'Joe's Palace' and 'Capturing Mar

Two major new screenplays by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoff made for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in November2007. A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smith feature in these exquisite, major new films that are l... Read more

Two major new screenplays by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoff made for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in November2007. A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smith feature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grand house and memories of the past.In Joe's Palace, the first of two screenplays, StephenPoliakoff explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire(played by Michael Gambon), and the teenage boy he employs to take care of a grand house. This is a lavishly shot contemporary film about loneliness and loss. In Capturing Mary, the companion film forBBC2 set in the same exquisite empty house, Poliakoff takes his characters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and its power to capture and destroy a person's life. Dame Maggie Smith plays the lead role.Included also is A Real Summer, a glorious companion drama to Capturing Marycharting the development of an unexpected friendship between a young aristocratic woman and Mary before she enters the dangerous world of MrGraham's house. Less