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Romantic Drama
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
Casanova
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studio:
Touchstone (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
MPAA rating:
Rated R
starring:
Heath
Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin, Omid
Djalili, Charlie Cox, Natalie Dormer, Helen McCrory, Tim McInnerny
DVD release year:
2006
film release year:
2005
director:
Lasse Hallström
running time:
108 minutes (DVD label says 111 minutes)
film rating:
Four stars
sound/picture rating:
Four stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
Giacomo
Casanova was an adventurer, libertine, magician and traveler who, late
in life, wrote his multi-volume memoirs. Movies have been feasting on
them as long as there have been movies. Fellini made “Fellini’s
Casanova” with Donald Sutherland as the rake of the Renaissance, but it
was surprisingly stodgy for Fellini. The same certainly can’t be said
for Lasse Hallström’s lively, funny—and underestimated—“Casanova” of
2005.
Monday, 27 June 2005 |
Written by
Paul Lingas
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title:
The Woodlanders
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studio:
Miramax Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
PG
starring:
Rufus Sewell, Polly Walker, Jodhi May, Tony Haygarth, Cal MacAninch, Emily Woof
director:
Phil Agland
film release year:
1997
DVD release year:
2005
film rating:
Two Stars
sound/picture rating:
One and a Half Stars
reviewed by:
Paul Lingas
“The Woodlanders” is a pleasant enough albeit somewhat drab adaptation
of the Thomas Hardy novel of the same name. It takes place in Hardy’s
Wessex, in the south of England in the 19th century. The events
surround the return of Grace Melbury (Emily Woof) from school to her
rural hometown, where she is awaited not only by her father (Tony
Haygarth) but also by the honest and hardworking woodsman Giles
Winterborne (Rufus Sewell). Though there has always been an
understanding between Giles and Grace, Mr. Melbury has decided that,
because Grace is now an educated woman, the uneducated Giles, of low
social stature, is no longer suitable for her.
Friday, 25 March 2005 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
The English Patient
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studio:
Miramax Home Entertainment
starring:
Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
release year:
1996
film rating:
Four stars
sound/picture:
Four stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
Contrary to popular lore, not everyone will find 1996's Best Picture
Oscar winner 'The English Patient' swooningly romantic. However,
writer/director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's
novel is a remarkably intelligent look at love as both pathology and
therapy while, at the same time, a work that is epic in both appearance
and scope. Minghella has also managed to turn the book's dense, often
confusingly elliptical, structure into a multi-layered, yet quite
coherent, gripping narrative.
Tuesday, 01 February 2005 |
Written by
Paul Lingas
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title:
Shall We Dance?
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studio:
Miramax Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
PG-13
starring:
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Ann Walter, Richard Jenkins, Bobby Cannavale, Omar Miller
film release year:
2004
DVD release year:
2005
film rating:
Two-and-a-Half Stars
sound/picture:
One-and-a-Half Stars
reviewed by:
Paul Lingas
“Shall We Dance?” is a surprisingly charming little film that is a
remake of the 1996 film by Masayuki Suo. It focuses on an average man
with a happy yet average family named John Clark (Richard Gere). Though
he has a good job, a nice house in the suburbs, a loving wife Bev
(Susan Sarandon) and two children, there is something missing from
John’s life. Nothing is remarkably wrong, he just seems settled into
his life in such a way that he has grown somewhat complacent in his
routine and this fact makes him unhappy.
Tuesday, 18 January 2005 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
Carrie
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studio:
Paramount Home Video
MPAA rating:
Unrated
starring:
Laurence
Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Basil Ruysdael,
Ray Teal, Barry Kelley, Sara Berner, William Regnolds (Reynolds)
director:
William Wyler
film release year:
1952
DVD release year:
2005
film rating:
Four Stars
sound/picture rating:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
Theodore Dreiser’s first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was based on the
experiences of his sister when she ran off with a married man. The
novel was a scandal: Dreiser didn’t “punish” his leading character for
her transgressions—she lives with men without marrying them—but instead
leaves her on the brink of a stardom she does not really want. Other
authors admired Dreiser’s realism and honesty, and he became one of the
central figures in the “American Realist” movement.
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