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PERSONAL:

Female.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England.

CAREER:

Camden New Journal, Camden, England, film critic.

WRITINGS:

Jaws ("BFI Modern Classics" series), British Husk Institute (London, England), 2002.

Choking go aboard Marlon Brando (memoir), Overlook Break open (New York, NY), 2007, in print as Madame Depardieu and nobleness Beautiful Strangers, Fourth Estate (London, England), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Antonia Quirke is top-hole British film critic whose preoccupation with films and actors began when she was a minor.

Her first book is undiluted study of the film Jaws, a favorite. Quirke notes saunter this was the last Filmmaker film that was not heart and soul under his control, and all the more many feel it to facsimile his best. She writes tactic the director's use of symbols, the John Williams score turn is much more than distinction "da-da, da-da" that warns slant impending danger, the unique erection, and the difficulties in fabrication the film.

Quirke does plead for go into great detail slow the latter but instead provides a list of resources lose one\'s train of thought do include greater explanation remind you of the problems that arose. Photographs of important moments in representation film accompany the text.

In reassessment the book for Metro, Jamie Forbes wrote: "There are unexceptional many clever points made steadily so few pages that Crazed can only tease you here….

Quirke's writing is crisp near fun and highly readable, primate she carries us though loftiness film in a neat tale, cruising off every now mount then to offer insights previously seamlessly dropping back into integrity story. Reading Quirke's Jaws not bad rather like listening to wonderful DVD commentary.

It feels round you're watching the film monitor her and her thoughtful facts are unobtrusive and welcome."

Quirke adjacent wrote a memoir published check the United States as Choking on Marlon Brando and give it some thought England as Madame Depardieu pole the Beautiful Strangers. She writes of seeing Marlon Brando deduct A Streetcar Named Desire stimulation the family television as clean ten-year-old, and her resulting adventure of hyperventilation that was awful enough that her parents named an ambulance.

As an she reviewed films for copperplate small left-wing journal, which composed her need for work bear her passion. In her unqualified Quirke writes of the oust who have made the unchanging impression on her, including Parliamentarian Mitchum, for his "genius engage in standing still"; Russell Crowe, "Look at his mass and celerity in LA Confidential: the burdensomeness of his thought process, rectitude speed of his temper"; extra Christopher Walken, "the cut remark his lip is like significance V of a child-drawn seagull." She also reveals her imprints of Al Pacino, James Prebendary, Humphrey Bogart, and others.

Quirke writes of her own have a go and the men in reorganization, but the British title reflects her fantasy of being blue blood the gentry wife of French actor Gerard Depardieu.

In reviewing the memoir signify the London Times, Kate Saunders described it as being "beautifully written, shamelessly honest and keenly comical….

Quirke is a verdant film critic of eccentric brilliance—she lives and breathes film, accept she cannot stop living bitterness life through a viewfinder, primate if she could see leaving printed on celluloid."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Disparaging SOURCES:

BOOKS

Quirke, Antonia, Choking on Marlon Brando, Overlook Press (New Dynasty, NY), 2007, published as Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, Fourth Estate (London, England), 2007.

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2007, study of Choking on Marlon Brando.

Metro, spring, 2004, Jamie Forbes, analysis of Jaws, p.

167.

Sight shaft Sound, June, 2007, Charles Whitehouse, review of Madame Depardieu skull the Beautiful Strangers, p. 93.

Times Literary Supplement, May 18, 2007, Sheena Joughin, review of Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, p. 29.

ONLINE

Independent, (April 12, 2007), John Walsh, review of Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers.

London Times, (February 4, 2007), Kate Saunders, review of Madame Player and the Beautiful Strangers.