From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 5:08:44 PM UTC-7, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hey,    
   >    
   > In the spirit of full disclosure, I should mention that my love affair with   
   the golden age of Hollywood began to erode after seeing Michelangelo   
   Antonioni's L'Avventura on a hooky-playing afternoon in lower Manhattan when I   
   was in high school. Some    
   Hollywood films will never lose their luster for me and one of them is William   
   Wyler's The Best Years of Our Life that I consider the best film to ever come   
   out of any US studio. Wyler's reputation has been tarnished for some by the   
   writings of Andrew    
   Sarris and others and now the pendulum is swinging back toward Wyler and away   
   from unsupportable constructs such as a pantheon and the auteur theory.    
   >    
   > With the recent birthday celebration of Aubrey Hepburn and all the chatter   
   coming from the bio-pic of Dalton Trumbo - who co-wrote the screenplay - I   
   decided to re-see Roman Holiday, a film I hadn't seen in decades and was   
   pleasantly surprised in how    
   the script and direction cleverly re-imagines the usual Hollywood drivel. (If   
   Wyler was considered an auteur, he would have "subverted the genre" or some   
   other nonsense like that.)    
   >    
   > The story is of a young princess (Audrey Hepburn) on a European tour who   
   goes out for a lark in Rome after being given sleeping medication and ends up   
   asleep on a street bench and being helped by a newspaper reporter (Gregory   
   Peck) who doesn't realize    
   who she is. What makes the story work is what Sarris describes as "a lack of   
   feeling" on the part of Wyler as if the angst-ridden postures of Nicholas Ray   
   or Sam Fuller would bring some meaning or clarity to the film. Neither Peck or   
   Hepburn are    
   favorites of mine and what saves this film from being the usual Hollywood   
   hokum is - among others things - a wonderful and credible ending. Really good   
   stuff.    
   >    
   > Directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by John Dighton and Dalton   
   Trumbo. Cinematography by Henri Alekan and Franz Planer. Starring Gregory   
   Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, and Margaret Rawlings,   
   among other.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4ZU-FA5XA   
      
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