Word: bonham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helena Bonham Carter's role as Frankenstein's fiancee Elizabeth has been rewritten from Shelley's domestic angel into a well-dressed bundle of Gothic spitfire. Her courage in facing the horror of Frankenstein's unnatural creations is far greater than his own self-absorbed cowardice...
Much as Oliver Stone would have you believe otherwise, Jim Morrison died from one drink too many. Guitar great Jimi Hendrix simply took more Quaaludes than were necessary. John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, should have been lying on his stomach after all those shots of vodka. But Kurt Cobain overdosed on buck shot...
HOWARDS END. E.M. Forster's novel of property and prejudice in Edwardian England is voluptuously rendered by director James Ivory and handsomely peopled by Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins. See it to savor the glory that England once was -- and that movies, all too rarely...
Still, you may luxuriate in the landscapes and in the performances -- by Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Giudelli and (of course) Helena Bonham Carter -- that subvert caricature. And you are permitted to weep at the film's climax: a last embrace of two not-quite lovers, closest at this instant of separate, mutual despair. It is a sweet, seductive, haunting final shot...
There's something rotten in Denmark but, surprisingly, it isn't Mel Gibson as Hamlet. It's director Franco Zefferelli's abbreviated version of this brooding Shakesperean tragedy. Glenn Close and Helena Bonham Carter are splendidly tormented...