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Tag Archives: Gone With the Wind
Oscars! Schmoscars! Triumph, travesty and throwbacks galore
Silence was golden again at the Oscars this year, with The Artist, already hotly tipped, tap-dancing off with the three big awards of the night: Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin. Dujardin made … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Awards, Uncategorized
Tagged drive, Gone With the Wind, Hattie McDaniel, Hugo, Jean Dujardin, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Michel Hazanavicius, Midnight in Paris, Nicolas Winding Refn, octavia spencer, Owen Wilson, Shame, The Artist, The Iron Lady, Woody Allen
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The 50 Best Romantic Movies | Part 5: The Top 10
Here they are – the 10 most romantic movies of all time! At least, that’s the verdict of our writers, who came up with 50 of cinema’s top romances. All this week we’ve been counting down the chart and we’ve … Continue reading
How to win an Oscar – some simple rules
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Regardless of how you might take Kate Winslet’s risqué tips on bagging that Academy Award, there are some simple rules to securing an Oscar. Let’s look at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Awards, Couch Potato
Tagged A Single Man, Academy Awards, aileen wuornos, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Boy's Don't Cry, Braveheart, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Charlize Theron, Colin Firth, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Erin Brokovich, Extras, Forrest Gump, frankly my dear i don't give a damn, Geoffrey Rush, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter, Harvey Milk, Heath Ledger, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, I Am Sam, i see dead people, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Joan Fontaine, john wayne, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, june carter cash, Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow, life is beautiful, life is like a box of chocolates, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Million Dollar Baby, monster, mrs brown, my left foot, my precious, Oscar, Peter Jackson, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, raging bull, Rain Man, ray, Ray Charles, Rebecca, Reese Witherspoon, Rosemary's Baby, ruth gordon, Scent of a Woman, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Shine, show me the money, Sixth Sense, suspicion, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the lord of the rings: the two towers, the queen, The Silence of the Lambs, The Wrestler, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, true grit, Truman Capote, Walk the Line, who's afraid of virginia woolf, William Wallace, you talkin' to me
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The Railway Children, and great lines from movies
Couch Potato Pickings Whenever I see that a screen adaptation of E Nesbit’s Railway Children is showing on TV (and let’s face it, today’s film and the 2000 TV remake are on a lot), I just can’t resist screaming out … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Bernard Cribbins, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, E Nesbit, ET, Finding Neverland, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gary Warren, Gone With the Wind, Jenny Agutter, Jerry Maguire, Sally Thomsett, Scrooge, Sense & Sensibility, The Elephant Man, The English Patient, The Railway Children, The Wizard of Oz, Watership Down, When Harry Met Sally
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Couch Potato Paradox: Movies you have to see on the big screen
Well, it seems that my recent post about the benefits of a local cinema hit a nerve with many of you, judging by your many comments. Clearly, I’m not the only one longing for a picturehouse in close proximity to … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato
Tagged Alec Guinness, Alien, Andie MacDowell, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, Ben-Hur, Bolt, cinema for Crystal Palace, Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, Gone With the Wind, Hugh Grant, Independence Day, Johnny Depp, Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 3D, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Lawrence of Arabia, local cinemas, Mamma Mia, Meryl Streep, Peter O'Toole, picture palace, Picturehouse Cinemas, Public Enemies, Renee Zellweger, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, The Blair Witch Project, The Day After Tomorrow, The Fall, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the sound of music, The Wizard of Oz
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Couch Potato Pickings: Cocktail, and my top 10 film cocktails
I purchased a cocktail-making masterclass for my partner’s birthday present this year. What a treat! Unfortunately, however, said class ended up being hogged by a giggling hen party with little interest in the chemistry of cocktail-making, but much interest in … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged 7 and 7, All About Eve, Bette Davis, Bloody Mary, Casablanca, Champagne Cocktail, Chevy Chase, Cinzano, Cocktail, cocktail making masterclass, Fletch, Gibson, Gone With the Wind, hen party, James Bond, Jeff Bridges, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Manhattan, Margarita, Marilyn Monroe, Martini, Mint Julep, Mojito, My Best Friend's Wedding, Now Voyager, Old Fashioned, Saturday Night Fever, shaken not stirred, Some Like it Hot, The Big Lebowski, The Seven Year Itch, Tom Cruise, White Russian
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Heidi’s Guilty Pleasure-Dome | Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
Welcome to the guilty pleasure-dome here on Movie Talk where I’m going to be waxing lyrical from time to time on some of those movies that you love but perceived wisdom says you shouldn’t. Critics hate them, but punters love … Continue reading
The Romantic Epic… Back in Business at Last?
My name’s Heidi and I’m a Romance Junkie. So you’ll know how excited I was to get to my local cinema last Saturday and see the trailer for the new Baz Luhrmann extravaganza, Australia. We’re talking Hugh Jackman looking heroic on a … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Baz Luhrmann, Gone With the Wind, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman
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