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Posts Tagged "british renaissance"
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Little Dorrit **** (1987, Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Sarah Pickering,) – Classic Movie Review 9263
Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]
The Hit **** (1984, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8545
The 1984 British movie The Hit is a tough, slightly arty but nail-biting crime thriller directed with flair by Stephen Frears with much of the ironic neo noir style he shows in Gumshoe and The […]
Comfort and Joy *** (1984, Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton, Patrick Malahide, Rikki Fulton) – Classic Movie Review 7250
Writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1984 Comfort and Joy is a sweet enough confection about an Italian ice-cream sellers’ feud in Glasgow, but its wafer-thin comedy offers only some smiles and a few laughs yet little joy. However, […]
Wish You Were Here *** (1987, Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Tom Bell, Barbara Durkin) – Classic Movie Review 7,036
Debut director David Leland, who also wrote Terry Jones’s 1987 film Personal Services, grabs more mileage the same year from the real-life story of Streatham brothel keeper Cynthia Payne in Wish You Were Here. Début […]
Revolution * (1985, Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 6958
Director Hugh Hudson’s costly and ambitious but doomed 1985 historical drama Revolution proved a disaster for the British director, who misguidedly examines what it was like to be swept up in the American War of […]
The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496
Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]
War Requiem **** (1989, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 6483
Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]