Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

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Michael F @Michael445 Aug 13 This is an absolute must see for Elizabeth Taylor fans or anyone else who loved the movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor's private life often overshadowed her film career but this documentary serves as a reminder as to just how brilliant she could be in her films. See more maryann b @RT33009988 01/04/2025 I loved the honest, and rare public revelations of a very private, very talented, absolutely gorgeous woman. Who was a fierce, tough dame in the best Bogey-Bacall sense of the word. And an immensely loyal friend to Roddy, Monty, and Rock. I hurt for her loss of Mike Todd, Burton she loved too but he didn't love her as hugely as Mike had. See more C P @RT37100699 11/11/2024 Beautifully made, very poignant documentary about one of the worlds biggest and most glamorous movie stars. A must-see for Hollywood buffs. See more Megan e @RT58906942 08/29/2024 Fascinating documentary! They did a great job of placing images, film clips, and other contemporary interviews in the midst of the lost interviews. Brilliant! 5 stars See more Alan W @PatronWong 08/26/2024 This iconic actresses documentary double feature begins with Nanette Burstein's fluffy documentary constructed around newly discovered tapes Richard Meryman made in 1964 with Elizabeth Taylor (with brief appearance from GBF, Roddy McDowall, though criminally, barely any Richard Burton) in preparation for his ghost-writing her autobiography. Matching up the sometimes frank audio interviews to a delightfully assembled sequence of archive footage and film clips, it's a conventional and chronological run-through of her cinematic career up to this point, charting her rise from child actor to young starlet in lesser known studio pictures she's contracted to make, to her more famous works like Giant, the Oscar-winning Butterfield 8 (which I didn't know she loathed), and of course Cleopatra. Likewise, it does the same for the numerous marriages and scandals which haunted her, in which domestic abuse, tragic accidents and adultery played a part in their various dissolutions and explain why her public life is constantly being splashed all over the newspapers and other media. To hear Taylor commenting freely in an unfiltered manner on some of these matters, or firmly shutting down others she doesn't feel like discussing, is fascinating and illuminating for the curious fans, but this is a limited and strictly confined documentary with views that were expressed 60 years ago which only serves to demonstrate Taylor's mindset at that particular time in her life. Without the benefit of hindsight or any counterpoints, it lacks any real introspection or reflection that can only come with the passage of time, whilst anything post-Virginia Wolff is relegated to an epilogue montage. See more Aldis H @plever 08/08/2024 The tapes were not f****** lost, that's just advertising double speak. They just haven't been shown, for good reason. See more Read all reviews

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