I have positive feelings toward Ronald Harwood based almost entirely on The Dresser (1983).
I haven't seen that yet, but it is another adjacent to the Royal Exchange thing, having Tom Courtenay in it - he wrote Private Potter, the TV play & then film that was the first thing Tom did with the group after JM introduced him to them, as well as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, which I watched slowly a summer or so ago (very cooling sumer fare!!).
What did she see in him that she wanted other people to see?
She shot him in a way that emphasised his face as triangular, made him look almost elfin at moments. I've not seen any other director bring out whatever particular angle was needed to do that. (It's like I can tell if a Public EYe ep is a Kim Mills episode from any screenshot of Alfred BUrke in it, because Kim MIlls shoots him a way that nobody else quite does, all soulful eyes, I think - and also because every single screencap from one of his PE eps wants to be an icon.)
Old TV is so spartan visually and directors had more overall power than they do now (in TV at least) in putting together an individual episode, that there are a whole bunch of 70s and 60s directors I can spot without looking at the credits, and who I look out for when deciding whether or not to give a series or episode a try - while pretty much the only one I can ever even guess at these days is Rachel Talalay. But I am sure that is not to say that they can't be told apart! But a 90s ep of something - I can't see it's her any more. Apart from the fact that she still cast Peter Jeffrey as a priest, lol.
Nathaniel Parker plays Wilfred Owen in Derek Jarman's War Requiem (1989)!
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I haven't seen that yet, but it is another adjacent to the Royal Exchange thing, having Tom Courtenay in it - he wrote Private Potter, the TV play & then film that was the first thing Tom did with the group after JM introduced him to them, as well as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, which I watched slowly a summer or so ago (very cooling sumer fare!!).
What did she see in him that she wanted other people to see?
She shot him in a way that emphasised his face as triangular, made him look almost elfin at moments. I've not seen any other director bring out whatever particular angle was needed to do that. (It's like I can tell if a Public EYe ep is a Kim Mills episode from any screenshot of Alfred BUrke in it, because Kim MIlls shoots him a way that nobody else quite does, all soulful eyes, I think - and also because every single screencap from one of his PE eps wants to be an icon.)
Old TV is so spartan visually and directors had more overall power than they do now (in TV at least) in putting together an individual episode, that there are a whole bunch of 70s and 60s directors I can spot without looking at the credits, and who I look out for when deciding whether or not to give a series or episode a try - while pretty much the only one I can ever even guess at these days is Rachel Talalay. But I am sure that is not to say that they can't be told apart! But a 90s ep of something - I can't see it's her any more. Apart from the fact that she still cast Peter Jeffrey as a priest, lol.
Nathaniel Parker plays Wilfred Owen in Derek Jarman's War Requiem (1989)!
He gets everywhere!! XD