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December 2009 

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Editor’s Note

Ye Olde Forensics Unit




Are you looking forward to this new Robert Downey Jr. movie, C.S.I: Victorian England?

 

Downey plays a hardened investigator piecing together cases by examining minute scraps of forensic evidence. Jude Law plays his partner Watson, and together they use the latest 19th-century scientific advances to examine miniscule clues other detectives overlook. In this episode they’re trying to track down a Satanist named Lord Blackwood, and they’ll need assistance from some questionable acquaintances, like a “woman of the night” played by Rachel McAdams.

 

I never really got into the other versions of C.S.I.; maybe that’s because the locales never appealed — Miami, Las Vegas, New York. Bah.

 

But Victorian England is so hot right now. Last month we had Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol, a motion-capture, 3D take on the Dickens tale that, in many ways, defines the era. Next month Victorian England is the backdrop for Creation, which stars Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin, the man behind the most influential scientific discovery of that age. And this month the era’s namesake, the vivacious Queen Victoria, gets her own bio-pic, The Young Victoria.

 

So it was only a matter of time until some filmmaker thought to combine the trendy Victorian Era with the profession we just can’t get enough of — forensic-based detective work. In all honesty, I’m surprised no one thought of it sooner.

 

In “Restoring Holmes,” Downey and McAdams discuss the making of that Victorian detective movie, which also goes by the title Sherlock Holmes.

 

I wasn’t joking about that Queen Victoria bio-pic. The Young Victoria really does depict the typically dour royal as a fun-loving babe. For proof, just looking at the casting — comely 26-year-old Emily Blunt plays the title role. In “She Rules,” Blunt insists this film is no fiction.

 

While The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus takes place in modern-day England, the film certainly looks like it’s set a few centuries back. That’s director Terry Gilliam’s influence. No matter when his movies take place, they always look like they belong to another era, another world even. In “The Show Must Go On,” Christopher Plummer, who plays the film’s titular doctor, discusses Gilliam’s world and carrying on after the death of his co-star Heath Ledger.

 

While we’re on the topic of obsessive directors… James Cameron’s long-in-the-works sci-fi Avatar finally hits screens this month. But both he and star Sam Worthington wonder whether anything they release could possibly live up to the hype. Check out “Feeling Blue?”.

 

As the end of the year approaches we wish you a happy whatever it is that you choose to celebrate. Of course, we’ll be spending the better part of our break at the theatre. See you there.


Marni Weisz, editor



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