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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

August 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Armando Iannucci, a man possessing a preternatural gift for telling serious stories with a puckish twist, has taken on the classic Dickens tale of David Copperfield, and infused it with sparkling new life while remaining true to the original’s spirit. After all, despite his sometimes cloying sentimentality, Dickens spared his readers nothing when describing the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, book to screen, Charles Dickens, colonialism, color-blind casting, England, imperialism, literature, social commentary

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA

December 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA

No one knows why a whale of unusual coloration destroyed the whaling ship Essex in 1820. Certainly, nothing of the sort had been reported before, though whaling ships had been aggressively hunting the largest animal to ever live on earth ever since the discovery that whale oil could be used to light lamps and heat… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Nantucket, shipwreck, whale oil, whaling

SPECTRE

November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPECTRE

There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude.  In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely… Read More »

Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy

Just Try to Resist PADDINGTON

January 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Just Try to Resist PADDINGTON

There is a certain trepidation that accompanies any screening of a film released in January.  This is the graveyard of films that failed to meet studio expectations, but that for some reason or another, are due a theatrical release.  There is even more trepidation when the film is one aimed at children. How bad, one… Read More »

Tagged With: Ben Wishaw, cgi, children's book, cinema, Darkest Peru, film, Hugh Bonneville, Michael Bond, movie, Nicole Kidman, Paddington, Sally Hawkins, taxidermy

PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The first image in Tom Tykwer’s PERFUME is of a nose in close-up emerging from the twilight. The first sound is of its drawing a deep breath. It is stark, it is simple, and it is perfect. Smell is the point of this decadent gothic tale, and it is the driving force of the nose’s… Read More »

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