Production Company(ies)
Warner Bros., Chenault Productions,
 
Distributor
Warner Bros., Warner Home Vídeo
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1966
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Mike Nichols, Edward Albee, Ernest Lehman, Drama, Warner Bros., Warner Home Vídeo, Mono, 1966, 2h 9m, 95% Tomatometer, 91% Audience Score, Critics Consensus, reviewed by Kate Cameron, Andrew Sarris, James Powers, David Parkinson, Dave Kehr, Geoff Andrew, David Reddish, MPAA rating, scathing adaptation, volcanic performance, marital angst, verbal tirades, dysfunctional marriage, alcoholism, mind games, explosive performances, Academy Award, off-screen romance, expertly written, iconic status, quartet of finest performances, vitriolic honesty, legends
 

Cast & Crew

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

George Segal

Sandy Dennis

Agnes Flanagan

Martha

George

Nick

Honey

Roadhouse Waitress

Elizabeth Taylor – Martha
Richard Burton – George
George Segal – Nick
Sandy Dennis – Honey
Agnes Flanagan – Roadhouse Waitress
Frank Flanagan – Roadhouse Manager

 

Mike Nichols

Edward Albee

Ernest Lehman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Mike Nichols
 
Writer(s)
Edward Albee, Ernest Lehman
 
Producer(s)
Ernest Lehman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 5 Oscars
22 wins & 28 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Kate Cameron

Andrew Sarris

James Powers

David Parkinson

Dave Kehr

New York Daily News

Village Voice

Hollywood Reporter

Empire Magazine

Chicago Reader

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
  All Critics (44) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (2)
  [Taylor] is nothing less than brilliant as the shrewish, slovenly. blasphemous, frustrated, slightly wacky, alcoholic wife of a meek, unambitious assistant professor of history at a university, over which her father reigns as president.
 
  March 10, 2015
 
  Kate Cameron
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Nichols has actually committed all the classic errors of the sophisticated stage director let loose on the unsophisticated movies. For starters, he has underestimated the power of the spoken word in his search for visual pyrotechnics.
 
  March 10, 2015
 
  Andrew Sarris
  Village Voice
  TOP CRITIC
  The greatest credit for the implacable engagement that the film creates for its audience must go to the director, Mike Nichols. Nichols makes a stunning film bow with Virginia Woolf.
 
  November 20, 2014
 
  James Powers
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  A time capsule now of all that was considered controversial and gutsy in 1966.
 
  February 26, 2010 | Rating: 4/5
 
  David Parkinson
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  When Nichols finally settles down, it’s almost too late.
 
  June 28, 2007
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Edward Albee’s vitriolic stage portrayal of domestic blisslessness translated grainily and effectively to the screen.
 
  February 11, 2006
 
  Geoff Andrew
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? presents marital dysfunction at its most cruel, and alcoholism at its most explosive. Albees dialogue guts as deep and hard as any barb in the history of the moviesor just about anywhere else.
 
  March 20, 2022 | Rating: 3/4
 
  David Reddish
  Queerty
  A rambunctious, wholly singular four-person show.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? is easily the most sensational film of the year.
 
  June 27, 2019
 
  Wendy Michener
  Maclean’s Magazine
  One of the defining American films of the 1960s.
 
  December 28, 2018 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Nathanael Hood
  The Retro Set
  ’60s drama about dysfunctional marriage has drinking, sex.
 
  November 1, 2016 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Barbara Shulgasser
  Common Sense Media
  I could watch Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton do this for hours.
 
  September 19, 2016 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Josh Larsen
  LarsenOnFilm…

 

Plot
George (Richard Burton) and Martha (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) are a middle-aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. George being an associate history professor in a New Carthage university where Martha’s father is the President adds an extra dimension to their relationship. Late one Saturday evening after a faculty mixer, Martha invites Nick (George Segal) and Honey (Sandy Dennis), an ambitious young biology professor new to the university and his mousy wife, over for a nightcap. As the evening progresses, Nick and Honey, plied with more alcohol, get caught up in George and Martha’s games of needing to hurt each other and everyone around them. The ultimate abuse comes in the form of talk of George and Martha’s unseen sixteen-year-old son, whose birthday is the following day.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Elizabeth Taylor’s performance as Martha is described as “nothing less than brilliant” by critic Kate Cameron.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
20th Century Studios
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1966
 

 
Genre(s)
Sci-fi
 
Keyword(s)
starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O’Connell, William Redfield, directed by Richard Fleischer, written by Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner, produced by Saul David, sci-fi, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Peter John Dyer, Variety Staff, Dave Kehr, Bosley Crowther, Steven D Greydanus, Eddie Harrison, Sean Axmaker, Mike Massie, David Hogan, Matt Brunson, Paul Chambers, James Plath, PG rating, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Mono sound mix, shrinking humans, communist Russia, CIA, blood clot, nuclear submarine, miniaturization, special effects, imaginative journey, inner space, scuba diving surgeons, white blood cells, lungs, heart, brain, Proteus, laser gun, espionage, warfare, traitor, anti-bodies, tight costume, slow build up, suspense, original, out of date, realistic, creepy, interesting, boring, escapist fantasy, obstacles, audience reviews, critic reviews, Fresh Kernels
 

Cast & Crew

Stephen Boyd

Raquel Welch

Edmond O’Brien

Donald Pleasence

Arthur O’Connell

Grant

Cora Peterson

General Carter

Dr. Michaels

Colonel Donald Reid

Stephen Boyd – Grant
Raquel Welch – Cora Peterson
Edmond O’Brien – General Carter
Donald Pleasence – Dr. Michaels
Arthur O’Connell – Colonel Donald Reid
William Redfield – Captain Bill Owens
Director – Richard Fleischer
Producer – Saul David
Writers – Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner

 

Richard Fleischer

Jerome Bixby

Saul David

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Richard Fleischer
 
Writer(s)
Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner
 
Producer(s)
Saul David

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Peter John Dyer

Variety Staff

Dave Kehr

Bosley Crowther

Steven D. Greydanus

Sight & Sound

Variety

Chicago Reader

New York Times

Decent Films

FANTASTIC VOYAGE
 All Critics (35) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (3)
 Technically, the film is only too obviously under all kinds of strain, as if trying to live up to a budget which it never wanted in the first place.
 
 April 2, 2020
 
 Peter John Dyer
 Sight & Sound
 TOP CRITIC
 The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space — the body of a man.
 
 June 4, 2007
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it’s the screwball poetry of the plot.
 
 June 4, 2007
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 All I can tell you is it is quite a trip.
 
 May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Bosley Crowther
 New York Times
 TOP CRITIC
 A landmark of 1960s sci-fi… remains compelling entertainment despite dated special effects, deliberate pacing, and indifferent dialogue and acting, thanks in part to the genuine wonder it brings to its premise.
 
 September 12, 2003 | Rating: B+
 
 Steven D. Greydanus
 Decent Films
 TOP CRITIC
 …even if the process work is poor by today’s standards, this voyage still seems fantastic today…
 
 March 9, 2023 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Eddie Harrison
 film-authority.com
 The science is shaky at best but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers.
 
 March 4, 2023
 
 Sean Axmaker
 Stream on Demand
 A nonstop adventure of sizable proportions.
 
 August 24, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Ignoring the painfully slow first third, the rest of the film is an enjoyable, basic sci-fi adventure. It won’t wow you, but it will entertain you.
 
 February 7, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 David Hogan
 hoganreviews.co.uk
 With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period’s most imaginative efforts.
 
 October 31, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Creative Loafing
 “Fantastic Voyage” is a fun adventure with some incredible sets representing the inside of the human body. What it lacks in reality is made up by beauty and skill.
 
 October 14, 2013 | Rating: B
 
 Paul Chambers
 Movie Chambers
 Not be as suspenseful as it once was, because we’ve seen many shots of the body’s interior and we no longer have the undercurrents of the Cold War that made life itself an edge-of-the-seat affair. But it’s still a fun sci-fi excursion.
 
 October 11, 2013 | Rating: 7/10
 
 James Plath
 Movie Metropolis…

 

Plot
A team of Americans in a nuclear submarine are shrunk and injected into a scientist’s body to fix a blood clot in his brain before the miniaturization wears off in Fantastic Voyage.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels doesn’t have anything goofy or funny or odd to say about the film Fantastic Voyage.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions,
 
Distributor
United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Swimming Pool, Fontainebleau Hilton Resort – 4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Sean Connery, directed by Guy Hamilton, written by Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn, action, box office success, PG rating, reviewed by Penelope Houston, Wanda Hale, Eric Shorter, Ian Nathan, Variety Staff, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Victor Pineyro, Matt Brunson, Danielle Solzman, Mike Massie, Kelechi Ehenulo, James Bond, gadgets, Goldfinger, Auric Goldfinger, Pussy Galore, Miss Moneypenny, Fort Knox, United Artists, Albert R Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Sean Connery as James Bond, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson, Bernard Lee as M, Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
 

Cast & Crew

Sean Connery

Gert Fröbe

Honor Blackman

Shirley Eaton

Bernard Lee

James Bond

Auric Goldfinger

Pussy Galore

Jill Masterson

M

Sean Connery – James Bond
Gert Fröbe – Auric Goldfinger
Honor Blackman – Pussy Galore
Shirley Eaton – Jill Masterson
Bernard Lee – M
Lois Maxwell – Miss Moneypenny

 

Guy Hamilton

Ian Fleming

Albert R. Broccoli

Harry Saltzman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Guy Hamilton
 
Writer(s)
Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn
 
Producer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
6 wins & 6 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Penelope Houston

Wanda Hale

Eric Shorter

Ian Nathan

Variety Staff

Sight & Sound

New York Daily News

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Empire Magazine

Variety

GOLDFINGER
  All Critics (69) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (1)
  Goldfinger allows nothing to impede its sense of humour: it converts Bond into a human equivalent of the cat in the Tom and Jerry cartoons, with the same ghastly resilience and the same capacity for absorbing punishment.
 
  July 6, 2018
 
  Penelope Houston
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s phenomenal!
 
  December 21, 2015 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Wanda Hale
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Ours not to reason why with “Goldfinger”; ours but to gape and admire; which is very easy and enjoyable until the story’s iceberg of extravagance finally appears in its true proportions.
 
  February 2, 2014
 
  Eric Shorter
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Perfection.
 
  May 6, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Ian Nathan
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  There’s not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.
 
  May 6, 2008
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery — perhaps because it’s the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception.
 
  May 6, 2008
 
  Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Almost everything about this movie is unforgettable. The incredible title sequence, the menacing co-protagonist villain and Connery’s “perfect” masculinity. Bond has evolved, but it gives pleasure to watch were it started. [Full review in Spanish]
 
  June 22, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Victor Pineyro
  Seventh Art Studio
  It’s the easy choice. The obvious choice. The safe choice. It’s also the best choice, a no-brainer.
 
  September 25, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Goldfinger was the third film in the James Bond franchise but the film, starring Sean Connery, is the gold standard for all Bond films.
 
  November 1, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Danielle Solzman
  Solzy at the Movies
  Bond is ordered to remain cold and objective but disobeys handsomely, seducing and bedding almost every woman in the film.
 
  August 24, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  I know we all have our favourites but the Bond franchise wouldn’t be what it is today without Goldfinger.
 
  July 16, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Kelechi Ehenulo
  Confessions From A Geek Mind
  It’s not quite the perfect film many claim it to be, but it is a perfect representation of what Bond is, and you would be hard-pressed to identify a film in the series that is filled with more iconic moments than this one.
 
  May 16, 2020
 
  Jake Tropila
  Film Inquiry…

 

Plot
James Bond (Sir Sean Connery) is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats, and avoid Goldfinger’s personal pilot, the sexy Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). She might not have feelings for Bond, but will 007 help her change her mind?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no specific tidbit about someone in the cast mentioned on Fresh Kernels for Goldfinger.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Audiovisual Development Bureau, Ministerio da Cultura BEI Comunicações Bahiatursa
 
Distributor
Gativideo, Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment [br], Walt Disney Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
G
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Musical
 
Keyword(s)
starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Glynis Johns, David Tomlinson, Ed Wynn, Hermione Baddeley, directed by Robert Stevenson, written by Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, genre: musical, box office performance: $102.3 million, budget: $6 million, reviewed by Al Cohn, James Powers, Jake Wilson, Martin Chilton, Noel Murray, Eric Henderson, Jason Shawhan, Ken Winters, Bob Halliday, Mike Massie, Wendy Michener, Rachel Wagner, MPAA rating: G, produced by Walt Disney
 

Cast & Crew

Julie Andrews

Dick Van Dyke

Glynis Johns

David Tomlinson

Ed Wynn

Mary Poppins

Bert

Mr. Dawes

Sr.

Mrs. Winifred Banks

Julie Andrews – Mary Poppins
Dick Van Dyke – Bert, Mr. Dawes, Sr.
Glynis Johns – Mrs. Winifred Banks
David Tomlinson – Mr. George W. Banks
Ed Wynn – Uncle Albert
Hermione Baddeley – Ellen

 

Robert Stevenson

NA

Walt Disney

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Robert Stevenson
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
Walt Disney

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 5 Oscars
22 wins & 17 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Al Cohn

James Powers

Jake Wilson

Martin Chilton

Noel Murray

Newsday

Hollywood Reporter

The Age (Australia)

Daily Telegraph (UK)

The Dissolve

MARY POPPINS
  All Critics (55) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (2)
  There is nothing wrong with good, clean fantasy, if there is some sort of explanation to make it more than just a succession of camera tricks.
 
  February 3, 2021
 
  Al Cohn
  Newsday
  TOP CRITIC
  Mary Poppins is a picture that is, more than most, a triumph of many individual contributions. And its special triumph is that it seems to be the work of a single, cohesive intelligence.
 
  December 17, 2018
 
  James Powers
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  As the magical nanny who turns life upside down for her charges in Edwardian England, Julie Andrews maintains a stiff upper lip that dries out some of the Disney schmaltz.
 
  November 9, 2018
 
  Jake Wilson
  The Age (Australia)
  TOP CRITIC
  Van Dyke’s energy is prodigious (especially when he leaps around with a gang of sooty chimney-sweeps on the London rooftops) and the songs are classics.
 
  January 1, 2015 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Martin Chilton
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Whether the movie’s message is Travers-approved or not, the emphasis on joy and empathy proves heartening, even today.
 
  December 9, 2013 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Noel Murray
  The Dissolve
  TOP CRITIC
  With all the subtlety of Battleship Potemkin, a queue full of sour-faced old school nannies is shown blowing away into thin air to make way for the embodiment of modern female assertiveness.
 
  January 27, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Eric Henderson
  Slant Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Mary Poppins is of a piece with the classic art-film archetype in which a mysterious stranger helps each member of a family through unlocking their emotional blockage, for better or worse…
 
  September 10, 2021
 
  Jason Shawhan
  Nashville Scene
  Mary Poppins is a product instead of the wholly enchanting children’s art it so easily could have been.
 
  August 18, 2021
 
  Ken Winters
  Winnipeg Free Press
  Mary Poppins is a rocket ride to euphoria and fun all the way.
 
  May 12, 2021
 
  Bob Halliday
  Salt Lake Tribune
  Combines supremely catchy songs, the forward and sarcastic dialogue of the unsurpassable Julie Andrews, and a psychedelic plot.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  The animation sequences suffer from Disney’s animals-are-just-like people coyness, and the plot is too goody-good for words. But even the worst parts are saved by an air of innocent enjoyment.
 
  July 16, 2019
 
  Wendy Michener
  Maclean’s Magazine
  I think it’s arguable one of the best family films ever made.
 
  May 9, 2019 | Rating: A+
 
  Rachel Wagner
  Rachel’s Reviews (YouTube)…

 

Plot
When Jane and Michael Banks are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with he and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, they try to pass on some of her sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Dick Van Dyke’s performance as Bert and Mr. Dawes Sr. earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria
 
MPAA / Certificate
G
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Musical
 
Keyword(s)
starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Robert Wise, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Ernest Lehman, directed by Robert Wise, written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Ernest Lehman, produced by Robert Wise, musical, G rating, box office gross $109.0K, 20th Century Fox, World War II, Von Trapp Family, Austria, governess, naval captain, seven children, singing, nuns, Nazis, songs, sentimental, heartwarming, unapologetically sweet, classic, warmth, tuneful, uncomplicated entertainment, Julie Andrews’ performance, Christopher Plummer’s performance, Robert Wise’s direction, classic songs, irresistible warmth, critic reviews, audience reviews, Tomatometer, Fresh Kernels
 

Cast & Crew

Julie Andrews

Christopher Plummer

Eleanor Parker

Richard Haydn

Peggy Wood

Maria

Captain von Trapp

Baroness Schraeder

Max Detweiler

Mother Abbess

Julie Andrews – Maria
Christopher Plummer – Captain von Trapp
Eleanor Parker – Baroness Schraeder
Richard Haydn – Max Detweiler
Peggy Wood – Mother Abbess
Charmian Carr – Liesl von Trapp
Robert Wise – Director, Producer
Oscar Hammerstein II – Writer
Richard Rodgers – Writer
Howard Lindsay – Writer
Russel Crouse – Writer
Ernest Lehman – Writer

 

Robert Wise

Oscar Hammerstein II

Robert Wise

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Robert Wise
 
Writer(s)
Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Ernest Lehman
 
Producer(s)
Robert Wise

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 5 Oscars
17 wins & 13 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

William J. Nazzaro

Bob Thomas

James Berardinelli

Jake Wilson

Peter Bradshaw

Arizona Republic

Associated Press

ReelViews

The Age (Australia)

Guardian

THE SOUND OF MUSIC
 All Critics (72) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (12)
 It is not a bold, adventuresome motion picture, nor does it advance the art of the film even a trifle. What it is, and this is what the producers must have intended, is tuneful, uncomplicated entertainment, expensively set before the viewer.
 
 March 30, 2022
 
 William J. Nazzaro
 Arizona Republic
 TOP CRITIC
 The last of the Rodgers-Hammer-stein collaborations, The Sound of Music is the best screen version of their works.
 
 February 5, 2020
 
 Bob Thomas
 Associated Press
 TOP CRITIC
 By any reasonable critical analysis, The Sound of Music is a terrible movie.
 
 December 16, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 James Berardinelli
 ReelViews
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s totally schmaltzy and highly effective.
 
 October 19, 2018
 
 Jake Wilson
 The Age (Australia)
 TOP CRITIC
 The location work in Salzburg has an ineffable charm and it’s all performed with such zinging, joyous energy.
 
 May 17, 2018 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 It is compounded of taste, excitement, heart and mind, and more than any other individual, the one who put it there and kept it there was Robert Wise.
 
 March 2, 2018
 
 James Powers
 Hollywood Reporter
 TOP CRITIC
 Singing nuns and gun-toting Nazis – something for everyone.
 
 September 7, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Matt Neal
 ABC Radio (Australia)
 Julie ignores the dated postulates of the script, gives it her own brand of vigor, logic, gaiety and crisp authority — and brings the screen alive, pulling the drama along with her.
 
 September 2, 2020
 
 Bob Halliday
 Salt Lake Tribune
 There’s something magical about conversations that morph into songs, especially considering that the typical dancing that accompanies such skits is refreshingly truant.
 
 August 27, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 South Pacific, The King and I, West Side Story: They have all been a little embarrassing, but [this] is more embarrassing than most, if only because of its suggestion that history need not happen to people like Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
 
 March 4, 2020
 
 Joan Didion
 Vogue
 Pure, unadulterated kitsch, not a false note, not a whiff of reality; and every detail so carefully worked out… I came out full of goodwill toward all humanity.
 
 August 14, 2019
 
 Dwight MacDonald
 Esquire Magazine
 Robert Wise is responsible for this overly sugary cake that must be listened to with earplugs. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 July 9, 2019
 
 Antonio Lara
 El Pais (Spain)…

 

Plot
In 1930’s Austria, a young woman named Maria (Dame Julie Andrews) is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When Navy Captain Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain’s wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives – including the Captain’s. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though the Captain is already engaged to a Baroness named Elsa and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German Navy and forced to fight against his own country.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
No goofy or funny or odd comments were found in the Fresh Kernels review for The Sound of Music.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Svensk Filmindustri
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Thurloe Place, South Kensington, London, England, UK
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Horror
 
Keyword(s)
starring Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, James Villiers, directed by Roman Polanski, written by Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, David Stone, horror, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Andrew Sarris, Peter John Dyer, Derek Malcolm, David Jenkins, Peter Bradshaw, Tim Robey, Pauline Kael, Dwight MacDonald, Wendy Michener, Simon Miraudo, Tom Hutchinson, produced by Gene Gutowski, MPAA rating, rophobia, schizophrenia, hallucinations, mental breakdown, psychological thriller, British film, Carole Ledoux, Helene Ledoux, Michael, Colin, Landlord, John, mono sound mix, 35mm aspect ratio
 

Cast & Crew

Catherine Deneuve

Carole Ledoux

Yvonne Furneaux

Helene Ledoux

Ian Hendry

Carole Ledoux

Helene Ledoux

Michael

Colin

Landlord

Catherine Deneuve – Carole Ledoux
Yvonne Furneaux – Helene Ledoux
Ian Hendry – Michael
John Fraser – Colin
Patrick Wymark – Landlord
James Villiers – John

 

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Gene Gutowski

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Roman Polanski
 
Writer(s)
Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, David Stone
 
Producer(s)
Gene Gutowski

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
2 wins & 4 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Andrew Sarris

Peter John Dyer

Derek Malcolm

David Jenkins

Peter Bradshaw

Village Voice

Sight & Sound

London Evening Standard

Little White Lies

Guardian

REPULSION
  All Critics (65) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (3)
  Repulsion is the scariest if not actually the goriest Grand Guignol since Psycho.
 
  July 27, 2021
 
  Andrew Sarris
  Village Voice
  TOP CRITIC
  The rest of the film has that gurgling, soapy sound of muffed intentions going down the plug hole like bath water.
 
  March 31, 2020
 
  Peter John Dyer
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  Deneuve, as the woman whose fear of sexual contact is at the base of her neurosis, has seldom been less like her icy self.
 
  January 4, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Derek Malcolm
  London Evening Standard
  TOP CRITIC
  A film that expertly shows without ever telling, even while the symbolism is a mite heavy handed.
 
  January 3, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
 
  David Jenkins
  Little White Lies
  TOP CRITIC
  There can’t be many other films which so plausibly show an entire, warped world created from a single point of view.
 
  January 3, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s been an inspiration ever since for films about claustrophobic hysteria, but not necessarily in a good way …
 
  January 3, 2013 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Tim Robey
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Were we supposed to have found it entertaining? There’s more horror latent in this notion of the movie audience than in the film itself.
 
  February 27, 2020
 
  Pauline Kael
  Vogue
  The purest exercise in homicidal mania yet made, and the most singleminded.
 
  August 14, 2019
 
  Dwight MacDonald
  Esquire Magazine
  Repulsion is far more shocking, in fact, than anything Hitchcock ever made, because it can produce in the spectator the added shock of self-recognition, the hallmark of a real artwork.
 
  June 27, 2019
 
  Wendy Michener
  Maclean’s Magazine
  How much one remains held by all this probably depends on how much one is interested by the case-book aspect of Carol’s story, but at least there are ample visual compensations.
 
  March 16, 2015
 
  MFB Critics
  Monthly Film Bulletin
  The young Catherine Deneuve (she was 22 at the time of filming) gives a performance so unsettling and so precise, I can barely believe she grew into such a confident screen presence.
 
  October 21, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Simon Miraudo
  Quickflix
  Roman Polanski takes us on a deeply disturbing, hallucinatory trip into Catherine Deneuve’s mental breakdown in this British psychological thriller,
 
  October 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Tom Hutchinson
  Radio Times…

 

Plot
In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word “sensitive” to describe Carol’s overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything. When she does speak up, it generally is about something against one of those few issues on which she obsesses, such as Helen’s boyfriend Michael’s invasion of her space at the apartment. That specific issue may be more about men in general than just Michael’s actions, as witnessed by Carol being agitated by hearing Helen and Michael’s lovemaking, and she not being able to rebuff the advances effectively of a male suitor, Colin, who is infatuated with her. One of those other obsessive issues is noticing cracks and always wanting to fix them. While Helen and Michael leave on a vacation to Pisa, Italy, Carol chooses largely to lock herself in the apartment, ditching work. There, she is almost hypnotized by her solitude, which leads to her mental state deteriorating as those obsessions come to the fore. She quickly descends into madness, which ultimately also affects those that are trying to get in touch with her.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The young Catherine Deneuve gives a performance so unsettling and so precise, I can barely believe she grew into such a confident screen presence.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Dreamworks Pictures, Kemp Company, Splendid Pictures,
 
Distributor
United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Sullivan Residence, Rock Point, Love Beach, off West Bay Street, North Shore, New Providence Island, Bahamas
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Martine Beswick, directed by Terence Young, written by Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins, produced by Kevin McClory, action, PG, James Bond, spy, adventure, underwater, nuclear warheads, SPECTRE, blackmail, Bahamas, sharks, Mono sound mix, Scope aspect ratio, United Artists, box office performance, $5.5 million budget, reviewed by Dave Kehr, Variety Staff, Bosley Crowther, Nick Hilditch, James Berardinelli, Matt Brunson, Grant Watson, Mike Massie, Kelechi Ehenulo, Alberto Abuín, PG rating, Ian Fleming as writer, Kevin McClory as writer, Jack Whittingham as writer, Richard Maibaum as writer, John Hopkins as writer, Sean Connery as James Bond, Claudine Auger as Domino, Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe, Rik Van Nutter as Felix Leiter, Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan
 

Cast & Crew

Sean Connery

Claudine Auger

Adolfo Celi

Luciana Paluzzi

Rik Van Nutter

James Bond

Domino

Emilio Largo

Fiona Volpe

Felix Leiter

Sean Connery – James Bond
Claudine Auger – Domino
Adolfo Celi – Emilio Largo
Luciana Paluzzi – Fiona Volpe
Rik Van Nutter – Felix Leiter
Martine Beswick – Paula Caplan

 

Terence Young

Ian Fleming

Kevin McClory

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Terence Young
 
Writer(s)
Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins
 
Producer(s)
Kevin McClory

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
5 wins & 5 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Dave Kehr

Variety Staff

Bosley Crowther

Nick Hilditch

James Berardinelli

Chicago Reader

Variety

New York Times

BBC.com

ReelViews

THUNDERBALL
 All Critics (52) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (7)
 Slightly bloated Bond, with too much technology for my taste and a climactic slaughter that’s a little too mindless to be much fun.
 
 May 6, 2008
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 There’s visible evidence that the reported $5.5 million budget was no mere publicity figure; it’s posh all the way.
 
 May 6, 2008
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That’s the best I can say for a Bond film.
 
 May 9, 2005
 
 Bosley Crowther
 New York Times
 TOP CRITIC
 In this, the fourth instalment in the series from the original team, you have a classic Bond film that wants for nothing but a trim.
 
 June 27, 2001 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Nick Hilditch
 BBC.com
 TOP CRITIC
 Classic 007 — not the best picture in the long-running series, to be sure, but a more-than-worthwhile diversion for the action-loving escapist in us all.
 
 January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4
 
 James Berardinelli
 ReelViews
 TOP CRITIC
 The most overrated movie in the franchise. Of course, it’s not without its merits.
 
 September 25, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 As one tends to say when movie franchise stretch well into the double-digits: this is one of the good ones.
 
 April 23, 2021 | Rating: 7/10
 
 Grant Watson
 Fiction Machine
 Each new Bond movie gains a larger budget, but the potential doesn’t equate to greater creativity or superior filmmaking.
 
 August 27, 2020 | Rating: 3/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Exaggerated fun
 
 July 16, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5
 
 Kelechi Ehenulo
 Confessions From A Geek Mind
 The film moves at a leisurely pace, but it still exudes Classic Bond and features some of the finest spy work in the series to date.
 
 June 10, 2020
 
 Jake Tropila
 Film Inquiry
 This features the ideal realisation of Blofeld – a disembodied voice with shutters obscuring his presence from the torso up. It’s far more chilling than in later Bonds.
 
 October 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 PJ Nabarro
 Patrick Nabarro
 To Connery, who develops his character throughout the film with a frightening ease, demonstrating that the character fits him like a glove, adds the beauty of Luciana Paluzzi. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 September 4, 2019
 
 Alberto Abuín
 Espinof…

 

Plot
James Bond continues on his fourth mission, with his aim to recover 2 stolen warheads. They’ve been taken by the SPECTRE organisation, and the world’s held hostage as Bond heads to Nassau, Bahamas. Here, he meets Domino and is forced into a thrilling confrontation with SPECTRE agent Emil Largo on-board his boat, the Disco Volante.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
No goofy or funny comments were found in the Fresh Kernels review for Thunderball.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Les Films, du Cru Film4 Orange Studio
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., Warner Home Vídeo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Morley Flats, Alberta, Canada
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for mature themes
 
Year of Release
1965
 

 
Genre(s)
Romance/War
 
Keyword(s)
starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, directed by David Lean, written by Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt, romance, war, box office performance, budget, reviewed by James Powers, Richard Roud, Geoffrey Macnab, Kate Muir, Peter Bradshaw, David Jenkins, Bob Halliday, Mike Massie, Joan Didion, Wendy Michener, Mal Vincent, PG-13, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., Warner Home Vídeo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Carlo Ponti, produced by Carlo Ponti
 

Cast & Crew

Omar Sharif

Julie Christie

Geraldine Chaplin

Tom Courtenay

Alec Guinness

Dr. Yuri Zhivago

Nurse Lara Antipova

Tonya

Pasha Antipova

Strelnikov

Omar Sharif – Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie – Nurse Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin – Tonya
Tom Courtenay – Pasha Antipova, Strelnikov
Alec Guinness – Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Rod Steiger – Victor Komarovsky

 

David Lean

Boris Pasternak

Carlo Ponti

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
David Lean
 
Writer(s)
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
 
Producer(s)
Carlo Ponti

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 5 Oscars
21 wins & 13 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

James Powers

Richard Roud

Geoffrey Macnab

Kate Muir

Peter Bradshaw

Hollywood Reporter

Guardian

Independent (UK)

Times (UK)

Little White Lies

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
 All Critics (49) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (8)
 Despite the grim and brooding background, Zhivago has a surging buoyant spirit that is unquenchable. Doctor Zhivago is more than a masterful motion picture; it is a life experience.
 
 December 22, 2016
 
 James Powers
 Hollywood Reporter
 TOP CRITIC
 One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.
 
 April 29, 2016
 
 Richard Roud
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 Maurice Jarre’s music is as beguiling as ever and Lean squeezes all the pathos that he can out of the romance between Sharif’s Yuri Zhivago and Julie Christie’s febrile and gorgeous Lara Antipova.
 
 December 1, 2015 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Geoffrey Macnab
 Independent (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 Epic seems too small a word for the sweeping ambition and romance of Doctor Zhivago.
 
 December 1, 2015
 
 Kate Muir
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 Lean and Bolt pay tribute to a Tolstoyan ambition in Pasternak’s samizdat novel, and also to a real contemporary relevance: the story of a suppressed writer.
 
 November 26, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 Demands everything from the viewer while offering little in return, with Lean coming across like a despised schoolmaster not wanting to open himself up to his braying students.
 
 November 26, 2015 | Rating: 2/5
 
 David Jenkins
 Little White Lies
 TOP CRITIC
 Doctor Zhivago, in the film version, is a work of art to match the novel and even excel it in some respects.
 
 May 12, 2021
 
 Bob Halliday
 Salt Lake Tribune
 A masterpiece of emotional resonance and melodramatic romanticism.
 
 August 24, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 [Doctor Zhivago] is, in its skill and finish, everything a “big” picture should be and rarely is.
 
 March 4, 2020
 
 Joan Didion
 Vogue
 A true Saturday afternoon extravaganza.
 
 December 4, 2019
 
 Jacoba Atlas
 Los Angeles Free Press
 …still the best epic around…
 
 June 27, 2019
 
 Wendy Michener
 Maclean’s Magazine
 David Lean has made a stunning motion picture from Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize novel.
 
 March 5, 2018
 
 Mal Vincent
 The Virginian-Pilot…

 

Plot
During the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father’s suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother’s lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny or odd comment about the film Doctor Zhivago on Fresh Kernels.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Réalisation d’art cinématographique
 
Distributor
Universal Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Unionville Village, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1964
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller
 
Keyword(s)
starring Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham, Bob Sweeney, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Winston Graham, Jay Presson Allen, mystery, thriller, box office performance, budget, reviewed by TIME Staff, Richard Brody, Martin Chilton, Kim Newman, Dave Kehr, Ian Cameron, David Parkinson, Henry Geldzahler, Michael E Grost, Richard James Havis, Shikhar Verma, PG rating, produced by Alfred Hitchcock, Universal Pictures, Mark Rutland, Marnie Edgar, Margaret Edgar, Peggy Nicholson, Mary Taylor, Lil Mainwaring, Sidney Strutt, Bernice Edgar, Cousin Bob
 

Cast & Crew

Tippi Hedren

Sean Connery

Diane Baker

Martin Gabel

Louise Latham

Marnie Edgar

Margaret Edgar

Peggy Nicholson

Mary Taylor

Mark Rutland

Tippi Hedren – Marnie Edgar, Margaret Edgar, Peggy Nicholson, Mary Taylor (as ‘Tippi’ Hedren)
Sean Connery – Mark Rutland
Diane Baker – Lil Mainwaring
Martin Gabel – Sidney Strutt
Louise Latham – Bernice Edgar
Bob Sweeney – Cousin Bob

 

Alfred Hitchcock

Winston Graham

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Alfred Hitchcock
 
Writer(s)
Winston Graham, Jay Presson Allen
 
Producer(s)
Alfred Hitchcock

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Richard Brody

Martin Chilton

Kim Newman

Dave Kehr

Variety Staff

TIME Magazine

New Yorker

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Empire Magazine

Chicago Reader

MARNIE
 All Critics (40) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (7)
 Hitchcock’s elegant cinematic style, evident here and there, seems wasted in a melange of banal dialogue, obtrusively phony process shots, and a plot that congeals more often than it thickens.
 
 April 28, 2020
 
 TIME Staff
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Psychologically resonant, visually transcendent …
 
 September 21, 2015
 
 Richard Brody
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 Hitchcock was criticised for bring shallow psychology into the film (Hedren’s character is afraid of the colour red) but some of their exchanges – the film was based on a novel by Winston Graham – are sharp and droll.
 
 August 31, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Martin Chilton
 Daily Telegraph (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 This remains a compelling Hitchcock thriller but it’s Tippi Hedron’s remarkable central performance which steals the show.
 
 March 20, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Kim Newman
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Universally despised on its first release, Marnie remains one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest and darkest achievements.
 
 March 20, 2012
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 Marnie is the character study of a thief and a liar, but what makes her tick remains clouded even after a climax reckoned to be shocking but somewhat missing its point.
 
 September 12, 2008
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Marnie is Alfred Hitchcock’s forty-ninth film. It might be the most perfectly tooled yet.
 
 April 28, 2020
 
 Henry Geldzahler
 Vogue
 It is a film of such complexity that, after three viewings, I feel that I have hardly begun to understand it, but each time, new layers of meaning have revealed themselves.
 
 April 28, 2020
 
 Ian Cameron
 The Spectator
 Calmer reflection has established this as one of Hitchcock’s more fascinating “misfires.”
 
 April 28, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 David Parkinson
 Radio Times
 Marnie is Hitchcock’s darkest work. The director’s vicious trip through the mind of a disturbed woman offers little in the way of respite, but captures the attention through intrigue, and the sheer filmmaking abilities of the master of suspense.
 
 April 28, 2020
 
 Richard James Havis
 South China Morning Post
 I think the main thematical implication of Hitchock’s [Marnie] is exactly that. The constant confusing morality of leaving the viewers take control as he himself hasn’t got it under his spell.
 
 April 20, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Shikhar Verma
 High on Films
 Strange, richly told tale, full of echoes of Hitchcock themes.
 
 September 13, 2017
 
 Michael E. Grost
 Classic Film and Television…

 

Plot
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at Rutland’s, she also catches the eye of the handsome owner, Mark Rutland. He prevents her from stealing and running off, as is her usual pattern, but also forces her to marry him. Their honeymoon is a disaster and she cannot stand to have a man touch her, and on their return home, Mark has a private detective look into her past. When he has the facts of what happened in her childhood to make her what she is, he arranges a confrontation with her mother realizing that reliving the terrible events that occurred in her childhood and bringing out those repressed memories is the only way to save her.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny or odd comment about the film Marnie on Fresh Kernels.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures,
 
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Stage 16, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios – 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
G
 
Year of Release
1964
 

 
Genre(s)
Musical
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Audrey Hepburn

Rex Harrison

Stanley Holloway

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Gladys Cooper

Eliza Doolittle

Professor Henry Higgins

Alfred P. Doolittle

Colonel Hugh Pickering

Mrs. Higgins

Audrey Hepburn – Eliza Doolittle
Rex Harrison – Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway – Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White – Colonel Hugh Pickering
Gladys Cooper – Mrs. Higgins
Jeremy Brett – Freddie Eynsford-Hill

 

George Cukor

Alan Jay Lerner

James C. Katz

Jack L. Warner

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
George Cukor
 
Writer(s)
Alan Jay Lerner
 
Producer(s)
James C. Katz, Jack L. Warner

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 8 Oscars
25 wins & 13 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Claudia Cassidy

Marjory Adams

Carol Stamy

Myles Standish

Henry T. Murdock

Chicago Tribune

Boston Globe

Orlando Sentinel

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Philadelphia Inquirer

MY FAIR LADY
  All Critics (89) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (5)
  What an enchanting picture My Fair Lady turns out to be. Awash with color and sound, it does for the wide screen what the original in its pristine state did for the musical stage.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Claudia Cassidy
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  Of course what everyone wants to know first is, does Audrey Hepburn make a glowing, lovely Eliza as did her predecessor, Julie Andrews? She does.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Marjory Adams
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  I’ve recently added My Fair Lady to my list of favorite films!
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Carol Stamy
  Orlando Sentinel
  TOP CRITIC
  Hail to My Fair Lady. Long may she reign, and may she find place on one of Prof. Higgins’s towering bookshelves for the Oscar she will undoubtedly win.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Myles Standish
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  Two outstanding stars of the original, Rex Harrison, as Professor Henry Higgins, and Stanley Holloway, as the dust-man philosopher, Alfred Doolittle, repeat their roles with even greater persuasion.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Henry T. Murdock
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  Good as are Holloway, Bikel, Jeremy Brett as a suitor; Gladys Cooper as Rex’s mother; Hyde-White and others, the film is a joint personal triumph for Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  George Bourke
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Hollywood has done right by our Eliza. With My Fair Lady, they have produced a film which has success clearly stamped on every foot of celluloid.
 
  March 7, 2022
 
  Felix Barker
  Liverpool Echo
  The truth of the matter is that, given a good production, My Fair Lady is impossible not to like; and the film is not simply a “good production.” It is an exceedingly wise and resourceful transformation of a magnificent stage show to the screen.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  R.H. Gardner
  Baltimore Sun
  Just get yourself a ticket, for this is as nearly perfect a movie as Hollywood has ever crafted.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Stanley Eichelbaum
  San Francisco Examiner
  We are moved at the end in a profoundly romantic way, thanks in equal part to Mr. Loewe, Mr. Leaner and the incomparable Rex.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Kenneth Tynan
  Observer (UK)
  Audrey Hepburn was robbed… From the opening scene, [she] shows time and again why she should have been nominated for an Academy Award as best actress of the year.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Howard Pearson
  Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
  Having seen the original Broadway production eight years ago, Warner Brothers’ multi-million dollar transference in Technicolor to the Super Panavision 70 screen is worth every nickel spent.
 
  February 9, 2022
 
  Jack Marsters
  Montreal Gazette…

 

Plot
Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who agrees to speech lessons to improve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond, one that is threatened by aristocratic suitor Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett).
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Rex Harrison’s singing in the film is described as more spoken in rhythm than actual singing.
 

 
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