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Director Irvin Kershner’s funny, appealingly whimsical 1966 screwball comedy A Fine Madness stars Sean Connery as a crazy New York City-based radical poet called Samson Shillitoe, and Joanne Woodward co-stars as his brash waitress wife […]
Russian director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 world cinema classic The Colour of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] [Tsvet Granata] is his finest hour, an unforgettable feast of colour-drenched tableaux showing the spiritual growth of a boy into manhood. […]
Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]
Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s perfect 1990 French film version of the famous classic play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand finds the ideal star in Gérard Depardieu, who deservedly won 1990’s best actor award at Cannes […]
Cornel Wilde struggles manfully against his weird casting as the 11th-century Persian genius of letters defending his country from the invading sect of assassins out to kill the Shah, in the engaging 1957 Arabian Nights […]
‘Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.’ Director Patrice Leconte’s deliciously quirky and richly enjoyably 2002 French thriller presents the irresistibly attractive prospect […]
Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]