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I am starting a rewatch of the 2008 movie adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. This is my most loved Matthew Goode film, based on one of my favourite novels, so it is very close to my heart.
I’ll be using the Director’s Cut bluray.
The collage above shows Charles Ryder's journey from young innocence to loss, love found and disillusion.
📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited (2008)
The cast of Brideshead Revisited (2008) is magnificent and includes, in addition to Matthew Goode (Charles Ryder), Hayley Awell (Julia Flyte), Ben Wishaw (Sebastian Flyte), Emma Thompson (Lady Marchmain) and Michael Gambon (Lord Marchmain). Emma Thompson took the young actors, who really got on well together, under her wings.
📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, his encounter with the aristocratic Flytes and their beautiful stately home Brideshead and his journey of discovery. It explores themes around nostalgia for the past and English nobility, happiness, love and loss and Catholic faith and guilt.
The novel (and film) start and end with older bittersweet Charles as an officer during the war billetted at Brideshead and reminiscing about the past.
Brideshead Revisited was turned into a stupendous 11-part mini-series in 1981 by Granada TV with Jeremey Irons and Anthony Andrews. It is an excellent adaptation which received critical acclaim. A high bar for the cast and crew of the 2008 movie who must have felt the weight of history on their shoulders.
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/_ZtPGYLEzpw
📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited and IMDB
Brideshead Revisited was directed by Julian Jarrold and cinematography is by Jess Hall (both pictured with Matthew Goode). The screenplay is by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies. I think the film is a cinematographic gem and feast for the eyes. It’s a shame it got a lukewarm reception. I think the comparisons with an 11-part miniseries, which had the time to unfold the story, are unfair. The film had to condense quite a lot of the book and made some adaptive choices which may be seen as a departure from the novel but it remains, in my view, true to the spirit of the book and is a very good adaptation in its own right.
📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features
The main locations for Brideshead Revisited are Oxford, Venice and Castle Howard, a stately home in Yorkshire. The miniseries used Castle Howard for Brideshead so the director Julian Jarrold hesitated about reusing it, wanting to forge his own path. But he decided to go for it in the end as it fits the descriptions in the book and the baroque architecture “instinctively evokes Catholicism”.
It is a stunning place and one understands why Charles Ryder fell under its spell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Howard
📷 My edit from Brideshead Revisited 📀 bonus features
The original score for Brideshead Revisited was written by Adrian Johnston and is one of my many favourite things about the film. It is beautiful and mirrors wonderfully all the emotions of hope, loss, heartbreak and nostalgia from the story.
Hamlet is the Shakespearean character that many actors long to play. Jade Anouka is one of those actors. She talks to past Hamlets– Sir Derek Jacobi, Adrian Lester, Samuel West and Tessa Parr – about the challenges in approaching the part.
And she hears the fabled story of The Red Book, a red-bound copy of the play, begun by the actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robinson, who passed the book on to a successive actor on the condition that in turn they passed it onto the finest Hamlet of the next generation. Derek Jacobi tells the story of receiving it from Peter O’Toole and passing it on to Kenneth Branagh, who in turn passed it on to Tom Hiddleston. Jade wonders where the book might go next.
Jade also explores why Hamlet as a part holds such fascination for actors. Here’s the rub - no one can tell you what Hamlet is about. A revenge tragedy, an Oedipal drama, a political betrayal, a study of insanity, the portrait of a fatally flawed genius. Each actor makes it his own but has to deal with the weight of its history.
Derek Jacobi tells the story of performing ‘To be or not to be’ only to hear the voice of Sir Winston Churchill joining in from the front row. Adrian Lester describes how he whispered each famous speech to himself in an attempt to get back to the essence of the language.
And each generation interprets Hamlet as an expression of their own time. Professor Michael Dobson from the Shakespeare Institute describes a production he saw in Ukraine in a cellar now used as a bomb shelter.
Readers: Sir Derek Jacobi, Adrian Lester, Samuel West, Tessa Parr
Producer: Sara Conkey
A True Thought production for BBC Radio 4
Acknowledgements: Hamlet BBC2 26th December 2009 Director - Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Company Production Hamlet – David Tennant Composer: Paul Englishby
Hamlet film 1948 Director – Laurence Olivier Screenplay – Laurence Olivier Hamlet – Laurence Olivier Composer: William Walton Two Cities Production
Hamlet BBC Radio 4 Production 2014 Director – Marc Beeby Hamlet – Jamie Parker Ophelia – Lizzy Watts
President Zelensky address to Parliament BBC Parliament Tuesday 8th March 2022
"We filmed the ‘Mother of Earth’ film clip in London whilst Dave Gahan was in town for Depeche Mode's ‘Momento Mori’ World Tour.
Left to right: Ian White, Dave Gahan, Suzie Stapleton, James Johnston, Gavin Jay - A dream line up.
Of course we couldn’t have done it without the rest of the crew - massive shout out to Dan Cox at Urchin Studios for mixing this track, Adrian Hierholzer for recording Dave’s vocals & guitar in NY, Matt Hopkins for his incredible cinematography for the film clip, and Jason Bick for helping out with the shoot.
"Mother of Earth" will appear on The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project's 4th album "The Task Has Overwhelmed Us" out September 29th on Glitterhouse Records.
Watch the Film Clip / Pre-order Album / Join Newsletter - linktr.ee/SuzieStapleton
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Photo by Matt Hopkins in London at @soholivemusicclub
I gave myself permission to get some new books for new year's day but that's it that's all I'm giving myself. I was really bad my book ban last year so I'm trying again this year.
My book buying ban starts now on the 1st of January 2024.
My TBR is 49 books long here's the list:
Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Doors of Eden
Aiden Thomas - Cemetery Boys
Alexandria Bellefleur - The Fiancée Farce
Alice Feeney - Sometimes I Lie
Alison Rumfitt - Tell Me I'm Worthless
Alo Johnston - Am I Trans Enough
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Cordelia Fine - Delusions of Gender
Cordelia Fine - Testosterone Rex
David Attenborough - Living Planet (audio book)
Euripedes - The Bacchae and Other Plays
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four
Hannah Kaner - The Fallen Gods Trilogy #1: Godkiller
Isaac Fellman - Dead Collections
J.B. MacKinnon - The Day The World Stops Shopping
Jaimie Raines - The T in LGBT
Jeanette Purkis - The Guide To Good Mental Health on the Autism Spectrum
Jen Beagin - Big Swiss
Jennie Kermode - Growing Older as a Trans and/or nonbinary person
Jon Krauker - Under the Banner of Heaven
Julia Lynn Rubin - Primal Animals
Juno Dawson - Her Majesty’s Royal Coven
K. Patrick - Mrs. S
Kalynn Bayron - You’re Not Supposed To Die Tonight
Lily Lindon - My Own Worst Enemy
Liz Gloyn - Tracking Classical Monsters on Popular Culture
Malinda Lo - A Line in The Dark
Mark Lawrence - The Library Trilogy #1: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
Marie Cardno - How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster)
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Maude Ventura - My Husband
Max Adams - The Wisdom of Trees
Megan Abbot - Give Me Your Hand
Mona Awad - Bunny
Naoya Matsumoto - Kaiju No. 8 Vol 8
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Paul Tremblay - The Cabin an The End of the World
Peter Corbin - Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays
R.W. Wallace - Beyond The Grave
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
On 9/19/1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed witnesses on the “inroads the communists have made in Hollywood.”
Among the witnesses were Charlie Chaplin, Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney, and others.
File Unit: Exhibits, Evidence and Other Records of the Investigative Section of the Internal Security Committee During the 79th through 94th Congresses Related to the Hollywood Black List, 1945 - 1976
Series: Committee Papers, 1945 - 1975
Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015
Transcription:
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 19, 1947
Honorable J. Parnell Thomas, Chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities issued the following statement for release Sunday morning ["Sunday morning" underlined] newspapers, September 21, 1947:
"Subpoenaes have been issued and are now in the process of being served upon the following witnesses to appear in Washington beginning October 20 in connection with the Committee on Un-American Activities' forthcoming hearing on communist influences in the motion picture industry:
Alva H. Bessie
Roy E. Brewer
Herbert Biberman
Berthold Brecht
Lester Cole
Gary Cooper
Charles Chaplin
Joseph E. Davies
Walt Disney
Edward Dmytryk
Cedric Gibbons
Samuel Goldwyn
Rupert Hughes
Eric Johnston
Howard Koch
Ring Lardner, Jr.
John Howard Lawson
Louis B. Mayer
Albert Maltz
Thomas Leo McCarey
Lowell Mellett
James McGuiness
Lewis Milestone
Adolph Menjou
Sam Moore
John Charles Moffitt
Robert Montgomery
George Murphy
Clifford Odets
Larry Parks
William Pomerance
Ronald Reagan
Lela E. Rogers
Howard Rushmore
Morrie Ryskind
Adrian Scott
Dore Schary
Donald Ogden Stewart
Robert Taylor
Waldo Salt
Dalton Trumbo
Jack L. Warner
Sam Wood
The order of appearance of the witnesses will be announced at a later date.
In making public the names of the witnesses, however, I want to emphasize that the mere fact they are being called to testify before the Committee should not be considered a reflection in any way upon their character or patriotism. These persons are being brought with the sole objective of obtaining the facts regarding the inroads the communists have made in Hollywood. Some of the witnesses are friendly to the Committee's purposes. Others are undoubtedly hostile. The Committee wants to hear both sides.
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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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The Committee had originally hoped to begin this hearing on September 29. However, a number of unforeseen circumstances have arisen regarding the membership of the Committee which necessitates a delay until October 20, in order that all members may be present for this important hearing. Mr. Mundt and Mr. Nixon are now in Europe as members of Congressional committees studying conditions there. Mr. Veil is convalescing from a recent operation, and Mr. Peterson has informed me that he cannot possibly attend the hearings this month. I feel quite certain, however, that all the members will be available by October 20.
Hearings will begin as scheduled September 24 on the Hanns Eisler phase of this hearing. This cannot be delayed until the October date for the reason that all of the witnesses have been subpoenaed and are in Washington at this time, some having been brought from foreign countries. The announced witnesses in the Hanns Eisler care are as follows:
Sumner Welles
P.C. Hutton, Second Secretary and Consul, Guatemala City, Guatemala
George S. Messermith, former Ambassador to Argentina
Joseph Savoretti, Asst. Commissioner for Adjudication U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Clarence R. Porter, Chief Inspector U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Hearings will begin in the Caucus Room of the Old House Office Building, at 10:30 A.M., September 24.
I should also like to announce at this time that I intend to make a nation-wide radio address early in October relative to the Hollywood hearing."
Once again (as is becoming common this season) young Finnish driver Kalle Rovanperä gave his fellow WRC contenders a master class in driving on this weekend’s Rally Estonia. Despite starting first on the road and coping with unfavourable driving conditions initially Rovanperä was able to forge ahead when the stages became wet and treacherous. When grip was at a minimum Rovanperä’s talent appeared at a maximum as he took huge chinks of time out of his closest rivals.
Elfyn Evans has been holding the young Finn back until the first muddy stages were encountered and then the Welshman had to give best to Rovanperä who is fast becoming another remarkable flying Finn. Behind Evan Ott Tänak brought his Hyundai home in third, never able to challenge the leading Toyotas but comfortably in front of his Belgian teammate Thierry Neuville. Neither Hyundai had a trouble-free run, minor niggles hampering outright speed (an issue that has affected Hyundai for more than just this season).
Takamoto Katsuta took fifth overall; the young Japanese driver beating fellow Toyota driver Esapekka Lappi whilst Adrian Fourmaux was top placed Ford driver in seventh overall (a good result for Fourmaux but another disappointing rally for Ford).
WRC2 winner Andreas Mikkelsen claimed eight overall in his Skoda Fabia Evo; bagging an impressive haul of powerstage points on the way. Next up (and second in the WRC2 class) was Teemu Suninen who finished the final stage on two cylinders in his Hyundai i20 N whilst the top ten was rounded out by the third WRC2 car home, Emil Lindolm. Lindholm never recovered from time lost with an early puncture so was reasonably pleased to make it two TOK Sport Skodas in the top 10.
Rovanperä now holds an 82 point lead over Neuville with just six remaining rounds of the 2022 championship.
1. K. ROVANPERÄ & J. HALTTUNEN - Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
2. E. EVANS & S. MARTIN - Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
3. O. TÄNAK & M. JÄRVEOJA Hyundai i20 N Rally1
4. T. NEUVILLE & M. WYDAEGHE Hyundai i20 N Rally1
5. T. KATSUTA & A. JOHNSTON Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
6. E. LAPPI & J. FERM Toyota GR Yaris Rally1
7. A. FOURMAUX & A. CORIA Ford Puma Rally1
8. A. MIKKELSEN & T. ERIKSEN Skoda Fabia Evo WRC2
9. T. SUNINEN & M. MARKKULA Hyundai i20 N WRC2
10. E. LINDHOLM & R. HÄMÄLÄINEN Skoda Fabia Evo WRC2
The winners of this year's BSFA Awards will be announced at Conversation 2023. The BSFA Awards ceremony is free to attend by all members of Eastercon. See you there!
Here are the shortlists, including works by two of our wonderful Guests of Honour - Adrian Tchaikovsky and @tkingfisher
Best Artwork
Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz
Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan
Chris Baker, Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32, Shoreline of Infinity
Vincent Sammy, Cover of Parsec 4, PS Publishing
Miguel Co, Cover of Song of the Mango and Other New Myths, Ateneo De Manila UP
Jay Johnstone, Cover of The Way the Light Bends, Luna Press Publishing
Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns, Hodder and Stoughton
Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Harper Voyager
Vanessa Len, Only A Monster, Hodder and Stoughton
Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Margaret K. McElderry Books
Best Short Fiction
Or Luca, ‘Luca’, Luna Press Publishing
Aliette de Bodard, ‘Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances’, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Rick Danforth, ‘Seller's Remorse’, Hexagon Magazine, Issue 11
Adrian Tchaikovsky, ‘Ogres’, Rebellion
Neil Williiamson, ‘A Moment of Zugzwang’, ParSec #4
Best Novel
Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances, Head of Zeus
Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake, Gollancz
Adam Roberts, The This, Gollancz
Gareth Powell, Stars and Bones, Titan Books
EJ Swift, The Coral Bones, Unsung Stories
Best Non-Fiction,
Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Doubleday
Maureen Kincaid Speller, The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner's Treacle Walker http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-critic-and-the-clue-tracking-alan-garners-treacle-walker/
Fiona Moore, Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros, Edward Elgar Publishing
Wole Talabi and the ‘ASFS, Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SFF’ , https://www.sfwa.org/2022/06/01/preliminary-observations-incomplete-history-african-science-fiction-fantasy/
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki , ‘Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer's Perspective’, https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/too-dystopian-for-whom-a-continental-nigerian-writers-perspective/
Alicia Coppola as FBI Senior Special Agent Lisa Rand
Rob Nagle as Albert “Al” Barrington/Plague Doctor
Tobias Jelinek as Bobby Griffin/Wolf
Matt Kelly as Justin Tucker/Clown
All are back from “Monster”, that delightful Easter Sunday season nine episode.
Richard Gant as Raymond Hanna
Back from “Game of Drones” two weeks ago.
Teya Patt as Cindy Ferguson/Faceless Mask
Kerrie Blaisdell played this role in “Monster” so this is a change.
Patt is currently part of For All Mankind as Emma Jorgens. She appeared in episodes of Weeds, Review, Fresh Off the Boat, Lost ‘n’ Found, Girlboss, Casual, Fear the Walking Dead, The Rookie and How to Get Away with Murder.
JD Cullum as FBI Forensic Psychologist Mark Collins
Cullum was AAG/ASA John Redfield in Judging Amy and Lloyd in Grey’s Anatomy.
Appeared in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Married with Children, Lois & Clark, Bodies of Evidence, Can’t Hurry Love, Campus Cops, Smart Guy, Sliders, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, LA Doctors, Sliders, Ladies Man, Dead Last, Frasier, 24, Charmed, ER, Medium, Weeds, Law & Order, Lie to Me, The Wizards of Waverly Place, Mad Men, The Event, The Newsroom, The Mentalist, Bones, Code Black, Aquarius and The Orville.
Cullum is the son of actor John Cullum, who was Sen. Beau Carpenter in Madam Secretary, Big Mike in The Middle, Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure, one of the rotating defense attorneys turn judges in Law & Order SVU and David Greene in ER.
Derrick A. King as Michael Jeffries
Was Luke Will in The Pre-Quarter Life Crisis and Rev. Isiah Johnston in The 4400. King appeared in episodes of Betrayed, Solve, Call Your Mother and The Game.
Adrian Elizondo as Philip Guerrero
Appeared in episodes of Shake It Up, Austin & Ally, Talents, Astrid Clover, Only Children and The Pet Psychic.
Antony Del Rio as Alexander Hughes
Del Rio provides voices for many animated projects, including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Rugrats, Star Wars Resistance, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and many others. He was Jeff Tobey in Bunheads and appeared in episodes of Rosewood, Major Crimes and Hannah Montana.
Written by: Adam G. Key & Frank Military
Adam George Key co-wrote "Monster" with Frank Military, "Searching" with Kyle Harimoto and “Land of Wolves” with Justin Kohlas.. Key also played LAPD Officer Harrison in four episodes in seasons 11 and 12.
Military wrote or co-wrote "Little Angels", "Deliverance", "Lockup", "The Job", "Greed", "Betrayal", "Crimeleon", "Vengeance", "Out of the Past" Part One, "Rude Awakenings" Part Two, season four’s finale "Descent", season five’s premiere "Ascension", "Allegiance", "Spoils of War", "Black Budget", "SEAL Hunter", "Rage", "Unspoken", "Unlocked Mind", "Revenge Deferred", "The Seventh Child", "Crazy Train", "Uncaged", "The Silo", "Monster", "Line in the Sand", season ten opener "To Live and Die in Mexico", "The Patton Project", "Better Angels", "False Flag", "A Bloody Brilliant Plan", "Code of Conduct" "Raising the Dead", "Through the Looking Glass", "Indentured" and “Down the Rabbit Hole”.
Military also appeared as Donald Kessler in "Raising the Dead" and several other episodes in photos.
Directed by: Suzanne Saltz directed "Outside the Lines", "Murder of Crows", "Sundown" and “MWD”.