28 December, 2006

Film Review: The Remains of the Day

Posted in Art, Films, Reviews, Stereotypes at 7:27 pm by Gled

Warning: Spoilers.

I don’t have television, so I don’t get to see films except when visiting others, or on the rare occasion I visit the cinema. This Christmas I went home to my parents, and was able to watch some of the films that were part of the seasonal offering.

“The Remains of the Day”, (IMDB, Wikipedia), a 1993 film based upon the 1989 Booker Prize winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, depicts the life of an emotionally repressed Butler, Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), who worked for an English Lord in the run-up to the Second World War. The story is told in flashback, in parallel with a journey he took 20 years later to visit the former housekeeper, Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), in the hope of persuading her to return to service in the house.
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8 November, 2006

Is this the most beautiful waterfall in the world?

Posted in Art, Content-lite at 11:02 pm by Gled

Is this the most beautiful waterfall in the world?