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‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’ A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude […]
The 1964 black and white romantic and political drama film Before the Revolution [Prima della Rivoluzione] is an early tour-de-force by the young writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci. It demonstrates his cinematic brilliance, mixing the political with […]
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1941 black and white Columbia Pictures family saga film Adam Had Four Sons is a classy romantic melodrama that switches from humour to tears, and from seduction to betrayal within moments. Warner […]
The 1978 drama film Stevie is a beautiful, supremely moving character-driven portrait of the British poet Stevie Smith (Glenda Jackson) and of her simple, loving relationship with the ‘lion aunt’ (Mona Washbourne). Director Robert Enders’s […]
Marlene Dietrich, finally separated by her Paramount Pictures studio from her Svengali director Josef Von Sternberg after a string of hits, fares only modestly with the highly respected director Rouben Mamoulian in the 1933 love […]
So it turns out that Mary Poppins can turn back time, and that’s what Disney can do too in this out-of-its-time sequel to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins Returns is, as the title implies, supposed to […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s amusing 1936 vintage comedy Theodora Goes Wild stars the Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne, who gets her laughs as Theodora Lynn, a small-town librarian who writes a titillating bestseller under the pseudonym Caroline Adams […]