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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000HBL5FQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #229,210 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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First, Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and E.J. Dionne of The Brookings Institution take a look at significant progress in campaign-finance reform, with a bill sponsored by representatives Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan on the Senate floor. Also, British actress Judi Dench talks about her portrayal of the philosopher and writer Iris Murdoch in the film Iris, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Charlie Rose and Judi Dench, April 15, 2007

By	Sharon Breden (San Jose CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This two part DVD is of main interest to me in the interview with Dame Judi Dench. The first interview with Norman Ornstin and E.J. Dionne discusses the topic of campaign finance as it was being dealt with in 2002.

Dame Judi Dench has interviewed with Charlie Rose at least twice before this interview (and again later on December 6, 2005 with Stephen Frears who was working on THE QUEEN at that time). So each was very comfortable with the other and the repartee between the two delightful. This interview focussed primarily on the film IRIS for which Dame Judi had just been nominated for an Oscar. She spoke of the "exquisite exhilaration of being nominated until you get smacked in the face when somebody else goes up!" Iris Murdoch was a heroine for Dench and she has had a fascination with her writing and sees Murdoch as a great philosopher. Playing her, someone who had just recently died, presented challenges that could not be compared with playing Queen VIctoria (MRS BROWN) who no one today really knew. She discusses the various skills she utilized commenting that she had to be careful what elements she put into "the recipe." Her goal was to play the character so that she "added up to the sum of her." After the premiere when Dench met, for the first time, Murdoch's husband, he told her he felt like they (he and Dench) had been married for years. She was more like Iris in person than in the film. Indeed Dench noted there were similarities between the two women. Dench sees the film not as one about the disease of Alzheimers, but about "two extraordinary people who happened to find each other." Rose carefully asked Dame Judi about the recent loss of her husband, Michael Williams. She talked about going back to work very quickly after his passing in January of 2001, doing three films one right after the other (SHIPPING NEWS - with Kevin Spacey "who made me laugh a lot," IRIS and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST) She said she did it because "grief produces adrenalin and you can 'use' it and so why ever not use it to a good purpose - not to say you grieve less." The interview ended with questions and thoughts on why she works, why she doesn't watch her films, why she has no desire to do any more directing, why she took on M in the Bond films and what is the "petrol" that drives her. The final question was on religion - Dench is a Quaker - and what her religion means to her.

An excellent interview, very insightful about a remarkable actress and person. Many clips from IRIS are used throughout the interview.Charlie Rose with Judi Dench; Maggie Smith (August 28, 2002)[[ASIN:B000GAKSNS Charlie Rose with Judi Dench