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Top banana:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Emily Watson, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Stephen Fry, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Northam, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Charles Dance, James Wilby

Screenplay:

Julian Fellowes

Tagline:


Tea At Four. Dinner At Eight. Murder At Midnight.


Box Office:


Budget $15 million.

Opening weekend $395,162 on 9 screens.

Domestic gross $41.3 million.


MPAA:


Rated R for some language and brief sexuality.

Academy Awards:


Won for Best Original Screenplay.

Nominated for Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actress-Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration; Best Costume Design.

Widescreen 2.35:1/16×9

Subtitles:

English, Spanish
Closed-captioned

Runtime:

138 min.


Price:

$26.98


Release Date:

6/25/2002

Bonus:


• Audio Commentary With Director Robert Altman, Production Designer Stephen Altman, and Producer David Levy

• Audio Commentary With Screenwriter Julian Fellowes

• Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary

• ?The Making of

Gosford Park

? Documentary

• ?The Authenticity of

Gosford Park

? Featurette

• ?Cast and Filmmakers Q&A Session?

• Trailer

• Production Notes

• Coming Attractions

Gosford Park (2001)

As proof that not all of his glories remain in the past, 77-year-old Robert Altman achieved strong critical success with his 2001 release,

Gosford Park

. After a mixed reaction to 2000?s



Dr. T and the Women



, Altman returned to form with

Gosford

. The movie didn?t make a substantial sdas box office impact, but that doesn?t come as a surprise; this sort of quiet piece usually doesn?t reach a mass audience. Nonetheless, the movie got seven Oscar nominations. It received nods for top prizes like


Best Picture


and Best Director, and it took home the award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

Despite his stellar reputation, I must admit I?ve never been especially enamored of Altman?s work. I like



M*A*S*H



quite a lot but I think



Nashville



remains an extremely overrated film. I strongly disliked

Dr. T

but was interested to check out the much-praised

Gosford

and see if it fared better.

Yes, it did, but that wasn?t difficult.

Gosford Park

offered a somewhat erratic experience. The movie had some interesting elements, but as a whole it seemed a little drab and bland.

Packed with an enormous cast,

Gosford

examines a social gathering at the rural English estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon). Set in the 1930s, the movie initially presents amusingly crotchety Constance, Coutness of Trentham (Maggie Smith) and her personal assistant Mary (Kelly Macdonald), we soon meet a wide variety of privileged guests, their servants, and the house staff.

Of course, a few of these receive more attention than others, but the film presents them in a relatively democratic manner. That makes it tough to concisely discuss the plot, especially since the movie doesn?t really offer a tight storyline. Instead, it focuses more heavily on the events of the period, through dinners and a bird hunt.

The film stays with these interpersonal interactions for most of the first half until a dramatic event finally occurs. Someone murders Sir William, and the police enter the situation. During the rest of the movie, bumbling Inspector Thompson (Stephen Fry) deals with the slaying and the others sort out their own relationships.

Really, the murder seems like something of a MacGuffin. The movie?s plot appears to revolve around Sir William?s death, but in reality, the flick doesn?t devote much energy on it. Blurbs that relate the film?s plot may make

Gosford

appear to be a murder mystery, but that concept could scarcely be farther from the truth. The flick provides no sense of tension or drama in regard to the killing, as it comes across as an afterthought much of the time.

I don?t mean this to sound like a complaint, but I do mention it more as a warning. I?ve read other reviewers who intensely disliked

Gosford

due to its ambling pace and lack of strong storyline. Indeed, almost nothing ?happens? during the movie. For some, that seems like a major weakness, but others will regard the more vague and character-oriented emphasis as a strength.

I fall somewhere in between the two camps. I didn?t mind the lack of tight plotting, but I didn?t fully embrace the manner in which Altman told the story. Nonetheless, I did find

Gosford

to offer an intriguing experience that remains interesting after it ends.

Actually, that latter thought conveys probably the strongest aspect of

Gosford

: its depth. The movie really demands additional viewings to pick up on all its textures and nuances. It tosses so many characters and situations at you that you can?t take in all of them at once; with another screenings, you?re sure to discern many new tones and elements that passed you by the first time.

Altman usually utilizes a seemingly loose attitude throughout his movies, and that occurs here as well. While I didn?t think this worked well in something like

Nashville

or the abysmal

Dr. T

, Altman exhibits greater tightness here. I received a great deal of negative e-mail about my general dislike of

Nashvile

, but I stand by my thoughts that it was more interesting as an experiment than as a film.

In

Gosford

, however, Altman shows that he developed the multi-character formula greatly over the years.

Gosford

features

more

roles than the much touted ?24 major characters? in

Nashville

, but it manages to develop them more fully and treat them like humans, not props. It also retains the seemingly loose and casual tone of many other Altman flicks without appearing like they just made it up on the spot.

In other words,

Gosford

comes across as a well thought out

film

, not just a cinematic experiment. Julian Fellowes? script deserves much of the credit for the increased structure, as it gives Altman a solid framework upon which to build, and the excellent veteran cast also allows the material to breathe. As seen in the rambling and self-indulgent



George Washington



, bad films become even worse with weak acting.

Gosford

provides a terrific group of actors who anchor the piece and make sure it doesn?t go astray.

If anything, I thought

Gosford

had too many plot-driven moments. Though most of the film remained detached and cool, it tied together a little more tightly than I?d like. It seemed to violate its own rules at times, though these occasions remained infrequent.

I can?t say that I feel great enthusiasm toward

Gosford Park

, but I definitely like it more than many other Robert Altman movies. The movie provides an intriguing experience that should become even more rewarding upon additional viewings. Altman provides a clever twist on the standard murder mystery that manages to be different without seeming self-conscious.

The DVD Grades: Imagine B / Audio B- / Bonus B+

Gosford Park

appears in an aspect ratio of approximately

2.35:1

on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for

16X9

televisions. Overall, the picture seemed fine for what the filmmakers intended to do.

Altman and the others clearly wanted a slightly murky look to

Gosford

, but this caused no significant problems. Sharpness appeared good for the most part. A few wider scenes appeared slightly soft, but those didn?t create any big concerns. Most of the film looked nicely detailed and distinct. Jagged edges and moiré effects presented no issues, but I did notice some light edge enhancement at times. In regard to print flaws, I detected mild grain on occasion, and I also saw a few examples of speckles and grit. However, most of the movie remained clean.

Due to the style of the film, the palette remained fairly subdued through most of the movie, and it also took on that vaguely golden tone typical of period flicks. I found the colors to appear solid despite these choices, however. The hues came across with good clarity and definition throughout the movie. Black levels seemed nicely deep and rich, while shadow detail usually appeared appropriately heavy without excessive opacity. On a few occasions, some interiors looked a bit muddy, but those examples seemed rare. Ultimately,

Gosford Park

presented a good image that seemed to represent the filmmakers? intentions for the most part.

The

Dolby Digital 5.1

soundtrack of

Gosford Park

provided a serviceable but unspectacular presentation. Not surprisingly, the soundfield remained heavily oriented toward the front channels. The surrounds rarely added much; even during a thunderstorm scene - the kind of element that usually spices up this kind of mix - the audio stayed largely anchored in the front. Since

Gosford

focused so strongly on speech, I didn?t find this orientation to be a problem, but I felt the integration of the elements could appear off to a certain degree. Music displayed good stereo presence, and effects spread well across the front. However, those latter elements didn?t always blend together very naturally. For example, dinner scenes seemed somewhat awkward and artificial.

Sound quality appeared acceptable. Speech showed the main problems. Some of that came from the many accents, which could be difficult to understand at times. Altman?s style of overlapping speech also made intelligibility difficult at times. However, I didn?t consider those to be flaws, since they?re inherent to the movie. I did feel that dialogue occasionally seemed somewhat metallic and rough, however; the lines remained decent but lacked the definition I expected.

The rest of the track seemed fine. Effects were reasonably clean and accurate, and they showed no issues related to distortion. Music worked quite well, as the score and songs appeared bright and vivid. Low-end didn?t create a substantial presence during the film, but the track showed good fidelity and dynamics. In the end, the soundtrack of

Gosford Park

had some flaws, but it seemed fairly satisfying for this sort of film.

This DVD release of

Gosford Park

packs a mix of extras, including two separate

audio commentaries

. The first involves director Robert Altman, production designer - and son of the director - Stephen Altman, and producer David Levy. All three were recorded together for this running, screen-specific track. Oddly, the DVD never formally introduces Levy or the junior Altman. The menu simply lists a ?director?s commentary?, and none of the participants states his name during the track; I had to figure out their identities for myself.

I?ve heard Altman commentaries for

Nashville

and

M*A*S*H

and found both to offer pretty weak discussions. Altman occasionally provided some interesting remarks, but that material popped up infrequently; the tracks suffered from

many

empty spaces. I hoped that the presence of the other two filmmakers would make this commentary a more active affair, but unfortunately, it shows many of the flaws found on those other pieces.

On the positive side, the Altman boys and Levy occasionally provide some interesting remarks. For example, we learn about the director?s desire to get an ?R? rating instead of a ?PG-13?, and he also chats about period details, casting, and a few other moments. Djl Altman and Levy chime in on similar topics, though they don?t do much more than reflect the director?s material.

As with the other Altman tracks,

Gosford

flops because so much of it passes without information. Scads of time passes without remark, and even when someone does speak, the details usually seem fairly lackluster. This track succeeds better than the prior Altman commentaries, but not by much; overall, it seems fairly boring and tedious.

The second commentary comes from screenwriter Julian Fellowes, which sits alone for this running, occasionally screen-specific piece. I feel Fellowes offers a strong piece, but others may disagree for one reason: he devotes relatively little time to the subject of the movie itself. To be sure, Fellowes does cover some issues particular to

Gosford

, such as the cast and the writing process. However, most of the track relates to the facts behind the movie. Fellowes provides a terrific chat about the reality of the various situations, and he even tosses in his own experiences with upper-crust relatives and his upbringing. For me, Fellows seems chatty, engaging, and very informative; I like this commentary quite a lot. However, folks with no patience for tracks that don?t deal exclusively with the movie - and I know you?re out there - will probably not care for it.

Next we find

The Making of

Gosford Park


, a 19-minute and 50-second documentary about the film. It offers the usual mix of behind the scenes shots, snippets from the movie, and interviews with participants. We hear from director Altman, screenwriter Fellowes, producer Levy, and actors Emily Watson, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Bob Balaban, Stephen Fry, Eileen Atkins, Ryan Phillippe, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Jeremy Northam, and Derek Jacobi.

The documentary starts well. We learn nice facts about the genesis of the project and Altman?s working style, such as his loose reliance on the script. However, before too long the show degenerates into a fairly generic promotional piece that does little more than relate some basic plot and character points. It picks up again toward the end, and we even get to see bits of the Golden Globe ceremony and the announcement of the Oscar nominations. In the end, the documentary has enough moments to merit a look, but it seems fairly insubstantial.

After this we get a collection of

deleted scenes

. We find 15 of these in all, and they last for a total of 20 minutes. Unfortunately, it?s tough to access individual snippets; they run as one long piece without chapter stops. I found the scenes interesting to watch, and those who don?t like the loose nature of

Gosford

will wish some of them made the cut, as they add structure and plot elements to the tale.

We can watch the clips with or without commentary from Robert Altman, Stephen Altman, and David Levy. As with their longer track heard during the movie, their remarks here appear sporadically. Sometimes we learn why the snippets didn?t end up in the film, and sometimes we don?t. I?d estimate that they explain the deletion of about half the material, and virtually all of those shots got the boot because they were either too plot-driven or too sentimental. Otherwise, the commentators do little more than describe the scenes.

The Authenticity of

Gosford Park


provides an eight-minute and 40-second look at the facts behind the fiction. These consist of movie clips, shots from the set, and interviews with Robert Altman, Fellowes, Levy, actors Bates, Jacobi, and Mirren, butler technical advisor Arthur Inch, cook technical advisor Ruth Mott, and parlour maid technical advisor Violet Liddle. Although Fellowes already covered many of these issues during his commentary, ?Authenticity? seems interesting due to the participation of the technical advisors. All served in their various capacities back in the Thirties, so they bring a nice level of depth to the show.

During

Cast and Filmmakers Q&A Session

, we get a 28-minute and 58-second interview period taped in March 2002, only a few weeks prior to the Oscars. Moderated by Pete Hammond, this chat includes Robert Altman, Fellowes, Levy, and actors Bob Balaban, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, and Ryan Phillippe (who enters after about 11 minutes). Overall this offers a good conversation. Hammond asks questions for the first 12 or so minutes, and then audience members chime in with their queries. We hear some of the information conveyed elsewhere, but the program still offers some useful material.

After this, a few more standard features appear. In addition to the film?s

theatrical trailer

, we get a

Coming Attractions

area. The latter advertises the movie?s soundtrack CD as well as some other Universal DVDs. The booklet adds some decent

production notes

, and

Cast and Filmmakers Filmographies

gives us more information. For the 16 actors listed, we get straight filmographies plus a few remarks about their characters. The entries for the 11 crewmembers act as annotated filmographies; they provide no charts of their work but instead give us a prose examination of their careers.

While I doubt I?ll ever be a real fan of Robert Altman?s work, I thought

Gosford Park

worked well. The movie provided an unusually dispassionate take on the murder mystery genre and offered a clever and nicely subdued experience. The DVD gives us acceptable but unspectacular picture and sound, and it also packs a good roster of supplements. I can?t recommend

Gosford Park

to everyone, for many clearly will be bored to sobs by it. However, if this form of material intrigues you, I encourage you to give it a look.

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– This documentary features beautiful underwater photography and a stirring call to action for the people of the world to do something about the destruction of the entire ocean's ecosystem by over-fishing. This documentary was written and directed by Rob Stewart, an expert diver and underwater photographer, who also shot much of the film's footage. Sharks, as the ocean's top predators, play an essential role in that ecosystem, it is argued. The destruction of all shark species, primarily to satisfy an upsurge in demand for shark fin soup, is just one example of a world market for fish gone mad. The film also argues that sharks are not very dangerous (tell that to survivors of the USS Indianapolis) and it even shows Rob Stewart hugging a shark underwater.

Despite its clearly one-sided view of the shark issue, this film is a real eye-opener as we see huge numbers of shark fins harvested and put on the roofs of buildings in plain sight to dry, in a country that has laws against such harvests. We see the incredible waste of shark fin harvesting in which only the fins are taken, while the animal is alive. The rest of the body is thrown back into the ocean to die. We see a battle on the open sea between a fishing boat illegally harvesting sharks in protected waters and the Ocean Warrior, a boat operated by the Los Angeles-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which is trying to stop illegal fishing. We also see the unlikely outcome of that confrontation in a foreign courtroom.

There are also tales of a strange ?Shark fin mafia.? There is a dramatic run to the freedom of the open sea by the Ocean Warrior and its crew in the face of a seemingly corrupt legal system that protects poachers and prosecutes those who would enforce legitimate fishing limits. Rob Stewart spent four months aboard the Ocean Warrior filming segments used in this movie in the waters off in Costa Rica and Ecuador. This journey includes the Ocean Warrior being rammed by a pirate boats. Despite the fact that the Ocean Warrior had been invited by the Costa Rican government to patrol the waters around the Island of Cocos, the captain found himself charged with seven counts of attempted murder after a confrontation with a fishing vessel. Stewart himself was hospitalized with a life-threatening infection. We see something like the Wild West in International Waters where there is no law enforcement to protect fish species. In some ways this is a crude, disjointed film, but there is no denying its power, or the beauty of its exquisite underwater photography. This film rates a B+.

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Seven Swords

casting: Leon Lai, Liu Chia-liang, Donnie Yen, and Charlie Boyish
kingpin: Tsui Hark

135 minutes (15) 2005
widescreen ratio 2.35:1

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RATING:

3/10

reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont

Since the handover to China, it's unarguable that the Hong Kong film industry has pan c weaken
into trouble. Stripped of a quantities of their flair in the 1990s, and in the present circumstances struggling to
reach the same global ascendancy as that enjoyed by directors from Japan, Korea and even
China, the Hong Kong movie industry that brought kung fu to the world are fashionable desperate
for a success. Acknowledged a large budget and an epic scope, many saw practised official Tsui
Hark's resurfacing as a potential tipping point, allowing the Hong Kong studios to capitalise
on the world considerable popularity of kung fu and Asian cinema. However, if the dissatisfying
box-office and lukewarm critical reaction is anything to go by,

Seven Swords

is
not succeeding to reinvigorate anyone's film commerce.

In four hours prolonged but then cut and cut again for European audiences,

Seven
Swords

is an effort at combining the doughty, dusty feel of the old

Conan

movies with the epic plotlines and fantasy elements of the Wu Xia genre. Earmark in the
1660s, the blear tells of the first Manchu Emperor's purposefulness to desperado the business of
martial arts. Anyone found practicing valiant arts is to be put to death. As a happen
huge gangs of martial artists have joined up with the empire and are nomadic from
town to borough collecting the bounties on the heads of anyone who has been trained as
a bellicose artist (and a few who haven't). Facing destruction at the hands of Fire-wind's
army, the inhabitants of a unoriginal village saunter to a great sword owner’s for help. He, along
with six other warriors, decides to use their amazing skill and uniquely designed
swords to screen the villagers and destroy the degradation Fire-load of old cobblers.

Understandably inspired by the success of the likes of


Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


,


Hero


and


House Of Flying Daggers


,
Hark realises that modern audiences want a little more from their Wu Xia than cultivate
fight scenes; they want a shallow bit of drama, maybe some tall tale or some disaster. Hark
then decides to do a moonlight flit a slew of subplots onto the simple main allotment as intrigue b passion triangles
evolve from nowhere only to recede, minor characters prove false the heroes and old rivalries
flare up. The problem is that none of these elements literally work.

Seven Swords

was from the start four hours long. The UK version is only over and above two hours
long. This means that effectively half the film is missing and very than cut out the
expensive and crowd pleasing fight scenes, the director has chosen to cut out such 'useless'
scenes as the introduction of the characters and their swords. As a arise the dramatic
tensions between the characters fill in no sense at all and you never confound a natural idea of
who any of the characters are, or why one of them was walled-up in a cave. The shredded
record then has to toil with the fact that the producers seemed not to lather
spending much fortune on the subtitling meaning that the subtitles are at best hard to
ape and at worse so poorly written as to be incomprehensible. The actors also seem
poorly suited to the roles thrust upon them as the women all come across as whining
weaklings and the men strive to see who can give the most dull and monotonous reading.
The upshot of the disastrous butchery of the film's dramatic elements is that the film
drags horribly in places and is in reality indubitably obtund. I really managed to fall asleep
twice while watching this film.

Even as an action film

Seven Swords

fails to influence as the action sequences switch
between being filmed in close-up so as to make the action unimaginable to serve and being
filmed from the middle distances with the action out of hub and off-concentrate. Indeed, the
exclusive area that really works is the final confrontation in a tight corridor but this is
because the unintentional meaning of confusion that surrounds every grapple progression in actuality
makes the spot seem disinterested more unusual and otherworldly. Indeed, other-worldliness is
a unmanageable that affects the visual character of the entire photograph as the director tries
to join wirework and colourful characters with a gritty and realistic backdrop. This
stylistic indecision serves contrariwise to make the frequently lacklustre wirework appear even
more fake than shop-worn and the reaction behaviour sequences harder to follow as nearly all and sundry
wears the same set of dusty grey rags.

In spite of a large budget and some reasonable ingenious knack,

Seven Swords

' poor operating
and aborted attempts at drama serve only to put in mind of you quite how fantastic a cloud like

Domicile Of Flying Daggers

really is. The breathtaking beauty and focussed dramatic
content of Yimou Zhang's films merrymaking

Seven Swords

benefit of what it decidedly is: ugly and
dull.


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