Gormenghast

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The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adaptation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronized madness of Zo Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin sisters, and the duplicitous charm of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, the kitchen-boy determined to take over no matter how many deaths it costs. John Sessions is surprisingly touching as Prunesquallor, the family doctor who realizes almost too late what Steerpike intends.

It is always tricky to film a book dear to the hearts of its admirers. Wilson and his design team achieve a look rather more pre-Raphaelite than Peake's own illustrations--shabby velvets, garish sunlight, and dank, stone passages. The score by Richard Rodney Bennett is full of attractive surprises--fanfares and waltzes and apotheoses--and John Tavener's choral additions are plausibly parts of the immemorial ritual of Gormenghast. --Roz Kaveney

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The BBC's lavish, glowingly designed adaptation of Mervyn Peake's eccentrically brilliant novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast is a triumph of casting. Ian Richardson's Lear-like depiction of the mad earl of a remote, vast, ritual-obsessed building is matched by the brutal pragmatism of Celia Imrie as his wife, the synchronized madness of Zo Wanamaker and Lynsey Baxter as his twin sisters, and the duplicitous charm of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike, the kitchen-boy determined to take over no matter how many deaths it costs. John Sessions is surprisingly touching as Prunesquallor, the family doctor who realizes almost too late what Steerpike intends.

It is always tricky to film a book dear to the hearts of its admirers. Wilson and his design team achieve a look rather more pre-Raphaelite than Peake's own illustrations--shabby velvets, garish sunlight, and dank, stone passages. The score by Richard Rodney Bennett is full of attractive surprises--fanfares and waltzes and apotheoses--and John Tavener's choral additions are plausibly parts of the immemorial ritual of Gormenghast. --Roz Kaveney

BARNES & NOBLE Gormenghast Novels: Titus Groan, Gormenghast ... Overview A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's ... Gormenghast, the official website - Mervyn Peake - Artist ... The Official Gormenghast website brings you: news and events from the world of Mervyn Peake, extracts from the books and the story behind the creation of Gormenghast. Gormenghast (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gormenghast series comprises three novels by Mervyn Peake, originally published between 1946 and 1959. The series features Castle Gormenghast, and Titus Groan ... Gormenghast - about Gormenghast castle - Mervyn Peake - Artist ... Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ... The Gormenghast Novels (Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone ... Mervyn Peake's gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, begins with the superlative Titus Groan , a darkly humorous, stunningly complex tale of the first two ... Gormenghast (TV mini-series 2000 ) - IMDb Celia Imrie: Lady Gertrude Christopher Lee: Flay Warren Mitchell: Barquentine Neve McIntosh: Lady Fuchsia Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Steerpike John Sessions ... BBC - Drama - Gormenghast Based on Mervyn Peake's novel Titus Groan, Gormenghast focuses on life in the eponymous castle, ruled by the Groan family for over 70 generations. Gormenghast - Welcome About this castle. Welcome to an unofficial Gormenghast site, dedicated to Mervyn Peake's 'Titus Groan' trilogy, and to the BBC series, 'Gormenghast' (based on the ... Gormenghast - PBS: Public Broadcasting Service The companion Web site to PBS's presentation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Gormenghast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gormenghast can refer to the following works related to Mervyn Peake's opus. Gormenghast (series), a trilogy of books. Gormenghast (novel), second in the series ...