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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.

Rendition (2007) Dvd movies

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.

Evening DVD movies

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.

Julie & Julia (2009) movies

Julie & Julia is a film that would be enjoyed with gusto - with fresh ingredients and better, pounds of butter, and the best wine in the bottle. It celebrates the life of a love American food, the most important and beloved figureheads: Julia Child - played here with enthusiasm, humor, and sweet, a little 'respect for Meryl Streep, whose performance is impressive.

Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes," she moaned. Then she gives a challenge to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French cuisine in a year and blogging about it. As Powell (played by Amy Adams determination gay), begins to find his groove as a cook, and his voice as a writer that the project will have a life of its own - and ultimately it gives the young woman struggling his purpose in life as pleasant surprise. More importantly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to the child the love of children with her husband nice surprise, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any blown in the film), and its prospects to embrace life, and ordering second.

Streep is immersed in the role of children with a real affection for his character, and while some of the peculiarities of children - including his warbly voice and imperturbable haphazardness in the kitchen - are retained, the child's character and image Streep forming the vision, and make the film for participation and rewarding.

Nora Ephron directs with the manual and the light, even if it sometimes seems to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan Adams tics screen (self-conscious of the head-tilt, for one). But above all it allows only Streep channeling a child, and his love for food, her husband, and in 1950 in Paris. And it's a recipe for something truly sublime. - AT Hurley

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Culinary legend provides a frustrated office worker with a new recipe for life in Julie & Julia, true stories of how Julia Child (Meryl Streep), the life and cookbook inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams), mount 524 recipes for 365 days and to introduce a new generation of magic of French cuisine. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada), co-star in the comedy film director Nora Ephron's delicious joy, obsession, and butter. Bon appetit!

Sophie's Choice (1982) movies

Choice of Alan J. Pakula 's Sophie (1982), novel by William Styron in the aftermath of the Holocaust-evil, to give us the incarnation of the most memorable films of survivor guilt. If Meryl Streep had been engraved on the performance does not change the Tortured this film a Polish woman, who can not forgive himself continues to live in while witnessing such a painful death, would have ensured his place in film history. Sophie has to make many choices - not between life and death, but between death and, even worse, death. The story, despite the prominent position, it is not Sophie's Choice of what to give him strength. It's tragic heroine, Streep is tearing our hearts, because he lives, and to relive the pain, he never could shake off a long time. He throws himself into a desperate, fleeting breakouts by sex and to drink, turns to her lover American jew, Nathan (Kevin Kline), a damaged in different ways. Life, intoxicating as it can get during these brief interludes heady, do not correspond to death.

Sophie is a tragedy that he sees no way that was heroic, and it is. It looks like a failure. Streep in the pale, delicate features become a geography of human torment. His immersion in the character of Sophie includes a Polish language immersion - not just identity theft but internalization. She spoke of connecting with their own internal guttural sounds. So it's not just a matter of getting the perfect sound - despite its flaws, with a strong English accent is pitch perfect. It also tries to kill your gut an original depth of sound that contributes to the innate earthly Sophia, liveliness, integrity is not always able to escape being swallowed by an undertow of sadness.

Much of what she says is her eyes, sometimes sincere, sometimes breaking the gaze of his friend and confessor, Peter MacNicol the figure of the observer carrying the young Styron, Stingo. It literally gives the film much of his voice as narrator and innocent newbie who has just tailed Brooklyn in 1947 to become a novelist, playing in the footsteps of Thomas Wolfe and, inevitably, in its literary style Faulkner. Structurally, it is necessary. It is he who hears the secrets of Sofia, the hidden parts of his past that can not reveal to Nathan - including an end of a soul destroying. Not that Styron - or Pakula - South offers the best writer of anything. In the romantic ardor of the characters and the language talent no doubt. But it's a little, a blank slate, without form, with the personality of sushi. Pakula, Polish Jewish ancestry, said that if his father had not come to America, your family may have died in Auschwitz.

Meryl Streep Biography

The famous actress was born Mary Louise Streep to his father, Harry Streep Jr., pharmaceutical officer, and his mother, Mary, a commercial artist. Harry enjoyed playing the piano and Mary loved to sing, so Streep and her two younger siblings grew up surrounded by music.He was raised in suburban Bernardsville, New Jersey and in his youth, he dreamed of becoming an opera singer, taking singing lessons at the age of 12 years. She attended Bernardsville High School where she was a cheerleader and prom queen, before graduating in 1967. Streep became interested in acting and has continued to specialize in theater and English at Vassar College. After graduating in 1971, he enrolled at Yale University School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 1975. She went on to study costume design and playwriting at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.At 22, Streep has her professional stage debut in "The Playboy of Seville" (1971) and her Broadway debut was in "Trelawney of the" Wells (1975).He was involved in theater in 1975-1981, when his film career really began to flourish. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress to play their role in the Broadway production of Tennessee William's''27 wagons full of cotton "(1976). He also received a Drama Desk Award nominations for her roles in" The Cherry Orchard "(1976) and" Happy End "(1977).Her screen debut was in the little things-television movie "The Deadliest Season" (1977) and its big screen debut in "Julia" (1977), where she gave an excellent performance in a small role in a flash sequence -back. The following year, September 15, 1978, she married sculptor Don Gummer on. The couple has four children, Henry (b. 1979), Mary (aka Mamie) (born 1983), Grace (b. 1986) and Louisa (b. 1991).Wasting no time in making awards, Meryl Streep was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in The Deer Hunter second film "(1978), one of the most powerful films of all time. She won her first Emmy best supporting actress in a miniseries or special for television for her role in "Holocaust" (1978). Then, he won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), Dustin Hoffman and the second for Best Actress in Sophie Zawistowski in "Sophie's Choice" (1982).She continued to do shows in several acclaimed films in the rest of the 1980s. These include his first role in a feature film, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981) with Jeremy Irons, "Silkwood" (1983) with Kurt Russell and Cher, "Out of Africa" ​​(1985) co-starring Robert Redford, "Heartburn" (1986) and "Ironweed" (1987), both starring Jack Nicholson, and since Lindy Chamberlain, with Sam Neill in "bad angels" (1988), the fact based on the film, theater, known in America as "A Cry in the night," she won the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She won six Choice Awards for Favorite Actress Motion Picture from 1984 to 1990 , when she was named world's most popular.Some saw career Streep has slightly decreased in the early 1990's, because there is no recognizable parts. It was "Postcards from the Edge" (1990), with Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid, and ridicule black comedy "Death Becomes Her" (1992), with Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. The romantic drama "The House of the Spirits" (1993) was the all-star cast including Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Rider, Antonio Banderas, and Vanessa Redgrave, and set before the Second World War in South America. Streep was again in top form with "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), for which she received an Oscar nomination and "Marvin's Room" (1996), Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro .Streep returned to work on television as executive producer on "... First do no harm "(1997), a story based on facts which it has played. On September 16, 1998, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. "Music of the Heart" (1999) was a role that required him to learn to play the violin, which she did by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks.Returning to step in July 2001, for the first time in more than 20 years, Anton Chekov played Arkadina in "Seagull". It 'was a production of New York, which also featured Natalie Portman, Kevin Kline, Chrisopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marcia Gay Harden and John Goodman. Five years later he played the title role of "Mother Courage and Her Children."She gave voice Blue Mecha in Steven Spielberg "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001) before playing the real life author Susan Orlean, with Nicolas Cage, the eccentric "Adaptation" (2002). Next was "The Hours" (2002) with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep was nominated for BAFTA for her portrayal of the first plan. She won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for the television miniseries "Angels in America" (2003) where she played several roles opposite Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker."The Manchurian Candidate" (2004) Streep plays a more comical than his usual intense performances and was a film that really liked to do, for this reason. "Primer" (2005), a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg, cast Streep in the role of psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, the client falls for his son. She has been the editor of the inimitable, Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), which won the SAG and Golden Globe for Best Actress.She was cast as a country singer Yolanda Johnson, Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006) and continued to play in 2007 in several films, including "Dark Matter", "Evening,''Rendition" and " Lions for Lambs. " The latter saw his team with Tom Cruise and Robert Redford, who directed the feature of American politics and wars in the Middle EastStreep took the role of Donna Sheridan in the film version of West End musical "Mamma Mia!" Based on the songs of ABBA. Co-star Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, the film has earned critical acclaim and led to a Golden Globe nominee and satellite. He also became the most successful musical film ever.After the success of the musical, Streep went to attract even more praise for her role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Scott Rudin "Doubt," which landed an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She has won several major awards for the film, which opened the way for the triumph even more critical with his next project."Julie & Julia (2009) has not only earned a second Academy Award nomination, but he helped raise more than a dozen other gongs, including the Golden Globe for Best Actress. Then came a voice role in" Fantastic Mr. Fox "and the appearance of 'E' complicated 'both of which led to greater recognition. Streep versatility led to her landing the role of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the" Iron Lady "(2011) .I have worked extensively with theater, television and film for more than three decades, Streep is considered by many to be one of the most respected and talented actors of his generation. He is certainly a perfectionist when it comes to his work, carefully preparing a new role and is known for its ability to manage a variety of accents. It 'a way of immersing himself so completely in his character that indicates the intensity of love and work. With the many ongoing and scheduled for release in the coming years, Streep is showing signs of slowing down. We are certainly blessed with a lot more presentations, is injected into the magic of Streep.