sâmbătă, 8 februarie 2020

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN ...THROUGH CINEMA

MONARHIA BRITANICA IN FILM



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https://www.imdb.com/list/ls025501136/ LISTA DE 20 DE FILME
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https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063925660/ LISTA DE 49 DE FILME

1. The King's Speech (2010)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
 8


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88 Metascore
The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Votes: 611,608 | Gross: $138.80M
The Queen

2. The Queen (2006)

PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.3


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91 Metascore
After the death of Princess DianaQueen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Votes: 100,140 | Gross: $56.44M
Victoria & Abdul

3. Victoria & Abdul (2017)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
 6.8


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58 Metascore
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Votes: 28,538 | Gross: $22.25M
The Lost Prince

4. The Lost Prince (2003 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 180 min | Biography, Drama
 7.7


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The true story of the British royal Prince locked away because of having epilepsy.
Votes: 1,799
A Royal Night Out

5. A Royal Night Out (2015)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
 6.5


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58 Metascore
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
Votes: 8,725 | Gross: $0.20M
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance

6. William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (2011 TV Movie)

PG | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
 4.9


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The love story of Prince William and Kate Middleton that resulted in one of the most celebrated weddings in history. At a pivotal point in their courtship, William takes to heart the advice... See full summary »
Votes: 458
Wallis & Edward

7. Wallis & Edward (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
 6.4


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In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world. Wallis and Edward is an ... See full summary »
Votes: 433
The Young Victoria

8. The Young Victoria (2009)

PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.3


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64 Metascore
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Votes: 55,314 | Gross: $11.00M
Mrs Brown

9. Mrs Brown (1997)

PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.2


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71 Metascore
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.
Votes: 12,837 | Gross: $9.22M
Henry V

10. Henry V (1989)

PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama
 7.5


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83 Metascore
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Votes: 27,153 | Gross: $10.16M
To Kill a King

11. To Kill a King (2003)

Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History
 6.2


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A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
Votes: 2,901
Victoria & Albert

12. Victoria & Albert (2001– )

200 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.5


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The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and eighteen-year-old Victoria's ascension to ... See full summary »
Votes: 920
The Lion in Winter

13. The Lion in Winter (1968)

PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.9


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1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Votes: 27,695 | Gross: $22.28M
The Madness of King George

14. The Madness of King George (1994)

PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
 7.2


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89 Metascore
When King George III (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.
Votes: 14,647 | Gross: $15.24M
A Queen Is Crowned

15. A Queen Is Crowned (1953)

TV-G | 82 min | Documentary, History
 7.4


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A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
Votes: 83
Elizabeth

16. Elizabeth (1998)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.4


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75 Metascore
The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Votes: 88,167 | Gross: $30.08M
The Other Boleyn Girl

17. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
 6.7


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50 Metascore
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
Votes: 99,522 | Gross: $26.81M
Mary, Queen of Scots

18. Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
 7.2


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53 Metascore
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
Votes: 3,764
The Virgin Queen

19. The Virgin Queen (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History
 6.8


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Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
Votes: 2,355
Anne of the Thousand Days








BRITISH

AMPRENTA ANGLO-SAXONA (sec. XIX si XX): Carti si filme despre un un univers aparte

Note: The dates in brackets correlate to the screen adaptation, not the publication of the book.











CARTI SI FILME DESPRE O LUME APARTE

Oscar Wilde:

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2009)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
A Good Woman (based on Lady Windermere’s Fan) (2004)

Frances Hodgson Burnett:

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
The Secret Garden (1993)
A Little Princess (1995)

Virginia Woolf:

The Edwardians (1972)
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
To the Lighthouse (1983)

EM Forster:

A Passage to India (1984)
A Room with A View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1992)
Howards End (1992)

Henry James:

The Heiress (based on Washington Square) (1949)
Washington Square (1997)
The American (1998)
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Daisy Miller (1974)
The Europeans (1979)
The Bostonians (1984)
The Golden Bowl (2000)

Edith Wharton:

The Buccaneers (1995)
Ethan Frome (1993)
The Reef aka Passion’s Way (1999)
The House of Mirth (2000)
The Age of Innocence (1993)

Evelyn Waugh:

Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Bright Young Things (based on Vile Bodies) (2003)
Scoop (1987)
A Handful of Dust (1988)

DH Lawrence:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981)
Lady Chatterley (1993)

Noël Coward:

Private Lives (1931)
Cavalcade (1933)
Relative Values (2000)
Easy Virtue (2008)

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Tender is the Night (1962)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
The Great Gatsby (2000)

By other authors:

A Night to Remember, book by by Walter Lord (1958)
My Fair Lady (based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw) (1964)
The Forsyte Saga, book by John Galsworthy (1967)
Sherlock Holmes, based on the series by Arthur Conan Doyle (1984)
The Forsyte Saga, book by John Galsworthy (2002)
The Winslow Boy, play by Terence Rattigan (1999)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
The Way We Live Now, based on the Anthony Trollope novel (2001)


Films, TV series and made-for-TV movies:

The Young Victoria (2009)
Victoria and Albert (2001)
Mrs Brown (1997)
Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974)
Young Winston (1972)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Nancy Astor (1982)
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Upstairs, Downstairs (2010)
Tom & Viv (1994)
Carrington (1995)
Berkeley Square (1998)
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
The Governess (1998)
All the King’s Men (1999)
Gosford Park (2001)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
House of Eliott (1991)
De-Lovely (2004)
Titanic (1997)
Titanic (2012)
The Changeling (2008)
Boardwalk Empire (2009)
The King’s Speech (2010)
Mr Selfridge (2012)
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple

3 filme de Anthony Minghella, regizor decedat prematur la 54 de ani



Anthony Minghella,  nascut in Anglia (Ryde, Isle of Wight,1954), intro familie de emigranti italieni. A murit prematur, la 54 de ani, in urma unei operatii de cancer (18 martie, 2008)
Filmografie selectiva

1996    The English Patient (Oscar pentru cel mai bun regizor))
1999    The Talented Mr. Ripley
2003    Cold Mountain





Anthony Minghella,  nascut in Anglia (Ryde, Isle of Wight,1954), intro familie de emigranti italieni. A murit prematur, la 54 de ani, in urma unei operatii de cancer (18 martie, 2008)


Filmografie selectiva

1996 The English Patient (Oscar pentru cel mai bun regizor))
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
2003 Cold Mountain


1.The English Patient (Pacientul englez), 1996, reg. si scen. Anthony Minghella (dupa romanul omonim al lui Michael Ondaatje (scriitor canadian nascut in Sri Lanka in 1943). Distributia: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth.

2.The Talented Mr. Ripley (Talentatul domn Ripley), 1999. Reg. si scen. Anthony Minghella, dupa romanul Patriciei Highsmith. Distributia: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett. 
(N.B. Filmul lui René Clément, Plein soleil (1960), cu  Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet,Marie Laforêt, pleaca tot de la romanul Patriciei Highsmith)

3. Cold Mountain, 2003, reg. si scen. Anthony Minghella (dupa romanul omonim de Charles Frazer, 1997) .Distributia: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Philip Seymour, Hoffman, Natalie Portman




O calatorie in India (1984) dupa A Passage to India (1924)) de E.M. Forster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Passage_to_India_(film)

A Passage to India is a 1984 epic historical drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the play of the same name by Santha Rama Rau, which was in turn based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E.M. Forster.






DAVID LEAN (1908-1991)

Sir David Lean  (n. 25 martie 1908 – d. 16 aprilie 1991) a fost un regizor englez, producător, scenarist și editor cel mai bine cunoscut pentru realizarea unor filme epice cum ar fi The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) sau A Passage to India (1984); sau pentru ecranizarea operelor lui Charles Dickens în filme ca Great Expectations (1946) și Oliver Twist (1948). (w.ro)


Filmografie (selectie)

1945    Brief Encounter  (Palme d'Or)
1946    Great Expectations      
1948    Oliver Twist    
1957    The Bridge on the River Kwai (Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture)
1962    Lawrence of Arabia (Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture)          
1965    Doctor Zhivago           
1970    Ryan's Daughter         
1984    A Passage to India
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  Roger Ebert


"Only connect!"
-- E.M. Forster

That is the advice he gives us in Howards End, and then, in A Passage to India, he creates a world in which there are no connections, where Indians and Englishmen speak the same language but do not understand each other, where it doesn't matter what you say in the famous Marabar Caves, since all that comes back is a hollow, mocking, echo. Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.

Great novels do not usually translate well to the screen. They are too filled with ambiguities, and movies have a way of making all their images seem like literal fact. "A Passage to India" is especially tricky, because the central event in the novel is something that happens offstage, or never happens at all -- take your choice. On a hot, muggy day, the eager Dr. Aziz leads an expedition to the Marabar Caves. One by one, members of the party drop out, until finally only Miss Quested, from England, is left. And so the Indian man and the British woman climb the last path alone, at a time when England's rule of India was based on an ingrained, semi-official racism, and some British, at least, nodded approvingly at Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." In Forster's novel, it is never clear exactly what it was that happened to Miss Quested after she wandered alone into one of the caves.

David Lean's film leaves that question equally open. But because he is dealing with a visual medium, he cannot make it a mystery where Dr. Aziz is at the time; if you are offstage in a novel, you can be anywhere, but if you are offstage in a movie, you are definitely not where the camera is looking. So in the film version we know, or think we know, that Dr. Aziz is innocent of the charges later brought against him -- of the attempted rape of Miss Quested.

The charges and the trial fill the second half of Lean's "A Passage to India." Lean brings us to that point by a series of perfectly modulated, quietly tension-filled scenes in which Miss Quested (Judy Davis) and the kindly Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) sail to India, where Miss Quested is engaged to marry the priggish local British magistrate in a provincial backwater. Both women want to see the "real India" -- a wish that is either completely lacking among the locals, or is manfully repressed. Mrs. Moore goes walking by a temple pool by moonlight, and meets the earnest young Dr. Aziz, who is captivated by her gentle kindness. Miss Quested wanders by accident into the ruins of another temple, populated by sensuous and erotic statuary, tumbled together, overgrown by vegetation.

Miss Quested's temple visit is not in Forster, but has been added by Lean (who wrote his own screenplay). It accomplishes just what is needed, suggesting that in Miss Quested the forces of sensuality and repression run a great deal more deeply than her sexually constipated fiancé is ever likely to suspect.

Meanwhile, we meet some of the other local characters, including Dr. Godbole (Alec Guinness), who meets every crisis with perfect equanimity, and who believes that what will be, will be. This philosophy sounds like recycled fortune cookies but turns out, in the end, to have been the simple truth. We also meet Fielding (James Fox), one of those tall, lonely middle-aged Englishmen who hang about the edges of stories set in the Empire, waiting until their destiny commands them to take a firm stand.

Lean places these characters in one of the most beautiful canvases he has ever drawn (and this is the man who directed "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia"). He doesn't see the India of travel posters and lurid postcards, but the India of a Victorian watercolorist like Edward Lear, who placed enigmatic little human figures here and there in spectacular landscapes that never seemed to be quite finished. Lean makes India look like an amazing, beautiful place that an Englishman can never quite put his finger on -- which is, of course, the lesson Miss Quested learns in the caves.

David Lean is a meticulous craftsman, famous for going to any lengths to make every shot look just the way he thinks it should. His actors here are encouraged to give sound, thoughtful, unflashy performances (Guinness strains at the bit), and his screenplay is a model of clarity: By the end of this movie we know these people so well, and understand them so thoroughly, that only the most reckless among us would want to go back and have a closer look at those caves.
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