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Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]
Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
Director Grigoriy Kozintsev’s 1970 Russian film King Lear [Korol Lir] stars Jüri Järvet as a modest, one-note (bad-tempered) Lear leading a number of unstriking performances in this disappointment from the director of the great Russian […]
‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]
Director Ralph Murphy’s 1951 black and white adventure The Lady and the Bandit [Dick Turpin’s Ride] stars Louis Hayward, who is reasonably well cast as highwayman Dick Turpin, in this jolly, if not brilliant, American-made, […]
The lion’s share of praise for The Lion King (2019) must go to its incredible technical achievement. It looks and sounds truly amazing. So huge praise and kudos go to the visual effects and animator […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1924 German silent classic The Nibelungen [Die Nibelungen] stars Paul Richter as Siegfried, who marries the princess of Burgundy, Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) but Queen Brunhilde (Hanna Ralph) plans his murder. Lang’s beautifully […]