said that his adaptation would "surprise and delight a whole  new audience with its timely and relevant themes."

The story is told focusses on the triumphs and tragedies of the Schlegel, Wilcox and Bast families, with Hayley Atwell playing the intellectual Margaret Schlegel and Matthew Macfadyen the widower Henry Wilcox. Tracey Ullman appears as the ailing Aunt Juley.

The 1992 film adaptation of Howards End bagged Emma Thompson an Oscar for her performance as Margaret Schlegel, and earned nominations for co-star Vanessa Redgrave and director James Ivory.

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Charles and Camilla pose with Oscar winners including Judi Dench and Colin Firth as they host a star-studded reception in honour of British filmmaking

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PUBLISHED: 16:54 EST, 4 May 2016 | UPDATED: 18:13 EST, 4 May 2016

Prince Charles and Camilla held a recption celebrating British filmmaking, from second left, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, with Colin Firth and Michael Caine, centre



Dame Judi Dench and Colin Firth, who earned their Oscars playing members of the monarchy, are being celebrated at a royal reception for British Academy Awards winners.



The Prince of Wales, 67, and Duchess of Cornwall, 68, hosted the event at St James's Palace tonight to celebrate British filmmaking, which also saw Sir Michael Caine, Emma Thompson and singer Sam Smith among the Oscar-winning guests from both in front of and behind the camera.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and members of the Academy's Board of Governors were also in attendance.




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Vanessa Redgrave heads up gala for the newly named Lynn Redgrave Theatre in honour of her late sister By CASSIE CARPENTER (MAIL ON LINE)

In her name: Lynn Redgrave, seen here with Vanessa in 2010, perished at age 67 of breast cancer in 2010

And Vanessa Redgrave paid loving tribute to her younger sister by heading up the commemorative gala renaming 45 Bleecker Street - the Lynn Redgrave Theatre.

The 76-year-old actress donned a grey dressing-gown over matching trousers and black loafers for the Culture Project Gala at Stage 48 in New York on Monday.

The Atonement star is still the only British actress ever to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award. 

Vanessa was joined at the touching tribute by Kyra Sedgwick and husband Kevin Bacon as well as Trudie Styler.

'Lynn was a professional inspiration,' said the soiree's host Kyra, according to Broadway World.

'So to be opening a theater named for her and reflective of her wonderful ability to make a difference in people's lives through performance, is a touching and humbling privilege.'

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Forest Whitaker As 'The Butler' Could Be A Recipe For Success [Trailer] 23 May 2013 'The Butler' boasts a superb supporting cast including Robin Williams, John Cusack, Alan Rickman and Cuba Gooding Jr. (CONTACT MUSIC)

 In the mould as The King's Speech and The Iron Lady, the historical biopic is set for release on October 18th - just in time to be wafted under the nose of the Academy. As well as Whitaker returning to a leading role, 'The Butler' boasts one of the more spectacular casts of the year, including Robin Williams (Dwight Eisenhower), John Cusack (Richard Nixon), James Marsden (JFK), Liev Schreiber (Lydon B. Johnson), Alan Rickman (Reagan), Cuba Gooding Jr (Carter Wilson). David Oyelowo (Loius Gaines) and Oprah Winfrey (Gloria Gaines) are among the supporting cast though this one appears to be set up for Whitaker.

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CALL THE MIDWIFE - cast talks on birth scenes, bedside manner

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Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Katherine Hepburn - WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE AN OLD WOMAN...

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British Actors who rejected the Queen's Honors (DIGITAL SPY)

British actor Alan Rickman rejected a CBE from the Queen.

 Alfred Hitchcock rejected a CBE in 1962 but accepted a knighthood from the Queen shortly before his death in 1980.

David Bowie reportedly rejected a CBE in 2000, explaining simply: "I seriously don't know what it's for."

 .John Lennon returned his MBE 1969, along with a letter to Her Majesty which read: "I am returning this in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam 

BAFTA-winning comedy duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French rejected an OBE back in 2001.

Skyfall actor Albert Finney turned down a CBE in 1980 and rejected a knighthood in 2000.

According to official government records, Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave also rejected an honour from the Queen.

Actor Bill Nighy reportedly declined the British Honour of CBE.

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Dench and Streep in battle for gong (INDEPENDENT IE)

Dame Judi Dench and Meryl Streep are to do battle to be named best actress at the Moet British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).

James Bond star Judi is nominated for her role in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, while Meryl is up for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

Ensemble comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, about a group of British pensioners moving to a retirement hotel in India, is nominated for five awards, including best film, John Madden for best director, Tom Wilkinson for best supporting actor, and Dame Maggie Smith for best supporting actress.

Rapper Plan B's acclaimed directorial debut Ill Manors has three nominations, including the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director.

Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave are both nominated for their performance in moving drama Song For Marion, about a man who finds comfort in his local choir after losing his wife to cancer.

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PHOTO: Oprah Lights One Up After Final Love Scene In “The Butler” (QUEERTV)

The Butler possesses one of the greatest casts ever assembled, hands down.

Let’s see, we’ve got Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower; Melissa Leo as Mamie Eisenhower; Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan; Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan; James Marsden as JFK; John Cusack as Tricky Dick Nixon; Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson; True Blood‘s Nelsan Ellis (yes, children, Lafayette) as Martin Luther King, Jr; and rounding out the cast, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Redgrave, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Alex Pettyfer, Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard and a little lady you may have heard of – Oprah Fucking Winfrey.


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‘CALL THE MIDWIFE’ RECAP: EPISODE 1 By Kevin Wicks | Posted on Monday, October 1st, 2012 (BBC AMERICA)

Masterpiece’s Call the Midwife, a costumed import from the BBC, has been billed as the new Downton Abbey based on purely superficial similarities. Downton is a posh soap opera paralleling the lives of the upper crust and the servant class in Edwardian England.

Set almost half a century later, Call the Midwife is something altogether different, a medical drama, a coming-of-age story, and a survey of the Dickensian poverty that remained in London during the late 1950s. Admittedly, I haven’t read the Jennifer Worth memoirs on which this series is based, so I swoop through this series with fresh and somewhat unbiased eyes. (And I’m unspoiled by advance episodes.)

Our audience surrogate is Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), a wide-eyed novice nurse dropped along the streets of East End London, caught off-guard by the wolf-whistles and catcalls of men as she strides by. Through voiceover, Vanessa Redgrave (with that unmistakable voice) tells us that Jenny could have been a model or a pianist, but that she’d chosen the midwife trade. Our “heroine” stumbles upon a catfight that would be quite fitting for a Real Housewives episode, with an older lady battling a young woman over the latter’s dalliance with the former’s husband. (It’s as soapy as the show gets within the first hour.)

Jenny watches the slugfest alongside a cheering crowd, not quite sure if she should intervene or safely keep her distance, until a full-figured nun steps in, recognizing one of these bruisers as a patient and setting the whole lot of them straight. And this nun is played by none other than Pam Ferris, who is certainly not to be toyed with:

Jenny arrives at her destination, the Nonnatus House (an actual place in London), where Sister Monica Joan (the kindly Judy Parfitt) greets her. We quickly learn that this sister feels vibrations and looks after a potted plant with the devotion of a loving mother. She’s nutty but in an innocuous way, and she invites her new friend on a hunt to unearth a coconut cake in the kitchen. They find their treasure, and Sister Monica Joan almost force-feeds young Jenny her slices.


Next, our cast of nuns and nurses amass in the kitchen: the blond Trixie and the brunette Cynthia, Jenny’s fellow budding midwives; Sister Julienne, a motherly figure played by an ageless, luminous Jenny Agutter; and Sister Evangelina, the intimidating figure we first met in the streetfight. Sister Julienne suggests they all enjoy a slice of cake – i.e. the cake that Jenny had just devoured with Sister Monica Joan’s help. This is the most Downton of the scenes in Midwife: a dinner table chat set to plucky music to signal lightheartedness and comedy. Evangelina, doing her tut-tutting nun act, tries to identify the culprit behind the missing cake, while Jenny squirms sheepishly in her chair. “It was coconut,” says Sister Evangelina, “which is a very insinuating ingredient liable to smear itself all over the consumer’s face.” We notice a hint of tension of Sister Monica Joan and Sister Evangelina, which may play itself in upcoming episodes.

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Liam Neeson attends tribute event to Redgrave acting dynasty... and family of late wife Natasha Richardson By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Liam Neeson, 60, attended the American Theater Wing's Annual Gala in New York with the mother and sister of his late wife Natasha Richardson.

Vanessa Redgrave, 75, and 47-year-old daughter Joely Richardson stepped out for the event at the Plaza Hotel on Monday night, which paid tribute to the six generation acting dynasty and their contribution to theatre.


The Taken actor, Natasha, Vanessa and Joely were among the family members honoured, with the long list also including Corin, Michael, Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

Joey Richardson looked stunning in a silver dress for the event, while Vanessa opted for an all-in-black outfit.

Executive director of the organisation Heather Hitchens said before the event: 'I don't know of another family with six generations of actors in it.'

Tragic: Liam Neeson's late wife Natasha Richardson died in 2009 after a freak skiing accident in Canada



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The Butler, Starring Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave and Liev Schreiber, Gets Weinstein Company Pick-Up NEWS By Broadway.com Staff September 24, 2012 - 3:45PM (BROADWAY.COM)

The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for The Butler, the upcoming ensemble drama from Precious director Lee Daniels. The film  stars Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, James Marsden, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber and Robin Williams. No release date has been announced.

The Butler follows an African-American man (Whitaker) who served as a butler in the White House for more than thirty years, tending to eight Presidents. The all-star cast will play various public figures, including Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, Rickman as Ronald Reagan and Williams as Dwight Eisenhower.

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Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Vannessa Redgrave, Shirley Maclaine - When I Grow Up I want to be an Old Woman (and I'm nearly there)

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VANESSA REDGRAVE TO GUEST STAR ON ‘POLITICAL ANIMALS’ by: Jacob Hall Yesterday (SCREEN CRUSH)

In the vast majority of cases, someone signing on to guest star in a TV series that hasn’t aired yet isn’t news. However, the great Vanessa Redgrave appearing on a series that already features Sigourney Weaver, Ellen Burstyn and Ciaran Hinds is not just news, it’s a swift kick to your senses, a reminder that USA’s upcoming ‘Political Animals‘ should probably be on your radar.

Redgrave will play Diane Nash, who, within the universe of the show, is the first openly gay member of the Supreme Court. She is a friend and mentor to Weaver’s Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady who became Secretary of State after failing to snag a presidential nomination (shades of Hillary Clinton, except for the whole divorce thing). Hinds will play her ex-husband, the former President. Carla Gugino will play the “hungry DC journalist” hellbent on taking Nash down. Burstyn’s role is unspecified, but considering her talent, you can be it’ll be a great part.


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Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time' As the director of 2012's Brighton festival, Vanessa Redgrave hopes to save the Earth, fix the economy and uncover the real origins of the Arab spring. So why does Michael Billington think her firebrand days are over? Michael Billington (THE GUARDIAN)

Great actor, pity about the politics. That, for decades, has been the stock response to Vanessa Redgrave. But it always struck me as nonsense. The passion she displayed in her performances was inseparable from her activism. Read her 1991 autobiography, and you find that the flaming ardour she brought to Rosalind in As You Like It at Stratford in 1961 – which made her a star – fed into her commitment to Bertrand Russell's anti-nuclear Committee of 100, something for which she risked arrest.

So I was stunned when, during a recent public debate in Oxford, she talked about the danger of being "imprisoned by politics". While she remains a great actor, it seems the revolutionary firebrand, seen on every demo and a leading light in the Workers' Revolutionary Party, has now morphed into a crusader for human rights. And it is her humanism that strikes me most as we meet at her modest west London flat to talk about her latest role: guest director of the Brighton festival. She's following in some distinguished footsteps, those of Brian Eno and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. What made her want to do it?

The chief executive, Andrew Comben, told me the focus was on conflict resolution," she says. "That's what hooked me. I thought back to something said to me by a driver in Kosovo when I organised a festival in 1999 to celebrate the Kosovar Albanians who had survived the terrible killings. 'I'm so glad about this festival,' the driver said, 'because, while aid agencies give us a lot of help, they don't realise the soul needs to be fed.' That was when I really took on board that, contrary to the left and right point of view, art is not a luxury. It is a physical and spiritual necessity for any sane society."


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Maggie Smith: Oh! What a Lovely War Musical comedy

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144 minutes Directed by Richard Attenborough

Starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, John Clements, Ian Holm, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Paul Daneman, Corin Redgrave, Pamela Abbott, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Juliet Mills, Susannah York, Dirk Bogarde, Cecil Walker, Thorley Walters, Guy Middleton, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, Mary Wimbush, Colin Farrell, Maurice Roëves, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee.

World War I is given the musical treatment, told in a series of a song-and-dance vignettes. Throughout we follow the Smith family, stand-ins for the British working class, who initially view the war with sunny optimism. But, after the Smith boys Jack[C26], Freddy[C27], Harry[C24]and George[C25]witness the reality of trench warfare, their illusions are inevitably shattered, and the best they can hope for is survival.