Australian writer-director Sue Brooks, whose latest feature Looking For Grace has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has revealed details of her upcoming projects.
Brooks has two new features in development. One is an adaptation of Alex Miller’s novel, Lovesong. This is the story of a relationship and marriage between a young Australian man and a Tunisian woman.
It is scripted and produced by Alison Tilson (Looking For Grace). Brooks said: “It’s a love story but it is also about place and migration…it is about being displaced.”
The project is currently being financed and cast.
Brooks is also plotting a comedy-musical, Not Quite Waiting In The Wings. Also scripted by Tilson, it is described by Brooks as a story “about the folly of human endeavour.”
It centres on an amateur troupe’s courageous but faltering attempt to mount a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Looking For Grace stars Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and upcoming...
Brooks has two new features in development. One is an adaptation of Alex Miller’s novel, Lovesong. This is the story of a relationship and marriage between a young Australian man and a Tunisian woman.
It is scripted and produced by Alison Tilson (Looking For Grace). Brooks said: “It’s a love story but it is also about place and migration…it is about being displaced.”
The project is currently being financed and cast.
Brooks is also plotting a comedy-musical, Not Quite Waiting In The Wings. Also scripted by Tilson, it is described by Brooks as a story “about the folly of human endeavour.”
It centres on an amateur troupe’s courageous but faltering attempt to mount a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Looking For Grace stars Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh and upcoming...
- 9/7/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
(Sidney Lumet, 1972; Eureka!, 15)
By the mid-1960s Sean Connery had completed his contract with Saltzman and Broccoli and feared being typecast as 007. So to lure him back to appear in a sixth Bond film (Diamonds Are Forever, 1971), United Artists promised him $2m to make two movies of his own choice. The first he picked was This Story of Yours, a grim police procedural based on a play by John Hopkins, one of the writing team on Z-Cars, the realistic BBC TV series that had transformed the image of the British , taking him out of Dock Green and dropping him in a depraved new world. Hopkins’s reputation was running high at the time. His quartet of TV plays, Talking to a Stranger, was widely regarded as the best work written to date for the small screen, and This Story of Yours was put on at the Royal Court under Harold Pinter’s auspices.
By the mid-1960s Sean Connery had completed his contract with Saltzman and Broccoli and feared being typecast as 007. So to lure him back to appear in a sixth Bond film (Diamonds Are Forever, 1971), United Artists promised him $2m to make two movies of his own choice. The first he picked was This Story of Yours, a grim police procedural based on a play by John Hopkins, one of the writing team on Z-Cars, the realistic BBC TV series that had transformed the image of the British , taking him out of Dock Green and dropping him in a depraved new world. Hopkins’s reputation was running high at the time. His quartet of TV plays, Talking to a Stranger, was widely regarded as the best work written to date for the small screen, and This Story of Yours was put on at the Royal Court under Harold Pinter’s auspices.
- 6/14/2015
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
My aunt, Margery Mason, who has died aged 100, was an actor, writer and theatre manager. She was a founder member of the Actors' Company and made appearances in diverse productions, from Midsomer Murders to a Harry Potter film.
Born and brought up in Hackney, east London, she came from a modest background, and after rudimentary education left school at 15. Her parents ran a semi-professional dramatic company, from which Margery's acting career developed. Initially she performed in their company at working men's clubs in the East End of London, starting as principal boy in pantos, then succeeding to adult parts, sometimes competing with her mother for the starring female roles. Her father ran an early cinema, the Hackney Bioscope, and subsequently established the Impartial Film Report, which distributed weekly film reviews to the then many independent cinemas. Margery attended film trade showings, wrote reviews and helped produce the Report.
Before the...
Born and brought up in Hackney, east London, she came from a modest background, and after rudimentary education left school at 15. Her parents ran a semi-professional dramatic company, from which Margery's acting career developed. Initially she performed in their company at working men's clubs in the East End of London, starting as principal boy in pantos, then succeeding to adult parts, sometimes competing with her mother for the starring female roles. Her father ran an early cinema, the Hackney Bioscope, and subsequently established the Impartial Film Report, which distributed weekly film reviews to the then many independent cinemas. Margery attended film trade showings, wrote reviews and helped produce the Report.
Before the...
- 2/18/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
DC Comics has released 52 one-liners, each from one of their new 52 ‘relaunched’ titles beginning to arrive in September. While the one-liners don’t reveal which books they’re from, they do seem to hint at the current state of the DC universe as it will exist post-relaunch.
DC’s blog, The Source, will be revealing which book is associated with which quote on a daily basis from this point forward, so place some bets among your friends!
“If you’re not moving, you’re not living.”
“If we stop looking to the present and the past, and instead we look to the future…if we ask ourselves what can be–what it will be tomorrow… then we’re asking the right question. Because to hope, to dream, to predict is to shape the city yourself, rather than to be shaped by it.”
“Maybe this is all connected to that guy in Metropolis.
DC’s blog, The Source, will be revealing which book is associated with which quote on a daily basis from this point forward, so place some bets among your friends!
“If you’re not moving, you’re not living.”
“If we stop looking to the present and the past, and instead we look to the future…if we ask ourselves what can be–what it will be tomorrow… then we’re asking the right question. Because to hope, to dream, to predict is to shape the city yourself, rather than to be shaped by it.”
“Maybe this is all connected to that guy in Metropolis.
- 8/25/2011
- by geekmaster
- GeekRest
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