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Master list: Translated interviews / articles / Q&As with Céline Sciamma, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant (and others)
Last updated: 25 September 2023
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Created on 3rd of August 2020 (and updated hereafter as much as possible, but you know how it is 😅; the Excel file with all of the below is saved here for the time being.)
This is a master list gathering various interviews etc. with Céline, Adèle and Noémie (and others that were interviewed together with them, or in relation to them and their work), translated by @mlleclaudine, @ladyonfire28 and moi (@thexfridax). I would like to thank and applaud Claudine and Aimée for your massive contribution to the Portrait fandom.
There are so many more of you (@pensoakspaper, @unfumble, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @hedawolf, @empressofkalumina, @bereaving, @tenemos-que-hablar, @rosedelosvientos … to name a few) who keep the fire and conversation around Portrait and C/A/N alive by creating art and content – merci, this is also for you!
@justanotheruntitled04 created a master list of videos/audios with any of the three of them here. More Youtube translations can be found here: @akaiimee.
Aimée’s amazing POALOF DVD commentary master post can be found here. [C’est fini 😥]
***UPDATES***
If you want to find out more about Adèle’s theatre work, check this out.
POALOF podcasts made by @podcastofaladyonfire can be found here.
@scorpio-sky has created a DVDography of Adèle’s work, it’s here.
An inofficial fan-made transcript (French plus English stage direction) of POALOF can be found here, a collaboration 😍 between @pensoakspaper, @mlleclaudine, @ladyonfire28 and @morningmightcomebyaccident.
@page28club provided English subs for Adèle’s anti-racist transfeminist roundtable [troll alert during the Q&As 😡] and Boomerang interview [Césars, Les héros ne meurent jamais, Le Corps Lesbien].
Folks, we have the unofficial English translation of the French POALOF screenplay (Plain Archive) HERE, brought to you by yours truly @mlleclaudine, with support from @tonovember, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @ladyonfire28 and @hedawolf among others.
#MeToo in France: Interview with Marine Turchi (Nov 2020), Mediapart article about Adèle Haenel’s case (paywall; Nov 2019), Mediapart interview with Adèle Haenel (Nov 2019). 💔
@ladyonfire28 wrote her first piece about cinema, choosing Céline Sciamma’s debut film Water Lilies, see here in French or in English.
A CALL FOR SUBMISSION for Portrait fanart can be found here. A joint initiative by @empressofkalumina, @mlleclaudine, @rosedelosvientos and @thexfridax. 🖼️👻🔥 [on hold until further notice]
Interview with Céline Sciamma on ‘Coming of Age, in Life and Film’ (Berlinale Talents, March 2021) via @celinesfiamma
L’Étang review in the NY Times (May 2021)
How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life - Wonderful scene breakdown of Portrait of a Lady on Fire by LFTS / Michael Tucker (May 2021), also highlighting the unofficial English translation of the POALOF screenplay by @mlleclaudine, with support from @tonovember, @morningmightcomebyaccident, @ladyonfire28, and @hedawolf
L’Étang recaps [1], [2], [3] by yours truly, @thexfridax (June, Aug 2021, May 2022)
Weird Céline Sciamma profiles, for good measure [1], [2]
Dee has created another comprehensive blog, this time for Céline’s works and collaborations
A lovely profile of Céline Sciamma via @mlleclaudine
The French Institute UK - Petite Maman Q&A with Céline Sciamma (Feb 2022)
Q&A with Adèle Haenel after a screening of POALOF in Vienna (May 2022)
Weird Adèle Haenel profile [1]
I’m happy to add anyone else to this list, too! The more the merrier. 😉
Photo by Foc Kan/WireImage
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Somewhat ordered by year of publication and C/A/N/others (as of 3rd of Aug 2020: 78 182 ✨; any further updates will be put at the bottom of each year to make my life easier (=> for those older than 2021):
2023
Adèle Haenel, itinéraire d’une artiste en lutte
“J’ai décidé de politiser mon arrêt du cinéma” : la lettre d’Adèle Haenel à “Télérama”
Noémie Merlant, actrice pleine de surprises : “J’ai toujours peur qu’on ne comprenne pas mes blagues”
Noémie Merlant : «On devrait tous être féministes, aussi bien les hommes que les femmes»
"Je la regardais et je revoyais Titanic !" : Noémie Merlant raconte son tournage vertigineux avec Kate Winslet
Tête-à-tête avec Noémie Merlant, grande promesse du cinéma français
2022
Interview with Céline Sciamma: “Alliances are extremely important”
“I’M NOT DOING CINEMA ANYMORE” [Adèle Haenel]
Noémie Merlant : «J'ai longtemps cru qu'il fallait être parfaite, ce qui me verrouillait»
Noémie Merlant : la comédie, “c’est très plaisant et libérateur”
Rokhaya Diallo & Adèle Haenel: Le combat des mots
2021
«Le regard d’enfant est un regard perçant» Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma : “Je veux donner du pouvoir politique aux mères”
Céline Sciamma: “Toute ma vie, je me suis demandé comment était ma mère à mon âge”
CÉLINE SCIAMMA | Interview
Céline Sciamma : « Pour une cinéaste, on ne sépare pas la femme de l’artiste »
Director Sciamma ‘It’s a dance with ghosts’
"On est du côté des enfants, de leur regard sur leurs parents": Céline Sciamma à propos de son nouveau film, "Petite Maman"
Reviews on Pétite Maman: [1], [2], [3]
Céline Sciamma : «S’engager rend toujours vulnérable»
Céline Sciamma, réalisatrice de “Petite Maman”: “Sur le tournage, je me demandais, que ferait Miyazaki ?”
Céline Sciamma: “’Petite Maman’” est le parfait film post-pandémie"
Baise-moi et King Kong théorie de Virginie Despentes
Adèle Haenel dans les eaux incestueuses de «L’Etang»
Feu!
«L’expérience offerte par une œuvre d’art devrait être centrale»
Reviews on L’Étang: [1], [2], [3]
Noémie Merlant : "L'expérience de la salle de cinéma manque terriblement"
Interview / De Sciamma à Mixte : Nina Meurisse, l'actrice de Caen qui a la cote!
2020
CÉLINE SCIAMMA : «DiCaprio est une icône lesbienne. »
Céline Sciamma: inventer une femme pour les raconter toutes
Aïssa Maïga and Adèle Haenel : «Finally there’s something political happening»
Noémie Merlant, l'actrice qui dévergonde le cinéma français, se confie
Noémie Merlant (JUMBO) : "Si je ne fais rien, il faut que je sois dans l'eau"
The making of Shakira with Noémie Merlant
Noémie talks about Jumbo in L’instant cinéma
JUMBO, NOEMIE MERLANT
A Good Man Behind the Scenes
Rising star Noémie Merlant: 'Being a model is terrible. It shouldn't exist’
Noémie Merlant: «Quand ça dérange, ça titille des choses importantes et utiles»
Noémie Merlant: "I remember very well the pride I felt on the red carpet."
Noémie Merlant, in the light
*Noémie Merlant talks about the César*
“The double life of Noémie Merlant”
Jumbo - Interview de Noémie Merlant & Zoé Wittock
Rencontre avec Zoé Wittock et Noémie Merlant sur le film "Jumbo"
Zoé Wittock & Noémie Merlant: Jumbo Instagram Live 28 March 2020
Rencontres confinées : Claire Mathon à propos du film Portrait de la jeune fille en feu - 29 avril
From mourning to resilience, Gisèle Vienne discusses her next creation with Adèle Haenel
***UPDATES below***
Céline Sciamma: "Le militantisme est un moment de grande vulnérabilité"
Céline Sciamma & Annie Ernaux: Sœurs de Combat
Céline Sciamma
Translated interview with Adèle Haenel, heroine of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”; Translated excerpt from ’“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” - Approaching the True Face* of Adèle Haenel’ [2 in 1]
Haenel gets up and gets out
#4 Adèle Haenel
"Not correctness, but towards raising questions": the gaze of actress Adèle Haenel
“The experience of being alive is not the priority of the government”. Conversation with Gisèle Vienne, Adèle Haenel & Ruth Vega Fernandez
Adèle Haenel
Interview d'Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant pour la sortie Portrait de la jeune fille en feu au Royaume-Uni [1, autotranslated]; [2]
Fashion and cinema interview with Noémie Merlant, star of French cinema at the Deauville Film Festival
Rencontre avec Luàna Bajrami, étoile montante
2019
‘We started a culture war‘
Céline Sciamma • Réalisatrice de Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma: «Il y a eu un sacrifice de lesbiennes dans toute l'histoire du cinéma»
«Portrait de la jeune fille en feu» : entretien avec Céline Sciamma [1]; Portrait of a Lady on Fire: An Interview With Céline Sciamma [2]
Entretien avec Céline Sciamma : « Je veux juste qu’on arrête d’opposer le point de vue féminin au point de vue universel. »
Céline Sciamma, en feu et en flammes
Céline Sciamma, la femme qui filmait les femmes
Céline Sciamma: «Portrait de la jeune fille en feu» est un film totalement dédié à l’amour»
"Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" : Céline Sciamma et Adèle Haenel s'embrasent
"Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" : rencontre au Méliès de Montreuil
«Je ne viens pas pour servir la soupe» : entretien avec Adèle Haenel
Viennale Star Adèle Haenel: ‘Equality is sexy’
A new politics of love - An interview with Adèle Haenel on 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Adèle Haenel: Figurehead of the new French Film
Adèle Haenel: 'Sex in cinema is usually quite pathetic’
Adèle Haenel (German interview)
Adèle Haenel en rediffusion et Pomme en déconfinement
Exclusive interview with Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, lead actresses in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Entretien avec Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant
Interview Noémie Merlant et Adèle Haenel : «En tant que comédienne, en tant que femme, il y a beaucoup d’échos.»
Dance of the gazes and female desire
[PORTRAIT] Noémie Merlant : «J’ai progressivement essayé de choisir des rôles féminins qui ont du sens »
Festival de Cannes 2019 : Noémie Merlant, «Quand je m’éteins, je vais voir un film et je re-rêve »
France tv & vous / République, le film interactif avec France.tv lab [Noémie Merlant, Lyna Khoudri]
Rencontre avec Hélène Delmaire, la peintre lilloise du film « Portrait de la jeune fille en feu »
Christel Baras, la directrice de casting qui a découvert Adèle Haenel à 11 ans
***UPDATES below***
Focus Vif, September 26, 2019: Dixit Céline Sciamma
Vertiges de l’amour
Céline Sciamma, le feu sacré & Noémie Merlant, portrait of an actress
CÉLINE SCIAMMA: "Si on me demande ce qu’est le female gaze, pour moi, c’est partager."
Culture : Feux croisés entre Céline Sciamma et Monica Sabolo
Rencontre Céline Sciamma: "Il faut créer les conditions de sa liberté"
Céline Sciamma : «Je voulais faire un voyage dans l’histoire de l’art d’un point de vue féminin»
The female gaze: An interview with Céline Sciamma; Interview with director Céline Sciamma; Sciamma: ‘I want to show images of daily life that are missing’ [3 articles in 1]
Interview : Céline Sciamma «Ils ne savent pas voler, elles, elles savent.»
Love and let love
Céline Sciamma: ‘I love films that hate me!’
Director Céline Sciamma: ‘I try to create new forms of eroticism’
Forgotten women
‘I am a film activist’ - Interview with Céline Sciamma
“On ne s'en laisse plus conter. On écoute ce qu'on ressent.” (Adèle Haenel et Noémie Merlant)
Adèle Haenel : «Le respect pousse à s’investir»
Rencontre avec Adèle Haenel, à l'affiche de trois films à Cannes
Actress Adèle Haenel: The French Revolutionary
Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme
2018
Adèle Haenel, le jeu sacré
Adèle Haenel : «Il y a toujours matière à rire de soi »
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Adèle Haenel : “J’ai grandi avec La Cité de la peur et Les Trois Frères”
Adèle Haenel: «Je fais souvent les choses à l’envers»
2017
Entretien avec Adèle Haenel – Sophie dans 120 battements par minute
No, I’m not made of sugar: Shooting star Adèle Haenel
Génération Slimani
Adèle Haenel et Adèle Exarchopoulos : Orpheline
Adèle Haenel in an interview for 120BPM
***UPDATES below***
Screenplay writer Céline Sciamma: The women behind the big emotions
Un fantôme que l’on décrit avec complaisance est un fantôme qui cesse d’agir 👻
Adèle Haenel. L’émotion brute
‘I have ten years, then I become part of the system’
"120 BPM" à TÊTU : Les acteurs nous ont confié les secrets du tournage
Adèle Haenel in 2017 [3 articles merged]
Quand Adèle (Haenel) rencontre Adèle (Exarchopoulos)
Noémie Merlant & Naomi Amarger: ‘Heaven will wait’
2016
Translated interview with Adèle Haenel [and others] on ‘The Bloom of Yesterday’
Adèle Haenel, l'insaisissable
Le Grand Journal du 23/03 avec Wassim Nasr, Stéphane Gatignon, Adèle Haenel et Marianne Denicourt - CANAL +
MASTERCLASS du 6 oct 2016 - La Fille Inconnue
Dans la tête de Adèle Haenel
Noémie Merlant dans «Le Ciel Attendra »
Chris Kraus about Adèle »Machine Gun« Haenel
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André Téchiné et Céline Sciamma: entretien croisé autour de Quand on a 17 ans
Interview : Céline Sciamma
Adèle Haenel, la nouvelle héroïne des frères Dardenne
Adèle Haenel, géante dans Les Ogres
Interview with Adèle Haenel about ‘The Unknown Girl’
Les Ogres. Adèle Haenel: "Ne valorisons pas trop la souffrance"
Adèle Haenel: “Je ne veux pas me résoudre au cynisme”
Adèle Haenel: “And the fight against racism, is that a black thing?”
Adèle Haenel : «La plus grande force de l’homme, c’est le pardon»
Adèle Haenel : “Dire ‘Allez vous faire foutre !’, c'est un peu mon moteur” [Télérama; long version]
Adèle Haenel, comédienne : “Le cinéma blanc et masculin, j'en ai marre” [Télérama; short version]
Noémie Merlant, talent brut
2015
‘Being young means: To refuse’
Une apparition de cinéma [!!!]
Brouiller les pistes [!!!]
Les grandes actrices sont des femmes intelligentes
Une minute sans cligner des yeux
On va te manger
***UPDATES below***
Adèle Haenel, la belle dégenrée 😱
2014
Filming of ‘Girlhood‘
‘Girlhood’ - A meeting with Céline Sciamma
"'Bande de filles' montre des Blacks à l’écran et ça nous rend fières"
Céline Sciamma: «Les grands films libèrent des territoires plutôt qu’ils ne les occupent»
Cannes 2014: Céline Sciamma, fille de bandes
Adèle Haenel : "Je ne pose pas de limite quand j’ai donné ma confiance"
Les verbes d'Adèle: Rencontre avec Adèle Haenel, actrice
Adèle Haenel - Force vive
***UPDATES below***
Course en Tête
Adèle Haenel : “A un moment on commence à tellement se kiffer qu'on fait n'importe quoi”
Adèle Haenel, petit soldat
La belle vie d'Adèle Haenel
Adèle Haenel: « J’aime l’idée que les filles s’endurcissent »
Interview d'Adèle Haenel : "La relation avec un réalisateur fait tout"
Adèle Haenel: cherchez le garçon… manqué !
Adèle Haenel: “On ne me reproche plus de ne pas être assez féminine!”
“Elle a un fort potentiel burlesque”, Adèle Haenel racontée par André Téchiné
“Une super-héroïne sans superpouvoirs”, Adèle Haenel racontée par Thomas Cailley
2013
***UPDATES below***
Adèle Haenel - La belle audacieuse
2012
Adèle Haenel et Nicolas Maury: conversation ciblée sur Avignon
Une journée avec Adèle Haenel
***UPDATES below***
Interview with Céline Sciamma
2011
***UPDATES below***
Tomboy - Interview with Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma, quand tourner est un jeu d’enfants
Adèle Haenel, la belle insurgée
2007
Naissance d'une réalisatrice
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A Goode Year? Review of 2020
Can’t believe it’s that time again. What a weird year. Despite Covid and Lockdowns we have actually seen quite a lot of Matthew Goode this year - so this is a long post to save for when you are bored of eating over the holidays! I’m not adding links to vids, etc. like previous years because tumblr doesn’t like them anymore [Grr] but all of them are still available and I’ll signpost them.
In January Matthew was finishing filming A Discovery of Witches Season 2 in Turin and we had some glimpses of his leather clad bod in some Teresa Palmer instastories -
...and in Sky’s ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ Excellent sneak peek.
... and Joshua’s uncle Lee gave us a few gorgeous pics ...
In February we saw Matthew and Sophie having fun at the Pre - BAFTA party
[Pics - Dave Benett]
The rest of that month was all about Leap Year’s 10 year anniversary and we drooled over Declan all over again ....
In March Matthew was finishing filming Silent Night with Keira Knightley when the world changed. We were introduced to ‘social distancing’. We had to keep a full Matthew Goode length away from other people - a handy reference is below to remind you -
[Pic - Ellen Von Unwerth] On the upside the news broke that Matthew would be playing Keira’s husband in Silent Night (as we suspected) and that they had finished filming before lockdown in the UK.
In April Matthew had his 42nd birthday. Check out all of the fabulous birthday tributes posted on here around 3rd April. As a special birthday present Sky released ‘Four Kids and It’ on their cinema channel on the same day with Matthew playing the role of slightly harassed parent David. It was a goode family movie and just what we needed in lockdown.
[Pics - Sky Cinema]
In May we got our first glimpse of Matthew in lockdown when he made a poignant contribution to Bletchley Park’s VE Day celebrations -
[Vid available on Bletchley Park You Tube]
It was perfectly judged - just Matthew filming himself on his phone, in his garden, complete with birdsong.
“This is your finest hour.”
According to James Purefoy and Joe Fattorini Matthew shaved off his hair with the dog clippers in lockdown so he looked a bit different the next time we saw him in June!
Matthew appeared via zoom on ‘Dan Nicholls Really Likes Wine’ show - ‘Drinking the Goode Stuff’. It was great seeing these old friends bantering away and drinking wine. Of course Goode fans immediately campaigned to get Matthew on The Wine Show @ Home and we got our wish a few weeks later when Joe and Matthew had a virtual wine tasting on zoom -
The whole session was hilarious. Matthew was completely adorable and funny as usual. Amongst other things Matthew told us that Sophie had gone off pork (not a euphemism) and we got another peek at his beautiful home with Sophie’s interior design skills on show. This is also still available on The Wine Show @Home You Tube.
June also gave us the new trailer for ‘The King’s Man’. We heard Matthew’s unmistakable voice as the Scots bad guy and there were some tantalising peeks of his character’s mysterious alter ego ‘Shepherd’ -
In July we finally got to see one of Matthew’s Q & A sessions for actors in training at Bow Street Academy in Dublin that he had recorded in May -
Matthew gave frank, funny and very practical advice on auditions, preparation for roles and demonstrated how to be scary with a knife!
August was a bit quiet - we got news that A Discovery of Witches Season 2 would now be aired in January 2021 but a new promo image helped soften the blow of that delay. -
[Pic - Sky]
Kingsman was delayed yet again.... but at least we got some new promo images of Matthew’s character - Captain Maximillian Morton. (Morton? Hmm - someone on here (not me!) spotted the relation to Roxy!]
[Pics - Total Film/Empire]
In September Matthew’s new movie ‘The Duke’ received glowing reviews at the Venice Film Festival and we got confirmation of my speculation that he would play barrister Jeremy Hutchinson.
Tantalisingly goode info about Matthew’s up coming movie Silent Night came from Baz Bamigboye from the Daily Mail as he called it ‘the most astonishing Christmas movie ever made’ - hopefully he meant it in a goode way! We had fun spotting Matthew’s body parts in the pictures accompanying the article ...
[Pic Daily Mail]
Production on A Discovery of Witches season 3 started under strict Covid rules and Matthew was seen filming for ADOW Season 3 in Bristol -
[Anthony Ward]
October was a very goode month!
It kicked off with The Wine Show Season 3 teaser -
Matthew ‘sub-section’ Goode joined in with the ADOW cast Q & A. He was a funny and engaging as ever including an unforgettable impression of a ‘wafter’ and a hasty exit at the end!
We had the official ‘first look’ trailer for season 2 of A Discovery of Witches -
[pic - my edit]
The Wine Show season 3 landed on Amazon Prime in the UK and it is SO goode even tho’ there is less Matthew than usual due to filming clashes with ADOW. Matthew was still his adorably goofy self and gave us the usual interesting fashion choices and jokes.
[My Edit]
October also brought us a new tie in cover for Shadow of Night -
[Pic - Deborah Harkness Twitter]
And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for October we got the official news that there will be another Downton Abbey movie - starting to film in March 2021. Hopefully we will see more of him in this one!
[Pic - Carnival]
Matthew usually keeps his charity projects private but in November we saw him donating his ADOW ‘wedding day’ boots to be auctioned for the Small Steps Project ....
...complete with on mud from the set. Some lucky person is probably stroking that suede as I write this!
[Pics - Small Steps project]
Matthew also recorded some charming contributions to the #SaveJenny campaign. He evicted the dog from her favourite chair by the radiator in the kitchen and sat there to read the opening chapter of Wind in the Willows -
and later ‘The Night before Christmas’ poem complete with music!
You can still see these contributions and most importantly DONATE - links are listed below -
December has been all about A Discovery of Witches season 2 - with a stunning second trailer and plenty of teasers and pictures from Sky and Bad Wolf - there are too many to include but here’s a few -
[Pics my edit / sky/badwolf]
So what of next year? So many goode things to look forward to. I’ll do ‘Goode Things coming in 2021′ a bit earlier next year because January is gonna be BUSY for Goode fans!
Thank you SO MUCH for making time to read this blog. And a big thank you to Goode fans who create content to share with others on here and on matthew-goode.net. We really appreciate the effort that everyone puts in to sharing the Goode Stuff.
Lastly I have to thank Matthew Goode who patiently tolerates the fan nonsense while he tries to pretend that he doesn’t actually have any fans anyway!
Cheers Matthew!
#matthew goode#matthewgoode#a discovery of witches#adow#the wine show#downton abbey#the duke#silent night#Kingsman
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Best Film of Each Month: 2020
(no best new release this time due the cinemas being closed)
January: Parasite
February: Girl Interrupted
March: Dark Waters
April: The Willoughbys
May: I Am Mother
June: n/a
July: Castle in the Sky
August: The Shawshank Redemption
September: Billy Elliot
October: It Follows
November: Clue
December: Jingle Jangle
#film list#movie list#gif#parasite#girl interrupted#dark waters#the willoughbys#i am mother#Castle in the Sky#the shawshank redemption#billy elliot#it follows#clue#jingle jangle
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My New Year’s Resolution for 2020 (I never make resolutions) was to watch at least two films a week that I’d never seen before. This year ended up giving ample opportunity to watch films I’d never seen before - not because I had bags of free time, in fact I was busier than ever, but because I needed something I could discover, needed variety, needed movies.
So this year I’ve watched 277 films that were new to me - some new releases, while I could get to the cinema, some huge blindspots and some just because they were there. And nobody asked for it, but these are the ones that stood out to me, in no particular order other than the order in which I watched them:
JANUARY
All About My Mother (dir. Pedro Almodovar, 1999. Watched 02.01.2020)
Married to the Mob (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1988. Watched 13.01.2020)
Mikey and Nicky (dir. Elaine May, 1976. Watched 21.01.2020)
FEBRUARY
Parasite (dir. Bong Joon Ho, 2019. Watched at the Barbican cinema, 08.02.2020 and 11.02.2020)
Fellini’s Roma (dir. Federico Fellini, 1972. Watched at the BFI, 16.02.2020)
Mean Streets (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1973. Watched 19.02.2020)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2019. Watched at the Prince Charles Cinema, 24.02.2020)
The Farewell (dir. Lulu Wang, 2019. Watched at the Prince Charles Cinema, 25.02.2020)
MARCH
Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1986. Watched 07.03.2020)
Shock Corridor (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1963. Watched 23.03.2020)
Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015. Watched 28.03.2020)
Léon Morin, Priest (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961. Watched 29.03.2020)
APRIL
Pain and Glory (dir. Pedro Almodovar, 2019. Watched 04.04.2020)
Le sang d’un poète (dir. Jean Cocteau, 1930. Watched 16.04.2020)
MAY
A Star is Born (dir. William Wellman 1937. Watched 03.05.2020)
Carve Her Name With Pride (dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1958. Watched 09.05.2020)
Battle of the River Plate (dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1956. Watched 10.05.2020)
Starstruck (dir. Gillian Armstrong, 1982. Watched 22.05.2020)
Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1985. Watched 25.05.2020)
JUNE
I Walked with a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1943. Watched 05.06.2020)
The Queen (dir. Frank Simon, 1968. Watched 08.06.2020)
New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1977. Watched 20.06.2020)
JULY
Woman of the Year (dir. George Stevens, 1942. Watched 09.07.2020)
Pather Panchali (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955. Watched 12.07.2020)
Babette’s Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987. Watched 19.07.2020)
Big Trouble in Little China (dir. John Carpenter, 1986. Watched 28.07.2020)
AUGUST
Visages, Villages (dir. Agnes Varda, 2017. Watched 27.08.2020)
Kundun (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1997. Watched 28.08.2020)
SEPTEMBER
Mickey Blue Eyes (dir. Kelly Makin, 1999. Watched 06.09.2020)
Brassed Off (dir. Mark Herman, 1996. Watched 17.09.2020)
White Riot (dir. Rubika Shah, 2019. Watched at the BFI 23.09.2020)
OCTOBER
My Own Private Idaho (dir. Gus van Sant, 1991. Watched at the BFI, 02.10.2020)
Philadelphia (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1993. Watched 08.10.2020)
Mission Impossible: Fallout (dir. Christopher McQuarrie, 2018. Watched 18.10.2020)
Laputa Castle in the Sky (dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1986. Watched 25.10.2020)
Dick Johnson is Dead (dir. Kirsten Johnson, 2020. Watched 26.10.2020)
NOVEMBER
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (dir. Mami Sunada, 2013. Watched 01.11.2020)
Shoplifters (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018. Watched 18.11.2020)
Prisoners (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2013. Watched 25.11.2020)
Throne of Blood (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1957. Watched 30.11.2020)
DECEMBER
A Holiday Affair (dir. Don Hartman, 1949. Watched 09.12.2020)
Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1945. Watched 16.12.2020)
Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018. Watched 26.12.2020)
Design For Living (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1933. Watched 29.12.2020)
The Commitments (dir. Alan Parker, 1991. Watched 29.12.2020)
And so many more to watch. Roll on 2021.
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Farewell to one of the last surviving Warhol Superstars (and last links to old-school New York bohemia) Brigid Berlin (sometimes known as Brigid Polk, 6 September 1939 – 17 July 2020), who has died aged 80. Like fellow Superstar Edie Sedgwick, Berlin was the wayward daughter from an old money high society family (her father was the chairman of the Hearst media empire) who jettisoned the respectable role of debutante ordained for her to gleefully letting her freak flag fly at the Royal House of Warhol in the sixties and seventies instead. As Berlin herself explained, “My mother wanted me to be a slim respectable socialite … instead I became an overweight troublemaker.” An outsized character in every sense (at one point her weight topped 300 pounds), Berlin is a ferocious, abrasive, frequently naked, sometimes scary and often hilariously funny presence in the underground cinema of Andy Warhol. Her performances in films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Imitation of Christ (1967), and Bad (1977) are rivetingly obnoxious. Berlin was also a notorious speed freak, who terrorized the unsuspecting in the VIP backroom of bohemian haunt Max’s Kansas City by jabbing them with her hypodermic needle of amphetamines. (Warhol films Berlin furiously ranting and shooting-up speed in Chelsea Girls). Berlin was also an artist in her own right, using the mediums of Polaroid photography and “tit prints” (dipping her own breasts into paint and pressing them onto paper). Until Warhol’s death, Berlin (who’d kicked amphetamines by this point) worked as the receptionist at his Interview magazine – albeit an extremely unconventional one. (She preferred to eat candy, knit and fuss over her pet dogs than answer telephones). It’s undeniably disillusioning and bizarre to learn that as she aged, the rebellious Berlin gradually reverted to type, ultimately becoming every bit as conservative as her patrician socialite mother. Towards the end of her life, Berlin was even a Trump supporter! I did warm to her, though, when I read that in Berlin’s reclusive housebound later years, she “cleaned obsessively, then cleaned some more.” For me, the unapologetically butch and androgynous Berlin exuded a “big dyke energy”, but the otherwise thorough New York Times obituary doesn’t touch on her sexual preferences or romantic life. Director John Waters was an admirer (Berlin made cameo appearances in Waters’ films Serial Mom (1994) and Pecker (1998) and he wrote the introduction to her coffee table book of Polaroid photography). In the NY Times obit he sweetly recalls, “I was scared of her in the best way.” Berlin is the subject of the 2000 documentary Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story, which I clearly need to see. Pictured: 1971 portrait of Brigid Berlin by Gerard Malanga and Polaroid shot of Berlin with fellow Warhol Superstar Nico.
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Ectoberweek Day 1: (Fog)
(I only just remembered about Ectoberweek when I saw people posting their things for Day 1, and I really wanted to participate in some sort of fandom event this year so I scrambled to find the prompt list and started writing my stuff last minute lol. No preparation time--RIP me. This particular one came from a massive inspiration burst between the prompt and a DP crossover idea I had a few months ago, but never wrote. This oneshot is more of a DP-only nod to the other media than a crossover, but I might create a larger crossover story based on it and include it on ff.net if anyone’s interested. Kudos to anyone who gets what this is based off of--it’s probably obvious though.)
(Also, I deeply apologise for how long it is)
Ectoberweek Day 1: Fog
(‘… It wasn’t until the semi-rare encounter of all four Fentons at the breakfast table together that the weather change, bless Danny’s obliviousness, crossed his mind again.
“Be careful on your way out, kids!” his mother called as his chair screeched across the dining room floor and he grabbed his backpack off the couch, “The forecast predicts a fog this morning!”
“The forecast?” Jazz cocked an incredulous eyebrow at the ghost-hunting matriarch from her position in the front foyer, “Have you looked out the window yet?! It’s so thick I can barely see the house across the street!”
“Yeah, I saw it out the window when I woke up, but I didn’t think it would be that bad.” Danny hummed with a frown as he flipped his remaining backpack strap over the other shoulder. You’re not gonna be driving, are you?”
“Of course not!” His sister replied, aghast, “I’m going to walk this time. They’re starting school late to accommodate for the transportation hindrances.”
“And you didn’t tell me that earlier!?” he cried indignantly.
“I knew it would motivate you to slack around and leave the house late, so I decided it would be better to let you know when we were leaving.” She replied, hiding a teasing, know-it-all smile behind a farce of flippancy.
Danny groaned at her attempts to improve his punctuality—apparently, being overbearing now involved withholding vital information— and trailed behind her as she opened the door, his lower jaw swinging loosely on its hinges as the door did, at the firsthand view granted to him of the world beyond…
…The slight chill of mid-autumn fled back in time to the start of September to rush through Danny’s ill-prepared t-shirt and jeans and provoke an involuntary shudder. Jazz’s protective hand clenched firmly onto his wrist so as not to lose him, her free hand reaching to lock the door behind them. Icy blue eyes squinted harshly in the direction they needed to go, straining through the deep field of whiteness like the time he had tried on Tucker’s glasses for the heck of it. As Jazz fished a flashlight out of her schoolbag, they trudged carefully to the corner of their block…
…“Hey, you there!”
Danny froze as Jazz turned to point her flashlight in the direction of the siren lights, the large figure of a policemen striding towards them from across the road...’)
(Full story starts from beginning under cut)
The empty air shimmered, not a cloud in the sky, as the summer holidays reached their end. Amity Park remained—for the most part—plodding along the boundaries of mundanity (or… at least what remained mundane by Amity Park standards); parents treated their kids to their last weekday lunches at the cinemas or public pool, teenagers grumbled seemingly endless streams of complaints about their incomplete summer homework—all between the flurry of evacuations away from the daily ghost who decided to interrupt everyone’s fun.
Loud choruses—comprising more of exasperated sighs and angry diatribes than a cacophony of panic—exploded from the throats of passers-by as that annoying overall-clad spectre swiped all of the boxes from the local supermarket, or the sickly lime glow of a faded raccoon dashed down the streets, its tail rippling from fur to mist behind it. Any terrified screams—that the more violent ghostly destruction of overhead buildings elicited from civilians—quickly gave way to relieved cries and cheers as the familiar ebony and white blur of their town hero whipped into the offending ghost like a homing torpedo, flashing fists outstretched.
As the brawling duo of spectres threw each other across town, a throng of transfixed gazes followed. Avid fans stayed to track every powerful blow with their phones, while others nonchalantly turned back to their previous business as if the paranormal interruption had never occurred. With the inevitable pull-through of their ghostly protector, and the hasty response of the well-oiled machine that was the local paramedic corps, all casualties lay flat at a constant zero. After almost two years of adjusting to ghost attacks, Amity Park had established a comfortable routine—ghosts attacked, everyone evacuated, Danny Phantom swooped in to end the destruction and the injured were assisted, then get safely back along with your day. In the end, it never paid to worry; everything came out the other end okay, and the town remained safe. The morale in Amity mirrored the all-summer-long weather forecast—warm, bright and clear.
Their town hero couldn’t entirely agree as he ascended away from the battle, exhausted. Fatigue wore down at Danny like sandpaper on a knife blade, grinding him blunt and sending his energy into an insidious decline. However, for all it was worth, at least the routine never changed—at least, in the end, the weather he soared through prolonged in him a reminder of the town’s warm cheer and hope each time another ghost was taken care of; for all that he suffered, and all he was forced to lie, others remained safe because of him.
A deep groan cut through Danny as his mind decided to surprise him with the reminder of the hectic workload he would drown in as the school year began again. Hopefully, that safety and routine would at least make it easier—he begged that the morale from the summer would not peter out as its skies did…
He was wrong.
Everything turned upside down on the anniversary of the Accident.
Surprisingly, the event it commemorated was not the culprit; instead, it was the deciding moment that Danny woke up to tiredly yank back his curtains into the first school week of the year…
…and his eyes met the obstruction of a windowful of fog.
It wasn’t until the semi-rare encounter of all four Fentons at the breakfast table together that the weather change, bless Danny’s obliviousness, crossed his mind again.
“Be careful on your way out, kids!” his mother called as his chair screeched across the dining room floor and he grabbed his backpack off the couch, “The forecast predicts a fog this morning!”
“The forecast?” Jazz cocked an incredulous eyebrow at the ghost-hunting matriarch from her position in the front foyer, “Have you looked out the window yet?! It’s so thick I can barely see the house across the street!”
“Yeah, I saw it out the window when I woke up, but I didn’t think it would be that bad.” Danny hummed with a frown as he flipped his remaining backpack strap over the other shoulder. “You’re not gonna be driving, are you?”
“Of course not!” His sister replied, aghast, “I’m going to walk this time. They’re starting school late to accommodate for the transportation hindrances.”
“And you didn’t tell me that earlier!?” he cried indignantly.
“I knew it would motivate you to slack around and leave the house late, so I decided it would be better to let you know when we were leaving.” She replied, hiding a teasing, know-it-all smile behind a farce of flippancy.
Danny groaned at her attempts to improve his punctuality—apparently, being overbearing now involved withholding vital information— and trailed behind her as she opened the door, his lower jaw swinging loosely on its hinges as the door did, at the firsthand view granted to him of the world beyond.
A dense, off-white mist engulfed the entire street like the stifling weight of a lead blanket, the houses across the street reduced to incomplete outlines and the asphalt of the road off of the footpath faint in the viewing distance. Fences, letterboxes and road signs short distances away had been almost, irony not unnoticed, turned into ghosts—fitting squarely into an ancient, redundant impression that Danny’s mind had rendered of the beings before he himself had become half of one; faded, unsolid wisps of what physically was, so scantly visible to the heavily relied upon sense of human sight that one might be of the impression it was hardly even there and nothing in the world could touch it. He almost imagined reaching out to the street sign on the corner and watching his fully tangible hand go straight through it.
The slight chill of mid-autumn fled back in time to the start of September to rush through Danny’s ill-prepared t-shirt and jeans and provoke an involuntary shudder. Jazz’s protective hand clenched firmly onto his wrist so as not to lose him, her free hand reaching to lock the door behind them. Icy blue eyes squinted harshly in the direction they needed to go, straining through the deep field of whiteness like the time he had tried on Tucker’s glasses for the heck of it. As Jazz fished a flashlight out of her schoolbag, they trudged carefully to the corner of their block.
Danny’s stomach dropped lower and lower, like a climber scraping down a flattened slope, with each step, a feeling as dense as the fog resting heavier in his legs. He gulped down a wave of uneasiness that begged for each gruelling minute to pass by more quickly, the very sight and feel of the fog setting off a primal buzz of warning in his chest. As they crossed the intersection at the next block, his racing heart was ready to snap—a scathing complaint about Jazz’s persistent grip on his wrist poised itself to leap from his lips, but muscular instinct tensed his mouth shut.
Red and blue beams flashed on an off on the corner of the crossing and intersected with the topaz glow of Jazz’s flashlight, shimmering clouds of condensation with the universally iconic colours of the law.
“Hey, you there!”
Danny froze as Jazz turned to point her flashlight in the direction of the siren lights, the large figure of a policemen striding towards them from across the road.
“Are you kids headed to Casper High?”
“Yes, sir.” Jazz replied politely, quickly yanking her hand off of Danny’s arm, “I can’t drive because of the fog.”
“Well, good thinking on your part—with that light, too.” He commented, his calm voice stiffening slightly, “Listen, the route to Casper had to change this morning—the road ahead is closed off; you’ll need to take a short detour down the next corner.”
“What’s the matter?” Jazz’s brow furrowed uneasily, “Did something happen?”
“That’s not for you kids to know—police business.” The man sighed calmly, “You just get on ahead to school, and don’t come down here on the way back in the afternoon, alright?”
Danny almost jumped as an irregular dance of footsteps and shaky groan drew closer to them from across the road.
“Ugggh, what an awful sight! How could somebody do this?! I’m sorry sir, I can’t handle this—AAAAAGGH!”
The officer rolled his eyes as a lanky figure in a suit and tie brushed past Danny with a strangled scream, the slow, stumbling gait transforming instantly into a crazed, almost drunken-looking rush down the street. A disgusting gurgling sound bubbled faintly out of an alleyway not far behind them. Danny flinched and Jazz’s lips contorted into a grimace.
“Dammit, Peterson what are you doing?!” the first policeman barked, “Why would you join the police in the first place if you’re that squeamish?!”
…Squeamish?
Once again, Danny’s instinct took a tight hold of his gut and thrashed it to hell as the sound of wet retching faded into an awkward pause.
“…Don’t mind him. He’s not really that…competent.” The officer ushered, pushing the two siblings hurriedly down the corner to the detour route, “Now, you two don’t have too much longer to get to school, so move it along.”
“Of course, sir…” Jazz defended with a surprised stutter at the forceful shove, “We’ll be on our way.”
Each second they walked away from the police dispatch dragged out into an eternity, the sounds of chatter and the flashing of the sirens fading away into still, eerie silence. The siblings held their proverbial breaths in tight chests as they reached the distance outside of the officers’ ear shots. Jazz turned to exchange glances with her brother, grabbing onto his wrist again and clenching tightly, her teal eyes holding an unsaid worry about the encounter she dared not speak aloud. Danny pulled away with an annoyed huff until she let go, his mind pounding him with a show of false bravado to combat the ton of unease that piled into his stomach like a vat of sludge. Jazz’s mouth eventually opened, with what remained of a desperate attempt to say something.
“…a cold morning and fog, during a warm start to September…? Did it rain last night and we never knew?”
One thing for certain crossed Danny’s mind as he started to lag behind her.
There was something about that fog that felt so wrong.
#danny phantom#ectoberweek2020#danny phantom fanfiction#danny fenton#jazz fenton#fog#this is one of the first times I've tried to write darker DP and the only one I've ever posted#these are the last words of a mad masochist going into Ectoberweek with no preparation rip me
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Top, photograph by Robin Sloan, Oakland, California, September 2020. The image on the left was taken with the Halide app which lets you change exposure settings manually, including white balance. The image on the right is from the iOS camera. Via Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse - Why the orange sky looks gray. Via. Bottom, Gailė Cijūnaitytė, from the group exhibition The Cave & The Garden, on view at FUTURA, Prague, until September 27. Via.
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Lines of flight or of deterritorialization, becoming-wolf, becoming-inhuman, deterritorialized intensities: that is what multiplicity is. To become wolf or to become hole is to deterritorialize oneself following distinct but entangled lines. A hole is no more negative than a wolf. Castration, lack, substitution: a tale told by an overconscious idiot who has no understanding of multiplicities as formations of the unconscious.
A wolf is a hole, they are both particles of the unconscious, nothing but particles, productions of particles, particulate paths, as elements of molecular multiplicities. It is not even sufficient to say that intense and moving particles pass through holes; a hole is just as much a particle as what passes through it. Physicists say that holes are not the absence of particles but particles traveling faster than the speed of light. Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in 1914: One or Several Wolves from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1980. Via.
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The Replicant Real: trauma-cinema arising as consensus. Not fiction v reality, but the black box of being anything at all and rendering it shareable, inhabitable. It isn’t possible for things to be what they are. To be real they must also haunt themselves as unreal, as replicant.
Jeff Wood (@coopers_hawk), September 12, 2020. Tweet. See also, The Replicant Real, and Blade Runner: San Francisco.
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New British TV Series from 2020: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky Dramas and More
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On top of the British series that returned in 2020 (His Dark Materials, Ghosts and Inside No. 9 to name just three), below are the many new UK TV series we welcomed in 2020.
You’ll find true crime series, contemporary thrillers and the usual hefty number of literary adaptations and period dramas. Here’s the same for all the new British comedy we enjoyed in 2020.
Obviously, with Covid-19 delays having taken at least a three-month chunk out of production on all continuing and new dramas since mid-March 2020, there were serious delays to many planned shows, but a good number of new arrivals still managed to make their way onto screens.
All Creatures Great and Small (September)
Filmed in the Yorkshire Dales in autumn 2019 is a new adaptation of the memoirs of rural vet James Herriot (real name: James Alf Wight). Airing on Channel 5 in the UK and on Masterpiece on PBS in the US, this series stars Samuel West, Anna Madeley and Dame Diana Rigg, with newcomer Nicholas Ralph playing young vet James. A six-part series plus a Christmas special has been filmed, timed to mark the 50th anniversary of the first book’s publication. Expect warm-hearted stories of animal frolics and local characters.
A Suitable Boy (July)
Literary adapter extraordinaire Andrew Davies (Les Miserables, War & Peace, Pride And Prejudice) is back on the BBC with the first screen adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel A Suitable Boy. Making her television debut is acclaimed feature director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Queen Of Katwe). A Suitable Boy is a coming-of-age story about university student Lata (played by Tanya Maniktala), told against the backdrop of newly independent India in 1951. The official BBC press release describes it as “a vast, panoramic tale charting the fortunes of four large families and exploring India and its rich and varied culture at a crucial point in its history.” Here’s our spoiler-free review.
Adult Material (October)
This Channel 4 drama takes on the UK porn industry and the complex relationship between sex, money and power. Written by Skins and The Smoke’s Lucy Kirkwood, the four-part miniseries stars I, Daniel Blake‘s Hayley Squires (in a role previously given to Sheridan Smith, who left the project due to conflicting commitments) as Jolene, an experienced porn actor and mother of three whose on-set friendship with a young woman leads to a complex examination of her own work and home life. With warnings of adult and sexual scenes, here’s the official trailer.
Baghdad Central (February)
Based on the thriller of the same name by Elliott Colla, Baghdad Central is a six-part Channel 4 commission written by House of Saddam and The Last Kingdom‘s Stephen Butchard. Set in Iraq shortly after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s described as “part noir detective drama, part Le Carre and part Green Zone“. With a cast led by Waleed Zuaiter (Omar, Altered Carbon), it’s the story of a quest for justice in an almost lawless society. Bertie Carvel co-stars, with Doctor Who and Tin Star‘s Alice Troughton as the lead director. All six episodes are currently available to stream on All4.
Belgravia (March)
Written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and based on his 2016 novel of the same name, Belgravia is a six-part period drama set in 19th century London. Expect toffs and treachery in a story about society secrets on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. Among the fine looking cast are Tamsin Greig, Harriet Walter, Tara Fitzgerald, Philip Glenister and Alice Eve. It aired in March on Sunday nights on ITV1.
Black Narcissus (December)
This BBC commission was announced back in 2017 and we finally have some info on it. Adapted by Apple Tree Yard screenwriter Amanda Coe from Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel (which was previously adapted for cinema in 1947), three-part series Black Narcissus stars Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh in a Gothic tale of “sexual repression and forbidden love”. Set in the 1930s, it’s the story of a group of nuns who travel to Nepal to set up a branch of their order, and Sister Clodagh’s struggle with her attraction to a land agent, against the backdrop of the tragic history of a Nepalese princess. Diana Rigg, Jim Broadbent, Gina McKee and more join Arterton. Filming began in Nepal and the UK in October 2019, and back in January the BBC included it in the year’s ‘New for 2020‘ trailer.
Cobra (January)
New political thriller Cobra arrived on Sky One and NOW TV in January. From The Tunnel and Strike writer Ben Richards, it stars Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton and David Haig as, respectively, the PM, his chief of staff and the home secretary. It’s a six-parter promising “high stakes politics and high-octane action” about a team of experts and crisis responders attempting to bring society back from the brink of collapse. A second series was ordered by Sky in February 2020.
Deadwater Fell (January)
From Humans screenwriter Daisy Coulam, this new four-part Channel 4 drama aired in January this year. Set in a remote Scottish community, it explores the aftermath of a heinous crime – a family is murdered by someone they know and trust, sending ripples through the supposedly idyllic town. David Tennant leads a cast including The Good Fight‘s Cush Jumbo and The Bay‘s Matthew McNulty. It’s an excellent, if difficult watch (read our spoiler-filled reviews here), and is currently available to stream on All4.
Des (August)
ITV has included this three-part true crime drama in its autumn 2020 schedule, so it looks like there are no delays here. Des stars David Tennant and is inspired by the real story of serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who murdered several boys and men between the years of 1978 and 1983. It’s adapted from Brian Masters’ book Killing For Company, and will be told from the perspective of three men – Nilsen, DCI Peter Jay (played by Daniel Mays), and biographer Brian Masters (played by Jason Watkins) – and explore how Nilsen was able to prey on the young and the vulnerable. See the first trailer here.
Dracula (January)
The Sherlock showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss reunited to bring another 19th century fictional icon to life in Dracula, which aired on BBC One over New Year and Netflix. Danish actor Claes Bang played the title role alongside Dolly Wells and John Heffernan in the miniseries which comprises three ninety-minute episodes. Moffat and Gatiss promised to “reintroduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy.” Job done. Read our spoiler-filled reviews here.
Flesh and Blood (February)
Filming on new ITV four-part drama Flesh And Blood got underway in June 2019, with an enviable cast led by Imelda Staunton, Stephen Rea and Russell Tovey. It’s a contemporary story of three adult siblings shocked when their recently widowed mother falls for a new man, bringing into question everything they thought they knew about their parents’ 45-year marriage. Staunton plays the family’s neighbour, who harbours an unhealthy obsession with the unfolding drama… Think dark wit and the unearthing of long-buried secrets. It’s available to stream on ITV Hub here and here’s our spoiler-filled episode one review.
Gangs of London (April)
Filmmaker Gareth Evans came to everybody’s attention with 2011 Indonesian-set action flick The Raid. In April, he made his TV debut with this Sky Atlantic/HBO co-production. Gangs of London takes place in a version of modern London torn apart by international criminal organisations. You can expect assassinations, intrigue, expertly choreographed fight scenes and full-muscled action from this excellent new drama. All nine episodes are available to stream on Sky and NOW TV. Read our reviews and interviews here.
Honour (September)
Keeley Hawes’ production company is behind new two-part ITV drama Honour, which filmed in autumn 2019 and is due to air this autumn. Based on the real-life so-called “honour” killing of 20-year-old Londoner Banaz Mahmod, “murdered for falling in love with the wrong man”. It comes written by Vanity Fair‘s Gwyneth Hughes and stars Hawes as DCI Caroline Goode, who investigated Mahmod’s disappearance.
I Hate Suzie (August)
Billie Piper has co-created this original Sky Atlantic comedy-drama with playwright Lucy Prebble, who adapted the Piper-starring series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl in 2007. It’s a story about a celebrity (Piper) whose career is threatened when she’s hacked and a personal photo leaked to the public. The Crown and Lovesick’s Daniel Ings co-stars. Piper is terrific in it and it has plenty to say on fame and the nature of modern celebrity. With adult content, see the first trailer here. It starts on Sky on Sunday the 27th of August, with all episodes available on NOW TV.
I May Destroy You (June)
The latest from acclaimed writer-actor Michaela Coel, creator of Chewing Gum, is a 12-part half-hour series exploring sexual consent, trauma, recovery, friendship and much more. Formerly under the working title of January 22nd, I May Destroy You is a BBC One/HBO co-production set and filmed in London, and stars Coel in the lead role of Arabella, a celebrated young novelist who suffers a sexual assault that causes her to reassess her life. Joining Coel in the cast are Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu, Aml Ameen and a host of new and stage talent. It aired in June on BBC One and stunned just about everybody with its frank, poised brilliance. Watch it here on BBC iPlayer.
Industry (November)
Another Bad Wolf production, this one is on its way to BBC Two and HBO in the US. Eight-part drama Industry comes from new writers Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, and is directed by Girls’ Lena Dunham. Taking on work, money, power, greed and loyalty. It’s about a group of graduates competing for places at a top firm in the cut-throat world of international finance. How far will some people go for profit?
Isolation Stories (May)
UK channels responded quickly to the unusual demands of making television during lockdown, with BBC stalwarts Have I Got News for You and The Graham Norton Show continuing but using remote video link-ups. In May, ITV aired the first lockdown drama with anthology series Isolation Stories. The episodes are 15 minutes long and depict the experience of lockdown on a variety of characters played by Sheridan Smith, Angela Griffin, Robert Glenister, David Threlfall and Eddie Marsan. Watch them on ITV Hub here.
Life (September)
From the writer of Doctor Foster comes a new six-part hour-long drama for BBC One. Life tells four separate story strands about the residents of a large Manchester house divided into flats. The cast includes Alison Steadman and Peter Davison as a married couple rocked by a chance encounter, Adrian Lester and Rachael Stirling are a couple whose marriage is threatened by temptation, while Victoria Hamilton plays a woman whose life is disrupted by the arrival of her teenage niece. Currently filming in Manchester, “LIFE explores love, loss, birth, death, the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in between”.
Little Birds (August)
An original six-part UK drama coming to Sky Atlantic, Little Birds is creatively adapted from Anais Nin’s collection of erotic short stories of the same name. Set in Tangier in 1955, filming took place in Andalusia and Manchester, with Juno Temple playing the lead role of Lucy Savage, a young women trapped by society who yearns for an unconventional life. It’s an erotic, political exploration of sexuality against the backdrop of colonial rebellion, and all episodes are currently available to stream on NOW TV. Read our spoiler-free review of all six episodes.
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Miss Scarlet And The Duke (March)
This six-part co-production written by Trollied’s Rachel New and starring Peaky Blinders’ Kate Phillips aired on Alibi here in the UK. It’s a one-hour series set in the 19th century about London’s first female gumshoe, Eliza Scarlet (Phillips), a woman who takes over her dead father’s detective agency, aided by Stuart Martin’s ‘Duke’. One for fans of Aussie period detective series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, perhaps?
Noughts + Crosses (March)
Malorie Blackman’s hugely successful series of Young Adult novels have been adapted by Being Human’s Toby Whithouse for BBC One. The six-part series is set in a world where racial divisions are turned on their head, and two young people from different backgrounds battle through separation caused by power, politics and prejudice. All episodes are available to stream now on BBC iPlayer. Read our episode one review here.
Normal People (April)
Filming took place last summer in Dublin, Sligo and Italy for Normal People, adapted by Sally Rooney from her 2018 publishing hit of the same name. It’s a 12-part drama for BBC Three and US streaming service Hulu, starring new(ish)comers Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal. Directing is Room‘s Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie McDonald, telling an intimate story about a relationship between two young people – Marianne and Connell – stretching through their university years at Trinity College, Dublin. Available now on BBC Three and Hulu, read our spoiler-free review and more.
Penance (March)
Three-part hour-long drama Penance aired on Channel 5 this March. It’s an original scripted drama for the channel, and stars Neil Morrissey, Julie Graham and Nico Mirallegro in a psychological thriller about grief, manipulation and morally murky relationships. The story revolves around the Douglas family, reeling from the death of their son, and a young man they encounter at bereavement counselling with whom they become entangled.
Quiz (March)
Adapted from James Graham’s acclaimed stageplay of the same name, Quiz is the story of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 2001 cheating scandal in which Major Ingram and accomplices were accused of cheating their way to the show’s top prize. Human chameleon Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Damned United) pictured above, plays quiz host Chris Tarrant, with Ripper Street‘s Matthew Macfadyen playing the accused Major in the three-part ITV/AMC drama. On directing duties is Stephen Frears, who recently directed excellent comedy drama State Of The Union and Russell T. Davies’ A Very English Scandal. Read our reviews here.
Roadkill (October)
Veep‘s Hugh Laurie is going back to politics. Acclaimed screenwriter David Hare (The Hours, The Reader) is behind a new four-part political thriller for BBC One. Roadkill is the story of Peter Laurence (Laurie), a conservative minister with his eyes on the top job who attempts to out-manoeuvre the personal secrets threatening to wreck his public standing. Peaky Blinders‘ Helen McCrory is set to play prime minister Dawn Ellison, with Westworld‘s Sidse Babbett Knudsen also appearing. Filming began in London in November 2019 and we’re expecting it to arrive later this year.
The Salisbury Poisonings (June)
An episode in recent UK history – the 2018 Novichok poisonings – is translated to the screen in three-part factual drama The Salisbury Poisonings, which filmed in 2019 in the Wiltshire cathedral city. The BBC Two drama focused on the impact of the chemical attack on ordinary people and public services in the city, and boasted a terrific cast including Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall, Mark Addy, Johnny Harris and MyAnna Buring. It was co-written by BBC Panorama‘s Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. Read our review here.
Sitting In Limbo (June)
A new feature-length film tackling the shameful political Windrush immigration scandal aired on BBC One in June. Sitting In Limbo is inspired by the true story of Anthony Bryan’s struggle to be accepted as a British citizen, despite having lived in the UK since emigrating to Britain as a child in 1965 with his mother. Written by Bryan’s novelist brother Stephen S. Thompson (Toy Soldiers, No More Heroes), it’s a deeply personal and powerful ninety minute drama about the devastating human toll of the foreign office’s ‘hostile environment’ tactic. Casualty‘s Patrick Robinson and Save Me‘s Nadine Marshall star.
Small Axe (November)
An anthology of six hour-long stories set in 1960s – 1980s London is on its way to the BBC and Amazon Prime Video from Steve McQueen, the director of Twelve Years A Slave, Hunger and Shame. Small Axe started filming in June 2019 and boasts a terrific cast including Black Panther and Black Mirror‘s Letitia Wright, and The Force Awakens and Attack The Block‘s John Boyega, with Malachi Kirby and Rochenda Sandall. The first of the anthology’s five stories, all of which are set in London’s West Indian community, will be told across two episodes. See a teaser for the first, ‘Mangrove’, here. The title is inspired by the Jamaican proverb about marginal protest challenging dominant voices, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe”. The first three episodes are due to open the New York Film Festival on the 25th of September 2020, though it’s currently unknown how the ongoing pandemic will affect the event.
Talking Heads (June)
Nothing to do with the NYC post-punk band of the same name, this remake of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed Talking Heads monologue series featured an all-new cast and two new monologues by Bennett. Originally broadcast in 1988 and 1998 and featuring a host of acting talent including Julie Walters, Maggie Smith and Patricia Routledge, the new Talking Heads starred Jodie Comer, Maxine Peake, Martin Freeman, Lesley Manville, Kristen Scott Thomas, Sarah Lancashire and more. The episodes are available to stream on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and were filmed using the standing EastEnders sets.
The Windermere Children (February)
This one-off feature length BBC Two drama delved into a little-explored part of English history – the child survivors and presumed orphans of the Holocaust who were granted the right to come and live in the UK following World War II. The Windermere Children tells the story of one coachful of young refugees brought to Lake Windermere to be rehabilitated through nature. Romola Garai, Tim McInnerny and Iain Glenn star in a screenplay from The Eichmann Show‘s Simon Block and directed by Any Human Heart‘s Michael Samuels.
The End (February)
This ten-episode series aired on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV. The End is created and written by Samantha Strauss and stars Harriet Walter and Frances O’Connor in the story of three generations of the same family dealing with the thorny issue of dying with dignity. O’Connor plays a palliative care specialist opposed to euthanasia, while Walter plays her mother Edie, who feels strongly that she has a right to die. Complicated family dynamics meet complex moral issues. See the trailer here.
The English Game (March)
Netflix bagged itself a Julian Fellowes-written drama earlier this year, this one about the birth of football. Set in Northern England in the 1850s, The English Game tracks the development of the beautiful game with the help of a cast including Line Of Duty’s Craig Parkinson, The Virtues’ Niamh Walsh, Kingsman’s Edward Holcroft and Game of Thrones’ Charlotte Hope. It arrived on Netflix UK in March and reviews were… not kind.
The Luminaries (June)
Eleanor Catton’s novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker prize in 2013, and this June, arrived on BBC One. The six-part drama, available to stream on BBC iPlayer, boasts a strong cast, with Penny Dreadful‘s Eva Green and Eve Hewson taking lead roles in the 19th century New Zealand-set tale of adventure and mystery during the 1860s Gold Rush. Read our spoiler-free review here.
The Pale Horse (February)
The brilliant Sarah Phelps (And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders, Witness For The Prosecution, Ordeal By Innocence) is back with another Agatha Christie adaptation for BBC One. This time it’s 1961 novel The Pale Horse being adapted for the screen, a story where superstition and witchcraft meet rationalism and murder. In the cast for the two-part mystery thriller are Rufus Sewell (The Man In The High Castle), Kaya Scodelario (Skins, Pirates Of The Caribbean), Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell), Sean Pertwee (Gotham) and more. Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews and more.
The Nest (March)
Line Of Duty‘s Martin Compston joins Sophie Rundle in new five-part BBC One thriller The Nest. Filmed in Glasgow and written by Three Girls‘ Nicole Taylor, it’s the story of a wealthy couple struggling to have a baby who enter into a surrogacy agreement with an 18-year-old girl (Mirren Mack) that spirals into unexpected territory. The series arrived in March, and here’s our episode one review.
The Singapore Grip (August)
A bit of class here coming to ITV with an adaptation of JG Farrell’s World War II novel The Singapore Grip. Playwright Christopher Hampton, whose previous screenplays include Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, has adapted the story for a six-part series set against the backdrop of 1940s Japan. It stars Luke Treadaway and Elizabeth Tan, with David Morrissey, Charles Dance and Colm Meaney. The series is due to air in Australia this July, and will arrive in the UK in autumn.
The Sister (October)
Neil Cross, the creator of Luther and Hard Sun, has a new drama on the way to ITV. The Sister, formerly titled Because The Night, is a four-part murder story “which exposes the quiet terror of a man trying to escape his past,” and comes inspired by Cross’ 2009 novel Burial. The psychological thriller is about Nathan, whose world is rocked when a face from the past suddenly appears on his doorstep. Russell Tovey and Bertie Carvel star. It’s due to arrive on ITV this autumn.
The Stranger (January)
Announced in January 2019 and arriving on Netflix a year later, The Stranger is a Harlan Coben thriller made for UK television. Nicola Shindler’s British production company RED (The Five, Safe) have once again turned a Coben novel into a twisting, turning UK series. This one’s about Adam Price (played by Richard Armitage), a man with a seemingly perfect life until a stranger appears to tell him a devastating secret. Things quickly become dark and tangled for Price and everybody around him. Read our spoiler-free series review here.
The Tail Of The Curious Mouse (December)
When children’s author Roald Dahl was just six years old, so the story goes, he persuaded his mother to drive him to the Lake District so he could meet his hero, writer-illustrator Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and many more beloved children’s characters. The welcome he received, however, was less than warm. This one-off drama (Roald and Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse) stars Dawn French as Potter and is made by the production team behind Sherlock and Dracula. Expect it to arrive this Christmas.
Trigonometry (March)
All eight episodes of this new contemporary drama are available to stream now on BBC iPlayer. Trigonometry comes written by playwright Duncan Macmillan and actor-screenwriter Effie Woods, and provokes some fascinating questions about modern love. It’s the story of Gemma and Kieran, a couple who decide to ease the financial burden of their London flat by taking in a lodger who soon becomes entwined in their relationship. Is life as a ‘throuple’ sustainable? Could it be the way forward?
Us (September)
A four-part adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel Us is on its way to BBC One. Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves star as Douglas and Connie, a couple whose marriage is on the verge of falling apart when the family take a long-planned holiday touring European cities. London, Amsterdam, Venice, Paris and Barcelona will provide the backdrops to this humorous, poignant relationship drama from the novelist behind One Day, Starter For Ten and Sky Atlantic’s recent adaptation of the Patrick Melrose novels. The Killing‘s Sofie Grabol and Agents Of SHIELD‘s Iain de Caestecker also star.
White House Farm (January)
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This six-part ITV true crime drama tells the tragic story of 1985’s White House Farm murders, the Essex killings of multiple members of the Caffell and Bamber families. Based on research, interviews and published accounts, it’s written by The Slap and Requiem’s Kris Mrksa, and directed by Little Boy Blue and Hatton Garden’s Paul Whittington. Freddie Fox plays the role of Jeremy Bamber, who is currently serving a sentence for the murders, with Stephen Graham, Alexa Davies, Mark Addy, Alfie Allen and more among the cast. Read our spoiler-filled episode reviews here.
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24. April. 2020
Málaga, Spain
For many of us, the last time it felt like the whole world was having the same conversation was on September 11th, 2001. For me, it was also the day I left London for Faedis, Italy. A few people around me on the train were murmuring about some kind an attack. When I got the airport, it was so quiet. People stood frozen in front of televisions watching two plumes of black smoke rise into a blue sky.
I’d met Marco while he was in London for a couple days to sell some wine. We both quoted Biggie Smalls and the Big Lebowski. He was just getting the family vineyard going as a proper business. I had no plans beyond the next weekend. I said I liked the idea of working on a vineyard. He said, cool.
The house was a kitchen and a bedroom above the cantina. Almost everything inside was older than me. The roof in the bedroom sloped down to the floor. We opened a few bottles and ate dinner.
While insects buzzed and chirped outside the windows, we watched our world reorganize itself towards endless war on television. It was cold that night. We slept under scratchy blankets on little beds made during times of less abundance.
I stayed until the end of October. We often ate lunch in Orsaria with his parents, Paolo and Miriam. I liked them. They acted as if Marco had just found a younger brother they had somehow misplaced. I also liked their house. It was big, beautiful and warm. They had comfortable sofas and a computer for sending sentimental emails and downloading mp3s.
I did my best to match their enthusiasm for every course. E buona la pasta, Tito? Si, si... buonissimo! Marco, perché non mangia di più? When I got sick, they had a doctor come to the house. He brought a stethoscope in a leather bag. Nonna introduced me to grappa as medicine. The first glass felt like hot wax going down my throat.
I annoyed Marco with my plans to marry his sister Barbara, even though she thought I was a sfigato. We drove down gravel roads to parties in little bars where his friends played reggae like some of mine did back home.
No matter how late we stayed out, or how many bottles we left empty on the table, Marco was up with the sun and ready to work. He’d drink flat Coca-Cola before his coffee. Some fuel to get the engine started, man. Good for the stomach.
Winemaking is agriculture, science, art, design, engineering, sales, marketing, gambling, guessing…. When there aren’t vines to trim, there are tanks to check, fertilizers to buy, grapes to take to the laboratory, grass to cut, cases to deliver, bottles to label, fill, cork... People we’d meet throughout the day said, buon lavoro as goodbye.
Whenever something could go wrong, it often did. Marco’s momentary frustration would quickly just become something else to laugh about. Stay calm. Piano, piano. We have to be the Tom Cruise of the situation, man.
Sometimes he would sketch out the plans for our day on scrap paper. Little cartoons of machines, grapes, tanks and tubes with arrows between them. Numbers and notes floating around the edges. He never drew us. We were always moving anyway.
During the vendemmia a crowd arrived to help. Friends, traveling workers and his family, of course. Nonno laughed and shook his head at me and my allergies. I never really got the hang of the tractor, but I loved cutting the grapes free. We stacked crates and tipped them into presses. They all knew far more about my country than I did about theirs. We debated the merits of Sublime, compared Berlusconi to Bush and retold our favorite Simpsons episodes. Every day we all ate lunch together on the patio beneath a sunshade of interwoven vines.
The wine we made went to tables all around Friuli-Venezia-Giulia and parts of Europe. I brought a few bottles with me when I left for Torino. Some went to rest on shelves in the cantina.
The last time I was in Faedis was in August 2016. Marco still sings while he’s walking between the rows of vines. 'Biggie Biggie Biggie can’t you see…’ I mean come on. man. He was really the best. You know it. The best... ‘It was all a dream. I used to read Word-Up Magazine…’
The TV in the kitchen is gone. There’s a wood stove there now. They watch movies projected on the wall of the room we used to sleep in. A futon for guests has replaced the little beds. Marco had remodeled the house to make room for another proper bedroom.
He dug out some grimy bottles of our wine. It was six years younger than I was when we made it. I didn’t get to see Barbara. Paulo and Miriam’s house is now a bed and breakfast. Go there if you’re ever near Orsaria. It’s even more beautiful now.
Friuili is 300 km from Lombardia. In February, Marco and I started talking and texting about the virus. I’d already started veering away from people on the sidewalk. There was a movie I wanted to see in the cinema, but I didn’t go. I avoided the port full of cruise ship passengers. But I still went out.
On March 6, I’d had an internal debate about going to the botanical gardens on my day off. It’s outdoors. It’s low season. It’ll be empty. It’s windy and warm. And anyway, Málaga isn’t Bergamo. I rode my bike there, and while I was locking it, I reconsidered again. I saw a couple walking down from the mountains across the road. Should I just hike up this trail instead? Instead I went inside. I’d only been in summer before. I wanted to see what it looked like at the beginning of spring.
While I was having my coffee, a woman sat at the other end of the picnic table. When she started blowing her nose, I told myself it would be silly and rude to get up. Then she started coughing. I looked at the unwrapped sandwich I had brought from home. My open water thermos. Mentally measuring metres and wind speed. Still feeling like I was being ridiculous. Her daughter brought the drinks and sat down. Ecco la tua mamma... I picked up my things and moved to another table.
I spent the next half hour telling myself I was being paranoid while trying to focus on the plants in the sunshine. Doing impossible math in my head. There are 60 million Italians.... they could have been traveling for weeks... maybe they live here... anyone could have it... there are so many old people here... I heard that man couch under is hat... it could have been on the coffee cup anyway… the bartender washes them in the sink... how hot is that water?
I walked to the end of the gardens where a gazebo was built for the view of the cathedral and the sea. I watched turtles swimming around the little pond. Marco texted me. Stay at home. I called him to tell him about the Italian women and my paranoia. They walked by while I was on the phone, and I moved upwind. Still feeling ridiculous.
He was calm as always. The main problem is there aren’t enough beds for the, how do you say... the reanimation. The people they are just fucking dying in the corridors. They don’t know for sure who is the patient zero, but the patient one or two. He’s a 38 years old guy. He’s been on the fucking respirator for weeks. In Cividale there are three cases. It’s crazy, man. What we have to do is just fucking close everything like they did in China. But that will never happen you know man, because this is Europe.
Two days later the Italian government locked down Lombardia and fourteen other provinces. The following day they extended to it include the entire country. Within a week, most of Europe followed suit.
Seven weeks later the Italian government agrees with many of you about the essential nature of wine. So Marco is still working. Since the lockdown started, he’s been in the hospital twice. He was in a car accident in March, and then something more serious happened in April.
He sent me a selfie from the hospital bed. I called him and he answered laughing. His wife had thought he was faking a stroke to play a trick on her. Fucking unbelievable, man. I tried to drink the juice. You know in the morning, the orange juice, and I put it all over my t-shirt. I couldn’t put it to my mouth. I couldn’t say nothing. I was like blah, blah, blah. My brain was no good. Anyway, how are you, are you good?
The hospitals in Udine aren’t overwhelmed, but he was only allowed one visitor per day. He asked his mother to bring his laptop, so he could get some work done. Everybody say rest. Rest, rest, rest. Okay, I’m in the bed.
When he was discharged he sent me a photo with his wife and baby walking between the vines. Their daughter, Emilia, has unruly red hair. In every photo she looks overjoyed and a little surprised to have found herself inside her new body. Are you ok? Super ok, man. Super ok. They were all smiles. Glowing in the green grass. Paola looks far too smart to have fallen for either of us back when we would try to out-charm each other every time a woman arrived at the vineyard.
Marco’s still getting up with the sun. But fewer and fewer Italians have money for wine. He’s not loading pallets with boxes bound for dinner parties in Oslo or Chicago. No American tourists will be giggling at his accent this summer. The local restaurants are dark and full of stale air.
For almost twenty years, whenever I’ve called Marco to talk about moving or just getting away, he reminds me of my house in Faedis.
Next to the front door there are photographs of family and friends working together since long before the days of color. Behind the house, up on top of the hill, there is a little shack with the year 1867 written above the door. It will still be there once our world has reorganized itself yet again.
So will we.
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Goode Things Coming in 2020
So many Goode things to look forward to this year. Woohoo!
Four Kids and It
A family comedy will be released in cinemas and Sky cinema at ‘Easter’ -Matthew plays David the dad. At last his infinite ‘dadness’ gets recognised!
The King’s Man -
18th September 2020.
Matthew’s character Tristan is rather mysterious but that cackling laugh of his in the trailer points to one thing - BADDIE! So double Woohoo for that.
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Dates not confirmed yet -
A Discovery of Witches Season 2 - squealing about this already. Can’t wait to see more of those suede/leather trousers, leather boots and billowy white shirts. BRING. IT. ON!
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Medieval - Matthew and his ginger permed hair will see the light of day sometime this year. Matthew plays ginger King Sigismund in this historical drama.
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Lastly The Wine Show Season 3 - Matthew will appear as a presenter again with James Purefoy (his new daddy in ADOW!) however because of filming clashes, Dominic West has been brought in to cover some presenting duties so we don’t know how much we will see of Matthew. : (
If it is less than usual then don’t expect to get any sense out of me apart from uncontrollable sobbing coz I need Matthew Goode being his goofy adorable self in The Wine Show like I need AIR!
Anyway - they will be in Portugal this season and we know that Matthew has at least done some filming so hopefully we will get to see that and the hilarious outtakes as well.
[Pics - Melanie Jappy]
Where else will we see Matthew this year? No doubt Matthew will be playing golf at some point this year - watch out for him on the celeb lists at Wentworth and Dunhill Links and possibly the British Masters. If he’s due to play and you can get there - GO! You have to meet this guy in person. He is exactly what you would want him to be and more.
Will we see him at Wimbledon again? Will he do some more fashion link ups? Will you bump into him on the tube, at the dentist, on a plane, at a local supermarket or in a slightly tipsy state on a pavement outside of a restaurant in London? It happens - so keep looking for the Beanie disguise.
#matthew goode#a discovery of witches#four kids and it#medieval#the wine show#the king's man#[Obviously be respectful and mindful if Matthew is with his family and ask first for a photo and he will no doubt be happy to oblige.]
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Harrison Ford: 2018 summary (II)
(PART I HERE)
JULY:
2nd: Harrison Ford at the restaurant Leña Brava, Chicago [x]
4th: at the airport in Los Angeles. Harrison has stubble and starts to grow a beard, stirring once again the Harrison fandom
Enjoy this fluffy man in all his almighty fluffiness
10th: Harrison Ford will be honored by Indianapolis Zoo with the Jane Alexander award for wildlife conservation
11th: more bad news for Indy 5: 'Indiana Jones 5' will be delayed a year until 2021
Walt Disney Studios announced that Ford's still-untitled return to his famed Indiana Jones character would be delayed from July 10, 2020, the movie's original release date, to July 9, 2021.
13th: HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRISON!
Mark Hamill congratulates Harrison for his birthday
16th: Harrison Ford eyes ‘Call of the Wild’
Harrison Ford is in negotiations to star in “Call of the Wild”. If a deal is reached, the “Star Wars” actor will play John Thornton, a prospector braving the Yukon on the hunt for gold. The big-budget film is being adapted by 20th Century Fox from the classic 1903 Jack London novel about the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s.
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The stubble is killing me
21st: at the opening event of The Boeing Blue Sky Aviation Gallery, Denver, Colorado [x] [x] [x]
Oh God he´s so beautiful... (also a brief spontaneous speech here)
24th: Dan Stevens Joins Harrison Ford in ‘Call of the Wild’. The film is supposed to start filming on August-September in Vancouver.
AUGUST:
6th: 25 years ago The Fugitive was released in cinemas
Early August: When grandpa tells stories about the good old days… (Pic from Eliel Ford)
16th: Play it again, Harrison [x]
21st: God, look at this caveman! [x]
30th: Harrison Ford’s ‘Call of the Wild’ Adds Colin Woodell
SEPTEMBER:
12th-13th: Celebrity-watching: A-listers in Hollywood, music and politics gather in SF for Climate Summit.
Thousands of business leaders, mayors, governors and activists from around the world are gathering in San Francisco this week for the Global Climate Action Summit, and some of the speakers are big names in Hollywood, music and politics. Actor Harrison Ford of “Star Wars” fame is the vice-chair of Conservation International and will be speaking Thursday in a session titled “Thriving Plant: A New Hope for the Next Generation.”
Harrison Ford begs voters to 'stop electing leaders who don't believe in science'
“Stop giving power to people who don’t believe in science. Or worse than that, pretend they don’t believe in science for their own self interest”
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Harrison Ford takes a break at the Climate Summit [x]
13th: Harrison Ford’s ‘Call of the Wild’ Casts Omar Sy
17th: Harrison Ford hanging out in San Francisco [x]
23rd: Harrison Ford to Address Top Donors at New Beginnings Counseling Center
Board of Directors of NBCC Celebrating 50 Years of Service with Harrison Ford
27th: Guardians of the Galaxy actor Karen Gillan joins Harrison Ford in Call of the Wild film adaptation
30th: Harrison Ford honored at Indianapolis Prize Gala
One of the most recognizable award recipients at this year's Indianapolis Prize gala was Harrison Ford. He's known to most of us as an accomplished actor, but Ford is also a vocal ambassador for conservation.
"Protecting nature is how we will continue to survive on this planet," Ford said. "Protecting nature is first and foremost for me a moral imperative. Yet saving nature is really about saving ourselves."
At the JW Marriott, Ford joined his close friend, 2018 Indianapolis Prize winner Russ Mittermeier. They reminded the gala crowd that nature doesn't need people, people need nature. Ford himself was honored as the Jane Alexander Global Wildlife Ambassador.
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Harrison Ford congrats Biologist and Conservationist Russell Mittermeier for winning the 2018 Indianapolis Prize award (video filmed in June 2018)
OCTOBER:
1st: Indiana Jones 5 Will Return to Global Scope, Says Frank Marshall
“This will be Harrison Ford’s last Indiana Jones movie, I am pretty sure, but it will certainly continue after that,” Spielberg previously said.
4th: sweaty Harrison take a rest after jogging in Santa Monica. Keeping in shape for Indy 5?
18th: Harrison on the set of Call of the Wild in Los Angeles (he´s wearing his character´s outfit) [x]
25th: No beard but goatee is back. Has he finished Call of the Wild?
28th: Harrison Ford To Present Award At The Carneys
Hollywood star Harrison Ford is making a rare public appearance on October 28 at Elvis Duran’s 4th Annual Carney Awards. The star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films will present the Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award to the legendary character actor M. Emmet Walsh. The two of them appeared together in the original Blade Runner movie in 1982.
Actor M. Emmet Walsh and Harrison Ford at the Carney Awards, Santa Monica
NOVEMBER:
9th: SAG-AFTRA Foundation Honors Spike Lee, Harrison Ford, Lady Gaga and Jeffrey Katzenberg
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation held their 3rd Annual Patron of the Artists Awards last night honoring industry leaders and artists who champion the arts and whose history of fostering creativity and creating opportunities has made a positive impact on the performing arts and the world.
Harrison Ford Rails Against ‘Nationalism and Isolationism’ at the SAG-AFTRA Awards
Harrison Ford didn’t mention any politicians by name during a speech about climate change, but there’s little doubt that he wasn’t referring to President Donald Trump.
Harrison Ford on whether Chris Pratt is joining Indiana Jones "I think it's him or me" [x]
Harrison shares an ‘Indiana Jones V’ update:
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Other highlights of the event:
Ryan Gosling presents Harrison Ford with the Artist Inspiration Award
Find someone who looks at you the way Lady Gaga looks at Harrison Ford
Harrison reunites again with his former co-star Henry Winkler (they worked together in the movie Heroes (1977)
10th: Like a boss on the streets of LA
12th: “I’ll tell you the dirty little secret—I love doing this” . Harrison talks to young actors about his experiences during his movie career [x] [x]
16th: Harrison Ford Supports Disaster Relief Fund for SAG-AFTRA Members
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19th: Harrison and Calista attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 10th annual Governors Awards
27th: That Time Harrison Ford Drank A Bottle Of Scotch While Trying To Film Empire Strikes Back
Harrison Ford recently revealed a horror story involved with filming the sequences set on Hoth. George Lucas took production to Finse, Norway for the snowy scenes, but Ford had a hard time getting to set. In fact, he was stuck on a snowplow for about hours trying to regret there, ultimately taking to a bottle to get him through the nightmare.
DECEMBER:
3rd: 'Working Girl' Turns 30: On-Set Romances and Secrets of the Staten Island Ferry Revealed in Juicy Oral History
30 years ago on this date Working Girl was released in cinemas
19th: Harrison Ford goes for a walk in Brentwood, Los Angeles. In all his magnificence. Now full shaved
27th: Harrison Ford Honors Billy Dee Williams at the American Black Film Festival with moving tribute video
Earlier this year, Billy Dee Williams was honored with the Hollywood Legacy Award at the American Black Film Festival Honors. While the awards ceremony was back in February, the iconic actor must be reflecting on his year, because he recently shared a video from the ceremony of his long time friend and co-star, Harrison Ford. (Video at Billy Dee Williams´ twitter)
31st: Remember to dress like this the day after
#harrison ford#conservation international#indianapolis prize#global climate action summit#san francisco#los angeles#chicago#denver#boeing blue sky aviation center#aviation#mark hamill#carrie fisher#george lucas#star wars#steven spielberg#indiana jones#the fugitive#andrew davies#tommy lee jones#working girl#mike nichols#melanie griffith#sigourney weaver#movies#cinema#blade runner#ridley scott#emmet walsh#SAG-AFTRA Foundation#spike lee
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disclaimer I’ll be taking into account the last 24 hours for the first part because it’s 3 in the morning and I haven’t really done anything yet lmao anywho
survey by chasingghosts
Have you today?
Looked in a mirror?
Yeah I took a shower earlier so I couldn’t really avoid the mirror in the bathroom.
Watered a plant?
I don’t do plants. Can never take care of them to save my life.
Worn denim?
I did, actually. Some package came for me earlier today and I didn’t really look the most decent, so before heading out to meet the delivery guy I grabbed the first jacket I saw, which was denim.
Washed your hair?
Yes, when I took said shower a couple of hours ago.
Been in pain?
Yup my back and shoulders feel like hell from sitting on my ass all day while at work.
Had a nap?
Kinda, I guess? I fell asleep at around 9, 9:30ish...woke up at around 1 AM, and here I am now. I don’t plan on sleeping anymore.
Brushed your teeth?
Yup.
Kissed someone?
Just my dogs.
Used a cheese grater?
No, I don’t think I’ve consumed any cheese today either.
Eaten something sweet?
Nah, it’s all been salty/savory for me today.
Spoken to a stranger?
Sure.
Dropped something?
I drop my vape pen at least once a day, so yes.
Felt upset in some way?
UGH yeah. Our internet disappeared at around 2 in the afternoon and it still hasn’t come back, and our service provider’s social media has been unsurprisingly unresponsive and useless. I’ve been using data since then and I’m just worried about how long this would take because I don’t want to keep spending just for extra load. I also have my Korean language classes this afternoon which will for sure require a lot of data :/
Drank coffee?
I have a full mug of it beside me right now.
Walked for more than thirty minutes?
LOL no, I’ve only stayed indoors.
Signed up for something?
Hmm I don’t think so.
Travelled in a car?
See two answers above this.
Opened a can?
Nopes.
Thought about doing something crazy?
Just me thinking about dropping another couple thousands on merch until I mentally slapped myself and told myself I’d be fucking stupid if I spent on one more piece of stupid merch.
Listened to a new song?
Yes, I tried listening to Love Shot by EXO over dinner since my sister had started humming it. It was okay but I quickly shifted back to BTS right after hahaha.
Written in a notebook?
No. I only do so when I practice my Hangul but I have yet to work on that today.
Fed an animal?
Yes, I have pets.
Checked your emails?
I mean that’s kind of the standard in my job lol I have my Gmail tab up throughout the 8 hours.
Told someone you love them?
No.
Made a phone call?
No, I’m rarely the one who makes the call.
Have you in the last week?
Travelled on a bus?
I’ve never ridden a bus solely for commuting by myself. I’ve only been on them when it’s the arranged vehicle, like for school field trips or our family vacations. Our public buses are quite bleck and unsanitary and the drivers maneuver the buses like it’s their last goddamn hour on the planet, so I don’t get on them myself.
Washed your face?
I mean yeah, when I take showers. I don’t really have a skincare routine though, if that’s what you mean.
Used a blender?
We rarely have a use for a blender at home so we don’t even have one.
Received a phone call?
No. My biggest pet peeve is when delivery riders call me up once they’ve arrived at our place just to say “I’m here,” but fortunately the one assigned to me today to deliver my package knew how to use the doorbell.
Talked to someone you dislike?
Yeah I have to deal with a client I absolutely fucking despise everyday.
Consumed alcohol?
I’ve thought of it, but then I thought of how sleepy I get whenever I drink alcohol and decided against it because I wanted to stay up tonight.
Eaten pasta?
Yeah, my dad made Filipino-style spaghetti for dinner the other evening.
Planned for an event?
Not an event per se but sure, I made some plans? Punk is slated to make his debut on AEW/return to pro wrestling next weekend or sometime soon, idrk - and this is a big fucking deal omg, 15 year old Robyn has arisen from her grave - and Andi and I made plans to watch it together so we can freak the fuck out.
Asked someone for a favour?
Yes. I borrowed cash from my mom since the delivery fee for my packaging earlier was apparently cash on delivery.
Watched something funny?
I mean I watch BTS clips pretty much everyday and a gigantic chunk of them are hilarious.
Trimmed your nails?
No, but I did bite on them multiple times.
Browsed Reddit?
I did actually! After a super long time of not doing so...I just decided to randomly check out r/bangtan to see what’s going on there. It’s mostly Americans though so idk if I’ll make a habit out of browsing.
Talked to yourself?
Oh this happens a few times a day.
Purchased tickets for something?
Nope.
Felt like you were annoying someone?
Just about everyday.
Cleaned a toilet?
I have not.
Reminisced about the past?
Not really. I’ve made references to the past with friends, but we didn’t ~reminisce.
Used headphones?
Yeah I always use my headphones when playing Rhythm Hive so I can hear the beats better.
Laughed with a friend?
Many times. Always just virtually, though.
Cooked dinner and then didn't feel hungry?
I don’t cook.
Written a list?
LOL yes. My period had been coming and I noticed I was crying over the smallest, stupid things, so I started a list of the things I cried over the last week. The funniest item on the list is probably an ad that was shown to us during a campaign briefing...
Played an instrument?
Nope.
Felt jealous or envious?
I will sometimes feel the tiniest tinge of envy and wistfulness when I see my friends in happy and fulfilled relationships, but it passes in a second.
Ignored a text message on purpose?
So many hahahahahahah
Congratulated someone?
Yes!!! Graduation season was last week so I congratulated a shit ton of friends.
Have you in the last month?
Made a piece of art?
Making art was never made for me, so no.
Rewatched one of your favourite tv shows or movies?
Yep, I rewatched Friends a couple of weeks ago.
Called a plumber?
Nope.
Been to a see a doctor?
I mean, technically I guess yeah? When I had to get my vaccine shot.
Finished a book?
I haven’t done that in a while.
Had a crush on someone?
Just celebrities but I won’t count those.
Travelled on a train?
I haven’t.
Worn heels?
Haven’t done this either.
Been to a friend's house?
I’ve been to Angela’s house semi-regularly, yup.
Shared a bed with someone?
Nah.
Been to see a movie at the cinema?
I haven’t been to the cinema in like a year and a half.
Paid attention to celebrity drama?
Erm not really. I also haven’t been up to date with that, especially with American celebrities hahaha.
Felt anxious?
Maybe not anxious but nervous.
Taken an elevator?
Yeah in Mega since that place is so goddamn big.
Given someone the cold shoulder?
Yep, my mom when she is being extra annoying/condescending.
Purchased a new book/game/movie?
I guess you can say that? I bought a subscription pack on Rhythm Hive because I was using it regularly anyway.
Applied for a job?
I already have a job, so no. I did get a job proposal on Linkedin a couple of weeks ago with another PR firm, but I took a look at their clients just to see if the offer was something I could sink my teeth into - and even though their brands were quite high-profile, they were in industries I didn’t particularly find interesting.
Used a printer?
Nah.
Had lunch in a park?
No.
Gotten a manicure or pedicure?
I have not.
Made an appointment?
Just for my shot but that’s it.
Had a blood test done?
Noooooo not another one of those plz.
Suffered from a major bruise?
Not a major bruise but a huge bloody gash on my thigh after a particlarly rowdy play session with Cooper. There’s still a very visible scar on me.
Researched a topic in-depth?
I do this quite a bit in my work, yes.
Have you in the last year?
Been to the beach?
No, I’ve mostly stayed at home since July 2020.
Visited someone in the hospital?
I haven’t. Too risky.
Played pinball?
No, it’s never interested me.
Travelled on a plane?
I haven’t. :(
Worn a costume?
Sure, for Halloween last year I went as Dora.
Been thrift shopping?
Not that I can recall, no.
Thought about getting pregnant or got pregnant?
Definitely not at this point in my life.
Made a big life decision?
Uh yeah this past year was both the worst and best rollercoaster I’ve ever been on. I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since that shitty breakup...
Changed a lightbulb?
Nope.
Framed something and put it on your wall?
No but I have been meaning to do this for months. I just never get around to buying some actual picture frames lol.
Been stargazing?
Not the professional kind of way with a telescope and all. I’ve just lied on my back at the rooftop to gaze at the night sky and the stars.
Made a new friend?
So many!!! Reena is probably my bestestestest new friend <3 I mean we’ve met a while ago, as Angela’s mutual - even had a few drinks or so together - but we didn’t become closer until just a couple of months ago.
Added to a collection?
I’ve had merch that arrive every week or so these days because I bought a ridiculous amount of shit between May and June when I was a new Army. I’ve substantially calmed down now, but I should expect to receive my running list of ordered merch up until September LMAO. At first I used to bitch about the really long shipping period considering all the products come from Korea, but after 3 or 4 fulfilled orders you kinda get used to it.
Been to the dentist?
No.
Broken up with someone?
Yessss. I didn’t know it at the time but it would turn out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
Held a baby?
Nah.
Created a budget?
Yeah...doesn’t mean I’ve been successful. I always go over, hehe.
Confessed feelings for someone?
There isn’t anyone to do that for.
Had surgery of any kind?
Nopes.
Quit a job?
No and I have no plans to anytime soon.
Been in a car accident?
Nah but my dad has, c/o some stupid and unattentive motorcycle driver.
Purchased something worth over a grand?
So in US dollar conversion, around P50,000? Hell no.
Been on vacation at least 500km/300mi from home?
No. :( The farthest we’ve been to was Tagaytay and I think that’ll remain the same for a while.
Applied for an academic course?
Yes, my Korean class.
Had your photo taken by a professional?
No, it’s been over a year since my last professional shoot for my senior photos.
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