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This delicious 1995 ensemble piece is one of co-writer/ director Henry Jaglom’s most successful outings, perfectly capturing the flavour of long but dying summer days and the character of theatrical folk. Viveca Lindfors is magnificent […]
Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]
Esteemed cult writer director Samuel Fuller delivers an uncomfortable but rivetingly intriguing 1982 thriller, in which Kristy McNichol stars as Julie Sawyer, an actress who unwittingly takes in a white German Shepherd dog trained to […]
James Mason is outstanding as successful novelist Trigorin in director Sidney Lumet’s fine, faithful, though long and gloomy 1968 film version of the Anton Chekhov classic play The Sea Gull. With this cast and crew […]
All the fun of one of Neil Simon’s best Broadway plays makes its way happily from stage onto cinema screens under the guidance of director Robert Moore in 1979. Simon’s autobiographical Broadway hit is all about his courtship and […]
Maggie Smith is on Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winning form as an English theatre star nominated for an Oscar, in the 1978 Neil Simon comedy film California Suite. Director Herbert Ross’s 1978 comedy film California Suite […]
Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]