Still Life (play) mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions." "Still Life" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title "Brief Encounter". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in "" were
Still Life (2006 film) Toronto International Film Festival's Cinematheque, composed of 60 film experts from around the world. The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. "Still Life" was placed at 75 on Slant Magazine's list of best films of the 2000s. Still Life (2006 film) Still Life () is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River which is slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, "Still Life" tells the story of two people in search of their