Risultati di ricerca
A Wilderness of Mirrors: Directed by Laura Scrivano. With Suzanne Packer, Joanna Scanlan, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Caroline Catz. Adjusting to life in Bath, DCI McDonald and partner DS Dodds are called to the Mara Retreat, a private rehabilitation clinic, to investigate the mysterious death of a wealthy patient.
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- Laura Scrivano
- Not Rated
DIRECTOR - A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS / FILM 2. A series of feature length crime mysteries set in Bath, starring BAFTA winner Jason Watkins (The Crown, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, W1A) and Tala Gouveia (Cold Feet).
11 mar 2020 · ‘The Wilderness of Mirrors’ again boasts a strong guest cast along with our regulars, and Joanna Scanlon is the standout here, bringing a bizarre charm to a monstrously manipulative woman who will make your flesh crawl.
A Wilderness of Mirrors: Directed by John Bosch. With Paul Kopasz, Will Oldham, J.J. Angleton, Carlotta Elektra Bosch. Legendary singer/songwriter Paul K's tragically prophetic rock opera from 1998 is examined in detail, as reality merges with fiction.
- John Bosch
- 106
- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Paul Kopasz, Will Oldham, J.J. Angleton
- Ian Fleming, Agent 17F
- The Changing World of Bond
- Spies After Bond
- The Wilderness of Mirrors
Fleming came from a wealthy, well-connected British family, but he was a mediocre student. He only lasted a year at military college (where he contracted gonorrhoea), then missed out on a job with the Foreign Office. He could write, though. He spent a few years as a journalist, but drifted purposelessly through much of the 1930s. The outbreak of wa...
The success of Casino Royale secured contracts for more Bond novels. In the early 1960s, critics began to denounce the books for their “sex, snobbery, and sadism”. Bond’s attitude toward women, in particular, was clear from the beginning. In Casino Royale, he refers to the “sweet tang of rape” in relation to sex with his MI6 accomplice and paramour...
Fleming is not the only ex-spy to have successfully turned his hand to spy fiction. John le Carré’s George Smiley is perhaps an anti-Bond: slightly overweight, banal, and essentially a bureaucrat. He relies on a shrewd mind rather than gadgets or guns. Le Carré introduced his readers to a more mundane, morally grey world of espionage. He had worked...
Spy fiction is never just about entertainment. The real world of espionage is so secret that most of us only ever encounter it on pages or screens. We don’t usually look to Bond films for accurate representations of espionage. But the influence of Fleming’s spy and the general aura of secrecy surrounding intelligence work lend some glamour and exci...
15 mar 2020 · The following week sees “The Wilderness of Mirrors” broadcast at the same time and place. And it looks just as good as it sounds, too. Here are the filming locations the director used to...
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