TollywoodFrom ‘Tholiprema’ to ‘Premam’ and ‘Roman Holiday’, here is what Tollywood celebrities picked as the one romantic film that made a huge impact on them.Hemanth Kumar C RLong before Valentine’s Day was reduced to a punchline, cinema has had a huge influence on how we perceive romance. Starting from the epic romantic tales of the yore to modern classics, there’s quite a lot of stuff to choose from to mark the occasion. So, we asked some of the popular actors and directors from Telugu film industry to name their favourite romantic films. Here’s what they said. Roman Holiday – Samantha, Actor I was in class 10 when I watched Roman Holiday for the first time. Back then, we had a Vcr at home and I must have seen the film at least 20-30 times. My love affair with Audrey Hepburn began with Roman Holiday, and when I was young,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
Wicker Park may have been adapted the 1996 French film L'Appartement, but pretty much all evidence of what was once an engaging psychodrama has been lost in the translation.
A stilted, episodic tale of obsession that grows more ridiculous by the second (with much unintended audience giggling to attest to the fact), the MGM picture has been taken out of long-term storage, dusted off and given a last-gasp-of-summer release, but it will unlikely be requiring anything much bigger than a breadbasket to collect its boxoffice earnings.
Like the original, which won a BAFTA Award for best foreign-language film, the story concerns a young exec (Josh Hartnett) who, despite being engaged to his boss' younger sister, risks throwing it all away when the woman (Diane Kruger) who was once the love of his life before abruptly disappearing resurfaces in a Chicago restaurant.
Or so it would appear.
Nevertheless, that possibility is enough to send the resmitten Matthew on the phantom Lisa's trail, leading to a whole lot of dead ends and wispy flashbacks to those carefree, happier days when he first stalked, uh, met her.
Without revealing any of the film's trick plot twists, it turns out Matthew doesn't have the monopoly on obsession.
While on the subject, it would appear director Paul McGuigan, who was also responsible for this year's much better The Reckoning, has a thing for shots with mirrors in them. That probably has something to say about appearances being deceiving and people's reflections not always being indicative of their actions, but all the fancy camera angles and split-screen effects in the world can't compensate for a script (credited to Brandon Boyce and L'Appartement writer-director Gilles Mimouni) in which characters say things like, "Take my picture. I'll feel beautiful tonight!"
Not that the original was all that original -- there's more than a little Single White Female and a touch of Vertigo in the telling -- but leads Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci provided the necessary dark and sultry (respectively) undercurrents.
Here, Hartnett, an actor trained in the Keanu Reeves school of laid-back emoting, and newcomer Kruger just aren't the right people for the job.
Providing some much-needed energy, meanwhile, is the dependable Matthew Lillard as Hartnett's supportive buddy, while Rose Byrne shows up later in the role of Alex -- and let's just say it's probably no accident she shares her name with a certain character played by Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
Wicker Park
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment present
A Lakeshore Entertainment production
A Paul McGuigan film
Credits:
Director: Paul McGuigan
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce
Based on the motion picture screenplay L'Appartement by: Gilles Mimouni
Executive producers: Georges Benayoun, Gilles Mimouni, Henry Winterstern, Harley Tannebaum
Producers: Andrew Lamal, Marcus Viscidi, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Director of photography: Peter Sova
Production designer: Richard Bridgland
Editor: Andrew Hulme
Costume designer: Odette Gadoury
Music: Cliff Martinez
Cast:
Matthew: Josh Hartnett
Alex: Rose Byrne
Luke: Matthew Lillard
Lisa: Diane Kruger
Daniel: Christopher Cousins
Rebecca: Jessica Pare
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 115 minutes...
A stilted, episodic tale of obsession that grows more ridiculous by the second (with much unintended audience giggling to attest to the fact), the MGM picture has been taken out of long-term storage, dusted off and given a last-gasp-of-summer release, but it will unlikely be requiring anything much bigger than a breadbasket to collect its boxoffice earnings.
Like the original, which won a BAFTA Award for best foreign-language film, the story concerns a young exec (Josh Hartnett) who, despite being engaged to his boss' younger sister, risks throwing it all away when the woman (Diane Kruger) who was once the love of his life before abruptly disappearing resurfaces in a Chicago restaurant.
Or so it would appear.
Nevertheless, that possibility is enough to send the resmitten Matthew on the phantom Lisa's trail, leading to a whole lot of dead ends and wispy flashbacks to those carefree, happier days when he first stalked, uh, met her.
Without revealing any of the film's trick plot twists, it turns out Matthew doesn't have the monopoly on obsession.
While on the subject, it would appear director Paul McGuigan, who was also responsible for this year's much better The Reckoning, has a thing for shots with mirrors in them. That probably has something to say about appearances being deceiving and people's reflections not always being indicative of their actions, but all the fancy camera angles and split-screen effects in the world can't compensate for a script (credited to Brandon Boyce and L'Appartement writer-director Gilles Mimouni) in which characters say things like, "Take my picture. I'll feel beautiful tonight!"
Not that the original was all that original -- there's more than a little Single White Female and a touch of Vertigo in the telling -- but leads Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci provided the necessary dark and sultry (respectively) undercurrents.
Here, Hartnett, an actor trained in the Keanu Reeves school of laid-back emoting, and newcomer Kruger just aren't the right people for the job.
Providing some much-needed energy, meanwhile, is the dependable Matthew Lillard as Hartnett's supportive buddy, while Rose Byrne shows up later in the role of Alex -- and let's just say it's probably no accident she shares her name with a certain character played by Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
Wicker Park
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment present
A Lakeshore Entertainment production
A Paul McGuigan film
Credits:
Director: Paul McGuigan
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce
Based on the motion picture screenplay L'Appartement by: Gilles Mimouni
Executive producers: Georges Benayoun, Gilles Mimouni, Henry Winterstern, Harley Tannebaum
Producers: Andrew Lamal, Marcus Viscidi, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Director of photography: Peter Sova
Production designer: Richard Bridgland
Editor: Andrew Hulme
Costume designer: Odette Gadoury
Music: Cliff Martinez
Cast:
Matthew: Josh Hartnett
Alex: Rose Byrne
Luke: Matthew Lillard
Lisa: Diane Kruger
Daniel: Christopher Cousins
Rebecca: Jessica Pare
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 115 minutes...
- 9/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French director Gilles Mimouni makes an unusually assured feature debut with this stylish suspenser that manages to pay a debt to "Vertigo" while going off in original directions of its own.
Although the convoluted plot ultimately has too many twists, there's much delicious fun to be had along the way. Recently showcased at the Miami Film Festival, the film is a good bet for domestic theatrical distribution, not to mention an American remake.
Anyone who thinks they can stay ahead of this story line had better revise their expectations. Shifting back and forth in time, the film tells the story of successful yuppie Max Vincent Cassell), who, while dining at a restaurant with his business associates and his fiancee, thinks that he sees his ex, Lisa (Monica Bellucci), the love of his life who got away. After an intense phone conversation with an apparent boyfriend, she flees the restaurant, with Max in pursuit, but he loses her. Soon, instead of jetting off to Tokyo for an important meeting, he secretly stays in Paris to find Lisa, all the while aided by Lucien (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey), another friend from the past with whom he's been recently reunited.
Max manages to find Lisa's apartment and breaks in to wait for her. The occupant returns and, to Max's chagrin, it's another woman (Romane Bohringer), who claims to be Mary's best friend. He manages to rescue her just before she takes a suicidal leap from the window. She invites him to stay over, and it isn't long before the two are involved in a torrid clinch. It would spoil the fun of the film to give away anything more; suffice it to say that identities and motivations here are never quite what they seem, and writer-director Mimouni has a seemingly inexhaustible bag of cinematic and storytelling tricks that keeps the audience in a delighted state of breathless anticipation and confusion.
Unlike most first-time helmers, Mimouni seems utterly assured with the film medium, and invests "L'Appartement" with a compelling visual stylishness and imagination. The young cast delivers expert performances, with Cassell highly winning as the befuddled Max and Bohringer alternately sexy, pitiful and menacing as the multifaceted Lisa. Tech credits are first-rate, with the city of Paris captured in all its visual splendor.
L'APPARTEMENT
(THE APARTMENT)
UGC D.A. International
Director-screenwriter Gilles Mimouni
Producer Georges Benayoun
Executive producer Elisabeth Deviosse
Cinematography Thierry Arbogast
Editors Caroline Beggerstaff, Francoise Bonnot
Music Peter Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Max Vincent Cassell
Alice Romane Bohringer
Lucien Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Lisa Monica Bellucci
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Although the convoluted plot ultimately has too many twists, there's much delicious fun to be had along the way. Recently showcased at the Miami Film Festival, the film is a good bet for domestic theatrical distribution, not to mention an American remake.
Anyone who thinks they can stay ahead of this story line had better revise their expectations. Shifting back and forth in time, the film tells the story of successful yuppie Max Vincent Cassell), who, while dining at a restaurant with his business associates and his fiancee, thinks that he sees his ex, Lisa (Monica Bellucci), the love of his life who got away. After an intense phone conversation with an apparent boyfriend, she flees the restaurant, with Max in pursuit, but he loses her. Soon, instead of jetting off to Tokyo for an important meeting, he secretly stays in Paris to find Lisa, all the while aided by Lucien (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey), another friend from the past with whom he's been recently reunited.
Max manages to find Lisa's apartment and breaks in to wait for her. The occupant returns and, to Max's chagrin, it's another woman (Romane Bohringer), who claims to be Mary's best friend. He manages to rescue her just before she takes a suicidal leap from the window. She invites him to stay over, and it isn't long before the two are involved in a torrid clinch. It would spoil the fun of the film to give away anything more; suffice it to say that identities and motivations here are never quite what they seem, and writer-director Mimouni has a seemingly inexhaustible bag of cinematic and storytelling tricks that keeps the audience in a delighted state of breathless anticipation and confusion.
Unlike most first-time helmers, Mimouni seems utterly assured with the film medium, and invests "L'Appartement" with a compelling visual stylishness and imagination. The young cast delivers expert performances, with Cassell highly winning as the befuddled Max and Bohringer alternately sexy, pitiful and menacing as the multifaceted Lisa. Tech credits are first-rate, with the city of Paris captured in all its visual splendor.
L'APPARTEMENT
(THE APARTMENT)
UGC D.A. International
Director-screenwriter Gilles Mimouni
Producer Georges Benayoun
Executive producer Elisabeth Deviosse
Cinematography Thierry Arbogast
Editors Caroline Beggerstaff, Francoise Bonnot
Music Peter Chase
Color/stereo
Cast:
Max Vincent Cassell
Alice Romane Bohringer
Lucien Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Lisa Monica Bellucci
Running time -- 116 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/20/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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