the {ar}chive

A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes

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1972 - Alan Rickman (center, top) and a blonde-haired Rima Horton (from the back, top, and in the bottom two in front) rehearsing for the play Heimskringla or the Stoned Angels.

According to Mr. Metcalfe, this play was where Alan and Rima first met! :)

Copyright/Provided by © Steven Metcalfe

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Alan Rickman in an amateur dramatic production in Hampstead, 1960s  (Original photos owned by Karen Dawson)

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Alan Rickman with fellow cast members (including Rima Horton on the right) in Babes in the Woods (1974) [x]

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Alan. Filming “Dust”, 2012

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Highlights from the Alan Rickman: Actor & Friend event with Juliet Stevenson, Ruby Wax, and Kirsty Lang Held on Sunday 14 May 2017 at Latymer Upper School

Learn more about the Latymer Upper School Bursaries Appeal 2016/17 and support a bursary in Alan’s name

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Alan Rickman photographed by Nobby Clark for Dusty Hughes’ Commitments (1980) [x]

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Alan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1986) [x]

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Happy Birthday, Alan Rickman! (Feb. 21, 1946 — Jan. 14, 2016)

“No matter who he played, in real life, no one was more generous. I don’t know how many people he supported emotionally and to all his friends who asked for it , he advised advised advised and was always right…  A silent investor in people.  He certainly did with my kids. I’m not going to say goodbye because he’s in all his friends and family - right there just under our skin we hear him, see him and love him more than life itself.” — Ruby Wax on Alan Rickman [x]

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Stuart Craig always kept in mind that his set designs should not only be wondrous or accurate, but they should also enhance and help the actors process. “looking back over what was 10 years of my life, you naturally pick out those moments of satisfaction. One in particular came when Alan Rickman said something to me after playing the scene when Snape dies. I designed the boathouse to be made of glass, so you’re very aware of the surrounding water, and you’re also aware of the school, where the great battle for Hogwarts is burning above you, the light of its fires filtering down to through the glass. So it’s very atmospheric, very romantic place to die. And Alan Rickman’s scene is magnificent. He is an extraordinary Actor. And he said to me afterwards “thank you for the set. It helped.” For Alan Rickman to say that was gratifying.“

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“One year ago today, #alanrickman died. We all know Mister Rickman was an incomparable actor - but for me, he was also an even more incomparable friend. This pic (taken when #Dogma went to #cannes in #1999) is how I like to remember him: his face filled with pure joy. The only way I can figure someone as classy as Alan worked beside characters as ass-y as @jayandsilentbob was through some wrinkle in reality or collapse of common sense. But it was Alan's idea. He treated me, my dopey movie and my dopier friend with more respect than any of us deserved. I was lucky to have been alive at a time when #Rickman was dazzling us all with his craft. I was lucky to have worked with someone that exceptional at what they do. I was lucky to have known him at all. I miss you, Alan.” — Kevin Smith [x]

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Alan Rickman, photographed by Andy Gotts, c. late 1990s-early 2000s Unpublished shot for the “Degrees” exhibition/book [x]

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Thank you for missing me.

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) dir. Anthony Minghella

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“In Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson wrote a line that her character says about Colonel Brandon: ‘He is the kindest and best of men.’ And that was Alan. When we made that movie together, I was 19 and absolutely terrified of everything. And he was terrifying. The first time I met him, he walked onto the hair and makeup bus and he seemed gigantic—just impossibly tall and impossibly intimidating. It actually felt like I was standing underneath this vast architectural structure. But really, he was always a great big softy. If there was one word I could use to really describe Al, it would be kind. My daughter actually had a tiny role in A Little Chaos, and I kept saying to her, ‘When Alan is directing you, you’ve got to just try and not think, “My God, it’s Snape!”’ But she couldn’t do it. She said, ‘Mommy, he was so kind to me, but I just kept thinking, “Snape isn’t that kind!”’ At Al’s memorial, Juliet Stevenson told the story of how whenever Al would go out to supper and anyone else would try and pay, he would somehow have phoned ahead or slipped his credit card ahead of the meal so no one even got a look at the check. He’d just say, ‘I’ve got two words for you: Harry Potter.’ And he became known for doing that. What can you say but ‘thank you’?” — Kate Winslet, Entertainment Weekly (24 Dec. 2016) [x]

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“[H]e was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always – when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we’d have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. And we used to say we’d got to about number 200-and-something and we’d run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.” — Maggie Smith on Alan Rickman [x] 

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Kevin Smith eulogizing Alan Rickman - Hollywood Babble-On #235 - January 15, 2016. His SModcast episode from the following day also features a similar, but much longer (though also much more rambly) tribute starting at 1:01:57.

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Forgive me if you are not living. If you, beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall on my breast. It will rain on my soul all night, all day. My feet will want to march to where you are sleeping. But I shall go on living.

R.I.P. Alan Rickman (21st February 1946 - 14th January 2016)

Words cannot begin to describe how much you will be missed.

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I feel obligated to make some sort of memorial statement today, but honestly it hasn’t really gotten that much easier, even one year later.

One year since we found out what it actually feels like to have your heart cut out with a spoon.

One hell of an astoundingly awful year (for numerous other reasons on top).

But alas, here we are.

I was too shocked to find the words last year, but all I really can and want to say on this day of remembrance is thank you. Thank you for all the beautiful work, for reminding me that it’s okay if I need to take longer to figure my life out, and for just generally inspiring me to be a better human being.