Friday, October 28 2011
Audrey Hepburn in sparkling HD: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s: 50th Anniversary Edition’
A beautiful archetype of tragic misunderstanding, Holly moves us and touches us, not because of her troubled personal history but because of the honesty with which the dreamlike Audrey Hepburn plays her.
Friday, November 19 2010
Politicking with ‘Made in Dagenham’‘s Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson discusses this season's premiere feminism-themed film about the real-life strike at the UK Ford plant that challenged and changed British laws on equal pay. Just how far have we come since 1968 in the fight for gender equality in the workplace?
Tuesday, April 28 2009
‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’: Check, Please
I hate it when a film takes a brilliant literary work and turns it into what it thinks the literary work should be.
Thursday, March 26 2009
Funny Face
Heterosexual coupling wins the day, but the relationship that really counts in this film is between the two people who aren’t in love with each other, but rather with fashion.
Friday, January 30 2009
Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday & Sabrina
Three of the greatest films you’ll ever see have been sumptuously repackaged, here. This is cause for joy. Celebration, even.
Tuesday, January 27 2009
Breakfast At Tiffany’s: Paramount Centennial Collection
In many respects, this is a love letter to a tony, cosmopolitan New York which perhaps never existed, a Big Apple devoid of muggings, racial strife, or transit strikes.
Monday, December 17 2007
Funny Face
For all its stylistic achievements, Funny Face ultimately is a story about finding a balance between brains and beauty, and eventually rejects both and settles for love.
Tuesday, February 21 2006
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Anniversary Edition) (1961)
I suppose we should just count ourselves fortunate Capote didn't write any Indian characters into Breakfast at Tiffany's, otherwise Blake Edwards might have asked Peter Sellers to break out the boot polish.
Monday, January 3 2005
How to Steal a Million (1966)
When Simon enters the picture, it doesn't take much (a few batted eyelashes and Audrey Hepburn in a nightie) for him to overlook her father's crimes.
