Tag Archives: biopic
Dostoevsky (2010)
“I wanted to write about the world of moral chaos.” Dostoevsky is a 2010 8 episode mini-series made for Russian television from director Vladimir Khotinenko, and if you’re into Russian film, Russian history or Dostoevsky, then this marvellous DVD is well worth … Continue reading
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
“You’ll have a hard life, but don’t surrender to anyone.” The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkogo) was released in 1938, Gorky (whose real name was Peshkov), the man on whose life (and books) the film is based died two years earlier. The … Continue reading
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Mosley (1998)
“Pardon me for asking, but what do you know about the working class?” I never thought I’d find myself watching a film about Oswald Mosley–let alone that I’d really, really enjoy it. I recently came across Mosley, a four-part made-for-British television biopic … Continue reading
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Eight Miles High (2007)
“This is fucked up. I only meant a metaphorical bomb.” The interesting but ultimately unsatisfying and superficial biopic Eight Miles High (Das Wilden Life) from director Achim Bornhak covers just a portion of the life of German supermodel Uschi Obermaier–from … Continue reading
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La Vie en Rose (2007)
”I’m never far from Paris.” This wrenching biopic of the life of French chanteuse Edith Piaf is 140 minutes long, and it covers Piaf’s awful childhood, her turbulent adolescence and her doomed love affair with love-of-her life boxer Marcel Cerdan … Continue reading
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A Man Like Eva (1984)
“We’re on the edge of a volcano.” How does a director even begin to approach a project as impossible as making a film about the life of the fascinatingly complex German director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder? Fassbinder was an extremely prolific … Continue reading
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
“Doctors write books about this sort of thing. It’s abnormal.” As a Bettie Page fan, I was both eager and apprehensive to see the film The Notorious Bettie Page. My main concern was that the actress chosen to play Bettie … Continue reading
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