Lot of 3, Judi Dench Kate Winslet Jim Broadbent stills IRIS (2001) H. Bonneville

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(They ALL look MUCH better than these pictures above. The circle with the words, “scanned for eBay, Larry41” does not appear on the actual photograph. I just placed them on this listing to protect this high quality image from being bootlegged.)
Lot of 3, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent stills IRIS (2001) Hugh Bonneville, Richard Eyre, John Bayley MINT vintage studio original
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This lot of approximately 8” x 10” photos will sell as a group. The first picture is just one of the group, please open and look at each still in this lot to measure the high value of all of them together. The circle with the words, “scanned for eBay, Larry41” does not appear on the actual photographs. I just placed them on this listing to protect these high quality images from being bootlegged. They would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! Some dealers by my lots to break up and sell separately at classic film conventions at much higher prices than my low minimum. A worthy investment for gift giving too!
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DESCRIPTION:
Based on a pair of memoirs by her husband John Bayley, this biographical portrait of writer Iris Murdoch stars both Judi Dench and Kate Winslet as the philosophical author at different stages of her life. When the young Iris (Winslet) meets fellow student Bayley (Hugh Bonneville) at Oxford, he's a naïve virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. Decades later, little has changed as the couple (now played by Dench and Jim Broadbent) keeps house, with John doting on his more famous wife. When Iris begins experiencing forgetfulness and dementia, however, the ever-doltish but devoted John struggles with hopelessness and frustration to become her caretaker, as his wife's mind deteriorates from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Iris earned a slew of Supporting Actor awards for Broadbent, including recognition from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Board of Review.
CONDITION:
These quality vintage and original release stills are in MINT condition (old yes, but NO signs of wear or damage). PERFECT TO BE AUTOGRAPHED OR SIGNED AT A PERSONAL APPEARANCE! I doubt there are better condition stills on this title anywhere! Finally, they are not digital or repros. (They came from the studio to the theater during the year of release and went into storage for many years!) They are worth each but since I have recently acquired two huge collections from life long movie buffs who collected for decades… I need to offer these choice items for sale on a first come, first service basis to the highest bidder.
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Domestic shipping would be FIRST CLASS and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a pound with even more extra ridge packing.
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BACKGROUND:
The power of Judi Dench's accusatory stare — Ms. Dench could bring Anne Robinson of "Weakest Link" to her knees and still have enough energy to take on John Ashcroft — makes her the heir to Glenda Jackson's icy glare. Understanding the drama inherent in portraying the loss of that power, the director Sir Richard Eyre captures Ms. Dench's chilblain gaze slowly diminishing in the moldy, minor-key melodrama "Iris." She stars as the literary force Iris Murdoch, as her appetite for language and pleasure collapses under Alzheimer's disease.   In lectures Iris clips off syllables as if she were snapping peas, and Ms. Dench's precision suggests the mountainous joy that the writer derives from shaping and refining her sensibility. The writing is at its strongest in her fussy wrestling with her husband, the critic John Bayley (Jim Broadbent), who plays a dotty and much softer foil to Iris. The script by Sir Richard and Charles Wood is attentive and fine in observing the behavior of this long-married pair. The movie missteps when it tries to broaden the material; the director falls short of the task.   "Iris," which opens today at Lincoln Square, begins with the elderly Murdoch, who died in 1999, swimming underwater in a murky pond, where people from her life are drifting around, visible through the silt. Iris sees the younger, proudly naked version of herself (played by Kate Winslet) coursing through the waters. It's Sir Richard's way of playing out the loss of acuity in Iris's mind: the dense fluid of her mind, where nothing remains clear. And the movie shifts back and forth in time from the youthful and intensely eager Iris being courted by the shy, pudgy John (Hugh Bonneville) to the present, tracking Iris's descent from a television interview where she loses the thread of a statement she is making.   Amusingly, the young Iris is like a figure out of D. H. Lawrence with her snapping condescension toward conventional morality; one wonders what she would have thought of this movie, which seems to have been made by the kind of middle-brow she would have walked right past. It would probably be asking too much to get some sense of her writing into the picture, which uses John's struggles to care for his wife as its emotional foundation.   Unfortunately, the film lacks balance between past and present; one of the few differences between the two is that the characters are wearing different clothes. (Well, sort of: the two Johns have a bent for the same tweeds and flannels.) Sir Richard tries to set the film up as a puzzle, but the device he uses requires some of the vigor that Ms. Dench's Iris with her merciless superiority possesses. He's not up to it, and the film sags under the missed opportunities and the obviousness.   The movie's comfort zone is in the incidents of Iris and John's affectionate sparring and puttering around the house. "Iris" becomes drab and slowed in outlining the particular contrasts of the young Iris and the young John; he's a timid, stuttering bear cub led into the garden of earthly delights and jealous of her commanding worldliness. Mr. Wood once worked with a director whose nimbleness would have been more suited to marrying fizziness and despair: Richard Lester, with whom Mr. Wood collaborated on "The Knack" and "Cuba."   Rarely does a movie feel as leaden-footed as "Iris," especially when it tries to bounce back and forth. The audience is transported between two very obvious stories and becomes slightly irritated by the grinding inevitability of both of them. As a result, Iris Murdoch gets lost in the shuffle.   "Iris" seems to be this year's effort to put Ms. Dench into Academy Award consideration, an event that's as much a part of December popular culture as Dick Clark's "New Year's Rockin' Eve" — and as pro forma and unvaried.   Ms. Dench and Mr. Broadbent have a jabbing, likable rhythm; his effortless submersion into character is an enjoyable contrast to her willfulness, and her relationship with him makes her seem human. So when he gets to unleash the hurt and resentfulness that come from all of the years together and she is so damaged by Alzheimer's that she cannot respond, "Iris" can't help being moving.   The power of his outburst comes from the work that the director has done in setting up their puttering domesticity, and that is where the movie needs to dwell: in the wreck that Alzheimer's can make of a happy home.   "Iris" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes nudity and youthful bohemian sexuality.   IRIS   Directed by Sir Richard Eyre; written by Sir Richard and Charles Wood, based on the books "Iris: A Memoir" and "Elegy for Iris" by John Bayley; produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin; director of photography, Roger Pratt; edited by Martin Walsh; music by James Horner, with Joshua Bell as violin soloist; production designer, Gemma Jackson; released by Miramax Films.    WITH: Judi Dench (Iris Murdoch), Jim Broadbent (John Bayley), Kate Winslet (young Iris Murdoch) and Hugh Bonneville (young John Bayley).