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Wait ... James is in the new Guy Ritchie film?

No stills of him spotted yet (and reportedly it’s only a ‘good’ film if you’re a Ritchie or Henry Cavill fan)

#james wilby #the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare #guy ritchie #his character is called #viscount algernon

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me when i see dumb takes on this website but then realize they’re written by children and i’m 30 or 40 years old and therefore legally not required to care or pay attention

#tumblr #yes #important to remember #not that this stops me from wading in when i'm feeling grumpy #heheh i’m not 30 or 40 #and nor are quite a few of my mutuals #if you follow me and you’re young – bless you xx

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It amuses me when people assume Forster was a prissy old maid and didn’t slip these bits in. I reckon he knew what he was doing. (e.g. ‘queer’ is used slightly more in the 1914 Maurice than in the published version.)

Some tasty bits

#maurice 1987 #maurice 1914 #em forster #morgan’s innuendos #never forget he also wrote smut #then had a Bonfire of the Smut #but not all of it #EMF’s posthumous queer fiction

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he could visit my boathouse anytime

prosím, že je tady víc českých fanoušků Maurice? 🥺

#alec scudder #alec appreciation #maurice 1987 #rupert graves #em forster #meme-ish things

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Thank God TikTok never got hold of Risley from Maurice. Imagine what they would do to him.

#shhhh ... DON’T ENCOURAGE THEM #maurice 1987 #tiktok #risley #risley appreciation #mark tandy appreciation too #waffle-bubbles #expo63 my gifs #in theory tiktok should *love* risley as he’s upper-class #but oops he also has sex #and lacks Young Hugh Grant Hair

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Well said and so right. Whether your wisdom will land is another matter, but let’s hope.*

Re. “you, me, attempting to teach people media literacy”: historical literacy, too.

A further point the “Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex” snipers miss (along with sexual fulfilment being rather important and not negligible, for Forster and for Maurice) is that there’s a history of male–male relationships which do indeed start with the sex but flower into and endure as love – in that order. There’s so much more than “just sex” between Maurice and Alec – but also, the sex which brings them together is never “just” sex. For Forster, the meeting of bodies is profound (the “flesh educating the spirit”), not profane – and it certainly isn’t a “lesser” love than Clive giving Maurice blue balls for three years.

(*I’ve had Clive zealots trying to beat me up on YouTube for making precisely these points about history, context, queer liberation, sex without shame and Forster’s whole purpose in writing Maurice.)

When you get so irked by someone saying that "Clive and Maurice were the better romantic pairing because they truly loved each other while Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex" that you end up writing a small essay in a Pinterest comment section (which had to be broken up into 500 word chunks because of Pinterest's word limit).

Anyway, I actually like what I wrote so I wanted to share it here. I didn't say everything I wanted to in the exact way that I wanted to due to the word restrictions, but I think it did the job.

#maurice 1987 #e.m. forster #a happier year #maurice & alec #meta #spocks-got-a-glock #social media discourse #pinterest

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The Grade II-listed Birnbeck Pier has had a rocky ride since Rupert filmed this in 1996 (at the start of the campaign to save/restore the pier), but now things might be looking up:

If you’re like me you’re probably in love with Rupert’s voice and distinct accent. Enjoy this commentary from 1996 where baby Rupert talked about Birnbeck Pier in his hometown, Weston-super-Mare for 10 minutes :’D 

He is very, *very* precious.

#rupert graves #as himself #one foot in the past #birnbeck pier #weston-super-mare #1990s!rupert #conservation #community campaigns #youtube #my stuff

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''For the moment, all that we can do is to dig in our heels, and prevent silliness from sliding into insanity.''

E.M. Forster, Two Cheers For Democracy (1939, 14)

#em forster #two cheers for democracy #quotes #1939 #EMF’s non-fiction writings

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#maurice 1987 #james wilby #maurice hall #denholm elliott #gifs #hawleywilby #let’s hear it for edwardian men’s underwear #the dockers’ lads down at the mission #doctor barry is a most clever man (not)

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‘It’s a chance in a thousand we met. You know it.’

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

#maurice 1987 #james wilby #rupert graves #hotel #these two #so perfect in this scene #otp forever #gifs #zanephillips #we’ll meet in your boathouse yet

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There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

#limericks #haiku #tumblr fun #tumblr

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Also posting these two separately

16 Mar 2024, BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024, BFI Southbank, London: VIP arrivals Rupert Graves and Greta Scacchi, there for the UK premiere of Stephen Soucy’s Merchant Ivory documentary – which also turned out to be a huge reunion of the (UK) Merchant Ivory family.

#rupert graves #greta scacchi #merchant ivory #bfi flare #maurice 1987 #heat and dust #james ivory #ismail merchant #jefferson in paris #a room with a view

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Yesterday's big reunion of the Merchant Ivory family (UK chapter) – including actual video of our boys' latest reunion (37.5 years on from the Maurice shoot). xxx

16 Mar 2024, BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024, BFI Southbank, London. Photocall for the UK premiere of Stephen Soucy's eye-opening, often very funny Merchant Ivory documentary – which also turned out to be a huge, precious reunion of the (UK) Merchant Ivory family. Here they are.

Also, 9th from left in the first group shot (in glasses), that's Adrian Ross Magenty (Dickie Barry/Tibby Schlegel).

Full line-up L–R: The BFI’s/BFI Flare’s Brian Robinson, James, Rupert, Simon Callow, the film’s director Stephen Soucy, lovely Nickolas Grace (Harry in Ivory’s Heat and Dust, Anthony Blanche in the 1981 Brideshead Revisited), Natascha McElhone, casting legend Celestia Fox, Adrian Ross Magenty, Helena Bonham Carter, Susie Lindeman (squeaky-voiced Dolly Wilcox/James’ wife in Howards End) and the glorious Greta Scacchi.

With thanks to Getty Images & to undinecissy for finding the video.

Bonus shot: ‘VIP arrivals’ Rupert and Greta by Dave Benett:

#merchant ivory #stephen soucy #rupert graves #james wilby #greta scacchi #adrian ross magenty #& many more #maurice 1987 #bfi flare #maurice x alec #merchant ivory family #reunion #i'm not crying you're crying #an emotional afternoon & genuinely a surprise #there were 2 screenings of the doc and the OTHER screening had sold out

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It was lovely to finally see Stephen Soucy’s Merchant Ivory documentary on the big screen at BFI Flare 2024 this afternoon, and the stars/crew/Merchant Ivory family were out in force. Guess who:

(1) looked startlingly younger in person that they do in the documentary (or they have a lookalike)

(2) was spotted popping in and out of the screening, and in and out of the hospitality room for beers

Also spotted: costume-design legend Jenny Beavan, Adrian Ross Magenty (Tibby Schlegel/deleted Dickie Barry) and Rupert sitting next to (looked like) A Room With A View’s cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts.

#merchant ivory #stephen soucy #james ivory #maurice 1987 #rupert graves #jenny beavan #adrian ross magenty #bfi flare #bfi flare 2024 #queer cinema #queer filmmakers

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Yes, yes, we certainly have. [X]

#so should you #garrow’s law #historical drama #highly recommended #andrew buchan #rupert graves #andrew scott #real 18thC london history #old bailey archives #gifs

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This scene is genius (and invented for the film). Simcox laughs derisively (and trolls Alec by tying his boots and not letting him past) ... but he’s just given Alec the greenlight to try it on with Maurice

I never noticed, but Simcox totally cut Alec off in the “Mr. Hall’s a gentleman” scene

#maurice 1987 #alec scudder #simcox appreciation #rupert graves #patrick godfrey #the drunktank #expo63 my gifs #with apologies for crap quality #that nod at the end #WITH ONLY MR HALL’S PLEASURE TO WAIT UPON

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Signal boost.

Also signal boosting that these deep cuts and closures to heritage, the arts and wider public services are happening all over the UK right now. Just a few news stories on the many examples:

Birmingham council approves biggest budget cuts in local authority history

‘A national emergency’: UK theatres fear closure after more local funding cuts: Windsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham

Nottingham budget cuts: Full list of services being cut as £53m axed from budget

Budget cuts mean city faces ‘cultural deprivation’

Councils warn of cuts to neighbourhood services

UK charities warn of ‘devastating’ council cuts to women’s services

Save local services: Council pressures explained

Arts and theatres face £60m council cuts

Inside Arts Council England’s devastating cuts

The Damage Caused by a Decade of Arts Funding Cuts

A decade of austerity: core funding reduced by 63 per cent

Special report: Funding cuts and weak economy send UK’s visual arts into crisis

Save the arts, resist the cuts: Equity Northern Ireland

Please help the National Museum Of Wales

Please sign the petition!!!!

#national museum of wales #national library of wales #funding cuts #wales #england #northern ireland #arts cuts #bankrupted local councils #cuts to women’s children’s and care services #cuts to basic services like bin collections and street lighting #austerity policies 2010–2024 #the dates tell who’s responsible