35 years ago I saw Bill Nighy walking towards me on Fifth Avenue. I smiled at him and he returned my smile as he passed. For me it was a magical moment. An English tourist on holiday in New York, I was five months pregnant, and his smile caught me by surprise. I don't expect he remembers, there's no reason why he should, yet his smile made my day. So glad he has had such a wonderful career. I enjoyed this video very much too. The Manet painting with the barmaid at the end is intriguing. Like many women, it's possible she's thinking about five things at once 😊.

@SeanOHanlon

21 күн бұрын

Funny coincidence. I met him ever so briefly while I was in New York on holiday about 15 years ago. He was every bit as lovely as you would imagine.

Bill is such a treasure!

I'll have cake and tea with Bill Nighy any time, any day. It doesn't have to be at the Courtauld - heck, I'll even pay!

@christinahand973

Ай бұрын

If this ever happens for you please extend an invite. An hour’s tea and conversation with this man would be the highlight of my year!

@janandrews1324

28 күн бұрын

I'd even serve the tea x

@jaimeochoa7256

26 күн бұрын

You better!

@juliapertusini8050

23 күн бұрын

Me too ❤

Perfect presenter - the wonderful Bill Nighy

Brilliant and Beautiful!!!!

A wonderful advertisement for the gallery by a true English gentleman. So enjoyable. I will definitely make time to visit the next time I am in London.

"I'm slowly tempted to accept that offer." Having tea and a good conversation with Bill Nighy about literature, history, or something else. Will be a fantastic memory and story to tell some day 😊

That staircase is a work of art

@gigibenea3529

19 күн бұрын

The blue 🔵 is amazing

@DJKSB58

10 күн бұрын

The impeccably dressed elegant Bill Nighy walking up that exquisite staircase took my breath away ! Poetry in motion

I greatly enjoyed his pleasure in the art. Could he do more, please?

I went to the Courtauld today (April 13, 2024) and spent three wonderful intimate hours with incredible works of art.

What a wonderful moment with Bill 🤍

The Courtauld is one of the world’s treasures, I first visited many years ago whilst a student at the old Senate House home of the Institute of Education and couldn’t believe it. It’s old home was much smaller and hardly advertised but amazing. So pleased it has a home worthy of its treasures.

How wonderful! Now on my bucket list. Thank you Bill! 😊

I’ve been to the Courtauld Gallery in London UK years ago and Bill is right,it’s stunning I love the Degas and Manet too…thanks for the memory Bill ♥️🇨🇦

The Great Room at the Courtauld Gallery is probably my favorite room anywhere in the world.

I was introduced to Bill N late in my life 5 - 6 years ago and I am stuck to Bill now to All his movies. Lovely and amazing actor. Fab watching Bill. Keep coming with your movies mate…..

Love this museum And To Have BILL NYE Narrator the icing on the cake

@oscarfeatherstone6688

Ай бұрын

Nighy. Nye is someone rather different.

Love, love this man

The inimitable Mr Nighy on the incomparable Courtauld Gallery. "It doesn't get any better then this!"

I love art but l love Bill Nighy even more ❤❤❤

@rangerjaxmaxmay7742

Ай бұрын

Absolutely.

@jeannedeutrom8373

17 күн бұрын

Hear! Hear!❤️

@DJKSB58

10 күн бұрын

The ever so elegant, impeccably dressed Bill Nighy walking up that magnificent staircase is in itself a “work of art”

Thanks, Bill

He's the best!

Mr. Nighy was fabulous in the Dr. Who VAn Gogh episode.

@SeanOHanlon

21 күн бұрын

Yes... 👏👏👏

@CyberBeep_kenshi

12 күн бұрын

my thought wqs that This was the whole reason Doctor Who existed. aslo fun fact, they both play elder vampires in Underworld:)

I’ve heard of The Courtauld but never knew much about it. Next trip to London in December, I’ll visit it!

I burst into tears seeing van Gogh’s self portrait. I got up close and personal, like my nose almost touching the painting.

I saw the fabulous Bill Nighy in a bookshop nine years ago and am still starstruck. Might visit the Courtauld Gallery just to honour him.

I am heading for London on Monday. Meet me at the Courtauld, Ms Nighy❤

❤❤🎉🎉 art stays with u

I took my husband there some years back when we were in the UK. I knew what a fabulous great awaited us and wasn’t at all disappointed.

Sold. Subscribed! No cake needed. :)

Really enjoying my first experience of The Courtauld on YT today

I love Courtauld Gallery, and the more I see of him I love Bill Nighy

Thank you for the nudge. 🙏🏽 Well overdue another visit - I shall go in the next week or so. The best thing about this very appealling advert is that I can send it to my mates and my kids, all of whom will pay much more attention to Bill Nighy than they ever will to me! 😆

Wonderful. Thank you

the Courtauld is my favorite too!

The incomparable Bill Nighy - more than a national treasure 😻

@jeannedeutrom8373

17 күн бұрын

ABSOLUTELY!❤️

I'm grateful to Mr Night for showing us this gallery. It's the only way I will ever be able to catch a glimpse of beautiful are Work from centuries past. So much in my life I've Missed. Too late to travel. Thank you. 🇺🇲🙏🇬🇧

I can still hear Bill saying, "Let's get p----- and watch p---" from "Love, Actually." Beautiful gallery. Now on my "must-see" list for September '24.

Went last August for the Munch exhibit. What a great collection in a historical space.

Fantastic looking gallery. What a beautiful space. I'm looking forward to visiting as soon as I'm up that way again.

You could have Bill Nighy walking through literally anything, describing it, and I’d watch. So this was almost too much. And as an ad? Yeah I’m going to the fricking Courtauld the next time I can

Brilliant ❤! I used to come every week when I lived in London to 'look at' or observe 'The Bar at the Folies Bergere' for an essay on female subjects in paintings ❤🖌🎨🖼 ❤.

@priscidali

11 ай бұрын

Love that painting! I've wanting to go back and see it.

I'd happily watch Bill Nighy riff like this at feature film length.

I've already "liked" this once. If I could, I'd "like" it again.

you don't get a drier sense of humour than Bill's. Superb!

The "bestest" gallery I've ever seen in my life 😍❤😮

Just wonderful!

I'm from London but have lived in Canada for many years. I used to travel back a lot on business and always hoped to find the time to make a quick visit to see the wonderful Modigliani painting.

Brilliant xx

I love the Courtauld.

LOVED IT ALL.

Bill Nighy: If I'm here, I'll buy you cake. Me, in the US: *buys any plane ticket available to get me there*

Amazing! I’ll fly over tomorrow!

Im heanding there when I can, Thanks

And lovely scones

That guy is the best😂

Cheers

Bill, my legs are tired. Let’s go for a leisurely caf and afterwards a long dawdle in a used book shop.

The music fits the narrative perfectly. What is the name of the composition?

@christopherlawley1842

Ай бұрын

Anitra's Dance from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg .

I adore Bill in Page Eight in which he plays an English spy (and the other 2 parts). If you havent seen this, you need to! Its fantastic.

I'll buy cake and tea dear Bill

🤩🤩🤩

Nighy could talk the phonebook and it would be fascinating 😅

Good

We know Bill Nighy really loves the Modigliani in the corner.

This is it

humorous ending 😂

How much is the entrance fee for the Courtauld? Anyone know? (Some of my favorite paintings are there, so I am sure it’s worth it)

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

£10.

OK I'm going just for the cake.

Wonderful. I just pray that climate activists are never let loose in such an incredible collection of art.

Forgive my ignorance but would anyone be kind enough to enlighten me as to the music composer and piece. My dearly departed father used to play this on the record player on a Sunday after a round of golf. It brings back fond memories.

@ballskin

22 күн бұрын

Edvard Grieg - Anitra's Dance

@markbriggs5531

19 күн бұрын

​@@ballskinThank you so much for your kind response. I shall enjoy this very much.

Reminds menof the doctor who scene.

@lenakarlova7664

22 сағат бұрын

me too!

I’m more a Wallace man myself. They got Rembrandts and Canalettos. An it’s free

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

I love the Wallace collection, visit regularly. And love the Courtauld but less frequent.😊

This video was made a week after I went there haha 😂

Somerset House is that where they used to house the birth and marriage certificates?

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

Yes.

@user-nc2kz2mn5v

Күн бұрын

@@splodge5714 Thank you.

Love Bill Nighy here, and the Courtauld looks gorgeous - but the music is too loud! (And that's coming from a musician/composer!!!) 😂

You have a top actor like Bill Nighy... why do you then need the music playing? There is this ever-increasing to fill everything on television and video with music, at times drowning out the person speaking. Why do directors never consider how powerful silence can be?

Hello! This was not a video about Bill Nighy! These paintings were a direct rejection of the classical style. They are rough, sometimes I’ll conceived. Other times applications seemed rough and amateurish. It these artists did not represent the “ ideal”. They were interpreting life as they saw it, not as an academic representation. It was a time of daring exploration. Mr. Nighy alert us to them but never delves into their creations nor their creators. Most of us. Art lovers know about these painters and the works. Sadly this was an advert for the museum. Did he state where the Courtald is. What city?

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

The Courtald gallery had been closed 3 years for redevelopment. A wonderful 3 minute ad from Mr Nighy. It's in Somerset House, London.

What is wrong with his hands?

It’s a great pity about the unnecessary music which detracts from the narrative. Why ?

Islamic metalwork! 😂 Is anything in their musuems specifically British?

@ballskin

22 күн бұрын

Yup, it's just simpletons don't like to pay attention to British history.

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

🥱

Degas was never an Impressionist. The School of Naturalism were much finer painters. People love the Impressionists because there is no challenge. They were day painters who daubed. Renoir was the worst, as the most insipid of all.

@splodge5714

Күн бұрын

Although he called himself a realist he was one of the founders of Impressionism and exhibited his work in 7 of the 8 Impressionist exhibitions.