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You know Hugh Bonneville from ‘Downton’ and ‘Paddington.’ Now he’s onstage in a Chekhov masterpiece
Hugh Bonneville has growled in a restaurant booth at the bidding of a CGI bear and winced his way through the scathing remarks of Dame Maggie Smith. In multiple films, he’s played against his ...
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Chekhov’s Gun, Edgar Wright, and the function of narrative devices
Courtesy of WikiMedia. Picture yourself in an elaborate office, the kind you’d expect to see in a movie with a fabulously ...
Marianne Faithfull: A Life in Pictures
The singer and actress, who embodied the Swinging Sixties and performed for decades afterward, exuded an effortless cool.
In Pictures: Marianne Faithfull became one of the faces of 1960s pop scene
The singer, who had a long relationship with Sir Mick Jagger at the height of her fame, also carved out a career as an ...
Michael Phillips: A movie’s story exposition is a tricky thing. Consider how we learn what’s what in ‘Presence’
I saw a good movie the other night, guided by a tight, 85-minute narrative and a gratifying seriousness underneath its ...