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The Princess Bride

February 2024

  • Rob Reiner, with images from Stand By Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

    The nepo baby who made good: Rob Reiner on Trump, family – and his brilliant, beloved movies

    He directed When Harry Met Sally, Misery, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and now he’s back with a powerful political documentary. Not to mention the Spinal Tap sequel ...

November 2021

  • ‘If a film has landed in the hearts of the public, it is not a good idea to try and revisit it’ … Cary Elwes with Robin Wright Penn in The Princess Bride (1987).

    Week in geek
    Hands off The Princess Bride! Which 80s fantasy films are due a reboot?

    Several of the decade’s cinematic fantasy adventures are unimprovable but others – Dragonslayer, or The Neverending Story perhaps – are not

September 2019

  • Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in The Princess Bride

    Inconceivable! Rumour of The Princess Bride remake sends fans into pit of despair

    Cary Elwes sums up reaction: ‘There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one’

August 2019

  • compkids2

    The best films for children: Observer readers have their say

    A look at some of the best responses to Mark Kermode’s selection of 25 child-friendly films

November 2018

  • 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival - “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Tribeca Drive-In<br>screenwriter William Goldman attends the 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca Drive-In presentations of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” at the North Cove at World Financial Center Plaza on April 24, 2009 in New York City.

    Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87

    Key member of 1970s New Hollywood generation won two Oscars for his screenplays

October 2017

  • THE PRINCESS BRIDE [US/1987] CARY ELWES AND ROBIN WRIGHT PRNN

    The Princess Bride review – golden-age throwback glows brighter than ever

    Rob Reiner’s salute to Hollywood’s old swashbuckling adventures is a poignant pastiche gloriously unencumbered by CGI visuals and gender cliches

September 2017

  • Second helping … Anthony Heald and Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

    Film blog
    They'll be back: are reissues of familiar favourites crowding out hard-to-find classics?

    Terminator 2, Dirty Dancing and The Silence of the Lambs are all set for cinema runs – but are brilliant older films in danger of permanent eclipse?

June 2017

  • Robin Wright

    The crush
    Why I love… Robin Wright

    Resolve, strength, practicality, vulnerability. It’s all there in her eyes, her jaw, her smile. It’s what makes her so compelling

December 2015

  • A still from the movie The Princess Bride; the Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz

    Why is Ted Cruz re-enacting a scene from The Princess Bride? – video

    Ted Cruz shows off his inner movie geek, giving an Iowa church congregation his best impression of a scene from the cult classic film The Princess Bride

March 2015

  • Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in The Princess Bride.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 24 March 1988: The Princess Bride - review

    Originally published in the Guardian on 24 March 1988: Heroes, giants, villains, wizards, true love - Derek Malcolm on the adaptation of William Goldman’s half-serious fairytale

February 2015

  • Cary Elwes, star of the Princess Bride

    Cary Elwes on The Princess Bride: ‘I know what my epitaph will be’

    Since its release in 1987, The Princess Bride has built a devoted following – nowhere more so than in the Freeman household. Hadley Freeman takes her family along to meet its dashing star Cary Elwes

January 2015

  • Wallace Shawn

    Wallace Shawn: ‘I live off doing animal voices in cartoons’

    You may know him as the teacher in Clueless, the dinosaur in Toy Story, and the baddie in The Princess Bride. But Wallace Shawn wants to open your eyes to sweatshops, starvation and torture. He talks to Liese Spencer in Manhattan

November 2014

  • 'The gift that keeps giving' … Carry Elwes with Robin Wright in The Princess Bride. Photograph: Rona

    Radio review
    The Moment with Cary Elwes review – a Hollywood charm-bomb

    Bim Adewunmi: The star of The Princess Bride on the everlasting joy of working on a much-loved movie

September 2014

  • WITHNAIL AND I

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best quotable films

    … to mark the return of Withnail and I to the big screen. By Kathryn Bromwich

July 2014

  • Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, adapted from Goldman's 1973 book, may now become a musical

    Inconceivable! Director Rob Reiner still planning Princess Bride musical

    Original film's director Rob Reiner reveals new plans to turn the cult classic into a Broadway musical, after Disney's adaptation goes quiet

November 2013

  • The Princess Bride

    Princess Bride memoir to be written by Cary Elwes

  • The Princess Bride

    The Princess Bride to become Disney stage production

March 2013

  • OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL

    This week's new films
    This week's new films

    Oz The Great And Powerful | Side Effects | Broken | Parker | The Guilt Trip | Robot & Frank | Babeldom | Fire With Fire | The Princess Bride

November 2011

  • Reality bites … Hope Davis and Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003).

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Readers' comments – week three

  • The Princess Bride

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: The Princess Bride

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