Blu-ray Review: Now, Voyager (Criterion Collection)
When we first meet her, Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a shy spinster, living in her family’s stately Boston mansion under the tyrannical thumb of her elderly mother (Gladys Cooper). Charlotte was a late child whom her mother admits was the unwanted child; the ugly duckling who exists only to serve her mother’s every whim. […]
My Fair Lady (50th Anniversary Edition – Remastered) (Blu-ray)
First released on Blu-ray in 2011, most agreed that My Fair Lady neither looked nor sounded as good as it could have. Many (including myself), hoped that a remaster would come out in celebration of the films 50th anniversary. It may be slightly late, but we got our wish! CBS/Paramount has re-released My Fair Lady […]
Blu-ray Review: My Fair Lady
The origin of the 1964 film My Fair Lady goes back to George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), which was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical by the successful team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe (Gigi, Camelot). The play debuted in 1956. It wasn’t until seven years later that the movie, produced by Jack […]
My Fair Lady Coming to Blu-ray November 15
Paramount Pictures has revealed that it will release on Blu-ray George Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964), starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, and Stanley Holloway on November 15, 2011. In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Audrey Hepburn plays a sassy, working class London street vendor, who an arrogant professor (Rex Harrison) attempts to […]