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London Spy: Ben Whishaw, dreamy lover/genius Ed Holcroft and sage Jim Broadbent
Aloysius J. Gleek:
LONDONSPYCALLING:
Tomorrow:
The Makers: Tom Rob Smith
Thursday 24 March, 3pm - Studio, BFI Southbank
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 03, 2016, 07:20:21 pm ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Film_Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/flare
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp
2016: BFI Flare turns 30
In 1986, the National Film Theatre ran a short season of nine LGBT films called ‘Gay’s Own Pictures.’ Now, 30 years later and with a couple of name changes along the way, BFI Flare has grown into one of the world’s most significant LGBT film festivals. To celebrate our forthcoming anniversary edition this March, we’re looking back at some of the defining films to have screened over the festival’s vibrant history. Up first: two classics of New Queer Cinema: Poison (1991) and The Watermelon Woman (1996). In February, we revisit two classic love stories from the 90s – in time for Valentine’s!
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-flare-industry-programme-2016.pdf
The Makers
The Makers is a series of one-to-one interviews with filmmakers who have made
a major contribution to LGBT representation in the mainstream.
The Makers: Tom Rob Smith
Thursday 24 March, 3pm - Studio, BFI Southbank
Screenwriter Tom Rob Smith joins us to discuss the making of London Spy. At once a gay love story and a thrilling tale of mystery and international espionage, London Spy was one of the UK’s landmark television moments in 2015. The show tells the story of Danny (Ben Whishaw), who is drawn into a complex and dangerous game after the disappearance of his boy friend, Alex (Edward Holcroft). With a knockout supporting cast including Charlotte Rampling, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter and Mark Gatiss, London Spy presents a modern view of the city, where chemsex and covert ops are both a daily reality. This event will explore the show’s resounding success, and what this means for the future of LGBT storytelling on television.
Host: Jack Casey (BFI Flare)
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Aloysius J. Gleek:
London Spy trickery! It took me a long time to figure out HOW that image had been manipulated; in the end, it was simply FLOPPED left-right, with Norman
Foster's City Hall flopped to the right of the Shard rather than left (from that perspective). Also, as the surviving, struggling figure's hand (Danny!) is raised
through the water, the diagonal lines in the image shatter and break, and the section of the flopped City Hall moves further to the right--very urban version
of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Especially interesting as Ben Whishaw (I think) said that his agent likened TR Smith's
story to Alice meeting a series of strange characters and situations Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)--
The Thames in Southwark with City Hall, where campaigners gathered to protest against privatisation of public spaces in London and throughout the UK.
Saturday 13 February 2016 11.52 EST Photograph: Robert Harding/Rex Shutterstock
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/13/will-self-mass-trespass-london-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g26ZXL2PxFg[/youtube]
Published on Nov 24, 2015.
http://thetvshows.us/displayimage.php?album=528&pid=649884#top_display_media
https://twitter.com/momocolondon
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2015/december/momocos-watery-title-sequence-for-london-spy/
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 23, 2016, 05:42:38 pm ---London Spy trickery! It took me a long time to figure out HOW that image had been manipulated; in the end, it was simply FLOPPED left-right, with Norman Foster's City Hall flopped to the right of the Shard rather than left (from that perspective). Also, as the surviving, struggling figure's hand (Danny!) is raised through the water, the diagonal lines in the image shatter and break, and the section of the flopped City Hall moves further to the right--very urban version of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). Especially interesting as Ben Whishaw (I think) said that his agent likened TR Smith's story to Alice meeting a series of strange characters and situations Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)--
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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 29, 2016, 03:20:26 am ---http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/film/news/a9101/ben-whishaw-if-i-had-a-career-plan-itd-stop-feeling-like-an-adventure/
Keeping with the Bond theme, next up Whishaw plays Danny, a Londoner who falls for a secret agent in new BBC miniseries London Spy.
“Danny reminds me of a lot of people I know, of how easy it is when you’re young and living in the capital to lose your way and feel directionless,” he says.
It is in part a love story, though Whishaw promises the drama, written by Child 44 author Tom Rob Smith, “has a lot of twists and surprises, and nothing is quite what it appears.”
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--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 01, 2016, 04:52:57 am ---https://www.yahoo.com/tv/london-spy-edward-holcroft-ben-whishaw-bbc-america-143336553.html
At the Television Critics Association’s recent press tour, Whishaw said his agent likened the tale to a kind of dark Alice in Wonderland. “Every episode, Danny is meeting a new set of people who very rarely are exactly what they appear to be,” Whishaw said. (The cast includes Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as Danny’s most trusted confidante, and Charlotte Rampling as the hardest nut to crack.)
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southendmd:
John, dear John, you are such a font of London Spy wonderfulness! Thank you for all this!
I love my Amazon-bound-up London Spy. I couldn't wait for the dvd.
I need to re-watch it in a marathon soon.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 23, 2016, 08:18:53 pm ---John, dear John, you are such a font of London Spy wonderfulness! Thank you for all this!
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Gosh, thank you Paul! But don't you mean to say 'London Spy CRAZYPERSON nuttiness?? :laugh:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 23, 2016, 08:18:53 pm ---I love my Amazon-bound-up London Spy. I couldn't wait for the dvd.
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I have my Amazon Prime London Spy streaming video, of course, but I have ALSO pre-ordered the 2-disc DVD, which will be released in, let's see, 19 days. Obsessional, me? I mean, perish the thought! Heaven forfend!
::)
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 23, 2016, 08:18:53 pm ---I need to re-watch it in a marathon soon.
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We ALL agree!
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