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The Draughtsman's Contract
''The Draughtsman's Contract'' is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary '' The Falls''). Originally produced for Channel 4, the film is a form of murder mystery, set in rural Wiltshire, England in 1694 (during the joint reign of William III and Mary II). The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows widely from Henry Purcell, and in the extensive and elaborate costume designs (which, for effect, slightly exaggerate those of the period). The action was shot on location in the house and formal gardens of Groombridge Place. The film received the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. Plot Mr Neville, a young and conceited artist, is contracted by Mrs Virginia Herbert to produce a series of twelve landscape drawings of her country house, its outbuildings and gardens, as a gift for her cold and neglectful husband, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a British film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerist painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. Early life Greenaway was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, to a teacher mother and a builder's merchant father. Greenaway's family had relocated to Wales prior to his birth to escape the Blitz. They returned to the London area at the end of World War II and settled in Woodford, then part of Essex. He attended Churchfields Junior School and later Forest School in nearby Walthamstow. At an early age Greenaway decided on becoming a painter. He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Ingmar Bergman, and then on the French '' nouvelle vague'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Film Score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers under the guidance of or in collaboration with the film's director or producer and are then most often performed by an ensemble of musicians – usually including an orchestra (most likely a symphony orchestra) or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers – and recorded by a sound engineer. The term is less frequently applied to music written for media such as live theatre, television and radio programs, and video games, and said music is typically referred to as either the soundtrack or incidental music. Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BFI Production Board
The BFI Production Board (1964-2000) was a state-funded film production fund managed by the British Film Institute (BFI) and "explicitly charged with backing work by new and uncommercial filmmakers." Emerging from the Experimental Film Fund, the BFI Production Board was a major source of funding for experimental, art house, animation, short and documentary cinema, with a continuing commitment to funding under-represented voices in filmmaking. 1952-63: Experimental Film Fund and early productions At its foundation in the 1930s, the BFI had no mandate to fund film production in the UK. However, the 1948 Radcliffe Report 'create a more favourable climate for potential film production by recommending that the Institute should focus its activities exclusively on the promotion of film as an art form'. As part of the plans for the Festival of Britain in 1951, the BFI was allocated funding to produce a cinematic side of the festival, using £10,000 to commission several short experimental f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye, or simply Hay (; or simply ), is a market town and community (Wales), community in Powys, Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a book town, "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The community had a population of 1,675 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. The town is List of twin towns and sister cities in Wales, twinned with Redu, a village in the Municipalities of Belgium, Belgian municipality of Libin, Belgium, Libin, and with Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa. Hay-on-Wye is often named as one of the best places to live in Wales and has been named as one of the UK's best Christmas destinations. Location The town lies on the south-east bank of the River Wye and is within the north-easternmost tip of the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains, Wales, Black Mountains. The town is just on the Wales-England border, Welsh side of the border with Herefor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Gant
David Gant (born 12 November 1942) is a Scottish actor and model. Formerly a banker, Gant changed careers at age 30 to study dramatic art at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Graduating in 1974, he has found roles in theatre, film and television. His credits include Coriolanus at Chichester Festival Theatre, and the films '' Victor/Victoria'' (1982), '' The Draughtsman's Contract'' (1982), ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1982), ''Gandhi'' (1982), ''Brazil'' (1985), ''Chaplin'' (1992), '' Restoration'' (1995), ''Braveheart'' (1995), '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999), '' Lagaan'' (2001) and Jonathan Creek: ''The Sinner and the Sandman'' (2014). He also voiced Oswald of Carim in the 2011 video game ''Dark Souls'' and Lord Aldia in the sequel, '' Dark Souls II''. Gant is an Associate and Licentiate of the London College of Music. Gant was the voice actor of Emperor Iedolas Aldercapt in '' Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV''. For the Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Feast
Michael Feast (born 25 November 1946) is an English actor of stage and screen. Early life Feast was born in Brighton, and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career He performed in the original 1968 London production of ''Hair''. He worked several times with John Gielgud, whom he later played in Nicolas de Jongh's biographical play '' Plague Over England''. Feast had a significant role in the acclaimed TV series '' State of Play''. He also played Aeron Greyjoy in the sixth season of the HBO series ''Game of Thrones''. His film credits include roles in '' I Start Counting'' (1970), ''Private Road'' (1971), ''Brother Sun, Sister Moon'' (1972), ''Got It Made'' (1974), '' Hardcore'' (1977), ''The Music Machine'' (1979), '' McVicar'' (1980), ''The Draughtsman's Contract'' (1982), '' The Fool'' (1990), '' Velvet Goldmine'' (1998), ''Prometheus'' (1998), '' The Tribe'' (1998), '' Sleepy Hollow'' (1999), '' Long Time Dead'' (2002), ''Boudica'' (2003), ''Penelope'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lynda La Plante
Lynda Joy La Plante, CBE (née Titchmarsh; born 15 March 1943) is an English author, screenwriter and former actress often known for writing the '' Prime Suspect'' television crime series. In 2024 she was honoured with the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's Diamond Dagger award for her outstanding lifetime's contribution to the crime and mystery fiction genre. Early life Lynda La Plante was born Lynda Joy Titchmarsh on 15 March 1943 in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. La Plante's older sister Dail was killed in a road accident, at the age of five, before she was born. Her younger sister, Gill Titchmarsh is a casting director, and the two have often worked together. They also had a brother who was a doctor. Raised in Crosby, Liverpool, La Plante trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After finishing her studies, using the stage name Lynda Marchal, she appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a variety of productions, as well as popular televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Suzan Crowley
Suzan Crowley () is an English-American actress, best known for her role as Maria Rossi in '' The Devil Inside''. Filmography Film Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowley, Suzan Living people 20th-century American actresses American film actresses 21st-century English actresses 20th-century British actresses British film actresses 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nicholas Amer
Thomas Harold Amer (29 September 1923 – 17 November 2019), known professionally as Nicholas Amer, was an English stage, film and television actor known for his performances in William Shakespeare's plays. Amer made his professional debut in 1948 playing the part of Ferdinand in ''The Tempest''. In his long career, Amer played more than 27 different Shakespearean roles and toured to 31 different countries. Amer was born in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire. He served for five years during World War II in the Royal Navy as a wireless operator aboard Motor Torpedo Boats, first in North Africa, then in the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he was wounded in action. Following demobilisation in 1945, he studied at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in London for two years, winning the Webber Cup in his final year. He adopted the stage name Nicholas Amer and joined the Liverpool Playhouse under John Fernald. Together with Harold Lang, in 1963 he formed Voyage Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Meyer
David Meyer (born 24 July 1947) is an English actor. He is the twin of Anthony Meyer who has often appeared alongside him in film. He is best known for his role as a knife-throwing circus performer and assassin in the 1983 James Bond film ''Octopussy'', for Shakespearean roles such as Hamlet and Ferdinand, and for portraying Isaac Newton on stage. Meyer, as part of Shakespeare's Globe, has appeared in numerous productions on stage in London in recent decades, and in 2017 played Saturn in James Wallace's production of '' The Woman in the Moon'' at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Early career Between August 1972 and 24 November 1972 and 23 January 1973 and August 1973, David Meyer played a Fairy in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', with his twin brother Anthony Meyer playing the role until 13 January 1973. The tour included performances at the Aldwych Theatre in London. In October 1974, Meyer starred in the Lindsay Kemp Broadway play ''Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dave Hill (actor)
David Hill is a British actor. He was born in Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire, where he attended Ermysted's Grammar School for boys. He has appeared in ''The Full Monty'' and many other films and TV series. He played Bert Atkinson in ''EastEnders'' from 2006 to 2007 and in 2017. Filmography * '' Man of Straw'' - Napoleon Fischer *''The Sweeney'' (1976, TV series) - Shaylor *''The Duellists'' (1977) - Cuirassier *''Going Straight'' episode 3 (1978) *'' Oppenheimer'' (1980, TV mini-series) - James Tuck *'' Britannia Hospital'' (1982) - Jeff *''The Draughtsman's Contract'' (1982) - Mr Herbert / Mrs Herbert's husband *'' Remembrance'' (1982) - Paul *'' Bergerac'' (1983) Se2Ep6 *''Invitation to the Wedding'' (1985) - Higson *'' Turtle Diary'' (1985) - taxi driver (uncredited) *'' Car Trouble'' (1986) - Bill *''The Nature of the Beast'' (1988) - Oggy *'' The Raggedy Rawney'' (1988) - Lamb *''The Most Dangerous Man in the World'' (1988) - Ahmet *''Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Belgian Film Critics Association
The Belgian Film Critics Association (, UCC) is an organization of film critics from publications based in Brussels, Belgium. History The Belgian Film Critics Association was founded in the early 1950s in Brussels. Its membership includes film reviewers from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines from Belgium. In December of each year, the organization meets to vote on awards for films released in the previous calendar year. To determine the UCC's annual awards, ballots are sent in by the members – select knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and students – and subsequently tabulated in order to decide the winners. Since 1954, the Belgian Film Critics Association has presented the Grand Prix award to the film of the year "that contributed the most to the enrichment and influence of cinema". Since 1976, the organization has presented the André Cavens Award to the best film of the year produced in Belgium. Its name was chosen in honor of Belgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
