Word: dench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this robust new movie -- shows his face and speaks. It is an entrance angled to register awe for Kenneth Branagh. But how much awe can a 28-year-old actor, little known outside Britain and directing his first film, expect to inspire? Branagh recalls that when Judi Dench, who plays Mistress Quickly, first saw this scene, "she laughed in my face and said, 'I've never seen an entrance like that! Who do you think you are?' " He retorted, "The film is not called Mistress Quickly the Fourth." No, but it might be called King...
...adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, a novel more in tune with the filmmakers' earnest approach. They are respectful, gently pruning and rearranging Waugh's plot to suit the imperatives of another medium. They have a nice taste in period decor, and they can tap the mannerly acting styles of Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Anjelica Huston and Pip Torrens...
...company runs the Royal Shakespeare Theater and an experimental house called the Other Place, showed the company in hot pursuit of both ends of the spectrum. In London, besides the astonishing Nicholas, the company offered an excellent Juno and the Paycock, with a force-of-nature performance by Judi Dench, and, at the Warehouse, a shattering Trevor Nunn staging of The Three Sisters: spare, witty and primal, featuring extraordinary performances by three of the company's young comers (Emily Richard, Janet Dale, Suzanne Bertish) and some of its stalwarts, including Roger Rees...
...time in movement, fencing and dance classes, as well as brush up on voice and language with the R.S.C.'s crack vocal coach, Cicely Berry. "You've got to make Shakespeare sound so new-minted you could almost hear it in the street," says Judi Dench. Sinead Cusack, who is ending her first Stratford season, says of her earlier work in film and television: "You don't learn very much there, if you haven't had training beforehand. The R.S.C. is the best training ground in the world...
...Giant's Shoulders is the dramatized saga of their triumph and tribulation. Its most winning feature is its lack of self-pity; these people do not cry, and they do not want the tears of others. Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench are more than convincing in the roles of Len and Hazel, but true honors must go to Terry Wiles, who plays himself. He has not acted be fore, but he could give lessons to many who have...