"Don't cry, Jane, they'll hear you."

[mooging]

I completely blame you for this, missfoxie

Can some kind person/people please recommend me a Helen Mirren film? All I have in my home is Gosford Park, which I watched yesterday while lying in a pool of my own illness (metaphorically speaking only, there was no actual pool) and promptly fell head over heels with her. 

So. Aaaaaany film at all, preferably with some form of angst. Thanking you all very kindly, oh wonderful people I know.

There would have been an accompanying poll but lj screwed around with me and I have to go and lie down again now, so instead I shall give you the questions and maybe you can tell me in the comments? With your helpful Helen Mirren film suggestions? *puppy eyes*

1) Favourite actor/actress (or one of them, I know it's difficult to choose!)
2) Favourite scene said person has done.

I was going to put this next bit behind a cut, but I feel it's important for you all to read:

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the last couple of memes I've done, because they've meant I've conversed with all of you lovely people and you all really do make me smile and giggle and make me feel better when my own body is conspiring against me. I guess what I mean is that I'm glad I've met youuu, all of you crazy people, even the ones I've not spoken to a lot or have just met recently, and that talking to you or reading things you've written genuinely does make me all yaye. So thank you, for being brilliant people. That is all.

I'm very sorry. I'm hormonal and emotional and my head hurts. Sorry if that last paragraph sounds a tad crazed.

 

Comments

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Ditto to everyone else's suggestions. Also 'Last Orders', 'The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone', any or all 'Prime Suspect's, 'Painted Lady'.

Miranda, and probably the scene is the one in Gideon's Daughter after lunch, when they just hold each other and talk ♥

Helen, the final scenes of 'The Cook..."

Judi Dench, probably the dance in Mrs Brown.

I coiuld go on, but I shan't :)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! Regarding Prime Suspect, can I ask which your personal favourite is? *is randomly nosy*

I love the whole of Gideon's Daughter. Miranda is just so perfect in it.

Judi Dench went to the school that I used to go to. Thought you'd like that piece of trivia! I've not seen Mrs Brown...is that the one where she's...*attempts to remember*...oh god, I want to say Queen Victoria, but that isn't sounding right!

The Cook... is pretty high on my list of things to buy at the moment!

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

The first one. Without a doubt. The second and third are rather good, too, but the first one is the best. It's Lynda LaPlant's original. Can't be beat :). I think she had a hand in the second and third as well, which is why I say I love those too. They're all good - 5 is lots of awesome - but the ones Lynda worked on are the best :)

Hee, yeah, Mrs Brown is Queen Victoria. Also, Billy Connolly is fantastic in it. You should see it. :)

'The Cook...' is a pretty damn uncompromising film. It's magnificient - shamlessly arty, disgustingly violent and painfully human - but it's the kind of thing you'll either love or you'll hate. Very much worth the viewing to decide, though

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Okay, say I can afford to buy three Helen things (which, as it happens, I can - isn't that odd?) and two choices have been made - 'The Cook...' and the first Prime Suspect. Say also that option number three is possibly the second Prime Suspect. Would you agree with these three options, or would you point me in a different direction?

Yes, I am aware I am being weirdly reliant on other people's opinions. Do you mind?

Shamelessly arty things usually get on with me! *waits impatiently for next bit of money to arrive*

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

I think those are definitely a good three options :).

I don't know how much luck you'll have finding the PS series in stand alone bits, though. You might be able to get them like that on Amazon, I suppose, but here - at least in stores - they come in a box sext apart from the 7th, which is probably not even out here on dvd yet (who knows? I got mine on Amazon since I live in the ass end of the world, lol).

Hehe, of course I don't mind!

Losing Chase is also a brilliant one. If you're buying on Amazon you can probably get it. Femslashy and awesome. Don't know if I mentioned it before, and I'm too lazy to check ;)