vendredi 26 juin 2015

Century(1993) is on youtube....Charles is Pr Mandry

' Century is a 1993 British film, written and directed by playwright Stephen Poliakoff.
Clive Owen stars as a 19th-century Jewish doctor who, while studying at a research institute, discovers that the authoritative Doctor (played by Charles Dance) is sterilizing innocent women, in order to prevent them from breeding."
 
Century (1993) Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Charles Dance
                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRCgZpnEdY

"....The conflict between Professor Mandry (Charles Dance) and Paul (Clive Owen) lies at the centre of the film, representing different perspectives on scientific progress. Mandry is progressive for his time in some respects - he hires black people and women to work at the institute - and Paul is initially inspired by him. But Paul becomes disillusioned when Mandry fails to acknowledge Felix's (Neil Stuke) potentially important work on insulin.
The main reason for Paul's falling out with Mandry is the discovery that he has performed enforced sterilisations on a number of women in London's slums. Mandry has developed an interest in eugenics, fashionable among 'progressive' thinkers of the period - including H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw - who advocated sterilisation as a means of preventing 'undesirables' from reproducing, thereby promoting a 'superior' race. The parallels with attitudes to the Jews in Hitler's Germany are clear, and the undercurrents of anti-Semitism in Britain are highlighted when Paul's father (Robert Stephens) is driven out of town.
Clara (Miranda Richardson), Paul's lover, is an archetype of the modern woman, fiercely independent, employed and sexually adventurous. By contrast, the institute's elderly patron Mrs. Whitweather (Joan Hickson) represents a continuing strand of classic English eccentricity. She is relatively unperturbed when told of Mandry's sterilisations, but when she discovers that animals are being used for experiments, she closes the institute down. But Paul's success is a mixed blessing: he ends Mandry's experiments, but at the cost of his own opportunities....."

samedi 20 juin 2015

Charles was at the Granada Festival

http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2015/06/charles-will-be-narrator-at.html

"Orchester Wiener Akademie Festival Granada 15 Charles Dance Egmont"
 
 from : https://www.facebook.com/FestivalGranadaOficial?fref=photo
 
with soprano Bernada Bodo
  
'La vida no para a los 35 años'
Charles Dance opened the International Festival of Music and Dance in Granada with a narrated version of the 'Egmont' by Beethoven and Goethe

He has the blue and look sharp there. Of those that do not leave you breathe. He is Charles Dance (Redditch, England, 1948), better known in our country lately as Tywin Lannister, the patriarch of a family of psychopaths who heads the top ten of evil in the HBO series 'Game of Thrones'.

The environment in which we receive has something of 'King's Landing: the Alhambra Palace Hotel' with its neo-Arab taste of the early twentieth century, and views of the city of Granada are the first thing that has seen just down the plane.

He never has stepped on the Moorish palace nor tread for now (when you are reading these lines, it will already be back to London); only Charles V, where last night inaugurated the 64th edition of the International Festival of Music and Dance with a narrated version of Egmont by Beethoven and Goethe, accompanying the Orchester Wiener Akademie and soprano Bernarda Bobro.

He acknowledged that he had not heard of the work or music before facing this challenge that is a second luxury option, as it was announced that the narrator would be John Malkovich (resigned a few days ago due to scheduling). What I knew Charles Dance was the long history of the Granada festival and therefore, apart from the experience of acting in the environment of Renaissance palace, accepted the invitation.
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"This is the best show with orchestra in which I participated as a storyteller ever. It's amazing," he says. It is a music lover and that is precisely the main difficulty facing it: "If you love music, it is very difficult not to be thrilling for her and that's against what I have to fight," he said in an interview with the world.

Pause speaks English and diction of an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was in the mid-70s, before starting to catch on camera. In addition to Game of Thrones, among her biggest success on the small screen is the jewel in the crown, a series of the 80s, when television had not yet lost its innocence. So romantic hero was ... nothing a Lannister can not overcome with time.

"I'm a victim of the British educational system," he says calmly. "My knowledge of Spain it is limited only know Madrid and Barcelona and now I'm in Granada, but I have to go back to London tomorrow," he laments.

Flamenco lover ("It is the greatest art there," he says), has its little story of love with our country: "When I was a teenager, there was a very famous song by Bob Dylan Boots of Spanish Leather was called, so the first time I came to Madrid wanted to have that pair of boots. I recommended a small shop next to the Plaza Mayor and there I took the measures. Six weeks later, he arrived in England a big box with the prettiest boots of the world. That was 25 years ago and still have them. They have been the best I've ever had. The have repaired three times, but I think that can be repaired again. So I need a new pair of boots of Spanish leather. Now I have a reason to return to Madrid ".

"The story of Count Egmont and Beethoven are completely new to me explains. I went to Youtube, I heard the overture and was impressed, it's fantastic," he says. "I think the translation has done as Christopher Hampton's story adds great features exactly what happened."

And what happened is that Lamoral Egmont (1522-1568), general, statesman and Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, lost the favor of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba. He was a cousin of King Philip II, but that did not save him from the clutches of the Duke, who arrested him after the iconoclastic excesses of Antwerp (1566) and ordered his beheading by the Count de Horn on the main square in Brussels, charged with treason. Goethe wrote the play in 1788 and Beethoven music between 1809 and 1810.

"To be the narrator of this story is a great experience for an actor, I would be crazy if I had said no to me, being on stage with 60 musicians is like having an orgasm. It is a chill down my spine" says Dance.

With 40 years he dedicated to the performance but is aware that Tywin Lannister is now, even though the disappearance of his character last season of Game of Thrones has already been replaced by another evil heartless. "It's the nature of business," he says "The actors are like whores;.. Sometimes do a job for a director other by an actor, others for a place, but fame goes as quickly as it arrives Sometimes you're up and other down, "he reflects.

After doing wrong in films like 'The Golden Boy', Eddie Murphy or 'Alien 3', Charles Dance who is also a writer and independent filmmaker admits that he likes to "make films about people; no blockbusters or special effects. Next year I will make a film about the love story of a grandmother and a grandfather. Life does not stop 35, it is just as easy to fall in love at 60, but people do not talk about it. "
 

samedi 13 juin 2015

From an interview of Gemma Arterton...and Ian Beattie

BOXSET
Game of Thrones is completely addictive, even if the acting isn’t great. My favourite character was Charles Dance’s Tywin Lannister, who was so evil but so compelling. Spoiler alert: he’s not my favourite actor in it any more. What a way to go…
actor Ian Beattie, who portrays Meryn(GoT)
When you were on set, was it hard not being spoiled by other actors?
- I was filming a scene with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau last year, and as soon as I had finished, I walked off, and there was Charles Dance. He turned around and he said, "Well, the little bastard finally killed me!" Which basically just gave away the whole end of the season for me. And I had managed to avoid finding out the whole time, until he told me! I'd like to have as good of a surprise as everyone else. [Laughs.]

Charles will be narrator at The International festival music and dance

Charles will narrate the "Egmont" by Beethoven and Goethe : June 19

" John Malkovich , who planned to go to Granada to act as narrator of "Egmont" by Beethoven and Goethe, in the Palace of Charles V on June 19, has canceled his participation in the International Festival of Music and Dance by complications from shooting his new film, wich have altered his schedule, as reported by the organization in a statement.
After the necessary arrangements made, and in order to find a change in the program to keep the expectations of this concert, the Granada Festival has confirmed that the protagonist of "Dangerous Liaisons" is replaced on this occasion by the British Charles Dance, recognized worldwide in recent years by the role played as Tywin Lannister, the relentless patriarch of the very famous series "Game of Thrones."
The change has been possible thanks to the coordination between the Festival of Music and Dance, the director of the Wiener Akademie, Martin Haselböck, and author of the screenplay adaptation of Goethe's work which opens in Granada, Christopher Hampton.
Dance and Malkovich share a solemn and serious countenance, so the British is the best of all possible substitutes for this production, in which the actor tells the work of Goethe with music of Beethoven, releasing the translation of the prestigious screenwriter Christopher Hampton. "
 
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 and in As You Like It, RSC, 1978
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