“An Inspector Calls” by Aisling Walsh (2015)

My Year’s Favorites (Aug. 2019-July 2020)

Good humor and images
Excellent personages and direction
Top script + content

An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsibility, guilt, honesty, and…
A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7
Average critics 8,0
Average public 8,0

Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie

“Beau Brummell: This Charming Man” by Philippa Lowthorpe (2006)

The work of Philippa Lowthorpe (2/3)

Good script, personages, dialogues, images and music
Excellent direction

Just as in The Other Boleyn Girl, the story of a personage – this time a man – who succeeds in charming a powerful man and acquires fame and richness, but overplays his hand and loses everything.
Excellent cast

IMDB 7,1

Cast: James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Phil Davis
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Simon Bent (screenplay), Ian Kelly (biography)
Music by Peter Salem
Cinematography by Graham Smith
Film Editing by David Thrasher

“The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Lowthorpe (2003)

The work of Philippa Lowthorpe (1/3)

Good gender content and message

A movie that shows how English noble society in the 16th century considered its women: worthless, only to be used in a sexualized context, either as seducers or as procreators of (male) heirs
The rise and fall of a woman who wanted more

IMDB 6,1

Cast: Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Philippa Gregory (novel), Philippa Lowthorpe
Music by Peter Salem
Cinematography by Graham Smith
Film Editing by Jonathan Morris

“Elizabeth Is Missing” by Aisling Walsh (2019)

2019 was a good year!

Good humor, music, content (8)
Excellent dialogues, direction, images (9)
Top personages (10)

An older woman gradually loses touch with the present, but the memories of her past help solve a crime
The script could have been less anecdotic but what Walsh has built around it makes one easily forget its shortcomings
Fantastic Glenda Jackson playing a very difficult personage
(no poster yet…)

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,9
Average critics 8,7
Average public 7,9

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Maggie Steed, Sophie Rundle
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: Andrea Gibb (adaptation), Emma Healey (novel)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Lukas Strebel
Film Editing by Alex Mackie

“Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter” by Catherine Cyran (2019)

2019 was a good year!

Nothing to write home about
The story is good but it’s not enough
Adding Victoria Gotti herself as narrator brings an interesting twist in the beginning but it quickly becomes boring

IMDB 5,5

Cast: Zoey Siewert, Maurice Benard, Chelsea Frei
Director: Catherine Cyran
Writers: David Schneiderman
based on the book by Victoria Gotti
Music by Brian Chan, Caleb Chan

“Elizabeth Is Missing” by Aisling Walsh (2019)

A British week: Aisling Walsh (3/3)

Good humor, music, content (8)
Excellent dialogues, direction, images (9)
Top personages (10)

An older woman gradually loses touch with the present, but the memories of her past help solve a crime
The script could have been less anecdotic but what Walsh has built around it makes one easily forget its shortcomings
Fantastic Glenda Jackson playing a very difficult personage
(no poster yet…)

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 8,1
Average critics 8,7
Average public 8,1

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 8,1
Average critics 8,7
Average public 8,1

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Maggie Steed, Sophie Rundle
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: Andrea Gibb (adaptation), Emma Healey (novel)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Lukas Strebel
Film Editing by Alex Mackie

“An Inspector Calls” by Aisling Walsh (2015)

A British week: Aisling Walsh (2/3)

Good humor and images (8)
Excellent personages and direction (9)
Top script + content (10)

An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsability, guilt, honesty, and…
A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7
Average critics 8,0
Average public 8,0

Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie