Great news for fans of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert! A Woman Of Affairs (1928) is now available on DVD from Warner Archives. Ordering information can be found Here
Greta Garbo is the “unlucky in love” heroine in this silent-screen adaptation of Michael Arlen’s highly controversial novel The Green Hat. After losing the man of her dreams (John Gilbert) due to the meddling of his disapproving father, Diana Merrick (Garbo) reluctantly weds another admirer (John Mack Brown). These dubious marital beginnings become even more questionable when her new husband takes his own life. Immediately, all eyes turn to Diana, and her free-spirited lifestyle is deemed his unofficial cause of death. Socially chastised, Diana decides to live up to her reputation and ventures on a series of foreign affairs, amorously globe hopping with dignitaries from London to Cairo. This bittersweet tale of love really begins to unfold when Diana is at...
Greta Garbo is the “unlucky in love” heroine in this silent-screen adaptation of Michael Arlen’s highly controversial novel The Green Hat. After losing the man of her dreams (John Gilbert) due to the meddling of his disapproving father, Diana Merrick (Garbo) reluctantly weds another admirer (John Mack Brown). These dubious marital beginnings become even more questionable when her new husband takes his own life. Immediately, all eyes turn to Diana, and her free-spirited lifestyle is deemed his unofficial cause of death. Socially chastised, Diana decides to live up to her reputation and ventures on a series of foreign affairs, amorously globe hopping with dignitaries from London to Cairo. This bittersweet tale of love really begins to unfold when Diana is at...
- 3/16/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Greta Garbo movie 'The Kiss.' Greta Garbo movies on TCM Greta Garbo, a rarity among silent era movie stars, is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” performer today, Aug. 26, '15. Now, why would Garbo be considered a silent era rarity? Well, certainly not because she easily made the transition to sound, remaining a major star for another decade. Think Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Fay Wray, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett, etc. And so much for all the stories about actors with foreign accents being unable to maintain their Hollywood stardom following the advent of sound motion pictures. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, Garbo was no major exception to the supposed rule. Mexican Ramon Novarro, another MGM star, also made an easy transition to sound, and so did fellow Mexicans Lupe Velez and Dolores del Rio, in addition to the very British...
- 8/27/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Venturing into the xenophobic terrain that helped to make Eli Roth's Hostel a unique horror destination, John Stockwell's Turistas takes full advantage of its intoxicatingly exotic backdrop -- it's the first American production shot entirely in Brazil -- to spin the creepy saga of a group of gringos whose fun-in-the-sun vacation turns deadly.
But while Stockwell effectively builds an unsettling, stifling atmosphere, layering all that impending dread on a workable foundation of chaotic culture shock and language barriers, it all begins to fall apart around the midway point, before completely unraveling into a confused, murky mess.
There's still enough good stuff to cut into a decent trailer, and that could be enough -- combined with those Turistas Go Home posters that have been popping up all over the place -- to initially draw young males lured by the promise of nude sunbathers and graphic gore, but word-of-mouth likely will ensure that this Fox Atomic release has a brief theatrical layover before taking the red eye to Blockbuster.
Among those heading up a treacherous mountain road in a speeding, rickety bus are reluctant traveler Alex (Josh Duhamel), his more gung-ho sister Bea (Olivia Wilde), her best friend Amy (Beau Garrett), lecherous Brits Finn (Desmond Askew) and Liam (Max Brown) and the bilingual Pru (Melissa George).
Not surprisingly, their reckless driver succeeds in totaling the vehicle, stranding the passengers somewhere between Rio and Sao Paulo. It turns out they're within walking distance of a cabana bar, where a group of them decide to dance and drink the night away.
Bad idea. They regain consciousness the next morning to discover they had been drugged and robbed of all their possessions.
Worse idea: They allow themselves to be led by a charismatic local (Agles Steib) deep into the Brazilian jungle and right into the lair of a gringo-hating, psychotic but righteous surgeon (Miguel Lunardi) in the business of black market organ transplants.
Up until this pivotal point, Stockwell and first-time scripter Michael Arlen Ross evocatively set the stage for all the impending nastiness, only to squander all that mounting tension in the translation.
Ironically, it's the very element that has been Stockwell's stock in trade (as in Blue Crush and Into the Blue) that proves to be the film's major undoing: a protracted, dimly lit underwater escape sequence that is as dull as it is confusing.
It comes after another series of dark, hard-to-follow scenes leading to the speculation that they blew the lighting budget early on in the shoot.
The muddy results come in sharp contrast to the earlier, vibrant daylight sequences shot by Enrique Chediak and underwater cinematographer Peter Zuccarini that manage to find a suitably sinister undercurrent in all that warmly beckoning sunshine.
But while Stockwell effectively builds an unsettling, stifling atmosphere, layering all that impending dread on a workable foundation of chaotic culture shock and language barriers, it all begins to fall apart around the midway point, before completely unraveling into a confused, murky mess.
There's still enough good stuff to cut into a decent trailer, and that could be enough -- combined with those Turistas Go Home posters that have been popping up all over the place -- to initially draw young males lured by the promise of nude sunbathers and graphic gore, but word-of-mouth likely will ensure that this Fox Atomic release has a brief theatrical layover before taking the red eye to Blockbuster.
Among those heading up a treacherous mountain road in a speeding, rickety bus are reluctant traveler Alex (Josh Duhamel), his more gung-ho sister Bea (Olivia Wilde), her best friend Amy (Beau Garrett), lecherous Brits Finn (Desmond Askew) and Liam (Max Brown) and the bilingual Pru (Melissa George).
Not surprisingly, their reckless driver succeeds in totaling the vehicle, stranding the passengers somewhere between Rio and Sao Paulo. It turns out they're within walking distance of a cabana bar, where a group of them decide to dance and drink the night away.
Bad idea. They regain consciousness the next morning to discover they had been drugged and robbed of all their possessions.
Worse idea: They allow themselves to be led by a charismatic local (Agles Steib) deep into the Brazilian jungle and right into the lair of a gringo-hating, psychotic but righteous surgeon (Miguel Lunardi) in the business of black market organ transplants.
Up until this pivotal point, Stockwell and first-time scripter Michael Arlen Ross evocatively set the stage for all the impending nastiness, only to squander all that mounting tension in the translation.
Ironically, it's the very element that has been Stockwell's stock in trade (as in Blue Crush and Into the Blue) that proves to be the film's major undoing: a protracted, dimly lit underwater escape sequence that is as dull as it is confusing.
It comes after another series of dark, hard-to-follow scenes leading to the speculation that they blew the lighting budget early on in the shoot.
The muddy results come in sharp contrast to the earlier, vibrant daylight sequences shot by Enrique Chediak and underwater cinematographer Peter Zuccarini that manage to find a suitably sinister undercurrent in all that warmly beckoning sunshine.
- 12/1/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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