Skyfall – TV Spot 2

SFX Magazine ‘Skyfall’/Bond issue 227

If you happen to drop by at your local newsagent’s these days you can’t help but notice the premier of Bond 23 – otherwise known as ‘Skyfall’ – is coming closer at rapid speed. Bond themed covers on everything, from Empire to Entertainment Weekly. One noteworthy title will be on sale from tomorrow, Wednesday 19th September. It’s SFX issue 227, the magazine that helped many a fan over the dry-spell of recent months with its ‘Bond 50’ countdown series of splendid and astute Bond film reviews. Now Bond is back on their cover, and with him a number of intriguing features that come with this title story:

 

 

 

• SKYFALL: Exclusive interviews with Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

 

• HOW TO WRITE THE PERFECT BOND FILM: Writing exclusively for SFX, ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ and ‘Moonraker’ screenwriter Christopher Wood shares the secrets of his craft.

 

• DANNY KLEINMAN: Interview with the Bond title sequence designer, with rare pre-production art from his personal archive.

 

• THE WORLD ACCORDING TO 007: A double-page illustrated map of James Bond’s globe-hopping adventures, from Jamaica to Vegas, Swizerland to Earth orbit.

 

• BOND POSTERS: Rare images from the Bond archives (tieing in with the new DK book).

 

• BOND QUIZ: No Bond-themed issue would be complete without this.

 

 

And ‘Skyfall’ and Bond are by far not the only interesting features of this issue. IPad-users will be able to download the issue from 19th onwards here. All others will have to take a walk to their nearest newsagent.

007 Legends! Final Mission is Goldfinger!

The final mission in 007 Legends has been revealed. Watch the story based trailer here.

Another new SKYFALL Poster

And the posters keep on coming. This new UK poster for “SKYFALL” features Bond in a classical pose in front of the gun barrel, with a bit of London in the background.

Classy, yet modern. See for yourselves: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=520767937938122&set=a.314165885264996.95866.266350353379883&type=1&theater

 

Vanity Fair celebrates James Bond

In their current edition Vanity Fair magazine offers a variety of photos and an insightful article on the start of our beloved movie franchise.

Check it out here: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/10/photos-fifty-years-james-bond#slide=1

 

Jacques Stewart’s 007th Minute in ‘Goldfinger’

You know the drill by now; it’s opinion, and as such subjective – highly so even – and of course nobody is required to agree. If you are able to point out the significance of the image coming with this 7th Minute please do so in this thread.

 

007th Minute watched and commented by Jacques Stewart.

 

 

 

Unburdened by dibbly dibbly do there’s a Dr No one here that explains this increasingly talked-into-a-corner “concept” and one about From Russia with Love right here and it’s on the From Russia with Love one that I realise that I have been totally misguided.

 

 

There I was thinking its seventh minute was the vital and diverting tale of two middle-aged men playing chess, with the action high-spot being one of them drinking a glass of water in an odd way, largely to douse the cigarillo he’s just swallowed.

 

 

Well, that’s just what “they” wanted us to think it was, isn’t it? I’ve had another ponder about it and – Clement Freud, analyse this – it’s not really about that at all, is it? Dr No’s seventh minute was, and I stand by this, pretty definitive a statement of what was going to happen for the next fifty years. Bad poo administered by “the foreign” happens to the British in some bit of the world they used to own or at least once put a test-the-water offer in on. The immediate reaction is “oh well, let’s keep trying” swiftly followed by a dawning realisation that this is never going to be anywhere good enough so better call M, because he or she is full of good ideas and expendable faceless alcoholic “bit rapey” psychopaths who do things we’re better off not even thinking about when mowing the lawn. This is then followed by the introduction of the hero, and subverting the early-sixties audience’s hero-perceptions, no it’s not the nicely side-parted ramrod -backed all very monochrome Michael Redgraveish Perigrine Carruthers with the unfortunate green coat, the old “school” tie and an accent so razorsharp the dockworkers he entertains of an evening would do well not to stick anything in his mouth, no, it’s someone altogether more cool and slick and sleazy and outside the perceived heroic idiom of the time who picks up scarlet half-naked women who do carrrds.

 

 

In comparison, two blokes playing chess does seem a bit, y’know, like filler.

 

 

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Debriefing the Martini Bond Affair

After this August’s downright glorious run at the Camden Fringe Festival, being sold out the entire three consecutive nights, after numerous positive reviews and glowing word-of-mouth by the audience, CommanderBond.net finally decided it was time to locate playwright Lyndsey Jones, the woman responsible for ‘Martini Bond: The Hunt for The Spy Who Loved Her Mum‘, and bring her in from the cold. In an intensive debriefing we were able to secure the following video material about the play that will kick off the Barking Broadway Theatre’s Bond Week, along with the ‘00 and His 7‘ performance by the London Ballet company and a free exhibition of Judith Walker’s cartoons, on 20 September. Both play and dance performance will also be live streamed.

 

 

Follows a protocol of the debriefing:

 

CBn: From your blog WomanBitesDog we’ve learnt you’ve been working on your play practically all this year. How long all in all did it take you to write Martini Bond: The Hunt for The Spy Who Loved Her Mum?

 

 

Lyndsey Jones: I came up with the idea last December and delivered the final script in May. In between there were script editing meetings and readthroughs by the cast which all helped shape the play.

 

 

CBn: When you first had the idea for your play, did you have concerns about Eon and Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson? Have you had contact with them, or did you get feedback?

 

 

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007 Legends Achievement List Released

The complete achievement list for 007 Legends has been released. The list, which can be seen here, also confirms Goldfinger as the final mission to be confirmed.

Showbizz 411 reports Adele writing and performing Skyfall theme

According to Showbizz 411 Adele is indeed going to be performing the Skyfall theme. Not only that she is supposedly going to write it too, with the title of the song being called Skyfall (as opposed to “Another Way to Die,” or “You Know My Name”).

The news, while quite agreeable to this reporter, should of course be taken with a grain of salt until we get some official confirmation.

 

The full story can be found here along with some more information.

Kermode and Mayo’s James Bond Special online

Film critics Kermode and Mayo’s James Bond special is now available on BBC iPlayer. The 2 hour feature is full of Bond discussion and live music from the James Bond series, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. As well as this, Live and Let Die has been voted the best James Bond theme by BBC Radio Listeners, with Carly Simon’s Nobody Does It Better in second place, and Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger bringing up the rear in third place.

There’s more Bond on Radio 2 later this evening in Friday Night is Music Night: Bond and Beyond, which features a concert of Bond themes recently given by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. If you’d like to tune in, it’s on BBC Radio 2, at 8:00pm.