Word: gosford
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...more integral to character and plot, like Mary's sprightly, perfectly apropos opening number, Practically Perfect. The show strikes a nice balance between stage dazzle--avant-garde choreographer Matthew Bourne brings statues to life and defies gravity in more ways than one--and dramatic heft with a script (by Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes) that goes beyond the movie, adding material from other Travers stories...
...this to say: “It is a sampling of talent from several generations. All these people who seemingly have no relation come together and I’m anticipating how this experiment will turn out.” After one major success (“Gosford Park”) and one major dud (“The Company”), this one should put director Robert Altman back on the map. Oh right, and Lindsay Lohan is in it. Any combination of Meryl Streep and Lindsay Lohan has to be entertaining. Nuff said.Superman ReturnsDue Out: June 30Many seem...
...good film about class in England? I think so. We're so neurotic about class in England that I don't think we've got the distance to make perceptive movies about it. It's taken the foreign eyes of these great directors like Woody and Robert Altman with Gosford Park and Ang Lee with Sense and Sensibility...
...this case by Garrison Keillor, who based it closely on A Prairie Home Companion, the public-radio hit he has presided over since 1974. But Altman is notorious for treating a script as merely a series of signposts. In films from M*A*S*H to Nashville to Gosford Park, he has thrived on improvisation, spontaneity, happy accidents. "What I'm looking for is occurrence, truthful human behavior," he says. "We've got a kind of road map, and we're making it up as we travel along...
...momentum or significance to justify their existences. A rivalry with fellow oceanographer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) offers a handful of barbed laughs, but ultimately devolves into plot-driving filler. Utterly superfluous segments about the expedition’s financial woes cheekily squander the ample talents of actor Michael Gambon (Gosford Park). To decry an Anderson film for its sideline prattling may be missing the point, but where seemingly nonsensical scenes might have served to amplify Zissou’s tragic failings or better explain his often whimsical actions, they instead pack the film with tedious dialogue...