A Screenwriting Professor Experiences a Kafkaesque Descent in Harry Sherriff’s ‘Jeremy: A Nightmare’
The joy of seeing a promising young filmmaker grow and grow with each new project is one of the great privileges we get here at Dn. Director Harry Sherriff is one of those filmmakers, someone who we first featured for his craft-building exercise of making a film every month for a whole year, then more recently with his ambitious self-aware dark comedy Harry is Not Okay, and now Jeremy: A Nightmare, his brilliant and most assured work to date. Jeremy is a screenwriting professor whose world starts to fold in when someone who looks exactly like him turns up to potentially take his job. It’s dark, high-concept, strange and utterly compelling and Dn is delighted to premiere Jeremy: A Nightmare alongside an extensive conversation with Sherriff, where he talks through his development as a filmmaker at the Nfts, the joys of creative overlapping with his crew, and the vision...
- 1/16/2024
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Dancing on Ice returned to our screens last week, and it was more dramatic than ever. The first show boasted sequins, skates and Sylvain Longchambon not trying to seduce his skating partner.
Now it's time to see who will fall and who will soar in the second week of the competition - but who will be joining Jorgie Porter and Joe Pasquale in hanging up their skates? Join Digital Spy at 6.15pm, as the second batch of past champions and fan favourites return to the ice.
20:56That's all from me tonight! Join us again next week, same time, same place.
20:55Next week will see both sets of celebrities join forces, as all 10 skate.
20:54So what did you think of the results? Were they what you expected? Let us know.
20:54Gary accepts defeat graciously, and both he and David are praised by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Now it's time to see who will fall and who will soar in the second week of the competition - but who will be joining Jorgie Porter and Joe Pasquale in hanging up their skates? Join Digital Spy at 6.15pm, as the second batch of past champions and fan favourites return to the ice.
20:56That's all from me tonight! Join us again next week, same time, same place.
20:55Next week will see both sets of celebrities join forces, as all 10 skate.
20:54So what did you think of the results? Were they what you expected? Let us know.
20:54Gary accepts defeat graciously, and both he and David are praised by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
- 1/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Julia Davis is famous for creating some of the most uncomfortably bleak comedies of recent times. Now the star of Nighty Night is turning her dark powers to period drama in her new series Hunderby
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
- 8/10/2012
- by Oliver Burkeman
- The Guardian - Film News
After an unreasonable two-year absence, only alleviated by last year’s Halloween special, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Psychoville finally returns for a second series of black comedy japes and spooky mystery. As a spiritual follow-up to The League Of Gentlemen‘s small-town horror, Psychoville may lack that show’s insidious edge and pervasive atmosphere, but a more ambitious format (fully serialized plotting, wider scope) has helped carve it a complimentary identity. However, it’s still less menacing and moody than The League ever was — being more of a warped carnival of oddities — perhaps signifying that Shearsmith and Pemberton are mellowing in middle-age, or that colleagues Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson were the more macabre half of their comedy troupe.
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
- 5/5/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
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