Breakfast at Tiffanys

 All time classic based on a novel by Truman Capote and directed by Blake Edwards. Starring fabulous Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly.
 In the Capote´s novel Holly is pictured as a easy going prostitute but the movie version is much more cleaned up and has a Hollywood style happy ending.
 Holly Golightly is really a country girl Lula Mae Barnes who got married by the age of 14. She runs away and ends up in New York. Holly pictures her self free spirit who does not want to be owned or own anything. Her home doesn't really have lot of furniture and even her cat doesn't have a name. Anybody she truly cares about is her brother Fred. Truman Capote had pictured Marilyn Monroe as Holly Golightly. But Audrey Hepburn really made the movie to spark.


 Movie trivia:

 Henri Mancini composed the song "Moon River" to fit Hepburns vocal range and it won an Oscar.
 Breakfast at Tiffany's made Holly Golightly a fashion icon with the famous black Givency dress.

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 Mary Poppins is one of my childhood favourite Disney movie. Starring Julie Andrews as a magical Nanny who shakes up the Banks family and takes the kids to adventures. Mary Poppins is know-it-all character annoyed me as a kid but now I'm only fascinated about the "special effects" of the animated parts.
 This film got bunch of Academy Awards nominations.  All songs are made by the Sherman brothers including classics like Chim Chim cher-ee:

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The movie is based on the loved books by P.L Travers. Disney wanted to get the rights to make a movie already in 1938 but finally succeeded to get the rights almost thirty years later.

Mary Poppins is definitely a film to watch with children!

The Pink Panther

Peter Sellers made many funny movies but awkward Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther(1963) is my favourite. Its not coincidence that its directed by the same director Blake Edwards who made my other favourite movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's.

 First of all The Pink Panther is a comedy. Peter Sellers as clumsy Inspector Clouseau is the funniest police in the film history.
Secondly it is pure 60s with swinging music composed by Henry Mancini and hip outfits. Yes in the 60s people still knew how to dress! Specially when the outfits for the princes Dahla (Claudia Cardinale) and Simone Clouseau (Capucine) was designed by Yves Saint-Laurent.

 The rest of the Pink Panther films make less sense than the first one. They are more based on Inspector Clouseaus incompetence and clumsiness and of course his ridiculous French accent. What i always found strange that Blake Edwards made The Trail Of The Pink Panther after Peter Sellers died and the parts with Clouseau are out takes from previous Pink Panther films.

 Sellers mastered many different accents and was no doubt a genius.

 I warmly recommend to get the Pink Panther DVD Box!

Valentine´s Day

 Valentines`s Day is a wonderful excuse to make romantic movie marathon. Specially if you don't have a sweetheart to watch movies with, stuff yourself with ice cream and chocolates and watch Pretty Woman with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. If you are not in a sugar coma after that, Dirty Dancing will do the trick. 80s classic with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey!

 If you have a very chic lady friend best choice is to watch Amélie, the sweetest French film with Audrey Tautou. Best served with Macaroons and cafe latte.

 For a total romantic fools best choice is Titanic. Get a box of wine if you can not watch it sober (i truly could not) and make out until your lips are numb.

 But not all the people like romantic movies. For a backup plan i recommend Terminator 2 with six pack of beer!

Woody Allen: Vicky Christina Barcelona

 Woody Allen is film lovers wet dream or worst nightmare. He started hes career somewhere in the early 50s. It would take very long time to see all hes work. Allen is a genius no doubt about that but he haven't been any personal favourite of mine. Until i stumbled over Vicky Christina Barcelona(2008) with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Scarlet Johansson and Rebecca Hall.
 It is a story about two American girls spending summer in Spain. The movie has a lovely soundtrack but what makes the film special is how Allen describes women. Penélope Cruz as obsessive, passioned and little bit crazy artist Maria Elena. Scarled Johansson as Christina who doesn't seem to have any passions, perfect example of person who easily tries new things out but abandons them after a while. These kind of people never can be happy cause they are searching something all the time. Rebecca Hall as Vicky seems to be reasonable and planing to get married and settle down. Three different women. Why do i see my self in all of them?
  Just kill a bottle of cheap Spanish red wine and enjoy the summer in Barcelona with Vicky and Christina!