Funny Face

The bookshop salesgirl Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) is accidentally found by the photograph Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), who convinces the owner of the fashion magazine Quality, the powerful Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), that she could be the new model she... Full review

I love everything about this movie. It was written by Leonard Gershe about my mother (Doe Siegel) and her love (and then husband), Richard Avedon. It depicts Mom's brilliant intellect. Her compassionate, youthful energy. Forget about reading too many nuances... Full review

This is a rare bird indeed, a Hollywood musical that succeeds as parody as well as musical entertainment, featuring the best song and dance man of all time, Fred Astaire, and the Hollywood establishment darling, Audrey Hepburn, who was always magnificent... Full review

Stanley Donen's "Funny Face" was one of the best musicals that came out of Paramount, a studio not known for that genre. The DVD format we watched recently seems to have been transferred with great care as the colors have... Full review

Audrey Hepburn always said she was an introvert forced by her profession into playing extroverts, and usually that strain didn't show. It doesn't show in "Funny Face" either, but her natural gamine appeal does seem to get swallowed up in... Full review

This 1957 musical is a little odd. It has a title based on an original 1920s Gershwin musical (that included the title song) which starred Fred and Adele Astaire. It was a musical and scenic valentine to France (but only... Full review

As long as you do not take the premise or the characters or the plot too seriously, this is an enjoyable movie with an interesting pairing of Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, plus an excellent supporting performance by Kay Thompson... Full review

This snappy musical teams an ageing Fred Astaire with the young and lively Audrey Hepburn, puts them in Paris with a lovely Gershwin score, and piles on the slush to create romantic confection that really is irresistible.Audrey is at her... Full review

Outstanding. Beautiful. Classic. What a real lady!!!The photo sequence in Paris has never been topped. Such a 10+ movie, I can just watch it over and over. Those are kind of strange adjectives and comments from me, especially since I'm... Full review

This is just fun! Singing, dancing, Audrey, Fred. Fun!I've seen all of Audrey Hepburn's stuff, and this is the one movie of hers that I enjoy the most. I can watch it endless times and not get sick of it.... Full review

My second DVD pick of the week for Valentine's Day is the other new Audrey Hepburn release, "Funny Face," a gorgeous musical set in Paris with Fred Astaire and songs by Gershwin. ... Full Review

Funny Face is a musical starring Hepburn with Fred Astaire and doesn't come with a commentary, but does come with a complete list of special features on disc two. In the next couple days I will be doing one complete article for the first five releases from Paramount Home Entertainment for their Centennial Collection, which has certainly been pro Audrey Hepburn up to this point with four of the first five films released starring the '50s and '60s beauty (and boy was she beautiful). ... Full Review

Funny Face rather ignorantly tries to satirize postwar French intellectuals. Kay Thompson is appropriately loud but also a great singer and dancer; she comes across as a total pro on all counts. ... Full Review

prefer the far more carefree Funny Face to that stodgy old ball of corn....tragic songs....An enduring musical, Funny Face is a visual delight, full of wonderful sights....The joy of the movie....Audrey Hepburn is lovely, Fred Astaire charming, and Kay Thompson a force of nature..... ... Full Review

turned into a Parisian high fashion model, the film's visual beauty nearly trumps the sentimental romance between model and photographer that assumes narrative priority.....George and Ira Gershwin's songs in Funny Face (with the exception of numbers performed by Thompson) tend to be sung during sappy romantic scenes that establish the relationship between Jo and Dick.....The second DVD disc includes a fascinating bio of Kay Thompson, who got her start on Broadway.... ... Full Review

Is the opening look lemon meringue, or acid chartreuse? Hard to tell under the intense lights, and the runway stops just short of a shallow shooting pit, which makes it difficult for photographers to get a clean shot straight on. ... Full Article

Hanoi Montana doesn't seem to get why people think she's mocking Asians in this picture. During a half-ass non-apology she just posted on her website, Miley claims she was simply making "goofy faces" with her friends and "In NO way... ... Full Article

Sometimes I just get in a mood. Last Sunday it was a mood to watch a western. So The Magnificent Seven glides into my DVD player. ... Full Article

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire Star in This Movie Classic as Part of the Paramount Centennial Collection One of Hollywood's all-time favorite leading ladies can now appear in your home as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Funny Face (1957) just arrived... ... Full Article

"Funny Face" has the distinction of being not only one of the Technicolor musicals directed by Stanley Donan but also one of the most iconic films with the most forgettable music. ... Full Article

I'll freely admit that even to this day, it only takes a few bars of John Williams ' iconic "Raiders March" to make me want to eat PB&J sandwiches and put playing cards in my bicycle spokes. ... Full Article