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Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s 1993 cinema version of William Nicholson’s TV and stage play is a wonderfully warm-hearted and poignant experience. It won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. there were […]
Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won the 1990 Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for their outstanding, heart-rending performances as Christy Brown and his mother Mrs Brown, in Jim Sheridan’s inspiring 1989 biopic of […]
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 […]
Co-writer/ director Paul Schrader’s 1985 movie about the prolific and controversial Japanese novelist, writer and militarist Yukio Mishima is a startling and accomplished American art film. Japan’s greatest author Mishima turned his art into action […]
Audrey Wells writes, produces and directs the cute and charming 2003 American romantic comedy drama film Under the Tuscan Sun starring Diane Lane, who is perfect in the role of the author Frances Mayes. Audrey Wells […]
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]