Brideshead Revisited

...Ivory heyday of James Wilby, and he even managed to drain all the joie de vivre out of Sebastian Flyte in the recent film of Brideshead Revisited. He's no fun at all as Keats, even before he falls ill. He's dreadfully passionless even...

In this article: Jane Campion, John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, An Education, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, and The Piano

...has the cheekbones and rock-star hips to be expected from someone who played Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007) and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (2008). He handles the verse he delivers with understated flair, and, even in...

In this article: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, John Keats, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and Kerry Fox

...red carpet at the Munich premiere of Perfume he looked almost comically ill at ease. Ben as the fabulously dissolute Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, above with Hayley Atwell as Julia (left) and Matthew Goode as Charles (right)

In this article: Ben Whishaw, Hamlet, Bright Star, John Keats, Dustin Hoffman, Trevor Nunn, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and John Gielgud

Thompson says, 'I write my own roles, which is helpful. Of course though, there are older parts like the one I played in Brideshead Revisited, which was excellent.' And the Brit is adamant she will never go under the knife to turn...

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...shows in Bright Star that she has the talent to be recognized for more than her questionable social life. Opposite Cornish, Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited) lends Keats a tender, thoughtful demeanor - very befitting of a man honored among the...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion, Romeo and Juliet, Oscar, Romantic poets, and William Shakespeare

...quite naive and juvenile about the couple's affections, it is that very thing that makes it so pure and innocent. Whishaw ("I'm Not There," "Brideshead Revisited") continues to prove that those who dubbed him one of the finest actors of his...

In this article: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Bright Star, John Keats, Academy Award, Jane Austen, Paul Schneider, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age

...possible. Three words: rewashing baby diapers. And that's just the start. 5 p.m. Saturday: Red Riding: 1974 - Julian Jarrold (the 2008 Brideshead Revisited) makes the first in a trilogy of films about the Yorkshire Ripper who horrified...

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...at 25. He was his own "Endymion," sent prematurely to his eternal rest. As played by the ferrety and wraithlike Whishaw ("Perfume,' "Brideshead Revisited"), he is arguably never as alive as he should be (and I could have foregone the...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, The Portrait of a Lady, Endymion, Charles Armitage Brown, and Vivienne Westwood

...pregnant in that pic its old Lauren said... enty, for real? nicole is still pregnant in that pic its old LOVE Ben Whishaw. He was awesome in Brideshead Revisited as Sebastien Flyte. Literally one of my favorite performances of last year.

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...whole film gets more and more bananas as it goes. And yet, sweet! L.A. Confidential's Curtis Hanson directs. [AMC, 11:30] Wednesday: Brideshead Revisited Do you happen to love period dramas set in England where class is a big deal and...

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