marthankent:

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can’t recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan

A record breaking number of awards for ‘The Favourite’, the story of Queen Anne

royalcentral:

A record breaking number of awards for ‘The Favourite’, the story of Queen Anne

‘The Favourite’, the film about Queen Anne starring Olivia Colman, has won a record number of prizes at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). The movie focused on the monarch’s powerful female friendships, picked up ten gongs at the ceremony including ‘Best Actress’ for Olivia Colman who plays Anne.

Also honoured was Rachel Weisz who plays Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough in the…

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t-nakia:

Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it 


– Little Women (1994)
dir. Gillian Armstrong

disneyfolk:

Aladdin (1992) dir. Ron Clements, John Musker

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts. This is no ordinary lamp! It once changed the course of a young man’s life; a young man who, like this lamp, was more than what he seemed: a diamond in the rough. Perhaps you would like to hear the tale? It begins on a dark night, where a dark man waits… with a dark purpose.


mcavoy:

At that [rehearsal], Tom saw that the production designer had put a giant lobster tank in the center of the restaurant and that was just a true design choice just to make it seem like a fancy restaurant. As soon as Tom sees it, he goes, ‘Well, I’m going to go in the tank.’

Even if you’re Tom Hardy, you don’t just jump in a lobster tank and call it day. “The designer was like, ‘We didn’t build it for somebody to go in!’” Fleischer says. “And, you know, they were all live lobsters.”

Then improvised direction required the rejiggering of major elements to allow for Eddie/Venom to plunge into and feast, and for Hardy to do it all safely. As anyone who witnessed the The Mask-like spectacle, they pulled off the construction and stunt work under the wire. And the lobsters gobbled up by a Venomized Eddie? Marshmallow crustaceans with chocolate syrup blood.

How the best scene in Venom was improvised