2011年6月14日 星期二

An Education BBC 2009, Citizen Cohn 1992

Citizen Cohn is a 1992 cable film covering the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn. James Woods, who starred as Cohn, was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance. Citizen Cohn also stars Joe Don Baker (as McCarthy), Ed Flanders (as Cohn's courtroom nemesis Joseph Welch), Frederic Forrest (as writer Dashiell Hammett), and Pat Hingle (as Cohn's onetime mentor J. Edgar Hoover.) It was directed by Frank Pierson. The movie was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, PA.

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The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings and his eventual public discrediting a month before his death in 1986 from AIDS. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lays dying in a Virginia hospital, hallucinating that his many enemies (from Robert Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist spy he sent to the electric chair) are haunting him. It concerns aspects of Cohn's life such as his closeted homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. While the movie portrays Cohn in a decidedly unsympathetic light, it also depicts episodes in his life, such as the death of his beloved mother, in which he showed a more tender, compassionate side.


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Thursday, 5 May 2011

BBC 2 provides An Education

BBC Two has announced the upcoming television premiere of Lone Scherfig 's Academy Award® nominated and BAFTA award-winning AN EDUCATION as part of its on-going commitment to be the principal home of BBC Films.


An Education

Friday 13 May, 8.30pm

Sixteen and gifted, Jenny is destined for Oxford. Her parents have built their own dreams of fulfilment based on Jenny’s success. However, her eyes are opened to a world of glamorous possibility beyond the boundaries of suburbia when she meets the considerably older, distinctly urbane, David…

Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins . Directed by Lone Scherfig, screenplay by Nick Hornby.

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