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The Last Station — Film Review "Station" has the potential to be a substantial art house hit. It also is the high-water mark in Michael Hoffman's 20-year career.
The Last Station is a small bittersweet film that never quite reaches the height of greatness, but it’s still a fairly good story of love. This is a film that feels like it was made in the hopes of ...
“The Last Station” isn’t all that it should be, but whenever these two actors are onscreen, it’s like a great night at the theater. Grade: A- (Rated R for a scene of sexuality/nudity.) You ...
The life of Leo Tolstoy is certainly not as interesting as the man's works. Writer/Director Michael Hoffman knows this, and finds the conflict of his Tolstoy film The Last Station more in those around ...
The Last Station Germany - Russia - U.K. Production: An Egoli Tossell Film/Zephyr Films presentation of an Egoli Tossell Film Halle production in co-production with the Andrei Konchalovsky ...
In the opening lines of "Anna Karenina," -- a Top 5 fixture on the "Greatest Novels Ever" charts -- Leo Tolstoy writes, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ...
The Last Station, a lavishly produced period piece that glows with a faux authenticity, ... The Last Station: Not a film about Tolstoy. Clare Hurley. 20 February 2010.
In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 28, 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy - not only the most famous man in Russia but a kind of secular saint - slipped from his country estate, dressed in peasant clothes and ...
The notion for “The Last Station” came from writer Jay Parini, who was so fascinated to discover that numerous people around Tolstoy in the fatal year of 1910 kept diaries with their versions ...
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Christopher Plummer plays Russian writer Leo Tolstoy as he deals with personal turmoil in “The Last Station.” One of the most passionate and volatile marital ...
"The Last Station" is a first-rate historical drama, which is something movie-goers haven't seen enough of lately. It is edifying, it is emotionally engaging, it is embraceable -- and it is built ...