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Co-writer/director Stephan Elliott’s delightful and highly amusing 2008 adaptation of gay playwright Noël Coward’s witty early play stars Ben Barnes and Colin Firth, who were reunited in 2009’s Dorian Gray. This time, they are father […]
Michael Sarne’s 1970 film of Gore Vidal’s witty comic novel about Hollywood seems nowhere near as bad as its reputation suggests. Raquel Welch gamely plays the sex-change movie critic heroine Myra Breckinridge, who sets out […]
Director Henry Koster’s romantic 1952 mystery melodrama comes from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds, all filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. It would have made perfect material […]
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts young Terence Stamp effectively as a good-looking stranger who satisfies all the members of a wealthy Milan family in his gently satisfying and intriguing 1968 poetic drama Theorem [Teorema]. The […]
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]
Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock […]
Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]