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The 1959 French world cinema masterwork classic Le Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe [Lunch on the Grass] [Picnic on the Grass] is a superb film, one of Jean Renoir’s and France’s finest. It is partly made on […]
The title of Perfect Day (1929) is ironic of course as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take their wives Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) and Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) and gouty Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) out […]
‘On St Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. Some were never to return.’ Miranda: ‘What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a […]
Director Joshua Logan’s heated and touching 1955 romantic drama is a high-powered version of William Inge’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about sexual turmoil in a small Kansas town. All the star players grab their chances to […]
Happily, Leonard Rossiter gleefully re-creates his classic TV performance as the miserly, mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby in director Joe McGrath’s pleasant and amusing 1980 cinema movie version of the hit British TV […]
Director/cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s superb, haunting 1971 film Walkabout centres on a dangerous trek across the Australian desert by an English teenager (Jenny Agutter), her young brother (Lucien John, aka Luc Roeg) and the aboriginal boy […]
Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Cleopatra) won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his work on this delightful 1949 suburban satire, examining the thorny question of husband and wife relationships. […]
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