The great, droll French comic Fernandel again greatly amuses as the eccentric small-village Italian Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo, who this time tries to prevent his friendly opponent, Giuseppe ‘Peppone’ Bottazzi (Gino Cervi), the little […]
For director David Butler’s 1935 family comedy drama The Littlest Rebel, 20th Century Fox put their feisty little seven-year-old star Shirley Temple in another opulent American Civil War melodrama (after The Little Colonel rang the […]
Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 The Handmaid’s Tale stars Natasha Richardson as Kate, who, in a decaying future America, is trained as a handmaiden to bear children for upper-class women rendered infertile by pollution. Scriptwriter Harold […]
Writer-director Alain Jessua’s 1964 black and white drama Life Upside Down [La Vie à l’Envers] stars Charles Denner, who is surprisingly sympathetic in a difficult role as a Paris office worker, real estate agent Jacques […]
Director Bruce Beresford’s attractive, episodic 1977 Australian coming-of-age film The Getting of Wisdom about turn-of-the-last-century girls’ school life is taken from an autobiographical novel by Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, with an effective screenplay by Eleanor […]
Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]
Director Ralph Nelson’s 1968 drama Charly stars Cliff Robertson, who swept to triumph as best actor at the 1969 Academy Awards as Charly Gordon, an adult man with a cognitive disability. He is selected by […]