Film Review. Anonymous

Recently, I have watched the film «Anonymous ». Now I would like to tell a few words about this film.

Cast:

·        Rhys Ifans as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

·        Vanessa Redgrave as Elizabeth I of England

·        Sebastian Armesto as Ben Jonson, poet and playwight

·        Rafe Spall as William Shakespeare

·        David Thewlis as William Cecil

·        Edward Hogg as Robert Cecil

·        Joely Richardson as young Queen Elizabeth

·        Paolo De Vita as Francesco

·        Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker, dramatist

·        Tony Way as Thomas Nashe, poet and satirist

·        Helen Baxendale as Anne de Vere

·        Directed by Roland Emmerich.

Synopsis: The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

  Review: Anonymous is a 2011 political thriller and pseudo-historical? drama film. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts. It stars Rhys Ifans as de Vere and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Set within the political atmosphere of the Elizabethan court, the film presents Lord Oxford as the true author of William Shakespeare's plays, and dramatizes events leading to the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex Rebellion against her. De Vere is depicted as a literary prodigy and the Queen's sometime lover, with whom she has a son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, only to discover that he himself may be the Queen's son by an earlier lover. De Vere eventually sees his suppressed plays performed through a frontman (Shakespeare), using his production of Richard III to support a rebellion led by his son and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. The insurrection fails, and as a condition for sparing the life of their son, the Queen declares that de Vere will never be known as the author of his plays and poems.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011.Produced by Centropolis Entertainment and Studio Babelsberg and distributed by Columbia Pictures, Anonymous was released on October 28, 2011, in 265 theatres in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, expanding to movie theatres around the world, in the following weeks. Critical comment has been mixed, praising its performances and visual achievements, but criticizing the film's time-jumping format and the filmmakers' promotion of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship.

I found Anonymous to be a very entertaining film with excellent acting.The downside was the historical inaccuracies in the script in relation to the timeline and the Earl of Oxford's (a real Elizabethan courtier, dramatist and poet) life. At the time the story takes place he was living at Kings Place in Hackney, not in a mansion near the River Thames as the film depicts. Oxford, played in middle age by Rhys Ifans also refers to 'Brooke House' which was the name of Kings Place only after his death when his widow sold it to Fulke Greville, later Lord Brooke.
I can't say that I am agree with the version of the film, but the idea, the acrors and the costumes are great! It’s really worth watching!

Individual Reading. Part 4

There was an awful quarrel between Blanch Stroeve and Strickland. And as a consequence of it Blanch poisoned herself. At the hospital Blanch was getting worse. Stroeve wanted to be with her all the time, but she never wanted to see him. All in all she died.

Dirk Stroeve couldn’t believe in what had happened.He decided to come to the flat where Blanch and Strickland was living last months. He took there a portrait of his wife and visited Mr. Strickland to return it. Charles refused to take it. 

Individual Reading. Part 3

Charles was missed, everyone was worrying about him. Charles fell ill. Stroeve had to take care of him. Fortunately, Mr. Strickland improved his health and Stroeve had to ask him to leave his house.

At the same time, Dirk's wife said that she was going to leave the house with Strickland. Being puzzled he let them to stay in his flat and left home. He loved his wife and came to the narrator for a piece of advice. He had to do something to improve the situation.

Individual Reading. Part 2

The narrator came to Paris and found Mr. Strickland, who didn’t want to return back home and return to his family and ordinary life,because of his passion to art. He was going to be an artist.

When Mrs. Strickland realized that her husband was not going to return, she put up with, finally.

Four years had past. Having had a visit to Mrs. Strickland the narrator found out that she had a prosperous printing office.
He left London for a Paris, where he met his old friend Dirk Stroeve, who was fond of Mr. Strickland paintings. Dirk Stroeve arranged a meeting for the narrator and Charles Strickland.

Individual reading. Part 1

The narrator was invited to the Strickland's house for a lunch after his success. There was nothing special about Charles Strickland, but then said that the man was a genius. The narrator talked about how Strickland was obscure in life, and that his emotional style of art was misunderstood.
Mrs. Strickland often made the lunches, because she liked to have conversations with writers. The narrator was charmed by the woman. Soon the narrator was introduced to Mr. Strickland.

At summer the Stricklands left London for the sea and when they returned, the narrator found out that Charles Strickland left the family and went to Paris. When Mrs. Strickland asked the narrator to go to France and try to convince her husband to return back home, he can't reject. 

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The title of the article is “ What's The Worst Movie Dialogue Of All Time?”, it was Posted on Tuesday August 4, 2009, 18:18 by Nick de Semlyen in Empire States. This article is devoted to the worst movie dialogue, and I think it’s interesting to know about it, just for fun.

Last Thursday, drawn like a moth to a flame, the author of the article went along to an advance screening of G. I. Joe. Having read a lot of bad buzz online and seen the trailer,he wasn’t anticipating a masterpiece. In fact, the author was secretly hoping it would be entertainingly crummy, an over-earnest blastinator with plotholes galore and lots and lots of tin-eared dialogue. He wasn’t disappointed.
He found it impossible not to laugh out loud at regular intervals. And, even though the film can in no way be called good, Nick left the screening room much more cheerful than when I’d entered it. Which, surely, is proof of the redemptive power of crap dialogue.

So, dear citizens of Movieville, consider this a forum to share your own favourite lousy lines, Z-grade zingers and woeful one-liners — sentences for which someone was paid more money than most earn in a year, which have unified cinemagoers around the world in popcorn-spitting stupefaction. Here are a few more to get you started…

“Give me your face!” (Optimus Prime, while fighting The Fallen in Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen)

“It’s turkey time — gobble gobble!” (Jennifer Lopez asks for oral sex in Gigli)

“When the Varden learn that the legend is real, they will be encouraged to challenge me. And I am not interested in being challenged!” (John Malkovich’s mad king Galbatorix — isn’t that a chain of electrical stores? — warns his underlings in Eragon)

“I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.” (Vin Diesel in The Fast And The Furious, sounding like he drives very slowly indeed)
The article is entertaining, before I read the article, I’ve never think of the question “what is the most ridiculous or the most funny dialog”, but having read it, I can even say what is the “worst dialogue” in my opinion. But with more pleasure I complete the list of my favorite dialogs. 

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The title of the article is “2013 IIFF - Peter Weir Masterclass”, it was Posted on Friday April 12, 2013, 18:26 by Simon Braund in Under The Radar. This article is devoted to the IIFF Winner film

Among the many screenings yesterday at the festival, one that struck a particular chord was F Type Film, which is in competition for the FACE Human Rights Award.
Produced by Turkish rock band and political activists Grup Yorum, it’s a compilation of nine short films by ten directors addressing the conditions in Turkey’s notorious F Type prisons (or F-type High Security Closed Institutions for the Execution of Sentences, as they are officially known).
Director Hu[umlaut]seyin Karabev described how he an other filmmakers worked closely with F Type inmates to expose conditions in the prisons. One audience member, who had served six years in an F Type, thanked Karabev for the film’s accuracy.
The highlight of the festival was an illuminating and highly entertaining master class by director Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Truman Show, Master And Commander). One story had particular relevance for the setting - how he came to make 1981’s Gallipoli, his haunting dramatization of the World War I campaign, waged by Allied forces, many of them Australians and New Zealanders, to seize Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula and take control of the Dardanelles. The action was a disaster, a brutal, months-long stalemate that resulted in horrific casualties on both sides.
I think the film can impressed everybody. Because when you go to a place where so many young men have died, you can feel them there. And you want to see more and more.

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The article interested me as I am a fan of Hunger Games series.
The second Hunger Games film sees a newly-minted Oscar winner, Jennifer Lawrence, starring for a new director, Francis Lawrence (no relation) in what promises to be a bigger, badder story of political unrest and life-threatening televised competition. This week the first teaser trailer debuted online, and gave us a little more of an idea of what we’re in for. Here’s what to take from this teaser, in largely spoiler-free form (unless you skipped the first movie).
Last we saw of her, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) had just won the 74th Hunger Games and, by dint of threatening mutual suicide if the organisers didn’t relent, managed to save her fellow District 12 Tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) for good measure. But her defiance has made her a target for the totalitarian authorities of the Capitol at the same time it made her a heroine to the people, and this teaser very much emphasises that she’s up against the wall as a result. Even her victory tour threatens to become a blood bath - which is not something Team GB ever had to deal with.
We’re wildly encouraged by this first teaser for the film. It looks like (F.) Lawrence is ready to emphasise the wider political struggle around Katniss’ own struggle to survive another Games – something that wasn’t front-and-centre until very late in the book – and we’re optimistic that that will give this film its own feel. It also looks like J. Lawrence has slipped fully back into Katniss’ skin, struggling to use her newfound prominence to protect those around her while aware that it could make them all targets. If it all goes right, this will be a tough watch at times, but one with a moral compass as firm as Katniss’ own and a lot of action as she struggles for freedom.

I cannot express with a what curiosity I wait for the new part, I’ve read the full series of the books, and now I what to see how it’ll be filmed.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/catching-fire-trailer-breakdown/p1

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The title of the article is “Best Comedy Movies of All Time”, it was published on “life123” on 19 April 2013. This article is devoted to the list of the best comedy movies.
The title interested me as I am a fan of comedy movies.
No list of the best comedy movies is ever complete-or completely correct. Everyone has a different opinion about what is funny and this translates into controversy when the term "best" is trotted out. Not that that will stop us.
The Thin Man (1934) - William Powell and Myrna Loy starring as Nick and Nora Charles create on-screen chemistry that is like a tall, cool glass of champagne. The husband and wife detective team in this movie share dialogue so sharp and funny that it rivals many current comedies. One viewing of this movie, and you'll have no trouble believing that it spawned five equally enjoyable sequels. Caddyshack (1980) - Director Harold Ramis' quintessential golf comedy tells the tale of the trials and tribulations of a young caddy as he faces life after high school. With an incredibly deep cast of characters and a script that was made for quoting, Caddyshack is a comedy you'll watch-and enjoy-repeatedly.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers in three (!) roles, Dr. Strangelove sets the gold standard for anti-war satire. Combining cold war paranoia with clever, biting dialog, Kubrick turns a serious subject on its head while getting in jabs at all the right places.

Shaun of the Dead (2004) - Simon Pegg stars as British slacker Shaun who is so oblivious to the world around him it takes him almost a third of the movie to realize the it has been taken over by flesh eating zombies. This near-perfect parody of zombie movies quickly became a dark comedy cult classic.

Raising Arizona (1987) - Although humor features prominently in many of Joel and Ethan Coen's movies, Raising Arizona is easily their funniest work. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a childless couple that steals a baby to start their own family. When the real father of the child hires a bounty hunter to find the baby, things come undone with hilarious results.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - In this movie, the famous British comedy troupe manages to take shots at religion, feudalism, those who would romanticize history-and Swedish films. One mark of a classic film is the number of quotes and recited scenes it produces: Holy Grail delivers on both counts, creating a raft of memorable moments in just about every sequence.

Duck Soup (1933) - The Marx brothers were among the earliest stars of talking pictures, and Duck Soup shows why: the rapid fire dialog full of puns and one liners is perfectly balanced with a bucketful of slapstick and visual humor. Groucho Marx's character, Rufus T. Firefly is the ultimate fast-talking con man that worms his way into a position of authority, only to regret his success completely.

Blazing Saddles (1974) - Perhaps Mel Brooks's most famous parody, Blazing Saddles uses classic western clichés to create a crude movie that lampoons racism, sexism and the traditional morals of the time. An equal opportunity offender, this movie launches comedic broadsides at nearly every social group you can think of-and a few you hadn't.

Someone can say that this list is old-fashioned, but I’ve watched many films of the list and can say that all of them are really worth watching. 

We can easily complete more modern list, but I’am absolutely sure, it’d be as contradictory, as this one.

http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/cinema/comedies/best-comedy-movies.shtml