TV: BBC TWO FILM - THIS LITTLE LIFE
Kate Ashfield, David Morrissey and Peter Mullan star in This Little Life, winner of the prestigious Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award. This Little Life is a film jointly commissioned by BBC Films and the Film Council’s New Cinema Fund for BBC Two.
Directed by Sarah Gavron, winner of the RTS Best New Director Award for her film Losing Touch,This Little Life is the moving story of a premature baby’s fragile existence and a mother’s supreme trust and tragic betrayal.
Luke is born prematurely, weighing only one pound and four ounces. He is too small to be cradled in his mother’s arms but can be held in the palm of her hand. Everything possible is done to keep him alive, but what does her son want and what will medical science allow? Luke’s mother, Sadie, desperately wants him to have a voice and, through her friendship with a young boy, mother and son find a way to talk.
The current show is possibly one of the best I've seen and it's on again tonight and tomorrow at 7.30pm. There is some brilliant acting ...
Standout performances have to be Jamie Laidler in the role of Randle P McMurphy (the character Jack Nicholson plays in the movie version) and Alexis Tuttle as the inimitable Nurse Ratched, but there are also some great portrayals of volunteer crazies Dale Harding, Billy Bibbit and Charles Cheswick by Simon Parkin, Dennis Keighron-Foster and Rohan Shenoy respectively. Even the supporting roles are well executed and, as I've come to expect from this lot, the set is brilliant, the props are amazing and the costumes are really well sourced. Highly recommended.
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STAGE: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
SARAH-CLARE CONLON - Words & Fixtures, Freelance Writer
FILM: HARDY FILM PRODUCTIONS - SCREENINGS
FILM 1: FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
FILM 2: BROKEN
Saturday 29th January saw the private screenings of Hardy Film Productions's double-bill of Forever Hold Your Peace and Broken.
The viewing took place at the Cornerhouse Cinema in the heart of Manchester. Invited guests of cast, crew, friends and family thoroughly enjoyed the two films.
After a short introduction from Producer Lucy Lincoln and Writer/Director Dennis Keighron-Foster the films began.
Forever Hold Your Peace was a film built and devised through improvisation, powerful performances from actresses Alexis Tuttle, Jean Hall and Lila Whelan took the audiences' breath away.
Broken kept the audience on the edge of thier seats and the cinematography wowed them.
Now that the private screening is over, Dennis and Lucy plan to enter the two films into film festivals.
[Hardy Film Productions - www.hardyfilm.co.uk]
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