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The exceptional, outstanding performances from Max von Sydow and little Pelle Hvenegaard light up this 1988 Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning Best Foreign Language Film from Danish writer-director Bille August about the humble old widowed farmer […]
Gene Kelly returns to MGM as a favoured star and with a contract to choreograph too after becoming a hot star when they loaned him out to Columbia Pictures to appear in Cover Girl (1944) […]
Director Federico Fellini’s exuberant 1976 masterwork is an amazing-looking, awesome movie, in which an unexpectedly but perfectly cast Donald Sutherland astonishes as the forehead-shaved, bewigged, foppish 18th-century Venetian rake, Giacomo Casanova. What’s on screen is […]
Written by David Mamet, director Brian De Palma’s 1987 untouchable gangster movie outing The Untouchables is set in a beautifully realised 1930s Chicago. It showcases a feast of acting from Kevin Costner as real-life government […]
Co-writer/director Frank Pierson’s hit 1976 musical stars Barbra Streisand in the prime of her hey-day, but it was risky remaking a film that already had two classic versions. Unsurprisingly, as, for some weird reason she has always had […]
Produced by the unexpected team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott, this 2001 double Oscar-winning fact-based drama film Black Hawk Down is based on the book by Mark Bowden. In his pounding, heart-stopping, all-action 2001 […]
‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and this double Oscar-winning 1939 masterwork is his most famous. In it, a motley crew of misfits tries to cross the New Mexico Territory in a […]