Original upload date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:28:28 GMT
BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2018, Monday 26 March 2018.
This year’s highlights included the first UK public screening of the Cohen Film Collection’s beautiful new 30th Anniversary digital restorat
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ion of Merchant Ivory Productions’ groundbreaking gay classic Maurice (1987), directed by James Ivory and adapted by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey from E. M. Forster’s posthumously published novel (1971).
The screening was introduced by the BFI’s Acting Director of Festivals Tricia Tuttle and two very special guests: Maurice’s stars James Wilby (Maurice Hall) and Hugh Grant (Clive Durham), who were both cast back in 1986 as young unknowns and shared the Volpi Cup Best Actor Award at the 1987 Venice Film Festival for their performances (as they recount in some evocative and colourful anecdotes!)
Listen carefully early in the recording and you might catch someone in the audience asking ‘Where’s Scudder?’ A fair question: Maurice’s third star Rupert Graves (Alec Scudder) wasn’t present.
