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Much Ado About Nothing – review
17 June 2013 7:05 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Joss Whedon's California-set Much Ado, filmed in black and white over 12 days, is a charming and witty triumph
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There was a great fear in the 1960s and 70s that various respected directors who'd moved into making epics and blockbusters would be unable to return, even occasionally, to more modest productions. Some of them didn't, most notably David Lean. Some of them did, most impressively John Huston with Fat City, Wise Blood and The Dead. The same query was raised over Francis Ford Coppola and, more recently, hangs over Christopher Nolan. But the 49-year-old Joss Whedon has triumphantly answered the question.
After scripting Buffy the Vampire Slayer for TV and the first Toy Story for the cinema, Whedon rose fairly rapidly to direct The Avengers with a budget of $220m. His producers apparently insisted that between the long shooting schedule on »
- Philip French
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Perfect Understanding
15 May 2013 1:37 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 4, 2013
Price: DVD $24.99, Blu-ray $34.99
Studio: Cohen Film Collection/Entertainment One
Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier test out the viability of their marriage vows in Perfect Understanding.
Cinema icons Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) and Laurence Olivier (Richard III) star in the 1933 romantic comedy Perfect Understanding, the only film the pair made together.
Judy (Swanson) and Nicholas (Olivier) are a young society couple who marry based on the “perfect understanding” that they will be allowed to enjoy extramarital adventures and never let jealousy come between them.
That arrangement is soon put to the test when a drunk Nicholas sleeps with a former lover (Nora Swinburne, TV’s The Forsythe Saga). When he returns to Judy, he is guilt-ridden and confesses his indiscretion. Judy forgives him, but Nicholas is soon battling his own feelings of jealousy when he comes to believe that Judy has slept with an old friend of hers (John Halliday, »
- Laurence
'Brief Encounter' beats 'Casablanca' to top romantic film
24 April 2013 4:31 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Brief Encounter has beaten Casablanca to the title of 'Best Romantic Film' in a new list for Time Out London.
The list was compiled with input from 101 industry experts, including actor Richard Gere, directors Judd Apatow and Edgar Wright, and Miss Piggy of The Muppets.
> Read the full top 100 on the 'Time Out' website
Time Out London's film editor Dave Calhoun said: "What makes the Time Out list so exciting and unusual is that it's not just the opinion of three sun-starved film critics sitting in a darkened room and writing a list.
"Instead, we got off our sofas and asked 101 real experts in movies and romance for their personal take on the matter - and our top 100 romantic films reflects their very personal choices."
Topping the list was David Lean's 1946 drama Brief Encounter, written by Noël Coward and starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. »
In the mood for love: is Brief Encounter still the most romantic film ever?
23 April 2013 2:39 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Time Out has put its heart on its sleeve and shouted its Brief Encounter infatuation from the rooftops. Will you join them in their lovebombing of the 68-year-old classic? Or have your tastes in romantic movies moved on?
Sam played it again, now it's our turn to plug in the turntable and petition you once more for your top romance films of all time. The peg? Time Out's 100 Most Romantic Films of all Time poll, which has been announced today, and which names Brief Encounter as the title most likely to get your heart a-flutter.
But by our reckoning, the Time Out folk are cruising for a bruising; when we came to the same conclusion three years ago, the readers felt we'd done them wrong, and suggested Casablanca was Mr Right when it came to romantic movies.
Do you feel the same? Has your taste for gin joints endured over the past three years? »
DVD Review: ‘Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Romance’
16 April 2013 12:26 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – With Mother’s Day around the corner, Warner Bros. has released another one of their stellar DVD box sets built around their 100th anniversary — “Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Romance.” It may not be the best gift set for everyone but it does offer a strong package for those who like a little emotional manipulation with their popcorn. There are some undeniable classics in this set (along with some questionable choices) but it’s the sheer “something for everyone” quality of the release that makes it memorable.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
Seventy years of romance from 1938’s “Jezebel” to 2008’s “Nights in Rodanthe” are included in this set that includes a book with plot descriptions for each of the films and all of the special features from previous releases. That’s essentially what this is — previous releases compiled into one box set. Literally. The DVDs are the same - transfers, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Take Home the Best of Warner Bros 20 Film Collection Romance DVD Set
5 April 2013 7:01 AM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
This week, Warner Bros Home Entertainment released the Best of Warner Bros 20 Film Collection Romance on DVD.
The collection includes Casablanca (1942), one of our favorite movies of all time as well as Jezebel (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Now, Voyager (1942), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Director’s Version (1951), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Touch of Class (1973), A Star Is Born (1976), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Bodyguard (1992), You’ve Got Mail (1998), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Lake House (2006) and Nights in Rodanthe (2008).
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Warner Bros. to Release 20-Film Comedy Box Set for 90th Anniversary, Includes Cary Grant Classics, Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks
12 March 2013 8:54 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Warner Bros. celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2013, and to mark the occasion is releasing five box sets throughout the year, with 20 films each highlighting the best of the studio's output. First up: the Comedy Collection, including such unbeatable classics as Howard Hawks' "Bringing Up Baby," George Cukor's "The Philadelphia Story" and Frank Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace." Alas, it also includes "The Hangover," but nothing's perfect. Full list of titles below. Warner Bros. was founded and formally incorporated on April 4, 1923, by brothers Albert, Harry, Sam and Jack Warner. The collection will be divided into two chapters across 20 discs: "Class Acts" (1935-1980) and "Class Clowns" (1983-2009). The set releases on July 2, 2013.Films included are: 1. A Night at the Opera (1935)2. Stage Door (1937)3. Bringing Up Baby (1938)4. The Philadelphia »
- Beth Hanna
This Is 40 – review
16 February 2013 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Judged on its own terms, Judd Apatow's latest comedy is a frank, funny, often painful study of married life and parenthood
Several comedians over the past 30-odd years have created schools around their work – Woody Allen, for instance, with his relationship comedies in the 70s, and the Farrelly brothers with their envelope-pushing farces of the 90s. But there's been no one quite like Judd Apatow. As indefatigable writer, producer, director and impresario, he's been at the centre of a phenomenal industry that throughout this new century has brought together a good many of the most original comic talents in America for taste-challenging, fashion-setting entertainment, usually crude and vigorous, but often sharp and occasionally subtle.
Following The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007) and Funny People (2009), Apatow's fourth film as writer-director is This Is 40. It's a sort of sequel to Knocked Up, where Seth Rogen played a charming Canadian layabout who »
- Philip French
Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples
14 February 2013 12:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine – romcoms used to be anything but bland
With this year's Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, Hollywood is attempting to get down and dirty with real people and real problems. But Us films are notoriously bad at this. I Give It a Year is a British comedy about falling out of love – not a romcom, more of a romp-incomp. But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love?
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Being abnormal used to be normal. In movies such as The Apartment (1960), it was redemptive. Cc Baxter (Jack Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) are outsiders who've missed the boat, careerwise and hopewise. She's wasting her time on a married man, while Baxter is caught in a sexual vortex established by his superiors, who have clandestine trysts in his apartment while "Buddy Boy" gets »
- Lucy Ellmann
Clip joint: Kisses
13 February 2013 9:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Pucker up: it's Valentine's Day on Thursday and we'd like your nominations for the best onscreen smooches
This week's Clip joint is by Guardian reader Hannah Farr, who you can follow on Twitter here. If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
The kiss; it's captivated cinemagoers since 1896 when Edison captured the first kiss on film. While you might divert your eyes from such a clinch in public, watching an onscreen kiss remains a shameless voyeuristic pleasure. So for Valentine's Day, here's five of the best onscreen kisses.
I could have filled my entire top five with Jimmy Stewart's various lip-locks (The Philadelphia Story, Vertigo, Come Live with Me, Rear Window.) He was said to be nervous about filming this particular kiss, his first since returning to Hollywood after the war. The resulting embrace »
- Guardian readers
The 300 Greatest Films Ever Made (Part 27 out of 30)
27 January 2013 10:39 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our daily countdown continues, with part 27 out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever made. These are numbers 40-31.
40) The Philadelphia Story (1940) George Cuckor USA
39) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick USA
38) Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese USA
37) West Side Story (1961) Robert Wise USA
36) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan USA
35) Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein Russia Silent
34) 2001: A Space Odessey (1968) Stanley Kubrick USA
33) On The Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan USA
32) It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra USA
31) Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock USA
Numbers 30-21 coming next.
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- feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
The 10 Hottest "Best Actor" Oscar Winners
24 January 2013 12:57 PM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Ten men. Ten Oscars. Ten eternal images of hotness that I'm happy to rank.
You'll be either excited or depressed to learn that the idea of a hot Best Actor Oscar winner is mostly a recent invention. There are some Oscar-winning studs from the the '30s and '40s, but you see plenty more GQ-ready gents in the Academy Award-winning roles of the '90s and 2000s. So without further ado, let's take another trip back and time and count down the 10 hottest "Best Actor" winners.
10. Russell Crowe, Gladiator
Perhaps his performance in Les Miserables is preventing me from ranking him higher, but Russell Crowe was the picture of macho angst and valor in Gladiator. Gotta love when an actor finds the perfect forum to vent his infamous angst.
9. Colin Firth, The King's Speech
I'm often too charmed by Colin Firth's character and inteligence to notice the obvious: »
- virtel
Forget Ryan Gosling, We'll Take Cary Grant
17 January 2013 12:57 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
There was never anybody quite like Cary Grant.
And honestly, there never will be. Today's "hottest" actors don't hold a candle to Grant, the screen legend who stood 6'2" and had the kind of face that was both handsome and innocent. His [bearing] could be aristocratic, exaggerated for comedic effect in films like "The Philadelphia Story," as the wry playboy Ck Dexter Haven. (And who else could get away with pushing Katherine Hepburn to the ground?) He could be the wide-eyed innocent, like the professor driven to slight madness in the screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby" or the bumbling writer in "Arsenic and Old Lace." But those same brown eyes could read cold, in thrillers like "Suspicion." (It seems unfair to limit this retrospective to a handful of Grant's many great contributions to film during his 40-year career, but there you go.)
But no matter what the role was, Grant's style was effortless. »
- Brie Dyas
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