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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
- cw gortner
- Bibliophile
- Location: San Francisco,CA
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Just watched Jane Campion's Bright Star, about Keats and Fanny Brawne; I've always loved Campion's work and this is no exception. Beautifully filmed, with a stunning performance by Abbie Cornish. Why Campion's work is not more highly recognized (save for The Piano) is beyond me; she is one of our truly visionary filmmakers and she never descends into maudlin sentiment.
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THE QUEEN'S VOW available on June 12, 2012!
THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
[B]THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN[/B]
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THE TUDOR SECRET, Book I in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
[B]THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI
THE LAST QUEEN[/B]
www.cwgortner.com
- Leo62
- Bibliophile
- Location: London
- Contact:
"cw gortner" wrote:Just watched Jane Campion's Bright Star, about Keats and Fanny Brawne; I've always loved Campion's work and this is no exception. Beautifully filmed, with a stunning performance by Abbie Cornish. Why Campion's work is not more highly recognized (save for The Piano) is beyond me; she is one of our truly visionary filmmakers and she never descends into maudlin sentiment.
Isn't it great? Just about my fave movie of 2009. For me it was everything a "period" movie should be - beauty and grit in equal measure. Deserved way more recognition than it got - all the awards junkets seem to have passed it over...
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- Scribbler
- Location: born and raised in Texas
- Divia
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Always Cloudy, Central New York
I watched Public Enemy today. I have to say the previews were a lot more interesting. I found the movie dull.
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
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- LoveHistory
- Bibliomaniac
- Location: Wisconsin, USA
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Cry Baby
Love Stinks
and Carmen Jones
CB was delightfully camp.
LS was strange yet fun and I loved the twist at the end.
CJ had good performances and was depressing. Lovely music, but I'm pretty sure Hammerstein didn't translate from the Italian for the lyrics. Good news, with the subtitles function you can sing along.
Love Stinks
and Carmen Jones
CB was delightfully camp.
LS was strange yet fun and I loved the twist at the end.
CJ had good performances and was depressing. Lovely music, but I'm pretty sure Hammerstein didn't translate from the Italian for the lyrics. Good news, with the subtitles function you can sing along.
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- Newbie
I was dismayed that the message the movie sent seemed to be only that by becoming pregnant the girls would forfeit their chance for college and moving ahead in the world. I didnt hear a word that indicated to any young girls watching that unwed pregnancy is just wrong--that the girls were in no way prepared to provide for a child and that a child without a family is at a great disadvantage from birth on. The emphaisis was on the future of the mother--not the needs of the innocent child.
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Currently reading: The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham & How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime
- Location: Essex/London
Watched "Inkheart" yesterday - enjoyed it although the story did flounder a bit, how many times did they escape and then either get recaptured or go back to the castle, so it got a bit repetitive! However overall it was the perfect movie for a dull Saturday afternoon, and Helen Mirren's speech about books should be pinned up in every school and library.
Currently reading "How to stop time" by Matt Haig & "The Miller's Dance" by Winston Graham