#adrian rawlins

[scenesandscreens]

Living (2022)

Director - Oliver Hermanus, Cinematography - Jamie D. Ramsay

"Let's pledge to learn from his example. Let's vow never again to shy away from our responsibilities. Never again to push things under the carpet... we're going to get things done."

#scenesandscreens #Living #oliver hermanus #Jamie D. Ramsay #bill nighy #aimee lou wood #alex sharp #tom burke #adrian rawlins #hubert burton #Oliver Chris #michael cochrane #Anant Varman #patsy ferran #barney fishwick #Nichola McAuliffe #lia williams #Jessica Flood

[elenatria]

I swear I was only looking for Valoris reference pics...

I was doing a google image search for a better quality version of a Valery pic, and not only did I find it in high res, I found a BUNCH of pics I had never seen before. *___*

There's one more publicity shot from their first Kremlin scene but I've never seen this one before. Look at Boris' deadly glare, tilting his head to the side as if he's about to chew off Valery's face. And those massive fingers. <3

Boris Shcherbina towering over incompetent fools.

Is Valery tied up? Or maybe Boris sees him that way...

First night together. 💗 As Pikalov put it, "There's a hotel... 😉".

That Boris profile. ❤💗

Seeing them from the back during the rooftop scene.

Suspenders porn. Is Valery sneaking glances at Boris while revealing just a few tantalizing inches of his suspender? "I swear it was completely by chance."

...And that explains what Boris' massive hands are doing there. 👇

Boris has no choice but to spring to his feet and get a closer look at those naughty suspenders.

Sad Boris is sad. TT__TT

...but at least now he has someone to look up to.

Look at Boris' compassionate look as he gazes at his Valery who is burdened with a horrible dilemma. 😭

A clearer, more detailed photo than the other Valery/Ulana publicity shot we have and guess what, the deputy director of the Kurchatov institute loves him some Шекспир. 😁 Makes me wonder which play of The Bard is his favourite one.

The day of reckoning...

But before their world falls apart, before they lose each other forever, they have one last moment, they have The Bench.

They will always have The Bench.

💔

Btw why is that guard smiling wtf. Does he ship them too??

P.S.: It does make you wonder though just how MANY other Chernobyl publicity shots are out there and we haven't found them yet.

And I mean it's been years.

#chernobyl #craig mazin #valery legasov #jared harris #boris shcherbina #stellan skarsgard #publicity shots #rare stills #ulana #emily watson #con o'neill #adrian rawlins #fomin #bryukhanov #valoris #have those been posted on tumblr before? #I have seen some of them just not all of them #I mean wow

[suspiria76]

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

UK

1989

Directed by Herbert Wise

Screenplay by Nigel Kneale

#cult horror #british horror #supernatural #ghosts #eighties #susan hill #herbert wise #nigel kneale #adrian rawlins #bernard hepton #the woman in black

[nirbanox]

Living (2022)

Directed by Oliver Hermanus

#living 2022 #Living #bill nighy #oliver hermanus #aimee lou wood #tom burke #alex sharp #adrian rawlins #british movies #films #movies #movie recommendation #movie suggestions #movie screencaps #drama

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Living (2022) Oliver Hermanus

March 10th 2024

#living #2022 #oliver hermanus #bill nighy #aimee lou wood #alex sharp #tom burke #adrian rawlins #oliver chris #hubert burton #barney fishwick #patsy ferran #ikiru

[helmstone]

Moonflower Murders — first look pictures and casting for sequel adaptation

Moonflower Murders — first look pictures and casting for sequel adaptation

The BBC has revealed casting and first look pictures for Moonflower Murders, sequel to Magpie Murders, both based on Anthony Horowitz novels. I did try Magpie Murders, but didn’t connect with the story — no reflection on anything except me! Returning in the lead roles are Academy Award-nominee Lesley Manville as book editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland and Timothy McMullan as famous literary…

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[clemsfilmdiary]

Living (2022, Oliver Hermanus)

3/21/23

#Living #Bill Nighy #Kazuo Ishiguro #Aimee Lou Wood #Alex Sharp #Tom Burke #Adrian Rawlins #Hubert Burton #Oliver Chris #Akira Kurosawa #2020s #drama #remake #British #England #London #bureaucracy #bureaucrats #elderly #terminal illness #office #workplace #flashbacks #period #friendship #cancer #father and son #oscar nominee

[piratekowalski]

Glukhov, Shcherbina, Toptunov and Fomin in Andor

#andor #chernobyl #hbo #stellan skarsgard #alex ferns #robert emms #adrian rawlins

[theuntitledblog]

Living (2022) - REVIEW

SYNOPSIS

Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), a veteran civil servant receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young colleague (Aimee Lou Wood) who seems to have the love for life that had previously escaped him.

There are some films like this that you might enjoy while you're watching them but often find yourself forgetting about them a short time later. Living has too much going for it to be just forgettable; the period design of post-war 1950's Britain looks stunning, the score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch elevates it further and all that's before we take into consideration the central performance by Bill Nighy. Nighy, much like the film as a whole, is incredibly understated and subtle but the emotion is clear to see. Nothing about it is melodramatic or over the top but neither is it a bleak affair. There's a lot here that's both funny (the British bureaucracy) and moving at the same time. It's a remarkable look at what it means to be alive and it resonates strongly particularly in moments when Mr. Williams ponders where time went and how we become the things we become. He's aided by a strong cast with Aimee Lou Wood and Alex Sharp being particular shout outs. But director Oliver Hermanus deserves the bulk of the credit for crafting this understated but incredibly stylish film that hits all the right notes to be something special. Classical in its execution but its themes are universal.

VERDICT

Surprisingly uplifting rather than bleak with a classical approach to the filmmaking. Carried by Bill Nighy, Living is stylish and moving examination of what it means to be alive without ever feeling manipulative.

4/5

#Youtube #oliver hermanus #living movie #bill nighy #aimee lou wood #alex sharp #tom burke #lia williams #adrian rawlins #oliver chris #michael cochrane #richard cunningham #remake #akira kurosawa #ikiru #2022 movies

[darkness-holds-eternal-light]

Okay, one more take on the Snape and Lily- dynamic, that has come to me just yesterday.

I've noticed that they mirrored each other pretty, pretty well. That is usually the case when people have closer and more meaningful connections with each other. On an obvious or less obvious level they usually mirror each other in distinct ways. We could argue that the doe patronus is one of these ways and I'd be so, so curious what Lily's happiest memory was that she drew on to create it and how it was connected to another person in her life. Do we know if Snape's patronus really was molded after Lily's or did they maybe develop their corporeal patronuses originally independently from one another? Either way I think there's much more to look into there.

But I digress, I wanted to mention something in relation to their mirroring each other. Basically Lily grew to dislike Snape due to his affiliation with the Death Eaters. The people who would dislike her the most and who would be possibly (and actually 😓) very dangerous to her although they did eventually not kill her for being a mudblood but for her child, as far as I understand. She logically wanted to feel safe with Snape as a friend but probably also as a male confidant. There's more to that topic also but that's for another post. She certainly needed him to draw the line there.

Now Snape on his side really wanted to have a better and possibly safer life at Hogwarts. But most of all, I think Lily was his only genuine light in many ways and he trusted her. So of course it was a problem that she associated with the people who disliked him the most and who harassed him for existing basically. They were also the most dangerous to him in a social sense but also in the sense of putting his life in danger. He wanted to feel safe with Lily as a friend and possibly also as a female confidante, we may speculate, also in a sense of exclusivity.

I noticed that they both associate with the people who were worst for their respective life paths and neither was really ready to acknowledge it or to draw the line that the other one would've needed to feel safe in the relationship. Of course if the safety gets lost in a relationship, neither can feel confident and relaxed in it and the intimacy, which needs safety, retreats. Obviously, if Snape doesn't protect her from the Death Eaters, that's a big NoNo and I don't blame her for being distressed by it. They both ran into massive blocks for their mutual relationship because there was no way Lily could make herself fit to the Death Eaters and there was no way Snape could make himself fit to the Marauders. Eventually Snape's choice turned out to be the most dangerous one to Lily. I wonder how he actually felt about her having a baby. In the end it is not just his rival James having a kid but mostly it is Lily having a baby, regardless of who the father is.

But somehow in the end, the child, Harry, was key. They both sacrificed themselves for him essentially. He was the life-altering decision for both of them (and many others of course). If I have some more insight into this, I might write another post on the whole theme of "choosing Harry". It's super interesting but I'm still trying to understand it myself, that'll need some time. ;)

#severus snape #lily evans #lily potter #harry potter #james potter #albus dumbledore #thoughts #literature #alan rickman #geraldine somerville #daniel radcliffe #adrian rawlins #deathly hallows #choices #insight

[mrepstein]

‘Man Who Runs the Beatles’ by Adrian Rawlins (The Australian Jewish News - June 19, 1964)

It was through this interview that Brian Epstein met photographer Robert Whitaker. Writer and poet Adrian Rawlins, who interviewed Epstein for the piece, enlisted his friend Whitaker to take photographs. Epstein was impressed with the results and offered Whitaker the position of staff photographer at NEMS.

MAN WHO RUNS THE BEATLES

AFTER one of the biggest welcomes in their careers, the Beatles on their arrival at their Melbourne hotel, were confronted by a hysterical crowd of 20,000 fans.

John, Paul, George and Ringo stood on the balcony, surrounded by security officers, pressmen, radio and television newsmen and the inevitable D.J.s.

Apparently it was one of the latter, himself caught in the mob hysteria, who remarked that the group were greeting their fans “like dictators addressing a mob rally.”

On this cue, the boys swung into an improvised routine and gave mock Nazi salutes.

A photograph of this incident appeared in a Melbourne daily last Monday.

Phone calls, with comments on the incident, have been received at the “Jewish News” and also at the Southern Cross.

I spoke with the Beatles’ Jewish Manager, Brian Epstein, on Monday morning. He is a quietly spoken and urbane man, though does not seem to be unduly sophisticated.

He was mildly shocked and to some degree incredulous that anyone should take the incident to heart.

“It was,’’ he said, “simply an off the cuff joke.”

Epstein, 29, comes of a well to do Liverpool family. He attended “a great number of schools” because he was a “very poor scholar” and at 22 spent a year at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He didn’t think much of that, so left.

“I was interested in a great number of things,” he says, “interior decorating, display, a number of things really.” But finally he went into the family electrical business. And it was there as manager of the radio and records division that he first heard the name of the Beatles.

A girl came in and asked for a record by the group. There wasn’t one but the group itself was appearing a mere hundred yards up the road. That was in August 1961.

WANTED TO GO 

He heard and liked them, though he found them “dead scruffy and untidy”. He set about changing the image. He succeeded and the rest is history.

During our chat, the screams and calls of expectant fans floated up to the 12th floor front window like a piteous sea of diseased sound, rising to a peak of despairing imploration then receding to nothing.

Brian Epstein, in a discreet navy and white check shirt with tasteful monograph over his heart, slender slacks and shoes of soft black Italian leather, spoke on, unheeding, adjusted his tie with perfectly manicured nails.

He had, as I entered, instructed the telephonist to screen calls as “all sorts of people" had been getting through to him, including fans.

“The fans should be obvious," he had said.

Referring to the much published Israeli incident, Epstein said that he had made arrangements for the group to appear there in September this year.

When the announcement that the group would not be allowed to perform there was made, he closed negotiations. The Israeli promotors were aghast.

Epstein wanted to wait till an official retraction of this statement which had not been official, was made. None came and so the group will not appear in Israel, much as he and the boys themselves would like it to.

Though in February of this year he said in America that he had thoughts of bringing the group back to America “in August or September”.

The Beatles are not the only iron in Mr. Epstein’s well controlled fire. At present his “stable’’ includes 8 other pop acts, including Gerry and the Pacemakers.

As one of the Beatles’ most serious critics has pointed out, the vitality of the Mersey sound should dominate the hit charts for quite some time.

Mr. Epstein should then have more big names if, and when, the Beatles fade away.

Brian Epstein, though he now lives most of the time in London, is still a member of the family shule, Greenbank Drive Hebrew Congregation.

His father, Harry, has just joined the Board of Management and, says a proud son, “God willing, he should be President in 8 years’ time.”

#Brian Epstein #Adrian Rawlins #The Beatles #Robert Whitaker #1964 #60s #Australia #Australian Jewish News #interview #Australian tour #newspaper

[elenatria]

Bryukhanov in his undershirt, babyyyyy.

Some "new" publicity stills from the site that keeps on giving.

#chernobyl #craig mazin #con o'neill #adrian rawlins #bryukhanov #fomin #paul ritter #dyatlov #publicity stills #bryukhanov in underwear #I want that green phone #I HAD that green phone TT__TT

[feinmharfoir-le-arsanaic]

Adrian Rawlins in Dickensian

#adrian rawlins #tim #tim fc

[rookie-critic]

Living (2022, dir. Oliver Hermanus) - review by Rookie-Critic

I have found that, over the year since I started writing these reviews, good reviews for movies that I truly loved are generally harder to write than the bad ones. It's easy to write about and articulate what I thought was wrong or could have been done better, but how do I write a full, well-articulated review of something I loved without just gushing about how good it was? There's only so many ways to say "The acting was good, the writing was good, etc., etc., and on, and on." So when I saw Living (2022, dir. Oliver Hermanus), I was walking back to my car thinking "Wow, that was truly fantastic. This review is gonna be rough." So what do I say, what reasons do I give, for loving Living besides the usual suspects?

First, remaking any Akira Kurosawa film is almost inviting criticism, and Ikiru is one of the ones that I would almost have said just couldn't be done better. I won't say that Living is better, but it is about as close as anyone could have ever hoped to have gotten. The raw emotion that the camerawork evokes (in conjunction with Bill Nighy's masterful performance as Mr. Rodney Williams) is something to behold. It feels like a movie from the 50s/60s (helped in no small part by the film's opening scene, which mirrors the look and feel of a film from that era) and that helps the first section of the film convey the stuffiness of its central character. The movie doesn't really concern itself with Mr. Williams' past outside of passive reference to his late wife and brief flashbacks (I'm talking a few seconds at a time) to his childhood and young adulthood, because the film is trying to show this man, on the far edge of his life, not knowing truly how to do anything other than work (and maybe go to the cinema once a week). We need not concern ourselves with the past because the whole point of it is to show him learning how to live in the moment. Not to regret his past, but to really start living (eh?? ehhhh????) in the now, while he still can.

Speaking of the film's central character, let's talk about Bill Nighy. Anyone who watches a decent amount of movies will know Nighy's face at least, if maybe not his name (or maybe neither if all you've seen him in is the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, as he is hidden behind a bunch of CG'd tentacles in those films). He's one of those veteran actors that just knows what he's doing, full stop, and he carries the emotional weight of this film on his back with a spirit equal to Atlas carrying the world. The entire lifetime of regret behind the eyes of this character for a majority of the film is palpable and striking, digging straight into the empathetic core of the audience like few performances are able to do. Every time Nighy sings "The Rowan Tree" (or anytime the song plays at all in the film) I was just an instant mess of a person. It's wild how instant the tears seemed to be. One second I was perfectly fine, sitting in my theater chair, feeling bad for this character, but not really close to overwhelmingly emotional, but the second the notes started coming out of Nighy's mouth that was it. He distilled the feeling of lifelong remorse out into a single note, and then did it again with the next one, and again and again until the scene ended. It's one of the most brilliant pieces of acting I believe I've ever seen. I know I started this review off by saying I have a hard time pinpointing and articulating the bullet points of films I enjoy, but I could talk about Nighy's brilliant performance in Living all day long, and if this review comes across as just me gushing over Bill Nighy and nothing else, then maybe that's really all this film needed to be great, but I don't really believe that to be true. It may be too sappy for some, but I found it to have wonderful balance, and I recommend everyone give this one a try if you're able. It is, hands down, one of the most moving films of last year.

Score: 10/10

Currently only in theaters.

#Living #Living 2022 #Ikiru #Oliver Hermanus #Bill Nighy #Aimee Lou Wood #Alex Sharp #Barney Fishwick #Patsy Ferran #Tom Burke #Adrian Rawlins #Hubert Burton #Oliver Chris #Michael Cochrane #Anant Varman #Zoe Boyle #Lia Williams #film review #movie review #2022 films

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Living (12): Quietly waiting for his mother to call him in.

#onemannsmovies review of "Living" (2022). #LivingMovie. Bill Nighy is immaculate in this touching and thought-provoking 50's tale. 4.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Living” (2022). I had the joy of meeting Bill Nighy briefly in a London theatre and he is the epitomy of the English gentleman: calm, utterly polite and without displaying the slightest irritation for the many fans glad-handing him during his night out. In his manner, he seems like an actor from an earlier, more civilised age. And in “Living” he gets to play just…

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[milliondollarbaby87]

Living (2022) Review

When a man who had just been going through the motions within his life finds out that he is dying, he will eventually try and feel alive again! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *LFF 2022 Preview Screening* (more…)

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#2022 #Adrian Rawlins #Aimee Lou Wood #Akira Kurosawa #Alex Sharp #Anant Varman #BFI London Film Festival 2022 #Bill Nighy #Celeste Dodwell #Cinema #Drama #Ffion Jolly #Hubert Brown #Ikiru #Jamie Wilkes #Jessica Flood #John MacKay #Jonathan Keeble #Kazuo Ishiguro #LFF #LFF 2022 #Lia Williams #Living #London #London Film Festival #Michael Cochrane #Oliver Chris #Oliver Hermanus #Patsy Ferran #Review