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Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian in his weekly round-up of cinema releases, where he said, "I liked it very much, likeable and funny, excellent turn from Ned Dennehy." [ 7 ] Downhill also received four star print reviews from The Independent [ 8 ] and The Times. [ 9 ]
Opened on October 29, 1936, [4] the theater was designed by architect John Jacob Zink, whose firm designed over 200 theaters across the United States, and the 14th built by Warner Brothers in Washington, D.C. [5] The exterior is constructed of yellow and red brick and the facade is partially faced in limestone fluted panels.
Zeffirelli with Olivia Hussey while filming Romeo and Juliet in 1967. Zeffirelli's first film as director was a version of The Taming of the Shrew (1967), originally intended for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni but featured the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their stead. Taylor and Burton helped fund production and ...
Jane Eyre is a 1996 romantic drama film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new-found relations, and new job) to condense it into a two-hour film.
Romeo and Juliet (Italian: Romeo e Giulietta) is a 1968 period romantic tragedy film, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.Directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, the film stars Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia Hussey as Juliet.
Endless Love is a 1981 American romantic drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and starring Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford and Beatrice Straight. It also marked Tom Cruise's film debut. Based on the 1979 Scott Spencer novel of the same name, the screenplay was written by Judith Rascoe.
Pagliacci is a 1982 Italian film of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.All the actors, including Plácido Domingo and Teresa Stratas in the starring roles, were opera singers who sang their own parts.
Zeffirelli's handling of the duel scene has been particularly praised, [26] and his device later adopted by Baz Luhrmann. Taking his cue from Benvolio's speech ending "For now these hot days is the mad blood stirring" [ 27 ] Zeffirelli depicts the dry, oppressive heat of the little town where (in Anthony West's words) "men seek to kill each ...