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| Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), end of play |
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from line 338, Edmund's: "Yet Edmund was
belov'd./The one the other poisoned for my
sake,/And after slew herself."
here is one link for all the excerpts uploaded of
the Holm "Lear":
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=04AC969F56A0
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Ian Holm ... Lear
Finbar Lynch ... Edmund
Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia
David Burke ... Kent
David Lyon ... Albany
Holm has been acting professionally since joining
the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier
in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this
"Lear".
A. C. Bradley, from "Shakespearean Tragedy", seems
out of touch with our nihilistic views on Lear
today:
..If to the reader, as to the bystanders, that
scene brings one unbroken pain, it is not so with
Lear himself. His shattered mind passes from the
first transports of hope and despair, as he bends
over Cordelia's body and holds the feather to her
lips, into an absolute forgetfulness of the cause
of these transports. This continues so long as he
can converse with Kent; becomes an almost complete
vacancy; and is disturbed only to yield, as his
eyes suddenly fall again on his child's corpse, to
an agony which at once breaks his heart. And,
finally, though he is killed by an agony of pain,
the agony in which he actually dies is one not of
pain but of ecstasy. Suddenly, with a cry
represented in the oldest text by a four-times
repeated 'O,' he exclaims:
Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,
Look there, look there!
These are the last words of Lear. He is sure, at
last, that she lives: and what had he said when he
was still in doubt?
She lives! if it be so,
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
That ever I have felt!
To us, perhaps, the knowledge that he is deceived
may bring a culmination of pain: but, if it brings
only that, I believe we are false to Shakespeare,
and it seems almost beyond question that any actor
is false to the text who does not attempt to
express, in Lear's last accents and gestures and
look, an unbearable joy.
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Affichage : 7382
Durée : 589 s |
| Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), Act 1, scene 1 |
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from end of Regan's speech of love to her father
to Lear's exit at end of scene.
here is one link for all the excerpts uploaded of
the Holm "Lear":
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=04AC969F56A0
0360
Ian Holm ... Lear
Barbara Flynn ... Goneril
Amanda Redman ... Regan
Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia
David Burke ... Kent
Timothy West ... Gloucester
Adrian Irvine ... France
Nicholas R. Bailey ... Burgundy
Holm has been acting professionally since joining
the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier
in 1954.
He was a young 66 when he filmed this "Lear".
from an interview:
Was Lear a difficult role for you?
Difficult physically, because you expend an
enormous amount of energy. But mentally, it is not
a difficult journey compared, say, to Antony in
Antony and Cleopatra. The verse structure helps
you enormously. You get carried along by it.
Back to the beginning of the play: What is Lear's
motivation for the who-loves-me-most contest? Is
he being serious? Is he capricious?
He's all of those things. You're quite right to
take the beginning of the play, because the first
scene is unquestionably pivotal in the action. As
Gloucester says, "All this done upon the gad,"
which means in the instant. You start out with a
nice family meeting. He's removing his crown, he's
going to divide the kingdom among his daughters,
and they're going to play the game. Goneril and
Regan saying, "Oh God, here we go again. Yes, we
love you, we love you, we love you." Then this
silly little shit Cordelia -- forgive me -- says,
"No!" Which sparks an overreaction in Lear.
Suddenly she's out, Kent's banished, and the whole
thing falls apart in five seconds flat. As in so
many of Shakespeare's tragedies, you begin with
this extraordinary impetus that is unstoppable.
Once the wheel starts to go downhill, that's it.
You race through to the end. It's the same with
Macbeth. It's the same with Othello. All these
powerful emotions take over, and you are driven
through. That's back to what I was saying about
Shakepeare. All you have to do as an actor is go
with it and trust him.
Yes, Lear is a capricious, tyrannical, impossible,
lovable human being. He's like all our
grandfathers. He goes through this extraordinary
journey into and out of madness. I think an
interesting thing is that there is no redemption.
By the time he and Cordelia get together it's too
late. She's killed and the tragedy ends horribly.
In real life, 18th-century audiences couldn't cope
with that. They changed the ending and had
Cordelia marrying Edgar and living happily ever
after. It's only comparatively recently that
there's been a reversion to Shakespeare's original
intention.
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Affichage : 40209
Durée : 657 s |
| Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), Act 4+5 bits |
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Act 4, scene 7, line 25-87 - Cordelia with Lear
as he awakes (Arden edition)
Act 5, scene 2, Edgar's "Away, old man, give me
thy hand, away!"
Act 5, scene 3, "No, no, no, no! Come, let's away
to prison"
Ian Holm ... Lear
Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia
David Burke ... Kent
Paul Rhys ... Edgar
Timothy West ... Gloucester
Holm has been acting professionally since joining
the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier
in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this
"Lear".
A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth:
"...already recognized his injustice towards
Cordelia, is secretly blaming himself, and is
endeavouring to do better, the disposition from
which his first error sprang is still unchanged.
And it is precisely the disposition to give rise,
in evil surroundings, to calamities dreadful but
at the same time tragic, because due in some
measure to the person who endures them.
The perception of this connection, if it is not
lost as the play advances, does not at all
diminish our pity for Lear, but it makes it
impossible for us permanently to regard the world
displayed in this tragedy as subject to a mere
arbitrary or malicious power. It makes us feel
that this world is so far at least a rational and
a moral order, that there holds in it the law, not
of proportionate requital, but of strict
connection between act and consequence. It is, so
far, the world of all Shakespeare's tragedies.
But there is another aspect of Lear's story, the
influence of which modifies, in a way quite
different and more peculiar to this tragedy, the
impressions called pessimistic and even this
impression of law.
There is nothing more noble and beautiful in
literature than Shakespeare's exposition of the
effect of suffering in reviving the greatness and
eliciting the sweetness of Lear's nature. The
occasional recurrence, during his madness, of
autocratic impatience or of desire for revenge
serves only to heighten this effect, and the
moments when his insanity becomes merely
infinitely piteous do not weaken it.
The old King who in pleading with his daughters
feels so intensely his own humiliation and their
horrible ingratitude, and who yet, at fourscore
and upward, constrains himself to practise a
self-control and patience so many years disused;
who out of old affection for his Fool, and in
repentance for his injustice to the Fool's beloved
mistress, tolerates incessant and cutting
reminders of his own folly and wrong; in whom the
rage of the storm awakes a power and a poetic
grandeur surpassing even that of Othello's
anguish..."
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Affichage : 10147
Durée : 645 s |
| Sisters on the Planet - Helen (Australia) |
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Climate change affects all of us women, men and
children.
Whether its reduced rainfall in Australia and
Uganda, increasingly severe cyclones in
Bangladesh, or sea level rise and storm surges in
the Pacific, we are all starting to feel the
impact of climate change.
The challenges we face from climate change are so
big, you could be forgiven for not knowing quite
where to start. That is until now.
Watch Helen's story.
Tags : Oxfam Australia climate change sisters on the planet |
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Affichage : 379
Durée : 509 s |
| Pretty Dolly Robson |
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Short fiction film 7mins starring Victoria
Hamilton.
Official Selection GIAA Film Festival,
212 Innovations Awards Finalist.
Official selection Concorde Film Festival
All our grandmothers lived in a world that was so
different from today. It may have been prejudiced
and hard for us to understand but that does not
mean that they should be rubbished. The very old,
even those suffering from senility, still feel
young and can still have a strong spirit. The
fascinating world they inhabited is almost gone
and when they die so will their memories.
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Affichage : 0
Durée : 441 s |
| Persuasion (1995) - PART 1 |
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Jacks and I enjoyed watching this film adaptation
of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". In my opinion, this
version is far superior to other productions. Made
for British television and originally screened by
the BBC in April 1995. The script and the acting
are brilliant, and as a film its quality is very
good. The main actors may look a little bit "old"
at first glance, but they quickly grow on you. I
love Ciarán Hinds.
Starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot, Ciarán Hinds
as Captain Wentworth, Sophie Thompson as Mary
Musgrove, Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot,
Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove, Fiona
Shaw as Mrs. Croft, and Susan Fleetwood as Lady
Russell.
Tags : Persuasion 1995 BBC movie Jane Austen Amanda Root Ciarán Ciaran Hinds |
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Affichage : 70779
Durée : 652 s |
| Persuasion (1995) - PART 2 |
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Jacks and I enjoyed watching this film adaptation
of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". In my opinion, this
version is far superior to other productions. Made
for British television and originally screened by
the BBC in April 1995. The script and the acting
are brilliant, and as a film its quality is very
good. The main actors may look a little bit "old"
at first glance, but they quickly grow on you. I
love Ciarán Hinds.
Starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot, Ciarán Hinds
as Captain Wentworth, Sophie Thompson as Mary
Musgrove, Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot,
Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove, Fiona
Shaw as Mrs. Croft, and Susan Fleetwood as Lady
Russell.
Tags : Persuasion 1995 BBC movie Jane Austen Amanda Root Ciarán Ciaran Hinds |
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Affichage : 33337
Durée : 628 s |
| Persuasion (1995) - PART 3 |
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Jacks and I enjoyed watching this film adaptation
of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". In my opinion, this
version is far superior to other productions. Made
for British television and originally screened by
the BBC in April 1995. The script and the acting
are brilliant, and as a film its quality is very
good. The main actors may look a little bit "old"
at first glance, but they quickly grow on you. I
love Ciarán Hinds.
Starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot, Ciarán Hinds
as Captain Wentworth, Sophie Thompson as Mary
Musgrove, Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot,
Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove, Fiona
Shaw as Mrs. Croft, and Susan Fleetwood as Lady
Russell.
Tags : Persuasion 1995 BBC movie Jane Austen Amanda Root Ciarán Ciaran Hinds |
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Affichage : 37511
Durée : 635 s |
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