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Re: Forthcoming movie news
« Reply #30 on Mar 16, 2005, 8:22pm »

Hey guys. Picadilly Jim is going to be shown at the Tribeca film festival! Looks like this is going to be a big Allison movie year. Can't wait! O and the Winter Solstice website is up and it gives a pretty detailed synopsis of the movie.

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« Reply #31 on Apr 21, 2005, 12:17pm »

Allison's new cartoon adventure!

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050419-041436-2449r.htm

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« Reply #32 on Apr 22, 2005, 8:27pm »

That sounds good. I love AJ's voice overs. She really does have a great voice.

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« Reply #33 on Apr 23, 2005, 12:17am »

So. I've just got back from a screening of Piccadilly Jim and the verdict is... a bit patchy but generally likeable. It lacked the pace necessary to successfully convert P.G. Woodhouse from page to screen and (I never thought I'd be saying this) but I found Brenda Blethyn one of the weakest members of the cast, but there were several hilariously funny episodes that had the whole theatre roaring with laughter and was thoroughly entertaining.

Allison was very glamorous and absolutely right for the part; there was a lot of emphasis put on her entrances, which had everyone laughing at the brilliantly over-the-top grandiosity of them, and it seemed as though she/her character revelled in it. Frances O'Conner, having see her once on stage in London and left with a very apathetic opinion of her, didn't really do much to rectify that but Sam Rockwell was thoroughly thoroughly charming and Tom Wilkinson was, well, Tom Wikinson: wonderful.

The director (something McKay - can't remmeber his first name) and Austin Pendelton were there and did a Q&A at the end. The director seemed, this may sound a bit harsh, but a bit amateur-ish and dithering, and Austin Pendelton was the epitome of dithering itself. Watching the film it seemed as though the director was rather inexperienced. I was frequently thinking of the brilliant film 'Bright Young Things' during the showing and kept thinking how this film didn't quite capture the pace and hedonism of the era and the atmosphere that 'Bright Young Things', set in the same time, concerning a similar lifestyle and in the capable hands of Stephen Fry (a veritable Woodhouse aficionado), so perfectly portrayed.

Overall I thought it was a decent attempt at bringing the notoriously cinematically difficult writings of Woodhouse to the screen and was a generally amusing film to watch.

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