Iain softley biography of albert
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** BACKBEAT
(Worth seeing)
Directed by Iain Softley
Written by Softley, Stephen Ward, and Michael Thomas
With Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O&#;Neill, and Scot Williams.
Those somehow unacquainted with the vast canon of biographical material on the Beatles should note that in there were five of them. Stuart Sutcliffe, an art school crony of John Lennon and by most accounts a lousy bassist parted ways with the band more or less amicably in ; he died of a brain hemorrhage in April , just a few months before the band hit it big with &#;Love Me Do.&#;
Stu isn&#;t the only former Beatle, but unlike ousted original drummer Pete Best he was fortunate enough to be a romantic figure&#;withdrawn and handsome, he reminded people of James Dean; a gifted painter, he quit the band for art&#;s sake. Sutcliffe certainly wouldn&#;t be the subject of an adoring cinematic portrait had he, like Best, grown old, gone to work for the civil service, and written a depressing autobiography. Dying young is sexy.
Iain Softley&#;s necrophilic semibiopic tinkers with the truth right away, setting up its hero as the archetypal doomed genius by opening with a Liverpool brawl in which Stu receives the head injury that eventually proves fatal. Official account
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Immediately following on the heels of Jane Campion’s film of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Nicole Kidman, and Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square in , with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, and Maggie Smith, audiences got their third chance in less than 18 months to respond to the rather quixotic challenge of translating Henry James to film. A writer perhaps best known for the “interiorization” of his novels—in which only the barely registered twist of a synapse or the smallest inaudible gasp may indicate cataclysmic psychological or emotional upheavals or some life-altering spiritual revelation—James’s filmability has often suffered in direct proportion to the success with which he achieved the trademark purposes of his literary art. James used the novel of manners to indicate larger ideas and passions; they open outward as if from a great precipice, providing a dimensionally complex vision beyond their surface observations. As his view of the human comedy matured, taking on wider and more deeply felt concerns, he became a master of indirection, and his goal of seamlessly blending character, action, and theme fairly well displaced omniscient narrative.
By the time of The Wings of the Dove (), James was using brilliantly intricate stylistic effects to create (
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