![]() While the Bond films were and are produced with conventional action-film shooting and editing, Furie employed an idiosyncratic approach to filling the wide screen. ![]() Caine played an anti-James Bond, the spy as bespectacled everyman, working in a grimy job with unforgiving bosses. To this day, The Ipcress File remains a textbook demonstration of how the textbook rules can be broken.įurie’s breakthrough film was The Ipcress File two years later, which also made an international star of the British actor Michael Caine. In The Leather Boys in 1963, the kid from Canada delivered a classic of the then popular subgenre of working class tragedies. His reward was a chance to work his way up through the British film industry from low budget horror to rock and roll films to dramas of his own choosing. At the same time, he sold himself as an emerging talent. A Cool Sound from Hell two years later offered a disapproving look at Toronto’s beat generation.įurie worked tirelessly to sell his self-made features to distributors at home and abroad. A Dangerous Age in 1957 was based on his own ill-fated attempt to elope with his girlfriend. Moonlighting from that job, he produced, wrote and directed two of the first English-Canadian features of the current era. He followed that ambition into the nascent CBC television studios, where he soon found himself churning out episodes of a drama series. Although Canada had almost no film industry during the 1930s and ’40s, Furie decided early in life that he wanted to direct films. The story begins in Canada, where Furie was the only child of a Toronto Jewish family. Furie: Life and Films, a lengthy and detailed study that spins fact, commentary and anecdotes galore into a story in itself. Daniel Kremer, a fan, has addressed that neglect in Sidney J. Yet until now, no one has thought to write a book about him. Most people-at least most people of a certain age-have seen his better known films: The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys in Company C. The most influential critics of his time have praised or condemned him. He has worked in Canada, Great Britain and Hollywood, rubbing shoulders with the on-screen stars and the off-screen movers and shakers of the business. Furie has directed 50 or so films over the last 60 years. ![]() Intriguingly the film is helmed by director Josie Rourke who an admirable pedigree in directing women in serious drama with the National Theatre and whose feature film debut was 2018’s Mary Queen of Scots.Sidney J. Nan had a one off special in 2014 which was met with generally positive reaction and The Nan Movie trailer looks as thought its adopted the road movie format. Whilst Steve Coogan’s ‘Alan Partridge Alpha Papa’ was a critical success the same can’t be said for ‘ David Brent : Life on the Road‘ which may have been in part to do with Ricky Gervais writing the film without his Office co-writer Stephen Merchant. ![]() TV sitcom to film adaptations have had a notoriously rocky history even more so for stand alone comic characters. Militant vegan arsonists, raucous rugby teams, all night raves and crazed cops on motorbikes all make for a proper day out. An origin story that mixes Nan’s present with her past where we finally find out what’s made her the cantankerous old b*****d she is today. Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her grandson Jamie (Mathew Horne) to make amends with her estranged sister Nell (Katherine Parkinson). Catherine Tate’s TV series ran from 2004 – 2009 with its most popular characters being school girl Lauren and cantankerous potty mouthed pensioner Nan and its that OAP who is to get the big screen treatment with the release of The Nan Movie trailer ![]()
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