Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick s final movie starred Tom Cruise and then wife Nicole Kidman in a dense story of sexual obsession and mysterious cloaked gatherings in stately homes. Elveden Hall has never looked so magnificent with its mix of Gothic and Indian architecture forming the backdrop to an almost religious looking orgy which Tim Cruise s character finds himself embroiled in. A masterful mix of location, lighting and production design.
Mildenhall:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Pierce Bond is James Bond in this tense multi-media drama co-starring Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. RAF Mildenhall doubled as a US Airforce base in the South Pacific after a British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. A parade of palm trees forms a silent honour guard alongside the runway to disguise its decided untropical UK origins. Bond has other strong links with Suffolk thanks to
Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick s final movie starred Tom Cruise and then wife Nicole Kidman in a dense story of sexual obsession and mysterious cloaked gatherings in stately homes. Elveden Hall has never looked so magnificent with its mix of Gothic and Indian architecture forming the backdrop to an almost religious looking orgy which Tim Cruise s character finds himself embroiled in. A masterful mix of location, lighting and production design.
Mildenhall:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Pierce Bond is James Bond in this tense multi-media drama co-starring Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. RAF Mildenhall doubled as a US Airforce base in the South Pacific after a British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. A parade of palm trees forms a silent honour guard alongside the runway to disguise its decided untropical UK origins. Bond has other strong links with Suffolk thanks to
British composer and trumpeter Malcolm Arnold in 1961
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Great anniversaries are an opportunity to give a moment in the sun to cultural figures whom we have forgotten or underappreciate, so it was just as well that it was poor old Beethoven whose 250th birthday celebrations last year were derailed by a pandemic; he hardly needs a boost to his reputation.
The same is not true of Sir Malcolm Arnold, born 100 years ago this year and considered, by the authorities at least, of such little significance that part of his archive – from the seven years when his mental illness was so bad that he was made a ward of court – is threatened with destruction by imbeciles at the Ministry of Justice. Arnold was an extremely difficult man and had a troubled life; but he was a great composer, however one measures such things.