Articles tagged "the duchess"

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‘Duchess’ is Merely Half-Hearted History

by Bill Gibron

[9.Oct.08] :. There’s a very good reason why most period pieces don’t work. Aside from the obvious disconnect from modern social constraints and complications, contemporary audiences just can’t...

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Column: The Screener

Pretty Vacant

by Chris Barsanti

[26.Sep.08] :. The world of The Duchess should have been one of fiery tumult, but little of that foment makes it into this film’s garden party landscape.

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Attention grabber: Keira Knightley as ‘The Duchess’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[25.Sep.08] :. TORONTO - In pirate movies - and you may have caught Keira Knightley in a few - the hero or heroine swats away the meddlesome hordes with jaunty strokes of a sword. Knightley, the 23-year-old Brit...

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Film Review

The Duchess

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Sep.08] :. The movie, which surely celebrates Georgiana's (Keira Knightley) luxurious "hats and dresses," also solicits your sympathetic frustration and outrage over her oppression.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview