Starting in mid-November, I begin to receive “A-List” type screeners from Hollywood’s big-time production companies and distributors such as The Weinstein Company, Focus Features, et al. The films are generally marketed to a middle-class audience more interested in serious drama than car chases. The prototypical film is Spielberg’s “Lincoln”, something I detested but that is likely to garner multiple Oscars.
However, something ostensibly very close in spirit did arrive, namely “Hyde Park on the Hudson”, a movie that dramatizes an affair that FDR had with his fifth cousin in the late 30s as well as a visit that the stuttering King George VI of England and his wife the Queen make to Hyde Park in the summer of 1939. I was all set to hate this film just as much as “Lincoln” but was pleasantly surprised to enjoy every minute of it, so much so that I will be nominating it as one of the three best movies of the year for our annual New York Film Critics Online meeting on Sunday. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/hyde-park-on-the-hudson/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
