The biopic of landscape painter J. M. W. Turner depicts a man whose mind is barely engaged by anything other than his work. He's a mystery, and... The Strange World — And Life — Of 'Mr. Turner' DAVID ...

Watch a clip from the film "Mr. Turner," starring Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson and Dorothy Atkinson. Photo/Video: Sony Pictures Classics History tells us that the dying words of the British painter ...

Period pieces can often be boring, idealistic, stodgy affairs with performers impressed with the sounds of their own voices and an attention to authentic exterior detail that buries and smothers ...

Ellen explores the relationship between painting and cinematography with cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins. She also speaks to artist Cathy Lomax on the painterly in cinema - and the cinematic in ...

It’s the curse of the character actor: You’ve seen him before but you don’t know his name. Best known as Wormtail in the “Harry Potter” movies, Timothy Spall is a portly, middle-aged chap with a voice ...