Tag: Roman Holiday
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Roman Holiday at 70: Audrey Hepburn’s star-making role remains luminous
The 1953 romantic comedy may lack heft but the Oscar-winner’s charming lead turn makes it an escape worth taking againWhen Roman Holiday was released, 70 summers ago, the monarchy was having a fashionable moment. Two months before, the world had watched the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a relatively young, glamorous face for a fusty…
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Did Alfred Hitchcock Direct This Aubrey Hepburn Classic?
One of cinema’s most beloved stars, Audrey Hepburn, is best remembered for her romantic roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Roman Holiday, but the screen icon also collaborated with the legendary filmmaker behind Singin’ in the Rain, Stanley Donen, on three separate occasions. Donen first worked with Hepburn in 1957’s Funny Face, a musical that…
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At Midnight Review: A Charming But Familiar Rom-Com Runs Out Of Time
During the mythical Golden Age of Hollywood, the romantic-comedy genre could be relied upon as a consistently entertaining, star-studded, and profitable performer at the box office, year in and year out. We’ve fallen quite a long way in the years since despite some recent breakthrough hits like “Crazy Rich Asians” or last year’s double-whammy of…
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‘At Midnight’ Review: Diego Boneta and Monica Barbaro Shine Bright in a Run-of-the-Mill Rom-Com
Writer-director Jonah Feingold’s “At Midnight” sadly isn’t so much concerned with reinvention as it is with following a formula set by its cinematic forbearers. This spin on “Notting Hill” and “Roman Holiday” (the latter is channeled and referenced throughout) shows a silver screen superstar and a hotel employee falling in love and giving their lives…
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Steven Spielberg, Javier Bardem and Steve Zaillian Team for New Amazon Series
A long-dormant script from Spartacus and Roman Holiday screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has found new life at Amazon with the help of Steven Spielberg and Javier Bardem. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming studio has given a straight-to-series order to Cortes, a new four-hour miniseries based on the life of conquistador Hernan Cortes and how his…