No 486 - Breakfast at Tiffany's Director - Blake Edwards. You say, that we have nothing in common. No common ground to stand on. And we're falling apart . It was once again time for me to watch a massively famous piece of cinema which I have somehow missed. This is the worrying thing about this list, I haven't seen a lot of 'iconic' or 'must see' films. I feel like I'm gradually getting more cultured. This film is a wonderful romantic comedy. It was made before the formula for romantic comedies was devised, and yet it manages to avoid a lot of the cliches that are now part of our contemporary rom -com scene - there was a brilliant blog about it on Empire Online, which has been inexplicably removed... Anyway, the frantic dash, the contrived argument, the sense of Acts. Each of these elements (which are now so common in our films) could have been in this film, and yet they aren't. The film is fresh and exciting, light and frothy and the script sparkle...
