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The Pianist produced the two main shocks at the 2003 Oscars when outsiders Adrien Brody won the Best Actor and Roman Polanski the Best Director awards, with Ronald Harwood the deserved third winner for Best […]
‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Based on the true story of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, director Ron Howard’s triumphant, deservedly popular movie won two Oscars, but disappointingly only for Best Film […]
‘All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words. That is what America is.’ – Harvey Milk. Virtually unrecognisable and immersing himself totally in a character far from […]
Francis Coppola’s beautifully produced 1992 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel is luxurious, sensual and richly enjoyable, though it has many faults and maybe we expected a greater movie from this greatest of all directors. […]
Paul Newman is stupendous in a chilling performance as Hud, a callous cowboy with a barbed-wire soul. Martin Ritt’s 1963 film portrait of a 60s Texan farming family is an elegiac modern Western and a […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1955 evergreen classic musical is the absolutely glorious, definitive movie of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II hit show, imaginatively filmed by cinematographer Robert Surtees in Todd-AO widescreen and Technicolor […]
Fred Ebb and John Kander’s beguiling adult musical, with its score enhanced by new songs, especially Money Makes the World Go Around and Maybe This Time, shows the way to turn a great Broadway show […]