Showing posts with label sense and sensibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sense and sensibility. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Alan Rickman Charms Audience During BAFTA Life In Pictures Event
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
by Ali Jaafar
April 17, 2015 6:21am
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August actor-director Alan Rickman effortlessly charmed audiences on a balmy London evening as he took a stroll down memory lane for the latest in BAFTA’s Life in Pictures series. Recalling a career that has seen him work with some of the film industry’s most talented and eclectic directors, including Neil Jordan, Alfonso Cuaron, Tim Burton, Ang Lee and the late Anthony Minghella, Rickman mused on his late start in the film business. “To be perfectly honest, having a film career is a bit of a surprise,” said the RADA alumni, who was in his 40s when he appeared in his first film. It didn’t hurt his career for that first film to be the era-defining Die Hard in 1988.
“I was extremely cheap,” quipped Rickman about what made the newbie thesp attractive to Die Hard producer Joel Silver, before remembering he almost turned the role down. “I read it and said, ‘What the hell is this? I’m not doing an action movie.” Thankfully for Rickman, and audiences, he was persuaded by friends to take that first role even though it might also have proven his last. Recalling how he had to perform his own stunt in the climactic fall from the top of the skyscraper — this was in the pre-CGI days — Rickman was given one afternoon’s training to prepare for the scene, “which was the very last shot — just in case.”
He also commended Die Hard for its ahead-of-its-time racial diversity. “Every single black character in that film was positive. So, 28 years ago, that was quite revolutionary and quietly so.”
The decade he spent working on the Harry Potter series, seven weeks a year for ten years as Snape, began with him having no idea where the initially ambiguous character was going. “People thought I knew a lot but I didn’t. There were only 3 three books (when we started), so I was learning with the readers, going, ‘Oh, he’s still in it,” joked Rickman. “At first I thought I can’t play this. I don’t know who Snape is. I’m going to need to speak to her (J.K. Rowling)….she gave me one piece of information I promised to never share and I never did but it made me know I had to drive down two roads at the same time.”
Britain’s child labour laws also meant that there were tight limits on how many hours the triumvirate of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint could work, so when the camera was focused on Rickman, “in would come the very small adult actors aged 33 with a wig on their heads…That ain’t the back of Daniel’s head.”
READ MORE HERE: http://deadline.com/2015/04/alan-rickman-bafta-die-hard-harry-potter-robin-hood-kate-winslet-1201411669/
by Ali Jaafar
April 17, 2015 6:21am
Copyright BAFTA
August actor-director Alan Rickman effortlessly charmed audiences on a balmy London evening as he took a stroll down memory lane for the latest in BAFTA’s Life in Pictures series. Recalling a career that has seen him work with some of the film industry’s most talented and eclectic directors, including Neil Jordan, Alfonso Cuaron, Tim Burton, Ang Lee and the late Anthony Minghella, Rickman mused on his late start in the film business. “To be perfectly honest, having a film career is a bit of a surprise,” said the RADA alumni, who was in his 40s when he appeared in his first film. It didn’t hurt his career for that first film to be the era-defining Die Hard in 1988.
“I was extremely cheap,” quipped Rickman about what made the newbie thesp attractive to Die Hard producer Joel Silver, before remembering he almost turned the role down. “I read it and said, ‘What the hell is this? I’m not doing an action movie.” Thankfully for Rickman, and audiences, he was persuaded by friends to take that first role even though it might also have proven his last. Recalling how he had to perform his own stunt in the climactic fall from the top of the skyscraper — this was in the pre-CGI days — Rickman was given one afternoon’s training to prepare for the scene, “which was the very last shot — just in case.”
He also commended Die Hard for its ahead-of-its-time racial diversity. “Every single black character in that film was positive. So, 28 years ago, that was quite revolutionary and quietly so.”
The decade he spent working on the Harry Potter series, seven weeks a year for ten years as Snape, began with him having no idea where the initially ambiguous character was going. “People thought I knew a lot but I didn’t. There were only 3 three books (when we started), so I was learning with the readers, going, ‘Oh, he’s still in it,” joked Rickman. “At first I thought I can’t play this. I don’t know who Snape is. I’m going to need to speak to her (J.K. Rowling)….she gave me one piece of information I promised to never share and I never did but it made me know I had to drive down two roads at the same time.”
Britain’s child labour laws also meant that there were tight limits on how many hours the triumvirate of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint could work, so when the camera was focused on Rickman, “in would come the very small adult actors aged 33 with a wig on their heads…That ain’t the back of Daniel’s head.”
READ MORE HERE: http://deadline.com/2015/04/alan-rickman-bafta-die-hard-harry-potter-robin-hood-kate-winslet-1201411669/
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Alan Rickman, British actor and director, says new film A Little Chaos draws 'modern parallels' for women
YAHOO NEWS
By Peta Yoshinaga
March 20, 2015, 12:25 pm
By Peta Yoshinaga
March 20, 2015, 12:25 pm
British actor and director Alan Rickman is widely known for his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films.
He has worked on both sides of the camera for his new film A Little Chaos, which tackles issues faced by women past and present.
Rickman describes A Little Chaos as human, true and timeless.
Set in 1682, the romantic drama follows Kate Winslet's character Sabine, a talented landscape designer chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles.
Sabine challenges gender and class barriers and becomes involved with the court's renowned landscape artist André Le Notre, played by Matthias Schoenaerts.
"When you ... watch it, I kind of hope that you will all forget about the period and see all sorts of modern parallels," Rickman told Jane Hutcheon on One Plus One.
Rickman reflects on women's roles in both eras, noting the writer's choice to take a period where women were merely decorative objects with no function.
"It's sad that the situation still persists, I mean, you still have women as decorative objects all over the media," he said.
Rickman admires the writing for allowing Schoenaerts' character to show his feminine side and Winslet's character to show her masculine side.
"And neither of them as actors is afraid of that. And I think that creates a great sexual tension between them," Rickman said.
Rickman is a feminist who has encountered strong women throughout his life, including his partner Rima Horton, who is a former Labour Party candidate and lecturer of economics.
"There's nothing wrong with a man being a feminist — I think it's to our mutual advantage," he said.
Rickman was born on a council estate in West London to Margaret Doreen Rose and Bernard Rickman in 1946, around five months after the end of World War II.
When Rickman was eight years old his father died of cancer, leaving his mother to seek out work to feed her family.
But he does not dwell on the hardship, harking back to the story of A Little Chaos when recalling his mother's strength.
"She was a tigress. She could do anything ... all those female things, sew cook and clean — she took care of those things without even thinking about it because she had been trained by her mother," he said.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Emma Thompson 'brought on board to rewrite script for nightmare third Bridget Jones movie'
MAIL ON LINE
By SARAH ROBERTSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:53 EST, 13 October 2014 | UPDATED: 10:30 EST, 13 October 2014
She won an Oscar for her adaptation of Sense And Sensibility, and now Emma Thompson is reportedly set to turn her hand to saving the third Bridget Jones film.
The 55-year-old actress is said to have been recruited to rescue the ailing movie after cast members gave the proposed storyline the thumbs down.
Bosses at Working Title Films have called in the British star to 'rewrite the first draft' of Bridget Jones Baby, which was originally penned by Bridget creator Helen Fielding and One Day author David Nicholls.
As well as no Hugh Grant, it's unclear whether the film's lead actress Reneé Zellweger would reprise her famous role after writer Fielding admitted she had lost touch with her.
The third film is expected to be very different from Fielding's novel Mad About The Boy, which sees a widowed Bridget in her early 50's raising her two young children as a single mother following the death of Darcy.
Bridget Jones’ Diary, the first installment in the franchise, was a box office smash in 2001, taking $281m around the world and breaking UK box office records.
Its sequel The Edge of Reason maintained its predecessor’s blockbuster takings with $262m in 2004 - but was panned by critics.
Instead the new screenplay is said to spare the life of Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy character and look at Bridget’s desire to become a mother in her early forties.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2790845/emma-thompson-brought-board-rewrite-script-nightmare-bridget-jones-movie.html#ixzz3GFALdeoj
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By SARAH ROBERTSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:53 EST, 13 October 2014 | UPDATED: 10:30 EST, 13 October 2014
She won an Oscar for her adaptation of Sense And Sensibility, and now Emma Thompson is reportedly set to turn her hand to saving the third Bridget Jones film.
The 55-year-old actress is said to have been recruited to rescue the ailing movie after cast members gave the proposed storyline the thumbs down.
Bosses at Working Title Films have called in the British star to 'rewrite the first draft' of Bridget Jones Baby, which was originally penned by Bridget creator Helen Fielding and One Day author David Nicholls.
As well as no Hugh Grant, it's unclear whether the film's lead actress Reneé Zellweger would reprise her famous role after writer Fielding admitted she had lost touch with her.
The third film is expected to be very different from Fielding's novel Mad About The Boy, which sees a widowed Bridget in her early 50's raising her two young children as a single mother following the death of Darcy.
Bridget Jones’ Diary, the first installment in the franchise, was a box office smash in 2001, taking $281m around the world and breaking UK box office records.
Its sequel The Edge of Reason maintained its predecessor’s blockbuster takings with $262m in 2004 - but was panned by critics.
Instead the new screenplay is said to spare the life of Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy character and look at Bridget’s desire to become a mother in her early forties.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2790845/emma-thompson-brought-board-rewrite-script-nightmare-bridget-jones-movie.html#ixzz3GFALdeoj
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Emma Thompson and mum Phyllida Law receive doctorates in Glasgow STV 2 July 2013 08:48 BST (STV)
Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law have received honorary doctorates in drama from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which is based in Glasgow.
The women were awarded with doctorates in drama from the renowned educational centre, formerly known as the Royal Scottish Academy for Music and Drama (RSAMD).
Oscar-winner Emma, who has starred in a number of titles in the genres of television and film, from her stint in eighties series Alfresco and Tutti Frutti to movies such as Love Actually to the Harry Potter movies, is also an accomplished screenwriter, having penned scripts for works including the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility.
It is just the latest honour for the star, with Emma picking up a number of Baftas and Oscars throughout her long-running career.
Emma was born into a family of actors. Her father was Eric Thompson, creator of The Magic Roundabout and her mother is also a successful actress. Her sister is actress Sophie Thompson, and Emma's husband is Royal Conservatoire alumnus Greg Wise.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet: Kate gets back with her Sense and Sensibility husband (... and doesn't she look really thrilled about it!) (DAILY MAIL)
By LARA GOULD
PUBLISHED: 19:58 EST, 20 April 2013 | UPDATED: 19:59 EST, 20 April 2013
The last time Kate Winslet looked this bedraggled she was playing Alan Rickman’s bride in Sense And Sensibility – the role that catapulted her to international stardom.
But the actress didn’t exactly look overjoyed when she joined forces with him again to shoot scenes for new film A Little Chaos last week.
With her hair lank and unstyled, and wearing a loose-fitting blue dressing gown, her image certainly fitted the film’s title.
A Little Chaos tells the story of two rival landscape gardeners in 17th Century France vying for the favour of King Louis XIV for the chance to design a new fountain at his Versailles palace.
The movie, which has taken five years to bring to the big screen, also stars Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts.
It does not look as if director Rickman, 67, is asking Kate to revive the glamorous roles she played in Titanic and The Holiday.
The project marks a return to work for Kate, 37, who has been enjoying something of an extended honeymoon since her December marriage to third husband Ned Rocknroll, 34, the nephew of Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Alan Rickman: Lionsgate U.K. Backs Rickman’s ‘Chaos’ (VARIETY)
LONDON – Lionsgate U.K. has boarded Alan Rickman’s sophomore helming effort “A Little Chaos” as main financier and co-producer alongside BBC Films and Lipsync.
Lionsgate will distrib in Blighty and sell U.S. rights on the project, which stars Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts.
Lionsgate Intl. will handle all other rights, with a sale already concluded with Transmission in Australia.
Gail Egan, Andrea Calderwood and Bertrand Faivre will produce the film about rival landscape gardeners both commissioned to create a fountain at Versailles by Louis XIV. Lionsgate’s Zygi Kamasa will exec produce.
“’A Little Chaos’ is the perfect project to continue our increasing investment in British films,” said Kamasa, who aims to make Lionsgate the top distrib for local films in the U.K.
READ MORE: http://variety.com/2013/film/international/lionsgate-u-k-backs-rickmans-a-little-chaos-1200004845/
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Alan Rickman tends to his own garden, back in director’s chair By Marlee Walters JANUARY 21, 2013 (CRITICAL MOB)
Rival landscape gardeners, hear us out: Alan Rickman.
Rickman hasn't directed since 1997 and hasn't teamed up with Kate Winslet since 1995's Sense and Sensibility, but that doesn't mean he's lost his touch. He's directing a period piece about two rival landscape gardeners (Winslet and Rust and Bone's Matthias Schoenaerts) commissioned to create a fountain for Louis XIV.
READ MORE: http://www.criticalmob.com/news/tv-and-film/alan_rickman_tends_to_his_own_garden_back_in_directors_chair
Friday, January 18, 2013
ALAN RICKMAN: Kate Winslet & Matthias Schoenaerts To Star In Alan Rickman Directed Period Drama 'A Little Chaos' NEWS BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH JANUARY 17, 2013 8:25 P (INDIEWIRE)
Persistence pays off it would seem. To date, celebrated actor Alan Rickman only has one feature film directing credit to his name, 1997's "The Winter Guest," and while we've yet to see a sophomore effort, it hasn't been for lack of trying. Rickman has had a couple of projects percolating over the years, but the one that he's stuck with has been "A Little Chaos." It looks like his determination has finally yielded some results, with two great actors on board and a start date in sight.
Baz Bamigboye reveals that Kate Winslet and "Rust & Bone" star Matthias Schoenaerts will topline the Rickman directed "A Little Chaos." Penned by Allison Deegan, the film will tell the unique story of rival landscapes gardeners who are both commissioned to create a fountain at Versailles by Louis XIV. Winslet and Schoenaerts will spar in the main roles, and Rickman has been busy scouting locations and revising the script in preparation for a spring shoot. It will be Winslet's second time up to bat with Rickman, co-starring with him in "Sense & Sensibility," while Schoenaerts adds the project to a very busy 2013 slate that also includes "Suite Francaise" with Michelle Williams. The guy sure knows how to pick his projects.
READ MORE: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/kate-winslet-matthias-schoenaerts-to-star-in-alan-rickman-directed-period-drama-a-little-chaos-20130117
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Dan Stevens: Brit star toast of the town Last Updated: 12:37 AM, December 8, 2012 Posted: 12:15 AM, December 8, 2012 (NEW YORK POST)
Debonair “Downton Abbey” star Dan Stevens has become the toast of New York during his run in “The Heiress” with Jessica Chastain. We hear the thespian will be feted at a dinner next month at John DeLucie’s new restaurant Bill’s, thrown by Town & Country’s Jay Fielden. Stevens is profiled in the latest issue, out Tuesday, in which series creator Julian Fellowes says he discovered the actor in a lesser role in a BBC production of “Sense and Sensibility.” “If you can steal ‘Sense and Sensibility’ as Edward Ferrars, one of the dullest parts in the English canon, you have definitely got something,” Fellowes quips.
READ MORE: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/brit_star_toast_of_the_town_yCJAqGsDHx0KiGbEpOx9bI
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Dan Stevens in Sense and Sensibility
I've never seen this version but just from this clip I can see Dan Stevens was remarkable. Have to find this somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RNYRnwkfI&feature=fvwrel
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
5 Costume Dramas That Will Satisfy Your Inner Hopeless Romantic| Film Equals
Costume dramas are my ultimate movie comfort food. The gowns, the tights, the manners, the buildup to the chaste (and not so chaste) final act kisses–nothing else is quite so satisfying. It’s a genre that is rooted in familiar tropes and familiar characters and as a viewer I wouldn’t have it any other way. Romantic costume dramas are timeless; they speak to that part of us that wants to indulge in fantasies of restrained courtships, forbidden love and dallying with Colin Firth on picturesque moors despite our modern sensibilities.
Plus they’re always pure eye candy. Not just the clothes, but the stately manors and seemingly untouched countryside locales too. They transport us to a different time and place, but more importantly they let us check our cynicism at the door and allow ourselves to embrace the gooey romanticism of pretty people wearing pretty clothes and falling madly in love with one another.
1. Jayne Eyre (2011)
Whoever decided to cast Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester deserves an Oscar. Maybe even ten of them. His brooding was mesmerizing enough to almost make me forget how much I tend to hate Mr. Rochester after the attic reveal. Equally wonderful was Mia Wasikowska’s seamless embodiment of Jane’s reserved, but powerful spirit.
Together their chemistry felt hauntingly true to the Gothic classic’s roots even as it took liberties with just how passionate Jane and Mr. Rochester may have gotten. The adaptation deserves extra kudos for its lush cinematography and direction that dialed up the inherent spookiness of the story. Thornfield had never looked quite so foreboding before, and Mr. Rochester had never looked so inviting.
2. Sense and Sensibility (1996)
Emma Thompson earned a best adapted screenplay Oscar for writing Sense and Sensibility and that was an Oscar well earned. She infused her adaptation with all of the strong familial ties and polite courtships that make Sense and Sensibility so irresistible, and with help from Ang Lee behind the camera, she brought the world of 19th century England to life. A world that happened to be populated with British heavy hitters like Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie and the incomparable Alan Rickman.
After their father’s death, the Dashwood sisters have to face the hard realities of being single women in a time when inheritances passed to male heirs (this should sound familiar to Downton Abbey fans). Their story is one where financial concerns are as ever present as romantic ones. Speaking of which, Sense and Sensibility‘s romantic plotlines have more twists and turns than a spy drama, creating an air of suspense that romance movies usually can’t muster due to their inherent happily ever after set ups.
Read more: http://www.filmequals.com/2012/05/08/5-costume-dramas-that-will-satisfy-your-inner-hopeless-romantic/
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Alan Rickman's Wonderful Career (Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O_66qyDdbs
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My favorite Alan Rickman (everyone has one) SOMETHING THE LORD MADE.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Alan Rickman - Happy Birthday! (very funny clip)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKEObnfUths&feature=related
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor of the stage and screen.
He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His breakout performance was as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma. Rickman has also had a number of other notable film roles such as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply, P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. More recently, he played Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A MOST WONDERFUL ACTOR!
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