Britten - Gloriana / Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, Emer - What a Movie Review is Not
Britten - Gloriana / Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, Emer A unique, one-of-a-kind movie! Both Josephine Barstow and Tom Randle has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best films of the year! Maybe thats what makes the movie so good.The great cast includes Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, David Ellis, Susannah Glanville, Emer McGilloway. The movie moves on like a dream and end leaving you wanting for more.
If you love watching Josephine Barstow or Tom Randle, you are deffinetly going to want to watch Britten - Gloriana / Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, Emer.
The 1953 Coronation Week galas included Covent Garden's world premiere of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana . But instead of a feel-good Olde England spectacle glorifying the first Queen Elizabeth they got an opera about a royal court riven by intrigues, a treasonous lover, and an aging, lonely monarch who must rule her passions in order to rule her kingdom. The opera's full of brilliant, inventive music and moving emotions. It requires a Queen equal to a role that demands great acting and great singing and Josephine Barstow is just such a Queen. She embodies the part with such overwhelming intensity it's hard to imagine anyone else in it. Her voice may have lost some of its lustre, but the toll time has taken only makes her performance more riveting. This DVD is a must-have for Barstow alone. The others in the cast are quite good; tenor Tom Randle is a fiery Essex and Clive Bayley's oily Sir Walter Raleigh is excellent, among many others deserving of mention. Conductor Paul Daniel leads an exciting performance, despite a few questionable tempos.
But director Phyllida Lloyd's transformation of a staged opera to film will be controversial, as will the brutal cuts she makes to more single-mindedly focus on the Queen and her interior conflicts. Thus, what we see is not what Britten intended, but instead a valid interpretation of the opera by a skilled director. Still, the music is compromised by her approach, which blends onstage performance film and studio scenes in which singers match their parts to piped-in orchestral accompaniments with backstage, handheld camera shots showing performers changing costume and bantering among themselves as Britten's music plays. It's exciting video, but more valuable as a supplement to the complete staged opera than as your sole Gloriana. --Dan Davis
Be Cool [UMD for PSP] - What a Movie Review is Not
Be Cool [UMD for PSP]- To begin, this movie has a great beginning; it pulled me right into it.This is something not usually seen in movies of this type, so it makes it an unusual, yet pleasant experience.The action scenes are really great. John Travolta played his role great. Uma Thurman actually caught my interest.
I think John Travolta and Uma Thurman worked wonderful in Be Cool [UMD for PSP]. The great supporting cast includes John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Andr Benjamin.
All in all, I would rate this movie an 8.5/10. I would definitely watch this movie again.
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Summary of Be Cool [UMD for PSP]: Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Andr 3000, Steven Tyler and The Rock, and bursting with the hottest music in the biz, Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry, he romances thesultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec, poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!
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