charing cross road ( film )
84 charing cross road film premiere, london, 1987. helene hanff meeting the queen mother .
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84 charing cross road
is a valuable film for all of the right reasons of theatrical balance and narrative truth. it is a movie that hits you like a live play .
84 charing cross road is a movie made for people who love london and books. the only problem is that the heroine doesn' t get to london until it' s too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie .
84 charing cross road is today in print as a virago modern classic – kept alive for a new generation. the self - effacing helene would doubtless be astounded that her little 84 is now considered a classic. i can just picture that look of incredulity, and hear that throaty laugh .
when a humorous script - reader in her new york apartment sees an ad in the saturday review of literature for a bookstore in london that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with frank doel, the bookseller who works at marks & co. , 84 charing cross road .
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the film'' 84 charing cross road,'' which opens today at the baronet, has a screenplay by hugh whitemore ('' stevie''), was directed by david jones ('' betrayal'') and stars anne bancroft, who' s equally at ease in drama ('' the pumpkin eater'') and farce (the remake of'' to be or not to be''), and who may be the only leading lady in america today with the ability to cross one eye without moving the other .
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in june, 1971, a slim volume by a little - known, middle - aged american writer, helene hanff, was published in britain. called 84 charing cross road, it was a most unlikely bestseller – simply a collection of letters between the impecunious book - lover hanff, in new york, and the staff of marks & co, an antiquarian bookshop in london .
the enthusiastically reviewed 84 charing cross road was even more of a hit here than in the us. it won hanff a huge british fan base and, in the following years, turned into a phenomenon. in 1975 it was adapted for television by the bbc. then in 1981 james roose - evans’s award - winning stage version was a west end hit which ran for 16 months .
working carefully and with the least sleazy of intentions, some very good people have taken helene hanff' s popular epistolary memoir,'' 84 charing cross road,'' which records the new york writer' s 20 - year correspondence with a london bookshop, and made a movie guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including george washington' s, wherever they might be .
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miss fiske would have loved this movie. and i would have loved seeing it with her, through her eyes. i almost even loved it myself, because
84 charing cross road
is a movie made for people who love london and books. the only problem is that the heroine doesn' t get to london until it' s too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie .
anne bancroft and anthony hopkins sparkle in this touching drama about a trans - atlantic romance that begins when a vivacious new york writer with a passion for literature writes to a london bookstore in search of rare english classics. a reserved englishman answers her request - - thus beginning an extraordinary relationship that spans two decades. (original title - 84 charing cross road) © 1986 columbia pictures industries, inc. all rights reserved .
very good film to watch from the start until the finish. anne bancroft, living in new york and looking for out of date or rare printed hardback books as difficulty obtaining them at home. she mangages to find a place in london, being 84 charing cross road a shop that has the titles of books she wants. anthony hopkins is her man to be: he employes a few members of staff maurice denham, a young girl assistant, a man at an enquiry desk. married to judi dench with two children. set in the 1950' s during the festival of britain; to the death of king george the 6th; to the coronation of queen elizabeth the 2nd. anne bancroft sends various gifts of thankfulness and kind consideration as an appreciation to the staff of 84 charing cross road. she has plans to visit london but something gets in the way. will she come to london in the end or will something happen to stop the visit occuring ?
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now as then,'' 84 charing cross road'' is about a lot less than it pretends to be. front and center, from start to finish, is a wraith of a character. she is helene hanff (miss bancroft), a struggling new york writer who is equally - heedlessly - in love with england and literature, though all the audience comprehends is a rather peculiar passion for leather bindings, not what' s in them. the film' s helene might feel just as passionately about baseball cards and, in the blunt way miss bancroft performs, this would make somewhat more sense .
my first book had been published in 1981, but since then each successive project had failed to get off the ground. now, tied down domestically and cut off from london, i felt myself sinking into oblivion. my only refuge was the wonderful local library, where i came upon 84 charing cross road. i was so moved by it i sent hanff a letter, explaining that i was a fellow writer and asking whether we might meet. before long we fixed a date .
the film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it' s about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving .
in charing cross road, “fpd” and his staff were deeply moved by this gesture from a woman they had never met, 3, 500 miles away. at easter she delighted them again, with a parcel containing real eggs – their first in many years of making do with the powdered variety. and so began a more personal, more affectionate transatlantic relationship. soon hanff was exchanging letters not only with doel, but with his kindly irish wife, nora, as well as the rest of the team at marks & co .
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i had remembered watching this film many years ago with my mum and absolutely loved it as a child. i had often thought about it and was delighted to find the film on amazon. i thought maybe it wouldn' t be as good as i' d remembered it however it was! so clever how they made a film based on a book of letters and anne bancroft completely captures the bright energy of helene hanff and anthony hopkins plays a gentle and charming frank. such a lovely film perfect for a sunday afternoon. also the book is a wonderful read too. such a lovely tale of a correspondence that spanned over 20 years and a friendship based on the love of books even though helene and frank didn' t get the opportunity to meet. a lovely film that captured me as a child and i' m happy to say as an adult also .
to a friend embarking on a trip to london that spring, she wrote: “the blessed man who sold me all my books died a few months ago. but marks & co is still there. if you happen to pass by 84 charing cross road, kiss it for me! i owe it so much. ” the epistolary book chronicling her relationship with the shop was born out of her deep sense of loss. published in the us in 1970, it was an instant success. unexpectedly, hanff was catapulted out of obscurity to be feted in the media as a new literary celebrity. fan letters poured in to her tiny apartment on east 72nd street .
a story about love and the love of books, 84 charing cross road features academy award (r) winners anne bancroft and anthony hopkins in stellar performances. helen hanff (bancroft), a feisty new york writer, mails a letter to a small london bookshop requesting some rare english classics. frank doel (hopkins), the reserved english bookseller, answers her request, beginning a touching and humorous correspondence that spans two continents and two decades. hanff' s aloof british demeanor, but their mutual love of books forms a bond that deepens with each passing year. their intimate, richly detailed letters draw us into their lives as helen and frank share theirdreams, hopes, sorrows and joys - and, in doing so, develop a lasting and extraordinary friendship .
what a great film. i saw this by accident on the television one sunday afternoon and was totally absorbed by the storyline. it also appealed to me as an avid lover of books and as someone who has always wanted to own a bookshop. the story is heartwarming and funny. would highly recommend. i haven' t read the book that this film was based on but it' s on my list to buy .
a nice sunday afternoon film. nice to see hopkins in something before he became a big star (when he still tried to act !). no - one does repressed englishman better than him and this character ranks with his remains of the day, shadowlands, howards end and elephant man characters. bancroft is great too. it' s really a film of two halves. if they ever remake it they they use two directors; one to shoot the london section and the other to shoot the ny section. would be an interesting experiment .
lovely, amusing film - really enjoyed it. great actors. bancroft plays an america jewish woman who seeks specialist old books. she writes to the shop in london and the manager is hopkins. over the years they start up regular correspondence. the films shows how their lives - her in america and him and his staff and families in london - develop in the twenty years; including marriages and deaths etc. she even sends food parcels as extra payment for the books as england is still under rations / coupons just after the war when the film begins. unfortunately the american cannot visit them all during the coronation as she has to pay out for dental work. but when she does come over many years later the shop is closed down and the manager (hopkins) is dead. what a sad ending! ! loved this film .
this is such a lovely gentle film, far removed from the noisy and violent themes that seem to dominate today. the true story of writer helene hanff and her search for lovely old books that she just cannot find in america. she discovers a bookshop specialising in exactly what she wants and writes to the shop asking for certain books. this begins a wonderful relationship between the shop manager anthony hopkins and herself (played beautifully by anne bancroft). over the years (the 50s and 60s) helene manages to add more and more books to her collection, making her desire to actually come to london and visit the shop and all the staff stronger and stronger. i won' t say more as i do not wish to spoil the film. this is a must for anyone who just wants to be entertained by a brilliant film, well acted and directed .
in this film, an american writer answers an advertisement from a rare - book store in london and begins a two - decade romance via correspondence with a man in the overseas department. despite several attempts, they never manage to meet. she finally makes it to london only to find the man long gone .
i have read the book, and then listened to the audio version with juliette stevenson and kevin wheatley reading as helene hanff and frank. twice. the audio is wonderful and captures the letters and the growing fondness between the 2 so well. as does this film. wonderful ann bancroft and antony hopkins. the audio is still my favourite .
the film crosscuts between the letters (hers to them and theirs to her) in which hardly anything of importance is revealed. she sends them packages of food, which they receive with weepy gratitude, in return for which they send her gifts that bring on the kind of teary - eyed smiles a mother directs at her son - the - doctor .
the film is a seemingly unending series of non - epiphanies. the first comes in 1949 when, standing on madison avenue, thumbing through a copy of her beloved saturday review of literature, helene spots an advertisement for marks & co. , antiquarian booksellers. miss bancroft reacts in the manner of an all - too - sincere actress playing bernadette having her first vision .
this helene has very few friends. the film treats the emptiness of her life with the delicacy of an undertaker. it maintains utmost discretion. at one point the camera, in panning across her cluttered apartment, sees the photograph of a naval officer on which the camera lingers for maybe half a second. is he a dead fiance? a brother? admiral nimitz? one shouldn' t ask .
the film is based on a hit london and new york play, which was based on a best - selling book. given the thin and unlikely subject matter, that already is a series of miracles. and yet there are people who are pushovers for this material. i should know. i read the book and i saw the play and now i am reviewing the movie, and i still don' t think the basic idea is sound .
adapted from helene hanff' s bestselling account of her dealings with the staff of a london bookshop, this is an absolute delight. building his film around the letters exchanged between hanff and manager frank doel, director david jones manages to create utterly credible characters, convey something of the beauty of books and make some telling comparisons between the gloomy reserve of postwar britain and the effervescence of cold war america. however, what makes this gentle drama so compelling are the performances of anthony hopkins and anne bancroft, who ingeniously fashion a romance between two people who never met .
this is a very entertaining film the pairing of anne bancroft and anthony hopkins is excellent, bancroft is really in top form as the sassy new york writer. hopkins is equally convincing as the reserved british book shop manager and buyer. such an entertaining story, the memory of this, will stay with you for a long time. i have always found anne bancroft to be such a captivating actress, i once sat next to her and her husband mel brooks, on a flight from new york to l. a. they were both very amusing company, and she told me she like working in the theatre to be the most rewarding. a superb actress and such a nice lady as well .
i will not summarize the plot - - you can read others' comments for that, or, better yet, see this yourself. classic film buffs who say that there was a golden age of cinema after which all is in decline need to see this one (although i realize that 1987 probably is long enough ago to qualify as a bygone era for younger imdb users). i would not change a thing in this production. every member of the cast delivers the goods, the story is moving and truthful, the characters come to life and you' re swept up in their lives. when you weary of car chases with explosions, language you can' t repeat to your mom, cliché - ridden distortions of human relationships and humor based on normally - private bodily functions, give yourself a treat and watch this movie. if you think only hobbits can be sweet and kind and show us the good that can reside in common folk, check out the humans in this one. if you... never mind, just see it .
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true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship .
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toward the end of the movie, helene hanff says that
it would have been worth learning old english to read chaucer
. chaucer did not write in old english, he wrote in middle english .
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: no; you' ll enjoy it. london' s a great place. what kind of trip is it - business or pleasure ?
the production teams in new york and london were almost completely separate, and the closing credits reflect this: in front of a split screen showing helene in new york and frank in london, the crews for the two cities scroll side by side. in most cases the same jobs are shown in both columns, and the job titles are then shown in the center .
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basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
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the story begins in the years right after world war ii, when london was still gripped by food rationing and pocked by bomb craters .
a new york woman (anne bancroft), who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones, sees an ad in the saturday review for a london bookstore. she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. she begins a correspondence with the bookseller (anthony hopkins), and thus commences a relationship that lasts for years without the two people ever meeting each other .
sigh. miss fiske, who you may remember from the first paragraph of this review, was the librarian at the urbana free library when i was growing up. she instilled such a love of books in me that i still search used bookstore for the adventures of the melody family, by elizabeth enright; those were the first
real books
i read. miss fiske ran the book club and the saturday morning puppet shows and the book fairs and the story readings. she never had to talk to me about the love of books because she simply exuded it and i absorbed it .
she would have loved this movie. sitting next to her, i suspect, i would have loved it, too. but miss fiske is gone now, and i found it pretty slow - going on my own. and for that matter, miss fiske had a sharp critical intelligence, and i suspect that after seeing this movie she would have nodded and said she enjoyed it, but then she might have added ,
why didn' t that silly woman get on the boat and go to london 10 years sooner and save herself all that postage ?
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if you are really into reading and posting reviews on this site you are probably the kind of person who would like this movie. anthony hopkins and anne bancroft carry on a long term relationship based entirely using there opinions and reviews of books. even with this limitation it is still some of the best character development set to screen. bancroft makes the opening play by sending a letter to hopkins asking him to sell her good cheap books. hopkins plays a reserved well educated clerk in a second hand book store in postwar london. bancroft plays outspoken and fairly brash aspiring writer in new york. hopkins makes selections and bancroft keeps ordering more books and comments on his selection. the relationship slowly evolves over twenty years leaving there friendship more important than the book crossing the atlantic .
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the correspondence spanned two decades – from britain’s post - war austerity to the height of the swinging sixties – and was full of warmth, humour and humanity. if our notion of the “special relationship” between britain and america means anything at all, it is embodied in the pages of hanff’s little book .
it all began in october 1949 as a straightforward business correspondence. having seen an advert for marks & co, describing them as specialists in out - of - print books, hanff wrote to them with a wish list of titles she’d been unable to acquire in new york. “i am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books, ” she explained. “if you have clean second - hand copies of any of the books on the list, for no more than $ 5 each, will you consider this a purchase order and send them to me? ”
the order was dealt with by the shop’s manager, frank doel, who sent her some of the items she wanted and promised to look out for the others. he addressed his letter “dear madam” and signed it “yours faithfully, fpd”. all very formal, very british. but it wouldn’t stay that way for long. hanff’s next letter enclosed payment, praised the “soft vellum and cream - coloured pages” of the books, which put to shame her “orange - crate bookshelves”, and ended with a ps: “i hope ‘madam’ doesn’t mean over there what it means over here. ” she had an insatiable hunger for the classic works of english literature – jane austen, john donne, chaucer, samuel pepys. she sent the shop further orders and more books were dispatched to her manhattan bedsit. then in december she had a surprise for marks & co .
having heard about the food rationing in effect in britain, hanff sent the staff “a small christmas present” of foodstuffs most brits hadn’t seen for years, including a large ham .
this was hastily followed by a short note: “i just noticed on your last invoice it says ‘b. marks, m. cohen. proprietors. ’ are they kosher? i could rush a tongue over. advise please! ”
disarmed by her quirky, engaging jocularity, the letters from the businesslike doel grew less formal, although it wasn’t until 1952 that he finally addressed her as “dear helene”. for her, he became “frankie”: “now listen frankie, it’s going to be a long cold winter and i babysit in the evenings and i need reading matter. don’t sit around, go find me some books! ”
hanff longed to visit london, to “see the england of english literature”. but, as the years passed, she could never afford to make the trip. single and childless, she lived a hand - to - mouth existence as a writer of children’s history books, television scripts and magazine articles, and regarded herself essentially as a failed playwright. her first proper book, in 1961, was underfoot in show business, an account of how she had failed to “crash the theatre” with her string of unproduced plays .
the long - running correspondence with “her bookshop”, and especially with frank doel, gave her a treasured bond with the city she seemed destined never to see. when, in january 1969, she received a letter from marks & co informing her that doel had died of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix, she was devastated. the bond was lost .
in britain the book was acquired by andré deutsch and published the following june and that month hanff at long last stepped off a plane at heathrow to enjoy five weeks in the city of her dreams. her only sadness was that marks & co had recently closed down. she made a pilgrimage to the empty, dusty shop and visited the now - widowed nora at home .
“she told me how furious she used to be when he brought one of my letters home to read to the family, ” hanff wrote in 1973. “‘i’d say to him, what kind of husband are you, to bring another woman’s letters home! ’ ‘if he hadn’t brought them home, ’ i said, ‘you’d have had cause to worry. ’ she looked at me and nodded. ‘that’s just what frank used to say, ’”
hanff really hit the jackpot a few years later, when hollywood came calling. producer mel brooks acquired the property as a star vehicle for his wife, anne bancroft. doel would be played by anthony hopkins. could things get any better ?
it was at this point that our paths crossed. i was a london - based journalist, the mother of two small sons and married to a city lawyer, but in the mid - eighties we had a two - year sojourn in the us while my husband ran his firm’s new york office. he commuted to manhattan each day while i was stuck in connecticut with the kids. a beautiful place, but boring .
we met at rumpelmayer’s, an elegant old café on central park south. in her gravelly, smoker’s voice she regaled me with anecdotes about new york life, and i relished her acerbic wit and self - deprecating humour .
she said she received countless letters from people claiming to be writers and wanting to meet her, who turned out to be amateurs and shams. she now refused to see such people. but she could tell i was a genuine writer, because mine had been a “writer’s letter”. even this small compliment acted on me like a tonic .
i was in my mid - thirties, she was nearing 70, i had a family, she was alone and fiercely independent. i was at a low ebb in my career, she was at the height of hers. yet, opposites though we were, we shared some common threads in our lives .
when i told her about my stagnating career and fear that time was passing me by, she empathised because she had been through the same thing, at exactly the same age. she described how, when she was 34, she woke up in a sweat one night at the terrifying thought that she still hadn’t had a play on broadway .
when i complained about how remote and unhelpful literary agents were, she snorted in agreement. her own agent, she said, wouldn’t take her calls for years as she wasn’t considered “big enough”. even after 84 became a bestseller the agent remained elusive .
“it wasn’t until i got a hollywood deal that she’d finally speak to me. ” later, i explained my personal dilemma. like her, i was a passionate urbanite, but i couldn’t come to manhattan much during the week because of my husband’s and sons’ schedules .
“there’s no dilemma, ” she declared. “just leave a note for your husband on friday evening, saying ‘see you monday morning! ’” when her book q’s legacy – about the influence on her of the literary critic sir arthur quiller - couch – came out in 1985, naturally i read it with interest. i was disappointed. still, i arranged to call on her at home one day, so she could sign my copy. her inscription reads: “for monica porter – a young fellow writer – in the hope that she’ll live to write far better books than this one. ”
we lost touch, eventually. then one day in april 1997 i opened the paper to find her obituary. she’d had diabetes for many years and died as a result of complications a week short of her 80th birthday. sadly, all the fame and accolades bestowed on her over the years had not given her financial security. by her own account she was broke in her final years, and accepted a grant from an author’s charity to help with hospital bills .
even when she had money, hanff had given it away. sheila wheeler, doel’s daughter, who lives in muswell hill, north london, tells me the writer made sure they received a share of her royalties following frank’s death. “we saw her as an american fairy godmother when
i was growing up, ” she says. “i pictured her as someone tremendously rich and glamorous, looking like lauren bacall. it was a shock, when i finally met her in 1971, to see how wrong i had been. ”
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playing opposite miss bancroft is the estimable anthony hopkins, as the mild - mannered english bibliographer at marks & co. with whom she corresponds. it' s a modest performance in an exceedingly dim role, and of interest only when seen alongside the actor' s spectacular work in the just - opened'' good father.''
it' s not as if everyone concerned couldn' t have known the quality of the gruel before they plunged into it. the book was the basis for a london television show in 1975 and, as adapted by james roose - evans, was a play that was successfully put on in london in 1981. a 1982 new york production closed after 96 performances .
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thus begins her pen - pal relationship with frank doel (mr. hopkins) and the other dear people at marks & co. as they supply her with books, she supplies them with slangily affectionate letters in which she pours out her heart about the joys of acquiring and feeling previously owned copies of hazlitt, stevenson, pepys, de tocqueville, chaucer, landor, woolf and newman ('' dear, goofy john henry''), among others .
to the extent that any substance is revealed through these exchanges, helene is a wan woman with apparently no other life. we' re told that she writes television scripts ('' ellery queen,'''' the hallmark hall of fame,'' short stories). all the audience sees, however, is a domiciled shopping - bag lady who likes to fondle her books and, when she opens them, to chain - smoke cigarettes and to drink so much gin she wouldn' t remember much of anything she reads anyway .
from time to time, helene does display a certain amount of nerve, as when she ridicules those great (and cheap) old modern library giant editions that allowed several generations of americans to grow up halfway educated without having to fawn on marks & co. in london. even her wisecracks are meager:'' i hope' madam' doesn' t mean over there what it means over her,'' she writes to frank in one of her early letters. he smiles fondly. twee is the english word for it .
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, a unique comedy - drama based on a true story. hanff and doel are separated by 3, 000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. their relationship begins when new - yorker hanff orders a copy of pepys' diary. doel, as polite and soft - spoken as hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from the titular book shop in london. for the next two decades they correspond without ever actually sitting down for tea and crumpets .
director david jones (betrayal) does a reasonably good job of goosing a movie about something as un - cinematic as letter - writing, and the stars have fun chewing scenery on both sides of the atlantic. the model for this kind of bittersweet relationship is david lean' s brief encounter, which, not coincidentally, is glimpsed here when hanff steps out for a rainy - day matinee. - - glenn lovell, urltoken
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charing cross road is a 1935 british drama film directed by albert de courville and starring john mills , june clyde , derek oldham and belle baker . the film takes its title from the charing cross road that runs through central london . 
charing cross road is a 1935 british drama film directed by albert de courville and starring john mills, june clyde, derek oldham and belle baker. the film takes its title from the charing cross road that runs through central london.
charing cross road is a 1935 british drama film directed by albert de courville and starring john mills, june clyde, derek oldham and belle baker. the film takes its title from the charing cross road that runs through central london.