Released on: 2006
Rating: 7.80
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Q&A: Richard E Grant
'I'd bring back to life all the hair that's gone down the plughole over 53 years'
Richard E Grant was born in Swaziland in 1957. After attending Cape Town University, he founded the radical Troupe Theatre Company. In 1982, he moved to London and five years later made his film debut in Withnail And I. In 2005, he wrote and directed Wah-Wah, a movie based on his childhood in Africa. He recently appeared in the BBC drama The Crimson Petal And The White. Forthcoming films include Horrid Henry: The Movie, and The Iron Lady, in which he plays Michael Heseltine. Grant is married to the voice coach Joan Washington and has a daughter and a stepson.
When were you happiest?
When I cracked how to do the Eiffel Tower with my yo-yo in 1968.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Joan Washington.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Doubt.»
- Rosanna Greenstreet
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Marx at the movies
Soviet state-run cinema was fast, furious and fun before the dead hand of Stalin called time on experimentation and entertainment
A fast and furious chase, full of physical gags and gangsters, with jokes at the expense of American imperialism. A hallucinatory horror, where ordinary objects take on a life of their own, scripted by a literary theorist. A bed-hopping love triangle, simmering in a cramped flat. A big-budget science fiction spectacular, full of futuristic sets and bizarre, revealing costumes. A workers' strike, depicted via special effects and pratfalls. A film about film-making itself, with no plot, no words, no narrative, which is somehow the most thrilling film you'll ever see. A film about collective farming with full-frontal nudity and inscrutable, poetic metaphors. A film about mutinous sailors that manages to accidentally invent the action film as we know it.
This is Soviet cinema in the 1920s. An almost entirely state-run cinema,»
- Owen Hatherley
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See also: About Gangster No. 1
