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Over the years, Anthony Hopkins acquired the sort of gravitas that allowed him to slot effortlessly into his stint in the Marvel special effects salt mines, nowadays a rite-of-passage for every actor. And he is perfectly cast as Odin, the one-eyed ruler of Asgard, legendary know-it-all and, in the MCU at least, the father of Hela, Thor and Loki. âIâm a little like Odin myself,â Hopkins said in an interview.
19. Bram Stokerâs Dracula (1992)
Everyone sneers at Keanu Reeves wrestling with his English accent in Francis Ford Coppolaâs lavish vampire fest, while unfairly giving a free pass to Hopkinsâ outrageous hamming as Van Helsing, a Dutch bon vivant who cackles âShe is the devilâs concubine, whey-hey!â and babbles about decapitation over dinner. But the actor is having so much fun it would be churlish to complain.
Nathalie Delon, beguiling French actress noted for Le Samouraï, and a fixture in the gossip columns – obituary
She and her former husband, the star of French film Alain Delon, remained close but their marriage was stormy
With Alain Delon boarding the ocean liner France after their wedding, August 1964
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Nathalie Delon, the actress, who has died aged 79, was a glamorous, quintessentially French beauty who appeared in more than 30 films in the 1960s and 1970s, but was best-known in France for her tempestuous marriage to its leading film star of the era, Alain Delon.
Their first meeting, in a Paris nightclub in 1962, was not propitious. She asked him to stand up so that she could retrieve her handbag, on which he was sitting.
Storyline: Black love, music and all that jazz in the swinging ‘60s
Run time: 114 minutes
Sylvie and Robert fall in love and just as Sylvie is about to tell Robert a life-changing bit of news, he lands a gig in Paris and the lovers part. Five years on, Sylvie is married, has a daughter and is doing well at her dream job at a television studio when she runs into Robert again outside a theatre. Will the lovers get back together? Will life intervene again?
Lovingly photographed by Declan Quinn, the seduction of
Sylvie’s Love is in the lovely clothes, smooth jazz, the shiny cars and that whole aforementioned Shakti Samanta and Gulzar vibe. The cast is gorgeous from Tessa Thompson as Sylvie to NFL’s Nnamdi Asomugha as Robert. Aja Naomi King as Sylvie’s best friend, Mona, has an interesting arc as she grows from party girl to civil rights activist. Eva Longoria shimmies with the best of them as Carmen while Jemima Kirke as the manager of the band, The Countess, gilds the love
Scotland’s weather cost it a place in movie history, it has been revealed. Screen legend Gene Kelly came to Scotland to find a location for the famous musical film, Brigadoon. But it was too wet so it was decided to film on a Hollywood sound stage instead. It is even more ironic given that Kelly’s most iconic role was in the 1952 hit Singin’ in the Rain. A new television programme has uncovered how Scotland missed out on Kelly’s Brigadoon – as well as some other surprising facts about films that have been made in the stunning scenery of the Scottish Highlands and islands over the years.
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BBC Alba documentary Cinema Gadelica to visit film locations used in James Bond and Harry Potter franchises, as well as other famed Highland and Island movie backdrops By Philip Murray
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Updated: 10:21, 21 December 2020
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Glencoe was used as a backdrop for some Highlander scenes. Picture: BBC Alba.
CINEMATIC gems of the Highlands and Islands will be celebrated in a new BBC documentary on Christmas Eve.
BBC Alba has visited the sites of numerous past film locations to celebrate the indelible mark that the Highland landscape has left on global cinema.