In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, Queen Elizabeth is played by Judi Dench, who won an Oscar® for best supporting actress. The premise of the film is much less serious than Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, namely, that Shakespeare must have written love sonnets and the play Romeo and Juliet because he was himself in […]
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Many films have been made about Queen Elizabeth. Our images have perhaps already been shaped by the portrayal of Bette Davis, who made the queen out to be almost a tough Lesbian. Along comes sensitive Cate Blanchett, who shows how an unprepared not-so-virgin princess achieved maturity as a queen through bitter experience. In Shekhar Kapur’s
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NEWEST WORKING PAPER PUBLISHED From State and Local Censorship to Ratings: Substantive Rationality, Political Entrepreneurship, and Sex in the Movies, written by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., of the University of West Virginia, is the latest publication in the Political Film Society’s Working Paper Series. To obtain a copy, contact the Political Film Society’s website. QUEEN
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The Rage: Carrie II, directed by Katt Shea, is a sequel to Brian De Palma’s 1976 film Carrie. Now in 1999, with a female as director, the plot changes cleverly, though the tagline “Looks can kill” sounds similar. Amy Irving, who appeared in the first Carrie, now plays a school counselor named Sue Snell who
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NEWSLETTER BECOMES POLITICAL FILM REVIEW The continuing effort to professionalize the Political Film Society has turned up yet another innovation: From now on, the newsletter will be known as the Political Film Review. A FEMINIST CARRIE REMINDS FILMVIEWERS THAT MACHO MEN STILL RAPE WITH INPUNITY The Rage: Carrie II, directed by Katt Shea, is a
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The film Gods and Monster, which won an Oscar for best screenplay, portrays the true story of the last days of James Whale, the director of the first few Frankenstein movies, based on Christopher Bram’s book Father of Frankenstein. The title is a line from the film Bride of Frankenstein, one of many clips from
POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY WEBSITE RECEIVES AWARD On February 22, 1999, the Political Website of the Day organization awarded the Political Film Society an award as “Website of the Day.” The award cup now appears on the Political Film Society’s website. In addition, an alternative website address is now available: “http://PFS.cjb.net” should be easier to keystroke.
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POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY MEMBERS SELECT THE BEST FILMS OF 1998 Members of the Political Film Society selected the following as the best films of 1998 in raising political consciousness: PEACE The Boxer Regeneration Saving Private Ryan X Savior DEMOCRACY Enemy of the State X Four Days in September Primary Colors
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POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY MEMBERS NARROW LIST OF NOMINEES FOR BEST PEACE FILM Because one of the rules of thePolitical Film Society is that there can be only five nominees per category each year, members voted to determine the top five of the seven films of 1998 pre-nominated for promoting political consciousness of the desirability of
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Hilary and Jackie is the story of two sisters who were pushed by parents to become child prodigies—Hilary du Pré in playing the flute, Jacqueline du Pré as a ‘cellist. During an early life devoted to music, however, neither child reached maturity, and they lacked any identity apart from their musical personas, so they bonded