Articles tagged "noel coward"

Film DVD Review

Easy Virtue

by Alistair Dickinson

[23.Sep.09] :. Noel Coward's play is brought to the screen with Jessica Biel in the lead role, but the film loses much of the bite of the stage version.

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The Beginning of a New Age: Stephan Elliot’s ‘Easy Virtue’

by Matt Mazur

[20.May.09] :. Matt Mazur talks with the filmmakers behind the big screen adaptation of Noël Coward's classic play Easy Virtue about the challenges of translating Coward to film, the strengths of gay filmmakers and, yes, Kristin Scott Thomas.

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The Noël Coward Trilogy

by Michael Noble

[29.Aug.08] :. Covering Coward’s life from its inauspicious beginnings through his huge successes is a project of some ambition, and it is no small praise to report that it is done very well, indeed.

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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.05] :. The film's primary appeal is the bizarre turn by Noel Coward as Wilson (one of several 'eccentrics' the film trots out to otherize London even as it pathologizes at least one of the yanks).

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