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The Music of Chance (Philip Haas, 1993).

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My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985)

Cast: Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Rita Wolf, Derrick Branche. Screenplay: Hanif Kureishi. Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton. Production design: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski. Film editing: Mick Audsley. Music: Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer. A fusillade across the bow of Thatcherite Britain, My Beautiful Laundrette manages to take on racism, homophobia, and capitalist entrepreneurship all in one breathtaking moment. It also served as a breakthrough film for Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny, a gay skinhead with an Anglo-Pakistani lover, Omar (Gordon Warnecke).

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #45: Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) - dir. Stephen Frears

Director Stephen Frears is great at making feel-good British dramedies, particularly period-piece biopics that focus on the first half of the twentieth century. Last summer’s Florence Foster Jenkins was a fine example of this, but Mrs. Henderson Presents is a similarly pleasing offering. Based on the true story of Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), a wealthy widow who bought and revived a rundown London theater in 1937, Presents follows Laura’s fight to keep her new institution – a musical revue which she updates to include full-frontal nudity – open during wartime. She is assisted by the show’s designer/stage manager, Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), a man with whom Laura verbally spars on a constant basis. It is pure joy to watch Dench and Hoskins, two of the finest actors in the history of UK cinema, grin slyly at each other as they wade through venomous arguments.

Most of the supporting roles for the performers in the Henderson-Van Damm show are decent but nothing extraordinary; Kelly Reilly, Natalia Tena, Sarah Solemani and Rosalind Halstead play some of the main showgirls, while Will Young plays the show’s resident showman with a sweet tenor voice. With the exception of Kelly Reilly, these smaller roles don’t carry much weight in the film, but again, at least you’ll delight in the aforementioned lead performances from Dench and Hoskins, and Christopher Guest has a terrific part as Lord Cromer, the royal who is in charge of overseeing the revue, despite being flustered by its bawdiness. Mrs. Henderson Presents also provides constant eye candy thanks to the exquisite costumes by Sandy Powell and the art direction, production design and set decoration by Paul Ghirardani, Tony Woollard, Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski, Claudia Parker and Robert Wischhusen-Hayes. With its beautiful aesthetic appeal, a soundtrack full of lovely songs and the consistent momentum of high-quality entertainment, Frears’ film is certain to leave a splendid impression on you.

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2005 Movie Awards

Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain Capote Mysterious Skin The New World Pride & Prejudice HONORABLE MENTION: Downfall, Good Night and Good Luck, Match Point, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Grizzly Man, Cache, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Munich, Broken Flowers, Millions, The Constant Gardener Best Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Downfall Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain Terrence Malick, The New World Bennett Miller, Capote Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice HONORABLE MENTION: Woody Allen, Match Point; Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin; Danny Boyle, Millions; George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck; Michael Haneke, Cache; Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man; Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers; Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know; Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener; Steven Spielberg, Munich Best Actor: Bruno Ganz, Downfall Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain HONORABLE MENTION: Daniel Auteuil, Cache; Nicolas Cage, The Weather Man; Steve Carell, The 40 Year-Old Virgin; Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man; Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale; Romain Duris, The Beat That My Heart Skipped; Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener; Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow; Tony Leung, 2046; Matthew Macfadyen, Pride & Prejudice; Viggo Mortensen, A History of Violence; Bill Murray, Broken Flowers; Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line; David Strathairn, Good Night and Good Luck Best Actress: Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger Juliette Binoche, Cache Claire Danes, Shopgirl Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line HONORABLE MENTION: Toni Collette, In Her Shoes; Rosario Dawson, Rent; Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents; Felicity Huffman, Transamerica; Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know; Q’orianka Kilcher, The New World; Lisa Kudrow, Happy Endings; Radha Mitchell, Melinda and Melinda; Gwyneth Paltrow, Proof; Charlize Theron, North Country; Naomi Watts, King Kong Best Supporting Actor: Brady Corbet, Mysterious Skin Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain Terrence Howard, Crash Mickey Rourke, Sin City Donald Sutherland, Pride & Prejudice HONORABLE MENTION: Gary Beach, The Producers; George Clooney, Syriana; Clifton Collins Jr., Capote; Kevin Costner, The Upside of Anger; Bob Hoskins, Mrs. Henderson Presents; Owen Kline, The Squid and the Whale; Jesse L. Martin, Rent; Clive Owen, Sin City; Barry Pepper, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; Peter Sarsgaard, Jarhead; Alexander Siddig, Syriana; Jeffrey Wright, Syriana Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug Maggie Gyllenhaal, Happy Endings Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain HONORABLE MENTION: Maria Bello, A History of Violence; Anne Hathaway, Brokeback Mountain; Taraji P. Henson, Hustle & Flow; Scarlett Johansson, Match Point; Diane Keaton, The Family Stone; Catherine Keener, Capote; Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha; Shirley MacLaine, In Her Shoes; Rachel McAdams, The Family Stone; Frances McDormand, North Country; Idina Menzel, Rent; Thandie Newton, Crash; Rosamund Pike, Pride & Prejudice; Tracie Thoms, Rent; Faye Wong, 2046; Zhang Ziyi, 2046 Best Original Screenplay Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney & Grant Heslov Match Point - Woody Allen Me and You and Everyone We Know - Miranda July The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Guillermo Arriaga HONORABLE MENTION: Cache, Cinderella Man, The Family Stone, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Happy Endings, Hustle & Flow, Junebug, Millions, The New World, Nine Lives, The Squid and the Whale, Syriana Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana Capote - Dan Futterman Downfall - Bernd Eichinger Mysterious Skin - Gregg Araki Pride & Prejudice - Deborah Moggach HONORABLE MENTION: The Constant Gardener, A History of Violence, Munich, Proof, Serenity, Shopgirl, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Ensemble: Brokeback Mountain The Family Stone Good Night, and Good Luck Nine Lives Syriana HONORABLE MENTION: Broken Flowers, Crash, Downfall, Happy Endings, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hustle & Flow, Junebug, Match Point, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Munich, Mysterious Skin, Pride & Prejudice, Rent, Sin City Best Limited Performance - Male: Paddy Considine, Cinderella Man Christopher Guest, Mrs. Henderson Presents Levon Helm, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada William Hurt, A History of Violence Jason Isaacs, Nine Lives HONORABLE MENTION: Chris Cooper, Jarhead; Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Rupert Friend, Pride & Prejudice; Rutger Hauer, Sin City; Michael Lonsdale, Munich; Bill Nighy, The Constant Gardener; Bill Sage, Mysterious Skin; Ray Wise, Good Night and Good Luck Best Limited Performance - Female: Lynn Cohen, Munich Judi Dench, Pride & Prejudice Corinna Harfouch, Downfall Jane Hogarth, Millions Robin Wright Penn, Nine Lives HONORABLE MENTION: Anna Faris, Brokeback Mountain; Annie Girardot, Cache; Carla Gugino, Sin City; Lisa Gay Hamilton, Nine Lives; Holly Hunter, Nine Lives; Gong Li, 2046; Roberta Maxwell, Brokeback Mountain; Sarah Paulson, Serenity; Miranda Richardson, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Chloe Sevigny, Broken Flowers Breakthrough Performance: Alex Etel, Millions Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know Q’orianka Kilcher, The New World Owen Kline, The Squid and the Whale Tracie Thoms, Rent HONORABLE MENTION: Georgie Henley, The Chronicles of Narnia; Ashton Holmes, A History of Violence; Michelle Monaghan, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; William Moseley, The Chronicles of Narnia; Brandon Ratcliff, Me and You and Everyone We Know; Kelly Reilly, Mrs. Henderson Presents Best Film Editing: Brokeback Mountain - Geraldine Peroni & Dylan Tichenor Match Point - Alisa Lepselter Mysterious Skin - Gregg Araki The New World - Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, Saar Klein & Mark Yoshikawa The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Roberto Silvi HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Cache, Capote, Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener, Downfall, Good Night and Good Luck, Grizzly Man, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hustle & Flow, King Kong, Munich, Pride & Prejudice, Red Eye, Serenity, Sin City, Syriana, 2046 Best Cinematography: Brokeback Mountain - Rodrigo Prieto The Constant Gardener - Cesar Charlone Good Night, and Good Luck - Robert Elswit Munich - Janusz Kaminski The New World - Emmanuel Lubezki HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Cache, Capote, Downfall, Jarhead, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Millions, Nine Lives, Oldboy, Pride & Prejudice, Sin City, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 2046 Best Original Score: Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams The New World - James Horner Pride & Prejudice - Dario Marianelli Syriana - Alexandre Desplat HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Chronicles of Narnia, Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener, Corpse Bride, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Munich, Sin City, 2046, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Original Song: Brokeback Mountain - "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" - Gustavo Santaolalla & Bernie Taupin Corpse Bride - “Tears to Shed” - John August & Danny Elfman The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” - Christopher Austin, Garth Jennings & Joby Talbot Hustle & Flow - "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Paul Beauregard, Cedric Coleman & Jordan Houston Transamerica - "Travelin' Thru" - Dolly Parton HONORABLE MENTION: The Chronicles of Narnia - “Can’t Take It In”; The Chronicles of Narnia - “Wunderkind”; Corpse Bride - “Remains of the Day”; Elizabethtown - “Same in Any Language”; Howl’s Moving Castle - “The Merry-Go-Round of Life”; Hustle & Flow - “Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over)”; Rent - “Love Heals” Best Art Direction: Good Night, and Good Luck - James D. Bissell & Jan Pascale King Kong - Simon Bright, Dan Hennah & Grant Major Mrs. Henderson Presents - Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski, Claudia Parker & Robert Wischhusen-Hayes Pride & Prejudice - Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer 2046 - William Chang & Alfred Yau HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, Cinderella Man, Downfall, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, The New World, Serenity, Sin City, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Costume Design: Cinderella Man - Daniel Orlando Memoirs of a Geisha - Colleen Atwood Mrs. Henderson Presents - Sandy Powell The New World - Jacqueline West Pride & Prejudice - Jacqueline Durran HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, Downfall, Good Night and Good Luck, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, 2046, Walk the Line Best Makeup: Capote The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The New World Sin City HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella Man, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Pride & Prejudice, Rent, Serenity, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, 2046 Best Sound Mixing: Good Night, and Good Luck King Kong Rent Serenity Walk the Line HONORABLE MENTION: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, The Chronicles of Narnia, Cinderella Man, Corpse Bride, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hustle & Flow, Jarhead, Munich, The New World, Oldboy, The Producers, Red Eye, Sin City, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, 2046, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, War of the Worlds Best Sound Editing: Batman Begins Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Munich Serenity HONORABLE MENTION: The Chronicles of Narnia, Corpse Bride, Downfall, Jarhead, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Oldboy, Red Eye, Sin City, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, War of the Worlds Best Visual Effects: Batman Begins Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Serenity War of the Worlds HONORABLE MENTION: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sin City, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Best Foreign Film: The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Jacques Audiard Cache - Michael Haneke Downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel Oldboy - Park Chan-wook 2046 - Wong Kar-Wai HONORABLE MENTION: Howl’s Moving Castle Best Documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog Mad Hot Ballroom - Marilyn Agrelo Murderball - Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro Twist of Faith - Kirby Dick HONORABLE MENTION: March of the Penguins, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic Best Animated Film: Corpse Bride - Tim Burton & Mike Johnson Howl’s Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Steve Box & Nick Park HONORABLE MENTION: Chicken Little, Robots Every 2005 Film I've Seen: Ranked

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The Music of Chance (Philip Haas, 1993).