Michael's Movies: Movies

2025-09-16 Gosford Park (2001) imdb.com

Director: Robert Altman
Synopsis: In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Cast: Maggie Smith as Constance Trentham, Michael Gambon as William McCordle, Kristin Scott Thomas as Sylvia McCordle, Camilla Rutherford as Isobel McCordle, Jeremy Northam as Ivor Novello, Clive Owen as Robert Parks, Helen Mirren as Mrs. Wilson, Emily Watson as Elsie, Derek Jacobi as Probert, Stephen Fry as Inspector Thompson
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variety.com
alternateending.com
lecinemadreams.blogspot.com

Gosford Park	Mary, Countess of Trentham	Lady Sylvia McCordle	Probert, Lady Sylvia McCordle	Lady Sylvia McCordle, Henry Denton

	Lord Rupert Standish, Isobel McCordle	Isobel McCordle, Sir William McCordle	Sir William McCordle, Elsie, George	Ivor Novello, Morris Weissman, Henry Denton

Morris Weissman, Ivor Novello	Ivor Novello	Mrs Wilson	Elsie, Mary	Elsie

Henry Denton, Elsie	Elsie	Inspector, Lady Sylvia McCordle	Robert Parks	Robert Parks, Mary

2024-08-18 The Others (2001) imdb.com

Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Synopsis: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Cast: Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart, Christopher Eccleston as Charles Stewart, Alakina Mann as Anne Stewart, James Bentley as Nicholas Stewart, Fionnula Flanagan as Mrs. Bertha Mills, Eric Sykes as Mr. Edmund Tuttle, Elaine Cassidy as Lydia
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film-vault.fandom.com
rogerebert.com
lydiaschoch.com
theguardian.com
framerated.co.uk

Grace			Anne, Nicholas, Grace

	Anne	Mr.Mills, Lydia, Mrs.Tuttle		Grace, Charles

2022-01-28 In the Bedroom (2001) imdb.com

Director: Todd Field
Synopsis: Summertime on the coast of Maine, 'In the Bedroom' centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
Cast: Tom Wilkinson as Matt Fowler, Sissy Spacek as Ruth Fowler, Nick Stahl as Frank Fowler, Marisa Tomei as Natalie Strout, William Mapother as Richard Strout, William Wise as Willis Grinnel, Karen Allen as Marla Keyes, Celia Weston as Katie Grinnel, Frank T. Wells as Henry, W. Clapham Murray as Carl, Justin Ashforth as Tim, Veronica Cartwright as Minister on Television, Kevin Chapman as Tim's Friend
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Killings (short story)
Andre Dubus. KILLINGS
themoviedb.org
miramax.com
rogerebert.com
reelviews.net

Frank, Natalie				Natalie at Fowler's

Natalie, Richard		Natalie: Frank killed	Matt Fowler

	Ruth Fowler		Ruth, Matt	Willis, Matt, Katie, Ruth

Matt, Ruth	Natalie, Ruth	Matt, Ruth	Matt, Richard

2018-01-09 2018-01-09 The Lady and the Duke (2001) imdb.com

Director: Éric Rohmer
Synopsis: Having finished his acclaimed cinematic quartet "Contes des quatre saisons," legendary filmmaker Eric Rohmer takes DV camera in hand to recreate this idiosyncratic period piece adapted from the Grace Elliot memoirs. Concerned with faithfully evoking 18th century France, Rohmer uses two strategies -- using only eyewitness accounts of the times and avoiding all external settings, arguing that Paris now is a completely different city than it was during revolutionary times. The story revolves around Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), a Scottish aristocrat stranded in Paris during the French Revolution. She is once again thrown together with Philippe Egalite, the cousin to the king, the Duke of Orleans, and Grace's former lover. Their friendship remains complicated and uncertain, and is made all the more complex by the rush of events around them. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. - By Jonathan Crow
Cast: Lucy Russell as Grace Elliott, Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Philippe, Duke of Orleans, Alain Libolt as Duke de Biron, Leonard Cobiant as Champcenetz , Charlotte Véry as Pulcherie, the cook, François-Marie Banier as Robespierre
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Grace Elliott
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orleans
Biron
Marquis de Champcenetz
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nytimes.com

Duke of Orleans, Grace Elliott	At the Jacobine checkpoint	After the difficult trip	With friend

With cook Pulcherie	Saving Marquis de Champcenetz		With the Duke

With Duke de Biron	Watching execution of the King	With the Duke	Arrest

In jail	Revolutionary court	Robespierre	Duke's portrait

2009-08-29 The Piano Teacher imdb.com

Director: Michael Haneke
Synopsis: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Cast: Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut, Annie Girardot as The Mother, Benoît Magimel as Walter Klemmer, Anna Sigalevitch as Anna Schober
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themoviedb.org
rogerebert.com
cinapse.co
Youtube. Playing Schubert