 | Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969) [Read More ...]
Description: Robert Donat won an Oscar for his portrayal of the humble British don in the 1939 film Goodbye, Mr. Chips--and Peter O'Toole was nominated for his version of the role in this lackluster musical (he, along with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight of Midnight Cowboy, lost to John Wayne... |
 | Shake Hands With the Devil [Read More ...]
Review: Innocence, experience and wisdom!:James Cagney made according my personal opinion, a tour de force performance and his most superb artistic achievement, personifying the leader of IRA. Through the innocent gaze of a naïve student who sudden and accidentally becomes involved in r... |
 | Wilde [Read More ...]
Review: A Reliable Version:Brian Gilbert's "Wilde" stands as a realiable version of the Irish writer's later years. Wilde's relationship with Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross, his wife Constance and many other characters is consistent, and agrees with reports left by contemporaries who knew ... |
 | Sea Shall Not Have Them [Read More ...]
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 | The Go-Between [Read More ...]
Wonderful adaptation of a wonderful book:I just don't understand why it's taking so long for the dvd to be released.
Same goes for the beautiful soundtrack. Has there ever been one? |
 | Smashing Time [Read More ...]
Review: Smashing it is:I'm very fond of this send up of swingin' London and its pretensions, but even if I weren't, the song Redgrave sings, about not being able to do anything, but she's young, is worth it. I've always been surprised that some punk band never covered it, or maybe somebo... |
 | Wreck of the Mary Deare [Read More ...]
Review: "Mary Deere" should be on DVD.:I'd like to add my voice to that of the others who are hoping for a widescreen DVD release of this excellent film. It was available that way some years ago on laserdisc and it looked great. Heston, Cooper and Harris work extremely well together; the... |
 | Mrs. Dalloway (1997) [Read More ...]
Description: Vanessa Redgrave glows from within as the heroine of this superb adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a sumptuous party, her mind wanders back to a summer in her youth, when she was courted by an eager young man--a young man whose much older... |
 | Stars Look Down [Read More ...]
Review: Reality in its most claustrophobic form:This film was made the year I was born, and as has been mentioned by multiple reviewers, it remains the single most fabulous year of great film making. I doubt anyone knows just why so many brilliant films came out that year, but I grew up ... |
 | David Copperfield [Read More ...]
Review: a dearth of Copperfields:If the BBC can devote 26 episodes to the Forsyte Saga (an excellent movie), surely they can devote 12 episodes to the greatest novel in the English language. Or to put it another way, if the BBC can devote five hours to an inferior novel like "The Buccan... |
 | The Browning Version (B&W) [Read More ...]
Description: Michael Redgrave gives an award-winning performance in this compelling screen adaptation of Terence Rattigan's powerful stage play about an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster whose career is in ruins. The grind of the English public school system, combined with a failed marria... |
 | The Wind in the Willows [Read More ...]
Description: In the first of these two animated adaptations, both gently narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, Moley, Mr. Toad, and the rest of the right, proper riverbank battalion are portrayed tastefully, wittily, and with charm by the bucketsful. True to the tale, Mole abandons his modest home in... |
 | Confidential Report (AKA Mr. Arkadin) [Read More ...]
Description: Echoes of Citizen Kane resonate throughout this lesser known yet brilliant Orson Welles (Touch of Evil, The Lady from Shanghai) film. Written by, directed by, and starring Welles, Confidential Report is a haunting fable on lost innocence. Claiming to have amnesia, millionaire A... |
 | Mrs Dalloway [Read More ...]
Description: Vanessa Redgrave glows from within as the heroine of this superb adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a sumptuous party, her mind wanders back to a summer in her youth, when she was courted by an eager young man--a young man whose much older... |
 | Wilde [Read More ...]
Review: A Reliable Version:Brian Gilbert's "Wilde" stands as a realiable version of the Irish writer's later years. Wilde's relationship with Alfred Douglas, Robert Ross, his wife Constance and many other characters is consistent, and agrees with reports left by contemporaries who knew ... |
 | Gods and Monsters [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of t... |
![]() | The Lady Vanishes [Read More ...]
Description: At first glance The Lady Vanishes appears to be a frothy, lightweight treat, a testament to Alfred Hitchcock's nimble touch. This snappy, sophisticated romantic thriller begins innocently enough, as a contingent of eccentric tourists spend the night in a picture-postcard village ... |
 | David Copperfield (Sp) [Read More ...]
Review: a dearth of Copperfields:If the BBC can devote 26 episodes to the Forsyte Saga (an excellent movie), surely they can devote 12 episodes to the greatest novel in the English language. Or to put it another way, if the BBC can devote five hours to an inferior novel like "The Buccan... |
![]() | Little Odessa [Read More ...]
Review: A Specific, Solid Gangster Picture:"Little Odessa," (1994), written and directed by James Gray, is a remarkably powerful and effective, award-winning crime drama set among the Russian community in present-day Brooklyn, New York. At its heart, it's a tale of a dysfunctional famil... |
 | The Wind in the Willows [Read More ...]
Description: In the first of these two animated adaptations, both gently narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, Moley, Mr. Toad, and the rest of the right, proper riverbank battalion are portrayed tastefully, wittily, and with charm by the bucketsful. True to the tale, Mole abandons his modest home in... |
