Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The comedy styling that made the writer-producer-director a popular filmmaker of his time uninhibitedly envelops this crazy parody of patriotic Hollywood war movies.
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Democrats are starting to remind me of a cartoon character, brought to life by the late Jack Lemmon in the Blake Edwards’ comedy, The Great Race. Lemmon plays the archetype villain, Professor Fate, complete with black cape, stove top hat, and curling black mustache. He’s the kind of character who would utter, “Curses, foiled again.” Full Article ...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Film News: Ashok Amritraj looks to expand film unit -- Ashok Amritraj has put Hyde Park Entertainment Group on a global expansion kick.
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Our favorite film blogger and southern belle of belle lettres, the Siren, has posted her contribution to Goatdog's Movies About Movies Blogathon. The Siren's written about The Bad and the Beautiful starring Kirk Douglas as a manipulative monster of a movie studio exec and Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Gilbert Roland and others as doomed and self-destructive victims of Douglas' ego, all of whom may remind...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
A brand new subway sure seems like it should be the last priority for a city suffering from rampant poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and few educational opportunities. But enough about New York in 1904 -- Santo Domingo will be the...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Because it was a box office bomb, presumably because critics hated the film's stereotypes, Blake Edwards' farce about World War II is one of those pieces that have been all but forgotten in the shadow of his "Breakfast at Tiffany's"...
Latest Movie Updates (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Added a preview page for the film.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Paging Sacha Baron Cohen! A new film company started by Hollywood vet Marco Garibaldi is remaking one of Peter Sellers' greatest comedies, the Blake Edwards "cult classic" The Party, about an Indian extra who torments the filmmakers not only on...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Since I recently watched “10” yet again, I thought it might be an ideal time to revisit the other Blake Edwards-Dudley Moore collaboration, MICKI + MAUDE. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it and when the films of Blake Edwards are discussed it seems to have fallen through the cracks for everyone else as well, never getting much mention on either the usual lists of the best or worst films by the...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Erstwhile Power Rangers director Marco Garibaldi has launched a new production company, Godfather Entertainment, and will spearhead a remake of Peter Sellers' The Party.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Michael Dwyer on film
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
It amazes me how unappreciated Switch (1991) is. And I'm not a Blake Edwards fan -- too many of his movies feel like a collage of funny moments, thrown haphazardly on the screen. But this one is special, and avoids that gimmick. The gags are relevant to understanding what's happening, and give us insight into the characters. Briefly, there's this guy who is an adorable bastard. He dates several women...
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Hyde Park Entertainment Group has secured rights from Blake Edwards to remake his 1979 comedy "10." Original pic starred Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews and a famously cornrowed Bo Derek..
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
It doesn’t all work. There’s a subplot with a blind neighbor that they continually try to make vague callbacks to, and it never works. Not once. And the Andrea Savage therapist character never quite gels, either. But for the most part, I laughed in every scene. If you, like me, thought the dinner table scene in TALLADEGA NIGHTS was one of the film’s highlights, then I have a feeling you’ll dig 99%...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The American Cinematheque has been running a Blake Edwards series at the Aero in Santa Monica which is very nice and all, but I haven’t gone to any of them mostly because I’ve already seen what they’re showing in theaters too many times already. Sadly, his 1979 classic “10” is not among the selections which is too bad since, for all the times I’ve watched it on DVD, I’ve never seen a 35mm print of...
