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Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy film directed by Roger Michell.The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis, and the film was produced by Duncan Kenworthy.It stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, with Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles.
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, [1] in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and the Portobello Road Market. [2]
The Coronet Theatre is a theatre located in Notting Hill, London.The building originated as an Off West End theatre in 1898. It became The Coronet Cinema in 1923. In 2014, it was acquired by The Print Room, a nearby theatre company (founded in Westbourne Grove in 2010 [1]), which made it its new home.
The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival that took shape in the mid-1960s had two separate but connected strands. A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 [7] in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the problematic state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks, the Notting Hill race riots in which 108 people were charged, [8] had occurred the previous year.
Notting Hill: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the 1999 film of the same name released by Island Records on 17 May 1999 in United States and 24 May in United Kingdom and rest of Europe.
The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–1863) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym Charles Felix, with illustrations by George du Maurier.The author's identity was never revealed, but several critics have suggested posthumously Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), [1] [2] a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology nor changes in the class system or attitudes of the time.
Kensington Gravel Pits by John Linnell, 1812.Once on the outskirts of London, the area was known as Kensington Gravel Pits.. At Ossington Street/Kensington Palace Gardens, the Bayswater Road becomes Notting Hill Gate, continuing westward until it becomes Holland Park Avenue, just before it reaches Ladbroke Grove.