TV Guide: Nigel Terry

Video: Caravaggio

Video Detective — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:08:05 -0500

Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute child as a virtual slave, and squandered every penny he ever made. That we should care anything about so miserable and obscure a personality is a tribute to Jarman's filmmaking savvy--and the number of elements from his own well-publicized life that he injects into the film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Eye Of The Beholder

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:15:00 -0500

Season 1, Episode 20: Richie's attraction to a French fashion model angers a famous designer (Nigel Terry), a charming yet lethal Immortal with a penchant for stealing beauty...and killing to keep it.

Video: Emperor's New Clothes, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:07:19 -0500

A fanciful retelling of the story of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by heralded actor Ian Holm, this British costume comedy suggests that it was Napoleon's double, not the man himself, who died on St. Helena Island. The film begins by presenting Napoleon after his defeat at Waterloo, at the home of a young boy (Tom Watson), where he watches a slide show of his actions and begins to tell his story. The film flashes back to Napoleon's six years of house arrest, when he dictated his memoirs to an aide (Murray Melvin). He has concocted a scheme with his sidekicks Montholon (Nigel Terry) and Bertrand (Hugh Bonneville) and a valet named Marchand (Eddie Marsan) to plant a double in his place so he can escape to Paris, where he can then reclaim his throne as emperor of France. Posing as a galley hand, Napoleon steals a ship, but mistakenly arrives in Belgium, where he must then make his way back to France by barge. When he finally arrives in Paris, he discovers his contact, Truchaut, has died, and he enlists the help of

Video: Lion In Winter, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:20:36 -0500

The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a faraway castle, is invited to join Henry and their three sons for a family reunion. In this way, Henry hopes to maintain a stronghold on his Empire and to prevent the balance of power from shifting to Eleanor or to one of his sons: Richard the Lion-Hearted (Anthony Hopkins in his movie debut), Prince Geoffrey (John Castle), or Prince John (Nigel Terry). Also on hand for the get-together is Henry's mistress Princess Alais (Jane Merrow) -- who covets the King's influence -- and the Princess' brother, King Philip of France (Timothy Dalton). Despite Henry's efforts to keep his wife and offspring at arms' length (and away from the throne), Eleanor successfully reunites the brood, assuring that her power will not only be restored, but will last long after her death. ~ H

Video: Last Of England

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:57:06 -0500

Legendary director Derek Jarman (Jubilee, Edward II) paints an unforgettable portrait of modern England in this riveting, visually stunning depiction of a country on the verge of chaos. Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and Nigel Terry (Excalibur) star in this dreamlike classic of experimental cinema, where amorous soldiers, machine guns, and secret lovers dot an apocalyptic landscape.

Video: Last Of England

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:26:07 -0500