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Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years is brilliant in its very English way, all intense, repressed and minimalist, quite Pinteresque really. Certainly it’s brilliantly acted: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay won the Best Actress and Best Actor Awards at the […]
Director Jon Amiel’s classy 1993 mystery romantic drama is a splendidly sumptuous, poignant film. Richard Gere and Jodie Foster give unexpectedly sturdy performances in the kind of movie they’re not usually associated with – the […]
Director Edmund Goulding’s polished 1941 drama The Great Lie is another of the outstanding movies from the prime of Bette Davis, then reigning queen of the Warner Bros studio. The Great Lie is a great […]
Dean Martin warbles ‘When the moon hits your eye like a great pizza pie, that’s amore,’ over the opening titles and then we are off on producer-director Norman Jewison’s wonderfully warm, deliciously romantic 1987 hit […]
The polished 1943 comedy romantic drama film Old Acquaintance stars Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe and Miriam Hopkins as the bitchy Millie Drake. Davis said: ‘Miriam was her usual self. Director Vincent Sherman said he […]
Fritz Lang’s heated 1952 film noir melodrama Clash by Night, based on the Clifford Odets play, is rivetingly played by a great vintage cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe. Director Fritz Lang’s […]
Producer/co-writer/director King Vidor’s 1928 silent classic stars James Murray, who gives an exceptional performance as John Sims, an ordinary, everyman clerk with a small job in the big city. Eleanor Boardman is stupendous, too, as Mary […]