The Asheville Film Society will screen Love Affair on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
Love Affair
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In Brief: In honor of my least favorite holiday (you'll notice I didn't devote a month's worth of programming to this one), the AFS will be screening Leo McCarey's classic romantic comedy, Love Affair, this Valentine's Day. With a script that vacillates between pithy humor and tear-jerking melodrama from Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) and Delmer Daves (3:10 to Yuma), cinematography by the great Rudolph Maté and tremendous performances from Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, this might be one of the best date movies of all time. Although it was remade three times — once by McCarey in 1953 as An Affair to Remember, then in 1993 by Nora Ephron as Sleepless in Seattle and again under the original title in 1994 by Glenn Gordon Caron starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening — the first film is still the best by far.
The Asheville Film Society will screen Love Affair on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
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| Genre: | Romantic Comedy |
| Director: | Leo McCarey |
| Starring: | Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Maurice Moscovich |
| Rated: | NR |
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