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Writer-director John Cassavetes’s savage dissection of the American family, the brilliant 1974 drama A Woman Under the Influence, stars his wife Gena Rowlands as a disintegrating housewife and mother and Peter Falk as her no-more-sane […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1987 drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too is an unattractive sex comedy about two Bradford schoolgirls, Rita and Sue (Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes), who fall for and have a sexual fling with […]
Director Peter Frazer-Jones’s 1980 comedy George and Mildred is a fairly dismal film version of the popular British TV comedy show (1976-80) with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, whose anniversary package trip […]
The 1980 British film Look Back in Anger stars Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and is directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne’s classic play, […]
Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1952 Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable remake of the 1931 Gaumont British film (and 1918 and 1927 silents) from Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded […]
Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]
Writer-director René Clair’s first sound film, the 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris], is a nostalgic tale set in Paris about two men, the street singer Albert (Albert Préjean) and […]