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orlaite · 7 months

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The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) | Directed by David Lean

#doctor zhivago #david lean #classicfilmedit #classicfilmsource #moviegifs #moviedit #omar sharif #julie christie #tom courtenay #mine

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hayaomiyazaki · 2 months

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Happy birthday, Sir Tom Courtenay ✩ Born on this day, the 25th of February, 1937.

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billdecker · 3 months

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BILLY LIAR (1963) dir. John Schlesinger

#billy liar #billy liar 1963 #tom courtenay #john schlesinger #keith waterhouse #british film #moviegifs #movie gifs #filmgifs #film gifs #movieedit #movie edit #filmedit #film edits #1960s #1960s films #i made a thing #mine: films

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nathalieskinoblog · 1 year

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k-wame · 9 months

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Tom Courtenay as Lieutenant Robin Grey 1965 · KING RAT · dir. Bryan Forbes · WWII · LGBTQ+

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davidhudson · 2 months

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Happy 87th, Tom Courtenay.

With Julie Christie during the making of John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar (1963).

#tom courtenay #julie christie #cinema #film #movies

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madeline-kahn · 1 year

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@pscentral anniversary event: get to know the members

"When I was younger, I couldn't bear all the waiting around, but now that's my favourite part. It's lovely. Some days, you come in, you have a lot to do, and some days, you can just walk past the camera, make jokes, be the life and soul of the party. I love all the anecdotes, the little jokes."

Happy birthday, Sir Tom Courtenay! (February 25, 1937)

#filmedit #tom courtenay #perioddramaedit #tvedit #doctor zhivago #summerland #the loneliness of the long distance runner #the golden compass #a dandy in aspic #king and country #the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society #45 years #billy liar #the north water #pscentral #i love that man like nobody can #birthday posts #my edit

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ace-cf-cups · 2 months

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Unpopular opinion, I know (even though God knows why it's so unpopular), but "Flood" (2007) is a great, smart, engaging, well-written, well-directed and well-acted film.

You just have to keep three things in mind going in:

this is a movie showing catastrophe through people, their reactions, their relationships to one another and their relationships to their jobs and their lives etc. ( so if you're wondering why they included servicemen in the Underground or that father and daughter? because they are examples of different people who were affected by that catastrophe – and they are needed in this film, among other things, to show that such catastrophes affect everyone )

it shows more than tells – characters' expressions and feelings and actions are more important than their words, so yes, there's a lot of silent acting and close ups and no it's not a flaw

standard logic with which you analyze characters' behavior doesn't apply here because they are not sitting in the warmth and safety of their homes like you do and have all the time in the world to think about what line of action is better, they are in the middle of a very rapidly progressing disaster, they don't have all the information like viewers do, they are unsafe and scared and they have to act fast, so yes, there are lots of actions that aren't logical but then again think about how you would behave under such circumstances

#flood 2007 #tony mitchell #robert carlyle #david suchet #tom courtenay #jessalyn gilsig #joanne whalley #disaster film #film recommendations

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myfavoritepeterotoole · 3 months

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Peter O'Toole, Sam Spiegel, Leslie Caron, Tom Courtenay, at the British Film Academy Awards, held at the London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, 7 May 1963

** Peter O'Toole, Best British Actor of 1962 for his role as Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American producer of Lawrence which was selected as Best British Film of 1962 French actress Leslie Caron, Best Actress Award for “The L-Shaped Room” English actor Tom Courtenay, most promising newcomer for his role in “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”

#peter o'toole #award #1963 #london #sam spiegel #leslie caron #tom courtenay #smoking #lawrence of arabia #handshake #bafta

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denimbex1986 · 3 months

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'Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal might just be the most emotionally devastating couple you will see on screen this year. In the sensational All of Us Strangers, Scott plays Adam, a lonely screenwriter living in a near-empty London tower block. When he meets his neighbour, Mescal’s Harry, the two begin a tentative love affair, finding solace in each other’s arms. It is a film that deals with all manner of high-intensity emotions – grief, parental love, seclusion, loneliness, bullying, coming out. The protagonists’ sexualities are an intrinsic part of them and their story – but so are many other things.

“There is a gay storyline at the centre of it that we thought would appeal to LGBTQ audiences,” says Scott, who grew up believing he would never play lead roles because he was gay.

“But we’re dealing with lots of different forms of love. I don’t think people give a f**k about what sexuality they are when they respond to this film. It just wouldn’t be true to say that it’s just gay people [who] respond to this film. People get it. They get it and I love the fact that people are talking about love and they’re talking about emotionality and they’re so moved by it.”

“I think the least groundbreaking thing about this film is actually the sexuality,” agrees Mescal, who pinpoints the more universal emotions, such as loss, as the real heart of the movie. “That to me is remarkable and groundbreaking.”

Scott and Mescal are sitting together in an overly beige hotel suite. Scott, 47, is dressed in a white Lacoste jumper, while the 27-year-old Mescal is more casual still in a white T-shirt. They are relaxed in each other’s company, and spent the weekend in their homeland for the Irish premiere. “It felt cathartic,” says Mescal. “A great celebration of the film.”

Scott has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor and is delighted by the reception the film has been getting. “Genuinely wonderful,” he beams.

All of Us Strangers is the brainchild of writer-director Andrew Haigh, who previously proved his talents for shedding light on human frailty with the gay one-night-stand tale Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015), which starred Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as an elderly couple whose relationship quietly implodes in the run-up to their 45th wedding anniversary.

Haigh clearly has an eye for formidable on-screen pairings. “I don’t think [Scott] has had a lead film role like this,” the director tells me. “And so that kind of excited me… I love the idea of taking someone that you might not have seen do something and then seeing them do it.”

He cast Mescal after seeing him playing the quiet, lost student Connell in the 2020 TV phenomenon Normal People. “It was clear that his star was on the rise.”

Since then, Mescal has been Oscar-nominated for 2022’s father-daughter indie Aftersun, proving Haigh’s intuition was spot-on. “It’s like he’s been blown out of a rocket into stardom.”

Despite all its immensely human themes, All of Us Strangers is also a ghost story. As Adam attempts to write about his childhood, he starts to revisit his family home and encounters his mother and father (Claire Foy, Jamie Bell), who are delighted to see him. Except something is amiss. They look straight out of the 80s –which they are. Both died decades earlier in a car crash when Adam was 12 – he is now, somehow, communicating with their ghosts. It seems he has the chance so many wish they had: to say things to loved ones after they are gone. One of those things is that he is gay. It is one of the film’s most touching scenes, as he explains, unashamedly, with Foy’s prissy suburban housewife shocked by the revelation.

Both Scott and Haigh are gay, and while the scene elicits laughter at her outdated views, it must surely speak to their own experiences.

“I remember growing up in the 80s, and it was a very rough time to be gay,” says Haigh.

“Back then people did not like gay people. And families did not like the idea of their children being gay. So I think it’s really important to remind us that that’s how the world used to think.”

As Adam’s visits continue, we see how his parents, as he imagines them, soften and accept him. We also see how much regret they bear that they did not do this when he was a bullied child, crying in his room. To borrow from the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song that features heavily in the film, it is a hymn to the power of love.

“I think it’s about the idea that you have to let love in,” says Scott.

“You can survive, and you can trap yourself and lock yourself away. But you’ve got to let it in. Because [otherwise] what’s the point of having the privilege of breathing in this world?”

True enough. But it is also a film about isolation and the way, especially in big cities, we can cut ourselves off from those around us. Like the characters, “I’ve lived in an apartment block that felt like I had no connection to my neighbours”, says Mescal.

“I have too,” nods Scott. “Also, not to be cliché about it, but both of us are Irish. And there is a – what’s the word? – friendliness that’s part of our culture. You see people on the road and you wave at them. You say ‘Hi’. It’s quite chatty, I suppose. London, it’s four times the size of the population of Ireland. I’ve certainly had a thing where I think I’m going to try to make friends with the person – or at least acknowledge the person – who works in my local supermarket that I see every day. For me, that’s kind of important to establish community.”

Their Irishness bonded Scott and Mescal, but there is an effortless, easy-on-the-eye chemistry between them that goes beyond a common nationality. Haigh says they were trying to get across a plethora of different things – “intimacy and tenderness and compassion… and sexiness”.

“I had an unjustified confidence in the fact that Andrew and I would get on professionally,” says Mescal. “And personally, I think that’s ultimately what people are saying when they describe chemistry. Chemistry is kind of like this magic word. Does it look like those two people like and love each other?”

Harry tenderly bathes Adam at one point; in another scene, they take drugs in a gay club, with Adam gently requesting Harry take care of him.

“Chemistry is so situational,” says Scott, whose equally charged chemistry with Phoebe Waller-Bridge when he played the “hot priest” in Fleabag brought him further into the mainstream in 2019.

“The imagination of the audience creates chemistry. If they like us as actors, they’re going to have an excitement about putting those two people in the same room. There’s a lot of different things, as well as our relationship, that dictates it and then you work on the actual physicality. But chemistry isn’t just about sexual chemistry. It’s about loads of different forms of chemistry.”

Encouragingly, Haigh reports that there was no “pushback” on any of the film’s more explicit sex scenes. “Everybody was very supportive about how to tell the story,” he adds.

“I do think it does show progress [in telling queer stories]. This isn’t a tiny film made for $500,000. This is a slightly bigger film. And I do think that we have progressed to a stage where we can tell these kinds of stories; whether they become massive blockbusters, of course, is a different matter, because of course they won’t. It’s not Barbie; it’s a different type of movie.”

Sadly, the Academy failed to nominate All of Us Strangers for any Oscars this week. Nevertheless, Mescal feels it is important even to be in the conversation.

“Films of this scale and size are so important to me,” he says. “[There] should be space for more films like this. If we need to free up more space by getting rid of ‘X’ film or ‘Y’ film every year, I think that would be a good compromise. Audiences actually love being challenged. I don’t think they want to go to the cinema and be thinking about what time it is or what their Facebook or Instagram feed is doing.”

Both actors have big-budget projects up next. Mescal stars in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, while Scott plays Patricia Highsmith’s charming serial killer in Netflix’s Ripley, due out in April. But it is films like this that seem to matter to him most. “Of course, we all love a bit of fast food,” he says. “I’m not saying there isn’t room for that. But if that becomes the pervasive thing we all consume, it’s just a little unhealthier.”

All of Us Strangers is “nutritious” by comparison. “This film, I have no doubt, will continue to connect with people for years. And that is genuinely thrilling.”'

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falsenote · 1 year

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45 Years (2015)

#usssssssssssssssssssssssss #charlotte rampling #tom courtenay #45 years #mine

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howardhawkshollywoodannex · 3 months

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Writer director Doug McGrath on the set of Nicholas Nickleby (2002) with Tom Courtenay, Charlie Hunnam, Kevin McKidd, Barry Humphries, and Alan Cumming.

Doug was born Feb 28, 1958 in Midland, Texas, and had eight director credits from Emma (1996) to 2016. His entry among my best 1001 movies is his next film, Infamous, with Toby Jones as Truman Capote. As a writer, Doug had 11 entries, from 13 episodes of Saturday Night Live 1980-81 to a 2020 short. His entry among my best 1001 as a writer is Bullets Over Broadway. His other notable writing credits include a 1989 episode of LA Law.

#doug mcgrath #nicholas nickleby #tom courtenay #charlie hunnam #kevin mckidd #barry humphries #alan cumming

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idlesuperstar · 2 years

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Q: Doctor Zhivago seems to have been as epic a shoot as the story itself. Do you have any anecdotes or memories?

A: My great scene was on the back of the train. People say: “Oh, that’s iconic, that!” It took two days to film because David Lean couldn’t decide what I’d wear. I could have told him he hadn’t shot it close enough. David never made choices; he just edited as he went along. For the audience to realise that the student was now the leader of the revolution, they needed to clearly see his scar in closeup. But I wasn’t going to say to David Lean – “Uh, David, shouldn’t it be closer?” – because what did I know? When we went through the whole rigmarole again, with David having decided what I should wear, he shot it close. So that’s my main Zhivago anecdote.

Tom Courtenay being absolutely adorable in this marvellous Q&A in The Guardian. [Including the best advice ever - “when you’re filming, never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down. Especially when you’re in your 80s.“]

#tom courtenay #dr zhivago #the great all conquering david lean #being quietly put in his place decades later by tom #I fucking love him so much #we are SO privileged to still have him and still have him acting #it's not often I voluntarily make david lean gifs #it's always a special occasion #and always a swoonster #my wee gifs

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dadsinsuits · 10 months

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