Getty Images released some more views of British actors James Wilby (in costume as Maurice Hall), Hugh Grant (in costume as Clive Durham), Ben Kingsley (as Lasker-Jones, but out of costume), and American film director James Ivory during the filming of ‘Maurice’ (directed by James Ivory), London, England, December 1986. (Photo by Mikki Ansin/Getty Images)
@undinecissy Oooh … thank you for spotting these! <333 The first one – Ben Kingsley in a blouson, leaning on Lasker-Jones’ couch – is just amazing. I love Mikki Ansin’s set photography.
House of Sand and Fog (2003) - dir. Vadim Parelman
I watched this film solely because of the D.P. behind the camera: a mister Roger Deakins. Low and behold I found two not only competent, but downright terrific performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley. I’d even go so far as to say that it is Sir Kingsley’s best performance outside of Sexy Beast (but including Gandhi). The film is melodramatic, but in that terrific middle eastern way where it never even borders on comedy or farce. The film just hits you, again and again, in the same soft fleshy part of your conscience, and there is certainly that moment of doubt instilled in the viewer where you’re no longer sure who to root for.
That’s not to go so far as to say that the film is an all-around knockout, it’s not. Some of the moments are a bit much, and James Horner’s music is more often than I’d like to be found the culprit. One one hand I’m shocked and the other not surprised by the face that most of us have never heard of Vadim Parelman, Perhaps the film could have been even more powerful than it was, but I’d like to think of this not as a fluke, but more of the stars alining just so.
I want a ironstrange Halloween fic where they both dress up as Sherlock Holmes, and then Tony tells Stephen about the time he and Jarvis had matching Sherlock costumes, and then Stephen mentions how Professor X and Magneto dressed up as Watson and Sherlock, and how one time a band of villains (Yon-rogg, Trevor Slattery, Wilson Fisk) just all dressed up as Moriarty, and Zola got sad so he came too. Then I want Tony to mention the time he took Christine Palmer to a science party thing dressed as Sherlock, and then Strange to say he did the same thing.
Getty Images released some more views of British actors James Wilby (in costume as Maurice Hall), Hugh Grant (in costume as Clive Durham), Ben Kingsley (as Lasker-Jones, but out of costume), and American film director James Ivory during the filming of ‘Maurice’ (directed by James Ivory), London, England, December 1986. (Photo by Mikki Ansin/Getty Images)
@undinecissy Oooh … thank you for spotting these! <333 The first one – Ben Kingsley in a blouson, leaning on Lasker-Jones’ couch – is just amazing. I love Mikki Ansin’s set photography.
I knew there was a good reason to take a quick look at Tumblr before breakfast!
