First off, the 1957 stage show West Side Story is brilliant and timeless, the best of its kind. Second, the 1961 film of it, West Side Story, is also brilliant and timeless, the best of […]
Director Diane Kurys’s 1987 French-Italian drama film A Man in Love [Un Homme Amoureux] stars Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale. It is Kurys’s first English language film and was […]
Director Diane Kurys’s 1983 French biographical drama film Coup de Foudre [At First Sight] [Entre Nous] stars Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Diane Kurys drew on her own parents’ history for the story of an […]
Director Diane Kurys’s 1990 French semi-autobiographical 1990 drama film C’est la Vie [La Baule-Les Pins] stars Nathalie Baye, Julie Bataille, Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman, Candice Lefranc, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Alexis Derlon. […]
The 1945 British film A Place of One’s Own is an Edwardian ghost story starring James Mason and Barbara Mullen as an elderly couple whose young companion (Margaret Lockwood) is possessed by the spirit of […]
Writer-director Diane Kurys’s French 1977 drama Peppermint Soda [Diabolo Menthe] stars Eléonore Klarwein and Odile Michel, and won the Prix Louis-Delluc. This autobiographical tale from début director Kurys follows one year in the lives of two […]
Director John Derek’s 1984 American romantic drama Bolero stars Bo Derek, George Kennedy and Ana Obregon. This self-style ‘adventure in ecstasy’ is an uncomfortable piece of soft core that put a halt to the burgeoning career of […]