Tag Archives: Ben Whishaw

Out on DVD | Bright Star – Jane Campion’s Keats’ biopic: not just another frock flick

Posted on 8 March 2010 by Jason Best

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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At the Cinema | Bright Star – Jane Campion’s ravishing film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne: a thing of beauty

Posted on 6 November 2009 by Jason Best

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 →

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BFI 53rd London Film Festival – Opening night… and the pick of the rest

Posted on 14 October 2009 by Jason Best

The Times BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the world premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson’s screen version of Roald Dahl’s much-loved children’s story. Hollywood royalty will be turning out in force at the gala screening in Leicester … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Jason Best

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 →

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The Best view | Brideshead Revisited

Posted on 3 October 2008 by Jason Best

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 →

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