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	:: rogerebert.com :: Alfie
		Strange, that "Alfie" (1966) is halfway remembered as a comedy, when it was actually about a man who attempted to live life as comedy despite the lowering gloom which he thoroughly deserved.
		Alfie, in 1966 and again in the 2004 version, desperately wants to keep smiling, have a great time, and be lover to a parade of women who are willing and friendly, and never complain, and make no demands, and understand his need to be unfaithful.
		Alfie confesses, in one of his rueful speeches directly to the camera, that the tricky thing about dating a woman with a kid is that you get to really like the kid.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041104/REVIEWS/40922014/1023 (701 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| Alfie
		In the original, Alfie is made to realize that there is a transcendent dimension to what he has hitherto treated as nothing but the satisfaction, to which he is manifestly entitled, of appetite.
		Similarly, the new Alfie’s regret at losing a friend, even apart from the fact that it doesn’t pack the same moral wallop as horror at a murder, is experienced only in terms of his own feelings.
		Alfie was a familiar figure one might have known from the neighborhood.
	www.jamesbowman.net /reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1570 (985 words)

	Alfie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfie tells the story of a young man whose life consists of running from woman to woman, until several life reversals make him rethink his lifestyle.
		Alfie was originally a play written by Bill Naughton, the screenplay for the 1966 version of the film was adapted by Naughton as well.
		Terence Stamp was considered for the title role of "Alfie" but turned it down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfie (189 words)

	Alfie (1966) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie is a cruel, merciless, and heartless man. He is self-absorbed, utterly insensitive, and totally domineering.
		Notice in his scenes with Gilda how his words sound as though he's endorsing freedom, independence, and self-determination, but the effect of those words is to keep her right under his thumb where she belongs.
		"Alfie" is a film which asks you to look closer, and it rewards the effort.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0060086 (705 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Some like it rough
		Alfie was a predator, women were his helpless victims: they couldn't earn enough to keep themselves; they lived by the goodwill of men.
		New Alfie takes up temporarily with a single mother, proving he's a nice guy at heart by being fond of another man's child: far too strong for today's tender audience were he seen to abandon his own.
		The strength of the original Alfie's monologues to the camera is that he refers to women not as "she" but as "it".
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1327226,00.html (1603 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Alfie (2004)
		"Alfie," a remake of the 1966 film starring Michael Caine in the title role, thematically reminds of a more accessible, personalized version of the recent "I ♥ Huckabees." Although it is easier to wrap your finger around, and, thus, more audience-friendly for the mainstream faction, it is in no way simpler or condescending.
		Alfie's story is told through his varied interactions with the women in his life, each one given enough time to make an impact as a person who feels real rather than a thin screenplay creation.
		There are times as "Alfie" rounds the corner to its finish line that threaten to become routine, as Alfie makes his way around town reuniting with the women in his life and being faced with one eye-opening discovery after the next, but director Charles Shyer fortunately never quite falls into a predictable melodramatic pattern.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/a/04_alfie.htm (724 words)

	Alfie review, Alfie DVD review
		Law’s Alfie is a refreshing reminder that not every great performance has to include some incredible historic importance or life-changing event to be nominated for an Oscar, and audiences will quickly fall in love with the self-confident swagger that protrudes while he delivers sharp narration with a wink and smile to the camera.
		The eventual character development of Alfie is much needed although - if not only for the thin story that results — but by the end of the film, the audience is left wanting more of Law’s boyish charm and carefree approach to life in place of the somber philosopher he becomes.
		Always smart and never afraid to do the unimaginable, Charles Shyer’s “Alfie” is the perfect film for the woman withdrawing from the cancellation of “Sex and the City” and the man who can now finally understand what the buzz was all about.
	www.bullz-eye.com /mguide/reviews_2004/alfie.htm (464 words)

	Alfie Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Alfie's engaging cast of eye candy, lead by the beguiling Jude Law, certainly help make up for whatever is lacking in the story department.
		As far as the women in the film, they all add something different and unique--from Tomei's spunkiness to Miller's wounded soul to Sarandon's sophistication--and all seem to have great chemistry with their heartthrob leading man (especially Miller, who is Law's real-life love these days).
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/2423488 (727 words)

	Britmovie - Alfie 1966
		Alfie is a British production starring Michael Caine as the title character, a selfish skirt-chaser who only begins to question his values at film's end.
		Alfie is an underrated film with an excellent script by Bill Naughton, who also wrote the play.
		Alfie has a medical examination that goes on for at least ten minutes, talking to the camera all the while.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography/012.html (377 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film -ALFIE
		She has a little boy who's about five or six, and Alfie is absolutely in love with the little kid (this is where his softness starts to come out).
		Alfie reaches down into his pocket and sees that Jane's thong is still in his pocket, he puts it in Marisa's trash real quick before tucking her little boy in bed for the evening.
		Alfie ends the film acknowledging that so many women had taken him into their lives, accepted him, treated him wonderfully and he always just left them.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/alfie.html (1330 words)

	Alfie Movie Review - Alfie Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		This week's Jude Law movie is ''Alfie." For those of you keeping score, that's three down and three to go before the holidays, although it's a steep task to consider ''Alfie" anything other than a Vanity Fair pictorial.
		Law's Alfie is an upwardly mobile Manhattan chauffeur who wants to start his own limo company with his best friend, Marlon, played by Omar Epps, a handsome man who's never allowed to be as blithe or sartorially inspired as his costar.
		Alfie rides around the city on his Vespa and turns to the camera to explain to us what he's doing, how he's feeling, and whom he'll chase next.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=6515 (802 words)

	Alfie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie smokes and drinks often, including an early scene where he drinks heavily with his best friend at a bar and later has drunken sex with his friendâs girl.
		Alfie shows no respect for his Asian boss; it could be argued the bossâs heavily accented portrayal is a negative stereotype.
		But hopefully the Alfies of the world (and there are millions of them) will come away with an uncomfortable burr under the saddle of their pleasure-centered approach to life.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0001955.cfm (1254 words)

	Reviews by Elisabeth Leitch : Alfie
		Alfie does his best to avoid commitment, love, and dependence of any sort, but, in they end, both Caine and Law’s Alfie unwittingly seem to find themselves missing and desiring those very things they avoided.
		In Law’s Alfie, the sadness that appears on Alfie’s face when he passes Julie and her son playing together after they have broken up reveals a similar attachment to a child who isn’t even his own.
		While Alfie’s question, “What’s it all about?” still hangs in the air at the end of the movie, the answer seems to lie in the love he has seen in others’ lives and the love he feels as though he is missing.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /comments/elisabeth/2004/12/alfie.html (1459 words)

	Alfie (Charles Shyer) Jude Law Susan Sarandon Marisa Tomei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In that version, Alfie is an embittered, lower-class jerk who calls women “birds” and refers to them using the pronoun “it,” his only real friend being a cute mutt that follows him around the streets of Swinging London.
		This 2004 Alfie is such a nice cad that when hot and horny older woman Susan Sarandon (politely) tells him off in a touching scene—thanks to Sarandon’s superbly controlled playing—her blunt honesty seems uncalled for.
		Alfie (Jude Law) is a good-looking, charming Englishman in his thirties earning a living as a limo driver in New York City.
	www.altfg.com /Reviews/Alfie2004.htm (1699 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Alfie [1965] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie was a huge success, bringing a new frankness about changing sexual attitudes to the screen, in which respect it was almost the male companion to Julie Christie's then shocking, Oscar-winning performance in Darling (1965).
		Although "Alfie" is very much a period piece, I saw it again recently and was tremendously surprised at how well it holds up, especially in the context of its time.
		ALFIE truly is a brilliant, thought provoking Drama which confirmed Michael Caine as an actor of true class.His witty asides to the camera throughout the film work brilliantly and never look daft.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059H26 (1421 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Alfie [2004] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie is a charming little devil, but he's the worst kind of man - a womanizer who leaves broken hearts in his wake as he evades commitment and rushes ever onwards to more women, more cheap thrills, and ever more self-satisfaction.
		When you come right down to it, Alfie is really just a stupid, stupid man who can't even figure out what he should want, yet regrets not having it.
		I couldn't care less about Alfie, he is dead boring (and pretty stupid really), and Jude Law's pretty boy looks do nothing for me and if that's the only thing this film stands on clearly it's not going to be enough.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006I0254 (1363 words)

	Alfie: if you happy with you need do nothing - PopMatters Music Review
		Alfie -- it's such a quintessentially British name for a quintessentially British band, what with it being the title of a quintessential British film starring the quintessential British actor, Michael Caine.
		While there are a few warped pop flourishes a la the Turtles, however, Alfie's music also incorporates '60s-style psychedelia and mines the meandering territory of contemporary folk as defined by acts like the Beta Band and the aforementioned Tortoise.
		Like so many British bands of the past two decades, Alfie seems to be tied to its moment, making music that is so much about its particular time and place that it loses its potency outside that context.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/alfie-ifyou.shtml (744 words)

	Alfie (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of course Alfie has to be bought down a peg or two, and this happens as a result of another conquest, which has further reaching consequences than Alfie can realize.
		Alfie was a man about town stuck in the poor end of London, sleeping his way through a never ending supply of 'birds' while fighting his working class shackles.
		Alfie belongs in the sixties, when the world (or London at least) was swinging.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0375173 (1078 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie is pretty much a jerk who cares only for himself, thinks marriage is a dreadful idea and once he’s conquered his latest catch, he goes off and looks for more beauties to seduce.
		Switching the scenery from swinging London to happening New York, Alfie is the kind of guy who, according to himself, subscribes towards the European philosophy of life.
		I don’t think “Alfie” was supposed to carry some important message (besides the fact that the bachelor life is not immortal) and in some ways feels like some celebration to metrosexuals.
	www.wibc.com /reviews/movies/Display.aspx?ID=36000 (662 words)

	Frederica Mathewes-Green on Alfie on National Review Online
		The original Alfie, made in 1966 with Michael Caine in the title role, asked some big questions about the meaning of life.
		Caine's Alfie sometimes stops talking to the camera and just gazes at us through hooded eyes as if he's wondering whether we buy his act.
		New Alfie compels us to identify ceaselessly with him, and we're marched through the ups and downs of his life firmly gripped by the elbow.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/mathewesgreen200411090754.asp (1049 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Alfie' is easy on the eyes, but it lacks stamina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Back then, his mind-set was half in keeping with the times, but today that Alfie probably would be strung upside down as a wall decoration at a National Organization for Women party.
		Though he's highly irresponsible, this Alfie is not quite a calculating heel, which makes the material go down easier while blunting the point.
		Yet Alfie's defense comes purely on an escapist level: It has pretty people in color-drenched Manhattan when a major multiplex alternative is the horror flick Saw.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2004-11-04-alfie_x.htm (538 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Alfie (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And what a character he is! Alfie Elkins is selfish and outlandish, rude, mean, and arrogant, hurtful, harmful, and egotistical, immature, insensitive, and ignorant.
		A mess of contradictions in a dapper suit, Alfie is the only interesting character (save for Shelley Winters' beguiling Ruby and Denholm Elliott's pragmatic abortionist) in a film populated by bored housewives and worrisome husbands.
		The trick of breaking down the fourth wall (wherein Alfie spends a lot of time looking at and speaking to the camera), more common in the theatre, was almost revolutionary when put on film.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000055ZF8 (2029 words)

	Alfie (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Alfie's question, "What's it all about?" still hangs in the air at the end of the movie, the answer seems to lie in the love he has seen in others' lives and the love he feels like he is missing.
		The original “Alfie” captured a blend of romp and reality that was shocking and innovative in its time, and introduced a young Michael Caine to the world.
		Alfie Elkins (Jude Law) works as a limousine driver, chauffeuring the wealthy through the streets of Manhattan, and occasionally making love to his lonely female clients in the backseat.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /alfie.htm (1981 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Alfie
		Alfie is an Englishman in New York and he’s living the classic playboy lifestyle by living life to its fullest and taking the easy way out whenever things start getting a little too familiar with the beautiful ladies in his life.
		I also noticed, throughout the film, that Alfie’s background surroundings in the city often had big looming words like “desire”, “wish” and “search” at key points in the movie, these were there, I assume, to be poignant reminders of what Alfie is faced with at that given time.
		The Women of Alfie (12 minutes): Elaine Pope discusses the women in the film as well as their characters and how and why they needed to be updated for the 2004 version of the film.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=764 (1139 words)

	Alfie (1966): Michael Caine, Jane Asher, Shelley Winters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfie was re-released in the UK in 2001 by the BFI as part of their Classic Cinema for the 21st Century season.
		The role of Alfie was played by Bill Owens, who would later play Compo in the BBC's Last of the Summer Wine.
		Although Alfie is meant to be a young man, Owens was in his 50s at the time.
	www.citizencaine.org /films/alfie.shtml (791 words)

	The softening of hard man Alfie - Film - www.theage.com.au
		In 1966, the cavalier sexual predator Alfie, as portrayed by the handsome larrikin cockney Caine, gleefully seduced and abandoned all the women he wanted without a pang of conscience.
		But four decades later a new Alfie movie, starring Jude Law in the title role, is in the final stages of post production and will be released to audiences far more critical of unconscionable philanderers.
		The new Alfie struts his stuff not in the carefree swinging London of the mid-'60s, but in modern-day New York where the women he encounters have been relationship-trained by Sex and the City.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/14/1079199093433.html?from=storyrhs (776 words)

	Alfie Joey - Comedian, Writer, Actor, Presenter
		Alfie’s sell-out show at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival which received rave reviews as well as a Nomination at the Chortle Awards for most innovative show and Spirit of the Fringe Award.
		Alfie is a regular guest with his own feature ‘What’s it all about Alfie?’.
		Alfie’s sell-out one man show at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival which received rave reviews as well as a Nomination at the Chortle Awards for most innovative show and a Spirit of the Fringe Award.
	www.alfiejoey.co.uk (445 words)

	BBC - EastEnders - Characters - Alfie Moon
		Alfie struts through life with one eye on the ladies, and the other on a quick scam.
		Alfie was married to Liza before he was sent down.
		Alfie hated Andy for bribing Kat to sleep with him.
	www.bbc.co.uk /eastenders/eastenders/characters/character_content/character_alfie_m.shtml (161 words)

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