Showing posts with label MOVIE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOVIE. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Theatrical Trailer - RED - 2010
Frank, Joe, Marvin, and Victoria used to be the CIA's top agents -- but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller and Adaptation
Release Date: October 15th, 2010 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Production Co.: DC Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc.
Studios: Summit Entertainment, LLC
Filming Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Produced in: United States
Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren are former CIA agents who have been classified "Retired Extremely Dangerous."
Source By Yahoo Movies
Thursday, 22 July 2010
'The Social Network' Theatrical Trailer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Armie Hammer
Directed by: David Fincher
Produced by: Kevin Spacey, Scott Rudin, Michael de Luca
Source By http://movies.yahoo.com
Monday, 22 February 2010
Sunday, 21 February 2010
The Year in Review 2007 - Boy Culture - Movie
Boy Culture is an award-winning LGBT film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Matthew Rettenmund. It made its world premiere in the United Kingdom at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on April 1, 2006, and made its debut in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2006. It subsequently received a theatrical release in France on January 31, 2007, a very limited theatrical release in the United States on March 23, 2007, and in Spain on June 8, 2007. It was released on DVD-video on August 14, 2007.
A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
While the story remains the same as the novel - a call boy (Magyar) who goes by the name 'X' throughout the film in order to maintain his anonymity and his relationships between his two roommates (Stephens & Trent), one of whom he's in love with, and an enigmatic older client (Bauchau) who challenges him to find his heart before he will consent to sex.
The movie's differences from the novel include Andrew's character, now an African American, and the location of the story in Seattle, Washington instead of Chicago, Illinois.
Directed by Q. Allan Brocka
Produced by Stephen Israel
Philip Pierce
Victor Simpkins
Written by Q. Allan Brocka
Philip Pierce
Narrated by Derek Magyar
Starring Derek Magyar
Darryl Stephens
Patrick Bauchau
Jonathon Trent
Emily Brooke Hands
Music by Ryan Beveridge
Cinematography Joshua Hess
Editing by Phillip J. Bartell
Distributed by TLA Releasing
Release date(s) January 31, 2007 (France)
March 23, 2007 (U.S.)
June 8. 2007 (Spain)
Running time 88 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Source by Sapo Videos Wikipedia and tlareleasing (youtube)
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Well Well Carnaval 2010 has been gone and it's time to talk about...I Love You Phillip Morris
"I Love You Phillip Morris is an upcoming comedy-drama film based on the real life events of con artist, impostor, and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell played by Jim Carrey. While incarcerated, Russell falls in love with his cell mate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). After Morris is released from prison, Russell escapes from prison four times in order to be reunited with Morris.
After original difficulty finding a US distributor, likely due to its homosexual content, the film was re-edited.[2] It was recently announced by Variety that Consolidated Pictures Group has acquired the rights for distribution.[3] The film is set for a release in France in February 2010, and in the United Kingdom and the United States on March 19.[4]
The film was adapted from I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker."
Source by Wikipedia;
Saturday, 6 February 2010
MASTERPIECE CLASSIC - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
The trailer for the 1995 film starring
Emma Thompson
Kate Winslet
Alan Rickman
Greg Wise
Hugh Grant
Source by hillkatback
Friday, 29 January 2010
Penguin Dance Sing Along
Penguin Dance Is The Song Of Mary Poppins (1964) Written By The Sherman Brothers.
Source by AlexValve (Youtube)
Monday, 18 January 2010
2081 Film Clip
2081 Film Clip from 2081 on Vimeo.
'A short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains. It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything.
Featuring an original score performed by the world-renowned Kronos Quartet (Requiem for a Dream) and narration by Academy Award Nominee Patricia Clarkson (Far From Heaven, Goodnight and Good Luck), 2081 stars James Cosmo (Braveheart, Trainspotting), Julie Hagerty (Airplane!, What About Bob?) and Armie Hammer (The Social Network).'
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Make the Yuletide Gay
MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY Trailer
Make The Yuletide Gay | MySpace Video
First Trailer for MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY, starring Keith Jordan, Adamo Ruggiero, Hallee Hirsh, Kelly Keaton, Derek Long, Alison Arngrim, with Ian Buchanan and Gates McFadden; written and directed by Rob Williams. For more information, visit www . guesthousefilms . com.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
"But you are Blanche, you are in that chair!"
Source by SanYorker and Canal de markyyu (Youtube)
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
'The Irrepressibles' - 'In This Shirt' ( From The Film 'The Forgotten Circus')
A promotional clip from Shelly Loves new film 'The Forgotten Circus' to view the trailer for the film type 'The Forgotten Circus' or go to www.shellylove.co.uk. Music by The Irrepressibles 'In This Shirt'. Performed By Circus Space and Gerard Bell.
Source by shelly love's filmsCanal de loveshelly (youtube)
Friday, 4 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
“A Single Man” BY Tom Ford
O badalado “A Single Man”, com a estréia na direção do estilista Tom Ford, teve uma grande recepção no Festival de Cinema de Veneza, no qual compete pela seção oficial da mostra e levou o Leão Gay 2009 como melhor filme de temática homossexual e o seu ator principal, Colin Firth (“Bridget Jones no Limite da Razão” de 2004 e “Dorian Gray” de 2009), ganhou a Copa Volpi de melhor ator.
À margem do júri oficial do Festival de Veneza, o prêmio concedido pela associação cultural Cinemarte, foi para “A Single Man” por causa da “perfeição formal” e também “porque nos lembra a urgência de leis que garantam a igualdade de direitos para que os homossexuais possam viver seus amores à luz do dia”.
“A Single Man” foi baseado num livro de Chirstopher Isherwood, e conta a história de um professor (Colin Firth) na Califórnia em 1962 que perde seu grande amor (Matthew Goode) em um acidente automobilístico. Seu luto e seu desejo de suicídio são contados em um dia de sua vida.
Apesar de o filme ter uma temática gay e o diretor tinha intenções da voz aos homossexuais, Tom Ford insistiu em que a história não é sobre ser ou não gay, mas “sobre um homem que perdeu o amor” e “sobre personagens humanos”, independente da sua orientação sexual. Continuou ele que “é um poema sobre um homem que acredita que está no último dia de sua vida”.
Sobre união homoafetivo, Tom Ford disse que “é bastante vergonhoso que, nos Estados Unidos e em muitos outros países, não exista o casamento gay ou algum tipo de união civil”, e ressaltou sua própria experiência, com uma união estável há 23 anos com jornalista de moda Richard Buckkey, a quem só pode visitar no hospital com uma permissão expressa assinada pelo mesmo.
Já Firth ressaltou a “enorme ironia” de que, no momento em que estavam filmando na Califórnia, este estado aprovasse uma lei que proibia o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, algo que levou os Estados Unidos a um retrocesso de 50 anos."
SOURCE by Terra and MàssaoUéhara
Monday, 30 November 2009
Sunday, 29 November 2009
The 24th Day (2004) directed by Tony Piccirillo
The 24th Day
Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com
When new writers join us here at TheCinemaSource, there is one cardinal rule of reviewing movies which I always impart; there is no such thing as a movie which is completely perfect or a movie which is completely irredeemable. I feel that it is our job as “critics” to present you, the reader, with both the good and the bad in a given film. After seeing Tony Piccirillos’, The 24th Day, I may have no choice but to break that rule.
This was hands down the most impressive movie I’ve seen in years. I left the theater feeling completely reinvigorated with a renewed sense of optimism for the entertainment field. I’m certainly not saying that this is a feel good movie by any means, because it most certainly isn’t. But it does something that most movies, multi-million dollar blockbusters in particular have lost the ability to do… it made me think. Only a few minutes into the film, I found myself feeling so connected to the characters and their situations that while I was watching and admittedly judging their behavior, I had no choice but to sit back and reflect on my own as well.
More so than any other movie I’ve seen, The 24th Day really puts the ambiguity of “truth” under a very intense and at times uncomfortable microscope. This movie doesn’t only present the viewer with questions of who is being truthful, but also what is the nature of truth itself? It’s always one man’s truth versus another, versus what Scott Speedmans’ character, Tom, describes as the “true” truth.
This movie poses the question, what would you do if one day your entire life as you knew it came to a crashing end? If everything you had been hiding, your darkest secrets had suddenly come to light because of a mistake you made 5 years ago? How rational could you be?
In The 24th Day, James Marsden (X-Men, Gossip, and Disturbing Behavior) plays Dan, a successful, charming Hollywood-type who could probably get away with accidentally killing your dog one minute and then sleeping with you the next. His personality is so magnetic and he is physically so gorgeous, that after spouting about ten lines of bull shit you will have forgotten you even had a dog to begin with!
Tom, on the other hand, brilliantly portrayed by Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) is the quiet, introspective type whose lack of self confidence has led him to a “safe” existence as a chef in a local restaurant and married to his high school sweetheart. Tom gave up his dream of becoming an archeologist because he believed that, “certain people aren’t meant to be certain things.”
The only thing that these two characters initially have in common is one fateful night of shared passion 5 years prior; A night that Dan can barely recall, but that Tom is unable ...to forget.
Convinced that Dan was not safe the night of their encounter and responsible for infecting him with HIV, Tom lures Dan back to his apartment where he ties him down and extracts a sample of his blood. His terms are relatively simple; if the sample comes back negative then Dan will be free to go, however if he’s HIV positive then Tom is going to kill him.
Going to the extreme of kidnapping someone as the only means of extracting a truthful response from them, may at first seem to boarder on the ridiculous; but as the situation unfolds it appears to be less and less ludicrous and more and more like the only option available.
Without an exorbitant budget or loads of special effects to fall back on, The 24th Day relies on the extraordinary performances of the actors and the brilliance of the writing to carry the audience through this story. (Now you tell me, how often does this happen in Hollywood?)
I won’t go into details about the interaction that these characters share and the strange compelling bond that develops between them during their forced time together, but sufficed to say that your eyes will be glued to the screen and your mind will be racing a mile a minute as you consider everything that you are witnessing.
There is absolutely no time wasted on screen. Every conversation, every moment, all have multiple overlapping meanings that film professors and students alike will relish in analyzing for years to come.
Now, if there has to be a downside to the film, the only thing that I could find is that you may not be feeling so great about yourself when you leave. Audience members, sexually active twenty-somethings in particular, will be forced to reexamine their behavior when it comes to random sex acts or alcohol induced encounters. (Not fun I know, but perhaps very necessary.)
Without being at all judgmental or preachy this movie really forces you to look inside and see what could potentially be the best or worst parts of yourself. Jimmy’s character, Dan, is eventually forced to admit that his choice of either being tested or not being tested has absolutely nothing to do with the other people he could potentially be putting at risk; his arrogant resolve is that it could NEVER happen to him so why bother? A clear reflection of either his fear to know the truth and just remain confident that he could never be sick or that even if he is sick he doesn’t care to whom he passes it.
When we sit back and reflect on our own sex lives and think, “wait there was that one time when the condom might have broken or maybe that one time when I was so drunk that I may have forgotten,” or probably the worst thought of all, “that time I chose not to protect myself, or my partner.” These are times and thoughts which we all sweep under ...the rug and never admit to that this movie forces us to recognize.
Even after all of the emotional and physical turmoil that Dan endures, he’s still so set in what should be the “truth” that he almost believes it himself.
By the way, when you head to the theaters to see this movie, don’t expect to find the answers to any of these questions. The director made the bold commendable choice to leave much of the conclusion of the film up to the individual audience members to wrestle with.
The final thought that I’m going to leave you with is a quote from the film that really stood out. Tom tells Dan, “I put my life in your hands, someone I didn’t even know and I’m getting what I deserve.” A bit harsh? Yeah. But it does make you ask yourself, are random sex partners worthy of bearing that responsibility? It can after all, as we have seen, be a life or death decision.
Movie Grade: A+
*Just a side note, the movie is not Nearly as preachy as my review turned out. These have been some of the questions and conclusions that it brought about in me; You have to see it for yourself and discover what it evokes in you.*
Synopsis:
It’s the 24th day after Tom (Scott Speedman) has found out that he is HIV-positive. A married man who has lived his life as “straight,” he has had sex with a man only once in his life. Consumed with sorrow and rage about his situation, Tom sets in motion an outrageous plan.
Finding Dan (James Marsden), the man he slept with five years earlier, Tom lures him to his apartment, ties him up and forcibly takes a blood sample. If Dan’s test comes back negative, he will let him go; but if it is negative, he will kill him.
The stage is set for an intense battle between the two men, with Dan using every method at his disposal to try to escape. Both of them are in top physical condition, while Dan seems to have the intellectual edge. Will that be enough for Dan to trick his way out of his bonds?
Still, as the two men face-off and gradually reveal themselves, the question becomes: who is the true victim or victimizer? Tom’s violent kidnapping and murderous threats clearly pass the bounds of legal and rational behavior. And yet, if Tom’s conviction about Dan is true, then Dan is accountable for more than a minor moral lapse. But is Dan in fact responsible for giving Tom HIV? He adamantly proclaims he isn’t.
Writer/Director Tony Piccirillo keeps introducing enough twists and turns in the story to keep it surprising and involving, while setting off a host of explosive questions…. What moral responsibilities do we have to one another in the age of AIDS? ...Are we only answerable for ourselves? Is there such a thing as absolute “Truth”?
Source By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com
Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com
When new writers join us here at TheCinemaSource, there is one cardinal rule of reviewing movies which I always impart; there is no such thing as a movie which is completely perfect or a movie which is completely irredeemable. I feel that it is our job as “critics” to present you, the reader, with both the good and the bad in a given film. After seeing Tony Piccirillos’, The 24th Day, I may have no choice but to break that rule.
This was hands down the most impressive movie I’ve seen in years. I left the theater feeling completely reinvigorated with a renewed sense of optimism for the entertainment field. I’m certainly not saying that this is a feel good movie by any means, because it most certainly isn’t. But it does something that most movies, multi-million dollar blockbusters in particular have lost the ability to do… it made me think. Only a few minutes into the film, I found myself feeling so connected to the characters and their situations that while I was watching and admittedly judging their behavior, I had no choice but to sit back and reflect on my own as well.
More so than any other movie I’ve seen, The 24th Day really puts the ambiguity of “truth” under a very intense and at times uncomfortable microscope. This movie doesn’t only present the viewer with questions of who is being truthful, but also what is the nature of truth itself? It’s always one man’s truth versus another, versus what Scott Speedmans’ character, Tom, describes as the “true” truth.
This movie poses the question, what would you do if one day your entire life as you knew it came to a crashing end? If everything you had been hiding, your darkest secrets had suddenly come to light because of a mistake you made 5 years ago? How rational could you be?
In The 24th Day, James Marsden (X-Men, Gossip, and Disturbing Behavior) plays Dan, a successful, charming Hollywood-type who could probably get away with accidentally killing your dog one minute and then sleeping with you the next. His personality is so magnetic and he is physically so gorgeous, that after spouting about ten lines of bull shit you will have forgotten you even had a dog to begin with!
Tom, on the other hand, brilliantly portrayed by Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) is the quiet, introspective type whose lack of self confidence has led him to a “safe” existence as a chef in a local restaurant and married to his high school sweetheart. Tom gave up his dream of becoming an archeologist because he believed that, “certain people aren’t meant to be certain things.”
The only thing that these two characters initially have in common is one fateful night of shared passion 5 years prior; A night that Dan can barely recall, but that Tom is unable ...to forget.
Convinced that Dan was not safe the night of their encounter and responsible for infecting him with HIV, Tom lures Dan back to his apartment where he ties him down and extracts a sample of his blood. His terms are relatively simple; if the sample comes back negative then Dan will be free to go, however if he’s HIV positive then Tom is going to kill him.
Going to the extreme of kidnapping someone as the only means of extracting a truthful response from them, may at first seem to boarder on the ridiculous; but as the situation unfolds it appears to be less and less ludicrous and more and more like the only option available.
Without an exorbitant budget or loads of special effects to fall back on, The 24th Day relies on the extraordinary performances of the actors and the brilliance of the writing to carry the audience through this story. (Now you tell me, how often does this happen in Hollywood?)
I won’t go into details about the interaction that these characters share and the strange compelling bond that develops between them during their forced time together, but sufficed to say that your eyes will be glued to the screen and your mind will be racing a mile a minute as you consider everything that you are witnessing.
There is absolutely no time wasted on screen. Every conversation, every moment, all have multiple overlapping meanings that film professors and students alike will relish in analyzing for years to come.
Now, if there has to be a downside to the film, the only thing that I could find is that you may not be feeling so great about yourself when you leave. Audience members, sexually active twenty-somethings in particular, will be forced to reexamine their behavior when it comes to random sex acts or alcohol induced encounters. (Not fun I know, but perhaps very necessary.)
Without being at all judgmental or preachy this movie really forces you to look inside and see what could potentially be the best or worst parts of yourself. Jimmy’s character, Dan, is eventually forced to admit that his choice of either being tested or not being tested has absolutely nothing to do with the other people he could potentially be putting at risk; his arrogant resolve is that it could NEVER happen to him so why bother? A clear reflection of either his fear to know the truth and just remain confident that he could never be sick or that even if he is sick he doesn’t care to whom he passes it.
When we sit back and reflect on our own sex lives and think, “wait there was that one time when the condom might have broken or maybe that one time when I was so drunk that I may have forgotten,” or probably the worst thought of all, “that time I chose not to protect myself, or my partner.” These are times and thoughts which we all sweep under ...the rug and never admit to that this movie forces us to recognize.
Even after all of the emotional and physical turmoil that Dan endures, he’s still so set in what should be the “truth” that he almost believes it himself.
By the way, when you head to the theaters to see this movie, don’t expect to find the answers to any of these questions. The director made the bold commendable choice to leave much of the conclusion of the film up to the individual audience members to wrestle with.
The final thought that I’m going to leave you with is a quote from the film that really stood out. Tom tells Dan, “I put my life in your hands, someone I didn’t even know and I’m getting what I deserve.” A bit harsh? Yeah. But it does make you ask yourself, are random sex partners worthy of bearing that responsibility? It can after all, as we have seen, be a life or death decision.
Movie Grade: A+
*Just a side note, the movie is not Nearly as preachy as my review turned out. These have been some of the questions and conclusions that it brought about in me; You have to see it for yourself and discover what it evokes in you.*
Synopsis:
It’s the 24th day after Tom (Scott Speedman) has found out that he is HIV-positive. A married man who has lived his life as “straight,” he has had sex with a man only once in his life. Consumed with sorrow and rage about his situation, Tom sets in motion an outrageous plan.
Finding Dan (James Marsden), the man he slept with five years earlier, Tom lures him to his apartment, ties him up and forcibly takes a blood sample. If Dan’s test comes back negative, he will let him go; but if it is negative, he will kill him.
The stage is set for an intense battle between the two men, with Dan using every method at his disposal to try to escape. Both of them are in top physical condition, while Dan seems to have the intellectual edge. Will that be enough for Dan to trick his way out of his bonds?
Still, as the two men face-off and gradually reveal themselves, the question becomes: who is the true victim or victimizer? Tom’s violent kidnapping and murderous threats clearly pass the bounds of legal and rational behavior. And yet, if Tom’s conviction about Dan is true, then Dan is accountable for more than a minor moral lapse. But is Dan in fact responsible for giving Tom HIV? He adamantly proclaims he isn’t.
Writer/Director Tony Piccirillo keeps introducing enough twists and turns in the story to keep it surprising and involving, while setting off a host of explosive questions…. What moral responsibilities do we have to one another in the age of AIDS? ...Are we only answerable for ourselves? Is there such a thing as absolute “Truth”?
Source By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com
"Naked Josh" Just Say Mo
"Naked Josh is a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show stars David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting rules and expectations of the dating scene.
It premiered in the 2004-2005 television season with 8 half hour episodes. It aired for a total of 3 seasons, however the last episode aired on July 18, 2006, and Showcase has announced that the show will not be renewed."
Source by Refrashes
Monday, 23 November 2009
August Rush - (O Som do Coracao) Trailer and Rhapsody
""An incredible journey moving at the speed of sound"
A story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Prodige de la musique, August Rush exerce ses talents dans les rues de New York. Séparé de ses parents peu après sa naissance, il met tout en œuvre pour les retrouver.
USA 21 November 2007
France 19 March 2008
By: Kirsten Sheridan
With: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler, Jamia Simone Nash...
SOURCE by WarnerBros, No-None, The_New_Killeur
A story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Prodige de la musique, August Rush exerce ses talents dans les rues de New York. Séparé de ses parents peu après sa naissance, il met tout en œuvre pour les retrouver.
USA 21 November 2007
France 19 March 2008
By: Kirsten Sheridan
With: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler, Jamia Simone Nash...
SOURCE by WarnerBros, No-None, The_New_Killeur
The Hours
Um filme Forte e Intense e abaixo minha cena favorita, voce pode sentir a dor expressada pelas palavras da grande Nicole Kidman, interpretando Virginia Woolf.
"The film concerns three women each suffering from depression. Virginia Woolf is starting to write her book 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1923 England. She is coming to the realization of her lesbianism and fighting her pure despair of life and headaches. Virginia receives a visit from her sister Vanessa and Vanessa's two sons and daughter. The daughter places a strong influence on Virginia's emotions through the death of a bird. Eventually, Virgnia must face the decision to run away to London, stay with her beloved husband, or move to London where the doctors forbid her to go. Laura Brown, is a mother fearing her ability to be a mother again. She is reading 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1951 Los Angeles. Laura is trying to throw a wonderful birthday party for her husband. The very pregnant Laura thinks she won't be an adequate mother to her son and current baby on the way in a few months. Laura must make the decision to run away from it all or live miserably with her happy husband. Clarissa Vaughan is a career publisher living in present 2001 New York. Her nickname, given by her poet-friend, Richard, who is dying of AIDS, is Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa is also throwing a party but for Richard who is receiving an award for his poetry. Like Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is also a lesbian but also wonders if she is in love with Richard with whom she once dated. At the end, the whole plot twists and comes together. The basic theme of the film is wondering if it is better to live your life for your own happiness or others. Written by Leftmidder_2000
In 1923 England, ailing novelist Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', under the care of doctors and family. In 1951 Los Angeles, Laura Brown is a pregnant housewife whom is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001 New York, Clarrisa Vaughn is a lesbian publisher planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel mentioned before, as one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it. Written by K. Kaufman
Recuperating from a nervous breakdown, Virginia Woolf begins work on her depression-themed novel "Mrs. Dalloway", which goes on to play a key role not only in her own life but in the lives of a 1950s housewife contemplating suicide and a new-millennium posh lesbian publisher caring for her dying friend. Written by Jojo Mac"
The film begins with British writer Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) putting small stones inside her pockets before drowning herself - (in real life, she jumped from a London bridge over the Thames)
Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) lives in 1951 at a Los Angeles wealthy suburbia. She is going to celebrate his husband's birthday. She makes a chocolate cake for Dan Brown (John C. Reilly) and their older child helps her with it. She is heavily pregnant of her second child. She is also reading a hardback copy of Mrs Dalloway, what is cosidered Virginia Woolf's best novel. As Laura is not satisfied with the cake, -which is ugly as hell- she throws it to the dustbin and makes another on her own, just to end with the same ugly-as-hell chocolate cake. His son Richie (Jack Rovello) watches closely all her antics.
Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) lives in modern 2001 New York and is celebrating a party for the prize which her close friend Richard Brown (Ed Harris) is receiving. Rich has been suffering AIDS for many years. He's a famous poet and Clarissa is his editor. Clarissa worries about Richard a lot, and takes care of him as if she were his mother. Back at home, when she is preparing the party almost on her own, she has trouble with her girlfriend Sally Lester (Allison Janney), who has been unfaithful to her for some time. Several people appear for the party: Clarissa's daughter Julia (Claire Danes) and the most cherished of Richard's ex-boyfriends Louis (Jeff Daniels), who has another relationship with a younger man but who is still a bit sad and melancholic.
Back to the UK, where Virginia has just started to write a novel. She and her husband Leonard Woolf (Stephen Dillane) have commuted to a small village close to London because London's hectic and frenzy life had made her psychologically ailing. She had tried to commit suicide twice, and used to hear voices. Leonard is busy with his printing press business, but he watches over her tenderly. One sunny day they are visited by Vanessa (Miranda Richardson), Viriginia's sister, and her two sons Quentin and Julian (George Loftus and Charley Ramm) and daughter Angelica (Sophie Wyburd). They are talkative and full of life, but their visit causes some anxiety to Virginia. To have lunch and tea prepared as she wants, their cook and main maid Nelly Boxall (Linda Bassett) has to travel to London to buy some things and then travel back. Virginia has problems to make herself obeyed by their servants, especially pushy Nelly. In real life, many pages on Woolf's diary were about Nelly, a person she used to fear so much that she wouldn't even dare to give the sack. This time Virginia must be obeyed.
Angelica finds a dead bird recently deceased at the Woolfs' garden. They bury it with much pomp, and this puts a bigger strain on Virginia's damaged emotions. At the end of the day, they four go back to London merrily and Virginia and Leonard stay at home.
Back at LA, Laura learns that Lottie Hope (Lyndsay Marshal) is about to have surgery performed, as she is seriously ill, and that's why she couldn't have any children. They talk about their lives, and Laura and Lottie kiss each other. However, Lottie behaves and talks as though nothing had happened. That night, Laura's husband dines with his family and eats the cake. He is a contented quiet men and says that the cake is delicious, and appreciates the fact that Laura has done it. Next day Laura leaves Richie with a neighbour of hers (Margo Martindale) and drives around. She sees the sign for a hotel and decides to book in. There, he takes all the medicines from her home medicine cabinet together. She puts herself on top of the perfectly-made bed and reads Mrs Dalloway while she awaits death. For her, death is like a flood, a river overgrown which will drown her from under the hotel bed. Suddenly she wakes up. She has just decided that she will wait for her second child to be born and then she will leave her family. When she comes back home as though nothing special had happened, Richie knows that she's lying.
In New York, Richard Brown [he is Laura's older son as a grown-up person and renown writer] wants to skip the party. He tells Clarissa that she has been the only reason he had to live, but that now, she has to let him go. Clarissa is a lesbian, but she wonders if she is still in love with Richard. However Clarissa is not strong enough to prevent Richard from jumping from the window. Instead of a party, she has to prepare Richard's funeral. Laura Brown appears. She has become a sweet old lady, not the moster as, according to Julia, late Richard Brown used to describe her. Laura tells how she moved to Canada to become an independet life as a librarian in Canada, but she won't apologise for the hurt she has caused to her family because her pain doesn't make any difference now to her late husband (of a stroke) and children (her younger daughter had also died).
In the UK, Virginia has changed her mind: her character Mrs Dalloway won't die, another character in her novel, a rambling poet married to his lonely Italian nurse, will do so. When Leonard asks her why somebody must die in her novels, she tells him "so that we all appreciate life." Anyway, Virginia tries to run away to London, but Leonard catches her while she is waiting at the train station. Virginia talks to him, and Leonard can't put up with her anymore: he promises they will be back to London soon. As the audience knows, Virginia will end up committing suicide there.
And that's how the film ends: as it has begun, with Virginia Woolf committing suicide. -In real life, she wrote some other novels after Mrs Dalloway and before committing suicide-
Source by IMDB - The Internet Movie Database, YouTube (Lucky7777777, Insatisfalt, Shahinhabibi, Prvf0elendil, Wrinklevb)
"The film concerns three women each suffering from depression. Virginia Woolf is starting to write her book 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1923 England. She is coming to the realization of her lesbianism and fighting her pure despair of life and headaches. Virginia receives a visit from her sister Vanessa and Vanessa's two sons and daughter. The daughter places a strong influence on Virginia's emotions through the death of a bird. Eventually, Virgnia must face the decision to run away to London, stay with her beloved husband, or move to London where the doctors forbid her to go. Laura Brown, is a mother fearing her ability to be a mother again. She is reading 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1951 Los Angeles. Laura is trying to throw a wonderful birthday party for her husband. The very pregnant Laura thinks she won't be an adequate mother to her son and current baby on the way in a few months. Laura must make the decision to run away from it all or live miserably with her happy husband. Clarissa Vaughan is a career publisher living in present 2001 New York. Her nickname, given by her poet-friend, Richard, who is dying of AIDS, is Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa is also throwing a party but for Richard who is receiving an award for his poetry. Like Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is also a lesbian but also wonders if she is in love with Richard with whom she once dated. At the end, the whole plot twists and comes together. The basic theme of the film is wondering if it is better to live your life for your own happiness or others. Written by Leftmidder_2000
In 1923 England, ailing novelist Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', under the care of doctors and family. In 1951 Los Angeles, Laura Brown is a pregnant housewife whom is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001 New York, Clarrisa Vaughn is a lesbian publisher planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel mentioned before, as one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it. Written by K. Kaufman
Recuperating from a nervous breakdown, Virginia Woolf begins work on her depression-themed novel "Mrs. Dalloway", which goes on to play a key role not only in her own life but in the lives of a 1950s housewife contemplating suicide and a new-millennium posh lesbian publisher caring for her dying friend. Written by Jojo Mac"
The film begins with British writer Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) putting small stones inside her pockets before drowning herself - (in real life, she jumped from a London bridge over the Thames)
Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) lives in 1951 at a Los Angeles wealthy suburbia. She is going to celebrate his husband's birthday. She makes a chocolate cake for Dan Brown (John C. Reilly) and their older child helps her with it. She is heavily pregnant of her second child. She is also reading a hardback copy of Mrs Dalloway, what is cosidered Virginia Woolf's best novel. As Laura is not satisfied with the cake, -which is ugly as hell- she throws it to the dustbin and makes another on her own, just to end with the same ugly-as-hell chocolate cake. His son Richie (Jack Rovello) watches closely all her antics.
Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) lives in modern 2001 New York and is celebrating a party for the prize which her close friend Richard Brown (Ed Harris) is receiving. Rich has been suffering AIDS for many years. He's a famous poet and Clarissa is his editor. Clarissa worries about Richard a lot, and takes care of him as if she were his mother. Back at home, when she is preparing the party almost on her own, she has trouble with her girlfriend Sally Lester (Allison Janney), who has been unfaithful to her for some time. Several people appear for the party: Clarissa's daughter Julia (Claire Danes) and the most cherished of Richard's ex-boyfriends Louis (Jeff Daniels), who has another relationship with a younger man but who is still a bit sad and melancholic.
Back to the UK, where Virginia has just started to write a novel. She and her husband Leonard Woolf (Stephen Dillane) have commuted to a small village close to London because London's hectic and frenzy life had made her psychologically ailing. She had tried to commit suicide twice, and used to hear voices. Leonard is busy with his printing press business, but he watches over her tenderly. One sunny day they are visited by Vanessa (Miranda Richardson), Viriginia's sister, and her two sons Quentin and Julian (George Loftus and Charley Ramm) and daughter Angelica (Sophie Wyburd). They are talkative and full of life, but their visit causes some anxiety to Virginia. To have lunch and tea prepared as she wants, their cook and main maid Nelly Boxall (Linda Bassett) has to travel to London to buy some things and then travel back. Virginia has problems to make herself obeyed by their servants, especially pushy Nelly. In real life, many pages on Woolf's diary were about Nelly, a person she used to fear so much that she wouldn't even dare to give the sack. This time Virginia must be obeyed.
Angelica finds a dead bird recently deceased at the Woolfs' garden. They bury it with much pomp, and this puts a bigger strain on Virginia's damaged emotions. At the end of the day, they four go back to London merrily and Virginia and Leonard stay at home.
Back at LA, Laura learns that Lottie Hope (Lyndsay Marshal) is about to have surgery performed, as she is seriously ill, and that's why she couldn't have any children. They talk about their lives, and Laura and Lottie kiss each other. However, Lottie behaves and talks as though nothing had happened. That night, Laura's husband dines with his family and eats the cake. He is a contented quiet men and says that the cake is delicious, and appreciates the fact that Laura has done it. Next day Laura leaves Richie with a neighbour of hers (Margo Martindale) and drives around. She sees the sign for a hotel and decides to book in. There, he takes all the medicines from her home medicine cabinet together. She puts herself on top of the perfectly-made bed and reads Mrs Dalloway while she awaits death. For her, death is like a flood, a river overgrown which will drown her from under the hotel bed. Suddenly she wakes up. She has just decided that she will wait for her second child to be born and then she will leave her family. When she comes back home as though nothing special had happened, Richie knows that she's lying.
In New York, Richard Brown [he is Laura's older son as a grown-up person and renown writer] wants to skip the party. He tells Clarissa that she has been the only reason he had to live, but that now, she has to let him go. Clarissa is a lesbian, but she wonders if she is still in love with Richard. However Clarissa is not strong enough to prevent Richard from jumping from the window. Instead of a party, she has to prepare Richard's funeral. Laura Brown appears. She has become a sweet old lady, not the moster as, according to Julia, late Richard Brown used to describe her. Laura tells how she moved to Canada to become an independet life as a librarian in Canada, but she won't apologise for the hurt she has caused to her family because her pain doesn't make any difference now to her late husband (of a stroke) and children (her younger daughter had also died).
In the UK, Virginia has changed her mind: her character Mrs Dalloway won't die, another character in her novel, a rambling poet married to his lonely Italian nurse, will do so. When Leonard asks her why somebody must die in her novels, she tells him "so that we all appreciate life." Anyway, Virginia tries to run away to London, but Leonard catches her while she is waiting at the train station. Virginia talks to him, and Leonard can't put up with her anymore: he promises they will be back to London soon. As the audience knows, Virginia will end up committing suicide there.
And that's how the film ends: as it has begun, with Virginia Woolf committing suicide. -In real life, she wrote some other novels after Mrs Dalloway and before committing suicide-
Source by IMDB - The Internet Movie Database, YouTube (Lucky7777777, Insatisfalt, Shahinhabibi, Prvf0elendil, Wrinklevb)
Friday, 20 November 2009
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