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list of the world's highest currencies with highest exchange rates & comparison with INR.	en	https://www.bookmyforex.com/blog/wp-content/themes/NewBlogV2/images/favicon.ico	Blog-Best Foreign Exchange	https://www.bookmyforex.com/blog/highest-currency-in-the-world/	Are you wondering which currency is the highest in the world? When you think of the highest currencies in the world, you might instinctively think of the US Dollar, British Pound, or Euro. However, the reality might surprise you. The term “Highest Currency” is determined by its high exchange value against the INR and they don’t always belong to the wealthiest nations of the world. So, while the US Dollar remains the most traded and strongest currency globally, it is not the most expensive currency. Are you curious about the world’s most valuable currency? BookMyForex has analyzed the data to compile a list of the most valuable currencies in the world. When it comes to the world’s highest currency value, these currencies gave the US Dollar a run for its money, which is the most traded currency in the world. Here are the top 10 highest currencies in the world: S.NoHighest Currencies in the WorldValue ofIn INR (as of 14th August 2024)In USD (as of 14th August 2024) 10United States Dollar1 USD83.95 INR1.00 9Euro1 EUR92.38 INR1.10 8Swiss Franc1 CHF97.20 INR1.16 7Cayman Island Dollar1 KYD101.42 INR1.21 6Gibraltar Pound1 GIP107.17 INR1.27 5British Pound1 GBP107.82 INR1.28 4Jordanian Dinar1 JOD118.48 INR1.41 3Omani Rial1 OMR218.07 INR2.60 2Bahraini Dinar1 BHD222.72 INR2.65 1Kuwaiti Dinar1 KWD274.25 INR3.27 10: United States Dollar: USD The US Dollar is the currency of the United States of America. The most popular United States Dollar exchange rate is the USD to EUR rate. It is the most traded currency in the world. Almost every central bank and commercial bank holds it as the world’s primary reserve currency. It is said that no currency will ever replace the US Dollar as the most traded currency. It is a global currency that is backed by the power of the US in the global political landscape. However, when ranked among the world’s strongest currencies, it comes 10th. Reasons: 1. Inflation: The US has a higher rate of inflation than many other countries, meaning that the dollar’s purchasing power declines over time. 2. Trade deficit: The US has a trade deficit, meaning that it imports more goods and services than it exports. This can put downward pressure on the value of the dollar. 3. Interest rates: Interest rates in the US are typically lower than interest rates in many other countries. This can make the dollar less attractive to investors. Despite these reasons, The United States of America (USA) is considered as the most powerful nation in the world. Over the years, the strength of USD has increased massively. This is due to the size and strength of the US economy, as well as the US’s role in global politics and finance. Currently, one USD is valued at 83.95 INR. Check out the most updated USD to INR rates and USD TO INR Forecast 2024 –2025 9: Euro: EUR The Euro or EUR is the official currency of the eurozone, which consists of 19 of the 27 member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The euro is the second largest reserve currency after the US Dollar. It is also the second most traded currency in the world. The euro is one of the strongest currencies and ranks 9th on this list. Reasons: 1. Strength of the eurozone economy: The eurozone is the second-largest economy in the world, after the United States, which gives the euro a pretty strong foundation. 2. Political stability: The eurozone is generally considered to be a politically stable region. This is important for investors, who are more likely to invest in currencies from stable countries. 3. Low-interest rates: Interest rates in the eurozone are typically lower than interest rates in the United States and other countries. However, there are also a few factors that weigh on its value such as Government debt, inflation and political uncertainty. As a result, the euro ranks 9th in the list of the world’s strongest currencies. Currently, one EUR is valued at 92.38 in INR. Check out the most updated EUR to INR rates and EUR TO INR forecast 2024-2025 8: Swiss Franc: CHF The Swiss Franc is the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Switzerland is one of the world’s most stable and wealthy countries. The most popular Switzerland Franc exchange rate is the EUR to CHF rate. The Swiss franc is also the 8th most traded currency in the world, here’s why. Reasons: 1. Switzerland’s political and financial stability: Switzerland is one of the most politically and financially stable countries in the world. This makes the Swiss franc a safe haven currency for investors in times of economic uncertainty. 2. Switzerland’s strong economy: Switzerland has a strong economy with low unemployment and inflation. This makes the Swiss franc a desirable currency for businesses and investors. 3. Switzerland’s central bank policy: The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has a strict monetary policy aimed at maintaining price stability. This helps to keep the Swiss franc strong. Currently, one CHF is valued at – 97.20 in INR. Check out the most updated CHF to INR rates and CHF TO INR forecast 2024-2025 7: Caymanian Dollar : KYD The Cayman Islands Dollar is the currency of the Cayman Islands. The most popular Cayman Islands Dollar exchange rate is the USD to KYD rate. The Jamaican Dollar was in place until 1972, but then the Cayman Islands Dollar was introduced as the official currency. The abbreviation of the currency is CI$. Currently, the value of KYD makes it the 7th highest currency in the world. Reasons: 1. Fixed exchange rate: KYD is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate, so the Cayman Islands dollar is supported by the strength of the US economy. 2. Strong economy: The Cayman Islands itself has a strong economy, and pegging the dollar to the US dollar also helps to maintain stability. 3. Low debt-to-GDP ratio: The country has a low debt-to-GDP ratio, which means that the government is in a strong financial position and is able to repay its debts. Currently, one KYD is valued at 101.42 in INR. 6: Gibraltar Pound: GIP The Gibraltar pound or GIP is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – the British pound sterling at par value. Both GIB and GBP are accepted in Gibraltar. The central bank controlling the GIP, with the responsibility of minting coins and printing notes, is the Government of Gibraltar. The most popular Gibraltar Pound exchange rate is the EUR to GIP rate. The currency is the 6th highest currency in the world, here’s why: Reasons: 1. Fixed exchange rate: The currency is pegged to the British Pound: Due to this, GIP currency is supported by the strength of the UK economy. 2. Strong and stable economy: Gibraltar is a major financial center and a popular tourist destination. This helps to support the value of the GIP even further. Currently, one Gibraltar Pound (GIP) is equal to 107.17 in Indian Rupees. 5: British Pound: GBP The pound sterling (£) or GBP is the currency of Great Britain and is the 5th strongest currency in the world. It is also the official currency of Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. The most popular British Pound exchange rate is the EUR to GBP rate. Sterling is the fourth most-traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States Dollar, the Euro, and the Japanese Yen. Here’s why the currency is the 5th highest currency in the world: Reasons: 1. Strength of the UK economy: The UK is the sixth largest economy in the world by GDP, and it has a diversified economy with a strong services sector. 2. Stability of the UK government: The UK is a stable democracy with a long history of political stability. Investors are more likely to invest in countries with stable governments. 3. Independence of the Bank of England: The Bank of England is independent of the government, which means that it can make decisions about interest rates and other economic policies without political interference. Currently, one GBP is valued at 107.82 in INR. Check out the most updated GBP to INR rates and GBP TO INR forecast 2024-2025 4: Jordanian Dinar (JOD): Fourth Highest Currency in the World The Jordanian dinar or JOD is the currency of Jordan. In 1950, the currency replaced the Palestinian pound as Jordan’s official currency. West Bank used the Jordanian Donar and the Israeli shekel as well. The most popular Jordan Dinar exchange rate is the JOD to EUR rate. Here’s why the currency is 4th strongest currency in the world: Reasons: 1. Fixed exchange rate: The JOD is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate. This means that the value of the JOD is directly tied to the value of the US dollar. 2. Diversified economy: Jordan has a relatively diversified economy, which is not overly reliant on oil exports. This makes the JOD less susceptible to fluctuations in the global oil market. Currently, one JOD is valued at 118.48 in INR. 3. Omani Rial (OMR): Third Highest Currency in the World The Omani Rial or OMR is the currency of Oman. Before 1940, Oman used INR as its official currency and this is why the most popular Rial exchange rate is INR to OMR Rate. Situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman’s economy mostly relies on the oil reserves that they have. The Omani rial is divided into 1,000 smaller divisions, known as baisa, unlike most other currencies. Oman’s currency is pegged to the US Dollar, however, besides this, there are also other reasons why it is the 3rd highest currency in the world: Reasons: 1. Oil exports: Oman is a major exporter of oil and gas, which are two of the most valuable commodities in the world. 2. Low inflation: Oman has a relatively low inflation rate, which helps to maintain the value of the OMR. Currently, one OMR is valued at 218.07 in INR. Check the most updated OMR to INR rates here and the OMR TO INR forecast 2024-2025 2. Bahraini Dinar (BHD): Second Highest Currency in the World The Bahraini Dinar or BHD is the currency of Bahrain. Located in the Arabian Gulf, Bahrain is heavily reliant on oil exports. The most popular Bahrain Dinar exchange rate is the INR to BHD rate. The currency code for Dinars is BHD, and the currency symbol is BD. Indians are the largest expat group in Bahrain and that explains the reason for INR to BHD popularity. Bahrain attracts expats from all over the globe, and BHD is the second-highest currency in the world. Reasons: 1. Oil exports: Bahrain is a major exporter of oil and gas, which are two of the most valuable commodities in the world. 2. Fixed exchange rate: The BHD is pegged to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate. This means that the value of the BHD is directly tied to the value of the US dollar. 3. Low inflation: Bahrain has a pretty low inflation rate, which helps in keeping the value of the BHD stable. Currently, one BHD is valued at 222.72 INR. Check the most updated BHD to INR rates and BHD TO INR forecast for 2024-2025 1. Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD)- Highest Currency in the World The highest currency in the world is none other than Kuwaiti Dinar or KWD. Initially, one Kuwaiti dinar was worth one pound sterling when the Kuwaiti dinar was introduced in 1960. The currency code for Kuwaiti Dinar is KWD. The most popular Kuwait Dinar exchange rate is the INR to KWD rate. The Indian expat community is very strong in Kuwait, hence the reason for being a popular currency pair. Kuwaiti Dinar has been the highest currency in the world for a while now because of the following reasons. Reasons: 1. Oil exports: Kuwait is one of the world’s largest exporters of oil, which is a valuable commodity. This gives Kuwait a strong economic foundation and supports the value of the KWD. 2. Fixed exchange rate: The KWD is pegged to a basket of currencies, which includes the US dollar, the euro, and the Japanese yen. This means that the value of the KWD is not as susceptible to fluctuations in the global currency markets. 3. Political stability: Kuwait is a politically stable country, which is another factor that attracts foreign investment and helps to support the value of the KWD. 4. Relatively scarce currency: The Central Bank of Kuwait maintains tight control over the supply of KWD. This scarcity also helps to support the value of the currency. Currently, one KWD is valued at 274.25 in INR. Check the most updated KWD to INR rates and KWD TO INR forecast for 2024-2025 FAQs on Highest Currency in the World Q1. Which currency is the highest in the world? Kuwaiti Dinar or KWD has been crowned the highest currency in the world. It is widely used in the Middle East for oil-based transactions. 1 Kuwaiti Dinar is equal to 269.76 INR. KWD has maintained the position of the highest currency in the world for quite a while now. The economic stability of Kuwait is the reason behind this. INR to KWD rate is the most favored Kuwait Dinar exchange rate. In Kuwait, the Indian expat community is powerful, and therefore this is a popular currency pair. Q2. Which currency is the most traded currency in the world? The US dollar has established itself as the most traded currency in the world. It is the currency of the United States of America. It is also the primary reserve currency of the world as both the commercial and central banks throughout the world hold the US dollar for doing international transactions. Even though it is in high demand for doing conversions, still the US dollar is lagging in the race for the top currency in the world. At present, the US dollar is equal to 82.87 INR, and it keeps fluctuating quite frequently. The people belonging to countries other than Gulf countries also use the dollar as a common standard currency. Q3. Which is the world’s most stable currency? The most stable currency in the world is the Swiss Franc or CHF, which is the currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. CHF represents the Confoederatio Helvetica Franc, which is the country’s name in Latin. One Swiss Franc or CHF is equal to 94.17 Indian Rupees. CHF is regarded as the safe-haven currency due to Switzerland’s low debt levels and sound monetary policies, and investors use it as a backup when facing instability or geopolitical tension. Q4. What are the factors by which a country attains the highest currency value in the world? There are multiple factors by which a currency is influenced. The government needs to concentrate on a few economic factors such as inflation, economic growth, interest rates, and current account balance. The rise of the value of a currency occurs due to the following things: Stimulated growth of the economy. The rate of inflation experiences a moderate bump, typically around 2% per year. The improvement of the trade balance. The government of the country increasing the interest rates. Introduction of policies by the government that can influence supply-side economics. Q5. Is having a high-value currency a good thing or a bad thing for the economy? It can be both. For some countries, having a high-value currency is beneficial, while others may benefit from having a weaker currency. This is because the weaker currency aids their export industry. Gaining significant market shares is easier for these countries as their goods are comparatively cheaper to buy. However, it is not always the strategy for the improvement of the revenues of exports. Currencies like the Nigerian naira or the Tanzanian shilling are weaker because of their serious economic challenges.
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Learn the history of the PHP.	en	/favicon.ico	Investopedia	https://www.investopedia.com/terms/forex/p/php-philippine-peso.asp	What Is the Philippine Peso (PHP)? The Philippine peso, abbreviated as PHP in foreign exchange (forex) markets, is the national currency of the Republic of the Philippines. The peso is known as the "piso" in the Filipino and Tagalog languages. The Philippine peso is made up of 100 cents or "sentimos" and is often represented with the symbol ₱. As of Jan. 9, 2022, one U.S. dollar was equal to 51.38 PHP. Over the past five years, its value has ranged from lows below 48 pesos to a dollar to a high of 53.89 in late 2018. Understanding the Philippine Peso (PHP) The southeast Asian archipelago now known as the Republic of the Philippines was under Spanish rule for 333 years and under U.S. rule for 48 years. It was occupied by Japan from early 1942 until Sept. 2, 1945, when World War II ended with Japan's surrender to the Allied forces. The independent Republic of the Philippines was created in 1946. English and Filipino are the official languages. Colonial Rule of the Philippines The country briefly gained its independence in 1899 after a revolution against Spanish rule led to the creation of the First Philippine Republic. The Republic was short-lived. By 1901, the United States had annexed the Philippines as part of the treaty with Spain that ended the Spanish-American War. The U..S. sent in military forces to defend its claim to the Philippines against the nation's nationalists, resulting in the three-year-long Philippine-American War. By 1901, the first coins and paper money issued by the Philippine government had gone out of circulation. The U.S. then established a Philippine currency that was pegged to the price of gold, and was at that time worth about half the price of a U.S. dollar (USD). The peg of ₱2/USD lasted until the country achieved independence in 1946. The Republic of the Philippines The Central Bank of the Philippines was created in 1949, and through the 1950s it strove to maintain the 2:1 peg with the USD. This became impossible as a black market for pesos started outside of the fixed system, where the ₱ routinely traded at 3:1. The currency was devalued to ₱3.90/USD, and in 1970 was devalued again to ₱6.43/USD. While the country struggled to stabilize the exchange rate, the currency continued to devalue. In 1983, it traded near ₱11/USD and by 1986 it was near ₱20/USD. The New Central Bank Act of 1993 set the Philippine peso on a path to being a free-floating currency. While this allowed the exchange rate to become substantially higher than the earlier pegged levels, it brought stability to the currency. The black market for the currency (which nearly always reflected a lower value of the ₱ than official channels) ceased to exist. Example of a U.S. Dollar/Philippine Peso Quote Assume a couple from the U.S. is heading to the Philippines for a holiday. They need to buy some Philippine pesos (PHP) for their trip. Since the exchange rate is free-floating, the rate will change by the day, and even by the minute. Assume that the travelers check the current exchange rate and it is 52.27 USD/PHP. That means that the couple should expect to get somewhere close to 52.27 PHP for one USD. Forex Rates vs. Real Exchange Rates While this quoted rate on currency websites is the last trade value (or sometimes the current bid value), our couple will not be able to get that rate when exchanging physical currency. Currency exchanges and banks typically charge a 3% to 5% fee for exchanging cash, and factor that into the exchange rate. Therefore, for each USD the couple may only get ₱50.70 or ₱49.65. If the couple wants ₱50,000 at a rate of 52.27, they would need $956.57. But if the currency exchange factors a 5% charge into their rate, they offer 49.65 and the travelers need $1,007.05 to get the same ₱50,000. When our travelers return, they may have some Philippine pesos they want to convert back to U.S. dollars. Let's say they have ₱5,000. Assume the exchange rate is still the same at 52.27, but remember that banks and currency exchanges typically take 3% to 5% on both sides of the transaction. Instead of only charging 52.27 for each USD, they are going to charge 53.84 to 54.88. That means that ₱5,000 won't buy as many USDs. At 52.27, ₱5,000 converts to $95.66. But at 54.88, it only converts to $91.11, which is about 5% less. The Bottom Line The value of the Philippine peso declined in 2021 and is projected to decline further in 2022. The aura of economic uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it has helped to depress its value against the U.S. dollar. Its fluctuations are a problem for the millions of expatriates from the Philippines who work abroad and send money home to their families.
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Learn about ATMs, currency, scams, and tips for using Philippine money.	en	/favicon.ico	TripSavvy	https://www.tripsavvy.com/money-in-the-philippines-1458584	Managing money in the Philippines while traveling is simple enough, however, there are a few caveats of which you should be aware. As when entering any new country for the first time, knowing a little about the currency beforehand helps to avert scams that target newbies. The Philippine Peso The Philippine peso (currency code: PHP) is the official currency of the Philippines. The colorful notes come in denominations of 20, 50, 100, 200 (not common), 500, and 1,000. The peso is further divided into 100 centavos, however, you'll rarely deal with or encounter these fractional amounts. Prices in Philippine pesos are denoted by the following symbols: "₱" (official) P P$ PHP Currency printed before 1967 has the English word "peso" on it. After 1967, the Filipino word "piso" (no, it isn't referring to the Spanish word for "floor") is used instead. U.S. dollars are sometimes accepted as an alternative form of payment and work well as emergency cash. Carrying U.S. dollars while traveling in Asia is a good idea for emergencies. If paying a price quoted in dollars rather than pesos, know the current exchange rate. Tip: While traveling in the Philippines, you'll end up with a pocketful of heavy coins, usually 1-peso, 5-peso, and 10-peso coins — keep them! Coins come in handy for small tips or paying jeepney drivers. Banks and ATMs in the Philippines Outside of larger cities, functioning ATMs can be frustratingly difficult to find. Even on popular islands such as Palawan, Siquijor, Panglao, or others in the Visayas, there may only be one international-networked ATM located in the main port city. Err on the safe side and stock up on cash before arriving on smaller islands. Using ATMs attached to banks is always the safest. You stand a much better chance of recovering a card if it is captured by the machine. Also, ATMs in lit areas near banks are less likely to have a card-skimming device installed by thieves. Identity theft is a growing problem in the Philippines. Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), Banco de Oro (BDO), and Metrobank usually work best for foreign cards. Limits vary, but many ATMs will only dispense up to 10,000 pesos per transaction, and up to 50,000 pesos per account, per day. You may be charged a fee of up to 200 pesos per transaction (around US $4), so take as much cash as possible during each transaction. Tip: To avoid ending up with only 1,000-peso banknotes which are often difficult to break, end your requested amount with 500 so that you at least receive one 500-peso note (e.g., ask for 9,500 rather than 10,000). Traveler's Checks in the Philippines Traveler's checks are rarely accepted for exchange in the Philippines. Plan on using your card in ATMs to get local currency. For additional security, diversify your travel money. Bring a few denominations of U.S. dollars and hide a $50 inside a very unlikely place (get creative!) in your luggage. Using Credit Cards in the Philippines Credit cards are mostly only useful in bigger cities such as Manila and Cebu. They'll also work in busy tourist areas such as Boracay. Credit cards come in handy for booking short domestic flights and for paying in upscale hotels. You can also pay for diving courses by credit card. For daily transactions, plan to depend on cash. Many businesses charge an extra commission of up to 10% when you pay with plastic. MasterCard and Visa are the most accepted credit cards in the Philippines. Tip: Remember to notify your ATM and credit card banks so they can place a travel alert on your account, otherwise they may deactivate your card for suspected fraud. Hoard Your Small Change Acquiring and hoarding small change is a popular game in Southeast Asia that everyone plays. Breaking large 1,000-peso notes — and sometimes 500-peso notes — fresh from the ATM can be a real challenge in small places. Build up a good stock of coins and smaller denomination bills for paying drivers and others who often claim not to have change — they hope you will let them keep the difference. Using large denomination notes on buses and for small amounts is considered bad form. Always try to pay with the largest banknote that someone will accept. In a pinch, you can break large denominations in busy bars, fast food restaurants, some minimarts, or try your luck in a grocery or department store. Haggling is the name of the game for much of the Philippines. Good negotiation skills will go a long way to helping you to save money. Tipping in the Philippines Unlike the etiquette for tipping in much of Asia, the rules for tipping in the Philippines are a little murky. Although gratuity generally isn't "required," it is greatly appreciated — sometimes even expected — in many circumstances. In general, try to reward people with a small token of appreciation who go the extra mile to help you out (e.g., the driver who carries your bags all the way to your room). It is common to round up fares for drivers and maybe even give them a little something extra for friendly service. Don't tip taxi drivers who initially balked at your request to turn on the meter. Many restaurants tack a 10 percent service fee onto bills, which may or may not simply be used to pay the staff's low salary. You can leave a few extra coins on the table to show thanks for great service.
9083	dbpedia	2	59	https://treasuryvault.com/currency-resources/articles-philippine-peso/	en	Should I Invest in the Philippine Peso?	https://treasuryvault.co…vault-handle.png	https://treasuryvault.co…vault-handle.png	[ "https://treasuryvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/treasury-logo.png", "https://treasuryvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/newsletter.png", "https://treasuryvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ccfooter.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Adam" ]	2019-10-24T14:14:09+00:00	The US dollar to Philippine peso foreign currency exchange rate has become a very attractive investment. Should investors be optimistic or cautious?	en	https://treasuryvault.co…vault-handle.png	Treasury Vault	https://treasuryvault.com/currency-resources/articles-philippine-peso/	Over the past year, the US dollar to Philippine peso foreign currency exchange rate has become a very attractive investment. Should investors be optimistic or cautious? In this article, we examine how a high foreign exchange rate can have both advantages and disadvantages for investors. Should you take full advantage of the Philippine peso rate? It’s not an easy question to answer. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of investing in the Philippine peso. PROS AND CONS OF INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE PESO Pros Filipinos Are Optimistic About President Duterte The Country Is Going Through an Infrastructure Drive The Philippines Has the 30th Largest Economy in the World Overseas Filipino Workers Can Send More Money Home Cons Wages Are Low in the Philippines The Philippines Has a “Credit Negative” Basic Commodities Cost More Unemployment Is High Because of Insufficient Employers PROS OF INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE PESO There are several reasons why you may want to invest in the Philippine peso. Filipinos Are Optimistic About President Duterte Although Western politicians and the international press often portray president Rodrigo as a hardliner, about 79 percent of adult Filipino voters feel this populist leader has done a commendable job as president in the first quarter of this year. Although the international media often point out how his statements are brash, harsh, and even buffoonish, the Filipino people appear to view his administration in a more tolerant way, focusing on his political will to take decisive action. Older Filipinos often compare Duterte favorably to the “good old days” of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines with an iron fist from 1965 to 1986. While the West believe Marcos was a corrupt leader who pocketed around $10 billion during his 21-year dictatorship, nostalgic Filipinos recall him as a strongman who enforced law and order in the country and prospered its economy. It may puzzle outsiders why Filipinos hold Duterte in such high regard despite his flagrant and well-documented human rights violations—such as extrajudicial killings in his administration’s “drug war.” But like most populous leaders, Duterte has a well-oiled propaganda machine that reinterprets the meaning of his actions, spinning the narrative to credit him with all positive changes in the country. He skillfully blames other politicians or past administrations for anything that has gone wrong. And perhaps most importantly, the economy of the Philippines is doing well, performing better than it has done for several decades. The Country Is Going Through an Infrastructure Drive The promise of economic growth across the archipelago gained momentum last year and continues this year as the Philippine government rolls out an infrastructure program. The government expects this program to continue over the next few years and increase the number of people employed, raise household incomes, and benefit the most impoverished families in the country. The Philippines Has the 30th Largest Economy in the World According to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Outlook for 2019 to 2023, which looks at global economic data, the Philippines ranks as the 30th largest economy in the world with a GDP around $354 billion. Although this emerging market economy was the second largest in Eastern Asia shortly after World War II, the economy declined over the years because of bad governance, political volatility, financial crises, and poor planning. The Philippines has progressively transitioned from an agricultural-based economy to a service and manufacturing one. Today, its extensive international trade includes the export of electrical parts, copper, petroleum products, clothes, and fruits. Much of this growth occurred after the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In 2018, the Philippines economy grew by 6.2 percent, with most of the revenue generated by manufacturing. Overseas Filipino Workers Can Send More Money Home The low exchange rate of the Filipino peso is excellent news for families who have a family member working abroad. Millions of Filipino workers have work contracts abroad, especially in the Middle East, which pays both overseas professionals and skilled laborers well. CONS OF INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE PESO There are also several reasons why you should use caution before investing in the Philippine peso. Wages Are Low in the Philippines Although Filipinos prize literacy because of the abundance of free government elementary and high schools, wages in the country are low. This is due to a low supply of job creators and a high number of available workers. Filipino corporations and outsourcing firms around the world take advantage of this competitive job-seeker market so they can pay low wages. The Philippines Has a “Credit Negative” Asia Pacific currencies are most susceptible to foreign exchange rate hikes. This can occur for various reasons. For instance, when the Federal Reserve changes the fed funds rate by increasing or decreasing it, this also affects the United States dollar exchange rate against other currencies. However, the Philippine currency (the Philippine peso) and the Indonesian currency (the Indonesian rupiah), fared far worse than other Asian currencies during recent foreign exchange fluctuations. While the Philippines’ negative credit is because of a stronger dollar affecting the dollars to Philippine peso foreign exchange rate, many other factors also play a significant role. For instance, the continuously escalating US-China trade wars, the rise in oil prices, and a hawkish US Federal Reserve have all contributed to currencies in Asia feeling the heat of geopolitical maneuvering. Basic Commodities Cost More A lower currency often has a negative impact on the citizens of a country. In the Philippines, basic fuels, such as crude oil and coal, have become far pricier. A weakened currency also affects other commodities, especially trade goods. Unemployment Is High Because of Insufficient Employers Because of the shortage of jobs, there is a high unemployment rate. In 2018, this was about 4 percent. As a result, millions of Filipinos go overseas to find work in countries that need skillful contract workers. Many Western corporations also outsource work to the Philippines because the workforce is well-educated and will accept weakened wages despite their high level of technical and computer skills. Consequently, many multinational telecom corporations have built large call centers for hundreds of well-educated Filipino employees fluent in English. FAQS ABOUT THE PHILIPPINE PESO Before deciding on whether to invest in Philippine pesos, let’s review some frequently asked questions about the currency and the cost of living in the Philippines to help give you an economic overview. How do you buy Philippine pesos? You can get Philippine pesos through your local bank or credit union, a foreign bank branch, or a specialist exchange provider. There are many standard channels to buy any foreign currency with ease on business days. Money bureaus offer travelers, businesses, and investors services like money transfer payments, travel money, or long-term monetary investments. Banks are useful if you want to use your credit cards abroad, so you have to carry fewer notes and coins of the foreign local currency. Usually, banks will give you a fair USD to Philippine Peso and charge a reasonable fee, but some monetary trade experts argue that they don’t always offer the most competitive exchange rates. The best places for exchange rates may be online websites and physical storefronts registered as money service businesses. Tell them how many Philippine pesos you need, and they will give you a competitive dollar to Philippine peso foreign exchange rate price. Why is the peso the currency of the Philippines? Before the Philippines had a currency, they used pieces of gold called “piloncitos” and gold rings for trading. Then in 1521, the Spanish colonized the Philippines. They replaced gold bits and rings circulating in lieu of money with coins. However, since this money differed in weight, purity, and value because it came from different countries occupied by Spain, the Spanish government established the first mint to standardize the coinage in 1861. The US acquired the Philippines on December 10, 1898, after the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris. In 1903, the US pegged the currency to be worth half a United States dollar, implementing this monetary policy to control the inflation rate and keep prices stable. In 1942, during the Second World War, the Japanese occupied all the Philippine Islands and introduced their own notes and coins as legal tender. However, on October 20, 1944, US troops made an amphibious landing on Lyte, an eastern Philippine island, and regained the country. On July 4, 1946, the Philippines was granted independence by the United States. Two years later, the Central Bank of the Philippines reintroduced the peso as a formal currency. What is the official currency of the Philippines? The official currency is the colorful Philippine peso. It’s divided into 100 centavos and comes in the following denominations: 10, 20, 50, 200, 500, and 1,000. What is the currency code and symbol for Philippine peso? The currency code is PHP and its symbol is “₱”. What is the average monthly income in the Philippines? The average monthly income for someone working in the Philippines is 50,555 PHP per month. In dollars and cents, this comes to about $983.57 USD. When is the best time to buy Philippine pesos? The best time to sell United States dollars and buy Philippine pesos is from August to February. The worst time to buy Philippine pesos is during the hot summer months, between March and May. How does the US dollar trade against the Philippine peso historically? At the time of this writing, a currency converter will tell you that 1 United States Dollar equals 51.87 Philippine pesos. This is the lowest price in 12 years. Many factors contributed to the Philippine Peso falling to this record low, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) cutting the reserve requirement. What is the cost of living in the Philippines? Living in the country costs around $300 a month while living in the city costs about $1,100 a month. INVESTING IN THE PHILIPPINE PESO Should you consider a long-term investment in the Philippine peso? There are pros and cons. On one hand, you can buy a large amount and wait to see whether the Philippines economic growth will continue rising. If it does, then you can sell this money at a higher price. On the other hand, while it looks like a promising investment, the best economic advice for every investor is to only buy a small amount for now and keep watching for more positive signs.
9083	dbpedia	0	40	https://www.rcbc.com/how-much-is-the-exchange-rate-of-peso-to-dollar	en	A Historical Look at the Exchange Rate between the USD and PHP	https://www.rcbc.com/upl…tory_desktop.jpg	https://www.rcbc.com/upl…tory_desktop.jpg	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=715728909732212&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1170602473590418&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://www.rcbc.com/uploads/media/logo-rcbc.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/uploads/media/forex-history_desktop.jpg", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/icons/icon-fb.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/icons/icon-instagram.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/icons/icon-twitter.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/icons/icon-linkedin-plain-article.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/pixel.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/pixel.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/pixel.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/pixel.png", "https://www.rcbc.com/assets/public/images/pixel.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	Learn about the intricacies of the USD-PHP exchange rate. Understand the implications of fluctuations and trends from past to present.	en	/assets/public/images/favicon.png		https://www.rcbc.com/how-much-is-the-exchange-rate-of-peso-to-dollar	The exchange rate between the United States Dollar (USD) and the Philippine Peso (PHP) is not just a mere numerical figure. It holds a deeper significance, serving as a window into the intertwined economic histories of both nations. Exploring this exchange rate unveils a treasure trove of insights into the economic interplay between these two countries, revealing the factors that have shaped their financial dynamics over the years. Join us as well delve into this fascinating world of fluctuations and trends, analyze what the exchange rate between dollar to peso is, and unlock a comprehensive understanding of the economic landscape of the Philippines. Understanding the Exchange Rate Before we begin, it is essential to first understand what an exchange rate is. In simple terms, an exchange rate refers to the value of one currency in relation to another. It determines how much of one currency you can buy with a certain amount of another currency. For example, if the current USD to PHP exchange rate is 1 USD to 50 PHP, it means that you can buy 50 PHP with one US dollar. The exchange rate is influenced by various factors such as interest rates, inflation, trading activities, political stability, and economic policies. These factors contribute to the fluctuations of the exchange rate over time. A Brief History of the USD to PHP Exchange Rate To grasp the current exchange rate, it's essential to delve into the roots of currency exchange. Post-World War II, in 1945, the USD to PHP exchange rate was relatively stable. The Philippines had just gained independence from American colonial rule, and its economic framework was in its infancy. The Bretton Woods Agreement, established in 1944, pegged various currencies, including the USD, to gold, creating a sense of stability in the international monetary system. However, this stability was short-lived. By the 1960s, economic tides were changing globally, and the USD started floating freely against other currencies. The Philippines, like many other nations, found itself adapting to this new paradigm. The exchange rate dynamics began to reflect not just local economic conditions but also the shifting global economic landscape. The Impact of Economic Policies The USD to PHP exchange rate has also been significantly influenced by the economic policies implemented by both countries. During the Marcos regime in the 1970s and 1980s, the Philippines adopted a pegged exchange rate system, where the peso was fixed at a specific value against the USD. However, this system proved unsustainable and led to economic struggles, resulting in a debt crisis and devaluation of the peso. In contrast, the United States has historically pursued policies that have strengthened its currency. The dollar's role as the world's reserve currency gives the US significant influence over global exchange rates. For instance, decisions made by the Federal Reserve, such as interest rate adjustments, have a ripple effect on the USD to PHP exchange rate. Predicting Future Trends Over the years, the exchange rate between USD and PHP has displayed remarkable resilience, enduring economic and political challenges. Nevertheless, accurately predicting future trends is always a difficult task due to the influence of diverse factors and the potential impact of unforeseen events, such as natural disasters or political crises. That being said, understanding past trends and current economic conditions can still provide valuable insights for predicting future exchange rate movements. As the Philippines continues to grow and strengthen its economy, likely, that the peso will also increase in value against the USD. How Much is 1 Dollar in Peso and Why Exchange Rates Matter Understanding the historical journey of the USD to PHP exchange rate is a captivating endeavor that requires grasping the significance of these rates. Over the past few years, the exchange rate has remained relatively stable. For instance, the RCBC exchange rate has fluctuated between 55-57 pesos to a US dollar. These rates serve as the lifeblood of international trade, investments, and economic policies, forming the foundation for global financial transactions. With immense power, they influence the cost of imports and exports, shape inflation rates, and mold a nation's economic policies. Exchange rates have a remarkable impact on our daily lives. They shape our travel experiences, determining the affordability of trips abroad and the purchasing power of foreign currencies. Moreover, they significantly influence the cost of imported goods, which ultimately affects the prices of products in local markets. For those who rely on remittances from family members working overseas, the USD to PHP exchange rate is of utmost importance. In a country like the Philippines, where a significant portion of the population depends on remittances, fluctuations in the exchange rate can profoundly impact the day-to-day lives of many. Delving into the intricate world of exchange rates unveils valuable insights into the global financial landscape. It sheds light on the profound impact this essential element holds, influencing not only macroeconomic policies but also individual financial decisions. By truly grasping the significance and dynamics of the USD to PHP exchange rate, one gains the power to navigate the complexities of international trade and finance with finesse. This knowledge empowers us to make informed choices that can pave the way for favorable outcomes. The Bigger Picture: USD-PHP Exchange Rate and the Philippine Economy The exchange rate between USD and PHP holds immense significance, acting as a window into the vibrant economic landscape of the Philippines. It goes beyond mere numbers, providing valuable insights into the country's economic well-being and stability. When the exchange rate strengthens, indicating a rise in the value of the peso against the dollar, it signals a robust and flourishing economy. This can be attributed to a myriad of factors, including increased foreign investments, favorable trade conditions, and a thriving domestic market. Moreover, a stronger peso acts as a magnet, attracting more foreign investors and propelling further economic growth and development. On the other side, a weaker peso can signal economic hurdles like inflation and trade deficits. It may point to factors such as rising import expenses, diminished export competitiveness, or unfavorable economic policies. In such instances, the government and policymakers must proactively devise strategies to tackle these challenges and cultivate a more stable economic landscape. Over the past few decades, the Philippines has experienced a remarkable economic boom, paving the way for a stronger peso against the mighty dollar. This growth can be credited to a myriad of factors, with one shining star being the invaluable contributions of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) through their hard-earned remittances. These remittances not only fuel local consumption and investment but also serve as the backbone of overall economic stability. Moreover, the booming business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has played a vital role in the country's economic triumph. The Philippines has emerged as a top choice for multinational corporations in search of affordable yet highly skilled labor to fuel their business ventures. This not only creates job opportunities but also attracts foreign exchange inflows, fortifying the peso's resilience. In addition to these crucial factors, the government's prudent economic policies have played a pivotal role in shaping the current exchange rate. These meticulously crafted and executed policies not only aim to maintain a stable and competitive currency that attracts foreign investors but also create a favorable investment climate. Through this unwavering commitment to sound economic management, the government fosters sustainable economic growth, leading to long-term prosperity for the country. This strategic approach has been instrumental in ensuring a robust and resilient exchange rate, benefiting both the domestic economy and international trade. It's an extraordinary demonstration of economic prowess and a testament to the government's dedication to fostering a thriving financial landscape. In essence, the exchange rate between USD and PHP serves as a significant gauge of the economic performance of the Philippines. It vividly reflects the country's journey—encompassing both progress and challenges—while also hinting at the immense potential for future growth. Should I Constantly Check How Much the Exchange Rate from Dollar to Peso Is? While the exchange rate between USD and PHP holds immense significance, it's not necessary to constantly check its fluctuations. The exchange rate is continuously changing, influenced by global economic factors and market conditions. Trying to keep up with these changes can be a daunting task and may even lead to unnecessary stress. However, it's essential to have a general understanding of the current exchange rate and its impact on the economy, especially for those who rely on remittances or frequently engage in international trade. Keeping yourself informed and up-to-date can help make better financial decisions and prepare for any potential changes that may affect personal finances. Taking Control: What You Can Do With a wealth of historical knowledge and a profound grasp of the USD to PHP exchange rate, you can wield your power to effectively analyze and manage the impact on their personal finances. If you engage in international trade, for instance, you need to have a keen awareness of dynamic exchange rate trends. This enables you to transform the business landscape into a strategic chess match. In this intricate game, well-informed and strategic decisions become paramount, positioning themselves at the forefront of business operations. The adept anticipation and skillful navigation of currency fluctuations not only serve to mitigate risks but also unveil opportunities for optimizing profitability. Furthermore, as an everyday consumer, you also need to be mindful of the ever-changing exchange rate dynamics. This awareness is key for effective planning and budgeting. Fluctuations in the exchange rate can directly impact the prices of imported goods, travel expenses, and even remittances from abroad. By staying tuned to these shifts, you can adapt your spending habits accordingly and make informed financial choices. In our modern interconnected world, financial literacy holds the key to empowerment. It presents you with a remarkable opportunity to safeguard your finances against the volatile fluctuations of exchange rates. By diversifying investments through opening a foreign currency deposit account, staying informed about economic trends, and seeking expert advice, you can navigate the intricate landscape of international finance with confidence and prudence. The USD to PHP exchange rate remains a critical element in navigating the ever-evolving global financial landscape. It serves as a powerful tool for understanding and analyzing the economic conditions of the Philippines while also holding immense potential for shaping individual financial outcomes. By staying informed, taking proactive measures, and leveraging their knowledge, you can benefit from this dynamic exchange rate and pave the way toward a brighter financial future.
9083	dbpedia	0	56	https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_dollar_to_philippine_peso_exchange_rate	en	US Dollar to Philippine Peso Exchange Rate Market Daily Analysis: ECB Euro Exchange Rates	https://static.ycharts.c…29edabc6dd08.png	https://static.ycharts.c…29edabc6dd08.png	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=827940241018894&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=7941412&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=359530&fmt=gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	In depth view into US Dollar to Philippine Peso Exchange Rate including historical data from 2005 to 2024, charts and stats.	en	//static.ycharts.com/images/icons/favicon.637225eac278.ico		null	US Dollar to Philippine Peso Exchange Rate is at a current level of 56.68, down from 57.16 the previous market day and up from 56.34 one year ago. This is a change of -0.85% from the previous market day and 0.60% from one year ago. US Dollar to Philippine Peso Exchange Rate is at a current level of 56.68, down from 57.16 the previous market day and up from 56.34 one year ago. This is a change of -0.85% from the previous market day and 0.60% from one year ago.
9083	dbpedia	2	18	https://medium.com/%40joaquin.deguia/a-national-concern-the-declining-value-of-the-philippine-peso-e76192baf3a0	en	A National Concern: The Declining Value of the Philippine Peso	https://miro.medium.com/…Lq_L6vjkXUyg.png	https://miro.medium.com/…Lq_L6vjkXUyg.png	[ "https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fill:64:64/1dmbNkD5D-u45r44go_cf0g.png", "https://miro.medium.com/v2/da:true/resize:fill:88:88/0lGOjlIyV_3rsRpjW", "https://miro.medium.com/v2/da:true/resize:fill:144:144/0*lGOjlIyV_3rsRpjW" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Joaquin De Guia", "medium.com", "@joaquin.deguia" ]	2023-11-29T08:43:06.781000+00:00	The Philippine Peso, which is the national currency of the Philippines has a past that directly intertwines with the country’s economic and colonial history. In the American colonial era, the peso’s…	en	https://miro.medium.com/v2/5d8de952517e8160e40ef9841c781cdc14a5db313057fa3c3de41c6f5b494b19	Medium	https://medium.com/@joaquin.deguia/a-national-concern-the-declining-value-of-the-philippine-peso-e76192baf3a0	Introduction The Philippine Peso, which is the national currency of the Philippines has a past that directly intertwines with the country’s economic and colonial history. In the American colonial era, the peso’s value was directly tied to the value of the US dollar — establishing a fixed exchange rate. Additionally, in this era, the Philippines became one of the most prosperous countries in Southeast Asia, as things such as modern banking and the credit system were introduced (The Evolution of Philippine Peso, 2022). However, since the day the Philippines declared independence, the peso underwent a transformation where it adopted a floating exchange rate system that allowed its value to be determined by global currency markets. Furthermore, an important turning point in the history of the Philippines’ money was the establishment of the Central Bank in 1949, which signaled the reintroduction of the country’s official currency. The English series banknotes were first issued, but as the 1960s came to an end, a change toward a more regional currency occurred. The addition of the Filipino language and the images of the country’s heroes on the banknotes, which represent a rising sense of pride in the country, were characteristics of this change (The Evolution of Philippine Peso, 2022). During this period, the peso had phases where it was comparable to the value of the dollar, showing stable and robust economic growth. Nowadays, the Philippine peso has been experiencing a notable decline when compared to the US dollar. This signifies implications for the country’s economy which affects the country at a macro-level and micro-level from the cost of imports to the value of remittances from overseas Filipino workers. Main Issue The declining strength of the Philippine peso against the American dollar is a significant and multifaceted issue that affects the country as a whole. Last August 14, 2023, the Philippine peso fell against the US dollar to a nearly nine-month low, nearly reaching the P57 mark due to factors including rising interest rates and oil prices worldwide (Rivas, 2023). This decline would be one of the primary causes of the nation’s inflation picking up speed, burdening Filipinos with growing costs for necessities on top of their already precarious wages and earnings (Africa, 2022). Apart from this, the trade balance is affected as imports will become more costly with foreign debt also becoming more difficult to repay. The confidence of foreign investors may also waver due to the unstable economy and Filipino families who depend on income from OFWs will struggle more when converting remittances to pesos. Overall, the weakening of the Philippine peso against the dollar is a complex issue with extensive economic implications, making it a national concern that demands urgent attention and action. Stakeholders Involved Primary Stakeholder The main or primary stakeholder in this issue is the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The Philippines’ central bank is called Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, or BSP. Under the New Central Bank Act of 1993 and the 1987 Philippine Constitution, it was founded on July 3, 1993. The Central Bank of the Philippines, which was founded on January 3, 1949, was replaced as the nation’s central bank by the BSP (Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas about the Bank, n.d.). The Banko Sentral is the primary stakeholder as it is the central monetary authority in the Philippines, putting it at the forefront of addressing problems related to our economy and its growth. This is because the BSP’s policies and interventions are crucial in managing the value of the peso when faced with problems such as inflation and instability. Secondary Stakeholders The secondary stakeholders are the OFWs, import and export businesses, and foreign investors as they are largely affected by the decline of the Philippine peso. First of all, it affects the trade balance as it makes imports inflated and more expensive — meaning that all the oil and coal, rice, food, raw materials, and capital equipment we import from other countries will continue to become more expensive (Mioten, 2022). Apart from this, paying off international debt will be more difficult. Like many third-world countries, the Philippines borrows money in foreign currencies. As of right now, the total debt is P14.15 trillion as of June 2023 (BUREAU OF THE TREASURY, 2023). With the value of the peso continuing to decline, repaying these obligations will take more local currency which will put pressure on the national budget and the country’s credit rating. Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will also be affected even if the money they send back home will have more value. This is because if domestic prices rise, the buying power of the relatives they are sending the money to may not grow and with that, their standard of living may suffer. In 2021, the amount of cash remittances sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) hit a record $31.418 billion. According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the total amount of personal remittances from overseas Filipino workers reached a record high of $34.884 billion, or 8.9% of the nation’s gross domestic product (Mioten, 2022). These statistics show how much money OFWs bring into the country and the value they bring to the economy, and despite this, many of their family members are still experiencing hardship. Another effect is that potential investors may be scared off by the declining currency — seeing the economy as unstable which will further weaken the strength of the Philippine peso. On a microeconomic level, regular citizens will feel the impact of the declining peso in their daily lives in things such as the price of their groceries, the price of fuel, and the overall cost of living. Proposed Solution With this, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas should employ a proactive approach to not only mitigate the effects of the declining value of the Philippine peso but also stabilize the currency and secure the economy. To do this, the BSP should focus on three main areas: foreign exchange reserves management, policy rate adjustments, and the deepening of financial markets. First, to ensure that the country has healthy foreign exchange reserves, the BSP must maintain and strategically manage them. This can help as when the currency is facing pressure, the BSP can buy pesos to prevent a free fall which will soothe investor confidence and keep them prepared for future market problems. Secondly, the BSP can also adjust policy rates because this can help control inflation and stabilize the currency. In the event that the peso is losing value, the BSP may decide to raise interest rates to draw in foreign investment and boost demand for the currency. These choices must be carefully considered, though, as higher interest rates have the potential to impede economic development by making borrowing more costly. As a result, the BSP has to maintain a balance between protecting the peso and creating an atmosphere that encourages economic growth. Lastly, the BSP should also deepen the financial market of the country by developing new financial products, improving the infrastructure of the market, and ensuring an environment that is opportune for innovation and growth. This will reduce market volatility as it promotes investment, strengthens the resilience of the economy as a whole, increases market stability, and offers instruments for risk management. Apart from this, the BSP should also make sure that they have open lines of communication with stakeholders such as the government and the private sector to be more in line with government and economic policies. This will create a more holistic approach, which is important to foster a resilient economic environment and stabilize the currency. Conclusion Overall, the weakening of the Philippine peso against the American dollar is an issue that requires an urgent response. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is at the forefront of this issue and must implement measures that will stop the decline of the peso and protect the economy from the effects of the decline. The BSP can do this by strengthening foreign currency reserves, carefully modifying policy rates, and expanding financial markets. Furthermore, these efforts must be combined with communication and collaboration with both government and private sectors to make sure that the measures are for all and not a select few, therefore stabilizing the currency and creating a more resilient economy.
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Convert United States Dollar to Philippine Peso	en	https://www.forbes.com/a…/img/favicon.png	Forbes Advisor	https://www.forbes.com/advisor/money-transfer/currency-converter/usd-php/	If you plan to visit the Philippines in the near future, you may want to convert USD to PHP. While most big Philippine cities have a high level of credit card acceptance, experts recommend that you have some emergency cash on hand—especially if you’re traveling to areas outside major towns and cities. Here’s what you need to know before converting U.S. dollars into Philippine pesos, including how to make the conversion and where you’ll find the best exchange rates. How to convert U.S. Dollars to Philippine Pesos There are two ways to calculate approximately how many Philippine pesos you can get for your dollar: You can either use a conversion calculator or convert it by hand. Here’s a closer look at each method. 1. Use a Currency Calculator Using a currency conversion calculator is a great way to estimate how much money you’ll have to spend on your trip. Since exchange rates change often, using a calculator will help ensure that your conversion is correct. Keep in mind that exchanging currency typically comes with fees that won’t be factored in by a calculator. For example, most credit card processors and ATM networks charge a 1% conversion fee on all foriegn transactions. Individual merchants may also pass along their own fees if you ask them to convert a price into your home currency at the cash register. 2. Calculate It Manually The other option is to calculate the conversion manually. However, before you can get started, you need to know the current exchange rate. At the time of writing, $1 USD is equivalent to ₱ 54.92 PHP. Manual Currency Conversion Example Say that you have $500 USD and you want to know how much money you would have for a trip to the Philippines. In that case, your conversion equation would look something like this: $500 USD x 54.92 = ₱ 27,460 PHP How to Buy Philippine Pesos Exchange at a bank or credit union before your trip: Exchanging money at your local banking center before your trip is likely the most cost-effective way to get the money you need. Since you have an existing relationship with the bank, it’s more likely to give you the best exchange rates. Still, some fees may apply. For example, TD Bank charges its customers $7.50 for each currency conversion transaction. Order currency online: If you can’t order online through your bank, you can also have currency delivered to your door by third-party providers like Currency Exchange International (CXI). Just be sure to do your research and to keep an eye out for high fees. While CXI doesn’t charge any exchange fees, it will charge you up to $30 for overnight shipping, Use your bank’s ATM abroad for withdrawals where possible: If you have to exchange more money while abroad, your best bet is to find an ATM in your home bank’s network, as that can help you save on fees. For example, Citibank and HSBC have ATMs in the Philippines. Most banking apps have an “ATM locator” feature that can help you find the closest option. Look for SM Mall department stores: This popular department store chain in the Philippines has a currency exchange counter inside. However, exchange rates may vary by store. SM Mall suggests calling customer service at (02)8811-0000 beforehand to confirm rates at nearby locations. What to Avoid Currency exchange at the airport: While waiting to exchange currency at the airport may be convenient, it’s often a costly decision. Currency exchange kiosks often offer some of the worst exchange rates while charging the highest fees. Next Up:
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9083	dbpedia	2	63	https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/14/philippines-central-bank-gives-approval-to-coinsph-to-pilot-stablecoin-in-key-remittance-market/	en	Philippines' Central Bank Gives Approval to Coins.ph to Pilot Stablecoin in Key Remittance Market	https://www.coindesk.com…PTA5EGMJHHJY.jpg	https://www.coindesk.com…PTA5EGMJHHJY.jpg	[ "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/HamburgerMenu.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/NewNavSearch.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/HamburgerClose.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/NewNavSearch.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/logos/Coindesk_logo_396x75.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/PlayIconNav.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/AccessTimeIcon.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/resizer/ige5b2XZaXPeIljYEj56I4kXfT0=/567x319/filters:quality(80):format(jpg)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/7PTSDF4GUFFEDAPTA5EGMJHHJY.jpg", "https://www.coindesk.com/resizer/a8HwMIg0fLcCSs4DoIEoMYespMI=/72x72/filters:quality(80):format(jpg)/s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/coindesk/1222d2e5-6f64-4594-8214-6b862acb0f78.png", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/logos/coindesk_logo_190x32.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/MenuUpIcon.svg?d=363", "https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/images/icons/TikTokIcon.svg?d=363" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Amitoj Singh" ]	2024-05-14T00:00:00	Coins.ph plans to integrate the stablecoin into remittance platforms in countries with significant remittance flows to Philippines, one of the world’s largest remittance markets.	en	https://www.coindesk.com/pf/resources/favicons/production/favicon.ico?d=363		https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/14/philippines-central-bank-gives-approval-to-coinsph-to-pilot-stablecoin-in-key-remittance-market/	Coins.ph plans to integrate the stablecoin into remittance platforms in countries with significant remittance flows to Philippines, one of the world’s largest remittance markets. By Amitoj Singh May 14, 2024 at 6:29 a.m. UTC Philippines’ central bank, under a sandbox, has given its approval to Coins.ph to pilot a Philippine Peso-backed stablecoin. The pilot will assess the benefits of the stablecoin in “real-world applications.” Philippines’ central bank has given its approval to digital currency exchange Coins.ph to pilot a Philippine Peso-backed stablecoin called PHPC, the company said last week. The program will come under the BSP’s Regulatory Sandbox Framework and will be backed by Coins.ph’ cash and cash equivalents held in Philippine bank accounts, the announcement said. The pilot will assess the benefits of the stablecoin in “real-world applications while monitoring its impact on the existing financial ecosystem.” Coins.ph chief executive officer Wei Zhou, who was previously Binance’s Chief Financial Officer, told a press briefing that it got the go-ahead to publicly test the stablecoin in April and plans to make it available on its platform by early June, local reports said. Zhou said that the performance of the pilot will be monitored, and if certain metrics are hit, they anticipate obtaining full approval, allowing them to “leave the sandbox.” The Philippines has recently blocked Binance from operating in the nation and said that it would issue a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) within two years while avoiding a retail CBDC. Digital payments firm Strike has also expanded its global money transfer service to the nation, where the $12 billion remittance market is one of the world’s largest. Coins.ph plans to integrate the stablecoin into remittance platforms in countries with significant remittance flows to Philippines, one report said. Read More: Binance Blocked by Philippines Securities Watchdog Edited by Parikshit Mishra. Disclosure Please note that our privacy policy, terms of use, cookies, and do not sell my personal information has been updated . CoinDesk is an award-winning media outlet that covers the cryptocurrency industry. Its journalists abide by a strict set of editorial policies. In November 2023 , CoinDesk was acquired by the Bullish group, owner of Bullish, a regulated, digital assets exchange. The Bullish group is majority-owned by Block.one; both companies have interests in a variety of blockchain and digital asset businesses and significant holdings of digital assets, including bitcoin. CoinDesk operates as an independent subsidiary with an editorial committee to protect journalistic independence. CoinDesk employees, including journalists, may receive options in the Bullish group as part of their compensation. Amitoj Singh is a CoinDesk reporter.
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"https://news.outsourceaccelerator.com/wp-content/themes/oav3/assets/img/cta-call-idle.png", "https://news.outsourceaccelerator.com/wp-content/themes/oav3/assets/img/cta-call-hover.png", "https://news.outsourceaccelerator.com/wp-content/themes/oav3/assets/img/cta-toolkit-idle.png", "https://news.outsourceaccelerator.com/wp-content/themes/oav3/assets/img/cta-toolkit-hover.png", "https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/851243907/?guid=ON&script=0", "https://px.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=309531&fmt=gif", "https://ws.zoominfo.com/pixel/6196408d264b7f001444b278" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Ynah Edillor" ]	2020-07-10T06:01:06+00:00	The Philippine peso has emerged as the most stable currency among its Asian counterparts even amid the economic effects caused […]	en	https://news.outsourceac…logo-150x150.png	Outsource Accelerator	https://news.outsourceaccelerator.com/philippine-peso-emerges-as-the-most-stable-currency-in-asia/	The Philippine peso has emerged as the most stable currency among its Asian counterparts even amid the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Department of Finance (DOF). In a report, Finance Undersecretary and chief economist Gil Beltran said the peso remained resilient despite the headwinds faced by the global economy due to the health crisis. He added that the peso ranked first among the Asian currencies that maintained their value against the dollar this year. “Despite the rising risks in the global economy, heightened by the spread of COVID-19, the collapse of global markets, the extreme volatility in currencies and the downgrading of credit ratings of many economies, the peso remained firm, appreciating from year-end 2019 level,” Beltran said.
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Convert Philippine Peso to United States Dollar	en	https://www.forbes.com/a…/img/favicon.png	Forbes Advisor	https://www.forbes.com/advisor/money-transfer/currency-converter/php-usd/	If you’re planning a trip to the U.S. in the near future, you may want to exchange some of your money into U.S. dollars, the country’s official currency. The international symbol for the currency is USD. The U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency, which means foreign central banks hold it in their reserves in addition to their own currency. USD is used in about 40% of global trade and nearly 80% of all global cross-border transactions, with most commodities being traded in U.S. dollars. This post has everything you need to know about converting PHP to USD, including where to secure the best exchange rates and how to avoid paying high fees on your conversion. How to Convert PHP to USD Calculating a conversion of Philippine peso to U.S. dollar is fairly simple. You can either use a calculator or do it by hand. 1. Use a Currency Calculator Using a currency conversion calculator is often the easiest way to get an estimate when you’re converting currency. Since exchange rates fluctuate on a daily basis, using a calculator can ensure your math is correct. Keep in mind that exchanging currency often comes with added fees that a conversion calculator won’t be able to predict. For instance, credit card companies and ATM networks usually charge a 1% conversion fee on all foreign transactions. Individual merchants may also charge supplemental fees if you ask them to convert the price of an item to your home currency at checkout. 2. Calculate it Manually The other option is to do the calculation manually using a simple mathematical formula. However, in order to do this, you need to know the current exchange rate. At the time of writing, ₱1 is equal to $0.017. Once you know that information, multiply the amount you have in PHP by the current exchange rate. The resulting number will show you the amount of dollars that you have to spend on your trip. Manual Currency Conversion Example Let’s say you have ₱5,000 and would like to figure out how many dollars you have for a trip to the States. Using the current exchange rate, the formula for your conversion would look like this: ₱5,000 PHP x 0.017 = $85 USD How to Buy USD When you’re ready to buy USD, it’s a good idea to plan ahead to ensure that you pay the fewest fees. Here are two ways to get the currency you need while minimizing the fees you’ll be charged: Exchange at a bank before your trip: Heading to your bank before your trip is often the most cost-effective way to exchange currency. Since you have an existing relationship with them, your bank is likely to give you the best exchange rates and charge the lowest fees. For example, BPI offers exchanges into multiple currencies, including USD, EUR and GBP. Use an ATM abroad for withdrawals: If you need to exchange more money while you’re on your trip, you can do so at an ATM. Be sure to check the fine print with your banking agreement to understand any exchange rate charges and out-of-network charges you may incur during a foreign ATM withdrawal. What to Avoid When Exchanging Currency Exchanging currency at the airport: While exchanging currency at the airport is unquestionably convenient, these kiosks often offer some of the worst exchange rates while charging some of the highest fees. Exchanging currency in a street kiosk: Some major American cities offer exchange kiosks that look like ATMs that allow you to exchange currency while on the go. Still, you’ll likely pay a premium to use one of these convenient locations. Next Up:
9083	dbpedia	2	75	https://www.valens-research.com/philippine-markets-newsletter/monday-macro-uniform-accounting-and-macroeconomic-fundamentals-show-how-the-philippine-peso-could-signal-a-swift-economic-recovery/	en	MONDAY MACRO: Uniform Accounting and macroeconomic fundamentals show how the Philippine Peso could signal a swift economic recovery	https://www.valens-resea…20/01/800-VR.jpg	https://www.valens-resea…20/01/800-VR.jpg	[ "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/themes/VR%203.0/assets/images/vr.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/themes/VR%203.0/assets/images/vr.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/themes/VR%203.0/img/banner/PMN-v2-banner.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/themes/VR%203.0/img/banner/PMN-v2-banner.png", "https://valens-files.s3.amazonaws.com/PMD_EDM/PMD%23123-1.png", "https://valens-files.s3.amazonaws.com/PMD_EDM/PMD%23123-1.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-ecn.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-ecn.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-mpc.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-mpc.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-ecn.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-ecn.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-dbaccess.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-dbaccess.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-is.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/subscription-cover-is.jpg", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/X-2-150x150.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/X-2-150x150.png", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-facebook-150x150.webp 150w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-facebook-250x250.webp 250w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-facebook-120x120.webp 120w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-facebook.webp 512w", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-facebook-150x150.webp", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-youtube-150x150.webp 150w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-youtube-250x250.webp 250w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-youtube-120x120.webp 120w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-youtube.webp 512w", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-youtube-150x150.webp", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-linkedin-150x150.webp 150w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-linkedin-250x250.webp 250w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-linkedin-120x120.webp 120w, https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-linkedin.webp 512w", "https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/vr-social-media-linkedin-150x150.webp" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2020-07-13T07:32:21+00:00	Despite over 100 days of economic challenges, the Philippine currency has remained resilient. Although strong economic fundamentals contributed to its relative stability to other Southeast Asian countries, short-term foreign exchange rate fluctuations are also reflected heavily by sentiment. This particular metric, along with Uniform Accounting, reveals insight on investors’ optimistic outlook of the economy thatRead More	en	https://www.valens-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/favicon.ico	Valens Research	https://www.valens-research.com/philippine-markets-newsletter/monday-macro-uniform-accounting-and-macroeconomic-fundamentals-show-how-the-philippine-peso-could-signal-a-swift-economic-recovery/	Despite over 100 days of economic challenges, the Philippine currency has remained resilient. Although strong economic fundamentals contributed to its relative stability to other Southeast Asian countries, short-term foreign exchange rate fluctuations are also reflected heavily by sentiment. This particular metric, along with Uniform Accounting, reveals insight on investors’ optimistic outlook of the economy that has supported the Philippine currency during this pandemic. Philippine Markets Daily: The Monday Macro Report Powered by Valens Research On our March 9th report, we talked about the Philippine peso’s stability versus the US dollar amid the global economic impact of COVID-19 that started in February 2020. As of July 9, 2020, this still holds true as the Philippines trades at PHP 49.4 for USD 1 from PHP 50.6 for USD 1 at the end of 2019. The graph above shows the performance of each currency against the dollar. By inverting the exchange rates, appreciation against the US dollar is reflected by a decline because the value of that currency has depreciated against the US dollar. The volatility in Asian currencies against the US dollar in 2018 was driven by the tension around the US imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods. Today, Asian currencies face currency volatility from the impact of COVID-19, especially in places where quarantine measures continue to pose challenges on the economy. Meanwhile, the Philippine peso’s stable performance throughout 2020 has been attributed to the country’s comfortable level of gross international reserves (GIR). GIR is defined by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) as the available foreign assets of the country to directly finance the imbalance of payments. These include gold, interest-bearing reserve assets, foreign investments, and foreign exchange. As of end-May 2020, the BSP announced that the country’s GIR has improved to an all-time high of $93.29 billion due to foreign exchange operations and investment inflows. With the GIR rising, the Philippines improved its capability to pay imported goods and services, settle maturing obligations, and transact dollars to prevent sharp currency movements, in case of external shocks. Furthermore, the BSP has shown that the exchange buffer is equivalent to 8.4 months’ worth of imports of goods and payment of services and primary income, and equivalent to more than four times the amount of the country’s external debt obligations in the next 12 months. Meanwhile, our Philippine Aggregate chart shows that the current Uniform P/E is 25x while as-reported P/E shows lower valuations of 15x, potentially implying limited earnings growth outlook by investors. This means that Philippine corporations’ earnings potential is likely to be more than what the market expects amidst the pandemic. It also shows that true valuations of Philippine corporations are already higher than investors are thinking. Currency volatility could remain a near-term concern globally because of the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and the impact this has had on international commerce and travel. However, this should not be a concern for the Philippine peso as it experiences appreciation against the dollar despite the situation due to its strong economic prospects and fundamentals. Combined with the country’s firm macroeconomic fundamentals, comfortable level of gross international reserves (GIR), and business aggregate earnings, current investor confidence level would likely maintain. A stable currency could also encourage foreign investments in the country and reduce the FX risk when servicing foreign debt and interest. About the Philippine Market Daily “The Monday Macro Report” When just about anyone can post just about anything online, it gets increasingly difficult for an individual investor to sift through the plethora of information available. Investors need a tool that will help them cut through any biased or misleading information and dive straight into reliable and useful data. Every Monday, we publish an interesting chart on the Philippine economy and stock market. We highlight data that investors would normally look at, but through the lens of Uniform Accounting, a powerful tool that gets investors closer to understanding the economic reality of firms. Understanding what kind of market we are in, what leading indicators we should be looking at, and what market expectations are, will make investing a less monumental task than finding a needle in a haystack. Hope you’ve found this week’s macro chart interesting and insightful. Stay tuned for next week’s Monday Macro report! Regards, Angelica Lim Research Director Philippine Markets Daily Powered by Valens Research www.valens-research.com View All
7925	dbpedia	2	7	https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film422984.html	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)	https://pics.filmaffinit…9041138-mmed.jpg	https://pics.filmaffinit…9041138-mmed.jpg	[ "http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=13181121&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/images/logo4.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/US.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/CA.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/MX.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/ES.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/GB.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/IE.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/AU.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/AR.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/CL.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/CO.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/UY.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/PY.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/PE.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/EC.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/VE.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/CR.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/HN.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/GT.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/BO.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/DO.png", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/mrs_henderson_presents-729041138-mmed.jpg", "https://filmaffinity.com/images/ratings/6.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/images/justwatch2.png", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/imgs/countries2/GB.png", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/judi_dench-054546182953566-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/bob_hoskins-177998207160060-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/christopher_guest-211724211203677-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/kelly_reilly-034882969640546-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/anna_brewster-241570098038476-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/sarah_solemani-162580055072769-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/natalia_tena-032966488147952-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/toby_jones-213038913765601-nm_200.jpg", "https://pics.filmaffinity.com/mrs_henderson_presents-729041138-mtiny.jpg", "https://www.filmaffinity.com/images/arrow-up2.png", "https://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-LBBrF-bdAtkuF.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "James Berardinelli : ReelViews", "Ruthe Stein : SFGATE", "Ethan Alter : Premiere" ]	null	Mrs. Henderson Presents is a film directed by Stephen Frears with Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Kelly Reilly .... Year: 2005. Original title: Mrs. Henderson Presents. Synopsis: In the 1930s, a wealthy widow (Judi Dench) buys a run-down London theatre and opens her own risqué revue show, with the help of a talented manager. But when World War II breaks out, the theatre comes under threat.You can watch Mrs. Henderson Presents through flatrate,Rent,buy,ads on the platforms: Amazon Prime Video,Peacock Premium Plus,Peacock Premium,Amazon Prime Video with Ads,Google Play Movies,Amazon Video,Apple TV,YouTube,Fandango At Home,The Roku Channel,Tubi TV,VUDU Free,Freevee	en	/favicon.png	FilmAffinity	https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film422984.html	Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message. If you are not a registered user please send us an email to [email protected] All copyrighted material (movie posters, DVD covers, stills, trailers) and trademarks belong to their respective producers and/or distributors. For US ratings information please visit: www.mpaa.org www.filmratings.com www.parentalguide.org
7925	dbpedia	3	41	https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents-94597/	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	https://www.rollingstone…tone-Favicon.png	https://www.rollingstone…tone-Favicon.png	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035310&c4=&cv=3.9&cj=1", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif", "https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-rollingstone-2022/assets/public/lazyload-fallback.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Peter Travers" ]	2006-01-06T11:12:00+00:00	Has a movie featuring full-frontal female nudity ever been this goody-goody? Luckily, Judi Dench is around to spice up this World War II period piece. Dame Judi is the life of the party as Mrs.	en	https://www.rollingstone…Favicon.png?w=32	Rolling Stone	https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents-94597/	Has a movie featuring full-frontal female nudity ever been this goody-goody? Luckily, Judi Dench is around to spice up this World War II period piece. Dame Judi is the life of the party as Mrs. Henderson, the real British widow who enlisted Vivian Van Dam (a solid Bob Hoskins) to help her open a London theater featuring nudes. Lord Chamberlain gives his OK, as long as the babes don't move. Sadly, director Stephen Frears doesn't shake his bazongas, either. The subplot involving a tragic romance between a soldier and one of the living statues (the lovely Kelly Reilly) is hell on the humor and on a movie that stays content to do the trite thing.
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https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/07/nowstreaming-300x300.jpg 300w, https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/07/nowstreaming-150x150.jpg 150w, https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/07/nowstreaming-576x576.jpg 576w, https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/07/nowstreaming-45x45.jpg 45w" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "flawintheiris" ]	2015-08-27T14:51:59+00:00	Not seen (or heard of) for ages, a few reviews of movies released between 2005 and 2008	en	/favicon.ico	Flaw in the Iris	https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/2015/08/reviews-from-the-vault-vol-1/	Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of the scripts from those days, and thought I should share them here for archival reasons (and just for fun). As the blog’s fifth birthday approaches, what better time than now to take a look back at my (slightly edited) words originally written for broadcast. Notes on a Scandal (2006) Directed by Richard Eyre, Screenplay adapted by Patrick Marber (Closer) From a Zoe Heller novel. Starring Judi Dench as Barbara Covett, Cate Blanchett as Sheba Hart and Bill Nighy as Richard Hart An intense drama set in a British public school. Dench plays Covett as Your Unreliable Narrator, an older, bitter woman who has lost any pleasure in her work as a teacher. She’s contemptuous, cerebral and very lonely. Blanchett’s Sheba comes along, the new art teacher, very naïve and beautiful, married to a much older man and with two children. For the first time in a long time Blanchett really plays up her gamine, coltish glamour, and the cinematography works to compliment her. Covett is at first disdainful, but lets her curiosity get the better of her and slowly begins to yearn for her colleague. They become friends. Meanwhile Sheba enters into an ill-advised liaison with one of her 15-year-old students, and Covett finds out, and uses this guilty knowledge for her own purposes. This is a film that from early on is pitched as very high drama. The score from Philip Glass emphasizes the tension and keeps it ratcheted up. It’s melodrama of the first order, held together by the sterling performances of the leads. The movie would probably be ridiculous if the two women’s performances weren’t absolutely on the money. The director, allowing us to join Barbara Covett’s narration, makes us complicit in her yearning, in her machinations. We share her smug superiority, and feel her implied loneliness, and we support her… to a point. We also have a lot of sympathy for Sheba, but also only to a point. These are deeply flawed characters, and we climb into their psyches whether we want to or not. And in them we are in for a ride. It’s a sophisticated British soap, not with the kind of intimacy or grit of a Mike Leigh, but I think its impossible not to be carried away in all the sturm und drang. Not the sort of movie that will give you a second to check your watch, Notes on a Scandal is a delicious, scab-picking fun cinematic experience, and I recommend it highly. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro It’s funny how trailers for movies in a foreign language never suggest that the film is in a foreign language. It’s as if subtitles are trailer kryptonite. I guess you can’t expect to get people to see the film if they have to read. People will say this isn’t a kids movie, and I’d agree, but I think it has a lot more in common with the Grimm’s fairy tales and some of the darker fables of our culture. The story is set in the Spanish Civil War. Ofelia is a little girl who is brought by her pregnant mother to live with her stepfather, a monstrous fascist commander of a military regiment in a forested area that doesn’t look anything like Spain that I’ve seen in pictures. Ofelia finds a labyrinth behind the house in which she stays with her mother and explores it, discovering a faun and other magical creatures, and a legend that states she is an elemental princess. In order to reclaim her true throne she must perform a series of tasks. Meanwhile, in the concurrent reality of her life, her stepfather is becoming more irrational and unpleasant and a small group of freedom fighters is planning an attack, with help from a spy on the inside of the military operation. Del Toro has said his film is heavily allegorical, it’s why he enjoys fantasy. I guess there are plenty of ways to interpret this picture, but really, for me, foremost, it’s a dark fairy tale, with amazing creatures and nightmarish visions. I found it to me a fully realized cinematic world, frightening, certainly, but mostly wondrous. It’s also tragic. Expect blood and violence in the movie, and more than a little gore. But this isn’t some kind of horror, it’s an imaginary exploration of the way many children perceive the world. I don’t know if I’d recommend it for children, however, even those with accompaniment may find it hard to take. It would have given me the heebie jeebies as a child. But otherwise I have no reservations promoting it to anyone with a taste for really well executed fantasy, for those wanting to take a trip into another world. Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) You may be familiar with British director Stephen Frears’ work. He brings a certain grit and authenticity to his films, which include Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, and Dirty Pretty Things. The only thing about Mrs Henderson Presents that marks it as a Frears film is the fact the characters are well fleshed out. You do believe these people exist, but they’re set in such a fluffy drama, I was surprised it was Frears behind the camera. Set in pre-World War II London, it stars Judi Dench as Mrs Henderson, a suddenly widowed Londoner with more money than she knows what to do with. With her miniature dachshund under her arm, she takes up hobbies, none of which she enjoys until she decides to buy a west end theatre. She hires a theatre manager named Van Damm, played by Bob Hoskins. Dench and Hoskins are great together, and provide the film’s biggest laughs with their combative dynamic. Their first efforts for the theatre are a success, but when things begin to slip, Mrs Henderson decides what the shows need is nudity, something of a scandal at the time. Fortunately, she has the ear of a bigwig in her majesties’ government, played with some aplomb by Christopher Guest. I guess he’d played faux British in Spinal Tap so they thought to cast him as upper crust Brit in this, and it works quite well. The first half of the film is very charming, very funny, something fans of The Full Monty or any number of tastefully ribald British comedies will enjoy. A discussion of nipples is hilarious. I think what Frears is trying for here is more than just the recreation of a time and place, he’s going for the feel of old-fashioned British movies as well, such as those from the Ealing Studios. Drawing room comedy, I guess, with just a bit of salaciousness. I imagine the real audience for this film would be the older generation, anyone who remembers the 30s, 40s or 50s. If you are a younger person, you could bring your grandparents to see this and they would enjoy it. The nudity is there, but it’s artfully done. I certainly enjoyed the characters and the story. I started to lose interest a bit in the second half of the film, which becomes more serious as the World War II begins and London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. Actual film footage from the era is used liberally, but the world of the film seems so artificial and light, I found the juxtaposition of the raw black and white stock with the lush theatre scenes a bit jarring. Also, the melodrama is a bit much to swallow, and I think the lightness of the film buckles under the weight of seriousness later on. There is still much to enjoy here, but I thought the funny bits much more successful than the moments where our heartstrings were being pulled. Casanova (2005) Casanova is the other big Heath Ledger film of the season. A few of you listening may recall Fellini’s version with Donald Sutherland, made in 1976. It’s not considered one of Fellini’s best films, but at least it was debauched. This film, if anything, suffers for being a little too tasteful. It’s directed by Swede Lasse Halstrom, the director who gave us Cider House Rules and Chocolat, and if you liked those movies you won’t be disappointed here. He’s not going for sex, he’s going for costume drama slapstick and breezy romance and comedy. Not quite vigorous enough to be a farce, the film approaches that kind of energy in a few scenes, as if the Marx Brothers might appear around a corner as the Weird Merchants from Milan. As it happens, Heath Ledger’s Casanova is the most notorious lover in Venice, a city of sin barely tolerated by Rome. But as his rep travels, Rome sends an inquisitor, played by Jeremy Irons, to clean the place up. Meanwhile, Casanova has had to agree to be married to a virgin, but has also fallen in love with another woman, Francesca Bruni. She is played by Sienna Miller in her first starring role post last summer’s tabloid Jude Law Nannygate kerfuffle. Bruni is a proto-feminist who writes heretical books under a masculine pen-name about the advancement of women. She is about to be married off by her mother, played by Lena Olin, to a wealthy dealer in pork, played by the always hilarious Oliver Platt. What follows is a series of misadventures involving, mostly, mistaken identity and false identity. The thing is, Casanova is supposed to be this incredible lover, and I guess there are moments when one can understand why he is so attractive to the opposite sex, but film really just uses his legend as a springboard to this fluffy romantic comedy and jokes about rotund individuals threatening the canal-worthiness of gondolas. As that, much of it works. There are enough plot twists and surprises in the script to make it worthwhile, and the costumes, sets and performances are excellent, though Jeremy Irons has never played a more hissable villain, and he is a little ridiculous. Halstrom does have a way of telling a story that seems effortless—he’s nothing if not professional. But I did feel a bit let down at the end. Where is the smut? I just think if the film is going to go to the trouble of earning an R rating, it would be great if it actually felt like the film was made by and for adults. I won’t say I didn’t have fun at Casanova, but it is one of those films where I could find plenty of ways I thought it could be improved. It’s funny, I mentioned Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisons earlier, a film that was also about a notorious rogue in tights, but boy, was it sexy. The New World (2005) Terrence Malick directed The New World. For those who don’t know his work, he is an American filmmaker who has only made three other features in his career that began in the early 70s. Those films are Badlands, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, Days of Heaven, with Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepherd, and The Thin Red Line, the World War II drama from 1998 starring practically every male actor in Hollywood, including Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, and Adrien Brody. It says something about his legend as a filmmaker when big name actors will take tiny roles in his films, just to say they were in them. See if you can spot Ben Chaplin and Jonathan Pryce in The New World, neither with speaking roles. Malick uses images and sound the way Stanley Kubrick used to. He understands that narrative in filmmaking isn’t just about following words on a script. I would say he breaks most of the rules of Hollywood cinematic storytelling, rules that generally are good not to be trifled with, but he makes it work. The opening of, and ending of, The New World reminds me of nothing but 2001: A Space Odyssey, in it’s use of score and image. This is a big budget art movie, as ambitious and different as anything you’re liable to see in the cinema this year. It’s being marketed along the lines of Titanic, this epic romance. I guess that’s fair. It certainly is a long movie, and at its core is an elemental love. It’s set in the early 1600s, as British explorers led by Christopher Plummer’s Captain Newport land on the shores of an unspoiled Virginia. There they encounter the curious “naturals” as they call them, Native Americans, and one of the crew, John Smith, played by Colin Farrell, falls in love with the native princess, played by 15-year-old newcomer Q’Orianka Kilcher. The film takes place over nine years, during which the British invaders relationship with the native American’s sours, and challenges the love across cultures. Again, I make the 2001 analogy. This may as well be science fiction. The chasm between the alien cultures in this film is astonishing, and so well expressed, the title The New World really is applicable. But what Mallick is known for is a certain lyrical way with his camera. Often the human characters in his shots aren’t what are in focus… he’ll keep a bubbling brook in focus, or the sun shining through the trees, letting the people just fade into the foliage. He loves capturing the beauty of nature. I sometimes think the story and characters are just an excuse for him to go out with his cameras and capture images of birds. This is the kind of film that just washes over you. It helps that the score of the piece, by James Horner, is head and shoulders above anything he’s ever done. The film also uses voice-over in a way that is unexpected, and perhaps unique in American film. Though The New World is really a wonderful experience, it isn’t perfect. Some of the pacing is a bit odd, and the editing moves the story forward in fits and starts. It does force you to work at it, and that’s not a bad thing. In the beginning of the third act, Christian Bale enters the story, and that section lags a little, but it picks up at the end. This really is the story of the native American princess, who everyone who has read anything about the film must know by now is Pocahontas, but her name is never spoken in the film, as far as I can tell. So, yeah, make a point of seeing The New World when it opens, I think next week… and if you like it, rent The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven and Badlands. You won’t regret any of these films. Mallick makes big screen cinema using visual language you rarely see these days. And, yes, The New World also enters into my potential top ten films of 2005, as it officially opened in New York around the holidays. A Sound of Thunder (2005) There are so many good science fiction tales in print, and Ray Bradbury wrote a number of them. He wrote the short story this movie is based on. I wish this were one of those times when a movie adaptation of a compelling story fleshed out the original material with grace and insight, but this is a hack job. A Sound of Thunder is laughably bad. It’s directed by Peter Hyams, who has a solid history of science fiction pictures. Not many classics, but Capricorn One, Outland, and 2010 are all middling-to-good science fiction movies he made. Nothing in this one really works. The story involves a commercial enterprise, headed up by white-maned, fast-talker Ben Kingsley, which sends rich people back in time to hunt dinosaurs. Edward Burns plays a scientist who leads the expeditions for his own reasons, and Catherine McCormack is the big brain who created the computer that executes this neat time travel trick, though she hates how its being used, fearing it will destroy everything. In order not to overly mess with the continuum, the hunters make sure the dinosaur in question is about to die anyway in a tar pit. Okay. But they go back to the very same point in time every time, to kill the same tar-pit-trapped Allosaurus. Why don’t they see themselves every time they go back? Maybe because every time they do they go back to a different parallel continuum? I’ve heard that argument. Then, how does one explain the fact that later, Ed Burns’ character has to go back to the very same spot in order to warn the hunters, including himself, not to change a crucial part of the past? Time travel stories are tricky. They demand a lot of thought, something the filmmakers here neglected to do. Of course, something gets changed, and all evolution is effected in these huge, periodic time waves. Mid-21st century Chicago rapidly becomes a jungle, full of aggressive beetles of the CGI type favoured in those Rachel Weisz Mummy movies, and animals suddenly evolve into reptilian apes. For some reason, humans are considered the top end of the evolutionary scale (though this is difficult to believe), and so we are the last to evolve in the waves. This section has a quaint, Logan’s Run quality to it, which is kind of fun, but the special effects are the dodgiest this reviewer has seen in years. A scene early in the picture has two actors walking on a treadmill in front of a ridiculous green screen image. It’s a head-scratcher how any studio would okay this. It’s the modern equivalent of the space ships on strings in the old Flash Gordon serials. It would be silly to argue about plausibility in a fantasy film like this, but one does expect a certain grade of internal logic. In the future, are we to assume subway cars in Chicago will be airtight, so that if the tunnels should flood the passengers within won’t drown? A Sound of Thunder is so ill-conceived, a fan of science fiction might almost find it worth seeing as a cautionary example of how a promising concept can be ruined. Almost. Maybe one day we’ll look back on movies like this and they’ll have a nostalgic Velveeta quality, like some of Charlton Heston’s science fiction movies in the 1970s. I doubt it. American Gangster (2007)/ A Good Year (2006) Recently I did a Ridley Scott double feature, which also happened to be a Russell Crowe double feature. This actor/director pairing has a great success years ago with Gladiator, which helped make Crowe a star after years of serving as a character actor in Hollywood. Stories in the media seem to suggest Crowe off-screen is a rampant egomaniac with anger issues, but his film performances have been sterling. Scott, who was snubbed for Best Director the year Gladiator won Best Film, has long been known an amazing visual stylist, but never really an auteur, because he’s not a writer and he doesn’t seem to have any thematic unity in his movies. But he is a class-A Hollywood filmmaker, no doubt, with maybe a little more artistic credibility than his brother, Tony Scott, and that has to do with movies like Gladiator, and Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise and Black Hawk Down, that have been revered in the time since they were made. Steven Zallian, who wrote American Gangster, is one of those Hollywood screenwriters that has hung a career on one sterling success, and then went on to make a lot of so-so movies. Searching for Bobby Fischer, which he also directed, was amazing, and he wrote the script for Shindler’s List. OK, then, there’s his cred. More recently, there’s Hannibal, Gangs of New York, The Interpreter, and the Sean Penn political drama that no one saw, All The King’s Men. So, yeah, not all winners, but a definitely the stink of serious work. As serious as the Hollywood mainstream gets these days, I suppose. So, anyway; American Gangster. Based on the true story of the first black leader of organized crime in New York, it has Denzel as crime boss Frank Lucas, Crowe as a cop Richie Roberts, the awesome Chiwetel Ejiofor as Huey Lucas. Great support from Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, John Hawkes, Carla Gugino and the Rza. Why doesn’t the film work? Well, partly, it’s the director’s fault. Ridley Scott knows how to make pretty pictures, and tell a story that makes sense, but unlike Scorcese in , say The Departed, you don’t get the feeling Scott directs his actors at all. He just lets them chew the scenery as you know they can do. Now, I’m not sure Denzel can surprise me anymore, whether he has any gas left in his tank. He is simply playing a variation on a theme now, and has been for awhile, sort of what Al Pacino does. But I expect more from Denzel, I really do, because he’s younger and I’d like to see him play someone with some real vulnerabilities, you know? Anyway, the plot here is another problem. Though it shows the rise and fall of another crime lord, there’s not much that makes this story different than the genre average. And, finally, and this is Zallian’s fault, the screenwriter: TV crime dramas have just gotten so damn good, the movies that enter that world had better have something spectacular to compare. This one is entertaining, for the most part, but not much else. A Good Year is just misguided. Crowe and Scott made it in 2006, the year before American Gangster. And it proves that they don’t have a sense of humour. If this was a drama, based on the book by Peter Mayle, it might have worked, or if the director had a lighter touch. Again, everything certainly looks beautiful, but Crowe is miscast in this kind of film. I kept thinking, wow, if only they’d hired Hugh Grant. He might have pulled off this nasty character, a British investment banker who inherits a French estate from his estranged uncle, and infused him with a little grace and humour. This is a film that cannot find its tone with both hands, which is too bad, because I think the story really had some interesting moments, and great locations. Body of Lies (2008) Directed by Ridley Scott Let’s have a look at Ridley Scott’s output since 2000: Gladiator, Hannibal, Blackhawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, American Gangster and Body of Lies. It’s hard to deny that he is a consummate pro in Hollywood filmmaking, able to execute a solid, gorgeous-to-look-at, well-told story regularly. Of that list though, I’d say only Black Hawk Down really goes beyond capable and entertaining to A+ exciting big budget filmmaking. Russell Crowe starred in half of that one-movie-per-year stretch, and it’s always good to see a director and an actor communicate well. Here’s it’s also good to see Crowe and fellow A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio work together again. Remember The Quick and The Dead? Back before Crowe perfected his bad-boy rep and earned his multiple Oscar nods and win, and Leo, well, he was just a kid. Now Leo is a scruffy CIA agent named Ferris in the middle east, dancing and twisting in the wind, often at odds with his boss back at Langley, Ed Hoffman, played by Crowe, who clearly packed on the pounds for the role. For the first reel they never meet, they just have this disconnected, antagonistic buddy relationship over the phone, Hoffman taking care of his kids back in the States, his ear constantly plugged into his cell, with Ferris in Iraq, nailing the bad guys, with the cost being the frequent deaths of innocents and his local comrades on the ground. When Ferris gets sent to Amman, Jordan and liaisons with Jordanian intelligence, led by the supercool Hani, played by Mark Strong, we once again see Hoffman pulling his own strings from the States, not trusting his agent in the field, and screwing things up for him. To make matters worse, DiCaprio’s Ferris make a couple of really stupid mistakes, stuff that blows his credibility as an agent out of the water. II was shaking my head a little afterwards. Come on, this guy is supposed to be a professional, even if he went and did some of the stupid, implausible stuff he does, you’d think he would have covered his ass. Scott can handle the action sequences, he can handle the look of shooting in the Arab world, with Morocco standing in for, well, everywhere. There isn’t much here that is new, but I did very much enjoy how it was all put together. I do have a bit of a problem with DiCaprio. I like him when he plays the slightly out of control, youthful dreamers. I liked him in Catch Me If You Can, in The Aviator and in The Departed. I thought he was dwarfed by Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York and terribly miscast in Blood Diamond. Here, he’s playing cynical again, and I don’t quite buy him as the tough guy. I still see him as the kid, I guess. I also think part of Scott’s problem is he struggles to close. Body of Lies is a perfect example—the script just peters out, with no surprises in the end. That said, I did have fun while I was there, and that has a lot to do with the genre, the international thriller, and the locations. I’m just a sucker for movies set in the Middle East. Doomsday (2008) Directed by Neil Marshall Doomsday is a relentless post-apocalyptic b-movie. The kind of movie where when you think there is nothing more they can throw at you, they surprise you with another, outrageous plot development. It’s directed by Neil Marshall, who helmed the much admired horror flick The Descent a couple of years ago, and one gets the feeling that he feels as though he has one chance to make a horror, zombie, post-apocalyptic, medieval, car chase action movie, and so he figured he’d do it all at once. It’s about 25 years in the future, due to a horrible, flesh devouring virus, Scotland has been sealed off. Back in London, it looks as though The Virus is about to return. Cue Bob Hoskins and his number one tough agent Rhona Mitra to command a troop of tough-as-nails warriors into Scotland and see if they can find possible survivors as they may have the secret to surviving the virus. So… how many blatant homages/rip offs did we see in this movie? 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later, Aliens, The Road Warrior and what else? Escape From New York. Yeah, a major John Carpenter fan, this director. There’s a great scene where all the remaining Scottish mutants do a big dance to the Fine Young Cannibal’s “Good Thing.” And then comes the sword stuff and the knights on horseback and the inevitable Malcolm McDowell as the King of all The Badness. No explanation of how they get the gasoline for their cars, or the beer they’re drinking, 25 years after everything stopped. But who cares? This isn’t about logic, it’s about action and blowing things up. And, of course, there’s the possibility of a sequel. The way it ends it doesn’t really make any kind of sense, but what the hell. I would go and see Doomsday 2 in a second.
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It puts a sugary spin on the true story of Laura Henderson, the eccentric widow who turned London’s Windmill Theatre into the home of a notorious nude revue, defying the stuffy moral guardians of the establishment, and famously staying open even as German bombs fell during World War II. Terry Johnson‘s production is currently on a short premiere run in Bath before a mooted West End transfer, although the location and date for its London launch have yet to be finalized. The show features full frontal nudity, tastefully staged and artfully lit, which is inevitably being used as a marketing angle. Even so, this is essentially a tame and creaky adaptation of a tame and creaky movie. The safely risqué jokes and schematic plot are aimed squarely at fans of clunky, old-fashioned entertainment in the spirit of Calendar Girls or The Full Monty. And while there’s clearly a large potential audience for this kind of mildly titillating, Lloyd Webber-ized populism, Johnson’s production has too little of the subversive mischief and joyous lust for life it purports to celebrate. Though clearly too young to play the 70-year-old heroine, Tracie Bennett makes an agreeable Mrs. Henderson. A multiple award-winner best known for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow, Bennett’s lively performance acknowledges Dench but skews more towards Maggie Smith‘s signature brand of sardonic, imperious wit. Oddly, Johnson makes Henderson almost a supporting character in this production, keeping her offstage for long stretches. The music also undersells Bennett’s vocal prowess, as she delivers most of her lyrics in a crisp, semi-spoken manner. Read more Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet’: London Theater Review Ian Bartholomew also musters plenty of world-weary charm in the Hoskins role as Mrs. Henderson’s business partner Vivian Van Damm, a bumptious impresario who enjoys a love-hate relationship with his equally strident boss. Their sparky chemistry fuels the best scenes, but the comic energy dissipates during the main subplot, a lukewarm love story between implausibly innocent topless dancer Maureen (Emma Williams) and her thinly sketched stagehand lover Eddie (Matthew Malthouse). Williams and her fellow showgirls gamely strip off to perform in a handful of musical tableaux with bare breasts and what appear to be discreet fleshtone shields around their groins. All good clean fun, and quite cleverly staged. But in dramatic terms, the young women are lazy stereotypes — either wholesome virgins or saucy good-time girls. Likewise the obligatory gay character, the camp and effeminate Bertie (Samuel Holmes). When tragedy strikes one of the main protagonists in the second act, it barely registers, so depthless are these stock caricatures. The serviceable, style-hopping score is by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain. Fenton is known for his extensive film and TV work, including multiple collaborations with Ken Loach and Stephen Frears. Indeed, he wrote several songs for the Frears-directed film of Mrs. Henderson Presents. But this production features all new music, mostly razzle-dazzle vaudevillian thigh-slappers and stiff, stodgy ballads. Larry Blank‘s eight-piece orchestrations feel a little thin, though a full London production would presumably expand upon the arrangements. Read more Ben Whishaw in ‘Bakkhai’: London Theater Review Fenton’s lyrical collaborator is Don Black, the veteran British Oscar and Tony Award winner whose track record includes James Bond themes and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Full of inner rhymes and double entendres, Black’s lines are wordy and witty, though they mostly raise a wry smile rather than a roar of laughter, and rarely mobilize any deeper emotions. Aside from a stirring a capella number sung by the full cast, the music mostly serves as functional pastiche of jaunty 1930s and ’40s variety-show styles. Pleasant but forgettable, with no obvious stand-out anthems. Tim Shortall‘s set designs are conventional but quietly impressive, most notably when the theater‘s backstage is transformed into a London rooftop at sunset, then later a rubble-strewn Tube station during a wartime air raid. During scene changes, cockney music-hall comedian Arthur (Mark Hadfield) keeps the crowd engaged with bawdy jokes and knowing commentary on the action. A few more of these self-aware, almost Brechtian touches might have helped make Mrs. Henderson Presents an engaging reboot rather than a conservative, clichéd trip down Mammary Lane.
7925	dbpedia	3	82	https://goldenglobes.com/film/mrs-henderson-presents/	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	https://goldenglobes.com…son-presents.jpg	https://goldenglobes.com…son-presents.jpg	[ "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mrs-henderson-presents.jpg?w=600?w=600", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/judi-dench_2013-cattop-02.jpg?w=373?w=600", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/bob-hoskins.jpg?w=460?w=600", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mrs-henderson-presents.jpg?w=600?w=600", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/gg_stacked_whiteversion.svg", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/dickclark.svg", "https://goldenglobes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ernst-and-young.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2023-10-25T17:10:34+00:00	Heyman Hoskins Productions; The Weinstein Company	en	https://goldenglobes.com…image-1.jpg?w=32	Golden Globes	https://goldenglobes.com/film/mrs-henderson-presents/	Golden Globes, LLC (“Golden Globes”) uses first and third-party technologies to enable PMC and third-parties to collect information about you and your interactions with our sites and services (including clicks, cursor movements and screen recordings). Learn more HERE. By continuing to use our sites or services, you agree to our Terms of Use (including the class action waiver and arbitration provisions) and Privacy Policy, which have recently changed.
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With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Christopher Guest. Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.	en	https://m.media-amazon.c…B1582158068_.png	IMDb	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413015/	Laura Henderson: [at Mrs. Henderson's husband's funeral] I'm bored with widowhood. Lady Conway: My dear, you've just scratched the surface. Laura Henderson: I have to smile at everybody. I've never had to smile at everybody. In India, there were always people to look down on. Lady Conway: People are merely being sympathetic. After all, you have lost your husband.
7925	dbpedia	0	59	https://www.premiumhollywood.com/tag/gemma-arterton/	en	Gemma Arterton – Premium Hollywood	http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad183/bwestal/19.jpg		[ "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19.jpg", "http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad183/bwestal/19.jpg", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10.jpg", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/10-1024x681.jpg", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/3.jpg", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/3-1024x681.jpg", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/site_customize/images/twitter-48.gif", "https://www.premiumhollywood.com/site_customize/images/facebook-48.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Bob Westal" ]	null		en			null	Anyone who thinks that the only interesting directors are the ones with obvious personal styles needs to take a long, hard long at the filmography of Stephen Frears. Something of a contemporary, English throwback to such versatile craftsmen of pre-auteur theory Hollywood as William Wyler, George Stevens, Robert Wise, and Michael Curtiz, the Cambridge-educated Frears began his career neck deep in the English New Wave cinema of the 1960s as an assistant director on Karel Riesz’s “Morgan!,” and Lindsay Anderson’s 1968 surreal youth revolt drama, “If…” Later moving on to directing for the BBC, his second theatrical feature, 1984’s “The Hit,” was mostly ignored despite an all-star cast, but did gain a cult following of which I am a proud member. Frears’ follow up collaboration with writer Hanif Kureishi, a then-bold cross-racial same-sex romance, “My Beautiful Laundrette,” co-starred a young Daniel Day Lewis and got more immediate results. It was a hit in arthouses on both sides of the Atlantic and helped make Lewis a star; it also paved the way for Frears’ smashing mainstream Hollywood debut, 1988’s Oscar-winning “Dangerous Liaisons.” Since then, Frears has enjoyed success both here in the U.S. and at home in England with numerous BAFTAs and films as diverse as “High Fidelity” and “The Grifters” — for which he was nominated for an Oscar — as well as the ultra-English “The Queen” and “Mrs. Henderson Presents.” He’s dealt with modern-day cowboys (1998’s “The Hi-Lo Country”), English fascism (2000’s “Liam”), the monarchy (2006’s “The Queen”), and the illegal trade of human organs (2002’s “Dirty Pretty Things”). When George Clooney decided he wanted to try a live television remake of “Fail Safe” back in 2000, Frears handled the chore to no shortage of acclaim. Frear’s latest, “Tamara Drewe,” has fared reasonably well with critics on the whole, though not so much with this particular longtime admirer. An adaptation of a graphic novel originally serialized in England’s The Guardian by cartoonist and children’s book author Posy Simmonds, the tale is a comic, modern-day homage to Thomas Hardy’s tragic 1874 novel, Far From the Madding Crowd starring Gemma Arterton as a formerly large nosed “ugly duckling” whose swannish post-operative return to her family’s estate sparks chaos at a writer’s retreat in ultra-picturesque rural England. Apparently taking the casualness of California fully to heart, the 69-year-old Frears, who bears some resemblance to the late Rodney Dangerfield, arrived unshaven and in a t-shirt that had seen better days. If the “just rolled out of bed” look was disconcerting, however, we needn’t have worried. Frears was in good spirits and clearly enjoys sharing his views with the press. Continue reading » “Tamara Drewe,” the latest from the brilliantly versatile non-auteur directing genius Stephen Frears, is a relationship comedy with tragic overtones based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name, in turn inspired by Thomas Hardy’s 18th century novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. The film pits three not-quite-alpha males against each other for the attention of its mercurial and not always lovable title character, played by the beautiful Gemma Arterton. Two of them, fast rising up-and-comers Luke Evans and Dominic Cooper, were set to meet at L.A.’s Four Seasons with a dozen or so entertainment journalists. It was therefore more than a little bit amusing when the two fictionally competitive actors entered wearing near identical high-end v-neck fashion undershirts and tight-fitting low-rise pants. It was an apparent complete coincidence or perhaps not so random given the popularity of this ultra-casual look among today’s mod set. In any case, Cooper compared their combined look to “a boy band.” Dominic Cooper made his first big splash in Alan Bennett’s Tony winning, “The History Boys,” starring in both the London and Broadway productions in 2004 and 2005. His film career, however, goes as far back as a bit part in another adaptation of a British graphic novel: the Hughes Brothers’ 2001 version of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s “From Hell.” Other key parts include a memorable role as disreputable Peter Saarsgard’s business partner/buddy in “An Education” and the lovestruck movie fiance to former real-life girlfriend Amanda Seyfried in “Mamma Mia!” Notable upcoming roles include playing the part of Howard Stark (Tony’s future dad) in the largely World War II-set “Captain America: The First Avenger.” In “Tamara Drewe,” Cooper plays self-involved rock drummer Ben Sergeant of the band Swipe, with whom the gorgeous protagonist dallies for large portions of the film. With a background in such musicals as “Avenue Q” and the “remixed” “Rent” on the London stage, Luke Evans, who plays all-around good guy and potential once-and-future Tamara Drewe paramour Andy Cobb, has found his way into a number of big budget films, including playing Apollo in “Clash of the Titans” and an upcoming role as no-less than Zeus in Tarsem Singh’s “Immortals.” He also recently completed the role of Aramis in Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3-D version of the oft-filmed “The Three Musketeers.” Continue reading » There’s no getting around it. Gemma Arterton is extremely attractive and also striking, and even more so in person. That’s especially so if you’ve found yourself seated right next to her at a roundtable with about 11 or 12 other writers and the prior two males you’ve sat next to at that table (no names) seemed as if they might have recently rolled out of bed and thrown on a gallon of expensive aftershave/cologne. The utterly tasteful Ms. Arterton, however, was appropriately dressed and scented, though she did remove her huge and apparently uncomfortable pumps to reveal perfectly painted toenails. “Tamara Drewe,” a romantic farce with tragic overtones that opened this week for its initial run in four theaters in L.A. and New York, stars Arterton as an autobiographical newspaper columnist whose recent plastic surgery has transformed her from large-nosed semi-ugly duckling to tiny-nosed brunette bombshell. It’s a comedy with tragic overtones drawn from the the graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist Posy Simmonds, which is itself a sort of homage to Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd.” The film was directed by Stephen Frears, a director noted for tremendous versatility who confuses us critics by changing his style with just about every film. His output has ranged from from such recently enjoyable, grandma-friendly arthouse fare as “The Queen” and “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” to low down tales of crime and skullduggery like my personal favorite, 1984’s “The Hit.” I was not blown away by much about this particular movie, however, including parts of Arterton’s performance, but that’s me. It has fared reasonably well over at Rotten Tomatoes and may well please other fans of this sort of English countryside comedy, which I usually enjoy myself. Ms. Arterton has also generated good reviews in “The Disappearance of Alice Creed,” as well as co-starring in “Clash of the Titans,” “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” and as Strawberry Fields in “Quantum of Solace” alongside Daniel Craig’s 007, forever tagging herself with the sobriquet “Bond girl.” Still, at 24, she has a maturity and self-possession about her that, at the very least, makes her more of a Bond woman. Or maybe it’s just that she’s tall. Continue reading »
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]	2023-06-16T21:30:33+00:00	Leicester-born Frears' films include My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen.	en	/bbcx/apple-touch-icon.png		https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65934241	Film director Stephen Frears has been made a knight in the birthday honours. Among his most famous films is The Queen, which won Dame Helen Mirren an Oscar and Frears a director nomination. He has also been lauded for My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, Philomena and The Grifters, for which he was also Oscar nominated. Leicester-born Frears' television credits have included A Very English Scandal, Quiz and The Deal, about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Born in the city in 1941 and educated at Cambridge, Frears worked in theatre and at the BBC before making his feature film debut with Gumshoe in 1971. He first made his mark with the 1985 interracial drama My Beautiful Laundrette, based on a Hanif Kureishi story and starring Daniel Day Lewis. Since then his career has been peppered with stories of real people, including Mrs Henderson Presents starring Dame Judi Dench; Victoria & Abdul, in which Dame Judi revived her portrayal of Queen Victoria and Philomena, with Dame Judi back with Frears, this time playing an Irish woman on a quest to find out what happened to the baby boy taken away from her in the 1950s. He also made a documentary entitled Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, about the boxer's refusal to fight in Vietnam. But it is The Queen that is arguably his most significant and acclaimed work, with Dame Helen playing the late monarch in the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. It also stars Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, reprising his role from The Deal. Dame Helen took home the best actress Oscar and the film was nominated for best picture, best screenplay and best costumes, while Frears was nominated for his direction. His most recent film, The Lost King, was released in 2022 and told the story of amateur historian Philippa Langley who found King Richard III's long-missing remains in a Leicester car park. He has been awarded a knighthood for services to film and television.
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7925	dbpedia	2	95	http://www.weimar.ws/wmrkino.html	en	Weimar world service: Kino Film and television reviews			[ "http://www.weimar.ws/wmrtitleneue.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Avatar (12.27.09): So after waiting a more than a week to see James Cameron's latest budget-busting movie spectacular and still ending up with a sold-out showing, we walked out with the feeling we usually get with James Cameron movies: Not so good with characters, a simple and familiar story line, amazing visuals and technology. What stuck in my mind the most was the familiarity of the characters. The copter pilot who flies our heros into the aliens' territory? A lot like Private Vasquez from Aliens, no? And Giovanni Ribissi's Parker Selvridge character was certainly a lot like Paul Reiser's Carter Burke in Aliens, yes? The walking mecha that are used for heavy lifting and occasional combat ... also remind you of something in Aliens? The flying attack ships used by the company are reminiscent of the machines' flying attack craft in Terminator 2. And so on. Sigourney Weaver's a great actor, but you wouldn't guess it from this movie. Cameron's a great filmmaker (especially see The Abyss, his best, IMHO), and it might take you a while to wade through all of the 3-D visual effects here to realize that you wouldn't guess it, either, from this movie. Battlestar Galactica (10.23.06): By now, the word is out about this reimagining of the 1978-79 space opera series: It's fantastic, adult, high drama, addictive. I ignored it during its first season because I had been turned off by the Sci Fi Channel pilot movie. But I caught up on those first episodes during the second season and have been evangelizing for this incredible TV series ever since. It's great television. Yes, it's set on a spaceship; yes, they have dogfights in space; yes, they say made-up words like frack. But it's a science fiction series that non-SF fans can appreciate, and they are doing so in droves. Do yourself a favor and watch a couple episodes and, once you pick up the storyline, see if you're not hooked. The plot is indeed complicated. As in the short-lived original series, it concerns the 12 colonies of humans on a far-away star system that is attacked and destroyed by their long-time enemies, the Cylons. They flee with a small fleet of survivors, looking for the 13th tribe of mankind, which reportedly colonized a planet called Earth. That's where the similarities end. There are many of the same characters, but their personalities, genders, and some of their roles have changed dramatically. There are a lot of standout cast members, from Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos (if only our political and military leaders were that good!) to Jamie Bamber and Katee Sackhoff and don't forget Grace Park and on and on. Again, this is adult television drama; people die, they make love, they fight, they swear, they have breakdowns, and occasionally they do stuff that makes you grin from ear to ear and say to yourself, Why can't all television be this good? Watch it. It's that good. The Blind Side (12.03.09): I liked it, the critics hated it, and families loved it. I'm right. Blood Diamond (12.25.06): Leonardo DiCaprio continues to show us he's not just a pretty face (and body) to look at. As he's grown, he's also become a damn fine actor. In Blood Diamond, he plays a smuggler involved in the transfer of diamonds in Sierra Leone between vicious rebels and soulless diamond companies. If the plot sounds straight out of a 1970s made-for-tv movie, well, it has that aspect. Yes, you're supposed to root for some sort of redemption for Danny Archer, DiCaprio's character. Yes, who else sets him on the road to righteousness but a crusading reporter (Jennifer Connelly) and a noble and pure African (Djimon Hounsou) out to save his family. But it's okay. Hounsou and DiCaprio sell the story very well, and they're both real enough and strong enough in their roles that we forget about the preachiness of the storyline and instead let their characters show us what the story is about which is a situation that is indeed appalling enough to stir men's hearts. The Bourne Ultimatum (08.05.07): The third Bourne movie is more action than the other two in this series, and we still miss German actress Franka Potente, but it's still a well-done thriller that ... wait, I don't know if we can call it a thriller when we know the hero is always going to survive every attack. But unlike the James Bond films, which we're not supposed to even measure on the realism scale, the Bourne films have the pretence of some sort of reality, even though it is a bit of science-fictiony brainwashing to create super-spy killing machines. Complain, complain, complain, right? Okay, I'll stop, because I do enjoy the Bourne films quite a bit, and star Matt Damon is always fun to watch. Probably the nicest thing about these films is that they mostly take place in other countries, and instead of being the fairy-tale version of Germany, Russia, etc., that you'd see in a Bond flick, they have the look and feel of taking part in a real Germany, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, etc. (I know that street! We were there on our vacation ...) The storyline has a super spy killing lots of people while protecting the innocent and avenging a terrible wrong. Now where else will you see that in a movie? Cars (07.08.07): You just can't anthropomorphize cars for me. Sorry. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (10.23.06): Having never read the books, I was, forgive the phrase, one of the unanointed. The religious terminology is apt because religious conservatives have latched onto this flick as representative of the invasion of Hollywood by the Religious Right. Frankly, if the Religious Right could make more movies like this and produce less crap like the Left Behind series, I'd sign up right now. I'm Methodist and all; that's got to count for something? The truth is that this is not a Religious Right film. But it does resonate with the honest religious conviction of CS Lewis, whose source material was the, er, source material for this movie, the first of a welcome series. But anyone who's not religious who has a problem with this movie and there have been some because there's shades of someone's faith in it is showing the same intolerance (and, frankly, lack of intelligence) of which the nonreligious often accuse the religious. I say, just shut up and watch the movie. I won't recap the plot because it's highly probable that, unlike me, you have read the books. I just thought it was done well. It is an intelligent film for young people that doesn't insult and does tell a good story. And after the ending where an usher comes out and anoints all the moviegoers with holy oil? Just go with it, okay? The Curse of the Golden Flowers (12.25.06): Director Yimou Zhang who also brought us such Chinese epics as Hero, House of Flying Daggers, the incredible To Live, the super-incredible (I'm running out of words) Shanghai Triad, and many more brings us the story of nasty secrets that are about to tear apart the emperor's family. Set in a surprisingly colorful Forbidden City, this film guides us through a very personal and ultimately very bloody confrontation between Emperor Ping (Yun-Fat Chow) and his second wife, Empress Phoenix (Li Gong). The era: Late Tang Dynasty, 10th century. The empress has been having an affair with the crown prince (who is the son of the emperor's first wife, about whom we learn more later in the film). That same crown prince has been having an affair with the daughter of the chief physician (about whom we learn more later in the film). The film begins with the return of the emperor's second son, Prince Jie (played by the great pop/R&B singer Jay Chou), from the provinces, where he's been getting some real-world experience. The emperor plans to make him the crown prince, but if you think that would be the main conflict in this film, you're wrong. The existing crown prince gives up his claim to the throne very easily. Instead, it's all this sleepin' around and knife-throwing and various other killing methods that cause a problem in the multi-icolored palace. And I didn't even mention the youngest son, who seems very pleasant and almost innocent but is also determined not to be left out of the blood-letting. Yimou Zhang once again delivers a very colorful and visually striking film. The battle scenes in the Forbidden City courtyard are amazing to watch. But they are not what makes this film interesting. No, the quiet moments of interacting between the various actors is what's worth watching. There are some great actors in this film, and they almost always prove to be more interesting than the multi-colored palace walls and the staggering battle sequences. Death at a Funeral (09.09.07): It is usually a great setup for laughter when you have awkward and inappropriate things happen at a solemn occcasion. It might be a student acting up during a school play. It might be a news anchor flubbing lines during a serious newscast. It might be someone breaking up at a funeral (remember Mary Tyler Moore and "Chuckles Bites the Dust"?). This movie should have been the perfect setting for slow-building lunacy. The funeral of a patriarch brings together a family, with various secrets and unexpected developments coming into play. Should have been perfect, but it's a mess. Most of the characters are simply too uninteresting to be truly funny or screwups, so much so that the only way they could get one character to be a distracting cut-up is to have him take some strange drugs. (Hint to writers: If it's a drug that is causing the weird behaviour, it really isn't that funny because we all know why it's happening and there's no opportunity for triple or quadruple meanings in what the person says or does. It's just silliness for the sake of having someone act up.) But if that doesn't bother you, perhaps the bathroom humor (and it's very literal -- you'd best go to the snack bar when they start to wheel the incredibly unlikable and unfunny uncle into the bathroom) will. Or the direction of the film, which seems to think we'll just find it funny when unfunny people pull faces or overreact to unfunny things. Ugh. The Departed (10.22.06): Matt Damon. Leonardo DiCaprio. Jack Nicholson. Mark Wahlberg. Martin Sheen. Alec Baldwin. All of them star in this excellent but bloody Americanization of the Chinese hit Infernal Affairs movies. For detail geeks, the Infernal Affairs movies themselves were reportedly inspired by the films of Martin Scorsese, who directed The Departed. Still with me? Dont worry. Knowing all of that will do you no more good than give you something to mention to friends at lunchtime, and even they wont be impressed. But that shouldnt stop your enjoyment of this film. The Departed tells the story of undercover cops and undercover gangsters in the police organization in Boston. People fight. People swear. They fight a lot. And its all done masterfully, with few glitches. Part of what has kept this movie in my head long after seeing it is realizing how much I enjoyed seeing all of these great actors work at such an intensity that every scene has something in it to make you stay focused. Heres Wahlberg busting the chops of some cops at a surveillance site. Theres Sheen trying to save his undercover agent. Theres DiCaprio about to die no, hes saved by [censored] no wait hes in danger because of [censored]. And on and one. The Devil Wears Prada (11.26.06): This film is worth seeing just to watch Meryl Streep go to town on a juicy role. Streep plays the editor of Runway magazine, a Vogue-like high-fashion magazine. Her character is bad; not quite as bad as Adolf Hitler (see Downfall review, below), but bad. Mean. Manipulative. Power-hungry and -abusing. And along comes li'l Anne Hathaway as her new assistant, unconscious of the fashion laws as dictated by Streep's character. An innocent led to slaughter. The story itself is nothing terribly new or involving. Obviously the new assistant has to try to get up to speed to satisfy her new boss, and she must juggle her personal life with her all-consuming job. Eventually she must make a choice, but which will she choose? Who cares? We're not watching this for her. We're watching it for Streep, who really delivers. District 9 (08.29.09): From South Africa comes this science fiction film about aliens who have been resettled on earth. I first heard about this film on Starlog.com's video list, and I had mixed feelings. It looked refreshingly original ... until the end of the trailer, which made it look like one big typical Hollywood-type shoot-em-up, which is my least favorite film genre. Boring. Seen that, done that. Predictable. But then a co-worker told me she'd seen the film and liked it a lot. Knowing that she has a low tolerance for stupidity, I figured I'd be sure to catch the film ... when it came to HBO. But then, blessed global warming, we had a warm snap of 90-degree weather in San Francisco and I had to find air conditioned bliss. The documentaries about Anna Wintour and Hugh Hefner hadn't yet opened, so I decided to settle for District 9. I'm glad I did. Yes, it ends with a lot of shooting and explosions, but when you watch it, you'll see there's a reason fo it that keeps you riveted. It features a somewhat stupid and innocent and unsympathetic idiot who must try to dupe these aliens to leave their shanty towns so their land can be used for more commercial purposes. Behind the scenes, his employer is tring to figure out how to use the aliens' weapons technology. He gets infected with something, and, well, things get icky. If one knows anything about South African apartheid history, this film has wonderfully telling overtones that echo that time. And of all the films I've seen lately that suggest a sequel might be possible, this is the only one I'd like to see come to fruition. Downfall (10.22.06): This German film of the very last days of Adolf Hitler is an excellent picture of what went on in der Führer's bunker as the Soviets closed in on Berlin at the end of World War II. It might seem to be oxymoronic to say a film is intense yet calm. But that's the eerie effect of watching Hitler eat his meals with his staff and friends or watching a mother kill her children so they don't survive the Nazi fall. There was some controversy that this film humanizes a monster, but in my thinking, the key to trying to counter the rise of other Hitlers is to realize he wasn't a superhuman or an otherworldly creature but a human gone terribly wrong. Only then will we take responsibility for the children we raise, the culture we create, the politics we support, and the moral obligations by which we ought to live and die. The Fountain (11.26.06): So it's not just rebel Catholics and Armageddonist evangelicals who can make nearly incomprehensible spiritual-based movies. In this case, it's the new film The Fountain, which tells a story about a man and a woman with a relationship that spans 1,000 years. If I had individual headlines for these reviews, this one would be "I Think." Not because the movie made me think, but because every sentence I write about this movie should end with "I think." As in, The movie is about a 1,000-year relationship, I think. Cuz frankly, I don't really know. The movie is a mix of Eastern and Western religion (kind of a misnomer, isn't it? I mean, Christianity came out of the East, so it's an Eastern religion too, right?) that includes a novel (read: incorrect) retelling of the Spanish Inquisition, possibly reincarnation (again, I think, because it ain't clear), and a tree that either grants eternal life or kills you with a plant sprouting out of your stomach. It's a reasonably well-done movie, but largely incomprehensible. But a friend who saw the movie with me tagged it best as a movie equivalent of a tone poem. View it as a poem and you may enjoy it a great deal. View it as a traditional narrative story on film and you'll be eating the plastic covering of your theater seat in frustration. Garuda (12.27.06): Once upon a time, the Thais decide they want to make a monster movie. Using the almost-latest in CGI and the oldest in by-the-numbers plotting, they created Garuda. The villagers came to see the movie er, they rented or bought it, actually, because it was released here on DVD and their shock and amazement could be heard throughout the province. Why? Because the movie offered nothing new and could have starred a certain Japanese nuked-lizard or flying turtle and it'd have lost nothing in the translation. The people did not live happily ever after, once they realized they could have seen this story free on any Sci Fi Channel Saturday-night movie. I had hoped I'd get to see a Thai horror/science fiction film with Garuda, but there's nothing here that gives you Thai point of view or couldn't be transplanted to any number of other countries. No crime in that, of course, but if that's the case, then what's left to recommend about a by-the-numbers monster flick? The Grudge (10.22.06): As long-time readers of this site, er, as the long-time reader of ... well, IF I had any readers of this site, they would know that I have little patience for Hollywood formulaic storytelling, where you can sit in the audience and anticipate each beat of the story. Boring. Tedious. And tiring, too. So I am always happy to see films from other nations, because they usually have different story-telling methods, tempos, and other details that make them worthwhile. Fans of horror films know that Japanese horror has become quite popular in the U.S. But mostly what they are getting is American remakes of Japanese horror films instead of the originals. Such is the case with The Grudge, an American remake of the Japanese hit film Ju-on: The Grudge. But this version was made with the same director as the Japanese original, and the story follows the original quite closely. The funny thing is that it was released to American theaters within a short time of the limited release of Ju-on, so people got to see both of them and could make up their minds about which does it better. Lets face it: The Americans massacred Godzilla, taking a serious and quite good Japanese Gojira and turning it into kiddie fodder. But this American-Japanese hybrid The Grudge is very close to the original; the mood, the storyline (mostly), the pace. So, its quite good, right? It's as good as it is unnecessary. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (10.22.06): Teen wizard, Part IV. Books and films for young people were generally pretty dim-witted when I was growing up back in ancient times, the 1970s. But the Harry Potter books and the films made from them have been superb, and I expect the final book and the future movies to live up to that high standard. In Goblet, Harry has to take part in a tournament of wizards, which is a bit complicated by the facts that, first, he doesn't want to take part in it, and second, someone is trying to kill him (again). Once again, the story gets darker, and the young actors get steadily better. This is the type of movie we'll point to when we're 60 and tell the young 'uns that, When we were young, they really knew how to make great movies for kids! Then we'll steal their hoverboards and fly off to our moon resorts. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (08.05.07): My personal favorite of the Potter films so far, Phoenix tells the story of the war between the general wizarding community and the Dark Lord, who has constructed a Death Star at the moon of Yavin from which he can unleash the ultimate terror on a galaxy ... oh, wait, that was a different Dark Lord. This Dark Lord is the guy who's name we're not supposed to speak, and he wants to rule the wizarding world so that he can attack muggles. Potter is a bit older and so are his friends, and it's all to the better. The acting's good, the story's strong and drives you through the entire movie, and things get darker and darker for The Boy Who Survived. Very much recommended, unless you're one of those Potter-haters, in which case, tough luck, pal. The Host (03.11.07): This fantastic balancing act of a monster movie from South Korea wait, that gives away in the first sentence what I think about it. Let me be more circumspect. The Host is a Korean film about a family's struggle for survival against a man-made monster that is terrorizing the city and wildly entertaining the audiences. Hmmm, that also gives away too much. Let's try this: Balancing humor and horror is an act that Americans almost never pull off, but this Korean film does well, showing us endearing characters whose funny actions and reactions never sink to camp even when they're rolling around on the floor fighting with each other at a little girl's wake. There, that didn't give away the fact that I found this film incredibly endearing and immensely entertaining, did it? It's a difficult thing for a writer to do, at least this writer regarding this film. The Host is a B-movie, make no mistake. Though it makes some side-swipes at political allusions, it's really a film about a family trying to rescue a little girl from a monster. The actors do great jobs giving us characters who are imperfect yet for whom we root nonetheless (or even moreso, considering that they can be sort of stupid at times). And it's a pleasure to watch each of them on screen. This fantastic balancing act of a monster movie from South Korea is awesome fun and shouldn't be missed. If a theater near you doesn't show it, then thank God for DVD. The Illusionist (10.31.06): The main thing to remember when reading about, viewing, or even thinking about The Illusionist is this: It is not The Prestige. That's a different 19th-century film about magicians. The Illusionist is a film about ... dear lord, I'm not sure I remember. I keep remembering the plot of The Prestige, a film in which two magicians compete with deadly consequences. That was a good film. Go see it. But The Illusionist, well, give me a minute here. Oh, yeah. It stars Edward Norton as (wait, let me consult the film's Web site to refresh my memory) ... oh, yes: This is a love story. Edward loves a noble woman, he doesn't get her, he comes back to get her, and there's magic involved. Or slight-of-hand. Actually, I rather enjoyed this film. Norton is good as the driven magician, and someone is good as his love interest (I forget her name and I'm sick of switching back to the film's web site, so you'll just have to figure it out for yourself). A lot of other actors walk around and act. A very act-y movie. Good Jet Li's Fearless (12.27.06): I am sooooo sorry. I really don't remember anything about this film. Why am I still including it on this review page? Because I remember things about movies I saw on the second bill of late-night drive-in fare from the early 1970s. I remember entire episodes of the original WKRP in Cincinnati. I remember details of short stories I read in science-fiction anthologies in 1978. But I don't remember a darned thing about this movie, which I saw sometime in the previous 12 months. Doesn't that really tell you all you need to know about this movie? Journey from the Fall (05.13.07): An oustanding film about a family's flight from Vietnam following Saigon's fall to the communists. Like To Live about survival in China's revolutionary upheaval Journey from the Fall tells us a lot about the inhumanity going on in the world by focusing closely on a family and its struggles and successes. Julie and Julia (08.29.09): See this movie for the Julia portions, which feature the incomparable Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. There's another whole story (the Julie story) that is cute but not up to snuff. But the Julia portions are great. Because Streep and Tucci are great. Even for people like me, who don't know a heck of a lot about Julia Child. In short, this film retells how Child got her start as a famed chef who popularized French cooking for Americans. You see her as a human, as a leader, as an inspirer, and as a damn great actor. Oh, wait, that's Streep. I don't care. She's great. Tucci as her devoted husband (who's a bit busy himself fighting against red-baiting wingnuts in Washington -- he's a diplomat or somesuch) is great. Great. Great. Great. Both of them. So great, I kept feeling let down every time the film switched back to the Julie portion of the story. Maybe they thought younger audiences needed the Julie story to identify with the story, but that's ridiculous, really. Streep and Tucci can sell a story. Have confidence in your top stars in a film. And this is an enjoyable film. Most of it. Kung Fu Hustle (10.22.06): Uh, I think this was about some folks trying to defend something against some bad guys. Sort of a wacky martial arts flick, Kung Fu Hustle doesn't try to be profound or draw on literary antecedents, like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It just tries to provide some fun. That it does. Mrs. Henderson Presents (10.22.06): Judi Dench. 'nough said for me. I'll go see pretty much anything with Dame Judi Dench in it. I still think she should have received the Academy Award for Mrs. Brown, not for her supporting role in Shakespeare in Love, but I'll let bygones by bygones with the movie industry and just enjoy her fine work. This isn't her finest work, but it's enjoyable and Dench and the rest of the cast appear to have fun making this film about an upper-class widow who opens a theatre featuring lotsa pretty ladies with few clothes. Based on a true story, this film chronicles the widow's battles with government authorities and her theatre's strong-willed manager, played by Bob Hoskins. This is not deep stuff and it won't change your life, but again: Judy Dench. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (11.11.06): Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play two international hotshots who adopt a third-world baby that turns out to hold the keys to the future of sustainable life on the planet! Oh, wait, that's what they do in real life. In this flick (and it's a flick, not a film), they portray two secret agents/hitmen (hitpeople?) who end up being assigned to kill each other. Yes, a high-concept film. Someone pitched this film I mean, flick to the film studio with something like, Husband-and-wife hitmen (people?) are assigned to kill each other! Hilarity ensues. Hilarity didn't ensue, though a few cute scenes did. So did a lot of shooting, as the two try to deal with who's trying to have them killed and try to figure out their stale marriage. (She has a stale marriage with Brad Pitt? You're. Just. Not. Trying. Hard. Enough.) Much formula ensues. Ocean's 13 (07.08.07): Ocean's 13 is another caper flick with an engaging cast of favorites (Damon! Clooney! Pitt! Gould! Other Guys!) that doesn't seem to try too hard to do anything other than remind us that we're seeing another omnibus star grand slammer. But whereas Ocean's 12 had us enjoying the stars and the twisty, surprising plot, this film gave us a twisty plot in which all problems were solved too easily and never really placing our heroes in the sort of danger they faced in the previous film. Still, the actors are fun to watch and I'd welcome a fourth installment. But it would be nice if they brought back Julia Roberts. Pan's Labyrinth (01.15.07): Billed as an adult fairy tale, this is still kid's stuff. Well-done, beautifully rendered kid's stuff, but written with a child's ability to comprehend. Rated R, quite violent kid's stuff, but presented with a child's idea of clear-cut good and evil. Pan's Labyrinth follows Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) as a 10-year-old girl dealing with her widowed mother's new husband, a cardboard caricature fascist captain tasked with ruthlessly destroying the remainder of the resistance to Franco's dictatorship in 1944 Spain. Problem is, Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez) reduces the story to an over-the-top bad guy (he enjoys torturing people, he kills suspected partisans and then shows no remorse when they turn out to be innocent) and an overly romantic view of the anti-fascists. Yup, Franco was a baddie; no argument there. But how much darker, more disturbing, and ultimately frightening could this movie have been if director Guillermo del Toro had managed to show humans on both sides who made human and flawed decisions to choose a side in that horrible conflict. And Ofelia's mother doesn't count, for she plays a nonpolitical role in the movie. Still, cool special effects and an amazing acting job by young Baquero make this a movie worth watching. It's just a disapointment because it could have been much better and its political statement could have had much more power if it had really been an adult fairy tale. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (07.08.07): Eh.The first Pirates was such a surprise enjoyment, and the second one did quite well at expanding on the first one. This third one mainly had me checking my watch and thinking, Is it over yet? That is, the movie and the franchise. It's not awful, but there's no great film here. Poseidon (10.22.06): Big ship goes to sea, people party, then something happens, and ship goes blub-blub-blub. People run around ship, yell at each other, swim, die, survive, and things blow up. Nothing original here, and no one in this is going to be on the Oscars short list. Im almost ashamed to write that I enjoyed it quite a bit. The Prestige (10.23.06): So this is based on a book, see? I didn't know that until I saw an article on it in a favorite li'l magazine of mine called Starlog. How much it hews to the book, I haven't a clue. But this tale of a magician and another magician and their quite brutal feud in the 19th century will entertain you and keep you interested (even though you'll likely figure out part of the puzzle long before the film is over). Three stars Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine tell us the story of a rivalry that leads to murder and maiming and betrayal. Not exactly a Merchant-Ivory period film, it nonetheless is a game attempt to take you to another time and place and play with your mind. Enjoyable. Running with Scissors (11.11.06): Based on Augusten Burrough's memoir of the same title, this film tells the hard-to-believe story of the child of a mentally ill mother and an alcoholic father as his parents split up and he eventually is taken into the home of his mother's nutty psychotherapist. Hard to believe, but apparently true. I suspect this would be a strange enough film to see if you were prepared for it and knew something of what it was about. We, however, went to see it thinking it was a different film, so it was extremely unexpected. But don't let the oddness of Burrough's childhood turn you away. It's still an engagingly told story that includes some hopeful moments for the young man. But you'll never have nostalgia for the 1970s again. Robots (07.05.07): Eh. The September Issue (09.12.09): Judging from the clothing on the other audience members at the Kabuki Sundance Cinema crowd with me this afternoon, most people who paid to see The September Issue were there because it highlighted the fashion industry. I, however, was there for the fun of seeing just how they put together the magazine. Magazines 'R' my business, and my interest. The September Issue is the new documentary focusing on the creation of Vogue's mammoth September edition. We see the issue come together as editors plan photo shots, discuss which clothes to feature, meet with designers to see their collections, travel to Europe for photo shoots, and much more. Running the entire process is Anna Wintour, the much-feared and much-accomplished editor in chief, and heading up most of the photo shoots is Grace Coddington, the magazine's creative director. There are other characters -- other editors, magazine designers, clothing designers, photographers, ad sales reps, Ms. Wintour's daughter, and many others -- but it's when Coddington or Wintour are on the screen that the movie is at its best. This film more than lived up to my expectations. Wintour shows herself to be an extraordinarily talented and clear-sighted leader. She knows what she wants, and she doesn't waste time dithering over what's right. When she makes a decision about a potential cover photo having too much teeth or a model in a billowing dress looking pregnant, she's quick with her decision -- and she's correct. That's her job. Such editors are very rare, and I'm sure she's worth every dollar of the reportedly multi-million dollar salary Condé Nast pays her. Whether the audience likes her or not is likely to depend on the individual audience member's attitudes about quality, publishing, strong women, and whether they liked their boss. I've worked for bosses who were tough. Sometimes I could see the what and why of their behavior; other times, I could comfortably conclude they were just jerks. My feeling about Wintour (as is probably already more than obvious) is that she might not be the most touchy-feely boss, but she'll make you better and she's damn good at her job. There's no villain in this movie. And there's no drama about whether or not they'll put together a successful issue of the magazine. We already know they will (it was the September 2007 edition, the fattest edition in Vogue's history) and we can clearly see that the magazine's staff is competent and professional. But for me the drama came from seeing exactly how they made decisions and exactly how the issue came together. Though I was not like the large portion of my fellow audience members in that I was more interested in the magazine part of the story than the fashion part, I think there's a lot of similarity between the two topics. Readers of high-fashion magazines, or car magazines, get much of their pleasure from seeing things they'll never be able to buy or own, at least not completely. (They might not be able to afford the entire ensemble that the model is wearing, but they see in the photo layout how they can add a specific accessory to their clothing to get the desired effect.) For me, it was nice to watch how a magazine at the top of the market is put together. How they spend tens of thousands of dollars on photo shoots, have large staffs that can pull off anything they deem neccessary for an issue, how they can worry about doing the right thing and not just whatever they can afford. The September Issue is worth picking up. Shrek (07.08.07): Very good. Shrek 2 (07.08.07): Even better. Shrek 3 (07.08.07): Not as good. Spider-Man 3 (07.08.07): For this third outing, the Spidey crew makes the typical superhero-film-mistake: Too many villains. It's enjoyable and well-done, but it has the rushed feeling any film would have when it's trying to tell essentially three different stories within the same running time. Can't be done. Briefly, Spidey gets some alien goo on him that turns him bad. Black suit and all. This eventually is fought off, but it gets onto another photographer at The Daily Bugle, who then goes bad well, badder. That should have been the story. It would have allowed the filmmakers to mix all the action they wanted with the personal tale of Peter Parker's struggle with fame, ego, and his family's history. But no, we also get Sandman, who's a man, er, made of sand. Oh, wait, like a Ginsu knife commercial, there's more! We also get the revenge and redemption of Harry Osborn. Again, another whole movie jammed into this one. Less is more, especially with a superhero whose charm lies in his personal foibles and struggles. I hope they don't try to give us four villains in the next sequel. Stardust (08.12.07): Based on a best-selling fantasy novel by the team of Gaiman and Vess, Stardust is the immensely entertaining story of a young man out to impress his love by bringing back to her a fallen star. Much ensues. Impossible to relate here. (For example, Robert De Niro as a tough-acting gay pirate captain of an airship. It just gets more complicated from there.) Charlie Cox as the young hero, Tristan, has to carry the storyline on his shoulders, but he gets a lot of help from De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Peter O'Toole, and a bucketload of others, all of whom appeared to have had a grand old time making the film. Often when the actors' enjoyment comes across on screen, the audience is left with a sense of wonder wondering why we're not enjoying it as much as the actors. But this time, that's not the case. Much fun. The Thief Lord (12.27.06): New Zealand's Peter Jackson is sometimes faulted for making films that are waaaaaayy tooooo loooooooonnng. The Thief Lord, directed by Richard Claus, could have used a little Jackson-action, because it's a reasonably good film marred by a sense that they cut out every single micro-second that wasn't absolutely crucial to advancing the plot. For a movie set in the staggeringly beautiful city of Venice, Italy, that's a crime. Based on the excellent novel by German children's author Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord tells the story of two orphaned boys from Hamburg who run away from their aunt and end up in Venice, where they try to escape their aunt's attempts to retrieve one of them (she doesn't much like the older child) and become involved in an enchanting scheme involving a merry-go-round that can reverse or speed up aging. The book (Herr der Diebe in German or The Thief Lord in translation it's worth reading in either language) was my first exposure to Funke's storytelling, and it made me a fan forever. The movie actually does quite well at capturing the attitude and sympathetic characters of the children and the adults. In fact, if they had let themselves add an extra 10 minutes to the 98-minute running time, they could have added some breathtaking slow shots of the city, some silent closeups of the main characters at crucial moments, and other touches that would raise this film to cinematic level. As it is, it seems to have been edited to serve the television crowd, and it's no surprise that it was released direct-to-video in the United States. That's a shame. It's a better film than that. But somewhere there's a Twentieth Century Fox movie executive who thinks he or she made the right move by forcing this movie into this straight-jacket. Hopefully, he or she is burning in ... well, I'll be nice. I just hope they're nowhere near as pretty as Venice. Transformers (07.08.07): Sam Witwicky (Shia laBeouf) is an annoying "teenager" (yes, one of those high schools where all the students look like they're 25 years old) who gets a car that turns out to be a Transformer, from the planet Whateveracon, protecting him from the BadGuysaCons. Much stuff is exploded. Characters do stupid things for no good reason (why do they purposefully lead the BadGuysaCons from the Hoover Dam into a densely populated city downtown for the final showdown when they could have transferred the stupid cube along the highway?), Witwicky briefly loses his pants, his sorta girlfriend turns out to be a car nut, and every genuinely funny line (like the idiot secret agent who mistakes Nokia for a Japanese company) is passed over so quickly it left the audience with which I saw the movie completely silent. 2012 (11.14.09): 2012 is the latest (and allegedly final) disaster movie from Roland ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") Emmerich, the German-born blockbuster director. His fans shouldn't feel left out, though. If you've seen one disaster movie, you've pretty much seen them all. World ends. Some people survive (usually). Much unlikely stuff occurs. Giant things crash into smaller things, some excellent special effects take place, and the heroes make some impossible escapes. Same thing here. There are some nice touches. John Cusack does a good job with a pretty uninteresting role, as the divorced father of two who is forced to come to their rescue -- and to the rescue of his ex-wife and her new husband. Danny Glover is okay as the president, who has to decide whether to go with the chosen escapees or to stay behind with the vast majority of the American people to meet his doom from the planet-wide disaster. That's a key choice, even if his particular decision isn't key to anything in this movie. Basically, 2012 sets up an unfair conflict, in which the audience is expected to share the moral outrage of one of the heroes about people who are not allowed onto the arks that will protect a small minority of the population. It's false, because if there are only a certain number of slots available on the arks (and the film offers no other option), then only a minority will survive in any case. It's Sophie's Choice on a vast scale in any case, but one of the heroes throws a hissy fit right at a critical time, causing a delay in the launch of one of the arks and nearly killing many more people. But it's silly of me or anyone to expect a philosphical masterpiece in a film, much less in a disaster film. So if you can turn off your brain for two hours and 38 minutes, then you will likely enjoy this movie. Despite my qualms above, I was able to enjoy it as the brick-stupid movie it is. But I have one question: What's the deal with Wisconsin? It crops up quite a few times in this movie. Did the moviemakers not like the state? Or are they doing a friendly shout-out to it? Then again, I'm from Wisconsin originally, so maybe others won't notice that. V for Vendetta (08.05.07): Sorry, but I've got to agree with the right-wing nutcases on this movie. Vendetta is a love-letter for terrorists. People who hate the contras and al Qaida but wax romantic about the Baader Meinhoff Gang or other such idiots simply have no intellectual standing with me. Other than that, the movie's fine. War of the Worlds (12.30.06): I'd like to avoid the trendy bashing of star Tom Cruise and instead talk about the film. The bashing is more fun than talking about the film and, well, the bashing is more fun than the film itself. But director Steven Spielberg deserves better than having his film receive such treatment. So here goes: A pretty well-made film, frankly. You must know the story by now, this oft-filmed tale from writer H.G. Wells. Aliens land on earth, they turn out to be less than friendly, and they start blowing things up. With his personal beliefs, maybe Cruise thought he was making a documentary. Anyway, Cruise works hard to rescue his family despite all the blowing up, and Spielberg does his usual fine job of making things blow up well and making the people who are around the up-blowing things look well-lit.
7925	dbpedia	3	36	https://antonyearnshaw.wordpress.com/journalism/bob-hoskins-mrs-henderson-presents/	en	Bob Hoskins – Mrs Henderson Presents	https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg	https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg	[ "https://antonyearnshaw.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cropped-bw-in-fishguard.jpg", "https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/18a2807b48631d97f10e8e66be60ca741239b5c759561e893a33df24de7c025a?s=64&d=identicon&r=G", "https://s2.wp.com/i/logo/wpcom-gray-white.png", "https://s2.wp.com/i/logo/wpcom-gray-white.png", "https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2014-04-30T12:52:09+00:00	Bob Hoskins is in his element. On stage, beautiful naked girls perform a 1930s revue. In the stalls, as theatre manager Vivian Van Damm, Hoskins looks on with the keen professional eye of the impresario. No red-blooded man can balk at having to watch young women posing in the nude – even if, by recreating…	en	https://s1.wp.com/i/favicon.ico	Tony Earnshaw	https://antonyearnshaw.wordpress.com/journalism/bob-hoskins-mrs-henderson-presents/	Bob Hoskins is in his element. On stage, beautiful naked girls perform a 1930s revue. In the stalls, as theatre manager Vivian Van Damm, Hoskins looks on with the keen professional eye of the impresario. No red-blooded man can balk at having to watch young women posing in the nude – even if, by recreating the glory days of London’s Windmill Theatre, it was all in a day’s work. By co-starring in, and co-producing, the divine Mrs. Henderson Presents – in which Dame Judi Dench plays bored eccentric Laura Henderson, the innovative theatre owner who first put naked girls on the Soho stage – Hoskins was going back to his roots. “Before girls started shimmying up and down poles and things like that it was a family show,” says Hoskins, recalling childhood visits to the Windmill. “People used to take the whole family to see it – not only the nudes but there were comedians and all kinds of acts. There were kids running around all over the place. It was great, and it stayed with me.” So much so that when Hoskins’ friends hit on the idea of telling the story of Mrs Henderson and her revolutionary shows, he came on board as producer. It was a journey that would find him reconsidering his past and, in no small way, basing the character of Van Damm on his late father. “Van Damm looked exactly like my dad,” says Hoskins, referring to the ‘40s hairpiece he wears throughout the film. “I just started looking at old pictures of my dad really – and it was exactly the same haircut. My dad’s got a mane of hair. Unfortunately I take after my Mum – my mum wasn’t bald but her brothers were!” Playing the gentlemanly Van Damm marks yet another superb character study in Hoskins’ repertoire. After making his name as East End gangster Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday 25 years ago he has played everyone and everything from Mussolini, Noriega, Khrushchev and Hoover to detectives, cops, explorers, butlers and priests. There were more gangsters in Mona Lisa and Unleashed, Smee in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, Verloc in Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Pope John XXIII in The Good Pope. Yet Mrs. Henderson Presents marks a genuine first in Hoskins’ career: his first full-frontal. At the age of 63, it was, to say the least, a courageous move. It occurs as the Windmill girls, nervous at their first nude rehearsal, rebel against removing their clothes. In time-honoured fashion they declare they will strip – but only if the watching men do, too. And that includes Mr Van Damm. Hoskins laughs. “The funny thing was the building of the theatre. It was like going into a theatre company – very much a family. People used to turn up on their days off, you know, just to be a part of what was happening on the day. I think if anybody had sneaked in and tried to take advantage they’d have been lynched. [On the day] everybody else was wandering around naked so I took ‘em off. And when I got ‘em off I suddenly thought ‘I’m the only old wrinkly here’ – all these young bodies and this old fella. “I don’t think the tableau would work now. What was amazing was that it was completely un-erotic, just beautiful. Funnily enough like the girls, when they had stripped off and were standing there doing this, it was quite humbling. They were beautiful, but they weren’t waving their bums around and jiggling their tits. It was art, and I don’t think today that would work.” The picture gave Hoskins his first co-starring role with Judi Dench. He describes her as “completely fearless” and “quite wild” – not bad for someone who just turned 71. Their stormy relationship forms the core of the film – in real life Van Damm regularly banned his interfering employer from the Windmill so she took to sneaking in in disguise – once as a Chinese mandarin, later in a bear costume. “What was funny was when we got together with Judi,” recalls Hoskins. “We took her to lunch and were pitching the story. Judi never reads a script. I lent forward and I said ‘Judi you actually get to dress up as a Chinese lady and a polar bear – she said ‘Oh yes, I’m definitely doing that!’ “I don’t think Mrs. Henderson was as charming as Judi – who’s a right old cow [in the film]. In a funny way I don’t really know where it diverges.” Hoskins is delighted with the film and the reception it has been getting. But while he has produced and directed in film and television, he has no real ambitions to do more than he does. A few years back he said he felt he’d done well because he’s “never been found out”. After almost 40 years in the biz and an Oscar nomination for Mona Lisa under his belt, how does he feel now? “Obviously I have been found out! I’ve never had any training or anything at all, I just gone on and done it and winged it, you know? Keep your head down, keep running and no-one will notice.” And as he heads towards his dotage, one senses he doesn’t need to tackle major leading roles any more – he’s happy with guest spots and those terrific character parts he makes his own. So how does he pick his roles? “It’s always been a job to me. It’s how I earn my living ‘til the next job turns up. The way I judge a script, when it turns up in the morning I give it the ‘cold bum’ test – I take it to the loo. If I suddenly think ‘God, I’ve got a cold bum’ it’s obviously a good script! Then I decide to do it.”
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It puts a sugary spin on the true story of Laura Henderson, the eccentric widow who turned London’s Windmill Theatre into the home of a notorious nude revue, defying the stuffy moral guardians of the establishment, and famously staying open even as German bombs fell during World War II. Terry Johnson‘s production is currently on a short premiere run in Bath before a mooted West End transfer, although the location and date for its London launch have yet to be finalized. The show features full frontal nudity, tastefully staged and artfully lit, which is inevitably being used as a marketing angle. Even so, this is essentially a tame and creaky adaptation of a tame and creaky movie. The safely risqué jokes and schematic plot are aimed squarely at fans of clunky, old-fashioned entertainment in the spirit of Calendar Girls or The Full Monty. And while there’s clearly a large potential audience for this kind of mildly titillating, Lloyd Webber-ized populism, Johnson’s production has too little of the subversive mischief and joyous lust for life it purports to celebrate. Though clearly too young to play the 70-year-old heroine, Tracie Bennett makes an agreeable Mrs. Henderson. A multiple award-winner best known for playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow, Bennett’s lively performance acknowledges Dench but skews more towards Maggie Smith‘s signature brand of sardonic, imperious wit. Oddly, Johnson makes Henderson almost a supporting character in this production, keeping her offstage for long stretches. The music also undersells Bennett’s vocal prowess, as she delivers most of her lyrics in a crisp, semi-spoken manner. Read more Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet’: London Theater Review Ian Bartholomew also musters plenty of world-weary charm in the Hoskins role as Mrs. Henderson’s business partner Vivian Van Damm, a bumptious impresario who enjoys a love-hate relationship with his equally strident boss. Their sparky chemistry fuels the best scenes, but the comic energy dissipates during the main subplot, a lukewarm love story between implausibly innocent topless dancer Maureen (Emma Williams) and her thinly sketched stagehand lover Eddie (Matthew Malthouse). Williams and her fellow showgirls gamely strip off to perform in a handful of musical tableaux with bare breasts and what appear to be discreet fleshtone shields around their groins. All good clean fun, and quite cleverly staged. But in dramatic terms, the young women are lazy stereotypes — either wholesome virgins or saucy good-time girls. Likewise the obligatory gay character, the camp and effeminate Bertie (Samuel Holmes). When tragedy strikes one of the main protagonists in the second act, it barely registers, so depthless are these stock caricatures. The serviceable, style-hopping score is by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain. Fenton is known for his extensive film and TV work, including multiple collaborations with Ken Loach and Stephen Frears. Indeed, he wrote several songs for the Frears-directed film of Mrs. Henderson Presents. But this production features all new music, mostly razzle-dazzle vaudevillian thigh-slappers and stiff, stodgy ballads. Larry Blank‘s eight-piece orchestrations feel a little thin, though a full London production would presumably expand upon the arrangements. Read more Ben Whishaw in ‘Bakkhai’: London Theater Review Fenton’s lyrical collaborator is Don Black, the veteran British Oscar and Tony Award winner whose track record includes James Bond themes and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Full of inner rhymes and double entendres, Black’s lines are wordy and witty, though they mostly raise a wry smile rather than a roar of laughter, and rarely mobilize any deeper emotions. Aside from a stirring a capella number sung by the full cast, the music mostly serves as functional pastiche of jaunty 1930s and ’40s variety-show styles. Pleasant but forgettable, with no obvious stand-out anthems. Tim Shortall‘s set designs are conventional but quietly impressive, most notably when the theater‘s backstage is transformed into a London rooftop at sunset, then later a rubble-strewn Tube station during a wartime air raid. During scene changes, cockney music-hall comedian Arthur (Mark Hadfield) keeps the crowd engaged with bawdy jokes and knowing commentary on the action. A few more of these self-aware, almost Brechtian touches might have helped make Mrs. Henderson Presents an engaging reboot rather than a conservative, clichéd trip down Mammary Lane.
7925	dbpedia	3	3	https://dove.org/review/5218-mrs-henderson-presents/	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	https://dove.org/wp-cont…uploads/5218.jpg	https://dove.org/wp-cont…uploads/5218.jpg	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=805948676223548&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/logo.png", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/5218.jpg", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/DeVon-Franklin-550x309.jpeg", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/cyrano-280x220.jpg", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/redeeming2-280x220.jpeg", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/gigi-nate-GIGI_NATE_AMF_00151_R_Photo_Credit_Anne_Marie_Fox-Courtesy_Roadside_Attractions_rgb-280x220.jpeg", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/logo.png", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/christian-cinema.png", "https://dove.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/dove.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2021-06-18T00:00:00+00:00	Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.	en	https://dove.org/wp-cont…e-touch-icon.png	Dove.org	https://dove.org/review/5218-mrs-henderson-presents/	The very premise of “Mrs. Henderson Presents” makes the film an unlikely candidate for the family-friendly seal. It’s loosely based on the true story of a widow who invests her inheritance in restoring an old theatre into a spectacular stage for London’s first all-nude review. This movie is interesting and unpredictable. Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench are simply remarkable together. The nude-review storyline plays second fiddle to the bombings of London and loss of military life which are both sensitively and emotionally portrayed.
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Current Top 3: Mrs Henderson Presents, Mrs. Miniver, Mr and Mrs Khiladi ...	en	/img/icons/touch-icon-iphone.png	Ranker	https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-movies-with-mrs-in-the-title/ranker-film	Since it's such a common word, it's not surprising there are many movies with Mrs. in the name. This list ranks the best movies with Mrs. in the title, regardless of what genre it is. Do you have a favorite movie with Mrs. in the name? This isn't a common way to categorize films, but that's part of the fun. There are probably one or two movies with Mrs. in the title that you instantly think of, but you might be surprised how many others there are as you scroll through this list. This ranked poll of films with Mrs. in the title includes movies like Mrs. Doubtfire, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Main Aurr Mrs Khanna. Don't forget that this list is interactive, meaning you can vote the film names up or down depending on much you liked each movie that has the word Mrs. in it.
7925	dbpedia	2	16	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/mrs-henderson-presents-doesnt-push-past-its-legacy-as-a-british-nudes-story/article34416369/	en	Mrs Henderson Presents fails to push past its legacy as a British nudes story	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=16433046&cv=3.9.1&cj=1", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=600&quality=80", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/NFDQACSEBJF2RCJFXHMNDHRZH4.png?auth=e0314807201202fdd234802ccff424f019356a2e5c1608f15ac6827f34fe2eef&width=300&height=200&quality=80&smart=true", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-cryptic-sm.png", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-sudoku-sm.png", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-universal-sm.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "review", "Toronto", "cast", "Mrs Henderson Presents", "Mirvish", "theatre", "production" ]	null	[ "J. Kelly Nestruck" ]	2017-03-24T17:48:24+00:00	The all-male creative team behind the Mirvish production seems flummoxed as to how to explore any of the complexities of the woman-focused plot	en	https://www.theglobeandm…h-icon.png?d=598	The Globe and Mail	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/mrs-henderson-presents-doesnt-push-past-its-legacy-as-a-british-nudes-story/article34416369/	There's nothing, it seems, Britons love more than a good nudes story. The Full Monty, Calendar Girls, Mrs Henderson Presents. … God bless them, they have a whole genre of feel-good flicks about ordinary folks who disrobe for a cause bigger than themselves. Widespread love for those cheeky movies has led to them all being adapted for the stage across the pond – and the latest to surface on Canadian shores as part of a Mirvish season is Mrs Henderson Presents, which musicalizes the 2005 Judi Dench movie of the same name about naked ladies standing up to the Nazis (sort of). Alas, it's a pretty weak offering from the West End. It takes more than Blitz and ass to impress over here. Mrs Henderson Presents is based on the true story of the rich widow and impresario Laura Henderson. She owned a revue theatre called The Windmill that presented nude women on stage in London from 1932 onwards – and is played in the musical with often intentionally hilarious gusto by stage veteran Tracie Bennett, perhaps the biggest exhibitionist in the cast, even though she never takes off her clothes. How did Mrs. Henderson get permission from the Lord Chamberlain's office to pursue her profession, when it wouldn't even allow Mrs. Warren's Profession on a public stage until 1925? Well, as seen here in song and dance, she and her general manager, Vivian Van Damm (Peter Polycarpou), evaded Britain's official stage censor by presenting its Windmill Girls in stationary "tableaux vivants" – and successfully arguing that if the nudes didn't move, they were no ruder than any number of paintings or statues you might find in the British Museum. That's a fascinating chapter in the history of censorship, but the conflict is resolved in the first few scenes of this musical. The rest of the show is an overly patriotic pageant about how the Windmill went on to earn the motto "We Never Closed" – by never shutting down during the Second World War, even at the height of the German air offensive known as the Blitz that killed over 40,000 civilians. Unfortunately, working from the original screenplay, playwright and director Terry Johnson hasn't really found an emotionally or otherwise engaging story to tell in this unusual wartime setting. Mrs. Henderson and Mr. Van Damm simply go about their business running the theatre with few real hiccups. Maureen (a charming Evelyn Hoskins) is the only Windmill Girl we really to get to know in any depth. Initially a clumsy, introverted tea girl, she finds herself liberated by taking her clothes off in public. She tells men to strip as well – and, when a stagehand named Eddie (Matthew Malthouse) pursues her with a hackneyed song about the moon, she, refreshingly enough, rejects him. There seems to be an attempt to turn what is a story about the literal objectification of women into a feminist parable – linking the Windmill Girls to the rise of women in the workplace, economy and positions of power during the war. Unfortunately, the all-male creative team behind Mrs Henderson Presents seems flummoxed as to how to explore any of the complexities of the situation – and instead delivers only clichés: secondary showgirls indistinguishable from each other; women putting down others for being fat; innocents and sluts. It seems a little insane to me that a story so woman-focused would make it to the stage in this day and age without someone involved at some point stopping to say, "Hey, maybe we should hire a female artist to help make some of this dialogue realistic or help move the characters around the stage in a non-male-gaze way?" Instead, Johnson and company thrust a male narrator upon us to unnecessarily mansplain the action. A music-hall-style comedian named Arthur (Matt Slack) comes on stage between scenes, like a pointless rip-off of the emcee from Cabaret, to comment on the story, fill us in on the history and tell innuendo-filled jokes that I can't for sure say are awful, because Slack's accent and fast-talking makes half of what he's saying unintelligible. It's only well into the second act that something resembling a plot breaks out – as Maureen finds herself dealing with a rather complicated situation when Mrs. Henderson pressures her to be friendlier to Eddie before he ships off. It's here, however, where the decision to turn Mrs Henderson Presents into a musical really shows itself as a commercial rather than artistic one. The songs add nothing to the show – and, in many cases, harm it. The music composed by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain may be decent enough, but it's impossible to get past the awkward lyrics by Don Black (Sunset Boulevard). Black's attempt to write a W.S. Gilbert-style patter song for the Lord Chamberlain reveals a serious lack of wit, but his attempts at earnestness are even worse. A group number during the Blitz has the whole cast singing, over and over: "When this war is over / we will all be saying / wasted lives are too high a price to pay." (Really?) In the end, the only thing that really recommends this poorly plotted, plodding show is the opportunity to see some of the Windmill's strange and oddly beautiful tableaux vivants recreated on stage. Though one scene in which Maureen does move did make me question the historical accuracy of the whole enterprise, to be honest. Where on earth would a Briton have got a Brazilian during the Blitz?
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Not for kids. Read Common Sense Media's Mrs. Henderson Presents review, age rating, and parents guide.	en	/themes/custom/common_sense/images/favicons/favicon-16x16.png	Common Sense Media	https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents	Newly widowed, wealthy Londoner Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is dissatisfied with the lifestyle led by her fellow widow friends. On a whim, she buys a theatre, renovates it, and hires seasoned Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run the show. After the theatre opens to short-lived rave reviews, it starts losing money. Van Damm thinks it best to close but Mrs. Henderson laughs off the "defeat" and decides the best way to fill the house is to add nudity to the show. Nudity isn't allowed in the theatre, but they are able to find a loophole in the law that permits it if the models stay perfectly still. The show is a hit, especially with soldiers newly embroiled in World War II. The business partners are strong-willed and non-conventional and inevitably lock horns. But they build a strong sense of mutual respect in a partnership where both are able to get what they need.
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"https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_20220905_013502_301.jpg?w=350&crop=98px%2C24px%2C150px%2C150px&resize=40%2C40&strip=info", "https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/dlm-profile-photo.jpg?w=450&crop=0px%2C0px%2C400px%2C400px&resize=40%2C40&strip=info", "https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/themes/vip/pmc-goldderby/assets/images/mail.png", "https://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-3fYA_jjXdhqZ-.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Tom O'Brien", "Misty Holland", "Chris Beachum" ]	2023-12-01T17:20:12+00:00	Tour our photo gallery including 'Philomena,' 'Shakespeare in Love,' 'Chocolat,' 'Mrs. Brown' and more.	en	https://www.goldderby.co…vicon-1.png?w=32	GoldDerby	https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/best-judi-dench-movies-ranked/	Dame Judi Dench has done pretty well for herself in an acting career that has lasted over half a century. For her film acting alone, Dench has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for her supporting performance in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.” She also earned nine Golden Globe noms for her film work (including a win for 1997’s “Mrs. Brown”) and three for her TV work, including a win for 2000’s “The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.” She has also received 13 nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, winning twice (for “Shakespeare in Love” and 2000’s “Chocolat”). And if that wasn’t enough, she won a 1999 Tony Award for her performance in “Amy’s View.” Let’s take a photo gallery tour of her 12 greatest films, ranked from worst to best. It includes the movies mentioned above, plus “Notes on a Scandal,” “Philomena,” “Iris” and more.
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You will guess from the title this was some time ago. Following Frommer's instructions, I took the tube to Russell Square, checked into a hotel that would give me bed and breakfast for $2.50, took the tube to Westminster and gazed upon Big Ben.	en	/assets/fav/apple-touch-icon-57x57-9e12b6d6d15bfb3e86f09c3fc7d58a6f8a2d808cb856df9c1ada23480cda1dae.png	https://www.rogerebert.com/	https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mrs-henderson-presents-2006	All the way across the Atlantic, a flight that took 24 hours and involved refueling in Newfoundland and Iceland, I studied Arthur Frommer's Europe on $5 a Day. You will guess from the title this was some time ago. Following Frommer's instructions, I took the tube to Russell Square, checked into a hotel that would give me bed and breakfast for $2.50, took the tube to Westminster and gazed upon Big Ben. Then the throbbing magnetic pull of Soho attracted me, as it has so many young men, and soon I stood regarding the facade of the Windmill Theater. "We Never Closed," said the neon sign. That meant they were open, and that I would soon be over my daily budget. Yes, it was just like you see it in this movie, but a little shabbier. There were comics and song-and-dance acts, and above all, there were dancing girls, and then the lighting shifted and you could see nude models, posed without moving, in "artistic tableaux." I gazed in bliss and wonder. The lighting shifted again, and they disappeared, because how long, really, could a girl be expected to pose like that on a clamshell? All very well for Venus, but hard work six times a day for a variety artiste. The Windmill Theater introduced nudity to the British stage through the brilliant expedient of convincing the Lord Chamberlain (who censored the shows) that a nude, if she did not move, was not "theater" but "art," and fell under the same exemption that permitted nudes in the National Gallery. Oh, how I agreed. Faithful readers will have followed the controversy over whether video games can be an art form. If I argue that they cannot, how then can I claim that a nude model at the Windmill could be art? Anyone who can ask such a question has been spending too much time in the basement with a joy stick. I visited the Windmill in the summer of 1961. Within a few years, the barriers fell. Strip clubs opened all over Soho, and the Windmill was yesterday's news, one of the casualties of the sexual revolution. Philip Larkin, who would have become poet laureate had he not declined the honor, did what a poet laureate is supposed to do and wrote a poem to mark the changing climate: Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP. "Mrs. Henderson Presents" is a fond show-biz tale directed by Stephen Frears, who is one year older than I am and therefore would also remember the Windmill as it used to be. That he attended it in his youth I have not the slightest doubt. So would the Beatles have, and Denis Thatcher and Stephen Hawking. The film tells the story of the theater's founding by Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), whose husband left her a widow in the 1930s. She came home from India with some money and nothing to do. "I'm bored with widowhood," she told a friend. "I have to smile at people. In India, there was always someone to look down on." One day, she saw the abandoned theater on Great Windmill Street and decided to buy the old barn and put on a show. As her impresario, she hired Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins). They presented a variety programme. Her inspiration was a "non-stop revue" all day and evening. The theater was a hit until it was widely copied and began to lose money, and then she had an inspiration. "Let's have naked girls -- don't you think?" she asked Vivian. Their decision to include nudity saved the theater, and when war came Mrs. Henderson refused to close her doors, because (a) the theater was below street level and therefore somewhat safe, and (b) it was important for troop morale. When her son died in the first war, she told people, she found a French postcard among his possessions, and thought it likely he had never seen a real nude woman. She was determined to spare the new generation of British heroes this depressing fate. "We never closed" became the war cry of the Windmill. All during the Blitz, theaters, restaurants and pubs closed, but never the Windmill. Frears, working from a screenplay by Martin Sherman, tells this story through the relationship of Mrs. Henderson and Van Damm, both high-spirited and stubborn. Van Damm may have been running a nude show, but his discipline was strict and his standards high -- higher, I suspect, in this movie than in life. Although they became fast friends, the owner and her manager maintained a British reserve, and it was some years before Mrs. Henderson learned there was a Mrs. Van Damm. Other key roles in the story are played by Maureen (Kelly Reilly), a Windmill girl who Mrs. Henderson approves of for her "British nipples," and Lord Cromer (Christopher Guest), the Lord Chamberlain, who one suspects approves of them, too. Mrs. Henderson has a droll luncheon audience with Cromer where they debate exactly what she proposes to reveal in her revue. "Will you show the foliage?" he asks. "Try the brie," she suggests. He tries the cheese, finds it agreeable, and returns to "the somewhat sordid topic of the pudendum." Why are men always so concerned, Mrs. Henderson wonders, about "the Midlands"? She promises that her lighting will be subtle, but by the time I attended the Windmill the illumination of geography encompassed the Lake District all the way to Land's End. Dench and Hoskins bring ineffable personal styles to roles that could have been potted show biz. One touch is just right: Van Damm is always natty in dress and grooming. Impresarios in that era glowed with prosperity, no matter how shaky their finances. Mrs. Henderson is in the tradition of British ladies whose age, bearing and accent set the stage for the occasional shocking word; watch the Lord Chamberlain as she suggests a synonym for pudendum. "Mrs. Henderson Presents" is not great cinema, and neither was the Windmill great theater, but they both put on a good show. As I recall those days, the nudes fade and what I am nostalgic for are the desperately jolly song and dance numbers and the earnest young magicians pulling pigeons from their pants. A few years ago my wife and I were among 16 people in a tiny theater on Jermyn Street for a one-man show named "Is It Magic, or Is It Manilow?" It was neither. But it would have worked at the Windmill, if enriched by the occasional artistic tableaux.
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7925	dbpedia	0	49	https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/entertainment/mrs-henderson-presents-a-good-show	en	'Mrs. Henderson Presents' a good show	https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_407,w_690/4144	https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_407,w_690/4144	[ "https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1730128020581377&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/v1713438137/logo4_d8nmsc.png", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/search.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/profile-user.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/Icons/more.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/mail-icon-small.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/twitter-icon-small.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/fb-icon-small.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/Icons/messenger-icon-small.svg", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822/4144", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_58,w_58/254834", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_58,w_58/496238", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_58,w_58/453709", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_58,w_58/448983", "https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_58,w_58/448976" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "HANNAH BROWN" ]	2006-02-06T08:00:00+00:00	The sparring between Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' reveals both actors at their best.	en	https://images.jpost.com…p-favicon-16.png	The Jerusalem Post \| JPost.com	https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/entertainment/mrs-henderson-presents-a-good-show	The sparring between Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' reveals both actors at their best. By HANNAH BROWN MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS - *** Directed by Stephen Frears. Written by David Rose, Kathy Rose and Martin Sherman. Hebrew title: Geveret Henderson Geah Latzig. 103 minutes. In English, with Hebrew titles. With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Kelly Reilly, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest, Shona McWilliams, Camille Oâ€šSullivan, Doraly Rosen, Sarah Solemani, Natalia Tena Mrs. Henderson Presents is basically one of those wacky widow movies and it's a good one. There is a whole sub-genre of (mostly British) movies about strait-laced widows who break out after their husbandsâ€š deaths by doing something a little risque'. Usually, they have an affair with a younger or much younger man (think of Harold and Maude, or, more recently, The Mother) but sometimes it's a little more involved. For example, Saving Grace stars Brenda Blethyn as a widow who grows and sells marijuana to pay the taxes on her late husband's estate (a storyline echoed in the recent television series, Weeds). The variation on this theme in Mrs. Henderson, is that a wealthy, upper-class widow (Judi Dench) impulsively buys a London theater and then starts producing nude (but tasteful) revues in the late Thirties. Mid-movie, though, as World War II breaks out and the blitz begins, there is an abrupt change in tone. Suddenly, the revue is not just a life-affirming lark for Mrs. Henderson, but a blow for freedom against the horrors of war. Dench and her co-star, Bob Hoskins, who plays the streetwise producer who works for her, manage to carry off this shift in mood gracefully. Even when the script becomes a touch preachy and artificial, they are so wonderful together that the fun never stops. The movie is based on a true story of the Windmill Theater. Apparently, some of the surviving nude dancers were advisers on the movie and it is accurate in many details. But the truth behind the film is not terribly important. What Mrs. Henderson is really about is watching the sparring between Dench, as the uptight, imperious widow used to getting her way, and Hoskins, as producer Vivian Van Damm, a Dutch Jew who is there to take her down a peg. It's the same dynamic that was so enjoyable in the Hepburn-Tracy comedies. Although at first she may come off as an intolerant bitch (who makes a few cutting remarks about Van Damm's background), soon the glorious humanity she must have hidden within her in order for the film to work asserts itself, and the two adversaries bond as London burns. It seems improbable that she would suggest that they begin featuring nude dancers, but later, a noble motivation for this choice is revealed in the speech that clearly won her the Oscar nomination, made after the stodgy authorities close down the revue for indecency. Mrs. Henderson gradually becomes more rounded as a character when we learn that her only son was killed in World War I and that his loss is what defines her life. The filmmakers have attempted to flesh out this rather slight story with a subplot about one of the dancers, Maureen (Kelly Reilly, who also co-stars in the new version of Pride and Prejudice). Maureen, like all the other nude dancers, is a blushing English rose rather than a hardened professional stripper and she finds herself falling for a young soldier, an affair that Mrs. Henderson promotes with the same energy she promotes the revue. The insistence that the nude dancers are all na ve good girls is crucial because, in order for us to enjoy the film, it's important that the Windmill Theater be utterly sleaze-free. The blushing girls date only fresh-faced soldiers. Pimps and pornographers who might try to prey on the girls simply do not exist. Perhaps this is accurate, but it seems a bit far-fetched. This is only a quibble, however. If you enjoy good acting, then go and see Dench and Hoskins do their thing. I have to admit that Dench's grand dame presence has annoyed me in past films, but here she is extraordinarily graceful and intuitive in her portrayal of a complex, taboo-busting woman. Hoskins is a delight, as always. The movie may be slight and a bit predictable, but these two actors are wonderful to watch.
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Channel 4 television, but its quality was so high that it was released theatrically, and world recognition for Frears followed. In the intervening years, Frears directed three films — “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988), “The Queen” (2006) and “Philomena” (2013) — that received Academy Award nominations as Best Picture, and Frears himself earned two Oscar nominations as Best Director — for “The Grifters” (1990) and “The Queen.” Although most of his work directing for television was early in his career, in recent years, Frears has returned to TV, earning an Emmy Award nomination as Best Director for HBO’s “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight” (2013) and competing again for directing the three-part Amazon limited series, “A Very English Scandal,” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw (2018). In 2019, he won the Best Short Form prize for “State of the Union.” He’s in contention once again for another limited series, “Quiz,” starring Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford and Michael Sheen. So let’s raise a glass to the great Frears and celebrate his directorial career. Tour our photo gallery above featuring the films mentioned plus “High Fidelity,” “Prick Up Your Ears” and more.
7925	dbpedia	1	13	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Henderson_Presents_(musical)	en	Mrs Henderson Presents (musical)	https://upload.wikimedia…ents_musical.jpg	https://upload.wikimedia…ents_musical.jpg	[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png", "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg", "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-en.svg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Mrs_Henderson_Presents_musical.jpg/220px-Mrs_Henderson_Presents_musical.jpg", "https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1", "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg", "https://en.wikipedia.org/static/images/footer/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Contributors to Wikimedia projects" ]	2015-09-07T21:05:12+00:00		en	/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Henderson_Presents_(musical)	2015 musical Mrs Henderson PresentsMusicGeorge Fenton Simon ChamberlainLyricsDon BlackBookTerry JohnsonSetting1937 to 1940 LondonBasisMrs Henderson Presents by Martin ShermanPremiere26 August 2015 ( ): Theatre Royal, BathProductions2015 Bath 2016 West End 2017 Toronto Mrs Henderson Presents is a musical comedy with music by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain, with lyrics by Don Black and a book by Terry Johnson. Based on the 2005 film Mrs Henderson Presents, the musical received its world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Bath in 2015 and transferred to the West End's Noël Coward Theatre in February 2016. The film was based on the true story of Laura Henderson and London's Windmill Theatre. Background [edit] The musical is based on the 2005 film Mrs Henderson Presents.[1] The film was based on the true story of London's Windmill Theatre[2] and its owner Laura Henderson, who transformed the theatre and produced Revudeville shows featuring static naked tableaux girls, exploiting a loophole in the Lord Chamberlain's Lord Cromer censorship laws.[3][4] In June 2014, it was first revealed by producer John Reid that an adaption was in the works,[5] with a workshop taking place the same year.[6] On 16 October 2014, the musical was officially confirmed and it was announced that the show would receive its world premiere in summer 2015, with a view to a West End transfer.[7] The musical is directed by and has a book by Terry Johnson,[8] based on an original screenplay by Martin Sherman,[9] with choreography by Andrew Wright,[10] set design by Tim Shortall,[10] costume design by Paul Wills,[10] lighting by Ben Ormerod[10] and magic consultancy by Scott Penrose.[11] Production history [edit] The show's premiere production began previews at the Theatre Royal in Bath, on 15 August 2015, with its official opening night coming on 26 August, for a limited run until 25 September 2015.[12] Rehearsals began on 7 July 2015.[13] On 6 March 2015, initial casting was announced with the news that Janie Dee would play the role of Laura Henderson with Emma Williams playing Maureen.[14] Further notable casting included Ian Bartholomew as Vivian Van Damm and Mark Hadfield as Arthur.[15] On 7 July 2015, it was revealed that Janie Dee had withdrawn from the production prior to rehearsals for personal reasons and that Tracie Bennett would replace her in the role of Laura Henderson.[16] Following completion of the musicals tryout in Bath, it was announced that the show would transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End,[17] with an official opening night of 16 February 2016, following previews from 9 February.[18] The majority of the cast reprised their roles with the exceptions of Mark Hadfield, who was replaced in the role of Arthur by former EastEnders actor Jamie Foreman,[19] Graham Hoadly who (owing to a prior contractual commitment) was replaced in the role of Lord Cromer by Robert Hands and Jane Milligan who was replaced in the role of Lady Conway by Liz Ewing.[20] The West End show garnered mixed reviews and closed after its initial four-month run. No official reason was given for the close although it is not believed to have been a financial success. In her 2 star review for the Evening Standard, Fiona Mountford stated that the musical "shares with the film a desperate lack of momentum", and of the songs, "none are memorable".[21] In his 4 star review for The Stage, Mark Shenton stated that the show "doesn't shy from occasional hard edges. Instead, by concentrating on the backstage lives of the dancers and management of the Windmill, there's more of a jaunty, frequently patriotic, flavour to it – that both sings and occasionally stings.[22] On March 15, 2017, the production opened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada where it played a limited engagement until April 23, 2017. The show was essentially recast although Tracie Bennett reprised the role of Mrs Henderson, with the cast also including Peter Polycarpou and Evelyn Hoskins as Maureen.[23] Music [edit] The musical features an original score composed by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain,[24] with lyrics by Don Black,[25][26] orchestrations by Larry Blank,[27] sound design by Gareth Owen[28] and musical direction and vocal arrangements by Mike Dixon.[29] Musical numbers [edit] Orchestra [edit] The musical uses an eight-member orchestra consisting of Keyboard, Woodwind, Trumpet, Drums, Percussion, Double Bass and Cello.[11] Principal roles and original cast [edit] Character Theatre Royal Bath performer West End performer Laura Henderson Tracie Bennett Vivian Van Damm Ian Bartholomew Maureen Emma Williams Arthur Mark Hadfield Jamie Foreman Lord Cromer Graham Hoadly Robert Hands Eddie Matthew Malthouse Bertie Samuel Holmes Peggy Katie Bernstein Doris Lizzy Connolly Vera Lauren Hood Lady Conway Jane Milligan Liz Ewing Suzanne Katrina Kleve Frank Alexander Delamere Cyril Dickie Wood Spoons Sam O'Rourke Aggie Julie Armstrong Tania Newton Sid Andrew Bryant Magician Neil Stewart Nigel / Lord Cromer's Secretary Oliver Jackson Windmill Girls Sarah Bakker Rhiannon Chesterman Victoria Hay Awards and nominations [edit] Year Award Ceremony Category Nominee Result 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards Best New Musical Nominated Best Actor in a Musical Ian Bartholomew Nominated Best Actress in a Musical Tracie Bennett Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical Emma Williams Nominated References [edit]
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7925	dbpedia	3	71	http://dvds.estefanfilms.com/henderson.htm	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents			[ "http://dvds.estefanfilms.com/dvdarchivelogo.jpg", "http://dvds.estefanfilms.com/henderson.jpg", "http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Review Written by: Estefan Ellison Film: C- Video/Audio/Extras: A-/B+/D Directed by: Stephen Frears Written by: Martin Sherman Produced by: Norma Heyman Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young, Kelly Reilly Buy it!, Buy it, rent it or skip it: Skip it In my last DVD review, I commented on something deadly wrong with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voting system regarding the Golden Globe category for Best Comedy/Musical. In this review, I shall comment on what is wrong with the MPAA voting system for film classifications. Pretty much everyone and their Uncle Ted remembers the main reason for Twister getting a PG-13 rating ("intense depiction of very bad weather"). Their opinions on what minors should see or not see is rather strange, indeed. You can have a lot of violence and fight scenes, but here's comes the "R" if somebody says a couple of four-letter words. Oh and if you don't want the dreaded "NC-17", don't even think about putting some nudity in there. Mrs. Henderson Presents managed to get an "R" rating, but it sort of defeats the film's message that nudity is part of nature and should be cherished. A "PG-13" would have been better, but too bad the film isn't very good. After her husband dies, Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) is now a window, but quickly gets bored of that life. She decides to open a theatre andseeks the help of maverick producer Vivian Van Damme (Bob Hoskins). They revive vaudeville in London and their show becomes a hit and unfortunately every other theatre copies it and everybody goes elsewhere. Mrs Henderson finally suggests that the girls strip, but due to laws they aren't allowed to move. The theatre's costumers return just as the Second World War begins. However, the show must go on. I have really enjoyed the previous work of Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins and the prospect of these two classic Shakespearean actors appearing on film together really excited me. Unfortunately, the film is dull and drab as are their performances. It's an interesting story, but screenwriter Martin Sherman and the two stars don't take full advantage of it. Even Christopher Guest fails to make Mrs. Henderson Presents by putting on a British accent and making you forget that he's American. The musical numbers also fail to be fun, although there is one that parodies the war that would make Mel Brooks proud. I also have to commend director Stephen Frears, who is one of those directors who is able to do justice to the female body. Watch the infamous Uma Thurman nude scene in Dangerous Liaisons as more proof of this. Nonetheless, the film is dull and fails to be a worthwhile experience. I don't know if the Weinstein Company also noticed the blandness of Mrs. Henderson Presents, but they sure didn't load up the film with much interesting special features. Stephen Frears provides a feature-length commentary that is dull much like the film he directed. There are many silent gaps and when he does chime, it's not entirely interesting. The photo gallery just provides movie stills and there is also the theatrical trailer which make the film seem more fun than it actually is. The best extra is a documentary on the making of the film. They look at the history of the projects, casting as well as shooting the scenes. The extras get a very low "D." With a bad film and only one worthwhile extra, I suggest that this disc is not worth checking out.
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]	2023-06-16T21:30:33+00:00	Leicester-born Frears' films include My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen.	en	/bbcx/apple-touch-icon.png		https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65934241	Film director Stephen Frears has been made a knight in the birthday honours. Among his most famous films is The Queen, which won Dame Helen Mirren an Oscar and Frears a director nomination. He has also been lauded for My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, Philomena and The Grifters, for which he was also Oscar nominated. Leicester-born Frears' television credits have included A Very English Scandal, Quiz and The Deal, about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Born in the city in 1941 and educated at Cambridge, Frears worked in theatre and at the BBC before making his feature film debut with Gumshoe in 1971. He first made his mark with the 1985 interracial drama My Beautiful Laundrette, based on a Hanif Kureishi story and starring Daniel Day Lewis. Since then his career has been peppered with stories of real people, including Mrs Henderson Presents starring Dame Judi Dench; Victoria & Abdul, in which Dame Judi revived her portrayal of Queen Victoria and Philomena, with Dame Judi back with Frears, this time playing an Irish woman on a quest to find out what happened to the baby boy taken away from her in the 1950s. He also made a documentary entitled Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, about the boxer's refusal to fight in Vietnam. But it is The Queen that is arguably his most significant and acclaimed work, with Dame Helen playing the late monarch in the days after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. It also stars Michael Sheen as Tony Blair, reprising his role from The Deal. Dame Helen took home the best actress Oscar and the film was nominated for best picture, best screenplay and best costumes, while Frears was nominated for his direction. His most recent film, The Lost King, was released in 2022 and told the story of amateur historian Philippa Langley who found King Richard III's long-missing remains in a Leicester car park. He has been awarded a knighthood for services to film and television.
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Topsy-Turvey (1999) Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) stars as playwright W.S. Gilbert opposite Broadway alum Allan Corduner (My Fair Lady) as composer Arthur Sullivan as they struggle to complete their Mikado. The pair sparred frequently during its making , thanks to the weight of their popularity at the time and Gilbert’s obsession with magical elements in their work. The film earned five Oscar nominations, including Best Original Screenplay for director Mike Leigh, winning for Best Make-Up and Best Costume Design. Moulin Rouge! (2001) Long before Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit starred, Nicole Kidman earned her first Oscar nomination as Satine in Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor as Christian. The Baz Luhrman musical follows the couple’s love affair as the Moulin Rouge attempts to stay afloat by putting on a musical, funded by the a rich and jealous client, The Duke. Richard Roxburgh plays The Duke with Jim Broadbent as Harold Zeigler and John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec. Camp (2003) Musical theatre summer camp has never been crazier than in this Todd Graff film. Starring a young Anna Kendrick and future three-time Tony nominee Robin de Jesús, Camp follows several aspiring performers as they puts on a production of Company, for which the young thespians leave their heart and soul—and some industrial strength cleaner—on the stage. Throughout it all, they encounter bitter counselors past their prime, explore their sexuality, and engage in backstage cat fights. A cult favorite, the film also stars Daniel Letterle and Sasha Allen, with a cameo by Stephen Sondheim himself. Being Julia (2004) In an Oscar-nominated performance, Annette Bening plays fictitious London theatre star Julia Lambert, whose career ennui dissipates with the introduction of a new, younger lover to her life. But as Tom's affections become less certain and a young ingenue catches the eye of Julia's director husband, Julia must stake a claim once and for all for her place in the theatre—which climaxes in one of the greatest onstage sequences ever filmed for a comedy. Directed by István Szabó, Being Julia was based on a novel by William Somerset Maugham. Stage Beauty (2004) Tony winner Billy Crudup (The Coast of Utopia) and Claire Danes (Pygmalion) star in this film adaptation of Jeffrey Hatcher’s play Compleat Female Stage Beauty. The movie follows 16th-century performer Ned Kynaston and his dresser Maria as they both struggle with their own theatrical careers. Ned becomes a laughingstock as the rumor mill swirls about his sexuality now that he is no longer able to portray female characters. Meanwhile, Maria attempts to build her craft and become a great stage performer. Together, the pair help each other find contentment with their destined roles in the world of theatre. Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) Judi Dench earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of the real-life Laura Henderson, who opened London’s Windmill Theatre in 1931, a mildly successful playhouse in the West End. When another theatre starts stealing cabaret material, however, Mrs. Henderson breaks from the norm by adding topless girls to her show. As World War II breaks out, the underground theatre becomes a safe haven for soldiers and Londoners alike. The film, directed by Stephen Frears and written by Martin Sherman, also stars Will Young, Kelly Reilley, and Bob Hoskins. A stage adaptation of the film opened on the West End in 2016. The Producers (2005) The movie adaptation of the most Tony Award-winning show in the history of Broadway reunited stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick onscreen. The Mel Brooks-Thomas Meehan musical, directed by Susan Stroman, chronicles the adventures of washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his mild-mannered accountant Leo Bloom as they scheme to get rich quick by creating the biggest flop in the history of the Great White Way. Uma Thurman played Ulla, the aspiring performer from Sweden who ends up being the pair’s receptionist-secretary and eventual star. High School Musical (2006) The movie that launched the careers of Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu, and Zac Efron careers is a modern and loose adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. It follows high schoolers from rival cliques as they audition for the annual musical. The Disney Channel Original film is written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega. High School Musical was so successful, it served as the first installment of an eventual trilogy and has now spawned a meta television adaptation, set to premiere November 12 on Disney+. Me and Orson Welles (2008) Following High School Musical, Zac Efron starred in Me and Orson Wells opposite Christian McKay as the famed auteur. The film follows Welles’ mounting of Julius Caesar on Broadway with Efron playing a high school student offered the part of Lucius. Claire Danes, along with Olivier winners Kelly Reilley and Janie Dee, also stars. Directed by Richard Linklater, the film has a screenplay by Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo, Jr., based on Robert Kaplow’s novel of the same name. Synecdoche, New York (2008) The late Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in Charlie Kaufman’s film about a fictional director, Caden Cotard, who is perhaps a little too dedicated to the ambitious theatrical piece he’s working on. As reality and fiction start to blend, Cotard starts to live in a world that may not really exist. The movie also stars recent Emmy winner Michelle Williams, Tony winner Dianne Wiest, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Venus in Fur (2013) Based on David Ives’ play, Roman Polanski’s cinematic adaptation of this two-hander stars Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda and Mathieu Amalric as Thomas. Venus in Fur follows an actor as she tries to convince a director why she’s perfect for the role while auditioning inside an empty theatre. The play and film are inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 19th-century novella of the same name. Birdman (2014) Written and directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, this fantastical look at the life of a faded action star who is trying to transition to career in the theatre won the Oscar for Best Picture. Michael Keaton plays Riggan, who attempts a triple-feat of starring, writing, and directing a Broadway play. The only problem is that Riggan’s most famous character, superhero Birdman, keeps getting in the way of new success. The film co-stars Edward Norton as a volatile method actor and Emma Stone as Riggan’s daughter. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) Oscar winner Juliette Binoche stars in this behind-the-scenes drama as Maria, who made a star turn 20 years ago in the fictional play Maloja Snake portraying the young ingenue with an older female lover. When Maria returns to play the older woman two decades later, she finds herself constantly at odds with her younger co-star, played by Chloe Grace-Moretz. On top of that, Maria struggles to maintain a healthy relationship with her personal assistant, played by Kristen Stewart. The film is written and directed by Olivier Assayas.
7925	dbpedia	1	25	https://officiallondontheatre.com/news/video-mrs-henderson-presents-recording-346115/	en	Video: Mrs Henderson Presents recording	https://res.cloudinary.c…zft2n44thk96.jpg	https://res.cloudinary.c…zft2n44thk96.jpg	[ "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=96&d=mm&r=g", "https://res.cloudinary.com/solt/image/upload/v1528302482/secure-checkout-logo_bpxmks.svg", "https://res.cloudinary.com/solt/image/upload/v1528302482/mc-partner_vlamsn.svg", "https://res.cloudinary.com/solt/image/upload/v1528302482/see-tickets-logo_xmefsc.svg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Official London Theatre" ]	2015-12-15T16:33:00+00:00	It may not begin its West End run until 9 February but Mrs Henderson Presents is making the most of Christmas, releasing the footage of Tracie Bennett recording Whatever Time I Have at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.	en	https://assets.officiall…e-touch-icon.png	Official London Theatre	https://officiallondontheatre.com/news/video-mrs-henderson-presents-recording-346115/	It may not begin its West End run until 9 February but Mrs Henderson Presents is making the most of Christmas, releasing the footage of Tracie Bennett recording Whatever Time I Have at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. That’s apt, of course, as that is what the song’s lyrics, written by Don Black – who is almost as legendary as Abbey Road – are all about; making the most of life and every opportunity given to you… … which is also what we’re doing by sharing this footage with you. Oh, it’s all very clever, isn’t it? The song, with music by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain, is one of the first chances us Londoners have had to sample the delights of the new musical that was such a success at the Theatre Royal Bath earlier this year. With a book by Olivier Award winner Terry Johnson, the tuneful hit based on the Judi Dench film tells the story of the titular eccentric widow. With time and money on her hands, she invests in a former cinema in Great Windmill Street and hires feisty impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it as the Windmill Theatre. As war looms, something new is needed to boost morale, cue the invention of The Windmill Girls: glamorous young performers posing as nude statues.
7925	dbpedia	2	70	https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/mrs-henderson-presents	en	Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks	https://www.theatrebreak…logo-200x200.jpg	https://www.theatrebreak…logo-200x200.jpg	[ "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_389,h_60/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-theatre-breaks-logo-long.jpg", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ec6af0f4975cf9adfe06f6f0c8e4a580?s=100&d=mm&r=g", "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ec6af0f4975cf9adfe06f6f0c8e4a580?s=100&d=mm&r=g", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_131,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Special-Offer-Theatre-Breaks.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_131,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Special-Offer-Theatre-Breaks.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_135,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/opera-breaks-london-ENO-2024-135x93.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_135,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/opera-breaks-london-ENO-2024-135x93.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_124,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/noel_coward_theatre.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_124,h_93/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/noel_coward_theatre.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/short-london-theatre-breaks-by-train.jpg", "https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img/https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/short-london-theatre-breaks-by-train.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Simon Harding", "J Estorninho", "Darren Finn-Hurst" ]	2015-10-30T13:32:26+00:00	The London premier of Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks has now closed. After a successful run at the Theatre Royal Bath, new musical Mrs Henderson	en	https://sp-ao.shortpixel…uare-150x150.png	London Theatre Breaks	https://www.theatrebreaks.co.uk/mrs-henderson-presents	The London premier of Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks has now closed. After a successful run at the Theatre Royal Bath, new musical Mrs Henderson Presents, based on the 2005 film starring Dame Judi Dench, is now at the Noel Coward theatre, London with Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks including tickets and hotel accommodation, now available to book. With lyrics by Don Black (Tell Me On A Sunday, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard) Mrs Henderson Presents tells the story of eccentric widow Laura Henderson, who, in 1937, turned a run-down theatre in Soho into a risque venue featuring nude statues. With the country on the brink of war, The Windmill Theatre’s moral lifting slogan “We Never Close” caused both stampede’s at the box office as well as controversy. Tracie Bennett, former Coronation Street actress, takes on the role of the infamous Mrs Henderson with another Olivier Award winner Ian Bartholomew (Into the Woods) in the role of feisty impresario Vivian Van Damm who helps her transform the fortunes of the theatre. Hotels for Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks The Noel Coward Theatre is on St Martin’s Lane so hotels close by include the Guoman Charing Cross on the Strand and the Radisson Blu Mercer Street by Seven Dials. Both are 4 star deluxe hotels and ideal for a spot of pampering. The Strand Palace hotel is within walking distance too and, after extensive refurbishment a couple of years ago has gone from a three to a four star. However, for a central hotel its prices are still relatively cheap. Of course, if you are looking for a real bargain then you can’t go far wrong than choosing the Travelodge Covent Garden slap bang in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Soho. The accommodation is basic three star with no frills, but what a location! The theatre is close to Leicester Square tube station so you could also look at staying in Bloomsbury which is only a couple of stops away (or a 20 minute walk) and does offer some more great deals: the 4 star Hotel Russell or the 3 star ‘tourist’ hotels the National or the President are usually substantially cheaper than a West End hotel would be! Show File Genre : Musical Theatre : Noel Coward, St Martins Lane, London WC2N 4AU Performance times: Monday to Saturday at 19:30; and Wednesday & Saturday at 15:00 Opened : 17th February 2016 Booking to: Now closed Nearest tube station: Leicester Square on Piccadilly & Northern Lines Nearest hotels: Guoman Charing Cross, Radisson Blu Mercer Street, Travelodge Covent Garden Mrs Henderson Presents Theatre Breaks Reviews
7925	dbpedia	0	87	https://offscreen.com/view/bazin4	en	Introduction to André Bazin, Part 1: Theory of Film Style in its Historical Context	https://offscreen.com/im…-_back_cover.jpg	https://offscreen.com/im…-_back_cover.jpg	[ "https://offscreen.com/assets/img/logo.png", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/00-What_is_Cinema_1_-_back_cover_1000_420_90_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/articles/_resized/01-bazinintro.png", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/contributors/_resized/totaro-400-400_200_200_90_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/sponsors/Fantasia_2020-promo.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/00-le-fleuve1-resize-crop_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/00-andre-bazin-cigarette-crop_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/00-What_is_Cinema_2_-_back_cover_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/00-the_river_blu-ray_x01-resize-crop_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/INSIDE_OUT_2-ONLINE-small_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/DevilTimesFive_thumb_400_258_90_s_c1.jpeg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/Clinton_Street_Theater-banner2_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/As_Long_as_We_Both_shall_live-small_400_258_90_s_c1.jpg", "https://offscreen.com/assets/img/logo-canada-council.png", "https://offscreen.com/assets/img/logo-funio.png", "https://offscreen.com/assets/img/logo-horschamp-2020.png", "https://offscreen.com/assets/img/logo-zoomout.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null	The first of a two-part essay on one of cinema’s still greatest thinkers and writers.	en			https://offscreen.com/view/bazin4	André Bazin Revisited André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volume set Qu’est- ce que le cinéma? Selections from these four volumes were translated by Hugh Gray and presented in two English volumes: What is Cinema? Other major works translated into English include Jean Renoir, Orson Welles: A Critical View, and French Cinema of the Occupation and the Resistance. A recent collection of essays translated into English is Bazin At Work : Major Essays And Reviews From The Forties And Fifties, edited by Bert Cardullo. Other crucial non- anthologized articles are found in the journals Esprit, Cahiers du Cinéma and Les Temps Modernes. Given the breadth of his work, I have limited myself in this introduction to his theoretical work and omitted his critical work on genre/cycles (the Western, Neo-realism) and/or specific films. In my exposition of these writings I do not purport to be exhaustive, but rather to arrive at an understanding of Bazin’s cinematic beliefs. By expounding, commenting on, and making necessary connections I will attempt to synthesize a complex man and his works into a manageable form. Any element of criticism is a residue of the rigorous thought process propelled by his writings. THE ESSENCE OF CINEMA Bazin sees cinema as “an idealistic phenomenon” and only consequently technical. Being a humanist he believes that the idea precedes the invention and hence is superior to the technical means used to achieve it. He categorizes the early pioneers (Muybridge, Niepce, Leroy, Demeny, Joy, Edison, Lumiére) as “ingenious industrialists” at best. Later, in his now famous essay “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema” he would extrapolate this formula of “idea necessitating technical means” into complexity of subject matter necessitating a new form/style. To Bazin the cinema is inherently realistic because of the mechanical mediation of the camera. This is not the same as saying that cinema is “objective” in any sense other than relative, and that cinema is untouched by ideological and cultural factors, as many of Bazin’s critics have said. What Bazin does do with this fact is place cinema above painting – the camera vs. the brush- as a medium for duplicating reality. Further, cinema’s ability to record the event in time, making “an imprint of the duration of the object” elevates it above photography. Although the potential for human intervention is always present, even granting the mechanical intervention, Bazin believes that the filmmaker owes it to the complexity of reality to refrain from false subjective manipulation and overwrought formalist mediation. The “myth” of total cinema Bazin speaks of is a reflection of humanity’s psychological and indeed ethical, obsession in the arts with depicting reality. 1 Possibly as a means of countering mortality, humanity has forever been attempting to preserve his/her likeness in one form or another. As Prakash Younger notes in his involved argumentation in his Offscreen essay, there is an ethical and moral link between the real world and the practice of artistic creation and spectatorial reception of art which informs the “aesthetic” practice and theory of Bazin. This moral and ethical link does not circumvent the ideological, but stands as a way through the “impasse” of the ideological, or, to once again quote Prakash, “pseudorealism” to get at the “true realism.” As time evolved so did the means of artistically replicating reality, from cave drawings, to mummification, to engraving, to painting, to photography, and to its (thus far) most convincing form, cinema. In the task of duplicating reality cinema has surpassed all other forms of representation. Bazin envisions each rung on cinema’s evolutionary ladder as a step toward a more realistic depiction of the world (sound, color, depth of field, 3- D,etc.). Since Bazin believes that the origins of an art reveal its nature, cinema’s quest for realism supports his claim for an objective and pure cinema. This “myth” which grew out of cinema’s beginnings stands as the touchstone cinema has progressively evolved toward. Much of the confusion concerning Bazin’s writings – and indeed a major concern in the canon of film theory- is traceable to the relationship between the filmed image and its life counterpart. How does Bazin explain this relationship? He describes it in the following terms: 1) The photographic image is “a kind of decal or transfer”; 2) “The photographic image is the object itself, the object freed from the conditions of time and space that govern it”; 3) Photography embalms time; 4) “The photograph as such and the object in itself share a common being, after the fashion of a fingerprint”; 5) “In no sense is it the image of an object or persons, more correctly it is its tracing”; 6) “The photograph proceeds … to the taking of a veritable luminous impression in light – to a mold. As such it carries with it more than mere resemblance, namely a kind of identity …”; 7) “The cinema … makes an imprint of the duration of the object.” 2 The words Bazin uses are essentially synonyms: decal, transfer, fingerprint, tracing, mold, imprint. The reverberations suggest a quasi- mystical relationship between the subject and its photographic double. Given Bazin’s strong Catholic background it may or may not be begging credulity to mention at this point an underlying presence of religious reverberation in lines two and six. Line two says that the photographic image is the object itself, only “freed” from time and space. By “freeing” the object Bazin is implying a form of salvation or transgression to a higher moral/spiritual plateau. Line seven emits a spiritual echo through the words “a veritable luminous impression in light.” Could the photographic reproduction be in a symbolic sense the soul of its real life counterpart? Even when, in his article “La Technique du Citizen Kane,” 3 Bazin defends Welles against George Sadoul’s charges of unoriginality he concludes with the spiritualistic thought that Welles, the modern artist, has left behind (through his films) “a resonance the likes of which we have never known before” (my translation). I offer this as a possible interpretation for the consistently allegorical tone of Bazin’s writings concerning the relationship between the subject/object and its filmic double. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA: an Exploration of cinema style In this section I will lay out Bazin’s seminal discussion of the historical evolution of film style. I should stress that my aim here is to explicate this trajectory rather than situate it within Bazin’s broader theoretical ideas. I admit that even the few criticisms I make with regard Bazin’s critical application of realist style can be smoothed over by relating Bazin’s analysis of cinematic language to his larger philosophical and theoretical aims. With the championing of realism as the eventual goal, Bazin wrote a thoughtful historical overview of the evolution of film language. The major tenet coming from this overview is that the jump from silent to sound cinema was not the major evolutional point in film language. That breakthrough point would arrive several years later (1940-41). Bazin’s starting point for his historical overview is the silent period. Employing a stylistic and semi-auteur approach he groups all directors between the years 1920 to 1940 into two groups: one which base their integrity in the image (the imagists) and another which base their integrity in reality (the realists). The imagists are broken down into two camps, those working with the plastics (lighting, decor, composition, acting) and those working with the editing (the montagists). The realists do not distort time (like the montagists) or space (like the expressionists) but attempt to depict true reality. The major exponents of the realist camp are F.W. Murnau, Eric Von Stroheim, Robert Flaherty, Carl Dreyer, and Jean Renoir. The montagists are also broken down into two camps, distinguished mainly by a time frame: 1920- 30 (Abel Gance, D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein) and 1930- 40 (the American classical “invisible” style, influenced largely, I believe, by Vsevelod Pudovkin). The end of the silent period brought the two “image” camps to their apex in the form of German Expressionism (the plastics) and the Soviet Post-Revolution cinema (the montagists). The jump from the silent to sound cinema did not give evidence to any immediate effects on shooting or editing styles. By the late 30’s sound moved editing toward realism, switching the operative cutting style from symbolic/expressive to dramatic/analytic. Editing style became more or less standardized. Cinema reached a point of classical perfection where content fused with form. By now, 1939, cinema had reached the point where most technical innovations were established (color, track, dolly, crane, zoom, sound, panchromatic film stock) and the next evolutionary advancement, if there was to be one, would not be propelled by a technical matter but a thematic one: the subject matter and the effect it imposed on technical/formal aspects. The result of this was, according to Bazin, the most important aesthetic revolution in film history, the arrival of the mise-en-scéne style. In brief then, here is Bazin’s evolution of film language: 1915-1928 1) The Imagists: a) Plastics (lighting, decor, composition, acting) b) Montagists (editing) 2) The Realists:(long take, on location shooting, objective approach) By 1928 the Imagists peak with a) expressionism and b) Soviet cinema. Early sound films do not show immediate advancement of either style. By the late 30’s sound technique leads montage toward realism. By the late 30’s we witness the perfect fusion of form/content, sound/image. Film reaches its “equilibrium- profile” (Jezebel, Stagecoach, Le Jour se léve). By 1939 all major technical advancements are established; the next step in evolution of style is spurred by subject matter. 1940 Realists: a) Pure objective realism (Neo- Realism, Documentary) b) Spatial Realism (Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, William Wyler). The implication in Bazin’s historical evolution is that by the 1940’s the imagist style had been completely engulfed by the realist style. The imagists, having had their glory days in the silent period, were confronted by the realists and, after a realist maturation period in the 30’s, overtaken by them. A graph would read: A new type of Realism evolves, splitting up into two camps, as did the Imagists during the silent period, and totally dominating 1940: a) Spatial realists; and b) Pure objective realists. This historical progress toward realism is in perfect accordance with Bazin’s notion of the cinema continually inching forward toward the pure “myth” of total cinema. The force of History does not always obey, and this movement does not hold true for long. There is some historical truth in Bazin’s schema because, indeed, the imagists did dominate during the silent period, as did the realists during the later 30’s, but Bazin’s contention of the post 1940 period being dominated by the realist style is quickly but into question by film-noir, a movement/style derivative of German Expressionism. Nowhere in What is Cinema Vol. 1 & 2 do we see even a passing remark at film noir or the expressionistic-like Universal horror films of the 30’s. This oversight is surprising, especially with the evidence already building around Bazin toward the evolutionary direction which the dialectics of realism/formalism would take: toward a harmonious existence where the two become more or less equal and interchangeable operative modes of a complex art form. 4 I would also add that Bazin underplays the importance of sound transition to emphasize his spatial-temporal ontological theory of realism. He realized how important a step sound was toward realism, eliminating the need for expressivity and “denaturalization” that was a large part of silent cinema. However, Bazin overlooks just how important a psychological role sound played in achieving the impression of reality, and the impression of space and depth that were so important to him. Sound added immensely to realism in cinema but Bazin, perhaps so as not to interfere with his spatial/temporal claim, downplays it. He clearly emphasizes the psychological role with regard to the visuals, so the omission may be a result of sound theory not yet entering into the general discourse of film analysis. This aural component is still excluded by many people today when discussing the claim to realism cinema has over other arts. I must mention a final slender point of disagreement. By including Murnau and Dreyer as realists Bazin is falling into the same trap that Siegfried Kracauer does when he accepts certain fantastical/formalistic scenes when they are in the proper “realist” context, such as a dream or a specific point of view (Tudor 94). Bazin is on shaky ground when he removes Nosferatu and The Passion of Joan of Arc from the expressionistic mode on the frail basis of Nosferatu‘s on-location photography and Dreyer’s refrain from the use of make-up for his actors (Bazin, What is Cinema Vol.1 109-110). What then becomes of Nosferatu‘s sinister shadows, fast motion and negative photography, and expressionistic acting, and The Passion of Joan of Arc‘s abstraction of space and extreme reliance on close-ups? In neither case do the slim realist tendencies compensate for the overwhelming artistic intervention, as does Welles’ spatial realism for example. Both films fail to completely qualify for either of Bazin’s realistic camps –the documentary- like “pure” realism or the spatial realism. Although one can argue that Nosferatu is ‘more realist’ than other expressionist films of the time, and that The Passion of Joan of Arc is so unique and iconoclastic in style, that the affect on the spectator is one of realism. DEPTH OF FIELD Having pointed toward Bazin’s preference for the mise-en-scéne style I will now discuss his reasons for that choice. The depth of field/long take style, known as mise-en-scéne, attracted itself to Bazin for two essential reasons: a) It maintained the unity of space and the relationship between the objects within that space. b) It gave the spectator, according to Bazin, the freedom to direct his/her own control over the viewing process, including what to look at, in what order, for how long, and to make their own synthesis of that viewing process. Together they maintain the ambiguity – the existential ambiguity present all around us in life- of that space. Mise-en-scéne can incorporate two styles, one being a documentary-like process where the camera “allows us to see” the event (Neo- Realism) and a second more aesthetic rendition of reality where the realism derives almost exclusively from the respect for spatial unity (Welles, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Theo Angelopoulos). An integral part of the mise-en-scéne style is the presence of depth of field. Bazin wrote entirely on this aspect in the article “Pour en finir avec la profondeur de champ” (“My Final Words on Depth of Field”) (Cahiers du Cinéma. 17-23). This article begins by stating that depth of field belongs only incidentally to the technical domain (my translation): If depth of field interests us it is only incidentally as a technical progress of a shooting style and, essentially, as a revolution of mise-en-scéne or, more precisely, ‘decoupage’ (19). Here he sets down the kernel for the balance of the article. Bazin examines a frame from the 1910 film Onésime (Louis Feuillade) and sees in its composition in depth and soft focus the seeds for the later more refined depth of field style. The shot in questions has the title character framed in left, extreme close-up, with a secondary character visible in the right background of the frame (my translation): Something outside of Feuillade’s genius allowed him to spontaneously discover a prophetic frame, a rough outline of a Renoir or Wellesian shot. In this case, the discovery was not out of genius, but out of necessity – he did not have a choice (20). Given the technical state of 1910 the shot succeeds partly; both planes are visible but the background is soft. Again, giving the state of cinematography (to render a clear, legible image) and the state of audience awareness the softness of the background appears as a default. With the ameliorization of the depth of field shooting style and the parallel advancement of audience awareness, soft focus becomes a technique (rack focus and softening of a part of the image for an effect) and takes on a different meaning, that of decoupage. 5 The soft focus effect is (my translation) … an indirect means in which to place value in the shot which is being focused; it transcribes in the frame the dramatic hierarchy which montage expresses in time. Consequently: In this new complex perception the clarity of the background is no longer indispensable; soft focus is no longer experienced like an improbability: it becomes contrast and not contradiction (Cahiers du Cinéma 22). In a pre-montage context Feuillade foreshadows the true sense of depth of field – the ability to preclude montage through decoupage in depth. 6 According to Bazin decoupage in depth approaches a realism in an ontological sense, restoring to objects their existential density. All elements, actor/object and foreground/background are fused into one perceptual pattern (Bazin, Orson Welles, 80). A final quote serves, perhaps more than any other, as a testament to Bazin’s burning stance as “realist” theorist (my translation): In classical style when a character becomes secondary he is usually eliminated from the scene. Welles maintains that his play not be so precise, but to keep the character “alive” so as to allow the spectators to continually dispense their attention. We must constantly be on the lookout for principal actions which can produce itself “behind our backs” so to speak. Here a part is taken from reality; a way of posing reality homogenous, of considering it indivisible and accruing equal weight to all coordinates of the screen. All the decor and all the actors in the total image are equally offered to the action and at the same time to our attention. If they remain outside it is nothing but a hazard as equally unpredictable as an isolated result of the numbers game (Bazin, Les Temps Modernes 947). MONTAGE Unlike Eisenstein, who wrote voluminously on montage and comparatively little on its antithesis, Bazin wrote substantially on montage. Bazin describes editing as a “series of either logical or subjective points of view of an event.” Dealing with sound films, he lists three motives for cutting: 1) As a purely logical descriptive analysis of the narrative 2) As a psychological analysis from a character’s point of view and 3) As a psychological analysis from the audience’s point of view. (Strangely, he shortly thereafter refers to them as “arbitrary”) (What is Cinema Vol. 1, 92). Bazin opposes classical and expressive editing on the following counts. The simple geographically and psychologically logical (dramatic) cutting within a scene does not add anything to the intent of a scene, only adding emphasis. So why bother? If the scene has only one simple meaning why insult the audience’s intelligence with needless and obvious close-ups? Contrarily, if the scene is complex why presuppose only one meaning? Expressive editing invents meaning through juxtaposition of the images and not through the images themselves. This is trickery; it removes the freedom on the part of the spectator to select for him or herself and removes whatever existential ambiguity may be present in the scene. Therefore it is not faithful to reality, either spatially, temporally, or morally. Bazin is not against editing which forms the basis of film structure, that is cutting necessary to join unconnected scenes/sequences, but is against optical illusions (superimpositions, dissolves, process shots), needless pedestrian editing within a single scene, and expressive editing that adds meaning through the juxtaposition rather than content of each image. Bazin employs a simple aesthetic criteria for deciding when to edit: anytime two or more objects/subjects are necessary to the construction of meaning in a scene, depth of field is preferable over editing. Bazin opposes the contention that editing is a more realistic depiction of the physiological viewing process on several counts. Logical cutting according to drama, narrative, and anticipation constructs a sense of an integral space. The master shot establishes a location so that the cutting to points within is physically (spatially) understood; the dramatic action makes it psychologically understood. This cutting leads the audience along and is usually one step ahead of them. Bazin sees this as only one of two possible modes of realism. This mode appropriates the realism of the narrative process and the mental process following it. The second mode of realism appropriates the event itself. The implication is that there is a choice between one type of reality and another. Here it is instructive to recall Younger’s distinction in Bazin’s understanding of realism in art between “pseudorealism” and “true realism” -the former being caught in the trappings of ideology or meaningless formal articulations. All arts share in this inability to completely capture reality, but there are differing ways of countering this problem. The true realist does not fight against this opposition but merely tries to accommodate it through sincerity and honesty. According to Bazin, within the historical conditions of the 1940s and 1950s, the best way to achieve this was by means of spatial integrity, depth of field, and the long take mise-en-scéne. Cinema can never totally duplicate the viewing process – physiologically and psychologically. That would be impossible, and if possible it would be a visual quagmire. Bazin realizes that the human eye does not perceive a scene in the same way as a camera recording a scene in depth of field and/or long take. This limitation becomes a virtue. By being faithful to the space and the event itself the spectator is able to perceive this hypothetical scene with greater insight and clarity than if he/she were physically present at the scene. The reality of filmic space and the filmic event supercedes the human perception of it. The essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Montage” presents, in the strongest possible sense, Bazin’s mistrust for montage and discloses the essence of his preference for the mise-en-scéne style. Bazin denounces the “trickery” of montage, evident in the animal film by Jean Tourane. Here montage becomes emblematic of its untruthfulness – by relating the human qualities of animals by virtue of off-screen guidance and editing. Later in the essay he discusses the process shot, an equally deceiving effect, and says that the point is not whether or not the trickery is noticeable, but whether or not it is used (a question of integrity). Thus far Bazin’s reasoning implies that the artist has a moral obligation to the audience and the faithful rendition of the event/space. He then uses an example from the film Where No Vultures Fly to demonstrate how much more effective depth of field is than parallel montage. (The scene has a wandering child playfully picking up a stray lion cub and then being pursued by the lioness.) The fact that the lion is tame is unimportant; this deceit is made “morally” correct because it occurs in a homogenous space. Bazin sees no deceit in the proceedings behind a long take/depth of field shot (numerous takes, removal of walls, props, etc.) but instead wants us to neglect the causal events and consider only the final results. 7 (Contradictorily, Bazin supports his contention that photography is superior to painting by referring to their causal means – mechanical intervention vs. human intervention. Though ‘mechanical’ must be considered relatively, since all ‘tools’ (pen, brush, needle, etc) used in art are a form, lesser perhaps, of mechanical intervention.) Through these contradictions we can decipher Bazin’s true motives for his disliking montage and upholding mise-en-scéne. Montage is untruthful to spatial integrity and also deceives the audience through its juxtapositioning; therefore montage is of secondary importance, morally and aesthetically, to the mise-en-scéne style. The integrity of spatial unity is of the utmost importance and supercedes all else – deceit included. Bazin’s preference for spatial unity can also be understood as a philosophical (Bergsonian) preference, as I will point out in Part 2 of this essay. BAZIN & THE THEORETICAL WORLD In this section I will point to some overlooked parallels between Bazin and other classical film theorists. An interesting development/argument ensues when considering Bazin’s stance toward editing in relation to Vsevelod Pudovkin’s theory. In Pudovkin’s illuminating and influential film theory the natural way for a filmmaker to constitute a scene is to assume a hypothetical “perfect” observer, an imaginary, attentive, sensitive eye which captures the scene not the way everyone would see it but the way an acutely intense, analytical, and probing observer would. This is an ideal approach, but realistically, most directors either do not place that much thought into the editing or do not have the aptitude to, and, consequently, fall back on the more traditional editing style, to what Noel Burch terms the “zero point of cinematic style” (11). Even given the ideal, Bazin would still reject Pudovkin’s theory because of its potential to reduce the possibility for multiple interpretations. Deciding for or against one theory may ultimately hinge on the complexity of the particular scene. Given a simple, straightforward scene where the meaning is only at the surface level, Bazin’s resistance to the theory is tenuous, but a complex scene with possible multiple interpretations gives more credence to Bazin’s opposition. Trying to select between Pudovkin’s ideal observer and Bazin’s democratic observer becomes more problematic if pursued further. Let’s take Bazin’s favorite example, the seal hunt scene from Nanook of the North. Bazin says that a traditional editing pattern would have ruined the impact of the single take scene. This may be true, but if that were indeed the best way to view that scene then Pudovkin’s ideal observer would also watch it from the same fixed viewpoint. The argument could go on and on. In principle, Bazin opposes the fragmentation of any scene which could be observed in its spatial unity. Bazin and Rudolf Arnheim, despite one being a realist and the other a formalist, begin their theories from the same starting point. Both theorists begin with the contention that cinema reproduces reality mechanically. Arnheim’s end goal is the equation film=art, while Bazin’s is film=reality. Bazin accepts the contention, and in fact posits it himself, but adds to it by elevating the filmic double to a spiritual/moral/ethical level. Arnheim refutes the contention by saying that regardless of the process, even on the most elementary level the recording of an object/subject is answerable to many factors. (Example: The problem of reproducing three dimensional objects in a two dimensional medium – positioning of object- and the intangible aspect of intuition – deciding whether a person is more him or herself in profile or full face or whether one angle of a mountain is more expressive than another) (Arnheim, 8- 11). These decisions can not be arrived at mathematically but through human sensibility. Arnheim begins with the contention and then attempts to accord to the filmmaker the same artistic intervention of the painter. Bazin, in contrast, downplays the filmmakers intervention. In both cases the limitation – not being able to reproduce reality exactly- becomes the source for the respective ends. In Bazin’s case the film, in its faithfulness to the event, grants the spectator a privileged experience of that event; in Arnheim’s case the spectator experiences the event colored through the artist’s sensibility. Writers who try to reveal inconsistencies in how Bazin applied his own theory to criticism often focused on his troubled affirmation of Welles as a realist. Andrew Tudor, in Theories of Film, says that Bazin enters “deep water” in doing so because Welles is the great inheritor of German Expressionism. Tudor, although noting the two types of realism Bazin formulated – the pure realism and the spatial realism- does not allow Bazin this benefit. I can respect Tudor’s refusal to grant Bazin the benefit of two types of realism, but I disagree with his reason. Tudor believes that Welles’ baroque style – the chiaroscuro lighting, the excessive camera movements, the odd angles- is, along with montage and decor, just “another – way of destroying the visual unity of space.” Bazin is well aware of Welles’ affinity for the baroque and the manipulative potential mise-en-scéne carries: Welles’ pictures are more difficult to analyze because of his over-fondness for the baroque. Objects and characters are related in such a fashion that it is impossible for the spectator to miss the significance of the scene. To get the same results by way of montage would have necessitated a detailed succession of shots (What is Cinema Vol.1 34- 35). Bazin does not deny that the depth of field style can, in that sense, appropriate montage – for that is Bazin’s point- and the point missed by Tudor. Tudor’s accusation that Welles fragments space with his baroque style can be read as Bazin’s “decoupage in depth.” Hence, decoupage in depth is not anomalous to Bazin’s spatial realism but an essential part of it. Although Welles inherited many traits from German Expressionism Tudor can not deny that the context is different – within Wellesian mise-en-scéne- and that there is a difference between cutting a space through montage and cutting a space “in depth” as does Welles. It is this distinction – manipulation via editing vs. manipulation via mise-en-scéne- which makes the difference for Bazin. The last theorist I will consider is Brian Henderson. He serves as an endpoint to this section because Henderson exemplifies the by-product which can result from the constant need to reevaluate and think through existing theories. In his essay “Two Types of Film Theory” Henderson discusses the choice representatives of the formalist and realist camps, Eisenstein and Bazin. One of the conclusions he arrives at is that both theories, albeit drastically different, are in the general sense, ‘incomplete’ theories of the sequence. Out of this evolves Henderson’s critique of both theories: neither considers the relation of the part (the sequence) to the whole. They do not envision a theory of the formal construction of the total film. At this point Henderson does not posit any answers, but only raises the question of whether there can be a theory dictating the complete organization of a film. Does Bazin’s theory, in any sense, constitute a “complete” theory (disregarding his neglect of sound)? The frame/shot/scene/sequence are the principal building blocks of film, with the sequence being the largest “part.” Bazin’s mise-en-scéne contains all these elements and his constant championing of mise-en-scéne at the expense of montage dictates how these elements should be used; as such, this constitutes a theory of how a film should be constructed from beginning to end. Although Bazin expresses approval of simple editing to join homogenous spaces (connecting scenes/sequences which in themselves are shot in depth), he never felt the need to expand on the relationship between long take and editing. Consequently, all that is missing to form a “complete theory,” in the very general sense, is a term designating this “carry- over” from sequence to sequence. Henderson himself would later supply this term. In the subsequent essay “The Long Take” Henderson examines the role of editing within the long take style vis- a- vis Welles, Ophuls, and Murnau. As an answer to his own query, he posits the inter and intra-sequence cuts, cuts occurring in between sequences (inter) or within sequences (intra) (See essay by David George Menard, “Toward a Syntheis of Cinema- a Theory of the Long Take Moving Camera.”). Regardless of the validity of Henderson’s theory, the point is that through a thought process predicated on Bazin’s theory and a need to “complete” it, Henderson constructed a theory of the sequence cut. This interplay between contemporary and past theorist is a vital part of the theoretical world’s evolution and proves the validity of past theories. As art evolves so must the theories. Read Part 2 Here. Notes
7925	dbpedia	3	85	https://www.moviexclusive.com/review/mrshendersonpresent/mrshendersonpresents.htm	en	Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)			[ "https://www.moviexclusive.com/image/mx2.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/review/mrshendersonpresent/poster.jpg", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/review/mrshendersonpresent/mh1.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/review/mrshendersonpresent/mh2.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/image/mx%20star.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/image/mx%20star.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/image/mx%20star.gif", "https://www.moviexclusive.com/image/mx%20star.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	null					null	Genre: Comedy Director: Stephen Frears Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly and Will Young RunTime: 1 hr 43 mins Released By: GV & Festive Films Rating: M18 (Nudity) Official Website: http://www.festivefilms.com/mrshenderson Opening Day: 23 Feb 2006 Synopsis: London, 1937. Mrs Laura Henderson, a woman of wealth and connections, has just buried her beloved husband. And now she's bored. At 69, she is far too energetic and vital to fade into gentle widowhood. To the shock of her friends she decide to buy a theatre - the Windmill theatre in the heart of Soho. She knows nothing about running it, so she hires a manager: enter Vivian Van Damm. His idea for Revudeville, or non-stop entertainment, is a first, and the Windmill is packed - until other theatres copy it. Then it's Laura's turn to devise another first - having naked girls on stage! Movie Review: If there’s one thing that must be made clear about “Mrs Henderson Presents”, it’s what lies at its core. “Mrs Henderson Presents” is not a musical. “Mrs Henderson Presents” is not about theatre. “Mrs Henderson Presents” is not a film glorifying fame. This film is about an elderly woman, a lonely albeit childish widow who manages to become a spark of hope in the midst of chaos through her trials and tribulations in life. And of course, we see tons of humour. British humour. Everything about this film looks picture-perfect. The set-up of West End London is beautiful, with throngs of convincing casts walking the streets and neon signs lining the buildings. Brands such as Guinness and Wrigley that stood the test of time are also prominently displayed on buildings. Especially noteworthy is the setup of the “Windmill” theater (which is the theatre purchased by Mrs Henderson and subsequently run by a Jew Mr Vivian Van Damm), where almost everything looks elegant and posh despite the lack of spatial consideration. However, it’s the theatre girls who will take the audience’s breathe away. With their nude stage performance and authentic singing vocal, the audiences are transformed back in time to savour the glamour of (in Mrs Henderson’s term) “French Postcard” girls. This film also illustrates numerous positive and desirable human traits that truly make it shine. One of these is perseverance, which involves moving out of our comfort zones and trying something new. Despite strong objections from her close friend on her starting a theatre business, Mrs Henderson decides to pursue her dreams and achieves it at all cost. She is thus a moving inspiration in this endeavor. However, what’s even more interesting is Mrs Henderson’s creativity. While being stopped by bureaucratic officials on the public display of nudity, she manages to manoeuvre her way out this hopeless situation by negotiating still displays of nudity as artworks instead of the gratuitous offerings of human anatomy. Mrs Henderson should also be admired for her courage, often giving thought-provoking and inspiring speeches as well as using terms that are usually not considered socially polite in British upper-class social circuit. Despite all this factors, this film will never shine without the lead actress Judi Dench’s acting finesse. Often seen as a strict heiress who controls her family with an iron hand or a no-nonsense agent M in “Die Another Day” (2002), she seems to have been stereotyped in such roles. This film proves once again that Judi Dench does have a wide range of acting abilities. It also proved that mature female actresses do have a place in Hollywood, if they are offered the right roles. This will reinforce the firm standing of experienced actresses the likes of Diane Keaton and Shirley MacLaine. What’s mesmorising about Judi Dench’s performance in this role is her strong ignorance of this world. In her seventies, Judi’s character Laura Henderson has almost a childlike relish for life, savoring its every moments and seeing the good in everyone (which almost bears a close resemblance to the personality of Oskar Schindler). And she brings this characteristic of hers to its peak when she realises that human nature is dual-natured, that there is good but also evil, and that appearances can sometimes be deceiving. It’s the tainting of her rose-tinted glasses, her experiencing an epiphany of this fact but still choosing to believe in the good that makes this film a break-through. And Judi Dench’s performance could not have stood out if not for her interesting banter with her theatre manager Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins). Bob Hoskin’s excellent portrayal of a domineering and yet at times sensible individual gives this film a perfect varnish. His character, with his directorial actions, acts as a complete antithesis to Mrs Henderson’s childlike and at times illogical approach to making decisions. Together, they are a perfect pair. And there are few couplings in films of recent years that have developed a rapport that work that well. Enjoy the ride while watching the transformation of the “Windmill” theatre’s “Revudeville” performance from a small-time event to a continuous display of courage through artistic performances. And ultimately turning into an epitome of haven for the locals while the German warplanes rained their bombs down on Britain during the World War. The remarkable display of courage, love and perseverance in this film has definitely made it a gem of its times. Movie Rating: (An overt display of the remarkable achievements through artistic endeavours. A brilliant film!)
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7925	dbpedia	0	2	https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/mrs-henderson-presents	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	https://www.reelviews.net/favicon.png	https://www.reelviews.net/favicon.png	[ "https://www.reelviews.net/resources/img/settings/reelviews-logo.png", "https://www.reelviews.net/resources/img/partners/bfca-logo.gif", "https://www.reelviews.net/resources/img/partners/partner2.jpg", "https://www.reelviews.net/resources/img/partners/partner4.jpg" ]	[]	[]	[ "Movie", "Movie Reviews", "Entertainment" ]	null	[ "James Berardinelli" ]	2005-12-09T00:00:00	For all those who think movies don't have enough naked female flesh, welcome to Mrs. Henderson Presents. It would have been interesting to witness the MPAA's deliberations about this film. There's some violence, but not much. There's no sex or sex-...	en	https://www.reelviews.net/favicon.png	Reelviews Movie Reviews	//www.reelviews.net/reelviews/mrs-henderson-presents	For all those who think movies don't have enough naked female flesh, welcome to Mrs. Henderson Presents. It would have been interesting to witness the MPAA's deliberations about this film. There's some violence, but not much. There's no sex or sex-related situations. There's only one instance of notable profanity (a single f-word), but there's a lot of "artistic" nudity. Breasts. Buns. Pubic hair. Even a penis or two (including one belonging to Bob Hoskins). This should be a PG-13 movie - there's nothing salacious or erotic about the naked women. It's all very tasteful. But the MPAA has done what they always do upon seeing a nipple - head for the R-rated hills. Ironically, one of the subjects tackled by Mrs. Henderson Presents is the ridiculous nature of governmental objections to public nudity. The film argues its case persuasively on three grounds: the artistic merit of the female form, the fact that we shouldn't be hiding what God gave us, and the way the fear of nudity has forced many young men "underground" in their natural desire to view the female form. Men will always seek to glimpse naked women, argues director Stephen Frears, so why turn this into something dirty and clandestine? Celebrate the female form; don't hide it. The film, Frears' first since 2002's Dirty Pretty Things, opens in London between the two world wars. It continues into the blitz, giving us a good perspective of the city before and during World War II. Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) is a rich, recently widowed aristocrat. She is bored with widowhood, so a friend offers her some advice. She can try embroidery (which she's no good at), take a lover (she believes she's too old), or buy whatever she wants. The last option appeals to her, so she purchases the run-down West End showplace, the Windmill Theater, and decides to renovate it. She wants to present a revue, but that's where the inspiration ends. To handle the production, she hires Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), a prickly sort of man who demands complete creative control. He and Laura are immediately at odds, but the result of their collaboration is "Revudeville," an immediate success. However, after getting off to a smashing start, the show sputters. That's when Mrs. Henderson comes up with a revolutionary idea to boost business - take a page from the French and make the showgirls nude. The Lord Chamberlain (Christopher Guest), who must okay this sort of thing, agrees, but with one proviso: when the girls are naked, they must remain unmoving. The film's haphazard and uneven structure is offset by its effective mixing of three genres: comedy, drama, and musical. Mrs. Henderson Presents is at times funny, at times poignant, and at times uplifting. And it avoids a common pitfall for movies focused on stage shows: it does not turn the lives of the performers into soap operas. Only in the case of one girl are we given a back-story, and, even in this situation, there is limited development. 75% of the film centers on the evolution of the stage show (including showing us numerous full production numbers). The other 25% delves into Mrs. Henderson's life, giving Judi Dench an opportunity to shine. Like Dench, Bob Hoskins is in fine form. The two veteran actors play off one another as only seasoned thespians can - sit back and watch the sparks fly. Relative newcomer Kelly Reilly, as Maureen, impresses. And Christopher Guest is dryly funny in a small role. Frears is one of the most versatile directors working today, and his resume speaks for itself. Mrs. Henderson Presents represent another success for the English-born filmmaker. It offers a feel-good experience, but without the heavy dose of schmaltz that often accompanies such a production. It comes highly recommended and is right at home in the company of other end-of-the-year "prestige" pictures. It is also one of the first titles to bear the standard of the newly-formed "Weinstein Company." Mrs. Henderson Presents (United Kingdom, 2005)
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7925	dbpedia	3	50	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/mrs-henderson-presents-doesnt-push-past-its-legacy-as-a-british-nudes-story/article34416369/	en	Mrs Henderson Presents fails to push past its legacy as a British nudes story	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=1200&height=800&quality=80&smart=true	[ "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=16433046&cv=3.9.1&cj=1", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/R6NKSKNAPREWDKLJCZXRJTZJTI?auth=3b70d527ddcf57144ab212c3a6f8fe93e63d0e986036c52efbe73d8d8de6e1f9&width=600&quality=80", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/NFDQACSEBJF2RCJFXHMNDHRZH4.png?auth=e0314807201202fdd234802ccff424f019356a2e5c1608f15ac6827f34fe2eef&width=300&height=200&quality=80&smart=true", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-cryptic-sm.png", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-sudoku-sm.png", "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/dev/www/cache-long/images/puzzles/puzz-universal-sm.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "review", "Toronto", "cast", "Mrs Henderson Presents", "Mirvish", "theatre", "production" ]	null	[ "J. Kelly Nestruck" ]	2017-03-24T17:48:24+00:00	The all-male creative team behind the Mirvish production seems flummoxed as to how to explore any of the complexities of the woman-focused plot	en	https://www.theglobeandm…h-icon.png?d=598	The Globe and Mail	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/mrs-henderson-presents-doesnt-push-past-its-legacy-as-a-british-nudes-story/article34416369/	There's nothing, it seems, Britons love more than a good nudes story. The Full Monty, Calendar Girls, Mrs Henderson Presents. … God bless them, they have a whole genre of feel-good flicks about ordinary folks who disrobe for a cause bigger than themselves. Widespread love for those cheeky movies has led to them all being adapted for the stage across the pond – and the latest to surface on Canadian shores as part of a Mirvish season is Mrs Henderson Presents, which musicalizes the 2005 Judi Dench movie of the same name about naked ladies standing up to the Nazis (sort of). Alas, it's a pretty weak offering from the West End. It takes more than Blitz and ass to impress over here. Mrs Henderson Presents is based on the true story of the rich widow and impresario Laura Henderson. She owned a revue theatre called The Windmill that presented nude women on stage in London from 1932 onwards – and is played in the musical with often intentionally hilarious gusto by stage veteran Tracie Bennett, perhaps the biggest exhibitionist in the cast, even though she never takes off her clothes. How did Mrs. Henderson get permission from the Lord Chamberlain's office to pursue her profession, when it wouldn't even allow Mrs. Warren's Profession on a public stage until 1925? Well, as seen here in song and dance, she and her general manager, Vivian Van Damm (Peter Polycarpou), evaded Britain's official stage censor by presenting its Windmill Girls in stationary "tableaux vivants" – and successfully arguing that if the nudes didn't move, they were no ruder than any number of paintings or statues you might find in the British Museum. That's a fascinating chapter in the history of censorship, but the conflict is resolved in the first few scenes of this musical. The rest of the show is an overly patriotic pageant about how the Windmill went on to earn the motto "We Never Closed" – by never shutting down during the Second World War, even at the height of the German air offensive known as the Blitz that killed over 40,000 civilians. Unfortunately, working from the original screenplay, playwright and director Terry Johnson hasn't really found an emotionally or otherwise engaging story to tell in this unusual wartime setting. Mrs. Henderson and Mr. Van Damm simply go about their business running the theatre with few real hiccups. Maureen (a charming Evelyn Hoskins) is the only Windmill Girl we really to get to know in any depth. Initially a clumsy, introverted tea girl, she finds herself liberated by taking her clothes off in public. She tells men to strip as well – and, when a stagehand named Eddie (Matthew Malthouse) pursues her with a hackneyed song about the moon, she, refreshingly enough, rejects him. There seems to be an attempt to turn what is a story about the literal objectification of women into a feminist parable – linking the Windmill Girls to the rise of women in the workplace, economy and positions of power during the war. Unfortunately, the all-male creative team behind Mrs Henderson Presents seems flummoxed as to how to explore any of the complexities of the situation – and instead delivers only clichés: secondary showgirls indistinguishable from each other; women putting down others for being fat; innocents and sluts. It seems a little insane to me that a story so woman-focused would make it to the stage in this day and age without someone involved at some point stopping to say, "Hey, maybe we should hire a female artist to help make some of this dialogue realistic or help move the characters around the stage in a non-male-gaze way?" Instead, Johnson and company thrust a male narrator upon us to unnecessarily mansplain the action. A music-hall-style comedian named Arthur (Matt Slack) comes on stage between scenes, like a pointless rip-off of the emcee from Cabaret, to comment on the story, fill us in on the history and tell innuendo-filled jokes that I can't for sure say are awful, because Slack's accent and fast-talking makes half of what he's saying unintelligible. It's only well into the second act that something resembling a plot breaks out – as Maureen finds herself dealing with a rather complicated situation when Mrs. Henderson pressures her to be friendlier to Eddie before he ships off. It's here, however, where the decision to turn Mrs Henderson Presents into a musical really shows itself as a commercial rather than artistic one. The songs add nothing to the show – and, in many cases, harm it. The music composed by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain may be decent enough, but it's impossible to get past the awkward lyrics by Don Black (Sunset Boulevard). Black's attempt to write a W.S. Gilbert-style patter song for the Lord Chamberlain reveals a serious lack of wit, but his attempts at earnestness are even worse. A group number during the Blitz has the whole cast singing, over and over: "When this war is over / we will all be saying / wasted lives are too high a price to pay." (Really?) In the end, the only thing that really recommends this poorly plotted, plodding show is the opportunity to see some of the Windmill's strange and oddly beautiful tableaux vivants recreated on stage. Though one scene in which Maureen does move did make me question the historical accuracy of the whole enterprise, to be honest. Where on earth would a Briton have got a Brazilian during the Blitz?
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So where should you start with his movies?	en	https://assets.guim.co.u…e-touch-icon.svg	the Guardian	https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/16/every-stephen-frears-film-ranked	24. Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) Not Frears’ finest hour – nor Judi Dench’s either. Sadly, this is a toe-curlingly coy piece of Blitz-kitsch nostalgia, with Dench as the supercilious grande dame Mrs Henderson who buys the Windmill theatre in London’s Soho and turns it into a saucy nude revue that stays open, despite the Luftwaffe’s bombs. 23. Cheri (2009) A desperately creaky, stuffy, airless period piece, based on the Colette novels. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the elegant courtesan in belle epoque France who is tasked with giving a sentimental education to a boy she calls Chéri, played by Rupert Friend. The cast look like tailor’s dummies in period garb being wheeled around on castors. A pound-shop Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 22. Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (2013) The “greatest fight” is Ali’s legal fight in the mid-60s when he was stripped of his world boxing title for refusing to fight in Vietnam, and his appeal reached the supreme court. But this film, obtusely, doesn’t dramatise Ali himself, concentrating on the elderly judges, the cue for much twinkle-eyed character acting from Frank Langella and Christopher Plummer. It doesn’t land much of a punch. 21. Victoria & Abdul (2017) In which Dench reprises her impersonation of Queen Victoria. The first time around, she was crushing hard on her ghillie, John Brown, played by Billy Connolly, and now it is her Muslim Indian servant Abdul Karim, played by Ali Fazal, in this based-on-a-true-story film. However, it’s a very coy and bland piece of inoffensive heritage cinema. 20. Lay the Favourite (2012) This is a broad caper about gambling, the excitement of which is difficult to convey properly to uninitiated audiences. It is based on the avowedly true-life memoir of a woman who came to Vegas looking to be nothing more than a cocktail waitress and wound up deeply involved with the scary/thrilling high-rollers. Rebecca Hall is our heroine and Bruce Willis her grouchy boss. A bit moderate. 19. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) This multicultural London movie that Frears made in the Thatcher era was interesting, but didn’t quite come off. The Sammy and Rosie of the title are Ayub Khan Din and Frances Barber, who have a bohemian existence in the capital; then Sammy’s father (Shashi Kapoor) comes from Pakistan, disrupting their precarious happiness. 18. Accidental Hero (1992) This was a big role for Dustin Hoffman and an interesting and lively high-concept story – but the chemistry didn’t quite work for the film to do as well as it might have done. He plays an oddball hustler midway between his characters in Rain Man and Midnight Cowboy. When a plane crashes on a highway, he drives up to the wreck and saves people’s lives but then has to leave – and finds that someone else is taking the credit for his heroism. Not a bad tale. 17. Mary Reilly (1996) Julia Roberts’s weird attempt at an Irish accent probably sank this movie, but it has got a lot to recommend it. It’s a retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde story from the point of view of the maid (Roberts), who has no idea that her master, Dr Jekyll, and his sinister friend, Mr Hyde, are the same person – both played by John Malkovich. Atmospheric and interesting. 16. The Hit (1984) An entertaining selection of well-directed performances keep this film going. Terence Stamp is the supergrass ex-criminal exiled in Spain who finds that old comrades have caught up with him, intent on settling scores. Played by John Hurt and a livewire young Tim Roth, they are disconcerted by Stamp’s Zen acceptance of the situation. 15. Liam (2000) With a brutally tough screenplay from Jimmy McGovern, Frears strays here into what could be called Terence Davies territory. It’s an account of a 1930s Catholic boyhood in Liverpool, in which Ian Hart plays Liam’s dad, an embittered, unemployed docker with a taste for the booze who becomes a Mosleyite blackshirt, to his family’s dismay. A tough watch, and atypically bleak for Frears. 14. The Program (2015) The strange case of Lance Armstrong is what Frears addresses in this serviceable biopic written by John Hodge. Ben Foster plays the fiercely committed, impregnably arrogant Armstrong, the Tour de France cyclist who first became an inspirational figure for surviving cancer, only to become notorious for doping and then a long battle with his own awful PR. Foster is very good at conveying Armstrong’s beady-eyed fanaticism and inability to reconcile his “underdog hero” view of himself with the public’s deep disappointment. 13. The Van (1996) This is just the type of film that responds well to Frears’ gift for getting strong, clear, funny performances across the board, and building the storytelling around them. Colm Meaney plays a shiftless guy in late-80s Ireland who is reasonably happy on welfare but has a Damascene conversion to entrepreneurialism. When his best mate Bimbo discovers an abandoned catering van, the pair have a plan to clean it up (sort of) and sell burgers and chips outside sports grounds. But their big dreams of fast-food wealth go horribly wrong. 12. The Hi-Lo Country (1998) This is one of Frears’ most underrated movies – a western, to which he brings a cool, understated intelligence and revisionist flair, working from a script by Walon Green, who also wrote The Wild Bunch. Patricia Arquette plays a lonely woman in postwar New Mexico who is drawn to a number of men who aren’t her husband: Billy Crudup’s young rancher and Woody Harrelson’s outrageously brash cowboy. The booming-voiced Sam Elliott plays a wealthy local man who tries to help and advise the hopelessly naive Crudup. A film with real texture and force. 11. Tamara Drewe (2010) Another underrated movie from Frears, this satire canters enjoyably through the world of English middle-class hypocrisy and vanity. Frears makes this kind of comedy look easy, which is perhaps why it doesn’t get its due. Screenwriter Moira Buffini adapts Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a young woman (Gemma Arterton) who returns to her sleepy home village with a nose job and a glamorous position in the media, and promptly shakes everything up. There are great performances in particular from Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig. 10. Gumshoe (1971) This debut feature is an early gem in the Frears canon, with a great ensemble supporting cast including Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw, and a taut script from Neville Smith. Albert Finney stars as Eddie, an ordinary guy in Liverpool who is a bingo-caller and cheesy nightclub comic turn, with an unsightly line in the ugly racist banter of that era. But he also exists in a Walter Mitty fantasy world of private detectives, idolising the screen persona of Humphrey Bogart. When Eddie actually tries to live the private detective dream, by placing an ad for his dubious services in the local paper, someone actually takes him up on it. Soon he is hopelessly out of his depth and his unhinged mental state deteriorates. 9. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) This biopic combines sentimentality, comedy and deep strangeness in equal measure. Meryl Streep plays the deluded amateur soprano and fashionable hostess Florence Foster Jenkins, whose off-key warbling at private events horrified 40s New York high society – but everyone was too polite to say anything, or too keen on Mrs Jenkins’s lavish patronage and generosity to comment (other than giggling among themselves). Hugh Grant takes his career to the next level with a great performance as Jenkins’s partner and husband in all but name, a failed thesp who sympathises with Florence’s big dreams and wishes only to bring her some happiness. Streep and Grant are a lovely combination and their gentle chemistry, nurtured by Frears, allows this film to grow on you. At the end, you are laughing with them, not at them. 8. The Queen (2006) Before there was The Crown, there was this movie, which bears about the same relationship to the racy TV show as Robert Altman’s Gosford Park does to the later small-screen romp Downton Abbey. Screenwriter Peter Morgan showed his witty post-Tussaud mastery of fabricating the private talk of the great and the good, and Helen Mirren gives a lovely, award-winning impersonation of the Queen during the great crisis of 1997 when Princess Diana had just died in a car accident and the public and press appeared to be genuinely turning against Her Majesty for the first time in her long reign. Michael Sheen plays the young and guilelessly pushy new prime minister Tony Blair, who presumes to tell the Queen how to manage public opinion — and also wonders how her loss in reputation might result in a corresponding gain for his. Frears orchestrates all this with terrific brio and gusto, finding that keynote of comic indulgence amid the supposed seriousness and political gossip. 7. Dirty Pretty Things (2002) This urban-myth thriller from screenwriter Steven Knight has all the ingredients that Frears knows how to blend: a strong, accessible, exciting (and scary) story and three fiercely drawn characters, played to the hilt by three outstandingly good actors – Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou and Sergi Lopez – whose contributions are managed with great skill by the director. Ejiofor is the Nigerian “illegal” in London, working as a hotel night porter and driving a minicab during the day; Tautou is the similarly illegal Turkish woman working as a chambermaid at the same hotel, and Lopez is the sinister hotel manager who informs them that hotels are places where discretion among staff is essential. When Tautou and Ejiofor discover a grisly criminal conspiracy, their story tells us something about inequality and exploitation and how London relies on immigrants as a servant class, who must be demonised so that their wages can be kept low and their working conditions poor. Frears paints the drama with a slightly broad brush, but this is a great, underrated British movie, as relevant today as ever. 6. High Fidelity (2000) In so many ways, High Fidelity is the perfect Frears project: relatable, smart, romantic, funny and sad, building on British wit to create a Hollywood picture with an indie sensibility. It was adapted from Nick Hornby’s bestseller, transposing the action from north London to Chicago, and turning the hangdog, lovelorn owner of a record store (a retail concept that was more or less extinct even in 2000) into an American: John Cusack, whoalso co-wrote the film. The casting was perfect, and introduced Jack Black to a wider audience as Barry, the testy and massively opinionated music buff and store assistant who makes it his business to terrorise those customers whose tastes do not come up to scratch. Cusack’s character has just been dumped, and all his misery and yearning are channelled into the music he loves. Is music where his fidelity or loyalty really lies, or can music be the gateway drug to real love and a real relationship? This film has been remade and re-franchised over the past 20 years, but this is the original and best. 5. Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Frears delivered power, intrigue and sexual menace with this story of elegant cynicism set in 18th-century France – a parable of the arrogant ennui that prefigured the revolution. Glenn Close and John Malkovich play the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, former lovers who now jadedly amuse each other with their respective tales of adventures in seduction and the ruination of innocents. The Marquise spitefully bets the Vicomte that he can’t have his way with a certain comely young woman (Uma Thurman), who has had the audacity to accept a marriage proposal from the Marquise’s current lover, thus ending their arrangement. The Vicomte accepts the wager with alacrity and also sets out for another bedpost-notch: the lovely, virtuously married Madame de Tourvel, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. These liaisons are indeed dangerous in ways that the older epicures do not understand. They can fall in love, and fall in other ways as well. The central scene, when the entire theatre turns hissingly on the disgraced Marquise, is genuinely scary. The keynotes of drama and tragedy are atypical for Frears, but he handles them tremendously. 4. Prick Up Your Ears (1987) A recent re-release woke us up to what a belter this is, and what a masterly exercise in drama and characterisation from Frears, who guides two cracking performances from Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina in a true story of scandal and tragedy. Oldman plays the brilliant and troubled young dramatist Joe Orton who, in the 1960s, set the London arts scene alight with his talentand made no secret of his homosexuality, but evaded censure in an era when it was still illegal. Molina is Kenneth Halliwell, his lover and best friend who becomes unstable and obsessively jealous of Orton’s colossal success while his own career as an actor is fizzling out. Eventually, this toxic and dysfunctional relationship explodes into violence. Alan Bennett’s tremendous script is based on John Lahr’s biography with its cheeky, naughty pun in the title. Vanessa Redgrave has a cameo as Joe’s legendary agent, Peggy Ramsay. It is the perfect Frears storm of great actors, smart script and absorbing drama. 3. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Frears brings us a classic of 80s British cinema here, with its script by Hanif Kureishi, a film that refuses to run on the usual rails of commercial film-making or even on the rails of politically correct or right-on attitudising, despite boldly taking on racism and homophobia. A young and exquisitely beautiful Daniel Day-Lewis plays Johnny, a racist thug who appears to be about to attack Omar (played by Gordon Warnecke). He is a south Asian guy of Pakistani extraction whose wealthy, worldly uncle has put him in charge of one of his laundrettes, one of a string of faintly dodgy business interests. But there is a complication: Johnny and Omar are lovers, and their relationship finds a kind of ironic symbol in the laundrette that may yet get turned into an unlikely thing of beauty. And so the film unexpectedly and subversively taps into the new Thatcherite enthusiasm for small-business entrepreneurialism (it was a time when Thatcher’s Enterprise Allowance Scheme, while undoubtedly intended to keep unemployment figures low, was taken up by many in the leftie arts world). 2. The Grifters (1990) A modern classic about con artists, this also stars Cusack and is adapted by Donald Westlake from the novel by pulp master Jim Thompson, but finds something a little softer and more emollient than might otherwise be the case for Thompson (less shocking, for example, than his The Killer Inside Me). Cusack plays Roy, a small-time confidence trickster whose mother (and fellow con artist) Lilly, played by Anjelica Huston, takes an instant dislike to Roy’s new girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening). This emotional triangulation is the driving force behind calamitous new criminal complications, involving an awful psychological disclosure. In some ways, the most devastating moment comes with Roy’s first misjudgment: a silly little scam to trick bartenders out of high-denomination bills winds up with him getting punched in the stomach by his intended victim with shocking ferocity. When a cop stops to ask the hunched-over Roy if he is all right, Roy obviously can’t say what’s happened and, suppressing gasps of agony has to make light of it, claiming to have food poisoning: a symbol of the self-destructive and dishonest denial that has been going on his whole life. 1. Philomena (2013) Frears’ chef-d’oeuvre has everything: accessibly rooted in a true story, it has a powerful but controlled display of emotions, is tempered with poignancy and wit, and has great performances from stars and supporting cast. Judi Dench gives one of her best ever performances as Philomena Lee, a tough Irish woman who is on a mission to find out what happened to the baby boy that was taken from her when she became pregnant in the 1950s and was sent to one of Ireland’s notorious “Magdalene laundries”. These were workhouse-style homes for unwed young mothers that allowed childless Catholic couples from the United States to come and adopt the wretched women’s babies in return for a cash donation to the church (naturally, the mothers themselves were not allowed a say in the matter). In effect, a machine for turning shame into money. Steve Coogan plays Martin Sixsmith, the former journalist and New Labour spin doctor who has recently endured a shame of his own relating to a leaked email. It is Sixsmith who helps Philomena on her mission to confront the arrogant hypocrisy of the church. Dench gives a lovely performance as Philomena and Coogan – whose acting skills are often undervalued – is excellent as well. It is a film with all the components for a Frears gem, and the most important is heart. Its compassion and tenderness radiate from the screen.
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With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young, Christopher Guest. Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.	en	https://m.media-amazon.c…B1582158068_.png	IMDb	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413015/	Laura Henderson: [at Mrs. Henderson's husband's funeral] I'm bored with widowhood. Lady Conway: My dear, you've just scratched the surface. Laura Henderson: I have to smile at everybody. I've never had to smile at everybody. In India, there were always people to look down on. Lady Conway: People are merely being sympathetic. After all, you have lost your husband.
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The Windmill is a very serious business. -- Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins)Mrs	en	https://www.popmatters.c…05C61-32x32.jpeg	PopMatters	https://www.popmatters.com/mrs_henderson_presents_2005-2495678923.html	We must be cautious about too much frivolity. The Windmill is a very serious business. — Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) Mrs. Laurie Henderson is not the dry aristocrat Judi Dench often plays. She’s “old money,” yes, and comfortable in her upper-crust, 1930s London estate, but age and wealth haven’t dulled her tongue or tempered her personality. She’s feisty and independent, yet after her husband’s death she feels adrift. As she puts it in the opening funeral scene of Mrs. Henderson Presents, “I’m bored with widowhood.” Her friend Lady Conway (Thelma Barlow) recommends the accepted pastimes of the leisure class: learning to embroider, taking a lover, or supporting a charity. “Once your husband dies, it’s quite permissible to help the poor,” she confides. Mrs. Henderson, not one for embroidery and too ribald for the charity circuit, takes a less conventional path: she buys a theater. Knowing nothing about managing a theater, she enlists the help of Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), a well-respected Dutch Jew who suggests a nonstop musical revue. The ensuing success allows Mrs. Henderson to showcase her newfound concern for the “delightful creatures” employed in her theater. She toasts them to her friends, and in explaining her part in alleviating England’s employment crisis, confuses breadlines with “milk lines.” She, like many of the rich, is a little divorced from reality. (She, like Paris Hilton, carries a small dog with her.) Free from the concerns of material need, she flits from the theater to her estate, content to play patron and chatter with Lady Conway about her developing crush on Van Damm. She warns him, “I’m not simply frivolous, you know, and I don’t want to ever, ever be taken for granted.” In this aspiration, she is the synchedoche of Mrs. Henderson Presents. As she wants to be taken seriously, so does the film, as commentary on the role of Art during wartime, rather than a confection of British drollery and outsized musical numbers. With the revue’s success comes imitation, and soon London is flooded with similar shows. As the Windmill’s fortunes slide, Mrs. Henderson suggests another radical idea: her show will be all-nude. She cajoles the London censor, Lord Chamberlain (Christopher Guest), into allowing it on one condition: the nudes remain motionless. His notion of Art is Renaissance nudes hanging in a museum; as long as Mrs. Henderson doesn’t challenge that definition, she’s free to do as she pleases. Soon the Windmill is casting for the perfect “British nipples.” Van Damm coaxes the young ladies into disrobing by comparing their God-given bodies to Bottocellis. When Mrs. Henderson asks about the girls’ treatment, they respond that Van Damm “treats us as what we are artists!” The film sets off every use of the word “art” with quotation marks, as if a punch line. But once the newsreels blare, “HITLER INVADES FRANCE,” the war descends like a shroud over Mrs. Henderson Presents, and lower-case “art” becomes platonic “Art.” Van Damm plays a stunt-double Churchill who rouses his troupe with the cry of, “Of course, we all have our war duties as well as our theatrical duties.” The Windmill transforms from a nude review into everything that’s good and true about Britain during the Blitz. The boys stream in for a last glimpse of beauty before being shipped off to the front; the ladies do their part by being beautiful and defiant. When a buzz bomb leaves the stage shaking, nude Maureen (Kelly Reilly) breaks her tableaux to proudly flip the “V for Victory” sign to the roaring crowd. Lord Chamberlain responds differently: once the bombs start to fall, he dismisses theater as a “frivolous distraction” and orders the Windmill closed. His argument looks forward to Theodor Adorno’s oft-abused axiom, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” If art provides only distraction, an easy way of turning our gaze from such brutality, can we call it anything other than “barbaric,” or morally irresponsible? Lord Chamberlain’s complaint also echoes the “End of Camelot” that came with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the post-9/11 “death of irony.” For those who buy the argument, every fresh horror thrusts us into a harsher world with no room for anything but survival. And yet we keep returning to ironic, lower-case, frivolous art, not because it distracts, but because it transcends mere survival. As C.S. Lewis wrote in “The Four Loves,” “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” The Windmill, with its live nude girls, “has no survival value,” but it sustains life. Art stands as a challenge to a war-torn, bleak world, not a distraction from it. As Mrs. Henderson says, when Lord Chamberlain threatens to close her theater, “If we are to ask our young men to surrender their lives, we should not ask them to surrender joy — or the possibility of joy.” That possibility, after all, is the promise of art.
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7925	dbpedia	0	64	https://bplusmovieblog.com/2016/10/06/the-oscar-quest-reconsidered-best-actress-2005-2006/	en	The Oscar Quest: Reconsidered (Best Actress, 2005-2006)	https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea3a3f137056719de8b1e880588615198cf22a9ac8f8155a4dd1f4038211ac26?s=200&ts=1723973897	https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea3a3f137056719de8b1e880588615198cf22a9ac8f8155a4dd1f4038211ac26?s=200&ts=1723973897	[ "https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea3a3f137056719de8b1e880588615198cf22a9ac8f8155a4dd1f4038211ac26?s=50&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Flogo%2Fwpcom-gray-white.png", "https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea3a3f137056719de8b1e880588615198cf22a9ac8f8155a4dd1f4038211ac26?s=50&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Flogo%2Fwpcom-gray-white.png", "https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "B+ Movie Blog" ]	2016-10-06T00:00:00	The Oscar Quest began in May of 2010. I finished about fifteen months later, and wrote it up for this site. That was essentially the first thing I did on here. Five years have passed since then. I've grown as a person. My tastes have changed, matured (or gotten more immature, in some cases). So…	en	https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/ea3a3f137056719de8b1e880588615198cf22a9ac8f8155a4dd1f4038211ac26?s=32	B+ Movie Blog	https://bplusmovieblog.com/2016/10/06/the-oscar-quest-reconsidered-best-actress-2005-2006/	The Oscar Quest began in May of 2010. I finished about fifteen months later, and wrote it up for this site. That was essentially the first thing I did on here. Five years have passed since then. I’ve grown as a person. My tastes have changed, matured (or gotten more immature, in some cases). So it feels fitting, on the five year anniversary of the site and of the Oscar Quest, to revisit it. I want to see just how my opinions about things have changed over the past five years. I didn’t do any particular work or catch-up for this. I didn’t go back and watch all the movies again. Some I went back to see naturally, others I haven’t watched in five years. I really just want to go back and rewrite the whole thing as a more mature person, less concerned with making points about certain categories and films than with just analyzing the whole thing as objectively as I can to give people who are interested as much information as possible. This is the more mature version of the Oscar Quest. Updated, more in-depth, as objective as possible, less hostile. You can still read the old articles, but know that those are of a certain time, and these represent the present. 2005 Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman, Transamerica Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice Charlize Theron, North Country Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line Analysis: Oh yeah, this one. I have a pretty good idea how this one is gonna go. SAG matched 4/5. They missed Knightley in favor of Ziyi Zhang for Memoirs of a Geisha. Which is fascinating to me but not something we need to get into just now. BAFTA matched 3/5. They had Rachel Weisz lead even though she won Supporting. So that explains one. And they also had Ziyi Zhang. BFCA had all five, out of six nominees. The Globes had all five across both categories. Reese won everything. All of them. Felicity Huffman won the other Globe, but it was clear who was winning the Oscar all the way through. Mrs. Henderson Presents is a Weinstein Oscar special. They love them some Judi Dench, and I love that they do. Judi plays an eccentric widow who buys a theater during World War II and decides to open a burlesque show with nude performers. So she has to fight to allow that to happen and then put the show on in the middle of a war, with the blitz going on. The progression is something you’ve seen before, but the movie is entertaining. Judi is really good here. Bob Hoskins is the secret weapon of the film, by the way. But Judi is good. Not something that wins, because she’s basically playing the same Judi Dench character she plays in nearly all these Weinstein movies. But she’s lively and puts in good work. I might consider her a solid #3 here. Transamerica is one of the early transgender movies. I don’t remember a whole lot of these in this era. And as such, it was promptly ignored and forgotten. Because Hollywood wasn’t ready for it yet. Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op transvestite. So get that — a “man” transitioning into a woman. A week before her surgery, she finds out someone claiming to be her son was arrested. She has to fly out to meet her son and thus begins a road trip. The film is fine. It’s just pretty good. Indie tropes galore. But Felicity Huffman — holy shit. She’s terrific here. How she didn’t win the Oscar on performance alone says a lot about where the Academy was at in 2005. No Brokeback Mountain, no Transamerica. I wouldn’t say this was a “decision” so much as Crash over Brokeback was a decision. At least here, Reese won all the precursors (Huffman won the Globe for Drama, but Reese won the other one, so that’s a wash), so they could say they had their choice and went with it. Which is fine. They can defend that. But the performance speaks for itself. Reese holds up better as an actress, but Huffman’s performance is clearly the best in the category. Pride and Prejudice is self-explanatory. Jane Austen, directed by Joe Wright. Everyone knows what this is about. Unless you completely zoned out during English class. Keira Knightley plays Lizzy Bennett. And she’s good. She’s lively, she makes you fall in love with her. But I don’t think there’s any debate that she’s fifth in this category. Maybe fourth if you really love her. I really love her and still wouldn’t put her higher than fourth on a good day. It’s a nice start to her career, but she doesn’t stand a chance in this category. And part of it is my aversion to these types of “obvious” films and roles this late in the Oscar game. North Country is Oscar bait to the max. Good film, but one of those films that’s so obvious that when it gets nominated you ignore it because it’s so standard fare. Charlize Theron works at a coal mine and faces horrible discrimination from all the men. Because of course. And eventually she starts a class action lawsuit about it, and that of course leads to retaliation, and she has to fight for respect for herself and all the women who work at the mine. It’s a good film. I really liked it. But it’s standard Oscar fare and Theron’s performance is solid but also very much in the realm of what you’d expect for this type of movie. She’s one of those people who sprints to the nomination but stalls after that. Because she’s good, but not good enough that you’d actually take her. Especially with her having won two years before this for a far better performance. So she ends up fourth/fifth. I put Keira fifth on performance but fourth on vote just because Theron had one and this performance isn’t something I really take. That’s how this one shakes out. Theron is fine, but you don’t take her. Walk the Line is the Johnny Cash biopic. This is always a tough one to talk about. Because I love the film. I’ve watched this so many times and I really like it. I also am aware that Reese Witherspoon is more “movie” good than “Oscar” good. She’s very entertaining and does a good job, but Best Actress? Nah. She might not even be a lead in this movie. She seems more supporting, the more I go back to it. But she’s here, so that doesn’t matter. I think this is an example of a major A-list actress being charming and winning because it was her time. Sandra Bullock had that. Julia Roberts had that. That’s how they do it with these actresses. Is it fair? No. But that’s what it is. Whether you think she should have won or not, you have to understand it. – – – – – – – – – – The Reconsideration: This reconsideration is all about understanding why what happened happened. Looking at this category — no one takes Theron, and no one takes Knightley. I feel like 1 or 2 people might take Knightley, but most people understand what that nomination is. Judi Dench always finds herself in these categories (see 2013), where there’s a clear winner who isn’t everyone’s choice. It’s the actress who is finally gonna get her due and is good, but not something that everyone loves for the vote. Usually I am part of the dissension. And Judi is entertaining bordering on very good, and legitimately puts herself in conversation for the vote. I don’t think this performance is as solid as Philomena, so I ultimately wouldn’t seriously consider her for the vote, but she is good enough to be that alternate choice for those not into the Huffman and Witherspoon performances. Now, Witherspoon — ignoring the fact that she might not be a lead — she’s charming, she’s very entertaining. Me loving the film so much, I would take her over Judi Dench. I will admit to that. But there’s no fucking way that she really delivers a better performance than Felicity Huffman. So that’s my vote. But again — you have these two actresses, and the films, and the subject matter… you get why Reese won. You have to understand the decision even if you don’t fully agree with it. I don’t think this is an egregious win, even though I do think this is one of the weaker winners of all time. – – – – – – – – – – Rankings (category): Felicity Huffman, Transamerica Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents Charlize Theron, North Country Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice Rankings (films): Walk the Line North Country Mrs. Henderson Presents Transamerica Pride and Prejudice My Vote: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica Recommendations: Walk the Line is… is it essential? I don’t know. I’m too close to it. I love it. I watched it a shit ton the past eleven years. I think it’s essential. Especially since it immediately became such an archetype for the musical biopic that two years after this, Walk Hard spoofed the shit out of it and everyone understood what they were doing. Plus it’s essential for Oscar buffs. And it’s awesome. So just see it. I don’t know why someone would skip it. Johnny Cash is the fucking best. Pride and Prejudice is Joe Wright. And he’s proven himself to be close to an essential filmmaker (even though I don’t think nearly enough people have seen his other films outside of Atonement), so you probably have a reason to check this out. It’s just pretty good, as far as quality goes. North Country is a solid film. Oscar bait, but entertaining. Good cast, good performances, engaging all the way, and a trial aspect. Which I love. Solid recommend. Mrs. Henderson Presents is an entertaining film. Moderate recommend. It’s fun. Worth seeing, but easily can be skipped. Transamerica is an okay film with a great lead performance. Worth it for the performance and essential if you want to talk about this category. The Last Word: Reese holds up okay because the category is so ho hum. Huffman gives the best performance and probably should have won based on that, but I’m not sure she would have held up. Reese holds up for reasons other than the performance, which is solid in and of itself. I think Reese was an okay choice, though not the best performance in the category. Her or Huffman were the only two options here. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2006 Penelope Cruz, Volver Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Helen Mirren, The Queen Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet, Little Children Analysis: Oh, this’ll be interesting to look back on. SAG matched 5/5. Which pretty much ends all discussion right there. BAFTA matched 5/5. And again. BFCA matched 5/5. I think I got it. And the Globes had all 5 across both categories. So yeah. Maybe not as interesting as I thought. Guess who won every single award? Yeah… this one was one of the least interesting Best Actress races of the past fifteen years. Volver is Pedro Almodovar. I honestly haven’t seen this in five years, but I remember thinking that Penelope Cruz was admirable in the movie, but that the nomination was the reward. I know for sure that I wouldn’t take her, so ultimately I didn’t feel the need to go back and watch this. Next time I’ll have to for sure. I know it involves Penelope Cruz coming back home after her mother’s death to try to fix things with the family, and things don’t go quite as planned. I feel somewhat negligent with this one, but I know how I feel about Almodovar and I know how I’d have felt about this performance again while watching it. At best she might have ended up second, but it would take something truly incredible for me to say I’d vote for her. I erred on the side of that not being the case. Notes on a Scandal is to me, the best of the Judi Dench nominated performances, pre-Philomena. She plays a teacher who has a crush on a new, younger teacher played by Cate Blanchett. She befriends her and writes in her diary all these fantasies she has about the two of them. She then finds out Blanchett is sleeping with one of her students. Eventually, the whole thing is found out (but Blanchett doesn’t know Dench is the reason), and Blanchett ends up moving in with Dench, who positions herself as an ally, with of course dubious intentions. Dench is really great here. She, again, is in a position of not having a chance at a win, but being good enough to vote for as an alternative. If you’re not taking Mirren in this one, Dench seems the most likely alternative. She’s really good in this. The Queen is a movie that I always felt was thought of as better than it is. It’s about the royal family in the days after Princess Diana’s death and their silence on the whole thing, as pressure builds from the public for them to say something. Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth, and she’s wonderful here. I don’t think necessarily that this is an all-time best Oscar-winning performance, but I think she does capture the essence of the Queen, even if the film is largely fictionalized. There was no way she wasn’t winning here, and honestly, looking at the category, it’s hard to argue against it. I don’t know if I have a preferred alternative. The Devil Wears Prada is an amusing film, and only serves to show that they’ll nominate Meryl for anything. Anne Hathaway gets a job as personal assistant to, basically, Anna Wintour. The head of the biggest fashion magazine in the US. And most of the film is Meryl acting as the cold boss with high demands who ends up melting that cold heart and showing some respect for Hathaway. Good film, lot of fun, but why this performance is something anyone would vote for is beyond me. The nomination is more than enough. At best she’s a third choice on sentimentality. More like fourth or fifth. Little Children is a movie that was really great in 2006, very good in 2011, and now just solid in 2016. Hasn’t held up for me at all. I think it’s the omniscient narrator. A convicted pedophile moves into a suburban neighborhood and everyone freaks out. And it’s all about the hypocrisy of these people, as they condemn this man and are all addicted to pills and having affairs and all this other stuff. Kate Winslet plays the main character, whose husband is addicted to porn and ignores her. She becomes friends with the “hot dad” at the park, and pretty soon they start sleeping together. And the drama plays out. She’s fine here. Mostly this was her being nominated because it’s a weak year and she’s Kate Winslet. I saw this again recently for the Haley nomination and didn’t much see a whole lot going on for Winslet. I’ve seen her be better. I wouldn’t want to vote for her here except because she’s Kate Winslet and is horribly overdue. In terms of performance… maybe third? Probably fourth. – – – – – – – – – – The Reconsideration: This category is so middle of the road for me it makes me want to go chalk. Streep is a no for me. Cruz is a no for me. Winslet garners some consideration but because I saw the performance again recently, I wouldn’t take that performance over the others. So no to her. I’m sure in five years I’ll actually think Cruz is better than Winslet, but at this point, that swap is meaningless for this category. This one comes down to the vets. Dench and Mirren. Dench’s film, I think, ultimately lets her down. She’s very good and the film is just okay. Mirren is very good in a really solid film, and I think that, along with her being Helen Mirren (don’t worry, Dench has the same deal), makes her pretty much the default choice. I don’t love the Mirren performance, but in this category, it’s just easiest to take her and move on. I don’t love Dench enough to actually take her. And I’d only be taking Winslet because she’s Kate Winslet. So let’s just go chalk. I’m okay with that. – – – – – – – – – – Rankings (category): Helen Mirren, The Queen Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Kate Winslet, Little Children Penelope Cruz, Volver Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Rankings (films): The Devil Wears Prada Little Children The Queen Notes on a Scandal Volver My Vote: Helen Mirren, The Queen Recommendations: The Queen is a solid recommend. Not a high recommend. I don’t think it’s that good. Essential for Oscar buffs, probably a “should see” for most film buffs, but not an essential movie. The Devil Wears Prada is culturally essential but not film buff essential. So if you can deal with hearing non film buffs go, “You haven’t seen The Devil Wears Parada???” then feel free to skip it. Otherwise it’s just easier to see this. And I imagine most people growing up now with cable will end up seeing this along the way regardless, so you should be fine. Little Children is a good film that hasn’t held up. A solid recommend, but time has shown that you really don’t need to see this. Though it’s worth it for the cast. Deep queue kind of movie. Notes on a Scandal is an okay film with a great Judi Dench performance in it. Moderate recommend. It’s just okay as a film and you don’t need to see it. Volver is Almodovar. Base seeing this on your opinions of his films. If you haven’t seen any of them, then you really don’t need to see this. If you love him, then you’ll see it. That’s what this is. The Last Word: Mirren has held up as the best choice, and no one else would have held up. So there’s really nothing more to talk about here. They made the right decision. – – – – – – – – – – (Read more Oscar Quest articles.)
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Many have been found from The BBC Television Shakespeare series - the complete plays, broadcast between 1978 and 1985. And we've a few other surprises, including a silent short with a very youthful John Gielgud! Enjoy our collection... More about the BBC Television Shakespeare collection A guide to the stories, characters, cast and creative team behind the BBC Television Shakespeare series. More about the BBC Television Shakespeare collection Alan Rickman as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (BBC TV Shakespeare, 1978) Alan Rickman as Tybalt - Romeo and Juliet (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1978) Alan Rickman (1946-2016) was a fine, versatile actor on stage, screen and radio who played everything from villains to romantic leads. But there’s no escaping the fact that he made a great baddie! The RADA graduate took on numerous Shakespearean roles in theatre before playing Tybalt in his first television role – kicking off the BBC Television Shakespeare series, and a glittering career. Rickman had it all – a touch of evil as Hans Gruber in Die Hard or the dastardly Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and dark ambiguous complexity as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. With his rich resonating voice and wry expression, a dryly comic delivery marked many of his roles, including that of ‘Dr Lazaras’/ Alexander Dane in in the comic space adventure Galaxy Quest. With tongue firmly in cheek, Rickman portrayed Dane, the former Shakespearean great who found himself trapped in a tacky TV ‘space opera’. And just like Dane in his heyday, we’re certain that Rickman has received many ovations and repeat curtain calls - what a legend… Find more about BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet and read the full cast list. Alan Rickman in Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1978) Early Appearances: Alan Rickman as Tybalt - Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1978) From the BBC Television Shakespeare series Dame Judi Dench as Katherine - The Band of Brothers This production of Henry V is Part Eight of a fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). This is the second and final part of Henry V, and in this scene from 1960 a very youthful Judi Dench is being wooed by Henry... BAFTA winner Dame Judi Dench Dame Judi trained at the National Theatre and RSC. Her illustrious career has taken in several Shakespeare productions and many acclaimed TV and Film roles - including Mrs Brown, and the no-nonsense head of M16, 'M' in James Bond films alongside Daniel Craig. Judi Dench as Katherine - Henry V Early appearances: Dame Judi Dench - Henry V (1960) From the BBCTV series The Band of Brothers, episode 8 of 15 Sean Connery as Hotspur in Henry IV: Rebellion from the North Part of the BBC's An Age of Kings series. Sean Connery - An Age of Kings (1960) Early Appearances: Sean Connery Sean Connery in Henry IV, from An Age of Kings (1960) Virginia McKenna as Juliet - Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1955) Virginia McKenna, actor and wildlife campaigner, is probably most famous among film fans for her role in Born Free (1966). In the 1950s she was part of the Old Vic Theatre and as her TV career took off she won a BAFTA for her performance in the movie A Town Like Alice (1956). Virginia McKenna in Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1955) This is an early appearance as Juliet in the BBC’s 1955 production. Later in the BBC Television Shakespeare series, McKenna also played Portia in Julius Caesar (1979). Find more about BBC Television Shakespeare: Julius Caesar - and read the full cast list. Virginia McKenna as Portia in Julius Caesar (BBC, 1979) Virginia McKenna as Juliet Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1955) Ian McKellen as King Richard - Richard II (BBC, 1971) Sir Ian McKellen clearly lives and breathes Shakespeare, often sharing his knowledge and passion with fans both in person at special events and via Twitter. We were not born to sue, but to command; Which since we cannot do to make you friends, Be ready, as your lives shall answer it... Richard II McKellen recently kicked off our 24 Hour Shakespeare celebration in style. He also gave a special talk at the BFI about his life and career with Shakespeare. In 1969, Sir Ian starred in Prospect Theatre Company's Edinburgh Festival production, Edward II - by Christopher Marlow, which was recorded at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Richard II was his first TV Shakespeare performance. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, McKellen has delighted fans on stage, radio, tv and film. Ian McKellen in Edward II - 1969 Among his many Shakespeare performances is the haunting Richard III. These days he's probably most famous among film fans as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films, and also as Magneto in The X-Men. Ian McKellen as Richard II (BBC, 1969) Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen Ian McKellen’s compelling, insightful and often hilarious personal tour of Shakespeare, from the BFI Shakespeare on Stage, Screen and Elsewhere with Ian McKellen Early appearances: Ian McKellen as Richard II (BBC, 1971) Ian McKellen as the tragic King Richard in the 1971 BBC production Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind - As You Like It (BBC, 1963) Academy Award winning actor Vanessa Redgrave, a member of the successful Redgrave acting family, has appeared in over 80 films, and began her career with the RSC, where she first played Rosalind in As You Like It in 1961. I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me As You Like It The BBC production soon followed and gave Redgrave one of her first prominent TV roles. She has been a consistent star of TV and Film since, recently narrating the popular BBC One drama Call The Midwife and appearing in films such as Atonement and Foxcatcher. Our clip, from the 1963 BBC production of As You Like It, is featured in the RSC's collection of Great Shakespeare Speeches... Vanessa Redgrave with daughter Joely Richardson - BBC Breakfast Sorry, this clip is not currently available Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind in As You Like It "How to know a man in love..." - Act 3, Scene 2 Helen Mirren as Rosalind - As You Like It (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1978) As You Like it in 1978 was only Helen Mirren’s second TV role, having played a number of Shakespearean characters with the RSC in the ‘60s and ‘70s after graduating from the National Youth Theatre. Helen Mirren's BBC TV Shakespeare roles - Imogen in Cymbeline, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream Since then Mirren has starred in numerous films, both cult and mainstream. In recent years, she has played Elizabeth I in the TV series Elizabeth (also portraying Elizabeth on stage), and was the outspoken Chris in the hugely popular Calendar Girls film with Julie Walters. Mirren most famously portrayed Elizabeth II in the movie The Queen (2006) – bagging an Academy Award. Read the cast list for BBC Television Shakespeare: As You Like It. Helen Mirren as Rosalind - As You Like It (BBC, 1978) Helen Mirren as Rosalind: As You Like It (BBC TV Shakespeare) Early appearances: Helen Mirren - As You Like It (BBC, 1978) Helen Mirren as Rosalind in the BBC Television Shakespeare production Patsy Byrne as Audrey - As You Like It (BBC/RSC, 1963) Patsy Byrne, 1933 - 2014, gave an unforgettable performance as Nursie in the BBC comedy Blackadder - always putting her foot in it, embarrassing Queen Elizabeth I (Miranda Richardson) and frequently missing the point. In As You Like It, a young Byrne portrays the unsophisticated country girl Audrey, the object of Touchstone's affections... Early appearances: Patsy Byrne as Audrey - As You Like It (BBC, 1963) From the archive BBC production of As You Like It Patsy Byrne in Blackadder II - BBC Michael Gambon as Theseus - A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC Play of the Month, 1971) Sir Michael Gambon rose to fame on TV playing Detective Philip Marlow in The Singing Detective, and followed up with the controversial drama The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover – also starring Helen Mirren. This is an early TV Shakespeare appearance from Gambon, as Theseus in the BBC's Play of the Month. He had also appeared the 1965 film version of Othello, which starred Laurence Olivier. Following experience at the National Theatre, Gambon played several title roles in Shakespeare productions at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Gambon found further fame in Hollywood, starring as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. Gambon in The Singing Detective - BBC Michael Gambon with Eleanor Bron in A Midsummer Night's Dream, (BBC, 1971) Michael Gambon As Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Paul Henry as Flute/ Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1971) Is that Benny from Crossroads?! Oh yes. Before Paul Henry found fame and cult stardom as handyman Benny Hawkins in the British soap opera, he was paired up with comedy legend Ronnie Barker in the BBC's Play of the Month, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Here's Henry as a lovestruck Thisbe, lamenting the cruel death of heroic lover Pyramus (played by Barker as Bottom!) Early appearances: Paul Henry - A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1971) From the BBC Play of the Month series, also starring Ronnie Barker Michele Dotrice as Lady Percy - Henry IV Pt 1 (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1979) “Ooh, Betty!” - Michelle Dotrice has had a varied career, mixing classical roles with contemporary drama and comedy. Fans of 1970s sitcom Some Mother’s Do ‘Ave ‘Em will know her as the loving wife of hapless hero Frank Spencer. More recently, she has played mother to Sheridan Smith's eponymous central character in Inside Number Nine: The 12 Days of Christine, which was created by the team behind dark comedy The League of Gentlemen. In Henry IV, part 1, Dotrice is wife to Harry Percy, played here by a youthful Tim Piggott-Smith... Early appearances: Michelle Dotrice in Henry IV Part One (BBC, 1979) As Lady Percy, with Tim Piggott-Smith in the BBC Television Shakespeare production Felicity Kendall, Robert Lindsay, Trevor Peacock, Annette Crosbie - Twelfth Night, 1980 We've rounded up a few stars of British TV, and something of a collection of sit-com royalty! Felicity Kendall stars as Viola, with Robert Lindsay as Fabian, Trevor Peacock as Feste and Annette Crosbie as Maria. Early appearances: Twelfth Night - BBC TV Shakespeare (1981) Felicity Kendall, Robert Lindsay, Trevor Peacock and Annette Crosbie Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal - The Good Life (BBC) Felicity Kendall became a household name when she starred as Barbara Good, opposite Richard Briers, in hit sitcom The Good Life... Robert Lindsay has a string of TV and theatre roles to his name, taking in musicals, Shakespeare and sitcom: from 1970s cult TV such as Citizen Smith, to My Family in the 2000s. “Oh no no no no… yes!” It’s Trevor Peacock as Feste/ The Fool, also known to fans of Dawn French hit sitcom The Vicar of Dibley as the muttering Jim Trott... Annette Crosbie will be familiar to many as long suffering Margaret Meldrew in BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave. She has also played strong supporting roles in film, including Jessie in Calendar Girls… Felicity Kendal, Robert Lindsay, Trevor Peacock, Annette Crosbie - Twelfth Night, BBC Patrick Stewart as Claudius – Hamlet (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1980) Patrick Stewart joined the RSC in 1966 and his first TV appearance was in ITV’s soap drama Coronation Street in 1967. Among many credits, Stewart revisited the role of Claudius in the 2008 RSC production of Hamlet, starring David Tenant as Hamlet, and also played John of Gaunt in the BBC's The Hollow Crown: Richard II (2012) More recently, Stewart will be known to many as a star of the X-Men films and TV’s re-booted Star Trek: The Next Generation. He’s also a bit of a Twitter legend! Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt - The Hollow Crown: Richard II (BBC) Patrick Stewart as Claudius, with Claire Bloom as Gertrude - Hamlet (BBC TV Shakespeare, 1980) Early appearances: Patrick Stewart as Claudius - Hamlet (BBC, 1980) From the BBC Television Shakespeare series Hugh Quarshie as Philostrate – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1981 Quarshie has had a few roles in BBC Shakespeare TV productions, also playing Aaron in Titus Andronicus in 1985 and voicing Cassius in Julius Caesar for Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, in 1994. Fans of the BBC medical drama Holby City will know Quarshie as Ric Griffin, a role he has played since 2001. Early TV appearances: Hugh Quarshie as Attendant in A Midsummer Night's Dream - BBC Television Shakespeare Hugh Quarshie in A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC TV Shakespeare) Bob Hoskins as Iago - Othello, 1981 Bob Hoskins (1942-2014) once uttered the telecoms ad catchphrase "It’s good to talk” - and it’s great to see him talking Shakespeare here, although we’re not sure we like much of what he’s saying as the nasty, conniving Iago. As Othello's old lieutenant, Iago doesnt like Cassio (Othello's new lieutenant), and plans, with the help of his wife Emilia, to destroy both Cassio and Othello through Othello's feelings for Desdemona... Hoskins' breakthrough TV role was in Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven in 1978, followed by a turn as a gangster out of his depth in cult British movie The Long Good Friday (1980). He was later nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Mona Lisa (1986). Since then roles were many and various - Hoskins appeared alongside an animated bunny in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and next to another British great, Judi Dench, in Mrs Henderson Presents (2005). Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell in Pennies from Heaven - BBC, 1978 Bob Hoskins as Iago in Othello (BBC TV Shakespeare, 1981) Early appearances: Bob Hoskins - Othello (BBC, 1981) Bob Hoskins' early TV appearance as Iago Phil Daniels as Puck – A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1981) With a range of TV and film appearances to his name, Daniels guest-voiced the pop track Parklife by Blur in 1995 and In 2006 joined the cast of the BBC’s soap drama Eastenders, playing wheeler-dealer Kevin Wicks until 2008. I jest to Oberon and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile Here he is enjoying a bit of 'Pucklife' (sorry!) getting up to mischief with the fairies... Early appearances: Phil Daniels as Puck - A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1981) Phil Daniels as Puck in the BBC Television Shakespeare production Penelope Wilton (Regan) and Brenda Blethyn (Cordelia) - King Lear (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1982) Now a veteran of stage and screen, a young Penelope Wilton played one of the less well-intentioned sisters here. She also played Desdemona in the BBC's Othello. Penelope Wilton in Dr Who (BBC) In a career spanning numerous dramatic and comic roles, Wilton played opposite Richard Briers in BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, went on to star in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series and films including Calendar Girls, Shaun of the Dead and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Wilton has also starred in the BBC's Dr Who: The Christmas Invasion and is also know to many for playing Isobel Crawley in ITV's popular period drama Downton Abbey. Following her screen debut in the play Grown Ups as part of the BBC's Playhouse strand – the start of her ongoing collaboration with director Mike Leigh - Brenda Blethyn took on roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare series, as Cordelia in King Lear and Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part 1. Brenda Blethyn with Penelope Wilton and Gillian Barge - King Lear (BBC, 1982) Blethyn is another popular star of TV and Film, with standout performances in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, as well as the film adaptation of Jim Cartwright's Little Voice and the lead role as eponymous detective in the ITV drama Vera... Gillian Barge Brenda Blethyn and Penelope Wilton in the BBC adaptation of King Lear (1982) Blethyn as Joan La Purcelle, with Ian Saynor as Charles the Dauphin, in Henry VI pt 1 (BBC, 1983) Early TV appearances: Penelope Wilton and Brenda Blethyn - King Lear (BBC, 1982) As Regan and Cordelia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production Roger Daltrey as Dromio of Ephesus/Dromino of Syracuse in The Comedy Of Errors (BBC Television Shakespeare, 1983) Roger Daltrey with Michael Kitchen in The Comedy of Errors (BBC, 1983) Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey In The Comedy of Errors David Harewood as Macduff – Macbeth on the Estate (1997) Macbeth on The Estate was part of BBC 2's Performance season, filmed on an inner city estate in Ladywood, Birmingham, and also starring Ray Winstone as Duncan David Harewood has risen to prominence in TV Dramas in the UK and USA, from The Night Manager and Hustle on BBC One to the tense political thriller Homeland for HBO. Harewood is from Birmingham in the English West Midlands (so there’s another link to Shakespeare!) David Harewood in The Night Manager - BBC One Early appearances: David Harewood - Macbeth on the Estate (1997) A re-telling, broadcast on BBC Four: Performance Christopher Plummer (Hamlet) and Michael Caine (Horatio) - Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet at Elsinore is a BBC/ Danish Radio co-production, filmed at Elsinore Castle This is Michael Caine’s only classical role. He had no formal training, but went on to become a major film star, earning two supporting actor Academy Awards from a varied career of films including Zulu, Alfie, The Italian Job, Get Carter, Hannah and her Sisters, The Cider House Rules, and more recently the re-booted Batman movies starting with Batman Begins. Christopher Plummer is also a famous face in Hollywood, and a much-awarded and nominated actor, the oldest actor to scoop the Academy Award at age 82! As King Lear in 2004 he was nominated for a Tony Award, and his varied career has taken in everything from the film musical The Sound Of Music (1965) to the Terry Gilliam fantasy The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (2009). Enjoy more great Hamlet performances from BBC Shakespeare Lives. Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer - Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore From the BBC/ Danish Radio co-production, 1964 Sir John Gielgud as Romeo - Romeo and Juliet (1924 silent film, courtesy of BFI) In a rare discovery, courtesy of the BFI, Sir John Gielgud (1904 - 2000) appears as Romeo in this 1924 silent version of Romeo and Juliet. Early appearances: John Gielgud - Romeo and Juliet (1924) A very early appearance in this silent film from the BFI In 1994, Gielgud led a star-studded cast in the BBC Radio 3 and Renaissance Theatre Company co-production of King Lear, recorded as a special tribute to Sir John who celebrated his 90th birthday that year. Gielgud had a long and illustrious career, with a great theatrical heritage and more than 60 films to his name. He appeared in many BBC Shakespeare adaptations on television and radio. John Gielgud in Richard II - BBC TV Shakespeare, 1978 Sir John Gielgud with Emma Thompson - King Lear (BBC Radio 3, 1994) More Shakespeare Lives The Plays and Sonnets Explore features, clips, photos and more from Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets The Plays and Sonnets 24 Hour Shakespeare Highlights A few of our favourite highlights as we went around the clock with the Bard 24 Hour Shakespeare Highlights New Shakespeare Songbook Music films from across Europe re-imagine Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays New Shakespeare Songbook Great Shakespeare Speeches Some of the most memorable, classic and timeless speeches selected by the RSC Great Shakespeare Speeches
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If you're not yet a member, your first DVD and membership are free! All you have to do is post 10 DVDs you want to get rid of. Visit the site to find a huge selection of movies!				null	Movie Details Actors: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young, Kelly Reilly Director: Stephen Frears Creators: Bob Hoskins, Cameron McCracken, David Aukin, David M. Thompson, David Rose, Kathy Rose, Martin Sherman Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy Sub-Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy Studio: Weinstein Company Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Subtitled DVD Release Date: 04/18/2006 Original Release Date: 01/01/2006 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2006 Release Year: 2006 Run Time: 1hr 43min Screens: Color,Widescreen Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 4 Members Wishing: 0 MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Languages: English Subtitles: English, Spanish See Also: Mrs. Henderson Presents (Full Screen Edition) Mrs. Henderson Presents (Widescreen) Similar Movies Similarly Requested DVDs Member Movie Reviews K. K. (GAMER) Reviewed on 4/2/2024... The movie visits the inner workings of a musical production. Sharon F. (Shar) from AVON PARK, FL Reviewed on 6/1/2021... Great cast (I love Judi Dench in anything!). Set in WW11, Mrs. Henderson does her part to entertain the soldiers and the mayhem that ensues. Torkel E. (Torbjorn) from FAIRHOPE, AL Reviewed on 6/10/2012... Very entertaining. Great cast. 1 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful. Betty T. (BettySunshine) from WARNER ROBINS, GA Reviewed on 3/12/2010... Wonderfully funny sparring between Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. Thoroughly enjoyed it. 1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful. Octavio F. (Octavio) from SEATTLE, WA Reviewed on 9/10/2009... Very good movie, fun to watch and an outstanding performance from Judi Dench. 1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful. Gary J. (gjones) from TROUTDALE, OR Reviewed on 6/25/2009... This is a warm, wonderful movie about a mother who wants to take care of a bunch of soldiers, sailors and marines because no one had done it for her son. Judi Dench is a wealthy English widow who decides to buy a playhouse in London during WWII and ends up creating a show with live, nude girls for the troops to see before they go off to war. She plays a real character and Bob Hoskins (one of my favorite character actors) plays the man she hires to run the show. It's a funny, sad, titillating, moving film that was a joy to watch from beginning to end. 5 of 5 member(s) found this review helpful. Sandra S. (ratracesandra) from CUMMING, GA Reviewed on 8/16/2008... Loved this sometimes funny, sometimes serious, sometimes bawdy show. Again another fine performance by Judi Dench...... 1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful. Ann D. (wordyone) Reviewed on 7/24/2008... Funny, poignant, sweet and utterly charming. 1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful. Liz M. (lizzy0215) from SHADY SIDE, MD Reviewed on 12/26/2007... Judi Densch is one of my favorite actresses and her interaction with Bob Hoskins is a wonderful part of the movie. She is at a loss after the death of her husband and tries an outrageous venture to keep herself busy. Her quiet anguish over the loss of her only child is truely brought to light near the end of the film. Christopher Guest as the Lord Mayor is putty in the hands of her manipulations. Fun and a little bawdy. 4 of 4 member(s) found this review helpful. Movie Reviews A Perfect British Confection with Heart Grady Harp \| Los Angeles, CA United States \| 04/19/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS is easily one of the best films of 2005. That it didn't garner an Oscar for Judi Dench is amazing as this is one of her finest roles (in a long line of superb films!). Director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, Liam etc) has put together a film that is at once nostalgic, sophisticated, intelligent, witty, sad, and thoroughly entertaining. This little film is a winner. London, 1937, and Laura Henderson, having lost her only son in WW I is discovered at the graveside of her recently departed husband. Not wanting to be stuck with the British widow stance, she decides on a hobby to occupy her time: she buys, renovates and readies a theater in the West End of London, hires Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to be her impresario and the two successfully begin a music hall type of entertainment. Their efforts are soon so imitated that their income falters, giving Mrs. Henderson a new concept: she will introduce full nudity into her theater to replace the French postcard surrogates the soldiers carry. Mrs. Henderson is indefatigable, has a laceratingly funny relationship with Van Damm, and even manages to cajole the politicians to go along with her 'new concept'. By now WW II is at it s peak and despite the London blitzkriegs the theater manages to survive, but not without some sacrifices and some self-revelations between Mrs. Henderson and Van Damm. There are many little subplots involving the company of performers, but they all blend nicely into the poignant story. Judi Dench is absolutely radiant in this role, a role that allows her to cover a wide gamut of moods, each of which she handles expertly. Likewise, Bob Hoskins gives the performance of his rich career and the other cast members in this ensemble piece could not be better. The music and staged numbers are delightful and the atmosphere of London under siege is very realistic. In every way this is a successful movie, one that deserves a wide audience and one of those DVDs worthy of placing in your film library. A hearty Bravo! to all concerned! Grady Harp, April 06" Another celebration of the London theatre scene Joseph Haschka \| Glendale, CA USA \| 11/27/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Last year's cinematic celebration of the London theatre scene was BEING JULIA, in which Annette Bening plays a no-longer-young stage actress of the late 1930s, who has hitherto starred in the productions her theatre-owner husband stages, and who crafts a delicious revenge against a fresh-faced protege whom her spouse hires and falls in love with. Based more on actual events, and also set in the late 1930s/early 40s, MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS has wealthy Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), on the death of her husband, purchasing and renovating a derelict cinema and renaming it The Windmill Theatre for want of anything more interesting to do in 1937. To manage the establishment from the outset, she hires strong-willed Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), who insists on having final say on their stage performances' artistic content and the day-to-day running of the place. He begins by presenting an around-the-clock vaudeville show, the 24/7 nature of which is a groundbreaking concept. This keeps The Windmill the talk-of -the-town for awhile, i.e. until other London theatres begin to imitate, and then ticket sales fall off. To regain the advantage, Laura has the idea of putting naked actresses on-stage, but then must convince the dubious Van Damm and outmaneuver the absolute veto power of the censorous city authorities, here personified by Laura's friend, Lord Cromer (Christopher Guest). The creators of MRS. HENDERSON PESENTS have taken timeline liberties. The real Mrs. Henderson actually acquired The Windmill site in 1931, opening first with a live play, "Inquest", which proved unsuccessful. After briefly returning to screening films, a new manager, Van Damm, produced and opened the non-stop "Revuedeville" in 1932. From then on, The Windmill entered history ("We never closed") as the only London theatre to stay open throughout the war, including the Blitz. Dench steals the show as the meddling owner, and Hoskins holds his own as her nemesis-manager. The film deftly captures their stormy, but oddly affectionate, relationship, as well as the perils of staging performances while German bombs fell. Kelly Reilly is delightful and gorgeous as Maureen, the first showgirl recruited by Hoskins for The Windmill's bill of nudie cuties. Towards the film's end, Laura poignantly reveals why she had the idea for removing the actresses clothes. Knowing that, and seeing the reason why she made frequent pre-war visits to France, it's particularly sad when the film ends before the Allied victory and the final credits reveal that Henderson died in 1944. She left The Windmill to Vivian, who ran it until his death in 1960. Van Damm's daughter then operated the establishment until 1964, when it was unable to compete with the strip joints. Since then, the site has hosted a cinema, a casino, a nude-review theatre, and (presently) a lap-dancing club. MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS is a thoroughly charming and unpretentious film about a little piece of London theatre history. It probably won't make it out of the art houses, but see it if you can. " "I'd rather drink ink!" M. J Leonard \| Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States \| 12/12/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Stephen Frears directs acting legend Dame Judy Dench in Mrs. Henderson Presents, a spectacular and thoroughly entertaining film that is an absolute delight from beginning to end. Expect Oscar nominations for both Bob Hopkins and the legendary Dench. Based on a true story, the movie begins in 1937 when the wealthy Laura Henderson (Dench) has just been widowed. Refusing to go gently into widowhood, Laura heeds the advice of her friend Lady Conway (a riotous Thelma Barlow) and finds herself a hobby. But she just can't handle needlepoint, and being a board member on various charities just isn't her thing, so instead, she decides to buy a run down property on Great Windmill Street in Soho with the intention of turning it into a theater. Of course, Mrs. Henderson knows nothing about running a music hall, so she enlists the help of Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), a currently unemployed theatre manager. The problem is that Laura and Vivian don't exactly see eye to eye - Vivian sees Laura as snotty and rude, a product of her privileged class, while Laura views Vivian as "Jewish" a cigar smoker who is kind of low class. It doesn't help that they also end up clashing professionally. They're both strong willed individuals, who each have different artistic visions for the theater, with most of their time taken up arguing and trading acerbic barbs at one another. But eventually they manage to sort out their differences and make a go at it, and success comes quickly, with shows running almost continually. This daily novelty, however, can't withstand competition from movie houses and other vaudeville shows in the West End. Laura decides to add nude young women to the mix, hoping that it will increase attendance, but her old friend the Lord Chamberlain (Christopher Guest) isn't wild about the idea. He tells her that he'll reluctantly license the show as long as the naked ladies stand perfectly still on stage, thereby skirting around the draconian English censorship laws. Mrs. Henderson Presents is everything one should expect from a British film, and in the hands of a director of the caliber of Stephen Frears, the film is an absolute pleasure to watch. Spanning from the pre-war years up until the London blitz, the film captures the darker pulses of the Second World War, while also remaining strangely lighthearted in tone and character. Thanks to a gorgeously fluid script by Martin Sherman, and the talented cast, the film is mostly pitch perfect. The musical interludes have a flashy charm there's the presence of fourteen vintage stage musical numbers, including Benny Goodman's Goody Goody and the classically jaunty Babies of the Blitz. The supporting players also lend a startling authenticity to the proceedings - Kelly Reilly is particularly memorable as a spunky Windmill girl and cute Pop Idol winner Will Young makes an appealing big screen debut as Bertie, the theater's resident male ingénue, who tells Laura that he's "of the other persuasion." Mrs. Henderson Presents may be old-fashioned, but it's also witty, and lots of fun. But make no mistake; this is Ms. Dench's film. And while Hoskins is delightful as Laura's foil, it is really the grand Dame of British acting that steals the show and takes command of the film. She's just pitch perfect in the role of "a most exasperating woman," who says whatever's on her mind, and has an endlessly sharp tongue. This is one of her best roles. Mike Leonard December 05. " Mrs Henderson Presents Glenda Pryor \| USA \| 03/06/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "Saw the movie in the theatre. The movie is wonderful. Judi Dench is fabulous. Due to tastful nude scenes and very little strong language (two words) you might be careful letting children watch. This movie was not promoted in the US very well but it is a great movie." A lovely, unambitious, thoroughly satisfying film Robert Moore \| Chicago, IL USA \| 01/25/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "Warning! Spoilers ahead: I love popular culture, especially intelligent popular culture, but I have become progressively less and less enchanted each year with the summer blockbuster films that we are saddled with and the bloated, overwrought holiday films we are given each November and December. MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS is the perfect tonic for anyone sickened by bombastic cinema, a small, lovely, and subtle film that tries to entice you with its story rather than its special effects or massive vistas. Its ambition is to tell a small, unique period story as well as possible. In this the film succeeds. The film tells the story of how in 1938 a newly widowed woman (played by Dame Judi Dench), for want of anything more compelling to do after the death of her husband, buys and renovates a West End London theater, which she calls the Windmill. Dench's performance is marvelous and I was greatly heartened to see that she was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Mrs. Henderson hires promoter Vivian Van Damm, who persistently denies being Jewish, as artistic director and gives him unfettered control over every artistic aspect of the operation. Bob Hoskins does his usual superb job as Van Damm (am I the only one who is under the impression that he has looked almost exactly the same for thirty years?) and much of the appeal of the film derives from the complex-combative and respectful while at the same time distantly intimate-friendship and partnership that Henderson and Van Damm form. The initial innovation of the theater is to perform musical reviews 24 hours a day, but when other theaters begin to imitate them, their ticket sales begin to decline. Mrs. Henderson then suggests that they trump the competition by having nude girls on stage. Luckily she has a connection with cabinet member Lord Cromer (played surprisingly well by American comedian Christopher Guest), who although initially hesitant to OK the nudity, finally agrees on condition that the women not move, so that they resemble art works that one might find in an art museum. The theater as a result becomes remarkably successful and continues to operate even during the worst of WW II and the Blitz. The story revolves almost entirely around the professional relationship between Mrs. Henderson and Mr. Van Damm on the one hand and the relation of all to the girls who become the nude statues on the stage. The cast, as in most British period films, is impeccable, though in this one also somewhat unexpected. Will Young, the Pop Idol winner, turns in a pleasantly effective performance as the Windmill's leading musical performer, crooning the tunes with an appropriate period style. But apart from the two main leads, the most delightful performance is by the lovely Kelly Reilly, who plays one of the girls who model on the stage. There is a large amount of nudity in this film, but there is virtually no eroticism. There is, in fact, less salaciousness in this film than in the vast majority of PG-13 releases. Rita Hayworth taking off her glove in GILDA is infinitely sexier than anything that happens in this movie. I might be willing to insist that this is the least sexy film to feature full frontal nudity (both male and female) ever made. Only the most serious prudes would find the tiniest thing objectionable in the film All in all, this is an utterly delightful film. One will come away from it not thinking it one of the best films one has seen, but one will not feel sonically, visually, or intellectually abused in any way, and unlike the experience with most Hollywood movies these days, one will not feel oneself in any way insulted. This is a small but enormously satisfying film."
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Not for kids. Read Common Sense Media's Mrs. Henderson Presents review, age rating, and parents guide.	en	/themes/custom/common_sense/images/favicons/favicon-16x16.png	Common Sense Media	https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents	Newly widowed, wealthy Londoner Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is dissatisfied with the lifestyle led by her fellow widow friends. On a whim, she buys a theatre, renovates it, and hires seasoned Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run the show. After the theatre opens to short-lived rave reviews, it starts losing money. Van Damm thinks it best to close but Mrs. Henderson laughs off the "defeat" and decides the best way to fill the house is to add nudity to the show. Nudity isn't allowed in the theatre, but they are able to find a loophole in the law that permits it if the models stay perfectly still. The show is a hit, especially with soldiers newly embroiled in World War II. The business partners are strong-willed and non-conventional and inevitably lock horns. But they build a strong sense of mutual respect in a partnership where both are able to get what they need.
7925	dbpedia	3	73	https://touchinglynaivebooks.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/mrs-henderson-presents-2005/	en	Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)	http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/2210475744_d0016684f4.jpg?v=0	http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/2210475744_d0016684f4.jpg?v=0	[ "https://i0.wp.com/farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/2210475744_d0016684f4.jpg", "https://s2.wp.com/i/logo/wpcom-gray-white.png", "https://s2.wp.com/i/logo/wpcom-gray-white.png", "https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2008-01-21T00:00:00	Mrs Henderson (Judi Dench) is a recent, very rich and somewhat eccentric widow of 1937 who decides to take up theatre owning as a more interesting occupation than embroidery or po-faced charity work. When the initial success of the venture fades, she suggests female nudity as a way to revitalise ticket sales and manages to…	en	https://s1.wp.com/i/favicon.ico	Touchingly Naive Books	https://touchinglynaivebooks.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/mrs-henderson-presents-2005/	Mrs Henderson (Judi Dench) is a recent, very rich and somewhat eccentric widow of 1937 who decides to take up theatre owning as a more interesting occupation than embroidery or po-faced charity work. When the initial success of the venture fades, she suggests female nudity as a way to revitalise ticket sales and manages to persuade the Lord Chamberlain to agree, as long as the nudes do not move. So far, so blah. The good news is that the film could be worse. There are various layers of themes and sub-plots, which is just as well, since the main plot – the development of the relationship between Mrs Henderson and her theatre manager (Bob Hoskins) – is somewhat understated. The dancers and nudes are not stupidly thin. Better, there are no het coupling happy-ever-afters. And Judi Dench is so wonderfully good at playing stubborn batty old women. I want to be a stubborn batty old woman when I grow up. But there are certainly things not to like. First, there is Mrs Henderson’s grand speech near the end of the film, intended to save the theatre from closure under wartime regulations about too many people congregating together. She claims to be doing it all for The Soldiers, Our Boys. Because Heaven forfend that, like her own boy Alec, they should be sent to their deaths without having seen a real woman naked. It isn’t clear whether we should believe her about this. The story to date suggests not, because she apparently bought the theatre on a whim and suggested taking the performers’ clothes off only as a way of boosting audience numbers. And Mrs Henderson is a great dissembler, to put it politely. Yet somehow you do believe her. You believe that this is, if not the purpose with which she set out, at least a justification for her actions in which she sincerely believes and with which the audience is intended to sympathise. That the mere sight of female nakedness will bring joy of a kind that no soldier should be denied. ( In one entertaining scene, she out and out lies to her friends in a speech inviting them to the opening night, explaining that her dead husband was very keen on supporting stage artists, that the whole thing is done to honour his memory.) About that – doing it for the boys. It is the same ideal that motivates her in other things. There is a key sub-plot in which Mrs Henderson engineers a romance between one of the show’s stars, Maureen (Kelly Reilly), and a young soldier. Mrs Henderson is moved to pity by the sweet young boy on his way to the Front, and wants Maureen to show him a little compassion. She, despite her misgivings and wariness about any kind of falling in love, falls for him anyway, becomes pregnant and then gets a letter from him, saying that he is going back to his girlfriend… And so it goes. She rushes out of the building just before an air raid starts and is killed at once. All very tragic, but why is Mrs Henderson held to blame right until the end of the film? OK, so she rather naively fell for the boy’s sweet charms and urged Maureen to go out with him. She might possibly be accountable for the fact that Maureen got carried away and fell pregnant, given what she knew about Maureen’s tendency to go falling in love with people at the drop of a hat. But how on earth can she be blamed for Maureen’s death? It’s bizarre. I’d heard some good things about this film, which is the only thing that would have induced me to watch a comedy about strippers in the first place. But ultimately it all came down to female bodies and male pleasure. Entertaining – yes. Uplifting – decidedly not.
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"kenneth-turan" ]	2005-12-09T00:00:00	The actress gives a star turn as a London theatrical matriarch during World War II, and Bob Hoskins is a perfect foil in Stephen Frears' polished film.	en	/apple-touch-icon.png	Los Angeles Times	https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-09-et-henderson9-story.html	Just as there will always be an England, there will always be a certain kind of English film: the highly polished entertainment, well-acted, genteelly amusing and impeccably turned out. “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is the latest example of the trend and an especially satisfying one. Directed by the veteran Stephen Frears and featuring fine performances by Bob Hoskins and an irresistible Judi Dench, “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is an artfully sentimentalized valentine to show business in general and musical theater in particular, with the stiff-upper-lip pluckiness of London during the blitz serving as a backdrop. Not just any kind of musical theater is being celebrated, as it happens, but a curious corner of British theatrical history. That would be the years surrounding World War II when a place in Soho called the Windmill shocked Britain by putting naked young women onstage and getting away with it. According to Martin Sherman’s smartly good-natured script -- inspired, we are told, by true events -- none of this would have happened without the tempestuous partnership of the wealthy and eccentric Mrs. Laura Henderson (Dench) and a scrappy theatrical manager named Vivian Van Damm (Hoskins). We meet Mrs. Henderson at the funereal moment in 1937 when Mr. Henderson is no more. The type of woman who says “I’d rather drink ink” when asked if she’d like to view some tapestries, Mrs. Henderson is soon bored to tears with widowhood. On a whim, she buys the Windmill and hires Van Damm to manage the place. Not that hiring him was easy. “You’re 20 minutes late and you’re rude,” are Van Damm’s first words to his new boss, and their relationship goes down and up and down from there. The pair’s combative rapport is surprisingly endearing, characterized by her commenting after one of his full-bore sallies that “I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I do admire passion.” Inspired by her memories of Paris’ Moulin Rouge and a personal tragedy she keeps hidden from Van Damm, it is Mrs. Henderson who comes up with the idea of having performers without any clothes on her stage. Told things like that aren’t done in England, she browbeats London’s censor, her old friend Lord Cromer (a delightful Christopher Guest), until he agrees to the show with one condition: It must be a tableaux vivant, a living painting in which no one is allowed to move. Much of “Mrs. Henderson Presents” follows familiar patterns: The girls have to be recruited, persuaded to be comfortably nude on stage, and then shielded from the ravages of London under the blitz. All the while Mrs. H. and Van Damm go at it hammer and tongs, unable to live professionally either with or without each other. Several things make all this extremely palatable, starting with the presence of 14 vintage stage musical numbers, including Benny Goodman’s “Goody Goody” and the classically jaunty “Babies of the Blitz.” Also invaluable is the professionalism of director Frears, who never likes to do the same project twice and is coming off the much darker “Dirty Pretty Things.” “Mrs. Henderson Presents” may be old-fashioned, but Frears’ touch keeps it as honest as it can be. Best of all, and the heart of “Mrs. Henderson’s” appeal, is the performance of Dench in the title role. Though Hoskins is excellent and an essential foil, it is Dench who takes command of the film. The part of “a most exasperating woman” who says whatever’s on her mind fits the actress like a tailored Chanel suit. Dench has an Oscar and all kinds of awards behind her, but this tart-tongued role is one of her very best. * ‘Mrs. Henderson Presents’ MPAA rating: R for nudity and brief language Times guidelines: Nudity is quite genteel Released by the Weinstein Co. Director Stephen Frears. Producer Norma Heyman. Executive producers Bob Hoskins, David Aukin. Screenplay Martin Sherman. Cinematographer Andrew Dunn. Editor Lucia Zucchetti. Costumes Sandy Powell. Music George Fenton. Production design Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski. Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes. At Laemmle’s Royal, 11523 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles. (310) 477-5581.
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After the death of her husband, wealthy widow Mrs Henderson purchased the dilapidated Windmill Theatre in London’s West End and, in conjunction with experienced theatre manager Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), defied the moral conventions of the time to produce a revolutionary adult show which ran round the clock and lifted the spirits of many young soldiers before they went to war. Mrs Henderson’s story is one of determination, eccentricity, stiff upper lips and all the other typically British attributes which films made in these isles love to include. It’s a special story for sure but, despite being bolstered by a whirlwind performance from Judi Dench in the lead role, Stephen Frears’ Mrs Henderson Presents never manages to become special itself; finding itself bogged down by thin characterisation, slack direction and an unhappy attempt to blend typically British saucy humour with the pathos of war. The film’s ultimately unsatisfying effect is extremely disappointing after things got off to such a promising start. The first half of Mrs Henderson Presents is a sprightly and amusing affair. The action opens with the funeral of Mrs Henderson’s husband in 1937. After the funeral Mrs Henderson takes a boat out into the middle of the lake to shed her tears in private, and then puts on a brave face before facing the friends and acquaintances at his wake. Her closest friend Lady Conway (Thelma Barlow) is intrigued to know how exactly Mrs Henderson plans to fill her time, suggesting that she might find herself a toy boy to fill the hole in her life, but Laura is nothing if not unconventional and her decision to purchase and rejuvenate the Windmill Theatre takes everyone by surprise. The screenplay by Martin Sherman sets the plot in motion with skill and catches the attention with a healthy dose of wry humour. The film initially focuses on the theatre’s launch and the increasingly fraught relationship between Mrs Henderson and Mr Van Damm; as her feisty, interfering attitude continually tests his patience and undermines his authority. The script is littered with plenty of barbed dialogue and one-liners which are delivered with relish by Dench and Hoskins, and the highly entertaining repartee of this relationship is the motor which successfully drives the film forward for while. Unfortunately this enjoyable tone can’t last and when World War II is added into the mix it throws the film’s deficiencies into sharp relief. The film attempts to lend some emotional weight to the characters at this point; revealing the death of Mrs Henderson’s son in the first War and linking Van Damm’s Jewish to the Nazi’s rounding up of Dutch Jews, but these elements are introduced with a clunking lack of grace and they stall the momentum which had been established. Likewise, Frears attempts to wring plenty of pathos from the story of Maureen (Kelly Reilly), a young performer who gets herself involved in a tragic romance with a young soldier; but her character is far too sketchily drawn for this tangent to have any impact. The film fizzles out dramatically halfway through and the screenplay begins running in circles in an attempt to fill time, resulting in the dreadful and farcical sequence in which Mrs Henderson gets herself barred from the theatre and attempts to gain entry in a series of silly disguises - a sequence which marks the film’s nadir. So thanks heavens for Judi Dench whose performance here is one of her finest. Mrs Henderson is a great character who blows through the movie like a hurricane and Dench is clearly having the time of her life in the role. The film’s witty, Wildean dialogue is perfectly served by her bone-dry delivery and she repeatedly gets big laughs from her perfectly pitched comments. Again, her character is not particularly well developed - there’s a hint of romantic longing for Van Damm which is never explored - but Dench is good enough to make a fully rounded character herself and she’s sorely missed whenever she’s not on screen. Elsewhere in the cast, Bob Hoskins isn’t ideally suited to the role of Vivian Van Damm but he makes a fair fist of it and has a good chemistry with Dench. There’s a pleasingly droll cameo from Christopher Guest and good support from Thelma Barlow (whoever thought we’d see Coronation Street’s Mavis Riley making jokes about anal sex?). In addition, the film also features a rather perplexing appearance from Will Young. The pop star is making his acting debut here and he hardly distinguishes himself with the handful of lines he’s given, although he’s much more comfortable when taking part in the musical numbers. All in all, not a debut which will encourage him to give up the day job and the more cynical members of the audience may suspect he was cast purely for the purpose of one joke about his character’s sexuality. Mrs Henderson Presents ends with a whimper after its sparky opening. Stephen Frears’ direction couldn’t be more anonymous and his bland handling doesn’t ever look likely to lift the film out of the lethargic state it adopts halfway through. The film looks smart, with the hazy cinematography evoking a bygone age, and the CGI-enhanced vision of London is realistic enough, but the glossy exterior can’t hide the fact that this is a painfully limp and inoffensive film which clearly uses up all of its inspiration at a very early stage. Judi Dench almost manages to lift the whole enterprise single-handedly with her smashing display; but it’s a film which needs more than one firecracker performance to salvage it, and for this viewer the curtain couldn’t fall quickly enough on Mrs Henderson Presents.
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Not for kids. Read Common Sense Media's Mrs. Henderson Presents review, age rating, and parents guide.	en	/themes/custom/common_sense/images/favicons/favicon-16x16.png	Common Sense Media	https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents	Newly widowed, wealthy Londoner Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is dissatisfied with the lifestyle led by her fellow widow friends. On a whim, she buys a theatre, renovates it, and hires seasoned Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run the show. After the theatre opens to short-lived rave reviews, it starts losing money. Van Damm thinks it best to close but Mrs. Henderson laughs off the "defeat" and decides the best way to fill the house is to add nudity to the show. Nudity isn't allowed in the theatre, but they are able to find a loophole in the law that permits it if the models stay perfectly still. The show is a hit, especially with soldiers newly embroiled in World War II. The business partners are strong-willed and non-conventional and inevitably lock horns. But they build a strong sense of mutual respect in a partnership where both are able to get what they need.
7925	dbpedia	0	51	https://mraybould.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/mrs-henderson-presents/	en	MRS HENDERSON’S SAFE SEX AT THE WINDMILL	https://mraybould.wordpr…012/02/mrs-h.jpg	https://mraybould.wordpr…012/02/mrs-h.jpg	[ "https://mraybould.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cropped-bocca.jpg", "https://mraybould.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mrs-h.jpg?w=640", "https://sweetridgesisters.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/movie-jack-nicholson-the-bucket-list.jpg?w=200&h=200&crop=1", "https://mraybould.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/roger-mcgough_jm9gj.jpg?w=200&h=200&crop=1", "https://mraybould.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/savile.jpg?w=200&h=200&crop=1", "https://mraybould.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/crow.jpg?w=200&h=200&crop=1", "https://i0.wp.com/www.gigantesound.com/graphics/media/tang_tree_portrait.jpg?resize=200%2C200", "https://i0.wp.com/mraybould.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lanegan.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1", "https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=48&d=wavatar&r=G", "https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/422d296f1ee11e5150bbf65512716666f338ffc7eb2ed612f88417dc8e69504b?s=48&d=wavatar&r=G", "https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=48&d=wavatar&r=G", "http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1335/1204091024_24745e9734_m.jpg", "https://mraybould.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-hunk.jpg?w=50", "https://mraybould.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-hunk.jpg?w=50", "https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?v=noscript" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2012-02-15T00:00:00	Stephen Frears' drab movie of this story is neither historically illuminating nor sexually stimulating.	en	https://mraybould.wordpr…ed-hunk.jpg?w=32	ANIMAL MY SOUL	https://mraybould.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/mrs-henderson-presents/	MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS directed by Stephen Frears (UK, 2005) Until it was yuppified , Soho was a seedy area of Central London with strip clubs, triple X cinemas, ‘adult’ video stores and rooms where you could rent the personal services of young ‘models’ who claimed to be fluent in French or Greek. The Windmill Theatre was a precursor to the ‘erotic’ entertainment of establishments like Raymond’s Revuebar. It was bought on a whim by Mrs Henderson, a rich widow, in 1930. She paid for it to be refurbished and employed an Englishman of Dutch Jewish origin, Vivian Van Damm , as manager. When traditional shows failed to pull in the punters Van Damm hit upon the idea of using nude ‘statues’ (tableaux vivants) to win back audiences. This was only allowed by Lord Chamberlain and the board of censors so long as the women remained motionless – ‘if they move it’s rude’ was the rule. Against a WWII backdrop, Stephen Frears’ drab movie of this story is neither historically illuminating nor sexually stimulating despite a top rate cast with Mrs H and Van Damm played respectively by Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. Dench could play parts like this in her sleep but it’s asking a bit much for her to carry so much weight in this film. Bob Hoskins is better suited to parts where he is either thuggish, shifty or both. Here, despite his controversial show he is a relatively respectable gentleman with a plummy accent which just sounds wrong coming from him. And the least said about the bland Will Young in a supporting role the better. Nudity is kept to a bare (gedddit?) minimum. It’s all done in the best possible taste so that apart from fleeting glimpses of breasts and buttocks very little is revealed. Mrs H takes on the role of matchmaker and Maureen (Kelly Reilly) one of the stars of the show gets pregnant after a fling with a young soldier. Given the movie’s lack of raciness you’d be forgiven for believing that this was some kind of immaculate conception. The ‘no sex please we’re British’ theme would be fine if the script was lively and/or witty but it’s neither. Furthermore, Frears directs in a very unimaginative fashion so that the sets and scenes are more suited to a theatrical production. The spirit of the blitz moment is the movie’s non-orgasmic climax as the theatre vows that ‘the show must go on’ . In spite of the bomb raids the famed stiff upper lips of the English rise to the fore. Chances are you’ll be asleep before you get to this point.
7925	dbpedia	1	8	https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mrs-henderson-presents/umc.cmc.3i2p7powvsd3kwfcoti2bka0k	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	https://is1-ssl.mzstatic…g/1200x675mf.jpg	https://is1-ssl.mzstatic…g/1200x675mf.jpg	[ "https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mrs-henderson-presents/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif", "https://tv.apple.com/assets/artwork/1x1.gif" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[]	2005-12-09T00:00:00+00:00	From Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, My Beautiful Laundrette and High Fidelity) comes the remarkable true lâ¦	en	/assets/favicon/apple-touch-icon-9a18d92f405f4cba68b503b186df5f5b.png	AppleÂ TV	https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/mrs-henderson-presents/umc.cmc.3i2p7powvsd3kwfcoti2bka0k	An unexpectedly classy film. Not for kids.
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7925	dbpedia	3	45	https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/1892566-mrs-henderson-presents.html	en	Mrs Henderson Presents	https://www.movieforums.…favicon_32px.gif	https://www.movieforums.…favicon_32px.gif	[ "https://www.movieforums.com/images/logo_hover.png", "https://www.movieforums.com/images/blackpixel_80.png", "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/8iKGRMsUDZlz1zzU2NDedAwr5Qt.jpg", "https://www.movieforums.com/community/customavatars/avatar79363_1.gif", "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eDroOhqag-o/maxresdefault.jpg", "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v44lyZR7Bbo/hqdefault.jpg", "http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2421/3775569700_213287a81b.jpg", "https://cdn.empireonline.com/jpg/80/0/0/1000/563/0/north/0/0/0/0/0/t/films/10773/images/kQJzL7DY02rbNu6s800ahijWVsC.jpg", "https://www.reelingreviews.com/mrshendersonpresentspic.jpg", "https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/45/1378/1600/mrs19.jpg", "https://www.movieforums.com/images/tmdb.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "movie forums", "movie forum", "movie reviews", "movies", "movie board", "movie discussion", "chat", "movie awards" ]	null	[]	null	Movie Forums - Exactly what it sounds like	en	/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png?v=2		null	Sparkling entertainment from start to finish inspired by true events, 2005's Mrs. Henderson Presents is a deliciously entertaining and endlessly imaginative piece of cinematic cotton candy that evokes warmth, sentiment, and might even ignite a tear duct or two. It is London in 1937 where we meet Mrs. Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), an eccentric and very wealthy widow who, as she puts it, is "bored with widowhood" and, on a whim, decides to buy a run down theater on London's west end and renovate with the aid of the theater manager she hires to manage the place, Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins). The theater experiences brief success producing colorful musical revues, but business begins to suffer when other theaters begin to copy them, so Mrs. Henderson decides the way to revive ticket sales is turn the revues into nude revues. Of course, Mrs. Henderson must obtain permission for this dramatic change from the current head of London law, Lord Cromer (Christopher Guest) who agrees to the change as long as the women who appear onstage are not allowed to move, like a tableau. Henderson and Van Damm agree and the theater finds even greater success until the advent of WWII, which changes everything for everyone at the Windmill Theater. Director Stephen Frears, who mounted 1988's Dangerous Liaisons and directed Helen Mirren into a 2006 Best Actress Oscar for The Queen has crafted a richly entertaining and wonderfully human story that flies in the face of British aristocracy and does it on a large and inviting canvas, that extends beyond the Windmill Theater and involves most of London as a new theatrical concept threatens the very proper British theater going population. I loved that the story turns out to be a show business story that involves more than pretty girls baring their breasts. It was interesting watching the difference between the two sets of auditions that we witness. The audition for the original revue was a completely different thing than the audition than for the nude revue and I loved the way they decided what kind of girls they were going to need for the nude revue and that it wasn't just about the way they looked without their clothes on. Mrs. Henderson's care about her theater and especially for the way these girls are treated was quite endearing, as well as her attraction to Van Damm, which she is in complete denial about. The scene where Mrs. Henderson discovers that Van Damm is married was quite startling, a reaction this reviewer didn't see coming, but found wonderfully human. And despite the attraction between these two, I like that it never became the focus of the story, the focus was always the Windmill Theater. Frears' striking attention to period detail is on the money and production values are first rate, with standout photography, film editing, Sandy Powell's incredible costumes. and George Fenton's evocative music. Oscar winner Judi Dench lights up the screen in the title role, a performance rich with power and humor and she is matched by the late Mr. Hoskins as the man Mrs. Henderson constantly attempts to crumble, but never does. The offbeat casting of Christopher Guest totally works and I loved Kelly Reilly as Maureen, one of the nudie chorus girls. Loved this movie, everything worked here.
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Not for kids. Read Common Sense Media's Mrs. Henderson Presents review, age rating, and parents guide.	en	/themes/custom/common_sense/images/favicons/favicon-16x16.png	Common Sense Media	https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mrs-henderson-presents	Newly widowed, wealthy Londoner Mrs. Henderson (Judi Dench) is dissatisfied with the lifestyle led by her fellow widow friends. On a whim, she buys a theatre, renovates it, and hires seasoned Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to run the show. After the theatre opens to short-lived rave reviews, it starts losing money. Van Damm thinks it best to close but Mrs. Henderson laughs off the "defeat" and decides the best way to fill the house is to add nudity to the show. Nudity isn't allowed in the theatre, but they are able to find a loophole in the law that permits it if the models stay perfectly still. The show is a hit, especially with soldiers newly embroiled in World War II. The business partners are strong-willed and non-conventional and inevitably lock horns. But they build a strong sense of mutual respect in a partnership where both are able to get what they need.
7925	dbpedia	1	9	http://cinemalogue.com/2006/01/13/mrs-henderson-presents/	en	Mrs. Henderson Presents	http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/pr-img/MH2_a.jpg	http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/pr-img/MH2_a.jpg	[ "http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/pr-img/MH2_s.jpg", "http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/pr-img/MH2_a.jpg", "http://cinemalogue.com/dd-img/DD_150x46.jpg", "http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/eofb.jpg", "http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/92019083_2996996313655560_6996140892096561152_n.png" ]	[]	[]	[ "" ]	null	[ "Rubin Safaya" ]	2006-01-13T00:00:00	In 1932, the Windmill Theatre began non-stop variety with their production, "Revuedeville," inspired allegedly by their Paris namesake, the Moulin Rouge. It's a historical fact that the Windmill displayed a sign, with pride, that read, "WE NEVER CLOSED," referring to the fact that they remained open through the London bombings during World War II with the exception of a government-enforced closing from...	en	http://cinemalogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CL_LOGO_alt3.png	Cinemalogue	http://cinemalogue.com/2006/01/13/mrs-henderson-presents/	Kelly Reilly as Maureen in The Weinstein Company’s MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS. In 1932, the Windmill Theatre began non-stop variety with their production, “Revuedeville,” inspired allegedly by their Paris namesake, the Moulin Rouge. It’s a historical fact that the Windmill displayed a sign, with pride, that read, “WE NEVER CLOSED,” referring to the fact that they remained open through the London bombings during World War II with the exception of a government-enforced closing from September 4 to 16, 1939. This film, inspired by these events, tells the story of the owner, Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) and her stubborn theatre manager, Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins). After her husband’s death, Henderson, seemingly eccentric (though not quite), is wary of becoming idle. Her friend, Maggie (Doraly Rosen), encourages her to live it up. On a shopping trip, Henderson spots a delapidated, closed theatre. Before she’s had a chance to contemplate it, Laura leaps right into purchasing the property. Unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about managing a theatre. Instead, she hires Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to handle the day to day operations of the Windmill. The classical conflict exists between the opinionated Henderson and her cantankerous stage manager, and we expect them to reach the end of the film on decidely friendly terms, but it’s interesting to see how it unfolds. Van Damm has the innovative concept of running a nonstop revue, with five or six shows daily. Mrs. Henderson invites friends to a cocktail party to announce the opening, pitching it as a philanthropic endeavor, “Revuedeville is an attempt to create employment.” A couple of demented pharaohs and a few other bizarre auditions later, Van Damm has himself an assistant but he doesn’t yet have the gimmick that will keep Revuedeville aliveâ€”especially once their initial success is copied by all the other theaters in town. Mrs. Henderson in her travels has been to Paris, and intuits, “Paris is full of naked girls wearing bananas and driving the audience bananas in return.” There’s one obstacle, though. Van Damm notes that Cromer, the Lord Chamberlain (Christopher Guest), would not approve of the show. Though, Mrs. Henderson, resourceful socialite that she is, happens to be close friends with him. Cromer’s concerned about the rule of law, but he also knows the influence that a public figure like Mrs. Henderson wields. And so, her persuasiveness draws a suggestion from the Lord Chamberlain: If the girls were to remain still, like a tableaux, the nude performances would remain within the law. But he’s still unsure about “the foliage… beneath the…” The exchange that follows, rather embarrassing for Cromer, is too funny to spoil. Van Damm and his assistant scour the country, in search of the perfect pair of “British nipples.” They eventually find Maureen (the statuesque Kelly Reilly) to lead the show. With that, the show can go on, and to rousing interest it does. There’s some hilarious diversions throughout, including one involving a mouse that escapes onstage to startle the girls into motion. Knowing that the Lord Chamberlain is keeping a watchful eye on the women, to ensure there’s no funny business, I’m rather suspicious of that mouse’s intentions. These whimsical digressions are much welcomed by me, as those most likely to see this film will at least have already some familiarity with the history of the Windmill. So, the most interesting parts revolve around the characters and, for the most part, jovial atmosphere of the goings on about the theatreâ€”which, being underground, happens to not only entertain but is “the safest place in town” at that particular time. With these events having taken place during World War II, there is of course some tragedy involved. Mrs. Henderson’s deep attachment to serving the young military men stationed in London at the time of the German bombing raids is fueled by the loss of her own son, Alex, in World War I. She visits his grave in France and, back home, watches the raids from the rooftops. One imagines, perhaps, she is waiting for death in the hope that she may be reunited with her beloved son. Eventually, the Windmill is forced to close by the city. This prompts Mrs. Henderson and Van Damm to go to the people. Henderson pleads, “If we are to ask our sons to surrender their lives, we should not ask them to surrender joy.” Some will interpret this as a timely political message. Indeed Henderson’s speech echoes the words of Benjamin Franklin, who said, “They that would sacrifice essential liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security,” and indeed that message is as relevant today as it was over 200 years ago. However, there are many levels on which to take in “Mrs. Henderson Presents.” For me, the necessity of preserving freedom of expression is self-evident, so I enjoyed this film for the chemistry between Hoskins and Dench, the comical juxtapositions of artistic and beautiful nudity with inherently corny stage musicals, and the general sense of community in the people of London who come together under one roof, in a cramped, underground theatre, to take their mind off the impending doom that awaits them at street level. It’s not a weighty film nor is it intended to be. If the point of the original Moulin Rouge was to give bohemians a distraction from the rise of a drab, industrial age, then the Windmill resurrected and fulfilled this function of entertainment as a means to temporarily relieve us of our fears. When Britons show great pride in the fact that the real Windmill stayed open throughout most of the raids, they’re not merely remembering an escapism, they’re thumbing their nose at the very notion that life and joy should be disrupted by the threat of even the greatest mortal danger the 20th century had ever seen. To what greater cause can soldiers commit their lives? Mrs. Henderson Presents â€¢ DolbyÂ® Digital surround sound in select theatres â€¢ MPAA Rating: R for nudity and brief language. â€¢ Distributed by The Weinstein Company Dolby and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
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Now in its second year in the Andalusian capital, cinema plays a leading role in the forum, and along with the chance to listen to Frears talking about his long career in the film industry, there was also an opportunity to see three of his most celebrated films in English: My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Queen. SUR in English caught up with the 82-year-old, who claims "being a film director is an odd combination of involvement and detachment", to talk about his early work, his rise to stardom in Hollywood and some of the actors he has most enjoyed working with. Frears spent most of his early directing career in television, mainly for the BBC. He has since become world-renowned for his real-life stories that explore controversial subjects or events, like interracial relationships, homosexual promiscuity, political scandal and the British class system, most of which are a mixture of tragedy and comedy. Born in Leicester, Frears began his career working as an assistant director in theatre and television, directing his debut feature film, Gumshoe, in 1971. However, it was to be in the 1980s when Frears' career really took off, in particular, with the movies, My Beautiful Laundrette, which launched Daniel Day-Lewis on his acting career; and Prick Up Your Ears, the true-story of playwright Joe Orton's tragic life, which starred the young actors Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina. These three actors were relatively unknown at the time, but they were not chosen because Frears has an eye for new talent. "I didn't have enough money to use anyone famous at that time. What happens is you do it out of necessity. There were four people on the list for Dan's part. They were the ones who were around at that time. It's true, we didn't have enough money, but we were saved by our poverty," he says, bursting into laughter. Even though many of his films are based on real-life characters, Frears rarely seeks to meet the people he is portraying. "Well, I never met the Queen, or Joe Orton, and I've never met Tony Blair. I've no desire to meet them, because that would have confused me. I don't think real life helps, because, in a way, it's much better to use one's imagination," he explains. Frears received international attention as a director in 1988, when he directed Dangerous Liaisons, which starred John Malkovich, Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film received world-wide critical acclaim and was nominated for seven Academy and ten British Academy awards, launching Frears onto the Hollywood scene. In 1990, he directed the crime thriller, The Grifters, which was produced by Martin Scorsese, someone for whom he obviously holds much respect. "I was always waiting for Martin to phone. One day he rang. He had seen Laundrette and thought that the man who made this must make The Grifters. I thought this was brilliant," he says. Another "big moment" in his life was when he went to Hollywood in 1992 to make Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman. "Hero was a studio film, and I didn't really know much about working for the studios. I don't think I know that much now. I was quite perplexed by it all," he declares, with sincerity. A string of box-office hit movies followed and Frears began to establish himself as a much sought-after director, but he never turned his back on the UK and the British film industry. He returned to directing for television with The Deal (2003), which was based on the alleged deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as to which of them would lead the Labour party in 1994. This was followed by The Queen (2006), a film based on the death of Princess Diana from the angle of Queen Elizabeth II. The lead role was played by Helen Mirren, who had described the movie as "a hot potato". Mirren claimed that it was only the professionalism of the director that put her at ease. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and Mirren, who claimed she was "petrified at the thought of making it", won Best Actress for her portrayal of the monarch. "When I was first introduced to Helen, I thought it was a very good idea for her to play the role. When she sat down, the producer said, 'Oh my goodness, she looks exactly like the queen.' Helen was so good, but I didn't feel the subject was a hot potato. She was brilliant. I remember her going into wardrobe, and when she came out, she was the queen. It's as simple as that," Frears says. Although he sometimes works with the same actor for different movies, he claims he does not have any favourites. "I don't really have favourites, but I remember thinking when I first met Hugh [Grant] that I would have a part to play in his life. We started flirting, and then along came the film Florence Foster Jenkins, which was enjoyable to make. Next was the film about Jeremy Thorpe, A Very English Scandal. I always knew Hugh would be brilliant, although he took some convincing." Frears believes that "making a film is a journey of discovery; they are a way of learning about life". "I have a curious mind, so coming up with fresh material is key. I pick a film because I like it, and because I think it's well written. I am astonished that writers seem to be able to write the inside of my head. The idea of repeating myself is very depressing though," he explains. In 2017, Frears made Victoria and Abdul, a British film about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant. The film starred Judy Dench, whom he had worked with on Mrs Henderson Presents, in 2005, which also starred Bob Hoskins. He had also collaborated with Dench in 2013 on the film, Philomena, which explored the story of Philomena Lee's 50-year search for her son, who was taken from her when she was a young unwed mother at a Catholic convent, and then adopted by an American family. Although he has been voted among the top 100 most influential people in British culture, and hailed as one of the film world's "most influential creators in recent decades", Frears claims he "takes no notice" of this praise. Even his knighthood in 2023 is something he believes to be of little use in the film world. "I must say that I was surprised when I heard about the knighthood, but it's not a title I would ever think of using. The thing about it was that it was of no relevance, but the day was rather charming. Princess Anne was charming," he says. The director acknowledges that the film industry has changed greatly since he first began, which is why he feels that forums like the one in Seville are important. "When I grew up, you went to the pictures, to the cinema. I've always preferred that. I can see the world is not the way I wanted it to be, so these types of festivals have become important. "The way films are made is also easier today, but of course, the easiness is its own trap, because in the end, it's about thought and imagination," he concludes. Stephen Frears' latest project, The Regime, which stars Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, premiered on HBO at the beginning of March.
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Mrs Henderson PresentsDirected byStephen FrearsWritten byMartin ShermanProduced byNorma Heyman Bob HoskinsStarringCinematographyAndrew DunnEdited byLucia ZucchettiMusic byGeorge Fenton Production companies Distributed byPathé Distribution (United Kingdom) The Weinstein Company (United States) Release date Running time 103 minutes[1]CountriesUnited Kingdom United StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$20 million[2]Box office$27.8 million[2] Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Martin Sherman. It stars Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, and Will Young (in his acting debut). It tells the true story of Laura Henderson, an eccentric British socialite who opened the Windmill Theatre in London in 1931. Mrs Henderson Presents was theatrically released on 25 November 2005 by The Weinstein Company. It received generally positive reviews from critics and did moderately well, grossing $27.8 million against its $20 million budget. It received two nominations at the 78th Academy Awards; Best Actress (for Dench) and Best Costume Design (for Sandy Powell). Plot [edit] Following her husband's death, eccentric 70-year-old widow Mrs Laura Henderson purchases a redundant cinema and remodels it to create the Windmill Theatre in London, as a post-widowhood hobby and appoints autocratic manager Vivian Van Damm. In 1937, they start a continuous variety revue called "Revudeville", but after other theatres copy this innovation, they begin losing money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity, similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris, something unprecedented in the United Kingdom. The Lord Chamberlain (Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer) reluctantly allows this under the condition that the nude female performers remain immobile, so the performances can be considered art, the equivalent of nude statues in museums. Because the theatre's auditorium is below street level, it is relatively safe during the bombing of London, and performances continue. The performers bravely go on with the show even during frightening bombing raids, and the posed nude girls resume their poses, after ducking, as the whole theatre is shaken and the scene flats all round them sway when a bomb lands close by. Maureen, one of the cast, becomes involved at Mrs Henderson's instigation with a young soldier, Paul, one of the audience regulars. Maureen becomes pregnant and receives word that after Paul is demobilised, he intends to return to his girlfriend. She becomes very upset, and hands in her notice. Before further developments, she is killed by a bomb while leaving the theatre. Other scenes depict life in the theatre during the period. Mrs Henderson and Mr Van Damm frequently clash, but also show great appreciation for each other. Eventually, the authorities want the theatre to close because of the danger from bombs to crowds gathering outside the theatre. Mrs Henderson successfully argues that for soldiers going to die in the war, this is their last chance, and for many of the young soldiers their only chance, to see naked women. She reflects on the death of her son in the First World War, and how he may never have even seen a naked woman except on a French postcard he had left at home, before going off to war and dying in a gas attack. The film's closing credits explain that, on her death in 1944, Mrs Henderson bequeathed the theatre to Mr Van Damm. Cast [edit] Judi Dench as Laura Henderson Bob Hoskins as Vivian Van Damm Will Young as Bertie Christopher Guest as Lord Cromer Kelly Reilly as Maureen Toby Jones as Gordon Thelma Barlow as Lady Margot Conway Anna Brewster as Doris Rosalind Halstead as Frances Sarah Solemani as Vera Natalia Tena as Peggy Melody Squire as Millerette Sir Thomas Allen as Eric Woodburn Richard Syms as Ambrose Samuel Barnett as Paul Ralph Nossek as Leslie Pearkes Reception [edit] Critical response [edit] The film received mostly positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 67% approval rating based on 144 reviews with an average rating 6.65 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins shine in this warm, witty period piece."[3] Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4] The website Future Movies described the film as "very funny, sweet and charming".[citation needed] Roger Ebert reacted fairly positively to the film, saying "Mrs Henderson Presents is not great cinema, and neither was the Windmill great theater, but they both put on a good show."[5] Awards [edit] The film won four minor awards and was nominated for 26, among them four BAFTA Awards including Best Original Screenplay,[6] two Academy Awards,[7] three Golden Globe Awards,[8] and eight British Independent Film Awards. Music [edit] Main article: Mrs. Henderson Presents (soundtrack) Stage musical adaptation [edit] Main article: Mrs Henderson Presents (musical) In June 2014, it was first revealed by producer John Reid that a musical adaption of the film was in the works,[9] with a workshop taking place the same year.[10] On 16 October 2014, the musical was officially confirmed and it was announced that the show would receive its world premiere in summer 2015, with a view to a West End transfer.[11] The musical is directed by and has a book by Terry Johnson,[12] based on an original screenplay by Martin Sherman,[13] with choreography by Andrew Wright,[14] set design by Tim Shortall,[14] costume design by Paul Wills,[14] lighting by Ben Ormerod[14] and magic consultancy by Scott Penrose.[15] Music by George Fenton and Simon Chamberlain (musical director on the 2005 film) and lyrics by Don Black. The show's premiere production began previews at the Theatre Royal in Bath, on 15 August 2015, with its official opening night coming on 26 August, for a limited run until 25 September 2015.[16] Rehearsals began on 7 July 2015.[17] On 6 March 2015, initial casting was announced with the news that Janie Dee would play the role of Laura Henderson with Emma Williams playing Maureen.[18] Further notable casting included Ian Bartholomew as Vivian Van Damm and Mark Hadfield as Arthur.[19] On 7 July 2015, it was revealed that Janie Dee had withdrawn from the production prior to rehearsals for personal reasons and that Tracie Bennett would replace her in the role of Laura Henderson.[20] Following completion of the musical's tryout in Bath, it was announced that the show would transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End[21] with an official opening night of 16 February 2016 following previews from 9 February.[22] The majority of the cast reprised their roles with the exceptions of Mark Hadfield, who was replaced in the role of Arthur by former EastEnders actor Jamie Foreman,[23] Graham Hoadly who was replaced (owing to a prior contractual commitment) in the role of Lord Cromer by Robert Hands and Jane Milligan who was replaced in the role of Lady Conway by Liz Ewing.[24] References [edit]
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