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Paul Verhoeven’s engrossing and often very stirring 1979 Netherlands World War Two epic drama Soldier of Orange [Soldaat van Oranje] [Survival Run] tells the tale of four university students growing up fast during the Nazi […]
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 […]
Melanie Griffith stars in writer-director David Seltzer’s hypnotically awful 1992 World War Two-set romantic thriller drama Shining Through as Linda Voss, gets a job at a New York law firm and later becomes a spy […]
Ted Berkman’s first book Cast a Giant Shadow is about ‘Mickey Marcus’, a real-life Jewish-American West Point graduate who commanded units of the fledgling Israeli Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It makes challenging source material for any film maker. Writer-producer-director […]
Writer-director Michael Radford’s much admired 2004 movie version of the William Shakespeare tragic play is gorgeously filmed where it is supposed to happen in Venice. Al Pacino has a field day as the Merchant Shylock, charismatically […]
Co-writer/producer/ director Joseph Strick’s superb 1967 British drama is a bold and involving – and admirable – attempt to translate the seemingly unfilmable James Joyce stream-of-consciousness novel to the screen. It is especially notable for […]
Even Danny DeVito cannot rescue director Brian De Palma’s tasteless and unfunny 1986 gangster crime comedy about two hoodlums called Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein, played by DeVito and Saturday Night Live alumnus Joe Piscopo (who […]