Reviews
Dirty Filthy Love Fantabulosa The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse Frost/Nixon
...The cast is rock solid. Mental illness is very hard to portray on film, and Michael Sheen does a phenomenal job of making Mark's condition funny and frightening in turns. Dirty Filthy Love belongs to his heart-wrenching and gut-felt performance, which asks for a lot of any actor. He has to develop physical twitches and scream out uncontrollably in unintelligible grunts and whoops mixed with very real curse words. He goes for broke in what could have been an Oscar-worthy performance had this film not been an English production. Sheen will be recognizable as "Lucian" to fans of Underworld; here he demonstrates how much of a physical actor he truly is....he keeps the audience engaged with and sympathetic to Mark's plight -- and that's no small feat.
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/dirtyfilthylove.php
Fantabulosa! showed Williams as a flawed, frustrated but ultimately sympathetic man whose intolerance, snobbery and vitriol sprung from profound self-loathing. Michael Sheen’s mesmerizing performance encompassed all these complexities as well as capturing Williams’ unique style and mannerisms without ever resorting to caricature or impersonation.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/feature.php/11973
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Michael Sheen is...good as the only member of the League who never appear[ed] on screen, Jeremy Dyson. http://www.thezreview.co.uk/reviews/l/leagueofgentlemensapocalypsethe.htm
Frost/Nixon Begins Previews at London’s Donmar Warehouse
By John Nathan 10 Aug 2006
The world premiere of Peter Morgan's debut stage play, Frost/Nixon, begins previews at London’s Donmar Warehouse Aug. 10.
The drama, which is set during Watergate and is based on interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and the disgraced American President, officially opens Aug. 21.
Michael Sheen (Frost) and Frank Langella (Nixon) take on the title roles in the production, which is helmed by Donmar Artistic Director Michael Grandage.
Langella is one of the U.S.'s most popular film, television and stage stars. Best known for his role as Dracula (1979), he recently appeared in George Clooney's "Good Night and Good Luck" but made his Broadway debut in the 1960's and won his first Tony Award for Edward Albee's Seascape (1975). In between, he his roles onstage have between Strindberg (The Father) to Noel Coward (Present Laughter). He has also been a regular at New York's Shakespeare Festival. Other Broadway credits include Amadeus and Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002, adapted by English writer Mike Poulton) in which he played opposite Alan Bates and for which he won a second Tony.
Sheen returns to the Donmar following his Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in the title role of Caligula. His other stage credits include The U.N. Inspector at the National and on Broadway, Amadeus in Peter Hall’s 1999 revival of Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning play.
Morgan’s most high-profile work, written for British television, was also political. Called “The Deal," the piece was a fictionalized account of the leadership deal struck before the 1997 British General Election between Prime Minister hopefuls and Labour MPs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Grandage currently has two musical productions in the West End with his revivals of Guys and Dolls (currently starring Patrick Swayze) and Evita.
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