Moviegoers will hear a different kind of “BOOooo! BOOOooo!!!” in theaters this coming week. The Princess Bride turned 30 this past week and TCM Big Screen Classics is back again partnering with Fathom Events to round out a major year of retrospective screenings. You’ll have two days only to see Buttercup, Westley, Inigo Montoya, Fezzig, Miracle Max & Valerie, Prince Humperdinck, Vissini, and Grandpa back in theaters, tomorrow, October 15, and Wednesday, October 18.
The Princess Bride? Back on the big screen? Inconceivable!
You can also get in on a “twivia” contest for great prizes. Check out the contest here. Accompanying this return to theaters is a 30th anniversary home release of the film (which does not appear to offer any updates to prior versions), available in a Blu-ray and Digital HD combo and on DVD. Fans of the film should take a look at one of the better behind the scenes looks at any movie in The Princess Bride–A Celebration, previously reviewed here at borg.com. It has some great Polaroid photographs from director Rob Reiner. And if you haven’t read the original story to your kids or grandkids, get William Goldman’s classic novel, still in print and available here. Goldman won Oscars for two other all-time greats: All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
You can’t beat this cast and the actors who were all at great places in each of their careers–Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, André the Giant, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Peter Falk, and Fred Savage. For the younger generation: yes–that is the same Robin Wright who starred in Wonder Woman earlier this year and Blade Runner 2049, in theaters now. A true classic, last year The Princess Bride was added to the National Film Registry, which identifies and preserves select films typifying the American film heritage.
is a classic movie in every sense. Unforgettable scenes, quotable dialogue, and a superb story by William Goldman provided the recipe for a film that is not just a fun film to watch now and again but a film girls and boys and women and men alike will outright tell you they love. If there is a more incredible single scene in all of fantasy films than Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya in his final confrontation with Christopher Guest’s Count Rugen, then I have no idea what it is. “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
is the first companion book to the film ever created. Which in itself is astounding–a movie so popular and yet no one thought to release something like this before. The result is what any fan of any film would love to have–it’s the kind of book that has not even been done in this way for films like Star Wars or Star Trek, although many great varieties of books have looked behind the scenes at those franchises. What stands out for 
