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Last Monday’s Curzon Mayfair gala (above) wasn’t actually the UK launch of Stephen Soucy’s Merchant Ivory documentary. (The doc received its UK premiere at BFI Flare 2024 on 16 March, and the Merchant Ivory family were out in force – a lovely event, and deeply moving.) However, the all-important difference is that James Ivory was/is present last week at the Curzon (and also at the Chiswick Film Festival in west London on 16 November a couple of days earlier!)

There are further images and footage on director Stephen Soucy’s Instagram – including (as glimpsed in the video) a bit more Rupert. <33

Alongside the UK general release of Merchant Ivory, Curzon is also running a Christmas micro-season of Ivory’s films. But I wanted to give a big shoutout to Chiswick Cinema – they’re running a much wider-ranging Ivory retrospective (spread out between now and June 2025), with newly recorded intros to all the films from Ivory! And, unlike the Curzon*, they’re actually screening Maurice (in January).

This was posted tonight at the Curzon Mayfair in London last night at the launch of the Merchant Ivory doc film. James looking gorgeous in his scarf!! ❤️

This video clip is from @stephensoucy Instagram page.

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Iain Glen at the premiere of Eye In The Sky // tongue   

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Image: IMDb

Photo: Netflix

In this apocalyptic thriller from award-winning writer and director Esmail (Mr. Robot), Amanda (Academy Award winner Roberts) and her husband Clay (Academy Award nominee Hawke), rent a luxurious home for the weekend with their kids, Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Their vacation is soon upended when two strangers — G.H. (Academy Award winner Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Myha’la Herrold) — arrive in the night, bearing news of a mysterious cyberattack and seeking refuge in the house they claim is theirs. The two families reckon with a looming disaster that grows more terrifying by the minute, forcing everyone to come to terms with their places in a collapsing world. Based on the National Book Award-nominated novel by Alam, Leave the World Behind is produced by Esmail Corp, Red Om Films, and executive produced by Higher Ground Productions. — Netflix

Remember when Tait joined Caitríona’s Amateur co-star at the UK Special Screening of her Money Monster co-star’s new film?

Even the Daily Mail was happy to see Tait. 😂

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Rufus Sewell attends the world premiere of "Scoop" at The Curzon Mayfair on March 27, 2024 in London.

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Cillian Murphy attends the premiere of ‘Small Things Like These’ at Curzon Mayfair, London.

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Source: Getty Images

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TOM HARDY, JODIE COMER and AUSTIN BUTLER attend a gala screening of The Bikeriders, at the Curzon Mayfair in London on June 11, 2024

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Boyd Holbrook attends the London Gala Screening of "The Bikeriders" at The Curzon Mayfair on June 11, 2024 in London, England

More photos via gettyimages.com

And again, Boyd is such a handsome, wonderful and talented man! ❤️

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Jodie Comer attends the London Gala Screening of "The Bikeriders" at The Curzon Mayfair on June 11, 2024 in London, England.

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Cillian Murphy arrives at the UK Premiere of 'In Time' at the Curzon Mayfair in London, England. (October 31, 2011)

Re: Cillian Murphy as Timekeeper Raymond Leon in In Time (2011) dir. Andrew Niccol

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Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff are well-known for their blockbusters – but their latest project, the critically acclaimed indie A Nice Indian Boy, marks a welcome gear change.

The guys discussed their new film, currently rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Attitude alongside director Roshan Sethi at last night’s BFI London Film Festival screening at the Curzon Mayfair.

Asked to sum up the film’s plot, Karan said: “My character meets Jonathan’s character, we fall in love, and then I have to introduce him to my very traditional Indian family. He has to win them over before the wedding.”

Added Jonathan: “I just watched the movie for the first time a couple of days ago; I wanted to see it in a theatre, not a link on my laptop. And I was so overwhelmed by the power of this movie.”

“I’ve been saying the movie is for everyone – for queer people, for not queer people, for Indian people, not Indian people,” Roshan meanwhile told us.

Sharing feedback he’s received from parents at screening Q&As, Karan said: “They spoke about their own journey, with not going to their children’s weddings. They’ve come to peace with it years later, but they’ve missed chunks of their lives with their children. A lot of them spoke about, if they had a version of this movie earlier, maybe would have bridged that gap sooner.”

Jonathan, of course, is known for his work in the two Frozen films and 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections, plus popular TV shows like Glee and Looking. The Tony Award-winner is also a stage veteran, with credits including Hamilton and Merrily We Roll Along.

“That would be amazing if that happened,” said Jonathan of the possibility of fans of his studio films supporting this title. “That, in some ways, is out of our control. But in my gut, I feel like great work and great art finds its way. I believed in this script and this team. … Happily, if there are people who are Glee or Frozen or Mindhunter or musical theatre fans, I’m so happy to bring them this story. But I think the movie is powerful enough to bring people on its own accord.”

Describing the plot of the film, Roshan said: “We shot a dance sequence that appears somewhere in the movie. It was tremendously difficult, but very memorable!” And asked for standout feedback to the film, he said: “Probably from my mother, who said she understood me in a way she hadn’t before! It was very sweet, very moving.”

Reflecting on the importance of film criticism, Roshan said: “It’s the most important thing. This is my second independent film, and third overall. In each case, independent films in particular, … survive on the critics’ response. That’s what gets the attention of distributors, who are all reading every single review and looking at the Rotten Tomatoes score. It [makes it] easier to make the next movie as well. It makes a huge, huge difference. Also, people at the distributors often don’t believe there’s an audience for a movie. Critics often prove that there is.”

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Rosamund Pike attends the ‘Radioactive’ UK Premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on March 8, 2020 in London, England.

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New Boyd pics!

Boyd, Jeff Nichols, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer and Austin Butler attend the London Gala Screening of "The Bikeriders" at The Curzon Mayfair on June 11, 2024 in London, England (from: gettyimages.com)

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Video 📹 from Instagram

Image: IMDb

Remember… Leave the World Behind is a cracking film – a provocative, superbly acted action drama that combines big-hitting ambition and spectacle with just enough humour to temper the whole end-of-civilisation meltdown scenario. — The Guardian, 26 November 2023

Brian’s Post 30 November 2023

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Martin Freeman at "The Holdovers" Screening

Martin, Rachel and Paul Giamatti attend a special screening of "The Holdovers" at The Curzon Mayfair on January 16, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

Now that's what I like to wake up to: a new picture. 😄

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The take premiere at the Curzon Mayfair, London on may 13th 2009