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Four Angry Young Men: Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Tom Courtenay

26 October 2009 1:53 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Photo: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest "Four Angry Young Men" is the title of a four-film series to take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Nov. 14 and 21, at the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Note: The screenings are free, but a separate reservation is required for each film. The Four Angry Young Men in question — no actorish Marlon Brando-James Dean types, they — are Richard Burton (Look Back in Anger), Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), Richard Harris (This Sporting Life), and Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner). Good-looking, (mostly) working-class blokes with the chance of happiness and success at their fingertips if only … Well, if only life [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: An overwhelming study of life and illusion

21 August 2009 8:26 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

There are many things in this world that I find truly baffling. Why are we destroying our marine habitats so that rich Japanese restaurants can sell expensive soup? Why do we demand that politicians solve all our problems for us, while secretly willing them to fail? Why do we keep expecting Guy Ritchie to make another good film? But perhaps the most baffling of all is the fact that Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has never been released on DVD in Britain. It is perhaps the finest filmic adaptation of a stage play ever rendered on celluloid. But only American audiences are able to enjoy it in the comfort of their own homes. Adaptations of plays can often be morbidly dull. They rely on the same visceral energy and tension that works so well in a theatre but is almost impossible to transfer onto a video recording that will be »

- Nicholas Deigman

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Claire Bloom to star in 'Doctor Who?'

29 April 2009 8:14 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Claire Bloom is said to be filming a part for the upcoming Doctor Who specials. The 78-year-old actress, who starred alongside Richard Burton in Hamlet, Look Back In Anger and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, will appear in the final episodes of David Tennant's time on the show, the Daily Mail claims. A friend told the newspaper: "The script is a very closely guarded (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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