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Director Alan Parker’s 1982 drama Shoot the Moon stars Albert Finney, who is on powerhouse form as George Dunlap, a distinguished writer who, after 15 years of marriage, leaves his wife Faith (Diane Keaton) and […]
Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]
Pather Panchali (1955) is Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s first film and the start of his stunning Apu trilogy charts the growth of Apu Ray (Subir Banerjee), a small boy born in a poor Bengali village, […]
Joan Crawford gives quite a tour-de-force performance as the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film Harriet Craig. Joan Crawford is the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film […]
Paul Newman expertly and sensitively directs the Tennessee Williams hothouse drama The Glass Menagerie for the big screen, showing his special affinity with the material. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward is extremely impressive as the nagging, […]
Four first-class performances light up the excellent new script for television of Tennessee Williams’s play in director Anthony Harvey’s 1973 TV movie The Glass Menagerie. It won four Primetime Emmys. Katharine Hepburn is battling the […]
Unfortunately, director Irving Rapper’s 1950 The Glass Menagerie is not an ideal version of one of Tennessee Williams’s most intriguing plays about life in St Louis, thanks to its plodding pace, uncinematic filming and the […]