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Simon Curtis (filmmaker)
Simon Curtis (born 11 March 1960) is an English director and producer. He has worked in theatre, television and film. Career Curtis began his career working at the Royal Court Theatre. His first job was assistant director for Caryl Churchill's ''Top Girls''. He later became assistant director to both Danny Boyle and Max Stafford-Clark. Theatre productions Curtis has worked on include the world premiere of ''Road'', ''A Lie of the Mind'', ''Roots'', '' Dinner with Friends'' and ''The Rise and Fall of Little Voice''. In 2010, Curtis directed '' Serenading Louie'' at the Donmar Warehouse. In 1996, Curtis directed episodes of the television comedy series '' Tracey Takes On...'' for HBO. He also directed the three-part television drama '' Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky'' for BBC Four in 2005. The serial is an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's '' 20,000 Streets Under the Sky'' novels. He directed the BBC's adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's '' Cranford'' in 2007. In June 2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) until 2019,Aridi, Sara (April 28, 2019).. ''The New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved April 29, 2019. is a nonprofit organization based in New York City, New York. Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives— William F. May, Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G. Chapin—the organization presents film festivals, retrospectives, new releases, restorations, and talks.About Us . Film at Lincoln Center. filmlinc.org. Retrieved 2019-04-29. Film at Lincoln Center is one of the eleven resident organizations at the . Beginnings < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Takes On
''Tracey Takes On...'' is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned following the success of the 1993 comedy special ''Tracey Ullman Takes on New York''. Each episode focuses on a specific subject which Ullman and her cast of characters take on through a series of sketches and monologues. Unlike her previous The Tracey Ullman Show, eponymous Fox show, ''Tracey Takes On...'' was filmed Single-camera setup, single-camera on location without a studio audience. The show also focuses on a steady rotation of nearly 20 characters, unlike ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' which featured upwards of 100, the majority of which only appeared once. "I wanted to do a show where you could get familiar with the characters, where I could express a point of view, where we could get controversial [...] I also didn't want to do a series where I had to do 22 or 26 episodes a year. I have two children and have a husband, and there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Awards 2010
The 2010 British Academy Television Awards were held on 6 June 2010. The nominations were announced on 10 May. This year new awards were added including the award for Best Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role. Graham Norton hosted the ceremony. Winners are in bold. Nominations * Best Actor **Kenneth Branagh – ''Wallander'' (BBC One) **Brendan Gleeson – '' Into the Storm'' (BBC Two) **John Hurt – '' An Englishman in New York'' ( ITV) **David Oyelowo – '' Small Island'' (BBC One) * Best Actress **Helena Bonham Carter – '' Enid'' (BBC Four) **Sophie Okonedo – ''Mrs Mandela'' (BBC Four) **Julie Walters – '' A Short Stay in Switzerland'' (BBC One) **Julie Walters – '' Mo'' (Channel 4) * Best Supporting Actor **Benedict Cumberbatch – ''Small Island'' (BBC One) **Tom Hollander – ''Gracie!'' (BBC Four) ** Gary Lewis – ''Mo'' (Channel 4) **Matthew Macfadyen – ''Criminal Justice'' (BBC One) * Best Supporting Actress **Rebecca Hall – ''Red Riding 1974'' (Channel 4) **S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society (RTS) is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present, and future. It is the oldest television society in the world. It currently has fourteen regional and national centres in the UK, as well as a branch in the Republic of Ireland. History The group was formed as the Television Society on 7 September 1927, a time when television was still in its experimental stage. Regular high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) broadcasts did not even begin for another nine years until the BBC began its transmissions from Alexandra Palace in 1936. In addition to serving as a forum for scientists and engineers, the society published regular newsletters charting the development of the new medium. These documents now form important historical records of the early history of television broadcasting. The society was granted its Royal title in 1966. The Prince of Wales became patron of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dignitas (assisted Dying Organisation)
Dignitas is a Swiss non-profit organization providing physician-assisted suicide to members with terminal illness or severe physical or mental illness, supported by independent Swiss doctors. By the end of 2020, they had assisted 3,248 people with suicide at home within Switzerland and at Dignitas' house/flat near Zürich. They provide advisory work on palliative care, health care advance directives, Suicide prevention, suicide attempt prevention, and legislation for right-to-die laws around the world. Members who wish to end their life must be able to prove they are of sound mind, as determined by the organization; be themselves able to bring about death; and submit a formal request including a letter explaining their wish to die and medical reports showing diagnosis and attempted treatment. For people with severe psychiatric illness, an in-depth medical report prepared by a psychiatrist is additionally required per a Swiss Supreme Court decision. History Dignitas was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Walters
Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. Walters has been nominated for two Academy Awards across acting categories—once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for services to drama. Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in '' Educating Rita'' (1983), a part she originated in the West End production of the stage play upon which the film was based. She has appeared in many other films, including '' Personal Services'' (1987), ''Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987), '' Buster'' (1988), '' Stepping Out'' (1991), '' Sister My Sister'' (1994), '' Girls' Night'' (1998), '' Titanic Town'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Short Stay In Switzerland
''A Short Stay in Switzerland'' is a 2009 British television film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Frank McGuinness. It stars Julie Walters, who won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Dr Anne Turner. It was produced by the BBC and was later released on DVD in regions 1 and 2. It was also nominated for other numerous awards including the BAFTA TV Award for Best Single Drama and Best Actress. Plot Having recently witnessed the death of her husband from a neurological disease, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a near-identical illness and determines to end her life once her condition has reached a critical point. As her health deteriorates, Anne's son, Edward, and two daughters, Sophie and Jessica, struggle to reach a consensus over their mother's intentions to end her life in an assisted dying facility ( Dignitas) in Switzerland (where this is legal) and while they search for alternative options, silent recriminations and stubborn practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Cranford
''Return to Cranford'' is the two-part second series of a British television series directed by Simon Curtis. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was based on material from two novellas and a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1863: '' Cranford'', ''The Moorland Cottage'' and ''The Cage at Cranford''. Themes from '' My Lady Ludlow'', '' Mr Harrison's Confessions'' and '' The Last Generation in England'' are included to provide continuity with the ''first series''. The two episodes were broadcast in the UK on BBC One in December 2009. In the United States, they were broadcast by PBS as part of its ''Masterpiece Theatre'' series in January 2010. Most of the cast members from the first series, including Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Deborah Findlay and Barbara Flynn reprised their roles, with Jonathan Pryce, Celia Imrie, Lesley Sharp, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, Matthew McNulty, Rory Kinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cranford (TV Series)
''Cranford'' is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: '' Cranford'', '' My Lady Ludlow'' and '' Mr Harrison's Confessions''. " The Last Generation in England" was also used as a source. The series was transmitted in five parts in the UK by BBC One in November and December 2007. In the United States, it was broadcast in three episodes by PBS as part of its ''Masterpiece Theatre'' series in May 2008. ''Cranford'' returned with a two-part Christmas special '' Return to Cranford'' in 2009. Plot Set in the early 1840s in the fictional village of Cranford in the county of Cheshire in North West England, the story focuses primarily on the town's single and widowed middle class female inhabitants who are comfortable with their traditional way of life and place great store in propriety and maintaining an appearance of gentility. Among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (''née'' Stevenson; 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian era, Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, ''Mary Barton'', was published in 1848. Her only biography ''The Life of Charlotte Brontë'', published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are ''Cranford (novel), Cranford'' (1851–1853), ''North and South (Gaskell novel), North and South'' (1854–1855), and ''Wives and Daughters'' (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC. Early life She was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September 1810 in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, London, now 93 Cheyne Walk. The doctor who delivered her was Anthony Todd Thomson, whose sister Catherine later became Gaskell's step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20,000 Streets Under The Sky
''20,000 Streets Under the Sky'' is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Patrick Hamilton. The three books are ''The Midnight Bell'' (1929), ''The Siege of Pleasure'' (1932) and ''The Plains of Cement'' (1934). They focus on three of the people who populate The Midnight Bell pub in London; the stories interconnect. The first book in particular contains autobiographical elements—Hamilton worked in London pubs before becoming a successful writer, was infatuated with a prostitute at that time, and eventually died of liver failure caused by alcoholism. The books are also notable for their portrayal of working class London in the inter-war period. The trilogy was published in paperback by Vintage in 2004 (). Synopsis ''The Midnight Bell'' tells the story of Bob, a sailor turned bar waiter who becomes infatuated with Jenny, a prostitute who visits the pub. Ella, the barmaid at the pub, is secretly in love with Bob. In one of the most autobiographical narratives Hamilto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
