Glinwood worked with Roman Polanski, Jeremy Thomas, Karel Reisz and Terry Jones.
UK industry veteran Terry Glinwood has died aged 82 following complications from surgery for a minor complaint.
Glinwood’s career spanned fifty years as a producer and sales executive during which time he worked closely with some of the European industry’s leading figures.
He entered the business in the 1960s as a production controller working on Roman Polanski films Repulsion and Cul-De-Sac.
In the 1970’s he would work closely with fellow-producers Ned Sherrin and Beryl Vertue and director Bob Kellett on a string of UK comedies including Up Pompeii and The Alf Garnett Saga as well with UK producer John Heyman and Grease and Saturday Night Fever producer Robert Stigwood.
In the same decade Glinwood struck up a fertile collaboration with Rpc boss Jeremy Thomas for whom he would work in a sales and financing capacity on Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor and [link...
UK industry veteran Terry Glinwood has died aged 82 following complications from surgery for a minor complaint.
Glinwood’s career spanned fifty years as a producer and sales executive during which time he worked closely with some of the European industry’s leading figures.
He entered the business in the 1960s as a production controller working on Roman Polanski films Repulsion and Cul-De-Sac.
In the 1970’s he would work closely with fellow-producers Ned Sherrin and Beryl Vertue and director Bob Kellett on a string of UK comedies including Up Pompeii and The Alf Garnett Saga as well with UK producer John Heyman and Grease and Saturday Night Fever producer Robert Stigwood.
In the same decade Glinwood struck up a fertile collaboration with Rpc boss Jeremy Thomas for whom he would work in a sales and financing capacity on Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor and [link...
- 3/9/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A new book claims it will help us figure out marriage, but Chloe Schama says its charm can't hide that any book on the subject is doomed to failure and obviousness.
Catherine Blyth's last book, The Art of Conversation, was offered as a guide to a lost art, a refresher on the do's and don'ts of courteous communication; the electronic age, she said, had made us forget our manners. Do we need a similar primer for married life? Has modern life made us forget the reason that so many of us march down the aisle?
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Power Mom Backlash
Blyth's new book, The Art of Marriage: A Guide to Living Life as Two, doesn't exactly advertise its necessity. Marriage is "an heirloom," "a magnificent social fiction," an "increasingly irrelevant trap," Blyth writes. She quotes centuries-old opinions of a similar ilk, and fleshes out her...
Catherine Blyth's last book, The Art of Conversation, was offered as a guide to a lost art, a refresher on the do's and don'ts of courteous communication; the electronic age, she said, had made us forget our manners. Do we need a similar primer for married life? Has modern life made us forget the reason that so many of us march down the aisle?
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Power Mom Backlash
Blyth's new book, The Art of Marriage: A Guide to Living Life as Two, doesn't exactly advertise its necessity. Marriage is "an heirloom," "a magnificent social fiction," an "increasingly irrelevant trap," Blyth writes. She quotes centuries-old opinions of a similar ilk, and fleshes out her...
- 1/8/2011
- by Chloe Schama
- The Daily Beast
'Jeans' takes top Dutch fest nod
AMSTERDAM -- The children's adventure Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek (Crusade in Jeans), directed by Ben Sombogaart -- nominated for an Oscar for Twin Sisters -- has nabbed the major award of the 27th edition of the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. The jury, headed by helmer Paula van der Oest, gave the production from Kasander Film Co. the Golden Calf for best feature film.
Most awards, however, went to the family-drama Tussenstand (Half Time), directed by Mijke de Jong. The film won best screenplay, best sound and best actress for Elsie de Brauw. Tussenstand, which received its world premiere this summer at the Locarno Film Festival, also received the Dutch Critics' Award.
Peter Greenaway received best screenplay for Nightwatching, a conspiracy-theory investigation involving Rembrandt's painting, The Night Watch. The film, also produced by Kasander Film Company, additionally won the Golden Calf for best production design. The best actor award went to Marcel Hensema for playing the manager of Dutch rock legend Herman Brood in the biopic Wild Romance.
Rutger Hauer was one of the Dutch stars who handed out the prizes during the closing ceremony.
Most awards, however, went to the family-drama Tussenstand (Half Time), directed by Mijke de Jong. The film won best screenplay, best sound and best actress for Elsie de Brauw. Tussenstand, which received its world premiere this summer at the Locarno Film Festival, also received the Dutch Critics' Award.
Peter Greenaway received best screenplay for Nightwatching, a conspiracy-theory investigation involving Rembrandt's painting, The Night Watch. The film, also produced by Kasander Film Company, additionally won the Golden Calf for best production design. The best actor award went to Marcel Hensema for playing the manager of Dutch rock legend Herman Brood in the biopic Wild Romance.
Rutger Hauer was one of the Dutch stars who handed out the prizes during the closing ceremony.
- 10/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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