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Director Walter Lang’s 1939 musical comedy family drama stars Shirley Temple, who bursts into colour for the first time in films – and glorious Technicolor at that! – and that seems to have inspired one […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 movie Little Women is an expensive and colourful remake of director George Cukor’s 1933 classic Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel about four sisters finding romance. The lovely […]
After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]
Nick Nolte is brilliant in producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory’s splendid, intense, beautifully realised 2000 film version of the classic novel by Henry James. What tangled webs we weave! A poverty-stricken Italian, Prince […]
F Scott Fitzgerald’s delicate, wispy, thin little thing of a novel, The Great Gatsby has become a ridiculously overblown movie, all fake-looking CGI, nervous performances, restless direction and jittery fast cutting. With enough story for […]
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