Yeah, I'm with ALFAN, I am sick of waiting!!

UGH.

Miriam

Dirty, rotten rackafratz! Watch the trailer! (If you're interested and hadn't already noticed yourself, that is )

Well, that didn't work. Here's the link to the large version:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/aradmirer/OrgyScene.jpg

but it might be better to watch the trailer and pause it.

It has been said that the end of Perfume . . . the orgy scene . . . has been changed and toned down to some kind

of hug-fest (or something) but in the trailer:

I see a whole lot of nekkid people down there! I mean a lot of them are as naked as a Jaybird!

A bunch of bare butts! (Sorry it's a bad copy.)

Oh right it's just that BBC4 is a tv station so I got all excited about something new!LOL

I wouldn't expect you to know that Radio4 and BBC4 are different, I don't think everybody in Britain does!!

4:30 UK time means 5:30 here if I am not mistaken

Sorry, Sue, I should have been more explicit: The BBC Radio 4 Film Programme interview tomorrow.

Carolyn, what BBC4 programme is that??

I don't know if anyone knew this, (I just found out) but the BBC 4 programme interview was taped a few weeks ago.

I love this picture at the German photocall:

Hello everyone!

Carolyn, thanx a lot for the pics!

Here is something mentioning Alan

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/448029p-377185c.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/31/dambusters_remake/

Good luck!   


 

I sooooooooooo mean this with love and affection but

ENOUGH WITH THE DARN FILM FESTIVALS, RELEASE THE DAMN MOVIE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. AKA---ME

Ok, i feel better now.

According to Reuters.com, "Snow Cake" is going to be shown at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Sept.14-23) on September 16 @ 7PM at the Oxford Theatre. Tickets are $15.

Here are a couple of shots from the Perfume set.       

Thanks Daydreamer and a big hallo - we haven't heard from you for ages

Re: The Perfume

I don't know whether we have the trailer somewhere "stored" in English (I have not and I do not know how to do it), but I've just found it on a French site (English version):

http://www.rachelhurd-wood.net/FR/videos_files/perfume_trailer_UK.php

Hey girls ! I'm back from my holidays in the south of France but on Friday, I'll go to Deauville for the the American Film Festival

INTJ : You're soo lucky to have seen him ! Thanks for the  pics !

Sue : Thank you for the SC pics ! Especially the one in which he laughs mmm

Becky : Thanks for the caps of the ZDF video !

Welcome to the new members !

Sorry Claudia, I'm late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best wishes for you Great pic Elaine

It's all about sacrifice for the cause, Chris!

Sorry 'bout that! I'll get them back in a minute!

Here are some photos from the "Perfume" press conference I hadn't seen before. Enjoy!

See, the thing about the gif is this: Notice how he raises his head as he speaks and then it suddenly goes down again? When it goes down is when I used the frames backwards to get his arm back up to the beginning without it being too jumpy . . . so that part is decieving. Whatever he said made Ben Whitshaw laugh and seemed to surprise him . . . it would be great to hear the whole conversation.

Homework Assignment: Study in detail his every lip movement in every film he's ever made and every recorded interview, looking for similar lip movements, to figure out those 3 or 4 words! Yeah! That's it!

To anyone who is interested (I know I was lol) I was looking around my local Vue Cinema website and found a link for UK Cinema Listings Coming Soon and Snow Cake is there!! So maybe we will see it in all cinemas after all

If it works the link to that particular site is here http://www.britinfo.net/cinema/coming-soon.htm

Sorry but I dont know how to shorten it!

ARdent, the gif is awesome, thanks!

Hmm... let's give a try to lip-reading.

'Hehehehe... we have to put (?) *mumble*mumble*... hehehehe'

The clip IS wonderful. Now who here can read lips to see what he is saying???

Hikity, I'm not certain but I think if the F**K word appears in a film it is generally a 15 and not a 12. (Which is silly because most of the 12 year olds I know can swear like troopers!!! )

O/T For Bill Nighy fans a new 4 part serial is playing on Radio 4 (11.30am BST) as we speak. A Charles Paris Mystery about an alcoholic actor cum sleuth. I shall catch up with is later on the listen again service.

Oh, ARdent!!!  You are DA BOMB!!!! 

Thanks so much for the lovely gif!!  I'd give anything to know what he's saying......any lip-readers out there? 

Just another example of all the great and generous fans at this site.  Thanks again!

Alan?   Are you saying the really cute Alan-Photo (mussed hair and all) is from the Mar del Plata Film Festival? 

Thanks much!

ARdent,  I love that little clip.  The smile and laugh is great.

Miriam

Vicki - you said this would make a nice gif?

Sorry it's narrow. The full width one wouldn't fit in Photobucket except in a smaller form.

Waves back to CatsPlay.

Lately I was very busy about my moving back from Madison to cursed forbidden Czech Republic...

 But!!! Thanks for everything especially INTJ, Sue, Claudia...all of you! INTJ your little adventure had to be wonderful!!!And I agree about autograms.

 But now there is our big fortunate, someone who gives us so much and helps us with so much things...

          Happy Birthday Claudia

you merit everything you want!!!

I can just say - be happy as much as you can...

And be sure that you do a big piece of work for us!!!

     Feel like a star because you are our star!!!

sue, dear, thanks for that link. Interesting, SC from 15 years onwards?? for what? Here most probably from 6 years...(considering that Perfume is from 12). At least we won't have kids in the cinema on Tuesday!

It's nice to know that are some ex pat Alan Fans around. Hiya Roxysue and Sarah. I'm not in Hull I'm about 20 miles away on the coast. Manchester is aloooooooong way a way from here, well just to go to the pictures it is even if it is Alan.

Ummm.. that would be HERE

Empireonline gives Snowcake 4* which is good for them!!

For UK'ers looking for places to see Snowcake I have another link HRTR and there is a Q&A with Marc Evans and Angela Pell on the Sunday 10th September showing. Corner house is in Manchester:

Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH. Box Office: +44 (0)161 200 1500

Hey Alanfan..... I used to live in Hull til last November! I'm in Rotherham now. The nearest cinema to us is Vue in Meadowhall but as I said, no mention at all there! I will be most unimpressed if it doesnt get here

Happy birthday, Claudia - sorry I'm a bit late...

You have probably read this already guys - but Timesonline has something on Weaver and Snow Cake...

Take care!

Some people must be desperate

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120025737505&ssPageName=ADME:B:SSE:1

Unfortunately, I am not able to post at Suzanne's any longer due to my computer's pop-up problems. In case someone is posting over there on a regular basis: If someone posts links to photos (e.g. mwbashful18 or Julia) it would be highly appreciated to credit those who did the work. Thank you

Hi!!

Thanks Barbara!

I hope that you should dream with the red carpets and these always clean shoes! jajajaja.

I understand that you can´t vote don´t worry! It is only for if someone understands and can do it.

If they given me the forum I tell you!   ??

Thank you!! = Gracias!!

Kisees! = Besos!

 Sorry for the delay!!CLAUDIAAAAAAA!!! GOOD DAY BABY!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

+Marta+

SORRY !! Haven't posted in a while --- been on hols etc. Had 12 pages to catch up ! You've all been amazingly busy !!

   Firstly and belatedly many birthday wishes to Claudia Cheers ! You do an amazing job and this site is the best in the world !

   Thanx to INTJ for the report on Edinburgh, sounds great !

    Unfortunately having been out of the picture lately I missed out on tickets for the charity screening of Snowcake and the Q & A with OoOA on the 5th. I knew it would sell out really fast , so am very envious of Sue, Hikity, Peekabooh, Elaine and anyone else who is going ! Look forward very much to hearing all about it you lucky things !

      I really hope Snowcake goes on general release. It looks absolutely fascinating and I can't wait to see it .

   Hopefully 2007 will be an AR year for me because due to circumstances beyond my control I have missed AR at Reading, London , Edinburgh and now Hampstead !

         BTW Alanfan I used to live in Grimsby and Cleethorpes  and I know what you mean by a lack of cinemas or any other entertainment for that matter !!!!

I'm disappointed that Snow Cake might not get to cinemas in general. Is there a way of contacting the distributor's and finding out just which cinemas are going to be allowed to get the film or if it's going to have a DVD release like Blow Dry did? The nearest big cinema to me is in Hull so there is very little chance of it coming up here

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY CLAUDIA!!!!

*waves to Helen*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDIA!!!

I lurk on a daily basis and love your site. Thanks for all you do!

Happy Birthday Claudia!

Hope you have a wonderful, great, amazing, fabulous, gorgeous day!

You deserve it!

Happy Birthday, Claudia!

Happy Birthday Claudia. Enjoy your special day. I hope all your´re wishes will be come true.

Happy Birthday Claudia

Hope you have a wonderful day and many AR dreams in the year to come.

Love GG and Totally Smitten.

Hello!!

My name is Marta and  I write this message becouse I need that you help me for this..
Everybody knows that Mr Rickman is the best except  the Univision.com´s people. I wrote asking for Alan Rickman Forum and I need your votes. This web is very important.

Please vote here!

http://foro.univision.com/univision/board/message?board.id=499099623&message.id=1169493

Thanks for your time!

Marta

What? Claudia's having a birthday?

“There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.”

!!HAVE A GREAT TIME!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CLAUDIA!


And thank you for everything!

Hope I am not the last to wish you a happy birthday!!!! Thanks so much for all the great stuff all of you keep posting. Gee I sure hope Snow Cake is out to the general public. The stars are big enough!! What do they want blood??? Can't wait for it to get to the states. Wish I had some of the contacts you all do, but through your kindness, I do!! Thanks again , all your hard work is greatly appreciated. I just love to get on this site and see how nice everyone is to each other, I always have a good laugh and leave the site smiling and with a few of AR's pictures in hand, LOL Keep um coming. Thanks for making my day a little bit brighter!

Elaine, go! I don't let you drum off...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLAUDIA!
I hope you enjoy your special day with family and friends!

     

Blimey! NO! We would have to ceremonially drum you off the Board if you did!!

BTW, forgot to thank you, sue, for the link to the Watershed. I just happen to have to be in Bristol over the time it is showing. Can't waste the opportunity, can I?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDIA

WE LOVE YOU AND THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US!!!

Sarah, I don't think Snowcake is the kind of film that's going to make all the Muliplexes. Every Thursday the London Evening Standard reviews all th films released that week but many never appear to get into the local cinemas. Blow Dry is a prime example, it had about a week in a couple of London cinemas then completely disappeared. If it gets good reviews it might get out to the suburbs but if not you'll have to probaby look for more specialist cinemas and they are few and far between. My local Odeon has no mention of it in coming soon and yet it has a single showing of the  Richard E Grant film Wah-Wah next week and that was released some weeks ago, so maybe Snowcake will get some kinf of release. Actually just googling most of my local cinemas, very few of them have a coming soon list so maybe they just wait and see at the last moment what looks like it might do well?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDIA!

Happy Birthday, Claudia!

 Many happy years to come!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAUDIA

Happy birthday Claudia!

      Happy Birthday  

              Claudia!!!

There are stories in the following about MNIRC...nothing new, just mentioning of Megan Dodds doing the role and the usual background about the play:

www.nytimes.com (arts section)

www.playbill.com

www.theatermania.com

Dear Claudia, best wishes from Germany 

A wonderfull Birthday for a wonderfull woman

Buon Compleanno, Claudia!!!

Wishing you a wonderful birthday, Claudia!  May all your wishes come true!

I have been to the cinema a few times over the past few weeks and no one seems to know anything about Snow Cake coming out?? I know its due 8th Sept but the staff have never heard of it! I have seen a trailer for Perfume when I went to see a film called Hard Candy but nothing for Snow Cake! Does anyone know if it is coming to ALL cinemas or just a select few??

And a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Claudia!!! Thanx for all the work you have done for us with this site. Its been a lifeline for me!

Claudia



Have a wonderful day!

 Dear Claudia, I wish you a wonderful birthday. May you most secret wishes come true!

Haere Mai from New Zealand Claudia and very warm wishes for a Happy Birthday. Sorry I haven't got dancing girls and sparkling wine icons. Thanks for all the great work you do for us. Cheers!

Happy Birthday, dear Claudia!!!! Wish you only the best from my heart!

 , for our mom!

This cake is for you 

Have a glorious day!!!!!!   

Yulia

Claudia - Happiest birthday wishes to the BEST webmistress of the BEST fansite on the entire web!  May your special day be covered in chocolate-y, Alan-y goodness!

Sorry to be so late this evening.  My sisters and I have been working on a 70th birthday celebration for our Daddy.  We only have a week left before we leave for Wild and Wonderful West Virginia to see him.  So time will be very limited for me for the next week but I'll pop in as much as I can.

Thank you so much for the clever birthday wishes!  We have so many talented people!

Elaine, the card is soooo cute.  I stil have last year's too!  My goodness....AR wishing me a happy birthday. That's enough to make a girl faint!  Thank you! 

Thanks to you too, Miriam and Nahima!

Carolyn!  That sounds like an AR kind of day!  Thanks!

Alfan, your song lyrics are adorable!  AR = "boy toy" 

Now I am off for some sweet AR dreams!

Happy Birthday, Claudia!!  Thanks for all that you do!!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Claudia

Happy Birthday to you

You have made us real happy

Content and full of joy

By providing us with a page

Dedicated to our boy toy

With friends from Germany

And also, London and LA

From four corners of the world

Who will join us today

Best wishes on this

Very special day

If Alan were here

What would he say

Could it be something like

Hmmm, lets pretend

"I come to issue an invitation"

"you 10:30, and bring a friend"

So, I think i speak

For almost all of us here

That you Claudia

To us are so dear.

Ok, im tired but not to tired to wish you Claudia a

Happy Birthday

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLAUDIA!!!

                          May You Have An...

AmazingLovingAffectionateNice

RemarkableIncredibleCaringKindMemorableAwesomeNotable

                                  Birthday!

Happy Birthday, dear Claudia!

Hope you enjoy your special day to the maximum, many congratulations!

Should be this:

Well, it's the 28th here, so just time before I go to bed to wish our Claudia the best BIRTHDAY ever!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/snapesoul/Claudiabirthday06.jpg" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting">

Hey, best pal, I'll have a glass for you!

Hi there

I've just watched the report about The Perfume. AR's scene was seconds and the one we all know (sitting opposite of his daughter telling her how endangered her life is now). The synthesis of the report: those who love the book should NOT see the film (the reason being the "new" character of Grenouille(, those who love opulent cinema, costumes and TT's cinematic qualities should see the film by all means...(btw: it's the most expensive German film every directed)

now you can decide what to do  

Sue, DW-tv is the German equivalent to BBC World Service. I think it's mainly news, which could mean that they might mention something after the day of the premiere, but I don't have the slightest idea whether they actually would. I wouldn't be too astonished if they considered film premieres as too trivial.

 That would be HERE

Some dates of Snowcake showing in Bristol which may be of interest to our West Country readers

Snow Cake

Whilst delving in the lower reaches of Sky today looking for something else I came upon a German speaking channel called DWtv. Is this something you know of in Germany and if so, is it worth looking for Parfum stuff on??

News article will be coming on www.variety.com re: Megan Dodds & MNIRC. It's not up yet, though...only came through about an hour ago.

@ INTJ

Thank you for uploading the file to yousendit! Now the download works without problems.

*smooches*

Claudia

There'll be an article on www.broadway.com about MNIRC (I received an email). Megan Dodds will be playing the role Mon-Fri. and on Sat&Sun, it will be played by Bree Elrod.

Chalebh,

Oh, yes, I would have to think those are the costumes that will be on display.  It must be a traveling exhibition.

I've noticed that YouSendit is now requiring login for files of a certain size.  It is free to setup an account, and you should be able to download them once you do so, and then login.

Thank you Chalebh, sue, CatsPlay and others for all the stuff!

Now please anyone tell me something about this pic

  I've got it long ago, but I still do not know where it is from and how old Alan is here. I just absolutely love it! Probably it's even new for someone.

And of course something new about My Name is Rachel Corrie  http://www.pressrepublican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/NEWS/608270327 

Good luck!

Thanks, Chalebh, and yes I have problems, too, the video stops and I can hear the voices only

Good morning,

I'll try to capture the TTT programm with my computer. And if there's something interesting (i. e. AR) in it, I'll upload it.

Btw: Is it only I who has problems with CatsPlay's uploads. With Nos. 2 and 3 Yousendit requests a password.

And the costumes might be these

Have a nice day

Chalebh

Thanks, Rickimam - at the moment there is everyday sth about Perfume on TV and soon I know it by heart

You're welcome bluebeatbabe.  I enjoyed the article, too. 

From the Sunday Times (UK) wrap-up of the Edinburgh Fest ...

Most unlikely drinking buddies

Alan “Truly Madly Deeply” Rickman, Brian “Scarface” De Palma and Steve “I Am Alan Partridge” Coogan. It should be an episode of Ricky Gervais’s Extras.

You can listen to 30 second clips of all the tracks from the Parfum soundtrack HERE.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Winterthur_Museum-Fashion-exhibit.html

Fashion in Film Exhibition at the Winterthur Museum

Winterthur, DE - Period costumes created for film adaptations of classic novels—and elegantly worn by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep, Madonna, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, and Ralph Fiennes—will be on display in Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen, on view at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate from September 30, 2006 to January 7, 2007.

....Sense and Sensibility (costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman) ....

Hey ladies

I`m new here and I just want to say that I love this site. I`m an AR fan since ten years and i´m glad to find a site with all these pics and clips. Thanks for share all these stuff.

Greetings from Zurich

sorry, my English is f...... bad.

@ Hikity, did you search for that?

http://www.daserste.de/kultur/sendung.asp?datum=27.08.2006

Thank you for the Tagesthemen clip, Catsplay. I only had managed to download the entire news show.

Thanks, Hikity!

Catsplay, they are famous German actors and actresses and they all praise SC (and AR and SW). FYI, ZDF (=Second German Television) (and the ARD channels for that matter  are our independent broadcasters.

If anyone cares, the six minute trailer that was removed from the Fortissimo site is now available on Outnow.ch

Looking around on the ZDF site this morning I came across this 12+ minute video which I think says is from the Snow Cake after party at the Berlinale.  No sign of SW or AR, but a lot of people are interviewed.  I believe they are all speaking in German.  I can't tell whether they are really talking predominantly about Snow Cake or not.

http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/27/0,4070,3893883-6-wm_dsl,00.html

INTJ and Catsplay, a lot of thanks, you are fantastic.

Yesterday, there was a really interesting report about Perfume on ZDF (quite late), which showed parts of the film we haven't yet seen (no AR). The secenery is absolutely great - I am so much looking forward to seeing the making of next week.

For all Germans if interested: I posted about a week ago that tomorrow (Sunday) evening there will be another report on TV - have to check again, which programme it was - forgot it , sorry

Here are a few downloads:

1) Broadband version of Snow Cake trailer from official Snow Cake website:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=21DCCA5A523A2693

 

2) A nice hi res 3+ minute feature on Perfume (no AR, though, but still excellent) from

http://www.tagesschau.de/sendungen/0,1196,OID5845268_VID5845338_OIT5845286_RESms256_P LYinternal_NAV,00.html

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=731A8CD37D6D8579

3) The highest broadband version of the video Chalebh pointed out this morning (with the AR laughing in a wig clip)  http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/30/0,4070,3971102-6-wm_1500,00.html

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=96EB437B32BE19E3 

Thanks INTJ.  I've always felt that direct flash, especially the super powerful direct flash used by the professional photographers at events like this, is very, very harsh and can actually misrepresent reality.

Thanks CatsPlay, Peek, AFNH, Hikity, Sue, Carolyn, SnoKat, Chris, Vera, Dee, Nahima, Vicki, Laura, Juliet, Claudia (I hope I haven't forgotten anyone), for your kind words. I'm glad you all enjoyed the report and pics. : )

Dee (of course I don't mind your asking) - His clothes looked *so* different in reality, not at all like in many of the photos. For example, the pair of trousers he was wearing had exactly the same colour as his jacket - a deep black. I was absolutely astonished to see how strange they look in a lot of the pics taken at the premiere. (The photos published on the WENN website are the worst, imo.) In many, they appear to have an almost purplish hue to them - which, let me assure you, was not the case. To the normal eye, this is what his clothes looked like:

Deep black jacket, dark blue denim shirt, and deep black trousers. He was very smartly dressed, and his outfit looked lovely in person. There was nothing that jumped out at you or made you raise your eyebrows in a "what on earth is he wearing" kinda way. On the contrary. He looked very smart in his clothes (the unbuttoned cuffs didn't detract from that ; ) ), trim, and extremely handsome.

As for getting an autograph - nope. I didn't want one. (To be honest, I've never really understood why people want autographs... I don't see the appeal, I'm afraid.)

Oh, and sorry about the Herald file, everyone. I've just uploaded it to yousendit:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=FEAA6BF248AFDFE6

Let me know if you have trouble downloading from there.

I LOVE this site. Love all the different clips you can get

I think you should get more Robin Hood Prince of Theives clips though. Other than that i LOVE it.

WOWOWOWOWOW.Great pics and everything else. Now I am 100% convinced that a little trip to Toronto is in order.

Thanks to everyone for all of the goodies! They're wonderful!

However, I can't get the sendmefile file, either. Has anyone been successful in getting it???

@ INTJ

Oh, and I snagged the flash video from the Herald website and converted it to avi (15MB):

http://www.sendmefile.com/00456937

Sorry to cause trouble, but I really have a problem with downloading your file on sendmefile. *sniffles* I tried to download it for hours, and everytime the download tells me I need between 72 to 190 hours. I get a dataflow from about 0.01kb

Is there a chance that you can upload the file to another service? Help, please?

Hugs.

Claudia

I know a general listing has been posted before, but "Snow Cake" is going to be shown at the Cinefest Film Festival in Sudbury,Toronto on Sept.17,2006.

I guess he'll go from the TIFF directly to this one?

Lots of time in Canada!

Hey there,

Im a newbie,massive Rickman fan and have been coming on here for ages,I just thought that you guys would like to know that SW was on a programme here talking about Snowcake (which I cannot wait for)and she mentioned Alan a few times,she said that it was him who sent her the script(which we all knew) and that he was the kind of actor who would let you go all the way and be there to catch you when you fall,in those kind of words...she was very nice about him and they showed a couple of clips,some of the trailor..the clips were of the garbage and indoors....

Nice Interview if only the two of them would just be quite....

Hope that helps,I will come back,you guys all seem like a nice lot and I love this site....

Me....

You are welcome Dee.....Check out my LJ!!!!  

Here are 2 pics of OUR MAN...I captured this AM from the trailer...Enjoy.......

Oh I love his smile!!!!!     Enjoy all!!!!

 hallo Claudia, wonderful to CU on Fridays

I wish you a great one! 

Welcome aboard Ann!  It looks like you joined us just in time for new pics and videos of our man!  I'm glad you came aboard and I hope you will stay with us. 

INTJ!  Thanks so much for making my Friday soooo fantastic!  Your reviews of SC and MNiRC are great and I enjoyed reading them very much.  Kudos to you for knowing when to keep your distance.  You were absolutely right in not wanting to agitate him anymore than what the eBay fleabags were doing.  Thank you again so much for sharing your pics with us and I can't wait until you can get your video sorted out!  You are wonderful, gal!  Oh and the Herald video is great too.  I tried and tried but never could get it but I knew we could count on you.

Your description of the Q&A was fantastic!!!  I loved how he was so concerned about the audience member that couldn't relay his question.  If other things come to you, please remember to let us know.   

Thanks for the translation Vera.  I don't know what we would do without you, Hikity, RickiNicki, Chalebh and the others that do our German translations for us. 

sue....we are NEVER bored of new pics of AR!!!!  Silly girl!  Thanks for the SC images.  My gawwwwd he looks sooo good.  I can't wait for this film! (how many times have I told yall that???? *snort*)

janeway, Vicki, and others having problems downloading INTJ's clip, I had a bit of a problem getting the video too but I think its because the host's server is so busy.  If you click on the download and let it sit it should eventually start up.  Just be patient with it.  If you're still having problems later, I'll upload them to the server and post a link. 

Juliet, thanks for the link for The Old Laundry.  They used an excellent pic of him, don't you think?  Its nice to know he's still supporting them.  Maybe he'll do another benefit for them soon.  *crossing fingers*

Chalebh, thanks for the Perfume video link and Laura for capturing it.  Again, I don't know what we'd do without yall!  I agree with Hikity in that the dubbed voice of AR isn't to bad at all. 

Snow Cake now has an official website!!!!!!  And Ohhhh myyyy goodness!!!!  Snow Cake 

TGIF everyone!!!   

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1DCA156F31049E14

I captured and uploaded the video that Chalebh posted. Thank you again!!!!!!!!

INTJ: lovely report and pix, thank you.

Sue: for a cack-handed woman, you're doing ok! Hope all goeds well with the op next week.

The OooA is supporting the Old Laundry festival in Bowness on their website. Read his short message here:

www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk

What did we hens do to get this kind of Alan storm like this??

Thank you very much INTJ for the report , the pics and the video!

Thank you Sue for the stills of Snow Cake and thank you Chalebh for the video!

Chalebh, Vicki, I just watched the clip and I have to admit that AR's dubbed voice is by far the best I've heard by now. Usually, actors get the same dubbed voice over endless years (like Jonny Depp, Heath Ledger, Mel Gibson, DH, old John Wayne and thousand other famous ones), so that you immediately recognize them (but would never know their original voices, haha). However, with our Man it's different (may be because he is not that famous here - at least before HP was released). Obviously, TT and BE have given it a thought and searched for someone with a richer and deeper voice - that's progress, indeed. But Vicki, how CAN their POSSIBLY be a similar voice in this world, hmmm???

Dee, I had the same thoughts, but to be honest, I gave up some time ago    

Morning everybody,

sue, Chalebh, thanks a loooooot  

Great clip Chalebh

Good Evening! (for me, it's still Thursday night)

That was an excellent film clip, Chalebh!...even though I didn't understand a word (well, maybe one or two).  Thanks for the link.  There is a wonderful shot of AR in his wig and he's laughing.  He looks great.  It would make a great gif icon if somebody knows how to do it.  Too bad the guy who dubs AR's voice in German doesn't have that sexy, baritone quality that makes all us hens go....

INTJ - thanks for the great report!  You are one lucky girl!  You made us feel like we were there too!  Thanks!  I couldn't seem to download that film clip either.  Computers can be so annoying sometimes.    Hope you can sort out your memory card problems.  Good luck!

Good morning!

INTJ: I can't download that file either.

And thanks for all the pictures.

I have a treat (which I haven't seen yet, because I have no media player at my office).

Yesterday there was report about "The Perfume" in the German news "Heute Journal". I wasn't at home, so I couldn't watch.

In another board they said Alan was mentioned a there must be a short sequence with him in the video as well. But don't ask me...

Here's the link to the online video.

http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/30/0,4070,3971102-5,00.html

LG Chalebh

Wow, thanks guys for the new pictures. I dont know about you guys ( ok, actually I do) but I cant wait till this movie comes out and i already think its going to be one of my favorites.

Oh, and by the way. Is it just me or does it look like in that picture thats posted by Sue that Alex ( Alan ) is about to "pet the puppie"! He looks like he wants and she looks like she is going to let him and like it. Great picture.

(Don't know why but I can't get the 'Herald' video, the download just do not start. )

Sue, you did it again!
Thanks for the 'Snowcake' UK website link and everything else.

Greetings to all!

INTJ, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on Snowcake and MNIRC and for the photos. It must have been a wonderful experience to be in Edinburgh.

INTJ, I'm just......GAAAHHHHHHHHH over the fact that you got to be there, see Alan, hear Alan, breath the same air as Alan! LOL!! It was a great report and I am still just dying to see this movie.

INTJ....Thanks so very much for your report & pix! So glad you had a great time!

Yes, I'm just reading them now! The newshound in me had to do the pix first!

Sue, thanks so much for posting the pix! They're great! I love reading the production notes on the site as well!

Bored yet?

I'll do the rest in thumbnails to save on download speeds and also if people don't want to see them before the movie 

More to come in a mo.

juuhuu, INTJ is back - wonderful report and great pics - thanks a lot. What a fantastic time you had! Did you see the fringe festival? There are funny pics, esp. those from "The pierced lady"

I was unable to download INTJ's vid. Do you have it in another format or on a different server?

Vera, never mind. I posted yesterday that I was about to post my translation of the interview parts concerning AR when I saw your summary (of the "news") - therefore I didn't, however, you translated those as well today...

Thank you for the wonderful information and photos, INTJ, they are much appreciated!  I hope you are able to work out the problem with your memory card -- that must be extremely frustrating.

Er, sorry, those were supposed to be clickable thumbnails...  Click here to view the larger versions:

http://server4.pictiger.com/img/521194/picture-hosting/014.php

http://server4.pictiger.com/img/521205/picture-hosting/016.php

http://server3.pictiger.com/img/495764/picture-hosting/020.php

http://server3.pictiger.com/img/495775/picture-hosting/021.php

Hi Vera

Can we speak for the messenger?

Already I added you

Thak you Yulia for the new.

Hello ladies, I'm back from Edinburgh and finally getting around to telling you about my time there. I've been spending the last couple of days fighting with my memory card which my computer claims is corrupted , so I haven't been able to extract any of my video files yet, and only a handful of pics.

Anyway, last Tuesday I attended the Snow Cake premiere at the Dominion in Edinburgh. As I had arrived very early, I was able to secure a great spot in the front row along the right side of the red carpet and had an excellent view of Alan arriving with Sigourney Weaver around 6:35 p.m. You have all seen the pics by now - he looked fantastic, very trim, and seemed quite relaxed even though he soon got mobbed by autograph hunters and professional eBay sellers who wanted him to sign piles of pictures (including Snape ones), which, of course, he refused to do - he gave each of those guys a very pained, very brief, half-smile and very politely but firmly stated, "I don't sign Harry Potter pictures, I'm afraid." As they kept pestering him, I did not approach him, not wanting to add to his discomfort, so I simply watched and observed. The press were out in force at the premiere (I stopped counting the photographers and reporters after reaching 100), and Alan went about signing pics for the odd fan and giving interviews for television amid a flurry of camera flashes. He eventually ended up sitting down on the red carpet with Sigourney Weaver and Marc Evans before being ushered downstairs to the Dominion bar for a special reception for invited guests, amongst them J.K. Rowling.

Everyone was taking or already had taken their seats at this point (300 unreserved, 200 reserved seats for press and invited guests), so I rushed inside. About 15 minutes later, Shane Danielson, the artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, walked on to the stage in front of the screen to welcome everyone to the UK gala premiere and first screening of Snow Cake - "a film that I love", as he said - and then introduced Marc Evans who in turn - remarking that they were great pals and really great actors, fantastic to work with and that this was not his, but *their* film - introduced Alan and Sigourney Weaver to great applause and cheers. The artistic director then announced that there was going to be a Q&A following the screening of Snow Cake; they all left the stage and returned to the bar, leaving the audience to enjoy Snow Cake...which is an excellent, incredibly moving, funny, hopeful and brilliantly acted film! As the end credits were rolling and Alan, Sigourney Weaver, and Marc Evans were walking on to the stage again, they received a standing ovation, loud cheers and thundering applause.

The Q&A was lovely, although many of the questions asked were not exactly new ones (was the role of Alex written with Alan in mind; was it difficult working without being able to maintain eye contact with SW's character; what made him want to do Snow Cake, etc.). There were three moments that were particularly lovely: one - when someone in the audience asked a question that no one could hear, Alan left the stage, walked over to the guy and handed him his microphone; two, Sigourney telling the audience that she "would do the phone book with Alan if he asked me to"; and three, the final question, which was not a question but a comment, really, by a lady working with autistic people who thanked AR, SW and ME for this accurate, unsentimental and much-needed portrayal, for making the movie and "giving a new face to autism" - a comment which moved AR, SW and ME very much. Once they had left the stage (again thundering applause), I hurried outside, quickly enough to see Alan and Sigourney getting into a car that had been waiting for them and being driven off.

The next day I attended "MNiRC" which, like Snow Cake the day before, was sold out. It was an amazing performance, and I want to point out that the clip that was shown on "The Edinburgh Show" does not do Josephine Taylor's performance justice (the clip, to me, looks like it was recorded during rehearsal). It is a very powerful play, very thought-provoking, impressive and inspiring. As I had a feeling that Alan might attend the performance that evening, I kept my eyes peeled for him - and about three minutes before the play began there he was, quitely walking up the steps to the very last row of seats. After the performance had ended, a group of Festival officials plus acquaintances/friends were waiting for him, all heading to another part of the huge courtyard of the Pleasance Courtyard Theatre with him. I ended up walking behind them (although I was keeping a respectful distance as I didn't want to intrude) and then was able to watch Alan give the interview for "The Edinburgh Show" from the other side of that sandstone wall you can see behind him in the video Sue (and a few others) so kindly recorded and uploaded (thank you!). : ))

I had an absolutely wonderful time. : )) Here are the pics I was able to extract from my memory card:

Oh, and I snagged the flash video from the Herald website and converted it to avi (15MB):

http://www.sendmefile.com/00456937

Hikity, I don't quite understand what you mean. Why didn't you just post whatever it was you wanted to post? In how far does it relate to me?

AR on the stage again!!!  Yiiiiiipppppeeeee!!!  I hope the story will pan out!  Thanks so much for the information, CatsPlay. 

Thanks to everyone for the research of the play.  It sounds interesting. 

Thanks to everyone for all the links, articles, and pics. 

I'm still waiting  for word of Snow Cake in the US too.

Yuila, thanks for that interesting article!

Some news

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/theatre/features/article1221014.ece

Good luck all in the discussions!

Re pets: To be honest, I still fancy Teh Panda ...

Vera, why didn't you just say, o.k. Hikity, post it nevertheless? Anyways, thanks a lot for your work and effort

Sue, I see him more as a Guinea pig.

Thank you Vera

I would like speak with you

my e-mail is an_y_20005@hotmail.com

Do you have a messenger?

Ann, the premiere in Berlin will take place on 8 September at 8 p.m. at the CineStar at the Potsdamer Platz. According to a newspaper article, Alan Rickman is confirmed to attend.

So, one more time I translated some more bits from the Perfume website. They are excerpts from interviews with Tom Rykwer, Bernd Eichinger, Ben Whishaw and Rachel Hurt-Wood, and all agree that Alan Rickman is a wonderful actor.

http://veradee.livejournal.com/13091.html#cutid1

True! Perhaps he's going to work his way through small family pets.........what next?A gerbil?

Well, he's already been a fish, so....

Alan as a hamster! The boggling just begins!

Hello everybody, I´m new

I like these forum so much, because it´s easy to find news!

When is it the premiere of The Perfum in Berlin? Does anybody know it? and...will Alan Rickman go?

Thank you

xxx

Additional showings for "Snow Cake" at the TIFF (in addition to the one on the 14th):

Sept.13 6PM in Varsity  & Sept. 16 12:45PM in Ryerson

From:https://www.netimperative.com: (dated Aug.21)--scroll down the page and one of the headlines is:

"Major new CGI series to launch on web & mobiles"

Hungry Hamsters, a new comedy CGI animation series starring Alan Rickman and Henry Hill is to be broadcast both online and on mobiles.

Hikity, thanks for reminding me...sometimes I just start typing and don't stop.  SOrry everybody!

Sue, the TT-evening is on 2 September. I 've just received a nice mail from his staff that he is more than willing to discuss things with the audience-seems to be a nice guy, too (and a good-looking one imho). Wait and see the film, then questions will come to you without thinking hard .

Brittany, I am crazy about shoes - send them over to Germany ,Brittany, luv, do you mind posting all this not-so-AR-related-stuff at our discussion board in order not to annoy some others here, thanks, sweetie  

Sorry, Im sure people know I'm not a "newbie" but I accidentally put in that smiley.  WHich makes me look sound like I could be a newbie.  Not that anything is wrong with newbies.  Yay ANY AR supporters.

Hey Mariam, I am in Abilene, but not a lot of people know where it is...perhaps if you live in Texas you might know though.  I wouldn't really know how to place it on a map though, so I'm sorry.  I used to go to Dallas for Six Flags, but that was when I was younger and my family was still together.  My grandmother knows where to shop, so I got two gorgeous pair of shoes real cheap, so yay!  Wish Alan could see them...ha, he probably wouldnt care.  Everyone, I was thinking that It would be cool if for some reaso Alan and I were on the same plane...maybe even sitting next to each other.  I would die.  And then I was thinking that if they cast you, Mariam, in Robin Hood that would be cool because of your name...You would get to work with Alan.  Haha.  I'm sure other people here have names that are in some of his movies, but this just came to mind.

Oh yes I forgot you are going to the Tykwer Q&A! Yes, ask him about that!

When is that BTW? You are going to be very busy with all these Q&A's I'm still trying to think of something sensible to ask at Hampstead (if I dare!)

Sue, as quickly as possible, forgive the mistakes - or worse - errors:

It's one of the top-class and most promising mixtures of the cinema year 2006:...the article talks about Bernd Eichinger and TT, then gives a summery on the book. Furthermore, it tells us about general problems directors face when making a film of a famous book. The readers know about the characters, how they think and act and that they believe the actors in the film will convey these things etc. the article highly praises the film because of the love for detail and the great talents acting Both DH and AR prove their status as a Hollywood star.

With regard to scent and sense of smell the critic says that the (German) narrator who has a cuddly and slightly coarse voice should have intervened more often during the very long phases of these shots where the camera drives into the nose (  , where Grenouille walkes behind people sniffing etc. While the beginning and the end are faithful to the book, the middle has some changes, e.g. only 13 girls instead of 25 (in the book) are killed because of their scents. The readers can get over this minor change, however, they won't like the change of Grenouille  into a more friendly role...Grenouille is supposed to be insideous and full of hatred for his contempories, ugly and limping. But in the film he is more or less a good looking guy. Unfortunately, the film does not really convey the central metaphor of the book: the tick . Moreover, the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment and its reduction to absurdity - a significant aspect of the book - has not been worked out well enough. Due to the fact that the film is free from 12 years onwards the orgiastic and orgastic bacchanalia as the absolute highlight of the book is no more than a mass hugging suitable for kids' TV - this has taken off the intensity of the film...

All in all the cinematic interpretion has not exactly hit the nerv of the literary plot - too well-behaved. It's an indulgence for the eyes on the one hand and a delicate disappointment for all "connoisseurs" of the novel.

WHAT A PITY - Children are allowed - absolutely daft - the reason for this is a good question...

HELP!!!!! I HAVE THE TRANSLATED VERSION IN MY COMPUTER DOCUMENTS BUT DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET IT HERE!

According to this site:

INTJ, are you back from Edinburgh?  Looking forward to anything you are willing to share from your trip!

Vera, thanks for the translation...this is the gist from the "older" interviews of Ben and Tom (esp TT said a lot about our Man), which I translated two days ago and wanted to post it here today, lol

Thanks Catsplay I forgot about crediting *write on a sticky note to remember to credit*

Rachael

A credit to your source would be in order. 

That image was posted on my live journal, and is an Ivan Kyncl photograph from ArenaPal.

Hey I saw this on livejournal and I have never saw this picture before.

Sexy.

Apologies if this has already been posted...  Alan Rickman is mentioned in this article...

http://iccroydon.icnetwork.co.uk/news/sutton/tm_objectid=17602616&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=sutton-pair-reunited-on-broadway-name_page.html

Vera, I left a message on your LJ, but just wanted to say again, "Thank you" for the wonderful translation of the interview!

The official website for the film Perfume has been updated. There is some more stuff with and about Alan Rickman now, and again I felt compelled to translate it. You can read it at my live journal.

http://veradee.livejournal.com/12605.html

Hikity & Lyd....So far, at least one of the showings for "Snow Cake" at the TIFF is scheduled for September 14, 6PM @ the Elgin Theater. I don't know if there are any others scheduled.

Just finalising my poster order with the ALA, guess what is the most popular buy this week?

Hikity,  my bet would be that he might appear by the end or mid in the festival since there's no schedule yet about when SC will be shown in that festival so it might not be at the beginning of the festival; I also saw that SW and C-AM are listed. Oh well, in the next few days/weeks? there should be some sort of schedule for the festival and we will be able to see how compatible it might be for AR to be there.

Lyd, to be honest, I do not know how our dear OooA will manage that: on 4 Sept he is supposed to be in London, on 7 Sept the world premiere of Perfume takes place in Munich, on 8 Sept he is supposed to be in Berlin for the great premiere of Perfume. Well, he still can take a flight to Toronto afterwards - good grief, it sounds like a world tour...

Aw, Hikity!

Elaine? He blew it by doing Pinter? Or doing it in NY??

mhhh... I must agree that NY in fall sounds quite good

I have no idea if any of you is from Toronto or is going to be during the festival (7-16 sept). They will be showing snow cake and AR is going to be there too or so it's reported here.

Elaine, ??? I don't understand

I'm so fed up! Mr Rickman, you just blew it!

Ladies, I forgot to mention....There's singing in it, too!!!! There are some good song choices that really fit the play:

Act One: Lovely to Look At.....Blue Moon....These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Act Two: They Can't Take That Away From Me

Now, he doesn't sing all the songs completely. It's kind of a "tit for tat" thing with Anna, and Kate also jumps in occasionally.

OMG!  I am just so psyched for this!

Interesting thought.....That Roundabout is/was planning on a revival of LLD in the spring of 2007!

Sue, Peek and I are going to  bring along some hankies for you in 2 weeks, and I know how to cheer you up, promise!      

Wow, tanks guys. You are quick. Muchly appreciated. Im going to NY next year in June or July. Lets hope that this is a big success and he continues it next year. Between filming of Hlaf Blood Prince that is, heee hee.

Don't cry Sue. I AM in America but New York is no more attainable to me than it must be to you. Alan might as well be doing this play on the moon!!

 I just love this: 

This book is a member of that series of plays called "theatre of the absurd." For the most part, the average reader will not understand what's going on. The play deals with one married couple and a visitor who joins and leaves the action of the scene periodically. This is about reminiscing the past and interpreting it. The main focus is how people can not communicate with one another. The more you read it, the more you understand it, but it is very subjective. Only mature readers and theatrically-educated people will appreciate it.

and another review:

a strange and absurd story, 17. Januar 2000

There are three persons who talk about their past. But the point is that they don't really talk about old times. Everyone tells things that happened in the past and no one knows if they are true. Those things have no context. They are a lot of sexual hints by Deeley. Also strange is that Deeley didn't tell his wife that he already knows Anna. We don't recommend this book because we didn't understand well the sense of the story. In this story you have to read between the lines, and it could happen that even then you are not able to understand the play.

Cheers

Hikity

SPOILER

In a whitewashed farmhouse somewhere by the sea, three people digest the casserole they had for dinner and reminisce about the past. Anna, the guest, once shared a flat with Deeley´s wife Kate, and rhapsodies nostalgically about their innocent youth as London secretaries, going to concerts, listening shyly in artists´cafes, playing records of Gershwin and Kern. Constrained but affable, Deeley joins her in a contest of memory, singing off-key, antiphonal snatches of the songs of the forties, while Kate smiles at them silently. Its familiar soil: strangers trying to wrench a common ground of cliche from disparate pasts. Then something goes wrong with the conversation. You have a wonderful casseroleí says Anna, slightly too warmly. Deeley looks baffled. I´m so sorry, she apologises, blushing and smiling at her Freudian slip. I meant wife. You have a wonderful wife. She was always a good cook. Sometimes we would make an enormous stew for supper, gobble it up, and then, more often than not, sit up half the night reading Yeats.

Anyone with an ear for Harold Pinter´s dialogue will recognise the territory on to which his new play Old Times, at the Aldwych, shifts with those lines. A gauntlet has been thrown down. Battle is engaged. The battleground is Kate: which of the two, Deeley or Anna, has possessed more of her? The weapons, as usual, are sex and language: the language of innuendo, cultural discomfiture, the slight verbal excess staking an emotional claim. Truth has nothing to do with it. More often than notí? Really? The winner will be the one who can impose his or her version of the past. Ana has made her opening thrust. Kate cooks for Deeley. With her, she read poetry.
It would make life neater for all those graduate students laboring over Pinter theses if one of them could prove that his first, favorite book had been Henry James Sacred Fount, with its twin theories that, in love, there is always one who eats and one who is eaten, and that truth is a question of who offers the more stylish scenario. But Old Times all too clearly is simply a natural growth of his own talent.

Within the same triangular frame of memory as Silence, it mixes the sexual ambiguities of The Collection with the territorial wars of dominance which underlay The Homecoming. Growth seems a better word than advance. The techniques, the preoccupations are the same. There´s no new departure from the ground he has made his own. But he mastery of it is more stunning than ever, the economy even more perfect. Wonderfully taut, comic and ominous, Old Times shows Pinter more and more himself and less like any other playwright writing today.

More clearly than before, it takes the form of a duel: a game of skill top the death. One after the other, the adversaries offer their blows to the body. Brutally, Deeley tells how he picked up Kate in a cinema showing Odd Man Out, walked her home and bedded her. Anna listens smiling, with no more belief than Mick in The Caretaker gave to Davies story of his papers as Sidcup. Then it is her turn, and she has a double riposte. Funny how vividly you imagine what you think happened isnít it, whether it happened or not? She has a memory  is it real?- of a man who cried in Kate´s bed. But of course it is unreal beside her memories of their life together: poring over the Sunday papers, rushing out to old films at suburban cinemas  like Odd Man Out.

It´s like watching a marvelous skilled game of cricket or tennis. What kind of ball will they send over next? How will the receiver parry it? Deeley has more crude power  he is Kate´s husband, isn´t he? but he flusters more easily, being Irish, and lacks Annaís patient finesse. She has the authority of money and culture (a husband and villa in Sicily, a velvet glove of good tempered gentility to mask her steely determination), and Kate´s vague, smiling passivity seems to be on her side. But much as Pinter enjoys games, they arenít what he writes about. As in The Homecoming, the final, devastating victory belongs to neither battler, but to the woman battled over. People are not prizes to be won in tournaments. They belong to themselves.

from The Observer, 6 June 1971

END OF SPOILER

Embarrased to say that I never heard of that play before, can anyone let me know the synapsis of the play and Alans role?

A bit of trivia: In the 1985 production of "New Old Times", Michael Gambon played the role of Deeley (AR's part).

Now that I've been able to catch my breath about the latest news, my thoughts have turned to the play itself:

I'm going to assume, w/o knowing, that the "powers that be" originally wanted Lindsay Duncan for the role of Kate, Deeley's (Alan Rickman's character) wife. IMHO, though, I would love to see her in the role of Kate's friend, Anna, who has these absolutely subtextual repartees with AR. It is such a great play, again, one with so many layers of emotion, and the character of Deeley is perfect for our guy!

This must be the season of Harold Pinter. Another one of his plays, "The Homecoming", is also on the boards for the fall.

thank you for the news CatsPlay!

Here's a LINK to the Chichester site.

Any UK Southerners note that Snowcake is showing at Chichester Film Festival on the following dates:

Saturday 2nd September @ 4pm

Sunday 3rd September @ 6.30pm

Tickets £6.50

Hmm... that is actually easier to get to for me than Hampstead! However, there are good reasons for going to Hampstead!

But...but....but.... New York is in America.........

Cyntilla, I also noticed that woman who seemed to be a bit strange! I'd got no doubts she was expressing her thoughts about Alan and probably about the movie.

sue, thank for the new stuff again

Becky, this is a teriffic idea, well done!

Brittany, I jealous your "hot like Alan weather", here is cool wind only.

CatsPlay, thank you very much for the article! I've also found it now, but you posted first. I trust they would rock!

Good luck!

LOL...Catsplay, you beat me to it! I was just in the process of typing when I saw your entry!  OMG!! Isn't just wonderful?

Oh dear goodness!!!

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117948792?categoryid=15&cs=1&nid=2569

Inside Move: Rickman, Duncan will pair for Pinter

A new "Old Times" is in the works at the Roundabout, with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan primed to star in Harold Pinter's 1970 play at Studio 54 this fall.

Nothing's confirmed yet, but if things work out, the Broadway revival of "Old Times" would join a Roundabout season that includes an Off Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer," starring Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino, that's set for the fall.

One factor holding back "Old Times": Production has not yet secured an actress to play the third role in Pinter's ambiguous tale about a married couple visited by an old friend. It's said Lena Olin passed, and there's also talk of Duncan changing her mind about which female role she wants to play.

Rickman's last foray on the Rialto, the Roundabout's 2002 revival of "Private Lives," also co-starred Duncan ("Rome"), who won a Tony for her perf. The duo starred together in both the original London production and the 1987 Broadway stint of Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," a revival on the Roundabout's Broadway slate for the American Airlines Theater in the spring.

A fall run of "Old Times" would have Rickman onstage in Gotham around the same time as his upcoming Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," based on the diaries of a young woman who died protesting Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes. Rickman is co-adaptor of the "Rachel Corrie" script and will also direct the controversial show, which originated at the Royal Court in London in 2005 and bows at the Minetta Lane on Oct. 15.

Helmed by Mark Brokaw, "Suddenly, Last Summer" begins perfs at the Laura Pels Theater on Oct. 20 for a Nov. 15 opening. Danner stars as a widow mourning the mysterious death of her son, while Gugino plays a cousin who makes shocking allegations.

After "Suddenly," the Pels will see the Doug Hughes-helmed production of Patrick Marber's "Howard Katz," starring Alfred Molina, beginning Feb. 2 for a March 8 opening. That will be followed by director Joe Dowling's production of the latest from Brian Friel, "The Home Place," in the late spring/summer.

Along with "Liaisons," the Roundabout's Broadway slate includes "Heartbreak House" this fall at the American Airlines, plus the tuner "110 in the Shade," starring Audra McDonald, skedded for spring at Studio 54.

Hey girls!  Haven't been around in a while because I've been busy with stuff.  Yesterday I arrived in Texas so I can visit my grandparents and mom. "this is you Captain speaking.  The time is blah blah blah and the temperture is 102 degrees."  Well, I really wasnt expecting it to be THAT hot!  Gotting almost as hot as Alan.  HAHA.  I hope it will be more of a vaction than I started out on...I got my bag and I think it was either broken into or just ripped open and anyhow I dont have my ipod charger or phone charger anymore.  However, my aunt called this mornign and said she ordered them for me so yay!  Money should not be an objsect when it comes to AR, but unfortunately I dont have a lot so I was wonder how much it actually is to make a callendar at Wal-Mart.  Thanks everyone!

Of course Emily! Well I am sure he made a better job of it than the guy I saw at The Old Vic last year in the Spacey version of it. He really let the great show down, I thoughht.

Hey I make an AR calendar EVERY YEAR...Take pics of him candids, and I even had one from HP of him as SNAPE....TO WALMART...they will do a 12 month calendar for 20 bucks!!!!    WELL WORTH IT!!!   KINKOS WILL TOO!!!!

According to the LeakyCauldron, the release date for OOTP has been moved up for Australia to July 12, 2007, one day before the US and UK.

Sue, he played the Jimmy Stewart role ... of course.

Couple of interesting things on ebay:

First a programme for The Philadeplhia Story  HEREat the Oxford Playhouse, January 20th - February 7th 1981. It says it with With Alan Rickman, Gayle Hunnicut and Lewis Fiander. Didn't know he was in that,who did he play?

Then THIS, a german Presskit for Parfum

For all Germans with a TV :Next Sunday, ARD, Titel, Thesen, Temperamente, after Christiansen they'l show the first scenes of Perfume

We are going to see "The Making Of" on 2 September. Does anyone here has a question I should ask TT or Jessika Schwarz or the camera man or whoever you want??? Send me a mail to Hikity2001atyahoodotde

Whoa! Thank you Yulia, they're just luscious!
BTW, have you noticed the lady in the last one? She seems like "Whoo-hoooo! Alan a go-go, baby!", and I totally agree with her!

thank you very much, I never checked this site   

Laura, I found them here   http://www.hpana.com/news.19551.html  and clicked on "here", that is here   http://www.hpana-media.com/2006/Alan_Rickman/Edinburgh_Film_Festival.html 

It's not the first time when it's possible to find pics with Alan.

JKR looks perfect, btw!

Good luck!

beautiful photos, Yulia! thank you for sharing! May I ask where did you find them?

Thanx sue, so I really suppose that these photos are new here, at least I did not have it untill my today's found. Some more

Miraculous ones!

Good luck!

Nice photo Yulia.

Thanks ARdent for the articles, it's a real proud indeed when you hear how Alan is called - a Hollywood star!

Sorry if anyone has already posted this picture, but it's seemed to me not. Anyway, that's just a large brilliant pic.

Good luck!

link to the distributors, I've mailed them

For the calendar, it would be GREAT !

Camerata, I don't know if you're still looking for it, but the distributor for "Perfume" in France is Metropolitan Filmexports. They're website is www.metrofilms.com

The OooA is The Object of our Affection!

Hikity: Now that's what I call a portrait! Beautiful!

Here's a nice, long interview with Sigourney Weaver (no mention of the OooA by her) with a short bit about Ros, her autistic "coach", who attended the interview with her. Very interesting:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1853909,00.html

It strikes me odd that these two British sites about the recent party mention Alan Rickman as a "Hollywood star":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5267894.stm

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17591668&method=full&siteid=64736&headline=charlize-is-a-darling-as-stars-party-at-film-fest-name_page.html

thank you Carolyn

Just a couple of blurbs in a LJ by someone named "trademarkash", who's at the EIFF:

8/16:" Last nite was the "Working Title" promos party. Quite a small thing. There were only about 150-200 people. Nice nite, beautiful meal, a few famous faces. Joseph Fiennes, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman arrived a little later on."

8/20: "So I had Friday nite out at the CLERKS II thing. Bumped into alan Rickman, quite literally. He's not as scary as he was when I was 8."

Miriam, it sounds as if he did just the right thing - and this film has become my favourite, for he is marvelous  

Laura, from what I can see, it's not easy to even register with the Rex site. You have to email them first and then leave a money deposit. I did put some of the pix up on Claudia's photobucket acct. if you want to take a look.

I would do the same Miriam!!

http://www.rexfeatures.com/thumb/605120g.jpg

anyone having a login for Rex features? This picture and the following one would be nice larger

Thank you all for the new stuff!

Hikity, as for me, I can't believe this!

"He is as sombre and intimidating as he is on screen"

Its what us Americans and Canadians call

HUNGOVER!!!!!!!!!

Getty Images has pix up of Sean Connery and Charlize Theron at the party the other night, but none so far of our man! BTW, Charlize looks amazing and her dress is to die for!

And here is something for Catsplay:

from Helen Facenna, an artist

Ladies, can we believe this????:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320019025219&ssPageName=ADME:B:SSE:1

Quotation of Sue's latest article:

If Alan Rickman is feeling any ill effects from the party, he's certainly hiding it well. Immaculately dressed in a dark grey suit, he is as sombre and intimidating as he is on screen.  terribly intimidating  

Sue, Elaine, Carolyn, Marlene, Camerata et all, thanks so much for the wonderful pics and videos - you are great

Thanks for all those new videos and pictures.

Camerata: The production company for  Perfume in Germany is Constantin Film. Maybe there also responsible for France.

Chlaebh

ARdent, thanks.  I'm going to keep playing around with it to see if I can make him move.    ;-)

Not sure if this is different from anything posted here (which I haven't been able to open) but you might want to have a look:

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/snow_cake/

Just as an FYI....It's too new to post, but there was a special party tonight (Aug 19) celebrating the 60th anniversary of the EIFF...and our guy was there! At the moment, can't get any more info than that because the sites aren't complete!

Sue, thanks so much for the interview! It really is great! They must have had some night!

What a lovely article. Thank you, Sue.

Sorry I did delete that ad in the middle but it was obviously determinged to get in. Damn Dell! (And their useless keyboard that lose their letters in 18 months!)

Just found a nice article on Snowcake on Channel4.com:

Alan Rickman And Marc Evans On Snowcake

Hungover in Edinburgh, the star and director of this drama about autism discuss Sigourney Weaver, Super Furry Animals and not making Rainman II

"I'm drinking a bloody Mary. I'm told it will do me some good." It's midday in a hotel lounge and Marc Evans is hungover. This is forgivable, as last night saw the UK premiere of his new movie, Snowcake, the wine was flowing at the party afterwards and he ended up drinking with Steve Coogan until 5am. And, goddamit, this is the sixtieth Edinburgh International Film Festival: it's practically illegal not to have booze for breakfast.   "I'm drinking a bloody Mary. I'm told it will do me some good." It's midday in a hotel lounge and Marc Evans is hungover. This is forgivable, as last night saw the UK premiere of his new movie, Snowcake, the wine was flowing at the party afterwards and he ended up drinking with Steve Coogan until 5am. And, goddamit, this is the sixtieth Edinburgh International Film Festival: it's practically illegal not to have booze for breakfast. "It's a fantastic festival, one of my favourites," he enthuses, eyes sparkling as the vodka works its magic. "And Edinburgh's great anyway. I'm very proud to be Welsh but I'm very jealous Scotland has got such an amazing capital city." If Alan Rickman is feeling any ill effects from the party, he's certainly hiding it well. Immaculately dressed in a dark grey suit, he is as sombre and intimidating as he is on screen. The part he plays in Snowcake - a dour curmudgeon with a nice line in sarcastic put-downs - was written with him in mind. Does he ever worry that the public's perception of him is, well, pretty close to Phil Cornwell's impersonation of him in 'Dead Ringers'? "I don't watch 'Dead Ringers'," he rumbles in what seems like irritation but, thankfully, is followed up by an amused laugh. "Public perceptions are what they are and you can't think about it. I'm sure anybody who has any kind of public persona would say that it's not a lot to do with the real person. I just get on with it really." Just getting on with it, Rickman turns in yet another masterful performance in Snowcake. Without giving too much away, he plays a British man who, just out of prison in Canada, winds up staying in a small town in Northern Ontario where he takes a lover (Carrie-Anne Moss) and moves in with Alice, an acutely autistic woman played by Sigourney Weaver. It's quite a departure for Evans, best known for dark and doomy fare like My Little Eye, House Of America and Resurrection Man.     "It wasn't a conscious decision to change," says Evans. "It was more having the opportunity to get to do something different and fresh. What was nice about this was that I was offered the project because Baby Cow, Steve Coogan and Henry Normal's production company, were involved. I have to be really thankful to them for that because I wouldn't have been sent that script normally because you get typecast. People think I just do dark stuff." As well as being a challenge for Evans, for Rickman it meant acting opposite Weaver who, having immersed herself in the role of Alice, unnervingly refused to look him in the eye. "Actually, I think it made it easier," Rickman explains. "It was like being with a real autistic person and she has rules that you have to abide by. But it was a learning thing basically - I was the happy recipient of all of Sigourney's hard work." Both Evans and Rickman are full of praise for Weaver, who worked flat out to get her performance perfect. But comparisons with that other autistic movie, Rainman, jokingly referenced in Snowcake, must have been a source of worry. "No," claims Evans. "I felt really safe. Angela [Pell], who wrote the script, has an autistic kid, a little boy called Johnny, and she did something really smart by not making it a film about an autistic child. By transferring it to an adult setting she could get a little distance. And Sigourney, as you'd expect, came to the film with this massive desire to get it right. So, in a way, the autism was taken care of for me." He's still aware, though, that autism might be difficult for audiences to accept. "If Al Pacino plays blind, everybody knows what blindness is," is his way of putting it. "I'm not saying there's no complexity to being blind, I'm just saying that you can recognise it as an audience. But if someone plays an autistic character, there's a spectrum. They could be the Rainman-style savant or completely dysfunctional or everything in between. I think what you have to do is latch onto a specific character and that's what we did." To help Weaver find the character, Evans employed an autistic woman called Roz Blackburn. "She's an amazing person. She has autism but is able to comment on autism, which is rare. She's happy with the film and, basically, if Roz thinks it's okay, then that's good enough for me." Another essential ingredient to the movie is its Canadian setting which, for once, isn't standing in for the USA. Filming took place in the town of Wawa, where the cast and crew stayed for the entire 27-day shoot. Rickman was especially pleased to be in Canada, a country he describes as his second home. "It's an incredibly beautiful country but then so are many places in the world," he says. "It's just that I have very close friends and a goddaughter in Toronto. But I'd certainly never been to Northern Ontario before. We had a great time after we finished because we went across to Victoria and Vancouver Island." For Evans, Canada was a mystery, especially when it came to the music. Sheepishly, he admits to placing a track by Welsh band The Super Furry Animals pride of place on the soundtrack. Fellow countrymen The Stereophonics also feature. "The Stereophonics were in the script," he insists. "Angela is a vinyl junkie like myself and she was very specific about some of the music. But the Super Furries track I was responsible for. It just seemed the perfect song for Alex's state of mind, letting in the sunshine and all that." In his defence, Evans did ask Emily Hampshire, who plays Alice's teenage daughter, to compile a CD of Canadian bands. "On that CD was 'Anthem For A Seventeen Year Old Girl' by Broken Social Scene," he says. "So that song was in the film from a very early stage because I loved it so much. When we were looking to do the score, John Cale [Welsh member of The Velvet Underground who has featured in two documentaries by Evans] suggested asking Broken Social Scene, so I do feel that I paid my respects to Canadian music too."   It is a fantastic soundtrack (and it provides a hilarious scene where Rickman wails along to the Stereophonics on headphones). Though dealing with disability and grief, Snowcake manages to be uplifting without becoming mawkish. Evans is quick to praise his actors and the first-rate screenplay from Pell. "Angela has great way of looking at her son's condition. Autism is a horrible condition but she latches onto the positives of it as well, because if you have an autistic child then you have to. At the centre of the film there's a kind of optimism which rubs off on Alan's character. People might think it's going to depress the hell out of them but it's not depressing at all." Rickman concurs, evidently pleased to have been involved in such a good movie. Does he think he might, finally, get an Oscar nomination? "Oh, I don't think about that side of things. It's very nice if people want to give you a piece of metal to put on your shelf and it helps sell the film. But it's a little crazy too: there's a whole world going on out there."

Sorry I meant Ghost and Mrs Muir, I must have had a senior moment and got confused with Captain and Teneille!!

Thanks for the Tiscali thing, that was new to me. (Always nice to see Ricky Gervais as well, love to see Alan in Extras )

AFNH, Captain and Mrs Muir is a really great Saturday afternoon flick isn't it? Been a good day for TV movies just watched Hoffman/DeNiro in Wag the Dog, new to me and a brilliantly funny film.

Your virus control/firewall could possibly also be preventing you from seeing animated gifs, depending upon its settings.  I use Zonelabs Zone Alarm and found that I had to adjust its settings related to control of advertisements.

LOL...I was just watching the Food Channel and Paul Dean has a special on with her & her husband in London. Guess what her favorite food was? Chip Butties!!

For everyone not in the US, we have a 24hr TV channel that just has food programs with different hosts. Paul Dean has one of the more successful shows in the US.

Marlene - It appears that you need a file called MSVCRT.DLL on your computer to play an animated gif. I have a bunch of them on mine in different program folders and also one in the WINDOWS\system32 folder. It also appears it has to do with Macromedia Flash. ?????

Marlene - All I know is that with my old computer, when I saved an animated gif file, it didn't move. Now, with my new computer, they do. It must have something to do with software, but I'm not sure which software.

If you want to use it in email, a webpage, etc. you can put it in a Photobucket account (that's where mine is). They're free and you can collect animated emoticons there if you want (as I do). Then you just copy and paste from there. I'll see if I can find out anything more about it. Or maybe someone else here can help? There are lots more computer-savvy than I here!

is the tiscali video the same that I posted 2 days ago in the discussion forum?

thank you for uploading everything to your site!

Oops I forgot to mention that Jo sent me a video from Tiscali Entertainment too.  I've posted it above as well.  Super thanks Jo!

Woo hooooooo, Elaine!  Thanks for the second video from last night's show!  sue quoted the fellow earlier but I wanted to say how cute [sic] "Run tell your Mums...they'll thank you for it" 

I've put the videos on my server and added the link above in case the YouSendIt links expire.    Gawd, I'll be so glad when I can move all that stuff to the Download Haven pages.  There just ain't enough time in the day! 

I'll catch up with all the great posts here in just a bit. 

You can find my version of the Interview here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=ADD08DF0100D021E

You just can't have too many!

Sno...LOL...His public persona seems so very proper, it would be hysterical to see him after he's had a few! He must have felt very comfortable with the people he was with to let his guard down. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall that night, or better yet, just to have been there and be a little tipsy as well! No, no, NOT going to go there! :-)

This is the "Snapes on a Plane" image I found a few weeks ago, before I even knew about the movie. I just thought it was funny. Once again I have no idea where I swiped this from. I *think* it was an HP/Snape fan site.

I can't get past this!!!

It’s good to know that A-list celebrities are not immune from alcoholic excesses. I have it on good authority that Alan Rickman, Steve Coogan and friends drank themselves silly....

Alan drunk. God I bet he's darling and probably extra gregarious (i.e. "easy"). LOL...no wait, that's ME! Well then, wouldn't WE be fun together?!?!

SORRY GUYS ABOUT THE COMPUTER DUPLICATE! I'M HAVING MAJOR COMPUTER PROBLEMS TODAY!!

Anyway, enjoy the pix....

ARdent We're practically neighbors!  I, too, hope it comes to Y'town, Cleveland or Pittsburgh!   I MAY have to take the day off from work.  Good thing it's my own store... so I won't have an arguement from the "boss".

I got a huge chuckle from your "I ripped it off" comment...  Cute!  Honest, but cute!   I tried to save picture as, but it isn't "live" .. it saved only as a still picture.   Any  idea how I can give good ol' Alan some um.. movement?

www.savefile.com is another place where you can upload and share files but the upload service is down for 48 hours (from when, I don't know) because they're changing servers. It's free, you don't need to register, max. file size is 60mb, unlimited number of downloads, and it will only be deleted after 30 days of inactivity.

I have put it on Youtube HERE

Sorry Camerata, still can't see it it says that site doesn't exist.

!

sue, YouSendIt tells me that I "must be logged in to download this file".
Does anyone have the same problem?

Sue, you are an absolute angel to capture the BBC interview! I just downloaded it and it's perfect! Thanks so much!

Thank you ladies for so hard work! It's not forgivable to be away even a day-a lot of new stuff about Alan!

Sue, Camerata, may I show to my own group the pics? Please tell me the exact date of the interview. They are sooooo miraculous!

Sincerely

Yulia

Camerata, yes that's ok.

You rock !

AR is so cute ! *faint* LOL

I've made some other caps if you want :


So, did you know the interview I've posted yesterday about Michael Collins ?

sue...sue...sue..sue....sue!!!!  What a fantastic way to get a busy busy day started! 

Thanks for your hard work.  You must have worked way up until the wee hourse of the morning! 

And all I can say about him is.......

Snapes on a Plane!  *SNORT*

Sooooo, has anyone noticed the real, honest-to-gosh AR connection to Snakes on a Plane?  The screenplay is by Sebastian Gutierrez, who also wrote the screenplay for Judas Kiss.  Wonder if Carla Gugino gets a cameo?

Haha Vicki The whole Snakes on a Plane thing is getting out of hand on the web isn't it? There are dozens of different versions on the Web. Not a movie I will be going to though. Not that I mind snakes but I'm not to fond of horror flix being of a sensitive nature!

Akh!...sue, you can upload faster than I can type....(I meant you were a tease with those screencaps). 

Thanks for the new video....am going to download right now and then......

Oh, sue....you're such a tease.....

Apparently, Alan has a new film being released that none of us knew about. 

Forgive me....it's 3:30am and I can't sleep.....feeling quite goofy! 

And here is last night's video of the Edinburgh Interview on BBC2. Sorry it needs a bit of cutting at the beginning but if you waited for me to master the editing you wouldn't be seeing the video. It's 36.5mb

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4F9F14004923533F

A few screencaps from last night's interview to tide you over until Yousendit uploads:

Hi All,

   ARDent I love your sence of humour!!!! Thanks so much all of you for sending in all these pictures. Gives me something to do late at night when all is quiet. Love to hear anything about Alan Rickman. Sure hope Snow Cake comes to my neck of the woods soon. Can't believe how nice you all are to post all this stuff. Thanks again.

Thanks Carolyn, I'll mail them right now

Camerata, IIRC, the European Distributor for "Perfume" is Constantin Films and in the US, it's Dreamworks.

Clarification - when I say: "I ripped it off", I mean that I got it from Making of Mesmer. I made the gif myself.

Carolyn, this pic you posted of the OooA is a shot from the very beginning before or just when he mets Linda's daughter - he is so wonderful in this film...thanks for posting it!

Good night to everyone

correction! the limited release date for Perfume is Dec 27 2006..sorry!

Marlene - I'm about 30 miles NW of Youngstown! So far they're only showing N.Y. & L.A., so I'm hoping for Pittsburgh, Cleveland, or Youngstown in December.  Hopefully a matinee so I don't have to drive at night.

Help yourself to my Alan gif - I ripped it off.  Right-click and select Save Picture As.

Hi all, i found another site that has the release date for Perfume. The limited release is Dec 25, 2006 but the wide release is Jan 5 2007. You can find the info here:http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=12352

Halfway across the country to see "Snow Cake", ARdent?  Where are you from?  Maybe we can find a closer-to-you location.

Thank you to everyone posting photos, videos, articles, etc ...   I find them eventually in my mailbox, but receive them always after someone's already posted it here. 

I had to chuckle at the introduction of the Edinburgh progrmame. They were saying what was on and said they were having Alan Rickman on "So go tell you mum, she'll thank you for it!"

I followed up on the info Sue gave us about imdb.com & "Snow Cake" releases.

If anyone is on the west coast, the first official showing of the movie is on Nov.12 in Hollywood, CA. It is the closing movie of the American Film Institute's 20 year film festival. (The festival goes from Nov.2-12). Tickets go on sale Sept. 1.

the web site is: www.afi.com

Woohoo, very nice interview on BBC Edinburgh Festival, about six minutes I guess with clips from My Name is Rachel Corrie and a new clip form Snowcake which was fab.

I watched it in the kitchen as my first husband was watching something else on the big tv but hopefully it is recorded. I won't be able to transfer it to dvd and bring it up here tonight because he is a stay up 'til 1am kinda guy but I'll get it on-line hopefully tomorrow unless someone beats me to it! (Please!)

YES!!! ARdent!!  That's IT!!  Thank You!

Hummm...  would you allow me to save it onto my computer (if I can figure out how)? 

He's adorable in that segment!

Claudia, thanks for the trailer and and download to play it with. Works a treat!!!

Hikity, Steve Coogan is famous over here for his weird characters, the most famous of which is Alan Partridge, a truly cringe-making radio dj who doesn't know how awful he is in Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge. My husband thinks he's hilarious but I find a little goes a long way, I have never been a big fan of the "theatre of embarassment".

I found this photo from "Snow Cake" (honestly don't remember where I got it!)...and hadn't seen it posted before!

Or worse, deep-fried Mars bars!!  

Thank you, Lydia and Kate. Yes, I should have realised that chip refers to chips, but I didn't know that you also eat them with white bread. To be honest, to me it does sound like something one would eat at 3 a.m. when being drunk. But perhaps I'll give it a try sometime in the near future anyway.

Vera

Chip butties are usually slices of white bread with butter spread on it then folded up with chips in it!  Chips are like very fat fries!

People put ketchup or vinegar on sometimes aswell.

We are quite fond of them in our house

Thankyou to everyone for all the pics and latest bits of info on AR.

Marlene - you mean this?

I think I'm getting depressed about Snow Cake.  So far, it's looking like an impossible trip halfway across the country to see it in a theater . . .

Vera - I will try and keep an eye if I recognise the places when they show it in the film, I haven't been in that castel as far as I remember but well I guess it might not be that hard since it's not that small so my guess would probably be that they will use the inside. Oh well this is random vagueness since I have no idea about that bit.

About "chip butties" I have no idea but I've found this: "Fat chips on thick white bread with ketchup, mayonnaise or both."

lol, Claudia, I was going to post a link to Snow Cake trailer as well. I made it into .exe format instead of swf or flv.

It's about 2 hours that I try to save the Herald's, GOOD LUCK!

I really hope you can download it

Laura

I was finally able to grab the Snow Cake trailer!  Now I'm working on the Herald.

Snow Cake Trailer

I still haven't gotten a handle on converting flash videos so you'll need to install this player in order to watch it. 

FLVPlayer 

No need to worry on the player.  I've had it on my computers at home and at work for almost a year now and they work wonderfully and have not caused me any problems.

Vera and I would love to know what this really means:

 Coogan launching into a string of impressions and then chip butties all round at 3am

Thanks

Lydia, I only know what's in the book, and the autor says that the film crew was in Figueres. According to him, they filmed at Castell de Sant Ferran.

Vera -> There was some filming in Girona, in the old jewish quarter if I don't remember wrong but I don't think there was any filming in Figueres and shame that you couldn't meet the man when you where over here.

Could someone please tell me why SC will air on March 07 over here? Because really! *shakes head*

Lyd, who is kind of back and hopes to manage the staying bit that failed before ;-)

Atta boy Alan!!!!!!  You deserve a good time! And I think we all have been there.

Sue, how can you post this without explaining what chip butties are?

Frome Timesonline Edinburgh critics blog:

IMDb Snowcake page appears to have a release date update HERE

Chalebh -- I agree on that screenshot picture!   Thank you for posting it. To me, it's the best Alan Rickman screenshot I've seen in a long time!  I also LOVE the wrinkly-face he does in "Making of Mesmer" when the interviewer asks him "Isn't this your day off?"

A few stragglers showing up now from the other day ...

TGIF everyone!

Good news on the Perfume news!

More thanks for all the pics and links.

This has nothing to do with AR since he isn't an American citizen but since we have discussed the "goody" bags the stars and presenters get for the Emmys and Oscars when AR has been up for an award, I thought this was quite interesting. 

IRS Targets Award Show Goody Bags

Thank You, Thank You.....How did you do it? Thats great!!!!  I appreciate it so much..You Folks ROCK!!!         

Chalebh, I'm going to ask him whether he'll be in Munich, too

for the link to the video, I hadn't seen it before coz it didn't work

Do you know the distributor's name of Perfume please ? I'd like to contact them to know if there will be a premiere in Paris with AR

Ok, folks. Today is not my day. Bad weather in Frankfurt and an aching hand because of a bee sting yesterday.

I have to change my post about news about Perfume another time.

The world premiere is in Munich, September 7th (this info is hidden in the articlein subordinate clause).

No infos if Alan or others will be in Munich.

As I mentioned below, the big party will be in Berlin with Alan (at least the article says so).

Have a nice weekend

Chalebh

Beautiful, Chalebh, as usual. Thank you.

Ok, change that to "rely"

And here are some screenshots from the Momentum trailer

 and my absolute favourite is this one

Chalebh

As there is another film coming up with Alan

Here are some news about the world premiere of "Perfume - The story of a murderer".

http://www.welt.de/data/2006/08/18/1001733.html

Roughly it says: The world premiere will be held in Berlin.

Time: evening, September 8th,

Place: CineStar cinema, Potsdamer Platz

Confirmed attendance: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Sir Simon Rattle

And I'll be on holiday