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Love Is The Devil
''Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon'' is a 1998 film produced by The British Film Institute and BBC Film. It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton. A fictional biography of painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi), it concentrates on his strained relationship with George Dyer (Craig), a small-time thief. The film draws heavily on the authorised biography of Bacon, ''The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon'' by Daniel Farson, and is dedicated to him. It won three awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: Best New British Feature (director John Maybury) and two Best British Performance awards, one for Jacobi and the other for future James Bond actor Craig. The film was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival The 51st Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1998. American director, producer, screenwriter, and film historian Martin Scorsese was the Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maybury
John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single " West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. Life and career Promo director During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's " Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos Channel 4. and received various awards, and " West End Girls" by the |
Daniel Farson
Daniel James Negley Farson (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) was a British writer and broadcaster, strongly identified with the early days of commercial television in the UK, when his sharp, investigative style contrasted with the BBC's more deferential culture. Farson was a prolific biographer and autobiographer, chronicling the bohemian life of Soho and his own experiences of running a music-hall pub on east London's Isle of Dogs. His memoirs were titled ''Never a Normal Man''. Early life Farson was born in Kensington, west London, the son of an American journalist, Negley Farson, and his British wife. His childhood was mostly divided between Britain and North America. He visited Germany with his father while Negley was reporting on the Nazi regime, and was patted on the head by Adolf Hitler, who described him as a "good Aryan boy". Farson briefly attended the British public school Wellington College (Berkshire), Wellington College, whose militaristic regime was not to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Cotton
Antony Cotton (born Antony Dunn; 5 August 1975) is an English actor, known for portraying the role of Sean Tully in ''Coronation Street'', as well as portraying Alexander Perry in the original '' Queer as Folk'' series. In 2007, Cotton hosted his own talk show titled ''That Antony Cotton Show'', which was cancelled after one series. In March 2013, he won ''Let's Dance for Comic Relief''. Early and personal life Cotton was born Antony Dunn in Bury, Greater Manchester, the son of actress Enid Dunn. He attended Woodhey High School at Holcombe Brook, Ramsbottom, and the Oldham Theatre Workshop. He has an elder brother, Andrew. Cotton supports the Terrence Higgins Trust and is a patron of the LGF The Albert Kennedy Trust and the 'Queer Up North' festival. In August 2009, it was reported in ''Digital Spy'' that Cotton is "openly gay". In March 2010, it was reported that Cotton had exchanged rings with his partner, Peter Eccleston. In January 2012, footballer Michael Ball was fined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Hume
Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist. Hume's work is strongly identified with the YBA who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York.Gary Hume , New York/Los Angeles. Life and career Hume was born in 1962 in , Kent. He attended . He graduated from |
David Kennedy (actor)
David Kennedy (born 1964) is a British actor, known for his role as Dirk Savage in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Career Since graduating from Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 1992, Kennedy has appeared in over 50 television dramas including '' Ashes to Ashes'', ''Trial & Retribution'', ''Ultimate Force'', ''The Bill'', '' London's Burning'', ''Rose and Maloney'', '' Waking the Dead'', and ''Holby City''. He also played the role of Billy 'Two Hats' in ''William and Mary'' for three series. He has also played two roles in ''EastEnders''; Dave Roberts in 2002, and Ray in 2006. Kennedy has also appeared in several films including '' Reign of Fire'' in 2002 and in the 2010 remake of '' Clash of the Titans''. Kennedy appeared in season 1 of Marcella. From 2011 to 2018, he portrayed the role of Dirk Savage in ''Hollyoaks''. In 2020, he appeared in an episode of the BBC drama series '' Moving On'', the ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (IT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Board
Ian David Archibald Board (16 December 1929 – 26 June 1994) was an English nightclub owner who ran The Colony Room Club in Dean Street in London's Soho district, from 1981 to 1994, having taken it over from Muriel Belcher who founded the private drinking club in 1948. Early life Board grew up a poor family in Exeter, and his mother died when he was four years old. He liked neither his father nor his stepmother, and as a teenager ran away to London. On arrival, he went to Speakers' Corner and picked up a man, and lived with him for some weeks. He later worked as a commis waiter in Soho's Greek Street. Career Board served behind the bar at the Colony Room Club for 46 years, initially as Belcher's barman, and after she died as its proprietor. He assiduously cultivated the custom of artists including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, and Barry Flanagan. One night, he ejected Bacon from the premises with the words, "Get out! Call yourself a painter. You can't fuckin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Moraes
Henrietta Moraes, born Audrey Wendy Abbott, (22 May 1931 – 6 January 1999) was a British artists' model and memoirist. During the 1950s and 1960s, she was the muse and inspiration for many artists of the Soho subculture, including Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and (much later) Maggi Hambling, and also known for her three marriages and numerous love affairs. She left her first husband, Michael Law, and married actor Norman Bowler, with whom she had two children. She later married the Indian writer Dom Moraes. Early life and modelling in the 1950s She was born Audrey Wendy Abbott in Simla, British India, where her father was stationed in the Indian Air Force. Her father deserted her mother when Audrey was young, and she was raised harshly by a tyrannical, abusive grandmother in England. Later she went to secretarial college. By 1950, when she was nineteen years old, Moraes was working as an artists' model in several London art schools. A denizen of the Colony Room, Soho, she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Deakin
John Deakin (8 May 1912 – 25 May 1972) was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle. Bacon based a number of famous paintings on photographs he commissioned from Deakin, including ''Portrait of Henrietta Moraes'', ''Henrietta Moraes on a Bed'' and ''Three Studies of Lucian Freud''. Deakin also spent many years in Paris and Rome, photographing street scenes, but his only stable period of employment as a photographer were two stints of working for ''Vogue'' between 1947 and 1954. Deakin initially aspired to be a painter, and as his photographic career waned, Deakin devoted his time to painting in the 1960s, questioning the validity and status of photography as an art form. He showed little interest in curating and publicising his own work, so many of his photographs were lost, destroyed or damaged over time. A chronic alcoholic, Deakin died in obscurity and poverty, but since the 1980s his reputation has grown th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Rawsthorne
Isabel Rawsthorne (born Isabel Nicholas, 10 July 1912 – 27 January 1992), also known at various times as Isabel Delmer and Isabel Lambert, was a British painter, scenery and costume designer, and occasional artists' model. During the Second World War she worked in black propaganda. She was part of and flourished in an artistic bohemian society that included Jacob Epstein, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon. Life Born Isabel Nicholas, the daughter of a master mariner, in the East End of London, she was raised in Liverpool and the Wirral. She studied at the Liverpool College of Art, won a scholarship to the Royal Academy in London and spent two years in the studio of the sculptor Jacob Epstein. She was the mother of Epstein's son Jackie (born 1934), and briefly assumed the name "Margaret Epstein" (the name of Epstein's wife) in order to register Jackie's birth. Rawsthorne's first show was a sell-out, and by September 1934 she was living in Paris. She worked with André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Belcher
Muriel Belcher (1908–1979) was an English nightclub owner and artist's model who founded and managed the private drinking club The Colony Room. The club opened in 1948 at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London and became known as "Muriel's". Its long term popularity amongst London's bohemians lasted for 60 years and is widely credited to the exclusivity resulting from Belcher's charisma, strong personality and daunting door policy as "a tough, sharp-tongued veteran of the Soho drinking club scene". Belcher was the model and muse for a number of paintings, including several single panels and triptychs by Francis Bacon, who was one of the club's first members and used his fame to draw early clientele. His portrait of her, ''Seated Woman (Portrait of Muriel Belcher)'', sold at Sotheby's in Paris in December 2007 for €13.7 million. Over time, the club was frequented by people such as Lucian Freud, George Melly, Jeffrey Bernard and the Kray Twins. The club saw a resurgence in the early 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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