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Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Review

23 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

There is nothing wrong with Gone with the Wind. Yes, it’s a bit racist. Heck, it’s a lot racist and you get to cringe listening to Clark Gable say things like “darkie.” The black characters are mostly shameful, and the film revels in the greatness and loss of the South. There are interesting ambiguities, though. Rhett Butler (Gable) recognizes that the civil war is stupid and bound for failure, but later on enlists. Okay, there’s a lot wrong with the film, but it’s also one of those films of such grand dramatic heft that it is also undeniable. My review of Gone with the Wind after the (Kris Kross will make you Jump) jump.

It’s hard not to wrestle with the history of the film, and Spike Lee has decidedly dismissed it. He’s not unfair for doing so; there are a lot of problems with the text. »

- Andre Dellamorte

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DVD Review: Breathtaking 5-Disc Gift Set For ‘Gone With the Wind’

25 November 2009 10:48 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – If local news reports are to be believed, nearly everyone reading this will go holiday shopping sometime during the upcoming weekend. To those of you that are considering a DVD giftset purchase like the recent release of “The Wizard of Oz,” “Christmas Vacation,” or even “Mamma Mia!,” you couldn’t do much better than the breathtaking five-disc release marking the 70th anniversary of “Gone With the Wind”.

The lavishly-packaged new collector’s edition giftset of “Gone With the Wind” is one of those overwhelming releases in which the film itself practically becomes an afterthought to the collectibles and special features. Honestly, if you haven’t seen “Gone With the Wind,” it’s required viewing for the history of film. One of the most beloved movies ever made, even if you don’t love it (and I’ll admit that it’s not a personal favorite of mine like it »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Where My Heart Lies: My Favorite Actors. And Yours?

29 August 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

instead of a tues top 10, a 25.

I did this once for the actresses but I'm always giving the ladies their due. So, here's to the silver screen men that have enriched my movie-life. I admit up front that I haven't investigated Classic Hollywood actors to the extent I've investigated their leading ladies, so this list is highly subject to change the more old movies I see in my life.

Nathaniel's 25 all time favorite leading men

In no particular order and extremely subject to change

Gene Kelly | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai |

Montgomery Clift | Jeff Bridges | Paul Newman

Jude Law | James Dean | William Holden | Gene Hackman | Rock Hudson

Jack Lemmon | Gael García Bernal | Ewan McGregor | James Stewart | Gregory Peck

Steve Martin | Marlon Brando | Jack Nicholson | Burt Lancaster | Richard Burton

Brad Pitt | Johnny Depp | Cary Grant | Warren Beatty | William Hurt

Because sometimes you just want to name names

The list is not comprehensive, not set in stone, »

- NATHANIEL R

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Gone with the Wind Breezes Onto DVD and Blu-ray November 17th

18 August 2009 5:03 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Gone with the Wind is set to hit both DVD and Blu-ray in a new five disc 70th Anniversary box set on December 1st. Here is the official press release from Warner Home Video:

Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and still history's all time domestic box-office champion ($1.5 billion), Gone with the Wind has long been considered the most celebrated motion picture of all time. On November 17, Warner Home Video will honor the romantic epic with a stunningly restored and remastered version, available for the first time on Blu-ray. Gone with the Wind [70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition] is sure to be a "must-have" for collectors of classic films, available both in Blu-ray as well as on DVD.

The highlight of this new Blu-ray version of Gone with the Wind is how it looks and sounds. As they've done with Wizard of Oz, Warner Home Video continues to maximize what the Blu-ray format »

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Romeo and Juliet Movie Review

24 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

"Hollywood, oh Hollywood, wherefore art thou Hollywood in making classic pictures like 1936's "Romeo and Juliet" starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer". It beats me, because they don't make 'em like these anymore and that's a shame because this movie based on the classic literary Shakespeare play is a great film to watch for romantics, nostalgia buffs, Shakespeare lovers and even as a date movie. The story is about two star crossed lovers (Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet) who fall in love in midst of a feud between their two familes who forbid each other to marry (in fact arrange marriage... »

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Scenes We Love: Gone with the Wind

30 May 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Scott Weinberg is right -- in this day and age, there's no movie that can't be remade. While I don't necessarily believe in sacred cows (and I feel like if there's a novel at the source it can be excused), there are some films that got it right the first time -- and one of these is Gone with the Wind. First, I'll begin by saying that I know all the arguments against it and Margaret Mitchell's book. I've got history credentials, after all. In fact, I find the story even more fascinating because of its social and historical problems. At it's heart, Gone with the Wind is more about the Depression than the Civil War, and functions as historiography and American mythmaking.

But on a pure fluff level, I get sucked in by its costumes and loyalty to the source material. Every time I watch it (and my »

- Elisabeth Rappe

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Cinematical Seven: Horror Replacement Actors

28 May 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Oh, what might have been! Alison Lohman gives a terrific performance as the cursed loan officer Christine Brown in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, which opens tomorrow. If not for the vagaries of scheduling, though, Ellen Page would have played the lead role. Would Page have been any better? We'll never know, but she joins a long list that inspires thoughts of 'What if ...?'

Once upon a time, we might have seen Leslie Howard as the titular Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi as The Monster. Instead, Colin Clive played the good doctor, Boris Karloff got a jump-start on life, and the rest is horror history. Here are seven more recent examples of actors and actresses who were considered for key roles in great horror films ... and the ones who replaced them, listed in chronological order. [Disclaimer: Based on information provided on IMDb's "trivia" pages, so no guarantees on accuracy.] Better? Worse? You decide.

1. Melanie Griffith / Sissy Spacek (Carrie)

Even though she was in her mid-20s, »

- Peter Martin

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