News about John Schlesinger
YOUR fifty classic films have been rediscovered. After BRIAN VINER's Top 100 films list, our readers responded with a passionate tweet, so here are our favorites — as well as his verdict
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April 6, 2024
BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).
JAN MOIR: Can the deliciously glitzy restaurant loved by Princess Diana reclaim its crown as the haunt that every A-lister MUST be seen in?90s icon Le Caprice reopens its doors
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March 3, 2024
JAN MOIR (left): Jeremy King (left) is back where he belongs, sporting his latest restaurant (right), which also happens to be his old restaurant and, perhaps more importantly, was his first restaurant. From 1981 to 2000, the King of Arlington, Texas, operated it with his business partner Chris Corbin as Le Caprice. It was purchased by billionaire Richard Caring in 2005, who closed it three years ago due to the pandemic, but the name and plans to relaunch it in a London hotel were mischievous. However, it is no surprise that it was King Le Caprice's version that thrilled and delighted London. The opulent, the undeniably popular, and the indelibly royal became a favorite haunt in St James's under Corbin & King's direction.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Oscar-winning screenwriter attacks Madonna and Rupert Everett for how their rom-com flop had a punishing effect on director John Schlesinger before he died
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August 1, 2023
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Madonna and Rupert Everett would doubtless disregard the existence of the 2000 flop film, but Oscar-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael has launched a stinging attack on the pair for the punishing effect on its producer, John Schlesinger. It was his last film before he died 20 years ago this month. You once more absconded from England in order to make the last Hollywood film The Next Greatest Thing, with Madonna and Rupert Everett, in a letter published in Schlesinger's book Last Post. You were no longer a director for whom it was a privilege to serve. You worked for them and they knew it. In the mastering of a one-time master by two pseudo-stars who revel in the knowledge that he has a job only because they choose him.' Ouch!