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DHC / ART Education is pleased to announce the screening of My Beautiful Laundrette for its Summer edition of Kino Club, a film series linked to the exhibition Yinka Shonibare MBE: Pièces de résistance.

This includes a business centre with the latest audio - visual capabilities, a 24x7 Hot Spot lounge with iMac workstations, a 24x7 gym complete with steam and sauna rooms, and self - service laundrettes where guests can opt to do their own laundry at their convenience.

Our modern and spacious amenities block has a coin laundrette with washers and dryer.

It offers modern accommodation with a restaurant, a coin - operated laundrette and free internet access.

Serviced apartments have washing machines, washer dryers or communal laundrettes as well as an iron and ironing board for guests to use making it convenient to have fresh clothes during your stay or before your meeting / event.

Onsite services and amenities include laundrette, swimming pool, car hire, laptop safe, free WiFi access, two bars, restaurant, complimentary breakfast and all - day dining.

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In his review of Laundrette, Roger Ebert noted that «seeing these two performances side by side is an affirmation of the miracle of acting: That one man could play these two opposites is astonishing.»

and the film is from the undervalued but excellent writer / director Mike Mills (Beginners) Demanders looks back at My Beautiful Laundrette which recently got a Criterion release Variety happy news: Season 2 of Transparent arrives in time for Christmas i09 Ridley Scott still planning on filming a Prometheus sequel next year.

Married to writer - director Rebecca Miller with three children, he broke through with 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette by Stephen Frears.

Even if you don't rent apartments there are laundrettes everywhere in Europe or your hostel may have washing machines.

Free WiFi in reception area, WiFi in apartments (charged), safe deposit box (charged), adjoining rooms available only for Studio Apartments (subject to availability), self service onsite laundrette (charged), parking (charged, subject to availability)

Frears is one of the best filmmakers of the last three decades with an eclectic filmography that includes My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things and The Queen among his very best.

The Eden Apartments has a reception and information desk service, money exchange, car rental, general information service, internet access facilities, courtesy room, luggage room, a mini market, laundrette with complimentary iron and ironing board.

The hostel has a lounge area and also coin - operated laundrette.

Far be it for us to argue with science, but hanging your T - shirt in the sunlight to give it a clean is all too reminiscent of seeing laundry «airing» on hangers outside halls of residences inhabited by stoned students who can't be bothered to pause Call of Duty: Black Ops and go down to the communal laundrette.

A fair point, Clive, and it is worthwhile reminding everyone to keep things in perspective - but surely even a laundrette - full of spin from Labour wouldn't defend their performance if it's anything other than an easy hold

Even the way that God has to travel to earth, he has to do so via a washing machine drum that exits into a laundrette where he is met by a petrified woman who pepper sprays him in the face.

The director of My Beautiful Laundrette, The Queen, Philomena, and most recently, Florence Foster Jenkins, doesn't shy away from the more controversial topics of politics, religion and race.

On the producing side, he's developing the TV series Little America and a TV remake of My Beautiful Laundrette.

He'd already done great work with Les Blair and Mike Leigh and was around the theatres a good bit — four actors were considered for Laundrette: Tim Roth, who I just worked with, Ken Branagh who, eighteen months later, said that he'd been desperate for the job but clearly wasn't right for it, and Gary, who'd played the part before on the theatre and on television, so he found it less interesting.

A two - film partnership with playwright Hanif Kureishi later yielded My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and they, along with the magnificent Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears, brought Frears to the attention of Hollywood, where he's since had his share of ups (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, and High Fidelity) and downs (Hero and Mary Reilly, high - profile flops made back - to - back for the same studio).

That weakness totally disappears in his breakthrough role as closeted skinhead Johnny in Stephen Frears» «My Beautiful Laundrette.»

Where did «My Beautiful Laundrette» come from?

He spent some time researching Pakistani and Indian - owned laundromats, putting it into «My Beautiful Laundrette.»

Temporally, «My Beautiful Laundrette» stands midway between the insults of William Friedkin's «Cruising» and Todd Haynes» layered AIDS allegory «Poison.»

«My Beautiful Laundrette» was made with TV in mind, shot in the then - cheaper format of 16 mm, but the response it received at film festivals quickly proved that it warranted a theatrical release.

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In Daniel Day - Lewis he has found the right actor to play Hawkeye, even though no other role ever played by Day - Lewis («My Left Foot», «A Room with a View», «My Beautiful Laundrette»») would remotely suggest that.

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Even as it stretches back to the early eighties, Day - Lewis didn't become a big name until his breakout role in Stephen Frears» 1985 «My Beautiful Laundrette,» followed by a series of acclaimed roles in «A Room With a View,» «The Unbearable Lightness of Being,» and «My Left Foot,» which won him the first of three Academy Awards.

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Starting in 1985, with A Room With a View and My Beautiful Laundrette, Day - Lewis began wowing audiences and critics.

After breaking out in 1985 drama My Beautiful Laundrette, Day - Lewis won his first Oscar for his role as an artist with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot.

Stephen Frears, director of The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liasons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen and so many more quietly great films, seems to get a pretty significant performance out of Ben Foster in his biopic about the myth, hubris and ultimate downfall of American cyclist Lance Armstrong.

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The first time I saw him was in Stephen Frears» daring 1985 drama My Beautiful Laundrette, in which he played a street - fighting punk who begins a gay relationship with a young Asian man.

For all the talk of eccentricity, Day - Lewis didn't strike me as odd: just cheerfully, thoughtfully confident and a touch dandyish, turning up in biker leathers and guffawing about an affable beef he was having with director Stephen Frears (who launched him in 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette).

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Frears, now 76, went from making startlingly tough - minded British TV movies to even better films, among them My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Queen.

He's wearing a striped T - shirt under a dark blue shirt, light brown trousers which descend no further than mid-calf and boots laced high above the ankle he could easily have worn as a young actor in My Beautiful Laundrette.

The first two films in which I saw Day - Lewis were My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View back in the mid -»80s, and I remember marveling that the same actor could vanish so utterly into roles so very different.

He scored his first big hit with «My Beautiful Laundrette,» which he framed as an attack on the Thatcher administration.

My Beautiful Laundrette, out now in a new, restored 2K digital transfer on Criterion Blu - ray, takes place in a specific setting and with such specific characters that, even though the place and time feels very unfamiliar, is rendered relatable with an expressionistic tone by a humanistic director who coached some true, raw performances — including one from then up - and - comer Daniel Day - Lewis.