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In a very near future society, culture has died. The Designated Mourner stars Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson as husband and wife Jack and Judy, and David de Keyser as Judy’s father Howard, living in a […]
Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]
Directors Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s monumental and magnificent 1981 Brideshead Revisited is Granada Television’s sumptuous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel about England’s decadent and declining upper-class between the world wars, made in 11 episodes. […]
Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]
Three Colors: White [Trois Couleurs: Blanc] (1994), the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy (after the 1993 Three Colours: Blue) is billed as ‘A Comedy’, but there is no impression anywhere in the movie of […]
Writer-director Romain Gary’s 1968 drama Birds Come to Die in Peru [Les Oiseaux Vont Mourire au Peru] [Birds in Peru] stars Jean Seberg as depressed nutty nymphomaniac Adriana, married to a much older, rich husband […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s enjoyable 1935 musical romantic drama Metropolitan is mainly memorable for the marvellous baritone singing of Lawrence Tibbett, who plays a young singer desperate for his big break. Although Tibbett shows that he […]