#richard eyre

[pepper-blood]

The Hollow Crown, Henry IV Part I

Dir. Richard Eyre

Jeremy Irons as Henry IV, Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal

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[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Notes on a Scandal (2006, Richard Eyre)

18/08/2024

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Notes on a Scandal | Richard Eyre, 2006

[thegirlwithcollarbones]

Notes on a Scandal (2006) dir. Richard Eyre

[moviemosaics]

Notes on a Scandal

directed by Richard Eyre, 2006

[heyho-simonrussellbeale]

At the heart of the initiative is the three-part documentary series for BBC Two and iPlayer titled Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, featuring contributions from Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Adrian Lester, Lolita Chakrabarti, Martin Freeman and Jessie Buckley, alongside academics and writers including James Shapiro, Jeanette Winterson, Lucy Jago, Jeremy O’Harris and Ewan Fernie.

The documentary series will be made available from 8 November at 9pm.

A whole host of archived productions and Shakespeare-based films will be released across October and November to celebrate the contributions made by the First Folio.

There will also be specially created new introductions for many of these, featuring David Tennant on Hamlet, Richard Eyre on King Lear, Janet Suzman on Wars of the Roses, Gregory Doran on the Shakespeare Gala from the RSC, Russell T Davies on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mirren on As You Like It, Hugh Quarshie on Othello, Steven Berkoff on Hamlet at Elsinore, Simon Russell Beale on The Hollow Crown, and Ian McKellen on All is True.

[ulrichgebert]

"Es macht Spaß, den alten Leuten bei der Arbeit zuschauen, die können so so schöne Gesichter machen" sagt der Tobi. Darin topp Sir Ian Sir Anthony locker, als der Ankleider, der ein wenig wider alle Vernunft den reichlich angeschlagenen "Sir" durch seinen allerletzten Lear (es ist der 217.) begleitet/nötigt, weil, was soll denn auch aus ihm werden, wenn die Show nicht weitergeht. Sagen Sie Bescheid, wenn wir anfangen, mehr Stücke über Leute, die Shakespeare spielen anzuschauen, als Stücke von Shakespeare.

[lifewithaview]

Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney in The Other Man (2008)

Dir.Richard Eyre

In Cambridge, software engineer Peter (Liam Neeson) and shoe designer Lisa are successful in their careers and have been happily married for twenty-five years. They have an adult daughter, Abigail, and Lisa frequently travels to Milano to do business with the Gianni & Gianni Company. When Lisa is gone, Peter finds a message in her cell phone and decides to snoop her e-mails and discovers in a secret folder named Love that she had a lover, Ralph. Peter travels to Milano and stalks Ralph; he finds that the man plays chess in a bar. Peter gets close to Ralph and discusses his relationship with Lisa without knowing that he is her husband.

*Laura Linney replaced Juliette Binoche.

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Antonia Quirke visiting script supervisor Susanna Lenton on the set of "The children act", dir. Richard Eyre, 2017.

[princesssarisa]

In light of all the recent Wuthering Heights discussion about Heathcliff's race, whether he's necessarily a man of color or might just be a dusky-skinned white man, and all the evidence that could point either way in the text, I'd like to share these comments.

When Heathcliff comes back after his three-year absence, Nelly describes his cheeks as "sallow" – a dull, sickly yellowish color.

Jane Eyre uses the exact same word to describe the complexion of Richard Mason, Bertha's brother.

I used to focus on that description of Mason as evidence that Bertha and her relatives are white Creoles (e.g. of Spanish or French descent), not part-black Creoles, and that besides ableism, the problem with Bertha's characterization is xenophobia, not racism. Charlotte Brontë called Mason's skin "sallow," not "dark."

But with the reminder that Emily Brontë used the same word to describe Heathcliff's complexion at one point, I realize it's ambiguous. On the one hand, that description might imply that Heathcliff is paler than we'd expect, and that by modern standards he might (just might) be an "ethnic white" man, not a man of color. On the other hand, the fact that an obviously POC-coded character like Heathcliff can also be described as "sallow" shows that this word doesn't necessarily mean Mason's skin is light.

Meanwhile, departing from the subject of race, rereading that scene of Heathcliff's return makes me notice its parallels with the earlier account of Hindley's return from college.

Both Heathcliff and Hindley come back after being gone for three years – the exact same amount of time – and are both greatly changed in their looks and demeanor. Both are better educated and more socially aware than they were before, both have become crueler and more ruthless, and both are ready to use the power society grants them – either through money, status, or the patriarchy – to "crush those beneath them," as Heathcliff says. And both, I now realize, are described as looking more sickly than before. Hindley more so, since Nelly describes him as thinner and paler than he used to be. But even though Heathcliff's body looks stronger and more athletic than before – which makes Nelly guess he might have been in the military – his complexion has turned sallow.

Throughout the book, sickliness is associated with over-civilization, while "robust good health" is enjoyed by simpler people attuned with the Yorkshire countryside and its culture. This is most obvious in the illnesses and premature deaths of Catherine (which happens because she betrays her true nature and becomes over-civilized), Edgar, Isabella, Linton, and Frances. But maybe it also appears in the thinness and pallor of Hindley and the sallowness of Heathcliff's face when they come home after three years of becoming more "civilized" and quickly turn to villainy.

@thevampiricnihal, @bethanydelleman

[luckystarinsky]

when edgar allen poe wrote “years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute”

"between what is said and not meant and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost" jane austen

[abigmessofablog]

i love you, characters who have the explicit purpose of representing entire concepts in the narrative. i love you, characters bigger than themselves. i love you allegorical characters. i love you characters so wrapped in metaphor and the creator philosophizing through you it eclipses you as a "person," i love you characters who haunt the narrative long after you're gone. i love you characters who are doomed because the thing that they represent are doomed. i love you characters who are more lesson then character.

[aneurinallday]

Reader, I married him

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë. Faye Marsay as Jane Eyre and Aneurin Barnard as Edward Fairfax Rochester.

[judi-daily]

BFI Q&A, 2024 with Richard Eyre and Jim Broadbent Video: BFI clip: tayryn

[thegirlwithcollarbones]

Notes on a Scandal (2006) dir. Richard Eyre