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Director Ian Sellar’s 1989 British drama film Venus Peter is set on a western isle of Scotland in the 1950s and stars Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack and Gordon R Strachan. Venus Peter is […]
Director Luigi Comencini’s super-good 1966 drama Incompreso (Vita col figlio) [Misunderstood] stars Anthony Quayle in the original Italian version of the 1984 English-language remake Misunderstood with Gene Hackman. Leo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi’s screenplay […]
Icíar Bollaín stars as the 15-year-old Spanish youngster Estrella, who heads south in search of answers to her father’s tragic death, in director Victor Erice’s beautifully handled 1983 tale of childhood innocence, The South [El […]
Director Victor Erice’s sweet and sensitive 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive [El espíritu de la colmena] was an international success, with its compelling original screenplay kindling art house movie-goers’ fascination for its fantasy […]
‘It could have been worse. I’ve actually been lucky. If you compare… My Life as a Dog’ Set in the Fifties, director Lasse Hallström’s magical bitter-sweet 1985 film My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv […]
Director Roy Rowland’s 1956 drama These Wilder Years is the only teaming of great stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck, who are very welcome, of course, if alas slightly beyond their prime and not in […]
Willem Dafoe gives a knockout performance as the anxiety-ridden manager of a down-at-heel Florida motel in the environs of Disney World. Layered, textured and fascinating, it is certainly one of the best performances this always interesting […]