{"id":6830,"date":"2012-08-05T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2012-08-22T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:29:59","slug":"toyah-news-briefs-dr-jekyllthe-tempestquadrophenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-news-briefs-dr-jekyllthe-tempestquadrophenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah News Briefs: Dr Jekyll\/The Tempest\/Quadrophenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/jekyllsweden.jpg\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/jekyllsweden.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6831\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"jekyllwseden12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jekyllwseden12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>\u2022 The 1980 BBC version of <em>Dr Jekyll &amp; Mr Hyde<\/em> has now been released on DVD in Sweden. This release has a slightly different cover to the UK version (released in 2007). The cast includes David Hemmings, Diana Dors and Toyah. View a larger version of the Swedish cover\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/jekyllsweden.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Derek Jarman&#8217;s 1979 version of <em>The Tempest<\/em> is just about to be released on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/the-tempest-blu-ray-cover\/\">Blu-ray<\/a><\/strong> (Region A\/1) for the first time. There&#8217;s a new review of the film at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/criterioncast.com\/2012\/08\/01\/joshua-reviews-derek-jarmans-the-tempest-blu-ray-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Criterion Cast<\/a><\/strong> website: <em>A less easy choice however came in the casting of Miranda, which went to punk rock mega-star (and also star of Criterion-approved Jubilee also from Jarman and the soon to be released Quadrophenia) Toyah Willcox. Always seen as a virginal young woman, Willcox\u2019s punk rock persona far from fit the character, but her performance was really quite entertaining, and the relationship between she and Williams\u2019 Prospero is vital and engaging<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A larger version of <em>The Tempest<\/em> Blu-ray cover is also now available. View <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tempestbr12b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em>Qudrophenia<\/em> Region A\/1 Blu-ray: Read more details on this forthcoming release at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modculture.co.uk\/quadrophenia-to-get-a-criterion-collection-blu-ray-reissue\/#more-5490\" target=\"_blank\">Modculture<\/a><\/strong>: As they say &#8220;You can get a UK Blu-ray already, but the <strong>Quadrophenia Criterion Collection Blu-ray release<\/strong> is a considerable step up from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Also at <strong>Modculture<\/strong>: View a\u00a0limited edition\u00a0<em>Quadrophenia<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modculture.co.uk\/limited-edition-quadrophenia-poster-by-piper-gates-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">poster<\/a><\/strong> by Piper Gates Design, and read a new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modculture.co.uk\/feature-eddie-piller-talks-pete-meaden-and-quadrophenia\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/strong> on the movie by Eddie Piller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The 1980 BBC version of Dr Jekyll &amp; Mr Hyde has now been released on DVD in Sweden. This release has a slightly different cover to the UK version (released in 2007). The cast includes David Hemmings, Diana Dors and Toyah. View a larger version of the Swedish cover\u00a0here. \u2022 Derek Jarman&#8217;s 1979 version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,36,14,25,66],"tags":[170,169,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}