Victor Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Has anyone watched this movie on TCM during any of the last 3 showings If yes, has anyone noticed alot of Static during the last 5 minutes Thanks Vic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Nope haven't watched it on TCM, so can't help you there, but wanted to say "I LOVE this movie!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I just tried to watch it, but I read on Wiki that it's all fiction and the dialogue is all fiction. This is yet another anti-Anglo propaganda film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 "Anti-Anglo propaganda???" Just what kind of xenophobic paranoiac are you, anyway (especially since Henry II, and his Angevin Dynasty, were more Norman French than English, anyway)? James Goldman's wonderful script is merely an embellishment on history (and no more so than Shakespeare's historical dramas), in short the story of a very dysfunctional family, reunited for the Christmas holidays, circa 1182 AD. PS: That Cliff Robertson won the Best Actor Oscar for, of all things, the treacly CHARLY, over Peter O'Toole's Henry II is one of the great injustices in Academy-voting history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > I read on Wiki that it's all fiction and the dialogue is all fiction. This is yet another anti-Anglo propaganda film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainingViolets101 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Since the film takes place in 1181 - I hardly expected to hear the dialogue *verbatim* , I watched it, for the first time and was fascinated by the undercurrent of homosexuality throughout the film, also was totaly impressed by Kate's performance of the aging 'Eleanor" and the three sons were a hoot, only matched by O'Toole's performance as Henry.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollywoodGolightly Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 > {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > PS: That Cliff Robertson won the Best Actor Oscar for, of all things, the treacly CHARLY, over Peter O'Toole's Henry II is one of the great injustices in Academy-voting history. For some strange reason, playing mentally-challenged characters always seems to give actors an edge with the Academy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I?m glad you liked it. I thought the characters reeked with stinking filth, and the film needed a good clean Robin Hood character to come in and clear the house of miscreants. The scene of the dog killing the chicken should have been cut out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 > {quote:title=CineSage_jr wrote:}{quote} > Just what kind of xenophobic paranoiac are you, ...? How do you get away with such insults on a moderated message board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I saw most of it last nite. Loved it. The chess game Henry and Eleanor played with each other with morality, power, sexual taunts and viciousness and oneupsmanship was wonderful to watch. (She went to bed with Henry's father. Hoo boy!!! That sent Peter O'Toole doubled over and screeching out of the room. ) Good stuff...from afar; about nine centuries afar. Great job Kate. Peter, wonderful. He kept up with KATE toe-to-toe, taunt-for-taunt!!! What a match. I wonder how Burton would have done up against Queen Kate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Maybe because it's obvious that only a xenophobic paranoiac would have written what you wrote below, and that I was only boiling that down to its essence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I saw most of it last nite. Loved it. The chess game Henry and Eleanor played with each other with morality, power, sexual taunts and viciousness and oneupsmanship was wonderful to watch. (She went to bed with Henry's father. Hoo boy!!! That sent Peter O'Toole doubled over & screeching out of the room). Good stuff...from afar; about nine centuries afar. Great job Kate. Peter, wonderful. He kept up with KATE toe-to-toe, taunt-for-taunt!!! What a match. I wonder how Burton would have done up against Queen Kate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 The original play opened on Broadway in 1966 starring Rosemary Harris as Eleanor, Robert Preston as Henry, James Rado as Richard and Christopher Walken as Philip. Rosemary Harris won the Tony that year for her performance. The play was revived in 1999 with Stockard Channing as Eleanor and Laurence Fishburn as Henry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 *The Lion in Winter* is a beautifully done film with great performances from Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. It's amazing how contemporary this 12th Century dysfunctional family is. Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the great ladies of history. The biography of Eleanor written by Alison Weir is a great read..... Message was edited by: drednm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Some of the best acting I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 "The original play opened on Broadway in 1966 starring Rosemary Harris as Eleanor, Robert Preston as Henry..." - lzcutter. I did not know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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