Entertainment For Lively Minds
"Dead Again"
A great, but obscure, movie is on Channel 5 tonight at 11.05 - 1.05. It stars Kenneth Branagh (he also directed) and Emma Thompson. Branagh is a private detective who takes on a case of a woman suffering from amnesia. Somehow it all becomes about reincarnation and a murder that took place in a previous life. Has an interesting twist at the end.
It's a funny movie and mildly dramatic. Robin Williams also pops up for a few scenes and Derek Jacobi is funny as a antique dealer with a sideline in past-life regression therapy (that he abuses when on the look out for family heirlooms).
Well worth watching. At least take a minute to set a tape up for it as I think it's worth seeing.
Also, fans of Dream Theatre should watch it as it's the film they ripped-off/homaged for the plot of their 1999 "Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory" concept album.
A review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910823/REVIE...
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Minor Classic
Saw it when it came out and, agreed, Dead Again is a minor classic. Brannagh's always worth our support I feel, though I don't think he's ever done complete justice to himself in his work - mind you haven't seen his later stuff. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) was especially good, the interplay between Ken and Emma when they read each other's letters is nothing short a comedy classic, although credit may also be due to the playwright in question. I might be showing my age and parental status when I think ' Gosh, 11 O'Clock on TV - that's awfully late'.
Two words
"Peter's friends". Career over.
I would have
to diasgree. The whole film falls apart on the casting of Branagh as a private eye. He's very unconvincing.
It's a comedy
Branagh doesn't have to convince you. The comedy is more important than the drama.
Yes but
Yes but have to say I didn't think the comedy was all that great in Stephen Fry's Friends. Branagh. did a very good impression of Woody Allen in the former's Hollywood Ending. In fact he surpassed what Allen could have done in a pivotal near the end phonecall scene.