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Jane Eyre *** (1996, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Richard Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 2671
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]
Last Action Hero *** (1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, F Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 2582
Producer-director John McTiernan’s comedy sci-fi action adventure thriller was supposed to be the 1993 summer blockbuster but Jurassic Park stole much of its thunder and its business. Unfairly, and unexpectedly, it severely damaged Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office […]
The Entertainer ***** (1960, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 2527
Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]
Tom’s Midnight Garden ***½ (1999, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Joan Plowright, Florence Hoath, Nigel Le Vaillant, , David Bradley, Liz Smith) – Classic Movie Review 1842
Anthony Way stars as Tom Long, a 1950s teenager, sent to live with his childless Aunt Gwen (Greta Scacchi) and Uncle Alan (James Wilby) to avoid contact with his sick brother. Shortly after his arrival, […]
Equus ***** (1977, Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 445
In 1977, Peter Firth gets to record his 1973 London National Theatre Old Vic theatre role of a lifetime in this sensitive, beautiful Sidney Lumet-directed version of the highly emotional and deeply unsettling, but illuminating and uplifting […]
Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107
This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]
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