Thursday, November 05, 2009

Nov 5th
Michael Collins**
US 1996. Warner Bros/Geffen. 132m.

The revolutionary life of an Irish rebel who successfully forced the British government out, but at a price.
Typically forthright biopic, like a more violent variation of Gandhi, depicting Collins as a tireless hero although making its main antagonist not the British, but the eventual president of the Irish republic, Eamon De Valera.

Written and Directed by: Neil Jordan.
Producer: Stephen Woolley.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson, Charles Dance, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
Photography: Chris Menges.
Music: Elliot Goldenthal.
Production Design: Anthony Pratt.

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