Director Claude Whatham’s 1973 British pop musical drama is thoroughly enjoyable, and deeply old-fashioned, with a thrilling nostalgic vintage soundtrack. David Essex gives an appealing, expert star performance as Jim MacLaine, a troubled, restless working […]
Twiggy captivates in her film début as Polly Browne in the 1971 British film The Boy Friend, Ken Russell’s delightful homage to Thirties Hollywood musicals. Writer-director Ken Russell brings Sandy Wilson’s enchanting show spoofing Twenties […]
Director Ken Russell and screen-writer Melvyn Bragg tell the story of poor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) in this lusty 1970 British movie. Russell described it as ‘the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a […]
Ken Russell’s 1973 film biopic of the composer Mahler is one of his typically extravagant movies. Robert Powell is impressive as a Gustav Mahler obsessed with love and career. Georgina Hale won the 1975 BAFTA […]
Director George Roy Hill’s 1975 period adventure movie showcases Robert Redford at his matinée idol peak, all gleaming and dashing, as a daredevil plane acrobat called Waldo Pepper. Hill, Redford’s director on The Sting (1973) and […]
Director Don Taylor’s 1976 comedy Western is an amiable but uneven entertainment. Stars Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed and Robert Culp and its easy-going nature make up for the general air of slackness. Lee Marvin does […]
Writer-director Wim Wenders’s 1974 German drama tells a clever, bittersweet parable story about the relationship between a German journalist Phil Winter (Rudiger Vogler) and a little nine-year old girl called Alice (Yella Röttlander) he gets stuck […]
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