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Writer-director Tran Anh Hung’s spiritual 1993 Franco-Vietnamese drama about the life of a young girl is the 1994 Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film picture. It is a pure and subtle gem that follows the fortunes […]
Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Aline MacMahon star as Broadway babies, Carol, Polly and Trixie, chorus girls gold digging for rich husbands, in this spectacular 1933 Busby Berkeley backstage dance musical movie from Warner Bros. […]
A fabulous line-up of evergreen vintage songs lights up director Walter Lang’s sweet and sentimental 1952 musical biopic film account of the life of Jane Froman, who starts out as an aspiring songstress by landing […]
Director Max Ophüls’s gloriously romantic 1948 movie provides a memorable walk on the wild side of romance here as Joan Fontaine’s character Lisa Berndle is overwhelmed by unrequited love for dashing but self-obsessed womanising pianist Stefan Brand (played […]
Isabelle Huppert gives a very striking performance indeed as troubled music teaching pianist professor Erika Kohut, in Michael Haneke’s distinguished and extremely disturbing 2001 drama. At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress award […]
In 1978, writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman found a surprise backer in Lord Lew Grade’s ITC for his long-awaited teaming with his namesake Ingrid Bergman. At the time British producer Lord Grade was trying to finance […]
Put the 1945 film A Song to Remember on your Chopin Liszt! Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor – his only ever Oscar nomination. Stephen Bekassy co-stars as […]