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nathalieskinoblog · 8 months

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riepu10 · 3 months

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What has got you so miserable today? Nothing. It's such sweet torture, hm? To love another man's wife. We're not in love. We're friends.

#Dr. Astrov #Vanya #Telegin #Uncle Vanya #Richard Armitage #Toby Jones #Peter Wight #riepu10 #my Astrov gifs

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glennk56 · 7 months

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Peter Wight, fat British actor. When he first appeared on TV, he was a thin to averaged-sized man. I'm guessing, but I'd say he let himself get bigger because in the UK, unlike in the US, there is a demand for portly, mature men in the acting world.

Photos.

1996 (at an event).

2003 Three Blind Mice.

2003. My Family S4E4.

2005. Waking the Dead S5E9.

2006. The Gil Mayo Mysteries S1E8.

2008. Lark Rise to Candleford S1E3.

2010. Another Year.

2011. Accused S1E3.

2011. at The London Film Critic Circle Awards.

(same)

2011. My Week With Marilyn.

2012. Titanic (4 part Mini-Series)

2013. theatre production; Much Ado About Nothing.

2013. The Paradise S1E6.

(don't know)

2015. theatre production; The Red Lion.

2017. theatre production;Hamlet.

2017. (at an event).

2018. theatre production; The Birthday Party.

(same)

2018. Vanity Fsir S1E6.

(same)

2019. A Confession (Mini-Series)

(same).

2021. Cyrano.

(same)

2022. His Dark Materials. S3E4.

1978. The Sweeney S4E13.

#Peter Wight #fat actor #British Actor

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richardarmitagefanpage · 7 months

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Uncle Vanya is now available on Digital Theatre+.

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annoyingthemesong · 8 months

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SUBLIME CINEMA #662 - ANOTHER YEAR

'Nothing changes', claims Imelda Staunton's character at the outset of Mike Leigh's Another Year, and then we are taken through each passing season of a year in which everything changes, though maybe not quite in the same way for everyone.

Mike Leigh is a master who prefers to throw you into the midst of his characters lives and ply you with empathy rather than twist you into a plot of a typical film. The plot derives solely from the characters natural responses to their personal situations, and our fascination is unabated because of how extraordinary Leigh and his cast can fasten something out of the ordinary.

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camyfilms · 4 months

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005

If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love--I love--I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

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filmy420 · 4 months

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#keira knightley #benedict cumberbatch #peter wight #patrick kennedy #harriet walter #atonement #seamus mcgarvey #2000s #joe wright

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scenesandscreens · 2 years

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Babel (2006)

Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cinematography - Rodrigo Prieto

"Don't leave me please."

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theodorebasmanov · 2 years

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I’ve watched “Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!”. One word: Frustration. A lot of sexual frustration and just frustration with your own life. Okay, now to the actual post – I did it because of Michael Sheen, not because Kenneth Williams himself – I’ve never heard about him before this movie and I’ve never seen him in any movies or heard him on the radio. After being… well, pretty surprised with his manner in the film I watched an interview with him and found out that Mr Sheen portrayed him very realistic – seriously, he replicated his manner very well. Coming back to frustration – it’s wasn’t a joke. We all know all those “clown’s tears” clichés but here it’s like not tears, it’s like a waterfall (bad metaphor, but you get the idea) – because he’s constantly depressed and almost doesn’t smile outside of his role at all. And through the whole movie – his whole life – like a red line, goes the theme of his “queerness” (his own words) – he wants to have at least some kind of sex life and makes attempts towards this goal but it never works out. He always quits before anything actually starts. He also has a hyper fixation on cleanness. And has a bad relationship with his father. I don’t know how true to real history. Wikipedia says that he was keeping diaries his whole life, so the movie is probably based on them, and I’ve also found a few historically accurate points. So, I think it’s a good film, but not the one you can say you “enjoyed” it because it’s too sad.

#movie #kenneth williams: fantabulosa!#kenneth williams #michael sheen #cheryl campbell #peter wight #beatie edney #kenny doughty #biopic #BBC

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kwebtv · 7 months

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Anna Lee - ITV - January 10, 1993 - March 27, 1993

Crime Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time: 100 minutes

Stars:

Imogen Stubbs as Anna Lee

Brian Glover as Selwyn Price

Michael Bryant/John Rowe as Commander Martin Brierly

Ken Stott/Peter Wight as Bernie Schiller

Wil Johnson as Stevie Johnson

Barbara Leigh-Hunt/Sonia Graham as Beryl Doyle

Ceri Jackson as Ros Russell

#Anna Lee #TV #Crime #Drama #1990's #Imogen Stubbs #Brian Glover #John Rowe #Peter Wight #Wil Johnson #Sonia Graham #Anthony Newley

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nathalieskinoblog · 8 months

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riepu10 · 2 months

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We're not in love. We're friends. Friends? Already? What? Well, a woman can only become a man's friend in this order. First, acquaintance. Second, lovers. And only after that, friends! You're such a bloody… vulgarian.

#Dr. Astrov #Vanya #Telegin #Uncle Vanya #Richard Armitage #Toby Jones #Peter Wight #riepu10 #my Astrov gifs

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peppermintquartz · 6 months

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the only directors i trust to remake the LotR (if it ever gets remade) are Guillermo Del Toro and George Miller, both of whom know that (1) if you're gonna do something fantastical, fucking commit with everything and (2) playful whimsy is not out of place with life/death scenarios

#GDT would have killed it with shelob too #i wanna see them do sweet and funny stuff with bombadil and then lead into the terror of the barrow-wights #guillermo del toro #george miller #lord of the rings #peter jackson had the necessary passion and drive #i wish he had more whimsy though

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richardarmitagefanpage · 7 months

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Uncle Vanya is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for four days only.

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roominthecastle · 4 months

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Siegfried Farnon is based on eccentric vet Donald Sinclair, who Peter Wright worked closely with in his early career.

"You know, Donald died unexpectedly. And that morning, I remember the phone going, Jim Wight rang me to say Donald's died. Jim said, 'It's going to be a duller world without Donald Sinclair.' By gosh, it was. It has been."

#all creatures great and small #acgas 2020 #the yorkshire vet #samuel west #peter wright #donald sinclair #long post #mine #this was so much fun #and what can be a bigger compliment than hearing those who knew the guy your character is based on #tell you that it's almost like being in his presence again #i dont know sam and im sure he has his faults but he once again comes across as such a genuinely kind and good person #and it makes me so happy #and yes the beard is essential for siegfried but i love that face either way #still if he ever tries to go clean shaven on the show i hope audrey hides his razor w/ as much success as she hid his tobacco #and - understandably - it was skirted on screen but if i remember correctly donald took his own life after real-life audrey died #which i could def see happen (not that i ever wanna mind you) on the show as well given how siegfried was on the verge of going to pieces #and that was 'only' when she was about to move away

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maryellencarter · 10 months

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Andy Serkis, of course, as *the* expert in motion-capture acting ever since he first played Gollum 20+ years ago, is a shapeshifter in ways beyond even most character actors to achieve.

He's also a high-level shapeshifter by normal character actor methods -- when I saw him in Black Panther (I think possibly the only place I've seen him wearing his own face, me not being a great moviegoer at the best of times), there was only one brief moment where an expression that reminded me of Gollum flickered through.

Recently, it turned out that a free trial of Amazon Prime which I happened to have running could be converted into a second free book credit on Audible if I should take a free trial there. I've been curious for some time about the 2021 audiobook of LOTR performed by Andy Serkis, and while trying to get my sleep schedule right way up for job-hunting purposes, I've been working on listening to his Fellowship of the Ring. (I've just reached Moria.)

It's a straight-up audiobook, not a play, by the technical definition: one performer, no music or added special effects. But *damn*, you want to talk about shapeshifting? Serkis does startlingly accurate impressions of every actor in the Peter Jackson movies, plus unique voices for characters with no movie casting, and he sings the songs that are described as having tunes.

(I don't have the ear to tell whether he's using new compositions or some kind of traditional tunes, except that I can say for certain he doesn't use Tolkien's rendition of "A fox went out on a winter's night" for Sam's "Troll Song". If anyone with a better ear than mine happens to investigate, I'd be delighted to know what's discovered.)

His narratorial voice isn't 100% Jirt, which is a Choice, but one I honestly support. The Professor had a thick Old English accent which would probably be a chore to listen to or perform for 60+ hours of total audiobook length. Serkis seems to be using something close to his natural Middlesex accent for the narration, as far as I can tell, but there are enough of the familiar Tolkienian twists (like using the "o" sound from the word "tossed" in "shone" and "wroth") that I'm favorably impressed so far.

His Elvish pronunciation isn't perfect, but it's solidly movie-quality (positive); you'd likely have to be me, with a quarter-century and counting of Sindarin as a second language, to snag on the tiny things I'm snagging on, stuff like the Finnish-style double-length "m" in Remmirath or the "eth" sound represented by the "dh" in Caradhras. (There is properly no D sound in Caradhras; the middle consonant sound should be that of the "th" in "these clothes", but I've never actually heard anyone besides myself say it that way.) He gets a lot of the tricky sounds correct, better than I do when I'm being sloppy, like the long-i-adjacent diphthong in Edain or the broad second A in Gandalf.

Also, the unique voices and the vocal effects he brings in for certain scenes are just... I don't even have words. The Barrow-Wight is as terrifying as it was when I was ten. Tom Bombadil sings about 95% of his dialogue, which I've never imagined any performance acknowledging unless it were the hypothetical LOTR opera I suggest every so often, but goddamn if he doesn't somehow make it work. For the movie-cast voices, he flips so smoothly between the mishmash of accents that I keep forgetting I'm not actually listening to a full-cast play with Billy Boyd's chirpy Glaswegian, Sean Bean's gruff Yorkshire, and Sean Astin's earnest put-on West Country all complete.

As for the lowest bar, the reason I refuse to recommend Rob Inglis's older unabridged audiobooks as an entry point -- Inglis regularly inserts contractions that aren't in the original text, turning the formal tone of scenes where "cannot" and "will not" are important signifiers into something incongruously conversational. I do not forgive that kind of alteration in a text where the formality level, and the changes between levels, are such an incredibly fundamental part of what's being conveyed. Serkis has already successfully cleared one dialogue point where it would have been easy to change "can not" to "can't" (Pippin talking nearly as fast as hobbitly possible), and I'm very optimistic that he'll continue to hit those marks.

Wow, that got longer than I expected, but I'm *really* enjoying this rendition. Unless it majorly blows up in my face somehow, I fully expect to have a new go-to recommendation for How To Experience LOTR for people who can't get through it by reading the text. (And even for people who can. I've said on many occasions, that book is written to be read aloud.)

#lotr #andy serkis

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