As gilded and over-the-top as the Old South itself, the Gone with the Wind 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray release is an impressive tribute to one of the best loved films of all time. The Victor Fleming-directed (at least Fleming gets the credit) classic, based on Margaret Mitchell's book of the same name, looks exceedingly good in high definition, and the bonus items (video and otherwise)...
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#1 YOUKU : Full Movie Directed by Alexander Korda Produced by Alexander Korda Written by Walter Reisch R. C. Sherriff Starring Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh Music by Miklos Rozsa Distributed by London Films (UK) United Artists (US) Release date(s) 1941 Running time 128 min. Language English
Again . The main evidence for Walt's racial insensitivity ... is "Song of the South," his 1946 combination of live action and animation based on the Southern folk tales of Joel Chandler Harris, known as Uncle Remus, which, though set in the Reconstruction era, makes the black former slaves seem dependent upon and excessively grateful to their former owners. From any modern racial perspective,...
Later in Vivien Leigh’s life, her good friend Noel Coward made a comment about how he didn’t understand why she kept taking film roles. she was still beautiful and undoubtedly talented as a screen actress.
British actress and star of "Lovely Bones" graces the December 2009 cover of Redbook magazine. Below is a glimpse of the interview in the magazine. On whether she’ll ever marry her fiance, director Darren Aronofsky: "We are engaged, and Darren and I are completely committed to “until death do us part,” although we haven’t made it [...]
THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND is a new drama based on a recently rediscovered original screenplay by legendary writer Tennessee Williams. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Evans, the Paladin release will open in New York and Los Angeles in late December, with expansion to major markets following in early 2010. Academy Award-winner [...]
It's a timeless classic, a moving and emotional story about the Old South transformed during the Civil War. 1939's Gone with the Wind still holds the record (when adjusted for inflation) of being the biggest box office hit of all time, and with good reason. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Margaret Mitchell, David O. Selznick's adaptation of Gone with the Wind is well known by now, focusing...
Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett OHara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie because he believes that their quiet similarities...
How can you review a film like GONE WITH THE WIND ? What can I possibly say about the film that hasn't already been said? Originally released seventy years ago, today, it remains one of the most talked about, most loved films of all time. It is routinely mentioned along side of CITIZEN KANE , CASABLANCA and THE WIZARD OF OZ as one of the greatest films in film history. So, is there anyone out there...
Highly intellectual and esoteric shows like Architecting run the risk of betraying the real purpose of theatre – the effective communication of ideas Right, embarrassing confession time. To my shame, before Friday night I hadn't realised that Gone With the Wind was a novel. In fact, not having seen the film, the sum total of my knowledge consisted of Vivien Leigh and "Frankly, my dear,...
Few historical figures have been portrayed by such glamorous Hollywood starlets as Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert, and Sophia Loren, but then again few historical figures are quite as captivating as the legendary beauty Cleopatra. In this cinema retrospective focusing on the filmmakers and actresses who helped bring Cleopatra's legend to life on the silver screen time...
She regarded Gable as lazy, not too bright, and an unresponsive performer (though she was always laudatory about his kindness and good manners to her). She could not understand how he could leave the set promptly each day at six p.m. as though he held an office job. She seldom left the studio until eight or nine at night and worked six, often seven days a week. "What are you fucking about for?"...
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