Displaying items by tag: Film
From Lady Gaga to Britney Spears, We Explore How Successfully Musicians Have Swapped Stage for Screen.
In case you somehow hadn’t heard, the Oscars rolls around this Sunday, and for an actor, there’s no greater recognition for a performance than winning an Academy Award, which has celebrated the year’s best films since 1929.
Candid Caine - A Self Portrait of Michael Caine (1969)
Vintage documentary by London Weekend Television
Apocalypse Eventually Part Two of Two
Apocalypse Eventually Part one of Two
When Francis Ford Coppola sat before the worlds press at Cannes to promote his latest production Apocalypse Now, and uttered the infamous words, ‘My film is not about Vietnam. it IS Vietnam.’
Actor Phil Davis Speaks to ZANI
Essex 1967, the careers officer raises his eye brows at the school boy, as he searches for the right words so he doesn't hurt the kid's feelings, "An actor, that's what you want to do as a job when you leave school? ". The blonde school boy with a small frame and short in height, nods with no enthusiasm. Since he yearned to become an actor, he has grown accustomed to the mocking, a disguise for jealously and envy. His peers recite lines from Shakespeare, which, most of the time, are misquoted. In fact the ridicules have hardened him. As living on a council estate in Essex has made him tough. He knew how to handle the lads,
La Scala -A Great London Landmark
There is nothing I hate more than a majestic piece of history just forgotten, worse still nothing I hate more than history forgotten so soon after it's time. Saturday on Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London is the well known Scala Nightclub, a location popular with upcoming bands and singers and now legendary in the Drum And Bass scene. Since 1999 Scala Nightclub has carved itself a certain reputation in London nightlife. But what is the saddest tale of all is that beneath what you see now, is an infinitely more appealing Scala that for over 10 years became a hub of activity and controversy.
David Mcalmont remembers Film Director Mike Nichols (1931 – 2014)
In the mid eighties at high school in Guyana a friend of mine was reading a Liz Taylor biography. I remember leafing through the glossy black and white photos in the centre and seeing a photograph of Liz looking dishevelled and deranged. I thought she was playing a character called Virginia Woolf because the title attached to the picture was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
