Voices from a Locked Room [VHS]

Voices from a Locked Room [VHS]
by Malcolm Clarke

Voices from a Locked Room [VHS]

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Actor: Allan Corduner, Dilys Laye, Hilton McRae, Jeremy Northam, Tushka Bergen
Director: Malcolm Clarke
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Producer: Dina De Luca
Producer: Galen Johnson
Producer: Irene Litinsky
Writer: Mark A. Stuart
Writer: Nicholas Meyer
Writer: Peter Barnes
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 2000-09-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of Voices from a Locked Room [VHS]

Movie Review: True or fabricated?...WHO CARES! This is one great piece of work!
Summary: 5 Stars

First off, as a Music Conservatory Grad I am well acquainted with the music of the mad and ill-fated Peter Warlock.
Secondly, this film is "based on a true story".It never claims that is IS the truth of what happened in the life of Philip Heseltine, a.k.a.Warlock.So "purists" will just have to get over it! This is a movie! This is a screenplay! These are actors!....and THIS IS ONE DARN GOOD FILM regardless.
Jeremy Northam has long been one of my favorite actors,but this role has given him some real "meat" to chew on as he slips in and out of the split-personalities of Heseltine and Warlock.This role has to be the single most great performance that Northam has ever put to screen.He is sweet,unassuming,deluded and vicious all together in one.
Research on the historical Heseltine/Warlock shows that the premise that this film postulates is perfectly within reason.He was a mystery.
Elliot Goldenthal has composed a truly rich and compelling soundtrack to propel this masterpiece of taught screenplay writing,snappy editing and excellent vision and direction from Malcolm Clarke.
Tushka Bergen as Warlock's love-interest Lily is a bit of a throw away role.She is there,but Jeremy Northam is truly the focus of this psychological thriller. All SYBIL jokes aside,see this film and see just how vile Northam can be.
Buy yourself some Peter Warlock cd's to further your understanding.

Movie Review: Singing students
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a must see for any student of singing/voice. A real insight into the life of a fascinating composer of song.

Movie Review: Playing 'bait and switch' with the art film public
Summary: 2 Stars

The one thing most reviewers have agreed on is that Jeremy Northam's performance is impressive, and I agree. Every other aspect of the film disappointed me. I expected a film about an artist to be aimed at an audience interested in the art and its genesis (think "Pollock" or "Rembrandt", two fine examples of artist biography), but this film was conceived as a schlock psycho-thriller. Most of what I learned about Warlock's music, or what people may have thought about it, came in the form of of negative newspaper reviews read aloud as part of the dialogue, and these were written by...Philip Heseltine! I have to wonder whether these reviews are as fictional as the rest of the story.

One sequence exemplifies a general disregard for reality and a casual hyperbole: Heseltine, in Warlock mode, attacks a friend on the topdeck of his yacht, finally whacking him in the head with a a heavy tool and sending him tumbling unconscious into the water. We watch with Heseltine as the victim, face down and motionless, drifts slowly away. The scene changes: It is the next morning, and the victim is seated in a comfy chair getting a bump on his head bandaged. Welcome to Looney Toons, folks.

I did enjoy the early scene in a radio studio, instantly spotting "Sir Thomas Beecham" directing the orchestra. The made-up actor playing this small role looked exactly like the real Sir Thomas, and I found myself grateful for attention to this small detail. However, the film did not dwell much on musical matters, and I learned little about the musical aesthetic or motives of Warlock or his contemporaries.

Movie Review: More fiction than fact, but brilliant just the same.
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie had me so engrossed that I researched quite a bit about Philip Heseltine and Peter Warlock - whose relationship is the basis of the story - and discovered that most of the film's details were fabricated. Not to say that the true story wasn't intriguing in itself (very mysterious actually), but they had little in common with the screenplay.

However, taken as an individual work of art, the film was brilliantly done, and the music hauntingly beautiful (I'm still waiting for a soundtrack release). Jeremy Northam was sleek and chaotic, charming and gruff, gentile and maniacal - ingenious wouldn't be too strong a word in this instance. The plot spoiler comes fairly early, but it becomes quickly clear that this movie was made to showcase Jeremy's exceptional acting talent.

I highly recommend "Voices" to any and every Northam fan or to anyone who loves the intrigue of a good psychodrama, but would advise history buffs to rethink watching it or the inaccuracies may ruin it for you.

Movie Review: Voices
Summary: 4 Stars

This was a role for Jeremy Northam with some meat on it. Excellent portrayals by the actors in this film. Music was beautiful.

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