#branagh

[shakespearenews]

Dame Judi Dench on Shakespeare and Sir Kenneth Branagh

Dame Judi Dench is perhaps our greatest Shakespearean actor. In Channel 4's Shakespeare, My Family and Me, the Oscar winning star turns hist

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  I know many of you will remember Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. But, for me, he will always be Sir Jack Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s version of Henry V (the film that brought me to The Word of Will).   RIP Robbie. “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.”

[detournementsmineurs]

"Mystère à Venise" de Kenneth Branagh - inspiré du roman "La Fête du Potiron" d'Agatha Christie (1971) - septembre 2023.

[taavicleric]

"Though it be not written down, I am an ass," is one of the great jokes.

[ilovekbranagh]

[weremarkable]

Now im really jealous of Gal!

The star-packed trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile dropped Wednesday, offering a first glimpse at the filmmaker’s take on the Agatha Christie murder mystery. Branagh joins Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Annette Bening, Rose Leslie, Russell Brand, Letitia Wright, Tom Bateman, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Sophie Okonedo, and Jennifer Saunders in the film and most can be seen in the nearly two-minute clip.

But there’s another star yet to have its big reveal: the famed 128-carat Tiffany Diamond.

Made famous by Audrey Hepburn in a promo shot for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and last seen by Lady Gaga the night she won an Oscar for writing “Shallow” in A Star is Born, the appearance in the new 20th Century Studios film marks the diamond’s major screen outing. (The diamond appears briefly in a quick shot with Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.) Per a confirmation from the luxe jewelry house, the Tiffany Diamond will be prominently featured at the center of Death on the Nile. It can be seen above on Gadot in a scene with Hammer.

“The Tiffany Diamond is a priceless symbol of the highest standards of virtuosity and craftsmanship at Tiffany, and rarely makes an appearance beyond its vault,” said Reed Krakoff, chief artistic officer. “A central role in the adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic novel is deserving of our priceless diamond’s debut.”

Adapted from Christie’s 1937 work, Death on the Nile casts Branagh as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot on the hunt for a murderer on a river steamboat. There are many stylish sequences featured in the trailer and along with today’s news comes word that other Tiffany designs will be featured in the film on Gadot, Hammer, Mackey and Bening....

[hamletthedane]

lukewarm or room-temp take: Kenneth Branagh's best/most appropriate role (of those I've seen) was as Gilderoy Lockhart. Is he self-aware, or was it just a happy accident?

Anon this is a PIPING HOT COME-AND-GET-IT TAKE if I’ve ever seen one.

I don’t know which is more accurate but either scenario is hilarious. Is he self-aware of his fame and ego?? Was he just playing a role lk created for him?? Is his whole life just method acting as Lockhart??

[genuinely-enthusiastic]

Just saw the trailer for Branagh’s “All Is True” (so postmodern). Could be fun, with the right mindset. As long as it doesn’t claim accuracy, I don’t mind a good Shakespeare fantasy. I mean, we know basically nothing, so there is never any truth bending involved anyway.

But here’s a thing: the age difference between Shakespeare and his wife was 8 years.

Hollywood (or Branagh, I guess): “Nah, for full effect, let’s ramp it up to 26 years. We all know that an age difference is 3.25 times as large when the woman is the older party than when it’s the other way round. Let’s get the oldest active and living female star we can possibly find for this.

My question for you: is this ...

a) reactionary: “a slightly older woman is so monstrous that we need to hit the fact home with a sledgehammer and make it weird”

or b) subversive: “we have here an historic example of a couple with ‘unusual’ age relations, let’s make the most of it by making sure that no one misses this”

Discuss!