Ambitious production is based celebration on work by late UK poet Heathcote Williams.
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has boarded sales on Jean-Albert Lievre’s upcoming documentary Whale Nation, exploring the barely known world of whales.
The project takes inspiration from UK poet and dramatist Heathcote Williams’s 1988 prose work, celebrating the society of whales, with their remarkable abilities of communication and rich and complex social lives.
“The filmmaker has used the text as the basis for a timely film about life in all its diversity, man’s place on the planet and the vital need for cooperation between the species that share our planet,...
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has boarded sales on Jean-Albert Lievre’s upcoming documentary Whale Nation, exploring the barely known world of whales.
The project takes inspiration from UK poet and dramatist Heathcote Williams’s 1988 prose work, celebrating the society of whales, with their remarkable abilities of communication and rich and complex social lives.
“The filmmaker has used the text as the basis for a timely film about life in all its diversity, man’s place on the planet and the vital need for cooperation between the species that share our planet,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Actor Keith Allen talks about screaming popes, his daughter Lily – and the time he lived on a theatre stage
How did you get into acting?
I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 – very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step from that. But I didn't really want to "be" anything: presenter, comic, actor. I just wanted to perform.
What was your big breakthrough?
I don't think I've ever broken through.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A one-man show I did years ago called Whatever Happened to the AA Man's Salute. It was improvised, and ran for three or four weekends at the then Albany Empire in London. I was a squatter at the time, so I moved into the theatre and lived on the stage. I'd do the show right next to my bed.
Do you suffer for your art?
Yes – as...
How did you get into acting?
I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 – very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step from that. But I didn't really want to "be" anything: presenter, comic, actor. I just wanted to perform.
What was your big breakthrough?
I don't think I've ever broken through.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
A one-man show I did years ago called Whatever Happened to the AA Man's Salute. It was improvised, and ran for three or four weekends at the then Albany Empire in London. I was a squatter at the time, so I moved into the theatre and lived on the stage. I'd do the show right next to my bed.
Do you suffer for your art?
Yes – as...
- 3/27/2013
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Writer and publisher who mixed with the Beat generation and the Soho set
The death of the writer and publisher Jay Landesman, aged 91, marks the demise of one of the last links to the Beat, hip and cool roots that inform modern culture. For many budding Beat writers, Neurotica, the magazine Jay founded in the Us in the 1940s, was the first place they saw their names in print.
In the 1980s and 90s, as a louche habitué of the Groucho Club, London, Jay fell naturally into that Soho routine that moved from the Colony Room club to the French pub to Gerry's bar to the Coach and Horses (where he was banned for a while) and back to the Groucho. However, he always had his wits about him and had a shrewd eye for publishing opportunities that went all the way back to his early years in New York,...
The death of the writer and publisher Jay Landesman, aged 91, marks the demise of one of the last links to the Beat, hip and cool roots that inform modern culture. For many budding Beat writers, Neurotica, the magazine Jay founded in the Us in the 1940s, was the first place they saw their names in print.
In the 1980s and 90s, as a louche habitué of the Groucho Club, London, Jay fell naturally into that Soho routine that moved from the Colony Room club to the French pub to Gerry's bar to the Coach and Horses (where he was banned for a while) and back to the Groucho. However, he always had his wits about him and had a shrewd eye for publishing opportunities that went all the way back to his early years in New York,...
- 2/26/2011
- by Yoko Ono
- The Guardian - Film News
The adopted son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been charged with two offenses after he was caught on camera clambering all over a war memorial during London's student riots in December. Police spotted Charlie Gilmour swinging from a flag pole on the Cenotaph - one of the U.K.'s most important memorials - during a violent student protest against a rise in university tuition fees.
He apologized for his "moment of idiocy" but was arrested at his home in Sussex, England three days after the incident and questioned by police. The 21 year old was subsequently freed on bail but on Thursday, January 27 Gilmour was charged with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London for sentencing on February 10.
Charlie was adopted by the Pink Floyd legend when the rocker married his mother Polly Samson in...
He apologized for his "moment of idiocy" but was arrested at his home in Sussex, England three days after the incident and questioned by police. The 21 year old was subsequently freed on bail but on Thursday, January 27 Gilmour was charged with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg. He will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London for sentencing on February 10.
Charlie was adopted by the Pink Floyd legend when the rocker married his mother Polly Samson in...
- 1/28/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Pink Floyd rocker David Gilmour and his wife are "deeply ashamed" of their son after he provoked fury by climbing the U.K.'s most important war memorial during a violent student protest in London. The rocker's adopted son Charlie was photographed swinging from the Union flag and clamoring up the Cenotaph, a monument commemorating Britain's war dead, in London's Whitehall during a day of destructive demonstrations over plans to increase university tuition fees.
Charlie has issued an apology for his actions, insisting he feels "mortified" by the "moment of idiocy", and now his father has spoken publicly about the incident, telling Britain's The Sun, "He's thoroughly ashamed of himself."
Gilmore's wife and Charlie's mother, Polly Sampson, adds, "We're deeply ashamed of him and he's deeply ashamed of himself... We are continuing to give him an earful (reprimand him), not that he needs it because he's already so ashamed he can barely speak.
Charlie has issued an apology for his actions, insisting he feels "mortified" by the "moment of idiocy", and now his father has spoken publicly about the incident, telling Britain's The Sun, "He's thoroughly ashamed of himself."
Gilmore's wife and Charlie's mother, Polly Sampson, adds, "We're deeply ashamed of him and he's deeply ashamed of himself... We are continuing to give him an earful (reprimand him), not that he needs it because he's already so ashamed he can barely speak.
- 12/13/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Sony Pictures Classics re-releases "Orlando" - a film which opened in 1992 and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration as well as Best Costume Design. The Sally Potter-directed and written drama also took home a BAFTA award for Best Make Up Artist (Morag Ross). Sony re-releases the film in New York and Los Angeles on July 23rd. We have images in from the film starring Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandreym Heathcote Williams, Quentin Crisp and Peter Eyre.
- 6/2/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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