Jessie Buckley Age: 32 Film: The Lost Daughter Role: Young Leda, a mother and academic who needs time (that she doesn’t have) to devote to her own research. Young children require constant care, but translating Auden into Italian takes time and concentration. More and more, Leda finds her focus divided and …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Director/Writer: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Two questions gnawed at me as I watched this film. 1) Is Kenneth Branagh teasing that he’s going to make a third Hercule Poirot film based on Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party? (My mom used to watch the one starring …
Best Picture: #71 Original Release Date: December 11, 1998 Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 3 minutes Director: John Madden Quick Impressions: The summer before my senior year of high school, I decided that Queen Elizabeth I must have written at least some of Shakespeare’s plays herself. Why? I think the real …
Amy Adams Age: 39 Film: American Hustle Role: Sydney Prosser, an American woman who has clawed her way up from an undesirable life using her wits and her sexuality (when necessary) for survival. After falling in love with two-bit con-artist (and married man) Irving Rosenfeld, Sydney helps him con the desperate …
