Millions Hunt. One Runs. Everyone Watches. Watch the Official Trailer for my new film The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 7!
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Millions Hunt. One Runs. Everyone Watches. Watch the Official Trailer for my new film The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 7!
Millions Hunt. One Runs. Everyone Watches. Watch the Official Trailer for The #RunningManMovie – Only in theatres November 7
Don’t walk. Run. 🏃 The #RunningManMovie Official Trailer drops tomorrow.
I thought I would sneak in before the imminent apocalypse.
Hello. How is everyone on here?
Hello there! Click the link above for my TOP 50 SONGS OF 2024. It's still an utter pleasure to share with you my end of year playlist, with fifty(one!) tracks I've been loving in the last twelve months. Please, play loud, in order and ENJOY! linktr.ee/edgarwright
Second sold out show for Sparks at the Royal Albert Hall and another triumph. Very proud to take the traditional end-of-show photo, this time with their amazing band: Evan Weiss, Eli Pearl, Max Whipple and Stevie Nistor. If you were there, let us know!
Ron & Russell moved to London to record ‘Kimono My House’ in 1973 and lived in a basement flat in Thurloe Square. That place was a 10 minute walk from the Albert Hall and - taking the long way round - here they are 50 years later.
What an incredible night seeing Sparks play the Royal Albert Hall for the first time. Was so proud to take this photo at the end of this amazing concert. Such a great show. Just electric. Let us know if you were there x Viva Sparks! ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Whatever order you like! The documentary will give you a great introduction to the band, but this new album stands on its own too.
I've raved enough. 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' is available everywhere as we speak. Take a listen, buy the exquisite vinyl edition if you wish, but most importantly, I hope you enjoy it on repeat, as I have. Do let me know if you love it too.
I joked with Ron and Russell that they've been crafting the perfect epitaph songs for themselves since 1974’s 'Bon Voyage'. And 'Gee That Was Fun' is no exception.
The album closes with the rousing 'It Doesn't Have To Be That Way' and heartbreaking chaser 'Gee That Was Fun.' The latter, just stops me dead. It's another melancholic, dryly funny example of Sparks' mastery of bittersweet bangers.
There's the brutal 'When You Leave', about how much better a social event becomes once YOU’VE departed. And 'Love Story' introduces the alarmingly specific tale of someone to trying to save his spot in line while scoring drugs for their girlfriend. I believe this is a first.
Other standouts include the infectious melody of 'You Were Meant For Me', the anthemic 'Not That Well Defined', and the boisterous middle 8 of 'Take Me For A Ride' which chants, "LET'S GO, LET'S GO LAURA!".
The opening trio of singles, 'Latte', 'Veronica Lake' and 'Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is', followed by the minimalist gem of missed connections 'Escalator' exemplifies everything that is Sparks; simultaneously funny, profound, inventive, and irresistibly catchy.
So, it pleases me to no end to call 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' another triumphant classic. Packed with brilliant melodies, keen observations and witty lyrics, this album could be a greatest hits collection on its own or it could be your FIRST introduction to Sparks.
It's also their first LP on Island Records since their mid-70s breakthrough. But don't call it a comeback! Sparks are staggering in their irrepressible invention and alarming consistency. Name another band where an album in their sixth decade ranks among their finest. You can't.
I come to rave. Today, SPARKS release their 26th album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and I highly recommend listening from start to finish. It's the first to be written after my doc on the legendary Ron & Russell Mael and it made me swell with pride once more.
Huge props to the cast of ‘The Borrowers’.
That too. Italian hunks with hunks of bread and cheese. I’m in.
Disappeared into #theeightmountains and didn’t want to come back. A gorgeous epic about friendship, adventure and some cheese making from Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch, starring Luca Marinelli & my amico Alessandro Borghi. Made me want to jack it all in and venture into the wild…
Having read the book too, I would say: do go and see it.
There's much, much more to talk about. But the headline is: see it. I was lucky enough to see it a few weeks ago and I cannot wait to see it again. It's quite the feat of cinema.
The cast, led by DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone & Robert De Niro, are exceptional, the latter in one of his wiliest performances, right down to his final seconds. To see this epidemic of insidious gaslighting brought to graphic life, is urgent & sobering. You won’t stop thinking about it.
Am in awe of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. A profoundly powerful & disturbing film on an open wound subject. It's both intimate & epic, vividly tangible & exquisitely rendered by Martin Scorsese on incendiary form. Perhaps his best of this century. A must see on the big screen. 1/3
Congrats to Ruth Wilson & the whole team for this theatrical experience. What a wild marathon. I was terrified but very proud to be 'Marty' for 15 minutes. Walking onstage to meet her Virginia with no prior discussion is one of the craziest things I've done. She's incredible.
Performed the 3 page dialogue scene. Got some laughs. Called her ‘Virginia’ “unflappable any hour of the day or night”. Ate noodles with her Lady & The Tramp style. She took off my shoes and danced in them. I put on her heels and danced in them. Off stage by 8 AM. It was electric. Would recommend.
Woke at 6 AM (after 4 hours sleep). Showered. Got dressed. Jumped in a cab. Was onstage with Ruth Wilson at the Young Vic theatre at 7:45 AM for her 24 hour play ‘The Second Woman’. I played one of 100 men in the part of ‘Marty’. 1/3
Yes.
On my way to Colchester…
Have not seen either of those!
I am jammy (lucky) enough to have seen both of the two big films trailered this week; one is just as magnificently entertaining and exciting as you dream it might be, and the other is a stunning, stirring epic that may well be the best work from the director in this century. Great cinema incoming…
I asked Sam after I saw it, does everyone directing and acting in those plays have all Shakespeare plays memorised. They are not just off book on Hamlet, but seemingly his entire life’s work. Watching Flynn’s Burton work through a speech in various takes was hypnotic.
It’s fantastic isn’t it? Loved it so much.
This might be magnificent, but I couldn’t possibly say…
I edited this commercial !
I mean… it was mixed in 1999. So I don’t know!
Echo Beach, of course.
I mean the TV spot. Which is on the DVD.
Guy Pratt can’t find the file! It exists on the show only.
…it’s sampled on Yomanda’s Synth And Strings which we use for a Spaced TV spot advertising the clubbing episode. Can anyone find / rip that specific ad??? https://youtu.be/cnFka3noZDk
I just randomly heard ‘Dance Yourself Dizzy’ by Liquid Gold, which is one of the uncoolest and therefore coolest bangers of them all. This one has double the nostalgic wallop for me as, at age 5, I listened it on vinyl as part of K-Tel’s ‘Star Traks’ compilation and then 19 years later…
Don’t sleep on Daniel Goldhaber’s ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’, one of the best films of 2023. Thrilling, urgent and angry, but as focused on the humans involved as the pressing issues at hand. Brilliantly structured and edited too. And a superb, insistent score by Gavin Brivik. Do see it.
Now Oscar nominated?
On this beautiful Nighy, all is Rigg with the world.
The shoe in Maria's face was the magic ingredient that helped make the film a hit. Thank you and farewell to the great Maria Charles. You were a small but mighty part of a film we are all so proud of. I send all my warmest thoughts to her family and loved ones.
Even more incredible than being allowed to shoot pickups before our test screening, was the response to the scene. When it played to a packed house, I’ve never heard such an enormous laugh for anything in my work. The next scene was drowned out. I turned to Eric and Nira and gave them a thumbs up.
Maria kindly returned to shoot this close-up of a shoe-on-a-stick that we reversed, so we could pull it at speed from her face. This is an old Jackie Chan trick from the Hong Kong school of cinema.
Amazingly Eric Fellner and Nira Park trusted me to do a small reshoot outside London to punch up the sequence. Simon Pegg didn't return for the additional filming, as we had his coverage already. During the reshoot, we covered a key shot of Angel’s foot going directly into Mrs. Reaper's face.
We shot the scene where Nicholas Angel takes out the two Reapers in Somerset in the early summer of 2006. However, when I got into the editing process, it became clear we needed a couple of killer set-ups to make the scene really pop. I asked if this were possible before we test screened the film.
Was very sad to hear the great actress, Maria Charles, passed away a few weeks ago. I had the privilege of working with Maria on ‘Hot Fuzz’. She played the shotgun-wielding ‘farmer’s mum’, Mrs. Reaper, and was part of the (in)famous scene that got the biggest laugh of any film I’ve ever worked on.
My autocorrect changes ‘right’ to ‘Rigg’, and ‘night’ to ‘Nighy’. I’m okay with it.
Am in a cab in Paris and ‘Ça plane pour moi’ is playing. All is right with the world.
Me too x
The Secretary has disavowed all knowledge of your actions.
Was lucky enough to see ‘The Motive And The Cue’ at the National Theatre. Sam Mendes directing Jack Thorne’s play about the frictions on the 1966 Burton/Gielgud production of Hamlet. Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud, Johnny Flynn as Burton and Tuppence Middleton as Liz Taylor were all knockouts! See it!
Got to see Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’ on the huge BFI IMAX screen and it was glorious. My favourite screening I’ve ever seen of it. Stories are always better when they are literally several storeys high.
Is Skeet really the term for posting? Makes me think of ‘Top Secret!’
Jaffa.
There’s one - that’s neither DC not Marvel, but it’s been more than a little complicated to set up. So maybe one day, maybe never.
You say that like they gave me lots of copies (they didn’t).
Hearing you loud and clear x
That’s a Bryan Lee O’Malley question!
Not yet! Not out in the UK yet.
Max Cady’s favourite movie!
Don’t ask me pick a favourite Mael brother. I can’t do it.
What genre?
I can’t pick a favourite. They are all my favourites. Okay, maybe ‘A Fistful Of Fingers’ is the least loved of them. But I have more fondness for it as it gets further away. It’s dumb and so silly but it also got my foot in the door in lots of ways.
Follow @larrythek.bsky.social and @peterapeel.bsky.social : two of my favourite fellow film geeks.
You already know the answer to that.
I can confirm this is Rian. But am I me? Anyway, do follow x
Ask me.
Maybe not ‘favourite’ but I’ll never forget John Mackenzie’s ‘Apaches’.
I think smaller indies will always be made, but middle range original studio films are increasingly like unicorns.
No! X
No. I think it’s funnier at 90 seconds.
I actually think, in collaboration with some amazing cast and crew, it exceeded what was in my first draft.
I did. I saw it at the cinema and found it hypnotic.
I did enjoy the Oscars this year actually. I try to do my due diligence as an Oscar voter and watch every nominee.
ZX81, baby!!!
‘Nuts In May’.
Hmmm. A really scary old school Dracula film would be fun. I mean most have been redone of late… How about The Old Dark House?
Not tall enough. Maybe an Ewok.
Maybe in the plural.
Has it been?
No! But I saw that last week. Tons of fun.
Well I wrote and directed it, so I guess, yes?
Nothing! He’s ace. Haven’t worked with many of the HF cast since but would again if the part was right.
We’d love to do another movie. I don’t know if it would be another Cornetto. I think we’d want to break free of the Walls next time x
Not that one.
One of these I saw the day before….
No. They don’t come in that often. But always up for one if the timing is right.
How can I top my one second cameo as a resistance fighter in VIII?
Mmm… Japan?
From the nozzle straight into my gob.
But do they resonate years later? Of course. And if your film is famous and celebrated for decades and decades and brings enjoyment to millions, why do you need the golden statuette too? So many favourites of mine didn’t get any awards so ultimately it doesn’t matter.
Writing pithy answers like this.
They were all tough to make! But love them all and can’t pick.