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In this bleak but beautifully produced and moving 1987 animated feature from director Jimmy T Murakami and Raymond Briggs, the artist and writer responsible for The Snowman, global nuclear war and its after-effects are seen […]
Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’ Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson […]
For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]
Playwright Noel Coward makes a lovely attempt to show how ordinary, salt-of-the-earth English people lived between World War One and World War Two. Director David Lean, who also co-wrote the screenplay with producer Anthony Havelock-Allan and […]
Noël Coward’s inspired 1942 moral-boosting war movie In Which We Serve is a polished gem that comes only from a true labour of love. ‘This is the story of a ship…’ Noël Coward’s inspired 1942 […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s stirring 1945 wartime salute to the Royal Air Force concentrates on the personal relationships of a group of men stationed on a World War Two British bomber airfield. In the star department, there […]
David Lean’s grand epic 1970 romantic period drama Ryan’s Daughter survived a troubled year-long shoot and bad reviews, and was a hit. It won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (John Mills) and Best Cinematography (Freddie […]