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Wolf Hall
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:20 am
by dpedin
So sad to see it finish, every Sunday I sat down with a large G&T and became engrossed in it. An hour of almost perfect TV - novels were brilliant, series wonderfully written, produced and acted - it was top class TV from the BBC. Now all I have is crap Xmas US movies and shitty comedy specials for the next few weeks interspersed by the odd good movie.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:02 pm
by Gumboot
Terrific telly.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:48 pm
by Biffer
dpedin wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:20 am
So sad to see it finish, every Sunday I sat down with a large G&T and became engrossed in it. An hour of almost perfect TV - novels were brilliant, series wonderfully written, produced and acted - it was top class TV from the BBC. Now all I have is crap Xmas US movies and shitty comedy specials for the next few weeks interspersed by the odd good movie.
There's the Mortimer and Whitehouse gone fishing xmas special and a new Wallace and Gromit film.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:29 pm
by Uncle fester
Haven't seen any of it but it's an interesting period of history so looking forward to catching it up.
Mark Rylance a bit GOATy in it I gather?
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:24 am
by dpedin
Ooooh - I've just noticed that Jaques Tati film, 'Jour de Fete' is on Talking TV this afternoon! I am slightly happier.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:01 am
by Mahoney
It's excellent, and Rylance is a brilliant actor, but he just seems to me desperately miscast as Mantel's Cromwell. A major part of his character is that he was a bruiser, and you sense, could be again; people are physically intimidated by him as well as afraid of him as a political operator. And he's bluff, engaging company, an enjoyer of life. I didn't get any of that from Rylance; it's all soulfulness and stress and vulnerability.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:02 am
by TedMaul
Just getting a little old. He was quite a bruiser in Jerusalem….
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:21 am
by Torquemada 1420
dpedin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:24 am
Ooooh - I've just noticed that Jaques Tati film, 'Jour de Fete' is on Talking TV this afternoon! I am slightly happier.
Mon Oncle and (my favourite) Les Vacances.... are hilarious. The tennis scene
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:18 am
by dpedin
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:21 am
dpedin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:24 am
Ooooh - I've just noticed that Jaques Tati film, 'Jour de Fete' is on Talking TV this afternoon! I am slightly happier.
Mon Oncle and (my favourite) Les Vacances.... are hilarious. The tennis scene
I remember being dragged screaming and shouting into what I thought was going to be an arty farty film by an ex girlfriend who studied French at Uni in the early 1980's. I wanted to go to the pub but also wanted her to stay sweet so went to watch the film in some small snobby pretentious Uni theatre in St Andrews. It was Jaques Tati Les Vacances and I have never laughed so much. Now have a lifelong love of Tati who was one of the most influential film makers of his day. Brilliant.
Re: Wolf Hall
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:42 pm
by Torquemada 1420
dpedin wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:18 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:21 am
dpedin wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:24 am
Ooooh - I've just noticed that Jaques Tati film, 'Jour de Fete' is on Talking TV this afternoon! I am slightly happier.
Mon Oncle and (my favourite) Les Vacances.... are hilarious. The tennis scene
I remember being dragged screaming and shouting into what I thought was going to be an arty farty film by an ex girlfriend who studied French at Uni in the early 1980's. I wanted to go to the pub but also wanted her to stay sweet so went to watch the film in some small snobby pretentious Uni theatre in St Andrews. It was Jaques Tati Les Vacances and I have never laughed so much. Now have a lifelong love of Tati who was one of the most influential film makers of his day. Brilliant.