The originalThe Man Who Knew Too Muchwas released in 1934, a little more than halfway into Hitchcock's initial phase of directing films in his native England and just five years after Hitch had entered the sound era withBlackmail, the first all-talkie British film. Since Universal, Warner, ...
HILARY. It is almost too much to expect of one man, Perivale. PERIVALE. Even if he is the King? HILARY. The more so if he be the King. And here we have our theme, ladies and gentleman: the gap between perception and reality, what people desire to be true and what is actually ...
A few years ago he optioned a biography of Soho mogul Paul Raymond, which became The Look of Love –whose clear message was that we mustn't mistake free love for moral laxity, nor measure a man's nobility in threesomes alone. Even Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa was a cautionary tale about...
Kemble seems to have shared the opinion of many literate people of her time when it came to the man who was, for much of the 19th Century, France’s most popular novelist. Many were those who enjoyed his books. Fewer were those who would praise it. “The French writer whose works are...
When Hollywood has a good day, then it's a really good day. One of the best things that can happen to the casting team, is finding a stuntman that looks pretty much the same as the star. The Jurassic Park foundation did not clone Chri...
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine begins with a segment focusing on the intense hoopla surrounding Jobs' death, questioning the outpouring love from everyone around the world for the man they barely knew. The film then briefly skims through Apple's history & its late CEO's life before ...
I agree with the poster who described it as 'infantile'. The bisyllabic sound of it lacks any sophistication and it's also phonetically too close to 'enema' as another poster commented. It was also as common as dirt when I was growing up, and the sort of girls who shared it were ...
302). He wrote: “This very young Spanish painter is a lively, inquisitive man, an acute observer of street scenes and the human adventure … covering his canvases in haste, angry at not being able to move his brushes faster … Here are his whores … at the café, in the theatre, ...
Mitterrand understands that the man is too weak to survive the Americans’s usual regime for reviving inmates. The whole passage of Antelme’s discovery, rescue, and return to Paris in the back of Mitterrand’s car takes perhaps five pages, but they’re among the most suspenseful and ...
"We did a lot of drinking and a lot of partying. It was burning the candle at both ends — staying up all night and having to shoot all day. It was the ‘80s, man. It was a different time." WEISSER: "We drank way too much, we went on sled rides, we did all kinds of ...