Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Blake Edwards
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Actor: Audrey Hepburn, Buddy Ebsen, George Peppard, Martin Balsam, Patricia NealDirector: Blake Edwards
Cinematographer: Franz Planer
Cinematographer: Philip H. Lathrop
Editor: Howard A. Smith
Producer: Martin Jurow
Producer: Richard Shepherd
Writer: George Axelrod
Writer: Truman Capote
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Breakfast at Tiffany's
DVD Review: NEW VERSION DVD review....
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not about to preach about the merits of this classic movie....this is for readers who want to know if they need to throw down for yet another version? YES, the movie looks the best so far and by a noticeable amount. the BONUS features on disc 2 bring along all the best from the last edition with about an hour of new ones....all very interesting (the 20 minutes on Henry Mancini was my favorite). I picked it up for $7.50 at Target and was very very happy. If you are a fan of the movie....upgrade..if you are not an owner THIS is the one to get..
the 2 DVD Paramount version.
DVD Review: A Dream Maker, You Heart Breaker
Summary: 5 Stars
We know they will never see the end of days together, but we all are rooting for them and their dreams and the moment for Capote has captured the essence of so many of us in these two characters. One can view this film one hundred times and still have a tear drawn by this unconvential and unsentimental love story. Everyone has a Huckelberry friend, just waiting around the bend.DVD Review: Seeing it with fresh eyes
Summary: 5 Stars
Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of those movies which - thanks to an infrequent movie-going habit, parents who did not permit much television watching, and twenty years spent overseas watching AFRTS where the movies on offer were not top tier - I had never seen, or at least, never watched from beginning to end. So I could come to view it without much in the way of preconceptions, and to see it more or less fresh, save for seeing actors like George Peppard and Patricia Neal as almost impossibly young, younger than I had ever seen them before.
It all stands up very well - all but Mickey Rooney with grotesquely oversized buck-teeth, as the Japanese super of a pleasant New York apartment building. Fifty years later, that is a cringe-inducingly offensive bit of stereotyping and stunt casting, a small grubby fly-spot on an otherwise light and airy angel-cake slice of movie.
That it was based on a novel perhaps accounts for a certain kind of dense, and complex feel to it, a sense that all the various characters encountered - some of them just fleetingly in a single scene - have or had their own lives, interests and affections. There are a thousand more stories, behind every window on the quiet street of comfortable brownstone apartments, and a sense that every person at Holly's cocktail party, the salesman behind the counter at Tiffany's, and the fussy librarian has their very own enormously interesting life story. At the heart of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is an ill-assorted pair of neighbors. Perhaps they are not as ill assorted as all that, for they are both being kept, in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Semi-failed writer Jack is more or less the designated boy-toy of a wealthy married woman who has installed him in the apartment for her convenience. And Holly Golightly - elegant and dizzily charming - lives by her wits and charm, cadging fifty dollars at a time from a circle of escorts and visiting an imprisoned mobster once a week. She has a cat, an all-but unfurnished apartment, and a tendency to flee emotional involvement - with anyone. Her ambitions, if any, are wistful ones about making a home for herself and her younger brother, or marrying a very rich man. Very gradually and naturally, Jack and Holly become acquainted, trust each other, become friends and then realize that they love each other. In real life, love grows in a manner much more like this, much more often than the instant, shake'n'bake romance, which may account for the appeal of this move over the decades since.
Extras are a rather mixed lot: there is strange little feature about cocktail parties, featuring a reunion of the various actors cast as the guests at Holly's lively cocktail party, reminiscing about their bits of business. It was a very complex bit of shooting, and took up more than a week; if you go back and watch that segment very carefully, you will appreciate all the minor stories happening there. Another feature is a sort of retrospective on portrayals of Asians in the movies, and the (to late 20th-century movie fans) the bizarre and unconvincing penchant for casting Caucasian actors in Asian roles. There is also a feature about Tiffany's, and a lovely memory by the writer of the company history of Audrey Hepburn writing a graceful dedication page for it. Ms Hepburn and her fashion sense are the focus of yet another. (She did indeed dress beautifully, in ageless and flattering clothes that still look up-to-this-minute current. Any of her gowns and outfits could be worn today without appearing the least bit dowdy or unfashionable.)
DVD Review: Goodbye to New York
Summary: 1 Stars
In spite of her goal to marry a rich man, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), an immature young woman, finds herself falling in love with Paul Varjak (George Pappard), a poor writer who moves into her apartment building.
With the possible exception of "My Fair Lady", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is probably the best remembered of all of Audrey Hepburn's films, and yet, of those that I have seen, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is the one that least impressed me. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is just like "Goodbye to Berlin" (Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical novel, which formed the basis for "Cabaret"), only set in 1960's New York and made as a romantic comedy. The two main character, Holly and Paul, seem to be lifted directly from "Goodbye to Berlin" (in particular the dynamics of their relationship) to the point where, about 10 minutes into the film, I found myself pointing at Holly and saying aloud "that's Sally Bowles!" Yet, whereas when I read Isherwood's book and saw "Cabaret", I found myself feeling sorry for Sally Bowles and saw her as a tragic figure to be pitied, I found Holly Golightly to be quite simply objectionable. This is possibly due to the differences in the way their behaviour is looked on in these two stories. While Bowles's behaviour was viewed as self-destructive, Holly is portrayed as a lovable woman-child whose flightiness is what causes Paul Varjak to fall hopelessly in love with her. The idea that Holly's behaviour is somehow a good thing turned me off her completely.
In addition, there is the matter of Mr Yunioshi, the Japanese character played by Mickey Rooney and commented on in so many other reviews. From the first moment he appears, this character is painful to watch. He is a caricature of a Japanese man, so is painful to watch because of the incredibly racism of this character's inclusion, but even if we ignore his race, the character is a mean spirited little man who is presumably meant to be funny because of his over-the-top meaness and general stupidity, but the humour just falls flat on its face. It is uncommon for me to give a movie 1 star, since I can usually find something I like about anything, no matter how bad it is, but in this case, Mickey Rooney's character is so cringeworthy bad that I am prepared to make an exception.
DVD Review: Wonderful Production Values!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just received the new Paramount Centennial Collection "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and I have to say it's wonderful. They did a great job of remastering and Dolby editing. I own all three releases of the DVD and this is by far the best. I ran it on my Sony Blue-Ray, which upscales, into a 42" Toshiba with a Sony 7.1 receiver (5 Speakers) and the production is almost as good as my Blue-Ray discs. If you're a "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or Audrey Hepburn fan this is a must have! Great job Paramount!
Description of Breakfast at Tiffany's
No film better utilizes Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay, and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naivet? combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high society bohemian chic. --Sean AxmakerGeneral DVDs
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