Boost for Kate
"With her bravura turn in Rod Lurie's engrossing political drama Nothing But The Truth, Kate Beckinsale has staked a strong claim for her first Academy Award nomination," wrote Tom Teodorczuk in a 9.9 posting on the Evening Standard site.
"The native Londoner, who now lives in Los Angeles, excels as Washington, DC journalist Rachel Armstrong who spends two years behind bars for refusing to cave in to government pressure to reveal her source.
"Lurie, himself a former journalist and high school contemporary of Barack Obama, has loosely based his film on the imprisonment of New York Times writer Judith Miller in 2005 for contempt of court after she refused to testify to a Grand Jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. (Joe Wilson, Plame's husband and former acting ambassador to Iraq, had been openly critical of the Iraqi invasion.)
"Substitute Venezuela for Iraq, Armstrong for Miller and Erica Van Doren (Vera Farmiga) for Plame.
"Having been initially hopeful that her scoop blowing Van Doren's cover as a CIA operative would 'bring down the White House', Armstrong refuses to buckle to the attempts of prosecutor Patton Dubois (Matt Dillon) to persuade her to divulge the source and is imprisoned.
"Lurie's fictional variations on the complex Miller-Plame case blur the boundaries of his characters' personal and professional lives and allows Nothing But The Truth to escape from its source material.
"Lurie clearly supports the notion that journalists should not be imprisoned for refusing to disclose their sources.
"But his primary focus is on delivering an absorbing political yarn and not a half-baked civics class in the vein of Robert Redford's dire Lions For Lambs."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 11, 2008 at 9:26 AM
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actionman
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Really looking forward to seeing Nothing But the Truth. When does it get a nationwide release?
And as far as Beckinsale goes, her work in Snow Angels is Oscar-worthy, at least in my book. So for her to apparently have another award-calibre performance suggests that she might get some end of the year credit. She's always been one of the most beautiful women working in the business, but it wasn't till I saw Snow Angels that I saw any real acting ability. That film was incredible, and her performance was tragic and heartbreaking. Sam Rockwell was also incredible.
Wells -- did you see Snow Angels? It hits DVD next week so if you missed it, I highly reccommend that you grab it. David Gordon Green is a helluva filmmaker.
Posted by actionman
at September 11, 2008 9:59 AM
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YRG
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I would love to see this, but I hope the plot hasn't been "Hollywoodized." From your description it seems like it plays as a typical hero-against-society tale: "Armstrong refuses to buckle..." as the prosecutor puts the screws on her to reveal her source. I hope the story is more complex, like the true story, where Robert Novak played a larger role than Miller, though it never seemed that way in the media.
Posted by YRG
at September 11, 2008 11:14 AM
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SaveFarris
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Who's playing Richard Armitage?
Posted by SaveFarris
at September 11, 2008 12:01 PM
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Joshua Mooney
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It may not be currently fashionable to say it, but I happen to have fallen in love with Kate Beckinsale in "Last Days of Disco." A-actually, that's not entirely accurate, as I was already in love with Chloe Sevigny, who I'd fallen for in a previous film and with whom I was still very much infatuated, despite the lack of any sort of reciprocity on her part. I-it turns out I made a classic mistake in building up this whole romantic image of Chloe, and thinking she was precisely the one person in the world I was meant to be with. Still, Kate in "Last Days of Disco" was quite impressive and terrific. She's really great.
Posted by Joshua Mooney
at September 11, 2008 3:10 PM
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