2003: LOVE ACTUALLY - Richard Curtis' Christmas rom-com CRITIQUED | Newsnight Review | BBC Archive
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- Now often thought of as a modern Christmas movie classic, what sort of critical reception did Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis, receive at the time of its release?
Newsnight Review stalwart Mark Lawson holds fort as Julie Myerson, Tom Paulin and Tim Lott analyse the merits, or otherwise, of the film.
Originally broadcast on BBC Two, Friday 21 November, 2003.
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This just shows how lots of things are slowing down. 2003, 20 years ago and it really doesn't look much different to today. Now look at 2003 compared to 1983, things looked very different.
1983 looks more dated because it is 40 years ago, but in 2003 83 just looked 20 years old
@@pennybunny you’re entirely missing my point.
Some of these people are taking themselves far too seriously 😅
i miss this show SO MUCH. I fkn loved newsnight review.
Newsnight Review isn't complete without Paul Morley droning on about Joy Division and Bonnie Greer's passive-aggressive condescension.
i loved that show so much but you're wrong with that misogynoir comment about bonnier greer. she's fantastic and brilliant intelligent. she wasn't condescending at all compared to the white men on there! Miss Paul Morely - where is he now?!
@@biegebythesea6775 I didn't mention anything to do with her race or gender, so suggesting my comment is the result of deep-rooted prejudice on my part is insulting in the extreme. You don't know anything about me, we've never met, and - frankly - if that's the sort of bad faith assumption you make about people you clearly have a problem.
@@richardenglish2195 of course you didn't mention her gender or race. you're not daft, just ignorant. it's a known sterotype towards black women but also women generally. if you said david baddiel was tight with money, we understand the connotation without you needing to tell everyone you have an issue with his religion. i understand it might be unconscious on your part. bonnie is just not condescending, you're projecting heavily. instead of being insulted, examine yourself.
Friday 21st November 2003
"but actually he turns out to be a really really nice stalker who lets the woman go"
😑😑😑😑😑
It was 2003. The collective consciousness of american citizens were weary. The constant doom scroll from our mainstream media and being driven into the iraq by the establishment. Having love actually come out during that holiday season, and be a lighthearted and campy romp was widely embraced by audiences who loved movies tjat made tbem fill giddy tbrpugh such darker turn of the world as we had once known. It was a huge hit. The movie opens to a hugh grant voice over. As scenes of people at an airport terminal, families and loved ones embracing each other with joyous smiles. And our english cousins seemingly give us a contemplation. That the phone calls that were made by the passengers aboard those airliners. Were made to their loved ones. If you take time to look, love actually is all around.
"There were two people next to me that couldn't stop laughing. But they were Japanese and couldn't understand a word."
Um.
People, talking over each other, with their strong opinions and sharp quips.
Yeah, you don't see that kind of thing..
🤔
I think..
Oh dear.
i used to fancy tom paulin.
so the audience would have known spanish? i mean, the two languages are really not that dissimilar. my family is portuguese and i learned spanish in school. you understand one you can pretty much understand the other even if you can't speak it.
Why do these people make me question euthanasia?
Ah, this takes me back, no not ‘Love Actually’ but rather Adam (Buxton) and Joe’s (Cornish) well observed toy parody of Newsnight’s pretentious critics, especially the irritatingly supercilious and contrarian Tom Paulin - rechristened Tom Tortoise by A&J!
They nailed Tom perfectly I recall by portraying him as the sort who, to use a modern colloquialism, was perpetually high from sniffing their own f*rts…. 😉
Did someone actually watch these dreadful programs on TV?
I used to watch Newsnight Review as a student because I thought it made me look clever. Looking back, I realise what a pretentious little prat I was.
i t was a FANTASTIC show. are you serious? great programme, my favourite.