Alexander Stuart

Courtesy of The Weinstein Company. Film is so strange. I think Daniel Day-Lewis' performance in Steven Spielberg's  Lincoln is remarkable - the hunched physicality, his voice, his utterly believable mix of idealism and pragmatism. Likewise Tony Kushner's extraordinary script - and Tommy Lee Jones , who is fabulous. Yet Lincoln doesn't excite me, doesn't get my juices flowing, the way that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom or Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master do. Daniel Day-Lewis' remarkable performance as Abraham Lincoln. If you think about a classic (yet still Hollywood style) biopic like Lawrence of Arabia , you have something that is also centered around a remarkable performance - and with a challenging story to tell - and yet you have unforgettable imagery and a sense of your emotions being stirred in a completely different way.  The movie of my childhood - I adored it. The cut early on from Lawrence/ O'Tool