Playwright James Graham has teamed up with Michael Sheen for three part BBC drama, The Way. Here’s the trailer.
Michael Sheen has spent a good portion of his career playing real-life figures, perhaps most notably David Frost in Ron Howard’s film version of Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon.
He has also played journalist Robbie Ross in Wilde, writer Jeremy Dyson in The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Chris Tarrant in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? scandal drama Quiz and he played a heightened version of himself opposite David Tennant in Staged. He’s about to take on the role of Aneurin “Nye” Bevan in Tim Price’s play Nye at the National Theatre. Likewise, James Graham often writes political plays based around recent events.
The two have now teamed up for BBC drama The Way, which although it takes its inspiration from real events, follows fictional characters.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Ambitious,...
Michael Sheen has spent a good portion of his career playing real-life figures, perhaps most notably David Frost in Ron Howard’s film version of Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon.
He has also played journalist Robbie Ross in Wilde, writer Jeremy Dyson in The League Of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Chris Tarrant in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? scandal drama Quiz and he played a heightened version of himself opposite David Tennant in Staged. He’s about to take on the role of Aneurin “Nye” Bevan in Tim Price’s play Nye at the National Theatre. Likewise, James Graham often writes political plays based around recent events.
The two have now teamed up for BBC drama The Way, which although it takes its inspiration from real events, follows fictional characters.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Ambitious,...
- 2/9/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Most biopics are thuddingly prosaic: There’s a lot of “this happened, then that happened,” performed by a famous person covering themselves in latex in an attempt to resemble another famous person.
In the hands of British auteur Terence Davies, however, biopics can be poetry, although his choice of subject matter probably helps in that department. On the heels of his gorgeous and contemplative “A Quiet Passion,” about the life of Emily Dickinson, he returns with another passionately quiet portrait, this time exploring Siegfried Sassoon in “Benediction.”
It’s an impressionistic collage, and Davies skillfully jumps from the 1910s to the 1960s and back again. “Benediction” fleetingly encapsulates the horrors of WWI — Sassoon went from being a decorated soldier to an outspoken critic against those who would prolong the conflict — the shadow-world of British gay men in the decades before homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK, and the bitterness of...
In the hands of British auteur Terence Davies, however, biopics can be poetry, although his choice of subject matter probably helps in that department. On the heels of his gorgeous and contemplative “A Quiet Passion,” about the life of Emily Dickinson, he returns with another passionately quiet portrait, this time exploring Siegfried Sassoon in “Benediction.”
It’s an impressionistic collage, and Davies skillfully jumps from the 1910s to the 1960s and back again. “Benediction” fleetingly encapsulates the horrors of WWI — Sassoon went from being a decorated soldier to an outspoken critic against those who would prolong the conflict — the shadow-world of British gay men in the decades before homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK, and the bitterness of...
- 6/3/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
(center, left-right) Kate Phillips as Hester Gatty and Jack Lowden as famed war poet Siegfried Sassoon in a scene from Terence Davies’ biopic Benediction. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, Benediction is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man famous for his writing about the horror of war. Decorated for bravery and beloved by the soldiers serving with him, Siegfried Sassoon was a WWI British officer who returned from that brutal conflict to vocally oppose the war, and became one of Britain’s acclaimed war poets.
Benediction is a brilliant feast of a film, written and directed by British auteur Terence Davies. Sassoon was among the renowned war poets who came out of WWI, a devastating conflict whose brutality virtually wiped out a generation, toppled monarchies, and prompted the Geneva Convention’s rules on warfare. Sassoon’s pointed yet lyrical war poetry struck...
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, Benediction is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man famous for his writing about the horror of war. Decorated for bravery and beloved by the soldiers serving with him, Siegfried Sassoon was a WWI British officer who returned from that brutal conflict to vocally oppose the war, and became one of Britain’s acclaimed war poets.
Benediction is a brilliant feast of a film, written and directed by British auteur Terence Davies. Sassoon was among the renowned war poets who came out of WWI, a devastating conflict whose brutality virtually wiped out a generation, toppled monarchies, and prompted the Geneva Convention’s rules on warfare. Sassoon’s pointed yet lyrical war poetry struck...
- 6/3/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rupert Everett turns his fascination with Oscar Wilde, the 19th-century Irish poet and playwright who was persecuted and jailed for “gross indecency with men” (the word homosexual was never uttered), into a film of righteous anger, touching gravity and wicked Wildean wit. Having played the literary lion on stage in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss and characters in film versions of An Ideal Husband (1999) and The Importance of Being Earnest (2002), Everett shows a kinship with the role that goes beyond an openly gay actor playing a gay icon. Any...
- 10/11/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Dramatizations of the life of playwright Oscar Wilde usually dwell on his sentence to prison with hard labor for homosexuality. The films “Oscar Wilde” and “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” both of which came out in 1960, put the emphasis on his downfall, as did the biopic “Wilde” from 1997 and numerous theatrical productions, such as “Gross Indecency.”
Rupert Everett played Wilde in a revival of David Hare’s play “The Judas Kiss” in 2012 in London, and now he returns to the role in “The Happy Prince,” which he also wrote and directed. Everett shows little sense of how to structure his material, or how to shoot it, or even sometimes how to act it, but he does have one key element that sees him through: keen insight into Wilde’s world and character. And this insight gets him pretty far here.
“The Happy Prince” begins with title cards explaining who Wilde...
Rupert Everett played Wilde in a revival of David Hare’s play “The Judas Kiss” in 2012 in London, and now he returns to the role in “The Happy Prince,” which he also wrote and directed. Everett shows little sense of how to structure his material, or how to shoot it, or even sometimes how to act it, but he does have one key element that sees him through: keen insight into Wilde’s world and character. And this insight gets him pretty far here.
“The Happy Prince” begins with title cards explaining who Wilde...
- 10/8/2018
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Most people know Oscar Wilde as the preeminent source of British wit, a high-society raconteur whose plays and novels epitomize what it means to be the life of the party. That characterization recedes to the shadows in “The Happy Prince,” in which Rupert Everett directs and stars as the flamboyant literary giant at the end of his life. Anyone expecting Wildean banter will be sorely disappointed — think more of an autobiographical spin on “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” than “The Importance of Being Earnest” — but it’s Everett’s formidable investment in the role that rescues the movie from being a total letdown. Nevertheless, “The Happy Prince” largely amounts to a bland rumination on Wilde’s lesser-known decline.
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The drama mostly takes place in 1867, shortly after Wilde was released from prison for “indecency with men.
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The drama mostly takes place in 1867, shortly after Wilde was released from prison for “indecency with men.
- 1/22/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Birthday shoutouts go to James Marsden (above), who is 40, Aisha Tyler is 43, Jason Sudeikes is 38, Jinkx Monsoon is 26, and James Gandolfini would have been 52.
NBC is developing the sitcom G’Uncle, based on the experiences of out writer Billy Finnegan. “G’Uncle is inspired by Finnegan’s own experience as a gay man living with his sister, her husband, and their two little kids in Washington DC. At that time, he became a go-between in his sister’s marriage and the go-to babysitter for the kids.” A lot of us have been there. Can’t wait for this.
Yes!
Thank you Ms. Stevie Nicks for letting us use your music in Coven! You rock and I love you.
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) September 18, 2013
But which coinslot to use?
Tim Gunn talks to Larry King about never coming out to his parents.
Joe Manganiello is performing A Streetcar Named Desire at the Yale Repertory Theater,...
NBC is developing the sitcom G’Uncle, based on the experiences of out writer Billy Finnegan. “G’Uncle is inspired by Finnegan’s own experience as a gay man living with his sister, her husband, and their two little kids in Washington DC. At that time, he became a go-between in his sister’s marriage and the go-to babysitter for the kids.” A lot of us have been there. Can’t wait for this.
Yes!
Thank you Ms. Stevie Nicks for letting us use your music in Coven! You rock and I love you.
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) September 18, 2013
But which coinslot to use?
Tim Gunn talks to Larry King about never coming out to his parents.
Joe Manganiello is performing A Streetcar Named Desire at the Yale Repertory Theater,...
- 9/18/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Stephen Fry is perfectly cast as Oscar, but this sombre biopic attempts to cover too much of the writer and poet's life
Wilde (1997)
Director: Brian Gilbert
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
Oscar Wilde was a Victorian playwright and poet. Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.
Celebrity
You may not expect this film to begin in the American west, but it does. Wilde (Stephen Fry, who could not be more perfectly cast) is on a speaking tour of the Us. A silver mine in Colorado is being named after him. Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked. He addresses these "enormous, powerfully-built men … their brawny arms folded over their muscular chests, a loaded gun on each thigh" (his description) on the subject of 16th-century Italian goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. They ask why Wilde hasn't brought Cellini along. Wilde explains sadly that he is dead.
Wilde (1997)
Director: Brian Gilbert
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A–
Oscar Wilde was a Victorian playwright and poet. Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.
Celebrity
You may not expect this film to begin in the American west, but it does. Wilde (Stephen Fry, who could not be more perfectly cast) is on a speaking tour of the Us. A silver mine in Colorado is being named after him. Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked. He addresses these "enormous, powerfully-built men … their brawny arms folded over their muscular chests, a loaded gun on each thigh" (his description) on the subject of 16th-century Italian goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. They ask why Wilde hasn't brought Cellini along. Wilde explains sadly that he is dead.
- 9/12/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
I thought Law & Order had been on forever, but that’s nothing compared to the UK’s Taggart, which bowed in 1983 (a full six years before L&O). The world’s longest-running police drama releases a third set of eight episodes on September 21, and I have a look at the Acorn Media release for you before it does.
The Show
As a self-professed crime show junkie, I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen Taggart before this. It’s been on since before I was born! The series is set in Glasgow, Scotland, and spotlights a team of four detectives: Detective Chief Inspector Matt Burke (Alex Norton), Detective Inspector Robbie Ross (John Michie), Detective Sergeant Jackie Reid (Blythe Duff), and Detective Constable Stuart Fraser (Colin McCredie).
If you’re wondering how the show gets its title, it takes it from the original protagonist, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart,...
The Show
As a self-professed crime show junkie, I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen Taggart before this. It’s been on since before I was born! The series is set in Glasgow, Scotland, and spotlights a team of four detectives: Detective Chief Inspector Matt Burke (Alex Norton), Detective Inspector Robbie Ross (John Michie), Detective Sergeant Jackie Reid (Blythe Duff), and Detective Constable Stuart Fraser (Colin McCredie).
If you’re wondering how the show gets its title, it takes it from the original protagonist, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart,...
- 9/3/2010
- by Brittany Frederick
- TVovermind.com
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