Ken Russell and his dog Nipper, who starred in "In Search Of The English Folksong", produced by Maureen Murray.

KEN RUSSELL’s film masterpiece “Song of Summer” will receive a special screening at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday 29 January to commemorate Russell’s recent death aged 84. MAUREEN MURRAY, who produced seven films for Ken Russell and worked with him on several more, will be attending with his widow Lisi and many of Ken’s former colleagues.

Ken appears in Foxtrot’s film “Nutcracker Story“, directed by MARGY KINMONTH and Executive Produced by MAUREEN MURRAY and MELVYN BRAGG.

The Pond by Lowry

LOWRY’s painting THE POND was used as Harold Wilson’s Downing Street Christmas Card.

This huge painting has been brought out of the Tate Store for a special showing in a brand new Lowry exhibition at The Djanogly Gallery, The Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham.

Margy Kinmonth’s film “Looking for Lowry” was screened there this week.

The film can also be viewed on British Airways long haul flights, a bit of a first for Lowry who never travelled outside the UK.

The Secret World of Haute Couture

Margy Kinmonth’s film The Secret World of Haute Couture was “one of the most successful and favourite documentaries” at the Singapore Fashion Film Festival this week.

John Galliano, Daphne Guinness, Karl Lagerfeld reveal all.

To the Western World available on DVD here.

A new production of Playboy of the Western World by J. M . Synge is playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer/Director MARGY KINMONTH and Executive Producer MAUREEN MURRAY. This special event is part of the Djanogly Gallery’s LOWRY Exhibition which runs from 15 November 2011 until 5 February 2012.

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Ian McKellen and The Cripples by Lowry

“MARIINSKY THEATRE” Produced & Directed by MARGY KINMONTH and Executive Produced by MAUREEN MURRAY will be screened at the prestigious GEORGE ENESCU FESTIVAL in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday 9 September, 2011.

The open air screening in Festival Square will run concurrently with a concert performed by The Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra in the Festival Concert Hall conducted by Maestro Valery Gergiev, who is Guest of Honor at the Festival.

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Winner of the Chicago Film Festival Gold Plaque Award, the film features interviews with Roman Polanski, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Linda Marlowe, Joseph Papp and others, with extracts from Berkoff’s masterworks including “Greek”, “East”, “West” and “Decadence”.

With sequences from METAMORPHOSIS by Kafka, CORIOLANUS by Shakespeare. SALOME by Oscar Wilde.

Produced & Directed by Margy Kinmonth

Executive Producer Maureen Murray

Steven Berkoff’s version of “Oedipus” (after Sophocles) will be a highlight of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Tickets are now on sale.
See www.oedipus.org.uk

Celebrating the life and work of Simon Gray

Saturday 18 June 2011 – 6pm

Portsmouth Grammar School

BAFTA Award winning Producer-Director Margy Kinmonth will be joined by celebrated actor Toby Stephens at this tribute to Portsmouth educated playwright, diarist and novelist Simon Gray with whom they both worked, marking the 75th anniversary of his birth.

Box Office: 023 9282 6722

Portsmouth Festivities
£8 (£6 conc, £1 U18) – Event code : PF03

Email: festivities@pgs.org.uk

Website: Portsmouth Festivities

Ian McKellen and 'The Cripples' by Lowry

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“…wonderfully entertaining and mischievously inventive profile …”
The Mail on Sunday

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“… edgy … engaging … wildly popular and oft misunderstood artist …”
Time Out

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Critics Choice – The Express

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Ian McKellen in "Looking For Lowry"