31 марта Бенедикт был замечен в театре на постановке "Суровое испытание" (The Crucible), в которой играют Бен Уиншоу, Сайорса Ронан, Софи Оконедо, Кириан Хайдс и Джим Нортон.
Dave Wischnowsky @wischlist Friend out in NYC snapped a photo of Benedict Cumberbatch (and half of Zach Galifianakis) yesterday.
Scott Feinberg @ScottFeinberg Just ran into Benedict Cumberbatch at the party following the opening night of THE CRUCIBLE on Broadway. Love that guy.
Erik Petersen @fancyfannypack Not only was I at the opening of the crucible tonight, but I was at the adjacent urinal of Benedict Cumberbatch. I may be dead.
Alesha @reytheriveter Here's a thing that is still happening: I am sitting in the same section as Benedict and Sophie as we all watch The Crucible.
Alesha @reytheriveter Here's a thing that happened: Benedict Cumberbatch walked down the aisle of this theatre, sat down, and greeted Sophie when she came later.
Casey @caseydilla03 Liam Neeson and Benedict Cumberbatch just shared a tender embrace feet away from me and I let out an audible groan
Cumberbatch outrageously steals every scene in The Hollow Crown - first look review
The Henry VI trilogy comprises the least loved of Shakespeare’s histories. In the theatre their contorted politics – featuring many characters named after counties and cathedrals – can have the feel of a marathon run in a maze.
The latest instalment of The Hollow Crown – following on from the four plays, culminating in Henry V, which the BBC adapted in 2012 - has tidied the Henry VI plays into two two-hour films. The result, as spied from a press screening this week before the films’ broadcast in early May, is moreishly thrilling – and features a dazzling turn from one of the most talked about actors of our age.
The grand narrative arc of more than a century of dynastic conflict between Yorkists and Lancastrians is brought compellingly into focus by Ben Power’s streamlined adaptation. We rejoin the story with Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) now the nominal monarch but all power vested in his uncle, Henry V’s brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Hugh Bonneville). By the end of the first film, with much blood already spilled, the spectre of hellishness to come looms in the crooked silhouette of the Duke of York’s third son, summoned into the story.
As the young Richard, Benedict Cumberbatch has only supporting player status, before he will have his time in the third film in the new series, Richard III, yet to be previewed. In Henry VI, his part may be small but he outrageously steals every scene he’s in. His Richard, at first an eager-eyed tag-along, is the product of horrors. A silent witness to his little brother’s murder, his bloodlust twists into axe-wielding malevolence the closer he edges to the throne. It is a gripping account of pure psychopathy.
Adding to the sense of menace, he confides his darkest thoughts directly to camera. When at the end of the second film he cradles the new-born son of his brother Edward IV, you know exactly what’s coming next. “I can murder while I smile,” he purrs. It’s from this son of York that Frank Underwood got all his best power moves.
As ever with The Hollow Crown, the cast consists of everyone you’ve ever heard of. Some such as Anton Lesser and Samuel West are to the manor born. It takes slightly longer to get used to Bonneville or Keeley Hawes speaking iambic pentameter. A standout is Sophie Okonedo, who towers as Henry VI’s ferocious French queen Margaret who, Dynasty-style, bitch-slaps Sally Hawkins’s Duchess of Gloucester.
The 2012 instalments of The Hollow Crown were shot by three directors. The saga’s conclusion is all in the hands of debut film director, and theatre old timer, Dominic Cooke. With so much talent on show, he sometimes isn’t sure which way to look, and chops between a formal fixed camera and prowling handheld. There’s even a helmetcam and, briefly, a falconcam.
But he has a theatre native’s deep trust that the best special effects are all in the language.
People will talk of these films’ timeliness as the UK rips itself apart over the Referendum. But for all the fretting over Englishness, The Hollow Crown is finally a study of paternity and kingship. Sturridge’s Henry VI is a peevish teen peacenik with a Christ complex. Geoffrey Streatfield’s Edward IV is a manly roustabout. The stage is set for Cumberbatch’s sinful turn on the throne.
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Benedict Cumberbatch will narrate Marc J Francis and Max Pugh’s feature documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh.
Benedict Cumberbatch is to narrate Walk With Me, a new feature documentary about Zen Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Marc J Francis (Black Gold) and Max Pugh (The Road to Freedom Peak) produce and direct the Speakit Films project, which is now completed and expected to launch later this year.
With unprecedented access during a three-year shooting period, Walk With Me goes deep inside a Zen Buddhist community which practices the art of mindfulness with their famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.
The film was shot at the Plum Village monastery in the Dordogne region of France and in the US.
The footage of the monastic life is paired with Cumberbatch reading from insights from Thich Nhat Hanh’s early journals.
Sherlock star Cumberbatch, who is currently filming Marvel fantasy Doctor Strange, said: “In my life I’ve been so touched by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, it was a great honour to work on Walk With Me. I have no doubt that audiences across the world will be moved by this beautifully crafted film observing the daily life of the monks and nuns who have committed their lives to the art of mindfulness.”
The 90-year-old Buddhist Zen Master, human rights activist, poet and author was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 by Martin Luther King Jr. The Vietnam-born master has more than 1.5m followers on social media.
Co-directors and producers Max Pugh and Marc J Francis said: “Taking our time with the film process has allowed for the chance to develop a cinematic ‘language’ capable of communicating the actual practice of a life lived differently and mindfully. We have worked to create an immersive film to plunge the audience deep into the poetry of the present moment, a feeling so elusive in the reality of the daily grind.
“We are also delighted that Benedict Cumberbatch became involved in the film – his narration adds so much depth to the atmosphere and reflective tone of the film.”
Walk With Me was produced in association with SunnyMarch and executive produced by Speakit’s Nick Francis. Other crew includes sound editing by Anna Bertmark; additional editing by Nicolas Chaudeurge (Still Alice) and Alan Mackay (9/11: The Falling Man); and music by Germaine Franco.
У нас было много диафильмов, но почему-то помню только один. Про Облако. Естественно, что я полезла его искать. Его нет. Может быть пока. Но зато нашла прелестные диафильмы по рассказам Артура Конан Дойля.
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Как сказал гениальнейший писатель современности Нил Гейман, "Интеренет придуман для того, чтобы там постить котиков и Бенедикта Камберэтча". Кажется, и кино придумали для того, чтобы там снялись вместе котик и Бенедикт Камбербэтч. Если верить информации Variety (а как не верить им не хочется), то в новой комедии "Кеану" (Keanu), которая выходит в апреле, кого-то там (или чего-то там) сыграет Бенедикт Камбербэтч. При чём тут котики? А главный герой - котёнок, по имени Кеану.