This inspiring film provides a great insight into the work of Riders for Health. Narrated by biker and actor Ewan McGregor, it also features interviews with racing legend and Riders co-founder Randy Mamola. You can click here to download a clip.
When three members of the Redgrave acting dynasty – Vanessa, her sister Lynn, and her daughter Natasha Richardson – set about filming the final collaboration between James Ivory and the late Ismail Merchant, it looked like the culmination of a film career famed for its Anglo-Saxon pedigree.But, despite its British and American cast, The White Countess, just released in American cinemas and due to open in the UK in March, is a Merchant-Ivory production with an Oriental twist. Set among the nightclubs and teeming streets of a city engulfed in political conspiracy and consumed by its own flamboyant decadence, where Chinese nationalists and White Russian aristocrats mingle with Jewish refugees and Japanese spies, it is the first Western film to be made entirely in China.
Hollywood stars JAKE GYLLENHAAL and HEATH LEDGER bonded long before starring in gay romance BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – they were united in their jealousy of EWAN McGREGOR.The actors auditioned for MOULIN ROUGE! together, but the two Americans lost out to the charms of the Scottish screen hunk.Gyllenhaal says, “We’d auditioned for Moulin Rouge! together. It was actually me, Heath and Ewan McGregor at the very end.”Neither Heath nor I got the part and it was out of jealousy against Ewan that we became friends.” Source: contactmusic.com
Before we take a break from updating, I wanted to add these marvellous caps of “The Island” sent in by the lovely Maria. I had started capping the film about a month and half ago, but never finished, but now we have lots of caps of Lincoln Six Echo and Tom Lincoln for your viewing pleasure! :tongue:
London Lighthouse AIDS Trust – November 23, 2000: PS: Our host will be moving us to a new server in the next 48 hours, so don’t expect any news or updates until then. And don’t worry if we get offline for a while. We won’t be going away! 😉
