Boy-actors, once considered to play Lisa’s stepson Kolya, are now too old for any part. Writing in the Guardian in 2004, Thomas joked: “There is scarcely a star of either sex in Hollywood or elsewhere who has not appeared in the imagined movie. Various attempts at a movie using Potter’s script have been made with a number of directors and actors – including Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Fiennes – attached to projects that never made it over the line. It’s a rather magical feeling for me to be so close to my old friend again.” “As much as this is an adaptation of a DM Thomas novel, Dennis’s voice is so alive in this script and his personality is all through it. I truly loved him when we worked together and I think that deep affection was reflected in the work I did on The Singing Detective. People don’t talk about loving Dennis Potter that much, he was not considered loveable. “Dennis was a man I really and uniquely loved in terms of my collaborations with writers. The fact the script had been adapted from Potter made it an “exceptional” opportunity, he said. It has been directed by the Los Angeles-based Jon Amiel, who directed Potter’s 1986 serial The Singing Detective, and stars Anne-Marie Duff as Lisa and Bill Paterson as her psychoanalyst, Probst.Īmiel recalled reading The White Hotel nearly 30 years ago and said it still haunted him. It has been translated into 30 languages worldwide. It was No.1 bestseller in the UK for six successive weeks, and No.2 in the USA. “It is a brilliant screenplay of a novel that shouts out to be made,” he said. An unexpected bestseller, it won the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, the Cheltenham Prize and the P.E.N. Jeremy Howe, Radio 4’s commissioning editor for drama, called it “a disturbing, upsetting, heart-rending and sometimes shocking tale” of pre-second world war central Europe. Urn:oclc:15883951 Republisher_date 20120512061133 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120510154148 Scanner adapted version of The White Hotel centres on the sexual fantasies of Lisa and her premonitions of what it emerges are the horrors of the Holocaust and the Babi Yar massacre in 1941 in Nazi-controlled Ukraine. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981) narrates the personal history of Lisa Erdman who is mercilessly murdered in the Babi Yar massacre in 1941. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:33:36 Boxid IA179101 Boxid_2 CH106901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor
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