Fedora PG
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Holden | |
Performer: | Marthe Keller, José Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Michael York, Mario Adorf, Frances Sternhagen & Hildegard Knef | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Stefan Arnsten | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Gerry Fisher |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The offhand jabs at the dissolution of orthodox craftsmanship in 1970s cinema are overwhelmed by a deeper core of autocritique played out in the film's downward trajectory.
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Slant Magazine
This one seethes with authentic nostalgia; Wilder's attempt not merely to eulogize earlier styles but to revive them feels somewhat embalmed.
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New Yorker
Rating: 4/5 --
Fedora is old-fashioned with a vengeance, a proud, passionate remembrance of the way movies used to be, and a bitter smile at what they have become.
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New York Times
Included in the New York Times's 10 BEST FILMS OF 1979
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Defiantly and proudly old-fashioned both in style and content, weaving an (intentionally) campy melodrama about the mysterious suicide of a faded movie queen into a spellbinding meditation on cinema and the price of manufactured illusions.
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TV Guide
Gallant Hollywood-Babylon concerto
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CinePassion
The plot illustrates more than it excites, and sits on the edges of the baroque or grotesque. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler. In flashbacks, the producer recalls his efforts to coax aging movie queen Fedora (Marthe Keller) out of retirement, while attending her funeral. Not long before, he had tried to penetrate the phalanx of functionaries who protected the star at the Greek island villa of her friend, the Countess Sobryanski (Hildegard Knef) without success. When Barry accidentally bumped into the actress in town, looking amazingly well, she claimed that she was at the mercy of her caretakers, but asked him to send her his script. Following a series of frustratingly mixed signals from Fedora, she arrives one night at Barry's hotel in desperation, but is quickly seized and conjured away by her plastic surgeon Dr. Vandos (Jose Ferrer), and her chauffeur Kritos (Gottfried John). The next day, the producer returns to the villa, and is knocked unconscious by the chauffeur. Although his penultimate film, this is truly the director's farewell to moviemaking, an absorbing meditation on age, beauty, and the perils of practicing a profession of illusion.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 2,611
- UPC: 887090083805
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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