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...house at 25 Powis Square used in the 1970 cult film Performance, starring Mick Jagger. No part of London is left uncovered, however, as Reeves reveals locations for more than 500 films, from James Bond to Bridget Jones. There are classics such as The Long Good Friday and Withnail and I, but Reeves excels at tracking down obscure film locations that haven't been noted before?including those in seminal '60s movies like The Knack and Blowup. While many fans of the latter still aren't sure what the film is about, at least now they can learn the locale...
...house at 25 Powis Square used in the 1970 cult film Performance, starring Mick Jagger. No part of London is left uncovered, however, as Reeves reveals locations for more than 500 films, from James Bond to Bridget Jones. There are classics such as The Long Good Friday and Withnail and I, but Reeves excels at tracking down obscure film locations that haven't been noted before - including those in seminal '60s movies like The Knack and Blowup. While many fans of the latter still aren't sure what the film is about, at least now they can learn which park...
Like Berlin, we know better. What we're not prepared for is the way writer- director Bruce Robinson, who created the marvelously quirky Withnail & I a few years ago, develops his material. Jennifer 8 (the first victim was named Jennifer) is a classic whodunit, with clues fairly laid out (often visually) and the suspense tightening as pursuer and pursued draw closer together. It is also a persuasive portrayal of an increasingly tense cop community (John Malkovich contributes a tough, scary FBI interrogator grilling Berlin when false suspicion focuses on him). Finally, aided immeasurably by the great Conrad Hall's darkly...
...head. It has eyes, nose and a foul, funnily flapping mouth -- Bagley's id made manifest and shouting down his superego like some corporate raider ragging management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science tell him all he needs to be cured...
...intended as a microcosmic portrait of contemporary English life. So call it, perhaps, a fable on the sneak. And call it something else too: yet another carefully handmade ornament of the new British cinema, which includes such small recent marvels as My Beautiful Laundrette; Rita, Sue and Bob Too; Withnail and I and Wish You Were Here...