Alan Cumming: new concert date, fashion video appearance, Richard III audio

Extra show added for Liza and Alan Cumming!

 

From The Village Voice:

Last year in Cherry Grove, Daniel Nardicio presented Alan Cumming and special guest Liza Minnelli in concert, and it became the buzzy event of the whole gay summer.
Those two were pretty delectable together. (And there was that Cabaret connection, so seeing them do a cabaret act made "duh" kind of sense.)
Well, they're coming back as a duo, this time to Town Hall on March 13--a day after Liza's 67th birthday.
And Liza's added a full band, and she and Alan are working on new material so it's not going to be a replica of the Fire Island shows.
The formula totally clicks.
In fact, Nardicio tells me that tickets flew so quickly that he's added a second show for the next night!
And suddenly the sound you hear from certain neighborhoods is "Maybe this time, I'll get tickets. Maybe this time, I'll win...."

Source (including images): The Village Voice



STAGE TUBE: Alan Cumming makes appearance in HAPPY TEARS film
These so called "Happy Tears" shoot through our veins like free flowing dopamine and leave us comfortably cringing. The prints, cuts and materials from this collection are reminiscent of the feeling of coming home and at the same time letting go. This intimately familiar laugh echoes through our memories and seizes us suddenly and unexpectedly - whether we want it to or not. This power is reflected in Zigerli's collection. The harmonic assortment surprises with its practicality, details and colors that make ones pulse race.
Since his first collection, Julian Zigerli has produced new collection videos for every season. In collaboration with new directors for each video, the idea is to use the video as a creative output to translate the concept and idea of a collection on a visual and more experimental level.

The concept behind the collection video was to develop a true cross-border collaboration between not only different artists, but also between different film genres. While staying true to the fashion video essence of creating an intense aesthetic experience, the aim was to be as narrative and cinematic as possible. Testament to this ambition is the stunning cameo of actor Alan Cumming who agreed to back this project and bring his own twist to the look and feel of this beautifully shot short film.

Shot on location and with the kind support of The Empire Hotel New York.
Read more at BroadwayWorld 


Alan Cumming puts meat on the bones of Richard III in upcoming audio release Acclaimed actor delivers the King’s speeches and other Royal Men from Shakespeare.
Close on the heels of the stunning archaeological find of King Richard III’s bones in Leicester, England, the infamous monarch’s speeches from Shakespeare will be released on CD and as a digital download performed by acclaimed stage, screen and television actor Alan Cumming. The recording entitled The Head that Wears a Crown: Speeches for Royal Men was recorded last month in New York City and features Cumming (“The Good Wife”) in the roles of several of Shakespeare’s most famous monarchs and is set for release this Spring 2013 it was announced this week by the producers, GPRrecords.
An accomplished actor, Cumming is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Choice and NY Drama Critics award for his work and has been nominated for Screen Actors’ Guild and Emmy Awards for his supporting role in the acclaimed CBS drama, The Good Wife.
Cumming’s command of Shakespeare was spectacularly demonstrated by the 2012 recording of Macbeth, for which the actor won a 2012 Audiophile Best Voice of the Year award.
The newest audio recording, a compilation of several of the bard’s royal speeches will be released worldwide by GPRrecords through NAXOS. An audio clip of Cumming as Richard III is posted on GPRecords Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GpRrecords?ref=hl.
Source: PRWeb

PJ Barnard: radio interview

PJ Barnard talks with Ross Donald

Ross Donald has a chat with PJ Barnard about his new role in the short film Underdosed. The show features music from the film Trainspotting.

Pj Barnard Talks With Ross Donald. by East Dunbartonshire Radio on Mixcloud

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Source: East Dunbartonshire Radio

Peter Mullan: 'The Joy of Six' trailer and review, new project, 'The Fear' trailer

The Joy of Six
A mixed selection of short films, featuring Judi Dench, Peter Mullan and direction from Romola Garai
Read a review by The List here 


Swedish Sunset Song production
A new film based on one of Scotland’s classic novels will soon be in production – in Sweden. An adaptation of Sunset Song, the book by Mearns novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon, will be filmed next year. Stars will include Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn and Stuart Martin. Location scenes will be shot in the Mearns but most of the technical work on the movie will be done in Sweden.
Read more at Kincardineshire Observer

Another trailer for 'The Fear'
Channel 4's new 4-part drama series The Fear, starring Peter Mullan as a Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur. A promising chronicle of the the disintegration of a criminal mind... Don't miss The Fear Première on Monday, December 3rd | 10pm | on Channel 4
Source: YouTube

PETER MULLAN: PLAYING RICHIE BECKETT

Glaswegian actor and director Peter Mullan is known for his hard man roles in shows such as Red Riding and The Fixer. However there was a much more personal reason for taking on his latest gangster persona for Channel 4’s The Fear.

He says: “What grabbed me about it was that someone with a very dark past and a very shady present should have to come to terms with a disease that has claimed the lives of millions and caused so many families to suffer.

“I have lost a lot of my family to Alzheimer’s. Ritchie is a guy who quite rightly you should not, nor ever should, sympathise with but who will nevertheless demand a certain degree of empathy from the audience. To understand that even bad people get diseases.

“As far as I’m concerned he’s been a pretty bad boy to say the least. Based on his previous actions, you would be more than justified in saying he’s not a pleasant human being. So now he’s been diagnosed, his false persona unravels and you get to see who he is and what is at the heart of him.”

A word of warning. This drama is not for everyone, with violence, gore and bad language. If you don’t flinch from any of those, The Fear is a thought-provoking idea that none of us is immune to Alzheimer’s, not even hard-men gangsters. The challenge for actor Peter Mullan has been to make his character sympathetic. Or has it?

One of our best character actors, Mullan is far from bothered about whether we like Richie Beckett or not.

He says: “I don’t like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. With Richie there is nothing. Nothing at all redeeming.

“I don’t think you would pity him. He’s just too unpleasant to pity. But yeah, there are certain moments when I guess you may not dislike him as much.

“I mean, you’re looking at a guy who has been running a drug empire for years, he has killed people to get to where he is and he wouldn’t think twice, in the past, about the number of lives he has destroyed through the so-called illegal product that he sells. No, I hope the audience wouldn’t pity him because that would lead to sympathy and let him off the hook.”

In the four-part drama stripped across the week, Mullan plays crime boss turned “entrepreneur” Richie, trying to fight off both an attack on his commercial interests and a mind that seems to be disintegrating.

Unbeknown to him, he has a very aggressive form of Alzheimer’s. As Beckett’s dark past becomes apparent, unresolved traumas echo the medical chaos that engulfs him. Says Mullan: “Well, Richie sees himself as a businessman, so called, but he is a gangster in reality, which I suppose some businessmen are, at least in my book anyway!

“He’s recently realised that his behaviour is quite aberrant and through the course of the series he discovers he has Alzheimer’s, which takes hold in a concentrated period of time. It’s extreme.”

“Aberrant” is not the word. In the first five minutes, he vents his anger on a passing cyclist. Mullan shares some of his character’s feelings towards the pedaling fraternity: “I have to say I really don’t like Brighton [where it’s set] cyclists. They cycle too worthily.”

His character though has more of a problem with foreign upstarts. “There is a group of gangsters,” he says, “who have come over from Albania to try to take over his patch.

“His family have, on the one hand, to cope with his increasingly erratic behaviour, but also disguise it at the same time because they don’t want it known to the wider gangster community that he’s no longer in charge of his faculties.”

All of this troubling behaviour puts pressure on his relationship with his wife and two sons. Says Mullan: “He becomes more aggressive, more emotional and in a weird way, paradoxically, more open, more vulnerable than he’s ever been before.

“So in some respects it brings the family closer together but obviously in other respects it rips them apart because his nature is to fight things.

“Instead of coping and finding the support he needs to get through these things, his behaviour becomes more and more violent and unpredictable. That obviously pushes the family away.

“He’s fighting, in this case, the unfightable.”

The Fear, Channel 4, December 3, 9pm.

Source: Express

Two Legged Rat Bastards to be screened at Cleveland Film Festival

Two Legged Rat Bastards is a short film based on the short story by Daniel Wallace (Big Fish) detailing the strange estrangement of an elderly father and his son. Set on a park bench in the present day, Eddie, a cantankerous old alcoholic, attempts to connect with his son Winstead, who's spent the majority of his adult life trying to get away from him. In the course of their conversation Eddie reveals how he lost his leg - in a high stakes poker game 30 years ago - at which point the story flashes back to the game itself, where a young Eddie gambles fiercely against a table full of miscreants in a game where money changes hands and hands change hands, along with eyes, ears, feet and more. In the present day Winstead has a hard time understanding why his father would bet his leg in a poker game, but at the same time he feels like his father is being honest with him for the first time in their lives, and it resonates with him. As we continue flashing back to the big game it's revealed that after Eddie lost his leg, he battled back to win something much more valuable: His son.

Two Legged Rat Bastards stars Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville), Derek Waters (Drunk History, Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Orson Bean (Being John Malkovich, Desperate Housewives), Tony Curran (24, Gladiator), Ron Lynch (The Sarah Silverman Program, American Dad). 

Source: Scott Weintrob

View the film here  

Information about the screening at Cleveland International Film Festival is here 

Here are also old interviews with the stars and director of the film Red Road - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxPhK-c2cck

Thank you to Русико Павлова for the information and links.

Douglas Henshall begins work in The Snipist for Sky Arts

Douglas Henshall began work last week on The Snipist a short, 30 minute film for Sky Arts. Dougie says that it is a ‘great script’ and he is looking forward to working on the film

Source: DouglasHenshall.com

PJ Barnard - Contact

PJ Barnard is currently filming Contact, a Small Production film, in Glasgow.

View the official teaser trailer on YouTube. It will also be showing in the CCA Cinema in Glasgow next month

More videos and photos from the set of 'The Last Word'

There are some brief clips of Ewan McGregor on the set of The Last Word. Be sure to check them out here, here, and here. Shooting is expected to go on in Glasgow until October 16. There are also photos of Ewan McGregor and Eva Green over the weekend at this blog, and photos from the set.

Also, Best of Ewan points us to Anno Domini which is now on YouTube. It's a short film that appeared in theaters in the UK in 1999. Check it out.


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