Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

2024
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1h 40m

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7.4/10

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Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star's personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.

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Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star's personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star's personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star's personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.

Director
- Nanette Burstein
Writers
- Tal Ben-David
- Nanette Burstein
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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

836

YOUR RATING

Director
- Nanette Burstein
Writers
- Tal Ben-David
- Nanette Burstein
Stars

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Awards
- 8 nominations

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Debbie Reynolds

Elizabeth Taylor

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Montgomery Clift

Self - Actor
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Marion Rosenberg

Elizabeth Cuzzupoli

Younger Elizabeth Taylor

John Heyman

Samuel Marx

Tim Mendelson

Director
- Nanette Burstein
Writers
- Tal Ben-David
- Nanette Burstein
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Elizabeth Taylor: [from a recording of a 1985 interview] Now, I find life so exciting. There's so many things to do now, so many things to learn. And I'm doing that now. If I want to go someplace, I *go.* If there's something I want to study, I'll *study it* now. I'm not under obligation to *anyone*
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Elizabeth Taylor: but myself. And to thine own self be true. That's all I have to do.

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9/10

Behind the Giant

Academy Award® nominee Nanette Burstein builds an insightful and moving documentary of one of the greatest Hollywood icons that ever existed using what could be very obvious resources for a project like this, recorded interviews, photographs and files footage.

However, she uses all these resources and her expertise properly, creating an intimate and gracious 100 minutes journey worthy of an acclaimed actress as Elizabeth Taylor.

We find out what we've all been knowing all along but we happen to disregard very often, behind the glamorous legend, she was just a person.

A person with insecurities, a person who made mistakes, and a person trying to learn and improve...

Elizabeth Taylor's achievements didn't only occur in her amazing career (5 Academy Awards® nominations - twice winner - and becoming the first actor ever earning 1 million dollars for a movie) but in her personal life, being her one of the first public figures talking openly about subjects that were taboo over that time, drugs and alcohol addiction, rehab process and AIDS.

As fascinating as once was Elizabeth Taylor, this documentary is an exceptional tribute for her and an outstanding addition to this genre.