Many years ago in a fit of AR related enthusiasm, I read the entire series of six Victorian novels that constitute Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_Barsetshire The first two of these novels constitute the wonderful 1982 series The Barchester Chronicles, beloved of all AR fans. I read the ( Read more... )

I need to keep reminding myself that this is a thing...

In the clip AR and KW look like Colonel Brandon and his wife twenty years on from Sense and Sensibility, which timing wise in the real world is just about spot on. :-)

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UK release date 17 April. 

I haven't paid any attention to AR related stuff for ages, which is why did I not know about this:

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Sad really, when you consider where it all began...

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Seriously though, was searching for news because had vague memory of hearing about AR directing and starring as Louis XIV in this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2639254/  about a female landscape ( Read more... )

Something very tempting in mid autumn... http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2014/seminar/?dm_i=1EHF,2OK0H,778YDD,9SPED,1


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Oh dear, I really haven't been paying attention. Didn't realise that this very funny trailer was already out:

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I like Colin Firth in the role originally played by Michael Caine very much. And AR doing comedy is always good. In UK cinemas from 21 November. Might have to take myself to see it. Yup. :-))

From a recent review of the BBC Parade's End:

We’ve seen Cumberbatch enthral before with fast-gab brilliance, but this is him simply acting with his face. I don’t know why this hasn’t struck me before, but there’s something of the Alan Rickman about him; one drowsy droop of an eyelid, one slip of the planes of his face, can convey either wry ( Read more... )

The writer of Seminar plus three of the cast discus the work, their roles, their compulsion to do what they do...

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Seminar has had a long run with AR at the helm. He hands over the part of Leonard to Jeff Goldblum at the start of April. Will AR reprise the role with an otherwise alternate cast in the UK sometime? I hope so. But the trouble these ( Read more... )

Something I'm not going to get to see, alas...

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Nice to see AR as nimble on his feet as the younger members of the cast. :-)

Look at the lovely book my niece has at school this term...


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I mean Snape already won the HP World Cup, so I don't see how this http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2011/aug/30/snape-favourite-harry-potter-character came as such a surprise ( Read more... )