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What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
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柯南·道尔与福尔摩斯, Странная история мистера Шерлока Холмса и Артура Конан Дойля
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08 Sep 2005
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A BBC film about a critical juncture in the life of Arthur Conan Doyle. This was much better than I expected. I feared one of those horrible docu-dramas but it is a full on well-acted drama. It comes at a nice time because I began re-reading all the Holmes-Doyle short stories for the first time in a very long time in between other things I am reading. Take a break from that book and read Sherlock for a bit. Some feel very familiar to me, but there are others that I am fairly certain I never read for some reason or have just forgotten. Perhaps the ones I remember best are ones I have seen TV shows on. But I…
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I don't know, I probably love Emily Blunt playing the cello way too much to be giving it 1.5 but oh well.
Also, I can hardly believe that after seven months, I'm finally done with her filmography. What a journey! It was fantastic to be even more sure that she is a born talent and she still has a bright future ahead of her. Sure, some movies were hard to swallow, but they all ended up being worth watching it because of her brilliant characters. It still amazes me how sensitive and dedicated she is to everything she does, no matter how important her character is in the project. I always feel like John Krasinski saying that what she does is totally unique and incomparable and changes everything, but that's really the truth.
I'm so grateful to have found an actress as wonderful as Emily to love. I can not wait to see what the future holds for her :')
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shot on an ipod touch edited in...imovie oh my god the sound job: inside their mouths. supposed to be endearing that he cheated on his dying wife.
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Taking its cue from that other famous Edinburgh-born novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson and his tale The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this 2005 BBC film explores the notion of dual personalities, the intrinsic link between creator and creation - Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes - and principally, what happens when the former wants to rid himself of the latter.
I bought this from the Oxfam Bookstore in Skipton on a day out earlier this week. I hadn't actually seen it since it went out on TV in 2005. This rewatch sadly proved it wasn't as strong as I recalled (TV in the first half of the 00s and TV now has really changed, and this production…