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‘Hunger no love, woman or wealth could satisfy!’ The Razor’s Edge (1946) stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb and Herbert Marshall. The 20th Century-Fox film studio and producer Darryl F […]
The once ubiquitous Om Puri, who died on 6 January 2017, aged 66, stars in writer-director Sai Paranjape’s involving, atmospheric and insightful 1990 Hindi drama about family life in a rural village setting, focusing on the […]
Director James Ivory’s sumptuous 1983 romantic drama stars Julie Christie, who relishes a highly rewarding role as a young Englishwoman who wants to find the whole truth about herself and India via the letters of […]
Director Henry Hathaway went to the Northwest Frontier and took a crew of distinguished actors for this famous 1935 classic adventure movie epic tale of British bravado, based on the 1930 autobiography of British cavalry […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]
Hooray for Bollywood! Bend It Like Beckham and Angus, Thongs director Gurinder Chadha turns her sweet and sassy eye on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a glorious 2004 Bollywood take on the tale. As the proud Indian […]
The Man Who Knew Infinity tells a thought-provoking, civilised story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel are excellent, and the Cambridge shooting is good too. Writer-director Matt Brown’s old-fashioned 2015 biopic of Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar […]