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This Weeks Movie Reviews: The
Queen
Directed
by Stephen Frears. Written by Peter Morgan. Cinematography, Affonso
Beato. Music, Alexandre Desplat. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen,
James Cromwell, Alex Jennings and Sylvia Syms. Miramax Films, 2006.
PG-13. 97 minutes. Where were you on Aug. 31, 1997? Perhaps you were vacationing with family or getting ready to return to school. If you are old enough to drive a car today, chances are that you'll remember. That's because Aug. 31, 1997, is the day that Diana Spencer, former princess of Wales, died after a high-speed chase in a Paris tunnel. In a sense, the tragic end of Diana's life coincided with the birth of Tony Blair — the birth of his professional life, that is — who was elected prime minister only four months earlier, almost to the day. Read more...
The
Fountain
Written
and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Story by Aronofsky and Ari Handel.
Cinematography, Matthew Libatique. Music, Clint Mansell. Production
design, James Chinlund. Starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Ellen
Burstyn. Warner Bros., 2006. 96 minutes. PG-13. It's hard to follow up a film like Requiem for a Dream. Hyper-real, anguished, stunning and terrible to watch, Requiem is a piece of cinematic clockwork, its speeding frames laced together with obsession and need. If there is one theme connecting Requiem, director Darren Aronosky's first film, Pi, and his newest, The Fountain, it's that thread of obsession. Numbers, needles — now, it's nothing less than the search for immortality driving Aronofsky's characters. Read more...
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