first things first @ PCAD (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Man In The White Suit is a satirical Ealing comedy made in 1951 and features Alec Guiness. I thought of this film because it is about a man Sidney Stratton who invents a fabric that is such a brilliant white that it propels dirt and cannot any absorb dye. The suit seems to be indestructible and has a slight luminous glow to it because it contains radioactive elements. Stratton is...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... Bridges Lebowskiing his way through Reagan-era Fort Bragg? George Clooney channeling dialogue from Alec Guiness and the Punisher? Any film that has an Apocalypse Now parody in the first five minutes ("for my sins"), a deadpan delivery of "Ah, the silence of the goats" and has enough meta-awareness to have "I can sense the Jedi in you" spoken *at Ewan...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... one congressman thinks so. The main article linked to below quotes a Democrat who compares her to Alec Guiness's sun-addled colonel in the classic film Bridge Over the River Kwai. But the World War II film that comes to my mind is A Bridge Too Far. A story in the LA Times surveys the effect of the election on the chances of the health-care bill and comes to a similar conclusion: that...
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can be wonderful. To hear the writing voice of someone you know for something else, acting or politics, and to see what it is they choose to show of themselves can be very revealing. Alec Guiness has written a couple of wonderful volumes about himself,...
JCooney.NET (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... around 12:00. V is the inspirational film that keeps me going until xmas, when the Albert Finney/Alec Guiness version of “A Christmas Carrol“ (especially the first half) re-fills the well of good feelings for another year.
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... a pale version of the old man--story-wise. Plus Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan is more interesting than Alec Guiness's, and Yoda is just so much richer a character in the first trio than in the second. I just found myself really let down by the second trio when viewed after the first. I think it's because, when Lucas did the first trio, he had all the resources and time to do it his way....
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
CommentsCarpe at 2:18 PM ON 11/02/09I think Harrison Ford's reading with Mark Hamill sounds very similar in this audition video:Ninevah at 2:18 PM ON 11/02/09I think that's more a testament to Lucas's awful writing than his bad acting, actually. There's a reason the lines he's reading aren't the actual ones in the movie. No wonder Sir Alec Guiness always hated "those dreadful lines."maddbookish...
Towns into Cities (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... the politics aside, the film is a great showcase of talent, Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guiness as Charles I. Great old school performances, both on opposite sides of the spectrum, Guiness is reserved and thoughtful, Harris is rough and histrionic. I've been thinking about buying the film to re-watch, for the voice, but lack of funds has put me off.
