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Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s painstaking 2019 labour-of-love documentary Pavarotti about the life and work of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti is two hours of vintage opera bliss. Notable among the interviewees are Nicoletta Mantovani, Bono, Angela Gheorghiu, […]
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life of Véronique [La Double Vie de Véronique] is a beautifully played, compassionately told, intriguingly written tale of two identical women – one French, the other Polish – […]
Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1979 incestuous relationship drama La Luna is a frank exploration of the emotional and sexual bonds of a recently-widowed American mother and her teenage son while touring in Italy. Though the film […]
Director Allan Dwan’s 1951 Republic Pictures black and white Western movie Belle Le Grand stars Vera Ralston, who plays New Orleans woman Daisy Henshaw, aka the titular Belle Le Grand, now a rich San Francisco […]
‘They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.’ – Lisa Della Robbia. Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 Paramount black and white romantic comedy Enter Madame stars […]
Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1934 Columbia Pictures studio’s Thirties hit classical musical One Night of Love stars opera star Grace Moore as opera star Mary Bennett, who is taken under the wing of famous operatic maestro […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s rarely revived 1937 Columbia Pictures black and white musical romance I’ll Take Romance is worth a little look, mainly for its effective and tuneful star turn by Grace Moore. As Elsa Terry, […]