Showing posts with label Audrey Hepburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audrey Hepburn. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, October 28, 2011
The Sparkling Diamond.
You all know how much I love Breakfast at Tiffany's but believe it or not i'd never written a full review for it! Now go check out my review for Paramount's 50th Anniversary Edition over at PopMatters.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Start Spreading the News...
As of today the blog will enter a short hiatus (it's not as if I've written much lately anyway...) as I will be in my favorite city on Earth, pretending I'm Holly Golightly.
If all goes well I might take in a few movies (Jane Eyre, The Arbor, Meek's Cutoff, Scream 4 and The Beaver I'm looking at you...) and review them.
If not, it's probably because I imploded from the fabulousness exuded by the amazing Kylie Minogue in her concert (main reason of my trip!).
Either way I might break this promise and blog anyway. NYC always inspires me...
What will you all be doing during my absence?
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
The Most Beautiful Screen Couples.
I was thinking the other day how much beauty is demanded from current celebrities yet few are able to deliver it in a sense of wholeness (you know being actually beautiful as opposed to engineered to fit societal standards).
What we mostly get now is an army of fembots and pumped Adonises who all sorta look the same and fail to take our breath away in the manner that a look at Audrey Hepburn's waifish facial features did or in the manner with which William Holden's non-six pack made our jaw drop to the floor.
It's true that standards have certainly been altered throughout the years but when it comes to beauty I'm the kind of man who is faithful to the classics.
Therefore when people exclaim how Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the most beautiful couple in recent movies all I see is a good looking man and a voluptuously vulgar woman trying to trick us
into believing they're worthy of being paired with these people:
10. Ali McGraw & Ryan O'Neal in Love Story.
Say what you will about the movie's quality (I think it's terribly corny and just plain dull) but Ryan and Ali are a match made in heaven.
I once heard someone say that the film's tragic finale was karma for the couple's beauty. Sometimes you can't have it all, can you?
9. Gwyneth Paltrow & Ethan Hawke in Great Expectations.
Compiling this list and trying to concentrate mostly on legendary movie stars I really couldn't get these two out of my head.
Paltrow for one, has all the cruel beauty Jean Simmons had in David Lean's version, but her counterpart in that one didn't have the boyish good looks and effortless handsomeness of Hawke who in this movie can't help but surrender under Gwyn's spell.
Can you blame him?
8. Grace Kelly & Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief.
Hitch really knew how to pair them up and by putting together a decadently handsome Grant with soon to be princess Kelly, he created one of those rare couples that are as beautiful as they are electric.
Watch them together in any scene of this movie and you will see the sexual tension trespass into orgasmic realms.
It's not for nothing that legend has it that Grace had one last plebeian fling and surrendered to Cary's charms before leaving for Monaco.
7. Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.
Beauty isn't a crime.
6. Robert Redord & Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Poor Katharine Ross really stood no chance when she was paired with two of the most beautiful men that ever lived.
In this exciting revisionist Western, Paul and Bob play the legendary outlaws with a knack for stealing, riding bikes and jumping off cliffs.
Watch how they compliment each other in ways beyond mere sidekick-ism. The kind of chemistry they achieve is magical.
5. Ingrid Bergman & Cary Grant in Notorious.
Hitch does it again, in this sexy, dark spy thriller he pairs Bergman's warm beauty with Grant's caddish good looks. What results isn't a breathtaking match but also one of the most ingenious screen pairings of all time.
Watching these two make either love or war is surrendering to forces beyond our control.
4. Natalie Wood & James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.
Natalie and James fire up the screen with all their angst, helplessness and hormones. The coming of age classic is legendary for the way in which adolescents became lead characters up and front but it's also memorable for creating two sexual icons who proved even pretty people have problems (inventing the whole WB and CW concepts fifty years before they did).
Oh and just because the piece is about couples and not groups, we must exclude Sal Mineo from this entry.
3. Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun.
Poor Shelley Winters and all but you have to confess you too wanted Monty and Liz to end up together in this one...
2. Audrey Hepbrun & William Holden in Sabrina.
We all know who Sabrina chooses but can you really blame the ingenue for wanting William Holden so badly?
1. Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass.
The first time I watched this movie I had no doubt anyone would lose their mind over being dumped by Warren Beatty but not only is this movie heartbreaking for the way in which Wood surrenders to playing poor Deanie Loomis (who knew she had that depth?) but also because it provided audiences everywhere with a first look at how cruel the 60's would become in cinematic terms.
If not even Warren and Natalie could have a happy ending what was there for the rest of the world in such a chaotic decade?
So what do you think? Any other screen couple that makes you drool and feel all fuzzy and lustful?
What we mostly get now is an army of fembots and pumped Adonises who all sorta look the same and fail to take our breath away in the manner that a look at Audrey Hepburn's waifish facial features did or in the manner with which William Holden's non-six pack made our jaw drop to the floor.
It's true that standards have certainly been altered throughout the years but when it comes to beauty I'm the kind of man who is faithful to the classics.
Therefore when people exclaim how Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the most beautiful couple in recent movies all I see is a good looking man and a voluptuously vulgar woman trying to trick us
into believing they're worthy of being paired with these people:
10. Ali McGraw & Ryan O'Neal in Love Story.
Say what you will about the movie's quality (I think it's terribly corny and just plain dull) but Ryan and Ali are a match made in heaven.
I once heard someone say that the film's tragic finale was karma for the couple's beauty. Sometimes you can't have it all, can you?
9. Gwyneth Paltrow & Ethan Hawke in Great Expectations.
Compiling this list and trying to concentrate mostly on legendary movie stars I really couldn't get these two out of my head.
Paltrow for one, has all the cruel beauty Jean Simmons had in David Lean's version, but her counterpart in that one didn't have the boyish good looks and effortless handsomeness of Hawke who in this movie can't help but surrender under Gwyn's spell.
Can you blame him?
8. Grace Kelly & Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief.
Hitch really knew how to pair them up and by putting together a decadently handsome Grant with soon to be princess Kelly, he created one of those rare couples that are as beautiful as they are electric.
Watch them together in any scene of this movie and you will see the sexual tension trespass into orgasmic realms.
It's not for nothing that legend has it that Grace had one last plebeian fling and surrendered to Cary's charms before leaving for Monaco.
7. Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde.
Beauty isn't a crime.
6. Robert Redord & Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Poor Katharine Ross really stood no chance when she was paired with two of the most beautiful men that ever lived.
In this exciting revisionist Western, Paul and Bob play the legendary outlaws with a knack for stealing, riding bikes and jumping off cliffs.
Watch how they compliment each other in ways beyond mere sidekick-ism. The kind of chemistry they achieve is magical.
5. Ingrid Bergman & Cary Grant in Notorious.
Hitch does it again, in this sexy, dark spy thriller he pairs Bergman's warm beauty with Grant's caddish good looks. What results isn't a breathtaking match but also one of the most ingenious screen pairings of all time.
Watching these two make either love or war is surrendering to forces beyond our control.
4. Natalie Wood & James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.
Natalie and James fire up the screen with all their angst, helplessness and hormones. The coming of age classic is legendary for the way in which adolescents became lead characters up and front but it's also memorable for creating two sexual icons who proved even pretty people have problems (inventing the whole WB and CW concepts fifty years before they did).
Oh and just because the piece is about couples and not groups, we must exclude Sal Mineo from this entry.
3. Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun.
Poor Shelley Winters and all but you have to confess you too wanted Monty and Liz to end up together in this one...
2. Audrey Hepbrun & William Holden in Sabrina.
We all know who Sabrina chooses but can you really blame the ingenue for wanting William Holden so badly?
1. Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass.
The first time I watched this movie I had no doubt anyone would lose their mind over being dumped by Warren Beatty but not only is this movie heartbreaking for the way in which Wood surrenders to playing poor Deanie Loomis (who knew she had that depth?) but also because it provided audiences everywhere with a first look at how cruel the 60's would become in cinematic terms.
If not even Warren and Natalie could have a happy ending what was there for the rest of the world in such a chaotic decade?
So what do you think? Any other screen couple that makes you drool and feel all fuzzy and lustful?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Saturday, October 3, 2009
An Audrey Hepburn.
Currently receiving heaps of awards buzz for her performance in "An Education", British actress Carey Mulligan must have a really good PR team and stylist.
Wearing a discrete, flowered pattern, strapless dress for the Los Angeles premiere of her movie to go with her stunningly elegant short haircut she immediately recalls someone else...
...and see what short hair, flowers and shoulder got for Audrey!
Whoever told Carey to go naivete and ingenue by following the legendary fashion icon might just have struck gold!
Monday, July 20, 2009
While Watching "The Girlfriend Experience"...
I realized that the Audrey Hepburn look from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is perhaps the most overused styling done for female actresses of all time.
Hair up in a bun, clean cut black dress and shades are the epitome of classy simplicity.
Of course Sasha Grey plays an escort in this movie and Holly Golightly was one as well, even if the movie de-sexuallizes her too much.
But beyond this too specific homage from Steven Soderbergh, and his costume designer, the look has also been used recently in films like "Sex and the City".
Where else have you seen it?
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