Ripley, Brando and Live Stream New Orleans

A remake of The Talented Mr. Ripley, this time as a TV series, has critics gushing with praise.

Photo: ‘A wellspring of infinite possibilities ‘ – Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley. Photograph: Stefano Cristiano Montesi/Netflix © 2023

06 April 2024 | James Porteous | Clipper Media

Featured image: ‘A wellspring of infinite possibilities ‘ – Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley. Photograph: Stefano Cristiano Montesi/Netflix © 2023

Television

Ripley review – Andrew Scott is absolutely spellbinding

This scintillating and noirish adaptation leaves Matt Damon’s 1999 version in the shade. It’s largely thanks to Scott – who is just mesmerising. Here he is, then: every ounce of his talent, ineffable charm and lightly reptilian hotness on display. Andrew Scott steps up to play Patricia Highsmith’s titular antihero in Netflix’s eight-part adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley (the first volume of a series of pulpy novels now known as the “Ripliad”).

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Marlon Brando at 100

April 3 marked 100 years since the birth of actor Marlon Brando in Omaha, Nebraska. He died in July 2004.

Brando was a film and stage actor, who enjoyed at certain points immense popular and financial success, but, above all, he was someone who strove for artistic and social truth in everything he did. The conditions, in the postwar American film world in particular, were not often favorable to the level of commitment he demanded of himself and of others. This brought down upon his head much abuse and slander, and also—along with a series of personal tragedies—disappointed and wore him down in the end. He truly fell “upon the thorns of life” and bled.

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