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    Dec 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Bill Murray scoffs at doubt as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    For Bill Murray, playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the new film “Hyde Park on Hudson” meant risking some serious derision. Now 62, Murray carries with him a huge recognition factor thanks to a host of comedies: "Stripes," "Caddyshack," "Groundhog Day," "Ghostbusters." More recently he has brought a weary, witty gravitas to more bittersweet material, a la "Rushmore," "Lost in Translation" and others.
    For Bill Murray, playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the new film “Hyde Park on Hudson” meant risking some serious derision. Now 62, Murray carries with him a huge recognition factor thanks to a host of comedies: "Stripes," "Caddyshack,"...

    Tags: Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Movies, Groundhog Day (movie), Olivia Williams, Entertainment

    2. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| RedEye

  2. 'Hyde Park on Hudson' review: Makes 'Lincoln' look like 'Skyfall'

    <strong>*1/2 (out of four)</strong>
    *1/2 (out of four) President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) drives his fifth cousin Daisy (Laura Linney) to an isolated field. He puts her hand on his thigh and unfastens his pants. You know where this is going. Daisy must be awfully good with...

    Tags: England, Colin Firth, Polio, Laura Linney, Macy Gray

    3. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Murray is the anchor, but plot adrift in 'Hyde Park on Hudson' ★★

    The music&rsquo;s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient &ldquo;Hyde Park on Hudson,&rdquo; starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood, for this anecdotal account of FDR&rsquo;s pre-war sexual escapades one weekend in 1939, composer Jeremy Sams soaks the movie in a sly and charming recurring theme, a <span class=&quot;italic" style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">habanera </span>rather like a buttoned-down variation on the famous aria from Bizet&rsquo;s &ldquo;Carmen.&rdquo;
    The music’s the best thing about the peculiar, demurely prurient “Hyde Park on Hudson,” starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his spinster fifth cousin, Daisy Suckley. Setting the scene, and the mood,...

    Tags: Roosevelt, Music, Unrest, Conflicts and War, PG Rated Movies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    4. Apr 9, 2013 | Zap2It

  4. VOD Spotlight: Hyde Park on Hudson

    Channel Guide Magazine
    The events of the film Hyde Park on Hudson are seen through the eyes of Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), neighbor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams). In June 1939, FDR and Eleanor hosted the king...
    5. Mar 30, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  5. Bill Murray to play FDR in ‘Hyde Park on the Hudson’?

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    Might Bill Murray make a good Franklin Delano Roosevelt? He just might. Director Roger Michell thinks so. The Vulture reports he's lined up Murray to star in his film “Hyde Park on the Hudson,” a film that takes its title from FDR's home. It's...
    6. Jan 24, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Theater review: 'Jane Austen's Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy' at the Old Globe

    Culture Monster
    There’s something so inherently agreeable about the novels of Jane Austen that the works are almost above criticism. The harshest thing one could say about these sharply observed romantic fairy tales, which have been steadily increasing their cult...
    7. Apr 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. New releases: 'To the Wonder' a beautiful and rewarding film

    To the Wonder
    To the Wonder Available on VOD beginning April 12 Early buzz on Terence Malick's film pegged it as a muddled rehash of the director's crazily ambitious "The Tree of Life," but that's not entirely accurate. Some of Malick's trademarks have become...

    Tags: Olga Kurylenko, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program), Movies, The Tree of Life (movie), Ben Affleck

    8. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    Rather than merely doing an impersonation, Bill Murray makes a surprisingly credible Franklin Delano Roosevelt in director Roger Michell's ("Notting Hill") portrait of the president during a weekend visit from British royalty (Samuel West, Olivia Colman)...

    Tags: Elizabeth Wilson, Blu-ray Discs, Olivia Williams, Laura Linney, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    9. Dec 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Bill Murray's take on FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    TELLURIDE, Colo. — Actors are used to pressure, but the task before Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson" was more than a little stressful. Director Roger Michell said that if the "Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day" veteran didn't want to star as...

    Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    10. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Review: Bill Murray shines as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

    Los Angeles Times Film Critic
    When Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan...

    Tags: Abraham Lincoln, England, Elizabeth Wilson, Ronald Reagan, Daniel Day-Lewis

    11. Aug 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Telluride Film Festival lineup: 'Hyde Park,' 'Iceman,' 'Argo'

    Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town&rsquo;s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall&rsquo;s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in &ldquo;Hyde Park on Hudson,&rdquo; Michael Shannon as family man and freelance assassin in &ldquo;The Iceman,&rdquo; and Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in &ldquo;Argo.&rdquo;
    Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael...

    Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Samuel West, The Central Park Five (movie), Arts and Culture

    12. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Toronto Film Festival to open with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Looper'

    The Toronto International Film Festival has chosen "Looper," director Rian Johnson's "thinking-man actioner" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, to open its 10-day event starting Sept. 6. The film stars Gordon-Levitt as a time-traveling...

    Tags: Rachel McAdams, Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford, Noah Baumbach, Tom Courtenay

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