samedi 11 juillet 2015

Charles in the cast of And Then There Were None

"Producers say this is the first time the book has been adapted into a British TV series. The drama is expected to be a centrepiece of the broadcaster’s Christmas schedule this year.
Turner will be part of an illustrious cast that includes Charles Dance, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Anna Maxwell Martin and Toby Stephens.
The three-part series for the BBC ... And Then There Were None would be darker than Christie stalwarts Poirot and Marple and was more like a thriller.....
The story is set in 1939 and sees 10 strangers invited to the isolated Soldier Island, near the Devon coast, by mysterious hosts Mr and Mrs UN Owen, who are absent when they arrive. Each of the guests is accused of a “terrible crime”. After one of them dies, the group realise there may be a murderer among them.
Turner will play Philip Lombard, a mercenary soldier with a murky past who is short on money. . Dance will appear as Justice Lawrence Wargrave, Neill as General John Macarthur and Maxwell Martin as Ethel Rogers....
The drama is expected to be a centrepiece of the broadcaster’s Christmas schedule this year."

vendredi 10 juillet 2015

Charles was at Wimbledon

"Actress Sienna Miller, 12 Years A Slave actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and Game Of Thrones star Charles Dance were among those who joined the Duke of York and the Duchess of Kent in the exclusive Centre Court box to watch the 28-year-old Serb blast his way into the Wimbledon men’s final in a straight-sets win over the Frenchman."
Charles was in the Royal Box for the Djokovic's match.
 

dimanche 28 juin 2015

Charles will be part of National Poetry Day

Andrew Marr, Dominic West and Fiona Shaw will mark National Poetry Day by telling the story of Britain through its poetry on BBC Radio 4.

on 8 October 2015
"Among those joining Marr to read and discuss the poems will be Charles Dance, Harriett Walter, and poets Gillian Clarke, Michael Rosen and Daljit Nagra."

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....."