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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 4:34:23 GMT
No American release as of yet, but I'm not too worried about that - I just hope it will premiere Stateside this year. For my British friends, will you be watching on BBC1? sirjeremy |
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Post by sirjeremy on May 8, 2018 6:30:06 GMT
Oh yes, I certainly will be! Starts here in a couple of weeks. I've read the book and hope the TV adaptation is as faithful to it as possible.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 8, 2018 10:31:29 GMT
Looks quite good (and would this look that good with Colin Firth in the lead - doubt it, for me anyway - getting old is the best thing to happen to Hugh Grants's acting).
Someone has to give it up for Stephen Frears in general - The Hit, High Fidelity, The Queen, Dangerous Liasons, Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, Prick Up Your Ears, Florence Foster Jenkins........and others. He's hit or miss, but when he does it right, he does it quite right and across a wide range of material with sometimes hard to get tones too.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 4:47:43 GMT
sirjeremy - I just checked out the book from my local library. Really looking forward to it.  pacinoyes - I agree that his run post-Divine Brown to pre- Florence Foster Jenkins (he totally deserved an Oscar nomination here) was just ghastly, but don't forget that he won a Volpi Cup for one of his very first films, Maurice. Glad he's returning to acting as an art form - not just as a means of making money. 
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Post by pacinoyes on May 9, 2018 10:07:01 GMT
He has some deceptively good and self aware performances too at times - An Awfully Big Adventure, About A Boy - things that along with Maurice suggest he could have had an entirely different career which he may just be getting back to.....
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Post by thomasjerome on May 9, 2018 10:16:15 GMT
Looking forward to it. I like Frears stuff, the story is interesting (haven't read the book though) and I'm usually a fan of Grant's acting who seems to have found a new love for his profession since "Cloud Atlas".
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Post by sirjeremy on May 20, 2018 21:55:47 GMT
Shown tonight here in the U.K. The story was a little rushed but the episode captured the farcical and sad tone of the book, and the performances were terrific, especially from Grant and David Bamber.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 26, 2018 2:55:54 GMT
Amazon Prime premiere in the US on June 29. Here's an overwhelmingly positive review from the Hollywood Reporter .... |
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Post by thomasjerome on Jun 26, 2018 18:16:29 GMT
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Post by LaraQ on Jul 5, 2018 16:26:05 GMT
Watched it when it aired here in the UK and it was fantastic.Hugh Grant`s best ever performance imo.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 5, 2018 16:53:17 GMT
Love Hugh, will be checking this out (after I finish The Americans and once I'm done with Parks and Rec for the 10th time... oh and Goliath S2... god, TV is so great now). Also Viced lol! The whole Paddington 2 section was hysterical. |
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Post by quetee on Jul 5, 2018 18:51:35 GMT
Love Hugh, will be checking this out (after I finish The Americans and once I'm done with Parks and Rec for the 10th time... oh and Goliath S2... god, TV is so great now). Also Viced lol! The whole Paddington 2 section was hysterical. There's way too much to watch on tv right now. The Americans are next on my list but I wanted to watch something short so I'm watching Jericho. |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 5, 2018 19:00:10 GMT
Love Hugh, will be checking this out (after I finish The Americans and once I'm done with Parks and Rec for the 10th time... oh and Goliath S2... god, TV is so great now). Also Viced lol! The whole Paddington 2 section was hysterical. There's way too much to watch on tv right now. The Americans are next on my list but I wanted to watch something short so I'm watching Jericho. Yeah. Plus I still need to start Yellowstone and The Sinner just got added to Netflix... oh, and Westworld needs to get checked out... too much, indeed. |
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 23, 2018 1:38:41 GMT
Nobody saw this? I recently did a double-frearture (wink) with Gumshoe (his first) and this (his latest) - !
It makes an interesting follow-up to Florence Foster Jenkins, in terms of tracing an "unconventional" relatively public figure, maintaining their public/private life, and def tonally in balancing comedy/drama, and both have (a top-notch) Hugh Grant of course. Srsly he might be within a career peak about now, in my eyes.
At three hours, this kinda zooms by, it's remarkably fast paced. Well written, well acted. I never knew about this fascinating bit of UK political history. I like how it keeps you dithering btwn Grant and Wishaw in terms of sympathy, until the very end which strikes a nearly transcendent note in how they posit the characters and cross-cut btwn them. Wishaw here is very funny, imprudent, peppy. Alex Jennings, who I never heard of, is great and kinda heartbreaking. But Grant is MVP for me, he has a childlike eagerness, a paradoxical optimism, but is also quite brash and deviously furtive.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 17, 2020 21:00:05 GMT
I am re-watching this and its re-watch value is kind of off the charts high - the previous time I thoroughly enjoyed it but this 2nd time I am literally on the floor laughing at some of the inspired comedy in this. Grant is amazing in this film but Whishaw and his failed attempt at heterosexuality and modeling in particular were comic gold.....  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2022 15:49:44 GMT
Have any of you guys watched this? It's deliciously addictive! |
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Post by notacrook on Apr 26, 2022 9:04:00 GMT
Have any of you guys watched this? It's deliciously addictive! Yes, thought it was rock-solid, especially in its two lead performances. The ending felt abrupt and unsatisfying, but in a way that kinda felt perfect for the story. |
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