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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 […]
Producer-director John Ford is coming towards the end of the trail in his majestic 1964 final Western film Cheyenne Autumn, which gives a sympathetic fictionalized account of the true story of a tribe of Cheyenne […]
Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]
John Ford’s four-Oscar-winning 1935 film The Informer has not worn too well, straining for effect, while Victor McLaglen’s acting is a faded gem. But The Informer is still a considerable achievement and an admired cinema […]
In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]
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