Author Archives: Jules
Trailer Flashback: ‘The African Queen’
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Latest Screenings (UK)
Mar 13 @ 12:00 – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Regent Street Cinema, London) / X
Mar 13 @ 15:30 – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Regent Street Cinema, London) / X
Mar 24 @ 12:00 – The Philadelphia Story (Regent Street Cinema, London) / x
Apr 17 @ 12:00 – The African Queen (Fact, Liverpool) / x
Apr 29 : 11:00 – The African Queen (The Cameo, Edinburgh, 38 Home Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9LZ) / x
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Look Back at Katharine Hepburn as Chanel in Coco on Broadway
André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner’s musical about designer Coco Chanel opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre December 18, 1969. Read More here
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Tiff, Toronto – Fearless: The Films of Katharine Hepburn
This select retrospective honours the legacy of an icon who ceaselessly challenged Hollywood’s prescriptive gender roles and helped define the mid-century idea of the “modern woman.” Read More here
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Faye Dunaway Announces Return To Broadway As Katharine Hepburn
Faye Dunaway is coming back to Broadway. And she’ll be playing Katharine Hepburn. In a brief and surprise announcement, producer Ben Feldman dropped the news that Dunaway, after an absence of more than 35 years from the Broadway stage, will play Hepburn in the Broadway premiere next summer of playwright Matthew Lombardo’s one-woman-play Tea at Five. The play, in a new version by Lombardo written for this production, will be directed by the Tony-nominated John Tillinger. Read More here
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Gallery Updated
Added screencaps from the following to the Gallery.
* Adam’s Rib
* Bringing Up Baby
* Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
* Holiday
* Keeper of the Flame
* Pat & Mike
* Rooster Cogburn
* State of the Union
* Sylvia Scarlett
* Woman of the Year
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Trailer Flashback: ‘Bringing Up Baby’
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The Philadelphia Story: Katharine Hepburn’s Hollywood Comeback Story
When talking about Star Power in the context of cinema, no light burned brighter than Katharine Hepburn. Her star simply shined the brightest in a galaxy full of them. A prime example of this can be illustrated by the 1940 romantic screwball comedy “The Philadelphia Story”. Even when flanked by two of the most popular movie stars of all time, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, it is Hepburn who leaves the lasting impression on the audience. What many people do not know however is that “The Philadelphia Story”, in addition to being considered a classic piece of American cinema, represented the last, best chance for Katharine Hepburn to make her Hollywood comeback. A 1940 review from Variety magazine sums up Hepburn’s immense contribution to the film quite succulently as it states, “For Miss Hepburn this is something of a screen comeback. Whether it means she has reestablished herself in pictures is something that can’t be said from this viewing for she doesn’t play in “The Philadelphia Story”; she is “The Philadelphia Story” (Golden). Read More here
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Montgomery Clift movies: 12 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘A Place in the Sun,’ ‘From Here to Eternity’
Montgomery Clift would’ve celebrated his 98th birthday on October 17, 2018. The iconic actor gave only a small number of onscreen performances before his untimely death in 1966 at the age of 45. Yet several of those titles remain classics. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
10. SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
“Suddenly, Last Summer” is the kind of lurid blending of homosexuality and cannibalism that only Tennessee Williams could conceive. Clift plays a psychiatrist summoned by the wealthy Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn) to lobotomize her niece (Elizabeth Taylor), who harbors a terrible secret about the death of her cousin, Sebastian. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz films this disturbing material as explicitly as the censors would allow,.
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