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Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 9:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
The answer is after the jump...
Happy 47th birthday today to Benedict Cumberbatch!
That's The Imitation Game (2014) currently streaming on Netflix, which begins and ends with Benedict's distinct face, but it's not a one man show. The movie was up for 8 Oscars in its year, winning 1 (Adapted Screenplay). Do you remember it fondly? I weirdly do. I remember a very specific Oscar party at a gazillionaire's home in Manhattan for this movie (an apartment so big it had a coat check room within a lobby and the party stretched across multiple sitting rooms like something out of the Gilded Age or Downton Abbey). The Imitation Game is also, I believe, the one and only "gay" film I've watched with my conservative biological family (while visiting over the Christmas holidays). And they actually liked it.
Remember that weird Oscar campaign "Honor the man. Honor the film"?
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Reader Comments (4)
I remember not loving this film at the time, especially because the film seemed afraid to portray Turing as anything more than a man who said he was gay He felt de-sexualized.. But I do remember really liking the quality that Kiera Knightley brought to it and I'm still happy she got an oscar nomination.
However, this film made over 200 million dollars less than a decade ago. I wish the adult drama market was still as strong!
An underrated movie in the cinephile clique.
Cumberbatch is incredible and Knightley is outstanding. The screenplay try to tell a lot of things and in my opinion reach the point
I remember it as "quality" British tv material, a bureaucratic forgettable biopic. A hero like Turing deserved better?
I haven't seen it and I have no interest in it despite my love for Benedict Cumberbatch.