Why do we keep popping back to Brideshead?
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
A new film version of Brideshead Revisited is about to have its premiere, but why are we so taken with a story about a troubled aristocratic family?
Graham Greene
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TransAmerica
Hindu (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
In this film, Academy Award Winner Felicity Huffman, from the television series “Desperate Housewives”, gives a powerful performance. The film also stars Kevin Zegers and Graham Greene. Written and directed by Duncan Tucker, ...
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Echo columnists: 1. Which Evelyn Waugh novel is a new film?
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
2. What type of antique furniture is a cheval?
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DVD review: The Quiet American
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
A subtle, complex movie where Michael Redgrave is outstanding as Fowler, the cynical journalist
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At Venice film festival, a truly global line-up
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The premiere of the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" is set Wednesday to inaugurate the festival, which continues until Sept. 6. Only five English-language films will be competing for awards.
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Critical Hyperbole: The Worst Movie Reviews of All Time
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Biodun Iginla, BBC News Sometimes you read a glowing review of a mediocre film from an unknown critic and realize that it is complete and utter bullshit. Is it total stupidity that motivates these “reviewers” to be so off target? Conversely, many “esteemed” critics attempt to skewer a film that eventually becomes an established classic. And [...]
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LITERATURE - The Quiet American
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
What a fortunate coincidence - just channel surfing, I discovered one of my favourite films is about to start on BBC1, namely "The Quiet American" (2002), starring Michael Caine, Do Thi Hai Yen and Brendan Fraser, based on The Quiet American , the novel of the same name by Graham Greene, also a firm favourite. I have the novel on my shelf, one of the few books not packed away, in my current preparation...
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The Declaration of Independence
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Introduced by Morgan Freeman, here is The Declaration of Independence as read by famous actors and actresses: Kathy Bates, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Graham Greene, Ming-Na, Edward Norton, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey, and Renée Zellweger.
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Attenborough against film violence
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The entertainment industry is partly responsible for making weapons such as knives almost an acceptable part of life, Richard Attenborough said.
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Attenborough against film violence
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The entertainment industry is partly responsible for making weapons such as knives almost an acceptable part of life, Richard Attenborough said.
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Richard Attenborough blames film violence for knife crime
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Lord Attenborough has blamed violence in films for rising levels of knife crime.
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The Author Disappears
Contemporary Nomad (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The BBC showed a documentary last night about the Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami. It wasn’t a great film and didn’t do much to convey why Murakami’s writing is so popular around the world. But it did tell me something I didn’t know about Murakami and that’s how reclusive he is. Perhaps reclusive [...]
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Mel Ferrer, Hollywood actor: The Times obituary
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Mel Ferrer was best known internationally as a gangling, gauntly handsome, if somewhat inexpressive leading man of Hollywood films, and for his marriage in the 1960s to Audrey Hepburn. But he had a multi-faceted career which took in writing, publishing, radio, and the Broadway stage, and he produced and directed films as well as acting in them.
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Indiana Jones a box office hit
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
The most recent Indiana Jones film has more than recouped its big budget with an estimated $311 million (all figures U.S.) in global box office sales already, according to studio estimates. Paramount Pictures estimated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made $151.1 million in Canada and the United States from Thursday through yesterday and $160 million overseas.
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The Reading "Bucket List"
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Due to the popularity of the movie Bucket List about two terminally ill men who leave a cancer ward to take a road trip with a list of things they want to do before they die, people have been giving...
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