Iain softley biography of albert
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** BACKBEAT
(Worth seeing)
Directed by Iain Softley
Written by Softley, Stephen Ward, and Michael Thomas
With Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O&#;Neill, and Scot Williams.
Those somehow unacquainted with the vast canon of biographical material on the Beatles should note that in there were five of them. Stuart Sutcliffe, an art school crony of John Lennon and by most accounts a lousy bassist parted ways with the band more or less amicably in ; he died of a brain hemorrhage in April , just a few months before the band hit it big with &#;Love Me Do.&#;
Stu isn&#;t the only former Beatle, but unlike ousted original drummer Pete Best he was fortunate enough to be a romantic figure&#;withdrawn and handsome, he reminded people of James Dean; a gifted painter, he quit the band for art&#;s sake. Sutcliffe certainly wouldn&#;t be the subject of an adoring cinematic portrait had he, like Best, grown old, gone to work for the civil service, and writt
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Immediately following on the heels of Jane Campion’s film of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Nicole Kidman, and Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square in , with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, and Maggie Smith, audiences got their third chance in less than 18 months to respond to the rather quixotic challenge of translating Henry James to film. A writer perhaps best known for the “interiorization” of his novels—in which only the barely registered twist of a synapse or the smallest inaudible gasp may indicate cataclysmic psychological or emotional upheavals or some life-altering spiritual revelation—James’s filmability has often suffered in direct proportion to the success with which he achieved the trademark purposes of his literary art. James used the novel of manners to indicate larger ideas and passions; they open outward as if from a great precipice, providing a dimensionally complex vision beyond their surface observations. As his view of the human comedy matured, ta
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Backbeat fryst vatten not just another Beatles biopic; it&#;s more of an något privat eller personligt story of friendship, love and ultimately death. The film’s focus is not on the rise of the group’s fame but, more on the triangular relationship between German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, Stu Sutcliffe, the original fifth Beatle, and John Lennon.
The years were to Stu Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) is an art lärling, a talented painter with sensitive, good looks, a James Dean aura and a rock and roll heart. He also has a best friend bygd the name of John Lennon (Ian Hart). Lennon’s ragtag grupp then consisting of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best were on their way to Germany to perform along the Reeperbahn district. Stu played base and was in the grupp due to John&#;s insistence and Stu own loyalty to his friend.
In Germany, they play at a seedy club called the Kaiserkeller in the St Pauli area of Hamburg filled with sailors, tourists, drunks, prostitutes