Alec Guinness Articles
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on TCM
Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa in David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean’s 1957 blockbuster and multiple Oscar winner The Bridge on the River Kwai will be presented tonight at 5 p.m. PT on Turner Classic Movies. Many consider The Bridge on the River Kwai one of the greatest war movies ever made. Whether or not you agree with that assessment, Lean’s war [...]
Ronald Neame – Actor’s Director: Judy Garland, Deborah Kerr, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith
Judy Garland in Ronald Neame’s I Could Go on Singing Ronald Neame Dies The Horse’s Mouth (1958) starred Venice Film Festival Best Actor winner Alec Guinness as an eccentric painter; the British Academy’s Best British Film nominee Tunes of Glory (1960), with Guinness and John Mills in a not-very-flattering look at the British military; and the melodrama I Could Go on Singing (1963), pairing Dirk [...]
Akira Kurosawa’s RAN, Alexander Mackendrick’s THE LADYKILLERS, Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT Blu-ray Contest
FilmBookdotcom has a Blu-ray contest out there: Alexander Mackendrick’s black comedy The Ladykillers, Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mepris / Contempt, and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran have been released by StudioCanal on Blu-ray and are up for grabs. The Ladykillers, remade a few years ago with Tom Hanks, stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and the outstanding Katie Johnson. Godard’s Contempt is a visually sumptuous drama starring Brigitte Bardot [...]