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| <^from Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rather crappy clippings from what was actually a visually striking adaptation of Dracula, with Hopkins practically stealing the show as Van Helsing. My future husband and I went to see this at a local theater on one of our first dates. The effect was marred a bit by the intrusive sounds of a freight train passing nearby. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <from The Innocent (1993) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My husband, being something of a film buff and appreciative of Hopkins' talent, is usually quite happy to go along with me to see his movies. This film is one we attended when it played at an arts theater downtown a few years after its release. It started out all right but at a point the motivations for the characters' behavior became incomprehensible. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <^ from The Remains of the Day (1993) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I'm sure that even critics who couldn't stomach The Silence of the Lambs sat up and took notice of this film, which is another one that my husband and I saw together. Gone were all of Hopkins' mannerisms that had characterized his early performances; it was a study in minimalism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shadowlands was a bit of a tear-jerker; even hubby had tears in his eyes at the theater. I must confess that what with all my years of Hopkins dreams my heart practically jumped into my throat when the C.S. Lewis character said he'd received a letter from a woman who'd had a dream about him and who wondered if he'd had a dream about her too, even though that's not a possibility I seriously consider! Guess deep down I had an unconscious wish. ;^) 1993 was a great year for my Hopkins obsession because when I got married I got a VCR for the first time, and I lived within walking distance of a video store. So I was able to rent all my old favorites plus a number I'd never seen before, like A Chorus of Disapproval (1988), Desperate Hours (1990), One Man's War (1991), Freejack (1992), and Chaplin (1992). I can also remember seeing Selected Exits (1993) on TV at my apartment. |
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| This was a strange movie, but it had its charms. Actually I think we enjoyed it more than Legends of the Fall, which came out the same year (1994). Neither of us is sold on Brad Pitt, plus my husband wryly refers to Tony's character in Legends of the Fall as his "Popeye impersonation." :^) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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