Hello! I have one very dial-up unfriendly picspam of Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It here at my journal, featuring Adrian Lester, David Oyelowo and Alex Wyndham.

So I was watching an old recording of a documentary today and found this advert nestled among the programme. It's Bryan Dick in an advert for Polo. Enjoy.

Recently I read an article in The McGann Library about how David Morrissey met Paul McGann. Now I am so excited about the directing debut of Mr Morrissey - "Sweet Revenge"! Does anybody know if it is possible to get "Sweet Revenge" on DVD (or VHS - you see how desperate I am... ) ? Would be so great if somebody could help me... PLEASE ;-) I am dying to see this...

Found these sitting on my Documents File and thought I would upload them. I think a few them might be from the [Most Epic} PicSpam I uploaded once, while others are some I uploaded awhile ago but never really had any thought to put them into good use for public viewing. What the hey, I'm bored and felt like oogling at Mr. Weber here. Enjoy the eyecandy! (If any of the pics featured here are not allowed, just lemmie know and I'll remove them).

PREVIEW:


( Moar Behind the Cut... )

I just posted a picspam and links to screencaps of Cold Comfort Farm at my journal.  I just love this movie, and have loved it for many years.  Not many people on my own flist have seen it, but maybe the inhabitants of obasc have since it has some popular OBAs in it (particularly Rufus Sewell, who I know is popular here.  This is the first movie I ever saw him in, so I'm afraid I've always seen his other characters as Seth Starkadder, at least a bit.)  But I thought I would encourage people to give it a try by posting lots of lovely pictures.

So - picspam!  Come and see!

Is Leo Bill an OBA that anyone squees over?  I just watched The Fall for the second time, and I couldn't help adoring him as Charles Darwin.  (What an amazing movie that is.)

I also rented These Foolish Things because of him (which was rather banal, but a pleasant enough diversion for an evening).  Even though his character was rather slimy, I couldn't help thinking he seemed like he (the actor) would be a nice and fun guy to know in real life.

But then, maybe I like him because he reminds me of Lee Ingleby, in that cute-but-awkward boy-next-door kind of persona (not the Hot Heartthrob Leading Man kind of guy who would have a million girls clamoring for his attention.)

Anyway, I intend to seek out more movies with him in them, and rewatch movies where I've overlooked him.  Suggestions?  Is The Living and the Dead just too too depressing?  I'm not sure if I could bear it, though previews look really good.  Maybe it would be more bearable if I had spoilers and knew what to expect.  Usually I can't stand spoilers, but sometimes when a story is really really heartbreaking, the heartbreaking suspense is painful for me.

Edit:  I rewatched Gosford Park to see him, and he's basically just one of the extras, a servant downstairs.  Listening to the audio commentary, Robert Altman pointed out that there are no "extras," but everyone playing every little background part was a highly trained actor.  Leo Bill is one of those.  I just barely caught glimpses of him walking past every now and then, but the camera was never focused on him.

Saw Racine's Phedre at the NT on Tuesday night. My review & comments (about Dominic Cooper ;-) can be found: h e r e.

I have compiled a rather disturbingly long and detailed picspam related to the life and love of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

It's over at my Journal and is The Young Victoria, Victoria & Albert and actual sources heavy :D



A King in everything but name...

I have a very large picspam of Tom Mison as Bingley in Lost In Austen over here at my journal. :)
Plus his adorable little interview from the Behind The Scenes documentary. ♥

[Can we get a tag for him please?]

This... I just spent about fifteen minutes freaking out about. And I'm going to post this, and then go and spend about fifteen more MOAR minutes freaking out about it. It starts in two days, I wish I could go. Ohhhh to be in England now that Spring is here... and all the wonderful wonderful things.... right. To business!

THERE'S A VIDEO AND EVERYTHING!

Enjoy!

If anyone gets to see it, I'd love to hear about it.

Hello. I was hoping someone other than me had noticed the loveliness of Lex Shrapnel, but seemingly not, so I bring you pic spammage to canvass some squee.
( Pic Spam Within )

Dance comes back to the Young Vic stage for the first time since the 1970s, with this ambitious setting of Pictures. Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite provides the inspiration for a collaboration between opera and theatre director Daniel Kramer, choreographer Frauke Requardt and poet James Fenton. The score's 10 vignettes, each inspired by a painting or design by Mussorgsky's artist friend Viktor Hartmann, are here reconfigured as autobiographical snapshots from the composer's life: images of past passions, dreams and nightmares, Russian folklore and religion, evoked through a collage of dance and text. Edward Hogg, previously playing the title role in Kramer's staging of Woyzeck, plays Mussorgsky, while design comes from Richard Hudson and Peter Mumford.

• Young Vic, SE1, Fri to 23 May

Article here

If anyone finds any more info on this could they please post it? That would be so, so wonderful!

Sorting through my old needlework magazines, I came upon a couple of pictures of Obascian interest in an article on costuming at the Globe Theatre ...

( Pics beneath the cut )

You've probably seen at least one or two of these pictures around whenever you google Jake Weber on Google's Image Search, but I actually managed to find a bunch of Hi-Resolution pictures of this Photoshoot, I have no idea what it was used for, from the Blog "Medium Dreams" and smaller variation of the shot of Jake wearing the Leather Jacket on the Corbis Website (Seen Below). They were obviously taken somewhere in during mid or late 90's. Uploaded them on Photobucket, so the resolution has been shrunk down somewhat.

1.) Michael Sheen is on Twitter.
ETA: Whether this is the real Michael Sheen has not been confirmed.
ETA (again): According to Neil Gaiman, THIS is the real Michael Sheen's Twitter... still kind of horrified with the Twitter

2.) Michael Sheen is in the the Twilight sequel. Looks like he is changing teams from werewolf to vampire. And now I have to go see this film...CURSES!

So, back in the day I did a picspam about forearms. This is what you might call a follow-up. With one (entirely justifiable) exception, completely populated by Obscure British Actors, or alumnis.



QUIFF, MY PRETTIES.

Charles Edwards plays Ribadier in the Feydeau farce Where There's a Will directed by Peter Hall, which is nearing the end of its tour. He has a role in Woody Allen's film Whatever Works, according to Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column. The film will premiere at Tribeca.

Hilde, a biopic about the singer Hildegard Knef was released in Germany last month. Dan Stevens stars as David Cameron, Knef's second husband. Dan-centric info about the film is here. It will be screened at the Goëthe-Institut Festival of German films, which will be taking place in several Australian cities. Are there any Aussie OBASC-ers here?
Dan will play Septimus Valentine (oops, Ed Stoppard will be playing Valentine) in a revival of Arcadia, and he will narrate The Music Room on Radio 4 next week. Also, audiobooks due for release include The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (abridged|unabridged), and The Dragon Diary by Dugald A. Steer.

Hugh Bonneville interview about Freezing from the Sydney Morning Herald's The Guide (click the thumbnail for full size). The show also stars Patron Saint Tom and Elizabeth McGovern.


Patron Saint Sam's upcoming work on screen includes the films Schweitzer and Crusades, as well as guest roles in Desperate Romantics (starring Patron Saint Tom) and series 6 of New Tricks. Upcoming performances include a Harold Pinter tribute, a sold out production of Freshwater at the Charleston Festival, and Enron (CFT and Royal Court).
Recently, he took part in a reading of The Uncertainty of the Situation at the Royal Court, and read prose and poetry with the lovely OBFA Hattie Morahan for the BBC Radio 3 program Words and Music.


(updated 13 June)