Joan Fontaine movies: ‘This Above All,’ ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ (photo: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine in ‘Suspicion’ publicity image) (See previous post: “Joan Fontaine Today.”) Also tonight on Turner Classic Movies, Joan Fontaine can be seen in today’s lone TCM premiere, the flag-waving 20th Century Fox release The Above All (1942), with Fontaine as an aristocratic (but socially conscious) English Rose named Prudence Cathaway (Fontaine was born to British parents in Japan) and Fox’s top male star, Tyrone Power, as her Awol romantic interest. This Above All was directed by Anatole Litvak, who would guide Olivia de Havilland in the major box-office hit The Snake Pit (1948), which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod. In Max Ophüls’ darkly romantic Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Fontaine delivers not only what is probably the greatest performance of her career, but also one of the greatest movie performances ever. Letter from an Unknown Woman...
- 8/6/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Vlogs where 'Jackass meets Foreign Correspondent' are internet success story
The film begins in bright sunshine above a patch of ocean, before the camera dips into the underwater world below. A few seconds later a shark cuts through the green gloom, its underbelly and dorsal fin identifying it as a Great White.
What takes your breath away, is not just the proximity to one of humankind's potential predators, but that the clip was shot by a California surfer who had spotted two of the creatures the previous day and then opted to go back with his camera.
"Great White cojones!" is just one comment by fans of the video, made by Chuck Patterson, which was posted on Vimeo, one of the alternative self-publishing websites that have sprung up since YouTube became the undisputed online power in video.
Last month, a 90-second video showing baby sloths in Costa Rica, posted on the same high-definition site,...
The film begins in bright sunshine above a patch of ocean, before the camera dips into the underwater world below. A few seconds later a shark cuts through the green gloom, its underbelly and dorsal fin identifying it as a Great White.
What takes your breath away, is not just the proximity to one of humankind's potential predators, but that the clip was shot by a California surfer who had spotted two of the creatures the previous day and then opted to go back with his camera.
"Great White cojones!" is just one comment by fans of the video, made by Chuck Patterson, which was posted on Vimeo, one of the alternative self-publishing websites that have sprung up since YouTube became the undisputed online power in video.
Last month, a 90-second video showing baby sloths in Costa Rica, posted on the same high-definition site,...
- 8/18/2010
- by Karen McVeigh, Josh Halliday
- The Guardian - Film News
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