exponential63:25 years ago tonight… Thursday 5 November August 1987: Maurice (James Ivory, UK, 198
exponential63: 25 years ago tonight… Thursday 5 November August 1987: Maurice (James Ivory, UK, 1987) received its UK Premiere at the Cannon Shaftsbury Avenue, London (today’s Odeon Covent Garden). These dodgy photocopies from the exponential63 vaults* are from a advertising spread in the film trade paper Screen International, celebrating the ‘dazzling turn-out of other celebrities’ at the premiere, Maurice’s achievement of a new opening-weekend box-office record at both its début London cinemas following its ‘record-breaking’ success in New York – and, most importantly, the fact that the boys were treated to a ‘glamorous’ nosh-up afterwards. Full caption for the big-group shot, L–R: Richard Robbins (award-winning composer of Maurice’s haunting score) and his partner, Helena Bonham Carter (featured briefly as ‘Lady at Cricket Match’), Patrick Godfrey (Simcox the butler to you), Rupert Graves (Alec Scudder), James Wilby (Maurice Hall), Michael Jenn (Archie London) – seemingly licking James’ ear – director James Ivory, his co-screenwriter Kit Hesketh Harvey, Phoebe Nicholls (Anne Clare Wilbraham Woods/Anne Durham), Catherine Rabett (Pippa Durham), Hugh Grant (Clive Durham), Mark Tandy (Viscount Risley). *= My cuttings, my scans, so please credit me/exponential63 if you reblog, and reblog not repost. Thank you. -- source link
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