Posts Tagged as ben whishaw
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Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
by Andrea
Miller - Cineplex Entertainment
Oscar winning writer-director Jane Campion certainly had her work cut out for her with Bright Star.
Not only is the main character long since dead Romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) but his passionate romance with witty fashionista Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is largely played out on paper and not, as is so often the case, in the bedroom. Try selling that to a "Girls Gone Wild"-reared society.
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Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
by Andrea
Miller - Cineplex Entertainment
Welcome to the morning after. Yes, TIFF '09 is all said and done and everyone can go back to their regularly scheduled lives. But all is not lost. There were, of course, some standout films amid the 270 titles and the past 10 days introduced us to some new faces, allowed us to visit with the old and celebrated cinema in all its glory.
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Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009
by Andrea
Miller - Cineplex Entertainment
Contemporary audiences will be forgiven their ignorance about Fanny Brawne and John Keats, those other star-crossed lovers whose brief but intense courtship inspired some of the most beloved writing and prolific prose ever conceived.
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