Film Review 2

Cast

Gwyneth Paltrow: Viola De Lesseps
Joseph Fiennes: Will Shakespeare
Colin Firth: Lord Wessex
Geoffrey Rush: Philip Henslowe
Judi Dench: Queen Elizabeth
Tom Wilkinson: Hugh Fennyman
Ben Affleck: Ned Alleyn
Simon Callow: Tilney, Master of the Revels
Jim Carter: Ralph Bashford
Martin Clunes: Richard Burbage
Imelda Staunton: Nurse
Steven O'Donnell: Lambert
Tim McMullen: Frees
Steven Beard: Makepeace, The Peacemaker
Antony Sher: Dr. Moth
Patrick Barlow: Will Kempe
Sandra Reinton: Rosaline
Rupert Everett: Christopher Marlowe
Bridget McConnel: Lady in Waiting
Georgie Glen: Lady in Waiting
Nicholas Boulton: Henry Condell
Desmond McNamara: Crier
Barbany Kay: Nol
Paul Bigley: Peter, The Stage Manager
Jason Round: Actor in Tavern
Rupert Farley: Barman
Adam Barker: First Auditionee
Joe Roberts: John Webster
Harry Gostelow: Second Auditionee
Alan Cody: Third Auditionee
Mark Williams: Wabash
David Curtiz: John Hemmings
Gregor Truter: James Hemmings
Simon Day: First Boatman
Jill Baker: Lady De Lesseps
Amber Glossop: Scullery Maid
Robin Davies: Master Plum
Hywel Simons: Servant
Nicholas Le Prevost: Sir Robert De Lesseps
Timothy Knightley: Edward Pope
Mark Saban: Augustine Philips
Bob Barrett: George Bryan
Roger Morlidge: James Armitage
Daniel Brocklebank: Sam Gosse
Roger Frost: Second Boatman
Rebecca Charles: Chambermaid
Richard Gold: Lord in Waiting
Rachel Clarke: First Whore
Lucy Speed: Second Whore
Patricia Potter: Third Whore
John Ramm: Makepeace's Neighbor
Martin Neeley: Paris/Lady Montague

 




William Shakespeare is about to start his new play, "Romeo and Ethel the Pirante's Daughter", but he's stuck with writer's block. Holding auditions for the play, he meets Thomas Kent, an incredible actor, who is really a princess in disguise. He later falls in love with her, and lets her carry on in the play dispite women not being allowed to act. The princess is going to marry Lord Wessex, and Shakespeare has finally found his muse and starts writing his most famous love story, "Romeo and Juliet".

This film is sweet and pleasant. It's the performances which push this to a very high level. For only eight minutes of total screen time, Judi Dench is especially memorable as the Queen. Her initial appearance marks one of the wittiest moments of the film itself. These scenes feature Dench swiftly dismissing each attempt Paltrow, who just as well delivers a jaw-dropping performance, makes to impress her. Paltrow bows down; Dench snaps, "Stand up straight." Paltrow breathes, "Your Highness," as an honorary salute; Dench retorts, "I know who I am." It's the condescending tone that is taken to an entirely new level in her character.

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The article which is called  Giselle, Mikhailovsky Ballet, Coliseum, review was published in The Telegraph by Mark Monahan.  This article told about young superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova that make the Mikhailovsky’s current London run worth a look. At the close of 2011, Vladimir Kekhman whipped up a maelstrom by pinching the Moscow-based Bolshoi’s young superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova for his own Mikhailovsky Ballet. It was a considerable coup for the dance-loving banana magnate and second-tier St Petersburg company, and it is supremely this magnifcent on- and off-stage couple that make the Mikhailovsky’s current London run worth a look.The author that unlike, say, the atom-bomb-of-camp Spartacus from its first London visit five years ago, the company’s Giselle is a measured affair that does its best to get as close as possible to the 19th-century original. Textually, it is traditional; visually, it is far from outstanding. The costumes are plain at best, Act 1’s set is a litte Disney-ish, and Act 2 not nearly as “dank, chilly and vaporous” (the original libretto’s description) as it should be. In the latter, trees wobble like that immortal pillar in Jim Robinson’s house in Neighbours, and, on Tuesday, the Queen of the Wilis – a suitably icy Ekaterina Borchenko – was sadly upstaged by some waywardly levitating vegetation.And in the end of rhe article the author told that these two Titans here eclipsed everyone else on stage to a distracting degree: those used to the Royal Ballet’s corps (and indeed orchestra) may have been disappointed, besides which it remains to be seen how the remaining Giselle casts will fare by comparison. Still, anything’s possible, and at any rate this truly remarkable duo will be fronting other works by the Mikhailovsky between now and April 7. I’d get booking.

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This article is called Thousands gather in London to watch re-enactment of crucifixion of Christ for Good Friday By Josie Ensor. Thousands of people have gathered to watch a dramatic re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ in a passion play in London’s Trafalgar Square. The author underline that braving the brisk four degree temperatures, crowds watched the time-honoured, traditional performance of the last hours of Jesus' life are a key part of the Easter celebration. The play has been performed twice before in Trafalgar Square by the Wintershall Players, a group based in Surrey and founded by enthusiast Peter Hutley. The play commemorates the day Jesus is believed to have been killed by the Romans, two day before miraculously rising from the dead on Easter Sunday. And it is the thirteenth time the role of Jesus has been played by James Burke-Dunsmore, a 41-year-old actor who has used his striking looks to carve out a career niche playing Christ. Adding to the physical toll of playing Jesus is the heavy cross he carried around Trafalgar Square today, made from two real tree trunks. The play featured the judgement of Jesus in front of Pontius Pilate, followed by the journey through the streets of Jerusalem wearing the crown of thorns and carrying the cross. The dramatic highlight of the performance was the crucifixion itself, when Christ and two thieves were strung up on crosses with nails in their hands and feet.

This theme was really interesting for me all time and when I found this  article I decided to read it and didn't pity about it. It is horrible but we must know it!!!

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The article which I've read is called Once the musical: A story of love, friendship, music – and success 
was published By Sarah Crompton in The Telegraph. This article is about as the musical opens in London. The author underline that it would be hard to imagine someone less likely to be the director of a Broadway musical than John Tiffany. He was a scruffy, straightforward Yorkshireman, who told nineteen to the dozen, was once literary manager for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and built his subsequent career on championing new writing. Yet Once, a delicate, charming story of love, friendship and music, based on the popular Irish film of the same name, turned him into one of the hottest directors in America, winning eight Tony awards, including best director. It is now beginning previews in London, where it is likely to garner just as much praise.Then the author wrote The work that transformed Tiffany’s reputation was, in fact, not Once, but Black Watch, Gregory Burke’s gritty drama about soldiers from the Scottish regiment who served in Iraq. In the hands of Tiffany and his key collaborator Steven Hoggett it became something else: a visceral, haunting evocation of the lives of military men, their hopes and dreams.

 The musicals are very  interesting theame in our time and I'am impressed it all time. And this article is not exception!

Individual Reading. Part 6

At the end of the story the narrator learned about Strickland's marriage. His wife was Tahitian girl Ata. They lived in the unhabited part of the island. All was good until he developed leprosy. In that time Strickland painted his picture in the walls. He asked to burn down their house after his death. That's why the painting of his life had never been shown to audience. Then the author went to England and decided to met with Mrs. Strikland to tell about her husband's life.

Individual Reading. Part 5

Many years have passed. The narrator learned that Mr. Strickland died but his pictures were very famous. In Tahiti the author met people who told him their recollections about of Mr. Strickland. He also learned that Mr. Strickland went to Marseilles and lived there about half a year. The next part of Strickland life the narrator heard from Capt. Nichols. Some time he left in Tahiti where he painted as much as he could. He liked that place very much but didn't worry about his own life.

Individual reading. Part 4

After a while Stroeve left. He and narrator hadn't been meeting for a long time. Once after the narrator played chess with Mr. Strickland, Dirk Stroeve came to him with questions of what had happened during the game.Then the narrator learned of the quarrel between Strickland and Blanch. After that Blanch tried to commit suicide but she was sent to the hospital. Unfortunately after a while she died. Dirk Stroeve didn't believe what had happened. When he camу to the flat  where Blanch and Strickland lived he found  a portrait of his wife. After that he dicided to return it to Strickland but he didn't accept it. Dirk left France for a new life.

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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2013/mar/17/curious-incident-midsummer-untold-review

The article The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was published in "The Gardian"  on Sunday, 17 March 2013 by Susannah Clapp. This article reports about the perfomance which named "The Curious Insident of the Dog in the Night-Time". It is a mystery novel by British writer Mark Habbon. The reporter wrote it was one of the most original shows and startling successes at the National last year. Also the authoк underline that with the help of Simon Stephens's adroit adaptation, a terrific team found the way. And have done so, slightly differently, in the West End. Marianne Elliott's exhilarating production is less intimate than it was when performed in the round. There the audience, pressed against the action on all sides, bore down on Christopher Boone, a hero who can't bear to be touched. A bigger stage causes everyone to elocute a bit more: Niamh Cusack as the sympathetic teacher is more goody-goody than she was before. Then reporter wrote few words about some actors, their playing in perfomance etc. Especially that  Luke Treadaway as Christopher was even more compelling this time around. Trembling but unswerving, emotionally inflexible and intellectually agile, he was completely concentrated yet always fidgeting – tugging away at the string of his hoodie, focused on his mathematical proofs. He was, until he provides a dazzling coda, utterly raw and shell-shocked. He took people into the real achievement of the book and play, showing how so much of our common sense was actually lacking in logic, how odd the things were that they took for granted. Susannah tried to reflect the atmosphere in the scene, for example that anything could come to life; anything could be transformed. In a beautiful sequence the cast tap upon those planks with rhythms that built into a fine piece of percussive music. A puppet Cobweb dripped  his jaw and changes in an instant from sweet to sinister. In a big lewd gesture, which showed how a human body can be bent about and used as a puppet of the gods, the entranced Bottom proved himself to be a right arse – and a massive hit with the audience.



Speaking about my own expression I was really impressed by it. For me it was helpful because I read this novel and I would like to see it in the scene. To my mind it is really interesting how the author wrote.

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The article which is called "Artwork made by Japanese patients in care comes to London"  was published on Wednesday 27 March 2013 by Maev Kennedy. This article told about that works of art made of scraps of thread, off-cuts of paper, and cardboard boxes salvaged from a care home's kitchen and carefully smoothed flat have gone on display at the Wellcome Collection in London, in the first exhibition in the UK of Japanese "outsider art". The author underline that when curator Shamita Sharmacharja visited Japan to speak to the artists who made the works she found them slightly surprised that their work was considered art. To them it was just what they do, often in almost all their waking hours. As well as tapestries and paintings, there were an army of diminutive superheroes made from bin ties, pottery lion dogs with bristling manes, and life-size rag dolls representing people who have been kind to Sakiko Kono in her 55 years in an institution.Then author added that none of the works was made to be exhibited, and some of the artists gave their treasures up reluctantly. Takahiro Shimoda, who maked suits painted and embroidered with his favourite foods, sent his fried chicken, salmon roe and pigeon-shaped cookies pyjamas, but insisted on keeping the ones he likes best. Shota Katsube, the wire tie sculptor, loaned a collection of hundreds of tiny warriors, but couldn't bear to part with an even more elaborate piece.It is important to underline that this was the last major exhibition at the Wellcome before the interior of the building, a victim of its own success, was torn apart in a £17.5m project to create new display and public spaces. It opened five years ago expecting around 100,000 visitors a year, but has been attracting five times as many. The exhibition had deliberately been given an untranslatable title, Souzou, which in Japanese could mean either creation or imagination, depending on how it is written.

 

 

It was interesting for me because I do not listen about such type of art! It will interesting to see it!

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Cast & Crew

Director : Mick Davis
Producer : André Djaoui, Philippe Martinez, Stéphanie Martinez,
Screenwriter : Mick Davis
Starring : Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova, Udo Kier, Miriam Margolyes,

 Amedeo Modigliani was a Sephardic Jew from Italy who moved to the mecca of Paris to create his brilliant portraits and sculptures of nudes and extended neck women and girls. His genius lay in his unifying the spiritual Eastern iconography (tribal art and Judaism) of his heritage with the Christian (read Catholic) traditions of the artists with whom he associated which resulted in his creations of the female nude from a feminist cultural perspective. What this film delivers is a rather annoying portrait of a young consumptive artist who drank and drugged himself to death at a moment in his career when renown was just beginning. The reasons for his place in art history are merely hinted all for the sake of the Hollywood biopic.

    I find Modigliani a movie worth to be seen!  The soundtrack is perfectly chosen to amplify the feelings transmitted by the excellent performance of the actors. It is more than a cinematographic production. It is а coexistence between passion and love, human nature and vices. The memories of Amedeo about his childhood, the reproofs of "Modigliani-the little boy ", the incapacity of resisting to temptations and the permanent psychological pressure given by having such a rivalry have driven him to auto-destruction. It is the destiny of a man who passed away just a moment before tasting success. I consider Modigliani-the movie- art about art.
   

Individual reading Part 3

Once the narrator learned that Charles was ill. He didn't see him for a long time.Learning about that Strove decided to care about Charles as his friend. Stroeve's wife was against it but then put up with it. Then when Mr. Stickland fell better and was forced to leave. And in this time the women said that she decided to leave her house with Sticklend. He didn't know what to do but he loved Blanche very much and wanted to ask some advice of the narrator.

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The article which is called  Maggi Hambling's resurrection sculpture takes flight in village church
was published in The Gardian by Maev Kennedy. The author wrote that shining bird unveiled at St Dunstan's church in East Sussex for Good Friday project after £1m bequest by sacristan. The artist Maggi Hambling looked up at the shining bird in mirror-polished steel, shimmering high above the altar of St Dunstan's in Mayfield, East Sussex, and at the little piece of silver-painted cardboard in her hand, the original design for her first sculpture for a church. The author underline that Hambling was pleased with the reflection of church and congregation captured in the gleaming feathers, but she was also pleased to see her work so securely sheltered. Then author wrote that Hambling described her religious position as "optimistic doubter", but death had been an important element in her work: she had made tender death-bed drawings of close friends, and of her own father. For many years she had also made a painting or a drawing, often on the subject of a crucifixion, on Good Friday. Mayfield had a tradition of craftsmanship: it was once the centre of the local iron industry. The church, partly dating from the 13th century, was also a suitable place for a resurrection sculpture, having burned to the ground twice in medieval times and risen again. The church was said to have been founded by St Dunstan to mark the spot where in his days as a blacksmith he set about the devil with a red-hot tongs.

Speaking about my own impression it's really impressed me. This article is one of the best articles I have read. Also with article is written in wonderful language, rich in beautiful words and phrases