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For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]
Director James Ivory’s literate and civilised 1984 drama stars Vanessa Redgrave, who is ideally cast and on her best form as Henry James’s strong-willed Victorian heroine, Boston feminist Olive Chancellor. Everything runs perfectly smoothly in this […]
Jeanne Moreau stars as nymphomaniac mysterious widow Anna, who wanders the waves in search of her dreamboat sailor she had known many years before. She comes across troubled British couple Alan and his girlfriend Sheila (Ian […]
Director Brian Gilbert’s 1997 biopic is another attempt to tell the Oscar Wilde story, but with the candour available to 90s film-makers, unlike the 60s makers of The Trials of Oscar Wilde (with Peter Finch) and […]
Writer-director James Gray’s 1994 dysfunctional family drama is dark toned, chilly and depressing but highly impressive, both emotionally and visually. It is spurred along with a superb Tim Roth performance as Joshua, a cold-blooded Russian […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]
Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]