Two major new screenplays by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoffmade for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in November2007. A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smithfeature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grandhouse and memories of the past.
In Joe's Palace, the first of two screenplays, StephenPoliakoff explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire(played by Michael Gambon), and the teenage boy he employs to take careof a grand house. This is a lavishly shot contemporary film aboutloneliness and loss. In Capturing Mary, the companion film forBBC2 set in the same exquisite empty house, Poliakoff takes hischaracters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and itspower to capture and destroy a person's life. Dame Maggie Smith playsthe lead role.
Included also is A Real Summer, a glorious companion drama to Capturing Marycharting the development of an unexpected friendship between a youngaristocratic woman and Mary before she enters the dangerous world of MrGraham's house.
Two major new screenplays by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoffmade for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in November2007. A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smithfeature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grandhouse and memories of the past.
In Joe's Palace, the first of two screenplays, StephenPoliakoff explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire(played by Michael Gambon), and the teenage boy he employs to take careof a grand house. This is a lavishly shot contemporary film aboutloneliness and loss. In Capturing Mary, the companion film forBBC2 set in the same exquisite empty house, Poliakoff takes hischaracters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and itspower to capture and destroy a person's life. Dame Maggie Smith playsthe lead role.
Included also is A Real Summer, a glorious companion drama to Capturing Marycharting the development of an unexpected friendship between a youngaristocratic woman and Mary before she enters the dangerous world of MrGraham's house.
'Joe's Palace' and 'Capturing Mar
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780713688115 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 04/23/2008 |
Series: | Screen and Cinema |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.54(d) |