The late great actress Dame Maggie Smith charmed generations of film, theater and television audiences, winning two Academy Awards, five BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. We will celebrate her 70-year career with a screening of the Julian Fellowes-penned, Robert Altman-directed film that set the tone for her later triumph as the acerbic dowager duchess on Downton Abbey. For the uninitiated, Gosford Park is a country house upstairs/downstairs murder mystery with a stellar cast, including Ryan Phillippe, Sir Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkinson, Clive Owen, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Emily Watson and Alan Bates.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen the British class system of the 1930s so artfully dissected. It’s all the more remarkable when you consider that Altman is a 76-year-old American — albeit a Southern gent. A huge, huge treat.” — Roger Clarke, The Independent (UK)
“Opulently designed, meticulously directed, cleverly written and wittily acted by a cast as polished as the floors.” — Rex Reed, The Observer
directed by
Robert Altman
Robert Altman
written by
Julian Fellowes, Robert Altman, Bob Balaban
Julian Fellowes, Robert Altman, Bob Balaban
with
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkinson, Clive Owen, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Emily Watson, Alan Bates
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkinson, Clive Owen, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Emily Watson, Alan Bates
language
English, Latin
English, Latin
country
United Kingdom, Italy, United States
United Kingdom, Italy, United States