Deadpan Comedy Sunday Brunches, Bristol
No one uses the word "pan" to describe a face any more but the term "deadpan", originally coined in the 1920s, prevails, as does the belief that comedy is funnier when it's delivered with a straight face. So what better way to digest after stuffing your pan in the cafe (the ticket gets you £1 off) than a masterclass in mirth? Roy Andersson's beautifully staged You, The Living – a sort of Scandinavian sketch show – is followed by two weekends given over to the late, great, hilariously straight Leslie Nielsen, with Airplane! and The Naked Gun, while the Coens' Fargo rounds off the month.
Watershed, Sun to 30 Jan
Amer & Italian Horror, London
Aficionados of the pulp Italian genre known as giallo will be nodding their heads in recognition at new French movie Amer – a striking, stylish new horror that borrows liberally from the likes of Dario Argento,...
No one uses the word "pan" to describe a face any more but the term "deadpan", originally coined in the 1920s, prevails, as does the belief that comedy is funnier when it's delivered with a straight face. So what better way to digest after stuffing your pan in the cafe (the ticket gets you £1 off) than a masterclass in mirth? Roy Andersson's beautifully staged You, The Living – a sort of Scandinavian sketch show – is followed by two weekends given over to the late, great, hilariously straight Leslie Nielsen, with Airplane! and The Naked Gun, while the Coens' Fargo rounds off the month.
Watershed, Sun to 30 Jan
Amer & Italian Horror, London
Aficionados of the pulp Italian genre known as giallo will be nodding their heads in recognition at new French movie Amer – a striking, stylish new horror that borrows liberally from the likes of Dario Argento,...
- 1/8/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Ken Annakin.
I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.
I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner,...
I knew there was something familiar about the name when I read it: "Deborah Annakin-Peters." I had been corresponding with Debby via email for nearly a year after she had started working for Home Video Publicity at Paramount, and handled all my DVD requests. Then one day it struck me. I wrote her a quick email: "Are you, by chance, related to the director Ken Annakin?" I got a quick reply "Sure am. He's my dad!" It just happened that Annakin's most famous film, "The Longest Day," was getting a special edition DVD release from 20th Century Fox in a few weeks. I asked Debby if her father, then in his early 90s, was up to doing an interview. The answer to that question lies in the conversation below.
I was lucky enough to get to know Ken Annakin quite well over the next year or so when my producing partner,...
- 4/30/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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