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Pollibee Pictures' short film Close, written by Rachel Kidd and directed by Laura Windebank now has a trailer online. The online editor for the film, Nick Timms, has uploaded the trailer to his website, along with clips from the film in his showreel.

All can be found on nicktimms.com

Click on the showreel link to see glimpses of Tom and Rafe, then click on the Close poster to access the film trailer, with more film details. It truly is a brilliant short film.

Programs in the video preview: Accused, Aurelio Zen, Christopher and His Kind, The Crimson Petal and the White, Doctor Who Christmas Special, The First Men in the Moon, Hattie, Lip Service, The Nativity, Outcasts, The Shadow Line, Silk, Single Father, The Song of Lunch, South Riding, Toast, Upstairs Downstairs, When Harvey Met Bob, and Women in Love.

*Note: I put the OBA's names on the same line as the titles of the shows to make it easier to find what you're looking for in this post (you'll know what I mean when you click and view the text).


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ETA: I forgot one: (Downton Abbey is on ITV). Maybe I should make a separate post for ITV. Downton Abbey starring Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens, Rob_James-Collier (okay he's not in the tags, but can we add him?), Brendan Coyle (also not in the tags), Thomas Howes and Jim Carter.

Many thanks to director Laura Windebank, who kindly emailed the Tom Riley website this morning to share some news about a screening of the short film Close, starring Tom Riley and Rafe Spall. She also shared lots of film stills.

"Just to let you know CLOSE will be screening at Ronnie Scott's, Soho on Tuesday 8th Sept as part of a film and music night.

It all kicks off from about 8pm but I'm not sure exactly what time CLOSE will show."

The film stills are fabulous and I have added them to the galleries.

BBC Four are doing a series of programmes on famous comedy figures and well, comedy might have a curse, but is sure has a veritable cornucopia of OBA's!

Peggster.net (the Simon Pegg fansite) have come into possession of a load of exclusive behind the scenes pics from Hot Fuzz courtesy of Simon himself, and this one of Rafe just amuses me far too much:
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Picture the scene: a Creative Writing lecture ... aparrently very dull to everbody except myself ... a lecturer talking in a wicked-cool Scouse accent about a Radio Play he wrote once ... then you hear - 

"The guy doing this cockney accent is a brilliant actor- his name's Rafe Spall"

Me: OMGSQUEALILOVEHIM.
The surrounding people: ... ??

Oh yeah, real-life OBA squee. Just thought I'd share.
And, just so this post doesn't aggravate you all by being really pointless, have a picture of the man in question.


*smouldersmoulder*

This was the cover story of last weekend's Observer Magazine (28 October 2007). Click the pictures for fullsize versions. Higher-res versions can be found in my Scrapbook: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06.

Timothy Spall and his son Rafe are to appear in a new ITV1 adaptation of EM Forster’s A Room with a View.

The pair will appear together for the first time as father and son, with Timothy Spall playing Mr Emerson and Rafe playing George in an adaptation by Andrew Davies, who adapted Bleak House for the BBC. It is being made by IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group.

The cast also includes Laurence Fox as Cecil Vyse, Sinead Cusack as Miss Lavish and Timothy West as Mr Eager.

ITV director of drama Laura Mackie said: "Andrew Davies’ adaptation, as ever, captures the spirit of Forster’s most memorable novel, but delivers it in a fresh, engaging way for a modern audience."

Taken from here.

(Hi. My name is Madeleine...and I'm a movie trailer addict.)

I was sick a few weeks ago and I spent a lot of time on Apple watching movie trailers.

The one I'm looking forward to is The Lookout with Matthew Goode. (And the semi-well known, very awesome American actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.) I've only seen Matthew in movies where he was totally adorable. The Lookout seems to be a bit of a departure from that. To put it mildly. AICN has a review up but, um, you should probably take everything they write there with a grain of salt.

James McAvoy, in his quest to take over the world, is going to be in Starter For 10. I'm not sure how I feel about this recent wave of eighties nostalgia, but his hair makes me go "Awww".

I'm sure most people know about this already, but on the off-chance that you're as poorly informed as I am: Blood and Chocolate with Hugh Dancy. Granted, the movie has a 9% rating on RottenTomatoes but the trailer won't hurt, right?

Hot Fuzz apparently has Rafe Spall and Bill Nighy. And Timothy Dalton. Although I'm pretty sure you'd never know it from the trailer.

Also, if you enjoy pain, you can play "Spot Dominic West!" in the 300 trailer. Excuse me, I have to gauge my eyes out now.

(And, for the record, Matthew Rhys fans can catch him in Brother & Sisters on ABC. The episodes are all available online. You can fastforward through the bits with the other characters.)

Can I just say: Andrew Scott - amazing in The Vertical Hour. I hadn't seen him in anything else but the Royal Court bar (and maybe an episode of My Life in Film with Kris Marshall buried deep inside my memory) before the play but he was really, really good. I can't be easy having to hold your own and be a real stage presence in this Nighy/Moore dominated play but he more than pulls it off.

Also, after rewatching Dracula tonight, I was reminded how much I like Tom Burke. And then there's Rafe Spall and Dan Stevens (whose The Line of Beauty I liked much better upon second viewing) and it just makes so happy and excited about the future of British acting talent. God, I wish I worked in casting!!

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