Tom Boyd with Jeremy Irons,who had just finished filming The Mission, and Jeremy's dog, Speed. 1986
M Butterfly on DVD May 26, 2009
Features:
New interview with director David Cronenberg; Theatrical trailer
David Cronenberg’s cinematic intensity eviscerates this adaptation of David Henry Hwang’s passionate stage production. Based on a true incident involving a French diplomat who carried on an affair for 18 years with a man the diplomat thought was a woman, M. Butterfly begins in 1964 Beijing when French foreign service employee Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons) becomes smitten with Chinese opera performer Song Liling (John Lone). Before long, Gallimard is enamored with Song, and they begin an inflamed affair — bracketed by the stipulation that Gallimard will never be allowed to look upon her in a state of complete undress. Gallimard agrees to the rules, but, as he climbs up the diplomatic ladder, the communist government gets involved, corralling Song to become an informer for the government. When, at last, Gallimard’s passion demands nudity, Song flees the relationship. Gallimard, pining for his lost love, then becomes a physical and mental wreck. He leaves China and accepts a two-bit diplomatic position, but then Song appears once again to Gallimard. At that point, Gallimard is arrested and, during the subsequent sensational trial for treason, his affair is exposed for the sham that it is. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Scene Index
Disc #1 — M. Butterfly
1. Credits [2:31]
2. Certainly Different [1:38]
3. Entrance of Butterfly [2:42]
4. Beautiful to a Westerner [2:55]
5. Piece of Beautiful Music [3:02]
6. At the Opera [5:35]
7. Wings Fluttering in the Dark [3:56]
8. Implications [4:56]
9. Unfriendly Party [2:43]
10. Letters to a White Devil [2:14]
11. Unexpected Good News [2:30]
12. Most Forbidden of Loves [5:30]
13. New Vice-Consul [1:38]
14. At the Great Wall [2:00]
15. Theories on Oriental Culture [2:17]
16. Practice of Deception [2:04]
17. Still Playing Missionary [2:33]
18. Slave’s Revelation [4:36]
19. Farwell to His Concubine [2:14]
20. What Only a Man Knows [2:00]
21. Flames of Revolution [4:23]
22. Bittersweet Reunion [2:36]
23. Demotion; Hard Labor [3:29]
24. Tear-Stained Memory [3:38]
25. Here in My Arms [2:22]
26. The Trial [5:41]
27. Loving the Lie [6:44]
28. His Biggest Performance [2:29]
29. Madama Butterfly [6:04]
30. End Credits [3:42]
Performance Credits
Jeremy Irons
(Films)(Biography)(Music) Rene Gallimard
John Lone
(Films)(Biography) Song Liling
Ian Richardson
(Films)(Biography)(Music) Ambassador Toulon
Annabel Leventon
(Films)(Music) Frau Baden
Shizuko Hoshi Comrade Chin
Richard McMillan Embassy Colleague
Vernon Dobtcheff Agent Etancelin
Damir Andrei 2nd Intelligence Officer
Deirdre Bowen Actor
Barbara Chilcott Critic at Garden Party
Viktor Fulop Marshal
David Hemblen 1st Intelligence Officer
Sean Hewitt Ambassador’s Aide
Tristram Jellinek Defense attorney
Philip McGough Prosecution attorney
Peter Messaline Diplomat at party
David Neal Judge
Antony Parr 3rd Intelligence Officer
Barbara Sukowa Jeanne Gallimard
Technical Credits
David Cronenberg Director
Suzanne Benoit Makeup
John Board Asst. Director
Deirdre Bowen Casting
Denise Cronenberg Costumes/Costume Designer
Bryan Day Sound/Sound Designer
Elinor Rose Galbraith Set Decoration/Design
David Henry Hwang Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Alicia Keywan Art Director
Gabriella Martinelli Producer
James McAteer Art Director
Ronald Sanders Editor
Howard Shore Score Composer
Carol Spier Production Designer
Marilyn Stonehouse Production Designer
Peter Suschitzky Cinematographer
Pink Panther 2 on DVD 23 June 2009
Editorial Reviews
Hollywood funnyman Steve Martin returns to the role made famous by Peter Sellers in this high-concept sequel to the 2006 comedy hit The Pink Panther. The world’s most valuable treasures are being stolen. The legendary Pink Panther Diamond is the latest to disappear, and Chief Inspector Dreyfus (John Cleese taking over acting duties from Kevin Kline) is assembling a team of international experts and detectives to track down the thief and recover the missing artifacts. The latest addition to the crack team is Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Martin), the intrepid yet awkward French detective who always seems to get his man. Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer reprise their roles as Clouseau’s partner, Ponton, and love interest, Nicole, respectively, with Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Yuki Matsuzaki, and the Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai rounding out the team that will travel from Paris to Rome in search of the priceless gem. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Jeremy Irons and Cynthia Nixon Co-Host Drama League Awards
Jeremy Irons and Cynthia Nixon Co-Hosted Drama League Awards
Photo by Aubrey Reuben
Tony Award winners Jeremy Irons, recently on Broadway in Impressionism, and Cynthia Nixon, currently Off-Broadway in Distracted, will co-hosted the 75th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.
The annual ceremony was held May 15 at noon at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.
The Drama League Awards, according to press notes, pay “tribute to the season’s best performers by including the nominees of The Distinguished Performance Award on a dais. The 75th Annual Drama League Awards dais will feature approximately 60-70 stars from the 2008-09 Broadway and Off-Broadway season.”
The Drama League also presents four other annual awards: Distinguished Production of a Play, Distinguished Production of a Musical, Distinguished Revival of a Play and Distinguished Revival of a Musical.
Cynthia Nixon won her Tony Award for her performance in Rabbit Hole. Jeremy Irons won his Tony Award for his work in The Real Thing; Nixon played his daughter in that 1984 production.
Founded in 1916, the Drama League is an association of theatre professionals and patrons dedicated to “encouraging the finest in professional theatre and has since then developed into the theatre’s premiere service organization.”
Jeremy, Tom Hanks, Oliver Platt, and more narrate Ken Burns film “Prohibition”
Post Updated 6 October 2011:
Here is Jeremy Irons’s contribution to the film: (Headphones are recommended for listening to the clip…)
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Watch full episodes at http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/
Original post below:
PBS will bring a new Ken Burns project to air on October 2, 2011.
The latest from Burns and exec producing partner Lynn Novick, “Prohibition,” will effectively kick off the 2011-12 season for PBS on Oct. 2, running for three consecutive nights at two hours a night. Peter Coyote will narrate the documentary about drinking and the lack thereof during the early 20th-century ban on liquor, with Wynton Marsalis providing music and Tom Hanks, Jeremy Irons, Paul Giamatti, John Lithgow, Samuel L. Jackson and Patricia Clarkson among those contributing voice roles.
For more on the upcoming Ken Burns film “Prohibition”, for which Jeremy provides some of the narration, click this link: Full House Productions: New York’s Premiere Sound Production and Restoration Studio
Jeremy appeared at Jacob Burns Film Center event
An Evening with Jeremy Irons
Series: Special Events
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Country: UK, West Germany, Release: 1982, Runtime: 97, Rating: PG, Language: English, Polish, with subtitles
With a screening of MOONLIGHTING
Over an iconic 28-year film career, Jeremy Irons has cultivated a reputation for taking on challenging and intense roles ranging from a wealthy suspected murderer to a Jesuit priest to twin gynecologists to a power-hungry lion to Franz Kafka. But one of his most effective and surprising is this early performance as Nowak in the 1982 film Moonlighting, the only English-speaking member of a work crew sent from Warsaw to do an illegal construction job in London in 1981. While they’re away martial law is enacted in Poland (in opposition to Solidarity), effectively exiling the crew from its own country. Nowak chooses to keep them in the dark, pressing them to work harder. This sleeper hit passed under the radar at the time (though, it did win the screenplay award at Cannes) but has since seen its reputation grow, mainly due to Irons’ outstanding portrayal of a man increasingly estranged from his fellow workers even as he believes to be acting in their best interest.
Q&A: actor Jeremy Irons in conversation with New York Times critic Janet Maslin.
Jeremy attends world premiere of Le Conversazioni
Installment Of Le Conversazioni FMR At The Morgan Library
NEW YORK – MAY 13: Actor Jeremy Irons attends the world premiere of Le Conversazioini FMR at The Morgan Library & Museum on May 13, 2009 in New York, New York. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Also in attendance at the event were actress Isabella Rossellini, journalist Pia Lindstrom, writer Gay Talese, sculptor Mark di Suervo and architect Renzo Piano.
Jeremy to Announce Theater Master’s Visionary Award Winners
Broadway and film star Jeremy Irons will announce the second annual Theater Master’s Visionary Award winners on Thursday, May 14th at a gala reception at the Manhattan home of Theater Masters’ founder Julia Hansen.
Theater Masters selects acclaimed theaters to propose candidates for this honor. Winning playwrights are invited to attend Aspen Institute’s noted “Aspen Ideas Festival,” and are jointly commissioned by the nominating theatre and Theater Masters to write a full-length play that embraces timeless values and powerful issues.
This year’s program will include New York’s Primary Stages and The Dallas Theater Center. Celebrated actors Marian Seldes, Simon Jones and Karen Ziemba will also be attending the event.
Based in Aspen, Colorado, Theater Masters is a non-profit organization whose core mission is to seek and nurture the next generation of artists for the American Theatre and present their work. “Along with some of the country’s finest regional theatre artistic directors, we have found these remarkable writers who are some of the finest young playwrights this country is developing” said Julia Hansen, Theater Masters founder and Artistic Director – and former President of New York’s Drama League. “In many ways, how I started the Drama League’s “Director’s Project” is how I am now fostering new playwrights and giving them chance to have their work nurtured and developed.”
In 2008, Theater Masters initiated the Visionary Playwrights Award, in partnership with the Aspen Institute and three of America’s top regional theaters: Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, La Jolla Playhouse in California, and Playwrights Horizons in NYC.
Theater Masters Advisory Board includes: Alec Baldwin, Andre Bishop, Gordon Davidson, Scott Ellis, A.R. Gurney , Doug Hughes, Judy Kaye, Andrew Leynse, Samuel Liff, John Lithgow, Robert Moss, Brian Murray, Jack O’Brien, Neil Pepe and John Rando.
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Jeremy is nominated in the category of Best Leading Actor in a Play.
Impressionism is nominated in the following categories:
Best Scenic Design
Best Lighting Design
Best Costume Design
Best Direction of a Play (Jack O’Brien)
Best Featured Actress in a Play (Marsha Mason)
Best Featured Actor in a Play (Andre DeShields)
Best Leading Actress in a Play (Joan Allen)
Best Play
Best Sound Design
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