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Sep 16 09 2:33 AM
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06/09/2009 18:16
Can't Miss: The Last Station Michael Hoffman's Last Station is surely one of the most expected movies of this year for us. The film stars Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren. The film is about the last days of the famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Helen mirren will be playing his fiery wife, Countess Sofya. The film was premiered at recent Telluride festival. The film was filled with people who were loyal supporters of the writer. The film feels a tad too simple for many of the viewers who attended the function. The film has its light moments and is sure to get distributor as soon as the festival season is out. Paul Giamatti plays one of Tolstoy's able disciples. While Christopher plays the author with not so much as a whisper. But the biggest surprise of the film was surely James McAvoy who offers the films richest performance. He has surely got the hands up from most of the critics. The only hitch was the fact that the film was made in English which might have been a little disorienting for the audience.
The film was premiered at recent Telluride festival. The film was filled with people who were loyal supporters of the writer. The film feels a tad too simple for many of the viewers who attended the function. The film has its light moments and is sure to get distributor as soon as the festival season is out. Paul Giamatti plays one of Tolstoy's able disciples. While Christopher plays the author with not so much as a whisper.
But the biggest surprise of the film was surely James McAvoy who offers the films richest performance. He has surely got the hands up from most of the critics. The only hitch was the fact that the film was made in English which might have been a little disorienting for the audience.
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07/09/2009 19:09
Submitted by: Spectacle 9/6/2009 10:32:46 AM PT Standing Ovations for Last Station. Helen Mirren's great performance was the big ticket in Telluride last night. We loved her as the mad, wonderful, loving Sophya Tolstoy. This is a very intelligent and very entertaining movie. http://www.variety.com/in...ckCommentsFull&artic leid=VR1118008102&talk_back_header_id=6618896#366032
The Last Station_ - A biopic on the last year of Tolstoy's life. With a coming of age/romantic subplot between his male secretary and a carefree follower. I felt I learned a reasonable amount about Tolstoy's social movement and watched an enjoyable relationship film. Helen Mirren is wonderful as Tolstoy's wife who loves him even though she violently disagrees with him on almost every one of his social principles. http://seattlefilmfest.blogspot.com/2009/09/telluride-day-3.html
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08/09/2009 04:37
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By John Horn reporting from telluride, colo. >>>
September 8, 2009
Christopher Plummer plays Tolstoy and Helen Mirren stars as his wife, Sophia. The film is based on a historical novel by Jay Parini published in 1990 that caught the attention of the late Anthony Quinn. (Stephan Rabold)
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08/09/2009 07:32
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08/09/2009 17:39
Some encouraging news from Anne Thompson's post-Telluride wrapup: "Popular new film faves were Up in the Air, Bad Lieutenant, Life During Wartime and The Last Station, which was in play with attending distributors."
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BEST ACTOR FRONT RUNNERS George Clooney Up in the Air Viggo Mortensen The Road (*here you go Hannah) Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker Peter Sarsgaard An Education
LONG SHOTS Ben Foster The Messenger Morgan Freeman Invictus Daniel Day Lewis Nine Clive Owen The Boys Are Back Christopher Plummer The Last Station Ben Whishaw Bright Star
BEST ACTRESS FRONT RUNNERS Carey Mulligan An Education Meryl Streep Julie & Julia
LONG SHOTS Emily Blunt The Young Victoria Abbie Cornish Bright Star Penelope Cruz Broken Embraces Helen Mirren The Last Station Michelle Monaghan Trucker Saorise Ronan The Lovely Bones Hilary Swank Amelia Audrey Tautou Coco Before Chanel
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FRONT RUNNERS Alfred Molina An Education Stanley Tucci Julie & Julia Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds
LONG SHOTS Anthony Mackie The Hurt Locker James McAvoy The Last Station ------------------------------ So TLS only made "Long Shots" for her Here is Supporting Actress which doesn't include anyone from TLS.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FRONT RUNNERS Marion Cotillard Public Enemies Anna Kendrick Up in the Air
LONG SHOTS Penelope Cruz Nine Judi Dench Nine Samantha Morton The Messenger Mo'Nique Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire Rachel Weisz The Lovely Bones
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11/09/2009 14:45
Literary legends come to life in Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station," an evocation of Tolstoy's last months on earth, and Jane Campion's "Bright Star," which dramatizes the unconsummated passion between the Romantic poet John Keats and his shy young neighbor Fanny Brawne-she's played by Abbie Cornish. The latter film opens next week, so, here again, I'll confine myself to saying that Ms. Cornish makes the star of the title, and of Keats's lyric poem, truly luminous.
"The Last Station," on the other hand, doesn't have a distributor, or didn't have one near festival's end. That situation should be remedied forthwith. Far from some lofty denizen of Masterpiece Theater, the Tolstoy portrayed by Christopher Plummer is a richly human creation as well as a huge one, and Helen Mirren adds one more marvelous performance to her filmography as Sofya, Tolstoy's wife of 48 years. When Mr. Hoffman introduced the film, he felt it necessary to tell the audience that if anything struck them as funny they should feel free to laugh. Good advice, albeit gratuitous. The greatest pleasure of "The Last Station" is its combination of complexity and the antic verve that the director brought to the 1991 "Soapdish," a scintillating farce about soap operas.
She is Sofya in "The Last Station," a comic-dramatic account of Tolstoy's final months, in which she portrays the writer's wife of 48 years and the mother of his 13 children. Christopher Plummer is Tolstoy. James McAvoy plays his secretary who becomes the comic foil between two formidable opponents scheming for control of Tolstoy's estate: Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) and Mirren, whose Sofya proves her dedication by copying, by hand, War and Peace six times.
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