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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

RADIOACTIVE

July 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

RADIOACTIVE

RADIOACTIVE tells a story of scientific curiosity in a world where personality skews the perception of the work itself, and politics are never far from the equation. It lays bare not just the injustice of that, but also its stupidity

Tagged With: 19th century, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Paris, Pierre Curie, radioactivity, radium

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

November 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT is an elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future. In this case, three visionaries, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. Each with a particular kind of genius, each with idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, alternating current, based on a true story, direct current, Edison, electricity, J.P. Morgan, technology, Tesla, Westinghouse

HARRIET

October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HARRIET

HARRIET achieves the proper, and richly deserved, tone of reverence for its subject, Harriet Tubman. That is, alas, its greatest failing. The astonishing life of one of the most courageous Americans who has ever lived is told in a series of set pieces, vignettes with all drama sapped from them as they take on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, based on a true story, Philadelpha, racism, slavery, underground railway

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Interview

October 23, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Interview

It’s taken a while for Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s consideration of how electricity lit up the 19th century, THE CURRENT WAR, to finally make it to the big screen. This, ahem, illuminating story of the struggle of science, ego, and commerce was originally slated for a 2017 release, but became stuck in limbo when its distribution company,… Read More »

Tagged With: 1893 World’s Fair, 19th century, alternating current, candlelight, Chung-hoon Chung, cinematography, direct current, George Westinghouse, Gilded Age, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

May 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PASSION — Terence Davies Interview

Terence Davies is a man of keen intellect and mordant wit who describes himself as one of life’s observers. His films, THE DEEP BLUE SEA, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, his semi-autobiographical DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES, and OF TIME AND THE CITY, his documentary tribute to his hometown of Liverpool, which used Dickinson’s poetry as part… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, afterlife, Amherst, Cynthia Nixon, Emily Dickinson, evangelical, Family, family quarrels, Gettysburg Address, Massachusetts, Paradise, poetry, soul, Vryling Buffam

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

July 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Credit where it’s due.  THE LEGEND OF TARZAN doesn’t get everything wrong. For one, It has the virtue of addressing why a perfectly capable, perfectly intelligent black man with a Ph.D., George Washington Harris (Samuel L. Jackson as an actual historical character) needs a white man, that would be Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård)… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, Africa, Belgian Congo, book to screen, Congo, diamonds, diplomatic mission, hippopotamus, King Leopold, ostriches, slavery, Tarzan

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