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...director George Cukor envisioned this scene in mid-nineteenth century Paris. "Camille," starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor, is another highlight in the reclusive star's long and fascinating career. The film, showing this Sunday at the Brattle, is part of the theater's current Garbo tribute...
...film is based on the novel and play La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. As this story has been popular for more than a century, legendary actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse have played this fascinating courtesan. Several incidents in Garbo's own life led her to take the role: her own sister Alva died of tuberculosis and she suffered from similar physical ailments. And Marguerite's emotional self-containment curiously parallels the offscreen distance Garbo carefully maintained from both of her eager costars, Taylor and Barrymore...
...Friday, Oct. 1, "Notorious" at 3:30 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, and "An Affair to Remember" at 3:45 p.m. and 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1 and at 1:15, 5:30 and 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Greta Garbo stars in "Anna Karenina" at 4 and 7:50 p.m. and "Queen Christina" at 2, 5:50 and 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3. See French film noir flicks "Jenny Lamour" at 3:45 and 7:30 p.m. and "The Murderer Lives at 21" at 5:45 p.m. on Monday...
...heart can melt into chocolate when a kid hugs a whale. What separates critics from you is that inside the chocolate they must nurture the hard nut of cool judgment. They must know the difference between a good cry -- emotion earned by film artistry, as in E.T. or Greta Garbo's Camille or, for that matter, The Secret Garden...
Escape, for grownup moviegoers of a certain age, was when the archetypal cinema couple was Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, making silent-movie love more eloquent than poetry, or Tracy and Hepburn, turning sass into starlight. But that was long ago, when Hollywood was in its swoonily romantic adolescence. Now it is in its second childhood. The moguls have climbed back into their treehouse (NO GIRLS ALLOWED) to initiate their new holy couple: Any Male Star and Any Cute...