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DVD Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition)
No film better utilizes Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay, and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naiveté combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high society bohemian chic. --Sean Axmaker
Review(s): DVD Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition)
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This film lose its innocence when we can see a tool of torture, -used in the cruel bullfightings- in the hand of the old man, on the scene at the stairs. This fact spoils everything.
Audrey Hepburn Shines
I am a huge Audrey Hepburn fan. This movie was definitely not my favorite of hers, Roman Holiday is. She doesn't seem very suited as Holly Golightly, who is a girl about town and seems so glamorous and carefree, even though she struggles with her life. I think that though she appeared to be carefree, she was actually quite depressed. The only thing that can cheer her up from 'the mean reds' is to go to Tiffany's.
Hepburn is just beautiful in this movie and it's a delight to watch her. One thing that really annoyed me was the Asian guy who owns the apartment builing. He was SO annoying and such a bother. Was he meant to be humorous? Because he definitely was not. Anyway, her costumes were just fabulous, since after all they were designed by Givenchy. It's a fun movie, and Audrey Hepburn does shine, even if it is not the most suitable role for her. And obviously there's 'Moon River', one of the most beautiful songs ever.
Audrey Hepburn Shines
I am a huge Audrey Hepburn fan. This movie was definitely not my favorite of hers, Roman Holiday is. She doesn't seem very suited as Holly Golightly, who is a girl about town and seems so glamorous and carefree, even though she struggles with her life. I think that though she appeared to be carefree, she was actually quite depressed. The only thing that can cheer her up from 'the mean reds' is to go to Tiffany's.
Hepburn is just beautiful in this movie and it's a delight to watch her. Her costumes were just fabulous, since after all they were designed by Givenchy. Anyway, it's a fun movie, and Audrey Hepburn does shine, even if it is not the most suitable role for her. And obviously there's 'Moon River', one of the most beautiful songs ever.
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Maybe it doesn't quite live up to its sterling reputation, and maybe the leading man and director were slightly miscast. But who cares? Roman Holiday is the film that brought Audrey Hepburn to prominence, and the world movie audience went weak at the knees. The endlessly charming Hepburn had her first starring role in this sweet romance, playing a European princess on an official tour through Rome. Frustrated by her lack of connection to the real world, she slips away from her protective handlers and goes on a spree, aided by a tough-guy news reporter (Gregory Peck). Director William Wyler, more at home with such heavy-going, Oscar-winning classics as The Best Years of Our Lives and Ben- Hur, doesn't always keep the champagne bubbles afloat, and the Peck role would... More Info about this DVD Director(s): William Wyler DVD Release Date: Released the 26 November 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Stanley Donen DVD Release Date: Released the 10 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audrey Hepburn is the delightful young Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 10 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This minor 1955 work by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the lighter entries of his creative peak in the 1950s, is still imbued with the master's stock themes of shared guilt and romantic ambivalence. It is also hardly lacking in Hitchcockian cinematic inventiveness, such as a famous, often-imitated sequence in which some smooching between stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is intercut with a fireworks show that just happens to be going on outside in a Riviera setting. Grant plays a reformed cat burglar who is suspected of reviving his trade, though he knows someone else is using his old methods. A very enjoyable experience, but don't get this confused with Hitchcock's other Cary Grant film of that decade, which was a masterpiece: North by Northwest.--Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Grace Kelly DVD Release Date: Released the 05 November 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Audrey Hepburn DVD Release Date: Released the 31 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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