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i've been inside all day. just finished watching "james and the giant peach." haven't seen it in years. never realised just how many good people are a part of that. miram margoyles. daphne from fasier. pete postlethwaite. patsy from absolutely fabulous. richard dryfus (pre-mr. holland's opus stage). and. of course. david thewlis as the earthworm and letting his natural low-brow london accent come through. god i love that man. i need to get out of the apartment now.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS #20: BESIEGED (dvd)
bernaro bertolucci directed a beautiful, emotionaly satisfying film. and the weird part is, as it ends, you know it can't end well. the characters made too many sacrifices, took too much control of their emotions, had too many changes of heart. and in the end they both got what they wanted and it tears them apart.
most of the film is just the two of them, thandie newton and mr. thewlis. but damn, that's all you need.
basic synopsis: thandie's character flees africa after her husband is imprisoned. she goes to rome to study medicine. she makes a living as a live-in house maid and assistant to david's character, who is an eccentric english pianist. he asks what he can do to make her love him. she asks for her husband's freedom, thinking she is asking the impossible. therein lies the catch. most of the movie is wordless and sensory; glances, spying, noticing things missing in the house as he sells all his possessions (including his grand piano)for the necessary means to make her dream come true, knowing full well that his request is an impossibility as well. lovely.
however. it took me a while to drop my grudge against thandie to rent it. "beloved" was damn awful. and i scorn her just for being a part of "the truth about charlie." oh ho. let me tell you what i think of THAT film. didn't even see it. will never see it. because they took one of the best audrey hepburn films of all time ("charade")--a film that is funny and suspensful and has a lovely twist ending--and then added marky mark and this hussy and turned it into an action-thriller. FUCK YOU, HOLLYWOOD REMAKES.
ahem. anyhow. next on the review list is "starsky and hutch." so perhaps i should be a little bit more open minded about the remakes thing.
no. no. fuck you, hollywood.
that being said. even though she has some fucked-up nipples, i lift my thandie nausea for this one film and this one film only. i think it was mr. thewlis. he makes all his stars look good. yeah. *starry eyed* i'm going with that. and i'm getting out of the house.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS #20: BESIEGED (dvd)
bernaro bertolucci directed a beautiful, emotionaly satisfying film. and the weird part is, as it ends, you know it can't end well. the characters made too many sacrifices, took too much control of their emotions, had too many changes of heart. and in the end they both got what they wanted and it tears them apart.
most of the film is just the two of them, thandie newton and mr. thewlis. but damn, that's all you need.
basic synopsis: thandie's character flees africa after her husband is imprisoned. she goes to rome to study medicine. she makes a living as a live-in house maid and assistant to david's character, who is an eccentric english pianist. he asks what he can do to make her love him. she asks for her husband's freedom, thinking she is asking the impossible. therein lies the catch. most of the movie is wordless and sensory; glances, spying, noticing things missing in the house as he sells all his possessions (including his grand piano)for the necessary means to make her dream come true, knowing full well that his request is an impossibility as well. lovely.
however. it took me a while to drop my grudge against thandie to rent it. "beloved" was damn awful. and i scorn her just for being a part of "the truth about charlie." oh ho. let me tell you what i think of THAT film. didn't even see it. will never see it. because they took one of the best audrey hepburn films of all time ("charade")--a film that is funny and suspensful and has a lovely twist ending--and then added marky mark and this hussy and turned it into an action-thriller. FUCK YOU, HOLLYWOOD REMAKES.
ahem. anyhow. next on the review list is "starsky and hutch." so perhaps i should be a little bit more open minded about the remakes thing.
no. no. fuck you, hollywood.
that being said. even though she has some fucked-up nipples, i lift my thandie nausea for this one film and this one film only. i think it was mr. thewlis. he makes all his stars look good. yeah. *starry eyed* i'm going with that. and i'm getting out of the house.
