Word: dench
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...terms “full frontal nudity” and “Dame Judi Dench” do not normally go in the same sentence. Usually shunted aside by filmmakers as the tart older woman in favor of showcasing the youthful skin of Gwyneth Paltrow or Keira Knightley, Dench plays the title role in “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” a film that attempts to be at once a bawdy comedy of manners and a sentimental war-time drama...
...choices that mark the craft of a master filmmaker, whether in changing the setting of the film to 1797—the year that Jane Austen wrote the novel’s first draft—because of his distaste for empire line dresses, or by intriguing Dame Judi Dench by sending a candid letter that read, “I love it when you’re a bitch, please come play a bitch for me.” The Harvard Crimson: How did you decide to make the film? Joe Wright: Working Title, who had done...
...gorgeous tableau, Wright has masterfully preserved the essence of Austen’s characters and captured the nuances of her society. He manages, in only 127 minutes, to leave no character in the complex plot undeveloped—Hollander plays the perfect Austen fool of Mr. Collins, Judi Dench is marvelous as Darcy’s cantankerous aunt Lady Catherine de Bourg, and Kelly Reilly is the perfect bitch as the manipulative Caroline Bingley. The one outstanding flaw of the film (other than Jena Malone’s hideous performance) are the stormy long shots of Knightley perched in contemplation...
Your mom, an astrologist, advised you to take the role. Does she give you a lot of career advice? Every now and then. She had ideas about casting the Elemental character in The Chronicles of Riddick. She thought it should be Judi Dench. So I hoofed it out to London and enrolled the dame...
...tell that James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing is a video game the same way you can spot the difference between a painting and a person. But people in the next room can't. They hear the voices of the real Pierce Brosnan and Judi Dench bantering about the usual enjoyable spy nonsense--nuclear suitcases from Tajikistan!--as created by veteran Bond screenwriter Bruce Feirstein (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies). "You're either terrified of the future or you embrace it," says Feirstein, who had never written a game before. "Games are the future. I'd write another...