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Post by MrBunbury on Apr 28, 2017 9:46:05 GMT
Fabulous news!! I am already so looking forward to this that I have invited my sister to come to London and see it. Oooh! If she accepts, is she making the voyage from Australia or Sarajevo or Inverness or Guildford? Turin, a bit less exotic (excluding Guildford) |
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Post by peggs on Apr 28, 2017 19:13:10 GMT
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I feel expensive ticket buying looming, know nothing about the play/film but how can you turn down Cate Blanchett.
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Post by Jon on Apr 28, 2017 19:36:48 GMT
I imagine the combination of Cate and Ivo Van Hove will sell tickets although given the poor reception of Obsession with Jude Law, I'm taking a wait and see approach
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Post by daniel on Apr 28, 2017 19:40:38 GMT
If it's Sonia Friedman it will go to an Atg theatre or a Delfont Mackintosh. Not necessarily - Travesties is at the Apollo currently. That said, wherever it ends up it'll be a smash hit. |
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Post by hal9000 on Apr 28, 2017 23:33:41 GMT
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Post by wickedgrin on Apr 29, 2017 0:05:48 GMT
It's a long film - will it be a long play?
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Post by sherriebythesea on Apr 29, 2017 4:06:13 GMT
After Angels anything under 5 hours total will seem like a walk in the park.
Holy sh*te. Am I going to have to figure out air fare from Boston into ticket price? Bette Davis wasn't the only incredible performance in that movie. All of them (even MM) was spot on. Okay maybe not Hugh Marlowe but he was obviously saving himself up for Earth vs The Flying Saucers.And yes, that film is also in my library. 50's sci fy freak here. Including his Day the Earth Stood Still
Bette Davis wasn't typed as a "beauty" and, in mid career looked older than her years.. And, she was able, at the age of 42 or so, to be able to convey the "almost over the hill" aspects of Margo Channing.
I admire Cate Blanchett so much but she is so frigging beautiful. I would still be able to believe her as Eve Harrington
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Post by boybooshka on Apr 29, 2017 10:43:05 GMT
There isn't words to fully express how damn excited I am for this. Love the film and love Cate, pretty much perfect casting.
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Post by wickedgrin on Apr 29, 2017 12:42:03 GMT
This is going to be an expensive hot ticket!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 16:22:35 GMT
I imagine ticket wise the price and hotness of ticket will bson the same level as Photograph 51 with Nicole in 2015. If not, more expensive.
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Post by Jon on Apr 29, 2017 16:53:00 GMT
I imagine ticket wise the price and hotness of ticket will bson the same level as Photograph 51 with Nicole in 2015. If not, more expensive. You could get £10 ticket for Photograph 51 so I imagine we'll have plenty of £15-20 tickets depending on which theatre it goes to |
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Post by ctas on Apr 30, 2017 8:37:10 GMT
I can't wait to see if Cate Blanchett will do all those awful van Hove dramatic pauses.
Feeling mixed about this, I'm really going off Ivo van Hove
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Post by loureviews on Apr 30, 2017 18:17:46 GMT
I'd love to see this. I thought Hedda Gabler was brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 5:08:48 GMT
i wouldnt say the film is long, 2hrs 20. id say thats quite average.
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Post by alece10 on May 1, 2017 10:33:56 GMT
I am more interested in seeing All About Eve on stage than the star. I am sure I have seen her in a film or two in the past but nothing springs to mind. I think it will be a big seller similar to when Dame Angela Lansbury or Dame Helen Mirren were last in London on the stage.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 13:50:45 GMT
Watched the film for the first time ever this afternoon. I enjoyed it. Don't see it screaming to be put on stage though. I guess there most be a shortage of actual plays in the world. That or laziness
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Post by duncan on May 1, 2017 14:02:52 GMT
I am more interested in seeing All About Eve on stage than the star. I am sure I have seen her in a film or two in the past but nothing springs to mind. I think it will be a big seller similar to when Dame Angela Lansbury or Dame Helen Mirren were last in London on the stage. I'm not a fan of Blanchet, she's one of those actors who sets my teeth on edge - a female version of David Tennant if you like. They have their fans but to me when watching them on screen I see every tick and every mannerism as being exceptionally laboured and, well, to be blunt "acted", I don't find her natural at all.
Maybe she is better on the stage but I'm just not that interested in finding out.
Great film though, if they could get George Sanders involved then I'm in.
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Post by Steve on May 2, 2017 11:58:47 GMT
I can't wait to see if Cate Blanchett will do all those awful van Hove dramatic pauses. Feeling mixed about this, I'm really going off Ivo van Hove Cate Blanchett has a thing for pauses and the avant-garde. That Boho Strauss "Big and Small" show that she brought to the Barbican, from the Sydney Theatre company that she runs, was very experimental. Who did she hire to translate it, after all? Martin Crimp of the Republic of Experimental Theatre. And who did she hire to direct, Benedict Andrews, who turned Three Sisters into a game of musical chairs, with tables and chairs being removed from underneath the actors every time the music stopped, which worked for me, but not others. And what was the action? An alienating landscape of selfishness where one decent woman experiences one rejection after another, pause to suffer, and on to the next. The whole thing had me weeping, but audience members all around were moaning and groaning after that one, as it wasn't the engaging piece of entertainment they'd hoped for. So if I see the names Ivo Van Hove and Cate Blanchett, I'm thinking experimental theatre. Then again, if I see the name Sonia Friedman, I'm thinking happy audiences, so maybe this will be "A View from the Bridge" rather than "Obsession." But you never know. I can't wait, either way. |
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 12:03:00 GMT
I know this is an unfair reaction, but this project sounds a bit like the outcome of a wine-fuelled session of Fantasy Producer.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 12:08:30 GMT
I know this is an unfair reaction, but this project sounds a bit like the outcome of a wine-fuelled session of Fantasy Producer. If that's the case then I encourage more wine-fuelled sessions of Fantasy Producer. |
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Post by boybooshka on May 2, 2017 12:38:17 GMT
I am more interested in seeing All About Eve on stage than the star. I am sure I have seen her in a film or two in the past but nothing springs to mind. I think it will be a big seller similar to when Dame Angela Lansbury or Dame Helen Mirren were last in London on the stage.
Great film though, if they could get George Sanders involved then I'm in.
Presumably a joke? he died 45 years ago. As Van Hove cast the dead before? i suppose it would count as avant-garde  |
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Post by schuttep on May 3, 2017 9:48:09 GMT
As Van Hove cast the dead before? I believe so; they're just still breathing. |
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