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Tag Archives: Ben Whishaw
Out on DVD | Bright Star – Jane Campion’s Keats’ biopic: not just another frock flick
Jane Campion’s splendid costume drama Bright Star was largely overlooked at this year’s Oscars (it picked up one nomination for Costume Design). Overshadowed by Kathryn Bigelow’s testosterone-fuelled The Hurt Locker, it’s the kind of movie that would have probably caught … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Cornish, Anna Paquin, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Fanny Brawne, Holly Hunter, Jane Campion, John Keats, Oscars, piano
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At the Cinema | Bright Star – Jane Campion’s ravishing film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne: a thing of beauty
For director Jane Campion, the love affair at the heart of her ravishing movie Bright Star is “as powerful as Romeo and Juliet.” That’s quite a claim to make, but watching her account of the passionate but chaste, tragically short … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Brideshead Revisited
Currently appearing on the big screen looking distinctly uncomfortable in superhero Spandex in Watchmen, Matthew Goode seems much more at ease in Oxford bags in this film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He plays Charles Ryder, a middle-class Oxford … Continue reading
The Best view | Brideshead Revisited
How does the new film of Brideshead Revisited compare with the classic TV series? That’s what everyone wants to know – and, frustratingly, I’m not in a position to say, at least not definitively… A confession: I’ve never seen the … Continue reading
