Cinema Retro just received the following press release from Fox UK:
United
Artists’ cult classic - The Thomas Crown Affair - will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary this
February. As
part the studio’s 90th Anniversary, also launching in February,
United Artists are giving film fans a chance to re-visit one of the most iconic
films to emerge from their remarkable collection of inspirational titles
available on DVD.
Released in 1968, the film was nominated for two Academy
Awards, for Original Music score and Best Song.
The film is was modelled on the life of noted Belgian
thief Tomas Van Der
Heijden (played by Steve McQueen) who used a dune buggy to steal
seven paintings by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the Louvre in 1961. It also stars screen
siren Faye
Dunaway, an insurance investigator who always gets her man, but can she give up
the man she has fallen in love with to the authorities?
This
stylish cat-and-mouse thriller directed by Norman Jewison, who makes exciting
use of split screen images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the
boudoir, the polo field to a glider cockpit. The Oscar winning Best Song (1968)
"The Windmills of Your Mind" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of
romance and intrigue...
The Thomas Crown Affair thought to be the first
film to have ever showed the reveal and broke the mould in slick, classy crime
capers and inspired a remake
(released in 1999) starring Pierce
Brosnan and Rene Russo
- which was also received with success. A new sequel is also planned for
release this year.
(The DVD contains a director's commentary by Norman Jewison who will be interviewed in a forthcoming issue of Cinema Retro)
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