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Courtesy of NEON With the release of the drama Ammonite, paleontology has joined palace intrigue and oil painting on the list of surprising provocations to lesbian sex in recent historical films. Ammonite is a fictionalized account of a love story between the famous (real) fossil hunter Mary Anning and an ailing woman tourist, set at the seaside in 1840s England. Like fellow queer imagined histories Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Ammonite is sensuous and dark, almost luxuriantly interested in the textures of the preindustrial past—leather, rain, mud, candlelight, stone.  Kate Winsl...

'The Dig' is an upcoming movie that reimagines the discovery of the ship burial of Sutton Hoo and stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan discuss Netflix film The Dig, research behind preparing roles for period drama The Dig's cast dissects the making of the historical drama and how director #SimonStone kept the actors “very unrehearsed, very free, very spontaneous.” Still from The Dig. Image from Twitter Godalming, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, the director of the new Netflix drama, The Dig, peered at a monitor, then nodded. “Let’s go,” ...

Mick LaSalle January 25, 2021Updated: January 29, 2021, 9:22 am Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star in “The Dig.” Photo: Larry Horricks “The Dig” is the story of how priceless archaeological discoveries were made in Sutton Hoo, England. But you don’t need to know anything about that to enjoy the movie. Think of it, instead, as a satisfying human story about people involved in a fascinating project that starts off promising and ends up enormous. Along the way, it deals with Britain on the eve of war — it takes place in 1939, in the months leading up to the Nazi invas...

“He had such a thirst for knowledge. He had a love of astronomy and wrote a book for the amateur astronomer to make the subject understandable for the ordinary person – and yet, at the same time, for all his knowledge, he remained a very unassuming person.” Ralph Fiennes said that one of the key aspects of ‘finding’ Basil Brown was getting the accent right and he teamed up with Suffolk vocal coach Charlie Haylock to find Basil’s voice. The pair bonded straight away and after a few weeks practicing in mirrors, Charlie and Ralph went incognito on a tour of Suffolk pubs to see if Ral...