Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gambon’
An Appreciation – Gosford Park
The beauty of Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001) is how it delicately balances the numerous storylines to create a wonderful mosaic of characters. We’re not so much concerned with what happens, but with how everything unfolds. We’re familiar with the set-up—from Jean Renoir’s The Rules…
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Film Review – Quartet
Where do you think great musical artists go once old age hits and their career takes the downslide? According to Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet (2012), they all go to a retirement home, play wonderful music, and get into all sorts of hijinks. That’s both the beauty…
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Film Review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Harry Potter series finally comes to a close. Some of us may know what will transpire in this film because we’ve read the book. But this is something different. After Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 there will be nothing left for…
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Most of us know the feeling of having no choice but to perform a duty you feel you’re ill-equipped for; luckily for most of us, our tasks aren’t quite so high profile as those of a member of a royal family, and our failures don’t…
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