Blue Ice Docs presents
Nothing Like A Dame
A film by Roger Michell
and featuring
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright
Opens across Canada
November 30
Toronto – Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
Calgary – Plaza
Edmonton – Princess
Regina – Rainbow Cinema
Saskatoon – Roxy Theatre
Victoria – The Vic Theatre
Waterloo – Princess Twin
Cobourg – The Loft Cinema
December 7
Vancouver – Vancity Theatre
Ottawa – Bytowne Cinema
Kingston – The Screening Room
London – Hyland Cinema
Guelph – The Bookshelf Cinema
Brockville – Galaxy Cinema
December 14
Belleville – Empire Cinema
An undeniable round table chat with four of British film and theatre’s hierarchy the “most famed dames” Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, and Joan Plowright, in the highly anticipated feature documentary opening across Canada starting November 30.
Nothing Like A Dame is a unique celebration of the lives and careers of four of our most iconic actresses: Smith, Dench, Plowright and Atkins. All four have gone from being fledgling actresses in the 1950s to acting royalty. They’ve watched each other’s careers grow and bloom and have celebrated life’s ups and downs together.
Here’s a great opportunity to spend time with these acting legends as they talk about their lives and their professional experiences across theatre, television and film.
Directed by Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel, Notting Hill), the film also includes a range of astonishing archive material. It is candid, funny, caustic, irreverent, poignant and utterly engrossing, this unmissable release is proof that there is truly nothing like a Dame.
“I wanted these amazing women to do what they are all world champions at doing: talking: yacking, gossiping, reminiscing, reflecting, cursing, loving, praising and laughing,” says Michell. “I wanted the film to make us feel like we are eavesdropping, that nothing’s been rehearsed, or is being presented to camera. My ambition was to create something that felt like anthropology, like journalism, like a privileged intimacy, not reverential, not polite, not hovering deferentially around Grand Dames. I wanted to put these extraordinary women around a table or two and get a glimpse of their pasts, their presents, their affection for each other and their interaction with each other. More in the spirit of a rockumentary than a lyrical study in Lavender: more the Rolling Stones than the rolling countryside: more Spice Girls than Sibelius.”
About Blue Ice Docs
Founded in 2014 in partnership between Robin Smith, president of KinoSmith, and Blue Ice Group co-owners, Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik, Blue Ice Docs uses the expertise and skills of both organizations to acquire, fund and develop a wide variety of non-fiction projects from around the world. Upcoming releases include CHEF FLYNN, GURRUMUL, THE SILENCE OF OTHERS, UNITED WE FAN, OVER THE LIMIT, ALL THE WILD HORSES, THE OSLO DIARIES and THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION.
