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Leonardo DiCaprio won the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that’s odd. I didn’t realise […]
Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]
Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]
Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-film noir detective movie Chinatown, set in a wonderfully realised 1937 Los Angeles, is beyond brilliant. Robert Towne won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne’s […]
Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]
A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]