Richard Armitage tangentially related
Richard Armitage, December 2014. Source.
Current projects:
- Berlin Station finally sold to a UK distributor.
Collateral attractions:
- Latest update on Sarah Dunn’s (Armitage’s photographer and friend) recovery from her partner, Marcus; it sounds like the eye therapy is going frustratingly slowly. (My sympathies are heightened since encountering dad’s new cognitive problems.)
- Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s 8) visits a spa [humor].
- Chloe Grace Moretz (Brain on Fire) on the difficulties of getting her new film distributed.
Past projects:
- Ocean’s 8 as an example of Black Girl nerddom.
- Reads Debbie’s line about doing the heist for a little girl dreaming of a criminal as mocking the film’s premise. Huh?
- (The Bloody Chamber): BBC 2 is showing a documentary on Angela Carter.
- (The Hobbit): FSR loves Armitage, hates The Hobbit films (I totally disagree with the major premise of that part of the article. I only got interested in The Hobbit after reading about the dwarfs.)
Industry issues:
- U.S. anti-trust rulings may change to allow movie studies to own theaters again. This move is thought to be in aid of showing the kind of non-blockbuster movies we like best, and which have been disappearing of late.
Things we’ve talked about:
Me + Richard Armitage 
Caught the Angela Carter programme by chance I hadn’t seen any previous notification. She liked to shock .
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I’m going to have to search that one out.
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Ici, vous parlez de films intéressants qui pourraient plus facilement sortir.
Il y a quelques semaines, vous cherchiez des blockbusters. Je vous présente quelques futures pépites, à éviter selon moi. Voici quelques franchises pseudo-religieuses ou historiques, à faire couler des sueurs froides dans le dos. Encore, beaucoup d’horreur en perspective (des films dans la veine de “Pilgrimage”, sans ne pouvoir oublier de relater le projet irlandais de Richard Armitage sur Bridget Cleary ). L’horreur serait -il devenu un genre à la mode?
– “The devil and father amorth” : le documentaire choc de William Friedkin est disponible sur Netflix. Il s’est penché sur la vie et la carrière du père Amorth, décédé en 2016, véritable exorciste au service du Vatican. Le studio Screen Gems (propriété de Sony Pictures) aurait acquis les droits exclusifs de la vie entière de l’homme d’église. Cet homme ayant effectué des milliers d’exorcismes, tous parfaitement documentés, cela laisse clairement de la marge pour en tirer plusieurs films.
– “Oro, la cité perdue”: le sujet est destiné aux amateurs d’épopées cruelles. J’ai en tête le chef-d’œuvre de Werner Herzog avec Klaus Kinski: “Aguirre, la colère de Dieu” (1972) . Car ici, le film se déroule en 1538 et montre la lente descente aux enfers d’une troupe de conquistadors, perdus en Amazonie, sur les traces d’une mystérieuse Cité d’or. Les critiques trouvent le casting des acteurs très bon.
– “Downrange”: un survival où l’hémoglobine coule à flot, pas pour moi.
– “How it ends”: post-apocalypse, pas pour moi.
“The guilty”: un thriller policier danois que je serais curieuse de voir car basé plus sur le son que sur l’image. L’enquête est en huis-clos. Tout se joue hors champ. Le spectateur compose le monde, les personnages et les drames, il recolle les morceaux de ce qui est selon les critiques un puzzle tordu.
“Un grand voyage vers la nuit” : film présenté au festival de Cannes 2018 Le cinéaste chinois: Bi Gan a semble t-il fait un film à voir en 3D, très énigmatique et artistiquement original.
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There’s been a lot of discussion lately about horror films leaving the genre closet and becoming mainstream. (Not something I look forward to but apparently there are cultural / political reasons why it’s happening.)
I think the deal with the possibly legal change is not so much to facilitate art house cinema (although we have that here, too) but to create more affordable distribution for films that might be more broadly popular but aren’t going to gross huge amounts. The film that immediately occurs to me is something like “Rabbit Hole” (with Nicole Kidman) or some of the great film classics of the 70s and 80s that would probably never be made today (or would have a difficult time finding a maker), stuff like “Terms of Endearment” or “Kramer vs. Kramer.”
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🙂 merci beaucoup!
Je suis de retour de vacances, où j’ai vu en VOSTFR ce film que je vous recommande:
“Kona fer í stríð”, Woman at war”
https://www.semainedelacritique.com/fr/edition/2018/film/konaferi-stri
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“Silent Voice”, un des rares film animé qui dénonce le harcèlement scolaire, en japonais VOSTFR
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=254955.html
https://mrmondialisation.org/harcelement-scolaire-un-brillant-film-danimation-japonais/
Bonne journée!
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I’m excited to see Picard return. I really enjoyed the Next Generation series and the Picard character.
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It might actually get me to subscribe to CBS All Access. I really loved that show, too, particularly the later seasons and the plot lines around the Borg and the different timelines. I don’t suppose they’ll get Michael Dorn back as Worf — one of my favorite Star Trek characters ever.
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Yeah, he was great. I was a big Data fan, but unfortunately you can’t have an older human playing an ageless android. Q was a favourite too.
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I thought the storylines around that character were well done. I was a big Data fan until I learned what an asshole Brent Spiner is to fans. It just became really hard to watch those episodes after that.
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Oh really?! I didn’t know that!
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When he would go to cons (not sure if he still does), and fans would stand in line and pay to have a picture taken / chat with him briefly, he was often mean to them. Like they’d say, I’m sorry about what happened to Data in Nemesis, and he’d say things like, you do know that’s a fictional character, right?
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You’d think celebs could just be gracious when someone is obviously a fan of their work.
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Esp b/c people do pay to stand in those lines. Or else just don’t go. There’s been some low level complaining that Armitage doesn’t go to cons, but in a way, if that’s not the kind of encounter he’s comfortable with (and doesn’t need the money), it’s at least honest.
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