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  Valmont (film) Summary
Valmont is a 1989 Orion drama/ romance motion picture starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, and Siân Phillips.
In the following review, Bowie asserts that although Valmont is visually stunning, the film is ultimately a sterile adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses.
In the following excerpt, O'Brien argues that Valmont is more sensitive to the underlying humanity of its characters than Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons.
www.bookrags.com /Valmont_(film)   (151 words)

  
 Alan Rickman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His casting as Le Vicomte de Valmont won him critical and popular acclaim as the elegant and heartless seducer.
While playing romantic leads in British movies (Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility and Truly, Madly, Deeply), he was generally typecast in Hollywood movies as an over-the-top villain (German terrorist Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves).
And even directing The Winter Guest at London's Almeida Theatre in 1995 (of which he also directed the film version in 1996 starring Emma Thompson and her real life mother Phyllida Law).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Rickman   (1275 words)

  
 channel4.com/film: Win Valmont DVDs
Her ploy is devilishly simple and spiteful: She conspires with her former lover, Valmont, to seduce the innocent young bride so depriving the girl’s suitor of the privilege of marrying a virgin.
But when the brazen Valmont turns his sights on yet another intended conquest both he and the Marquise are fated to discover the true pain and ruin that true love is cable of wreaking.
From the story that inspired Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions, this is a bold, sumptuous adaptation with an all-star cast from a master of modern cinema.
www.channel4.com /film/chatvotewin/competitions/V/valmont-dvd-competition.html   (302 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Valmont: Video: Colin Firth,Annette Bening,Meg Tilly,Fairuza Balk,Siân Phillips,Jeffrey Jones,Henry ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Valmont who has signed an alliance with a widow, de Merteuil, to conquer and enjoy any person of their respective opposite sexes no matter what the consequences may be.
That is the great shortcoming of the film that becomes innocuous since it neglects what made the success of the novel at the time (1782) : the terrible message of an apocalyptic end coming up soon.
The whole DL vs Valmont debacle serves to remind me that there is just no accounting for taste and popularity.
www.amazon.com /Valmont-Colin-Firth/dp/B00004WIBD   (1792 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Valmont: DVD: Colin Firth,Annette Bening,Meg Tilly,Fairuza Balk,Siân Phillips,Jeffrey Jones,Henry ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
"Valmont" is one of my favorite films of all time.
But Milos Forman decides not to point in that direction, and even to be very careful not to let one single hint go through.
I wish they had released this right after it was made instead of allowing DL to take all the limelight.
www.amazon.com /Valmont-Colin-Firth/dp/B00008G68V   (1784 words)

  
 Vanishing Books Catalogue
Pictorial fl cloth stamped in orange and white featuring the debonair figure of Valmont in top hat with walking stick and cigarette.
The truth is deeper: What Robert Barr intended was a satirization of the nationalistic differences between French and English police systems and, as such, the book is a trenchant, if generally unrecognized, tour de force.
Somewhat of a cult horror novel by the authors who scripted the films Vertigo and Les Diaboliques.
www.vanishingbooks.com /catalogue/index.php?letter=b   (2686 words)

  
 Sian Phillips Actor locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our ...
Sian Phillips Actor locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our Database
Founded originally by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, the Cistercian monks at Thame Park had always been under the Episcopal authority of Lincoln.
Newland-Archer, Day-Lewis, is all set to marry his sweetheart, May, and then he meets her beautiful and 'different' cousin.
www.famouslocations.com /actors/sianphillips.php   (112 words)

  
 Columbia Educational Resources Online
He attended the prestigious Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Prague, and his early films made him a leader of the Czech New Wave.
He is frequently interviewed about East Asian issues in print and electronic media, and he has served as an advisor to several film documentaries on China and as a consultant for businesses and government agencies.
His pioneering book for professionals, Nonlinear: A Field Guide to Digital Video and Film Editing, is now in its fourth edition and is widely used in film schools; he has just released his first book for general readers, The Little Digital Video Book.
www.cero.columbia.edu /help/authors.html   (3860 words)

  
 Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Milos Forman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Il réalise d'abord une comédie sociale Taking Off, puis change totalement avec Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou qui lui apporte la renommée internationale et l'Oscar du meilleur film, qu'il remporte à nouveau en 1985 pour Amadeus.
Il continue les biographies en réalisant Larry Flynt (1996) et Man on the Moon (1999), inspiré de la vie du comique américain Andy Kaufman.
Valmont (1989) d'après Les Liaisons dangereuses de Choderlos de Laclos
www.encyclopedie.cc /Milos_Forman   (326 words)

  
 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
This epistolary novel tells of the unscrupulous libertinism practised by the central characters, Valmont and Merteuil.
Together they plot for pleasure and power, but their scheme turns against them.
Analysis of Dangerous Liaisons -- Analysis of Dangerous Liaisons, the film, novel as well as comparitive with Valmont and Cruel Intentions
www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Laclos   (313 words)

  
 Colin Firth Actor locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our ...
Colin Firth Actor locations - 1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our Database1000s of Famous Locations of movies, film stars, sites, actors & events from our Database
'Throughout my career I’ve been proud of the fact that I’ve never had a day of filming outside London - I’d never taken any of my characters outside of the city and I thought I’d been very wise about that.
But then after one week of filming in Marseille, with gorgeous surroundings and lovely dinners, I realized that I had made a terrible, terrible mistake,' says director Richard Curtis.
www.famouslocations.com /index.php?search=am&actor=Colin+Firth   (360 words)

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