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Though Queen Victoria was certainly not a party girl, the December release of The Young Victoria , with Emily Blunt as the young queen, has us kiki-ing, carrying on and wanting to share with you some other crowned head-related cinematic cuteness.
Think of classy TV drama over the last decade and chances are you'll think of Stephen Poliakoff; think Perfect Strangers, Gideon's Daughter, The Lost Prince.
Poliakoff: 'Original work takes arrogance'
The director's latest film is set at the beginning of the Second World War, a period inextricably linked with his own family history SUSANNAH IRELAND The enemy within: Stephen Poliakoff's 'Glorious 39' portrays a British elite that was more concerned with appeasing than confronting the Nazis enlarge Take a country house, some beautiful English ...
The dark shadow of history has always loomed over Stephen Poliakoff's dramas. But Glorious 39, set on the eve of war, is bleaker than ever From the very first moments of Glorious 39 , you know that it's a Stephen Poliakoff film.
Stephen Poliakoff: Antisemitism will always be around
As I watch Stephen Poliakoff directing his latest film, on location in a country house in Norfolk, it occurs to me that he, like the actors around him, is playing a role.
Romola Garai stars in Glorious 39
The Atonement actress features alongside Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter, Bill Night, David Tennant and Christoper Lee Stephen Poliakoff The British secret service trailed my father and grandfather all over London in the winter of 1952, even though the whole city was coated in a terrible fog.
Poliakoff attacks 'Kafkaesque' BBC
Award-winning writer Stephen Poliakoff says BBC has gone to 'ludicrous opposite extreme' after deception scandals Stephen Poliakoff: given 'strange lectures about how to make factually based drama' The award-winning screenwriter and director Stephen Poliakoff has hit out at "Kafkaesque committees" at the BBC , saying the corporation is stifling ...
INTERVIEW: Gina McKee on Rattigan at Chichester Festival Theatre
Gina McKee admits she's still exploring all the riches contained in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables which opened on September 10 as Chichester Festival Theatre's final production of Festival 09.
Cross-Continental Buzz: 'Glorious 39'
"Glorious 39" is the bigscreen comeback of Stephen Poliakoff, regarded as one of the finest British TV dramatists of his generation.
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James Macdonald returns to the Almeida to direct the world premiere of Christopher Hamptona TMs new version of Odon von Horvatha TMs Judgment Day.
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