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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
- Miss Moppet
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[quote=""nona""]yes the Devil Wears Prada is based on a book, I have not read it but have heard great things about the book.[/quote]
I have read DWP a few times - love the thinly disguised Anna Wintour/Vogue dish. I like the film too & especially Meryl Streep's performance.
Edited to say: Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt were great too.
I have read DWP a few times - love the thinly disguised Anna Wintour/Vogue dish. I like the film too & especially Meryl Streep's performance.
Edited to say: Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt were great too.
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- cw gortner
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[quote=""Sheramy""]Last night on cable I watched "I've loved you for so long," a French film with Kristen Scott Thomas. [/quote]
Oh, I loved this movie! One of my favorites and it's a crime that she was not nominated for her role. It's an exceptional performance by an actress at the top of her game.
Oh, I loved this movie! One of my favorites and it's a crime that she was not nominated for her role. It's an exceptional performance by an actress at the top of her game.
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
- cw gortner
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[quote=""nona""]let me know what you think of Cheri I've seem a trailer on it and want to watch it but am slightly hesitant.[/quote]
It's marvelous; the belle epoque costumes, a very witty script from Christopher Hampton (who also wrote "Dangerous Liasions") and, naturally, the radiant Michelle Pfieffer as the aging courtesan, grappling with the unexpected complications of her love affair with a much younger man. I loved it; the story has a sly irreverance to it that is misleading, as the underlying themes about our ability to sacrifice ourselves for love are quite serious.
Plus, the superb Kathy Bates as the young man's mother - an ex-courtesan herself - perfectly captures the frenetic and false solicitous maternity of a supremely self-absorbed and selfish woman.
It's marvelous; the belle epoque costumes, a very witty script from Christopher Hampton (who also wrote "Dangerous Liasions") and, naturally, the radiant Michelle Pfieffer as the aging courtesan, grappling with the unexpected complications of her love affair with a much younger man. I loved it; the story has a sly irreverance to it that is misleading, as the underlying themes about our ability to sacrifice ourselves for love are quite serious.
Plus, the superb Kathy Bates as the young man's mother - an ex-courtesan herself - perfectly captures the frenetic and false solicitous maternity of a supremely self-absorbed and selfish woman.
THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN
www.cwgortner.com
- Nefret
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- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
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[quote=""Miss Moppet""]I have read DWP a few times - love the thinly disguised Anna Wintour/Vogue dish. I like the film too & especially Meryl Streep's performance.
Edited to say: Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt were great too.[/quote]
Will have to see if I can find it from the library.
Umm... Saw "Where the Wild Things Are" on Sunday night.
Edited to say: Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt were great too.[/quote]
Will have to see if I can find it from the library.
Umm... Saw "Where the Wild Things Are" on Sunday night.
- LoveHistory
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- princess garnet
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[quote=""LoveHistory""]Watched The Magnificent Seven for the first time. I was surpised by how much I enjoyed it. One of the best scores ever written. After watching the "making of" feature, I'm determined to try and find a copy of The Seven Samurai.[/quote]
I saw this on my local PBS station about a month or so ago.
Two memorable lines for me:
"How many did you bring?"
"Enough."
I saw this on my local PBS station about a month or so ago.
Two memorable lines for me:
"How many did you bring?"
"Enough."
Vera Drake - last night on TV. Superb film. I have it in my collection but it's gone awol, so this was a good chance to see it again.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com