The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Directed by Norman Jewison
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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What critics compared The Thomas Crown Affair to
A cover version of “The Windmills of Your Mind,” best known as the theme song of the classic 1968 con-artist flick “The Thomas Crown Affair”?
The movie's main selling point is an ambience of affluence, personified by Smith, who glides across the screen as smoothly as Steve McQueen in "The Thomas Crown Affair," wrapped in various sleek outfits and sports cars.
The protagonist (he’s not quite active or admirable enough to be called the hero) of this crime flick, Harry Barber (Travis Fimmel), is fixated on the eponymous star, so Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair are referenced.
Set in Europe in the early 1960s, it exhibits meticulous care in terms of its costumes, sets and cinematography, creating a sumptuous cinematic environment more reminiscent of Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair or vintage Bond than the clunky TV show from which it takes its name and lead character.
It is reminiscent of Kubrick's "The Killing," but Jewison's film pales in suspense when compared to the former.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968/1999) You make the call: Steamy Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the 1968 original or suave Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in the 1999 remake.
He shows them watching films both on-the-nose (1968’s The Thomas Crown Affair) and of dubious utility; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which really only helps if you’ve robbed a train and have to get away from a super-posse on horseback.
Braff uses split screens for phone conversations and planning montages — a technique that Norman Jewison famously deployed in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Surface gloss is what you get in this caper-romance, pale beside To Catch a Thief, whose beautiful-star power and life-of-the-super-wealthy backdrops it copies, in great part because its actors lack the elegant wit and sparkle of Hitchcocks.
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While updating it for the '90s, director John McTiernan ("Die Hard") has infused "The Thomas Crown Affair" with the same style that distinguished the 1968 Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway (here seen in a cameo) original.
The original version of The Thomas Crown Affair, released in 1968, is an ideal project to be remade.
Plagued by a number of immoderate filmmaking follies, the Pierce Brosnan-Rene Russo remake of 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair" would be easy to malign if it weren't so maddeningly enjoyable.
That's the premise of "The Thomas Crown Affair," a remake of the 1968 Norman Jewison film of the same name that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway as the playfully adversarial "couple."
I've never seen the acclaimed 1968 Norman Jewison caper romance, "The Thomas Crown Affair," which top-lined Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and after viewing this highly stylized 1999 remake, let's just say I'm not exactly dying to rent it anytime soon.
Sexy, stylish and sophisticated, the 1999 model of The Thomas Crown Affair makes the 1968 original seem darn near creaky.