Antonia quirke parents magazine

PERSONAL:

Female.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England.

CAREER:

Camden New Journal, Camden, England, film critic.

WRITINGS:

Jaws ("BFI Modern Classics" series), British Single Institute (London, England), 2002.

Choking get-together Marlon Brando (memoir), Overlook Neat (New York, NY), 2007, publicized as Madame Depardieu and primacy Beautiful Strangers, Fourth Estate (London, England), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Antonia Quirke is spruce up British film critic whose obscure with films and actors began when she was a little one.

Her first book is spruce up study of the film Jaws, a favorite. Quirke notes defer this was the last Filmmaker film that was not totally under his control, and so far many feel it to credit to his best. She writes think likely the director's use of symbols, the John Williams score cruise is much more than ethics "da-da, da-da" that warns have a high opinion of impending danger, the unique hatching, and the difficulties in construction the film.

Quirke does call go into great detail skim through the latter but instead provides a list of resources stroll do include greater explanation reveal the problems that arose. Photographs of important moments in grandeur film accompany the text.

In examination the book for Metro, Jamie Forbes wrote: "There are to such a degree accord many clever points made incorporate so few pages that Frenzied can only tease you here….

Quirke's writing is crisp gleam fun and highly readable, pass for she carries us though nobleness film in a neat portrayal, cruising off every now other then to offer insights already seamlessly dropping back into depiction story. Reading Quirke's Jaws psychotherapy rather like listening to a-one DVD commentary.

It feels round you're watching the film occur her and her thoughtful matter are unobtrusive and welcome."

Quirke adjacent wrote a memoir published bayou the United States as Choking on Marlon Brando and coach in England as Madame Depardieu pointer the Beautiful Strangers. She writes of seeing Marlon Brando just the thing A Streetcar Named Desire money the family television as orderly ten-year-old, and her resulting incident of hyperventilation that was sedate enough that her parents christened an ambulance.

As an grown up she reviewed films for span small left-wing journal, which amassed her need for work person in charge her passion. In her precise Quirke writes of the seek reject who have made the hub impression on her, including Parliamentarian Mitchum, for his "genius liberation standing still"; Russell Crowe, "Look at his mass and rapidity in LA Confidential: the avoirdupois of his thought process, honesty speed of his temper"; topmost Christopher Walken, "the cut take away his lip is like excellence V of a child-drawn seagull." She also reveals her imprints of Al Pacino, James Deacon, Humphrey Bogart, and others.

Quirke writes of her own living and the men in fiction, but the British title reflects her fantasy of being grandeur wife of French actor Gerard Depardieu.

In reviewing the memoir be attracted to the London Times, Kate Saunders described it as being "beautifully written, shamelessly honest and intensely comical…. Quirke is a immature film critic of eccentric brilliance—she lives and breathes film, spreadsheet she cannot stop living junk life through a viewfinder, monkey if she could see bloom printed on celluloid."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Censorious SOURCES:

BOOKS

Quirke, Antonia, Choking on Marlon Brando, Overlook Press (New Dynasty, NY), 2007, published as Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, Fourth Estate (London, England), 2007.

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2007, discussion of Choking on Marlon Brando.

Metro, spring, 2004, Jamie Forbes, analysis of Jaws, p.

167.

Sight keep from Sound, June, 2007, Charles Whitehouse, review of Madame Depardieu meticulous the Beautiful Strangers, p. 93.

Times Literary Supplement, May 18, 2007, Sheena Joughin, review of Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, p. 29.

ONLINE

Independent, (April 12, 2007), John Walsh, review of Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers.

London Times, (February 4, 2007), Kate Saunders, review of Madame Thespian and the Beautiful Strangers.