Euro financed. Written, produced & directed by American Michael Hoffman . . .

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In Reply to: The Last Station: Thank Heavens for Euro film mkers . . . posted by mr grits on March 3, 2010 at 19:17:06:

..born in Hawaii, graduated new Payette High, Payette, ID, and graduated from exotic Boise State University. The boy had early pretensions, however - he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he did help found the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Plus John Schlesinger was one of his early mentors.
So the person who cared enough to adapt Jay Parini's novel into a film was not a German or Russian auteur living 3500 miles across the big pond but an American from right here in the good ol' USA. Parini was born and raised in that exotic enclave of continental culture, Scranton, PA.
The Last Station did have German and Russian financing - you're right about that.
And Mirren is marvelous in it.
Hoffman is director of two of my favorite underrated movies of all time, 1995's Restoration, a gorgeous film starring an excellent Robert Downey & David Thewlis (and a very miscast Meg Ryan) and Soapdish, an hilarious ensemble send up that was one of the funniest comedies of the last 20 years.

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Topic - The Last Station: Thank Heavens for Euro film mkers . . . - mr grits 19:17:06 03/03/10 (7)

Euro financed. Written, produced & directed by American Michael Hoffman . . . - Harmonia 18:38:51 03/05/10 (0)

Do we get to see Helen's tits? nt - tinear 19:20:00 03/03/10 (5)

No, and be glad. She gave Tolstoy 13 children! * - mr grits 19:36:45 03/03/10 (4)

How'd she make this film, she's been dead 100 years! nt - tinear 20:25:17 03/03/10 (3)

Mirren has not aged well....too many smokes and whiskey--her own admission. * - mr grits 12:56:04 03/04/10 (2)

As Johnny Rotten said so often in the infamous LA interview to every female that called in, "Show us - tinear 21:43:03 03/04/10 (1)

Did Stern say it first? * - mr grits 21:08:07 03/05/10 (0)

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Euro financed. Written, produced & directed by American Michael Hoffman . . . - Harmonia 18:38:51 03/05/10 (0)

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