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Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994) [剧集] 豆瓣 TMDB
所属 电视剧集: Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge
Amazon.co.uk Review
Ah-Ha! In 1995 Norwich's most famous son Alan Partridge made the transition from radio to TV with Knowing Me, Knowing You, a chat-show so wholly misunderstood that one clever-clog TV critic described it as "moribund". By way of rebuttal, just consider Alan's parade of fantastic guests, including a hypnotist who persuades Alan that he's an owl; a US pop diva with whom Alan shares a memorable Abba duet that happens to be in all the wrong keys for him; raunchy male dance-act Hot Pants; Cirque des Clowns, whose extreme violence upsets Alan; and, most exciting of all, Roger Moore (via mobile phone from a traffic jam on the Chiswick roundabout).
Steve Coogan's creation fell on hard times later--as chronicled in the magnificent I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 and Series 2--but here he's revelling in his prime-time exposure with no thought of becoming "clinically sad" or gorging on Toblerone bars. Co-writers Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber lovingly recreate everything that's fake and contrived about the whole chat-show genre: the shameless plugging, the recalcitrant celebs, the novelty acts and, most of all, the insufferably smug host oblivious to his own tediousness. Coogan's regular guests are ably played by some faces familiar from The Day Today: Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider and Patrick Marber himself. Other game guest stars are John Thomson (as a naval officer also called Alan Partridge) and Minnie Driver (as a transsexual agony aunt), not forgetting Steve Brown as disconcertingly gay music director Glen Ponder.
The high-water mark of Alan's career arrived with his Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule in which his own living room was lovingly recreated at Television Centre. Unfortunately, and despite the presence of Mick Hucknall, the new Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC TV, Tony Hayers, is deeply unimpressed with the show and gets punched in the face by Alan, who, it turns out, is handy with a turkey. On that bombshell, Alan's career took a downward turn.
菲洛梅娜 (2013) [电影] 豆瓣 IMDb 维基数据 TMDB
Philomena
8.1 (168 个评分) 导演: 斯蒂芬·弗雷斯 演员: 朱迪·丹奇 / 史蒂夫·库根
其它标题: Philomena / 千里伴我寻(港)
1952年的爱尔兰,社会风气保守。少女菲洛米娜(朱迪·丹奇 Judi Dench 饰)因未婚怀孕,被家人送往修道院从事苦役,每天只有1小时与爱子安东尼相处。在安东尼3岁的时候,他被修女们强行抱走,送往美国寄养家庭。此后整整五十年菲洛米娜都沉浸在对爱子的思念中。她将故事告诉了一位记者马汀(史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰),后者决定与她一同踏上寻子之旅。这对个性迥异、看似不可能成立的搭档,在希望与失落之间,展开的不只是慈母寻子的冒险,更是跨越友谊的见证。菲洛米娜慢慢了解到儿子不平凡的一生和鲜为人知的秘密,她这份迟来的爱能传递到失散多年的安东尼身上吗?

《菲洛梅娜》改编自 BBC记者马汀·斯克斯史密斯的纪实文学《菲洛梅娜遗失的孩子》,取材自真人真事。电影围绕一位母亲半个世纪后的跨海寻子,用喜剧的外观包装悲剧故事,让人在笑泪交织中收获感动,并且给予同性恋、艾滋以及恐同话题以恰如其分的重量。《菲洛梅娜》获得威尼斯电影节最佳剧本奖和LGBT最高荣誉断背狮奖,此外还得到了包括最佳影片在内的4项奥斯卡提名。