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Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] (1998) is the last of Éric Rohmer’s four seasonal tales, preceded by A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter and A Summer’s Tale. It is the fourth film of his […]
Director Mark Stuart’s rather feeble and obvious though entirely genial enough 1971 Please Sir! is the big-screen film version of the deservedly highly popular TV school sitcom, in which caring but hapless teacher Mr Hedges […]
The beloved 1980 Scottish comedy classic Gregory’s Girl gets a belated sequel in Bill Forsyth’s 1999 romantic comedy Gregory’s 2 Girls [Gregory’s Two Girls], with Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) now a gangly English teacher, back […]
Director Yves Robert’s 1990 Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] is the glorious sequel to La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory]. Julien Ciamaca is superb as the teenager Marcel Pagnol, who […]
Director Leslie Norman’s socially aware 1961 black and white film drama Spare the Rod is a sympathetic, involving exposé of the tough life in the British state schools of the day, with Donald Pleasence as […]
Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Bucharest, Romania, arrived in the United States at the age of 10, and moved with his family into New York’s Lower East Side, took up acting and changed his name […]
Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]