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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostNo-one else in a fever of anticipation about this?
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First 2 eps tonight. One of the most moving, funny, provoking, visually and verbally striking dramas of the last ten years, whose cast list now includes John Malkovich, Sharon Stone and....wait for it....Marilyn Manson. The Devil really is in the detail here.
From series one....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vhwZZjgac
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Caliban View PostAh yes I was referring to The Young Pope - which was a hoot - ....but I suffered from a temporary delusion that Hopkins was in it. Must be conflating Westworld, which I saw around the same time in the same company, with recent publicity for the Netflix production you mention, which I haven’t seen.
Tho the new series The New Pope also appears to have two popes in it
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostTho the new series The New Pope also appears to have two popes in it
I suspect that contributed to my confusion"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostIt's not really worth my while getting excited about it, seeing as I have no means of watching it!
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostNo...The Two Popes (with Hopkins) was an entirely different Netflix production.... the first HBO/Sky Atlantic series was titled The Young Pope - The New Pope is its successor.
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I loved this coupla programmes, but then all catlovers would, wouldn't they....
Buchanan is a very engaging presenter, knowledgeable, affectionate and communicative, and we got as many long, loving lingering shots of the big kitties as we could desire...
Is there a more beautiful animal on the planet? I have a lovely big cuddly-toy Lynx and when I'm at home it goes wherever I go.
I stopped buying Spanish strawberries when I found out that irrigation schemes for strawberry farms were draining water away from Doñana region and threatening the livelihood of the Iberian Lynx, now one of the rarest cats on earth.And the tune ends too soon for us all
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI have enough trouble observing to the teaching of one Pope never mind two.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Caliban View Post[COLOR="#0000FF"]The latter is indirectly one reason I too have been intrigued by this dramatisation, and glad of the level of detail. (I am finding it very well done, including James Norton who I usually find more wooden than the surrounding furniture but who seems somehow right as the strange Stephen Ward with all his socialite veneer).
Norton the best I've seen him. We have Tom Mangold's documentary to look forward to as well.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI loved the quote from Mervyn Griffith-Jones, for the prosecution - "He gave her a pony. That's the sum of £25, not the diminuitive horse".
Norton the best I've seen him. We have Tom Mangold's documentary to look forward to as well.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI loved the quote from Mervyn Griffith-Jones, for the prosecution - "He gave her a pony. That's the sum of £25, not the diminuitive horse".
Norton the best I've seen him. We have Tom Mangold's documentary to look forward to as well."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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I’ve not been as gripped, I’m afraid. I think the performances are fine as far as they go but I can’t quite get over the locations all obviously being not in London. The sandstone and hills give it away as Bristol. It doesn’t quite have the flavour of the seat of power that the story revolves around,
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostMangold's piece in the latest issue of Radio Times is well worth a read. Surprised he's not written a book about the Profumo Affair considering his closeness to the action. The series is one of the best dramas the BBC has done in years and, even though we all know how it ends, it's gripping stuff. James Norton is excellent as is Sophie Cookson but Ellie Bamber as Mandy Rice-Davies has a gift of a role and doesn't disappoint.
The New Pope has indeed proved compelling, a level of scripted, acted, beautifully photographed and directed excellence rarely seen on TV....like a feature film from a classic 60/70s Italian Director.... but they're treading a fine line between creative freedom and wilful, sub-plotting fantasy, perhaps trying a bit too hard to subvert expectation.......
Series One was a very focussed tale, on the Young Pope who is revisionist, but retro-revisionist, insisting on much stricter Catholic Traditions being observed, no matter what the potential alienation...
John Malkovich a screen magnet, just as Jude Law (The Young Pope, still in a coma) was. I hope this doesn't lose itself in the (admittedly riveting) more fantastical storyline tributaries.... excellent theme song though ("Good Time Girl") encapsulating the series' essence in its chaste sensuality....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 23-01-20, 01:38.
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