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Director Frank Borzage’s achingly yearning and appealing – though alas now faded – 1927 silent classic 7th Heaven is a romantic, idealised view of the lower depths. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell star as a […]
Director Roland Joffé’s 1984 British anti-war film about the friendship of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his local journalist guide Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor) is both angry and intelligent. […]
Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]
Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Director F W Murnau’s 1927 silent movie morality fable, subtitled A Song of Two Humans, was for a very long number of years a neglected masterpiece. But it was splendidly restored in 1997 as a […]
John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]