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	Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), Act... from end of Regan's speech of love to her father to Lear's exit at end of scene. here is one link for all the excerpts uploaded of the Holm "Lear": http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=04AC969F56A00360 Ian Holm ... Lear Barbara Flynn ... Goneril Amanda Redman ... Regan Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia David Burke ... Kent Timothy West ... Gloucester Adrian Irvine ... France Nicholas R. Bailey ... Burgundy Holm has been acting professionally since joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this "Lear". from an interview: Was Lear a difficult role for you? Difficult physically, because you expend an enormous amount of energy. But mentally, it is not a difficult journey compared, say, to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra. The verse structure helps you enormously. You get carried along by it. Back to the beginning of the play: What is Lear's motivation for the who-loves-me-most contest? Is he being serious? Is he capricious? He's all of those things. You're quite right to take the beginning of the play, because the first scene is unquestionably pivotal in the action. As Gloucester says, "All this done upon the gad," which means in the instant. You start out with a nice family meeting. He's removing his crown, he's going to divide the kingdom among his daughters, and they're going to play the game. Goneril and Regan saying, "Oh God, here we go again. Yes, we love you, we love you, we love you." Then this silly little shit Cordelia -- forgive me -- says, "No!" Which sparks an overreaction in Lear. Suddenly she's out, Kent's banished, and the whole thing falls apart in five seconds flat. As in so many of Shakespeare's tragedies, you begin with this extraordinary impetus that is unstoppable. Once the wheel starts to go downhill, that's it. You race through to the end. It's the same with Macbeth. It's the same with Othello. All these powerful emotions take over, and you are driven through. That's back to what I was saying about Shakepeare. All you have to do as an actor is go with it and trust him. Yes, Lear is a capricious, tyrannical, impossible, lovable human being. He's like all our grandfathers. He goes through this extraordinary journey into and out of madness. I think an interesting thing is that there is no redemption. By the time he and Cordelia get together it's too late. She's killed and the tragedy ends horribly. In real life, 18th-century audiences couldn't cope with that. They changed the ending and had Cordelia marrying Edgar and living happily ever after. It's only comparatively recently that there's been a reversion to Shakespeare's original intention. View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Hamlet" (1990) Sir Ian Holm as Polonius in "Hamlet"....sir ian holm hamlet classic mel gibson glenn close bilbo baggins View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "From Hell" (2001) ! SPOILER WARNING !!! Sir Ian Holm as Jack the Ripper in "From Hell"....sir ian holm jack the ripper from hell william View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "O, Jerusalem" (2006) Sir Ian Holm as Ben Gurion in "O, Jerusalem"....sir ian holm ben gurison jerusalem jewish jew jews movie film bilbo baggins View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Bless the Child" (2000) Sir Ian Holm as Reverend Grissom in "Bless the Child"....sir ian holm bless the child kim basinger angel god devil movie bilbo baggins View Video
	Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), Act... Act 4, scene 7, line 25-87 - Cordelia with Lear as he awakes (Arden edition) Act 5, scene 2, Edgar's "Away, old man, give me thy hand, away!" Act 5, scene 3, "No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison" Ian Holm ... Lear Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia David Burke ... Kent Paul Rhys ... Edgar Timothy West ... Gloucester Holm has been acting professionally since joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this "Lear". A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth: "...already recognized his injustice towards Cordelia, is secretly blaming himself, and is endeavouring to do better, the disposition from which his first error sprang is still unchanged. And it is precisely the disposition to give rise, in evil surroundings, to calamities dreadful but at the same time tragic, because due in some measure to the person who endures them. The perception of this connection, if it is not lost as the play advances, does not at all diminish our pity for Lear, but it makes it impossible for us permanently to regard the world displayed in this tragedy as subject to a mere arbitrary or malicious power. It makes us feel that this world is so far at least a rational and a moral order, that there holds in it the law, not of proportionate requital, but of strict connection between act and consequence. It is, so far, the world of all Shakespeare's tragedies. But there is another aspect of Lear's story, the influence of which modifies, in a way quite different and more peculiar to this tragedy, the impressions called pessimistic and even this impression of law. There is nothing more noble and beautiful in literature than Shakespeare's exposition of the effect of suffering in reviving the greatness and eliciting the sweetness of Lear's nature. The occasional recurrence, during his madness, of autocratic impatience or of desire for revenge serves only to heighten this effect, and the moments when his insanity becomes merely infinitely piteous do not weaken it. The old King who in pleading with his daughters feels so intensely his own humiliation and their horrible ingratitude, and who yet, at fourscore and upward, constrains himself to practise a self-control and patience so many years disused; who out of old affection for his Fool, and in repentance for his injustice to the Fool's beloved mistress, tolerates incessant and cutting reminders of his own folly and wrong; in whom the rage of the storm awakes a power and a poetic grandeur surpassing even that of Othello's anguish..." View Video
	Sir Ian Holm & Penelope Cruz in "Cromophobia" (2005) A scene with Sir Ian Holm and Penelope Cruz in "Chromophobia" (2005)...sir ian holm penelope cruz chromophobia bilbo baggins View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "The Madness of King George" (1994) Sir Ian Holm and Nigel Hawthorne in "The Madness of King George"....sir ian holm nigel hawthorne madness of king george england bilbo baggins View Video
	Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), end... from line 338, Edmund's: "Yet Edmund was belov'd./The one the other poisoned for my sake,/And after slew herself." here is one link for all the excerpts uploaded of the Holm "Lear": http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=04AC969F56A00360 Ian Holm ... Lear Finbar Lynch ... Edmund Victoria Hamilton ... Cordelia David Burke ... Kent David Lyon ... Albany Holm has been acting professionally since joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this "Lear". A. C. Bradley, from "Shakespearean Tragedy", seems out of touch with our nihilistic views on Lear today: ..If to the reader, as to the bystanders, that scene brings one unbroken pain, it is not so with Lear himself. His shattered mind passes from the first transports of hope and despair, as he bends over Cordelia's body and holds the feather to her lips, into an absolute forgetfulness of the cause of these transports. This continues so long as he can converse with Kent; becomes an almost complete vacancy; and is disturbed only to yield, as his eyes suddenly fall again on his child's corpse, to an agony which at once breaks his heart. And, finally, though he is killed by an agony of pain, the agony in which he actually dies is one not of pain but of ecstasy. Suddenly, with a cry represented in the oldest text by a four-times repeated 'O,' he exclaims: Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! These are the last words of Lear. He is sure, at last, that she lives: and what had he said when he was still in doubt? She lives! if it be so, It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows That ever I have felt! To us, perhaps, the knowledge that he is deceived may bring a culmination of pain: but, if it brings only that, I believe we are false to Shakespeare, and it seems almost beyond question that any actor is false to the text who does not attempt to express, in Lear's last accents and gestures and look, an unbearable joy. View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in " Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) Sir Ian Holm as Baron Frankenstein. I'm sorry guys, but this clip is in Spanish !!!...sir ian holm mary shelley frankenstein View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Strangers with Candy" (2005) Sir Ian as Dr. Putney in "Strangers with Candy"....sir ian holm strangers with candy movie film bilbo baggins putney View Video
	Shakespeare "King Lear"- (1997 TV-Ian Holm), Act... the mock trial scene with the "joint-stool". Ian Holm ... Lear David Burke ... Kent Paul Rhys ... Edgar Michael Bryant ... Fool Timothy West ... Gloucester Holm has been acting professionally since joining the Royal Shakespeare Company as a spear-carrier in 1954. He was a young 66 when he filmed this "Lear". View Video
	Ian Holm Tribute just something to fill up the time....ian holm imogen heap speeding cars montage View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Big Night" (1996) - part 1 Sir Ian Holm as Pascal in "Big Night" Part 1 / 2....sir ian holm big night pascal bilbo baggins Marc Anthony Tony Shalhoub Isabella View Video
	Esther Kahn - French trailer - Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm French trailer of "Esther Kahn" movie (in English with Fr. subtitles), starring Summer Phoenix and Ian Holm. It's different from the other one I uploaded. View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Incognito" (1997) Sir Ian Holm as John in "Incognito"....sir ian holm incognito film movie bilbo baggins Jason Patric Rembrandt View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Kafka" (1991) Sir Ian Holm as Doctor Murnau in "Kafka"....sir ian holm kafka doctor murnau 1991 movie bilbo baggins Steven Soderbergh Jeremy Irons View Video
	"There is an Inn, a Merry Old Inn" sung by Frodo (... There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill. The ostler has a tipsy cat that plays a five string fiddle; And up and down he runs his bow, Now squeaking high, now purring low, now saving in the middle. The landlord keeps a little dog that is mighty fond of jokes; When there's good cheer among the guests, He cocks an ear at all the jests and laughs until he chokes. They also keep a hornéd cow as proud as any queen; But music turns her head like ale, And makes her weave her tufted tail and dance upon the green. And O! the rows of silver dishes and the store of silver spoons For Sunday there's a special pair, And these they polish up with care on Saturday afternoons. The Man in the Moon was drinking deep, and the cat began to wail; A dish and spoon on the table danced, The cow in the garden madly pranced, and the little dog chased his tail. The Man in the Moon took another mug, and then rolled beneath his chair; And there he dozed and dreamed of ale, Till in the sky the stars were pale, and dawn was in the air. Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat: 'The white horses of the Moon, They neigh and champ their silver bits; But their master's been and drowned his wits, and the Sun'll be rising soon!' So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, a jig that would wake the dead: He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune, While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon: 'It's after three!' he said. They rolled the Man slowly up the hill and bundled him into the Moon While his horses galloped up in rear, And the cow came capering like a deer, and a dish ran up with the spoon. Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle; the dog began to roar, The cow and the horses stood on their heads; The guests all bounded from their beds and danced upon the floor. With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke! the cow jumped over the Moon, and the little dog laughed to see such fun, And the Saturday dish went off at a run with the silver Sunday spoon. The round Moon rolled behind the hill, as the Sun raised up her head. She hardly believed her firey eyes; For though it was day, to her surprise they all went back to bed! View Video
	Shakespeare "King Lear"- Ian Holm - Act 1, iv and v Ian Holm ... Lear Michael Bryant ... Fool David Burke ... Kent Barbara Flynn ... Goneril David Lyon ... Albany Holm was 10 years younger than Olivier when he filmed this scene. The youthful energy helps. Olivier's version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQzDIYdFIy0 from an interview with Ian Holm: Could you contrast your own Lear with some of the other celebrated interpretations, for example those of Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield? All I can say is that mine was subjectively an unfussy performance. I tried to be as clear as the text allowed. I didn't see Olivier's, except his television performance in the last days of his life. It was really rather a sad affair. It was more King Olivier than King Lear. Paul Scofield I saw, a great performance in a very different production by Peter Brook. All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting. Anyway, you cannot play the king on your own. Richard Eyre surrounded me with an absolutely brilliant cast: a magnificent Kent and wonderful performers like Michael Bryant as the Fool. Good idea to have an elderly Fool, I think -- an old guy who's been around the court all his life cracking bad jokes. It becomes a sort of gerontocracy, a story about old men. I don't think that's going against the text at all. How would you describe your acting approach? I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery. I would tend much more toward that aspect of acting as opposed to the style of some of the great actors like Charles Laughton or Sir John Gielgud, who concentrate almost entirely on the words. Having said that, the words are of paramount importance. The verse tells the story. I try to achieve both. I try to be emotional and big, and at the same time very true to the verse. Inevitably, because I am not a man of big stature, something else is going to come out. I think the word "Napoleonic" is quite often used. You have to come out "every inch a king." Well, the crown helps. If I started to think of myself as a small human being, then I wouldn't be a king. So when Lear says "every inch a king," you have to imagine yourself to be ten feet tall. I'm sure you've heard Kenneth Branagh's quote where he describes the Ian Holm school of acting as: "Anything you can do I can do less of." How do you interpret that? As a huge compliment. I think he means I'm kind of subtle. I'm of a minimalist nature. Someone once said, "The greatest lesson you can learn is to do nothing." If I can do less -- I'm talking about on screen now -- if I can be subtle and use my eyes, I'm much more at home with that aspect of acting than I am with the big stuff. As I say, I regard that as an enormous compliment. It just means that I'm Mr. Subtle. View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Big Night" (1996) - part 2 Sir Ian Holm as Pascal in "Big Night" Part 2 / 2....sir ian holm big night pascal bilbo baggins Marc Anthony Tony Shalhoub Isabella View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Esther Kahn" (2000) - part 2 Sir Ian Holm as Nathan Quellen in "Esther Kahn"....sir ian holm esther kahn nathan quellen acting jewish summer phoenix Arnaud Desplechin View Video
	Ian Holm at the Ratatouille London premiere Ian Holm signs for fans...Bilbo baggins lord of the rings LOTR View Video
	Sir Ian Holm in "Chariots of Fire" (1981) - part 2 Sir Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini in "Chariots of Fire". part 2...sir ian holm chariots of fire 1981 olympic games france paris 1924 bilbo View Video
	HAPPY 76-TH BIRTHDAY, SIR IAN HOLM September 12, 2007 Happy 76th Birthday, Sir Ian ! Best wishes !...sir ian holm 76 birthday 12 september 2007 bilbo baggins View Video

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