Director Herbert Ross follows his hit 1977 dance movie The Turning Point with this sumptuously realised, passionately told, involvingly acted 1980 film version of the true-life gay love story of the tragic obsession of the choreographer […]
The Turning Point (1977) was nominated for 11 Oscars, but there was not a single win! However, it won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director – Motion Picture at the Golden Globes. Director Herbert […]
The last of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s great series of musicals at RKO Radio Pictures (with a single reunion to come, The Barkleys of Broadway, at MGM a decade later) is a nostalgic biopic of […]
After a decade apart as a screen partnership since The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Ginger Rogers gets to star with Fred Astaire again for one final fling as his replacement co-star when […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s 1970 motorcycle buddy movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy stars Robert Redford, who teams up with brief star Michael J Pollard (from Bonnie and Clyde) for this lethargic flop drama about […]
The excellent, hard-hitting 1971 thriller film Cisco Pike stars Gene Hackman as a crooked cop who blackmails has-been rock star Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) into dealing $10,000 worth of marijuana in one weekend. Co-writer/ director […]
Arthur Penn’s dark-toned, complex 1975 neo-noir thriller film Night Moves stars Gene Hackman as Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby, who searches for the missing teenage daughter of a former movie actress. Director Arthur Penn’s […]
Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed