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Mandrake discovers that the script for The Iron Lady Baroness Thatcher is like dementia sufferers look back at his career with a great sadness. It is shown talking to her and not knowing that her husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, died.

"Sir Mark and Carol were shocked by what they have learned from the movie," says a family friend. "They think that sounds like a fantasy of the socialist left. They feel strongly about it, but did not speak publicly for fear of giving him more publicity."

Cameron McCracken, Managing Director of Pathé director, agrees: "It is true that the film is set in the recent past and that Baroness Thatcher does not look back to both the triumphs and lows of his extraordinary career.

"It's a film about the power and the price paid for power. In this sense, is the story of everyone who has had to balance his private life with his public career." Although the prospect of Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher may have pleased some fans of the former prime minister, his children were horrified to discover more about the film.

You get me? Streep takes the prize

But he did not disappoint anyone.

At 59, one of the actors can be wreathed in history, a record 15 Oscar nominations, but to his surprise and joy, is to ensure the Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony was contagious. Named after the selection of superior performance in a Female Actor for his leadership in doubt, he jumped up and rushed the stage, waving his hands in the air. "I did not even buy a dress!" he chuckled, referring to his blacks pants and a sweater.

"I say, no such thing as best actress," Streep told the audience, which gave him a standing ovation delighted. "There is no better actress than life. I am in a position where I have secret information that I know to be true."

Its acceptance was an idiosyncratic highlight of the evening also saw the speech emotional Anil Kapoor, star of British film Slumdog Millionaire.

After success at the Golden Globes and Oscar nominations the film last week won the best guild threw intensity and correspond to the best image. "It was overwhelming enough to be nominated," said Kapoor, her voice trembling, "but to win is incredible." The price of Bollywood veteran actor dedicated to young actors in the film, and said. "This are children who did, not us "

Iron Lady ": Meryl Streep's film Thatcher in Britain draws anger

If the controversy is equal to the box office and on the "Iron Lady", Meryl Streep, Margaret Thatcher film, a promising start came across the pond. According to a report in the British newspaper Daily Mail, were friends of Mrs. Thatcher, who attended an early screening of the film Saturday outraged by their interpretation of their former prime minister who kindly and during his administration in the 1980s and contradictory confused aging.

"I came here to see the movie crazy grandmother," one anonymous observer said that the film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd ("Mamma Mia") and stars Streep as the Conservative leader, and Jim Broadbent as her husband, Denis Thatcher .

According to the report, "Iron Lady" Thatcher has scenes of suffering nightmares about some of the great victories of his term - such as coal miners strike 1984-1985 leading to a weakened labor movement in Britain and the Falklands War 1982 - and the sacrifice of family ambition.

Viewers have noted particularly the representation of marriage Thatcher, including a scene where a pink-turbaned Denis appears in a dream sequence to the rail to his wife for his selfishness.

Conservative MP Conor Burns, told the newspaper: "Any representation of Margaret Thatcher, who did not show that one of the titans of British policy in the 20th century will be a sense of parody that Denis had never been cruel to She twisted. not. They are sanctified. "

Another British newspaper Telegraph, wrote that the Prime Minister, David Cameron can not come, unfortunately, allows Streep to sit in the VIP area and watch the British House of Commons prepared for their role to "films shameful."

Thatcher is now 85 and frail, but as a powerful symbol than ever to the Conservatives in the United States and his native country.Anglo-French film company Pathé, who helped finance the "Iron Lady", and hosting the screening on Saturday, offered the first clue that this would not be political hagiography and Thatcher with stills released in February. In this framework Streep wears pearls feature Thatcher and bouffant look stiff and vaguely surprised."The prospect of exploring the cutting path through the history of this remarkable woman is a daunting and exciting challenge," Meryl Streep said in a statement where the photo was released. "I try to approach the role with zeal, so much fervor and attention to detail that the real Lady Thatcher has - I can only hope my stamina will begin to approach his own. "In July, the other Pathé rebuilt Nugget - teaser trailer that was out of position Thatcher unlikely feminist figure. "I could be convinced to lose a hat," said the two political strategists of the teaser. "The beads are absolutely non-negotiable".

Meryl Streep promotes biography Thatcher in London

When the details of the manuscript came into public view for over a year ago, Thatcher's children were listed in the press to be "shocked" to the concept.

Questions were raised about an American actor will play one of the towering figures of British politics."Iron Lady," which hits theaters January 6 in the UK, is an aging of the Thatcher look back at the ups and downs of his personal and the price paid for power.Streep attend a photo shoot for the backdrop of the Houses of Parliament, and was accompanied by film director Phyllida Lloyd, who has also worked with Meryl Streep in the musical "Mamma Mia!"The Iron Lady is likely to be a major media talking point over the next week in Britain, where former Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher remains a division figure both revered and reviled by the public.Streep, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the most respected actresses in Hollywood, told the Daily Mail newspaper Thatcher was to play the biggest role of his career.

"It took a lot of me, but it was a privilege of his game, it really was," the 62-year-old was quoted as saying."It 'was one of those rare, rare films in which I was grateful for the actress and grateful for the privilege, we can look at life in profound empathy."Streep said that if he does not agree with many of the policies of Thatcher, "I feel as if she believed in them and they came from an honest belief."

Daily Show correspondent Baz Bamigboye representation right Streep called "magnificent.""It's a performance of imposing proportions, which sets a new standard for action, a dramatic interpretation that examines the main forces that have marked the life of Mrs. T," he wrote, using a common abbreviation for Thatcher name.

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Roger Ebert called "perfect", and certainly the timing could not have been much better: Rendition was released as the United States discuss the issue again of "extraordinary rendition" policy (begun under the Clinton administration accelerated after September 11, 2001) to transfer suspected terrorists to countries that practice torture as a tool of interrogation. Alas, the film rarely fills the contours of a "movie show" prototypical this kind of thing peopled by cardboard to track the habits of an important and urgent. The plot is in full swing when a husband to Egyptian (Omar Metwally) is sent to an unidentified country in North Africa where torture is practiced, with the CIA in the approval. The film takes a dive crash with how it affects different people: the U.S. pregnant woman (Reese Witherspoon), the reluctant CIA agent (Jake Gyllenhaal) on stage, a severe interrogator (Yigal Naoret), all the way to an American

Terrorism honcho (Meryl Streep) willing to close their eyes and sad if you stop a terrorist attack. Things spark briefly when Witherspoon recruits an old boyfriend (Peter Sarsgaard), appeal his case to his boss, U.S. Senator (Alan Arkin), but most of director Gavin Hood (Tots) did not find a way to design the color line, despite these huge actors doing spirited work. The question is fully and clearly explained, but the film does not come alive. - Robert Horton

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Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep star in this nail biting thriller of a man who mysteriously disappears on a flight from South Africa to Washington DC and the government conspiracy put in place to cover it.

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A star cast brings richness and texture of the evening, a lyrical tale of regret, unrequited love and hope, written by authors Susan Minot (Rapture) and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), based at Minot book . Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) is sick, crazy to remember when she came to the summer home of her best friend Lila Lila to be the maid of honor (her younger self is played by Claire Danes). But the young Ann is soon caught between the need hunger Lila's brother Buddy (Hugh Dancy) and the magnetic outsider Harris (Patrick Wilson). Meanwhile, the former Ann watched by her two daughters, Nina (Toni Collette) and Constance (Natasha Richardson) who are struggling with unresolved feelings about their mother, their life choices and on the other. Night begins to feel a little stiff and literary, but gradually found his rhythm.

While the emotional peaks and precious images feel inflated and hollow, the little fleeting moments - the sorrows, aspirations, disappointments, and comfort, the flash of a smile or extension of an eye - glimmer of warmth and honesty. It is rare that such a constraint can be so compelling and so rewarding evening is worth the trip to build emotional power of these little moments. Also featuring Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. -

Still of the Night [VHS] (1982)

Night'', the first film from writer and director since its Oscar''Kramer vs. Kramer,''is something else, a romantic melodrama velvety see the mystery that has less to do with the lives of other films. He is smart, but cold in the way of something with a mechanical heart.

The setting is in and around Manhattan that has been compressed into these few rich acres bounded by 57th Street in the park to the south, 86th Street to the north, midwest and the East River.

This is a land of art galleries, auction houses and one bedroom apartments in stone houses that face cooperatives développés''''dans chicken, a place of antique shops, museums, shops, a Jaguar in each sidewalk and psychiatrists in each block. Photographed by the great Nestor Almendros, even the laundry room in a building more or less elegant routine looks like it could be the bottom of a slick, colorful announcement of Chivas Regal.

Chic is the method and half of the film, in a way that is nothing if not Hitchcock, the story revolves in particular, Mr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), a decent psychiatrist, conscience and how to neck in search of a murderer cycle, the next victim, maybe.

It all begins when the patient is Sam in a parked car with his throat cut. The victim, a middle-aged, married fellow named George Bynum (Josef Sommer), was the curator of antiquities at Crispin, a large auction house, and the lover of a very successful series of much younger women.

The day when George turns into death, Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep), after one of his lovers, Sam comes to the need for office space. He admits that he never really loved George, but he is his wristwatch, he would like to return to the widow of Sam.

Brooke is not entirely unknown to Sam during treatment, George had spoken to her in depth and so evocative that Sam, long before the sudden departure of George's life, he developed a sensation not altogether healthy. It is an attraction that even may have been exacerbated by one of the last secrets of George for the doctor - that Brooke had killed a man at some time in the past. George was anxious to see if a woman was likely to recur.

Encore''Nuit''de is a smart film entertaining, with two striking weaknesses. The resolution of the mystery, though logical, is not strong or eccentric as to support the emotional desperation that precedes it. The second - and more - the problem is the absence of electricity between the beautiful lady lost time played by Miss Streep and physician before common sense, jeopardizing his career and his life to his aid against the best instincts of all.

I do not know if this is a consequence of the merger or writing and directing. Mr. Scheider, a fine actor, is very intense - very serious, really - to suggest the unexpected wild romantic is the doctor, after his first encounter with the woman who had previously been only a dim view of his mind .

It is also possible that Mr. Benton scenario that is so good in the details and sequences that do not provide the room where Sam and Brooke can make such discoveries about themselves. They meet, and we must take it on faith that the love of Sam is not only obsessive but somehow liberating.

It does not help that the screenplay, based on a story by David Newman and Mr. Benton, is the reference of Hitchcock classics like Vertigo Fenêtre''arrière'','''','' et''Spellbound''North by Northwest ,''among others. It aspires to a kind of self-conscious elegance of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman would have resulted in a solemn emphasis project essentially romantic film.

There are plenty of humor dans''calme night,''but often witty than funny. This is especially true of the flashbacks, in which Mr. Sommer offers a superb performance as the aging womanizer. The flashbacks are carefully integrated into the current action of the film that the doctor read the notes he had taken during the therapy sessions of the victim. The film also contains an important dream sequence, analysis of what eventually solves the mystery, and in a manner not detrimental to the reputation of the ancient genius of Vienna.

''Quiet of the Night,''which opens today at Loew Tower, is the kind of film whose parts that you will remember more fondly than all, including an attack in Central Park, which are not whatever you think is an auction of art of great power when a man ends up paying $ 15 000 for a painting he did not want and a mysterious shooting of Miss Streep is considered a voyeur, through its window of the apartment as it is inexplicably intimate with a stranger.