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The 2018 Dutch feel-good romantic comedy drama film Gewoon Vrienden [Just Friends] has a few sharpish edges and odd corners built in, but mostly it is a real smooth fun ride. The romance of two […]
Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy drama The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] is a funny, touching, carefully observed little film with strong performances. Ang based the first half of his movie on the true story […]
Nigel Finch’s 1991 British drama film The Lost Language of Cranes is a revealing, frank and moving version of David Leavitt’s novel, meticulously played, especially by the remarkable Brian Cox. In the US, it was […]
Robert Downey Jr, Ralph Macchio and Eric Idle star in the would-be controversial, but actually quite dodgy 1990 comedy Too Much Sun, co-written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. After the death of multi-millionaire Old […]
Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]
Story-writer/ co-producer/ director Franco Brusati’s 1979 drama To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] is an exquisitely performed, delicately told story of two mixed gay couples spending a weekend in the country. A brother, Nicky (Erland Josephson), […]
Joanne Woodward is superb as Rita, a middle aged, menopausal New York City homemaking mother who falls apart when her mother (Thirties star Sylvia Sidney in her first film for 17 years) dies suddenly. Rita’s emotional […]