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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height of their romantic adventures .. Read more

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  Dench's hectic workload helped ease grief after husband's death

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 06 Feb 2012

  Dame Judi Dench has credited her film career with helping her deal with the grief she suffered following the death of husband Michael Williams. The Oscar winner was left devastated in 2001 when her partner of 30 years passed away following a battle with lung cancer. She immediately threw herself into her career, filming a string of movies back to back, like The Shipping News, Iris and The Importance of Being Earnest, and Dench insists paying the range of roles helped ease the intensity of her... Read more

  

  Reeves and Moretz recreate Taxi Driver for photoshoot

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 13 Oct 2011

  Keanu Reeves and Chloe Moretz have transformed into Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster to recreate a famous scene from Martin Scorsese's classic movie Taxi Driver. The Speed star donned a checked shirt and manic stare as Travis Bickle while Moretz dressed as child prostitute Iris to pose for a special Scorsese tribute photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar magazine. Other actors taking part include Michael Pitt, Vincent Piazza and Ben Kingsley as Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta and De Niro's characters in... Read more

  

  Archer to portray Fonda on California stage

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 14 Sep 2011

  Oscar nominee Anne Archer is to portray Jane Fonda in a new stage drama about the actress' controversial stance during the Vietnam War. The Fatal Attraction star will lead the cast of Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in California. The play, which opens next month (Oct11) for a limited run, recalls a little-known event which occurred in Waterbury, Connecticut in June, 1988. Fonda confronted a room full of hostile war veterans who were boycotting the... Read more

  

  Broadbent draws on family agony again

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 19 Apr 2011

  Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent revisited the agony of watching his mother battle Alzheimer's disease to play a man afflicted with the condition in a new drama. The Harry Potter star takes on the role of an Alzheimer's sufferer in BBC drama Exile, and has revealed he drew on personal experience to accurately convey the horrors of the illness. He tells The Guardian, "It was upsetting when mother was ill; in a way that was more upsetting than any acting will be. But you know, you just use all... Read more

  

  Top 10 Jim Broadbent

  • jennifer trevorrow
  • 03 Nov 2010

  He’s played Bridget Jones’ dad, manned the Moulin Rouge and made a magical impression at Hogwarts as Professor Horace Slughorn - in short, Jim Broadbent is great. After an outstanding performance in Mike Leigh’s Another Year, earlier this month, he returns to Hogwarts for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, in celebration we revisit Broadbent’s best bits… His Top 10 Films Brazil (1985) Jim Broadbent grew up in a creative household surrounded by... Read more

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    Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ...

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