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From watching the opening few minutes of “Jindabyne”, Ray Lawrence’s third directorial work, you could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another serial killer movie. Fifteen minutes in, however, you would realise that this is far from the truth. This isn’t a film about a depraved killer’s sickening acts of sex and violence […]
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Capturing Mary was broadcast on BBC TWO during the Autumn of 2007, part of two new dramas written by Stephen Poliakoff. This film both works as the second part to Joe’s Palace, Poliakoff’s other 2007 drama, and as a standalone film. Joe, a young man paid to mind a grand old house in central London, […]
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Miranda Richardson seems to show off her considerably wide range of acting talents with every screen effort she makes. In Dance with a Stranger, a small little British independent from the 1980s, she plays the radiant but tough nightclub owner Ruth Ellis. Ellis is well known for being the last woman to be hanged in […]
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Adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel and directed by Tom Ford, this is about a British college lecturer in America who’s grieving after the death of his partner. On the day the film is set, he decides he is going to take his own life. The film is a delicate lament on age, beauty and love. […]
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As I have been playing the cello for many years, the name Jacqueline Du Pre has always meant something to me, even if I didn’t really know that much about her. With Hilary and Jackie, a somewhat controversial biopic, adapted from the 1997 memoir A Genius in the Family, I was made wise to the […]
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It’s amazing how all the horrors of the world seem to dwindle into insignificance when Downton Abbey returns. When the series is finally axed, or writer Julian Fellows decides the time has come to end the saga of the Crawley family, I’m sure we will enter into a nationwide depression. People will drift aimlessly in […]
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Michael Sheen and Oscar nominee Frank Langella are on remarkable form as the title roles in this electrifying drama based on the groundbreaking interview David Frost secured with disgraced President Nixon. The main body of the film is an intellectual duel, and there is no shortage of intelligence testing interview techniques and long, tension filled […]
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Mansfield Park as told by Patricia Rozema is a little different to Mansfield Park as told by Jane Austen. In this colourful film, we are introduced to a version of Jane Austen’s gentle novel that contains a family involved in the slave industry (something that is clear, rather than implied), detailed illustrations of rape and […]
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After a foray into the world of the action thriller with 2011’s Hanna, director Joe Wright has returned to the costume drama. He made his name with the Award-magnets Pride & Prejudice and Atonement – lush British films that both starred that Marmite of the acting world, Ms Keira Knightley. I am a Keira fan, […]
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Because I am strange and get very obsessive about the world of cinema, I sometimes watch films for odd reasons. I chose to watch The Life Before Her Eyes because James Horner wrote the music. His scores have the power to weave a curtain of quality around a film that’s actually rather mediocre (Titanic, Avatar […]
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The 100 Discs of Christmas will be a long-running series of capsule film reviews of films Edge writers recommend readers add to their Christmas lists this year. Each day, counting down the 100 days to Christmas day, The Edge Online will publish a new post in the series. By the time we reach the big […]
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Disney and Pixar have set the bar so high with their animated offerings, it’s hard to be very enthusiastic about a film that is just good, rather than extraordinary, but I shall try my best. This is a sweet little picture set in glorious Scotland about a young Princess who doesn’t want to be forced […]
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The previous Bourne film, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, was superb. This fourth instalment may even be a little bit better. Matt Damon’s character occupies an off-screen role, and Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is brought to the foreground. Similar to Jason Bourne, Cross is the product of a scientific military programme to produce the perfect agents through […]
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Film director Tony Scott has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles after jumping off a bridge. At the time of writing, his death is believed to be a suicide. Tony Scott was one of Hollywood’s biggest directors, and was responsible for modern classics such as Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and True Romance, […]